Chapter Twenty-Three: Bait

This incident will definitely not be an isolated incident, Gordon and Batman are so sure. Things soon went as they expected, and the second victim arrived.

Mrs. Monica, a fashion godmother with a jewelry collector's penchant. The excellent family environment gave her the innate conditions to support her hobby, because of her fanatical love for jewelry and extreme critical eye, she finally became the godmother of the jewelry fashion industry, and the jewelry collection under her name was enough to open a jewelry fair. There are even a few pieces of jewelry collected in the early days that are listed as national treasures and are often borrowed from museums for exhibition, and the person who reported the crime was her eldest daughter, Jessica.

"Uhhh Ms. Monica, you mean it's impossible for your maid to do such a thing? ”

Jesca's relationship with Monica is not very good, and her words directly imply that Monica's personal maid is a suspect. Although the police do not use this as evidence to arrest the maid, it is very tempting.

But unlike Jessica's insistence, Monica herself didn't think that the maid who had been with her for almost thirty years would be the culprit.

"Yes, Anna has been with me for almost thirty years, I have no doubt about her sincerity, not to mention that she is also qualified to inherit a part of the jewelry, there is no reason why she would steal her own things, ah I seem to have said a little too much, please keep it secret"

At this point, the silver-haired Monica winked mischievously at the police. The world of the plutocrats is not something they can understand for their little policemen who pay a small salary, but it can be guessed that if Jessica outside knows about it, it will be troublesome.

“.. Well, this involves your privacy, but in order to make it easier for us to solve the case, can you ask about your will? ”

“... Are you suspecting that someone knew about my will, so you did it first? ”

"Hmm... Just a possibility."

"Actually, I didn't subdivide it too much, except for those national treasures that will be sent to the museum after my death, and I left some for Anna, and the rest... I haven't figured out what to do with it."

Monica's words caused the police to arrive with a headache, and when she was about to leave, she was stopped by a chubby woman in her fifties wearing a maid suit, she was Monica's personal maid Anna.

"Uh, what's the matter?"

The policeman asks curiously, and according to the normal questioning, this woman should be one of their interrogators, but Monica seems to be afraid that the police will see Anna as a suspect and refuses their request.

Hearing the policeman's question, Anna lowered her head and thought for a moment before saying:

"I know that Mrs. Monica won't let you ask me because my testimony seems to be against me, but I'm pretty sure that it was Mrs. Monica who took the jewelry and that I helped pack it and carry it to the transport cart."

Anna's words made the officers look at each other for a moment, then asked a few more questions before leaving the manor.

Gordon looked at the information brought back by the police, he knew that it was the Mad Hatter who was doing it, but the funny thing was that in this case, he knew who the culprit was, but he couldn't arrest him, and he didn't know where the things had gone, and the possibility of recovering them was too small.

According to Anna's confession, they found the car where the transport car was located, but according to the feedback records of the car dealership, the car described by Anna was not the same car at all, and it was clear that the license plate number of the car was fake.

"If you can't recover the stolen goods, there's no point."

Gordon looked at the stacks of copywriters and wanted to pull his hair out. This is something that Gordon is bothered about, but Bruce is also bothered. Bruce, sitting in front of the computer, was analyzing the information he had just taken from Gordon.

“.. No, you can't convict the mad hatter if you can't find something."

Hypnosis is a criminal method that has a lot of uncertainty in itself, and there are very few things that can be used as evidence, and the reason why the mad hatter can be sentenced for the petty crime of stealing has been several times, and the reason for the long sentence is only because he stole the trade secrets of Wayne Enterprises or the Lex Group.

Bruce had fought the Mad Hatter many times, and he knew full well that the guy must be sitting in his house waiting for victory to come.

The Mad Hatter is different from other crimes, similar to the Penguin, he never worries about finding a hiding place, only a hiding place for his loot. After all, it is impossible to criminalize hypnosis in the current law. If he can't find the stolen goods, and if he can't prove that the stolen things are related to him, then the law is of no use to him at all.

Glancing at the time on the computer, Bruce took off his uniform and returned to the manor, where a must-attend dinner awaited him in the evening.

Alfred has prepared some light meals, and you can't expect to be full at dinner, can you?

Bruce turned on the TV and watched the news while eating a light meal. The news broke out in the news that the patent rights under the name of Christian, a rising IT star, were suddenly transferred, and three of the people who photographed five sets of virtual spinal cord chips that day had inexplicable property losses.

"Master Bruce, Sheriff Gordon's call"

Alfred held a cell phone and asked what he meant, and Bruce thought for a moment before taking the call. After talking to the people on the ground for a while in a cheerful tone, he hung up the phone.

"Ah Fu, send that chip to my bedroom, and remove the isolation cover"

“.. Ok sir."

Alfred knew what Bruce was up to, and he was powerless to stop it, so he had to do as he wanted.

At the dinner party, Bruce is still the high-spirited Gotham baby, and the death of his adopted son does not seem to have affected him much. But a group of women still used this as an excuse to approach him, and the familiar smile and measured attitude subtly rejected everyone's "kindness".

"It's so ruthless, it seems that it is impossible to say that"

"What's that?"

"Don't you know, isn't it rumored that Bruce went directly to Korrick to buy the Joker back in order to avenge his adopted son?"

"You really believe that."

"Isn't it?"

"How is it possible, what did the government do, after all, it is such a dangerous guy, and the country of Krek has been in war all year round, and the construction company under Wayne's name, as the first batch of aid companies to settle in, is estimated to make a lot of money this time."

“... It's also said that the adopted son is a charity trophy for him, and it's almost the same as those charity certificates and earl titles, and it's good to change another one if it's gone."

Whispers in the distance couldn't hide Bruce's hearing, and no one noticed the clenched fist he held at his side.