Chapter Twenty-Seven: Key Figures

Dick looked at the paper map on the table in front of him, which had been circled by him with a pen of various colors. Among them, there are several blocks where the circles overlap the most.

Based on Jason's description of the man's personality and the clues provided by Barbara, he circled all the possible places around him centered on the place where he saw the intelligence trafficker that day.

“... No, it's too much."

This method is undoubtedly just looking for a needle in a haystack, and judging by Jason's description of that "Charlie", this kind of person can be found almost all over Gotham. Greedy, cunning, and clever pleases. This kind of person is found almost everywhere in Gotham.

Jason didn't know Charlie's address, and it was assumed that the intelligence traffickers wouldn't let anyone find his address easily.

It wasn't certain what the purpose of the man was there that day, so it wasn't possible to determine if Charlie lived there, Jason just glanced at it, and he didn't even see what the other person was wearing.

"Think again, what else is missing"

Dick turned on his computer and listed all the known clues, but the staccato clues made his headache worse.

[Charlie may be an intelligence peddler]

[Charlie has a connection to a chemical plant, and this chemical factory is related to Luther]

[Charlie may have a connection with the scarecrow]

All the clues at hand can only be summed up in the end with these three main clues. These three clues are likely to be related, so it can be deduced that the chemical factory and the scarecrow have some kind of connection, and these three clues may not be related, so it can only be deduced that Charlie, as an intelligence dealer, was in contact with the scarecrow and Luthor respectively. There is no connection between Luthor and the Scarecrow.

"It shouldn't be, Luthor and Bruce are working on a scientific research project in biological neuroscience, and the scarecrow's nerve gas happens to have this effect, and it can't be just a coincidence that an authoritative professor in biological neurology died."

But what Dick couldn't figure out was what role this Charlie in Jason's mouth played in this.

Middleman? Who is he employed?

Among the relics that Bruce and Jason found that day, the thing in the sealed jar was probably the original stock sample of the poison gas they found, and the man should be congratulated on the fact that this thing did not leak in his couch, otherwise that generation would have entered a state of emergency.

The problem is that the note, the note is obviously written with a certain meaning of a code, but these passwords are not common passwords, probably developed by himself, but the order does not have any rules, from a linguistic point of view, this kind of self-contained thing, at all can not do the basic function of language.

It is likely that this password was set up by him using the meaning of one-to-one substitution, but although the probability of this code being deciphered is very small, it is also very likely to be used on a large scale, and it is likely that only the person who wants to receive the letter in this world uses this password.

"It's nerve-wracking, if it's this kind of password, even if the Riddler can't get the comparison table, he can't solve it..."

This kind of password is simple and difficult to say, as long as you get the comparison table, you can translate it, and you can basically decrypt it. But if you don't get the comparison table, the probability that you can guess the pattern of this password is almost zero.

“... Wait a minute, when did Charlie's shop close??? ”

When Jason remembered Charlie's grocery store, he went to the grocery store several times but without exception there was no one inside, since Bruce and Jason last visited, no one had been in there, the whole store has been maintained the same as when Bruce and they went, Dick deliberately leaned against the window to look, and the reflection on the desktop inside had fallen a layer of dust.

"Jason had been there when he first arrived at the manor, and the store was still open at the time, but then by the time Jason remembered it again, the store was closed... And it's not long since it was closed... What happened in between? ”

Dick searched through all the memories in his head, excluding the unexpected accident of Charlie's grandparents suddenly dying and he returned home to inherit the property, and the only thing he could think of was the paedophile kidnapping case that caused a sensation in the United States.

“.... So, how did that Himmler guy know about Jason? ”

The children rescued from Himmler's case are currently recovering well, except for congenital IQ problems, children with normal IQ can already communicate approximately, and from the children's mouths, some of them were promised a home, but they could not meet the adoption requirements of the welfare home and other reasons to be deceived from the welfare home, and the children who disappeared in the hands of Mrs. Emma are estimated to be the same reasons. Some of them were sold by the leaders of the street children.

In order to avoid detection, Himmler usually targets children who cannot be tracked and who are largely uncared for, and he has not yet been mad about kidnapping children on the main road.

But Jason is an exception. Jason has a family of bastard fathers, but Jason in that environment shouldn't be on Himmler's hunting list.

Jason is very smart, rare red hair and green eyes plus good looks, this kind of child is difficult to grow up smoothly in the lower levels of Gotham, not to mention Jason's semi-wandering, even with parents it is difficult to protect, God knows when those pimps will kidnap people, those young prostitute pimps will not let go of this kind of goods. Himmler didn't just flip over and catch Jason after letting him slip away once.

Jason knew this, too, so he always made himself dirty, and when he first arrived, his dirty hair would not have been found to be a beautiful golden-brown reddish color if it had not been washed. In that environment where no one will protect himself, Jason has always protected himself very well, why would Himmler know something that the pimps in Gotham don't know?

“.... Unless Himmler went to an intelligence dealer who knew Jason well...... Charlie! ”

Well, now it looks like there's one more person who has something to do with this intelligence monger. But Himmler is dead, and the case is closed, and they have nothing to gain in this case except to save some innocent children, harvest Jason, and know that the scarecrow is involved, and they are killed without even touching the stalk of the scarecrow.

“... Speaking of which, the scarecrow's fanfare experimenting with his own poison gas in the name of cooperation is not quite his style."

According to the old practice, the scarecrow would always find a place to hide, and then go to kidnap the homeless or something to do experiments, so the scale of the laboratory is not small, which is why Bruce would be easy to find before, because there is a large fixed target.

The Scarecrow has almost evaporated from the world since he ran away from Arkham half a year ago, Bruce has searched all possible places and pounced on nothing, there is no laboratory that needs to take up a lot of space, it is very easy to hide alone, Bruce even suspects that the Scarecrow has left Gotham...

"Leaving Gotham?? Did you go to the Metropolis? ”

Dick got up and walked around irritably, thinking about the contradictions in this logic.

"The timing is wrong, Luthor started this experiment two years ago.... No.... No one said that the scarecrow had escaped from prison before starting the gas project..... If Luthor had intervened, no wonder Bruce hadn't moved the camera siren near Arkham....."

Dick finally figured it out, and what he thought was just a subplot of the case was a key figure now, and he probably knew a lot of things.

“... I'll definitely find you! Charlie! ”