Chapter 4: Strangeness

The sins of Gotham never ceased, and once again the bat lights up in the air. Gordon stood on the rooftop and watched Batman arrive as promised. handed over the information in his hand to this man, and briefly recounted the affairs of the case, just like every previous cooperation.

"Mudface!?"

Batman looked at the photos of the crime scene and the police victims' and eyewitness records in the data, and the steel-blue pupils under the mask contracted violently.

"Well, all the clues at the moment are down to Mudface, but we can't track him down at all"

Although the name of the mud face is mud face, his entire body tissue is made of mud, and he can easily enter the sewers and window gaps as long as they are not fully sealed. The mud left at the scene of the crime containing his cellular tissue is the only proof that he was there.

When he handed the sample bottle in his hand to the dark man in front of him, Gordon suddenly noticed something strange.

Today's Batman... Well, it gave Gordon a strange feeling, he couldn't tell what was strange, and if he had to say that, he was conspicuous.

Yes, Gordon finally sensed that something was not quite right with Batman. He is very conspicuous, although he is still wearing a uniform that can blend into the darkness as before, but Batman has a very strong presence at the moment.

"Hey! Man, are you okay? ”

Gordon still trusts Batman, and since he decided to join forces with this Gotham legend, he has provided as much information as he can on his side. But Batman himself has an indescribable illusory attribute, so he is always unsure whether the person he met this time is really the same person as the last time he met, so he has to maintain a certain degree of vigilance.

But this time the legend of Gotham has a completely different feel than before. Although it was still the familiar uniform, the familiar helmet, the only chin leaking from his face was not unusual, and the hoarse sound like rough leather rubbing did not change, but Gordon just felt something unusual.

Batman didn't answer Gordon's question, took the sample from Gordon's hand, pulled out the hook and lock, and left the platform as she had done when she came.

“..... Was he angry? ”

Gordon has experienced several life and death missions over the years as a police officer, and countless brushes with death have made him develop an intuition that is no less than that of a beast, but he is still not sure if his intuition just now is really accurate, after all, since he knew this man, he wondered if he didn't even need to breathe to be able to blend into the darkness so quietly, but the feeling he felt from Batman just now, the only thing that can be explained is only - anger.

Bruce didn't know what Gordon was thinking, and landed on the roof of a high-rise building after swinging through several buildings in quick succession. He pulled out a photograph from his pocket, which Alfred had taken when Jason came back from his first patrol and was running around excitedly in uniform and refusing to take it off.

The boy in the photo is smiling proudly, just like he did every time he successfully solves a problem, and every time he leaks this smile, the boy will deliberately suppress his voice and learn the tone of his voice, mimicking the scene with Alfred.....

A gust of night wind blew, and the huge cloak made a slight trembling sound under the night wind. Batman put away the photo and jumped from the top of a tall building, gliding like a giant bat towards tonight's goal in the night wind.

Quietly landed on the windowsill of his destination, pushed open the broken window and walked in.

This was the only place where the victim had been found, and after all the evidence had been gathered, the room was supposed to welcome the next occupant.

But it's clear that the landlord doesn't have the idea of renting out the room yet. There was also a faint stench in the room, which Bruce was familiar with, and he would not mistake it for the stench of Mudface's body after the worst of the many times he had fought with Mudface.

Turning on the mask's search function, he searched the entire room, from the ceiling to the corners of the walls, from the messy bed to the dirty bed, and he found many clues that the police could not find.

The faint stench in the air convinced Bruce of his guess that the victim was not the tenant of the room, but the mud face.

The time when this room was rented out happened after Arkham escaped from prison, and the short stay would not make the stench last too long in this well-ventilated room, and the landlord's conversation record also specifically stated that the tenant was a person with a very heavy body odor, and he didn't want to rent it to him at first, but he looked very pitiful, so he asked to keep the room clean and then rented it.

The landlord determined that he might be a tenant by his size, and the victim's physique belonged to the general public, so the mud face should have changed into a general public person who has been living here. According to the landlord, he used a check to pay half a year's rent in advance, but according to the signature on the check, it was found that it was a fictional character, which makes it more likely that the tenant is a clay face.......

Gordon returned to his office, pacing back and forth irritably, smoking cigarette after cigarette until the smoke enveloped the entire office.

"What's the matter?"

"I don't know, I've seen Batman come back and that's it"

"Didn't you see?"

"No, I don't think that's the case anymore."

"Innocent and gone?"

"Isn't the head used to it?"

Outside the door, a group of gossip subordinates surrounded Gordon's office, trying to see through the glass window obscured by smoke and blinds.

It's not that Gordon doesn't know how many gossip guys are gathered outside the door, and it's not that he doesn't want to give them some color and have them all work hard to reduce the number of cases on the table, but now he is not in the mood for that.

Ever since he met Batman, there has been a sense of unease surrounding him. I can't put it into words, but he's worried about Batman's condition.

He hoped it was just his own heart, after all, Batman didn't see anything unusual from head to toe, but Gordon just felt something different.

Anger, this is the first emotion he has felt from Batman since he met him, no matter how tragic the case is, the man has no mood swings, and Gordon has even guessed that Batman is actually a simulated robot made by a person who hates sin.

The fact that he felt human emotions so clearly from that man made him feel a faint sense of unease.

But why is he angry? Arkham was embarrassed in three days, and he was used to it, let alone Batman.

“... Speaking of... News by Bruce. Wayne's adopted son is drawn into the fight between the Joker and Batman and dies, so... What about Robin? ”

Gordon remembered that he hadn't seen the familiar red shadow next to the man tonight.

“.... Won't it....."