The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

Chapter 1641 No time to die (thirty-one)

"What do you bastards want to talk to me about? Let me tell you, I just left the mayor's mansion not long ago. If you dare to do anything to me, the mayor and my subordinates will definitely call the police!"

The Penguin sat on the sofa, staring fiercely at Red Robin and Nightwing and said.

Red Robin sat on the edge of the sofa, with his forearms on his legs, leaning forward, expressing a sincere communication gesture with body language.

"Mr Coppert, please forgive our rudeness, but it is the urgency of the matter that has compelled us to bring you here from the police station."

The Penguin still maintained that ferocious expression, but he just shook one eyebrow imperceptibly, and said in that cold and mocking tone: "It's urgent? What? You guys quarreled with Batman again and ran away from home." Do you want to beat me up so you can tell Batman that you're not his good baby?"

The hand of the red hood who was assembling the pistol next to him made a "click", which made Penguin tremble with fright. He squeezed his lips tightly, looked at Red Robin and said, "I'm not interested in getting involved with your Bat family." I haven't committed any crimes recently, so why do you come to me instead of the clown?"

"I'm afraid we have to remind you, Mr. Copperpot, that we contacted the Gotham Municipal Administration and asked them to issue a certificate that you regularly maintain the Iceberg Restaurant building, otherwise you should still be in the police station by now."

"So what? I'm going to come out sooner or later. Do you really think that ridiculous fire safety law can stop me?"

"That was when we didn't interfere." Red Robin refused to give in at all, he smiled and said: "We all know that the mayor and government officials are your guests, so you will definitely not be sentenced in the end, But if something goes wrong with the judicial process and you're still taken to a detention cell without parole, then I'm afraid we'll let the villains all over Gotham know that the famous Penguin first went to jail because of fire safety measures But off."

"You..." The Penguin gritted his teeth and stared at the opposite Red Robin. After a few seconds, he turned his head away as if resigned, and said with a sigh: "Well, this time I got your way. I admit it, don't mention the bullshit fire safety law, tell me, what are you guys doing?"

"First, we want to know what the hell you're talking to the mayor about."

Penguin immediately became vigilant, narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at Red Robin and said, "This is not something you should know!... I won't play around with you anymore, so what can you do if you know these things?" ? Do you want to smash the jobs of everyone in the city government, or do you want everyone in this industry to lose their lives?"

"Be specific."

"I know you have bugs, so don't expect me to reveal any details. Of course I'm doing what I always do. If you want to know, go back and ask your good dad."

The Penguin didn't take the group of little birds' inquiries seriously at all. He felt that this might be another time that the Robins had a sense of justice and brought bugs to set him up as evidence.

He felt disdain in his heart, if the criminals in Gotham could be tricked out so easily, then they wouldn't have to mess around a long time ago, this group of naive Robins are really not as good as Batman.

"Then we won't go around in circles with you anymore." Red Robin sneered, looked at Penguin and said, "You have recruited more than a dozen wealthy people in Gotham's construction and shipping industries, and bribed the mayor and his staff. , I hope to get the approval of the state assembly through them to transform the existing Gotham Wharf into a modern large-scale deep-water port, and the purpose of your doing this is to allow Gotham Wharf to berth more smuggled goods transport ships. "

The Penguin opened his mouth, and let out a "head" sound from his throat as if he was choked, then he stood up a little angrily, knocked the ground hard with the cane in his hand, looked at Red Robin said, "Boy, are you kidding me? Which of my men have you bought? I'll catch them and feed them to the dogs!"

Red Robin also stood up, staring closely at Penguin's eyes and said, "Copperpot, do you really think you have been in Gotham for so many years without leaving anything behind?"

"Hmph, bluff, do you think this can scare me?"

"You established the Iceberg Charity Foundation a year and a half ago in the name of reversing global warming and protecting marine ecology. The investment members happen to be construction materials, shipping, offshore energy development, and heavy offshore equipment in Gotham and even the east coast. Is it really just a coincidence to be the big boss in the industry?"

"Couldn't it be that this group of people finally realized that the ocean is being polluted and the icebergs are melting after half a century, and then collectively awakened and invested money in your charitable foundation, and this money happened to be carried out in this foundation. All the losses within one year of the investment were in vain, and they just happened to be merciful and completely forgave you, and even kept patronizing your Bingshan restaurant regardless of the past, right?"

The bloated penguin fell down on the sofa behind him. He squeezed his cane vigorously, as if he was not reconciled, but the fact that Red Robin could say this proved that he had mastered the complete chain. Already saw what the Penguin was up to.

Even if they don't have any real evidence, as long as they make trouble for him along this chain, the business will fail. If they refuse to accept their softness now, all the previous preparations will be in vain.

"Okay, okay! Boys, you've really grown up!" The Penguin sat on the spot and sighed, then looked up at Red Robin and Nightwing, looking over their shoulders at the standing Assembling the red hood of the pistol at the table.

He shook his head quite emotionally and said: "I remember a few years ago, that kid in black was just a little follower behind Batman's ass, and now you have come out to do it alone. If I had a son, I guess I would be like him now." You are so big."

"Now would you like to talk to us about the details of this business?"

"It's useless for me to talk to you." Penguin shook his head, looked at Red Robin again as if he had something to hide, and seemed to be looking at other people through Red Robin.

"Since you decided to come out and do it alone, it means that you may have discovered that there are too many reasons in this world that don't make sense to Batman, and he is a lunatic."

"What I say to you now will become evidence that he will break my leg later and drag me into the Arkham Asylum. What can you do? What can I do?"

Penguin held his cane upright, propped one hand on it, leaned forward, looked Red Robin in the eye for the first time and said.

"I'm just a businessman, but Gotham is no longer the time to do business. Old Falcone warned me before he died, but I was still young at that time, and I didn't listen to him."

"To some extent, I am more eager for the protection of rules than you, because if there are rules, I can take advantage of them, but Gotham has no rules now, and everyone is messing around. If I can't use more chaotic actions to suppress I can’t keep my business if I keep everyone.”

"You killed Ms. Valksha, the city council speaker, didn't you?"

The Penguin relaxed his muscles again, put down his cane, leaned on the back of the sofa and said, "The woman sent by the federal government talked to us about Gotham's underwater structure and marine environmental protection. She said Gotham is not suitable for deep water construction. Hong Kong, so she must die."

"Because things have progressed to this point, you can't turn back, can you?"

"You're right, boy, the Iceberg Charity Foundation was originally intended to collect funds from various sources, but it was not for marine environmental protection, it was a political donation to the mayor and state legislators, precisely to allow them to bypass the federal government. The law on marine environmental protection helped me get the approval to build a deep-water port.”

"I'm not afraid you'll hear..." The Penguin looked at Red Robin's chest, as if he was looking at Batman behind the surveillance camera, and he also said this to him: "All flows of money are legal. Yes, there will be no problems with taxation, it is too late for you to pursue it now."

"So you got the approval?" Red Robin asked.

Penguin's face darkened, he let out a cold snort, and then said: "The funds I have provided over the years have fed Ma Gan's appetite. In my latest negotiation with him, he hoped to be able to grasp A completely independent smuggling route to preserve his absolute advantage in the next election."

The Penguin rolled his eyes, turned to the other side and said, "But it's not surprising that he has such a sense of crisis. The newly promoted Gotham rich man, Lincoln March, is his most powerful competitor. Chi hooked up with Bruce Wayne, the two of them met in the offices of the Wayne Corporation building, and Wayne was assassinated by a killer."

"It's hard to say whether the full support of the Wayne Group will shake the current Mayor Magan's dominant position in the next election. If the outsider named Lincoln becomes the mayor, my business will be over."

"But that Ma Gan is really stupid. He can't see that this is not something that I alone can decide. If I tell all the investors of the Bingshan Charity Foundation about his stupid request, he won't live long. No one can take their meat from these smugglers."

When the Penguin looked at Red Robin again, he thought that he would get a headache from the rather secret twists and turns and complicated interest entanglements. He thought he would welcome the shouts from the Robins, Shouting things like "Assassination of the mayor is evil".

Unexpectedly, Red Robin leaned forward even more and completely crossed the center line of the distance from the Penguin. He looked into the Penguin's eyes almost aggressively and said, "If the current mayor Ma Gan is too stupid , why not change it?"

"What did you say??!"

Penguin was the first to panic. He looked left and right, as if looking for traces of monitors and bugs. He immediately sat up straight from the sofa, gritted his teeth, looked at Red Robin with facial muscles twitching and said: " Do you fucking know what you're talking about, kid?"

"Isn't that what you've been doing?" Red Robin relaxed instead, leaning back with one arm resting on the armrest, chin pulled back, looking up at Penguin over his eyes and saying, " Rigging elections, propping up interest groups, finding ways to get your business off the ground.”

"That's called a political donation." Penguin snorted coldly, but he obviously became a little nervous. He swallowed and said, "I did affect the election results, but so what? It sounds like Wei En Group doesn't do that!"

"We didn't come to you to discuss this." Nightwing spoke for the first time, and Red Robin followed, staring intently into Penguin's eyes.

"You are right, Gotham has no rules now, and we want to establish rules for Gotham in another way, but the first thing to do is to get the city government to cooperate with us."

Penguin's eyes widened slowly, as if he understood the meaning behind Red Robin's words.

"We need useful 'insiders' in the city government, and preferably the most useful 'insiders'."

"So, Mr. Oswald Copperpot, are you interested in running in the upcoming election for mayor of Gotham?"