Chapter 108: Longzhong Dialogue in Cat Getan (Part 1)

"... What I want to say is, it's like this, just like what you see, everyone knows what I used to do..."

On the counter of a bar, in an old TV screen, Roy Brown took a violin box from under the table and put it on the desktop, then opened the lid with a 'click', revealing a gun inside.

"I came from Chicago, that's right, I used to be a gangster leader there, that is, a member of the Mafia that you are familiar with..."

"This is my weapon, see? This beautiful little baby, you call him a typewriter, but I like to call him Huff..."

"What kind of place do you think this is? What do you think I am doing now? Do you think I should sit in the mayor's office and drink tea? I want to tell you, this is not a threat..."

"I was born and raised in Chicago. My father and grandfather were too. At that time, they said this place would become the second Gold Mountain. Many people came here, they all had a get-rich dream, many big companies, big machines, never stopping all night..."

"But this group of people left, leaving behind a fire and a pile of pollution. After the Prohibition, what did my hometown leave behind? A mess!"

"Riots are rampant, everyone is in danger, what can we do? We must pick up guns to defend ourselves..."

"So you said, oh, Chicago's gangsters are rampant, that place is a hell of a place. I want to tell you now, that place is hell! A hell that can swallow you bastards alive!"

"When those immigrants were killing people with guns here, the governor only said that everyone should be calm. After the gangster problem became rampant, the police station? Ha! How dare you mention this?"

"Do you dare to believe it? A year ago, there was only one gun for every three police officers in Chicago, and even some logistics personnel could only use batons for self-defense!"

"This is your so-called public security bill?"

"Why did those damn public housing streets appear? Because there are too many unemployed people!"

"Why are they unemployed? Who should be blamed for economic problems? What did those old men sitting on Capitol Hill like fat pigs do? He let the people of Chicago fend for themselves! That's it!"

"Now you are sending articles to condemn, saying that Cat Getan let a gangster leader be the mayor. I want to tell you, I will be the best mayor here!"

"Because I am a member of the gangsters. If you don't solve the economic problems for us, then we will solve them ourselves. I want to do whatever I want!"

"I know, some people say Cat Getan is even worse than Chicago, oh, who else? Miami? Blüdhaven? Imperial City?"

"Yes, these eastern cities are a piece of shit in their eyes, but they just want to watch this piece of shit placed in front of them. Did we get any help from them?"

"Don't expect me to listen to your nonsense, those be-a-good-baby remarks, go tell the people on the West Coast!"

Roy threw that Chicago typewriter directly from the box onto the desktop and said: "The East is just this ghost appearance. There is only one thing I want to do here, pick up the gun, kill everyone who blocks me, and then, lead everyone to get rich together, I don't care if they are gangsters or something else!"

After the speech, the TV screen on the bar counter flickered twice. The bartender patted the TV and said: "Fine, it seems this old guy is broken again."

The guests complained dissatisfiedly. A big black guy holding a wine glass sat on one side of the bar and said: "It seems the new mayor is not bad, he is a tough guy, he said what I wanted to say..."

"I was born in Cat Getan, yes, just two blocks away. You know, our boss took me out once before, where was it? Oh, right, it was Metropolis. People heard that I was from Cat Getan, and it was like seeing something dirty..."

"If you ask me, this mayor is still quite special. In the past, the one sitting in the mayor's office, facing the reprimands of those reporters, would only be a shrinking turtle."

"Then he died, he died in a car accident more than a month ago..."

"Oh, it's him. I don't even remember his name, but I heard people say he was the second longest-living mayor in Cat Getan."

"I think this one now can definitely break the record. He is the godson of the old Godfather, and he is much stronger than those soft-egg mayors."

The black man also said: "He makes a lot of sense. Whether it's Cat Getan or Chicago, this ghost place was like this before we were born. We live here, want to earn more money, what's wrong? They only know how to scold us as bastards all day..."

"If I could be like that group of people in Metropolis, reading books from childhood, going to college, graduating, wearing suits, wearing ties, and blowing air conditioning in the office, my brain would be broken if I wanted to be a gangster and get shot!"

"He's just talking." Another black man walked over and also ordered a drink: "It's impossible for him to really be a mayor and lead all gangsters to make money together, right? What kind of mayor is that? Even if that group of reporters doesn't scold him into shit, the state government won't agree..."

"I don't ask him to lead us to make money, I just hope he won't be like those mayors before, who would come up with some civilized city ordinance, some anti-gangster public security law, and nag all day..."

"Damn anti-gangster public security law, is there anyone in Cat Getan who is not a gangster? Why doesn't he say to bomb this city directly?"

Everyone in the tavern laughed. Some people even made gestures of nuclear bomb explosions.

The next day, Roy's speech made the headlines of major newspapers in the East and even the whole United States. You know, it's not the period of Prohibition anymore. Most of the Mafia are scattered, and gangster culture is mostly no longer glorious.

Now at this time, a mayor jumped out and said, I am a gangster, I am a Mafia, not only do I admit that I am a gangster, I also say that I want to lead gangsters to make money, naturally it will cause verbal and written criticism from major media.

But no matter what, the name "Gangster Mayor Roy Brown" almost resounded throughout the United States overnight.

However, what is a bit strange is that several cities tacitly did not speak out about this. Some of their leaders even specifically suppressed public opinion and showed an ambiguous attitude, including those eastern cities mentioned by Roy.

Actually, every city with illegal industry as its pillar industry knows that Roy is telling the truth.

The history of these cities is almost the same, and the reasons for the emergence of gangsters are also historical legacy problems. Either it is to fight against foreign immigrants, or it is the disaster left over from the Prohibition period.

Most people in these cities feel that Roy's scolding is very satisfying, because no matter who it is, they only know how to order and urge, and except for verbal condemnation and warnings, there is no practical action to improve the bad situation of these cities.

Most people only know how to say with superiority that people born in these places are natural bad seeds, and it is their evil that created these crime capitals.

But in fact, economic conditions are the root cause of all this. Except for Cat Getan, which is slightly special, most of the gangster cities are because of the high unemployment rate brought about by economic recession.

People in this environment are natural gangsters. You say you want to use public security laws to eliminate gangsters, it's really not as good as using a nuclear bomb to bomb these cities.

These crime capitals, led by Cat Getan, many of their gangster leaders are very dissatisfied. Originally, we put our heads on our belts and exchanged our lives for money, which was already quite difficult. These people who talk without back pain still scold all day, making investment even less dare to come, and the economy is even less prosperous.

In the past, gangsters also felt that they were in the wrong. No matter what, illegal industries really couldn't be brought to the table.

But now, Roy's speech reminded them of one thing. These cities became like this, and it is not these people who should bear the main responsibility.

Not to mention those historical legacy reasons, the inaction of the state government and Congress is also the main reason why the status quo has not been improved at all.

I was born here and have nowhere to go. I joined the gangsters, and you said I was a villain. My heart is towards the light, but the verbal condemnation and public security laws can't give me bread. I don't join the gangsters, waiting to starve to death?

Then why can't I rot? I just rot!

The most important role of Roy's speech is to give these gangsters who haven't read much books a relatively concentrated guiding ideology, that is, I am so rotten now, it is not my fault, but the world's fault.

Actually, if we talk about Cat Getan's status quo, this idea is actually not wrong. People born in Cat Getan cannot choose their birthplace, and once you are born in Cat Getan, you can only choose this hellish life, otherwise you can't live.

Geniuses and supermen are the minority in this world, and ordinary people who are powerless to change classes are the majority.

Actually, those who condemn might not know this truth, but Roy put this matter on the table and pointed out sharply that it is precisely because all parties are inactive and the violent law enforcement agencies are weak and incompetent that they created several cities with the highest crime rate in the United States. This is undoubtedly

In this world, geniuses and supermen are the minority; ordinary people who are powerless to change their class are the majority.

In fact, those who condemn him may not necessarily be unaware of this logic, but Luo Yi put this matter on the table, pointing out with piercing accuracy that it is precisely because of the inaction of various forces and the weakness and incompetence of violent law enforcement agencies that the few cities with the highest crime rates in the United States were created. This undoubtedly tore off the last fig leaf of those politician masters.

This speech naturally caused a huge backlash in the orderly society. State government assemblymen bought off by the Wei En Group also couldn't withstand the pressure, and the state government ordered the Mayor of Cat Getan to be suspended for investigation, planning to restart the process for the mayoral election.

In the past, this process in Cat Getan was just a formality; basically, whoever Wei En said was okay, was okay. And the gangs didn't care either, because the Mayor of Cat Getan actually didn't have much power, and the gangs wouldn't listen to the mayor anyway—it was the same whoever was in office.

But the state government felt that Luo Yi had gone too far this time, and even the federal government sent a reprimand: "You can be rotten, but you can't be rotten so righteously; it makes us look so bad!"

So they planned to hold a new mayoral election.

This is a method they often use to quell similar troubles. As long as they restart the election process and let the person who did wrong suffer a crushing defeat in the new election, proving that his views are not what the people want, it can naturally quell most public opinion and the anger from superiors. In past experience, this trick could be said to be foolproof.

Until the state government assemblymen saw that the person ranked first among the new candidates was named Carmine Falcone.