Chapter 107 The Cat's Death
In the theater in Gotham Manor, Schiller took a glass of champagne from the waiter's tray and touched Mrs. Leto in front of him. Schiller sighed: "There are not many dance parties like this that are both lively and solemn. The dance parties in the city are too noisy, and the sounds are shocking to make me feel a headache."
Mrs. Leto stroked the white hair on her temples and said, "It was like this in our era. Girls and boys were often shy, but no one dared to hold hands at such a dance party. But you know, the young people are making a fuss now. Once I went to the Jinbei Mansion in the city center. I was shocked. Rather than saying that the curtains were tighter than that..."
Schiller laughed and said, "After all, it's developing too fast now, but this is also a good thing. The economy seems to have improved a lot recently."
Mrs. Leto agreed: "That's true. My rents on two apartments on Fourth Avenue have increased by more than half. The gangsters don't know how they make money. I'm still talking to the bull on Elizabeth Street about buying another apartment..."
"Madam, you are wise." A loud voice came from bearded, and a man with a mustache came over. He gently touched Schiller and Mrs. Leto's cups with his wine glass, and said, "Hello, this is my business card."
Schiller took it and looked at it, and he said, "Jinbei Company Manager? Are you a real estate agent for the Falcone family?"
"Yes, I work for the Godfather, but of course, our Jinbei Company is also a legal company independent of the Falcone family and has real estate operations throughout the East Coast."
"You also know that we have recently cooperated with Chicago, and the land there is almost hyped up. I came to this party to introduce real estate in various eastern cities to you wealthy gentlemen and wives."
Mrs. Leto was quite interested, saying, "I heard that Chicago is better than Gotham. How do you think I'm buying a villa there?"
"You are Mrs. Leto? You really ask the right person. Chicago is really good, but when it comes to retirement villas, I would recommend the Imperial City more. The scenery there is so beautiful, unique on the entire East Coast, and you know that it is much safer than Gotham or Chicago."
"Although I like the tropical style of the Imperial City, there are too many casinos and too many tourists from other places. I always feel that living there will be no peace." Mrs. Leto said with a frown.
"Then I want to recommend Miami to you. This city is really good. It has more wild beauty than the order of the Imperial City. Of course, the gangsters there are all witches for Gotham. With your husband's ability, it should be nice to buy a manor there."
Mrs. Leto slapped the fan in her hand and said, "I am planning to discuss this with him. Although we have lived in Gotham for generations, the weather here is so terrible. It would be great if we could go there for a month or two on vacation. After all, we are old and the air in Gotham is very unfavorable for extending life..."
"I heard that the mayor intends to work with Wayne Group to develop an urban air purification system and promote it nationwide to regulate the climate in some areas, but it may indeed take some time," Schiller said.
The Jinbei manager said: "If this is the case, it would be great. Actually, I didn't understand that Gotham's first-hand location is very good, but why are there so many rainy days? If there are sunny days in three or four months of a year, the beach here will definitely make tourists from all over the east go crazy."
The manager said it well. Gotham Beach is of very good quality because it has almost never been developed. After all, there will be no one who is desperate to come here for vacation. Except for locals who occasionally use it, it can be said that it is the best urban beach protected by the entire eastern city.
The waiter came over with a tray and walked around. Several people took a little biscuits, drank and ate, chatting about Gotham's future development. While chatting, Schiller found a black figure flashing outside the theater door, as if someone was staring at him.
The theater is brightly lit because of the dance, but the manor is pitch black. This old-fashioned manor community is not big and there are not many residents. Once the dance party is held, basically all the staff will be present, so their house will naturally be empty.
Unlike Bruce, who is busy with internships, Catwoman's life has not been very good recently.
She is a thief, and her main source of income is to steal things. Of course, she is a relatively high-end thief, not a street pickpocket. Catwomen basically steal expensive jewelry from jewelry stores, or stamp albums in the hands of some collectors.
However, due to Gotham's reforms, the nights in the city began to become more and more lively. Jewelry stores, gold and silver jewelry stores or watch repair shops on the main streets basically began to open at night, and clerks and security guards also became three shifts.
Catwoman steals things by infiltration and skills, not like some hitters. If everyone kills everyone, no one will notice my infiltration. Catwoman's petite body and strength do not support her in this way.
The clerk and security guard who worked in three shifts also gave her a headache. Even if she could find a way to open one or two of them, the noisy streets and bustling alleys, her theft behavior became very easy to detect.
In fact, logic is that if Catwoman does something else, she won’t starve to death, but she has been trained as a thief since she was a child. She doesn’t know how to do anything else, and she doesn’t think about doing anything else.
What should I do if I can't steal? She could only bite the bullet and steal. Although she could succeed occasionally, it was too easy to find, which added many enemies.
As the saying goes, if you walk too much at night, you will always encounter ghosts. One day, Catwoman's theft failed again.
But this time, she got into trouble with someone she shouldn't have messed with. The place she stole this time was called Jinbei Jewelry Store, which is an industry under Falcone.
The Falcone family is not like other small fish and shrimps. The security guards in the store are all professionally trained and have sufficient staff. There are no blind spots in the entire store. The catwoman was discovered as soon as he started.
Unlike other jewelry stores, the people under Falcone have the courage and ability to chase anyone in Gotham. The godfather's majesty cannot be defiled. The Catwoman was not only almost caught, but also wanted directly.
The twelve families sent people to chase her. On this day, the catwoman was chased and jumped up and down again. As a last resort, she began to run to the edge of the city.
The killer behind was obviously trained and chased him very tightly. The catwoman had no choice but to snatch a car out of the East District and run to the West District. Thanks to Gotham's traffic control, there was no traffic jam or car accident, she ran smoothly to the vicinity of the manor area.
After entering the manor area, the catwoman was a little scared because the British manor here seemed very gloomy and terrifying under the night sky. This is why even though there are many rich people here, she rarely comes here.
But there was no way, the enemy chased behind the butt, and the catwoman moved forward carefully in the manor area. The deeper she went, the less she felt, because for some reason, it seemed that everyone here was gone.
The catwoman plucked up the courage to continue running forward, and then found a window in one of the manors with faint lights.
The cat girl, who was almost frightened by the terrifying atmosphere here, didn't think too much about it, and went straight to the place where there was light.
After coming in, she found traces of people living here, which made her feel relieved.
Feeling that she had already escaped the pursuit, the catwoman became bolder. She tiptoed to the base of the building wall, then stretched out a hook rope to grab the roof, and jumped lightly to the light windowsill.
She stuck to the wall, stretched her head and looked in, and found that there was no one inside. It seemed that the master forgot to turn off the lights before leaving.
Next to the balcony is a solid wood desk with a lot of messy information on it. There are also many big cat women who find a headache after taking a look. The owner of the manor seems to be a scholar.
But soon, something attracted the attention of the catwoman, which was a bottle placed in the corner of the desk.
The bottle was not big, and it seemed to contain some black dirty water. However, the material of the bottle itself made the catwoman's heart beat fast in an instant.
That's a diamond! It's all!
The whole bottle is made of diamonds!!!
The catwoman knew that she would never read it wrong. She had been a thief for so many years and had seen thousands of jewelry.
The bright light under the light almost dazzled the catwoman's eyes, making her bewitched in an instant.
Even though she has seen all kinds of beautiful jewelry, she has never seen such pure diamonds.
Then she began to grit her teeth again. What did the owner of this manor think? Why did she hollow out such a beautiful diamond and make it into a bottle? How good would it be if it was solid??
But no matter what, the heart of the catwoman who belongs to the jewelry thief is already ready to move.
This window was locked, and it seemed to be a lock that the catwoman couldn't understand or pry, but this jewelry thief who had been in Gotham for many years was not given for nothing.
Seeing that the window could not be opened, she flipped down the balcony and tried each window. Then she found that the owner of the manor was simply outrageously cautious. All the windows were locked with strange locks, even the small windows in the attic were no exception.
But hard work pays off. The old-fashioned British manor has a special structure. The medieval British manor will leave a secret door at the drain of the toilet, which is used by the servants to clean up the accumulated dirt.
Although the manor built here was no longer used this function in the era of construction, because it was made with a modern drainage system, it may be a kind of sentiment of the architects, and this medieval sewage discharge passage was still preserved.
The cat woman is petite and can just climb into the bathroom through this secret door. Fortunately, no one has ever used this passage, otherwise she wouldn't have crawled through this if she was beaten to death.
Catwoman has excellent acrobatic skills and is very adept. When she came out of the bathroom, she did not make any noise when she landed. What made her even more collapsed was that the bathroom door was actually locked!
How afraid is this person to be stolen?
Fortunately, the owner of the manor may also think that strange lock is troublesome. If you are in a hurry to use it, it may not be opened, so the lock on the bathroom door is a very ordinary iron lock.
This kind of lock cat woman can pry it open. She gets the lock in just a few strokes, and then tiptoed to the table.
She happily picked up the bottle made of diamond and placed it under the light to appreciate it carefully. Now she was sure that it must be a diamond.
But what puzzled her was that she had never seen such a pure diamond. Whether it was color or clarity, it was almost impeccable and looked almost perfect.
What made the catwoman even more confused was that such a beautiful bottle contained a pool of black dirty water. No, maybe it was dirty water that was not accurate, it was more like a sticky black mucus.
I don’t know if it was the catwoman’s illusion, but she felt the mucus move for a while, but she was already confused by the diamond bottle and wanted to put such a beautiful diamond into her collection cabinet immediately.
So she didn't care what was in the bottle and stuffed the bottle into the small bag around her waist.
Since the windows and doors were locked, the catwoman was worried that the owner of the manor would not be able to escape after he came back. Moreover, it was enough to harvest such beautiful diamonds tonight.
The cat girl left along the route she came. She even used a special method before leaving, and then hung the lock outside the door of the bathroom and locked the door and restored it.
The catwoman who returned to her home took out the bottle and looked around. The more she looked, the more she liked it, but the more she looked, the more she was, the more annoying the black mud contained in the bottle. What kind of mental illness is that she uses such a beautiful bottle to fill a pool of sticky black mucus?
The catwoman wanted to throw away the things in it, but the sealing method of the bottle was very special. Its plug was not a common wood plug, with a series of complex snaps on it, and it seemed to have a mini lock.
Catwoman has never seen this technology before, and she can't figure it out, but she only knows one thing: diamonds are the hardest gem in the world, so she can completely destroy the plug with violence without hurting the beautiful bottle.
So she used a crowbar, file and pliers, and knocked and smashed the mechanism above. After working for a long time, except for a buckle that was slightly loose, the entire plug remained unmoved.
Chapter completed!