Chapter 35: Tracking the Scarecrow
Elsa is like a venomous snake, and the territory she has entrenched in is like a toxin-soaked soil, and no one will bother her. Jason's current state is like this, although Elsa is gone, but the women around him don't mean to gather around Jason, which is a good thing for Jason.
He finally had the energy to observe what he called a "boring, purely pretending" high-class banquet.
Jason took a closer look at the crowd and found that although people seemed to be moving at random, the inherent number of people would soon get together again, and it seemed that even the upper class had its own small circle, which was no different from the lower echelons of Gotham.
Jason looked bored for a while, and the guys who were chatting "in masks" turned their attention to Bruce's side, Bruce was hugging a blonde beauty on the left, holding a champagne in his right hand, standing in the crowd and talking about the next investment direction of Wayne Enterprises, and a few men around occasionally interjected a sentence or two, but quickly handed the home field back to Bruce. Wayne. One of the fat men who had a fight with the penguin people was Shipton.
Jason moved his gaze to Dick again, and the guy didn't know when he ran into a corner with that beautiful snake... Jason really didn't look at the slightest bit of unhappiness on his face...
"You're Bruce's new boy?"
A voice accompanied by a figure sat next to Jason, interrupting Jason's silent complaints. Although the tone is flat, the words can make Jason very unhappy, but he can't have a seizure, at least not here,
"No, me and him just.."
"I know"
The other party rudely interrupted what Jason was about to say, and Jason glared angrily at the rude guy. He was quite young, with blond hair and brown pupils, and even a well-fitting high-end suit couldn't hide his strong muscles. Jason couldn't figure out the purpose of the visitor, and the man's expressionless face made it impossible to tell what he was thinking.
The two of them sat like that, watching the crowd coming and going on the dance floor for a long time, and the man finally spoke the next sentence:
"My aunt asked me to say thank you to Mr. Wayne and apologize for her misunderstanding."
"Auntie?"
Jason turned his head to look at the man closely, and there seemed to be some familiar outline on the man's resolute face.
"Lady Emma is my aunt"
Jason understood that he was the nephew of Mrs. Emma's special forces.
"Then why are you..."
Jason was a little strange, why did he come running to him? Bruce's words are talking to those guys over there.
The man glanced over there, and then said with some embarrassment:
"He seems to be quite busy, I won't go, please tell me, then I'll leave first"
Jason understood that the man, like him, didn't like this kind of social dinner. After the man left, Jason turned his attention back to Dick's corner.
Although Dick said that if there was any accident, Jason must go to the rescue, but Jason was not sure if the person who was planning to have a French kiss with the beautiful snake at the moment was an accident... Calculate? Or doesn't count?
Eventually, Jason picked up two glasses of champagne on the table and walked into the corner, then accidentally spilled one on Dick.
"Oh . . . Hehe, the 'younger brother' came to find the 'elder brother', and it was very uneasy to stay alone? It's lovely."
Elsa smiled and gave Dick a kiss, then left another lip print on Jason's cheek, which had been wiped clean, and walked to the dance floor with the glass of champagne that Jason had not spilled.
“.... Excuse me? ”
"No, if you don't come again, I'm going to be eaten and wiped clean..."
"Did you hear something?"
"Let's go back and talk about this."
Dick didn't deny it, and it seemed that he had gained a lot. Dick then gives Bruce a hint and leaves the party with Jason.
Upon returning to the Batcave, Dick hurriedly pulled up a map of Gotham from the Bat's computer and circled a few locations on it.
"What are these?"
"The private abode of that beautiful snake"
Jason looked at the several locations that Dick had circled, each one either in a fancy apartment or in a high-end villa area.
"You suspect that the scarecrow is hiding in these buildings??"
With the character of a scarecrow, he should not live in such a high-class residence full of surveillance systems.
"No, let's go and search these places, I'm pretty sure Elsa must have something to do with the Scarecrow, we need some proof"
"Now?"
"Right"
After Jason and Dick changed into their uniforms and got ready, they broke through the empty door while the banquet was still going on.
"Where do we start? There are five houses in total."
Jason asked curiously.
“.... If it were you, where would you put things? ”
Dick thought for a moment, then tossed the question back to Jason. Jason thought for a long time and said:
"A less frequent, inconspicuous house is more convenient"
"Yes, so let's go to her villa first"
This is a very remote location of the independent luxury villa, Dick used infrared night vision devices to carefully avoid the villa's infrared security facilities to the front of the main house.
Looking at the exterior of the luxury villa, Dick wondered if it would be better to go in from the bed on the large terrace or through the small window on the other side. However, the layers of security measures in this villa made him not surprised at all, the house must also be full of cameras, as soon as they entered, it is estimated that they will be sent remotely to the beautiful snake's mobile phone.
"Why don't you go in?"
Jason walked around the house and asked.
"I'm wondering how I can avoid being caught by the security inside."
"Cut the power supply, I saw the entrance to the security line over there"
Jason casually made a suggestion, anyway, when he used to burglary, he would usually cut off the power supply first, which would be much more convenient.
"This is a high-end villa, the security level is not the same level as those communities below, if you cut it casually, the security company will come over"
"What then?"
Dick thought for a moment, then walked around to the security line entrance in Jason's mouth. The entrance is on a wall on the second floor, which is not a problem for Nightwing. Took out the hook and grabbed the gun, hoisted himself to the level of the access box, opened the lid of the box, connected the two data cables from the computer on his wrist to the security line inside the box, and after operating for a while, he returned to the ground and said proudly to Jason:
"I've gone around the video in a loop, let's go, we can find it slowly"
"Cut"
Looking at Dick's appearance, Jason was very upset.
"Hmm... Where do you get in? The door is a bit troublesome, but the patio door is estimated to break the glass to open.... It's still the gate."
"Let's go, go to the terrace"
After Jason finished speaking, he flew directly onto the terrace with his hook, and Dick had to follow him before he could stop it.
"Robin, don't break the glass"
"Not necessary"
Jason pulled out a superfine fiber from his belt and folded it into two strands, then carefully tucked it through the crack in the patio door, carefully hooked the latch buckle inside, and dragged it back and forth with the thin fiber, and soon opened the closed latch. The technique is not ordinarily skilled, and it is clear that he does this kind of thing no less.
After the patio door was opened, the two men entered the villa and began to look for the clues they needed.
"What are we looking for?"
Jason asked, looking at the large room. This villa is not big, at least not compared to the villas under Bruce's name, but it is definitely not small, with 3 bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, 2 kitchens, a study, a large bathroom, a home theater, and a large living room, Jason thinks it will be a little difficult for them to find.
"Computer"
Dick replied to Jason's words dryly, what he needed to find was a record of the woman's connection with the scarecrow, so as to see if he could find a clue to the scarecrow's hideout.
The two of them designated the first stop as the study, and when they came to the study, a computer was quietly placed on the table.
Dick turned on the computer, unsurprisingly a high-end computer that needed to be unlocked by a fingerprint, and carefully took out a transparent finger sleeve from his belt and put it on his index finger and pressed it on the position of fingerprint unlock, and the computer quickly turned on.
"What is this?"
Jason asked curiously.
"Simulated finger cuffs made from fingerprints taken from Elsa"
Dick searched his computer for every piece of information he needed without looking back.
Jason curiously picked up the finger cuff and looked at it carefully, it was very thin, thinner than surgical gloves, I don't know what material it was, it must be a high-tech material he had never heard of. Through the moonlight outside the window, the lines on the finger sleeve are clearly visible.
"When did you get your fingerprints?"
Jason suddenly thought of this question, could it be that he had already included this woman in the object of suspicion?
"When I hugged the woman at the dinner party"
Dick was busy copying what he needed from his computer, and soon all the data in that computer was copied by Dick in his own computer.
"Alright, let's go"
After making a copy of all the data, and then putting everything back as far as possible, Dick and Jason left the villa.