Transforming American comics starts with a leap of faith

Chapter 106 Long Island (thanks to Fu Hehuan for the reward)
【Long Island, New York】

Speaking of this place name, in different contexts, it actually has different meanings.

Example: Tony Stark was born on Long Island, New York.

The "Long Island, New York" here actually refers to Long Island City, New York State. If it is divided administratively, it is at the same level as New York City, New York State.

People like Tony, who was born with a golden spoon in his mouth, lived here in his childhood.

What kind of composition Long Island City is, one can imagine.

This small city around New York State has pleasant scenery and good law and order. It is very close to the urban area, but it is not so noisy.

If you are rich enough and tired of the traffic on the Upper East Side, you can buy a big villa in Long Island City and live in a bright and spacious place.

Probably this is the rich man.

Near extremely developed areas, there is often such a small place, no exception.

Suge, by the way, looks like that.

With the financial strength of the Continental Hotel, even in New York, it can barely be called "where to buy."

But Su Ge chose Long Island to live.

Even after class, he has to take a 55-minute bus ride and walk for more than ten minutes before returning to his nest.

He still enjoys it.

Because... With such a long distance, there are more chances of Su Ge's reasonable disappearance.

Of course, it's really comfortable to live in.

Now to put it another way: Queens and Brooklyn on the west side of Long Island have been following Manhattan in the dust.

Long Island here naturally does not refer to Long Island City, because in this sentence, it is pointed out that Long Island includes Queens and Brooklyn.

To describe this Long Island, New York City is not enough.

Because it is a peninsula extending eastward from the mouth of the Hudson River, separated from the North American mainland by the Long Island Strait, with an area of ​​about 4000 square kilometers.

There are a total of four boroughs, including Queens, where Peter Parker lives, and Brooklyn, where Steve Rogers grew up, under the leadership of New York City.

The development of the other two districts in the eastern part of Long Island is relatively lagging behind.

It even retains quite sufficient agricultural features. Residents farm land, raise livestock, and sometimes fish. They are unlucky eggs who have not received the city's dividends.

Obviously tens of kilometers away is one of the most developed areas in the world.

What is the mentality of the residents here?
Especially in America, a flashy country where money worship is prevalent!
It's kind of twisted anyway.

There are about 800 million people in Long Island, and Queens and Brooklyn account for more than 700 million.

They all sharpened their heads and drilled into the urban area.

On this day, a few punk youths in small towns, commonly known as street sneakers, were driving around in a second-hand car, wanting to have some fun in the city.

Walking halfway, I suddenly saw a decent exploration team.

There are quite a few of them, and it seems that they have just completed a geological survey and are about to rush to the next location.

Several young people suddenly became interested.

Long Island is such a damn place, I'm afraid I haven't seen this kind of person for many years.

Things are abnormal, there must be something attracting it.

oil! ?
gold! !
If it is true, these poor ghosts may be able to jump into the middle class.

Who can stand this!

With bright eyes, they stopped the car and greeted the group of people.

So it's scary to say that there is no culture...

If there was a treasure, East Long Island would not have been like this in the past few decades.

The dream of getting rich overnight always makes people dizzy.

Graves frowned slightly, watching a few people walking over in a dawdly manner.

The young people are the first to win:

"What are you doing! Do you know whose place this is?"

Graves' frown deepened at the toubur-like opening remarks of the local ruffian.

Seeing that these people didn't answer, they just looked at them indifferently, and upon closer inspection, they were all quite rough.

A few young people immediately knew that they had encountered a hard stubble today.

But just slipped away like this, and it was inevitable that he would be a little bit unwilling.

The leader laughed, trying to relieve the awkward atmosphere, but found helplessly that this group of people didn't buy it.

"Don't get me wrong, we just want to ask..."

When it comes to this, the young man's tone is inevitably filled with fanaticism: "Is it gold? Are you looking for gold?"

Graves took a deep breath, and winked at the boy next to him.

The latter nodded knowingly, greeted the people and walked towards several young people.

At the same time, he took out the sack.

The young people who realized the "big crisis" wanted to escape...of course it was too late.

As a gang organization, in addition to firearms and ammunition, it is reasonable to prepare a few sacks for people.

Several old thugs punched and kicked the people in the sack, and the people who were beaten wailed.

Graves licked his lips, half wanting to smoke a cigar.

He remembered that it was said in Chapter 5 of Matthew.

【Anyone who is angry with his brother will be condemned.

Whoever says his brother is "Racah" shall be judged;
Anyone who calls his brother "Mori" will surely escape the fire of hell. 】

The so-called Raja and Moli are Greek words. The former can be understood as "waste", while the latter can be translated as "stupid thing".

Isn't it just these little bastards...

Greedy and stupid and annoying.

The Lord taught us that we should not be angry and rebuke these people, but if we don’t beat them up, it will be difficult to get rid of the anger in our hearts.

Graves crossed himself devoutly and prayed silently.

After a while, he waved his hand, and the boys who were sore with their hands stopped before they stopped.

Graves didn't talk too much nonsense, and left with the people.

……

After several days of busy work, more than 80 wells were drilled according to the indicated positions. Graves, who was physically and mentally exhausted, came back to work.

During this trip, more than once, they encountered people who asked about their purpose, and their attitudes ranged from soft to hard. Although the overall trouble was not big, it was very unappetizing.

"Yo, you've worked hard."

Sett is exercising, doing sit-ups.

Seeing Graves come back in a hurry, he sat up straight and greeted with a smile.

But the latter was naturally not very interested, so he nodded his head and walked towards Victor's laboratory.

"Tsk, it seems that the past few days have been miserable!"

Sett looked at his back and sighed like this.

As soon as Graves entered the door, he saw the indifferent robot, ordering some inexplicable things as usual.

What was more surprising was that the clown was also there, watching Victor fiddle with anticipation.

"It's over." The clown asked him.

Graves nodded and handed over a map covered in red circles.

"Okay, the timing is just right, Victor?"

The latter turned around, handed Joker two skateboard-like objects, and threw Graves a handle-like object.

Graves caught it firmly, looked it over and asked doubtfully:
"what is this?"

The clown's tone was casual: "The detonator."

Graves tightened his grip, fearing the thing would fall to the ground.

He said to the clown, "I thought you were going to blow it up yourself."

The latter was groping for the usage of the small skateboard in his hand, and replied absent-mindedly: "I don't know what I'm doing at that time, but you, the person guarding the rear, are more suitable, wait a moment..."

Joker suddenly put down the thing in his hand, looked over suspiciously, and asked:
"You can't press it, can you?"

Graves weighed the things in his hands, and grinned involuntarily, revealing the first wide-eyed smile of the day.

"how is this possible!"

He had been expecting something like this since he smuggled to America in [-].

The clown also smiled, walked over and patted Graves on the shoulder.

"Then let's go, wait for our news!"

　Of course, this is not Gagen

　　
　
(End of this chapter)