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"Aren't we going to the Metropolitan Area?"

Xu Fu smiled: "I'm waiting for a phone call."

"Phone? Whose phone?"

"Your father's."

The girl frowned: "Didn't Daddy agree? Will he really refuse?"

Xu Fu gave a stiff smile and said

"It wasn't a rejection, but something else."

He raised his hand, and a huge city model appeared in the air, composed of data streams, with some very bright spots.

Do you know what this city is?

The girl froze, staring straight ahead. When several familiar buildings came into view, her pretty face finally changed.

"Gotham City? This is Gotham City."

　"August 13th" "That's right, this is Gotham City. As for those light sources, they are none other than the eighty-five sets of power armor that were dismantled."

Barbara stared at the model, then looked at Xu Fu, her face full of confusion. He was at a loss for words.

Xu Fu shook his head, offered no further explanation, and downed the red wine.

“This model blueprint is something your father really needs. Do you think I should give it to him?”

The girl looked embarrassed, and for some reason, Xu Fu had a strange feeling at that moment, and...

"What...what do you really want?"

"You'll know right away."

Xu Fu closed his eyes and silently counted the numbers in his mind. When he reached ten, his phone rang. It was Jim Gordon calling.

"It's your father calling, do you want to answer?"

Barbara kept her lips tightly shut and didn't answer.

Xu Fu shook his head and pressed the speakerphone button.

"Chief Gordon, is there anything I can help you with?"

Jim Gordon's impatient voice came through the receiver: "Is Barbara with you?"

Xu Fu glanced at the girl.

"No"

"So, Xu Fu-Xiao, I want to ask you a serious question: Do you have a way to detect powered armor?"

Xu Fu fell silent, then hesitated for a moment.

"Do you have it or not? Tell me."

Xu Fu glanced at the girl again and answered calmly, "Yes."

"Give it to me, whatever the conditions. Since you've asked, I'll consider it."

After a brief silence, Xu Fu slowly spoke.

"No conditions, deliver the items to the city hall in half an hour."

After saying that, he hung up the phone, stood up, and went to the balcony.

Barbara ran after him, asking, "Xu Fu, what's going on? I don't understand what you're saying. Did you know all along where the stolen armor was?"

Xu Fu lit a cigarette and took a long drag: "The MAXKⅠ program was developed by myself. As long as someone starts the main program, I can find where it is." After saying this, he turned around, his eyes very deep: "This secret was not specified in the contract signed with the Ministry of National Defense. The only people who know it besides me are you and your father, but after tonight, many people will know."

"Any idea what this means?"

The girl continued to stare at him, remaining silent.

Xu Fu sighed: "I didn't intend to get involved in Gotham City's affairs. The Court of Owls is a quagmire; once you get in, it's hard to get out. But now that something like this has happened, I have to do something."

“Barbara, I want to help your father one more time and get rid of the owl problem for him. After this is over, I might run into trouble and won’t be able to see you.”

"Dior!"

The door opened, and Dio walked in. He was wearing a brown power armor suit, which was completely different from the MAXK1 suit. It was thinner, more fitted, and more refined. If the MAXK1 suit was a general on the battlefield, then this suit was an assassin hidden in the shadows. This suit of armor was specially made by Xu Fu for his subordinates and was called Flying Shadow.

"Young Master"

"Are you all ready?"

"The personnel and equipment are ready and awaiting your orders."

"Let's begin. Deliver the items to City Hall and hand them over to Attorney General Harvey Dent, then intercept the members of the Owl Court, dead or alive."

"clear."

Dior nodded slightly and turned to leave.

Soon, thirty soldiers in power armor, led by Dio, poured out of the basement and headed straight for Gotham City Hall.

Barbara watched this scene quietly, her expression dazed, as if it were unreal, as if her childhood friend had suddenly become a different person, a symbol of terror.

Xu Fu walked to the wine cabinet, poured half a glass of red wine, swirled the glass, and said.

"I think your father mentioned who I am!"

"He said you're a West Coast mob boss, that you have blood on your hands, very...very..."

"A very dangerous person, isn't he?"

The girl gave an awkward laugh, about to explain, but the words stuck in her throat, and she swallowed hard.

“He’s right. I am indeed the leader of the mafia in Seaside City. I started leading a group of people into the underworld when I was eleven years old. I have wiped out almost half of the gangs in Seaside City, and countless people have died at my hands.”

"What would you do if you were faced with someone like me?"

The girl clenched her fingers and looked at him reproachfully.

“You are the daughter of the police chief. You received the most orthodox education. You believe in the law, in justice, and in principles. Someone like you should not have any connection with me, but fate is so amazing.”

"Barbara, I'm giving you two choices: one, stay with me; two, leave and go your own way."

Xu Fu admires Barbara. Her innate high intelligence and ability to memorize images endow her with exceptional insight, reasoning, and logical thinking skills. She has the potential to become a super scientist and a top hacker. In addition, she possesses combat talent far exceeding that of ordinary people.

Such talent is rare in this world, and more importantly, she is very beautiful.

If he lets her go, Xu Fu might regret it to death.

Talented people are hard to find, but accepting them is even harder.

Barbara is not the kind of ordinary girl who can be fooled with a few words. Deep down, she has a set of rules of conduct that only she knows. She knows what she should and shouldn't do, just like her father, and she adheres to her bottom line.

According to the DND principle, Barbara is the good that maintains order, while Xu Fu is the evil that maintains order through and through.

5.7

There is a huge gap between the two people's concepts of good and evil.

Unless Xu Fu reforms and becomes a lone hero like Bruce Wayne, it would be very difficult to accept such a person, but unfortunately, that will never happen.

Xu Fu had no particular likes or dislikes towards superheroes; he simply viewed them as an inevitable product.

The DC world is not the post-apocalyptic Earth. There are angels, demons, magic, technology, aliens, mutants, superpowered individuals, cultists, psychopaths, and so on. Disasters happen every day, and the government has a hard time even maintaining its rule, let alone fighting crime.

Superheroes emerge when governments cannot guarantee people's safety; they are products of their time, and no one can stop them.

Barbara's goal is to become a superhero and fight criminals like her father.

This was also Xu Fu's biggest headache.

Chapter 1320 Nighttime Deal

It's difficult to change people's opinions.

Xu Fu didn't want Barbara to change too much. Tonight's experiment was the first step. If it succeeded, the next step would be easier. If it failed, they would have to change their approach.

In the luxuriously decorated suite, Xu Fu swirled the wine in his glass, leaning against the windowsill and gazing at the tranquil night view, waiting to see the other person's reaction.

After a long while, a soft murmur sounded behind him.

Are those your people?

"Yes."

Xu Fu nodded: "They are all my people, I raised them from childhood."

Barbara hesitated for a moment: "You now own ShowMe and Tesla, with a bright future ahead of you, why would you want to get involved with the underworld? The mafia is the mafia after all."

Xu Fu smiled, slightly out of breath, and after thinking for a while, he said.

"Your father was a policeman, a good policeman. Over time, he naturally developed some deviations. I'm the same. My grandfather's name was Xiao Changling. Have you heard of that name?"

Barbara shook her head blankly; the name was completely unfamiliar. 11

"By the way, it's hard to find information about him online, so it's normal that you don't know him. But your father probably knows him very well. He was a full-fledged gangster boss and was once the head of the Hongmen, the world's largest Chinese gangster organization. He retired ten years ago, and I grew up around him."

The girl was stunned, rolled her eyes. There was a lot of information about Xiao Zhiguo online. She thought it was fake, but she didn't expect it to be true after so long.

"So it's true that you're a Mafia prince?"