Chapter Seventy-Four: The Disgusting Means
Poison Girl's behavior is just an episode in Bruce's quest for Professor Pigface, and Batman's recent focus is still on tracking down Professor Pigface, and the longer it drags on, the more victims there will be.
Bruce marked the whereabouts of the five victims on the system's virtual map, and there was no surveillance footage of the witnesses or any suspicious vehicles, so the temporary base of Pig Noodles should not be far from here.
Bruce used the system simulation to calculate the shortest and fastest retreat route for the kidnapping of Pig Noodles, and there was only... Underground drainage system too.
Bruce has been busy simulating and setting a route to delineate the range of movement of Pig Noodles, and Jason has been busy looking up Professor Pig Noodles' previous information.
There are a lot of perverts in Gotham, and there are a lot of perverted criminals, but Pig Face is the only guy that Dick uses the word disgusting when he mentions it to Jason.
Like the Scarecrow, Professor Inomian is also a chemist, strictly speaking, specializing in bioinformatics chemistry. His field of research is simply to use chemical agents to affect pheromones in the human body to turn people into puppets that he can manipulate, which sounds a bit like the puppet gas that the scarecrow used to make before.
In addition, Zhu Mian is also an expert in surgery, and he has surgically modified the human body to make these "puppet dolls" more in line with his hopes.
Unlike the scarecrow, who purely likes to use poison gas to arouse people's fear to dominate people's hearts and obtain satisfaction, Professor Pig's victims have basically no possibility of returning to normal, and many victims cannot accept the reality after regaining their sanity and choose to commit suicide.
Looking at the photos of the scene, Jason affirmed the precision of Dick's words, which could only be described as disgusting, so disgusting that Jason felt that he could skip tonight's dinner.
"Have you found this guy's hideout?"
Seeing that Bruce seemed to be taking action when he got up, Jason was also eager to take action.
Bruce didn't answer Jason's question, just kept staring at Jason, and when Jason wondered if he had something more on his face, he finally spoke:
"Jason promised me not to be impulsive no matter what I saw."
Dick's first glimpse of the Pig Noodle Lab is still fresh in Bruce's memory. In order to help Dick with his mental rehabilitation, Bruce called Dick's school and asked for a long vacation, and Clark took Dick on a trip around the world, which finally calmed Dick's heart filled with murderous intent.
It was also the first time Bruce began to question himself about involving a child in this kind of life.
Dick, who is optimistic by nature, has such a big reaction to what Pig Noodles does, so what will happen to Jason? He probably shouldn't have involved Jason in the operation, but it was a gamble and a test, and Bruce wanted to test Jason's bottom line to decide whether to let him continue Robin's life.
Bruce didn't know what the consequences of his decision would be, only hoped it wasn't the result he regretted the most.
The secret base of the pig noodles is enclosed in the drainage system, and the buildings on the ground are not so compliant.
Gotham's underground drainage system has been expanding with the establishment of Gotham City since the beginning of Gotham City, and it is like another Gotham city, even Batman's understanding of Gotham's underground pipe network does not dare to say that it has reached 100%, and the scale of the underground city in Gotham's most chaotic period even exceeded that of the above-ground city, and it is said to be the territory of an underground kingdom, literally an underground kingdom.
After centuries of construction and restoration, there are still suspicions that there are many undiscovered forks leading to the unknown underworld, and these have become part of Gotham's urban lore and are talked about by the citizens of Gotham. Some even set Batman as a subject or even a king of that underground kingdom.
"So, why build such a huge drainage system?"
The smell of the sewers is really not very good, and in order to avoid being detected in the places where he enters and exits, the underground pipe network that Batman usually uses has been renovated, and the smell is much better, and he can even smell the smell of clean water in heavy rain. Naturally, the hiding place of the pig noodles will not be deliberately cleaned up, and the smell of mud in the air is really uncomfortable for Jason. Jason really couldn't understand why the people at that time had built such a massive underground drainage system, and that such a large-scale drainage system could be used at the scale of Gotham at that time.
"When my ancestors came to this land, it was a barren land, there was nothing, a large influx of people brought all kinds of troubles, the crime rate was high, because the robbery was so frequent that it could not even be called a crime at that time, the legal people were digging their underground fortresses in order to protect their stolen goods.."
“... In the end, these underground fortresses were connected to form the prototype of the current underground drainage system? ”
"Yes"
Bruce rarely mentions Wayne's ancestors, and Jason's impression of the Wayne family is limited to the portraits of those who are some years old in Wayne's Manor studio.
“... So the Owl Court also exists? ”
As long as there is chaos, there will naturally be people who fight to protect the order. The current legend of Gotham City is Batman, and in the long history of Gotham, there is also an organization called the Owl Court, they appeared in the darkest and most sinful era of Gotham, it was an era when justice could not be served, this organization exists to eliminate those evils that cannot be eliminated by legitimate means, it sounds like they are doing something similar to what Bruce is doing now, of course, they are just legends, there is no evidence in history that can prove their existence, But it's hard to say, after all, Batman is real, isn't it?
Bruce didn't answer Jason's question, and a faint smell of blood began to fill the unpleasant air, which alerted Bruce.
Jason was given a signal, and Jason, who received the signal, lifted his spirit and walked towards the end of the pipe.
Dick used disgusting to describe what Pig Noodles did, and any information about Pig Noodles in the bat computer could be taken out to make an N24-level horror movie. But none of this was as good as the impact that Jason had witnessed with his own eyes, and the bloody images dipped in the thick smell of blood in the air, which made the stomach that was already tossed by the smell of sewers begin to churn.
It took some effort for Jason to finally swallow what was churning to his mouth.
A few improvised planks separated the water from the upper level of the sewer, and Jason took a closer look at the rusty iron cages on his left hand side, which were still stained with blood if he read correctly.
After looking left and right to make sure there was no one, Jason entered the fork in the road, and the uncirculated environment made the smell of blood here thick as if it was in a slaughterhouse.
Jason walked into the cage and took a look and saw three people inside.
"Hey! It's all right."
Jason hurriedly asked the people in the cage, but the three of them didn't seem to hear him at all and didn't respond.
Jason leaned closer and looked at the people in the cage closer, and suddenly found that the faces of the three people were not expressionless, but a mask sewn into them.
“... They're puppets who haven't been fully reformed."
Bruce followed from behind, explaining for Jason why the men were unresponsive.
"Cut!"
Jason also saw a large table with a large amount of blood in a fork not far away, and all kinds of human organs hanging from the wooden planks, and this was also the place where the smell of blood was strongest.
Jason approached, looked at the marks on the board, and already guessed what it was for.
“... There are two more people, go find them first."
Bruce calmly analyzed, the three people have begun to be transformed, but there are still two people who are nowhere to be found, although they have been transformed with the greatest likelihood, but it is not ruled out that they have not had time to be transformed, and rescuing them will be the first priority.
“... Why? ”
Jason didn't hear Bruce's words and act as he had done before, but lowered his voice and asked.
"Why don't you just kill this guy??!!"
Jason asked uncontrollably.
“... We don't have the right to take the lives of others."
"Then shall we allow him to take away the lives of others?"
After Jason yelled at Bruce angrily, he immediately turned to look for the two victims who might still be alive, he didn't know that Bruce was watching him with extremely complicated eyes from behind him. There is only one question in his mind now, why these guys who seriously endanger society will never be sentenced to death, and why the law and Batman should allow such people to continue to harm society.
He doesn't understand!