The track of dawn in the world of American manga

Chapter 33 33. TMD, I’m really an orphan now

The zombie three-headed dog Maomao, or to give it a more majestic and more formal name, "Lu Wei", was ruthlessly hacked to death by Old K in the wizarding world, and was "resurrected" by Mason using three resurrection stone fragments.

It is still in zombie form and will not listen to the instructions of Mason, a stranger.

If no one else is around, this guy will attack Mason himself as soon as he is released, but unfortunately, the black warriors don't know this secret.

The moment they saw the nearly four-meter-tall zombie three-headed dog appear, they fell into a daze of doubting their lives. Then someone with weak hands or quick reflexes subconsciously pulled the trigger.

It's over now.

The first bullet hit Maomao's head in the middle, leaving a small wound on his forehead, which healed quickly under the influence of the resurrection stone fragments without even bleeding.

But this attack immediately pointed the direction of attack for Maomao.

The terrifying trio of howls echoed in the dirty sewers.

The warrior in black at the front didn't even have time to escape before he was knocked away by the terrifying three-headed dog that rushed towards him, and was bitten by three terrifying dog heads in the air at the same time and then tore outwards.

Hot blood mixed with viscera fragments were scattered everywhere.

This brutal and fatal blow completely kicked off the destruction of the last elite team of the Assassin League.

As for Mason, who was maintaining his posture as an animal tamer and pretending that he had a great advantage, he also had time to move his neck. He took out the hand cannon from his waist and searched along the blood stains on the ground.

That's the blood stain left by the Penguin.

He had been punched through the thigh by Gordon before, and now he was running away desperately in the sewer, but he couldn't get far.

Penguin is not a superpower.

He got to where he is today all thanks to his own brains. Of course, being able to make something like an armed umbrella proves that Penguin is also a very powerful engineer.

But these two advantages cannot help him escape in the current situation.

"boom"

Mason, who was chasing after him, fired a bullet and broke the other leg of Oswald who was staggering forward. The short and fat body fell to the ground in embarrassment and screamed like a slaughtered pig.

Pain filled every nerve of the boss. He tried his best to turn over, supported his body with two hands and retreated in the pool of blood. In front of him, Mason was holding the weird saw-like knife.

A hand cannon like a shotgun with its barrel removed strode forward.

There wasn't much light in the sewers so Penguin couldn't see Mason's expression, but as he looked at the young man getting closer and closer, a sense of despair rose in his long-tested heart.

he knows.

He is finished.

"Why?"

At this last fatal moment, the boss shouted at the top of his lungs:

"I'm not sorry for you! Mason, I was interested in your father Robert. I took you under my command immediately after his death and planned to give you a future!

Why?"

"You mean, you also want to buy me a life insurance policy and then write your name as the second beneficiary?"

Mason stopped and looked down at the dying Penguin.

He whispered:

"What about the pension after Robert Cooper was hacked to death by Maroni's men while fighting for you over the territory of Port Miller? The insurance compensation you bought for him did not go to me.

As for the future

If being a doorman at the Iceberg Bar can be considered a bright future, then you are indeed very kind to me."

"But we can talk! You seem like a good kid."

Penguin waved his hands full of blood and shouted:

"If it's just money! We can definitely talk, Mason, young man, I have a lot of money, I can give it to you! I give it to you voluntarily, what else do you want?

status?

woman?

It doesn't matter, just say it.

As long as I have it, you can take it!

As long as I go back, I promise I will give them all to you, but if I die here, you will get nothing but a corpse.

That's not a good deal at all, kid!

Just leave that bullet. Look at me, I'm sixty years old. I have bad living habits and have diabetes and high blood pressure. I will die sooner or later.

It's just a matter of time, you don't need to help me physically accelerate!

You also know that I have always been a person who does what I say.

My ability to get into the big business in Gotham is all due to the reputation I have accumulated over more than ten years, you know."

"Click"

What answered him was the sound of the hand cannon being folded and the bullet being inserted into the barrel. The light in Penguin's eyes dimmed little by little, and he knew that his persuasion failed.

Seeing Mason raise his gun, the cunning guy's mind changed quickly and he suddenly shouted:

"You bastard! I should have let Robert throw you to death in the first place! That bitch has gone so crazy that he insists on adopting a little cub of unknown origin!

I know that people in our line of work cannot be merciful."

"Um?"

Mason stopped pulling the trigger.

A trace of doubt appeared on his face, and this doubt was keenly caught by Penguin. He seemed to see a glimmer of light, and shouted loudly:

"Ha, you don't know yet, right? Poor child, you don't know your true life experience at all! This is actually a very small thing for me, just because Robert was my right-hand man back then.

That's right, that's your father.

My career was just getting started at that time.

I had no better choice, and although Robert was not smart, he was loyal and fierce enough, which made me remember the incident that almost caused my father and I to fall out.

Do you want to know?

Let me go! Take me out! I'll tell you this! I can guarantee that you will never find anyone else who can tell you this except me.

Those who witnessed it back then are all dead."

In the darkness, Mason thought and remained silent. After more than ten seconds, under Penguin's gaze, he put down his gun and said:

"Say, I'm listening."

"Take me up first. The monster you released looks very hungry."

Penguin laughed twice but refused to let go.

Mason glanced at him, stepped forward and dragged him by the hand towards the exit of the sewer, and dropped him on the floor of Blackgate Prison a minute later.

Oswald, who seemed to have returned to the human world, let out a hoarse and intermittent laugh. He coughed and seemed to be grateful that he had escaped the three-headed dog.

Under Mason's cold gaze, Penguin wiped his muddy face and said:

"You were picked up by Robert!

16 or 17 years ago, I can't remember the exact time.

I only remember that it was a very cold night. I had just killed my boss and obtained a small piece of land. Robert had helped me a lot, so I gave him a large sum of money.

You know, your dad is a complete rotten person, he is drunk and violent, and he is like crazy when he is drunk, but there is one good thing about him, he loves and protects his wife.

Although his wife, your mother, cannot give birth to a child due to physical reasons."

Oswald gasped, the pain was eroding his body and he lay there twitching, but facing the black hole of Mason's gun, the boss still persisted and said slowly:

"I don't know the specific process. I only know that Robert took the money from me and went out to drink and have fun. He bought a lot of expensive things like crazy and said he would take them back to his wife to make her happy.

He left the bar drunk. A few hours later, he and his wife came back. I was already asleep and they woke me up.

He showed me what he had in his arms

Haha, a swaddled baby, that is you!

Robert doesn't want you, Mason, but your mother holds you tightly. She says this is a gift from God, and she would rather give up everything to keep you.

Your father really loves your mother, but he couldn't resist her, so he came to ask me to use my connections in the city hall to get you a certificate.

You know what’s the weirdest thing?”

Penguin laughed softly twice and said:

"Your skin color is very similar to your mother's. It's like a gift from God to that poor woman. I helped them. After all, Robert is my right-hand man.

In the next two years, the guy lost his mind and actually changed his mind and planned to live a good life.

But it's a pity that your mother didn't have the blessing to see you grow up. The poor woman got seriously ill, and Robert worked like crazy to make money to treat her, but he didn't let her get through it.

You may have forgotten.

When your mother died, she begged Robert to take good care of you.

I have seen that scene with my own eyes. Unfortunately, Robert is a bad person, and he went completely crazy after losing the last bit of beauty the world gave him.

I'm done.

That's all I know, but I think this old secret is enough to buy me a life."

"But I don't think it's enough."

Mason raised his gun, pointed it at Penguin, and said:

"You have to tell me a little more, where did he pick me up?"

"I have no idea!"

Oswald said a little irritably:

"As I said, I had already rested at that time, but if I remember correctly, when they brought you here, you still had the label of the Gotham Orphanage on your swaddling clothes.

I once suspected that the lunatic Robert went to the orphanage and stole a child in order to please his sick wife.

But when he said this later when he was drunk, it didn't seem to be the case.

He said that you were accidentally picked up from a car accident scene, otherwise it would not be so easy to add you to the Cooper family registration.

The process when he picked you up was indeed not illegal.

I've said everything I know. Now it's your turn to fulfill your promise. You bastard, you've already killed two of my fingers. It's time to repay the grudge I've made against you.

After all, it was my help that allowed you to survive back then!

Boy!

You must repay your kindness!"

"You are right, I should indeed repay the favor."

Mason let out a long breath, inserted the hand cannon back into his waist, and then reached out to lift up the Penguin with its broken legs and pull it out a few steps. After pulling out the bloody marks on the ground, he glanced at the Penguin and saw the blood from the side.

Picked up a gun, took out the magazine and ejected the bullet, leaving only one bullet inside.

Then, as the Penguin watched with wide eyes, he raised the muzzle of the gun and pulled the trigger.

With a "bang", the head of a zombie wandering in the distance exploded, and the remaining ones were attracted by the sound and staggered towards this direction.

Oswald struggled wildly.

He knew what Mason was going to do.

He shouted:

"No! You can't do this! You evil boy who unleashes disaster! Batman will not let you go!"

"So you also know that Batman can't know about this?"

Mason laughed and leaned down, placing the gun without bullets in Penguin's arms. He said:

"Your bullet has been saved, Mr. Oswald. Now use the secrets in your mind to convince these 'friends' in front of you.

Don't think I don't know why you asked me to bring you up.

You know you won't survive today.

But you are not afraid of death.

Because your partners have the means to resurrect you. The Salaru Pool of the League of Assassins is a magical treasure that can bring people back to life.

Unfortunately, I also know the secret."

He patted Penguin on the shoulder and said:

"Bullets can't kill you, they will only make you free faster. And I tried my best to arrange all this, not just to let you escape death and continue to be free, and become another trouble in my future life.

I hate trouble.

As for the baby you helped seventeen years ago. Sorry, he is dead.

He could have safely completed his studies at Gotham High School and lived his own ordinary and satisfying life, but you pulled him into your gang.

It was you who pulled him back into the darkness, and you who brought him misfortune.

One life, one death.

It's clear now.

Pray, Mr. Oswald."

Mason pulled up the struggling Penguin's collar from behind and threw him towards the attacking zombies. The moment his hands were released, the young man said to him:

"The feud between the Penguin and the Cooper family is over. You are free, and so am I."

"ah!"

Amidst the screams, the short man covered in blood was thrown towards the hungry zombie brothers, but Mason did not look back, let alone enjoy the wailing before his death.

Although he personally created a disaster tonight, Mason is not a person who takes pleasure in cruelty. All these are just means to achieve the goal.

After all, it was the Penguin Gang and the League of Assassins who provoked him first.

Since they started a war on their own initiative, they must be prepared to suffer failure in advance.

This is the truth, there is no right or wrong.

The young man walked down the sewer holding a voodoo birdcage.

Maomao should have eaten enough, and it was time to recycle it. He didn't want another legend about the three-headed hell dog living in the sewers in Black Gate Prison.

But Mason was not in a calm mood at this time.

He walked in the sewer, moving in the direction where the roar came from, and the secret that the Penguin just told him kept popping up in his mind.

I complained in my heart that when I was reborn, I was still glad that my cheap dad was hacked to death in the fire and became an orphan with no worries.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a prophecy.

The secret identity hidden beneath the beginning of his new life is that he is actually a genuine, innocent orphan.

He recalled the suffering of this body over the past 17 years.

There is so little happiness and so much sadness.

While exploring the details, I couldn't help but comment that this young man's past was so miserable and mediocre, and he didn't look like he had any special identity.

"Boss, the Bat Fighters have begun to clear the ground. I saw the Batmobile coming over. Are you done?"

Kite Man's urging sounded in the headphones, accompanied by the low roar of some large creations being blown up. Mason shook his head to calm down.

The zombie three-headed dog that had feasted before his eyes was snarling and rushing toward him while stepping on the sewage. Mason took out the voodoo birdcage like a bullfighter and pulled it into this strange magic cage the moment Maomao pounced on it, and then

Throw it back into the suitcase.

A minute later, Mason climbed back onto the floor of Blackgate Prison.

I glanced into the distance and saw Mr. Penguin who was already among the zombies and "swaying happily" with his "good brothers".

He took a look at his surroundings, put on his invisibility cloak and rushed towards the direction of Yaya's roar, and said to the anxious kite man:

"Sorry, there was an accident just now but it has been resolved. Prepare to blow up the escape exit. Charles, I will recover the teeth and rush over!

Next, help the Bat Family clean up the zombies. Remember not to act so 'professional' for a while so as not to be noticed. Also, remember to dispose of this set of headphones before regrouping!

Don’t let them catch you in any detail.”

(End of chapter)