The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 295
One of the biggest things Bruce has learned lately is that there is only bad news and worse news in this world, and all bad things always come together.

Batman still chose to go to the Joker first. Obviously, the big surprise of the lunatic Joker is usually only a surprise, and it will be very amazing.

Sure enough, when Batman arrived, he found that the clown had set fire to the commercial street in central Gotham. The flying debris shattered almost all the window glass, and thick smoke billowed for a moment.

Standing on the roof, Batman squinted his eyes looking for the target, and at this moment, another puff of black smoke rose in the distance. Batman turned his head and saw that it seemed to be a slum in the East End.

At this moment, the siren of the fire engine sounded, and the firefighters arrived. They carried the faucet to put out the fire, cleaned up the remains of the explosives, and searched for the trapped people from the gaps in the burned buildings.

Gotham's fire station is not efficient, but this is the busiest commercial street in the city center after all. Most of the shops here are owned by the Twelve Families, and they still have to come to rescue them if they catch fire.

According to Batman's judgment, the central commercial street is still a wide area, and it caught fire first and then exploded. When the smoke first started, most people ran out, so the rescue is not difficult.

But the slums are different. There are dense buildings and a lot of sundries. Once a fire occurs, the casualties are likely to be heavy. Therefore, after seeing the firefighters come to the commercial street to rescue, Batman rushed towards the East District.

The aftereffects of excessive exhaustion have not completely disappeared, and Batman's headache is very severe, so he didn't notice that at the intersection at the end of the commercial street, the reporter who had just arrived happened to take a photo of his back as he left.

The fire in the slums of the East District was very troublesome. The houses here were too dense, there were no fire protection measures at all, and there were no fire exits. Many people were trapped in the fire. Batman took a lot of effort to solve the problem here.

By the time he went to the police station, Gordon was already in a state of desperation. He saw Batman as if he had seen a savior, and said, "You are finally here!"

"What's going on?" Batman's voice was hoarse as if it had been burned. Gordon wanted to say something, but he hesitated when he saw Batman's pale face visible to the naked eye. He said, "Your face Too bad, or else, go back and have a rest first?"

"It's okay, tell me, what's going on?"

Gordon took a deep breath. He led Batman to the morgue, and then pulled out a corpse from the morgue. After removing the white cloth on the corpse, Batman felt a little familiar with the face. The leader of the Lawrence family in the second family.

Old Lawrence already had white hair, and his figure was slightly fat. At this time, there were wounds on his limbs and chest. Batman squinted his eyes and observed, but his concentration was a little distracted, so he only asked Gordon: "What is the scene?" what does it look like?"

Gordon opened his mouth and paused, as if he didn't know how to describe it. He said, "Lawrence Jr. called the police chief this afternoon to say that his father died."

"When I arrived, Lawrence was dead in the study. He was lying flat on the ground with his head facing the window, his arms outstretched, and his whole body was in the shape of a cross. His limbs, chest and head were nailed into long Wedge, the forensic doctor judged that the cause of his death was that his heart was impaled..."

"What about the murder weapon?"

"In the evidence room, if you want, I can bring it. In addition, the forensic doctor told me that old Lawrence detected anesthesia in his body. He should have been anesthetized first and then crucified."

"Crucifixion..." Batman muttered to himself, but Gordon couldn't catch it. He said, "What? What cross?"

"It's a method used to execute Christians, crucifixion, or upside-down crucifixion."

"The first Pope, St. Peter, one of Jesus' disciples, died in this way... Wait, Jesus? How many disciples of Jesus?... Twelve... Twelve families..."

Batman immediately said to Gordon: "Let your sheriff contact the Twelve Family immediately, this may be a serial murder..."

As soon as the words fell, a young police officer ran down the stairs and said loudly to Gordon: "Sheriff, the younger brother of the Hawk brothers is dead, he..."

The young policeman swallowed his saliva, and then said: "His head was cut off, the chief has passed..."

Gordon covered his forehead and explained to Batman: "The Hawke family is also one of the twelve families. Their leaders are a pair of brothers. The elder brother is the big boss, and the younger brother helps him manage the family..."

Batman covered the old Lawrence with a white cloth, and then said to Gordon: "Can we go to the scene this time?"

"Uh, yes, but wait, we have to stagger with the director, otherwise I can't explain why I brought you in? ... You know, the director is a bit..."

"Okay, I see." As he said, Batman had already walked to the window, and he said to Gordon: "You shouldn't clean up the crime scene tonight, right? We gathered there in the middle of the night, and now I have Something else to do..."

After finishing speaking, Batman's figure disappeared. Gordon rubbed his temples, his whole face wrinkled, and he asked the young police officer, "Are you a Christian?"

"Ah, yes, what's the matter?"

"Do you know the story of Jesus and his twelve disciples? Can you tell me about it?"

The young police officer choked, and his expression was a bit perplexed. As Gordon had expected, he said: "Well, everyone here says they are Christians, but not many people know Jesus. Not to mention the disciples, I'd better go back and read the Bible..."

Batman, who left, turned on the communicator on his wrist and asked over there: "How is your place?"

The voice of the little slippery voice sounded over there, saying: "Fortunately, we are trapped in a basement. It seems to be an abandoned wine cellar. They haven't found it yet, but you'd better come here soon, Jay." Sen was injured..."

Hearing that Jason was injured, Batman frowned and said, "Why didn't you say it earlier? I thought there was no problem with you..."

Xiao Slick's childish voice continued to sound through the communicator: "Actually, the problem is not serious. He just sprained his ankle. We jumped from a very high place. He was the first to jump and was hit by the sundries underneath. Can't move right now, but not in danger of bleeding..."

"Tell me your address, I'll go there right now."

About 10 minutes later, in a basement not far from Green Street in the East District, Batman fixed Jason's ankle while asking them, "What's going on? I just asked you to investigate. How could you be hunted down? "

As if to distract attention from the ankle pain, Jason said: "In the beginning, we really just wanted to investigate. A friend and I found a job selling cigarettes on Green Street, and everything went smoothly at first. , we got in touch with the little leader in charge of this block and his boss, who are the 'mom and dad' of these children..."

"That guy is what the kids here call 'Lame Daddy,' and he lives in a shack at the end of the alley, and you know I'm pretty good at it, and I'll climb up to his shack at night and eavesdrop He talks..."

"At that time, people who should be his superiors came here. I heard the big boss mentioned in their words. They said that the situation of the twelve families has been a little tense recently... or something, and then said that the big boss wants them Hurry up and raise funds, in short, these words..."

"But the boss of the lame dad was too vigilant. I just moved a little, and he found someone on the roof. I had to run away, but the boss saw that he was an official gang member. He brought bodyguards and Shotgun, luckily my target was small, they missed me..."

The little slippery head went on to say, "Originally, I was just meeting him at the intersection of the main street, but those people were chasing him so hard that the two of us could only run into the alley. Fortunately, there is an abandoned wine cellar here, otherwise we would be in trouble soon." will be followed by them."

Jason said angrily, "When I jumped down, I didn't see any boards underneath, otherwise I wouldn't be so easily injured,"

When Batman was fixing the splint for him, Jason bit his fist and refused to scream. Batman took a look at him and said, "You've done a good job. Let's go up now. You don't want to come here anytime soon."

Jason wanted to help Little Slick to stand up, but Batman immediately picked him up, Jason struggled and said, "Put me down! Damn it!"

But his feet were swollen, and when he moved his legs, his ankles hurt. He let out a cry of pain, bit his fist and stopped talking.

Once on the ground, Batman asked them, "Did those who came after you see what you looked like?"

"I'm not sure, but they have flashlights and should see Jason."

Batman carried Jason to the car, put him in the back seat, and said, "You go to my base and hide for two days, there's everything there."

With that said, he ignored Jason's objection, started the car directly, and sent Jason and the little slicker to a temporary stronghold in his southern suburbs.

Batman's base can be said to be everything, which opened the eyes of the two children, especially Jason.

Originally, being held by Batman like a child was a bit awkward, but after seeing the advanced equipment and sufficient supplies, his eyes began to shine, and he changed from his reluctant attitude at first to excited Look at this and touch that.

But the little slippery head turned to Batman and asked, "Is our intelligence useful?"

Batman nodded and said, "At least, I know that the big boss is not a gangster on the street. He is related to the Twelve Family, and may even be a member of the Twelve Family."

"And just now, two high-ranking members of the Lawrence family and the Hawke family in the twelve families were murdered one after another..."

"In addition, Jason said that he heard the boss urging them to raise funds for the big boss as soon as possible. The big boss may know something..."

Having said that, Batman said to the two children: "Don't go out these few days, it may be very unsafe outside."

After settling down with Jason and the little slippery head, Batman couldn't rest after returning to Wayne Manor. He dug out the Bible and the Gospel, and began to look up stories about the Twelve Apostles.

If not many people know the story of Jesus and the twelve disciples, then the story of Jesus and Judas is almost a household name, and Judas is one of the twelve disciples of Jesus.

Reading until late at night, Batman wrote down all the information, and he dragged his extremely tired body upstairs to sleep.

And after the darkness passed, when he opened his eyes again, he found himself at the gate of Wayne Manor, and there were four familiar figures standing in the alley outside the gate.

(End of this chapter)