Chapter 3264: Blood-Spattered New City (24)

In a spacious and bright office, Schiller was leisurely drinking coffee, enjoying the rain outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. The two people opposite him were busy. One was flipping through various documents, and the other was checking data on the computer.

Although the man flipping through the data was dressed in a suit and leather shoes, half of his face looked like it had been burned, which looked very terrifying. But even if his face was like this, his complexion could still be seen to be not very good.

Two-Face Harvey was one of the few Cat Getan villains who was lucky enough not to be turned into a vampire by Bruce, because they were not the kind of people who would cause destruction on the surface. Even if they committed crimes, they would try every possible way to escape accountability.

Because they were professional enough, even Batman found it difficult to send them to the asylum for legitimate reasons. Those who stayed in the asylum for a long time were martial artists like Bane and Killer Croc. Intellectual characters with reason were not resident players.

When the Pale Knight used Clayface to control Two-Face, it was useless, because Two-Face was just an ordinary person. He couldn't cause destruction like Bane, nor did he have the ability to control other people's thinking like the Mad Hatter. Controlling him, besides occupying a backpack slot, had no use.

This led to him not falling into Maria's hands, and not falling into Bruce's hands. It was Schiller who personally invited him over.

His complexion is bad now, mainly because of Schiller. The will Schiller wants him to notarize is forged.

And just now, Schiller forced Two-Face to find a friend at the notary office to call the Pale Knight, asking them to come over to confirm the will now. Although the notary office is far from Wei En Manor, plus Cat Getan's traffic jams, they only have at most one hour to forge the will.

Schiller watched from the side, watching and saying: "Move faster. Don't think I don't know, you guys haven't done less of this kind of thing. Still want to drag time to fool me? No way!"

"I tell you, now our Mayor is with Batman. Do you think what the consequences will be if they come and find you guys fooling them?"

"This is what you asked us to do!" Two-Face gritted his teeth and said.

"Then didn't you agree? If you were firmly not doing it, could I point a gun at you?"

Two-Face leaked his spirit in a guilty conscience, because Schiller said the key point. He really does this.

After Two-Face became a criminal, he could no longer engage in the regular legal profession, but villains who have been lawyers are different. He has connections in the upper class.

Usually, he relies on solving legal troubles for rich people to make money to maintain his life. But if it is a regular legal problem, people have their own legal teams. Those who come to him are naturally irregular.

And among them, reasonable tax avoidance, yin-yang contracts, forging wills, etc., are businesses he is very proficient in. So when Schiller came to find him, he also thought it was just an ordinary transaction, so he agreed, and the money was collected.

But when he saw the content of the will, he was dumbfounded.

Now the news outside is reporting the tragedy of the Charabanc Chemical Plant explosion everywhere. As a result, you now bring a will, saying you want to inherit the legacy of the leader of the Charabanc family. Isn't this clearly saying that you are the murderer of the chemical plant explosion?

Two-Face didn't want to get involved in this kind of thing at all, but Schiller gave a lot, so he thought about dragging it for a period of time, at least avoiding the limelight before talking.

As a result, Schiller found his hiding place and asked him to help find a friend at the notary office to notarize the will today.

The situation is stronger than people. Two-Face had no choice but to find an old friend of his before. He originally wanted to drag time, at least wait until the news heat went down before talking, but Schiller called the Pale Knight.

Thinking of Batman he was about to face, Two-Face understood that forging this will was a mistake in the underworld. No matter how absurd the logic of the will was, he had to do

No wonder they say pressure is the driving force for progress. Under normal circumstances, forging a complex will for such a large conglomerate would take at least a full week, but Two-Face, relying on his formidable professional capabilities, managed to finish it within the two minutes before Pale Knight and Batman arrived.

Pale Knight looked at this freshly baked will and was also a bit speechless. The ink isn't even dry yet; who are you trying to fool?

Shiler, however, shook his head and said, "The priority of a will is a law they established, so naturally, we can utilize this law."

"But they will expose you."

"The key isn't what they are going to do, but what we can do." Shiler looked at Pale Knight and said, "If we can make everyone shut up, then this will is real. Even if it reaches God, Charabanc will still have to sign and press his thumbprint."

Pale Knight frowned.

"What on earth is going on? What are you trying to do again?"

Shiler walked up to him, looked into his eyes, and said, "Now you have an opportunity."

"What opportunity?"

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."

Pale Knight looked at him, while Shiler walked around the desk, came to the office bookshelf, picked up a book to flip through, and said, "They can use the Natural Disaster Fund to hollow out the Wei En Group; naturally, we can also use the Natural Forest Protection Fund to hollow out Charabanc."

Batman suddenly looked up at him.

"If I'm not mistaken, the Natural Disaster Fund spends more than 3 billion annually, and various hidden expenditures can reach at least 10 billion. The Wei En Group's cash flow is so tight precisely because of this."

Pale Knight looked at Batman. Batman's face showed no emotion, but Pale Knight realized that Shiler might have hit the mark.

A fund project is a financial tool, and as long as it is finance, there are too many places to make a fuss. A fund established within a company can even use various means to short the company itself, and hollowing out the cash flow is even less of a problem.

Pale Knight didn't understand these things very well, so he looked at Batman and said, "Why is it like this? If you just don't allocate the funds, what can they do to you?"

Batman turned his head and glanced at him, seemingly implying he was naive. Without needing him to speak, Two-Face said directly, "Before becoming mayor, I suggest you go get a college degree, Mr. Napier."

"The Natural Disaster Fund was established by the Wei En Group for the purpose of repairing the destruction caused by Batman. Suppose a building is destroyed and now needs to be rebuilt; the Natural Disaster Fund needs to pay, right?"

Pale Knight nodded. According to his understanding, this process should be exactly like that.

"But, no." Two-Face said while flipping through documents, "The Wei En Group has an engineering group under its banner, and it is the best engineering group in Cat Getan. Wouldn't it be better for the Wei En Engineering Group to build it directly?"

Pale Knight nodded again. The saying goes that charity begins at home; this was certainly better, so he said, "But the Natural Disaster Fund will also pay."

Two-Face shook his head and said, "No, they won't pay. To be precise, they will default."

Pale Knight's eyebrows slowly tightened.

"Then there is the procurement of raw materials. The Wei En Group produces certain materials. They need these materials to repair the buildings, so they apply to purchase them, but they will continuously default on the payments for the purchases."

"Then why not just stop giving them to them next time?"

"If we don't give them, they won't go buy them elsewhere either." Two-Face sneered and said, "Either they say the cost is too high, or they say the supply is insufficient. In any case, they insist on buying from their own."

"Our great philanthropist Bruce Wei En will feel that repair work is the most important thing and cannot be delayed. Since it's all for charity anyway, it's not impossible to use raw materials and the labor of the engineering team to fund it."

"But in that case, there's no need for so much Natural Disaster Fund." Pale Knight said, "Why not give a little less?"

"If you give less, the destruction will increase." Batman suddenly spoke up, "By then, the Wei En Group's engineering team won't be able to keep up, and the raw materials won't be able to fully support it either, so they will have to go outside to purchase, and that requires money."

Pale Knight's eyebrows tightened more and more, almost twisting together. He now more deeply understood why those rich people said that committing crimes in Cat Getan is the best investment.

If Batman only gives money and not goods, they will drag it out until Batman can't wait and has to allocate supplies. If Batman only gives goods and not money, they will increase crime until Batman can't allocate enough supplies and has to give money.

"What a lousy fund." Pale Knight said, "Just dissolve it."

"If crime doesn't stop, once the fund is dissolved, who will repair the damage?" Shiler asked.

"Then let the crime stop." Pale Knight replied.

"If Batman doesn't fight crime, how can crime stop?"

"Then go fight crime!"

"That will cause damage, which requires the fund to repair!"

"Then establish a fund!"

"The fund will hollow out the Wei En Group!"

"Then dissolve the fund!"

"Then who will repair the damage?"

Pale Knight was speechless.

"What exactly are you trying to say?" He looked at Shiler and asked.

"I want to say that you have no money." Shiler stood by the bookshelf and looked at the two of them, saying, "Not just you, Batman and the Wei En Group have no money either."

"So what?"

"Now there is an opportunity for you to become wealthy placed before you, and that is to use the Natural Forest Protection Fund to hollow out Charabanc. You might think this is absurd, but I happen to have a set of effective methods."

"What do you intend to do?"

Shiler put down the book, walked over, and said, "The key is what you intend to do."

Pale Knight still wanted to press him, but Batman had already understood Shiler's tone. He said, "What you want to do is illegal, but you don't want to take the responsibility, which is why you need our consent."

"No, no, no, you're mistaken. What I want to do is completely legal; it's just that the person I want to find might be slightly illegal."

"Who do you want to find?"

"Penguin."

Shiler fixed his gaze on Pale Knight, finally exposing his true purpose. He said, "Penguin was once your biggest rival and the biggest obstacle to the implementation of the Napier Act, but ever since you became mayor, he has disappeared. Where did you put him?"

Pale Knight stared at Shiler without speaking. After a long while, he opened his mouth and said, "You don't understand. He is the sharpest knife in Cat Getan's upper class. He is simply too dangerous; he must never appear in Cat Getan again."

Pale Knight waited for Shiler to refute, but in the end, he only heard one sentence: "Alright."

Shiler seemed to feel there was nothing left to talk about and turned to leave. Pale Knight reached out his arm to grab him, and Shiler looked back at him.

"Promise me, don't go looking for Penguin. Giving him even the slightest bit of hope will be the most wrong decision you ever make."

Shiler lowered his eyes and smiled, saying, "Mr. Mayor, I hope you understand that what I want to do will never fail just because someone is missing. All your obstacles to me will ultimately only cause things to exceed your control, not mine."

After saying this, Shiler opened his umbrella and walked out of the notary office. Pale Knight stared at his back.

"I think he is right." Batman said, "If you give Penguin to him, at least we can roughly guess what he is going to do. And if he finds someone else, we will be as passive as we are today."

"In your view, Cobblepot hasn't caused much damage to the city, but in reality, his evil wisdom damages the city's foundation. The elite cannot afford to have one more such sharp-toothed lackey."

Batman sighed and said, "You still don't understand."

"What?"

It wasn't Batman who answered him, but Bruce, who had just walked in through the rain. He said.

"Guarding against anyone is not as important as guarding against Shiler taking the field himself."

Bruce shook his umbrella and continued.

"Bad news, Shiler offered Gordon a price he couldn't refuse on behalf of the Charabanc Group. The GTO belongs to them now."

Pale Knight's breath hitched.