Chapter 294: The Earth Will Not Stop Rotating Without Someone
"Hmm...it tastes just as good as always."
Falconet took a sip of the champagne in his glass and exhaled as he exclaimed in admiration.
"Sir, there may be danger here, please..."
"That's enough."
Falconet interrupted his butler and gently shook the champagne in the glass. The orange-yellow champagne reflected a dim light under the light.
"I have guests coming, please leave first."
The butler was stunned for a moment at this, but still said nothing. He just put one hand on his chest and respectfully left the room and closed the door.
As the butler left, the room fell silent again. After a moment's silence, Falcone sighed.
"Why do you have to stand in the shadows? I'm just an old man who poses no threat."
"You're hardly a harmless old man, Falcone."
Batman emerged from the shadows, but instead of walking completely into the light, he hid half of his body in the shadows.
"Why would a police officer named Xia Yu come after you, Falcone?"
Looking at Falcone who was already showing signs of aging, Batman asked in a low voice. He received the news when Xia Yu had just invaded Falcone's mansion.
But this news made him very confused, because according to his investigation, there was no conflict between Xia Yu and Falcone.
Black Mask could be said to be due to debt, but Falcone... unless Xia Yu hated the whole gang, and because of his hatred for the gangs, he wanted to directly eliminate all the gangs in Gotham after gaining supernatural powers.
"So his name is Xia Yu?" Falconet listened to the gunshots getting closer and shook his head, "I don't know him, not even in the past."
Before Batman appeared, Gotham City was still a city ruled by gangs. Falcone was one of the most powerful gang leaders, nicknamed "Roman", who was known for his ruthlessness and expansionism.
The underworld empire he runs is called the "Roman Empire", and the gangster emperor Falcone does control the entire Gotham City. He colludes with the Gotham Mayor, City Council and Police Commissioner Killian B. Robb.
Therefore, he escaped from the legal sanctions of Gotham City time and time again until the appearance of Batman. In the first year of Batman's appearance, Batman made Falcone his first target.
During one fight, Batman even broke into Falcone's private bedroom and beat him up, then stripped him down to his underwear and tied him up, and drove his Rolls-Royce into the river when he left.
Falcone naturally couldn't tolerate such humiliation, but there was nothing he could do about it. No one in his black empire could defeat Batman, or even find any trace of Batman.
It was at this time that Detective James Gordon came to Gotham to take office. After experiencing all kinds of conspiracies and intrigues, Gordon successfully developed a friendship with Batman, and they joined forces to fight crime in Gotham.
The police chief Rob, who had originally worked with Falcone, was dismissed for various reasons, and Gordon successfully took office as the new police chief.
Without the cooperation of the police chief and the attack from Batman, Falcone's gangster power unsurprisingly began to decline, but even so, he is still one of the most powerful gangsters, but he can no longer cover the sky with one hand like he once did.
This is also the reason why Falcone said that before. He didn’t know Xia Yu before, so he knew him even less now.
Batman was not surprised by Falcone's answer. After all, even he hadn't figured it out, and the question just now was just a casual one.
The room fell silent again, and the sound of gunfire and footsteps were getting closer and closer.
Facing the impending danger, Falcone is not worried because Batman will not let him die.
Batman never fails, this is the conclusion he came to after three years of fighting with Batman.
After controlling Gotham for more than 20 years, this was the first time he felt so confident in an outsider. There was no other reason, only because he was Batman.
After a few minutes, the gunshots had disappeared, leaving only the deliberate sound of footsteps.
After a few seconds, the footsteps stopped at the door.
Both Falcone and Batman held their breath, waiting for the door to be pushed open.
"Bang--!"
"A pleasant surprise!"
With a gunshot, the door of the room exploded, accompanied by flying wood chips. Xia Yu hugged his hands and shouted loudly.
Seeing this young figure, Falcone raised the wine glass in his hand to his mouth, drank the wine in the glass in one breath, then put down the glass and stretched out his hand to Xia Yu.
"Welcome, new guest."
How to put it, if you ignore Falcone's identity, Falcone looks like an elegant old gentleman at this moment.
But that's true, after all, Falcone's image was based on Vito Corleone in "The Godfather" series of films, an elegant old man with a cat in his arms and a flower on his chest.
However, looking at Falconet's face full of wrinkles but without any wounds, Xia Yu raised his eyebrows. Aren't there three wounds caused by Catwoman?
Is it possible that Catwoman does not appear in this world? Or has the origin of Catwoman changed again?
In DC's settings, Falcone is often portrayed as Batman's antagonist when he was a rookie, and has three long scars on his right cheek left by Catwoman's scratches.
This shows that Catwoman appeared in the early days of Batman, and in some stories, Catwoman and Falcone are father and daughter.
However, this world is already quite chaotic, so it is not surprising that Catwoman has not been born. After all, Maroni, who should have been killed by Falcone long ago, is still here.
If it were according to the normal timeline, Maroni would have been secretly colluded and eliminated by Falcone and the mayor of Gotham. The credit for the solution would go to the mayor of Gotham, and the remaining underworld business would be taken over by Falcone.
Retracting his thoughts, Xia Yu looked at Falcone's expression, which was not nervous at all, and walked slowly towards him with the gun turning in both hands.
"Welcome, how welcome? I'm here to deal with you. It's quite respectable for you to die calmly."
"Dignified?" Hearing this, Falcone smiled and shook his head. " No one can die calmly, and I am no exception. I am dignified because I know I will not die today."
"Oh!"
Xia Yu sneered, Ebony pointed at Falcone and Ivory pointed at the shadow in the corner.
"Who gave you the courage? Liang Jing... Ahem, Batman?"
Falcone smiled silently and did not answer, while Batman threw a bat dart at the ebony in Xia Yu's hand.
But Xia Yu just swung the gun and knocked away the bat dart.
Batman didn't think that he could interrupt Xia Yu in this way. After throwing the bat dart, he flashed out of the shadows and stood in front of Falcone.
"You can't kill him."
Batman looked at Xia Yu, who seemed to be afraid of nothing, and explained the reason.
"If he is killed, Gotham will fall into chaos. At least, he cannot be killed now."
"Oh, yes, yes."
Xia Yu rolled his eyes at Batman in his heart. Falcone's death in the comics was quite sudden, but isn't Gotham still doing fine?
Seeing that Xia Yu didn't seem to have listened at all, Batman frowned. When he was about to explain the interests involved again, Xia Yu's expression became serious.
"You're right, but Batman is a new open-world detective comic about crime and darkness drawn by DC. The comic takes place in a fantasy city called Gotham, where the chosen person will be beaten by Batman to hemiplegia or paralysis. You will play a mysterious character called "Criminal". In the free crime, you will meet companions with different personalities and unique abilities, and do bad things with them, gradually destroying the city of Gotham. "
Batman: “?”
Although Xia Yu couldn't see Batman's expression, he could imagine his confused expression at the moment.
"I mean..."
"Bang--!"
Xia Yu suddenly shook his wrist, and then with a bang, a bloody hole appeared in the center of Falconet's head.
As blood mist flew, Falcone, with a smile on his face, collapsed on the bench without a sound.
Ignoring the chill emanating from Batman, Xia Yu blew a breath towards the muzzle of the gun.
“Don’t think too highly of yourself. The earth won’t stop turning just because one person is missing.”
"What on earth do you want to do, Xia Yu!"
Batman didn't look back, but stared at Xia Yu. If the other party was doing this for Gotham, he shouldn't have killed Falcone. It turned out not to be the case. So what was his motive?
"Lululu~Guess."
Xia Yu performed a few gun tricks and then put his two guns on his back. Then he walked to the wine cabinet and took out a bottle of wine of unknown brand.
After learning from Yong Bo's method of flicking the glass at the seal with one finger, Xia Yu started drinking it in gulps.
"Hey, this tastes good."
"Try this, hmm, it tastes okay, but I don't like it."
"This...Pfft, what the hell! Could it be that it's expired? Why is it sour? The old man is dead and he still sneaks up on me."
Batman just looked at Xia Yu as he was drinking from the cabinet full of fine wine. Seeing that the other party really would not answer him, he had no intention of staying any longer.
The main thing now is to find a way to resolve the chaos that has arisen after Falcone's death.
"I hope you won't betray your identity."
After Batman finished speaking meaningfully and was about to leave with the grappling gun, Xia Yu suddenly spoke.
"The chaos and darkness in Gotham cannot be resolved in a short time, but it can become more orderly. Anyway, I can tell you that I am harmless to Gotham, well, at least so far."
After hearing this, Batman didn't say anything else, but left directly.
After Batman left, Xia Yu continued to sip on Falcone's collection of fine wine. The old man was gone anyway, so it would be better for him to keep it here than to let others get a good deal.
As for why he explained to Batman just now, Xia Yu couldn't say why. He couldn't just tell Batman to give up, because Gotham would never become a model city.
In order to reasonably explain everything in Gotham and continue drawing comics, DC's editors made countless crazy patches.
The most dangerous patch among them is Barbatos, the ruler of the dark multiverse. It is said that Barbatos is watching Gotham, and even Gotham was built under the influence of Barbatos.
Although Xia Yu doesn't know whether this is true or not, in "Dark Nights: Metal", the Court of Owls is indeed related to Barbatos.
However, DC's stories are already quite confusing, and they are frequently restarted, so Xia Yu doesn't know which universe the world he lives in belongs to.
"Alas, sometimes knowing too much is not a good thing. It turns out that ignorance is bliss."
Xia Yu put away the unfinished wine and walked out the door with a swagger.
Why think so much? Let’s talk about the future in the future. At least now in Gotham, he is invincible, so it’s okay to continue to wander around.
Even if something happens to Lang, he can still escape to another world, so there is no need to be afraid.
When he walked out of the room, a large group of people led by Butler Falcone were standing outside the door, waiting for Xia Yu with their heads down.
He didn't go crazy and kill everyone because Batman's worries were correct. If Gotham suddenly lost the leader of the gang, it would definitely fall into chaos.
So these people still have value. It only took a simple brainwashing for them to change the masters they serve.
Although Gotham is a city of sin, there are actually not many criminals with super powers. Most of them are people who commit crimes based on their IQ.
Not to mention the Riddler, Scarecrow and the Joker, just Bane, a criminal who relies on brute force, has an IQ equivalent to Batman in his setting.
After letting this group of people deal with the mess left behind by Falcone's death, Xia Yu left.
He did not go to find Maroni on the way, so he left that guy to Zhou Hao as an experience package for Zhou Hao to level up.
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Meanwhile, Batman has returned to his Batcave.
"Master, you are back."
When Alfred saw Batman coming back, he immediately stepped forward to greet him.
Alfred, whose full name is Alfred Pennyworth, is the butler of the Wayne family. He is also the old man who raised Bruce alone after the death of the Waynes.
Although he is just a butler, in the heart of Batman, that is, Bruce, Alfred is like a family member and the person he trusts the most.
In the comic book "Injustice", Alfred became famous for beating Superman and successfully earned the nickname Butler.
In other comics, such as "Beware the Batman" and "Earth-One", Alfred is from MI6. He has been on the battlefield and is both civil and military, making him an omnipotent being.
But it is such a person who is loyal to the Wayne family. Bruce did not go astray after the death of his parents. This old man played an indispensable role in this. He is comparable to Superman's adoptive father Jonathan Kent.
Bruce asked as he took off his equipment as Alfred greeted him.
"Afu, have you collected the materials I need?"
"All the purchases have been completed, sir. Excuse me, sir, do you really want to build that armor?"
"certainly."
Bruce's eyes flashed, and he thought of Xia Yu's amazing marksmanship again. No, that can no longer be called marksmanship.
"By the way, how much of the magic information I asked you to collect have you collected?"
"Hmm..." Alfred thought for a moment and replied, "My informant found a man named Constantine. He is said to be an exorcist detective."
