Chapter 2: Barbara Gordon

Gotham City, in an apartment in a residential area.

In the living room, Lin Shaotian sat in an armchair, his gaze was between dull and focused, straight forward, blinking only about once every half a minute. At first glance, it almost makes one wonder if he was murdered.

What caught his eye like a magnet was a huge whiteboard covered with newspaper clippings strung together by red and black silk threads. There are reports from many years ago, and some not far from now, but each one revolves around a topic, or rather, a person.

Batman.

Gotham City, known as the country with the highest crime rate in the United States and known as the "crime capital", was once in a situation where the city, including government agencies, was almost completely controlled by gangs until Batman appeared.

No one knows who he really is under the mask...... No, it should be said that everyone knows. He's no one, he's Batman, Gotham's dark fighter, a symbol that will never fall, leading the city out of despair time and time again.

Yes, at this point, even people have subconsciously begun to refuse to guess Batman's true identity. Batman is Batman, a symbol of justice who stands forever among the citizens of Gotham.

But Lin Shaotian is not a majority.

Six months ago, he came into the world in an explosion. As he gradually came into contact with this new world, he learned about Batman and was drawn to this mysterious symbol.

In his eyes, it wasn't just a symbol, but just another puzzle, one that was probably one of the funniest puzzles he'd ever encountered. An instinct in his heart drives him to uncover the true face of this mystery - who is Batman?

And now, he believes he is very close to the truth.

"Roy, when are you going to stare at that pile of clippings?"

At some point, the silver wheelchair stopped next to him. The girl with black frames and a single ponytail with sparkling, supple red hair sits in a wheelchair, her dark blue jeans frame her perfect legs. Lin Shaotian once judged the moment he saw her legs that she had danced ballet and was still a good player.

But a girl with such beautiful legs is now restrained by a wheelchair, and anyone will feel extremely sorry.

Roy Green, this is Lin Shaotian's name in this world.

This bubbly beautiful redhead is called Barbara Gordon, and she is the daughter of Gotham City Police Chief James Gordon. She lost her legs due to a human factor and had to say goodbye to the ballet she loved, but she still refuses to say the specific reason for the loss of her legs, presumably she still has a shadow of that incident in her heart. Now she specializes in programming and is a master programmer.

After Barbara lost her legs, she lived with her father, James Gordon, for a while, and after a period of psychotherapy, she finally came out of the shadows. Because she wanted to get rid of the shadow of the past as soon as possible and take a new step in her life independently, she decided to rent a house and live away from her father, which happened to be the same apartment as Roy, who was also looking for a place to live when he first arrived in this world.

After a few brief talks, and after both parties had no opinion, they shared this apartment.

"If you continue to be in a daze, I'm going to start wondering which of the two of us can't get up."

Roy finally gave up a bit of attention, looked at Barbara for a few seconds, and quickly retracted his gaze to the clipboard.

"Have fun." He said this coldly.

"What?" Barbara was stunned.

Roy didn't turn his head again, and explained as if talking to himself: "You can smell the moisturizer you rarely use on your face, and you seem to want to look cute, you've never worn it like this before, at least I haven't seen it, by the way, I don't think this style is suitable for you." ”

Barbara blushed and smiled bitterly with some embarrassment: "Hmm...... Thank you. ”

"Let me guess again that your date tonight is Edward, right?" Roy said again.

Barbara was even more helpless: "How do you see this?" Have you read my phone text messages? ”

"No, guess." Roy said, "With all due respect, based on what I've observed over the past few months, your circle is surprisingly small. There seems to be no one else to develop a man who has the opportunity to ask you out but your psychiatrist. ”

Edward was Barbara's psychiatrist.

"Okay, okay, you've won again."

Over the past few months, Barbara has also become accustomed to this guy's acumen, and many trivial details will be caught by him to make a fuss, expanding from simple links to all aspects, giving people the feeling that you can't hide anything in front of him.

It's like the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in the novel. She couldn't help but think about it from time to time.

In fact, what Barbara didn't say was that she herself also had first-class detective qualities. But whenever I compare with this guy, I always feel like I'm a head lower to him inexplicably.

Barbara looked at Roy from the side for a moment, hesitated, and asked, "What do you think......?" Can you find out who Batman is? ”

"Of course, there is no mystery in the world that cannot be solved."

Barbara stopped talking for a moment, but finally didn't speak.

Not long after her psychiatrist, Edward, came to pick her up, Roy's cell phone rang.

"Intersection of 64th and 13th Streets, come quickly." The content of the text message is simple and clear.

But such a short sentence seems to have an inexplicably powerful magic. Roy immediately bounced out of his seat, and half a minute later, he left the door in a hurry to leave the door with the sound of his life closing.

That's what he's doing now.

Gotham Police Department's detective consultants assist Gotham Police in solving difficult cases for a fee. This kind of work mode is similar to his previous life, except that in his previous life, he never charged, but now in order to solve the basic problem of food and clothing, he has to consider the source of funds.

At first, he wanted to open a private detective agency, and in the first two months of his time in this world, he shared his current apartment with Barbara with the money he earned from his work as a private detective. Later, Barbara discovered his talent and highly recommended to his police chief's father that this was such a magical character, which led to the special position of detective consultant offered to him by Sheriff Gordon.

At the intersection of 64th and 13th Streets, taxis stopped outside the alley where uniformed police officers were busy going back and forth and pulling up a yellow cordon. Roy leaned out of the taxi and strode towards the scene of the crime.

An old detective with thick-rimmed glasses, a white mustache, and an khaki trench coat arguing with a younger detective over something.

These two are the two government chiefs of the Gotham Police Department, Chief Gordon and Deputy Commissioner Bled. It is well known that the Gotham Police Department's opinion on whether to support the drag vigilante Batman is divided into two sides, the positive side is represented by Sheriff Gordon, and the negative side is represented by the deputy commissioner Forbes.

What kind of case caused the two to quarrel today?

"Don't try to shelter him, Jim, or you'll be seen as an accomplice." Forbes said arrogantly.

"I'm just stating the facts, and this case can't be that simple."

"Oh no, it's exactly that simple. It's just that you're blinded by your personal relationship with Batman. You're a good cop, Jim, but you also have to admit that you've never been fair to Batman. ”

"I'm sorry to disturb you two, but would any of you want to explain to me what's going on?"

The attention of the two was attracted by Roy Qiqi, who had just arrived at the entrance of the alley.

Forbes Detective smirked: "Of course, it's a pleasure." I'm afraid that our great hero in sheep's clothing has finally revealed his true colors. We already have enough reason to believe that it was here last night that Batman killed someone. ”