Chapter 4493: The Blackest Night (28)

"Compared to the panic and powerlessness brought by being framed, I feel more anger. How dare they use this method to kill?!"

Some people will never understand. The meaning and beauty of ice lie in stillness. The countless forms of water molecules are unpredictable, but only ice can make the whole world stand still, creating a space where one can think quietly. Therefore, those things frozen in ice always carry a kind of silent beauty. Even the most ordinary items, when frozen in dense ice, look like Byronic hero sculptures.

This woman chosen as the victim was so ordinary. In daily life, her static state would not have any beauty. There was no static part in her personality worth writing about. Therefore, when frozen in ice, what was magnified was not beauty, but ugliness.

Undoubtedly, the murderer made a major mistake in operation when starting the quick-freezing device, causing the ice layer to retain water marks. These irregular pathological traces made me almost want to vomit, like countless maggots gnawing at the body, completely destroying the static beauty, causing this to look just like a frozen corpse, no different from those other rotten and disgusting corpses.

In short, the work created by the murderer was very unsuccessful. Not only was there no connotation, but even the appearance was not imitated very successfully. More importantly, they actually dared to present such an ugly scene in front of me. Perhaps Schiller is right, I have been too gentle, so that everyone wants to step on my head..."

After Schiller broadcast Victor's inner voice again, the room was surprisingly quiet. Gordon, who had just walked in, retreated silently. The content of perverted serial killers in the room was too high, so that for every extra second he breathed here, Gordon felt his conscience was about to stop beating.

Jenna swallowed lightly. Obviously, she had already discovered that this Professor Fries, who looked very good-tempered, didn't seem to be that simple. He hid too well, those crazy traits had been buried deep in his heart, and even the empath couldn't read anything. Until this moment, until the appearance of this corpse.

Regardless of whether the murderer wanted to stimulate Victor in this way, he was very wrong. Jenna licked her lips lightly. Victor's anger tasted very special, with a kind of extreme coldness. When this feeling spread to her brain, Jenna couldn't help but shiver.

"Where is the equipment?" Schiller asked.

Tim obviously had already reasoned, he said: "I have seen that kind of old equipment in the cold storage of the Drake family before. This thing is very big and cannot be carried around. So either they tied the person to the location of the equipment and sent them back after freezing; or they transported the equipment over and performed quick-freezing directly here."

"I don't think it was sent back after freezing. Because if you transport a piece of equipment in, people might think this is some new equipment deployed by Brainiac and won't pay too much attention. But if you transport a living ice sculpture in, it will definitely be discovered."

"The pier is an old street area with a large flow of people. Even after the temperature drops, it hasn't completely stopped work and production. In this situation, it's almost impossible for the murderer to avoid everyone's sight and transport a human ice sculpture in. He wouldn't take such a big risk. Then I'm more inclined to believe he transported the equipment."

"But there is also a problem with transporting equipment. Ordinary people might not know what this thing is and just think it's arranged by Brainiac, but Brainiac wouldn't. If someone pushes such a large piece of equipment and walks in swaggeringly, he will definitely have a record. But I just asked Brainiac, and he didn't capture any images of the murderer transporting the equipment."

"This is very abnormal, the pier is the area with the highest density of cameras. Any slight disturbance cannot be hidden from Brainiac's eyes. How the murderer transported the equipment in is the key to us finding him."

"What do you think is going on?" Jenna asked.

Tim looked down at the ground: "The sewer."

"You came relatively late, maybe you don't know. When Cat Getan was frozen before, the most unlucky thing was the sewer. It was almost all ice that was difficult to break. Precisely because of this, many natural cold storages were built inside. Technology continued to develop, and the early cold storages were constantly abandoned. After Brainiac came to power, most of the underground cold storages were shut down because the operating conditions were too dangerous. The entire Cat Getan underground was closed, and Brainiac didn't have much monitoring there."

"You mean he walked underground and transported the equipment up?"

"That's right," Tim said. "This can also help us lock the identity of the murderer. You know, the sewer structure under Cat Getan is very complex, it's three sets of systems nested together..."

"Wait, three sets of systems?"

"That's right. Cat Getan has a huge underground maze, a complete set of sewer systems, and the underground cold storage logistics system built by gangs. It can be said that those who are not familiar with it will definitely not be able to get out once they go in. Otherwise, why would Brainiac forbid people from going down?"

Jenna nodded, she felt that what Tim said made sense, so she said: "Then the person who took action must be very knowledgeable. Either it's an employee in this area, or they have conducted research."

Tim shook his head and said: "It can only be an employee of the cold storage logistics system from the gang era. Because the time these three systems were built is different. The underground maze is the earliest underground system, followed by the sewer system built on the basis of the underground maze, and the gang's underground logistics system is built on the basis of the sewer system. In this case, only those who understand the last version can walk clearly. If you only understand the underground maze or the sewer, you will also get lost because of the gang's detour."

"So that's how it is," Jenna said. "Time is of the essence, let's go down and look for it."

Tim hurriedly stopped Jenna and said: "This won't do. The situation below is very complex and very dangerous. Even if our group goes down, we might not be able to get any good."

"Brainiac," Victor said coldly. "Put water into the sewer. I'll freeze the underground system."

Jenna gasped lightly. Tim shook his head at him, signaling her not to speak. Because, no matter from which angle you consider it, this is the best way.

There are already enough cases on the ground, where do they have time to go underground and play hide-and-seek with others? Those who once worked underground have too deep an understanding of the sewer system. If you just find a corner and drill in, relying on manual investigation, it will take months to check.

Moreover, this case is obviously not Hugo Strange's personal action. If he died too early, his understanding of the sewer system might not be very deep, and he wouldn't take this risk himself, he should have manipulated another unlucky guy. He can manipulate one, and he can manipulate many. If you keep looking like this, it will never end.

Besides killing, there are many things that can be done by borrowing the sewer system. For example, quietly killing and hoarding living corpses. This is what Brainiac fears most. So far, he hasn't explored Cat Getan's sewer system completely. If the mastermind uses this point to make a move of building high walls and hoarding food, Brainiac will have another headache.

So Brainiac agreed to Victor's proposal almost without thinking, and he said: "I will control the seawater purification system to perform reverse backflow, it will take about two hours to fill the entire sewer."

"Commissioner Gordon," Victor called out, "help me find some manpower, deploy low-temperature generators..."

Gordon showed a difficult look. Schiller patted Victor's arm and said: "Don't make things difficult for him. Dozens of serial murder cases are waiting for him to investigate. Better find someone else."

Victor sighed and said: "It's a pity Barry isn't here. Otherwise he would have finished it in a while."

After speaking, he turned to look at Jenna and asked: "How is Barry? Has he contacted you?"

Jenna shook her head, also showing a worried look: "Although he asked me to investigate the Pelota incident, there is currently no progress. We don't know how to counter people who have returned from the dead..."

"Is there any good news from the Super-Body side? Brainiac?"

"Wait a moment," Brainiac replied. Soon he organized a document and sent it to everyone. This document simply summarized: the only thing that can restrain people who have returned from the dead is the power of life.

That is to say, only those who master the power of life can distinguish who has returned from the dead and who is a real living person. For example, the Super-Body, she can accurately find people who have returned from the dead among tens of thousands of people in the shelter. It's not because these people's appearance or language are different, it's purely because the power of life will react to the power of death.

And the problem is that the power of life is very rare. None of the students in the magic academy have contracted any mysterious existence with the power of life. Even senior mages, such as Zatanna and Constantine, have not had much contact with this power.

Moreover, not everyone can use the power of life. The Super-Body can use it, but she can't give it to others. And if she has to distinguish them one by one, it's definitely too late.

This conclusion is obviously not good news for them, and things are becoming more and more tricky. Even Schiller, who knows the inside story, doesn't have a good way to deal with this.

Of course he knows that the Entity of Existence is lying deep in the Earth. Waking him up should be able to get the White Lantern Ring, but the problem is how to wake him up.

In the universe of this Batman, they didn't use any normal procedures at all. Instead, they used violent means, driving three nails down, forcibly collecting the power of death in the ocean, and compressing it into the Earth's core. The Entity of Existence is very sensitive to the power of death, and woke up immediately.

The universe Schiller is in has no way to imitate it. First of all, there are no three nails. Most universes don't. That seems to be the original creation of the movie universe. The key is that this Nekron has also learned from his mistakes. He knows that after humans use this method to wake up the Entity of Existence, he no longer releases the power of death on a large scale.

The key to waking up the Entity of Existence lies in the power of death. Without enough power of death, there is no way to wake him up. So even if the universe Schiller is in also builds a weapon capable of sniping the Earth's core, it's useless without the power of death as a shell.

Nekron's pace in the universe Schiller is in is very cautious. He doesn't engage in emotional blackmail or violent output, and starts playing the classic living corpse siege. The reason why classics are classics is that they are simple and easy to use.

In fact, in modern criminal investigation, the most difficult serial murder cases to solve are not premeditated ones, but crimes of passion. That is, the murderer and the victim have no grievances, and there is no conflict. It's just that the murderer suddenly wants to kill, and the victim happens to run into him. Kill when you meet, leave after killing. This is very difficult to track.

Nekron's current thinking is just like this. Randomly selecting victims on a global scale. First, resurrect a very small number of dead people in each region. And they are all recent deaths, even those like Pelota who were not discovered by Brainiac when they died, and turn them into living corpses.

Then use these living corpses to quietly kill, also avoiding Brainiac as much as possible. Even completely random, some people take action, some people don't. Some dead people are resurrected, some are not. The resurrected living corpses also carry out random crimes of passion. Brainiac has no way to investigate. ===== CHAPTER 4494 =====