Vol 7 Chapter 185: Hard choices

Batman is a master at catching criminals, investigating like a detective, and attacking extraordinary powers behind his back, but he is like a dog in political struggle. After running Gotham for decades, he can be sobered up with countless criminal suspects. The two-day Joker was defeated in the election and almost became a public enemy of Gotham. He was surrounded by Gotham black and white. His Batman reputation and image in the minds of the people of Gotham City must be how poorly managed it is. Lost so badly?
In the world, Bruce Wayne is still a bit too straightforward. He doesn't want to lie or cheat others. He doesn't bother to engage in sluggish methods. He doesn't care whether the people like him or not. Various personality traits make him not very popular. He has never been misunderstood, thinking that he does not look like a good person.
In the more than a year since he took office, his poll support rate has been declining drastically, and public criticism has also intensified. Voices against him have also begun to appear within the party, thinking that his continued stay in that position will affect the entire party. The prestige of the party drags down the results of the midterm elections of other members of the party.
The decline in prestige caused his efficiency in governing to be fatally affected. The bills proposed were rejected by Congress, and the orders issued were ignored by government departments and trapped in the White House. Although nominally the supreme leader of the Hope Country, the decree did not come out of Washington.
Damian blatantly announced in the news media that he would invest in a competitor of the Wayne Group. He wanted to issue a bill prohibiting the investment of the Bradlow Company, but there was a legal problem in it, that is, he could not publish related to his own interests. Decree.
Although he resigned from the position of President of the Wayne Group, he still owns the shares of the Wayne Group. As President, he cannot make any national decisions that are of interest to the Wayne Group. Damian asked the Wayne Group’s competitors If he ordered a ban on investment, it would be to use the power of the president to protect the Wayne Group. This would violate the Constitution. For private use of public equipment, he would immediately be impeached and stepped down. After he stepped down, he might even go to jail.
The magic of banknotes is extraordinary in Hope Nation. Back then, Bruce also used his unfavorable banknote ability. He became the leader of the Justice League with a mortal body. This time he felt that he had experienced the ability of others to use money to clean him up. How uncomfortable.
The Wayne Group is very rich, but Damian, the most important superhero job in the DC Universe, is more rich as a business. What if the highest-end career in the DC Universe can best represent the world's most advanced productivity?
There is no doubt that it is a superhero. This world is a world with superheroes at its core. Without superheroes, this world will become ordinary, and no one will regret it if it is destroyed on the spot.
Treating superhero services as a business is equivalent to contracting the Hunter Association in the world of "Full-time Hunter", accepting all pirates as younger brothers in the world of "One Piece", and mastering all ninjas in the world of "Naruto" The above is the same, it can be said to be standing on the biggest outlet in the DC universe, even a pig can fly to the sky and make a super fortune.
The profit of Bradlow’s charging crisis rescue business is countless times higher than that of selling arms, human trafficking, and selling banned drugs, and the investment cost is still very small. Orcs, Bai Jue and the ninjas he took from the Assassin League are all With cheap labor, all the skills of his subordinates are all trained by him. The labor cost is very low, and the gross income and net income are not much different.
It stands to reason that the world’s strongest superhero team, the Justice League, should have been very profitable, but the superheroes have to flaunt their fair and selfless glorious image. They cannot collect money like Damian, and operate purely as a non-profit charity organization. Therefore, it is only to maintain a balance of revenue and expenditure, and to collect a symbolic amount of one billion yuan from the United Nations for the maintenance of the headquarters. It is not making money at all.
With the support of this high profit, it is really not difficult to break the Wayne Group with endless money, not to mention Damian also bought a lot of money from the high IQ prisoners of the Arkham Asylum. The black technology of China has been transferred from military to civilian for civilian development and utilization, which greatly enhances the technological strength of Wayne Group’s competitors.
The Wayne Group lacks Bruce at the helm. Although Lucius Fox, who replaced Bruce as the president, is considered an individual talent, the level of business talent and cunning is far from Damian's. This is already very unfair. In the midst of the business war, the stock price of Wayne Group fell three times a day, becoming the only stock with a limit of falling in the stock market that was soaring across the board.
The trend of stock price decline seems to be unable to be reversed in the short term. Investors all know that there is a super market maker who is not hesitating to sell Wayne Group stocks locally. At this time, they will not sell Wayne Group stocks. They will soon be queuing up on the rooftops. .
While impacting the Wayne Group’s stock price, Damian also began to maliciously acquire the Wayne Group’s stock, increasing its shareholding ratio, and publicly declared that once he obtained 51% of the shares and obtained the company’s decision-making power, he would directly dismember the Wayne Group. , All the industries with the highest profitability in the Wayne Group will be separated and reorganized to form a new company. Only the unprofitable industries can be retained. In short, once he takes power, the Wayne Group will go bankrupt.
The business leaders of All Hope Country assessed the financial strength of the Bradrow Company, combined with the current situation of the Wayne Group, and made a judgment, that is, the Wayne Group is afraid that it will be inevitable. Under pressure, there is no way to survive.
The Wayne Group’s stock price plummeted, and Damian, who acquired the Wayne Group’s stock, had a higher and higher share of the shares. It was about to reach more than 50%, and Bruce was about to go bankrupt and become a pauper.
The notoriety in the political arena has plummeted, and the family business is on the verge of bankruptcy. His main business of Batman is almost impossible to do because of the active orc rescue team. The rescue service quality of any orc rescue team is higher than that of Batman. , After all, the four plush super orcs who cooperate with each other tacitly and are much cuter than Batman don't talk about their strength, they are more just than him in terms of their cuteness.
The situation continues to deteriorate. If he is impeached and leaves the presidency, he will really have to rely on his son for the rest of his life. After all, he has no skills other than fighting and fighting. It is impossible to work part-time. Super If you want to be a hero, you can only drive a Batmobile and be an Uber driver, you can only open a private detective agency and an orangutan to work as a private detective.
Late that night, in the living room of Wayne Manor, Bruce Wayne leaned on the sofa in the living room and drank wine. He was struggling very much. For those sordid methods he hates most, failure is only a matter of time.
With Bruce's wit, if he doesn't use any means, don't look at the embarrassment now, but there are also ways to make a comeback.
However, once he broke through the bottom line of being a human being and slipped into the deep darkness, Bruce couldn't guarantee that he would still be able to climb out, and would he become a black-hearted politician Batman.