"What the hell are you little bastards talking to me about? I tell you, I left the mayor's mansion not long ago, and if you dare to do anything to me, the mayor and my men will call the police! ”

Penguin Man sat on the couch and glared viciously at Red Robin and Nightwing across from him.

Robin sat on the edge of the couch with her forearms propped up on her legs, leaning forward, using body language to express a gesture of sincere communication.

"Please forgive our rudeness, Mr. Copote, but it is the urgency of the situation that we have to bring you here from the police station."

The penguin man still maintained that fierce expression, only a slight twitch of his eyebrows, and he still said in that cold and mocking tone, "Urgent? How? Did you quarrel with Batman again and run away from home? Want to beat me up so that you can't tell Batman that you're not his good baby? ”

The red hooded man who was assembling the pistol next to him made a "click" sound, which frightened the penguin man, he pursed his lips tightly, looked at Red Robin and said, "I'm not interested in getting involved in those things of your bat family, and I haven't committed any crimes recently, why did you come to me instead of looking for the clown?" ”

"I'm afraid we have to warn you, Mr. Copote, that we contacted the Gotham Municipal Authority and got them to prove that you regularly maintain the Iceberg Restaurant building, otherwise you would still be in the police station."

"So what? I'll come out sooner or later, do you really think that ridiculous fire safety law can stop me? ”

"That's without our interference." Red Robin refused to back down, 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 the judicial trial process goes the slightest wrong, and you are still carried to a detention cell and locked up without parole, then I am afraid that we will let the villains of Gotham know that the famous Penguin went to jail for the first time because of poor fire safety measures." ”

"You ......" The penguin man gritted his teeth and glared at the red Robin opposite, and after a few seconds, he turned his head as if he had softened, sighed and said, "Okay, this time it's my way, I admit it, don't mention any bullshit fire safety laws, let's talk about it, what are you going to do?" ”

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

The penguin man immediately became vigilant, narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at Red Robin and said, "This is not something you should know!" …… I'm not going around in circles with you anymore, so what can you do if you know these things? Do you want to ruin the jobs of everyone in the city government, or do you want to make it impossible for anyone in this business to live? ”

"Be specific."

"I know you have bugs on you, so don't expect me to reveal any details, of course I'm doing what I've been doing, and if you want to know, go back and ask your good daddy."

The Penguins didn't take the birds' questioning seriously, and he thought it might be another time that Robins had a sense of justice and were using bugs to prove his guilt.

He felt disdain in his heart, if the criminals of Gotham could be tricked out so easily, then they would not have to mix up a long time ago, this group of naïve Robins is really not as good as Batman.

"Then we won't go around in circles with you." Red Robin sneered, looked at the penguin, and said, "You have co-opted more than a dozen wealthy people in Gotham's construction and shipping industry to bribe the mayor and his staff in the hope that they can get the approval of the state legislature to transform the existing Gotham Pier into a modern large, deep-water port, and you are doing this so that Gotham Pier can accommodate more smuggling ships." ”

The penguin opened his mouth and made a "huh" sound from his throat as if choked, and then he stood up a little angrily, knocked the ground with the cane in his hand, looked at Red Robin and said, "Boy, are you kidding me?" Who have you bought from me? I'll catch them and feed them to the dogs! ”

Red Robin also stood up, staring at the penguin man and saying, "Copote, do you really think you've been in Gotham for so many years without leaving a single trick?" ”

"Hmph, bluff, do you think this scares me?"

"Is it really just a coincidence that the Iceberg Charitable Foundation, which you established a year and a half ago in the name of reversing global warming and protecting marine ecology, happens to be invested by big bosses in industries such as building materials, ship transportation, offshore energy development and heavy offshore equipment in Gotham and even the East Coast?"

"Could it be that this group of people who are more than half a hundred years old finally realized that the ocean is being polluted and the icebergs are melting, and then collectively woke up and invested money in your charitable foundation, and this money happened to be lost within a year of the foundation's venture capital, and they happened to be merciful and completely forgive you, and even continue to patronize your iceberg restaurant regardless of their previous suspicions, right?"

The bloated penguin man sat down on the sofa behind him, and he squeezed his cane vigorously, as if he was unwilling, but Red Robin's ability to say this proved that he had mastered the whole chain and had seen what the penguins were up to.

Even if they don't have tangible evidence, as long as they follow this chain to make some trouble for him, this business will not succeed, and if they are not convinced now, all the previous preparations will have to be wasted.

"Okay, okay! Boys, you've grown up! The penguin sat there and sighed, then looked up at Red Robin and Nightwing again, looking over their shoulders at Red Hood, who was standing at the table assembling the pistol.

He shook his head with emotion and said: "I remember that a few years ago, that kid in black was just a little henchman behind Batman's ass, and now you have come out to work alone, if I had a son, I guess I would be as old as you now." ”

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

"It's useless for me to talk to you." The penguin man shook his head, and glanced at Red Robin again as if he had something unspeakable, and as if he was looking at the others through Red Robin.

"Since you have decided to go it alone, it means that you may have discovered that there are too many truths in this world that don't make sense with Batman, and he is a madman."

"What can you do if I say to you now as evidence that he will come and break my leg and drag me into Arkham Asylum later? What can I do? ”

The penguin man stood his cane upright, one hand propped up 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 in the business days, and Falcone Sr. warned me when he was not dead, but I was young and I didn't listen to him."

"In a way, I'm more hungry for the protection of the rules than you are, because if there are rules, I can use them, but Gotham has no rules now, everyone is messing around, and if I can't calm everyone with more chaotic actions, I won't be able to keep my business."

"You killed Ms. Valksha, the spokesperson of the city government, right?"

The penguin man relaxed his muscles again, put down his cane, leaned back on the couch and said, "The woman sent by the federal government talked to us about Gotham's underwater structure and marine protection, and she said that Gotham is not suitable for a deep-water port, so she must die." ”

"Because it's got to this point, there's no going back, can you?"

"You're right, boy, the Iceberg Charitable Foundation was originally meant to collect money from all walks of life, but it wasn't for marine protection, it was a political contribution to the mayor and members of the state legislature, just to get me around federal ocean laws and help me get approval to build a deep-water port."

"I'm not afraid you'll hear ......" The penguin man looked at Red Robin's chest, as if he was looking at Batman behind the surveillance camera, and said to him: "All the flow of money is legal, and there will be no problems with taxes, and it's too late for you to track it down." ”

"So did you get the approval?" Red Robin asked.

The penguin's face sank, and he let out a cold snort from his nose, and then said, "The money I have provided over the years has fed Margan's appetite, and in my last negotiations with him, he wanted to be able to master a completely independent smuggling route in order to maintain his absolute superiority in the next election." ”

The penguin rolled his eyes, skimmed to the other side and said, "It's not surprising that he has such a sense of crisis, the new Gotham elite celebrity Lincoln March is his most powerful rival, and it is rumored that March has hooked up with Bruce Wayne, and the two of them have a small meeting in the office of the Wayne Group Building, and Wayne was assassinated by a killer." ”

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

"But that Magan is so stupid, he can't see that this is not my own business, if I tell all the investors of the Iceberg Charitable Foundation about his stupid request, he will not live long, and no one will be able to snatch their meat from these smugglers."

When the Penguin looked at Red Robin again, he thought he would be troubled by the rather subtle twists and turns and complicated entanglements of interests, and he thought he would be greeted by the shouts of Robin, shouting "The assassination of the mayor is evil".

Unexpectedly, Red Robin leaned forward even more, completely crossing the halfway line of distance from the penguin, and he looked into the penguin's eyes with an almost offensive gaze and said, "If the current mayor Magan is too stupid, why not change it?" ”

"What do you say??!"

The penguin man was the first to panic, he looked left and right, as if looking for the traces of the monitor and the bugging, he immediately sat up straight from the couch, gritted his teeth, and looked at Red Robin with twitching facial muscles and said, "Boy, do you fucking know what you're talking about?" ”

"Isn't that what you've been doing?" Red Robin relaxed, leaning back, one arm on the armrest, chin back, looking at the penguin from above his eyes and saying, "Rig elections, prop up interest groups, and find ways to make way for your business." ”

"That's called a political donation." Penguin Man snorted, but he was visibly nervous, he swallowed his saliva and said, "I did influence the outcome of the election, but so what? It's as if the Wayne Group didn't do that! ”

"We're not here to discuss this." Nightwing spoke for the first time, followed by Red Robin, who said with a focused gaze into the penguin's eyes.

"You're right, Gotham doesn't have rules now, and we want to establish rules for Gotham in a different way, but the first thing to do is to get the city government to cooperate with us."

The penguin's eyes widened slowly, as if he had heard the meaning of Red Robin's words.

"We need 'own people' in the city government who can speak usefully, and preferably 'their own people' who speak the most."

"So, Mr. Oswald Copote, are you interested in running in the upcoming Gotham mayoral election?"