Chapter Forty-Nine: The Penguin Man's Conspiracy

The cuneiform characters on the torn parchment scrolls were compared with a large computer database, but an unexpected conclusion was reached.

"Bruce"

"Huh?"

"Is it true that the ancient Egyptian civilization was founded by aliens?"

It's not surprising that Jason would think so, and it should be said that people who don't think that way after reading the translation on that parchment scroll are different.

It's a manual, at least Jason can only call it a manual, and the content it records is to introduce the use of energy ores, because the fragments are incomplete, so only part of the content can be translated, but the content of this part is enough to explain the horror of energy gems.

The principle is unknown, but the most important feature of this gemstone is that it can store energy, including light energy.

When Bruce reversely traced the smuggled artifacts, he discovered that the artifacts originated from a newly discovered catacombs in Egypt. It is located on a newly developed piece of land west of the Valley of the Kings, and its discovery was dramatic when a real estate tycoon wanted to develop a Valley of the Kings themed resort and bought the land, but discovered the tomb while the resort was being built.

The size of the tomb is not comparable to that of the Valley of the Kings, and there are no beautiful frescoes, rich funerary goods, or even any information about the identity of the tomb's owner.

The tomb was almost completely devoid of any valuable funerary goods, except for the four ornate jars made of gold next to the decaying coffin, which were particularly eye-catching, and the inside of the jars was empty. All historians have believed that they were the jars used to store the entrails of the mummies.

Strange to archaeologists, these four gold jars do not have any head decoration, just ordinary jars, which were used to store entrails only before the Middle Kingdom, but the patterns on the gold pots are closer to the aesthetics of the New Kingdom.

The identity of the owner is unknown, and the tomb itself does not have any archaeological clues, unlike the beautifully carved shrubs in the Valley of the Kings, it is just a very ordinary wooden coffin, due to the high moisture content of the soil where the cemetery is located, the coffin has decayed, the mummies are wrapped in tattered linen, and the corpses are naturally incomplete.

The choice of the location of this cemetery and the level of mummification are almost uninitiated, so archaeologists believe that the owner of the shogun is likely to be a small person with some financial resources but not enough to be mummified.

The Penguins smuggled these things and the four gold jars were all the burial goods in the tomb. The burial goods were stolen from the tomb to the Egyptian Museum, and later the four gold pots were found from the local black market, and the remaining parchment fragments and maid statues and the whereabouts of the crystal gem slices were only known from the mouth of the arrested criminal, but they didn't know who or where they came from, the goods were sold with one hand and the other hand, but asking the identity of the buyer is the unspoken rule of these tomb robbers, all they can know is that a short and fat man who walks up and has a little shaky buys, The interruption of the clue caused the stolen artifact to be completely lost, and judging by the time and the description of the tomb robber, it should have been bought by the penguin people.

To Bruce's curiosity, the Penguin Man had let go of the four pots of gold, which were worth more money anyway, and he would not believe that the Penguins would give up the pots for reasons such as being more conspicuous and difficult to smuggle.

"Why didn't he buy the pot of gold too?"

The question Jason asked was also something Bruce wanted to know. Bruce watched the message on the screen in silence.

"Unless the penguin man knows the value of these three things"

That's the only possible answer.

"How did he know?"

Jason continued to ask with his curiosity, but there were too many answers to the question, the penguins had smuggled a lot of things, and he probably had obtained other parts of the fragment from other cargo, or he might have found some clue from that Indian legend, or from some person in the know; But all this can only wait for the penguin people themselves to answer.

Just as Bruce's analysis of the case was in a stalemate, the bat alarm went off at an inopportune time, bringing up the camera footage related to the surveillance alarm, and the location of a physics research institute appeared on the screen.

The Batmobile soon arrives at its destination, and Bruce and Jason get off the Batmobile and are confronted with a laboratory that is almost in ruins.

Jason carefully observed the half-collapsed laboratory, and it was clear that some kind of equipment had been snatched away.

"What is this for?"

Jason turned his head to ask Bruce, who was looking for something in the ruins.

"A Research Laboratory for Physics Research Projects on the Effect of Magnetic Fields on Storms"

Bruce frowned as he looked at what was pressed under a piece of broken glass.

"What did you find?"

Jason noticed Bruce's strangeness and walked over curiously. When he saw Bruce looking at the things in his hand with a serious expression, he was a little taken aback.

"Feathers?"

"Owl's"

Jason didn't want to know what kind of bird the feather belonged to, he wanted to know why Bruce was staring at a feather with a serious expression. It's just that Bruce didn't give him a chance to ask questions, and after looking around at random, he said:

"Let's go"

"Hey, okay?"

This time, Bruce's on-the-spot inspection was a bit faster than Jason expected.

"Well, it's clear that the Penguins are here for this device, and the police will take care of the rest."

Listening to the sirens from far and near, Bruce and Jason leave the physics lab.

"What does that feather represent?"

As soon as he returned to the Batcave, Jason couldn't wait to ask. Bruce, on the other hand, seemed to be immersed in the analysis of a video footage from the computer, and had no intention of answering.

The video footage on the computer was the bat camera that Bruce had placed near the lab, and Bruce was using software to analyze what was going on from the video. The light gray frequency pattern flickered and flickered until it finally stopped at a single value.

"What is this?"

Bruce pressed a button, and suddenly there was a screeching sound from the stereo, and the frequency of the sound was so high that Jason covered his ears.

"It's the high-frequency sound of the penguin's bird flute"

“... Isn't the sound of a bird flute and a dog flute the same as that people can't hear? ”

Because of the stimulation of the high-frequency rhythm just now, Jason felt that the sound he listened to Bruce was like a film of water.

"I lowered the frequency"

Bruce said lightly, and then continued with what he was doing. Jason rubbed his ears vigorously to ease the discomfort.

"What does that sound mean?"

"The penguin man usually uses trained birds to gather intelligence and help him do things that no one else can do, and after this high-frequency sound sounds, a flock of owls flies into the lab and destroys most of the surveillance cameras with their beaks and claws, you see"

Bruce pointed to a very blurry location for Jason, and after magnifying it several times and filling in the software pixels, Jason finally saw that it was an owl that was destroying the camera setup.

“... Wouldn't they have triggered an alarm if they were so damaging the camera setup? ”

"Even if it is triggered, the security company will not know the specific situation, and can only come to check on the spot"

"What did the Penguins do?"

“.. To "

“... What are the Penguins going to do with that device? ”

Penguins spend so much effort just to grab a piece of scientific research equipment?

"That device can simulate the process of a magnetic field creating a storm."

“... But I don't think it's going to be too large."

If it could create a large-scale storm, this machine would have been acquired by the military a long time ago.

“.... Can't make it just because there's not enough energy."

With that said, Bruce had already sensed the Penguin's plan and why he had asked the Riddler to steal the Holy Heart, and the gem's stored energy was what the machine needed.............