Chapter 102 Black Pyramid_1

Bruce never dreamed that after returning to Shiller and giving him a definitive answer, he would hear such a shocking plan from Shiller.

The man who claimed to be an ordinary and good professor told him directly, "It's not Gotham that's wrong, it's this world."

For this reason, Shiller came up with a plan, a plan that made Bruce somewhat back down, even though the professor claimed, it was merely a spur-of-the-moment idea one morning.

In this plan, Shiller detailed how he intends to bring a new order to Gotham. If Bruce had to summarize it, he could only say that the name Schiller Rodriguez may go down in history. However, it won't be for any noble reason; rather, his professor would likely earn the title of "Father of Modern Crime".

In this plan, Gotham was depicted as an "excellent" city by Shiller, which enjoyed all the advantages of timing, location, and people. However, the word "excellent" here is relative to the black industry.

The first step of this plan was to unite the three major ports on the East Coast of the United States - Gotham Port, Chicago Port, and Miami Port. As it turned out, the speciality of all three cities was the mob presence.

When mob meets mob, tears well up in their eyes. The more coincidental point was that Gotham had a unique advantage in this area - even in a combined format, the mobs of Chicago and Miami could not compete with the mob of Gotham.

By linking these three cities, with Gotham as the leading force, it would virtually dominate over half of the port trade on the East Coast of the United States.

Regardless of which city it is among these three, none of them alone could handle the entirety of America's black industry. However, if these three port cities were combined, the result would be much greater than a simple 1+1+1=3.

A black industry chain that a single independent port city couldn't complete would be refined by other downstream cities. With the three ports echoing each other mutually and structure analogous to the order of the Twelve Mafia Families of Gotham, elaborately subdivided, they would be able to undertake more than 70% of America's black industry chain.

Most cities on the West Coast of the United States are still relatively orderly, like Green Lantern Hal's Seashore City, or Los Angeles and Seattle. Although their crime rates are not low, they are still much better compared to the East Coast.

Looking at these cities on the East Coast, it goes without saying that Gotham is the largest crime center in the cosmos. Miami is known for its tornadoes and mob, and Chicago has been dubbed the 'City of Crime', with Chicago Typewriters enjoying nationwide fame.

The average crime index in the United States is 30~40, yet the combined crime index for Gotham, Chicago, and Miami likely exceeds 300. A confluence of these forces would certainly be a potent combination.

What Shiller didn't mention in the plan he showed Bruce was that, as a person who traversed time, he knew that in about seven months, in October 1987, there would be a Black Monday. This nation would experience a severe stock market crash, with stock limit down, corporate bankruptcy, and countless unemployed people on the streets. The crime rate would almost double.

With the influx of fresh blood, the mob gained countless new recruits. Many unemployed financial workers started to 'jump into the sea'. Many small-time street gangsters started to professionalize, and the Big Mafia, infused with a new batch of professionals, took a big step forward towards becoming a corporation and implementing a shareholding system.

Following the end of the Cold War, a large amount of military equipment was phased out, and the negative consequences of over-investment during the competitive era gradually became apparent. Many personnel were laid off. These people, most of whom had undergone professional military training but lacked survival skills, would enhance the physical strength of the mob after its brain had been armed.

Subsequently, the capital flight caused by the 1987 stock market crash led to the 1994 economic crisis in Mexico. Yes, the specialty of Mexico also is...

It was predictable that if this plan was implemented, the next few years would be the smoothest years for Gotham.

Of course, Bruce didn't have foresight. He only knew that between him and the person who drafted this plan, there must be one who wasn't normal.

What would you do when you want to bring a new order to a crime-ridden city?

Most people would probably consider how to suppress the mob, or resort to absolute violence to eradicate the source of crime.

But they would certainly not land on the idea that "since I can't be good, let's all sink together".

However, if this plan could indeed be successful, it became very clear to Bruce's brilliant mind: once the mode of Gotham's mob was applied to the entire East Coast, Gotham would become the apex of this Black Pyramid, like the current status of the Falcone family in Gotham.

Becoming the apex of the largest criminal industry chain in America would mean that Gotham could possibly become the most developed city in the United States overnight. Everyone in this city would involuntarily become the leader. Even if they were the last feather of the phoenix, they would still stand out more than any other feather.

Of course, Gotham would not change its nature as the City of Crime because of this, after all, the apex of the Black Pyramid is also black.

But what was different about Gotham from other cities was that it had sunk to the bottom, whether seen as the head or the tail of the phoenix. Gotham had already hit rock bottom and hence had no lower limit to break through. If Gotham was going to rot anyway, why not make it prosperous while it rots?

Bruce had many opinions on this plan that he wanted to express but they were all stifled inside him.