Chapter 4489: Blackest Night (25)

Amanda came over with a document with a blank expression, handed it to Jenna, and then said: "This is the background of the new victim. As expected, he is also a night shift worker."

"What does he do?" Jenna picked up the document and read it. After a while, she said somewhat speechlessly, "Breaking and entering also counts as a night shift worker?"

"You can't break in during the day," Amanda said, "This guy specifically takes advantage of the night when no one is around, walking through the blind spots of surveillance cameras to steal from those shared villas..."

"Wait," Jenna said, "Shared villas, are they those in the South District?"

"Of course, only there are those. Other places are apartment residences, if I were to say, Brainiac should have razed that place to the ground in the first place. Now it's causing so many things..."

Amanda was complaining, but Jenna had already fallen into deep thought, she said: "This serial killer is very seasoned, at ease, and can express multi-layered information through the case. This means that every victim he chooses must have its purpose."

"I understand." Tim suddenly realized, "He is telling you that the victim of the first case has a problem."

"How do you say that?" Jenna looked at him.

"You deduced that the South District has a problem, right?"

"Right. Because Pelota and Chick both had accidents in the South District. This isn't hard to deduce at all."

"So he found a victim related to the shared villas in the South District, with the purpose of reminding you that his victims aren't chosen randomly. He will use the victim's identity to inform us of some information. The information he conveys happens to match what you know, which will guide us to think about whether the victim of the first case also has any suspicious points."

"That's right," Jenna nodded and said, "The second case happened to choose a clue I had deduced to show, probably just to make us look back and suspect the first case."

Jenna turned to look at Amanda again and said: "Can I only trouble you to check Gerita's information again? That must be very important."

Amanda rolled her eyes and said: "I let you go to the scene just to find out things not recorded in the background information. And now you want to ask me for those things again, where am I supposed to get them?"

Jenna still wanted to say something, Tim pulled her, and then said: "Ms. Waller also has a point. If it could be found out in the official information, he wouldn't need to use this method to remind us, he would just go find Brainiac directly. It all proves that the secrets hidden in Gerita might be deeper than we imagine, it will take some effort to find out."

Jenna frowned. She started to recall what she saw again, but indeed there were no useful clues. Tim thought for a moment and said: "That guy was a corpse collector at the pier. This means he should have been working for several gangs near the pier."

"Are there still gangs near the pier?" Jenna was a bit surprised, "I usually go there to eat, how come I've never heard of it?"

"That was how many years ago." Tim had a reminiscent expression, "Ever since Cat Getan started tourism development, gangs weren't allowed there anymore. After all, that's the place tourists love to go the most, and many specialty shops were built there. If you get threatened by gangs while shopping, who would come again?"

"Not allowed to have gangs? Then who eradicated the gangs there?"

"They weren't eradicated, most of them washed their hands and came ashore. Some invested in specialty shops and pier markets, now relying on self-operated stores and collecting rent to live. Some turned to yacht and outbound tourism projects, relying on tourist group revenue."

"Then it should be very hard to find, right." Jenna said, "Even if we find them, they might not be willing to mention the gang era anymore. It might affect their business."

"It doesn't matter," Tim took out his phone and said, "The small fries at the bottom can't be found, let's go directly to the biggest one."

"The biggest one?"

"Falcone."

In the Golden Cup Bar in the North District, Tim took Jenna and walked in under the gaze of two strong bodyguards. There was no deafening music and shining disco balls as expected. The bar was very quiet, only a few people were sitting in their seats, and there was no one at the bar counter.

"Looks like business isn't very good." Jenna said.

"The North District has long since declined," Tim shook his head and said, "After the gang era passed, they weren't willing to gather here, preventing others from bringing up the past. Black Island was banned by Brainiac, and gray industries couldn't develop, so naturally, there were no people. However, there is a celebrity living here."

"The Falcone you mentioned?"

"No, it's James Gordon. The gang leader gave him a big manor back then, and obviously, his salary isn't enough for him to change houses, so he has to live there even if he doesn't want to."

Jenna laughed, the Cat Getan Police Commissioner, known as the conscience of Cat Getan, had become the last defender of the North District. It felt like a hero living in the second ring of the Demon King's city.

The two of them sat at the bar, and a cat jumped up from inside the bar. Jenna's superpower is transforming into animals, so small animals are always closer to her. Jenna touched the little cat.

"Is this Fana's child?" Tim also touched the little cat's head.

The bartender on the side shook his head and said: "This is Fana's granddaughter, the daughter of the little orange cat she gave birth to."

"Who is Fana? Another cat?" Jenna asked while petting the cat.

"Yes, Fana was very famous, she almost became mayor."

"What?"

Tim smiled and said: "I heard it from others too. When the election for mayor was held back then, someone reported the name of the pet cat in the Golden Cup Bar, which was Fana. Since her other competitors weren't the material to be mayor, she almost succeeded."

"Then can I have the honor of seeing this mayoral candidate cat?"

"Fana passed away five years ago." The bartender served the drinks and then said, "Her daughter Papa ran away with a shorthair cat, leaving only three kittens. The one you see is her third daughter."

"Shorthair cat?"

"Yes. Seems to be a pet cat raised by the third miss of the Spencer family. When their family moved away from the North District, that shorthair cat couldn't bear to part with his wife, so Miss Falo took them both away."

Jenna listened very seriously to the story of the cat family. For humans, it was over a dozen years, but for cats, it had already passed for three generations. From the story of the three generations of the cat family, one could also glimpse the history of the North District's changes and the context of the rise and fall of the gang family.

Suddenly, a tall figure appeared at the door. He walked in. Tim stood up, walked over and shook hands with him: "Long time no see, Alberto. Give my regards to Mrs. Falcone."

Alberto nodded at him and then said: "This is..."

"Just call me Jenna," Jenna also shook hands with him and said, "A student at Cat Getan University, currently interning at the Federal Shield."

Alberto frowned slightly, Tim said: "She is a rare empath, that's why she was targeted by Amanda."

Alberto sat down and then asked: "I heard you have something to find me for?"

"Are you very busy?" Tim was somewhat impatient.

Alberto sighed long, almost gritting his teeth and saying: "Don't let me know who made the sky not bright. My two little devils' schedules are all messed up. One says according to the time, they can't sleep now. One says they have already slept today, there's no need to sleep again..."

Tim laughed and said: "Coaxing children is very hard, isn't it? Truly a sweet trouble."

"Alright, I won't delay your time." Tim took a sip of the drink and then said, "Have you heard of Gerita?"

"Who?"

"It's not strange that you haven't heard of him, this guy used to be a corpse collector near the pier."

"Which pier?"

"Don't know. He should have been active in the area near the pier."

"The Falcone family has professional corpse collectors." Alberto said, "The kind of corpse collector you mentioned who wanders around in an area is usually not professional enough."

"Gerita was exceptionally unprofessional." Jenna said, "Have you heard of any corpse collector causing a scandal of insulting corpses?"

Alberto was slightly stunned, and then seemed to have thought of something, saying: "I seem to have heard of this."

"Caused such a big stir?" Tim was a bit surprised.

"Don't know if it's related to this Gerita. Anyway, it was said that someone insulted a corpse. However, judging by your tone, this guy lived until today, which isn't quite right."

"What do you mean?"

"Once such a thing happened, someone would definitely go to silence him. If you can't give this kind of guy some color, who else would be willing to die for the family?"

This time it was Tim's turn to be stunned. After all, he wasn't from a gang background, not even from the bottom, and didn't know much about this aspect. He and Jenna both thought that gangs actually didn't care much about what Gerita did. After all, people were already dead, what else was there to care about.

Alberto shook his head and said: "The gang family itself relies on loyalty to maintain. Not to mention that the high-level members of the family are basically blood relatives, even the thugs below, at least on the surface, have to behave like brothers. Otherwise, there's no way to unite against outsiders. Would you allow someone to insult the corpse of your relative?"

Tim shook his head, and then Alberto said: "That person who insulted the corpse didn't die, so there's no way to comfort the spirits. The living will also feel that the family is cold-blooded, even after death they are insulted, and no one will be willing to sell their lives anymore. This is a fatal blow to the reputation of the gang family. They would definitely kill him."

"But Gerita didn't die, and even lived until today." Tim thought about it and said, "There must be some reason."

"That means someone protected him," Alberto said, "If he was just an inconspicuous corpse collector, there shouldn't be any gang family willing to risk committing a taboo to protect him. And at that time, the political circles were basically controlled by gang families, and the military and police circles were the same."

"If you put it that way, there's no one else," Jenna said, "Only these powerful people could protect him, right?"

"It might be like that in other cities, but not necessarily in Cat Getan," Alberto said, "Although gangs still controlled the whole city back then, some criminals had already begun to show their heads."

"You mean the person who protected him could be some madman?"

"Yes. These madmen are best at fraud and deception, it's not difficult to fish someone out from the hands of gangs. The problem is, why would he do that."

"It wouldn't be sympathy for each other, right." Jenna subconsciously answered.

"You really said it," Tim held up a finger and said, "There is always resonance between madmen. Even if it's not because they have the same hobby, it must be because Gerita has this kind of niche perverted hobby. These madmen love studying such people the most."

Suddenly, Jenna had another flash of inspiration. She stood up abruptly, looked at the two people beside her and said: "The director of Arkham Asylum!"

"What?"

"Hugo Strange. He used to be the director of Arkham Asylum, right?"

Tim also remembered, he said: "You mean, Hugo protected Gerita?"

"It must be like this. Hugo Strange and Professor Rodriguez are peers, he is also a psychologist, and the director of the asylum. It's not strange that he would want to study this kind of special hobbyist. And he has the ability to do so. After all, these people are all very good at mental manipulation."

"Then it seems, the killer is trying to remind us that all of this is related to Hugo through the first case," Tim thought, "But Hugo has been dead for so many years..."

"Is he really dead?" Jenna asked slowly.

Alberto and Tim both looked at her.

"Or rather, is he still dead now?"

?? Killing Spire 2 online is really fun, played for five minutes and caught the traitor for half an hour.