Starting from scratch, Batman crushed my dream of getting rich

Chapter 330 Barry Fell Down Again (Happy Children's Day, Friends)
"Uh, Mr. Steiger?"

As Steiger and his security chief declined invitations to talk to others and hurried toward the venue exit, a woman's voice suddenly came from beside them.

He turned his head and saw a blonde, blue-eyed young girl speaking to him. She was quite polite in her manners and spoke like a student: "Mr. Steiger, I would like to ask if you could help me with my thesis?"

Steiger glanced up and down, not even pausing in his tracks—the other person's attire looked unremarkable, neither stunning nor revealing, and it seemed he genuinely wanted to ask about thesis guidance—so he had no interest.

Firstly, he lacks the skill to provide guidance, and secondly, he has no interest in wasting time.

Iris's youthful and beautiful appearance did pique his interest slightly, but then he thought that for someone of his wealth, there were already a lot of people openly and secretly flattering him, including many women of outstanding appearance, social status, and age. His private life had always been colorful, and the ending was always the same: he would pay them off and get rid of them cleanly and efficiently.

The female student in front of me didn't seem like someone who could be easily dealt with.

"Excuse me, miss."

He waved casually to dismiss the other person's questions, and then walked out of the security passage with the security supervisor.

“Hesitant.” Iris sighed. She and Barry beside her realized that this big businessman didn’t seem to be the approachable type. “Since you don’t have time, I’ll just ramble on in my paper.”

Although Iris's idea was clever, in a few days she would find that plans never keep up with changes, and she would most likely have to change Steig's name directly in her thesis.

Coincidentally, just half a minute after Steiger left Steiger Building by car, Denton headed to the venue with a gun.

Five clones plus the original body, the six people entered the six escape routes, but when he quietly observed the situation in the venue from the unnoticed entrance, he was surprised to find that he could not find Steig's shadow.

"Strange, where did they go?"

He checked again and again, but still couldn't find Steiger. He looked at his watch again, and it was only almost 3:09.

Denton was an employee of Steiger Industries. He knew Steiger's habits well. The old man always liked to associate with the elite. He couldn't possibly leave so early, so he was either in a crowd or in the bathroom.

With this in mind, Denton immediately drew his pistol, ready to enter and rob the place—once Steiger appeared, he would simply pretend to be an emotionally charged robber and shoot him in the head.

However, his phone suddenly made a sound—a call had been connected automatically for no apparent reason.

"Damn! Damn! Damn!"

Denton cursed inwardly. The gun shop robbery that morning had gone wrong once, at least there were no consequences. But if something went wrong at this critical moment, Steiger would run away.

However, it was Elizabeth's voice coming from the other end of the line, which made Denton hesitate as he was about to hang up.

"Don't go, Denton." A familiar female voice rang out on the phone: "Steig is gone."

These words struck Denton like a bolt from the blue, and in that instant, a multitude of thoughts flashed through his mind.

"Elizabeth lied to me?"

"Does she know what I did?"

How did she know Steiger had left?

The sudden transformation of his most familiar bedmate into a complete mystery, someone who seemed to know everything about him, sent chills down Denton's spine and gave him goosebumps—thankfully, Elizabeth's voice continued, interrupting his wild thoughts.

"Don't be confused, I'm not Elizabeth. I just hacked into your phone and used a voice changer to talk to you."

Upon hearing this, Denton carefully examined the caller ID and found that the name on it was indeed not Elizabeth, but rather "Unknown Number".

"Then who are you, and what do you want?" "I want to remind you that there's no need to fight today. You should retreat as soon as possible to avoid adding another charge to your name."

"You know I'm going to deal with Steiger?"

“Of course I know that. If you weren’t planning to deal with Steiger, I wouldn’t have come after you.”

Upon hearing this, Denton frowned; he had a pretty good idea of ​​what the other person meant.

"You want to use me against him?"

"You're wrong. We originally wanted to deal with him, but you just happened to be able to help us, so we found you."

"'us'?"

"The basic initial information has been uploaded to your phone, you can see it for yourself—now, leave immediately."

beep - beep -

The call was hung up.

Denton was still skeptical. He took one last careful look at the interior of the venue. It was already 3:12, and Steiger was still nowhere to be seen.

He dialed another number on his phone, but the line was constantly busy, all of which told him it was time to retreat.

"Damn it." He gritted his teeth and put the safety on his pistol.

Unfortunately, he had already wasted too much time at the entrance.

Hey! You over there! Who are you! What do you want?!

A security guard from the venue happened to be at the entrance when he spotted Denton, who was holding a gun and wearing a hood. He then loudly warned Denton as if it were his right, while simultaneously drawing his gun.

Denton cursed his bad luck inwardly, slammed the door shut, and at the same time, the five clones and the main body moved in sync, running towards the back door together.

"what's the situation?"

Barry, who was in the hall, turned around and saw that the security guard had opened the door and chased after him. He immediately realized that something was wrong, so he also turned into lightning and ran out after him.

He was much faster than the security guards, and in the blink of an eye, Barry had reached the back alley and saw six hooded men in black getting into a car—then his legs gave way and he collapsed against the wall next to him.

"What's wrong with me?"

Before Barry could think it through, he felt his vision go black and his mind quickly went blank.

At that moment, a hole opened in the wall next to them, and Ma Zhaodi's head and a cat's head peeked out furtively.

"Boss, he seems to have fainted, meow? Should I jump out and knock him on the knee, meow?"

"No need, the attack came just in time," Ma Zhaodi thought to himself. "What a pity, I was hoping to see if a cat's speed was seven times that of a human."

He took the liqueur-filled chocolate from Barry's arms, casually popped it into his mouth, then turned around, peeled off the wallpaper, and disappeared into the back alley with the cat and the tricycle.

Inside the van, Denton glanced in the rearview mirror and, seeing that the security guards weren't chasing after them, let one of the two drivers go ahead and opened the new file that had suddenly appeared on his phone.

(End of this chapter)