Chapter 619

After Bruce and Lex arrived in Metropolis, they still had to rely on the Luthor family's connections to open the way. However, Lionel didn't leave anything behind except the family industry.

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

However, the police officers didn't find any particularly special clues either. So, Lex proposed to the police chief that he wanted to go to the scene to take a look. But the Metropolis police chief felt very embarrassed. He said on the phone:

"I'm very sorry, Mr. Luthor. We have to consider your safety for an on-site inspection. This matter probably..."

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

Lex didn't finish his words, but who couldn't understand this kind of talk?

What was beyond Lex's expectation was that the police chief still didn't agree. After he hung up the phone, Bruce stood behind him and said: "There's a problem. With money to open the way, it's impossible for him not to even let you look at the corpse."

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

The corpses of these two murder cases were stored in the morgue of a hospital very close to the police station. The coroner hadn't had time to perform an autopsy yet, so if they went over now, they should be able to see the complete corpses, and this hospital happened to be sponsored by the Luthor family.

However, when the two arrived at the morgue, they discovered that there were no corpses of the murder case here at all. After retrieving the surveillance of the morgue, the surveillance showed that there wasn't even an image of storing the corpses.

That is to say, the police officers didn't store the corpses in the morgue at all after investigating the crime scene. This was very abnormal.

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

"If they didn't put the corpses here, then it's possible they were sent directly to the forensic hospital. You go back to Luthor Manor to mobilize the surveillance of the crime scene. Tonight, I'll go to the forensic hospital to take a look."

Lex had no objection to this arrangement. He would allow Bruce to come here to investigate the case, nothing more than feeling he could borrow his power.

Lex himself had insufficient force value. If he encountered a too fierce murderer, it would be fine if he stayed in Luthor Manor, and if he wanted to take the initiative to investigate the case, his safety couldn't be guaranteed.

So, utilizing Batman to go out for field investigation was a good choice. Anyway, both of their goals were to clear out the owls. In this aspect, they had a common enemy, therefore they could cooperate.

Just as Bruce arranged, Lex began to use technical means to obtain the surveillance of the crime scene, while Bruce went to the forensic hospital to look for the corpses.

Bruce, who appeared in the night, put on Batman's gear again. He stood on the roof of the Luthor Building, the highest in Metropolis, overlooking this city that was even more prosperous than Cat Getan.

The night sky here was far from being as dark as Cat Getan's, everywhere was brightly lit. This kind of light made Batman's vision a bit hazy. He felt that he didn't belong in a city like this; bats should belong to the darkness.

However, the warmth of the lights of ten thousand homes was transmitted to his eyes with the wind. The cape was reflected into orange by the warm-colored lights. Batman took a deep breath, then glided down, jumping between the buildings, and finally arrived at the destination.

The new forensic hospital in Metropolis was located in a relatively remote place, and there were only two gatekeepers on duty. Batman didn't spend much effort to sneak in, but there were still no corpses here.

Batman perceived the strangeness of the whole thing. So, he visited all the hospitals in Cat Getan, but didn't find the corpses. Finally, he arrived at the home of the Metropolis police chief.

When the sleeping police chief was startled awake, he looked fearfully at that dark figure standing on the balcony. Batman stood in the shadows outside the window. He asked in a low voice: "Where are the corpses 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 discovered that this police chief actually wasn't stronger than Gordon. The public security in Metropolis was so good, and it had nothing to do with him. He was that kind of common villain, bullying the soft and fearing the hard; both violence and money could pry open his mouth.

Finally, Batman still got the answer he wanted from the police chief. According to this police chief, the corpses had disappeared.

The steps to investigate the crime scene were just those few steps, and because the positions where the two corpses appeared were relatively prosperous street corners, therefore, the police officers had to quickly take the corpses away from there to restore traffic.

When the first corpse was discovered, because the state of death was too miserable, it wasn't convenient for more people to see it, so after a preliminary investigation, the corpse was disassembled, covered with a white cloth, and then sent onto the hospital's carriage.

However, this car didn't drive toward the hospital as planned. According to the police chief's description, finally, they found this missing car and the knocked-out police officer in the suburbs, but the driver and the corpses had disappeared together.

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

That is to say, the person who stole the corpses first knocked out the real driver, then pretended to be the driver, hijacked the car transporting the corpses, and finally stole the corpses.

After such a thing happened, when transporting the second corpse, all the police officers raised their vigilance. A detective drove the car personally to transport the corpse to the forensic hospital. But just when Lex and Bruce arrived in Metropolis and headed to the hospital, the corpse disappeared again.

The forensic hospital didn't have that many people, and the security wasn't complete enough. Someone sneaked in and stole the corpses again.

Batman, who had gained nothing, returned to Luthor Manor, and Lex didn't bring any good news either. Standing in the laboratory underground at Luthor Manor, he said while fiddling with the computer:

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

"I retrieved the surveillance of the crime scene, but obviously, that wasn't the first crime scene. The murderer just placed the corpses there, and didn't kill him there."

"The problem is, how did he place the corpses there?" Bruce asked.

"From the surveillance, the corpses should have descended from the roof. A parachute was tied to the chair that bound the corpses, and the corpses drifted from the roof of the bank building into the crowd like that, and then caused panic."

"Unfortunately, the bank building is the tallest building nearby, and the surveillance cameras of the remaining buildings can't capture the image of the roof. Only one camera captured a back view."

Lex showed that image to Bruce. That was an image of a man wearing a blue cleaner's uniform walking into the rooftop door, but it only captured a very blurry figure. It was barely possible to judge the gender, and due to the angle problem, even the body shape and height couldn't be judged.

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

"The Metropolis Central Bank possesses the most glass curtain walls nearby. They will hire a cleaning company to clean the glass on the 3rd of every month, which is today. Because the glass on every floor needs to be cleaned, cleaners appear on the entire building."

"Through the surveillance inside the bank, a total of 43 people were found, all male, all wearing uniforms, wearing hats, and the body shape and height couldn't be judged. That is to say, they are all suspects."

Bruce rested a hand on the table and said: "It seems this murderer is well-prepared. Look at all the actions of these 43 people first..."

"Before you came back, I had already analyzed them all once. No suspicious behavior was found, at least in the places where the surveillance could capture, their behavior was very normal." Lex answered.

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

Lex chose a surveillance screen, played it for a period of time, pressed the pause button, then pointed to a place on it, and said to Bruce: "... Look at this box. Cleaning the glass curtain wall of a high-rise is very troublesome, and requires specialized high-altitude work tools."

"Fixing tools are often very large in volume, and there are many ropes, so this kind of large box is needed, transported to the building a day in advance, and placed in the warehouse in the basement. That is to say, on the 2nd of every month, these boxes will appear in the warehouse underground the bank building."

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

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

The calendar turned to April 2nd, about 6 o'clock in the evening, one cleaning company truck after another drove toward the underground garage of the Central Bank.

The cleaners wearing blue uniforms lifted one large box after another from the truck, then moved them onto handcarts, and pushed them into the underground warehouse connected to the underground garage.

One of the boxes moved by a cleaner was particularly heavy, and the edge of the box even seeped blood, but the other cleaner didn't notice this detail. The two of them moved the box onto the cart, and then pushed it all the way into the warehouse.

April 3rd, about 7 o'clock in the morning, the Central Bank officially started office work. The staff walked in from the main entrance in a bustling manner, and at this time, the cleaners had already arrived at the underground warehouse and pushed out all the prepared tools in an orderly manner.

The murderer wore a cleaner's uniform, pushed the tool box, arrived at a certain floor of the building, then moved the corpses and equipment out of the tool box, opened the glass, and threw the corpses down.

The screen paused here. Lex and Bruce looked at each other. Bruce spoke first: "There is a problem with this."

"That's right, that is the smell." Lex said immediately: "If the corpses were to be hidden in this kind of tool box and transported to the warehouse with the cleaners, it's impossible for no one to smell that terrible bloody smell."

Bruce immediately picked up the notebook next to him. He drew the form of the corpse, then pointed to it and said: "This wound here, and this wound here, the amount of bleeding was very large. Even when he was moving the corpses, the blood had already dried, but it's absolutely impossible for there to be no smell at all."

"To make the corpses have no smell, there are two methods." Lex continued immediately, appearing familiar with the road. He said: "The first is to treat the corpses with special chemical reagents, and the second is to use other pungent smells to cover up the bloody smell."

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"Now, the corpses have disappeared, and we have no way to verify the first possibility, but if we start from the angle of the second possibility, what can cover up the pungent bloody smell?"

The two answered in unison:

"Glass curtain wall cleaner."