Chapter 336 Prison
From mayor to gardener, that is the fate of the mayor. Or the mayor has always been a "gardener", but it has changed from Goff City to Wayne Manor!

This is Wayne's control over Goff City!

In Ah Fu's opinion, the entire Goff City can be regarded as the Wayne family. As a butler, it is natural for him to manage these people.

There's nothing wrong with that.

"I...I..." The mayor opened his mouth but couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time.

He wanted to argue, but he didn't know where to start. He wanted to beg for mercy, but he didn't know what to say.

He really didn't want to be a gardener, but he didn't have any bargaining chips.

Chips? Wait…

"I know Washington's plan. They seem to be trying to infiltrate Goff City..." The mayor suddenly shouted out his bargaining chip, trying to betray his former ally.

Ah Fu shook his head, with a hint of sarcasm in his tone: "Those people are also our people."

"..." The mayor was stunned, then his face turned pale and he could no longer say anything. He could only smile bitterly.

"I've got your message across, just do your job." After saying that, Ah Fu walked away.

His leather shoes stepped on the floor, making a "click-click" sound, with a steady and powerful rhythm. No one could tell that he was a robot.

Shi Fei walked out of the mayor's office building with him. He walked on the left side of Ah Fu, but Ah Fu still couldn't see him.

After coming outside, Ah Fu waved his hand, and a black luxury car slowly drove in front of him from the roadside.

Ah Fu got into the car gracefully, and Shi Fei followed in. The car drove slowly on the deserted street, heading towards Wayne Manor.

Goff City was very large, so the car didn't drive very fast. After about an hour, they arrived at Arkham District.

Arkham District is located in the easternmost part of Goff City and is already a suburb. There used to be a very famous mental hospital here.

Arkham Asylum.

Later, due to poor management, the mental hospital closed down and was finally sold to a prison company, which transformed it into Arkham Prison, which is specially used to detain prisoners with mental illnesses.

Decades ago, the Night Owl liked to send people to Arkham Prison after he caught them. But later, with the cuts in municipal funding and poor prison management, Arkham Prison followed the footsteps of Arkham Mental Hospital and was on the verge of closing down.

In Goff City, the prison is a private company and naturally pursues profits. The prison's profits are mainly divided into two parts.

Some of them sign long-term contracts with the government and agree to pay a daily fee based on the number of prisoners, usually $60-100 per person.

Many contracts require the government to pay daily compensation for the difference if prisoner numbers fall below the contract level.

If the prison is full, no more prisoners will be accepted. In many places, no one cares about the "zero-dollar purchase" because there are too many criminals and the prisons are full and cannot accept so many prisoners.

They had no choice but to release the criminals with short sentences and keep those with long sentences.

Another part of the prison's income comes from prisoners. Prisoners need money to live in the prison, buy food, and buy goods. If they don't have money, they can take out a loan and make money to pay it back after they are released from prison. If they can't pay it back, they will go back to prison, and the cycle will continue.

At the same time, prisoners in prison can also be sent out to work, such as sorting goods for Walmart, renting out to farms to pick cotton, etc., in order to make a profit.

Generally speaking, companies that can open prisons are well connected, able to sign high-quality orders with the government and manage the prisoners in the prison. Basically, it is a business that is guaranteed to make money.

But the prisoners in Arkham Prison are different. First of all, they have mental problems, which is fine. Secondly, they have no money and are even more unwilling to go out to work.

If they are forced to work, they will use their "talent" attributes to make a mess of things. As we all know, Arkham is full of talents.

This resulted in a significant loss of income for the prison.

Originally, the prison was able to survive by relying on government contracts, but with the reduction in government spending and large-scale layoffs, the officials who signed contracts with the prison were laid off, and the prison could no longer operate normally.

What about the criminals?
Of course... released!

Is there anyone else willing to accept these money-losing goods? Fortunately, in the end, Wayne Group funded the purchase of Arkham Prison.

From then on, the prison became part of the Wayne Group. When the Wayne Group took over Arkham Prison, they found it was a mess.

With the continuous influx of prisoners, Arkham Prison was soon full, and Wayne Group had to continue to expand the size of the prison to try to accommodate more prisoners.

It's just that...prisons have to be built brick by brick, but prisoners are everywhere on the streets. How can the speed of building prisons be compared with the speed of catching prisoners?

Finally, Ah Fu had to come up with a solution - let the prisoners build their own prison. Unfortunately, this plan soon went wrong.

Those prisoners who mastered the construction tools, under the leadership of some "talented" people, broke the prison wall and escaped.

At that time, the entire city of Goff was in chaos. The streets were filled with fugitives, the crime rate soared, and the citizens were in panic.

This chaos lasted for a long time until Wayne Corporation developed the Dark Knights. These high-tech law enforcement robots patrolled the streets of Goff City and suppressed all chaos with ruthless efficiency.

The fugitives were quickly arrested and brought back to justice, and order was restored to the streets. In the eyes of Wayne and Alfu, Goff City had finally become orderly.

The suppression of the Dark Knight also made Wayne more confident, and he invested more money to develop more Dark Knights.

As the number of Dark Knights increased and the number of criminals decreased, the huge facilities of Arkham Prison were gradually abandoned. The Wayne Group decided to transform the abandoned prison into a manor, which is now Wayne Manor.

Wayne Manor is located in the center of Arkham District. It covers a vast area and is surrounded by towering walls and dense woods, as if isolated from the outside world.

As the car slowly approached, Shi Fei could see through the car window that the main building of Wayne Manor was a magnificent Gothic castle.

The castle has a towering spire and its outer walls are made of dark grey stone, which makes it look solemn and mysterious. The windows of the castle are inlaid with coloured glass, and the sunlight shines through the glass onto the floor, creating colourful light and shadows.

The castle's forecourt is a well-kept garden with flowers blooming all year round and fragrant. In the center of the garden is a fountain with gurgling water.

It’s hard to imagine that such a manor exists in a place like Goff City!

But Wayne Manor does exist, just as the Wayne family does exist in Gough City!
(End of this chapter)