Chapter Twenty-Six: Discovered
"Well, please, kids"
Batgirl instructed a few police officers, and then she and Nightwing turned around and went back to help Batman.
The defenders of this island have nothing to worry about with their combat strength alone. So far, Nightwing has only found two people who may be involved with the Scarecrow, which is enough to suggest that the guy doesn't intend to get too involved in this matter.
It's not surprising that the goal of the Scarecrow is to rule Gotham, to rule the whole of Gotham with poison gas, and for the boring perverted hobby of Himmler and his ilk, if it weren't for the fact that he has access to a large number of test subjects, he probably wouldn't have stepped in at all.
However, what they need is not to defeat anyone or beat up a pervert, they have to get enough evidence to do it, and given the power of the Lawrence family in the political world as a whole, they have to make sure that the evidence is strong enough to deterrent.
In order to be able to enforce the law on this outlying island, Gordon has used all the connections at his disposal to mobilize the Coast Guard, and if he returns empty-handed, it will mean a complete failure for them, so they must find evidence that is actually enough for the judge to throw this group of scum in prison.
Shortly after Nightwing and Batgirl left, and the police put the children on the boat to leave the island, Jason suddenly jumped out of the boat before the officers could react, wrapped in a thermal blanket and quickly disappeared into the night.
“.... What to do? ”
A policeman asked, uncertain.
“... Let's sail."
"I'm going to find him?"
“.... Contact the sheriff and ask him to contact Batman, we're probably going to cause big trouble if we're found here now, get out of the boat."
“........... Well..........."
Until they get evidence of this, they will be found here in a big trouble, a trouble that will likely undo all their efforts, and they will have to leave this place for fear at this time.
Jason didn't know anything about the police's worries, he was just a little unwilling, although he didn't know where his unwillingness came from.
Jason hid behind a rock and watched the hole in the wall where they came out, and at this moment there were already several people patrolling outside the hole, not someone coming out of the hole.
“.... It's impossible to get in from here anymore..."
It didn't take much effort to come to this conclusion, and Jason regretted it a little, he should have at least had a gun that could shoot a swinging rope.
Just as Jason was thinking about how to get in from somewhere else, the crowd that had gathered here suddenly all fell back through the hole as if they had been instructed to do so, and soon it was empty. Jason crept closer to the entrance of the cave and found that there was no one, not even the dilapidated iron door...
"What happened?"
Soon, an explosion suddenly sounded from the front position explained Jason's doubts.
"Humph! True love is shown..."
Jason was willing to bet Alfred's hair that it would have to be Dick's guy who caused the explosion, but it was a chance.
Taking advantage of the chaos ahead to draw everyone's attention, Jason quickly ran down the empty hallway towards the room he remembered.
Between the days he was taken from the group to the solitary confinement room, he was taken to the room called Chris. It was probably the same Chris that Bruce was talking about and Himmler was talking about, and he did hear the guy who grabbed him call him Mr. Chris.
“... This is supposed to be the room..."
Jason stopped in front of a very ordinary, renovated room, which looked similar from the outside, and he was a little unsure.
The chaotic voices ahead came down the empty hallway, urging Jason to decide.
With a slight push on the door, it was easily pushed open by a crack. Jason learned Dick to observe the inside through the gap first, and the area within his vision was a mess, and it seemed that he had destroyed the evidence when he escaped.... Looks like I might be here for nothing.
Although he had a hunch that he might find nothing, Jason pushed open the door and walked in. The room was a mess, with a mess of paper scraps strewn across the floor. There was a laptop on the desk, a silver dagger stuck in the keyboard, and a few bullet holes next to it....
Why not take it away or set it on fire? Jason thought strangely. There was no pause in the movements in his hands, and it was too easy for him to remove the hard drive of a laptop as a thief, but it took a bit of effort to pull the dagger out of it.
“... I guess it's impossible to read it."
Looking at the extent of the damage to the hard drive, Jason made a brief assessment. With his hard drive in hand, Jason rummaged through the shredded paper on the floor to see if anything useful.
"I wonder why that old bat didn't come here crouching in Gotham, it turned out that you attracted it"
Jason was rummaging through a piece of paper on the ground when an unfamiliar voice suddenly came from behind him. Without the slightest hesitation, he rolled forward and dodged the first attack.
But before Jason could get up, the slightly obese figure rushed to Jason's side at a speed that did not fit his physique, grabbed Jason's head with one hand and pinned him to the floor.
“...... Stinky boy! I thought you were just a street thug... Could it be that you're the little imp who always follows the bat??!! ”
Chris's face was so close to Jason that Jason could see his hideous expression and the bruises on his temples.
When he struggled to fight back only to find that he couldn't move at all, Jason suddenly remembered that Bruce had said that Chris had been a mercenary for a long time...
"It's a pity for your pretty little face, I shouldn't have agreed with Himmler to use you as bait if I knew you had something to do with that bat..."
Chris's greedy gaze looked at Jason from head to toe, and Jason wanted to kick this guy in the nose with a naked gaze, and he swore he would do it if he had the chance.
"But you have some other use for me now"
In the end, Chris's sanity seemed to have the upper hand, and he lifted Jason up from the ground with one hand, and his huge hand squeezed Jason's head tightly, giving Jason the illusion that he would be crushed in the next second.
"Alright, let's see how far your mentor can go for you..."