Starting from scratch, Batman crushed my dream of getting rich

Chapter 405 Madness Before Destruction
When Shauna came out of the cell, Joe felt a little relieved.

He was not unaware of Shawna's situation; after all, Barry was not good at keeping secrets, so he knew Shawna's abilities and was also aware of her boyfriend's past.

“What credibility can a gambler and conman have?” he thought to himself. “Someone like Corey Parker, being beaten to death by gangsters chasing after him for debts would be considered doing a service to the people. He was put in jail because the law had to protect his human rights, not because he himself had any value worth protecting.”

Joe was quite relieved to see that Shauna hadn't used her superpowers to do anything impulsive or outrageous. If she had really taken Corey with her to escape from prison, then she would have truly staked her life on a scumbag, and the two of them would have been wanted by the Central City Police Department.

"Have you made up your mind?" he asked. "Are you still going to save him?"

"I'm not saving her."

Shauna answered that question and then said nothing more.

As the car drove away from the prison, Shawna didn't return the USB drive. She went back to her home, tidied up her rented room, and found all of Corey's things—she had thought there would be a lot of traces left by Corey, but in reality, it didn't even fill half a small cardboard box.

She carried these things, tossed them by the door without throwing them away or putting them away, and then turned and went out again.

Half an hour later, an alarm was sounded at Iron Mountain Prison that inmate Corey Parker had escaped from his cell, and police had launched an emergency manhunt for him.

Meanwhile, on a street in the city center, a man and a woman were speeding along in a car.

"Phew! Haha!"

Excitedly shouting, Corey exclaimed, "Wow, that was so exciting! Shauna, you were amazing! It was like a scene cut in a movie, those idiot guards didn't even notice us—I want to try it a few more times."

"There will be plenty of opportunities in the future." Driving, Xiao Na wasn't particularly excited. She asked, "Which road is the armored truck on? Do we have enough time?"

"We'll make it, we'll make it. It's 5:17 now, and that car will be on the road at 6:00. We can get directly to its route."

Upon hearing the mention of money, Corey instantly regained his composure. He quickly pulled out his phone, flipped to a map of Central City, and marked the location.

“Listen, honey, this is easy for you,” he reassured. “I’ll drive, you just take the binoculars, get into their trunk, grab the money, and teleport right back to our car—it’ll be a breeze.”

"Um"

Shauna remained expressionless. She casually asked, "Corey, how much money do you actually owe Marcus?"

"Uh, eighty thousand dollars."

When this topic came up, Corey's expression turned somewhat unpleasant: "It's alright, darling, now that we have your abilities, this amount is nothing, we can pay it off tonight."

"If I don't have the ability, how do you plan to repay me?"

Kore was speechless for a moment.

He was just an ordinary hoodlum with no survival skills, uneducated, idle, and neither liked nor wanted to work. Stealing, robbery, and gambling were basically his only three sources of income—or so he thought. In reality, he lost far more money than he won, and the city's security often made his petty thefts futile.

His main sources of income were borrowing money from gangsters at exorbitant interest rates and borrowing money from friends and several girlfriends.

However, people's trust is always limited. Corey has no friends now, and the gang is no longer willing to lend him money. Instead, they are relentlessly pursuing him for repayment. Apart from using his looks to swindle money from one girlfriend after another, Corey only knows some tricks of theft and robbery.

So when Shauna asked him how he planned to pay back the money, Corey's first thought was to steal or rob—in fact, he had already promised his fellow inmates that he would participate in the robbery of the armored truck.

He saw his petty thief transform into a master thief, believing this to be the starting point of his life's change. He thought that once he got his hands on the money in that armored truck, he could turn his life around, repeat the cycle, and eventually become rich. To him, Shauna was like a gambler at a table who, at the last moment, suddenly drew a winning hand. His first thought upon seeing her ability was, "I'm going to use her to win big! I'm going to win back everything I've lost!"

“Without your abilities,” Corey sighed dejectedly, “I’ll have to work for Marcus. You know, gangster stuff might be a bit dangerous, but it will help me pay off my debts—I was planning to pay them off and then take you away from Central City so we could travel the world and do whatever we want.”

As Shauna listened to Corey's casual description of their future, she stared intently into his eyes, but there were no stars or moonlight within them, only a hazy gray mist.

"what happened?"

Corey noticed Shawna's gaze, and instinctively started talking, pointing to the front of the car: "Honey, look at the road—are you feeling unwell?"

"No, it's nothing."

Shauna drove quietly without saying another word.

A few minutes later, an armored truck indeed came into view.

"That's the car! Honey, hurry!"

Kore, who was driving, loudly reminded Shauna, as if afraid she hadn't seen the armored truck.

Swah——

Xiao Na, who was in the back seat, activated her teleportation ability. When she reappeared, she was already in the back of the armored truck.

"Huh? What the hell?"

The two officers in the front row frowned and looked back, but Shauna was crouching low and hidden behind a pile of banknotes, so the two officers didn't see anything.

"illusion?"

Just as the two turned around in confusion, the banknotes in the back of the car vanished as if by illusion.

"No! There's something wrong!"

The two officers were startled when they felt the car bounce violently due to the significant reduction in weight. At the same time, Shauna returned to Corey's car with a large amount of cash.

Corey immediately drove off the road in a frenzy, leaving the two officers behind to call the Central City Police Department—Corey wasn't worried about this, believing that, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Central City Police Department was unlikely to catch anyone in such a case.

He seamlessly transitioned, driving Shauna all the way to the gang, stuffing $80,000 into one bag along the way, putting the rest of the money in another bag, and then putting it in the trunk of the car.

Upon arriving at the gang's gate, Corey spoke directly to the gang members at the entrance.

“I want to see Marcus. I’m here to pay back the money.”

Shauna stood to the side, but before she could say anything, two black cloth bags were put over their heads.

"Let's go, take them to see the boss."

(End of this chapter)