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Chapter 10: A Gotham-style surprise

The response he had finally come up with was stifled by Ozwald's declaration, and Sabatino's eyes widened in frustration.

The heavy breathing sound lasted for more than ten seconds. Sabatino spat out a mouthful of saliva and gently shook his suit jacket which had several holes in it.

“Your Stud is just to add a few holes to my clothes?

Penguin, when you're in bed, you can only make women's faces drool, right? "

After he finished speaking, Sabatino finally felt a little more comfortable. Without waiting for Ozwald's response, he quickly raised his hand and made a phone call gesture.

“I didn’t come to the Iceberg Club to discuss business with a dwarf like you. I have already contacted Falcone before coming here!

Just take good care of your iceberg. I'll go to the minus 44 degrees Celsius and wait for Falcone to come.

Remember to keep the door for me!"

After saying that, Sabatino spat at Ozwald's feet, then took off his coat with disgust and nausea on his face.

Throwing his coat on the ground, Sabatino walked deeper into the Iceberg Club, shaking his head and sneering.

"If you accidentally dirty the club floor, you can use that piece of clothing as a rag, watchdog."

"Ha ha……"

Looking at Sabatino's receding back, Ozwald smiled deeply and then exhaled a long puff of cigar smoke.

When the smoke was about to dissipate in the air, he raised his hand and spoke to the brothers around him.

"Did you hear that? Our boss Falcone is coming. Why don't you clean up the club?"

After saying that, Ozwald turned around and limped towards his office.

When he walked into the office, he first closed the door solemnly, then picked up the special umbrella hanging by the door and smashed it hard on the clothes hanger at the door!

Wow!

The wooden hanger broke instantly, but Ozwald's umbrella was not damaged at all.

I saw him bending over with an umbrella in hand, and his breathing became increasingly heavy and rapid.

"Penguin... Penguin!"

He muttered to himself, with a horrifying light in his eyes.

"What disgusts me most is penguins... and you, Sabatino..."

……

Soon, the biggest secret of the Iceberg Club, the one called Minus Forty-Four, is hidden in a club within a club.

Falcone and Gotham City Police Commissioner Pete Savage sat down across from Sabatino.

The arrival of the two made Sabatino change his posture unnaturally.

Even though he had known Falcone for so many years, he still felt unnatural in front of Falcone, just as anyone who could barely hide his ambitions would feel unnatural in front of the king.

And the king in his eyes...

Falcone was of medium build and quite tall. Although he was slightly bald, the remaining hair was combed very neatly.

From a distance, you would never sense any danger from him, and you might even think he was a good man among good men, a gentleman among gentlemen.

It was precisely such a gentleman that made Sabatino even breathe carefully.

Looking at Sabatino who seemed a little unnatural, Falcone smiled and handed him a glass of whiskey.

“Johnny, my old friend, you said on the phone that you had something important to talk to me about, so I rushed here as soon as possible.

What? Is it inconvenient to mention this news in front of our director?

If you answer yes, then I will blame you for giving our director a good excuse to hang out with the girls!"

"This……"

In response to Falcone's question, Sabatino nodded slightly, then turned to Director Savage and said.

"Chief Savage, there are a lot of good Ukrainian girls in Minus 44 Degrees recently. Two of them are particularly attractive and have never been touched."

"Really? Then I'll definitely help them!"

Director Savage left the room with a whiskey glass in his hand and a smile on his face.

After the director left, Sabatino turned around and looked at the third person left in the room.

Facing Sabatino's slightly fearful gaze, Falcone's personal bodyguard and Falcone family's most powerful killer, Victor Zsasz, licked his lips cruelly.

On the side, Falconet shook his head slightly.

"Victor is an old friend. There's no need to hide from him."

"Ok."

Sabatino nodded, and then said with a serious face, "Boss Falcone, I think I found the person you asked me to pay attention to...who can come back from the dead!"

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Falconet was slightly stunned.

"When did I ever ask you to find someone who can come back to life..."

Falconet stopped talking when he suddenly remembered something.

After a moment's silence, Falconet had to admit that he was old. If he were his younger self, he would never forget any of the orders he gave to his subordinates!
Even though this order came more than ten years ago!

While reminiscing about his younger self in his heart, Falcone gave Sabatino an appreciative smile.

"Johnny, that was the order I left you more than ten years ago. It's rare that you can remember it until now."

“Boss, you know me well. As long as it is your order, no matter if it has been ten or twenty years, I will treat it as a top priority!
I still can't forget it. It was the summer about fifteen years ago. Boss, you asked me to carefully look for someone who could be resurrected from the dead.

I have been searching for so many years without any clues, until today when I was fighting with the bastards of the Dimitrov family, I and their group of Maozi were attacked by a resurrected ghost! "

When he said this, Sabatino showed a look of lingering fear.

The current Gotham City has not yet entered the non-human era, and things like resurrection from the dead are really a little unbelievable for these big guys among mortals.

Falconet heard this...

He couldn't help but ponder.

Sabatino's words brought back many memories. Fifteen years ago, that was the year Thomas Wayne died.

It was during that year that he, who thought he had ruled Gotham for more than a decade, first came into contact with the existence of the Court of Owls.

The emergence of the Court of Owls brought a huge psychological blow to me who was originally floating in the clouds, so I secretly signaled several of my subordinates to carefully search for news about the Claw.

The claws that can bring the dead back to life are the weapons that the Court of Owls use to punish and manipulate the entire Gotham.

At that time, I did have the idea of ​​challenging the Court of Owls, but I never found any valuable information about the Court of Owls and the Claws.

Now, fifteen years have passed and I am already in my sixties. Old people are beginning to dream of retiring.

At this critical juncture, the resurrected Claw unexpectedly reappeared and intervened in the war between his subordinate Sabatino and the Russian mafia Dimitrov family!
In just a short moment, countless possibilities flashed through Falcone's mind, and each of them pointed to a bad ending!

On the sofa opposite, Sabatino's body stiffened suddenly when he saw Falcone's brows suddenly tighten.

He was too familiar with his boss, and he knew that Falcone was angry at this moment!
Restraining the anger in his heart, Falcone nodded to Sabatino nonchalantly.

"Go on, Johnny."

"OK, boss, that's an Asian man in his twenties, probably over 1.8 meters tall.

He participated in the war between me and the Dimitrov family twice. After being shot to death each time, his body would spontaneously combust and then disappear.

It wouldn't be long before another living version of him would reappear, but we had only killed him twice, and by the time he returned to the battlefield for the third time, we had already finished fighting with the Dimitrov family and had retreated.

I later found out that when he came back for the third time and couldn't find us, he attacked another citizen and was then arrested by the police.

But not long after he was arrested, he disappeared again, just like a ghost in a story..."

Bang bang bang bang! ! !

Suddenly, a series of gunshots were heard outside the private room.

boom!
There were even explosions.

The sudden situation interrupted Sabatino's words. Victor Zass, who was beside Falcone, immediately pulled out his gun and knife and ran to the door of the private room, carefully looking for a gap to observe.

After about ten seconds, the gunshots and explosions stopped completely. After a brief observation, Victor turned around and nodded to Falcone to indicate that it was safe.

At the same time, Falcone's phone rang.

Picking up the phone in his hand, Falcone answered it and said in a low voice.

"Ozwald, I didn't hand over the management of the Iceberg Club to you just to let you give me such a surprise."

"It's my fault, sir, I was let in by a crazy, wealthy fellow.

But there was only one lunatic, and he wasn't even a problem."

"I see."

After getting Ozwald's confirmation, Falcone thought for a moment and then hung up the phone.

He didn't think that Oswald had the guts to betray and assassinate him now. What happened just now must have been an accident.

So he waved to Sabatino.

"It's just a Gotham-style accident, Johnny, keep going!"

(End of this chapter)