Iceberg Restaurant, 2nd Floor Club.

Leo sat in his seat for a long time, opposite Copote, the famous penguin of the Gotham Underworld.

Food and wine are served on the table, and a violinist performs not far away, and melodious music flowing through the air is refreshing.

It looks like a nice dinner with a pleasant atmosphere.

However, the content of the conversation between the two was not friendly.

"With all due respect, Mr. White, you may have just arrived in this city and are not yet familiar with its rules and order."

Colbert the Penguin put down his knife and fork, picked up the red wine on the table and took a sip.

The young man sitting opposite was a young rich man from Star City.

Leo White is said to have a deep family background and has good strength in both business and political circles.

It is precisely because of this that Copote is willing to accept this meeting.

Who knows, the other party opened his mouth and made an excessive request.

"In Gotham, the police station and Mr. Mayor are in charge during the day, and at night it is a world of gangsters and criminals."

The penguin man picked up a napkin and wiped the corners of his mouth, looking at Leo with a mocking look in his eyes, he didn't understand where the other party had the audacity to make such an unreasonable request.

"Crime and darkness are part of Gotham, and although that righteous detective is fighting the gangsters, all his efforts are destined to be fruitless."

"I understand what you're saying, Mr. Copote."

Leo put his hands on the armrests casually, and the Maroni family left it to Gordon to deal with, and the penguins had to do it themselves.

He had investigated the Gotham underworld boss and learned about the past.

The penguin man is a serious criminal with a stoic and cunning temperament.

Unlike Gotham's other lunatics and psychopaths, he is simply a man of power and status.

If the clown is the embodiment of chaos, seeking to dissect the dark side of human nature, then the penguin man can be said to be on the side of order.

Instead of forming gangs and gathering thugs, he relied on the wealth and connections of the Cobott family to build the Iceberg Restaurant.

He then used his business acumen and cunning nature to engage in gangster money laundering and financial fraud as a way to accumulate power.

This is one of the reasons why Leo believes that he can reach a consensus with the other party.

It is impossible to communicate properly in the face of a madman, but the penguin man is not a madman.

More accurately, he is an opportunist like a Wall Street banker.

He likes order and stability, and is good at finding loopholes in the rules, but at the same time he is cold and selfish, without any mercy.

"Gotham in the dark belongs to a big man like you, but things are changing, isn't it a bat vigilante who has appeared, and a righteous detective has also appeared."

Leo shrugged his shoulders, there are three forces in the underground world of Gotham.

Black Mask who was hit by Batman, the Maroney family who was arrested by Gordon, and the Penguin people with the least territory and the fewest thugs, but the most powerful.

"I think it's time for Gotham to change, at least it needs to calm down for a while, and that's why I'm here for you, Mr. Copote."

"You told me to close the Iceberg Restaurant and hide in my own house, like a frightened coward because of a bat monster that recently popped up in Gotham"

Copote, the penguin, sneered, thinking that Leo was joking.

Even if Gordon leads the police force to fight the gangsters, the other party can't catch the evidence, so he can't move himself.

As for Batman

Penguin people don't think they'll be scared by a masked weirdo dressed as a bat.

"No, because it's my personal request."

Leo had a smile on his face, his upper body leaning back slightly, and he leaned back comfortably in his seat.

Clearing out the underworld forces in Gotham and luring out the Shadow Warrior Alliance who are preparing to make trouble, he will be able to complete his mission.

As for Batman and his various fans falling in love and killing each other in the future, those are not within the responsibility of the Sky Eye Club.

"Haha, Mr. White's sense of humor is truly unique."

The penguin man laughed dryly, his little cold eyes narrowing.

seems to be already thinking about how to give this young rich man who doesn't know the height of the sky a cruel beating in real society.

This is not Star City, although I don't know why the other party made such a request, but Gotham is obviously not a city where rich people can do whatever they want.

The tragedy of the Waynes back then is occasionally repeated several times.

The rich and famous who provoke the gangsters, or anger some secret organization, never end well.

"There are seven securities firms on Wells Avenue in the Diamond District, the Colbert Family Foundation on the Upper East Side, and the Emperor Penguin Conservation Foundation, and I went out of my way yesterday to track down the funding behind these companies and foundations."

Leo glanced at the penguin man with a gloomy face, and continued: "I have to say, Mr. Copote, your mind is indeed smart, those complex and frequent flow of money, there is no pattern at all, but the patient hunter will follow the traces of the prey, every bush, every path. ”

"You're threatening me"

The penguin man pushed the monocle on the bridge of his nose, and as his words fell, the melodious sound of the violin came to an abrupt end.

The joyful dining atmosphere dissipated.

By the time several of the big bodyguards walked up to the table, the atmosphere suddenly became even more tense.

"I'm not a reckless man who advocates violence, like Marrony's people, who first want to solve problems with their fists."

The penguin Copote's tone was slow, he got up and looked at Leo who was sitting in the chair and did not move, and his voice was slightly cold: "But I don't like other people's rash provocations, Mr. White, Gotham is not another city you have been to, and you can enjoy everything if you are powerful." ”

"The cold and cruel of this city is far beyond your imagination."

With the long-handled umbrella in hand, the penguin man Shi Shiran prepared to leave.

Let's teach this young man a lesson, and if the other party doesn't know each other well enough, then let there be another ghost under Gotham Harbor.

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne were shot dead in an uninhabited alley, a young rich man from Star City, and it was normal for an accident to happen by chance.

boom

The next moment.

A shiny bald head was pressed against the plate containing the foie gras, and the arm pressed against the head seemed to be cast in copper and iron, making people unable to move at all.

"Mr. Copote, I didn't mean to threaten you, but I really wanted to talk to you."

Leo sat on the chair and raised his foot to kick the knee of the bald bodyguard, and the whole person of the other party knelt down with a "poof", and the shiny head was pressed against the dining table.

Seeing this, the other Penguin Man's bodyguards tried to pounce on him to help, but found a tiny red dot moving around him.

That's the laser sight for a sniper rifle

bang

A bullet flew out of nowhere, piercing the floor-to-ceiling window of the second-floor club and shattering a cup in the penguin's Copote's hand.

"You see, I'm actually very sincere, Mr. Copote."

Leo was still sitting in his chair, holding the bald head with his right hand, and suddenly let go of it and lifted it, then slammed it into the corner of the table

After a muffled sound, the burly, bald man lay on the carpet.

Calmly glancing at the bodyguards who didn't dare to step forward, Leo picked up a napkin and wiped the corners of his mouth.

Looking at the messy table, he smiled slightly: "I want the next two weeks, Gotham is calm and orderly, you won't go to Gordon for trouble, and the Gotham Police Department doesn't have to investigate you every day, this is actually a very simple request, right?"

"What exactly are you going to do?"

The penguin man Copote turned around with a gloomy gaze and subconsciously clenched the umbrella in his hand.

As Gotham's underworld hero, he was naturally not intimidated by that shot.

It's just that Leo's behavior reminds the penguin man of a certain madman in Gotham a long time ago.

It's also such unreasonable, tipping over the table for no reason, and you can't guess the other person's thoughts and intentions.

Leo stood up, raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and the tiny red dot vanished.

He didn't look at the big bodyguards, and walked in front of the penguin people with unslow steps.

"I hope that in the next two weeks, Gotham will be mine."