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Chapter 51 Gotham Police?
Gotham City currently has 850 million permanent residents, a figure that does not include commuters to work, travel, conferences, or other short-term visitors. *
Before coming to the United States, the biggest Muggle city that Sirius experienced was only London; for the United States, he only heard about it and saw it in TV movies.
How to find a specific person among the vast crowds in a large Muggle foreign city?TV and movies didn't teach him.
Whether it is the temperament of the city, or the basic necessities of life and mental state of its citizens, Gotham is far from London.As far as the eye can see, the black and gray streets reveal an inexplicable harmony in the chaos; it seems that this city has its own set of rules of the game, and you can only abide by it.
Voldemort wants to rule the whole world of Muggles, and other lower creatures?Sirius sneered, then he should really come to Gotham to try and see if he can rule a city first.
He wandered aimlessly between different areas of the whole city, secretly read any newspapers and magazines at his feet when people were not paying attention, in order to understand the city he was in, and hoped that one day he would be lucky and read in the newspapers. To the name "Pennyworth" - certainly not the obituary column.
——It can’t be the headlines either.The newspaper headlines in Gotham are either the vigilante dressed like a bat or various major crimes.
I don’t know if this Mr. Pennyworth will treat Harry well. If he is still like the Dursleys - Sirius thought through gritted teeth - he will definitely run away with Harry, even if he wants to die, he has confidence , I will do better than these so-called Muggle relatives.
Sirius, who was flipping through a new day's newspaper under the street lamp, was getting more and more anxious. He had spent a whole week in Gotham without gaining anything; if Harley was really abused again, every extra minute he wasted Both mean girls are suffering at the same time.
Sirius disliked this city more and more, and the crimes in the newspapers were just the tip of the iceberg. During the few days he wandered in Gotham, he often witnessed all kinds of chaos and evil scattered around the corners of the city—the so-called There are young prostitutes whose families sell to local snakes; there are drug addicts who can’t feed their children in the slums, but still have little money on hand to buy drugs;
The residents of the slums and the surrounding Gotham are numb to this. It seems that being robbed has become a habit. They hand over money in exchange for a chance to save their lives. From Sirius's point of view, some of them even look lucky...
On the plus side, no Gothamite has the leisure to call a shelter and report him as a stray dog—as long as he doesn't go overboard looking for trash cans by the restaurant's back door, with those Homeless Muggles gang up on 'high quality' food.
Sirius could have been fine with Gotham forever like this.Until late at night, he, who was reading newspapers under the street lamp, witnessed a crime happening before his eyes.
On the corner of the street, in a simple convenience store, a young girl who just got off the night shift was kidnapped by a group of gangsters who jumped off a black van while locking the door.The girl didn't even have time to scream before she was dragged into the truck with her mouth and nose covered by the strong gangster.The whole process of committing the crime in less than 2 minutes happened in front of Sirius.
He didn't think much, almost subconsciously, he dropped the newspaper and ran after the truck.
After a 10-minute detour through the complicated streets of Gotham, the truck finally stopped at the hidden entrance of an empty alley.
Sirius hid behind the trash can and watched the gang drag the blindfolded and muzzled girl through an iron gate.He looked up and saw a sign above the iron gate that it was a Vietnamese restaurant.
So... this is a criminal organization in disguise?
"The goods you brought in this month are too few, the quality is poor, and the customers are not satisfied." Sirius heard the voice of a middle-aged and elderly woman with a thick accent, full of ferocity in the hoarseness.
"goods"? "customer"?Is this... a Muggle trafficker?
"We can't help it. A shipment of goods from South Asia was intercepted by 'that bat'." One of the gangsters on the truck said.
"Then this is?"
"Local products."
"You know I never accept local products!" The old woman gritted her teeth.
"Cut, then you come back, let your customers wait!" The gangster did not back down.
Sirius felt that he had to do something. The kidnapped Muggle girl was also considered to have a personal relationship with him. She once gave him a glass of milk when he was rummaging through the trash can on the side of the road—even though it had expired and was about to be thrown away , but he is still very grateful.
"What noise!" The old woman's vigilance was second to none, and just as Sirius moved his body to run away to find someone, she spotted him.
The arresting gangster turned his head to look, Sirius put on a frightened look.
"It's just a dog." He drew his pistol/gun and fired a shot directly at the position where Sirius was.
His intention was not to shoot the dog, a dead dog would be a hassle to clean up, he just wanted to scare it away.
So Sirius complied with his wish, deliberately let out a scream, and just took this opportunity to run away.
He was lucky to see two Muggle patrolmen just around the corner.
One was eating a hamburger, and the other was closing his eyes, listening to live football on the police car radio.
Sirius ran to the police car, barked at the two police dogs, and turned his head to indicate the direction of the Vietnamese restaurant, and even ran back and forth a few steps, trying to express to the other party that he wanted them to look in that direction.
"What does this dog want to do?" The policeman gnawed on the hamburger, his mouth full of salad dressing, his face full of impatience.
The policeman listening to the radio opened one eye, "Who knows... ah, isn't that direction Ms. Ruan's 'restaurant'?"
He finally opened the other eye, and frowned, "This dog reacted so strongly, it might be dead again."
"Then what should we do?" The corners of the Hamburg policeman's mouth drooped, but he kept chewing.
"It's fucking annoying...the shift will be changed soon." The policeman listening to the radio was furious, got out of the car, and wanted to kick the black dog, but Sirius nimbly dodged it.
"Just pretend you didn't see it, and let Johnny in the next shift worry about this shit." He glared at the black dog, climbed into the car, and just like that... drove away in front of Sirius.
Is this the muggle police?
Staring at the back of the police car fleeing for his life, Sirius was stunned. This is too different from those meddling policemen in London who chased him and James back then!
The author has something to say:
*Going out again yesterday, there is no code word..._(:з」∠)_So this chapter is a little shorter, and a fatter chapter will be added at 11 o'clock~