The Death Knell

"This woman is several times bigger than Christopher. It's hard for him to catch such a large prey."

Watching Batman rummaging through the woman's bag, the cat started chatting with Deathstroke again. He glanced at the woman's body and licked his lips.

For cats, plump prey is of course better. Animals need to store fat for winter, but now the animal group with the highest body fat rate on the earth is probably humans, right?

"Fat women like this often have special customers with heavy tastes. Prostitutes are a vulnerable group and are very easy to be killed." Su Ming was not used to the American aesthetics of oversized butts. He didn't even want to look at the corpse. : "But now that the case has been solved, this woman is the one who set the fire. We can call it a day."

That's what happened. Although what everyone saw now was a corpse, it was just Christopher's subconscious belief that she was dead.

In reality, there is a high probability that this woman did not die, but just went into shock due to blood loss.

Thick fat, as well as artificial breast implants implanted in the chest, minimize the damage that a screwdriver can cause.

Even though he only glanced briefly, Su Ming was sure that there were no fatal injuries on her body at all, the bleeding only appeared to be relatively large, and the wound on her neck was not on an artery at all.

The truth of the matter can probably be pieced together.

Christopher went out hunting the night before and got this woman. After playing with and 'killing' her, he temporarily put her in the garage because it was too late and he had to buy cakes the next day.

But hemorrhagic shock does not mean that the situation will continue to worsen. On the battlefields during the war years, many soldiers crawled out of the dead, which is representative of those who woke up after being comatose for one to two days.

So on her birthday, the fat woman who Christopher thought was dead suddenly woke up, probably before the family finished lunch.

There are more possibilities next. She took the tools in the garage as weapons and found an opportunity to sneak attack on the family? Like turn on the gas in the kitchen? Or had the family been given the drugs she carried in her bag?

The prostitutes in Gotham are not easy to mess with. In the gangster era, these girls had gang backgrounds. It might not be possible to let them go to the streets to fight, but when they engage in underhanded tricks, they have to do one thing after another.

In short, after she brought down the family, she probably wanted to keep Christopher alive to feel the pain of her family's death, out of revenge, so after dark, she threw him into the relatively safe bathroom on the second floor, and then returned A fire was set in the basement.

She is very knowledgeable and knows that a serial killer's collection of the relics of his prey is a kind of collection, just like a child collecting baseball star cards. Destroying those souvenirs will often severely damage the serial killer's spirit.

By the way, the hostess of the house and the three little girls were all burned to death. At that moment, Christopher woke up in the bathroom on the second floor. He watched the flames sweep through everything, but could not find the family members who were hidden by the prostitutes. I could only jump out of the window and cry outside.

In this way, the ten hours of missing memory in the middle can be explained clearly, and the fact that Christopher knows the details of the bathroom on the second floor can also be explained.

There may be some problems with the details, but Su Ming feels that this way Batman can handle the task and just have an answer. Does he really intend to bring justice to the family of a serial killer?

Anyway, Deathstroke felt that the fire might be another manifestation of justice.

"Meow, I think you are right."

After listening to Deathstroke's analysis, Thousand Cats Dream nodded and stretched. The detective game was finally over:

"It's the story of Christopher thinking that the prey was dead, but she was not actually dead, and then he jumped up and kicked the predator again, just like a leopard catching an antelope on the African grassland."

Cheetahs are different from lions in that they cannot directly bite the trachea of ​​large prey. If their bite force is not strong enough, they can only bite the neck of the large prey and slowly 'strangle' it.

But sometimes I feel that the prey is dead and motionless. As soon as I let go, the prey jumps up and runs away. It is impossible to catch up. If you are unlucky, you will get kicked by a hoof. Nature is so interesting. .

The earth is a round sphere, and anything can happen.

At this time, Batman happened to find white powder and a lighter from the woman's bag. It was a classic old-fashioned kerosene lighter, not a one-time bargain.

He also heard Deathstroke's analysis and reasoning. Maybe he had different views on the details, but in general, he had to admit that this man was right.

Christopher did not sleepwalk, nor did his personality jump out and kill his family. This was not an accidental fire, but revenge from a prey.

This woman lying on the table, looking dead, is the answer.

But just to be on the safe side, he dug out the woman's motor vehicle driver's license from his bag and showed it to Deathstroke. He didn't say anything, just stared at the document in front of him:

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"Okay, I know what you mean." Su Ming sighed. Batman was still so cautious, as if he was afraid that society would deceive him: "Adjutant, hack into the Gotham Police Department's database and check the death date of this fat woman. .”

The adjutant was very efficient in her work. She gave the answer immediately, and she didn't have to bother Director Gordon to look through the database at all. The nanobots could do it for her.

As for why Deathstroke judged that the woman was still dead, she didn't know, but she just followed the order to investigate the death record.

Sure enough, I found it.

"She died one year after the fire." The autopsy report and death photos were found, and the adjutant projected it to the death knell: "The cause of death was written as a car accident."

Su Ming just took one look at the scene in the photo and smiled:

"This is not a car accident. The angle of the head hitting the steering wheel is wrong, and the broken lines of the windshield are also wrong. A normal car accident can cause the body's tongue to be missing. Forget it, why should I worry about this? Is it because I'm full? Come on? , let me show you, Batman, this woman did not die in this house, but lived for another year, can the case be declared solved now?"

Why can Su Ming judge that she must be dead?

The answer is simple, because later, Batman overthrew the eight major families, and Gotham officially ushered in an era in which mentally ill patients were the masters. The remnants of the old era like this eldest sister, if they are not crazy, are destined to not be able to ascend to the new era. Big ship.

And if she was really smart enough to change, she wouldn't have become a street girl.

Her profession is a real high-risk profession in Gotham in the future. Calendar Man, Gus and many other new-age perverted killers like to prey on bad women who don't go home at night and have no one to protect them.

As named super villains, their killing methods are much better than Christopher's, and they never miss.