Chapter Seventy-Four: Operation in the Shadows
"What happened? Ah Fu"
When Bruce returned, he noticed a subtle abnormality in Alfred, which struck him as strange. Although he acted very normal, Bruce had been with him for so many years and knew the old man well, and he was confused by something.
“..... No, maybe it's just an illusion of age..."
Alfred didn't know how that feeling came from, and when he entered the Batcave as he always did today, he always felt that something had changed. It was a kind of vigilance he developed when he was in the army. But everything you can see is so normal, and the surveillance video in the computer has not changed, maybe it's just a nervous illusion.
Bruce looked up at the old man, and swept over everything in the cave, including the bats above. Everything is so much normal. There's nothing out of the ordinary, but there's always a sense of disobedience here.
"Someone has been here"
This is not an interrogative sentence but an affirmative sentence.
"Master Tim? Probably not, he's been recuperating in his room."
Tim was grounded, and now his daily life is to lie on his bed and eat nutritious meals, and then take his laptop computer to search for some necessary clues, deal with the financial statements of Wayne Enterprises or something, and be urged by Alfred to sleep on time at half past nine every day, thanks to such a regular life, Tim originally belonged to a physique that was not easy to gain weight, and recently had a tendency to be rounded, I believe that after his bones are completely healed, the first thing he needs to do is to train all his muscles back.
“... No, maybe it's just my delusion, I'll check the monitoring system later, don't worry Ah Fu"
"Okay, Master Bruce"
After Alfred left the Batcave, Bruce turned on his computer and entered the defense surveillance system to take a closer look.
Alfred didn't notice what was going on, but Bruce found out. Everyone has some specific habits, some people like to walk in the middle when they walk, while some like to walk on the side, some people like to walk in a straight line, and some people walk in a crooked way.
Bruce is certainly no exception, and he will bring Bruce. Wayne has created a lot of small habits under this mask that are deliberately shown to others, and these habits will never appear on Batman.
But these deliberate disguises unconsciously relax when he returns to the cave, so he has his own habits here. Where the Batmobile stopped, the path he took when he got out of the car, which Tim and Dick were all the same. They all have their own habits, and these habits are gradually leaving their mark in this cave.
Bruce looked at the rocky floor of the cave, and there were small marks on it that ordinary people didn't pay much attention to, those were the marks they had left when they had been walking back and forth on it for a long time.
What Alfred noticed was the route that was almost never taken, and the small changes in the rock formations in those places did not attract the attention of others, but the attentive Alfred noticed, but he did not realize that he had noticed this, he only noticed it instinctively, and this instinct came from his former military career and from his long career as a steward - careful.
Alfred was a good steward, knowing the location of every brick in the manor, the appearance of every flower in the courtyard, and the attachment to every rock in the bat cave.
Alfred was aware of it, but he didn't know he was aware of it.
Who is the other party?? What are you doing here? Bruce quickly called up the computer, hoping to find some clues inside.........
In the dark space, a man wearing headphones listened silently to the sound coming from inside, and the extremely small space was filled with the sound of his restless heartbeat and breathing.
The indescribable excitement and excitement in his heart made him almost unable to control himself, and he wanted to rush in now, through the window or through the door, and send all the guys inside to God with the two weapons in his hand.
But he knew he couldn't do it yet.
[Listen to Jason, he is not an ordinary madman, his behavior is completely irregular, and his desires will change at any time like flowing water, you can't guess his next purpose and it is completely impossible to convince him, you must be highly vigilant when facing him, once you let him find a gap, you will die, understand]
[That is, he is a madman? 】
[Right]
Batman's warning back then is still ringing in his ears, and he once ignored this advice and paid with his life, so he wouldn't make the same mistake twice this time.
He went to the Batcave to get the materials Bruce had gathered, and the man didn't even realize what those broken clues meant, because in his bones he always thought that this madman had no pattern to find.
It's true that the clown doesn't have any rules, and he does things very wildly, which is completely impossible for people to think, but this is from the perspective of a normal person's thinking.
There is a pattern to any crime, and what is not regular cannot be called a crime at all, it is just an accident.
He's crazy, really crazy, but when you drag away from normal people's mindsets, you'll find that he's not so irregular.
A gunshot rang out from the monitor, and after the loud noise, all the noisy background sounds disappeared. The sound of a leather boot colliding with the ground came, and the rhythm of walking, alternating twice heavy and one light. He was all too familiar with the rhythm, and in that cold warehouse, the ears attached to the ground could always hear the sound of this rhythm from the vibration of the floor—the steps of the clown!
【Ha!! How's that? It's a good day and it's a good time to trade, so don't worry about it! 】
The clown's shrill voice came from the monitor, and from the conversation just now, Jason had already made a judgment that this madman had killed his own people.
It's not surprising, clowns are crazy, but there will always be fools who worship such fanatics.
Have you ever seen a guy in his right mind go to the table with his counterparty? The Joker is one such madman. He killed one of his own people just to curry favor with his partner.
He killed his own people, so he was considered a madman. But how can a madman go out to curry favor with his partner? So he's normal.
Bruce calls the situation "lucid madness." He thinks the Joker is a sober madman who only knows his madness.
For this conclusion Jason is completely dismissive, and he is not afraid of death to be called a madman? Killing a person who is dispensable to himself, but can please the other party and gain benefits for himself is a madman?
Bruce's perception that he was still at the level of a normal person interfered with his judgment and put this guy in the category of a madman, which was a serious mistake for him.
The guy he had been looking forward to for a long time finally came out, and after confirming this, the heartbeat that had been agitated because of excitement in the past few days calmed down.
The eavesdropping on the clown and the other party's deal continued, and Jason listened quietly and recorded important information in the paper in his hand from time to time.
This time, he'll give the clown a funeral to remember!