Chapter 1799: Summer in Fool Village (Thirteen)

The Iceberg Restaurant, located on Lanxess Avenue in the South District, is a high-end restaurant in the Cobblepot Iceberg series of catering industries and a flagship product launched by Gotham's tourism industry in terms of catering culture.

Since Cobblepot's mother's condition stabilized, he has devoted a lot of time and energy to business. Cobblepot is a good businessman, and at the same time, he has the support of the Falconet family. It can be said that he has eaten up the dividends of the times and caught up with the high-speed train of Gotham's transformation.

After the second Iceberg Restaurant ran smoothly in the East District for a year, Cobblepot led a group of followers who came out of the living hell of the East District to launch the Polar Iceberg catering culture concept, integrating the industry into two business lines, Polar and Iceberg.

The positioning of the Polar business is aimed at Gotham locals. There are comprehensive entertainment venues that are built by themselves and invested abroad, including nightclubs, casinos, striptease bars, etc., while the current business of Iceberg is aimed at tourists and high-end consumers. It mainly operates catering industry. The restaurant mainly promotes Gotham's local fusion cuisine. Each restaurant has a huge iceberg landscape for tourists to take photos and check in.

Gotham's tourism industry is getting more and more prosperous. The Iceberg Restaurant has gradually appeared on the pages of East Coast food and tourism news media. Cobblepot's worth has risen accordingly. As the weather gets hotter, some local middle-class people are also more inclined to consume at the Iceberg Restaurant.

Cobblepot seized the opportunity. In addition to the huge iceberg landscape, he also placed a small iceberg mist landscape on each table, changing the floor and ceiling to ice blue like ice crystals, and using dry ice mist to create a cold and refreshing atmosphere. The restaurant's business is even more popular, and most of the time it can be said that it is hard to find a seat.

But today, the only Iceberg Restaurant in the South District informed all diners that the second floor has been fully booked, all private rooms have been sold, and no service is provided for the time being.

Loyal diners feel a little disappointed, but they know that this must be because the owner of the restaurant, Cobblepot, has distinguished guests to entertain. The last time he emptied an entire floor of the restaurant, it was to entertain all the leaders of the twelve families.

But today, the second floor of the Iceberg Restaurant was empty, with only two figures sitting at the table by the window. Schiller looked up at the decoration of the Iceberg Restaurant, comparing it with the last time he came.

When the Iceberg Restaurant first opened, Schiller and Victor came once, but did not tell Cobert. After all, they were just here for a meal, so there was no need to make a big fuss.

Compared with that time, the characteristics of the Iceberg Restaurant are more obvious now. Obviously, Victor gave Cobert some suggestions after returning. Now it seems that these suggestions are quite prescient. There is probably only one restaurant in the world that uses dense ice as furniture.

It is not that the restaurant is called the Iceberg Restaurant and it really uses icebergs for cooling. The reason why the Iceberg Restaurant is relatively cool is still that the air conditioner is fully turned on. Now this version of dense ice can be placed in a constant temperature room without participating in any heat exchange. It is more like a dense material that looks like ice.

But most people don't understand the principle behind this. They just think it's very cool to walk on ice and eat with ice tables and tableware. Coupled with the visually confusing dry ice mist, it's as if all the unbearable heat and heat disappear completely once you enter this restaurant.

Schiller looked at the steaming dishes on the dense ice plate and felt a little curious. Cobert adjusted the position of the plate on the table and explained: "This is the dense ice technology specially developed by Professor Victor. It is specially used to isolate heat. It presents better material properties than glass in all aspects. Unfortunately, the cost has not been reduced, so unless it takes the customized high-end route, it is difficult to become a new star in the material industry."

"Roy has been trying to promote this technology unique to Gotham, but the decorative dense ice is not as attractive as other glass and resin materials, so the sales are average. At present, the flagship product of Gotham's cold chain industry is still industrial dense ice."

"It's too early to consider the decorative building materials industry now." Schiller shook his head and said: "But it is indeed possible to use this unique material to decorate the city's landscape, such as making city statues, or raw materials for public space art."

"Mr. Mayor has already considered this issue, However, the city government team is still discussing how to cleverly combine it with Gotham's greening work. "

"My garden has been rebuilt again." Schiller shook his head, and then said: "This is probably a problem that my housekeeper and I need to consider. I also plan to move an ice sculpture back, but I feel that no matter where it is placed, the style will not match."

"How about making it into a children's playground?" Cobblepot suggested: "Slides and swings made of ice will definitely be very popular with children. The strength of dense ice is much higher than that of glass and crystal, and there is no need to worry about safety issues."

Schiller showed a thoughtful look, and seemed to be somewhat tempted. Cobblepot cut the ham on the plate and said: "I recently planned to add a children's playground on the third floor of the Polar Shopping Center. After all, only when parents are freed from the hands of those little demons, they will have time to go shopping."

"Tomorrow I will send the purchase order to your mailbox. You can mark the items you are interested in, and then I will ask the factory to make an extra set and send it over. "

"You opened a shopping mall?" Schiller asked a little surprised, "Where is it?"

"Near the newly opened tourist beach in the East District, not far from the Falcone Hotel and the New Wayne Hotel."

"That's a good place, how is the business?"

"It wasn't very good before." Cobert gave an answer that Schiller didn't expect. He said: "I misjudged the diversion of tourists. The people who want to go to the beach to sunbathe, surf and swim do not overlap with the people who want to go shopping in the city center. They rarely book the same hotel. I might as well buy the old shopping mall in the city center and renovate it."

"So is it a loss?"

"It can only be said to be flat, so now I plan to transform the new shopping center into a comprehensive entertainment venue related to marine culture, doing swimming equipment sales and rental, seafood restaurants and seafood specialty catering, post-exercise relaxation massage therapy, as well as seaside cultural center visits and popular science, family parent-child interaction and other industries, instead of selling jewelry and clothes like before."

"Your business vision is amazing, I think this will succeed." Schiller said sincerely.

After a pause, Schiller brought the topic back to the point. He said, "There are some clues in the murder case you asked me to investigate. The murderer has not been found yet, but I think the occurrence of the murder case may be related to me."

Cobert frowned. He didn't think Schiller was saying that the person was murdered. He immediately speculated sharply, "Is it possible that someone wants to attract your attention and kills people in the city again?"

Schiller shook his head and said, "No, no, my club has been very stable recently. They have been discussing topics related to blood diseases recently. No one in the entire East Coast region has taken action. This time it may be the real enemy."

Cobert immediately became nervous. He stared at Schiller and said, "Are they dangerous? What do they want from you? You need to take some defensive measures "

Schiller opened his eyes slightly in surprise. He really didn't expect that someone would still be sincerely worried about him when things got to this point, but he couldn't say that he was not touched by this, so he said: "Don't worry about my safety. The situation will not develop to such an extreme degree. It's just that the temptation and harassment may continue for a while, so I must warn the gangsters, the city government and some other important figures in Gotham that they need to be vigilant during this period. "

Cobolt frowned and thought for a while before saying: "Is the other party difficult to deal with?"

"Have you heard of the Assassin's League?"

"I seem to have some impression." Cobolt recalled: "I heard Alberto mention it several times, but that may be the grudges of the old Godfather era. The old Godfather and Gotham Cathedral The priest may have dealt with their leader, but that was decades ago, and Alberto didn't know much about it. "

"The leader of the Assassin's League is called Lei Xiaogu. He is an immortal who may have lived for nearly a thousand years. He believes that the existing order of the world must be changed, and the important thing is that it must be changed by him."

"Some of my previous actions interfered with the world order. He keenly discovered that in addition to the Assassin's League, there were people who influenced the historical direction of the world. They were very dissatisfied with this, so they targeted me after many inquiries. "

"They regard me as an enemy, but they also want to win over my students." Schiller's fingertips gently tapped the tableware, thinking and saying: "Lei Xiaogu admires Batman very much, and he wants his daughter to be with Batman. "I want to marry him, so that Batman can join the Assassin's League. If that doesn't work, I will get his genes and have an excellent offspring."

"But I think his plan should only be carried out to the first step now. They are still trying to win over Batman, but in the case of being my enemy, Lei Xiaogu is likely to want to kill two birds with one stone."

Copperbot paused in cutting the food, and he said, "He doesn't want to use Batman to deal with you, does he?"

"It's not impossible." Schiller tapped the plate lightly with his fork and said, "From the perspective of an observer, what is my relationship with Batman?"

Copperbot was about to comment on "teacher and student torturing each other", but after thinking about it, he felt that not everyone could understand what Schiller and Batman were doing in torturing each other for the past few years.

Or, probably only the people of Gotham can understand that torturing each other is actually a necessary process for the development of friendship, and in the eyes of normal people, once a confrontational relationship is established, the contradiction will inevitably become deeper and deeper.

"When I took the initiative to accept the FBI's malfeasance investigation, Talia appeared in the FBI. I don't think this is a coincidence." Schiller opened his mouth and brought up another detail, saying: "Talia may not know what she is doing, but Lei Xiaogu must be very clear about the hidden meaning behind each of his orders."

"When I was accused of malfeasance, Lei Xiaogu knew that this was the best opportunity to observe the relationship between me and my students, so Talia appeared there at the right time. It seemed that she just went through the motions and did nothing, but she brought back the best news for Lei Xiaogu."

"Batman is not a respectful student, and I am not a tolerant and loving teacher. He thinks he has found the crack between us that is enough to stir up conflict, so Talia came to Gotham."

"Honey trap?"

"It's better to say that the opposite sex's hormones are the best fuel for mental manipulation." Schiller smiled and lowered his head slightly, saying, "Now it depends on who is better at manipulation between the two of them."