Chapter 1668 No Time to Die (31)

"What on earth do you want to talk to me about, you little bastards? I 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, glaring at Red Robin and Nightwing opposite him.

Red Robin sat on the edge of the sofa, with his forearms on his legs, leaning forward, using body language to express a sincere communication gesture.

“科波特先生，请原谅我们的无礼，但确实是因为事态紧急，我们才不得不把您从警局请到这儿来。”

企鹅人依旧维持着那副凶狠的表情，只是微不可察的抖了一下一边的眉毛，他还是用那种冰冷又嘲讽的语气说：“事态紧急？怎么？你们又和蝙蝠侠吵架离家出走了吗？想来揍我一顿，好和蝙蝠侠说明你们不是他的好宝宝？”

在旁边组装手枪的红头罩手上发出了“咔哒”一声，把企鹅人吓得一哆嗦，他紧紧抿着自己的嘴唇，看向红罗宾说：“我没兴趣掺和你们蝙蝠"I'm afraid we have to remind you, Mr. Cobblepot, that we contacted the Gotham City Administration and asked them to issue a certificate that you regularly maintained 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's when we don't interfere." Red Robin refused to give in. 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 judiciary There was a little problem with the trial procedure, but you were still taken to the 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 poor fire safety measures. "

"You..." Penguin gritted his teeth and stared at Red Robin opposite him. After a few seconds, he turned his head away as if he had surrendered, sighed and said: "Okay, this time I was tricked by you, I admit it, don't mention the bullshit fire safety law, tell me, what exactly do you want to do?"

"First of all, we want to know what you are talking about with the mayor."

Penguin immediately became alert, he slightly He narrowed his eyes, looked at Red Robin and said, "This is not something you should know!... I won't beat around the bush with you. What can you do if you know these things? Do you want to destroy the jobs of all the city government employees, or do you want to make people in this industry unable to survive?"

"Tell me more specifically."

"I know you have bugs on you, so don't expect me to reveal any details. Of course, I am doing what I have been doing. If you want to know, go back and ask your good father."

The Penguin didn't take the inquiries of these little birds seriously at all. He thought this might be another time when the Robins were overwhelmed with a sense of justice and brought bugs to get evidence of his crimes.

He felt disdainful in his heart. If the criminals in Gotham could be so easily tricked, they would have been out of business long ago. These naive Robins were really not even a little bit better than Batman.

"Then we won't beat around the bush with you." Red Robin sneered and looked at Penguin and said, "You have won over a dozen wealthy people in Gotham's construction and shipping industries, and bribed the mayor and his staff, hoping to get approval from the state legislature through them to transform the existing Gotham dock into a modern large deep-water port. The purpose of doing this is to allow Gotham dock to berth more smuggled goods transport ships."

Penguin opened his mouth and made a "uh" sound from his throat as if he was choked. Then he stood up angrily, knocked the ground hard with his cane, looked at Red Robin and said, "Boy, are you kidding me? Who of my men did you bribe? I will catch them and feed them to the dogs!"

Red Robin also stood up, staring at Penguin's eyes and said, "Cobert, do you really think you have been in Gotham for so many years without leaving any handle?"

"Humph, bluffing, do you think this can Scare me?"

"You established the Iceberg Charity Foundation a year and a half ago in the name of reversing global warming and protecting the marine ecology. The investment members are all big bosses in the construction materials, ship transportation, offshore energy development and heavy offshore equipment industries in Gotham and even the East Coast. Is it really just a coincidence?"

"Could it be that this group of people finally realized that the ocean is being polluted and the icebergs are melting when they are over 50 years old, and then they collectively awakened and invested money in your charity foundation, and this money happened to be lost within a year of the venture capital investment of this foundation, and they happened to be merciful and completely forgave you, and even kept patronizing your Iceberg Restaurant regardless of the past, right?"

The bloated Penguin Man fell on the sofa behind him. He squeezed his cane hard, as if he was unwilling, but Red Robin could say this, which proved that he had mastered the complete chain and had seen what the Penguin Man was doing.

Even if they don't have concrete evidence, as long as they make trouble for him along this chain, this business will not be successful. If they don't give in now, all the previous preparations will go down the drain.

"Okay, okay! Boys, you have really grown up!" Penguin sighed as he sat there, and looked up at Red Robin and Nightwing, looking through their shoulders at Red Hood who was standing at the table assembling a pistol.

He shook his head with emotion and said, "I remember a few years ago, the boy in black was just a little follower behind Batman's ass. Now you have come out to work alone. If I had a son, I guess he would be as old as you now."

"Are you willing to talk to us about the details of this business now?"

"It's useless for me to talk to you." Penguin shook his head, and looked 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 you may have discovered that there are too many things in this world that don't make sense with Batman. He is just a lunatic."

"Everything I say to you now will become evidence for him to come and break my legs and drag me into Arkham Asylum. What can you do? What can I do?"

The Penguin stood up his cane, supported it with one hand, leaned forward, looked directly into Red Robin's eyes for the first time and said.

"I'm just a businessman, but Gotham is no longer a place for business. Old Falcone warned me when he was still alive, but I was still young at that time and I didn't listen to him."

"To some extent, I want the protection of rules more than you do, because if there are rules, I can use them, but there are no rules in Gotham now, and everyone is messing around. If I can't calm everyone down with more chaotic actions, I can't keep my business."

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

The Penguin relaxed his muscles again and put down his cane, leaning against the back of the sofa and saying, "The woman sent by the federal government talked to us about Gotham's submarine structure and marine environmental protection. She said Gotham is not suitable for building a deep-water port. , so she must die. "

"Because things have come to this point, you can't turn back, right?"

"You're right, kid, the Iceberg Charity Foundation was originally intended to collect various funds, but that was not for marine environmental protection. It was a political donation to the mayor and state legislators, precisely to allow them to bypass federal marine environmental protection laws and help me get approval for the construction of a deep-water port."

"I'm not afraid of you hearing..." Penguin looked at Red Robin's chest, as if he was looking at Batman behind the surveillance camera, and said this to him: "All the flows of money are legal, and there will be no tax problems. It's too late for you to track it down now."

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

The Penguin's face darkened, he snorted coldly, and then said: "The funds I provided over the years have fed Magan's appetite. In my most recent negotiation with him, he hoped to control a completely independent smuggling route to maintain his absolute advantage in the next election."

The Penguin rolled his eyes and glanced to the other side and said: "But it's not surprising that he has such a sense of crisis. Lincoln March, a new celebrity in the Gotham power circle, is his most powerful competitor. There are rumors that March has contacted Bruce Wayne. The two of them once had a small gathering in the office of the Wayne Group Building, and Wayne was assassinated by a killer."

"It's hard to say that the full support of the Wayne Group is enough to win the battle." "I wonder if the current mayor Magan's dominant position in the next election will be shaken. If the outsider named Lincoln becomes the mayor, my business will be over."

"But Magan is so stupid. He can't see that this is not something I can decide alone. If I tell all the investors of the Iceberg Charity Foundation about his stupid request, he won't live long. No one can take their meat away from these smugglers."

When the Penguin looked at Red Robin again, he thought he would be troubled by the rather secret twists and turns and the complicated interests involved. He thought he would be greeted by the Robins shouting and yelling "assassinating the mayor is evil" and so on.

Unexpectedly, Red Robin leaned forward and completely crossed the middle line of distance from Penguin. He looked at Penguin's eyes with an almost offensive look and said, "If the current mayor Magan is too stupid, why not change him?"

"What did you say?!"

Penguin was the first to panic. He looked around, as if looking for traces of surveillance cameras and eavesdropping devices. He immediately sat up straight on the sofa, gritted his teeth, and looked at Red Robin with twitching facial muscles and said, "Boy, do you fucking know what you are talking about?"

"Isn't it what you have 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 donations." Penguin snorted, but he was obviously a little nervous. He swallowed and said, "I did affect the election results, but so what? It's as if Wayne Group didn't do that!"

"We didn't ask you to discuss this matter." Nightwing spoke for the first time, and Red Robin followed up, staring at Penguin's eyes with a focused look.

"You're right, Gotham has no rules now, and we want to change a way to establish rules for Gotham, but the first thing to do is to get the city government to cooperate with us."

Penguin slowly widened his eyes, he seemed to hear the implication of Red Robin's words.

"We need 'our own people' who can speak usefully in the city government, and it's better 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?"