Chapter 2958
There was a driver in the car left by this old white man. This driver clearly knew Gordon. Gordon handed him a cigarette, and he talked intermittently about his boss's background.
This guy actually didn't have any big background. He was a real estate developer before and now mainly does resort management. He has some connections in the South District, and his name is Williams.
The piece of land behind Shiler's house was indeed taken down by developers before and was indeed used as public green space, but the company's operation has been poor recently, so they had crooked thoughts and wanted to sell this land again.
Shiler didn't understand the specific legal terms, but he guessed it should be taking advantage of legal loopholes, but for real estate developers, this is also common. Anyway, this piece of land is now in his hands, and the construction of the resort has been put on the agenda.
Shiler discovered that he seemed to have a renovation constitution, renovating wherever he went. Before, next to Greed's Arkham Asylum, that shuttle station was built for several years. Now that he just moved into a new house, a resort is going to be built around it.
In fact, he had no opinion on them building a resort by the lake. When he wasn't working, his entertainment projects were originally very scarce. Going to a restaurant for a meal, going to a club to play cards, having a resort at the door was also quite good. He didn't have to go so far for entertainment.
Of course, the renovation process might be very annoying, but after all, the woods were still a long distance from the house, separated by a lawn. As long as the noise didn't exceed the standard, Shiler wouldn't interfere.
But he felt that Williams' plan would definitely not go smoothly because this was community green space. Theoretically, it belonged to the residents of the entire community. Whether they come or not is one thing, but building such commercial buildings would greatly damage the privacy of the community. The residents here would definitely not be willing.
Sure enough, not long after, a few cars chased over. Shiler took a look, and among them was one of his familiar patients. The man in a suit and leather shoes walked up and shook hands with Shiler and said: "You really came here, Professor. Did you see that damn Williams? He is a racial discriminationist from the Central States, a damn bastard!"
Shiler nodded. Just now, Williams didn't cover it up at all, publicly humiliating black people. You must know that now the international skin color equality movement is in full swing, and states on the East and West Coasts have all issued relevant anti-racial discrimination decrees. Generally, people who engage in discrimination are at most yin and yang, and there are not many who are so straightforward.
A lady behind said: "They sold a piece of land twice. These cunning real estate developers will do anything to get land. Our mayor is now stretched thin."
"Heard it also involves the mayor." Shiler asked: "What's wrong?"
"Oh, you don't know yet, right? The State Legislature sent down a mayoral candidate, seemingly wanting to replace Mayor Luo Yi. The election situation is not optimistic."
After a few people chased Williams into the woods, Gordon shook his head and said: "Only by cutting open the skin can you see the rotten meat, but the wound is exposed to everyone's sight, so there are always people who use this as an excuse to claim that the mayor is incompetent."
Shiler understood after a little thought. Luo Yi indeed made Cat Getan better, but after the fundamental problems of Cat Getan were solved, more problems were exposed.
Gothamites used to have a headache about public security. Now public security is good, and everyone can live peacefully, but there are also many problems in life, traffic, urban construction, environmental protection...
When public security was not good, no one dared to come, and everyone felt that coming to Cat Getan to take office was no different from suicide. But now that the public security situation is good, everyone feels that they can turn the situation around with a little trick, isn't that another political achievement?
Mainly because Cat Getan, as a super big city on the East Coast, has a status equivalent to New York. The gold content of the New York mayor doesn't need to be said, right? That is a position that both parties are fighting for, infinitely close to the center of American power.
For these people, Shiler can only express respect and blessings. As long as they can solve Cat Getan's problems, the United States will not be what it is now.
This Williams seems to be that reserve mayor, but coming here first to seek benefits for himself can also be considered an old tradition that cannot be shaken.
"What do you plan to do?" Gordon asked him.
"As long as he doesn't come to find trouble with me, I don't want to care about him." They both walked back together, Shiler said: "His procedures for buying land and building a resort should all be legal. As long as he can handle the residents, there is nothing to criticize."
"I think you will hate such people very much."
"I have seen patients much stranger than this, so it can't be called hate. Still the same sentence, as long as he doesn't come to bother me, then he can do whatever he wants."
Gordon left soon. He knew that Shiler would not participate in such things. Shiler is the kind of person who, as long as it doesn't endanger him, he won't care. Gordon's main purpose for coming today was to want to contact Bruce through Shiler. Only Batman has the ability to make the final decision.
In fact, it was just because the weather was too hot. Shiler wouldn't move if he could. The excessively high temperature made him feel that his mental state was not good, so he didn't want to get involved in these things even more.
Soon Shiler saw Helen rushing in angrily. Shiler handed her a cup of ice water and asked: "What's wrong?"
"That damn bastard! He actually wanted to have people beat us!"
"Did he get beaten to death by you?"
"Of course not, this is your territory, we are not easy to act." Helen sighed, drank a few mouthfuls of ice water, and finally calmed down and said: "Squirrel Girl made him trip a big somersault, Fungi made his athlete's foot recur, that's it."
Shiler smiled and said: "Then he probably won't have a good time these few days. How did you get into a conflict?"
"At that time I climbed up the tree, that old man pointed at my nose and scolded, and called me a little bastard! He told me to come down quickly and don't step on his tree..." Helen felt more aggrieved as she spoke. She is Doomsday, can she take this anger?
Shiler also sighed lightly and said: "Scolding people at will is indeed his fault, but you also made him trip a somersault, which can be considered even."
Helen nodded and didn't say much. As a result, Luo Bote, who came in later, was even angrier than her, which could simply be called cursing.
He cursed for a long time before remembering that Shiler was still here, scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly. He looked at Shiler and said: "Professor, he is so arrogant, don't you intend to teach him a lesson?"
Shiler laughed and said: "Haven't you already taught him a lesson? What else do you want to do, kill him?"
Luo Bote immediately shuddered and said: "How did it get to killing? I mean I want to beat him up."
"He will call the police." Shiler said: "He bought that piece of land, and all procedures are legal and legitimate. You appear on someone else's land and beat someone up. The police will throw you into jail."
Luo Bote was also a bit frustrated. He said: "The police here are also too powerful. The police cars I saw on the street before were all equipped with heavy firepower. I might not be able to run away."
"And, Matt also said that you can't cause trouble by relying on your superpowers. But I just can't swallow this anger! He even scolded Helen for being a wild child!"
Soon the other three people of the New Warriors team also came in. Except for Night Thrasher, the other two showed indignant expressions.
Shiler was still very calm. He said: "His buying land and building a resort is indeed not illegal, and driving you out is also exercising legitimate rights. But if you trespass illegally, or even commit violence, I won't go to the police station to bail you out."
Several people were frustrated.
Shiler seemed a bit surprised. He paused for a long time before saying: "I mean, he is legal, and you are not."
"Yes, I know, Professor." Luo Bote hummed and said: "We won't cause you trouble."
Then Shiler discovered that they really didn't understand human speech, so he had to say more directly: "Of course it's illegal for you to beat him up, then can't you think of a legal way?"
Luo Bote was stunned. Was that what he meant?
Shiler continued: "His buying land and building a house is indeed legal, then doesn't he have any other illegal places?"
Several people suddenly realized.
Why are there so many stupid children on Greed's side? Shiler thought somewhat helplessly. Although the Robin on his side is noisy, they are at least smart and understand as soon as they are pointed out. I don't know how they are doing.
Several people immediately discussed enthusiastically. Some said they wanted to check Williams' industry, some said they wanted to see his land purchase procedures, and some said they wanted to inquire if there were any illegal behaviors among his subordinates.
Helen leaned next to Shiler and said with a smile: "I knew you wouldn't stand by and watch, Professor. You will vent my anger for me, right?"
"What do you want me to do? Throw him into the lake? Let's say first, dumping a corpse in this season is too hard. If you want to throw him, throw him yourself."
Helen still couldn't adapt to the people here talking about killing and dumping corpses so lightly. She had already discovered that everyone here treated killing and dismembering as the last resort to deal with social problems, completely replacing the ecological niche of the sentence "forget it if it doesn't work" in social interaction. When mentioning it, it was unusually calm, which was creepy.
The people on her side were irritable, but it was just thunder and little rain. But Gothamites were different. Most of them were ruthless and didn't talk much, forcing Helen and the others to control their tempers and learn not to provoke easily without figuring out the other party's background, otherwise they would have fought with that Williams long ago.
Just like this Professor Shiler in front of her, after getting along for these few days, Helen discovered that it was indeed just as Dr. Shiler said. Under normal circumstances, the Professor's temper was very good. If you didn't provoke him, he wouldn't care at all.
Even if you offended him, as long as you apologized sincerely, he wouldn't do anything to you. At that time, they were playing with water and mud in the backyard and got carried away, making the garden a mess. After being discovered by Shiler, they apologized and cleaned it up quickly, and only got a white eye.
This kind of thing would make even ordinary people feel angry, but Professor Shiler's emotions were still very stable.
The matter of building a resort was the same. Although this resort would destroy the beautiful scenery behind the house and occupy the place Shiler originally used to relax, as long as it made sense in reason and didn't threaten Shiler, he didn't seem to want to care much either.
No wonder this universe didn't develop as fast as their universe, Helen thought. If it were the doctor, he wouldn't wrap a super invincible huge yarn ball to suffocate this Williams along with the people behind him, then he wouldn't be Shiler.
Shiler didn't want to care, but Helen had to care. Building a treehouse was one thing, but that old man's attitude was really too bad. Even Iron Man would have to give him a punch. If she didn't teach him a lesson, did he really think her Doomsday temper was good?
Just at this moment, Shiler's phone rang. After he picked it up, he raised his eyebrows in surprise and said: "You are already back? Okay, see you at the old place tonight."
"Who is back?" Helen looked at him and asked.
"The Robins, they are already back from your place, saying they brought some local specialties. Let's go to Wayne Manor tonight."
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