After Bruce and Lex arrived in Metropolis, they had to rely on the connections of the Luther family to pave the way. However, Lionel did not leave nothing behind except the family property.
Money and power do not separate families, and the Metropolitan Police Chief has a good relationship with the Luther family. Hearing that Lex was interested in the murder, he handed over all the files to Lex.
However, the police officers did not find any special clues, so Lex asked the police chief to go to the scene to have a look. However, the Metropolitan Police Chief felt very embarrassed. He said on the phone:
"I'm sorry, Mr. Luther, we have to consider on-site inspection for your safety. I'm afraid..."
"I think the police station is still in need of a new batch of protective equipment, right? After such a brutal murder, the quality of the police officers' weapons also needs to be improved. The Luther family has always been concerned about the safety of the metropolis..."
Lex didn't finish what he said, but who couldn't understand such words?
To Lex's expectation, the police chief still didn't agree. After he hung up the phone, Bruce stood behind him and said, "There is a problem. If money is used to open a road, there is no way he won't even let you take a look at the body."
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"It doesn't matter, we can go directly to the morgue. There is nothing the Luther family can't do here." Lex replied.
The bodies of the two murder victims were stored in the morgue of a hospital very close to the police station. The forensic doctors had not yet had time to conduct autopsies, so if they went there now, they should be able to see the complete bodies, and this hospital happened to be Lutheran Hospital.
Family sponsored.
However, when the two came to the morgue, they discovered that there was no corpse of the murderer at all. After calling the morgue's surveillance, the surveillance showed that there was no image of the corpse being stored.
In other words, after the police officers investigated the discovery scene, they did not store the body in the morgue at all, which is very abnormal.
After leaving the morgue, Bruce said to Lex while thinking: "Generally speaking, the police will choose the most convenient way to store the body. If there is no forensic hospital, then the body will be stored in the nearest hospital before performing an autopsy.
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"If they didn't put the body here, then it might have been sent directly to the forensic hospital. You go back to Luther Manor to mobilize the surveillance of the discovery site. Tonight, I will go to the forensic hospital to take a look."
Lex had no objections to this arrangement. He would allow Bruce to come here to investigate, just because he thought he could borrow his power.
Lex's own force level is not enough, and when he encounters a murderer who is too fierce, it would be fine if he stayed in the Luther Manor, but if he had to take the initiative to investigate, his safety could not be guaranteed.
Therefore, it is a good choice to use Batman to go out for field investigation. Anyway, the purpose of both of them is to eliminate the owl. In this aspect, they have a common enemy, so they can cooperate.
Just as Bruce arranged, Lex began to use technical means to obtain surveillance of the murder scene, while Bruce went to the forensic hospital to find the body.
Bruce, who was haunting the night, once again put on Batman's gear. He stood on the top of the Luther Building, the tallest building in the metropolis, overlooking this city that was more prosperous than Gotham...
The night sky here is far less dark than in Gotham. There are bright lights everywhere. This kind of light makes Batman's vision a little hazy. He feels that he is not suitable to stay in a city like this. Bats should belong to the darkness.
However, the warmth of thousands of lights spread to his eyes with the wind, and his cloak was reflected orange by the warm lights. Batman took a deep breath, then glide down, jumping between buildings, and finally came.
Arrived at destination.
The new forensic hospital in Metropolis is relatively remote, and there are only two gate guards on duty. Batman sneaked in without much effort, but there was still no body here.
Batman realized the strangeness of the whole thing, so he searched all the hospitals in Gotham, but no body was found. Finally, he came to the home of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner.
When the police chief woke up from his sleep, 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 body 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 no stronger than Gordon, and that the security of the metropolis was so good that it had nothing to do with him. He was a very common villain, bullying the weak and afraid of the strong, and could be pried open by violence and money.
his mouth.
Finally, Batman got the answer he wanted from the police chief. According to the police chief, the body was missing.
There are only a few steps to investigate the discovery site, and since the two bodies appeared at relatively busy street entrances, the police officers had to quickly take the bodies away from there and restore traffic.
When the first body was discovered, because the death condition was too tragic and it was inconvenient for more people to see it, after a preliminary investigation, the body was disassembled, covered with a white cloth, and then sent to
into 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 knocked-out police officer in the suburbs. The driver and the body disappeared together.
Later, the police found the real driver who had been knocked unconscious in the underground garage of the hospital.
In other words, the person who stole the body first knocked out the real driver, then pretended to be the driver, hijacked the vehicle transporting the body, and finally stole the body.
After such an incident, when transporting the second body, all the police officers were on heightened alert. A police detective drove the body in person and transported the body to the forensic hospital. But just as Lex and Bruce
When we arrived in Metropolis and headed to the hospital, the body was missing again.
There were not that many people in the forensic hospital, and the security was not complete enough. Someone sneaked in and stole the body again.
Having found nothing, Batman returned to Luther Manor, and Lex did not bring any good news. Standing in the underground laboratory of Luther Manor, he fiddled with the computer and said:
"Safety in the metropolis has always been very good. People here lack awareness of dangers and there are very few surveillance cameras. Except for a few major intersections, most of the cameras inside the buildings have too many blind spots, and some even have only one on the entire floor.
Camera."…
"I called up the surveillance of the crime scene, but obviously, that was not the first crime scene. The murderer just placed the body there, not killed him there."
"The question is, how did he put the body there?" Bruce asked.
"Judging from the surveillance, the body should have landed from the roof. A parachute was tied to the chair where the body was tied. The body just fell from the roof of the bank building into the crowd, causing panic."
"Unfortunately, the bank building is the tallest building nearby. None of the surveillance cameras in the other buildings could capture the top of the building. There was only one camera that captured a figure from behind."
Lex showed Bruce the scene, which was a scene of a man wearing a blue janitor uniform walking into the rooftop door, but only a very model figure was photographed, and the gender could barely be determined. Due to the angle, it was conjoined.
It’s impossible to judge the shape and height either.
"What about the surveillance inside the bank?" Bruce asked.
"Metropolitan Center Bank has the largest number of glass curtain walls in the neighborhood. They hire a cleaning company to clean the glass for them on the 3rd of every month, which is today. Since the glass on each floor needs to be wiped, the entire building is cleaned.
The figure of the worker appears."
"Through the bank's internal surveillance, a total of 43 people were found. All of them were men, all wearing uniforms and hats. Their body shape and height could not be determined. In other words, they are all suspects."
Bruce put one hand on the table and said: "It seems that this murderer has been prepared for a long time. He has to read all the behaviors of these 43 people first..."
"Before you came back, I analyzed everything and found no suspicious behavior. At least where the surveillance footage was taken, their behavior was normal." Lex replied.
"If the murderer wanted to throw the body from the bank building, he had to bring the body in first. How did he bring the body in?"
Lex selected a surveillance picture. After playing it for a while, he pressed the pause button, then pointed to a spot on it and said to Bruce: "...Look at this box. It's very troublesome to clean the glass curtain walls of high-rise buildings.
Specialized tools for working at heights are required.”
"Fixing tools are often very large and have a lot of ropes, so we need to use large boxes like this, which are transported to the building one day in advance and placed in the basement warehouse. In other words, these boxes will appear in the bank on the 2nd of every month.
In the warehouse underneath the building."
"As long as the body can be packed into these boxes and transported to the underground warehouse of the building in advance, then he can push these boxes to the floor he wants to go to, and then use the excuse of cleaning the windows to find a surveillance blind spot and throw the body away.
Go down."
Along with Lex's description, Bruce and Lex constructed a scene in their minds.
The calendar turned to April 2, and around 6 p.m., trucks from the cleaning company drove to the underground garage of the Central Bank one after another.
Cleaners in blue uniforms lifted large boxes one after another from the car, then moved them to trolleys and pushed them to the underground warehouse connected to the underground garage.
The box that one of the cleaners was carrying was particularly heavy, and there was blood on the edge of the box, but the other cleaner didn't notice this detail. The two of them moved the box to the cart, and then pushed it all the way to the warehouse.
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On April 3, at around 7 a.m., Central Bank officially opened its office. Employees bustled in from the main entrance. By this time, the cleaners had arrived at the underground warehouse and pushed out all the prepared equipment step by step.
The murderer wore a cleaner's uniform, pushed a toolbox to a certain floor of the building, then moved the body and equipment out of the toolbox, opened the glass, and threw the body down.
The scene paused here. Drex and Bruce looked at each other. Bruce was the first to speak: "There is a problem."
"Yes, that's the smell." Lex said immediately: "If the body is hidden in this kind of tool box and transported to the warehouse with the cleaners, there is no way that no one will smell the terrible smell of blood.
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Bruce immediately picked up the notebook next to him. He drew the shape of the corpse, then pointed at it and said: "This wound, and this wound, there was a lot of bleeding. Even when he was carrying the body,
The blood has dried, but there is no way it has no smell at all."
"There are two ways to make a corpse smellless." Lex immediately answered, appearing to be very familiar with it. He said: "The first is to use special chemical reagents to treat the corpse, and the second is to use other pungent smells to cover up the smell of blood.
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"Now that the body is missing, we have no way to verify the first possibility, but if we look at the second possibility, what can cover up the pungent smell of blood?"