Twenty-seventh Aftermath
Obviously, the Gotham Times slogan for yesterday's charity dinner hosted by the Urban Construction Foundation was "uplifting" and "productive", and the entire talk about Mr. Bruce Wayne did not mention "restroom" or "Richard Sapa" in a single word
This is not to say that the Gotham newspaper people have departed from the low-level taste, but that there were dozens of phone calls to the heads of all the news media in the city that night, and the mafia on the other end of the phone explained in a humble and docile manner that if the matter of "Mr. Richard being dragged out of the toilet wearing only a star-striped shirt" had been widely disseminated, the heads of newspapers, television stations, radio stations, and network operating companies would have been put into discarded oil drums and filled with cement by some small-sighted thugs. Gather at the bottom of Gotham Bay.
The Porsche luxury sports car was the first to be found, burned to the point that only an empty shell remained, and the doorman packed up his belongings that night and ran away overnight, and it is estimated that he has now reached that country town.
And because Leon used bone reduction to change the contour of his face before committing the crime, the gangsters who searched for him according to the sketch of the prisoner found nothing - even if they used police resources, it was useless to search for surveillance cameras.
As for the tracker buried in the mezzanine of the suitcase, that kind of gadget could not fool Leon, and it was not until the mafia traced the tracker signal all the way from Gotham to Atlanta, and finally found two empty suitcases from the old train cars that transported the coal mines.
As a result, the world is peaceful, and the simple Gotham City ushered in another peaceful day.
Central of the city, Robinson Park.
The late summer sun smells a little lazy, the narrow gravel roads are covered with colorful yellow leaves, and just after the rain, the tall red maples are densely clustered with a little raindrops.
Isabella jumped and smashed a puddle of water with her small red patent leather shoes, her ponytail arcing through the air, turned her head and puffed out her cheeks and said, "Please, you two go faster!" β
"It's not you who take these things." Leon raised the children's roller skating backpack he was holding in his hand and rolled his eyes.
On weekends, Christina let Leon take her two younger sisters to the park while she goes out to the party.
Having pushed the head of a gangster down the toilet last night, and having to honestly take a bear child today, Leon is curious about how the superheroes who are active on the front pages of the newspaper adapt to this fragmented life.
Isabella, carved out of the same mold as her sibling sister, was more serene, stretched, and whispered, "Whew, I like the earthy smell after the rain." β
"Actually, it's not the smell of dirt." Li Ang smiled and said, "Do you want to hear about popular science teaching?" β
Elizabeth stared at him with dead fish eyes and said indifferently, "Not at all. β
"In 1964, two Australian researchers discovered that the smell of earth after rain comes from filamentous bacteria called actinomycetes, which produce spores when the soil is dry, and in the process of producing spores, they produce a metabolite called geosmin."
Leon bent down, picked up a small piece of mud from the ground, put it in the palm of his hand and grinded it carefully, and said softly: "Geosmin is volatile, and after a light rain, extremely fine water droplets encapsulated in geosmin - also known as aerosols - will be sucked into the nose by humans and react in the brain in the form of earthy breath. β
He looked at the bewildered twins and smiled heartily: "In short, the fresh earthy smell you smell at this moment is equivalent to a large lump of filthy excrement of bacteria, understand?" β
"Who wants to know anything like that." Elizabeth kicked Leon lightly in shame, and ran away with her sister's arm, making a crisp kicking sound on the gravel path.
Leon carried the children's backpack behind him and shouted, "Be careful not to fall!" β
He was greeted by a series of bell-like laughter that hid in the trees.
At the end of the gravel road is a spacious plaza that, on weekends, is crowded with young people playing bicycles, roller skating or skateboarding.
Elizabeth dragged her sister to the ground and asked Leon to take out pink roller skates and protective gear from her backpack, dress them up, and happily join the roller skating camp.
Leon wiped the wet park seat with a paper towel and reclined on it with his eyes closed, only to notice that Isabella was lying on the back of the chair, staring at him motionless.
"Aren't you going to play?"
Isabella shook her head, took out a thick black-covered book from her backpack, and whispered, "I'll just read the book." β
"Well, knowledge is the ladder of human progress." Leon stroked her supple hair approvingly, "What book?" β
Isabella was silent and showed him the front of the book, with a few large gilded letters printed on the cover.
γFifty-Shades-Of-Greyγ
Fifty shades of grey.
The corner of Li Ang's eyes twitched, "Uh, all the current elementary school students look at this thing?" β
"I took it from Christina's bookshelf." Isabella put on a reasonable expression and asked Leon to move to the side to make way for her.
The minutes and seconds of play passed quickly, and when the sun set slanted, Leon came back from his long breath and clapped his hands to Elizabeth.
The girl's face was flushed with exercise, and she sat out of breath on the bench drinking her drink, while resisting the towel that Leon had given her to wipe her sweat.
Isabella, on the other hand, is completely immersed in the world of the book, with a probing look in her pure eyes.
"I'll take you to the Canary Restaurant for a good meal, and then I'll take you home, okay?"
"Canary Restaurant? Is it the super expensive restaurant in the Diamond District? Elizabeth's eyes widened, "Gwendale had a meal with her parents last year, and after she came back, she talked about it for half a month, and I heard that the names of the dishes there are very long. β
"yes, the length of the name is proportional to the price, the disease-free moaning characteristic of the French." Leon helped Elizabeth wipe the sweat from her forehead and asked, "Is there any problem?" β
"When did you become so rich?" Elizabeth narrowed her eyes suspiciously, "Is that Miss Jacqueline next to you?" β
"Who knows?" Leon shrugged his shoulders indifferently and said, "Maybe I robbed a super-rich man last night, and I'm going to send three million dollars in cash to a money laundering agency when I send you home." β
"Hmph, if you don't want to say it, forget it." Elizabeth tossed the towel aside and drilled Leon's belly like a hammer.