Batman is currently on the roof of a building in the West End. He came here following clues about Easter eggs.
The Easter egg the Holiday Killer sent to the mob boss didn't leave any specific clues, but he shouldn't have given it to Bruce Wayne.
Wayne Manor is surrounded by cameras arranged by Batman, and the two cameras at the main entrance captured a figure.
It was a newsboy who delivered newspapers between the South District and the East District. This kind of newsboy often traveled between the wealthy areas in the South and printing factories, and almost no one noticed their existence.
The camera did not capture the newsboy's face, but his clothing was captured. Finally, Batman found him in a newspaper printing plant in the East End.
The newsboy didn't know much information. He only told Batman that someone paid them to deliver Easter eggs.
This kind of work is very common among newsboys. They often have a fixed gathering point. Some people who need to run errands will go to their gathering point to find them and hire them for money to deliver something to others.
This group of newsboys are very familiar with the terrain and routes of Gotham, and for the sake of convenience, Gothamites have agreed not to embarrass these children running errands, so many people like to hire them to deliver meals, keys, or beer.
Batman came to the gathering point of newsboys. The group of children described the appearance of the holiday killer, but it was of no use. When they took the order, they didn't care who the order was, as long as they were sure that the one they wanted to send was not
They take all orders for dangerous goods that can be robbed. There are so many people coming every day that no one can remember the specific appearance.
However, one of the more clever newsboys provided an important clue. He said that the person who hired them smelled a chemical smell, a bit like the smell of gunpowder.
Following this clue, Batman investigated all chemical plants in Gotham City.
There are actually many chemical plants in Gotham City, but they are also classified into different sizes. After experiencing the disasters of flooding and ice, most of the small chemical plants have stopped production, and only a handful of production lines can continue to operate.
There were only four or five chemical plants in normal operation, so the investigation did not take Batman too much time. In the end, he set his sights on a chemical plant in the West District.
This chemical factory is located underground in the West District. It is small in scale and has few production lines. Their assembly lines are not high-end, and what they produce is not important. Logically speaking, it should be closed down together with other small chemical factories.
Moreover, after the disaster, almost all Gotham's underground buildings were destroyed, and the underground chemical plant was almost buried. The building was severely damaged, with more than half of it collapsed, and most of the production lines were paralyzed. But even so, there were still traces of human activity nearby.
What kind of goods must be produced at this time?
After picking the lock of the back door, Batman walked in along the crack of the door. He put on his night vision goggles and saw the chaos inside the chemical plant.
Part of the southeast corner collapsed, and the ground was covered with ruins. Many boxes were pressed under the wall, and some mucus flowed out. The night vision device could not clearly see what the mucus was, so he moved closer.
Soon, Batman smelled a stinky smell. When he got closer, he saw that all the boxes were filled with smashed goose eggs. The yolks and egg whites were all over the floor, and no one was handling them. They were about to ferment. It was reported that
There was a stench.
Further away, there were some boxes that had not been affected. Batman walked over and saw that there were goose eggshells that had been processed.
Easter eggs are not painted directly on raw goose eggs. The goose eggs selected as Easter egg materials must be processed. If they are not hollowed out, they also need to be soaked with chemicals to make the surface suitable for painting. If they are hollowed out,
, some other methods need to be used to maintain the hardness of the eggshell.
It seems that the Easter eggs stored here contain both ingredients, but some of the eggs that were not hollowed out were crushed by the falling wall.
Batman stepped forward, picked up an eggshell and looked at it. The eggshell had been processed but had not yet been painted with patterns. Batman took away several such eggshells and took them back to Wayne Manor for comparison.
right.
There are several different Easter eggs placed in front of the experimental table. The first is the Easter egg that Bruce received from the Holiday Killer. Batman has not touched it, so it did not explode and still maintained its complete shape.
The other one was given to him by Schiller, the Easter egg with a smiling face that Schiller drew himself, and the other one was the unpainted Easter egg shell that Batman brought back from the warehouse.
It is very obvious that the first and third Easter eggs are almost exactly the same, both in terms of size, shape and processing method.
In contrast, Schiller obviously found a goose egg at random. It didn't even look like a goose egg from a farm, but more like a swan egg from a nest.
It was not the right size, obviously too small, and was painted directly without any treatment. The surface of the eggshell was too smooth to hold the paint, so the smiley face was a little distorted.
In other words, these easter eggs given to gang bosses and upper-class people were leaked from the chemical plant in the West District.
"West Side Chemical Plant..." Batman muttered in a low voice. He was suddenly startled, then quickly left Wayne Manor and drove the Batmobile to the Gotham Police Station.
Gordon was finishing a busy day and was about to go home from get off work when he heard a noise in the corner behind him. He didn't even need to look at it and said, "What's wrong, Batman?"
"The tape from last time..."
"Tape? Oh, you mean the tape of Schiller's phone records, right? That's in the evidence room, but the staff there are off work..."
As soon as Gordon finished speaking, Batman had disappeared. Gordon shook his head. He thought it would be a good idea to keep that kind of dangerous goods for this weirdo, lest someone one day lose control of their curiosity and insist on listening.
Batman came to the dark evidence room. He found the tape and put it into the recorder. After a rustling noise, Schiller's voice rang again: "Their goods from Plantation No. 9 are gone."
It's Old Wilkin's Road, the route that passes through three streets in the East End..."
Batman twisted the button on the recorder and fast forwarded a section: "Are you worried about this? No need to. As far as I know, the underground chemical plant in the West End is also Falcone..."
"...the family's business, after the godfather handed it over to Evans, began to sell goods from Elizabeth Street, but later, due to poor management, it was closed for a long time. You don't have to worry that the godfather will care about such a small profit..."
"Chemical plant? Evans? Evans Falcone..." Batman's voice rang in the dark room. Gu Dao
At this moment, Batman's phone rang sharply. After he answered the call, Copot's voice came from inside: "...Evans!! It's Evans!!!! He has a knife... He wants to kill
I... No, he is not... Ahem... Go quickly, go to Gotham Cathedral and stop him..."
Batman looked up and looked out the window. At this time, a bright moon hung high in the sky.
When Batman arrived at Gotham Cathedral, Evans seemed to be waiting for him.
Evans stood at the crack in the center of the cathedral, watching the light surging inside the crack. Batman smelled a smell that made him dizzy, like evaporated high-alcohol.
He fell down from the window and stood in front of Evans. Evans ignored him, but half-knelt on the ground, staring straight at the crack.
"Who are you?" Batman asked.
"Who am I? Don't you recognize me? I am your classmate..."
"You are not Evans."
The person opposite sneered and said, "Don't mention that name to me. It's just a fake. I'm the real Falcone."
"Are you his second personality?"
"No, he is my second personality."
The person opposite stood up, and his blond hair became a bit strange in the moonlight. He showed the kind of cold expression that Evans never showed. He said: "I said, I am Falco."
Inside, Alberto Falcone.”
"Then you are his second personality."
Alberto was a little irritated. He frowned and narrowed his eyes. There was anger in his green eyes. His voice was very low and sounded completely different from Evans.
"I've always been Alberto!"
"Isn't Alberto dead?"
"Ha... That farce really deceived a lot of people." Alberto sneered and said, "Am I dead? No, of course not, it was just a fool who replaced me."
"It seems like this should be a long story, but it doesn't matter..." Batman took out the batarang from his waist and said, "Tonight is Easter night. It should be a long night. You can think about it slowly."
"You should be the festival killer, right?"
"That's right, I..."
Before he could finish speaking, Batman threw something at Alberto. Alberto dodged to the side warily, then turned around and saw that it was a broken easter egg.
"Damn, are you kidding me?"
"No. This was an Easter gift given to you by someone, but now it's broken, but that's because you didn't catch it, and it has nothing to do with me."
"Don't try to interfere with me with this little trick. My goal has been achieved and no one can stop me."
"Really? You call yourself the Holiday Killer, but you didn't kill anyone on Easter. The only one you killed, Principal Seldon, had rough methods of committing the crime and many flaws."
Batman always makes people very irritated when he says this kind of words in his smooth tone without any ups and downs.
"Do you think you are very smart? Wearing a tight suit and pretending to be some kind of superhero?"
"But at least I found you, oh, no...it wasn't me who found you, but that humble Cobot."
Speaking of Copot, Alberto seemed really angry. He said: "That damn boy, he almost ruined my plan..."
"So, you made a mistake? Faced with a short and thin poor boy, the first person you wanted to kill on Easter, even though you were fully prepared, you still failed to kill him.
"
"I didn't want to kill him at all. If he hadn't given Evans those stupid ideas, I wouldn't have done anything to him. He is completely unimportant!"
"That's why I said that your methods are rough and have many flaws. Anyone can see that Cobot is a dangerous person."
"Yeah..." Alberto sneered: "A poor little man who lost his father, he still doesn't know that his father's death was not a coincidence."
Then, as if he was venting something, he said: "Funeral? Yes, I died, and many people attended my funeral."
He looked up at the window above the cathedral. The moonlight was like a curtain that was spilled in, gently covering the statue of Jesus. The suffering Son shed his blood for the betrayers. In this cold night full of suffering,
Only the moonlight is willing to add clothes to him.
"But tonight, I will be resurrected and live forever."