Chapter 614: Morbid Crisis (3)
After Bruce and Laiks came to the Metropolis, they had to rely on the relationship between the Luther family to open the way. However, Laionel did not leave anything except the family industry.
The money and power are not separated. The Metropolitan Police Chief has a very good relationship with the Luther family. He heard that Laiks was interested in this murder, so he handed over all the archives to Laiks.
However, the police officers did not find any special clues, so Laiks asked the police chief that he wanted to go to the scene to see it, but the Metropolitan Police Chief felt very embarrassed, and he said on the phone:
"Sorry, Mr. Luther, we have to take a field trip for your safety, I'm afraid..."
"I think the police station should still be short of a batch of new protective equipment, right? With such a brutal murder case, the quality of the police officers' armed forces also needs to be improved. The Luther family has always been concerned about the safety of the metropolis..."
Laix didn't finish his words, but who can't understand such words?
To Laiks expects, the police chief still did not agree. After he hung up the phone, Bruce stood behind him and said, "There is a problem. When using money to open the way, it is impossible for him to not even let you take a look at the body."
"It's okay, we can go directly to the morgue. There is nothing that the Luther family can't do here." Lex replied.
The bodies of the two murders were stored in a morgue in a hospital very close to the police station. The forensic doctor had not had time to perform an autopsy, so if they were here now, they should be able to see the complete body, which happened to be sponsored by the Luther family.
However, when the two of them came to the morgue, they found that there were no murderous bodies here. After retrieving the morgue's surveillance, the surveillance showed that there was no image of the corpse storing.
In other words, after investigating the scene, the police did not store the bodies in the morgue at all, which is very abnormal.
After leaving the morgue, Bruce thought while saying to Lax: "Generally speaking, police officers will choose the most convenient way to store the body. If there is no hospital, the body will be stored in the nearest hospital before the autopsy."
"If they didn't put the body here, then it might be that they were sent directly to the Fa Hospital. You go back to Luther Manor to mobilize the surveillance of the eucalyptus site. Tonight, I'll go to the Fa Hospital for a look."
Laiks had no objection to this arrangement. He would allow Bruce to come here to investigate the matter, but he felt that he could borrow his power.
Laiks himself has insufficient force and encounters a murderer who is too fierce. It would be fine if he stayed in Luther Manor, but if he had to take the initiative to investigate the case, the safety could not be guaranteed.
Therefore, using Batman to go out for field investigation is a good choice. Anyway, the purpose of both of them is to eliminate owls. In this regard, they have common enemies, so they can cooperate.
As Bruce arranged, Lax began to use technical means to obtain surveillance at the eucalyptus site, while Bruce went to the French hospital to find the body.
Bruce, who was in the night, put on Batman's equipment again. He stood on the roof of the highest Luthor Building in the metropolis, overlooking this city that was even more prosperous than Gotham.
The night sky here is far less dark than Gotham, and the lights are bright everywhere. Batman's vision is a bit hazy. He feels that he is not suitable for staying in such a city, and bats should be dark.
However, the temperature of the lights of thousands of houses was transmitted to his eyes as the wind spread, and the cloak was reflected in orange by the warm lights. Batman took a deep breath, then glided down, jumped between the buildings, and finally arrived at his destination.
The Metropolitan New Fa Hospital is located in a remote location, with only two gates on duty. Batman sneaked in without much effort, but there are still no corpses here.
Batman noticed the weirdness of the whole thing, so he searched for all the hospitals in Gotham, but no body was found. Finally, he came to the Metropolitan Police Chief's home.
When the sleeping police chief was awakened, he looked at the dark figure standing on the balcony in fear. Batman stood in the shadow outside the window. He asked in a low voice: "Where is the corpse of the murderer?"
"I...I don't know...Who are you? Don't come here! I'm going to shoot!" the police chief screamed.
Batman discovered that the police chief was actually not stronger than Gordon. The security of the Metropolitan City was so good, and it had nothing to do with him. He was a very common type of villain who bullied the weak and feared the strong, and violence and money could pry his mouth open.
In the end, Batman got the answer he wanted from the police chief. According to the police chief, the body was missing.
The investigation site is only a few steps, and since the two bodies appear at relatively prosperous street intersections, the police must quickly take the bodies away there and resume traffic.
When the first corpse was found, the death was too tragic and it was not convenient for more people to see it. After preliminary investigation, the corpse was removed, covered with white cloth, and then sent to the hospital carriage.
However, the car did not drive to the hospital as planned. According to the police chief, in the end, they found the missing car and the policeman who were knocked out in the suburbs, and the driver disappeared with the body.
Later, the police found the real driver who was knocked out in the underground garage of the hospital.
In other words, the person who stole the corpse first knocked out the real driver, then pretended to be a driver, hijacked the car carrying the corpse, and finally stole the corpse.
After such an incident, when transporting the second body, all the police officers were alert. A detective drove the body to the Fa Hospital in person. But just when Lax and Bruce arrived at the Metropolitan and went to the hospital, the body disappeared again.
There were not so many people in the Fa Hospital and the security was not complete enough. Someone sneaked in and stole the body again.
Batman, who had nothing to find, returned to Luther Manor, and Lax did not bring any good news. Standing in the laboratory underground in Luther Manor, he fiddled with the computer and said:
"The safety of the metropolis has always been very good. People here lack crisis awareness and very few surveillance cameras. Except for a few major intersections, most of the cameras inside the buildings have too many dead corners, and some even have only one camera on the entire floor."
"I retrieved the surveillance of the Eucalyptus site, but obviously it was not the first Eucalyptus site. The murderer just placed the body there, not killing him there."
"The question is, how did he put the body there?" Bruce asked.
"From the surveillance, the body should have landed from the rooftop. A parachute was tied to the chair that tied the body. The body fell from the rooftop of the bank building into the crowd, which caused panic."
"Unfortunately, the Bank Building is the tallest building nearby. The monitoring cameras of the other buildings cannot capture the image on the roof. There is only one camera, and a back view was captured."
Laiks showed the scene for Bruce, which was a man wearing a blue cleaner uniform walking into the rooftop door, but he only photographed a very beautiful figure, and he could barely judge his gender. Due to angle issues, he could not even judge his body shape and height.
"Where is the internal surveillance?" asked Bruce.
"The Metropolitan Center Bank has the most glass curtain walls nearby. They will hire cleaning companies to wipe their glass on the third of each month, which is today. Since every layer of glass has to be wiped, cleaners appear in the entire building."
"Through internal surveillance of the bank, a total of 43 people were found, all of whom were wearing uniforms and hats, and their body shape and height were not judged, which means that they were all suspects."
Bruce supported one hand on the table and said, "It seems that the murderer was prepared for a long time. He will first read all the actions of these 43 people..."
"I've analyzed it all before you come back and found no suspicious behavior. At least where the surveillance shooting is obtained, their behavior is normal." Lex replied.
"If the murderer wants to throw the body from the bank building, he must first bring the body in. How did he bring the body in?"
Laiks chose a surveillance screen. After playing for a while, he pressed the pause button, then pointed to a place above and said to Bruce: "...Looking at this box, it is very troublesome to clean the glass curtain wall of the tall building, and it requires special aerial work tools."
"Fixing tools are often very large in size and have many ropes, so you need to use such large boxes to transport them to the building one day in advance and put them in the basement warehouse. That is to say, on the 2nd of the month, these boxes will appear in the warehouse underground of the bank building."
"As long as the bodies can be loaded into these boxes and transported to the underground warehouse of the building in advance, you can push these boxes to the floor he is going to, and then borrow the excuse of wiping glass to find a surveillance blind spot and throw the body down."
Accompanied by Lax's description, Bruce and Lax jointly constructed a scene in their mind.
The calendar turned to April 2, and around 6 pm, one cleaning company truck after another drove to the underground garage of the central bank.
Cleaners in blue uniforms lifted large boxes after large ones from the car, moved them to the trolley and pushed them into the underground warehouse connected to the underground garage.
The box that one of the cleaners was carrying was particularly heavy, and blood was still oozing from the edge of the box, but the other cleaners did not find such details. The two of them moved the box to the cart and pushed it all the way into the warehouse.
On April 3, around 7 a.m., the central bank officially started its office work, and the staff were bustling in through the main entrance. At this time, the cleaners had arrived at the underground warehouse and pushed out all the prepared utensils step by step.
The murderer wore the cleaner's uniform and pushed the tool box to a certain floor in the building, then moved out the body and equipment in the tool box, opened the glass, and threw the body down.
The screen paused here, and Laiks and Bruce looked at each other. Bruce took the lead and said, "There is one problem in this."
"Yes, that's the smell." Lex said immediately: "If the body was to be hidden in such a toolbox and transported to the warehouse with the cleaners, it would be impossible for no one to smell the terrible smell of blood."
Bruce immediately picked up the notebook next to him, and he drew the form of the corpse, then pointed to it and said, "This wound, and this wound, have a lot of bleeding. Even when he was carrying the corpse, the blood had dried up, but it was impossible for him to have no smell at all."
"There are two ways to make the corpse smell free." Laiks immediately followed, looking familiar. He said: "The first is to treat the corpse with special chemical reagents, and the second is to use other pungent odors to cover up the smell of blood."
"Now, the body is gone, and we can't verify the first possibility, but if we start from the second possibility, what can cover up the pungent smell of blood?"
The two of them answered in unison:
“Glass curtain wall cleaner.”
Chapter completed!