"This man is likely to be the key person in the last gas poisoning incident"

Bruce opened another folder on his computer, and the video footage in the folder was surveillance footage from the vicinity of the homes of several victims of nerve gas poisoning last time.

casually opened a video, Jason watched it for a long time and didn't see the familiar man.

"Here"

Bruce magnifies a location in the video, and the video is provided by the police in terms of image quality that is completely incomparable to Bruce's high-definition camera, and the Brewster-quality bat camera will only be placed in the location that needs to be monitored, and the rest of the place will be solved by connecting to the public camera network.

These victims all live in high-end neighborhoods, and the crime is low, so naturally they will not be the focus of Batman's surveillance position.

Because it's nighttime, the image looks even blurrier because the pixels aren't very clear.

With the addition of pixels in the computer software, Jason barely saw a figure in the flower bush in the corner of the camera.

“.... How can you be sure it's him? ”

Jason looked at the blurred silhouette, and instead of wearing a large-brimmed hat, the pair of glasses on his face that might have been sunglasses was even more special.

After a few clicks on the buttons, Bruce took a screenshot of the two images and compared them in a special software.

"What is this?"

"Facial recognition software"

The comparison results are out, and the similarity rate of the two graphs is close to 60%. The reason why this is so low is because one picture has a hat that covers most of the face.

“... Does that mean it's him? ”

Jason was a little curious, and it was a bit too reluctant to conclude that these two people were the same person.

"No, it can only be said that it is possible"

Bruce never says something very deadly, and there is always a maybe, maybe, probable word in his diction, and Jason believes that even if the comparison rate between the two pictures is more than 90%, Bruce will only replace it with the word "very likely".

"Is he also in the video of the other four victims?"

"Yes, although the dress is different every time I appear."

Bruce dropped out four more videos and zoomed in on people who might be the same person as the man.

Jason stared at the picture for a long time, but unfortunately he couldn't see his hands in these pictures, so Jason couldn't feel that special sense of familiarity.

"Do you remember anything?"

Hearing Bruce's question, Jason looked at it carefully again and shook his head.

"No, sure enough, it was the familiarity that that hand gave me"

“.. yes, let's make a night watch first."

"What did he do?"

Jason was a little curious, could it be that just being in these places at the same time could get Batman's special attention?

"Didn't do anything?"

"Could it be that he is the one who lives here?"

Jason asked as he followed Bruce towards the Batmobile.

"These five people live in different neighborhoods, and"

"And?"

"Moreover, the clothes on his body are not expensive, unless he deliberately wears a cheap clothes, it should be impossible for him to live in that kind of community."

Jason has been thinking about this sentence since he was sitting on the Batmobile, but he didn't understand where Bruce could see the cheap material of the clothes until he got to the scheduled surveillance location.

Using the skills he just learned today, Jason dodged a guy who sneaked up on him, threw him into the garbage heap in the corner with a backhand, and made up for it twice.

“.... How do you know what those people like? ”

Jason can now fly through the air with Batman, and his speed of movement has increased considerably.

After taking out a group of robbers and on his way to the next surveillance location, Jason still can't hold back his curiosity.

"Who?"

"It's the ones in the video, like the guy who labeled him as a drinker."

Although Jason's words were vague, Bruce understood Jason's question and answered Jason's question while watching the corner with a telescope.

"People who are addicted to alcohol generally have a red nose due to the damage that alcohol does to the liver, and people with a bad liver have metabolic problems that can cause problems such as acne frequent"

“.. Universal... That is, not sure."

Jason was holding a telescope and looking at the street corner opposite.

"Yes, but the odds are high"

"And what's the deal with that one who says he's doing some kind of heavy manual work?"

Jason saw a somewhat familiar figure coming out of the corner.

"The robbers wore very tight clothes, but the man's upper limbs were obviously tighter than the lower limbs, and it can be guessed that he should have been engaged in a lot of upper limb work, and the work intensity was not small"

“..... For example, a stevedore? ”

"Right"

Jason looked at the familiar man and walked into the building next to him, and soon came out of it again, hurrying out as if he was being chased by something.

Batman stood up, jumped off the roof, and slid a considerable distance with the help of his cloak before stopping the man in the middle of the road, not knowing what to say. The other party seemed to be in a hurry, and kept wanting to leave Batman's range. But Batman didn't give him this chance, and easily lifted it off the ground with just one hand, and finally the man seemed to have decided to compromise, and after not knowing what to say, Batman finally put him down, and then watched the man quickly leave there.

"Robin! Gone"

The voice from the communicator reminded Jason of what to do next, and he took out his hook and quickly came to Batman's side, and soon the Batmobile came from a corner and stopped in front of the two people.

"Who is he?"

"An Informant"

“... Do you still need an informant? ”

This came as a surprise to Jason, who had always believed that Batman didn't need an informant.

“.. Oh, I'm not a god, I don't know everything, and my clues come from these people."

Jason sat in the passenger seat, looked at Bruce's side face, and finally failed to say the phrase "Batman knows everything".

"What was he talking about?"

Jason saw clearly that the informant seemed to refuse to tell Bruce anything, and was threatened.

"He was originally one of the Riddler's henchmen, so I thought he would know about the Riddler's recent movements"

“.... Is it the last shemale incident? ”

"Right"

"Already determined to be the Riddler?"

"It's very likely, although the clues of the ventriloquist were deliberately put on, but in general the Riddler is more likely"

Jason doesn't know much about this riddler, except that he's a crazy guy with a fanatical obsession with guessing riddles, well, none of the underground bigwigs in Gotham, especially the bigwigs who can be called, are not crazy........

"Why do Riddlers like to leave clues?"

Jason was a little incomprehensible, after all, in his cognition, it was best to do bad things while it was dark, quietly finish it and leave, without leaving a clue.

"He doesn't want to, in fact he's trying to stop himself from leaving clues, but he can't control himself"

“... Why? ”

"The Riddler is a high-IQ criminal, he has super confidence in his own IQ, combined with his extremely conceited personality, which causes him to like to use his IQ to ridicule others to satisfy his vain nature, because of this, even if he doesn't want to leave any clues, it is impossible"

“... Like an obsessive-compulsive person."

"Right"

“... He's really crazy."

"So to speak"

After returning to the Batcave, the hand that Jason had forgotten all night of when he saw the big computer in the Batcave jumped out again for some reason.

"Oh~~~"

"What's wrong?"

Jason's inexplicable moans caught the attention of Bruce and Alfred.

"I'm thinking about that hand again, damn it, I don't think I've got some weird hobby that no one knows about!"

"I don't think so, Master Jason, you're just a little tired, maybe it's good to sleep all night, sometimes the more people want to forget something, the more clearly they remember."

Alfred thoughtfully handed over a glass of warm milk.

“... Thank you, I went to sleep."

Jason shuffled his tired steps towards the elevator, intending to give up his nightly training and go straight to bed, that inexplicable hand had been harassing him all day today, and he was exhausted, maybe Alfred's suggestion was a good idea.....

"Master Bruce, do you care?"

Alfred spotted Bruce staring at Jason's back with a blank look.

“... I'm just a little concerned about why Jason cares so much about that normal man's palm."

“.... Maybe it's because you put a distinctive symbol on him."

"Of course it's a possibility, but given Jason's personality, it's not very likely"

Alfred didn't answer Bruce's words, but simply filled his empty teacup with tea again.

"Jason almost survived at the bottom of Gotham without a protector, and it was already an instinct of the kid to look at words and looks, and he could instinctively distinguish between real and fake expressions in a person's expression, and the accuracy rate was very high."

Bruce remembered that once when he was looking up information in the Batcave, Jason kept staring at his side face for a long time and said, "I think it's better for you to have a straight face than you are always smiling."

Dick always said to him, "Don't keep a straight face, your good fortune will be scared away by you". Barbara also says you should smile more, not the kind of Gotham baby laugh.

Alfred doesn't talk about it now, he must have given up.

Jason was the first to say he had a good face.

He asked Jason why, and Jason replied that he felt more relaxed when he had a straight face.

"What are you laughing at?"

Alfred was surprised to find that the corners of Bruce's mouth were slightly raised, which was really rare, and there were not many things that could make the corners of Bruce's mouth rise.

"Nothing..."

"What does Master Jason's meticulous observation have to do with his impressed impression of that hand?"

Alfred had already found out what Bruce was talking about, but he didn't know what the two had to do with each other.

"Jason's ability to observe such subtleties in that environment is not only reflected in his observant appearance, but also in other ways, he has stolen so many things, but it is not for nothing that he was caught once, that hand must have caused Jason's instinctive uneasiness in a particular environment, so he was impressed"

Bruce didn't know anything else to describe Jason's almost beastly instincts other than instinct. Dick had learned this for a long time with him, but Jason had learned it in the Gotham dye vat, though he hadn't realized what it was.

“... But no matter how you look at it, it's just an ordinary man's hand."

Alfred looked at the magnified image on the screen, the pores on his skin were clearly visible, and the hairs stood on his skin one by one, a very ordinary hand........

Jason was lying on the bed staring at the ceiling with two eyes as if they were two small light bulbs, he was really tired today, he had been training all day during the day, and he had gone on patrol at night, and his body was exhausted to the extreme, but he just didn't feel like he wanted to sleep at all.

That pesky hand was still consuming his brain cells, and he couldn't sleep at all.

"It's weird, why do I care so much about that hand, it's a woman's hand...."

Jason rolled over, trying to get that hand out of his head, and when he failed, he rolled over again, burying his face in his hands and trying to think of something else to put himself to sleep.

"Think of something else, think of something else, think of the review that is needed... Tomorrow's training... And the past...."

Jason closed his eyes and tried to turn his attention to other things, from his future plans to the things he didn't want to think about before, like his dilapidated house, like the guys who used to get together occasionally, and the place where he used to sell stolen goods...

"That's right! I remember! ”

Jason suddenly remembered why he had been obsessed with that hand.

"Bruce!"

Jason hurried to the Bat Cave, and to his surprise, there was no one inside.

“... It's strange that the Batmobiles are all here, is he going to bed early tonight?? ”

Without much thought, Jason hurried back to the manor and ran towards Bruce's bedroom.

"Bruce!"

Jason slammed open the bedroom door, and sure enough, he saw Bruce sitting on the couch in his pajamas reading papers.

"Master Jason, I should have warned you to knock on the door before entering."

Alfred stood next to Bruce and stared at Jason with a disapproving look.

“.. Sorry"

"What's the matter? Jason"

"By the way, I remember whose hand it was"

Jason's words made Bruce pause.

"Are you sure?"

"Well, pretty sure, I'm always going to the boss who sells the stolen goods"

"Why are you so sure?"

"Every time I go to sell the stolen goods, the guy's outstretched hand doesn't match his face"

"Mismatch?"

"Yes, his face is an old man, but once the outstretched hand is very young"

“... Are you sure? ”

"Of course, because it's so weird, I remember it, but most people who do this kind of thing have a hand for themselves, so I don't care."

Jason didn't notice until that time, when he suddenly noticed the extreme contrast between the man's hand and face, and the particularly obvious impact made a deep impression on Jason.

"What's his name?"

"I don't know, although everyone calls him Charlie, and the store he runs is also called Charlie's grocery store, but I don't think that's his real name"

"Where's the store?"

"Right near where you first drove to me"

Bruce immediately got up from the couch hill and walked out of the bedroom towards the large grandfather clock.

“..... I seem to have ruined his rare early bedtime, maybe I should tell him tomorrow"

Looking at Bruce's hurried back, Jason remembered that Bruce's rare early sleep tonight was ruined by him.

“... It's not your fault, Master Jason..."