Becoming a Phantom Thief from the World of American Comics.

Chapter 124 The Imprisoned Married Wife
"This is really crazy!"

Robin said with a look of shock, "Even in Gotham, this is a bit too incredible."

"A serum that can change DNA and turn humans into bat monsters? I'd rather believe it was born in the chemical lab of the Lex Group."

"How else to explain that Kurt's ring was left in Robinson Park?"

Batman asked back.

"Why are the rings of the ring broken?"

Hearing this sentence, Robin's mind was struck by lightning.

It is impossible for a normal person to break the ring in their free time, and the difficulty of breaking the ring may be even higher than that of smashing the diamond.

After all, diamonds are hard, but too brittle.

But if Kurt Longstone drank the serum and turned into a bat monster, it would be easy to imagine that after becoming a monster, his body would increase, and the diamond ring that was originally suitable for wearing suddenly became too small.

It was even cracked by the swollen fingers at the end!
Continue to think about it, maybe Kurt, who has become a monster physically, still has human emotions. He still loves his wife, so even if the ring is broken, he always wears it on his body, until the first time he kills in the woods. The ring was lost.

With so many claw marks left by the bat monster on the tree, his real emotion might be regret for his inability to control his bloodthirsty instinct, rather than pure excitement or anger.

hiss--

Robin had to admit that according to this logic, the possibility that Kurt Langstone developed the serum but was turned into a bat monster by side effects was greatly increased.

He is the only suspect.

"Before we meet Longstone, everything is just speculation. The bat monster may or may not be him."

Batman said slowly, there was no wave in his tone, no emotion could be heard, only extreme calm.

Not long after Batman and Robin left, another black shadow quietly approached the woods.

At first glance, this black shadow was actually wearing a bat suit!

Looking at it again, I found that the bat suit is a bit crude, and the figure of the person wearing the bat suit does not seem to be as burly as a serious Batman.

"I knew they would come to the crime scene."

The expression on Dean's face was exactly as I expected. He looked at one of the big trees in the field and thought with a little regret.

"It's a pity that the miniature bug cannot be recovered, and it can only be turned on to self-destruct mode."

Micron-level bugs, let alone recycled ones, are so dark in the middle of the night that you might not even be able to see them with a magnifying glass.

What is it all about?It was just a few hours ago.

After leaving Gotham General Hospital, Dean witnessed Batman and Robin driving the Batmobile to the Upper West Side.

The speed of the Batmobile was too fast. If he just followed behind, Dean would lose it in less than a minute.

But Dean is very clear that if Batman and Robin want to investigate the bat monster, they will definitely come to the scene of the crime anyway, and they will go to every crime scene.

So he checked the location of each incident of the bat monster attack, and finally found that the Gotham General Hospital was the starting point. Less traffic.

The Robinson Park woodland, where the first body was found, was farther away from Gotham General Hospital.

In order to improve the efficiency of handling the case, Batman will probably give priority to several other nearby locations for investigation, so Dean can take advantage of this time difference to arrive at Robinson Park before Batman and the two of them.

Besides, how can there be a peaceful night in Gotham? On the way to the Upper West Side, I don’t know how many robbers or even murderers I will encounter, and I will be able to tie Batman.

All in all, Dean does eventually make it to Robinson Park before Batman does.

He actually discovered the existence of the ring, but he didn't move it. Instead, he hid the tiny bug exchanged by the system on a certain big tree.

There is only one purpose, and that is to eavesdrop on the details of Batman and Robin's investigation.

Of course, if Batman had already found out where the bat monster was at other crime scenes, and ran directly to the middle door to spy instead of coming to Robinson Park, this possibility also exists.

At that point Dean could only count himself as unlucky.

No way, he can't risk a head-on collision with Batman and go to other places to wait for the rabbit. Although he has envisioned some reason to excuse this situation, in the end, it's better to keep it if he can't use it. Need not.

Wait until there is really no other way.

"Curt Longstone?"

Dean touched his chin and thought for a while, he had no memory of this name at all.

Fortunately, Dr. Langstone has a reputation in the zoological community, and he can easily find a lot of public information on the Internet.

"An expert in zoology, with physical defects, wanted to find a way to make up for the defects by studying animal DNA, but was rejected by a big company for funding... Hey, why do you feel that this background setting is not right?"

As the saying goes, if you don't check, you don't know. After checking Dr. Longstone's public information, Dean immediately felt that there was something wrong with this guy's designation.

Isn't this the usual blackened villain setting in Chaoying works?
"Hmm... It seems that Kurt Longstone's address is not disclosed on the Internet, but the location of his laboratory is disclosed."

After thinking about it, Dean turned and left the place.
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After a while, the northeast of the Upper West Side, here is the most humble residential living area in the entire Upper West Side.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the slums of the Upper West Side, and it is not much different from the East Side, which is known as the slums of Gotham.

Of course, compared with the slums in the East District, the living environment here is much better.

Batman and Robin came to one of the small houses that looked like a warehouse. The lights were not turned on inside, and the windows were closed tightly. No sound could be heard, and they were not sure if anyone was there.

"This is Dr. Longstone's residence? I didn't expect a well-known expert to live in such a place."

Robin looked at the dilapidated little house in front of him, and sighed.

"His original life was quite affluent, but his self-willed research made Kurt spend all his savings, and no one was optimistic about his serum for funding, so he had to invest all his money in research."

Batman said so.

He inspected the house, and the only entrance and exit that could accommodate him was the front door.

Batman first knocked symbolically on the door, but no one responded.

So he gave Robin a wink, and the latter immediately understood and became alert.

I saw Batman standing at the door, raised his shoulders, tensed his muscles, and slammed into the door in an instant.

bump!
The ancient door was easily knocked open by Batman, revealing the inside of the room.

It was empty inside, without any furniture, except for a huge cage and a woman locked in the cage.

Judging by the woman's appearance, she was clearly Kurt Longstone's wife, Francine Longstone!
(End of this chapter)