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Chapter 257 The Sincerity of the Owl Court
Roger was happily playing an infiltration game called "Berserker's Creed" in the office on the third floor.

And in a certain manor in Gotham.

A group of men and women wearing expensive suits and dresses and wearing white masks gathered in a gorgeous hall, arguing fiercely.

These white masked people are none other than members of the Court of Owls.

Or rather, representatives of those families who joined the Court of Owls.

Roger's killing operation this morning killed many family leaders.

When the leader was killed, the representatives who were originally number two became the spokespersons of these unlucky families.

Fierce quarrels sounded continuously.

Although they quarreled fiercely, it was not difficult to hear that there was only one topic they were arguing about now, and that was how to deal with the incident caused by Roger.

Yes, the words they use are dealing with what happened to Roger, not against Roger.

Now, they have seen clearly the huge power gap between the court and Roger.

In this case, it is not a very wise decision to continue to fight with Roger.

Of course, those representatives of the family leaders who were killed by Roger now naturally formed an alliance, an alliance that advocated that they should never die with Roger.

Although they were very excited, the members present did not firmly stand with them.

Roger didn't kill all the suspected targets that Bruce investigated, just to speed up their internal strife.

If he killed all the suspected targets investigated by Bruce, it would be easy for the members of the Owl Court to unite.

But if only a part of the family has died, and the other family has no dead, then the situation is completely different.

Of course, the family of the dead will have the idea of ​​complete revenge.

And those families without dead people will carefully consider whether it is necessary to continue to be an enemy of Roger.

With Roger already showing their unmatched strength, it is not worthwhile to continue to fight Roger for the sake of the so-called allies.

More importantly, they don't have the strength to fight Roger to the end.

The sharp claws in their hands have basically been imprisoned by Roger in the prison formed by the green space.

Although they still have some sharp claws outside of Gotham, it is impossible for those scattered claws to play any role.

Even if they use all the inferior version of Dionysus factor and amber gold in their hands to strengthen these claws, they don't think that the claws will be Roger's opponent.

The quarrel continued.

The representatives of the clans whose chiefs died were unable to convince members of the clans that there were no dead.

And the other side also couldn't convince them.

The level of the quarrel escalated, but there was still no sign of resolution.

In the end, after some bickering and voting, the emergency meeting finally came to an end.

Through voting, the families who decided to make peace with Roger accounted for the majority, and more than half of the families chose to make peace with Roger.

Although the family representatives whose leaders died were not very satisfied with the result, their numbers were not as good as the other party's after all.

Whether they like it or not, the final decision made by the Court of Owls is to make peace with Roger, not to die.

The result of this emergency meeting came out, but the two sides directly split into two camps, and they broke up after a disagreement.

At this time, Roger didn't know about the internal strife in the owl court, and he was now performing a perfect sneaking method in the game.

Although there is no way for the game to be as realistic as reality, the game can also bring people pleasant enjoyment.

Especially on the premise of killing time, playing games is definitely a good choice.

Just when Roger was about to complete a difficult infiltration, the mobile phone he put aside suddenly rang.

Although the caller's name was not displayed on the phone, the number displayed on the screen was familiar to him.

What was displayed on the phone was Carmine's number.

After pressing the connect button and the speaker button, Roger said directly: "Tell me quickly if you have anything to do, I'm busy now."

While speaking, he didn't put down the handle in his hand, and continued to operate the game protagonist who didn't want to be named, whose profession was assassin on the surface, but in fact he was a berserker.

"Someone asked me to be a middleman and wanted to chat with you."

Carmine didn't say who contacted him, but he didn't have to think about it. It must be those people from the Owl Court.

"At ten o'clock tonight, you arrange a restaurant with a better environment. I'll be there on time."

After finishing speaking, Roger hung up the phone without any hesitation.

Apparently some members of the Court of Owls were going to give in to him.

Roger was not surprised by their choice.

Because that's what he planned.

He would be surprised if no one took the initiative to give in and admit defeat.

After hanging up Carmine's phone call, Roger concentrated on playing the game, while maintaining the domineering color of knowledge turned on, always perceiving the situation in the surrounding blocks.

Although some people intend to give in and admit defeat, these people are only some of the members of the Owl Court, not all members of the Owl Court.

Those families that have lost their leaders may not stop there.

Anyway, it's just a sentence, be careful sailing for thousands of years!

Roger didn't want to be suddenly attacked by rockets or some dead soldiers while playing games.

Time passed little by little.

Night fell.

After spending the whole afternoon clearing the Berserker's Creed, Roger flashed out of the office and went to find the Penguin.

The matter over at the Court of Owls is coming to an end soon.

It's time to deal with the mess he left during the day.

Although Penguin is not the most powerful villain in Gotham, he is definitely the group of people with the most connections in Gotham.

The Copperpot family he is in charge of is one of the four major families in Gotham.

Although the Copperpot family is not a local Gotham family, he was unable to join the owl court.

But whether it is the family power on the surface or the strength in the dark, the strength of the Copperpot family is much stronger than that of the local family in the court of owls.

For Roger's surprise visit, Penguin didn't show a particularly shocked expression.

After Roger finished speaking, Penguin nodded silently, and said slowly: "These requirements of yours are not difficult to fulfill."

"However, the amount of money that needs to be consumed is not a small amount. You'd better be mentally prepared."

Of course Roger knew it would cost a fortune to settle his high-profile vengeance.

Before he started, he had already considered this point.

"Money is not a problem, you just need to tell those people my request."

"After the matter is resolved, they will definitely get the reward they want."

After chatting with Penguin, Roger didn't stay in Penguin's office for too long, and returned to the office on the third floor of the restaurant.

When the restaurant finished serving today's dinner, Roger found Selina and took her back to her own home.

"Put on your equipment and come with me tonight to meet the people from the Owl Court."

After returning home, Roger said to Selina.

"Have you found their headquarters?" Selina asked curiously.

"Not yet, but we'll find out soon."

"If nothing else happens, starting tomorrow, the Court of Owls will only appear in nursery rhymes."

Roger didn't intend to waste too much time on the court of owls.

When he got the specific location of the headquarters of the Owl Court, he would immediately go to their headquarters to take a look, and wipe out this underground organization with a history as long as Gotham.

Although the Owl Court is an underground organization with a long history, it is somewhat different from other underground organizations.

The Court of Owls is not an underground organization with a clear structure, but a family alliance.

In the Court of Owls, no one family is more noble than another.

When they encountered something that needed to be resolved, they also adopted simple and rude voting decisions.

When the number of votes exceeds half, the decision will be implemented.

Although this is a seemingly fair method, when a serious crisis is encountered, an unavoidable problem arises in this seemingly fair voting.

They don't have a real leader, and they can't get together quickly when they encounter serious incidents.

This also means that they cannot gather all their strength to fight against the enemy.

The incident that Roger is now triggering is a good example.

After hearing Roger's answer, Selina didn't hesitate. She changed out of her casual clothes and put on the Catwoman uniform that she hadn't worn for a while and could perfectly show off her attractive figure.

After Selina put on her uniform, Roger put his arms around her slender waist, and the two disappeared quickly.

Now it is only the last ten minutes before ten o'clock, and Roger is a person with a strong sense of time.

In other words, he is a person who hates being late.

Although it would be a bit unreasonable to pass in advance, but now he doesn't need to establish his own image through these small things.

In the afternoon, Carmine sent the name and address of the restaurant.

For the convenience of arrangement, Carmine did not choose other restaurants, but chose one of his own restaurants as the meeting place for Roger to meet members of the owl court tonight.

After arriving at the restaurant arranged by Carmine, Roger found that not only he and Selina had come early, but also people from the Owl Court had come early.

After entering the restaurant, Roger sat down opposite the owl court representative with a casual expression.

"It's too insincere to negotiate with a mask."

There are three representatives of the owl court.

Two men and one woman.

Although they all wore expensive suits and evening gowns, they all wore white masks with no patterns on their faces, only showing two eyes.

"If Mister Stark doesn't like it, we'll take it off."

After finishing speaking, the man sitting in the middle took off the mask without any hesitation, revealing the typical European and American male face, and the golden hair was meticulously groomed.

After taking off the mask, the man said slowly: "I first apologize to Mr. Stark on behalf of the court."

"Because of our recklessness, we caused some trouble for Mr. Stark's people last night."

"This is some small compensation for Mr. Stark from the court."

After speaking, the man opened the suitcase next to him, took out an envelope from it, and handed it to Roger with both hands.

Roger didn't pick it up with his own hands, but asked Selina, who was wearing a catwoman mask, to pick up the envelope.

Under Roger's gesture, Selina opened the envelope.

Then, a shocked expression appeared.

Inside the envelope were five cashier's checks.

According to the preparations, there are five cashier's checks belonging to five overseas banks with an amount of up to [-] million US dollars.

Cashier's order, payable at sight, not reported lost, redeemed on the spot.

These five cashier's checks are equivalent to US$[-] million in cash.

This……

Selina can be considered well-informed, but holding five cashier's checks worth as much as [-] million still gave her an unreal feeling.

Ordinary people will not even have the opportunity to see this money with their own eyes, let alone earn such money.

Selina calmed down and handed the cashier's check in her hand to Roger.

"A cashier's check worth $[-] million, is this your sincerity?"

Unlike the shocked Selina, Roger is now acting extremely calm, as if what he is holding in his hand is not a cashier's check equivalent to [-] million cash, but five blank papers that can be seen everywhere.

After seeing Roger's expression at this time, the owl court representatives sitting opposite him frowned involuntarily.

They can become representatives of the owl court, in addition to being members of the owl court, it also has something to do with their own abilities.

After all, this is a major matter that involves the survival of the Owl Court, so of course the selection of representatives must be done with caution.

Selina's expression after seeing the cashier's check, in the eyes of these three representatives, is a normal expression.

Even they, after seeing these five cashier's checks, will have some mood swings.

However, Roger showed an unusual calmness.

For others, $[-] million is indeed an astonishing wealth.

But for Roger, that's about it.

In his first attack in Gotham, he extorted [-] million U.S. dollars in cash from Carmine, and almost wiped out the Falcone family's cash.

Compared with the [-] million US dollars that Carmine used to buy his life, the [-] million US dollars given by the owl court seems not very sincere.

The Falcone family can spend [-] million US dollars, and the Owl Court, which has gathered a large number of old Gotham local families, has only paid [-] million US dollars, which is somewhat unreasonable.

Although this is related to the better development of the Falcone family, no matter how you say it, [-] million US dollars is a bit too little.

More importantly, Roger is not an ordinary superpower.

In the Marvel world, he is a cosmic lord who has mastered the Kree Empire, Xandar, Wakanda and other countries, and his sphere of influence has reached hundreds of planets.

Just wanting to shock him with a mere [-] million US dollars is a bit too contemptuous of him.

(End of this chapter)