[Comprehensive British and American] The villain is also looking for a job today

Gotham Iceberg Restaurant

Ede sat by the window and watched the constant flow of vehicles. The raindrops hit the bright floor-to-ceiling windows, splashing tiny water droplets.

Strange to say, New York has been sunny and sunny in recent months, but when you arrive in Gotham, the weather seems to have left the United States.For example, today, it's already June, but it's a little chilly on the road in Gotham.

The indoor temperature of Bingshan restaurant is relatively high, and a layer of fog formed on the floor-to-ceiling windows, causing pedestrians passing by outside to wear blurred masks, unable to see facial features and expressions clearly.

"...I hear Mr. Colbert will be here today."

Ead keenly heard the whispering voices of the guests behind him, but he didn't know whether it was a fan of the Penguin or a speculator who wanted to take advantage of the Colbert family.

It has been 3 days since she came to Gotham. When she collected information, she found out that the reputation of Penguin has improved a lot in the past six months. The turning point was the incident where the clown burned Fifth Avenue. The Krebs private museum where she worked was also burned. destroyed in one day.The Colbert family saved many people at that time, and after the incident, some civilians sent flowers to the Bingshan Restaurant to express their gratitude.

But... Ed shook his head involuntarily.The clown did not issue a plan to burn Fifth Avenue, so it seems that this is a long-planned plan by Penguin after the clown snatched the top flower nightclub, but he is actually an ambitious and clever businessman.

It is worthy of being a big shot who has mastered Gotham's underground world for 30 years.

The door of the Iceberg restaurant was pushed open, and Ede looked at the penguin who was wearing a monocle and looked slightly shady in the French window.With his hands on the long-handled umbrella that never leaves his body, he scanned the restaurant like an emperor inspecting.

Penguin paused when he saw Ed.

Then he came over with a limp and sat opposite Ede.He waved his hand casually, and many bodyguards in black stood beside him at a position 2 meters away from the dining table, waiting for orders.

"I didn't expect to meet you in my restaurant half a year later." Penguin said.

Ede leaned back in his chair relaxedly, and he didn't seem to be afraid of the menacing Penguin, "I left Gotham some time ago. I just didn't expect that Gotham has changed so much after only half a year."

Hearing this, his eyes rolled a few times.Originally, he was going to make trouble for Ide. Who told Joker to be imprisoned in Arkham? He was not interested in reaching out to Batman's territory.Then kill the chicken to warn the monkey, but the informant of the Gotham Police Department actually told him that the chicken, Ide, was actually a relative of Bruce Wayne's adopted son.

It didn't take long for her to disappear, and the matter was left alone.The busy Penguin quickly forgot about these two underlings.But that doesn't mean he let Ead go, not to mention that Wayne's adopted son was killed by a clown a few months ago, so wouldn't it be easy for him to pinch the silver-haired girl in front of him to death?

The Penguin pushed his monocle, "You shouldn't have come back. When you come back, you should be prepared to be a street rat and stay obediently in the dark gutter."

After he finished speaking, the bodyguards next to him raised their guns and aimed at Edo as if they had been ordered.

The Penguin made a gesture to stand up, sighed and said, "I don't want to stain my carpet, why not deal with you after you finish eating and go out?"

bang, bang-

Accompanied by the continuous sound of metal falling, the silver-haired girl slowly wiped her fingers with a napkin, tilted her head and asked, "Can we continue talking now?"

The muzzles of Colbert's bodyguards were all severed by her in the blink of an eye, and Penguin only had time to see some kind of dark red substance flash past.He looked at the white battle armor emerging from Ide's arm, and gradually restrained the proud expression on his face.

He took a deep breath and adjusted his inner emotions.

"what do you want?"

Ed said, "Don't be so nervous, sit down. I just want to talk to you."

After the Penguin sat back in her seat, she said, "I came here today to resolve our conflicts. Why do you have such a big business against me? Why don't we just let this matter out."

Penguin snorted coldly when he heard this, looked at the wreckage of guns all over the place, and thought to himself, this is why you don't violate the river?He said angrily: "Yes. But if you disturb my territory again, don't blame me for not keeping my promise."

Ide nodded with a smile on hearing this, "And is there any way for the Colbert family to intervene in all the transactions in Gotham's underground?" Finding Migo's seller is also one of the incidental purposes of this trip.

Penguin's face suddenly darkened a lot, he pondered for a moment, and then said: "If it was in the past, I can tell you yes. But now 5 districts are not in my hands."

"I don't know if you know the red hood who has been in the limelight recently? He just robbed me of 5 districts."

Ede couldn't help being surprised, she heard Red Hood's name as soon as she got out of the airport, she didn't expect him to be so powerful, even Penguin was deflated.

"You didn't deal with him? That's not like your style."

The penguin said: "How long do you think he can jump without me taking a shot. Those who want to break the rules of the game will not end well."

Ede: "You mean you are the rules of Gotham's game? With all due respect, I have to say that I believe Batman is the rules of Gotham."

The Penguin wrinkled his hooked nose angrily, and said coldly: "Batman? Gotham doesn't need this kind of thing. Little girl, the Falcone family firmly controlled the underground world of this city 30 years ago , Gotham at that time was not as chaotic as it is now, on the contrary, Gotham fell apart after his death."

He sighed artificially: "What Gotham needs is thunderous means, but unfortunately I'm not cruel enough to be like Falcone. But I can count on having stabilized Gotham for decades, so there won't be any big troubles. Whoever wants to touch my position, that is, wants to start another war, without me taking action, Batman will be the first to disagree."

Ide smirked and said, "If you mean that the city hall, the police station and the court all succumbed to Falcone's coercive power at that time, is the situation stable?"

The Penguin looked at her calmly, and asked, "So what? Don't tell me what you think Gotham has a bright future. Look at Batman's violent law enforcement. Masked people who walk on the edge of crime can do it." When Gotham is a hero, you know how hopeless this city is!"

"He would prefer me to be the ruler of the underground world, because I know the current affairs well, because I am not those anarchist lunatics, I am a businessman, and I can make a profit. Killing and arson is not my profession."

He sneered: "It's strange to say that Batman has become more and more radical recently. Every criminal who was thrown into GCPD was beaten to death. I really wonder what stimulated this ruthless monster."

Ede didn't continue to talk back. These problems in Gotham are commonplace.

"Then did your subordinates provide some special items, not firearms, not food, not population. They should be things that ordinary people don't need, maybe only they need." Ede tried his best to describe the materials that Migo might need.

The Penguin thought for a while and said, "Your statement is too general. I can ask someone to check it according to your screening criteria. But it will probably take time."

Ede was not disappointed either, she nodded and continued to ask: "You were Falcone's subordinate 30 years ago, so do you know the Holy Embryo Cathedral he sponsored?"

The corner of Penguin's mouth twitched. The person who dared to mention that he was Falcone's subordinate had already fed the sharks. He said patiently: "At that time, Gotham redeveloped the old city, and Falcone wanted to profit from it. Few projects. The Embryo of Holiness is one of them."

"Has a child appeared in that holy embryo?"

He raised his head and looked at her strangely: "I've never heard of this. Their believers are all adults, and they don't know how to adopt. Children. It's not bad for a charity house to do this kind of thing."

……

When Ede walked out of the Iceberg restaurant, the wind and rain hit her in the face.There was no favorable information from the Penguin, but he pointed her to a clear path—the Wayne family.

Thomas Wayne was responsible for the planning and development of the old town, although the Wayne couple were killed before the project started.But the Wayne family must be one of the people who know the Holy Embryo Cathedral best.

She thought about it for a while, and decided to go to the Wayne family to find information tonight. If possible, it would be best not to disturb Bruce Wayne. I lived with Jason for a while before, and if I met her, I really don't know how to treat him. Bruce Wayne.

**

Wayne Manor Batcave

Bruce stood in front of the monitor, a myriad of different-sized screens illuminating his expressionless handsome face.

Afu walked in with coffee, seeing the picture on the monitor and Bruce's slightly sickly tired face, he hesitated to speak.

Bruce seemed like a different man since Master Jason's death.Batman can be said to have treated criminals with a little forgiveness before, and he occasionally gives a chance to people who seem to be forced to commit crimes because they have nowhere to go.

But now... GCPD has to deal with the prisoners thrown by Bruce at the door every day. He treats criminals with iron blood and no mercy.

Especially the criminals who have been in contact with the clown, from the small ones who have said a few words to the criminals who have cooperated.Batman spends a lot of time monitoring them, and even when some people are no longer criminals, his monitoring never stops.

Afu persuaded him, why not give those good people a chance?

Bruce told Afu indifferently that criminals are criminals and will never change, even their children will follow in the footsteps of their parents.Maybe arrest them now without charge, but he will keep an eye on them.

The old butler who had watched him grow up felt that he looked so strange for the first time, and he even worried whether Bruce would violate his principle of not killing.

Bruce saw his concern at the time, smiled sarcastically, and told Aff that he would never violate his principles.

He said to himself, if I violated my principle of not killing, then what is the dead Jason for?What is Batman for?

Batman's principles have become a single pillar supporting him on the edge of a precipice.

Bruce ignored the old butler's advice as usual, his body knew that a little cold couldn't stop him.

In the past few months, Batman has never stopped patrolling in Gotham. Many criminals scolded him: Batman, what is wrong with you?You are crazier than ever!

Bruce thought it was ridiculous. When he attended Wayne's activities during the day, he was always the handsome Bruce Wayne, and he would say that sentence badly.

"I am saddened and deeply sorry about Jason's accident."

Others can't see the emotional turmoil they expected from him, and they often leave disappointed.Many times he heard someone whisper behind his back: The Wayne family really doesn't have any feelings for their adopted son.Just pretending.

And then Bruce raised his glass to the others with his impeccable smile, only he knew his heart was going to be broken.

At night, as Batman, he looked down at the icy Gotham from the gargoyle, treating criminals like a beast. Only then did he feel the pain in his heart vent a little bit.

Bruce knew he would never forgive himself, and Jason's Robin suit was like a string of pearls buried deep in his mind, becoming Batman's nightmare.

But he thinks it's good, Jason...it should be more painful before death.

As if his current pain was like atonement for Jason.Although Bruce knew it was pointless.

Seeing that he couldn't persuade him to rest, Afu sighed and turned to leave.Bruce was the only one left in the empty Batcave.

He wiped the cold sweat from his brow, picked up the coffee and downed it.Maybe the cold this time was much more serious than he had imagined, and Bruce actually felt that he had an auditory hallucination, and he heard the footsteps of a person appearing at the entrance of the deadly bat cave.

Not in Aver's footsteps.

It seems that sick people are indeed weaker than before, and Bruce couldn't help but fantasize about how good it would be if it was Jason, who always rushed in to protest that Bruce didn't give him more dangerous tasks.

He also wondered if Jason would have had more experience dealing with clowns if he had asked him to do more dangerous tasks.

Bruce felt that it was getting colder and colder, his consciousness began to scatter, and he knew that he was about to pass out... But before he lost consciousness, he saw a figure wearing a black mask appearing at the entrance of the cave, and his final emotion turned out to be disappointment.

……

Ede sneaked into Wayne Manor quietly, and set up a lot of monitors here, but she was very familiar with the layout of Wayne Manor after living for a month, and the armor given by Blood Red and Tony didn't matter. so difficult.

But the manor was empty, neither Alfred nor Bruce was there.This went much smoother than she expected, and she sneaked into the study soon.

It was too difficult to find the plan from 30 years ago, and Ede looked at the bookshelves on the entire 3 walls and got into trouble.

Then she saw Afu coming from the southeast with a dinner plate from the window of the study on the second floor.Yi De was not reconciled and prepared to leave.After turning down from the window, she suddenly thought that there was nothing in the southeast direction, just a forest, what was Afu doing there with the dinner plate.

She went there immediately, instead of going in rashly, but found a bunker and divided the blood red into filaments to check in this dense forest.

It was discovered that something was wrong, and Ead discovered an extremely hidden cave.

What shocked her the most was the man who fell to the ground in front of her eyes—Bruce Wayne.

Ede looked at him silently, as well as the Batman equipment behind him.So, he's Batman?That... almost the next second she thought of Batman's assistant Robin.

Robin is Jason Todd...

Ede was stunned by the sudden discovery of the truth, and then she looked at the unconscious man and fell into deep doubts, why didn't you choose to kill the Joker even if you were Batman.

She helped Bruce to the seat, his body was so hot that Id wondered if Bruce would burn into a fool.

"You're either really stupid or you're really crazy."

Looking at the fallen Batman in front of him, Ede said to himself.