American Comics: Opening Guidance Batman

Chapter 573: Lex's Gotham Tour (Part 2)

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At this moment, Batman was standing at the door frame, opposite him was Thomas, who was strangling Lex's neck with a fierce face, and on the side between the two, Cobot was holding a blood-stained dagger.

The cold lights flickered, and the scene where the four were located seemed to be condensed into a piece of ice, time suddenly stopped, and then began to reverse.

When the early morning light shone into Wayne Manor, Bruce was already working in the study, and he kept the model of the Ark reactor he obtained from Schiller, but at this time, he was not studying the model. , instead focusing on his previous work.

He didn't forget that he was investigating the deaths of the Elliotts before, and for this, he wanted to investigate Falcone.

But the investigation into Falcone is deadlocked, and everything in the city is about him, yet it seems that everything is not about him.

This idea was stagnant, and Bruce changed to another idea. He went to check the scene again and collected a lot of detailed clues, and one of the clues that made him feel more concerned was that he photographed Elliott Footprints of the couple.

It just rained that day, and some of the dirt and dust on the ground had not dried completely, so tire and footprint information could be collected.

The tire marks showed that the Elliotts parked the car on the main road, got out of the car and walked down the alley. When they got from the car to the place where they were killed in the alley, they were both normal. Walking, in terms of stride, the two were neither in a hurry nor anxious.

That is, they were not chased into the alley, nor forced or dragged in, but walked in on their own.

Bruce looked at the photo of the footprints, narrowed his eyes, and began to picture the situation in his mind.

In some dark alleys, the two figures gradually walked towards the end of the alley. When Bruce tilted his head, he found that there was nothing special about this alley. The only difference was that the end of the alley opened a video store.

If the Elliotts walked down the alley voluntarily, then their target would only have been the video store.

However, the purpose of the Elliott couple's trip should be to go to the Falcone family. Why did they go to the video store?

The tapes are usually sold in the video store, and the better records are not sold here. Falcone does not like this kind of thing.

As far as Bruce knows, the Elliott family still can't challenge the Falcone family, so even if the Elliotts get angry again and go to the Falcone family to see the old godfather, they will definitely do what they want. Bring a gift he likes.

The Elliott family has not yet reached the point where they can only buy low-quality gifts. Even if they want to buy records, they will definitely buy good ones, and they will not come to the video store to choose.

At this time, Bruce recalled a detail. At a certain party, Thomas had invited others to his house to listen to CD songs, saying that his house had a machine for playing CDs and many CDs on which songs were recorded.

Discovering that the CD might be a clue, Bruce put down the material and headed to the video store at the end of the alley.

After entering the audio-visual store, Bruce discovered that there were not many CDs here, and they mainly sold tapes and records. After asking the boss, he found out that the CDs were not in stock.

CDs did not become popular until the mid-1990s, and now it is the beginning of 1989. Therefore, CDs are still a rarity. The boss will not buy them specially, because they are afraid that they will not be able to be sold. He places an order here and will pick it up when it arrives.

Bruce chatted with the boss for a while, and said that he was also a CD fan and wanted to order a batch of goods from him. The boss was very enthusiastic and revealed a lot of information in his words.

And as Bruce had expected, Thomas was the last person to place an order here, and the date he booked for pickup was the day the Elliotts were killed.

Eliotev would walk into this alley, in fact, to pick up the goods for his son, but before they reached the video store, they were shot and killed.

Inferred here, the answer is ready to come out, but the only question is, what is the motive of the murderer?

The Thomas that Bruce knew was an ordinary person. He was kind, courteous at ordinary times, and his grades were in the middle and upper reaches. He also liked to party.

According to Bruce's understanding, Thomas has a good relationship with his parents. After all, he is an only child. His parents paid great attention to cultivating him. The spiritual and material cultivation are in place. He has never heard of any major contradiction between them. He should There is no reason to kill one's own parents.

In order to solve this mystery, Batman came to the Gotham Police Department to find Gordon and interrogate Thomas again.

Batman told Gordon his reasoning about the deaths of the Elliotts. Gordon felt that he was right. At the same time, he also noticed another mood, he said: "Do you think that before Thomas The murder case in the boy's dormitory who was jailed was a little too smooth?"

"I have rarely encountered such a simple case in Gotham. Even if the gangsters' tactics are simple and rude, they are still very professional in getting out of the crime, and the rest of the lunatics will create all kinds of people's attention. clues..."

"Also, Thomas didn't resist when he was arrested, which is very rare in Gotham. If everyone was like him, Gotham's interrogation room would not be so riddled."

"If I hadn't adjusted his files and knew that he was a native of Gotham, I would never have believed that he would have been arrested and imprisoned so peacefully."

Batman narrowed his eyes and said, "Unless, he made this case on purpose to cover up other murders with this case."

"When the Elliotts died, he should have been in prison with ample alibi, so even if I had some clues, I couldn't convict him with these clues."

Gordon frowned and said: "But it doesn't make sense. Murdering a cheerleader is murder, and murdering his parents is also murder. He doesn't need to use one murder case to exonerate another murder case, because the sentence for murder case It's all the same, even if the conviction for murdering one's own parents is more severe, it's not much different."

"If he kills the dance troupe for the purpose of making an alibi, he might be in jail for decades, and if he doesn't make this alibi and goes to jail for murdering his parents, he's going to be in jail for decades. Why did he make an alibi? It's the same as going to jail anyway."

"Unless, he's sure he's going to turn over the case that killed the cheerleader," Batman speculates. "Remember? Not long after Doris was killed, there was another dance group. The member was killed, followed by the third..."

"This looks very much like a serial murder case. Thomas, the murderer of the first case, was imprisoned, but the case continues and the victims continue to appear. Some people will think that Thomas was wronged and did it. It's the serial killer who continues to commit crimes outside."

Gordon covered his forehead and said: "Indeed, everyone is now saying that this is a serial murder case, after all, the characteristics are too obvious."

Batman shook his head and said, "No, on the contrary, this is not a serial murder case."

"How do you know?" Gordon asked, saying, "I remember hearing Schiller say that serial murder victims have something in common, where they're committed and how they're murdered, and I think this case has something in common. Does the child fit these characteristics perfectly?"

Batman shook his head and said, "Has Schiller told you that in real serial murder cases, there will be connections between each case, and the murderer will deliberately create these connections."

When Gordon was thinking, Batman said: "And these murderers are trying to eliminate evidence. They are not like those crazy crazy people. They don't kill for enjoyment, but for killing."

"I think Thomas should have accomplices. After he was in prison for a murder case, his accomplices continued to make murders outside, so that he could be exonerated."

At this time, an unexpected visitor visited the police station, it was Harvey Dent, when he walked into Gordon's office, Gordon went up to hug him and said, "Long time no see, you're back from vacation. ?"

"Yes, actually, I was called back. Guess who called me back?"

"Who?"

"Attorneys for the Elliott family, they want me to defend their master, Thomas Elliott, of his innocence."

"Sure enough." Batman said in a low voice: "Is their defense justified in that the murder of the cheerleaders should be a case of serial murder. After we arrested Thomas, the case was still happening, so it means that , he is not the murderer."

Harvey raised his eyebrows and said, "How do you know? He's saying exactly what you said~www.readwn.com~Will the defense succeed?" Gordon asked.

"If I make a move, it is indeed possible." Harvey was not modest, but said truthfully.

"This is a little troublesome." Gordon frowned, looking a little stressed, but at this moment, a police officer rushed into his office and shouted:

"Sheriff! No good! Thomas Elliott escaped on his way from the police station to the prison!"

Several people paused for a moment, and Gordon immediately asked: "Why? Why did he escape from prison? Isn't he going to defend himself?"

Obviously, several people have thought that if Thomas refuses to admit it and finds a lawyer to defend him, then he should stay there honestly and wait for the legal measures to take effect, and now he directly violently escapes from prison and loses his Taking all the defense opportunities is equivalent to admitting that he did the murder.

This behavior of his is inconsistent, so a few people don't quite understand why, but Batman knows that he has to stop Thomas from letting a crazy murderer run around the city.

So, he followed the clues provided by the police station to find the place where Thomas escaped.

The process of Thomas's escape was not smooth. His head was broken and his ankle was twisted, so he left a lot of traces. Batman followed these traces and chased him to the laboratory building of Gotham University. Met Lex and Cobble.

At this time, Thomas, who was restraining Lex, said amazingly:

"I'm not here to kill! I'm here to protect my fiancee!"

"There's a crazy serial killer at work! She's in danger!

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