Chapter 38: Gotham Progress 2
Just as the court was reconvening, Bruce's temporary base of operations, Natasha sat on Bruce's office chair with her legs crossed, leisurely fiddling with her nails.
Bruce and Afu stand and look at the screen on the workbench, which shows the Joker's video.
After Natasha knew that the other party had a childhood sweetheart who would never die, Natasha simply reported to the bureau that she had conceded defeat, and the consequence of this was that she had to say 'bye-bye.' to her year-end bonus.
However, in order to make up for her losses, Natasha simply reached an agreement with Bruce: with a large amount of 'hush money' so that Natasha would no longer interfere with Bruce.
And for Bruce, money was never a problem. So for the sake of quiet Bruce, he simply 'bought' Natasha.
Natasha slammed Bruce this kind of tyrant in line with the idea of not slaughtering and not slaughtering.
At this time, Natasha's fiddling nails were painted with imported nail polish, which felt very good.
"Treating me as a target won't get your money back, and I know the gang won't surrender without a fight. But this time it was different, they crossed the line. Bruce looked at the clown's 'crazy' expression and said, the gangsters are actually businessmen, although they are doing illegal business, but it is undeniable that the gangsters are trying to make money, and killing the police chief and court judge will not let the gangsters get money, but will make the official increase the suppression of the gangsters, so no matter from various angles, it is indeed the gangsters who have crossed the line this time.
"You crossed the line first, young master." The more experienced Ah Fu clearly has a different opinion than Bruce.
"You squeeze them, you beat them, you push them into a corner, and in menopause, they choose to turn to someone they don't know at all."
"I support Ah Fu's opinion." Natasha interjected without looking up.
"The crime is not that complicated, we just need to figure out what he wants." Bruce apparently thinks the Joker is doing it for the money.
"With all due respect, Master Wayne, this may be someone you don't know at all...... Some people don't think of things that are as logical as ordinary people like money. They cannot be bought, intimidated, reasoned or negotiated. Some people just want to watch the world burn. Ah Fu gave Bruce some advice based on his own experience, although he didn't expect his young master to listen to him completely.
"Going out again?" Natasha asked, without looking up.
"Stay here, Ah Fu will help me keep an eye on her, don't mess with the things here, and wait until morning to let Rachel and Harvey leave." Bruce watched as Natasha instructed Afu.
"Okay young master." Seeing that Bruce didn't pay attention to his advice, Ah Fu was a little disappointed, but he still followed Bruce's instructions and looked at Natasha.
At dusk, Gotham City is shrouded in a thick fog, the whole city is depressed under the cover of dark clouds, Bruce stands on a tall building and monitors the communications in Gotham City, although with Jocelyn's help, Bruce can actually stay in the secret base and wait for the result, but Natasha's presence makes Bruce willing to blow a cold wind on the tall building.
Besides, the Joker has not committed a crime yet, and Bruce knows that since the Joker has spoken blatantly, he will definitely do it, not to mention that although Bruce doesn't want to admit it, it is easy for the Joker to kill ordinary people in Gotham City.
"There's news, the police just received a call from the clown, the police have sent the police, the destination is Orchard Pick Up Eight, and the location where the clown called is Orchard Street should have just left, but he threw away the phone after making the call...... "Jocelyn personally sent a communication to Bruce, this clown even Jocelyn found tricky.
Bruce immediately jumped off the building and 'flew' towards Orchard Street.
And not just Bruce, there are already a large number of killers who have also received Jocelyn's intelligence notice and run to Orchard Street to hunt down the Joker.
Jocelyn had already placed a bounty on the Joker at the Continental, he wasn't Bruce, Bruce wouldn't buy a murder this way, but Jocelyn could.
And it's not just the clown, all the police and government officials who have something to do with the gang have been checked by Jocelyn, the clown is now working for the gang, so all kinds of resources of the gang will be used by the clown, the previous police chief was killed and the judge who was saved by the assassin can prove that there are clowns in the police.
And this list is already in Bruce's hands, and Bruce just took the opportunity to give the list to Gordon.
The police soon arrived at 8 Orchard Street and found the house where the murder had taken place.
Bruce, who arrived right after, did not choose to walk through the door, but jumped in directly through the window, and Bruce rushed in with someone as soon as he was standing up with Gordon.
Bruce had to slow down to avoid being shot by Gordon and the others as murderers.
Gordon looked around and didn't notice the enemy, then put away his gun and walked over to the two corpses, which were still warm and should have just died.
But before Gordon could look further at the corpse, Bruce spoke, "Look at the name." ”
Bruce's sudden opening made Gordon and his subordinates nervous, but they reacted and relaxed their guard when they saw that it was him.
Gordon took out a handkerchief from his pocket and opened their papers, revealing that their names were Richard Dent and Patrick Harvey, and they were Harvey Dent.
"I need ten minutes before your men can destroy the scene." After reading the list of 'moles' given to him by Jocelyn, Bruce knew very well that this Gordon's police assistant was an inside line that Maloney had planted by Gordon's side, so Bruce's tone was not very good.
"We sabotage the scene? It's because of you people that you're ......" The policewoman was immediately unhappy, and her acting skills were very good.
"Detective! Guys, you guys go out for a while. Gordon interrupted her, then motioned to Bruce as soon as possible.
Bruce shrugged his shoulders and handed Gordon a data disk after the policewoman and the other cops had left.
"I found out that there are spies among your subordinates, you can confirm whether it is true or not." Bruce walked over to the wall, where there was a bullet hole.
"What?" Gordon froze for a moment before he reacted, slipped the data disk into his pocket and continued to observe the 'scene' like a nobody, even though it was the scene left for them by the Joker.
Bruce looked at it and saw that the inside of the wall was brick, which meant that all the fragments of the bullet were still in this bullet hole. Bruce took out a folding electric drill and removed the brick from the wall.
"Whatever you're going to do, you'd better move quickly, I found his next target, and he printed it in this morning's paper." At this time, Gordon discovers the 'death notice' left by the Joker, a newspaper scribbled by the Joker, on which the mayor will attend the police chief's memorial ceremony tomorrow.
Bruce left the scene with the brick, and Gordon took the police as if he hadn't gotten the data disk that recorded the mole.
Bruce returns to the secret base and builds experimental models to try to restore the bullet in order to find the fingerprints on the broken bullet. Natasha offers to help, and Bruce thinks about it and accepts Natasha's offer before going for a nap.