The Death Knell

Everyone used several plastic skipping ropes to tie the chief to the wheelchair that Rita had found. When the study door opened and closed, they just happened to see the gray-faced armored man passing by in the corridor, his clothes burned to ashes.

The film man checked the back of the chief's head to confirm that he had not been struck to death by the death knell, while the muscular man was trying to activate his abilities to help the chief heal his injuries.

But I don’t know if he was choked by the ammonia, or because it hurt his eyes and activated the wrong muscles. You can see a suspicious blush suddenly appeared on the unconscious chief’s face, and he seemed to be very comfortable.

Other people, other people couldn't help much. They were like onlookers, keeping a certain distance from the source of the urine smell, and then stretched their necks to watch the fun.

Being watched by a group of people, Bobo cleared his throat, held a pipe in his mouth, walked back to the death knell on hands and knees, and continued to explain his discovery:

"From the very beginning, I was confused as to why the chief, who was almost completely naked, was wearing a pink ballet skirt? Is he a pervert?"

This was originally a question. After raising the question, Bobo prepared to ask and answer himself, and then lead to the next topic.

Unexpectedly, everyone present reacted faster, especially the members of the Doom Patrol. They all nodded at the same time. They exchanged glances with each other and started discussing in a chaotic manner.

"Maybe? He has always been quite perverted."

The man in the negative touched his bandage, thoughtfully. You must know that the agency that first used him as a test subject, the former chief scientist was Niles. He was tortured to the point of death. He just had a conscience in his later years. Just discovered it.

"Well, although I don't know what the precise meaning of perversion is in today's society, and I haven't looked it up in a dictionary, I feel that Niles should be synonymous with perversion."

As an old friend of the chief, Tong Yao, who is mentally unstable, feels very perverted when he thinks of what the latter did in the past. Normal people would not spy on their wives being intimate with other men, and after both his wife and Huang Mao died, , and also used technology to project them out and continue to green themselves.

"I also think Grandpa Niles is very weird."

Even the female mage who had recently joined the team and was mentally ill nodded repeatedly. She raised her hand to speak in the crowd watching the excitement, and told a story about how one day she saw the chief secretly licking those in the jar in the basement. Brain' thing.

These people kept talking to each other and told a lot of the chief's perverted deeds, but they really put Bobo out of trouble.

He glanced at the death knell and whispered:

"No, the chief is usually so perverted. All my reasoning is based on the fact that he is not a pervert."

Su Ming smiled. He picked up the orangutan and put it on his shoulders. He already understood why Bobo mentioned the tutu, so he gave him some advice:

"There are many types of psychopaths. Cannibalism is a perversion, and sadism is also a perversion, but transvestism is another kind of perversion. There are loopholes in your words, so you should ask everyone, does the chief have the habit of wearing skirts? ?”

The question of the death knell once again made everyone think about it. After everyone recalled it, Rita answered:

"Apart from the occasional tweed skirt on Colonial War Remembrance Day, he never wore a skirt, and we had never seen this tutu."

Deathstroke knew this was the case. There is a non-staff member of the Doom Patrol, Danny Street, which is the ideal place for transvestites, so the chief cannot have transvestite attributes, otherwise wouldn't the character design be repeated?

So he looked at Bobo and made a gesture of invitation, indicating that he could continue to explain his reasoning.

The orangutan who received assistance from the sidelines wiped the sweat from his head. He stopped talking about it and directly explained his reasoning.

He didn't understand the world of transvestism, but he knew about ballet. There used to be retired ballet dancers in the circus where he worked.

Ballet is generally divided into six genres, namely musical ballet, dramatic ballet, romantic ballet, classical ballet, modern ballet, and opera ballet.

Except for the Romantic school, when performing repertoire of the other five schools, the ballet skirts worn are mostly white and black, as well as bright red or uniforms corresponding to the roles. The vast majority of ballet repertoires are from these five schools.

Only in a few repertoires performed by romantic ballets, such as "Giselle" and "Rose Essence", are there opportunities to wear pink skirts.

This is enough to prove that the number of pink tutus is much less than that of other colors, and as a paraplegic, the principal has no reason to practice ballet, let alone dance a female role.

Therefore, he concluded that the skirt was foreign, at least not the chief's, and it seemed that it did not belong to anyone present.

The chief is not a fool, he is one of the smartest people on the planet. Most likely, after he found out that he had been tricked, he specially obtained such a skirt from somewhere else, took off his clothes, put it on, and ran home just to Let everyone know where the problem lies.

But if he randomly grabbed a tutu, the probability of getting a white one was much higher, but he happened to get a pink one.

Therefore, the track that requires a pink skirt becomes a key clue to the breakup.

Whether it is "Rose Fairy" or "Giselle", or the previously unmentioned "Sylphide" and "Four Dances", these plays all point to one thing, and that is the mysterious power related to nature.

"Giselle" is based on the poem "The Spirits of Nature" by the German poet Heine, while the other three plays are about fairies, nymphs, and goblins, which are also closely related to the natural world.

The chief is not dead, but the skirt he is wearing is his 'death message'. After Bobo contacted the symptoms he showed and the implications of these clues, he locked in a possibility.

"This is the curse of Bastet, the cheetah goddess."

Bobo expressed his conclusion. He looked at Deathstroke and then at Donna:

"The situation is very similar to that of Leopard Girl, except that Buster is rumored to hate men. Therefore, after being cursed, the Chief not only gained powerful speed, but also lost his sanity as a human being. Although I sometimes doubt Leopard Girl It’s all about how much sense you have.”

"But Buster's hunting blade is now in the exhibition room of the Hall of Justice." Donna thought about it for a moment and gave a different opinion: "Without that knife, humans can't get in touch with the old gods, especially since they have already The vanished African pantheon.”

But the orangutan just smiled crookedly at the question, shook his head, and slowly climbed onto the death knell's shoulder:

"Is there a possibility that the Hunting Blade was originally a pair of swords? After all, if you still choose to use short weapons for hunting, holding a shield in the other hand will be too cumbersome."

Deathstroke smacked his lips. Bobo was just guessing, but he had to say that it was really possible, so he asked again:

"Are you saying that besides Olympus, there is also something wrong with the African pantheon?"

"Even heaven is like that. Isn't it normal for the Egyptian pantheon to suffer? We have to consider the worst case scenario, so we have to rescue the chief and ask who stabbed him or where he came into contact with the hunting blade. Artifact."

The orangutan put on his deerstalker hat, lowered his head and smoked his pipe. There was only so much he could do. He could make suggestions, but if he really wanted to do something, he still had to rely on the death knell.