The Death Knell

"So you suspect that Nito's motive for killing was because you had feelings for Big Chili Pepper?"

A moment later, Jesse held his chin and squatted in front of Soul, listening to him analyze his own death, but the girl's focus seemed wrong.

Soul told how he met Nito, knew each other, and got along with each other in the past. From helping others drive to helping others block bullets, it can be said to be very lackluster.

But young girls just like gossip about relationships. Even though they don’t know the three protagonists at all, it doesn’t matter. When watching the TV series, I didn’t know the actors either.

The bodyguard, who was about to nod to the girl's question, noticed at this moment that the eyes of Deathstroke and the Witch were far from patient.

In the emergency situation where his soul was threatened, he activated his potential, trembled violently, and remembered something:

"No, it's not like that. I suddenly remembered that last night, I went to pick up the girls and spend the night with the boss. Because I had both hands to help them carry their bags, I entered the suite without knocking. The boss was alone at the time. He secretly took off his mask in the office and seemed to be looking in the mirror in the dark corner of the living room."

"Oh? You go on." Bobo, who played the red-faced role in the team, immediately asked. There was no other way. With his small body, he couldn't play the white-faced role well.

Soul tilted his severed neck, raised his hand to scratch the stubble where there was a small flame, and recalled:

"At that time, when he noticed that I had come in, he immediately put on a mask and asked me angrily what I had seen. I said I didn't see anything, and he didn't seem to believe it. Looking back now, maybe I saw something that I shouldn't have seen. It became the motive for him to kill me."

Bobo wrote and drew in a small notebook, rubbed his chin and thought for a while, then nodded slowly: "Slade, what do you think?"

"It's logical to be silenced because you know too much." Although he said this, Deathstroke remained expressionless: "It's just that he silenced his trusted bodyguards and his friend Said. Have you seen Machine Head in the past? Is that his real face? It’s his face that you burned.”

"I have seen it, almost every day. He used to be very good to me, just like my brother. Maybe he never takes off his mask in front of counterattacks, but for me and Dajiao, it is Basically undefended.”

At this point, the bodyguard sighed again.

No one would have thought that someone they used to regard as a biological brother would suddenly kill them, which is emotionally and intellectually unacceptable.

"That's it. For example, Bobo, if one day you steal someone else's wine and Tracy sees it, in order to let her keep the secret, will you choose to kill her and silence her, or try to bribe her? Let her Do it with you?"

Deathstroke pinched his cigarette, put the cigarette butt into his pocket and put it away, and looked at the orangutan.

Bobo flattened his mouth speechlessly and rolled the whites of his big black eyes:

"Let me tell you first, I will never steal the wine that customers keep in the store. This is a bad industry rule. But you are right. If I have any dirty secrets and are discovered by people close to me, I will definitely I would choose to bribe her or drag her into trouble instead of killing her to silence her, unless "

"Unless you see something, you will die. If she doesn't die, you will die." Alberta added with a smile. She had already straightened out some things.

"The beauty queen is right. Machine Head probably had no other choice. In order to survive, he chose to kill Said and the girls who were earning pocket money." Su Ming looked at the bodyguard in front of him and sighed. A sound.

Next door at Marvel, Tony has a bodyguard named Happy. He is a tall, fat idiot, but his advantage is loyalty.

When we arrived on Earth 8, Nito's bodyguard was called Said. He was a short, thin fool, and his advantage was probably his loyalty.

This subtle sense of déjà vu is simply amazing

"But there is another problem. The corpse we saw today died in the morning, at most fifteen minutes before our arrival." Bobo looked at the soul that was still sparking, and said with a cigarette in his mouth: "If you want to silence them to save your own life, shouldn't you do it as early as possible, that is, kill them last night?"

The bodyguard Said was also uninformed. After hearing Bobo's statement, he began to waver again and began to rethink his boss's motives.

Deathstroke burned another handful of paper money for him and came up with another reasoning:

"Because if Machine Head had taken action at that time, even the Counterattack Alliance would not have been able to deceive him. He formulated a simple scam, which was the Shadowmusha plan that specifically used bodyguards."

"I understand." X2

Bobo and Alberta nodded at the same time, and when they mentioned Shadow Warrior, they understood what the trick was.

Jesse and Rabbit, on the other hand, still looked confused. As expected, they were not from Earth 0 and had experienced too few things in the past.

If this were placed in Gotham, it would be nothing more than the lowest level, a cover-up used to confuse the police.

So in order to clear up their confusion, Su Ming gave a rough explanation.

To put it simply, Nito did not have an attack at that time, but tolerated it for the time being. He found an excuse to let Said put on his spare suit, and then pretended to be him to enjoy the warm services of those girls.

It's easy to change people secretly, such as instructing those girls to take a shower or something, and naturally he and Said will have time alone.

In the eyes of those girls, after taking a shower and going to bed, the target they were originally serving would always be wearing a battle suit. They couldn't tell who entered the bedroom at all.

During the period when Seid was enjoying his 'last carnival', Nito did something on his own. Maybe he went to the Hall of Justice to set up traps or debug machines, or he might have been working with some of Darkseid's friends. The staff made contact and communicated.

Next, this morning he returned to Earth-8, killed the bodyguards and women in their sleep, and then remotely controlled the backup suit's reactor to overload and incinerate the bodies.

Who can wear a steel suit, sleep on the big bed in the Machine Head's bedroom, and sleep with a group of beauties?

Anyway, according to the level of reasoning of the Counterattack Alliance, they would think that the deceased was Nito himself.

Machine Head is good at physics, engineering, biology and network technology. He has always worn a suit in the past. This probably means that no one in the outside world has access to his DNA information. Even if it was in the past, he was talking about it before launching the plan yesterday. will also be cleared.

Therefore, even if the charred corpse is not burned particularly cleanly, DNA samples can be taken from it, but it will be meaningless because there is no past data for comparison.

Even if Su Ming didn't chase him here today, he would have planned to leave.

However, in the process of executing the original plan, he learned that Deathstroke had rescued Barry the Flash, locked his identity, and headed for Earth 8.

So before leaving, he wrote another death message and pressed it under the palm of the corpse.

Originally he just wanted to disguise it as an accident where the suit lost control, killing his female companions and then overloading and setting himself on fire. However, in order to let the counterattackers hold off Deathstroke and others, he temporarily changed the plan and changed the scene into a murder case.

This makes sense. Why only the death message at the murder scene pointed to the death knell instead of the complete chain of evidence? It was because he did not expect that he would be exposed so quickly and had no preparation for any more evidence to frame him. .

"It's terrible, it's terrible. It's like you were looking at us yesterday." The dead bodyguard had a look of fear on his face. He looked at the death knell and murmured: "Things are exactly as you said. Who are you?" who?"

"You're dead, almost dead, and you still care about who I am? Anyway, we won't meet again in the future."

There is no need for the awe of the dead ghost. After Su Ming complained to the soul, he nodded to Albertella:

"Okay, beauty, let's send our new friend back to hell. If you have a familiar jailer, please give them a message and take care of them. From now on, you won't have to whip Seth 666 times every day. Young Master Take a few hits as payment."