Chapter 150: Business Trips Are Part of Working for a Living, Have to Experience It

The situation inside Wayne Prison was not hard to understand.

The Godfather's inspection took only three days, and then Alberto's imprisonment became a certainty.

There was no choice; for Alberto's sake, he had to fight the Maroni family to the end, but by the day Luigi was also thrown into prison, the Falcone family's power would surely be reduced by seventy or eighty percent. Considering Gotham's new system was constantly turning gang members into ordinary citizens through labor reform, he basically had no way to fight against the united Wayne District Attorney's Office and Gotham Police Department; going to jail was inevitable, so choosing a better cell in advance was actually the wise move.

And as things stood, aside from a considerable amount of labor, the only drawback of Wayne's private prison was that it "could not be bribed with money," but the rule "no fighting, bullying, or violent behavior allowed" also brought considerable security to this prison.

"Alberto, forgive me..."

With complex feelings, Falcone dialed Chief Gordon's number.

Click!

"Is that bastard really going to fight us to the death!"

Inside the Maroni family mansion, Luigi slammed the phone in his hand down hard; the Godfather had originally been sending signals for both sides to make peace, and both sides had already agreed on a time and place to hold a negotiation.

This made Luigi sigh with relief slightly; the damage from these days of fist-to-fist fighting with Falcone had been truly considerable, even causing him to have a thought of taking a long-term view.

Although many core family members had been killed, and although there was suspicion that his son had been kidnapped, thinking carefully, the Holiday Killer incident might not have been ordered by Falcone—because a long time had passed since the day Alberto was arrested, the Maroni family had not welcomed a second madman running around with a gun, and the Roman had not been searching for his son on the sly, which showed that Falcone might not have known what Alberto had done.

Could he really think his son was dead?

Coming to his senses, Luigi carefully examined the current situation; both Maroni and Falcone had already suffered heavy losses, which cooled his head. He thought that if both sides could exchange information, perhaps this matter could find a better way to handle it; even if we took ten thousand steps back, this matter wouldn't get worse, and at worst everyone would just keep fighting—Harvey's gun was very useful, and he was confident he could beat the Roman to the bone.

But immediately, more bad news arrived.

Falcone reneged; he directly canceled the meeting between the two sides and threatened to completely wipe out the Maroni family, leaving only one underworld family in Gotham City, and return the three bullets he received in childhood to Sal Maroni.

"Insulting people too much, do they really think the Maroni family people are afraid of jail?"

Luigi spat hard: "The Roman wants war, fine, then we'll give him war!"

One could only say that true to father and son, even the words they spoke were exactly the same.

And on the second day after Luigi spoke those words, Ma Ma Zhaodi received a call from Harvey.

"Things are on the right track, Old Ma," he said: "Falcone agreed to our conditions for his son's sake, and the Maronis shouted their slogan, vowing to fight him to the death."

The moment this sentence was spoken, the system panel immediately had a new prompt.

【Ding】

【Your part-time job in this stage in Gotham City is complete; the part-time job location, Gotham, is about to undergo an upgrade and replacement. According to system prediction, during the upgrade period, the number of local part-time jobs will sharply decrease.】

【Part-time job performance evaluation for this stage: Excellent】

【Settlement reward skill for this stage: Batman's Friendship, Gather and Team Up】

【Extra reward skill for this stage: I Did Not Kill Anyone】

【Batman's Friendship

Note: Since you have already obtained this thing, you should also know it's useless—Batman won't cross you off his counter-plan because of it, nor will he hit you any lighter when beating you.】

【Gather and Team Up

Note: Dealing with such evil spirits and demons, no need to talk about any chivalrous justice; everyone join hands and attack together!】

Looking at the first reward, Ma Ma Zhaodi felt a mix of emotions, even wanting to punch Batman a bit, because it was right.

But when he saw the second reward, his spirits immediately lifted, and he carefully read the effect of this skill—simply put, when he goes on a business trip to work in other universes, he will obtain permission to bring people along; he can select friendly characters in this world who have already obtained "Friendship," and as long as the other party agrees, they can hitch a ride with him, traveling back and forth to that universe together.

"Oh, awesome, then when I go on a business trip, can I just bring Batman along and take off immediately?"

But thinking carefully, Batman doesn't always have time; he still needs to be mentally prepared to go alone.

【I Did Not Kill Anyone

Note: I will shoot people into a sieve with a gun, I will break people's spines with guardrails, I will hit heads with a metal baseball bat and knock people flying three meters, I will smash people directly with a motorcycle, I will throw people directly from a window ledge to the floor below—but in any case, in a word, I did not kill anyone, I am innocent.

—by Kazuma Kiryu

Note 2: Batman gave a thumbs up】

"Wait, buddy?"

Ma Ma Zhaodi looked at the note and complained: "You two are resonating now?"

Jokes aside, the skill's effect was very powerful; it was an active skill, and its current target was limited only to Ma Ma Zhaodi himself, with a duration of twelve hours. As for the skill's effect, just as the note said, as long as this skill is activated, no matter what weapon Ma Ma Zhaodi uses to attack, it cannot truly cause the result of "the attacked target dying," always leaving the opponent with a breath of life.

This scope of effect can continue to upgrade, but upgrading seems to require consuming a large amount of asset points; the price for the first upgrade is one hundred thousand US dollars, and its effect can be further expanded, allowing Ma Ma Zhaodi to designate two targets, and the skill will last on them for twenty-four hours. If the scope is upgraded, its effect will become "no one within the skill's scope of effect can cause a kill on others."

As for how much the second upgrade costs, Ma Ma Zhaodi wasn't too curious; he currently only had fifteen hundred thousand US dollars in asset points on him, and temporarily planned to save them for unexpected needs.

【Searching for new part-time job location】

【Found an employer with strong willingness—】

【Part-time job location search complete; this part-time job is a special business trip mission; after completing the work, employee permission will be upgraded, and the system will open part-time job business trip permissions outside Gotham City.】

【Note, this employer only has the ability to provide knowledge skills as reward; you can choose to refuse, and the system will search for a new business trip commission again.】

【Reward for this business trip: Advanced Mechanical Mastery, Master-Level Aerodynamics Mastery, Master-Level Kite Skill Mastery】

【Location for this business trip: Gotham City—War of Jokes and Riddles】

(End of Chapter)