Chapter 849: People Are Stupid and Rich, Come Quickly! (Part III)

Savage wasn't stupid. He knew that in the Living Hell, the cost of living for ordinary people couldn't be this high. However, he didn't come here to be an ordinary person. He had a career to complete.

Savage started to compare in his mind. Before, he had given some activity funds to Mirror Master and Pied Piper, but at that time, the funds started at five figures. If it was less than tens of thousands of dollars, how could a great monarch take it out?

Not to mention ordinary people like Leon and Madame Goth, every time they asked him for funds and rewards, he was buying horse bones with thousands of gold, not only spending money but also eating a lot of collections.

Savage estimated and discovered that if those products were converted into cash, the money he spent on ordinary people would also be at least hundreds of thousands of dollars.

However, what did these ordinary people and the super-powered people he hired before bring him?

Almost nothing. Leon and Madame Goth disappeared from then on, and Mirror Master and Pied Piper didn't know where they went. His hundreds of thousands of dollars went down the drain, and he didn't get any information.

But on the contrary, after spending a few thousand dollars, Savage basically figured out the routines of the gang leaders in the Living Hell and knew some of their temperaments, habits, and weaknesses.

And, the newsboys nearby all became familiar with him, and they could bring out quite a lot of information between their words. Even, he had already met the leader of that medium-sized gang before and preliminarily drafted a combat plan against the Living Hell.

Only needing a fraction of the original cost to achieve several times the original achievement, then this money wasn't spent in vain.

And, the money spent on hiring others was enjoyed by others, and the money spent on consumption here was also enjoyed by himself.

The food was eaten by himself, the service was enjoyed by himself, the wine was drunk by himself, and the time was also spent by himself. Even if the product itself wasn't worth this price, the extra benefits obtained were also earned by himself.

Thinking this way, Savage started the next step of the plan. He invested a sum of money to let the leader of that medium-sized gang go to purchase weapons and then overthrow his boss.

Unexpectedly, this matter went very smoothly. The leader of the medium-sized gang shot the leader down with two shots and became the leader of that large gang himself.

After discovering the importance of the financier, this leader relied on Savage even more. He was simply obedient. Savage not only obtained the most luxurious room in the entire area but also had quite a few gang members at his disposal.

This was the greatest progress he had made in Cat Getan.

Savage wanted to kill that gang leader and rule the gang himself, but after contacting the gang for a period of time, he discovered that the gangs here had their own set of rules.

If he killed that gang leader and did it himself, he would still have to nod and bow to the people of the Twelve Families, and say that he might be rejected by others.

Savage wasn't willing to be under others, so he could only stay behind the scenes and control from a distance, letting that gang leader work for him.

Although the goal wasn't achieved as satisfactorily as he wanted, because of the long-term frustration, Savage was already very pleasantly surprised by this progress. After all, this was completely a city of lunatics. It was already quite good for him to take down a gang in such a short time.

Since he had taken down a large gang, the next step was to unify the Living Hell. However, the Living Hell alone gathered five or six large gangs. He had to kill them all to achieve the goal of unification.

To grab territory from other large gangs, two points were necessary: one was people, and the other was weapons.

Recruiting people needed money, paying people also needed money, buying weapons needed money, maintaining weapons needed money, the bullets fired needed money, and stopping the other party from firing bullets also needed money.

That gang leader was quite sensible. He first took down the commercial street and got several shops to get a steady stream of funds. However, the funds needed to prepare for a gang war were a lot, and the money from the shops wasn't enough at all. Savage's consumption had to be upgraded again.

Gang recruitment was generally recruited from the small gangs below. However, if you want people to work for you, you have to give a sum of money first. Ordinary adult males were generally 400 dollars at a time, and other job types with special abilities were about 30% higher on this basis.

If he survived a gang war, he had to pay him a stable salary, and the weapons he held belonged to him, and the gang needed to pay for the maintenance and bullet costs of his weapons.

Buying weapons wasn't enough just by buying the guns in the hands of the thugs. The gang war in Cat Getan wasn't just firing two shots from behind the car.

First, you have to build a defensive line. The best choice is a tank. If it doesn't work, ordinary modified cars are also fine.

Then you need crossfire and side-fire, you need firepower coverage, and in order to deal with the police helicopter, you might need anti-air firepower. If the opponent is a member of the Twelve Families, you might also need anti-missile.

Everyone knew that the arms industry was a bottomless pit. There was no strongest firepower, only stronger.

At first, Savage wasn't willing to spend so much money on arms, and as a result, he was beaten back repeatedly.

And then he discovered that the result of losing the gang war was even more terrifying. The people he recruited were gone, the salary was paid in vain, and the weapons were all lost, which was equivalent to the previous wave of investment, all down the drain.

Since that was the case, why not invest more money in the early stage to strengthen the firepower? At least after winning, you could eat the opponent's equipment.

Relying on information advantage and large-scale firepower advantage, several gangs in the Living Hell were beaten back repeatedly by him. Not long after, several large gangs all moved away.

Because he had to face competition all the time, Savage had no time to stop and calculate the cost. And when he achieved a phased victory, he calculated it and found that he had invested at least 3 million dollars just to make this gang the largest gang in the Living Hell.

The expenses included but were not limited to, all kinds of arms that could be bought on the market, Soviet-made tanks of unknown origin, and some armed helicopters that looked like they were in service but could be bought with extra money, and even included two missiles with parts of the production batch number and logo ground off.

Savage didn't even know where the gang leader got the channels to buy these.

At that time, his head was full of firepower, firepower, firepower. As long as an arms dealer came to the door, he would directly throw money to buy it. Now he had a pile of strange weapons that couldn't be taken out, and there was no place to sell them.

Before, the tension created by the gang war made Savage have to take out a lot of money, because as long as he wasn't willing to spend money, the opposite gang would get money for no reason, buy these weapons, and then it would be his side suffering heavy losses.

After several times like this, Savage simply accepted everything, bought everything, and the origin didn't matter at all. It didn't matter if it could be used later, just buy it.

Calculating this price, Savage felt a bit guilty. In fact, the 10 million dollars he told Captain Cold and Mirror Master was the value of the converted collections. The cash in his hand didn't have that much.

Although he also felt heartache, at least he achieved considerable progress. The entire Living Hell area was now under the control of the gang he controlled. This could be said to be an unprecedented victory.

But soon, new trouble came.

Many people knew that conquering the world and sitting on the world had their own difficulties, but when it came to spending money, sitting on the world was the real bottomless pit that couldn't be filled.

If you want to fight in other areas, you have to recruit more people. Not only that, you have to let these people master those newly bought weapons. If you have a tank, you have to know how to drive it, right? If you have an armed helicopter, you have to be able to let it go to the sky, right? If you have a missile... Alright, you can't launch it without a launch silo, but even if you want to deter, you have to know some knowledge, right?

And, Savage also knew that for sustainable development, he couldn't throw money into it alone. He had to let the area he controlled make money from money.

If you want to achieve this, you have to upgrade the industry here, attract more people to consume, and only when commerce makes money can he receive more protection fees. However, if you want commerce to make money, you have to upgrade the industry, and if you want to upgrade the industry, you have to invest money...

And, this time it wasn't a small fight. The Living Hell had developed to the present, the population had increased instead of decreased, the commercial potential was huge, and the early investment was also huge.

Savage soon fell into the same predicament as Bruce. Assets were there, but cash wasn't that much. Everywhere was working, everywhere was asking for money. If he didn't hurry to find an east wall to tear down, the capital chain would break, and it would be completely finished.

However, Savage had other places to get money. He had lived for so long. Picking up a bowl at random in his youth was an antique today. As long as he could sell his unimportant collections, he could soon get a large amount of liquid capital.

There were still many people in this world who were willing to collect, but for anything, as long as the two words "urgent sale" were added, there wasn't much room for negotiation in terms of price.

Especially for things like collectibles that couldn't be measured by rigid laws, they were particularly severely suppressed when they were sold urgently.

Things reached this step, and Savage felt that victory was in sight. He thought that once the East District with the largest population was taken down, other areas wouldn't be worth worrying about at all. Even if these people were used as hostages, they would have to talk to him properly. By then, no matter how much capital was spent, it could be recovered.

But what he didn't know was that in a conference room of Wayne Tower, Bruce sat in the main seat, and the leaders of the Twelve Families sat in two rows.

At the end, there were quite a few leaders of large gangs, two of whom had just sacrificed in the gang war with Savage, and one had sacrificed twice.

"Alright, friends, I didn't lie to you, right? As long as you cooperate with me to act in a play, this Savage will definitely be forced to sell those collections at a low price."

"As long as you can take them down through various channels, and then sell them at a high price, you can make money while lying down." Bruce said in a relaxed tone.

The gang leaders were eager to try, but Bruce spoke again: "However, it is obvious that he hasn't been forced to the end yet. The price at this time might not be as low as you imagine."

These gang leaders understood very quickly. They looked at each other, and one of them spoke: "That is to say, as long as he is forced to the end, there will be a price we are satisfied with?"

Bruce nodded and said: "The more anxious he is, the lower the price he sells, and after those very ordinary collections are sold, it will be the turn of the real treasures..."

"The tighter you force him, the more he will spit out."

All the gang leaders looked at each other, and a kind of light emerged in their eyes.

In this world, the thing that can best stimulate people's potential and improve people's wisdom is called interest. ===== CHAPTER 850 =====