What about him? 】

[He has something to do for the time being]

[It's okay, how long will it take]

[Research has entered a bottleneck]

【.. I'm not interested in the internal affairs between you, but I hope to get the 'goods' on time, and the buyer's side has started urging]

[Don't worry, it will be delivered on time]

[That's good, the new funds will be credited to the designated account tomorrow, but this is the last time, and I will see the goods next time]

Dick stared at this communication log, judging from the time, this should be a conversation that happened in the last few days, judging from the content, the person who spoke to Elsa was not the same person as before, Elsa didn't care about it, she only cared about the goods and delivery time. But if the other party is a scarecrow, why do you say that the product is not good? Judging from the samples of poison gas they have found so far, this poison gas has stabilized, and the five victims have not shown any signs of recovery so far, and have been waiting for the development of an antidote.

"Did you find anything?"

Jason asked, eating Alfred's snack.

"No..... It seems that they have no intention of meeting at all, and then again, why don't you see any meat growing after eating five meals a day? ”

Dick has read the record back and forth many times, and there is more to the previous content, but most of it is about the value of the project, which should be Esma's rhetoric when she hopes to get sponsorship, and the content of the dialogue behind is not a single superfluous word, simple and clear, nothing more than asking for money and then asking for goods.

"Ah Fu said that I am growing my body, and eating more now is to lay the foundation for growing taller in the future, and I will definitely grow a big and tall man"

"Oh . . . Is it...."

Dick decided to abandon the topic and continue to focus on the information on the computer.

"Even if you don't meet, you always have to deliver it, didn't you say where it was delivered?"

"No ......"

Despite Dick's words, he flipped back through the chat, a conversation in the previous record that made him a little concerned.

"Do you think the scarecrow has any benefit in this?"

The bored Jason asked another irrelevant question.

"How?"

"Hmm... Isn't his purpose just to make people fearful? He doesn't seem to care much about money."

Jason's question Dick also thought about it. The whole event is completely different from the style of the scarecrow. No matter how you look at it, this thing looks like a typical black eater. The problems that can arise in any region of the United States are simply incredible in Gotham, which is not to say that Gotham's underworld is very moral, but that most of Gotham's underground bosses are crazy.

Poison Ivy is a crazy extreme environmentalist who is obsessed with plants above all else; The Riddler is a high-IQ criminal who likes to show off, although he is also committing crimes for money, but more out of showing his own intelligence; The Mad Hatter is out of revenge; Although the penguin people love money, they are also motivated by revenge; The ventriloquist is a psychopath, and of course the most famous madman clown, not to mention the two-faced man or something, that's his nightmare, so in the whole Gotham underground boss, the black mask is the most normal one, at least he is just for money, and he does things like smuggling arms, drugs, etc.... It's crazy though.

After carefully counting Bruce's opponents, Dick was tired to find that none of their opponents were anything normal.

“....... And there's a crossdresser here..."

Dick turned his head to look at Jason, who was fighting with a baguette, his eyes stayed on Jason's new uniform for a long time, Jason, who had been watching, felt strange and asked him with his gaze, and finally Dick came to a conclusion again - the whole Gotham is a large mental hospital!

After a period of decadence, Dick suddenly thought of a question from Black Mask, how big was that thing?

"What's wrong?"

Jason noticed that Dick suddenly started fiddling with something on the computer with great energy, and it seemed that he had discovered something.

"I was thinking, if poison gas was a commodity, it would need at least a very large canned transport vehicle."

Dick opened the Gotham map, and that day in the chemical factory, they did hear them mention that the scarecrow would find a time to transport the rest of the stuff, and if his guess was correct, it was the poison gas stock solution that had already been made. Poison gas is supposed to be the goods in Elsa's mouth. The reason why the scarecrow said that there was still a flaw was because of the ingredient list that Esma had hidden, so he was unable to make a new poison gas, so he told Elsa that there was a bottleneck in R&D.

But who is the buyer in Elsa's mouth? How Dick felt that this matter was getting more and more complicated.

Just when Dick is completely at a dead end, Bruce returns.

"What's the receipt?"

Dick asked lazily with the feeling that he would not be answered. Bruce didn't answer Dick's question, but instead changed into his uniform and looked like he was going to go out.

"Hey, hey. Can you tell me where you're going? ”

Although he knew that his protest would only be taken as a deaf ear by this man, Dick couldn't help but complain that he shouldn't have believed Superman's words that he would say such nonsense whenever he asked Bruce.

"Let's visit Shipton"

"Is there anything you need to care about?"

"He's had a couple of cross-border businesses lately"

Bruce got his gear and headed for the Batmobile.

"Jason!"

Walking up to the car, Bruce called out to Jason, who was sitting next to him, and motioned for him to follow. Jason jumped out of his chair, grimaced Dick, and happily jumped onto the Batmobile. Looking at the vanishing back of the Batmobile, Dick said dissatisfiedly:

"He's never called me before... That's too obvious."

"Master Jason just won't be as proactive as Master Dick."

Alfred walked over with a glass of juice and explained to Bruce in passing.

“.. I know"

Of course Dick knows this, Jason still doesn't think he belongs here from the bottom of his heart, the evidence is that the money in the pocket money account that Bruce set up for him has only increased and not decreased, Dick is curious why Jason doesn't spend it, and after asking for a long time, he guessed from Jason's reasoning. Jason always thought that he would one day have nothing to do with this family, and that money was prepared for that time.

Dick thought he would be as worried about spending money for Jason as Bruce did, but he felt that he needed to worry about not spending money for Jason now, the insecure little guy who was still worried that he would be kicked out of here one day.

"Hmph, is it going to wait until he's married, when Bruce hands him over to his fiancée, 'Daddy'? .... It's not right, he's not a girl, and it's supposed to be his fiancée's father who took his fiancée's hand and handed it to him."

Dick grumbled as he drank the juice.

"It's strange why Shipton's multinational business would make Batman out"

Dick found out about Bruce's abnormal behavior in hindsight, Shipton is also a businessman, it is not strange to have a multinational business, Bruce also has it, some businesses are still cooperative with Shipton, and some are competitive, how could he suddenly be interested in Shipton's multinational business? It is understandable as Bruce, but Batman ....

"Ahh

"What's wrong? Master Dick"

“... No.. It's nothing, that Ah Fu, I remembered that there were other things, I went first"

Dick hurriedly packed up his things and rode out of the Batcave. On the way back, Dick picks up Barbara's signal:

"Barbara, help me find out what foreigners Shipton and Elsa have been doing business with lately"

"Is that the Shipton and Elsa I know?"

"Yes, it's the beautiful snake"

“ok”

Dick made it all the way back to his safe house, and immediately turned on his computer, where Barbara's search for information was lying quietly in his secure mailbox.

"I wonder why Luthor and the Scarecrow seem to be related and don't seem to be related."

There is only one reason why Batman pays attention to Shipton's multinational business, and that is that the business should have something to do with the scarecrow, and it should also be the "buyer" in Elsa's communication records, if not someone who has some kind of relationship in itself.

There is also a buyer for the project that Luthor asked Bruce to develop together, and Luthor also aims for money, but if nothing else, Luthor's buyer is the military, otherwise he would not say that the government will invest.

Esma is supposed to be the one who works with Luther, and Scarecrow is the one who works with Elsa, and the disagreement between the two is likely to be a matter of who to give the goods to.

“... No, why would Luthor set up a separate research group to work with Bruce? ”

Luthor's purpose must be money, there is no doubt about that, but he came to Bruce to cooperate under the guise of medical treatment, and Dick certainly didn't think that Bruce would really sign like a stupid rich man without asking anything, so it means that Luthor's scientific research group is approved by Bruce, and there are indeed experts in it who are not inferior to Esma in biological neuroscience.

"Strange is it, could it be that Luthor had some other purpose, and that his relationship with the Scarecrow just happened to look like they were together?"

Dick was dejected as he lay on the table and looked through the messages Barbara had sent him, his mind was a little muddy, and it was hard to guess what that Lex Luthor guy was up to.

"To call or not to call?"

Dick looked at the phone in his hand, and Clark's mobile phone number was on the interface, and he only needed to dial it once. Clark and Bruce must have broken through from Luther's side, otherwise they wouldn't have found out that Shipton might have given the scarecrow money, and after thinking about it for a long time, Dick still pressed the dial button.

Soon a voice with a Kansas accent came out of the earpiece:

"Hello, this is Clark. Kent"

"Clark"

"Dick?"

When Clark heard his phone ringing, he turned it on, but he didn't expect it to be Dick's phone.

"What's wrong?"

"Clark, can you tell me how you're doing now?"

"Dick, you should.."

“.. Bruce told you not to tell me, then you should know that he won't tell me either."

Dick's rhetorical question caused a brief silence on the other side.

"Well, what do you want to know"

Finally, Clark compromised rhetorical question.

"Luthor and Scarecrow's Relationship"

"Heh, I thought you'd ask me where the scarecrow was"

"You've found it?"

"Not really, but Bruce has drawn a few ranges, do you want to know?"

“... There is a premise."

"Yes, you can't go alone"

"Then I won't ask, what is the relationship between Luthor and the Scarecrow?"

"Luther actually had nothing to do with the Scarecrow in the first place, when Luther first started this project, Esma first approached him to cooperate, and then Luther formed a group, but Luther had his purpose to take the scientific research for himself and sell it to the military. But Esma wanted more benefits, so she became independent from Luther."

"With a list of the most critical ingredients?"

"Yes, that's the part you found, but yours is the perfect part."

"It's a commercial espionage, right?"

"No, because Esma and Luthor are in a cooperative relationship, Luthor does not have ownership of the results, but Luthor knows, his heart is very small, so he suppresses Esma everywhere, so it is difficult for Esma to find partners for his project"

"So Esma found Elsa? No, it's supposed to be the Scarecrow who found Esma and teamed up with Elsa."

"Bruce thinks so too, and as for why Esma and the Scarecrow fell out, Bruce also has a rough guess..."

"The purpose of the Scarecrow is to develop a new fear gas based on biological neuroscience, and Esma is not bad enough yet"

“.. Well, that's what Bruce guessed too."

"John. . . It's Charlie who deliberately scattered the five envelopes in order to get the attention of the police or Batman, after all, Esma was already missing at that time."

"This... I don't know."

"Thanks Clarke"

"You're welcome, Dick, but promise me not to mess around alone"

Looking at the phone that had been hung up, Clark sighed, he didn't know if Dick had heard.

Dick hung up the phone and thought about some loopholes in Clark's statement, he knew that Superman wouldn't lie, but Clarke. Kent would. He must have hidden something, something that Bruce had deliberately told him not to let him tell him.

"The Scarecrow and Luthor didn't have anything to do with it at first, which means it was a little bit more relevant later. What if I were Luther? ”

Dick thought to himself, according to Luthor's brain circuitry, the best way to get back what was lost was to buy it!

"I see, Luthor wants to buy back the gas from the scarecrow, including the ingredient list, if the buyer is Luthor for the scarecrow... The nearest means of transport from Gotham to Metropolis is... Boat, which can transport cargo over in one go while avoiding Batman's discovery. If it is transported by boat...."

Dick looked at the long coastline of Gotham for a long time and said:

"Found You"