When Bruce gradually regained consciousness, it was already dark. He felt as if he had had a dream. When he woke up, he had completely forgotten what he had dreamed about.
Bruce felt hungry, but there was no ready food to satisfy his hunger. He stood up, then shook twice and fell to the ground.
Sitting in an incorrect posture for a long time puts too much force on his pelvis, resulting in poor blood circulation in his back and legs. To put it simply, his legs become numb.
When Bruce fell, his elbow hit the edge of the steps. He screamed in pain and looked at his arm with a grin.
"Damn, that's really unlucky, isn't it?"
He said, but suddenly, he was stunned for a moment. He realized that there were no outsiders here and he did not need to act for anyone, so he pursed his lips and stood up again.
What hit him this time was dizziness. Not eating for a long time gave him some symptoms of hypoglycemia. But fortunately, his body was already very strong, so he only felt dizzy for a while and then returned to normal.
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Bruce slowly walked out, found the car he had driven over, and sat in the cab. He let out a sigh of relief, but as soon as he was about to start the car, he found that it would not start at all.
After several repeated attempts, Bruce had to get out of the car to check the car's engine. After opening the hood, he was stunned.
Because the entire engine is missing.
Bruce closed the hood hard. He looked around and found no trace of the thief. This was very common in Gotham. It can only be said that the other party left a shell for him, which was already considered a good thief.
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This car is not the Batmobile, it has not undergone those complicated modifications, and it does not have a backup engine. Therefore, it is completely undriveable now.
Bruce looked around and found a public phone booth on a nearby street. After he walked in, he called Schiller and said, "Professor, please go to Wayne Manor and bring Elsa to your manor."
Go inside."
"Yes, Alfred is sick and cannot take care of her for the time being. During this period, I may have to trouble you. Thank you, Professor."
After hanging up the phone, Bruce lowered his head and sighed. When he turned around and walked out of the phone booth, it was raining again.
This is the edge of Gotham's West End, and it is also a wealthy area. Every household has a private car, and most of them have their own drivers. Almost no one takes a taxi, so there are generally no taxis here.
Bruce now has two choices, go back to the phone booth and call a taxi, or walk directly back to the manor.
It was not far from Wayne Manor, so Bruce decided to walk back by himself. Anyway, even if he returned to the manor, there would be no one, so why go back in a hurry?
In other words, he actually had a kind of resistance and hoped that the return journey would be longer so that he would not have to face the empty manor hall.
After walking out of the alley and standing on the street, Bruce looked around, determined the direction, and then walked towards one end of the street.
The night rain in Gotham was very cold, but Bruce didn't care. He walked slowly back along the street. Soon, a familiar building appeared in his sight.
That is Gotham's Grand Theater, a landmark building in the West End. The last time Bruce came here, as Batman, he watched the execution of the Court of Owls.
There is no Owl now, but there is no Batman either.
The location where Bruce stood was behind the Gotham Theater, not in front of the main gate, so there were not many cars and no pedestrians. However, looking at it from this angle, the lights in the Gotham Theater were bright and shining through the windows.
The lights illuminated half the street.
This is actually very rare, because this grand theater is too old, and within a few years, no decent theater troupes are willing to perform here.
Looking up at the light coming from the window, Bruce thought of what Alfred had said before, the news that the Angelica Troupe was going to perform here. He had heard of the name of this troupe, which was a very famous one on the East Coast.
troupe.
Bruce remembered that when he was at the Met, he saw specific actor information at the door of a certain theater. The current leading actor of this theater company was named Alex.
Smith is a very handsome young actor.
He often played the leading role in Shakespeare's plays, especially when the protagonist was handsome in his youth. Girls on the East Coast liked to call him "Metropolitan Dream."
Correspondingly, it is the heroine of this troupe, Vicky Sandra, known as the Pearl of the East Coast.
There are rumors outside that they are a couple, but they themselves deny this. Since they often play lovers on stage, many gossip newspapers make a big fuss about this, often following them and filming various scenes.
Such photos are taken in the hope of digging out a deeper relationship between them.
When these materials were played in Bruce's mind, he found that it had become an instinct for him to write down every piece of information he heard and saw, and then when he saw something related to it, he would immediately read it from the beginning.
Review it to the end to make sure you don’t miss any important information.
But what's the use? Bruce thought, Batman has become a thing of the past. Now, as long as he puts on the bat suit, he will become a street rat that everyone shouts about.
Even if he wants to help others now, the victims will scream repeatedly when they see him, and they will run away desperately without cooperating, as if they have seen a ghost.
Bruce lowered his head and planned to walk forward, but at this moment, he heard the sound of a vase breaking from a room near his direction inside the theater.
Bruce instinctively turned his head and looked at the room where the sound came from. There was a warm light in the room, but similarly, the figure blocking the light became extremely clear.
A female silhouette in a dress staggered to the window, patted the window twice, and then slowly fell down.
Bruce opened his eyes wide. He rushed towards the window without thinking. He stood under the wall and took a closer look. He found that there were blood stains on the place where the woman had just been slapped, indicating that her current condition was very bad.
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This room was on the third floor on the east side of the theater. Bruce immediately started looking for a passage to the third floor. However, the theater had only one entrance, not even a back door. If he wanted to get to the room immediately, he had to climb the wall.
Bruce found a drainage pipe in the corner, climbed up the drainage pipe three times, and then jumped from the balcony of the easternmost window to the balcony of that room.
He pulled the closed window hard, making a loud noise. When he looked inside the window, he found that a figure seemed to be frightened away by the sound.
But because his eyes could not immediately adapt to the sufficient light in the room, Bruce could not clearly see what the figure looked like. He could not even distinguish between male and female. He could only see his panicked figure and hear a series of subtle and almost imperceptible footsteps.
With a "bang", he pulled the window open, climbed over the window sill, and rushed into the room. Bruce saw a woman in a dress lying in the middle of the room.
Blood spread along her chest, dyeing most of the dress red. Bruce didn't have time to think too much. She rushed to the woman's side and reached out to hold the artery on the side of her neck.
But unfortunately, this woman is dead.
With a "bang", the door was pushed open, and a group of people rushed in. The leader shouted: "What's wrong? Why is there such a big movement?!"
Suddenly, a scream came, and Bruce looked up. In the bright light, he saw a familiar face, that was Miss Goethe. She screamed and shouted: "No! Miss Vicky! You
What's wrong?!"
She rushed forward in panic, but took a few steps back because of the strong smell of blood.
In the crowd, a gentleman came out and helped Miss Goethe up. He looked at Bruce and said sternly: "Who are you? Why are you here? What did you do to Miss Vicky?"
"Oh, God! Mr. Wayne!" Another scream sounded, and Mrs. Goethe walked out of the crowd. She grabbed Mr. Werther in front and said: "Mr. Werther, you may not know him, he is
Bruce Wayne!"
"Mr. Wayne, what are you doing there? Come here quickly, that body may have some... I mean... the blood may be dirty, you'd better come here quickly!" Mrs. Goth waved to Bruce with concern.
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Bruce stood up and looked at the group of people. There were nine people in the group.
Mr. Werther stood in the middle, the Goths and their daughters stood on the right, and another fat man stood with them.
On the left is another young man who looks somewhat similar to Werther. Next to him is the owner of the Angelica Theater Company.
A little further back, another tall man was pushing forward. He passed through the crowd and rushed to Vicky's side, shouting: "No! Vicky! What's wrong with you? Call the doctor."
!quick!"
"Alex, calm down!" Another older actor rushed up and helped Alex.
Bruce saw that the man named Alex was indeed very handsome. He had long hair and was wearing armor and costumes for performances. When he knelt down on the ground, his whole body jingled.
There were two other people, one of whom was holding a makeup brush and seemed to be the makeup artist of the theater company, and the other was holding a notebook and might be a prop artist.
More than a dozen people surrounded the whole house, and soon the police arrived.
When Gordon saw Bruce, he reached out to cover his forehead. He lifted the hem of his windbreaker behind with one hand, touched the side of his cheek with the other hand, and asked Bruce, "Why are you here?"
Bruce stood there, looking down at the body, without speaking.
But at this time, Mrs. Goethe stepped forward and said to Gordon: "Mr. Wayne may have come here because of his reputation. After all, every mailbox in our manor area has received the playlist of the Angelica Theater Company...
…”
"In the East Coast theater performance circle, the audience can visit the backstage before the performance. I think Mr. Wayne may have come here for this, just like us."
Mrs. Goethe helped Bruce explain a lot, but at this time, Mr. Witte raised doubts. He said: "When we rushed into the room, he was already here. He was the first person to touch the body.
, there is a strong suspicion..."
Mrs. Goethe winked at Werther desperately, and Werther seemed not to see her. Ms. Goethe was crying aside, Alex knelt on the ground and wailed, and the others looked in disbelief.
Gordon was so troubled by this situation that he had to drive everyone out of the room, divide them into several groups, and let them stay in other rooms to wait for interrogation.
He first called Bruce out and asked him: "What's going on with you? Didn't I tell you everything? You need to calm down a little these days, otherwise you may really be wanted... Wait, why didn't you
Wear a uniform?”
Only then did Gordon realize that the person here was not Batman, but Bruce Wayne. However, how could Bruce Wayne be involved in the murder?
The current situation has completely exceeded his expectations. Gordon knows one thing very well, that is, as long as either Batman or Schiller appears at the scene of the murder, it proves that the murder is
The case may be troublesome.
Gordon held his temples with a headache. He looked at Bruce and said, "Okay, what did you see? Who killed the heroine of the troupe?"