The Death Knell

"Ton ton ton~~~~burp!"

Su Ming mainly checked the paper cap on the milk bottle, and the bottle itself was handed to Harley beside him. As a result, when Deathstroke communicated with the Man Who Stops Laughter, she drank the milk with her neck raised, and even shouted Strange sounds.

"Dear, this milk has been placed in front of the corpse for almost two days at least. Why are you drinking it?" Su Ming looked at the white circle around Harley's lips, and covered his forehead speechlessly, and slowly Walking towards the already spread cloak: "And how come I didn't know you like to drink this? You obviously didn't order milk yourself."

"No, I like drinking, but isn't this helping you find clues?" Noticing that everyone was looking at her, Harley quickly wiped her mouth like a normal person, spit out the white bubble gum in her mouth, and replied with a smile: " Besides, I know it well. It’s okay for me to drink chemical waste and Xiaohong’s saliva, but will I be poisoned to death by a bottle of milk? Haha!”

Under the dim moonlight, she smiled wildly, obviously very confident in her digestive system.

Diana, who put away her sword, shook her head and pulled Kara onto the flying carpet first. Obviously, there was nothing she could do against Harley.

"Then what did you find?" Su Ming hugged the woman and jumped on the flying carpet. He looked at Harley's snow-white face: "The milk has not clumped or molded at room temperature for a long time. It either contains Lots of preservatives, or something wrong with the timeline, which one did you find?”

"The latter, dear, based on my experience in dealing with various drinks in Gotham all year round, I can confirm that the milk is very fresh, as if it had just been squeezed out, and it is even warm in the mouth."

Smiling and sticking out her tongue, Harley asked Deathstroke to see the coating on her tongue. At the same time, she lowered her voice and said this, which seemed sneaky:

"And this community, no, this city also has problems. We know that it is now 2077, and New York has become a hive-like city. There are hundreds of skyscrapers just outside the door, and people standing on the ground cannot see the sky. , you can see flying cars everywhere, and there is light pollution everywhere. But what about Ivy City? It and its nearby suburbs seem to be stuck in 2010."

As a psychiatrist, Harley is not a detective, but she has keen observation skills, which is also one of the essential qualities in the psychological counseling industry.

Previously, Deathstroke took everyone from house to house to many houses. Starting from the victim's family, Harley began to look around. Everyone thought she was going to get some loot, but they didn't know that she was observing the internal conditions of the house.

The houses are all good and well decorated, but... that's only true for the early 21st century.

Apart from the personal terminals worn by people, these people’s homes no longer see any futuristic technology-style home appliances, no neon decorations, no Mewtwo chips everywhere, no new chemical narcotics, and even storage None of the drinks were sparkling.

Ordinary spring mattresses, non-electric toothbrushes, manual razors, outdated children's game consoles, etc.

By observing those things, Harley determined that the technological level here was nearly a century behind that of New York. It was like someone had renovated New York and ended up forgetting about this humble little place, Ivy City.

Of course, this is just a conjecture. If you want to verify this conjecture, you need to go to Metropolis and Washington DC. If those places have also 'developed' to the stage of future technology, then this matter can be basically confirmed - —

Someone is constantly fiddling with the timeline, and their subjective factors cause this discrepancy.

"Then it's a discovery related to the world itself." After listening to Harley's statement, Su Ming touched the cloak and let it take off to the location of the dairy company: "It's like everyone here is like a puppet. , as for why, there are not enough clues to judge now, we should catch the milkman first."

"Of course, I also want to see what kind of person this serial killer is." Of course, Little Sugar Bean was also looking forward to it, and she was also curious.

The dairy company wasn't a cattle farm, and even though it was located on the outskirts of town, its huge tanks and chimneys made it look more like a chemical operation.

Although bottled milk is said to be fresh milk, it still needs to be processed, and it must be at least high-temperature sterilized before it can be filled. It is a type of agricultural processed product.

However, compared to the cyberpunk atmosphere of New York, this factory looks far behind the times. High-tech machinery is not visible at all. Moreover, even in the middle of the night when the moon is dark and the wind is high, which is suitable for killing people, there are still many full faces here. Smiling man is working.

They all wore different models of terminals and operated various machines as if sleepwalking. Some drove tank trucks, some moved boxes, and some were responsible for opening and closing pipes.

A scene of work in full swing.

But no one spoke, no one rested, and everyone was like a cog on an assembly line. Even if Su Ming and his party walked past them, these people had no reaction, except for automatically bypassing a few people.

This kind of scene in the middle of the night really gives people chills down the back.

"It smells quite good here, just like the smell of boiled milk." Kara sniffed, but immediately picked up the bottle and took a sip, as if she was aroused by greed: "But there are too many people here. Now, who is the milkman we are looking for?"

"Whoever behaves the most abnormally will be the one." Diana had already picked up the sword and shield and was ready for battle.

There are pipes and equipment everywhere in the factory, but the lights are very dim. Now she always feels like someone is spying on everyone in secret, which makes the hairs on her arms stand up.

The scent of milk is wafting in the air. If you wake up and smell it in the morning, you will probably feel very warm and relaxed, but it is a bit awkward to see the smiling people numbly doing this work.

After listening to Diana's idea, Kara activated her super power, that is, clairvoyance, to search for individuals in the factory who behaved differently from others.

"Focus on the warehouse and parking lot." Su Ming narrowed the scope of the investigation for her: "Our murderer is the milkman. His job does not require going deep into the factory. He just moves the filled milk. Just get in the van and go make deliveries everywhere.”

This time is almost exactly the delivery time. If it is a normal timeline, people should wake up every morning and drink milk, so the delivery will naturally be made in advance, before dawn.

But the timeline everyone is in is not right at this time. Almost everyone is in the state of 'escrow', and no one has ordered milk delivery service. So logically speaking, this factory has always been doing something weird. That is to continuously recycle the processed milk and complete the internal cycle again and again. There is nothing to do with the dairy cows and customers.

So at this time, if anyone really drives a car and goes out to deliver milk, then he is undoubtedly the murderer.