From Gotham to Night City, my notoriety is known to everyone

"Can you understand our programming language?"

"Of course. The development of science and technology follows a certain pattern. When I came here last time, I got a general idea of the level of computers here..."

When it comes to computer programming, Leo has finally found his comfort zone.

Plus, Bruce really understands this technology, and the two of them had a very good chat.

Relying on his solid basic skills and "vision ahead of his time", Leo successfully won his first victory in the confrontation with Batman.

"You are really good at this, so keep working on it. I have to go out today, so if you need anything, come find Ah Fu."

"It just so happens that I also want to borrow Ah Fu from you. I'm going to do market research in the nearby supermarkets. Let him give me some reference."

"very good."

Bruce left satisfied, not knowing whether to go and cause trouble for the Joker or to deal with other matters.

Chapter 85: The Gotham Journey Ends Successfully

Leo turned around and agreed with Ah Fu to go out in half an hour, then hurried back to the room.

He used hair wax to change his hairstyle and put on a pair of sunglasses. He looked at himself in the mirror and felt that he had changed a lot from before.

The casual suit was changed into a campus-style sportswear, and the handsome young man in the mirror looked almost the same as the students in the school.

"This level of disguise should be enough."

Leo admired his handsome face which had returned to his youth, then turned and walked out of the bathroom.

After using his mobile phone to search for large supermarkets in the surrounding area and planning his inspection route, he rushed to the parking lot to meet Ah Fu.

The old butler also changed into casual clothes today, looking like an amiable rich man.

"set off!"

Leo stepped on the accelerator and drove out in a low-key black luxury car.

*

At noon, he returned to Wayne Building carrying bags of merchandise and entered the "wine tasting" session.

"Please, Ah Fu, you must be very familiar with wine knowledge, please help me pick out some of the best tasting wines."

The old butler Ah Fu looked at the twenty or so bottles of wine neatly stacked on the dining table and almost couldn't keep his smile.

He saw with his own eyes that Leo picked and chose from the supermarket shelves and bought these wines. At that time, he didn't understand what he was doing, but now he finally understood...

"Well, excuse me, Mr. Leo. The wines you bought from the supermarket are all popular brands. The average price of ordinary table wine is less than $10, and the average price of mid-range wine... I mean the average price of mid-range wine in the supermarket is less than $20. In my opinion, these wines... are no different."

Anyway, none of them can be served at Master Bruce's table.

Leo also knew that the rich man would definitely not drink such cheap stuff, but this was a seed product that he had carefully selected, so he had to strive for perfection!

At his strong request, Ah Fu reluctantly found a few wine glasses and tasted them one by one.

Ten minutes later, only six bottles remained in the center of the table.

With the help of Afu, Leo has developed his own wine product line, covering three levels: high-end, mid-range and low-end:

High-end product (made from 100% grape juice)

Dry red wine, dry white wine, needless to say, these are not sold to ordinary people.

The target groups are corporate executives, wealthy people and high-end bars.

Mid-range products (60%-40% grape juice content)

Off-dry wine, rosé wine.

The target groups are the wealthy, trendy bars and leisure places.

Low-grade products (30%-15% grape juice content)

Blended wine and sparkling wine should be the products with the highest sales.

The target groups are ordinary bars, marginal walkers with a little money or ordinary citizens.

According to the market research conducted by Leo Lai before, high-end products are priced at 500-1000 euros, mid-range products are priced at 200-500 euros, and low-end products are priced at 100-200 euros. They should be able to be sold at this price.

This is wine made from grapes that are actually picked from the vines. Even though it is not organic grapes, it is definitely considered a high-end wine in 2077.

There are many Mexican Catholics in Heywood, and Night City itself is located in the old United States, so it would be a good idea to sell wine there.

Leo looked at the six bottles of wine as if he were looking at a glittering treasure chest.

Without considering the exchange rate, from low to high, the profit ranges from 20 times to 50 times. There is absolutely no problem in using this to make the first pot of gold in Night City!

"Afu, look at these six kinds of wine. Actually, they all come from three wineries in Gotham City, so... can you perform 'that' again?"

He made the number six with his right hand and shook it next to his ear.

Ah Fu laughed and said, "Why do you need to make a phone call to buy wine? Do you have any special requirements?"

"That's right," Leo said as he thought, "I want to buy in bulk by the box, and I want blank cardboard boxes. There can't be any trademarks or marks on the bottles and bottle caps, including the production date."

This is a necessary precaution. There is no principled client like Batman in Night City. The profit is too huge, so we have to be on guard against them turning against us.

Ah Fu listened to his request quietly, and vaguely understood something in his heart.

He didn't try to hide it and pointed naturally to his right ear, where there was a hidden earphone.

The meaning is simple - it depends on what Master Bruce means.

Leo also knew that Batman would definitely be paying attention to the whole process, and he didn't think he could hide it from him.

The best strategy to deal with Batman is to be honest. The more you hide things from him, the more he will suspect you are up to something bad.

After half a minute, Alfu relayed Bruce's question: "How much do you want to buy?"

[Pure White, have you thought about the space allocation suggestions? ]

[I've already thought about it——

The standard wine in the supermarket is packaged in 750ML boxes, with 12 bottles in a box. 90 cubic meters can hold 3750 boxes, or 45000 bottles, which is enough for the first batch of goods.

The remaining 10 cubic meters is for you to buy food, leaving a small space for emergencies. 】

It makes sense, Leo began to retell it.

Ah Fu paused for a moment and listened to the instructions. "Okay, your request is a bit special, but this quantity is easily enough for three wineries. Give me the list, and the wine will be delivered to the basement storage room of Wayne Building around this time tomorrow."

Leo nodded with satisfaction. He knew everything would go smoothly. After all, this was Gotham, Batman's Gotham.

[2000 boxes of low-end wine, 1250 boxes of mid-range wine, 500 boxes of high-end wine, divided equally among the types.]

If everything goes well, even if it is sold at the lowest price, there will be a gross profit of nearly 10 million.

The problem is... I don’t know how much the partner will take.

Once you have the main products, everything else will be easy.

Leo went to the supermarket again in the afternoon. This time he chose door-to-door delivery and bought a lot of drinks, organic vegetables, meat, grains, dairy products and seasonings. He planned to cook for himself when he returned to Night City and not eat those disgusting synthetic foods.

Pure White has confirmed that the "inactivation" properties of the singularity space can terminate all biological and chemical processes, so that the food put in will not rot and can be stored for a long time.

With this batch of food, enough to feed ten people for a month, he would not have to worry about going hungry wherever he went.

Add in the souvenirs I brought for my friends, and this trip to Gotham was basically a complete success.

It would be even more perfect if Batman didn't watch him the whole time while he was collecting things, scanning around with several instruments.

After he collected the items, Batman hurried away in his armor.

Leo also returned to the room and pretended to work.

*

On the 7th day in Gotham City, I woke up in the morning to receive good news.

[Leo, I have parsed a small part of the authority from the rules of the singularity, which can slightly adjust the time you leave.]

Leo perked up and asked her to speak in detail.

[In the past, you would be forced to teleport away when the countdown ended. Now there is a slight improvement. You can leave one hour earlier or later, and you can leave at any time during this period. ]

【Just one hour? 】

[To be precise, there are two hours of free time, and the departure time is no longer fixed, which is more flexible. ]

[I understand... This time, no, as long as I'm in DC, I'll try to leave on time and give Batman the wrong message. ]

[Very good, you have also grown, hurry up and get up and eat. ]

Chapter 86: A Farewell Gift

Get up, eat, and go back to the house after eating.

Leo took the initiative to stay in his room for the whole day, creating the illusion that he was working hard.

Around eight o'clock in the evening, Bruce came to him and told him that the wine was ready.

Leo knew that trying to send him away at this time would be tantamount to declaring war, so he could only follow him to the underground storage room.

When he reached the second underground floor, he realized that this was not a storage room at all. Instead, this large flat floor with an unobstructed view could be called a logistics warehouse.

What's even more outrageous is that the wine must have arrived long ago, otherwise he wouldn't have had enough time to install so many high-tech testing equipment here.

The Butler had been waiting here for a long time. When he saw the two of them coming, he took the initiative to hand a tablet computer to...Bruce.

Leo stretched out his hand and grabbed a handful of air, and his fist suddenly hardened.

"3750 cases of wine, neatly stacked, occupy about 90 cubic meters. You asked for a case, which means it's a commodity."

Bruce looked at the statistical information provided by Alfu and understood Leo's business ideas.

"You're reselling high-tech stuff from there, just for the wine? Why not try meat and organic vegetables, which should be scarce there?"

Leo felt that there was nothing to hide, and frankly said: "We have a serious monopoly over there. Big companies have pushed for legislation to ban the sale of organic meat. As for organic vegetables... only the top 1% of the rich can afford them. The sales channel is too narrow."

Bruce nodded and quickly wrote down information such as capital monopoly, oligopoly, and the ecological environment being worse than imagined.

Furthermore, the fact that companies can push the government to enact such obviously unreasonable laws shows that social divisions are also very serious.

It’s really not a good place. It would be very difficult for ordinary people there.

"Just collect it, and don't worry about the machinery and equipment."

"You speak as if I can manage it if I want to..."

Leo was too lazy to pay attention to him and quickly put these "foundations for survival" into the space.

The originally spacious and tidy computer room suddenly became messy. With the light wall as the boundary, boxes of wine were neatly stacked, surrounding the computer room equipment in the middle.

If it was before the time travel, Leo's obsessive-compulsive disorder would have kicked in a long time ago. But now he felt that this kind of mess was also a kind of beauty, just like stacks of banknotes of different denominations stacked together.

More than 3,000 boxes of wine may seem like a lot, but it’s actually not difficult to store them.

He stretched out his hand, walked from one end to the other, and then walked back and forth, repeating this several times until he had touched all the boxes.

Looking at the warehouse that became empty again in less than ten minutes, Bruce suddenly felt a little envious of this ability.

If he could carry all the equipment with him and adjust it at any time, all these criminals in Gotham City would have been arrested long ago.

After Leo collected the merchandise, he asked the most pressing question at the moment: "Are you leaving?"

Leo paused and nodded slowly: "Your place is indeed good, but my family is still waiting for me there, I can't stay here for too long."

Bruce lowered his eyes slightly: "Why not bring them here? Gotham City is big and can accommodate immigrants."

"I can't even bring living things with me, otherwise I would have brought back a few extinct animals to make a fortune."

"Then what will happen to the Umbrella Corporation when you go back? Can you come back next time? Or... can you keep in touch with this place?"

Leo was confused. Starting from the last sentence, every sentence was a life-threatening question.

He dares to use cross-border WeChat with his friends in Night City, but Batman can't, at least not now.

"I can continue working when I go back. Didn't I find time to modify version 0.1? I'll try to leave you a new version that you can test run before I leave. Find some trustworthy technicians and have them study it.

Besides, it is impossible to keep in touch, the barrier between the two worlds is too thick. I will be back at least a week later next time. ”

Bruce looked at him deeply and nodded slowly, "One last thing. You leave and come back from the same place. I will clear the 44th floor of Wayne Building. From now on, you can use that floor as your return point. How about that?"

“Do I have room for bargaining?”