The girl's fingerprints were not found on the half banana, and even with the photo, no information about the brown-haired girl could be found. The clues seemed to end here.

And Batman did lose a batarang.

As bananas slowly oxidize over time, many new and interesting changes have taken place in the streets of Gotam.

After confirming from Peter that the girl had been to the City Hall before, Tim naturally began to pay attention to what new policies the City Hall had adopted.

There was a shooting, and the victims were all gangsters, so there was no news. They invested in a chemical plant in the countryside, and the person in charge seemed to have some connection with black masks. They fired a group of employees who were just waiting to die, adjusted the salary structure, painted slogans in Gotan, and the logistics department seemed to have started planting trees. They changed the style of street lights, subscribed to a new batch of public newspapers and magazines, and updated the road signs...

“The conclusion is that the busiest part of the entire city hall is logistics.”

Tim held his coffee in his hand and leaned on the table. "All the changes happened after Ms. Alec arrived in Gotham, but she is a new mayor. Considering her career, she is currently doing a small thing..."

For example, Tim couldn't understand why the mayor wanted to take care of everything even like planting trees on the street, but instead of engaging in necessary communication with the council, he pushed all these tasks onto his secretary.

——Because of this, the Council was dissatisfied with Anna Elektro.

Even though the bug was removed, Tim could tell she didn't care, just by looking at her behavior.

"There are no mercury bombs or anything else," he shrugged. "The mysterious power is hiding."

"Anna Elle..." The Batman beside him was not wearing armor. Now he was Bruce Wayne, which might have neutralized his temperament. He hesitated for a moment, "Maybe I should invite this lady in Wayne's name. Since she came to Gotham, she has not participated in any social activities."

Tim was stunned: "No one invited her?"

Bruce: “She wasn’t invited.”

She was isolated from Gothic high society.

“——”

Suddenly, an alarm sounded on the screen, and it quickly turned red.

The father and son vigilantes looked up at the same time, and Tim frowned: "A factory...exploded. The underground security system detected the release of poisonous gas. It was a mercury bomb!"

The blast occurred in the abandoned village west of Gotam, where the only human activity is a factory.

The factory was called "Iceberg Chemical Plant", the investor was unknown, it was built not long ago, it was unremarkable, and it never sold any goods.

No one knew that the mayor spent 200,000 gold coins on this factory.

And half a minute ago, she personally selected the "detonating material" on the system panel.

——Two hundred thousand gold coins turned into nothingness in an instant.

Tomorrow's newspapers will describe this incident as an "accident". Due to irregular operations and problems with the storage of construction materials, an explosion occurred in a factory... But some people with "connections", such as Black Mask or Penguin Man, will speculate that some kind of dangerous experiment is being carried out in the factory invested by the municipal government.

And Weiwei wanted them to guess like this, so that she could take the next step - in order to continue the experiment, she had to purchase raw materials again as quickly as possible.

It is inevitable that the prices of some rare materials, such as mercury, will increase.

She needed to fool someone.

That man's name was "Oswald Cobblepot".

"I set this up," Weiwei said to Sherk in front of her, "I thought you wouldn't get hurt."

Her reliable tool, who was more useful than all the other tools, had gauze wrapped around his arms and his face was pale due to blood loss. On the second day after the explosion, he not only came to the City Hall to work on time, but also thoughtfully brought newspapers to Weiwei.

The newspaper used the largest page to publish "Playboy Bruce & His New Girlfriend", and in the corner of the second page it was reported that "an unknown chemical plant in the village of Aklis exploded. All villagers have been evacuated and security personnel have controlled the scene."

When she was designing the explosion, Sherk, the person in charge, was actually far away from the explosion site, but he ran back and was rescued by the guards, resulting in the only person injured in the explosion.

The NPC's behavior was really hard to understand, so Weiwei simply ignored it.

She said, "Let's start buying all the materials again, but this time increase the price by ten times, up to twenty times. If you can buy mercury, buy it first..."

Because her real purpose was to drive up the price of mercury.

"The purchase of other materials at high prices is limited to today. After each material is confirmed to be purchased at the price I allow you, the news will be released to indicate that it has been purchased, except for mercury--"

She acquired other materials in order to hide her true purpose and mix mercury into them.

"Then the price of mercury can continue to rise, and it can be bought wherever it is offered for sale, no matter who the seller is."

Not surprisingly, there are not many people in Gotan who can sell this item.

Serge: "Our funds..."

"I'll give you a portion of the funds first," Weiwei said, "and then I'll inject more funds."

"Prioritize the purchase of goods from the Penguin Man, but you have to buy them in multiple batches, and use reasons other than insufficient funds to hold him back, but each time you can't delay for too long. Can you do it?"

She must convince the penguins that the government has sufficient funds and will continue to increase the amount, so as to deceive them into investing all of it.

[You have added 710,000 gold coins to the Iceberg Chemical Plant]

[Current City Government Funds: 5,000 Gold Coins]

After Sherk left, Vivi made sure the door was closed, then threw herself onto the bed in the lounge and rolled happily.

She was indeed plotting against the penguin man, but as for the actual success rate of her plot, Weiwei could only say it was zero. She was just taking a gamble.

No one knows what the outcome will be until the last moment, but the unknown is the charm of gambling!

Her plan was actually very simple -

Manipulate the economy, use a fictitious identity to buy up mercury in the market, then create a credible reason for the government to buy up mercury at a high price, drive up the price of mercury, and then sell the goods purchased from the Penguin Man to him at a high price.

It is now April 13th, four days away from the date set in the [betting contract], which is April 17th.

If she could accomplish the first stage of her goal, she could at least earn a lot of money from the Penguin Man. If she accomplished the second stage, she could win the bet with the Penguin Man.

But Weiwei never thought about what it would look like if she lost.

——She will only make the opponent lose completely.

The idea is very beautiful, but it is difficult to actually achieve this goal.

"Why can I actually buy mercury from other cities that are just used as backgrounds?"

The plan almost failed from the very first step, as if the game plan had fundamentally destroyed the feasibility of players manipulating the market economy. But Weiwei was unwilling to admit defeat, so she tried to use time to gain advantage!

Relying on the forced purchase of "Option C" for handling corpses, one week after the last transaction, she successfully tricked mercury from the penguin man again. She currently has a total of 15 liters in her hands, and she ensured that he would receive the goods again in at least half a month. Then, Weiwei detonated all the inventory purchased from another channel in the "Iceberg Chemical Factory" with one click.

——Since you want to put on a show, then do the whole thing!

If there was no reason to raise the price, she invented one.

According to the label given by the system, Penguin Man is more like a businessman than a gang boss. Since this kind of business can make money, he will definitely give it a try.

The penguin man would never have thought that the mysterious man who bought mercury from him before was the same person as the mayor who issued the decree.

...Maybe a normal mayor wouldn't make money in this way?

Two days later in the evening, that is, on the evening of the 15th, the news had spread, and even 260,000 of the 710,000 gold coins had been consumed in just two days. The abnormal mayor reached out and touched the corpse, skillfully choosing "C". The call was connected smoothly, but the voice on the other end seemed to be exhausted.

"Sorry, we don't have mercury for sale here, yes, no..."

"But I do," Weiwei's voice was full of laughter, "Let your boss talk."

There was silence on the other side for a moment: "...Okay. Please wait."

[Congratulations to the player for triggering the special event "Meeting Investor Cobert"]

Weiwei: “…”

Is this a trigger? Weiwei was speechless. She had chosen option C many times, but only this time could she talk to the penguin man.

This wasn't a trigger at all, she earned it through hard work!

Weiwei thought about it and suddenly realized something: "This isn't how you play this game... Through this option, you learn that the Penguin Man is in the smuggling business. You have to spend a lot of money to buy his stuff and upgrade to a high-level VIP. Only then will you have the opportunity to be served by the boss himself..."

So embarrassing.

Not only did she not spend a penny on the game, she also had her boss pay for it and even tried to cheat him out of his money.

Normal people don’t seem to play games like this?

"It's you... Do you think I'm an idiot?" Cobert's voice was not pleasant, and it was even more distorted after being distorted by the electric current. "You bought the goods from me, but you want to sell them to me?"

"I think you must have some channels and heard about the chemical factory," Weiwei said calmly, "I will only sell it to you for half of the purchase price of Iceberg Chemical Factory. Don't rush to refuse--"

She continued, "This is a rare metal. I guess the government and your people are trying to buy it from outside, but it takes time. I don't know why, but the chemical plant seems to be very urgent. But now is the time, right?"

"Why don't you go by yourself?" the voice on the other side was amused.

"It's not convenient for me," Weiwei coughed lightly, "I can't explain my channel, and if there is a problem with the channel, I have to forge an identity to get the money, but you must have a way, right?"

"Just make friends."

The penguin man on the other end of the phone raised an eyebrow.

He still didn't think something was right, but the deal sounded like it could work.

"Where do you trade? Or the sewer?"

"No," Weiwei said, "I have already mailed the first batch to you, a total of one liter, please transfer the payment after confirming receipt."

"When you are sure that the transaction with Bingshan Chemical Plant can proceed normally, we will proceed with the remaining transactions."

"——I am very considerate in doing business."

On the map, the quest item named [Mercury 1L] is placed in the kitchen of the Iceberg Restaurant. The delivery man probably doesn't understand why this order is so heavy.

Half an hour later.

[You get 150,000 gold coins]

[Current personal funds: 177,900 gold coins]

Weiwei opened another panel——

[Has invested in Iceberg Restaurant, investment amount is 500,000 gold coins (settlement time April 17 00:00:00)]

[You can check the current financial status of Iceberg Restaurant]

[Fixed asset settlement: 7.75 million gold]

[Liquidity Settlement: 900,000 → 750,000 gold coins]