Chapter 614: Morbid Crisis (Part 3)

After Bruce and Lex came to Metropolis, they still had to rely on the Luthor family's relationship to pave the way. However, Lionel did not leave nothing behind except the family business.

Money and power are inseparable. The Metropolis police chief has a good relationship with the Luthor family. Hearing that Lex was interested in this murder case, he handed over all the files to Lex.

However, the police officers did not find any special clues, so Lex asked the police chief to go to the scene to see, but the Metropolis police chief felt very embarrassed. He said on the phone:

"I'm sorry, Mr. Luthor, we have to consider your safety for a field investigation. I'm afraid this matter..."

"I think the police station should still lack a batch of new protective equipment? With such a brutal murder, the quality of the police officers' weapons also needs to be improved. The Luthor family has always been concerned about the safety of Metropolis..."

Lex did not finish his words, but who can't understand such words?

To Lex's surprise, the police chief still didn't agree. After he hung up the phone, Bruce stood behind him and said, "There's a problem. He can't even let you see the body if he uses money to open the way."

"It doesn't matter. We can go directly to the morgue. There is nothing that the Luthor family can't do here." Lex replied.

The bodies of the two murders were stored in the morgue of a hospital very close to the police station. The forensic doctor has not had time to perform an autopsy, so if they go there now, they should be able to see the complete bodies. This hospital happens to be sponsored by the Luthor family.

However, when the two came to the morgue, they found that there was no body of the murder case here. After checking the surveillance of the morgue, the surveillance showed that there was no image of the body.

In other words, after the police investigated the crime scene, they did not store the body in the morgue at all, which was very abnormal.

After leaving the morgue, Bruce said to Lex while thinking: "Generally speaking, police officers will choose the most convenient way to store the body. If there is no forensic hospital, the body will be stored in the nearest hospital before the autopsy."

"If they didn't put the body here, it is possible that it was sent directly to the forensic hospital. You go back to Luther Manor to mobilize the surveillance of the crime scene. Tonight, I will go to the forensic hospital to see."

Lex had no objection to this arrangement. He allowed Bruce to come here to investigate the case, just because he thought he could borrow his strength.

Lex's own force is not enough. If he encounters a too fierce murderer, it would be fine if he stays in Luther Manor, but if he takes the initiative to investigate the case, his safety cannot be guaranteed.

Therefore, using Batman to go out for field investigation is a good choice. Anyway, their two goals are to eliminate the owl. In this regard, they have a common enemy, so they can cooperate.

As Bruce arranged, Lex began to use technical means to obtain surveillance at the crime scene, while Bruce went to the forensic hospital to find the body.

Bruce, who haunts the night, puts on Batman's equipment again. He stands on the roof of the tallest Luthor Building in Metropolis, overlooking this city that is more prosperous than Gotham.

The night sky here is far less dark than Gotham. There are bright lights everywhere. This kind of light makes Batman's vision a little hazy. He feels that he is not suitable to stay in such a city. Bats should belong to darkness.

However, the warmth of the lights of thousands of houses is transmitted to his eyes with the wind. The cape is reflected in orange by the warm lights. Batman takes a deep breath, then glides down, jumps between buildings, and finally arrives at the destination.

The New Law Hospital in Metropolis is located in a remote area, and there are only two guards on duty. Batman sneaked in without much effort, but there is still no body here.

Batman noticed the weirdness of the whole thing, so he visited all the hospitals in Gotham, but did not find the body. Finally, he came to the home of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner.

When the police chief was awakened from his dream, he looked at the dark figure standing on the balcony in fear. Batman stood in the shadow outside the window and asked in a low voice: "Where is the body of the murder case?"

"I... I don't know... Who are you? Don't come over! I'm going to shoot!" The police chief screamed.

Batman found that the police chief was not stronger than Gordon. The good security in the metropolis had nothing to do with him. He was a common villain who bullied the weak and feared the strong. Violence and money could pry open his mouth.

Finally. Batman still got the answer he wanted from the police chief. According to the police chief, the body was missing.

There were only a few steps to investigate the crime scene, and because the two bodies appeared at the intersection of relatively busy streets, the police officers had to quickly take the bodies away from there and restore traffic.

When the first body was found, because the death was too tragic and it was not convenient for more people to see it, after a preliminary investigation, the body was dismantled, covered with a white cloth, and then sent to the hospital carriage.

However, the car did not drive to the hospital as planned. According to the police chief, they finally found the missing car and the knocked-out police officer in the suburbs, and the driver and the body disappeared.

Later, the police found the real driver who was knocked out in the underground garage of the hospital.

In other words, the person who stole the body first knocked out the real driver, then pretended to be the driver, hijacked the car that transported the body, and finally stole the body.

After this happened, when transporting the second body, all the police officers were on high alert, and a detective drove the car himself to the forensic hospital, but just when Lex and Bruce arrived in Metropolis and went to the hospital, the body disappeared again.

There were not so many people in the forensic hospital, and the security was not complete enough. Someone sneaked in and stole the body again.

Batman returned to Luthor Manor without any results, and Lex did not bring any good news. Standing in the laboratory under Luthor Manor, he fiddled with the computer and said:

"The security of Metropolis has always been good. People here lack a sense of crisis, and there are very few surveillance cameras. Except for a few major intersections, most cameras inside buildings have too many blind spots, and some even have only one camera on an entire floor."

"I retrieved the surveillance footage of the crime scene, but it is obvious that it is not the first crime scene. The murderer just placed the body there, not killed him there."

"The question is, how did he place the body there?" Bruce asked.

"From the surveillance, the body should have fallen from the roof. A parachute was tied to the chair that tied the body. The body just fell from the roof of the bank building into the crowd, causing panic."

"Unfortunately, the bank building is the tallest building nearby, and the surveillance cameras of other buildings cannot capture the rooftop. The only camera captured a back view."

Lex showed Bruce the picture, which was a picture of a man in a blue cleaner's uniform walking into the rooftop door, but only a very blurry figure was captured, and the gender could barely be determined. Due to the angle, even the body shape and height could not be determined.

"What about the surveillance inside the bank?" Bruce asked.

"The Metropolitan Center Bank has the most glass curtain walls nearby. They hire a cleaning company to clean the glass for them on the 3rd of every month, which is today. Since every layer of glass needs to be cleaned, there are cleaners throughout the building."

"Through the bank's internal surveillance, a total of 43 people were found, all men, all wearing uniforms and hats, and their body shapes and heights could not be determined. In other words, they are all suspects."

Bruce put one hand on the table and said, "It seems that the murderer was well prepared. Let's take a look at all the behaviors of these 43 people first..."

"Before you came back, I had already analyzed them all and didn't find any suspicious behavior. At least in the places captured by the surveillance, their behaviors were normal." Lex replied.

"If the murderer wants to throw the body from the top of the bank building, he must bring the body in first. How did he bring the body in?"

Lex selected a surveillance picture, played it for a while, pressed the pause button, and then pointed to a place on it and said to Bruce: "... Look at this box. It is very troublesome to clean the glass curtain wall of a high-rise building. Special high-altitude working tools are required."

"Fixed tools are often large in size and have a lot of ropes, so this kind of large box is needed. It is transported to the building one day in advance and placed in the warehouse in the basement. In other words, on the 2nd of each month, these boxes will appear in the warehouse under the bank building."

"As long as the body can be put into these boxes and transported to the underground warehouse of the building in advance, then these boxes can be pushed to the floor he wants to go to, and then use the excuse of cleaning the glass to find a blind spot of surveillance and throw the body down."

Accompanied by Lex's description, Bruce and Lex jointly constructed a scene in their minds.

The calendar turned to April 2nd. At about 6 pm, one cleaning company truck after another drove to the underground garage of the Central Bank.

Cleaners in blue uniforms lifted large boxes from the truck one by one, moved them to a cart, and pushed them into the underground warehouse connected to the underground garage.

The box carried by one of the cleaners was particularly heavy, and blood was seeping from the edge of the box, but the other cleaner did not notice this detail. The two of them moved the box to the cart and pushed it all the way into the warehouse.

At around 7 o'clock in the morning on April 3, the central bank officially started working. Employees walked in from the main entrance. At this time, the cleaners had arrived at the underground warehouse and pushed out all the prepared tools step by step.

The murderer, wearing a cleaner's uniform, pushed a tool box to a floor of the building, then moved the body and equipment in the tool box out, opened the glass, and threw the body down.

The picture paused here, and Lex and Bruce looked at each other. Bruce spoke first: "There is a problem here."

"Yes, that's the smell." Lex said immediately: "If you hide the body in this tool box and move it to the warehouse with the cleaners, it is impossible that no one will smell the terrible bloody smell." Bruce immediately picked up the notebook next to him, drew the shape of the body, and then pointed to it and said: "This wound and this wound have a lot of bleeding. Even if the blood has dried up when he moved the body, it is impossible that there is no smell at all." "There are two ways to make the body smellless." Lex immediately followed up, looking familiar with it. He said: "The first is to treat the body with special chemical reagents, and the second is to use other pungent smells to cover up the bloody smell." "Now that the body is gone, we have no way to verify the first possibility, but if we start from the second possibility, what can cover up the pungent smell of blood?" The two answered in unison: "Glass curtain wall cleaner." ()