Kowloon Walled City had become a jurisdictional no-man's-land after the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory was signed in 1898. The legal vacuum gradually attracted illegal establishments, turning the area into a haven for unlicensed doctors and a hotbed of drug trafficking, prostitution, gambling, and other crimes. Criminal gangs ran rampant there.
Demolition began in 1993, and Kowloon Walled City Park was built on the site in 1995, but the people who had lived there still remained in the surrounding area.
"This place really does have a sense of history." Roland looked around.
"Why do you act like a tourist wherever you go?" Batman glanced at him. "Besides, this nightclub looks less than a year old. What history?"
"Aren't I helping you find Hong Kong's Penguin?" Roland shrugged.
"Bullshit. You just hailed a cab and asked the driver to take you to the biggest nightclub in Kowloon." Batman rolled his eyes. "It just happened to be where my target was."
"Come on. Is it so strange for the local crime boss to be at the biggest nightclub?"
"Heh..." Batman studied the nightclub's high walls, looking for a way in.
"Could you break that habit of never using the front door?" Roland straightened his clothes and walked straight through the main entrance.
"Welcome." The doorman greeted Roland eagerly as he entered.
Inside the nightclub, the smell of alcohol filled the air, music pounded against his eardrums, and dazzling lights flashed before his eyes.
"Holy shit, even priests come here?" A drunken gangster was just heading out when he spotted Roland and froze.
"What, got a problem with my religion?"
"It's just that we only have girls here, no little boys."
Roland rolled his eyes. "I'm back in China, and people are still making that joke?"
"That guest has had