Peng Ziqian was suddenly very busy. She was busy with a case.

A lunatic hanged a person dressed as Batman on the mayor's office building, and sent a videotape, threatening that if Batman did not turn himself in, he would kill one person every day, and then their The magistrate and the mayor were murdered, and their prosecutor, Harvey Dent, was lucky. He was at the banquet at the time, and the banquet hosted by Bruce Wayne saved him from a disaster.

"Speaking of this person... the previous case..." Peng Ziqian said while flipping through the past records of the suspect named joker, "There have been many crimes but he was not caught... I noticed that the bank he robbed before was a gangster The bank...but overnight he started targeting Batman," she threw a thick stack of unclosed case files on the table and looked at Detective Gordon sitting across from him, "What do you two do to the gangsters in Gotham? What did they do to make them burn their boats and unite with their enemies,"

"So... are you sure this matter is linked to our previous work," Gordon asked.

"Otherwise, what else could it be?" Peng Ziqian tapped his hand on the table to show her irritability. Originally, she didn't quite agree with them attacking the gangsters on such a large scale... The gangsters have a meaning to exist at all. What's more, Gotham's gangsters have been operating for many years to correct mistakes, and one hair will affect the whole body... It will definitely cost a lot to remove it all at once, but they agreed before that this matter is not under the FBI's control, although Peng Ziqian is in the FBI branch of Gotham, but their authority still only takes effect when the local police department asks them for help. If it weren't for the fact that the Joker incident was a personal homicide, Peng Ziqian believed that they would still not be able to find her. .

"Need I know how many mistakes you guys made?"

"First of all, cracking down on gangsters is not easy. What you do is just to let those people die. Second, you miscalculated the situation. What do you define this clown as? Gangsters? Robbers? Let me tell you this is a thorough A high-functioning antisocial psychopath! Do you have to wait until he has done everything before you can define him as a serial murderer!" Peng Ziqian tapped with his finger on the piece of evidence lying on the table that had been wrapped in a plastic bag. Wrapped cards "God, you guys even gave him a name to get power out of this... I guess this guy is very happy with the name..."

"So what should we do now?" Gordon interrupted Peng Ziqian, he didn't really want to know how many mistakes he had made, he just wanted to know if there was any way to make up for it.

"..." Peng Ziqian did not speak, but played the videotape sent by the clown again. She had never seen this person before, but the inexplicable madness of this person in the video made her feel very familiar.

Then she thought about it to no avail, shook her head and said to Gordon, "I want all the information about the clown case that you have found before... He definitely did not evolve to where he is today." Then she stood up and turned her head to look To the whiteboard behind him, the meaning is obviously a silent order to evict guests.

"Okay, I'll send it to you right away." Gordon stood up "Are you sure you can catch him?"

"I'm not sure." Peng Ziqian who answered him didn't even bother to turn his head and replied, "Psychopathy has an evolution process. Their violent factors are released over time. First, small animal abuse, then robbery or Arson is ultimately murder...Officer Gordon, look at the crimes he has committed, the scope is really wide...There is no doubt that he has evolved to the highest level." So saying, she wiped the whiteboard clean and followed her habit to write down what she could think of now List the clues one by one to see the situation.

At this moment, Gordon's cell phone rang.

"Maybe you would like to go to the scene of the crime with me?" Gordon glanced at the content of the text message and raised his head helplessly. "The clown has acted again."

"It's not surprising, he seems to be a person who keeps his word." Peng Ziqian's pen scratched the whiteboard and made a sharp sound, then she stopped writing and turned her head, "Let's go."

They went there according to the address provided by the clown, and there were two dead bodies with clown faces painted with heavy oil paint on their faces.

"He didn't come alone." Peng Ziqian glanced at the blood splattered on the wall and the bullet holes on the wall. Then he stood in front of the two corpses lying on the table, "At least a gang of three or more killed the two Personal uniform."

"Give me 10 minutes." Suddenly, in a dark corner, a deep and terrifying voice sounded, and then she and Gordon walked towards the wall with bullet holes without looking at her.

"That wall is made of solid bricks." Gordon reminded him kindly, but then he thought that Batman's well-equipped equipment would not be a big problem against a brick, so he turned around and asked, "Want to restore the trajectory?"

"Restore fingerprints." The other party replied.

"I think you can't find the clown's fingerprints. That guy is very shrewd." Peng Ziqian shook his head and turned to look at the two corpses, and then she found a newspaper under the hands of one corpse, she Pulled it out "The bullet holes in the wall are for demonstrations... that's not the Joker's style, he doesn't need demonstrations to increase his strength. He should never have been here at all."

"Then let's try to see if there are other discoveries." The other party had already cut off a brick and put it away when he said so.

"Tsk..." At this moment, Peng Ziqian clicked his lips, and Batman and Gordon turned their heads to look at her at the same time.

"what happened?"

"He knows I'm here." Peng Ziqian glanced at the contents of the newspaper, then raised his head to look at Gordon and said, "I just accepted the commission you sent to the FBI tonight, and he knew immediately that I would follow."

"Where did you see that?" Gordon glanced at the newspaper, which was just an advertisement.

"This is a password. You only need to perform a simple non-homogeneous linear reorganization... to get other information." Peng Ziqian took off Gordon's pen from his pocket, and then drew on the newspaper.

"What did he write?" Gordon admitted that he didn't graduate from a famous university majoring in mathematics, nor was he a genius with a higher IQ than ordinary people. He didn't study anagrams or ciphers, so he could only ask.

"He told me that the next target is the new mayor... at the mourning ceremony for the old mayor tomorrow..." Peng Ziqian took a few minutes to read this short message, she was not as skilled as Rhett. Solve crossword puzzles by reading.

"Then we call off the mourning service."

"It's useless, he will find other ways to attack." Batman replied.

"Or worse, shift the target to a target that we don't know who and how many..." Peng Ziqian put down the newspaper and said, and then she looked at the two people in front of her, "You know, I remembered that I A case of..."

"..."

"What case?" Gordon glanced at Batman who had been silent all this time. His not leaving proved that he was very interested in what Peng Ziqian said, so he asked on behalf of the other party.

"High IQ, disciplined, sadistic, no specific goals and methods... famous in the media... sophisticated criminal methods, may have years of experience but not arrested... btk killer, Zodiac killer... ...These long-famous murderers all have something in common...and he is making a deal with you, if you turn yourself in, he will stop...it's just..." Peng Ziqian said and paused.

"What is it?" Gordon asked.

"It's nothing, I think I'm ready to do a preliminary profile." She shook her head and replied, then packed her things and prepared to leave and return to the police station.

"The clown can be called an omnivore. Unlike common serial killers, this kind of person doesn't target the victim group. He tends to use knives. This is a manifestation of his belief that he can gain power. This kind of person likes the feeling of excitement. , he likes to walk on the edge of danger, but at the same time he is shrewd and cautious enough. Some of his plans may be whim, but he must have a sophisticated plan. He does not kill because of the victim. Killing is just because he wants to reflect his An expression of an idea Guns don't usually leave a kill at the fingertips. He leaves a card every time and that's for us. It's a sign of his power. He likes to have an audience. I also like to challenge the limit..."

"Hey, are you okay?" Gordon walked over after the crowd dispersed after Peng Ziqian finished his profile.

"It's okay." Peng Ziqian wiped the sweat from his brow, and then said to Gordon, "Can I have a glass of water? And I have a bottle of aspirin in my coat pocket."

"Agent Peng." When Gordon turned to pour water for her, a sudden voice startled her. She subconsciously touched the gun attached to her waist, and then realized that the guy who had completely melted into the darkness walked away. It was obvious that he had been listening to the profile released by Peng Ziqian just now.

"There is an old saying in China that if you walk a long way at night, you will meet ghosts." Peng Ziqian narrowed his eyes and said angrily to the other party.

"I've heard a little bit about it." The other party actually understood her words, nodded and asked straight to the point, "You just thought of a case, but you didn't say what it was."

"......Boston Death..." Peng Ziqian pursed her lips for a long time. She knew that the other party would not stop until she got an answer, so she finally let out a sigh of relief.At the murder scene, she finally realized why the Joker seemed so familiar to her.

"..." Batman noticed that Peng Ziqian frowned when he said this, as if thinking of some taboo.

"It's so similar. The Boston Reaper also tried to reach an agreement with Hutch, my former team leader. As long as the fbi stopped hunting, he would stop killing." Peng Ziqian shook his head and replied, "But my team leader refused. .”

"and then?"

"...Then he killed the entire passenger on the bus in order to demonstrate." Peng Ziqian sighed. The Fuyard case has always been the most depressing knot in the hearts of everyone in their group. If she can, she doesn't want to Recalling the details of that case, but the clown's series of actions made her realize that she could infer the clown in the same way as Fouyard's matter.

"...Did you catch him?"

"... caught... when he killed our team leader's wife." Peng Ziqian didn't want to say that, but she had to tell the truth, she had heard about the banquet held by Bruce Wayne for Harvey Dent, Rachel was thrown from the upper floor by the clown during that banquet.

As for Bruce Wayne's little thoughts on Rachel Dawes, she had already discovered it in the previous dinner for four.

"..." Gordon came back at this time, he handed her what Peng Ziqian said, and then looked at her, "You don't look very well?"

"I have a bit of a migraine..." Peng Ziqian took the medicine, closed his eyes and rubbed his temples, but Fuyard's face, the details of the Boston Reaper's case, and Hailey's last scene refused to let her go. They were entangled in Together, lingering in her mind.

Part of the profile she gave today was what Hedge did for Feuyard back then. It has to be said that the more she researched the Joker case, the more she found similarities with the Boston Grim Reaper case.

Speaking of which, how did they find out about Fuyard?

Then she inadvertently glanced at the words written on the whiteboard, and the movements of her hands suddenly paused.

"What's wrong with you?" Gordon asked.

"It just occurred to me that it is impossible for him to use the code name Joker in his daily life... Maybe there is a way to find the alias of joker." Then she stood up and wiped the whiteboard clean and wrote only the letters joker, explaining " The clown likes this name, so it is very likely that his alias will be an anagram of this..." Then she looked at it and frowned and said to herself, "the joker—joekerr." She pondered for 2 minutes and ruled out all possibilities Write a name on the whiteboard and turn to "Look this up."

The author has something to say: The profile here is borrowed from the Boston death case... I think he is quite similar to the clown in some things.

The official clown’s name is Jack Nepple, and joekerr is the clown’s favorite name in the comics [josephkerrakajoekerr]... The crossword puzzle was made up by me...

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