Chapter 134 A Case
The rain was pouring down, and a police car ran over the puddle, causing a circle of water splashes.
Gordon got out of the car, stepped through a broken glass door, and then... saw smiles all over the place.
"I know who did it, it's not hard to guess."
Gordon subconsciously reached for his breast pocket, but when he found nothing, he remembered that he had stopped smoking for a long time.
But he always forgets about it.
Smiling corpses piled up in a pile, as if they were laughing heartily just before death, but there were no traces of poison gas at the scene. The forensic doctor said that they all died of gunshots, but under what circumstances were they shot to death? After that, will people still maintain a smiling face?
Gordon turned around and didn't see that familiar figure.
"My old friend, where have you been?"
"Cheers!"
The wine glasses collided, and the precious wine spilled out of the glass, just wasted, but no one present cared about it, because waste was one of the rights they enjoyed.
"Let us celebrate as Lex Group has officially reached cooperation with Wayne Group!"
The glasses were exchanged, the cups were moved, and under the spotlight, Bruce and Luther accepted the congratulations from celebrities from all over the world with smiles on their faces.
The dazzling and majestic interior, surrounded by melodious songs, is nothing more than a fairyland on earth, but outside separated by a wall, dark clouds are pressing down, thunder and lightning are blowing, and strong winds are blowing. All signs indicate that a storm is coming.
Bruce looked out the window. Ever since Groudon came to Gotham, it has rarely rained so heavily in Gotham. Is it because Groudon left, or... is it because someone has returned.
Bruce really wants to put on the cape and become the Dark Knight to find the truth, but the fact is that Gotham needs Bruce Wayne more now. The city is at a critical juncture of transformation, like a ship about to pass through the storm, Bruce must Take control of the ship yourself.
Especially when there is this person on the boat.
"Oh~ my old man, you hide here." Luther came over with the goblet and put a hand on Bruce's shoulder.
"Today is our big day. Believe me, we will definitely gain something big!"
Luther raised the goblet, and a shadow on the ceiling was reflected in the translucent liquid. It was... an owl.
Bruce looked up suddenly and saw nothing.
Luther gave him a meaningful look: "What's wrong, my partner, the wine has been spilled."
"Then pour another glass."
Bruce lowered his head, regaining his composure.
On the ceiling, the crystal chandelier rotated slowly, and an upside-down owl moved under the light, fluttering its wings and flying towards the rain curtain.
The owls of Gotham are never afraid of rain.
……
"Hoo, ho..."
In a community gym, a woman with explosive curves was swinging her arms wildly, and her swaying upper body attracted attention. Everyone in the gym cast their eyes on the same place.
But what they saw was not the big breasts and fat butt, but the treadmill with a plume of black smoke rising from her feet.
The coach and the students whispered to each other: "I bet a packet of protein powder that this machine will break again."
“What’s the point of betting on something as obvious as this, which treadmill breaks this week?”
Bang, the treadmill tracks stopped, and the woman walked past them, leaving a decisive figure behind.
"Channel 4." The student looked at her dreamingly, "Such a strong muscle. I really want to know how she exercises it."
The coach brought his student back to reality: "I advise you to stay away from her. Come over and help me move the broken treadmill down."
Some students asked in confusion: "She has damaged so many fitness equipment, why is she still allowed to come?"
The coach replied while carrying the treadmill: "There are two reasons, one true and one false. Which one do you want to hear?"
"I want to know both."
"Because she was a high-level paraplegic who could only sit in a wheelchair a month ago. She is still recovering. We cannot refuse a disabled person to undergo rehabilitation exercises. That is not correct."
"Sounds true, but what about the other one?"
"Because her name is Barbara Gordon, the daughter of the Gotham Police Commissioner.
She can afford it. ”
Barbara could hear the conversations in the gym, but she didn't care at all. She was immersed in her own world. Every day at five o'clock in the evening, Barbara came to the gym for a run. This was a part of her recovery.
Every time she started running, Barbara couldn't slow down. She didn't enjoy the pleasure of sweating, because the sweat was caused by fear. She was not running, she was running away. From that nightmare Escape in one day.
Barbara knew that her mental state was not very good. As Qin Su said, others could help her physically, but she could only rely on herself mentally.
Barbara returned home and prepared dinner, but failed to wait for her father. Gordon said that there was a temporary case that he needed to deal with, and turned around and ran out of the house.
Barbara hesitated for a moment, then returned to the room, put on her headphones, and tuned to the police channel. During her period of paralysis, she used this set of equipment to help Batman punish criminals and eliminate evil.
"Zizi... No. 134 Rum Street, 21 corpses appeared in a bar. The corpses were in horrible death conditions. It is suspected that a clown committed the crime..."
The headphones fell from Barbara's head.
"Zizi... I can't contact Batman. I have to rely on you Qin Su this time. I'm worried about the other police officers..."
Gordon looked back at his home, then picked up the intercom: "At seven o'clock, we will meet at the crime scene."
He went back inside and knocked on his daughter's door.
"Barbara, I have to go out with Qin Su. You don't have to wait for me to come back... Good night."
Behind the closed door, Barbara had already put on a full bat uniform, put on a bat hood, and spread her long orange hair over her shoulders. Barbara jumped onto the window sill, her cape behind her blowing in the strong wind. Hunting sound.
"I can get over it," she said to herself.
As Gordon drives out in his police car, a bat shadow crosses the lamppost.
Batgirl returns to Gotham.
……
Barbara and Gordon almost rushed to the scene of the crime, a bar in a deep alley.
The police cordoned off the scene outside to prevent unauthorized persons from entering or exiting. Gordon also began to look for traces left by the murderer at the scene.
In fact, the murderer did not want to hide his identity. The weird smile on the corpse and the ghost sign placed on the bar all showed the clown's uniqueness.
"But the Joker is already dead. He was stabbed to death by Harleen Quinzel, and I watched his body being burned to ashes with my own eyes." Gordon rejected his idea.
"The only possibility is that...the new clown brought back by Qin Su."
"I can guarantee that that clown will not kill people for no reason."
Qin Su suddenly appeared behind Gordon, shocking Gordon so much that he glared at Qin Su: "You definitely did it on purpose."
Qin Su silently put away the snake charm and carefully stepped over the corpse on the ground: "If this is really what he did, it can only mean one thing, these people deserve to die."
"Even if this clown really only attacks evil people as you said, we still have to arrest him." Gordon looked serious, "No one can rise above the law and judge criminals on their behalf, especially now. ”
The corner of Qin Su's mouth turned up: "Director, I didn't say that I was not allowed to pursue him. I will also help the police station. If he is caught, he has no ability. I bet that he will be convinced.
But I don't want to see the police force on this case wasted on irrelevant people, and the evidence is this body. ”
Qin Su came to the drunk man's body and inspected it, and found that there were sharp foreign objects in his mouth and throat. It was speculated that they were the same thing.
Qin Su put on gloves and used tweezers to pick out a small green lump of sticky blood from the drunk man's mouth.
"The glass shards look like beer bottles in color. The deceased was holding a half-exploded beer bottle in his hand. The glass shards in his mouth probably came from this... This is most likely the first deceased person."< br>
Gordon looked at Qin Su with gratified eyes: "How did you deduce it?"
"Expression." Qin Su said decisively, "He is the only corpse that is not smiling but has a fearful expression on his face. The cause of death was not a gunshot."
He came to the bar, picked up the bloody ghost card on the table, and said: "And I noticed something very strange.
This is a bar, right. ”
Gordon understood when he heard this: "There are no bar staff among the dead!"
Qin Su slapped his fist: "Yes, that's the problem. No matter how few staff there are in a bar, there must be at least a bartender, but there is none here.
Now there are two possibilities. One is that the bartender is alive and he chose to escape because he was afraid of the murderer. The second possibility is that the bartender is the murderer! ”
Qin Su brought the ghost card to his nose, and he smelled the smell of alcohol.
"Let the forensic doctor examine the stomach residue of the deceased, and remember to ask them to take biochemical protection. The corpse is very likely to contain the clown virus. Don't get infected."
Gordon ran outside to give instructions, leaving Qin Su sitting alone on the bar. He was sitting right between Harleen and the Fighter Clown.
Qin Su was facing the bartender's position.
Qin Su tapped the table with his index knuckle: "These people must have been infected by the virus and turned into clowns. The one who killed them was probably the clown I brought here. What about the other one? Who was the poisoned clown?"
There are three clowns in Gotham. One was stabbed by Harleen. Two-Face said that it was a clown, that is, a second-generation clown. The remaining two clowns were a cold-faced killer and a comedian.
"I finally understand why foreign heroes are always fooled. No matter how powerful you are, it's useless to find someone. I really can't do the job of a detective."
Qin Su secretly complained in his heart. Batman couldn't get away now, and Robin wasn't mature enough. Who could he count on?
Barbara, who was lying on the ceiling and eavesdropped on Qin Su's entire analysis, took out her laptop and began to search for the recent chemical waste emissions in Gotham. Soon Barbara discovered something strange. Some of the data did not match up.
"Someone stole 3 tons of chemical waste, which is a lot. The transportation process should be recorded in the traffic surveillance."
Barbara's hand speed was faster than she could open her mouth to talk to herself. She clicked on the keyboard and hacked into the government's traffic supervision system in the blink of an eye. This was not the first time Barbara had done this. She was in the system. There is a back door inside so that you can go in and out at will.
"Here we are, a large tanker truck that is not on the transport list. Let me retrace the route."
Barbara locked onto a tanker truck, and the image on the screen began to rewind until she pressed the pause button.
"Found it, ACE Chemical Plant." (End of Chapter)