Chapter 27 Gangster Conspiracy

Maroney's mafia family is also located in the East Side of Gotham, where the mafia is much more rampant than the West Side near Gotham University.

Simply put, because it is the least developed area in Gotham, the slums in the West Side are a paradise of simple folk customs.

The mafia there is very serious internal circulation. For example, the Gutter Gang mentioned earlier, a small mafia with only a hundred people, wants to control a nightclub, which is almost impossible.

The Maroney mafia family owns a restaurant, two bars, a dance hall and a strip club, which is almost the largest mafia there.

The feud between the Maroney family and the Red Crow Gang has a long history. There is a place where their territories intersect, and a bar there often fights. Both sides want to control this important traffic hub, but in the end no one succeeds.

That bar has become a lawless area in the entire East Side, and it is also the place where all kinds of information flow the fastest.

Sal was able to gain a foothold in Gotham, especially in the most dangerous and chaotic East District. He had some skills.

The Red Crow Gang's theft of the production line could not be hidden from his eyes. In the basement of a bar controlled by the Maroni family, which was closest to the no-man's land, Maroni lit a cigar and said to his men: "I learned from our old friend, the police chief Victor, that the red-headed kid across the street seemed to want to make some noise."

His subordinates said: "Yes, they seem to have stolen many large machines from the south or southwest. I learned from a kid who lost a bet that their boss seemed to want to produce some kind of chemical that can control others."

Sal narrowed his eyes and said: "A few days ago, I had dinner with Victor, and he talked about a case. The murderer was a chemistry doctor. , and it seems that he is a very powerful professor at Gotham University. Could he be related to this matter? "

His subordinates said: "I have two bodyguard informants next to the red-headed mistress. He has been having a hot relationship with the mistress recently. I will take something out of her mouth."

Sal turned the lighter in his hand and said: "If they eat more meat, we will eat less. But now it seems that they not only want to share the meat, but also want to swallow us in one bite. Let's see who is more powerful. "

Maroni's guess was very accurate. He got all the action plans of the Red Crow Gang without much effort. The head of the Red Crow Gang, although very smart, was still relatively young, and was accurately grasped by Maroni.

At the same time, Schiller also made an indispensable contribution. He did the most critical thing, that is, he got the formula of fear gas from the Red Crow Gang, and then inadvertently let Maroni's informant find it.

Maroni was able to get in touch with the police chief, which showed that he was much more experienced and had more connections than the leader of the Red Crows. Soon, he found a reliable chemist to analyze the formula for him, and concluded that it was a large-scale biochemical weapon with extremely strong efficacy.

After reaching this conclusion, Maroni certainly could not let the Red Crows succeed, otherwise once they got this important weapon, the Maroni family would never be able to make a comeback.

And the first step was to resolutely prevent the Red Crows from bailing out Jonathan through the informant of the police station.

On another dark night, Gordon got off work as usual. His immediate boss, Rantaros, didn't like him and didn't give him any useful work. He was about to become a secretary of the police station, and even field patrols were not his turn.

Therefore, he got off work early, and his boss walked a little ahead of him because he was going to a drinking party.

As soon as Gordon went out, he saw his boss walking around a corner, and then a fast car hit him, and his boss was knocked out more than ten meters away at the door of the police station.

Gordon didn't care about much, he rushed back to the police station to call for help, but before the ambulance came, Lantalos had already stopped breathing.

Originally, he was a very cautious old policeman, but recently, the Red Crow Gang gave him too many benefits in a hurry to bail out Jonathan, which made his greed out of control. He even wanted to marry the sister of the leader of the Red Crow Gang. Therefore, he was too eager and didn't realize that he had been targeted by the enemies of the Red Crow Gang.

All this happened too quickly. Before Gordon could react, he was pushed to the position of his boss.

This was of course Maroni's doing. If you want to hinder your opponent, of course you have to pick the person they dislike the most. The conflict between Gordon and Lantalos is too obvious. Almost all the police in the entire police station have heard about it, so Maroni naturally chose Gordon.

Of course, hindering his opponent was only the first step. Maroni certainly wanted to produce this important weapon.

He was bolder than the Red Crows. He directly bribed the manager of the Wayne Chemical Plant and used a production line for nitric acid preparations to secretly produce this poison gas.

He didn't even want to move, and planned to produce it directly in the Wayne Chemical Plant in a way that was not noticeable to others.

But the problem is still the same. If you want to produce fear gas on a large scale, you need some larger-scale separators and other high-end equipment. Although Maroni is richer than the Red Crow Gang, he is still not sure whether he should make such a large investment.

So he still found the chemist and asked him to manually copy some fear gas. The person he found is much better than the Red Crow Gang. Although he can't restore the fear gas 100%, he can almost restore 80%. Although it still can't be concentrated, the effect is also very good.

Seeing that it is so effective, Maroni has the idea of ​​investing a lot of money. After all, if you just take a spray bottle and spray it on someone, you can make the opponent crazy. Who else in the entire East District will be his opponent? Once the entire East District is taken over, the income of tens of millions of dollars will be nothing but clouds.

So, Maroni hurriedly purchased a batch of necessary equipment from other states, which cost him millions of dollars and a lot of favors, and hired a group of chemists to work for him at high salaries.

Such large-scale production naturally could not be carried out at the Wayne Chemical Plant. There was no chemical plant on Maroni's territory, so he started a fight, killing more than 30 good men, and snatched the small chemical plant from the Red Crow Gang's territory.

At this time, Bruce finally discovered that his chemical plant had been stolen, and he finally realized that the gang had begun to produce this kind of poison gas.

At the same time, Gordon received a clue from an anonymous person, claiming that he saw a car with a license plate number ending in 676, which often circled near the Wayne Chemical Plant.

Gordon and Bruce hit it off, and the combination of Batman and the detective returned to the arena again. They quickly found the car and caught the tail of the Red Crow Gang.

Overnight, the Red Crow Gang was raided by Batman. Although they were much stronger than the Ditch Gang and had hundreds of members, there were no powerful criminals among them, and they were just ordinary gang members. Batman fought in front and Gordon caught them in the back. Overnight, more than 200 people in the entire gang were arrested.

The leader of the Red Crows was almost mad. Although they stole the production line of the Wayne Chemical Plant, they didn't even produce a little fear gas. The production line and the chemical plant were taken away by the Maroni Gang.

The angry leader of the Red Crows testified against Sal Maroni when he was arrested, and Batman turned his attention to the Maroni Gang.

But Maroni was much more cunning and cautious than the leader of the Red Crows. The entire chemical plant was heavily guarded, and all members were in a state of high tension. Batman didn't find a good opportunity for a while.

Maroni knew that he was being targeted, and he began to seek help from his umbrella, that is, the police chief Victor.

Victor first withdrew the case of the theft of the Wayne Chemical Plant internally, intending to smooth it over. Later, under the instructions of Maroni, he continued to interfere with Jonathan's trial, trying to help Jonathan get rid of the crime so that he could go to Maroni's chemical plant to work for him.

Schiller added fuel to the tense situation of multi-party confrontation.

Schiller led Police Chief Victor to get a bottle of fear gas concentrate developed by Jonathan from the evidence room. After Maroni got the concentrate, he became more aware of Jonathan's importance, so he kept putting pressure on Victor and asked him to bail Jonathan out as soon as possible.

Before Victor could make any move, someone came to him.

As expected by Batman, this person was the president of Gotham University.

Although Victor was the police chief, he did not have a close relationship with Gotham's political arena. Instead, he was the president of Gotham University and knew many jury members and state legislators.

Before, he was bribed by the Red Crow Gang and had a close relationship with the Red Crow Gang. This was something everyone knew. As a result, the Red Crow Gang has fallen, and the president of Gotham University is in urgent need of the next umbrella.

In Gotham, without the protection of a big gang, you can hardly move a step.

The president of Gotham University naturally didn't mind switching to the Maroney Gang. When he learned that they were also planning to use the fear gas, he told Victor everything:

"... That girl was not cautious enough. She boasted everywhere that she would be Bruce Wayne's date. I kidnapped her when she came to see me. If I could influence the heir of the Wayne family and use his power to help Jonathan get rid of the crime, it would be no problem."

"With a woman?" Victor asked, "But little Wayne is not stupid. Although he is nostalgic for flowers and fools around every day, how could a date alone make him willing to do things for us..."

"We don't need him to be willing." said the president.

"You want to kidnap little Wayne? No, the risk is too great..." said Victor. "We may not be able to control him."

The entire Wayne family occupies more than half of Gotham City's economy. If they fail to target Bruce, the retaliation they face will be very terrible.

The principal said: "In fact, I have already thought of a way. We can kidnap Little Wayne, but we don't have to control him. We can also replace him..."