Chapter 3754

"What you said makes sense." Batman followed the Joker's words and said, "If anyone is most likely to know where Bruce Wei En of this universe is, then it must be Elliot."

"Why are you so sure Bruce didn't die?"

"You said you saw the corpse in the cold storage?"

"Yes. His internal organs were hollowed out and placed in specimen jars. I didn't have time to visit."

"Good. Then let's assume Elliot is a lunatic with a perverted hobby of digging out other people's internal organs. Since he has already dug out Bruce's internal organs, why didn't he take the specimen jars away, but put them in such a remote and desolate mental hospital?"

The Joker frowned, he shook his head and said: "I can't understand how those lunatics think."

"That's interesting." Batman admitted his current feelings. Before he could say anything, the Joker wrinkled the muscles around his nose with some annoyance and said: "I know what you want to say. In the case that 99% of my counterparts are lunatics, what I say is particularly strange. But now is not the time to discuss this. Continue with your speculation."

"Okay. I have a friend who is a master in the field of psychoanalysis. I often talk to him about the psychological world of psychopaths, and I always benefit a lot. He once told me that perverts who have a different interest in human limbs and internal organs usually have a 'God complex'."

"'God complex'?"

"They think they are above everyone else and are the masters of other people's lives. They think they have the right to control other people's bodies, and the best way to control them is to arrange them into styles that limbs would not normally exist in."

"Sounds like some serial killers who like to play with corpses."

"Exactly. Serial killers who collect skin and organs are also in this category. If Elliot hollowed out Bruce's internal organs out of this psychology, he would never store his collection so casually, nor is it likely that he only created Bruce as a victim. The wealth and power he got from the Wei En Group are enough for him to build an organ museum."

"You know them quite well." The Joker narrowed his eyes and looked at Batman. What surprised Batman was that when such a face with messy and terrible makeup became serious, it didn't look inconsistent, but had a kind of absurd and humorous tragic temperament like Don Quixote.

"According to my understanding of Thomas Elliot, he is not such a lunatic either. He wouldn't have dug out Bruce's organs for the purpose of spiritual enjoyment. And if, as you said, for many years, Bruce has been trapped in a mental hospital and accepted human experiments, then their taking out his internal organs is more like recycling experimental results."

"I think so too." The Joker said, "That's why they used the cold storage to preserve his corpse..."

"I'm afraid you have no knowledge of medicine." Batman shook his head, raised his voice and said, "This is the key. If it is for research use, any researcher with a little scientific basis would not choose to freeze the corpse in a cold storage. What is a chemical term you often hear in anatomy?"

"What?"

"Formalin. If a cold storage can preserve a corpse well, then no one would buy this chemical that is not cheap."

"Perhaps he wants to store the corpse more completely."

"Then he didn't need to dig out the organs first. Since the organs have already been taken out and classified and preserved, why not directly dismember them and soak them in formalin?"

The Joker couldn't answer either, because this is indeed full of weirdness everywhere. If you want to preserve the corpse completely, then there is no need to move it, just freeze it; since you have already started to hollow out the internal organs, it proves that the integrity of the corpse is not important. Then, out of professional considerations, it should not be frozen in a cold storage, but should be dismembered and soaked in formalin.

Moreover, even if the body is not dismembered, it is not impossible to soak it in formalin. For others, it is an expensive chemical, but for the helmsman of the Wei En Group, it is not worth mentioning. Even if he himself has no knowledge of medicine, his researchers will definitely provide this plan. Since he didn't adopt it, it proves that something went wrong in a certain link.

This way of taking out a part and putting it in a jar, and freezing the other part in a cold storage, is very strange in itself, and it is indeed worth thinking about.

"Which one do you think is easier for a person who is not dead to survive, being frozen in a cold storage or being soaked in a jar of formalin?" Batman suddenly asked.

"Cold storage." The Joker reacted immediately.

This is a very simple truth—assuming Bruce is not dead, and working backwards, you can easily get the answer. To deceive Elliot's eyes, the means of faking death must be like that. Considering that the other party is very likely to go to see the corpse, Bruce must appear as a corpse.

Frozen in a cold storage, you can persist for a short period of time by tampering with the temperature of the cabin, and the appearance will basically not change much. But if soaked in formalin, even if soaked in ordinary water, Bruce can't hold his breath for a long time, at most a few minutes. Suffocated to the extreme, the body will inevitably have instinctive reactions, which is difficult to hide.

"What's going on with those internal organs?"

"You haven't seen the internal organs with your own eyes, have you? Bruce Wei En won't carve his name on his heart, liver, spleen, lung, and kidney. Elliot can't recognize his internal organs either, which is the easiest to disguise."

"That is to say, someone is working with Bruce." The Joker thought and said, "And this person who is working with Bruce can even influence the researchers under Elliot."

"This is normal. Why is the current Wei En Group not called the Elliot Group?" Batman asked again, and then answered himself, "If Elliot really had the ability to carry the banner of the group, he would have merged the Wei En Group into the Elliot Group long ago. After all, many years ago, the gap between the two sides was not big."

"But many years have passed, and he would rather be criticized for leading the Wei En Group under the surname Elliot, and did not change the name of the group to his surname, which proves that he does not have such a big right to speak in the Wei En Group. It is more likely that the resistance received is too great to be implemented."

"I understand, this proves that there are many people in the Wei En Group who are loyal to the Wei En family. They not only maintain the legitimacy of the Wei En family, but also have been secretly protecting Bruce Wei En. The researchers that Elliot can mobilize were all from the Wei En Group in the first place, and it is too simple for this group of people to do things."

"There is no loyalty in the business world." Batman's tone lowered, he said, "The Wei En couple died, and Bruce Wei En is not capable of being used. The reason why they maintain Wei En so much is just to fight against Elliot, not wanting Elliot to form a new force group to kick them out of the center of power. Wei En is just a name."

"Are you worried that they also want to secretly control Bruce Wei En?"

"Inevitably." Batman said, "In the game between Elliot and Wei En, no one can stay out of it. No matter if Bruce is really crazy or not, as long as there is the surname Wei En, he has natural legitimacy in the Wei En Group. Whoever can handle him might be able to get the Wei En Group."

"Then besides Elliot, this group of people should also know where Bruce is."

"They don't know. If they knew, the news of the return of the heir to the Wei En Group would have been released long ago. This kind of public opinion is good for them. It is because they can't find anyone now that there is no movement."

"So Bruce still fell into Elliot's hands."

"Not necessarily. Elliot is too stupid, he probably already thinks Bruce is really dead. Bruce's faked death used the power of that group of people, but since he didn't fall into the hands of that group of people, it proves that there is a third party. This third party has no other plans, just thinking about Bruce wholeheartedly. Who do you think he will be?"

Batman remembered after asking, the universe where this Joker is located is different from their universe. So he didn't wait for him to answer and said: "I want to know if Alfred is still alive."

"Your butler?" The Joker frowned and said, "He couldn't have come to help Bruce get out himself, he must have arranged manpower in the mental hospital. We can find a way to find this person."

"What do you plan to do?"

"Of course, borrow your face."

The Batman Who Laughs is running away in the night. Since meeting Shiler again at the hospital, the other party has turned his target again and started attacking him frantically. And after having suffered a loss in a head-on confrontation, the Laughing one had to choose to avoid the edge and transfer strategically.

Speaking of the ability to escape, the Laughing one is not bad. After all, he is also Batman, he didn't run forward stupidly, but hacked into the defense system of a street near the hospital, triggering a defense alarm. Immediately, drones, security robots, and security forces rushed toward this side. Armored trucks, bipedal robots, fully armed soldiers, drone operators, snipers, passersby intercepted for inspection... filled the entire street.

The Laughing one took the opportunity to rush behind an armored truck, took advantage of the driver getting out of the car to knock him out, stripped his coat and put it on himself, put on a helmet, and sat in the driver's seat.

The Laughing one is thin, and wearing these soldiers' clothes can cover him tightly. The soldiers under Elliot all wear helmets instead of hats, which covered his strange head completely. He took out a pack of cigarettes from the passenger seat, took one in his hand, smoked with one hand, and put the other hand on the steering wheel, it really looks like that.

This truck was carefully selected by him. On the one hand, the location is very good, if something goes wrong later, the front is another street, one foot on the accelerator can directly get out of here, and will not be blocked in the crowd like other cars; on the other hand, this car is not far from the hospital gate, and the vision is high enough to see the situation at the hospital's main entrance. Sitting in the car, you can see when Shiler comes out.

The Laughing one is still a bit proud. Now the scene is so chaotic, even if Shiler comes out, he is estimated to be squeezing around in the crowd like a headless fly. In this street and the surrounding buildings, there must be hundreds of people. Where can Shiler find him?

Moreover, just the long knife Shiler is carrying is enough to make these soldiers think he is a suspicious person. No matter how powerful he is, can he fight so many alone?

The Laughing one waited in the car for a few minutes. Logically speaking, Shiler who was chasing him should have come out, but there was no movement at the hospital's main entrance.

If he waits any longer, the security forces should withdraw later, and the situation will be a bit unfavorable. The Laughing one controlled the drone and leaned toward the hospital's main entrance, but still did not find Shiler's figure.

Suddenly, the Laughing one's peripheral vision caught a figure appearing at the intersection facing this car, wearing a suit, holding a long knife dragging on the ground, between the light and shadow of the night rain, there is a terrifying feeling of taking souls.