Chapter 5: Tracking the Red Hood

Dick retracted a fake smile after Barbara left. While listening to the news about the gangster's fight in an alley last night, I turned on my computer and searched the Internet for all the criminal records related to the red hood.

No one can tell who the Red Hood is, and even this title is called by someone else, which is completely different from the self-confessed titles of Black Mask and Clown, just because he wears a super conspicuous red hood and is called so much.

Who the hell is he?

Dick guessed uncertainly, that the words he joked with Barbara wouldn't change his memory of not coming back yesterday at all. The best outcome is, of course, that he crawls back on his own, like the men who are drunk but still find themselves home.

The computer quickly listed all the people who met the title, even those who had used it.

Looking at the various red hoods on the screen, and those strange criminal records, Dick fell into deep thought.

No one has ever seen a red hood, or that everything they have seen is dead, and the only one who hasn't died is in a half-dead state and will hang up at any time. Dick was pretty sure that guy must have been around last night, as evidenced by the fact that the group that bought the guns was all dead. It's just a pity that he couldn't find him.

There are many things that can be made into a red hood, from the simplest piece of red cloth to the most complex with a sense of technology that bursts with texture. Use this title: It's not accurate to say this, but it would be accurate to say that most of the criminals who are labeled as red-hooded are little-known minions, and there is one - clown!

The Joker had used the title Red Hood to commit a crime before he became a Joker, and he wasn't crazy at the time, and he wasn't much more advanced than the jewel-stealing thugs.

If it's a clown, it's right to be ruthless without leaving a living mouth, the problem is that the clown is a guy who likes to show off, he will definitely say that he did everything he did, his attitude towards crime is more like a way to prove himself, and he never gives any good end to those criminals who like to impersonate him.

“...... It shouldn't be a clown......"

Dick summed it up, but included a trip to Arkham to visit the guy on his itinerary.

If it's not a clown, could it be someone who worships a clown's imitation? It's not impossible, after all, the clown guy is quite popular, although he can't understand why anyone would worship such a madman.

The clown takes his reputation very seriously, and once a guy who called himself the second generation of the clown appeared, imitating the clown's criminal methods with clumsy means, and even the clown himself couldn't stand it, so he ran out of Arkham and solved the "clown" himself.

Because you can't imitate the name of the clown, it is not impossible to imitate the name of the clown. However, this possibility raises a new question, how did he know that the Joker's former name was Red Hood?

Dick looked at the guy on the screen who looked like a large red capsule on his head.

“... Maybe.. And the guy who has seen the red hood alive."

Dick suddenly remembered the guys who had been hired by Red Hood to deliver the goods, and maybe he could visit him tonight......

"Hey.. Ass boy, calm down...."

Nightwing's informant was being hung upside down in the air by Nightwing, the sizzling electric baton less than a centimeter from the tip of his nose. Nightwing wasn't going to be so rude, but when it came to his problem, the guy was wasting his time by taking care of everything else, which made him lose his patience.

"Kate, I'll ask again, what does the red hood look like"

Dick felt that his temper should be good, at least compared to Bruce, and he didn't beat up informants, gangsters, and of course the Gotham villains, at least he rarely beat his own informants.

"Calm down, boy, I really don't know, can I move this stick a little farther away? In case you sneeze..."

Kate, the guy who revealed the Red Hood to Nightwing would come to Brudehaven to continue the arms business, and the one in charge of driving the full arms truck that night.

Nightwing had a rare sense of irritability at the moment, and he was very worried that the electric baton that had beaten a lot of Brughhaven villains would fall on him, and it wouldn't be very pleasant for him to try it once.

"Put him down, he really doesn't know"

A woman appears behind Nightwing, speaking out to stop an impending violent show.

Nightwing looked back at the woman in her 40s, dressed in a revealing red dress, draped in a cheap fur shawl, with her long reddish-brown hair coiled up high and held in place by a cheap pearl headdress, and with a cigarette in her red lips.

"Mary!"

Kate shouted excitedly when she saw someone coming.

Mary is the eldest sister of this area, she is said to be the eldest sister but in fact she is just an old bustard, and she is also one of Nightwing's informants, or it should be said that because she became Nightwing's informant, Nightwing can take root in this city.

Nightwing shook the dart in her hand, and with a stroke, Kate made an intimate contact with the ground with her head down.

"What do you know?"

"I don't know"

Mary took a puff of her cigarette and said slowly:

"The money is transferred directly to the account, and the accompanying message is only one sentence 'This is the cost of transporting the goods and withdrawing the money, you have no right to refuse'"

“... Take the money or die? ”

"Yes"

Mary has been in this city all the year round, and she has never seen any kind of person, but in the face of this sudden money and the threat that she did not even have a signature, she instinctively chose to obey.

“... So why do you guys know he's Gotham's most recent celebrity red hood? ”

Nightwing asked curiously, if the other party hadn't even seen any faces, how did Kate know that he had something to do with the Red Hood?

"It's not a person, it's a cargo"

Kate lay on the ground and spoke up, partly to answer Nightwing's doubts, and partly to remind the two of them that there was a bundle of rice dumplings with the same price.

"What?"

"The pick-up address was sent in the form of a letter, and when the boys arrived at the place, there was only one truck there, and the goods in the open compartment were a bit consistent with the batch that Black Mask was missing, so they guessed that it should be the batch of Black Masks."

The underworld has clues about the underworld, the batch of goods lost by Black Mask, and the fact that he once set up a trap to almost catch the "thief", they are all very clear.

"So you haven't seen this man at all?"

"yes, can you help me untie the rope?"

Kate struggled on the ground for a long time and couldn't break free from the rope, so she had to cry out for help.

Nightwing looked at the guy lying on the ground, and didn't mean to make a next move. Kate pursed her lips and continued:

"If you want to let go of me, I'll record you"

"Recording?"

"Yes, there's a tape recorder on the truck, it's old-fashioned, tape-style, and the tape tells us when it's going to be delivered, what time it's going to be, and we have to get the money."

"Where's the tape?"

"Hehe, you let go of me first..."