A Priest in Gotham: Starting Out by Taking In a Little Boy
Chapter 325

Who cooked the instant explosion?

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"That lunatic thinks I was the one who tried to kill him, too!" One-Eyed Tiger said irritably.

"I'm just wondering who else it could have been, if you weren't trying to kill him," Zhou Yi said, puzzled.

"Me!" A woman walked in. It was Benny's mother.

"Mom?" Night Dragon was stunned.

Zhou Yi and One-Eyed Tiger exchanged a glance. "What—what's going on?"

"He was already turning into a lunatic before that fire. He beat me—humiliated me—I hated him..." Benny's mother recounted the past, her face full of sorrow. "I decided to arrange an accident. I hired two of One-Eyed Tiger's men to start a fire..."

"So it was you..." One-Eyed Tiger was astonished.

"Unfortunately, they were both idiots! Luo Bao must have caught one of them on the spot. That man was burned beyond recognition and mistaken for my husband's corpse... The other one escaped. He stole One-Eyed Tiger's money and fled to Gotham City. Luo Bao was badly injured, but he didn't die."

"After the fire, he hid his identity and acted as though he really was dead. He never suspected me, but blamed everything on his two brothers..."

"He mistakenly thought One-Eyed Tiger had sent men to set the fire to take over his business, and believed I'd abused my authority to help One-Eyed Tiger get away with it..." Zhou Yi sighed. He had always thought One-Eyed Tiger had killed their brother. He had never imagined this was the truth.

"He wants revenge on you. He'll hurt the people around you first, and he enjoys watching them get killed!" Benny's mother warned them. "He's cruel by nature, and that fire drove him completely insane..."

"You understand that I have to arrest you." Zhou Yi looked at Benny's mother with mixed feelings.

"...Of course. I came here to turn

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