Starting from scratch, Batman crushed my dream of getting rich

Chapter 404 So be it

Corey looked up in astonishment from his cell and saw Shawna standing in front of him. His eyes lit up: "My God, darling, how did you get in?! Are you here to take me out?"

“I’ve found a way to get you out of here, Corey,” Shauna replied hesitantly. “Look, this is how I got in.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Shawna's figure suddenly disappeared outside the cell and appeared in front of Corey.

"Look, I've become a superpowered person too."

Corey was first startled, then his eyes lit up with ecstatic joy. Of course he knew what superpowers were; there were already quite a few criminals with superpowers officially reported in the media, which was no secret in Central City.

"Great, honey, can you do this while carrying things?" Corey tried to suppress his ecstatic excitement, afraid of alerting the guards. "I mean, how about teleporting me out like that?"

“Sure, I can take you out directly.” Shawna looked at Corey’s happy expression, but she was still struggling internally: “As long as I can see it, I can teleport there.”

"Darling! You are truly my darling!"

Corey hugged Shauna and kissed her, saying, "Quick, take me out of here. I've had enough of this shithole. I never want to stay here again."

“No, Corey, don’t rush,” Shauna suddenly said. “If we run away like this, we’ll be wanted by the police. I’ve found another way to get you released immediately after serving your sentence.”

Upon hearing this, Corey's eyes widened in disbelief: "Released from prison?! Me? How did I do that?!"

“I recently found a police officer who was willing to help and talked to him. After he learned about your situation, he told me that he had been keeping an eye on Marcus’s case for a long time.”

"Huh? What does my release from prison have to do with Marcus?"

“Corey, have you forgotten? You said you owed him a lot of money.” Shauna said, observing Corey’s expression. “That officer told me that as long as you tell him everything about Marcus, he can take advantage of the situation and wipe out the whole group.”

“Marcus and his gang members will all be arrested and thrown into the police station. With the creditors gone, your high-interest loans will be wiped clean—Corre, this is a great opportunity for us. You can get out of jail with this, and the police will keep it a secret. Then we can be together openly.”

At this point, Xiao Na continued, "And I also met a friend who said he has a patent and plans to start a company. He can take us with him. The patent has a lot of potential. We just need to work for him. Kore, we just need to work hard for a while, and then we'll have money. We won't have to steal anymore. We can stay in the city center and buy a house."

However, as Shauna spoke, the excitement and elation on her face gradually disappeared, and her heart sank, because she did not see any happiness or agreement on Corey's face.

“Honey, this isn’t so simple.” Corey looked troubled. “You know, gangsters like Marcus can’t be sentenced to death.”

"If he gets arrested and put in jail, he can still receive news from the outside. He's not in here as a prisoner, he's just in a different place to command the gang—can you believe that cop will protect me wholeheartedly? He'll definitely use me and then throw me away. If Marcus finds out that I betrayed him, or even if he only guesses that I betrayed him, he'll definitely have the people outside tear me to pieces."

"Shauna, we can't trust that cop. It's too dangerous to do this. I'll be finished."

"That's alright, we can just run out of the city center and go somewhere else."

"No, no, no!" Corey grabbed his hair in frustration. "Why don't you understand? Shauna! I can't escape! Marcus will send people to hunt me down. We can't go anywhere. We'll have no choice but to pay back the money!"

"Not even going abroad?"

"Going abroad will also get you hunted down." Hearing this, Xiao Na's joy completely vanished.

Corey thought he could fool her. Unless it was a super-large gang, most gangs couldn't leave any influence even across states, let alone abroad. Sending assassins to hunt her down was absurd.

But she still wanted to make one last effort.

“Then I can ask that friend for money. He'll be willing to lend it to me, and it won't be a loan shark. We just need to help him start a business together—”

"Untrustworthy! I told you, all strangers are untrustworthy!"

Corey was completely impatient. He hugged Shawna tightly and said, "Darling, you have to believe me. I know all about these scams. We only have one way out: pay back the money. Once we pay it back, we can do whatever we want. Let's travel around the world together, okay?"

However, he didn't actually ask the police officer and his entrepreneur friend any further, nor did he intend to find out the details. He simply and crudely categorized them as untrustworthy. Shauna understood that this wasn't because Corey truly believed they were frauds, but because he wanted them to be.

Shauna struggled to push Corey away, a hint of tears glistening in her eyes, seemingly moved by Corey's sweet words. She asked, "But how are we going to pay him back?"

“Shauna, I would do anything for you.” Corey looked into her eyes and asked, “Would you do anything for me too?”

Shauna stared at it blankly, then nodded.

"Help me, Shauna, use your abilities to help me. With your abilities, we can quickly earn enough to pay Marcus back."

At that moment, Shawna gave up completely.

She continued to look at Corey, tears welling in her eyes that masked all other emotions, and asked, "How can I help you?"

"Shauna, my dear! You are my one and only love!"

Upon receiving an affirmative answer, Corey almost jumped up and down, his face beaming with joy: "It's simple, let's go now. You take me out first, then we'll get a car. I overheard some people talking next door and they said a bank armored truck is going to be on the road today."

"Once we get that money, we'll be free! We can go wherever we want!"

Hearing this, Shawna didn't know how she should feel. She looked at Corey, who was gesticulating wildly beside her, as if she were watching a clown performing a ridiculous dance under the spotlight.

"That's fine then," she thought to herself.

“Kore, once we get the money, we absolutely cannot use it to commit crimes again, okay?”

"Oh? Oh, okay, okay, whatever you say, darling."

Corey agreed to Shawna's request almost without hesitation.

He didn't need to think, because he had no intention of keeping the agreement.

(End of this chapter)