Chapter 18: The Corpse

"So, you're not going to change into your outfit and go after some clues?"

Both Dick and Jason are not very interested in upper-class dinners, Dick generally does not take the initiative to attend such things except when necessary, and Jason, who is new to the city, is even less interested. In his opinion, this kind of place is a club of lies where everyone wears grinning masks and tells lies to each other.

The two of them wandered around the banquet hall boredly for a while, and then returned to the suite that had been prepared in the hotel.

Jason thought that Dick would definitely change into his uniform and run to find some clues, but unexpectedly, as soon as Dick entered the room, he collapsed directly on the sofa, fiddling with the laptop on his stomach and Barbara didn't know what was going on.

"Are you kidding, if I change into that uniform, I can't walk out of this room a meter away."

Tricking Superman was not a wise choice, and Dick didn't want to be put on Clark's list of forbidden Mets.

"He's that good?"

"Well, while he's been trying to block out useless sounds most of the time, I'm sure he's listening to this room right now."

"And what are you doing?"

Jason's attention shifted to the computer, where Dick was talking to Barbara.

"Barbara just sent the news that just now a body was found at the Gotham Police Station. Disfigured and currently unidentified"

"Is this worth noting?"

"The fingers of the corpses have almost no fingerprints"

“... What does this mean? ”

Jason doesn't understand why the absence of fingerprints on corpses is something to be noted about.

"It is impossible for someone in this world to be born without fingerprints, unless he is born without fingers, and most of the possibilities of not having fingerprints are the result of appearing in the acquired environment and often coming into contact with chemical agents."

Dick sat up and placed the computer on the coffee table so Jason could look at it.

"Some low-end manual labor will also come into contact with chemical reagents, such as renovation workers and chemical plant workers, but judging from the pictures of this corpse, the skin of this person who is not injured is not particularly rough, and the muscles of the body are not developed, so in the high-end work field, it will be in contact with chemical reagents..."

"Pharmacists, chemistry experiments, these?"

"You know?"

"Bruce said"

Jason's answer made Dick raise an eyebrow.

"How's that going? Are you going back tonight? ”

If Jason remembers correctly, Bruce's business meeting should have lasted for three days, and today is just an initial press conference, and another joint press conference will be held after the three days of negotiations. Six hours have passed since I flew back to Gotham, and I couldn't do anything.

"Bruce. Wayne can't go back, of course, but Batman definitely does."

Dick said with a smile that at the speed of the Batfighter, it would take them about 10 minutes to reach their destination, after all, the Batfighter could hover in the air at will.

“.. Then I'll call Bruce."

"No, he should already know, now that Luthor is there, he can't pull away, it is estimated that it will be a little later"

Dick said as he sent a message to Barbara on the other side, and Barbara quickly replied:

"Sheriff Gordon has already left a gap and can go directly to the corpse room"

By the time the dinner was over, it was already twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.

As soon as Bruce returned to the room, he changed into the black uniform, and to Jason's surprise, it was not only the Batmachine and Superman waiting for them on the rooftop.

"Is he going too?"

Jason asked Dick in a whisper.

"It seems that after all, this matter has something to do with Luther"

"Gone!"

Bruce regained the paralyzed face Jason was familiar with, and the previous image of Gotham Baby had completely lost any signs of this face, almost like a hallucination.

Several people soon arrived at the morgue of the Gotham Police Department, and Bruce skillfully turned off the alarm on the skylight, and several people hung from the skylight.

The temperature in the morgue was much cooler than outside, and Jason shivered from the cold, and the whole room was filled with corpse cabinets.

Bruce walked over to one of the drawers and pulled it open, revealing the mosaic-patterned corpse Jason had seen on his computer a few hours earlier.

Jason felt his quiet stomach churn again, and Dick noticed that he was standing silently in front of Jason to block the corpse, but he didn't dare to look at it nakedly.

After following Batman for so many years, Dick has seen a lot of corpses, all kinds of causes of death, but this corpse still gave him a big shock.

The body was covered with knife wounds, the cause of death stated in the autopsy report was suffocation, the black strangulation marks on the neck that obviously could not disappear indicated the appearance of the murder weapon, the fingernails were all removed, and the bloody fingertips were leaking, and the disfigured face was leaked.

I didn't think it was mosaic on the picture, but after seeing the corpse, I found that the face was obviously absolved by some kind of chemical agent, and the whole face was completely pasted together, and I couldn't distinguish the facial features, which was really .....

"B, what do I need to look for?"

Clark walked in front of Dick and cut off Dick's gaze that had been on the corpse, the autopsy that the corpse had been able to do, and most of the information could be found in the autopsy report.

Bruce took out tools and containers, took samples from different parts of the corpse, and said:

"Very small pinholes, the degree of cell toxicity, etc."

Bruce said as he scanned the body with the instrument on his mask.

"He... Can you really see it? ”

Jason is amazed at how Bruce lets Superman see with his super vision.

"Well, he could"

Dick and Jason had recovered from the rush just now, and the two of them stood by and watched Superman and Batman constantly examine the corpses, and occasionally exchange their findings.

The communication between Batman and Superman was mixed with a lot of technical terms that Jason didn't understand, Dick looked at Jason with a constipated but unasked expression, and then unconsciously explained a little on the side, and he could see the light in those green eyes.

"They have a good relationship"

Superman sees through Dick's little movements, and the little boy who has been following Bruce before now has a successor. Soon the boy will grow into a true vigilante on his own, just like his mentor.

Batman didn't seem to hear Superman's self-talk at all, still checking on the corpse.

"What did you find? b”

Seeing that Batman stopped acting in his hands, Superman knew that he had gained something.

"Not good news"

"Good news never makes you care"

Batman glanced at Superman and said:

"If the guess is correct, this person is Esma. Claude"

"Oh my God, that's probably the worst news"