Chapter 62: A Decision Against the Ancestors
Penguin man Oswald Cobott sat in his office at the top of his old nest Iceberg restaurant, inhaling a Cuban cigar, shaking red wine from France in his left hand, wearing a suit made in Italy and eyes flown in from Belgium.
"Good days are coming!"
The penguin people looked out of the window and looked at Gotham at nine o'clock in the middle of the night, and their hearts were filled with joy.
Because he smelled chaos again, because the shadow that had hung over Gotham for more than ten years - Batman finally died!
The penguin people silently shed tears in their hearts, then took a sharp puff of a top-of-the-line cigar to let the smoke pass through their lungs, and squinted their eyes and spat out a smoke ring under the stimulation of nicotine.
Years ago, the Penguins created their own criminal empire in the same way that the ancestors of the Colbert family crossed the Atlantic and created Gotham with their own hands and blood.
Then Batman appears, and this guy who never seems to fall is constantly fighting criminals, sending them to Black Gate Prison and Arkham Asylum one by one.
Penguin Man is also one of them, and under the threat of Batman, the iceberg restaurant that was once the center of Gotham is getting smaller and smaller, and even the casino business that started out has been abandoned.
"Still, everything will be fine." The penguin people thought to themselves.
He was sure that something had happened to Batman, and he would have disappeared if he wasn't dead, otherwise the men he deliberately sent to rob the streets would have been thrown into prison by the Dark Knight.
The best time to plant trees was twenty years ago, followed by now.
Every day in the past, Gotham was shrouded in Batman's cloak, and all criminals had to be careful not to be beaten to death and thrown into the Black Gate Prison.
But the Penguin Man was always ready for an opportunity, and now was the last time, when he had invested all his liquidity into the familiar smuggling, arms, and drug business.
Times are changing, but Gotham is still the same old style.
Penguin people believe that they will be able to make their iceberg restaurant bigger and stronger, and create more brilliance.
Thinking of this, he picked up the red wine that had already woken up, drank it all, and couldn't help humming the ballad of the past.
Suddenly, there was the clatter of high heels falling on the floor outside the door, so loud and loud that it sounded very harsh.
A bad feeling rose in the heart of the penguin people, and his beautiful female secretary had always been very good at taking care of people, and never did anything out of the ordinary.
"We're in trouble, boss!"
A tall and wheat-skinned, Latin female secretary in a professional attire, Mavi is panting, her throat is constantly squirming, and her mouth secretes saliva to relieve the dryness of her mouth.
"Calm down, baby!"
The penguin shook the red wine in his hand, smiled and said, "You are the best lawyer I have, and I can't afford to lose you." ”
"The Wayne Group held a press conference this morning to announce that they will be suspending funding for all Gotham public transit businesses!"
Mavi gently placed the press release in her hand on the table and turned on the TV.
"Are these Wayne family bastards crazy?"
When the penguin heard this, he could no longer keep his cool and immediately opened the file.
After reading carefully, he threw away the red wine and cigars, ripped off his suit and tie, sweat oozed from his thinning forehead, and his body felt hotter and hotter on October nights than in summer.
On TV, Dick Grayson wore a suit and leather shoes, and under the light of countless spotlights, he talked eloquently:
"Ten years ago, Gotham Municipal went bankrupt, and my adoptive father, Bruce Wayne, bought the government's bankrupt public affairs at an out-of-market premium and refunded them in hopes of bringing Gotham – our city back to life.
But ten years on, things are getting worse and worse in Gotham, crime is rampant, and corruption is growing. The Foundation's nearly a billion dollars of assets were almost embezzled by government officials and various contractors, but Gotham City has not improved, but has become the main artery for the gang to develop its own business.
After much deliberation, I am announcing that Wayne Group will cease to inject capital into public projects such as Gotham Port, Roads, Metro, Light Rail, and Rail Airport. Before the city pays back the arrears and makes a tangible move to crack down on the gangsters. All items will be grounded indefinitely. ”
"Damn little brutes, bastards, wild breeds. It's just a wild dog who hitched a ride on the Wayne family, and they dared to do it! ”
The penguin grabbed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of red wine from the table and threw it onto the mahogany wall panel.
The bottle exploded, and shards of red wine and glass splattered, just like he was feeling right now.
"Boss, calm down, we should find a way to solve the problem now."
Mavi looked at his boss's calm appearance and knew that he was really angry, but he still stubbornly admonished him.
"Solve the problem? How to fix it? ”
Penguin Man burst out and slammed his fist into the table in front of him, smashing a hole in the solid hardwood plank.
"Without ports, roads and railways, what do we bring in with our goods? Relying on people's backs, with that pitiful capacity, you can't even earn back the money you put into it. ”
"Not to mention, many of our suppliers are abroad."
The Penguins never expected that the Wayne Group would make such a move, and it would be a mess.
Although he has always claimed that the Wayne family is a petty thief who stole the assets of the Copott family, deep down he knows that even if all the gangs in Gotham are together, they will never have the financial resources that the Wayne Group has supported Gotham City for ten years.
In fact, the Gotham Gangs can't even join forces, let alone plan otherwise.
And opening up small ports and small roads for smuggling as in the past is definitely profitable for ordinary criminals.
For a big businessman like the Penguin Man, this kind of capacity is not enough, and it is just a waste of time.
"How? Way! ”
The penguin man could no longer maintain his grace, and his already somewhat deformed face was completely distorted.
"Damn boy, if you want to play with me, then I'll play with you to the end."
"Mavi, go and contact the killer, I want those people in the Wayne family to die, and in public."
The secretary, Mavi, was still sane, and she proposed by training, "Boss, we should try to negotiate and listen to the other party's terms." Perhaps we can achieve our goals without the use of force. ”
She usually never disobeys the orders of the penguins, but the Wayne Group is a global financial entity, and the penguins are nothing in front of others.
"This is Gotham, and our way of resolving disputes is violence!"
The penguin man turned his head to look at his secretary, and his eyes flashed with a vicious glint behind the gold-rimmed glasses: "Do as I am told, or I should change secretaries." ”
The secretary thought of his predecessors who had been sunk in Gotham Harbor, and quickly shut up and went to do what the penguins ordered.
And such scenes are posted in the offices of every Gotham gangster, Romans, two-faced......
They all wanted to kill Dick, Alfred, and Lucius, but they got the same message.
Those villains who are a little capable have been hired in advance, and most of them have now formed a group on the plane to Hawaii for vacation.