"Where is he?" Batman turned and asked.
Alfred's mechanical voice fell silent, replaced by Alfred's own voice. "Master, you're back?"
"..."
All right, there was no need to say anything. He already understood completely.
"Tell me, where is he?"
Batman said helplessly. Only when something like this happened to him did it feel especially strange.
"Sivers Grand Hotel. He attended a fundraising dinner for the mayoral candidates tonight..."
"Master, allow me to interrupt. Tonight, Wayne Enterprises CEO William Earle and WM Group's female president Brucie Miao both appeared and discussed a potential partnership."
Alfred's voice was somewhat helpless. "If you truly intend to go, I suggest changing clothes and going openly. Otherwise, you'll be in a great deal of trouble."
"I understand. Where's the nearest safehouse?"
Batman leaped down from above and sent a thug who was beating a homeless man flying with a heavy kick.
"It has already been marked. It is twelve hundred meters from your current location," Alfred, the system butler, said in a mechanical voice.
Compared with Alfred, this system butler Alfred had been loaded into the Batcomputer by Batman.
It could access and deploy all of Gotham's databases and, once granted authorization, directly decrypt Pentagon intelligence.
Of course, to prevent anything out of a science fiction novel from happening, Batman had also set up a contingency plan against Alfred.
For example, he had tied its core system to the Batcomputer and stuffed a box of explosives inside the Batcomputer.
He could physically destroy it through a one-way remote control.
Sivers Grand Hotel.
It was another lively scene. At the fundraising ceremony, Cassis Lank, the man about to take office as the new mayor, stood onstage.
Dressed in formal evening wear, he gave his final declaration from the stage. "I believe that through everyone's efforts,