Chapter 1668 No Time to Die (31)
"What on earth do you little 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 men will definitely call the police!"
Penguin sat on the sofa and glared fiercely at Red Robin and Nightwing opposite him.
Red Robin sat on the edge of the sofa, with his forearms on his legs and his body leaning forward, using his body language to express a gesture of sincere communication.
"Mr. Cobot, please forgive our rudeness, but it is indeed an emergency that forced us to invite you here from the police station."
Penguin still maintained his ferocious expression, but slightly twitched one of his eyebrows. He still said in that cold and mocking tone: "The situation is urgent? What? You quarreled with Batman again and ran away from home. Are you ready? Want to beat me up to show Batman that you are not his good baby?"
The Red Hood who was assembling the pistol next to him made a "click" sound, which scared the Penguin. He pursed his lips tightly, looked at Red Robin and said, "I have no interest in getting involved with your Bat Family." Regarding those things, I haven’t committed any crime recently, why did you come to me instead of the clown?”
"I'm afraid we have to remind you, Mr. Cobot, 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 now."
"So what? I will come out sooner or later. Do you really think that ridiculous fire safety law can stop me?"
"That was without our interference." 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 in the judicial process and you are still taken to a detention cell and locked up without parole, then I'm afraid we will let all the villains in Gotham know that the famous Penguin went to prison for the first time because of fire safety measures. Don’t pass.”
"You..." Penguin gritted his teeth and glared at Red Robin across from him. After a few seconds, he moved his head as if he had given in. He sighed and said, "Okay, this time I've got your way. I admit defeat, don’t mention the bullshit fire safety law, let’s talk about it, what are you going to do?”
"First of all, we want to know what exactly you're talking to the mayor about."
The Penguin immediately became vigilant. He narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at Red Robin and said, "This is not something you should know!... I won't talk about it with you anymore. What can you do if you know these things?" ? Do you want to destroy the jobs of everyone in the city government, or do you want to make it difficult for everyone in this industry to survive? "
"Tell me more specifically."
"I know you have bugs on your body, so don't expect me to reveal any details. Of course I am doing what I have been doing. If you want to know, just go back and ask your good father."
The Penguin didn't take the birds' inquiries seriously at all. He thought this might be another time when the Robins had a sense of justice and brought a bug to set up evidence against him.
He felt disdainful in his heart. If the criminals in Gotham could be tricked so easily, they would no longer have to mess around. These innocent Robins are really not as good as Batman.
"Then we won't go around in circles with you." Red Robin sneered, looked at Penguin and said, "You recruited more than a dozen wealthy people from Gotham's construction and shipping industries to bribe the mayor and his staff. , hoping to get approval from the state parliament through them to transform the existing Gotham Terminal into a modern large-scale deep-water port. The purpose of your doing this is to enable the Gotham Terminal to berth more contraband transport ships. "
The Penguin opened his mouth and made a sound of "Uh" from his throat as if he was choked. Then he stood up angrily, knocked the ground hard with the cane in his hand, and looked at Red Robin said, "Boy, are you kidding me? Who of my men have you bribed? I'll catch them and feed them to the dogs!"
Red Robin also stood up, staring closely into Penguin's eyes and said: "Cobot, do you really think you haven't left any clues after you have been in Gotham for so many years?"
"Huh, bluff, do you think this can scare me?"
"You established the Iceberg Charitable Foundation a year and a half ago in the name of reversing global warming and protecting marine ecology. Its investment members happen to be in Gotham and even the East Coast's construction materials, ship transportation, offshore energy development and heavy offshore equipment. Is it really just a coincidence to wait for the big boss in the industry?”
"Could it be that this group of people are over fifty years old and finally realize that the ocean is being polluted and the icebergs are melting? Then they collectively wake up and invest money in your charity foundation, and this money happens to be in this foundation to carry out risk management All the investment was lost within a year, and they happened to be so merciful that they completely forgave you and even continued to patronize your Bingshan Restaurant regardless of their past grudges, right?"
The bloated Penguin fell down on the sofa behind him. He squeezed his cane hard, as if unwilling to give in, but Red Robin's words proved that he had mastered the complete chain. I have already seen what the Penguin is up to.
Even if they don't have concrete evidence, as long as they follow this chain to cause him some trouble, the business will not be successful. If they don't give in now, all the previous preparations will be in vain.
"Okay, okay! Boys, you have really grown up!" The Penguin sat there and sighed, then raised his eyes to look at Red Robin and Nightwing, looking over their shoulders at the person standing. Red Hood assembling a pistol at the table.
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He shook his head with emotion and said: "I remember a few years ago, that boy in black clothes was just a little follower behind Batman. Now you have come out to work alone. If I had a son, I guess he would be like this now." You are so old."
"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 and glanced at Red Robin again as if he had something to hide, and seemed to be looking at other people through Red Robin.
"Since you have decided to go it alone, it means that you may have discovered that there are too many things in this world that don't make sense to Batman. He is a lunatic."
"What I say to you now will be used as evidence for him to break my legs later and drag me into Arkham Asylum and lock me up. What can you do? What can I do?"
Penguin held his staff upright, rested one hand on it, leaned forward, looked Red Robin in the eyes for the first time and said.
"I'm just a businessman, but Gotham is no longer the age for business. The old Falcone warned me before he was dead, but I was still young at that time and I didn't listen to him."
"To a certain extent, I desire the protection of rules more than you do, because if there are rules, I can take advantage of them, but there are no rules in Gotham now. Everyone is messing around. If I can't use more chaotic actions to suppress I can’t keep my business if everyone lives here.”
"You killed Ms. Valksha, the city government spokesperson, right?"
Penguin relaxed his muscles again and put down his cane, leaning on the back of the sofa and said: "The woman sent by the federal government talked to us about Gotham's submarine structure and marine environmental protection. She said that Gotham is not suitable for deep water construction. Hong Kong, so she must die."
"Because when things get to this point, you can't go back, right?"
"You're right, kid. The Iceberg Charitable Foundation was originally designed to collect funds from all sources, but that was not for marine environmental protection. It was a political donation to the mayor and state assembly members, precisely to allow them to bypass the federal government. Marine environmental protection laws helped me get approval to build a deep-water port.”
"I'm not afraid you'll hear..." Penguin looked at Red Robin's chest, seemingly looking at Batman behind the surveillance camera. This was also meant for him: "All flows of money are legal. Yes, there won’t be any tax problems. It’s too late for you to pursue it now.”
"So have you gotten the approval?" Red Robin asked.
Penguin's face darkened, he snorted coldly from his nose, and then said: "The funds I have provided over the years have fed Magan's appetite. In my latest negotiation with him, he hoped to master A completely independent smuggling route to maintain his absolute advantage in the next election.”
Penguin rolled his eyes, looked to the other side and said, "But it's not surprising that he has such a sense of crisis. Lincoln March, the newly popular figure in Gotham's powerful circle, is his most powerful competitor. Some people have heard that Ma Qi hooked up with Bruce Wayne. The two of them had a get-together 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 current mayor Magan's dominant position in the next election. If that outsider named Lincoln becomes the mayor, my business will be completely ruined."
"But that Ma Gan is really stupid. He can't see that this is not something I can decide alone. If I tell all the investors of the Iceberg Charitable Foundation about his stupid request, he won't live long. No one can take their meat away from these smugglers."
When Penguin looked at Red Robin again, he thought he would be troubled by the rather secret twists and turns and complicated interest entanglements. He thought he would be greeted by the Robins yelling, Yelling things like "Assassinating the mayor is evil."
Unexpectedly, Red Robin leaned further forward, completely crossing the center line of distance from Penguin. He almost looked at Penguin's eyes with an offensive look and said: "If the current mayor Magan is too stupid, , why not change it?”
"What did you say??!"
The Penguin was the first to panic. He looked around, seemingly looking for traces of monitors and bugs. He immediately sat upright on the sofa, gritted his teeth, and looked at Red Robin with twitching facial muscles and said: " Boy, do you know what the fuck you're talking about?"
"Isn't that what you've been doing?" Red Robin relaxed instead. He leaned back, put one arm on the armrest, put his chin back, looked at Penguin from above his eyes and said: " Manipulate elections, support interest groups, and find ways to pave the way for your business.”
"That's called political donation." Penguin snorted coldly, but he was obviously a little nervous. He swallowed and said, "I did affect the election results, but so what? It sounds like Wei The En Group didn’t do that!”
"We didn't come to you to discuss this matter." Nightwing spoke for the first time, followed closely by Red Robin, who stared into the Penguin's eyes with a focused look.
"You are right. There are no rules in Gotham now. We want to find a way to establish rules for Gotham, but the first thing we need to do is to get the city government to cooperate with us."
The Penguin slowly widened his eyes. He seemed to have heard the hidden meaning of Red Robin's words.
"We need 'our own people' who can speak usefully in the city government, and it is best to have 'our own people' who can speak the most usefully."
"So, Mr. Oswald Cobblepot, are you interested in participating in the upcoming Gotham mayoral election?"