[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

“8%的液溴,?21%的氢氧化铜，5%的苯酚，24%三氟甲磺酸铁最后加入纯度为95%的乙醇溶液,?反应后在50~60度的温度下静置3个小时。”

Jason took his note: "Is the formulation of the sustained-release agent that simple?"

"Otherwise?" Jack shrugged, "I've already given you the formula for the slow-release agent, as agreed,? Show me the information on 'Road Killer'."

Jason murmured a few words in a low voice. He didn't go back on his word and sent Jack back to Arkham. Instead, he threw him a small communicator, and then tapped on the keyboard. Blue quantum screen: "Give you temporary permission,? Don't look at other things."

Jack hung the small communicator by his ear, nodded, and then clicked on the file on the screen.

After two hours of driving, the two of Jack arrived at the small town of Yangk that Valentina mentioned.The small town of Yankee is located on the outskirts of Gotham City. It was originally built around a coal mine, but as the coal mine was abolished, the population of the town became more and more withered.Jason parked the car at the highway service area near the small town of Yankee, and changed into the clothes he had prepared in advance.To be honest, what he is best at is to beat people up and get information, but this kind of experience is obviously not suitable for the victims of sex/child sex cases, so he will pretend to be a young student and ask the people who live in the small town of Yank The suspects were interviewed and investigated.

According to the list of "Childhood Return" organizations provided by Valentina—actually, it is an organization,? But now there are only a few people left—after a relatively rough investigation, two suspects were finally identified.

One is a doctor,? The other is a reporter.

It is early morning at this moment, the sky is grayish white like blood loss, and the clouds on the horizon are like smooth and knotted white silk.Jason raised his head, looking at this strange town.

The time in the small town of Yankee seems to have been suspended in the 60s. The buildings in the forest still have the relics of the Victorian era. The low marble old buildings were washed into a bright dark blue by the rain, and the balconies were full of all kinds of sundries. Occasionally, a few pots of withered green plants can be seen.Wind chimes are hung in front of every house, and when the wind blows, one can hear the chimes one after another.From the bottom of the town, you can see the stretching black mountains. The abandoned cable car has not been in operation for several years, and there are only a few black ink lines that cut the sky empty.A thin, gray haze hangs in the air, a haze of lingering soot.Abandoned coal mines are like wounds cut by modern industry on the earth, and the lingering coal powder is the old blood from this wound.

but……

"I think we should eat first, so go to the restaurant over there that advertises children's meals." A lazy and abrupt voice rang in my ears.

Jason looked at the man next to him who was dressed like the crown prince and duke who attended the honor ceremony in the last century, and silently raised his forehead in his heart.

In short, I regret it, very sorry.

I don't know if it's too late to push him back to Arkham with one kick of the accelerator.

"Don't make extravagances about boring things." He tried hard to make the 15-year-old boy's face a little bit colder, like Batman.

"But we are all very tired, so go catch the road killer in this situation?"

Jason said in his heart that you either fell asleep or read the novel with great interest after reading it all the way, are you tired?

Oh, when it comes to novels, what kind of nonsense are you reading, "Heaven on Earth at Twelve Points of the Sun in the Afternoon", it sounds like a love story that only girls in middle and high school will read.Forget it, I don't have the permission to delete the access trace you left on the Bat computer. When Batman comes back and sees this record in the database, how will he look at me?

"I've already said, clown, don't worry about boring things—" Before he finished speaking, there was a slight "goo" in his stomach.

Jason: "..."

Jack suppressed a smile: "Let's eat."

Jason: "...OK."

Jack walked into the fast food restaurant that had just opened with a cane in his hand. There were only two people in the fast food restaurant, a man and a woman, who seemed to be the husband and wife running the shop.They obviously saw too many drivers who came to the service area for dinner in the early morning, and there were all kinds of weird people coming and going on the expressway, so they didn't show much surprise at Jack's clothes, but Jack's century-old gentleman's clothes and The luxurious brooch accessories made them take a second look: "What would the guests like?"

"Two large kids' meals plus apple pie and popcorn chicken."

"It's 18 dollars in total. Is it cash or credit card?"

Hearing this, Jason suddenly thought of a question: When he came out of Arkham Asylum, didn't he seem to see a wallet in the clown's outfit?

Immediately afterwards, he saw Jack lift his top hat, pull down his gold-rimmed glasses, and smiled at the owner of the fast food restaurant.

When the male shopkeeper saw that face, he rolled his eyes and passed out on the ground.

Jason: "..."

He couldn't stand it anymore, and walked up to grab Jack's arm, while slapping the banknotes in his wallet on the counter, and comforted the trembling female store manager shivering in the corner like a quail in the rain with his eyes: "Hey! What are you doing? Robbing a fast food restaurant for two children's meals?!"

"You can call the police and arrest me," Jack shrugged. "See if they call the police for $18."

Damn, this is what he said not long ago, and the clown repeated it again, Jason finally knew how small-minded this guy with the green hair on his head is.

It took Jason 15 minutes to explain to the two shopkeepers that Jack is not the clown himself, but just an ordinary person who looks like a clown. He likes to make such nasty jokes with people. Fortunately, the two shopkeepers did not care about Jack offended.While Jason was waiting in front of the counter, Jack walked around the store humming a little tune with his arms behind his back, occasionally flipping through the dusty travel magazines on the shelf, looking like a manic mental patient.Suddenly he saw the lottery box covered with a red cloth at the entrance of the fast food restaurant, and shouted with great interest: "Hey, Jason, come here, I have a discovery!"

Jason thought he had found a clue related to the road killer. Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked over, Jack pointed to the lottery box and said to him: "I just saw that you can get Batman's keychain in it, can you Can't you smoke it for me?"

"..." Jason felt that he had never been so speechless in the past 15 years, "Let me touch the keychain for you? Are you mentally ill?!"

Unexpectedly, Jack nodded: "Yes."

Only then did Jason remember that he picked Jack up from Arkham, but it was the first time he added a patient to admit that he was sick, and he had never seen such a cheeky person: "Can't you smoke by yourself? You How old are you, still playing with keychains?!"

"You don't understand. It's boring to smoke by yourself, but it's interesting to watch others smoke. I like to see people's unwilling expressions when I force them to do it when they have no interest at all." Jack shook his head without blushing, and then showed With a tangled expression, "Well, help me pull out the keychain, and I'll tell you a discovery about the road killer."

Jason was dubious: "Really?"

"real."

"I warn you, if you dare to send me useless junk messages, even if it takes time, I will throw you back to Arkham." Jason glared at him and reached into the lottery box.

It is difficult for ordinary people to find a specific keychain among a bunch of keys, but it is easy for the professionally trained Robin, and he quickly found the Batman keychain that Jack wanted.Hell, it's an old model that the Wayne Group put out years ago, and it can be bought for a dollar in downtown Gotham, and he's wasting his time with a man almost twice his age for a dollar.He rolled his eyes in his heart, took a deep breath, and barely restrained the urge to live in a fast food restaurant and beat Jack up - Batman said that he was too impulsive, it was not good, he had to learn to restrain his temper.

He threw the keychain to Jack, sat on the tables and chairs in the restaurant with the dinner plate, and said to Jack, "Tell me, what did you find?"

Jack took the keychain and stuffed it into his pocket without looking at it.While eating chocolate pie, he unfolded a map of the suburbs of Gotham City. On the map, the places where the bodies of the highway killers were found were marked with red pens. Draw a circle: "The range of the murderer's activities is probably here."

Jason froze for a moment: "How do you know?"

"The murderer's body dumping location is not concentrated. I guess he has a car of his own. Many of the corpses were found in the early morning. It is speculated that the murderer set off to throw the body in the early morning. It is likely that the traffic volume increased three or three times. Four o'clock, so that he can mix into those long-distance buses or trucks. Calculate this time and the speed limit of the expressway to get an approximate distance, and then draw a circle with the distance as the center of the body throwing place as the diameter , this is the area with the most overlap." Jack patted the map, "Simple math problem."

"But the premise is that the victim is dead before getting into the car. The road killer can kill people in the car."

"If it were you, would you use clown gas in a closed compartment without an antidote?" Jack asked.

Jason fell silent. He looked at the map in his hand. Although the possible scope of the murderer's activities had been narrowed down, it was actually quite large.This red circle includes the eastern part of the town of Yankee and a corner of the abandoned mining area.He frowned. If the clown is right, then this mining area is worth paying attention to.Jack pondered for a while: "But there is one thing I want to know more. What is the meaning of this 'road killer' using the clown business card? Is he killing for revenge or for justice?"

"Is there a difference?"

Jack showed an almost iconic secretive smile again: "Of course, Jason. Sometimes, justice is to prevent oneself from revenge."