“……”

The Penguins and Peter were silent face to face, and neither of them acted rashly.

Copote was completely afraid to move, he was afraid that he would be crumpled into a lump of waste by the little rabbit on the opposite side like the lid of the trash can just now. Peter didn't know the standard process for catching criminals on the Gotham side - he couldn't really hang the adult on the other side of the GCPD as a five-year-old masked vigilante. Then I'm afraid he's going to make headlines.

What's even more terrifying is that the police here are clearly not as trustworthy as the NYPD's cops. Peter had to consider the possibility that he would be captured and turned into a test subject. After all, he had heard this many times from the homeless children in the neighborhood. It is said that the child welfare institution set up by the mayor himself was used by the bad guys, and the evil scientists in it secretly sent the orphans into the laboratory to be guinea pigs - after all, no one cared about these orphans.

The two of them were so deadlocked, and neither of them moved.

Little Hope stood between the two and looked around, feeling that they were playing some very important and mysterious game. So he also looked politely and did not speak.

Very well-behaved.

It's not at all like the cub who slept with Bruce this morning and refused to go to school.

In the end, it was the penguin who couldn't help but speak first.

"Dear ...... Your Excellency," Colbert hesitated, and changed to a very respectful title, "I'm sorry to disturb your meeting with Mr. Hope, but I have known Mr. Hope Jr. before, and I was just joking. ”

He smiled a flattering smile that could bend and stretch.

Peter was first shocked by the title 'Your Excellency', and then disgusted by the penguin man's shameless words.

The battle-hardened Spider-Man thought to himself that he was not a real five-year-old child, and who believed that this strange man in front of him was just joking.

"Okay, okay. I'll admit I wanted to take Hope, but I really didn't mean anything and I didn't want to hurt him! I just want Hope to do me a small favor," Copote made a sad and angry face - in fact, he didn't have to pretend, he couldn't contain his worry and anger at the thought of Theo Galevin taking his mother: "Someone has taken my mother, and now only Hope can save her!" For my sake, sir, I'm just in a hurry to save my mother! I swear I'm not lying, do you know James Gordon? That righteous and brave Mr. Detective, he also knows about this, if you don't believe him, you can ask him! ”

It was completely unclear that he had just greeted the James Gordon family in his heart, and cursed the 'righteous and brave Mr. Detective' to be slaughtered quickly.

Peter certainly knew James Gordon. The Gotham Daily reports on him almost every day, and even the street children of Gotham know about this amazing and kind Mr. Detective. The child trafficking agency was taken down by James Gordon, and several of the street children he knew were rescued by Inspector Gordon himself.

James Gordon is known as the light of the Gotham Police Department. He even recently served as president of the police association, and his career is thriving, and even mayoral candidates want him to endorse his candidacy.

"If Detective Gordon also knows about this, why don't you go to him?" Peter looked at Colbert with even more skeptical eyes: "Hope is just a child, what's the use of you looking for him?" ”

The penguin man squinted his eyes as he looked at the child's calm expression and coherent logic.

But he didn't say anything, just slowly knelt on the ground and made a humble gesture of pleading.

He often does this action, and he has long been used to it, and he will kneel whoever is the boss. It's a big deal to settle the ledger after the matter is over, and being able to bend and stretch is Copote's instinct engraved in his bones. Even in front of a 5-year-old cub, he knelt without pressure, and even knelt quite silky. Let alone...... Copote glanced at Hope and the lid of the trash can next to him, and came up with a brilliant idea.

Tears slowly crept up the gotham king's dirty face, and two dirty water marks washed out of his face. The expression made him look weak and pitiful.

Peter couldn't help but take two steps back: "You stand up first......"

Cobot grabbed Peter's ankle and lay on the ground crying.

Peter was startled and scrambled to help Copote up, but the penguin man just lay on the ground and cried.

Peter cried so much that his head was very big.

But Copote clutched his ankles tightly, and he didn't dare move them casually.

What if you kick this weak man on the ground and break it?

"It's a long story," Colbert cried for a while, then choked up, "I ...... How could I not have looked for him, but James Gordon he wouldn't help me! I've begged him so many times that I'm willing to use all I have to take my mother's peace! But it didn't work, James Gordon this coward! I...... I ......"

Cobot choked up twice, as if he had choked his throat with too much emotion, leaving him speechless.

He took two deep breaths and swallowed his saliva, seemingly exerting a great deal of effort to calm his overly excited mood.

"My mother was kidnapped by a powerful man," Cobott said, "and you may have heard of me, I'm Oswald Copote, and I ran all the gangs here. But...... But someone used my mother to blackmail me, they tortured me, they intimidated me, they told me to do things for them, and if I didn't obey, they would kill my mother! But what do they want me to do...... They want me to kill Bruce Wayne and James Gordon! No, no, no, of course I can't say yes, James is an old friend of mine, he saved my life, of course I can't do that! And Bruce Wayne, he's just a teenager who doesn't know anything. So I refused, so they wanted to kill me, and I managed to escape! ”

Copote tugged at his bloodstained shirt and smiled wryly, "Ridiculous, isn't it?" I worked hard to manage the order of the Gotham gang, I climbed from an umbrella boy to that position not for anything else, I just wanted to make the Gotham environment more orderly, I just wanted my mother to live in my shelter and not face danger every day! But I still failed, I couldn't even find her anywhere! Oh, my poor mother, she must be very worried about me now, what if someone else breaks her like tormenting me? ”

Three points of lies mixed with seven points of truth is a common trick used by the penguins.

It was true that his mother had been kidnapped to blackmail him, but not to kill James Gordon and Bruce Wayne. He said that the two men were just trying to arouse the sympathy of the two five-year-olds in front of him, after all, Bruce was Hope's 'adoptive father', and James Gordon was clearly the idol of the freak Mighty Imp in front of him.

Theo Galevin did what he asked him to do, and he and his men had killed quite a few of them these days.

Of course, you can't talk to the two little ghosts in front of you.

"As soon as I escaped, they took over all the gangs here. So don't you notice that Nai Ho Island has become more chaotic lately? "All the order I had set was overturned, and I was not allowed to do anything to government officials, the elderly, the sick and the disabled, and I did not allow minors to join gangs," Cobot said. But if you look at the recent deaths of four out of five mayoral candidates, museums, art galleries, and libraries have been burned down, and how many innocent teenagers have joined gangs on the island. ”

Peter frowned and recalled.

He hadn't been in Gotham for a long time, and he didn't really know about these underworld undercurrents. But what the penguin man said clearly matched what he had recently observed.

"I still don't believe you," Peter said, "and you haven't said what it has to do with Hope." ”

In fact, Peter was already somewhat convinced, and Copote's expression did not look like a fake. He had also heard about the chaos of Gotham's underworld from some well-informed stragglers.

“…… I think this should be asked to Mr. Hope himself? Copote gave Hope a hesitant look, as if he wasn't sure whether to say it.

Little Hope had listened to the story of the penguin man with half understanding but relished, but the topic turned to him coldly.

He blinked, pointing his finger at himself in some surprise.

The penguin looked at Hope with encouraging eyes, motioning for him to reveal his abilities. Now that he understood, it was very likely that the mighty imp on the other side was not some five-year-old, but Hope did seem to be a five-year-old cub. Such a miraculous thing is not unprecedented, and he knows that one of Dr. Hugo's research directions is this. Gotham scientists do everything.

So is this imp a lab product? What lab has been working on humanoid weapons of destruction lately, and has been so careless in letting people run away? The Penguins mentally filtered Gotham's secret labs, but they never found a single one to sit in.

"What's wrong with Hope?"

The child didn't understand, he didn't know what the penguin was trying to say.

Peter also looked at Hope curiously, from all accounts, this child seemed to be just an ordinary rich young master, and it was possible that he was abandoned for some reason.

The imaginative spider cub's divergent thinking could not be the 'this' in Copote's mouth that caused Hope to be abandoned, right? Could it be that Hope has any special abilities? Indeed, there are no superheroes in this world now, there don't seem to be mutants, and magic has never been heard of. If there are some 'special talents' among ordinary people, it is indeed easy to be regarded as heretical.

Peter didn't want to probe the question, though, and reached out to pull Hope behind him, out of the penguin's sight.

"Let's not talk about this for now," he said, not wanting to stir up the child's sad memories, "you should seek help from adults." I don't think Hope can help you. ”

"Your Excellency, do you think I don't?" Copote followed Peter's words, tears streaming even harder, and he looked very pitiful: "I said I found James Gordon. But the recent accolades and flattery may have melted his heart, and he has become cowering and timid, not daring to provoke right and wrong. Of course, I understand this very well, his girlfriend, Dr. Tompkins, was kidnapped only some time ago. Everyone has a weakness, and I can't force him to give up the weakness to protect himself to save my mother. The people who threaten me are so powerful that whoever stands in the way can kill them. I secretly went to James and told him the whole story, but he turned me down. ”

So come and ask me which villain I am threatening me, and help me save my mother. By the way, slaughter Butch Giltz, the bastard traitor, and become a sharp and cute knife in my hand.

Colbert could feel that Peter had been moved by his words. He knew that this little imp had a similar personality to James Gordon, impulsive and heroic, and simply wrote the word 'justice' on his face.

What superhero wouldn't want to help the poor, mother-loving loser? Even James Gordon tried to save him.

"So who the hell kidnapped your mother?" Peter did take the bait.

He knew that the guy in front of him might not be trustworthy, but ...... But what if? He couldn't watch a son lose his mother.

The penguin man cautiously turned his head to look around, then leaned into Peter's ear and whispered back, "Of the five mayoral candidates, four were killed." The last one was only attacked in a trivial way, and he was not even injured, but instead earned a good name. Who could it be, you say? Who is the man who even James Gordon has to avoid his edge? ”