Starting from scratch, Batman crushed my dream of getting rich

Chapter 172 The Underworld Empire Changes Ownership

Carmen Marie Falcone was born in Naples, Italy.

When she was sixteen, she fell in love with a man and became pregnant. Her father was furious and beat the baby to death with his fists.

Mary, who doesn't know what "keeping herself clean" means, her scumbag boyfriend, and her violent and out-of-control father, these three together constitute a tragedy. Perhaps Mary and her father both regret it, but unfortunately, there is no medicine for regret in the world.

As for the boyfriend, he disappeared from Mary's life after the incident - to put it simply, he turned his back on her and ran away, so he probably didn't regret it much.

Mary cried all night and left home. She eventually came to Gotham City and spent the next forty years kneeling in the toilet, making a living by cleaning.

She never had any children, but she raised ten orphans here, nine of whom became outstanding talents in the country. But when she found out what the tenth child had done and what he was doing now, she despised him.

She reported the tenth son to the police, cried all night, and then left home again.

And that child, Carmine Falcone, had been waiting for his mother to make that call and come home for years.

When Batman heard this information and rushed to the corner of an alley in the East District, he could only see an old woman lying in a pool of blood. He clenched his fists at the corpse. This was another life he failed to save.

But then he remembered what Ma Zhaodi had said when he hurriedly left the botanical garden.

"If the Joker and the Riddler want to kill again, they'll have to do it after midnight tonight. Before then, they can't do it—at least not with their own hands."

This might be the police officer's partial confession of some of his magical abilities, but Batman didn't have time to delve into it at the time. But now, this sentence gave him a little hope again. He immediately picked up the communicator and called the hospital.

"Is this the Metropolitan Hospital? I need to call an ambulance. An elderly woman named Carmen Marie Falcone is in critical condition, but may be able to be saved. The location is..."

On the other side, Falcone returned to his villa with several bodyguards. It had been an hour since he received the call from the Joker. He knew that the pursuit had failed.

"Useless, a bunch of useless people. They can't even handle a riddle person, and there's still no news. This can't go on. I have to make another call and ask the family to find that person--"

As he spoke, he pushed open the door of his room. However, the moment he saw his room, the words he wanted to say were stuck in his throat.

A pale-skinned guy in a suit with a drooping mouth was sitting in his seat, fiddling with something on the table.

But whatever he was fiddling with, the point was—he had gone to Falcone's study.

"How the hell did you get in?!"

If it were Ma Zhaodi, he would probably be able to give a very interesting answer to this, but unfortunately, there was only a gangster boss in the room, a few bodyguards who immediately raised their guns and aimed, and a clown who couldn't laugh.

"An hour has passed and he is still not dead."

The Joker completely ignored Falcone's question. He fiddled with the things on the table out of boredom and said casually, "So your mother's teeth are all here." "What did you say!?"

When Falcone heard this, he immediately asked back with bloodshot eyes and gritted teeth. The Joker called him using a number that only his mother and brother knew. In his heart, what the other party said was reasonable.

"I said these are her teeth. I pulled all your mother's teeth out of her mouth and made them into a smiley face—"

The Joker's face was fierce, and he answered word by word. He was clearly persecuting Falcone's mother, but his own expression was rather ugly. As he spoke, he raised his gun at Falcone.

"This smiling face is on your desk."

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

In just one second, five gunshots were heard, and the Joker walked out from behind the desk. Each of Falcone's three bodyguards was shot and fell to the floor. Blood gushed out of their bodies, staining the colorful and luxurious carpet red.

Falconet covered his arms and half-knelt on the ground. He was not dead at this time, but he had no idea of resisting because the clown's shooting was too fast. He had no time to draw his gun, and even several bodyguards had no time to shoot before they were all shot to the ground.

Carmine immediately made a judgment in his mind. The current situation was obviously not suitable for continuing to resist. Otherwise, he would be comparing the hardness of his head with the bullet of a revolver.

As the clown walked, the smoke from the revolver's muzzle drifted away. He nodded to the penguin-like man standing against the wall at the door, his hands outstretched. This guy was very smart. He didn't draw his gun immediately, but hid far away and observed the situation. He only missed once, and he dodged it.

"You, Fatty, you are my assistant now."

Oswald, the fat man, heard what the Joker said, but did not respond immediately. Instead, he stammered, "Carmine's mom, she-she lives in Metropolis."

The Joker acted as if he hadn't heard him and continued, "You and Carmine here will make arrangements. All his resources will now obey my orders through you. Everything is for one goal—"

"Kill the Riddler."

He said this as he walked out of the villa's gate. Penguin Man continued to tremble as he spoke, "The location of the metropolis... It's a full three hours away from here."

Carmine knelt on the ground with a gloomy face, turned his head and looked at the Joker's back with hatred as he walked out. Of course he knew what the Penguin meant. He was not questioning whether the Joker really kidnapped Carmine's mother, but was explaining one thing.

The Joker's order of action was not to rush to Metropolis first, then call Carmine, learn that the mission failed an hour later, and then pull out his mother's teeth and rush back to Gotham City; instead, he rushed to Metropolis and directly pulled out Carmine's mother's teeth, then rushed directly back to Gotham City, and finally called Carmine, and an hour later, placed the teeth on his desk.

In other words, whether or not the Riddler was killed within the hour, his mother was already in trouble.

Even though Carmine realized this, he could not resist the Joker's orders at this moment - even though he knew that the Joker was a moody, untrustworthy lunatic, but if the Joker could find his mother, he could naturally find his other brothers.

He had already lost his mother and could not lose his brother again.

(End of this chapter)