Chapter 1186 Kizaru's Future Journey 17 - The Origin of the Clown Gang
As a result of the final negotiation, Gwen paid two imperial gold coins and hired Harley Quinn as a guide for this trip. As long as she found two best friends, the guide's mission would be completed.
Harley Quinn does not participate in rescuing the hostages. The Joker gang is not affiliated with each other, and infighting is commonplace. They all hope that their companions will die.
When a local gang is eliminated by external forces, new gangs will naturally emerge to take over the territory left behind by the old gangs. The lower class will desperately try to seize the sphere of influence that the upper class looks down upon.
"In order to drug your friend and take him away from the bar, we need the cooperation of the upper class. Could you please tell me the identities of your two best friends?"
Harley Quinn walked in front with a group of gangsters, leading the way and asking the questions that concerned her most.
I just met Gwen for the first time and felt that this girl looked very familiar. Now Harley Quinn wants to find out the girl's true identity. She should be the daughter of the Central City Police Chief.
Gwen Stacy is George Stacy's only daughter. When Harley Quinn was still a doctor, she had worked with the Central City Police Department and had seen Gwen when she was a child.
The police chief is a powerful figure in Central City. There are countless people who want to curry favor with him. His daughter can be considered a little princess.
"My two friends were born into working class families. There is no reason for them to be kidnapped." Gwen had many questions in her mind. To the kidnappers, only the police chief's daughter was worth kidnapping.
An ordinary working-class family, firstly, cannot afford the huge ransom, and secondly, using the connections of the upper class to kidnap two ordinary young girls into the underworld is a bit too reckless and not worth the cost.
The only chance for the upper world and the lower world to meet is the underground train that Kizaru and his two companions took just now. The Empire turns a blind eye here, which is a gray area that everyone knows.
Moreover, only specific stations have abandoned stations that ordinary people cannot find. They can go underground through the abandoned stations. Gangs also follow this route to carry out activities in the subway area.
Usually, gangs only do two things in the subway area. The first is to smuggle all kinds of scarce materials, and the second is to sell contraband to other people. As for human trafficking, most of the time it is the upper class exploiting the lower class.
For the creatures in the underworld, it is too easy to turn these garbage into slaves. Slaves can be found almost everywhere, so there is no shortage of slaves in the underworld.
Trafficking ordinary people from the upper classes does not do much good for the lower world, and if the crime is carried out on a large scale, it may bring down the iron fist of the Empire.
Even if the lower-class people without formal identities manage to sneak out of the subway station, they will be caught by the law enforcement team afterwards. After suffering physical pain, they will still be thrown underground to fend for themselves.
"Have your two friends come into contact with any strange things recently?" Harley Quinn already had the worst thoughts in her mind.
Gwen thought of her two friends. A few days before they disappeared, they were very careful in what they did and said. During that time, they were also mysterious and were not busy with their studies. Instead, they participated in a secret gathering in private.
She had not thought of these things before, but after Harley Quinn’s reminder, Gwen felt a little enlightened. Could it be that the two friends were not kidnapped, but voluntarily followed someone into the underground world?
"Recently, the leader of the Joker Gang has been collaborating with a cult. I suspect your two friends have been drawn into the cult. The situation is not optimistic."
Harley Quinn knows the underground world and what kind of evil cults are there. If they can persuade people to be good and lead ordinary people at the bottom to live a happy life, then they are not cults.
In order to gain power, cultists are willing to give up everything around them. Loved ones, relatives, and friends are all not spared and cannot escape the fate of being sacrificed.
In the end, even the cultists themselves will be devoured by the cult and become monsters that are neither human nor ghost. Gangs have dealt with this kind of things many times.
In the first half of the year, Harley Quinn caught a cultist who was spreading evil cult ideas in her own territory. She discovered it in time, took her brothers to catch the cultist, and smashed the cultist's head with a baseball bat.
The process of the crime was even watched by the refugees under her rule. This was the fate of the cultists. If anyone dared to believe in these bad things, Harley Quinn would personally blow his head off.
Kizaru is not very interested in cults. In his era, only pirates and the Revolutionary Army posed a threat to the navy. Cults hiding in the dark could not cause much trouble.
Cults can only stir up trouble secretly and do not have the strength to wage a direct war with the navy. They are not the main contradiction for the navy. Some cult members can even be used by the navy.
"I have always had a question in my mind. I have also seen gang members, but why do you put on clown makeup and even name the gang with the word clown in it?" Kizaru asked the question he had always wanted to ask: Why would the gang that rules the underworld want to get in touch with the clown?
Except for Barry, everyone, whether upper class or lower class, looked at Borsalino with doubtful eyes.
Because of this answer, anyone with normal thinking ability will think of the Joker Gang and what this strange name represents.
Admiral Kizaru is not from this era and has not studied the history of this era, so it is not surprising that he doesn't know about it. Barry didn't tell him about it before he came.
However, outsiders don’t know that the wretched uncle was an ancient man who lived hundreds of years ago and a member of the Clown Gang. They thought that the arrogance of the upper class had come back again and used verbal provocation to create trouble.
Seeing that the atmosphere around him was not right, Barry hurriedly stepped forward to explain for Kizaru, "My uncle is from a small place. There are some things that are unfamiliar in the countryside. He doesn't understand a lot of unspoken rules. This is also his first time in Central City."
Barry's explanation was understood by some people. The people from the countryside mostly referred to the islanders outside the Red Earth Continent, who lived on the sea all year round and were isolated from information.
The islanders and the lower-class people of the Red Earth Continent are all beings abandoned by the times. In most cases, the islanders will never leave the island where they were born in their entire lives, and they know even less than the lower-class people in the underground world.
When Harley Quinn saw that Barry's uncle was very skilled, she never expected that he was an islander. She thought it was normal for a country bumpkin not to know the rules, so she explained to him the origin of the Joker Gang.
The name of the Joker Gang refers to a person who, hundreds of years ago, single-handedly pushed the entire world into the Dark Ages and waged an endless war with the Empire's predecessor, the Navy.
He is Buggy, the clown king who is portrayed as a super villain in the imperial textbooks. He is a name that cannot be avoided in the history of the empire. Without him, there would be no empire today.
The Joker Gang can be equated with the Buggy Gang. Initially, it was a gang formed by a group of people who wanted to resist the rule of the Empire.
However, over the years, they have been assimilated into the living environment of the underground world and have been forced to become the empire's watchdog for the underground world. They have not formed a force to overthrow the empire as their original founders had imagined.
There are so many monsters in the underground world that it is not easy to gain a foothold and survive here. The grand ideal of overthrowing the empire has completely become a joke.
Make the clown gang more clowns, bring a lot of fun to the upper rulers of the empire, and relieve the boring life