Chapter 292: Great Responsibility Is Given to This Person (Part 2)

Recently, the biggest truth that Bruce understood is that there are only bad news and worse news in this world, and all the bad things always come together.

Batman still chose to find the Joker first. Obviously, the big surprises of the madman Joker are usually only surprises and no joy, and they will be very shocking.

Sure enough, when Batman arrived, he found that the Joker had set a fire on the commercial street in the central area of ​​Gotham. At this time, the crowd was screaming and fleeing. More than a dozen cars that were doused with gasoline were piled up in a pile. The debris flying out of the explosion broke almost all the window glass, and thick smoke billowed for a while.

Batman stood on the roof, squinting his eyes to find the target, and at this time, another black smoke rose in the distance. Batman turned his head and saw that it seemed to be the slums in the East District.

At this time, the sirens of the fire truck sounded, and the firefighters arrived. They carried hoses to put out the fire, cleaned up the debris of the explosives, and searched for trapped people from the narrow gaps of the burned buildings.

Gotham's fire department is not very efficient, but this is the most prosperous commercial street in the city center after all. Most of the shops here are owned by the twelve families, so they still have to come to rescue if there is a fire.

In Batman's judgment, the central commercial street is still a wide area, and the fire first and then the explosion. When the smoke started, most people ran out, so the rescue was not difficult.

But the slums are different. There are dense buildings and a lot of debris there. Once a fire breaks out, it is likely to cause heavy casualties. So after seeing the firefighters coming to the commercial street for rescue, Batman rushed to the East District.

The sequelae of overdrawing energy have not completely disappeared. Batman has a very severe headache, so he did not notice that the reporter who just arrived at the intersection at the end of the commercial street happened to take a picture of his leaving back.

The fire in the East District slums is very troublesome. The houses here are too dense, there are no fire protection measures at all, and there are no fire escapes. Many people are trapped in the fire. Batman took a lot of effort to solve the problem here.

By the time they went to the police station, Gordon was already a little exhausted. He saw Batman as if he had seen a savior and said, "You are finally here!"

"What's going on?" Batman's voice was hoarse as if it had been burned by fire. Gordon had a lot to say, but when he saw Batman's pale face, he hesitated and said, "You look too bad, otherwise, go back and rest first?"

"It's okay, tell me, what's going on?"

Gordon took a deep breath, led Batman to the morgue, and then pulled out a body from the morgue cabinet. After lifting the white cloth on the body, the face revealed made Batman feel a little familiar. It was the leader of the Lawrence family among the twelve families.

Old Lawrence already had white hair and was slightly fat. At this time, there were wounds on his limbs and chest. Batman squinted his eyes to observe, but his attention was a little distracted, so he only asked Gordon: "What was the scene like?"

Gordon opened his mouth and paused, as if he didn't know how to describe it. He said: "This afternoon, Lawrence Jr. called the police chief and said that his father was dead."

"When I arrived, Lawrence was dead in the study. He was lying flat on the ground, his head facing the window, his arms open, and his whole body was in a cross shape. His limbs, chest and head were all wounded. A long wedge was driven into the body. The medical examiner determined that the cause of his death was a pierced heart..."

"Where is the murder weapon?"

"In the evidence room, I can get it if you want. In addition, the medical examiner told me that anesthetic drugs were detected in Lawrence's body. He should have been anesthetized first and then nailed to death."

"Crucifixion..." Batman muttered to himself. Gordon didn't hear it clearly. He said, "What? What cross?"

"This is a way to execute Christians, that is, crucifixion, or upside down crucifixion."

"The first pope, St. Peter, one of Jesus' disciples, died in this way. Wait, Jesus? How many disciples did Jesus have? ... Twelve... Twelve families..."

Batman immediately said to Gordon: "Let your sheriff contact the twelve families immediately. This may be a serial murder case..."

As soon as he finished speaking, a young police officer ran down the stairs and shouted to Gordon: "Sheriff, the younger brother of the Hawke brothers is dead, he..."

The young police officer swallowed his saliva and said: "His head was chopped off, the chief has gone..."

Gordon covered his forehead and explained to Batman: "The Hawke family is also one of the twelve families , their leaders are a pair of brothers, the elder brother is the big boss, and the younger brother helps him manage the family..."

Batman covered the white cloth on old Lawrence, and then said to Gordon: "Can we go to the scene this time?"

"Well, yes, but we have to wait, we have to stagger with the director, otherwise I can't explain why I took you in? ... You know, the director is a little bit..."

"Okay, I know." As he said, Batman had walked to the window, and he said to Gordon: "You shouldn't clean up the crime scene tonight, right? We will meet there at midnight, and now I have other things to do..."

After saying that, Batman disappeared. Gordon rubbed his temples, his face wrinkled. He asked the young policeman: "Are you a Christian?"

"Ah, yes, what's wrong?"

"Do you know the story of Jesus and his twelve disciples? Can you tell me about it?"

The young policeman choked, his expression was a little embarrassed, Gordon said as if he had expected it, "Well, everyone here says they are Christians, but not many people know Jesus, let alone disciples. I'd better go back and read the Bible..."

Batman left, turned on the communicator on his wrist and asked over there: "How are you guys doing?"

The voice of the little sly guy sounded over there, saying: "Fortunately, we are trapped in a basement, which seems to be an abandoned wine cellar. They haven't found out yet, but You'd better come quickly, Jason is injured..."

Hearing that Jason was injured, Batman frowned and said, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? I thought you guys didn't have a big problem..."

The young voice of the little rascal continued to ring in the communicator: "Actually, the problem is really not big. He just sprained his ankle. We jumped from a very high place. He was the first to jump. His foot was hit by the debris below. Now he can't move, but there is no danger of bleeding..."

"Tell me your address, I'll go there right now."

About 20 minutes later, in a basement not far from Green Street in the East District, Batman fixed Jason's ankle and asked them, "What's going on? I just asked you to investigate. Why are you being hunted down?"

As if to distract his attention from the pain in his ankle, Jason said, "At the beginning At first, we really just wanted to investigate. A friend and I found a job selling cigarettes on Green Street. At first, everything went smoothly. We contacted the small leader in charge of this block and his boss, who was the 'father and mother' of these children..."

"That man was called 'Lame Dad' by the children here. He lived in a shed at the end of the first alley. You know, I am good at fighting. I would climb over his shed at night and eavesdrop on him..."

"That time, it should be his boss who came here. I heard them mention the big boss in their conversation. They said that the situation of the twelve families has been a little tense recently... or something, and then they said that the big boss asked them to hurry up to raise funds. In short, these are the words..."

"But the boss of Lame Dad was too vigilant, I just moved a little bit, and he found someone on the roof. I had to run away quickly, but the boss was obviously a formal gang member. He brought bodyguards and shotguns. Fortunately, I was a small target and they didn't hit me..."

The little sly guy continued: "Originally, I was just meeting him at the intersection of the street, but those guys chased us relentlessly, so the two of us could only run into the alley. Fortunately, there is an abandoned wine cellar here, otherwise we would be caught up by them soon. "

Jason said angrily: "When I jumped down, I didn't see that there were wooden boards or something underneath, otherwise I wouldn't be so easily injured."

When Batman fixed the splint for him, Jason bit his fist and refused to scream. Batman looked at him and said: "You've done a good job. Now let's go up. Don't come here recently."

Jason wanted to help the little sly guy stand up, but Batman picked him up directly. Jason struggled and said: "Put me down! Damn it! "

But his feet were swollen, and when he moved his legs, his ankles hurt. He screamed in pain, bit his fist and kept silent.

After reaching the ground, Batman asked them: "Did the people chasing you see what you look like?"

"I'm not sure, but they have flashlights, so they should have seen Jason."

Batman carried Jason to the car, put him in the back seat, and said: "You go to my base to hide for two days, there is everything there."

As he said, he started the car directly regardless of Jason's objection, and sent Jason and Little Slippery to a temporary base in the southern suburbs of his city.

Batman's base can be said to be fully equipped, which opened the eyes of the two children, especially Jason.

Originally, he felt a little awkward being held by Batman like a child, but after seeing the advanced equipment and sufficient supplies, his eyes began to light up, and he changed his reluctant attitude at the beginning, and began to look at this and touch that excitedly.

Little Slippery turned around and asked Batman: "Is our intelligence useful? "

Batman nodded and said, "At least, I know that the big boss is not some street thug. He is related to the Twelve Families and may even be a member of the Twelve Families."

"And just now, two high-ranking members of the Lawrence Family and the Hawke Family of the Twelve Families were murdered one after another..."

"In addition, Jason said that he heard the boss urging them to raise funds for the big boss as soon as possible. The big boss may know something..."

At this point, Batman said to the two children, "Don't go out these days. It may be very unsafe outside."

After settling Jason and the little rascal, Batman couldn't rest after returning to Wayne Manor. He took out the Bible and the Gospel and began to look for stories about the Twelve Apostles.

If the story of Jesus and the twelve disciples is not well known, then the story of Jesus and Judas is almost known to everyone, and Judas is one of the twelve disciples of Jesus.

Batman read until late at night, and wrote down all the information. He dragged his extremely tired body upstairs to sleep.

After the darkness, when he opened his eyes again, he found himself at the door of Wayne Manor again, and in the alley outside the door, there were four familiar figures standing.