Chapter 112: Gotham In Progress (Part 1)
In the magnificent banquet hall, a huge chandelier composed of hundreds of candles shines with brilliant glow, silver tableware and crystal plates emit a dazzling luster, the champagne tower is like a small mountain of gold, the silk tablecloth sags smoothly, the men's leather shoes are polished shiny, and the women's high heels are inlaid with gems and pearls.
The gorgeous skirt was like a curtain hanging from the Milky Way. As the footsteps slid with the brisk dance music, hazy light surrounded the neck of the skirt. The tall blues gently embraced Selena's waist and rotated on the dance floor with her.
On the surface, they are the most suitable couple on the dance floor. They are handsome blues suits and ties. His tall figure exudes masculine charm at all times. Although the Catwoman is petite, her figure curves are very smooth. Her years of exercise have allowed her to have smoother muscle lines than other ladies. The fishtail skirt inlaid with broken diamonds can well wrap her sexy outline. On her exposed neck, she is wearing a necklace composed of pink diamonds, emeralds and sapphires. The dazzling diamond light makes Selena the most dazzling existence on the entire dance floor.
Of course, it just looks harmonious on the surface. As a catwoman who has entered such a social occasion for the first time, it is certainly impossible to dance peacefully.
"Take your eyes back..." Bruce whispered in her ear: "It's impolite to stare at others like this.
"I like the pearls on her wrist, especially the largest one inside. It's so charming." The catwoman blinked her big eyes and stared at the pearl bracelet on the wrist of another lady on the dance floor.
Just as Bruce was about to open his mouth to continue to dissuade him, the catwoman took his eyes back and stared at Bruce. Selena had a pair of very beautiful green eyes, which was richer and purer than the emeralds on her neck. When she was staring at this line of sight, Bruce's mind was blank. He swallowed the words to his mouth again, and turned into: "...If you like pearls, I can also give you a bunch."
The catwoman said: "I know, you are trying to stop me from stealing it. Well, although I didn't listen to the rules of the banquet you told me before, I also know that you can't steal things here..."
Bruce was so moved that his fight with this cat could be said to be tragic.
First of all, Catwoman is a slum girl, and she is not very old now, and theft scope is basically limited to Gotham City, and she has never attended any decent high-end party.
No cat would like to wear high heels that are extremely inconvenient to walk and move and fishtail skirts that cannot be moved. Just by persuading her to wear this dress, Bruce almost showed his eloquence for life. As a result, the first fishtail skirt he wore was torn because Selena took too big steps.
Finally, Bruce had to tell Selena that the skirt was worth more than 100,000 US dollars and that all the gems on it were expensive natural gems, which stopped the cat from using her gorgeous acrobatic skills to destroy all clothing-like actions.
Then, the necklace on her neck had just been put on for more than ten minutes, and a gem on it disappeared. Bruce didn't see clearly how Catwoman picked the gem off. Finally, it was him, the jewelry designer and the clothing consultant. After dozens of minutes of persuasion, Selena finally let a complete necklace stay on her neck.
The catwoman has very beautiful and sexy black hair. In the past, when she stole the hair, she would tie it up and wrap it in a hood. She rarely cared about it carefully, which made them always a little messy. When she was doing hair, she could stand up from the chair seven times in ten minutes. Bruce had to sit next to her and stare at her all the time.
It was finally done. When she was sitting in the luxury car and headed to the venue, the catwoman seemed to have nails on her butt and couldn't sit there. Bruce, who was originally sitting in the passenger seat, had to sit in the back seat with her, so that she could stop her crazy behavior of turning out all the wine in the refrigerator in the car because of anxiety and excitement.
Not to mention when he arrived at the venue, the catwoman always stared at the various jewelry on other ladies and wives. Bruce was simply worried, afraid that he would not be able to bear it for a second, and the jewelry would disappear.
Only then did Bruce realize that the catwoman might not be suffering from stealing, but her mental problems must have other problems. She is really like a cat, whether it is behavioral logic or psychological state.
However, Catwoman is very interested in becoming a star, because in her opinion, if she becomes a star, she can hang all the gems on her body and show the beauty of the world.
Despite this, Catwoman's growth journey is still very long.
While Catwoman and Bruce were tangled, the gangsters also had something to do. After a period of construction in Gotham City, hundreds of warehouses rose up. Although this was a good thing, it also brought some problems.
Originally, Gotham City's municipal planning was the original builder, that is, the first Owl Court. After Falcone ruled the city, the old godfather further transformed Gotham City according to the plan of the Roman city. The Wayne Group has always had a tacit understanding with Falcone, and they also planned Gotham's city perimeter.
The problem now is that there are so many warehouses in vain, as well as newly built service facilities in various industries, such as truck drivers' rest stations, temporary restaurants on the roadside, loading and unloading points at the docks, newly opened gas stations, etc. These buildings were suddenly built. Because they were too anxious to build, they would not be mentioned if they were not good-looking. More importantly, the unplanned buildings have led to the urban planning of Gotham City becoming somewhat unreasonable.
The gang boss often builds a warehouse and its supporting facilities on which piece of land they take. The other boss does the same thing. This leads to many supporting facilities being not far away, but repeated. However, in a very far place, some warehouses with smaller land do not have these facilities. Drivers and other personnel have to drive further to find these facilities, which once again increases traffic pressure.
This also leads to the fact that the entire logistics planning system of Gotham City cannot calculate the most perfect route, because the infrastructure is not reasonable enough, Victor's hair is almost white, and he cannot come up with a standard answer.
After operating for a period of time, the accuracy and efficiency of logistics are still messy, and the relatively regular urban environment that Falcone and Wayne families have worked hard to plan has been destroyed by these numerous warehouse supporting facilities and night markets that have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
The main contradiction in Gotham City is that the hardware requirements brought about by rapid economic development cannot be met by the backward urban structure.
To adapt to this capitalist revival, Gotham City urgently needed a major reconstruction.
You want to say, does Gotham City have the power to rebuild? Of course, there is, Falcone ruled Gotham City for so many years, and it is impossible for him to not even save this amount of capital, let alone the Wayne Group. Even if the twelve families gather together, it is enough to rebuild the city.
But the problem is that they are now Qian and others. Several urban planning experts invited shook their heads and were pointed at by gangs with guns. They could only say that there was no way. The difficulty lies in this planning that exceeded the average person's calculations.
Some experts can come up with a plan, but this plan cannot satisfy everyone. Either it is not beautiful enough or it is insufficient in functions. Falcone and Wayne Group are not willing to completely abandon beauty and focus on function, because their vision is longer-term. One day, Gotham's industry will be transformed and upgraded, and the aesthetics of urban structures will come in handy one day.
Finally, I shook and stumbled around, and the question was back to Schiller.
Schiller was busy with another thing recently. Before, when Lizard came to him, he had expected that the Owl Court's messing stick would come out sooner or later.
But what puzzled him was that since that time, he had no trace of the Owl Court. The organization seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. Schiller used his connections and means to flip left and right in the city. After several days of twists and turns, he could not find any suspicious figures who were suspected of sharp claws.
Don't forget that after Schiller's gray fog dissipated, he could collect accurate and microscopic information. In recent days, he has swept through half of Gotham City one after another, but no discoveries have been made.
This made Schiller suspicious. He was not afraid of the enemy's revealing his strength, but was afraid that the enemy would hide completely and didn't know what conspiracy he was doing.
Logically speaking, the Owl Court has been dispatched, so there is no reason to retract halfway. He believes that the Claw is definitely not only targeting him, but all the people who may have played a role in this Gotham reform.
Before Schiller started the plan, he was ready for the people who might face a wave of assassinations from the Owl Court.
But what confused him now is that the owl courthouse is gone!
Not to mention sharp claws, I didn’t even see the hair of an owl. What happened to the owl court? Leave Gotham and go on a group vacation?
The problem of the Owl Court was not completely resolved, and Schiller was hesitant about the reconstruction of Gotham, because he knew that in some comic versions, the Owl Court added a kind of metal with mysterious power to it when building Gotham's buildings.
This metal will cause Gotham City to become darker and more crazy. Although Schiller once took samples from some buildings in Gotham City and had no special discoveries, he was not sure whether he could identify this mysterious substance.
But once the major renovation of Gotham City begins, it will definitely touch on the core interests of the Owl Court and usher in a fierce counterattack. If you don’t make complete preparations in advance, these core figures of the reform may suffer heavy losses.
But other family leaders, including Bruce and Falcone, felt that Schiller had come up with a reform plan so decisively and was quite effective, so he was not the kind of person who was looking forward to the front and back.
But this time, he showed hesitation. Perhaps there were some places they did not notice, so the original rapid reconstruction trend gradually slowed down.
On the other hand, although Catwoman wanted to be a big star, she was really impatient with those courses. Bruce saw that she was too strict, for fear that she would offend someone again when she went out to steal something.
The cat girl was almost crazy. Finally one day, she grabbed a gap and sneaked out.
Chapter completed!