Starting from scratch, Batman crushed my dream of getting rich

Chapter 34: First Job on Halloween
"Boom boom boom boom boom boom"

There was an urgent and chaotic knock on the door.

"Who's there?"

Footsteps could be heard, and the old lady walked to the door of the room while asking questions, but no one answered from outside.

So she reached out and opened the door, asking again

“Who’s there?”

"Ow!"

A thin white shadow suddenly floated past the door. It had no limbs, no body, and even no facial features. It was a nimble ghost with only two eyes visible on its entire body.

Before she could utter a scream, the white shadow pounced on her and rushed directly into her arms.

Then he hugged her.

"Trick or treat!"

Small shadows emerged from all directions. Some wore witches' big hats and held brooms; some wore black robes and held sickles; some wore devil horns and held long forks; there was even one wearing blue clothes and a red cloak.

"Oh, honey, Superman isn't a ghost."

Tonight is Halloween. In addition to the adults dressed as ghosts on the streets, children will also wear strange costumes and transform into little devils, going from house to house asking for candy. If you don’t give them candy, they will make trouble.

The old lady smiled and took out the candies, turning around to distribute them to the children around her. At this moment, she glanced and accidentally saw a man with a pumpkin on his head standing on the street outside, and he was holding a small pumpkin lantern in his hand.

"What an ugly pumpkin!" she muttered subconsciously. "Has anyone ever had such an ugly pumpkin on Halloween in previous years?"

Ma Zhaodi felt a little panicked.

He just followed the system's prompts and the navigation to the delivery location, but to be honest, he didn't expect the customer to choose to receive the pumpkin here.

This is Gotham City's Diamond District, which, along with the East District, spans almost the entire Gotham City. As its name suggests, this is where the wealthy of Gotham gather.

Throughout Gotham City, the crime rate decreases gradually from north to south. The Uptown area where the East District is located is the most chaotic and crime-ridden area in the entire Gotham City, and it basically accounts for most of the criminal cases in Gotham City.

A little further south is the Audisburg district, where the Burnley district is located. It is a relatively stable midtown area. It is more affluent than the East District and has a much lower crime rate. Probably only some criminals who want to do big things will come here to cause trouble. The crimes that occur here are usually super-large cases that are enough to affect the entire city, and the smallest one is a bank robbery.

The southernmost downtown area of Gotham City, where the diamond district where the rich live is located, has the best public security. The people living here are basically in two different worlds from other areas of Gotham. If we only look at the downtown area, perhaps Gotham City will have the hope of becoming the city with the lowest crime rate in the world.

But the irony is that Falconer, the biggest gangster in Gotham, and Maroni, the second biggest gangster, live openly in the Diamond District. So it’s not so much that the crime rate here is not high, but rather that the criminals here are not held accountable.

At this time, groups of people dressed as ghosts for Halloween were wandering on the dim streets, including strong men wearing hockey masks, masked men with knives and wearing black robes, clowns with weird makeup and holding red balloons, paper bag heads wielding chainsaws, zombies with rotting skin, and so on.

Each one was more realistic and frightening than the last, and even made him shiver.

He looked at the abstract little pumpkin lantern in his hand. The pumpkin's eyes, like dead fish eyes, emitted a strange light. The grinning pumpkin had some crooked scratches at the corners of its mouth, as if it was still drooling.

"Is there really a rich guy who wants to buy this kind of pumpkin? Can this thing really be used to scare people?" At this moment, a man wearing a black round hat on his head, a loose windbreaker on his body, his face was blurred, and he had rough men's gloves on his hands appeared in front of him. This image was like the killer who drew his gun at the slightest disagreement on TV. He was also one of the "monsters" on the streets on Halloween.

He walked up to Ma Zhaodi without saying a word, pointed at the small pumpkin lantern in his hand, paid and took the pumpkin, then immediately left the block without saying a word or even making any extra sound.

“How can there be such an abstract Halloween cosplay?”

Ma Zhaodi scratched his head, but seeing the "Task Completed" prompt on the system, he didn't think much about it. At this time, he still had two jobs waiting for him to do, and he had no time to study what this mysterious client wanted to do.

So on this Halloween, there was an abstract and ugly mysterious man with a pumpkin head. He was wearing a cheap coat and thick men's gloves, wandering aimlessly on the streets of the diamond district. He looked very much like the nonsensical murderer that appeared on TV, attracting people on the side to stop and watch.

"How can there be such an abstract Halloween cosplay?"

The man in the windbreaker couldn't help but think of the man who sold him the pumpkin on the street.

No, now is not the time to think about this.

He walked lightly up the long and narrow staircase. It was already late at night and most of the lights in this magnificent villa had been turned off. Only a few scattered lights shone down the corridor from the second floor.

He walked through the corridor, groping his way inside. At this time, most people in the villa had fallen asleep, but in a room upstairs, a loud sound of water could be faintly heard.

So the man in the windbreaker swam silently towards the direction where the sound came from, like a shark that smelled blood.

"crunch~"

A hand turned the faucet beside him, and the water that was about to fill the bathtub suddenly stopped rising. In the misty water vapor, a figure hummed a song and sat down.

The light in the bathroom is very dim because the person in the bathtub doesn't like too strong light recently, which makes him feel uncomfortable.

"Hmph, Daniel, that idiot." He immersed his whole body in the water and couldn't help but humming. The warm feeling permeated his whole body and enveloped him like darkness, which reminded him of the feeling of shooting the former bank president on the street.

Back then, he was just like he is now, sheltered by the night and the shadows in the car—it felt so safe that it even made him a little addicted.

Of course, he is not always like this. Only after killing someone will he like this kind of darkness. On other days, the feasts with wine and toasts, beautiful socialites, and the satisfaction of being the center of attention are his favorite things.

"crunch~"

A ray of light suddenly shone on his face, forcing him to squint his eyes to adapt to the sudden bright light.

How did the door open?
The second this thought came to his mind, his pupils immediately contracted because he realized the answer to the question.

"No"

"Bang! Bang!"

He was answered by the dull sound of gunfire.

(End of this chapter)