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"what is this?"

Jason looked at the string of inexplicable words on the computer, what was that?French?Spanish?Italian?It's definitely not English anyway.

"The Riddler's Riddle"

Bruce answered Jason's question while analyzing the words that Jason understood when taken apart but couldn't be understood when put together.

"...Then, what is that?"

Jason looked at the other half of the screen, like pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle that hadn't been put together yet.

"Another clue left by the Riddler"

The Riddler, hearing it from the mouths of Gotham punks and hearing it from Bruce was no different to Jason, both a comment super egotistical.

Watching Bruce analyzing the pile of words that looked like a bible, Jason manipulated the computer boringly and began to decipher the giant puzzle.

Jason thought it was relatively easy when he successfully put together the picture pieces at the beginning, but after trying several times, there were always a few extra puzzle pieces that couldn’t be placed anywhere. Jason finally knew this seemingly simple jigsaw puzzle game How difficult it is.

"...Next time I see the Riddler, I will kick him hard!"

Jason said angrily, how could there be such a boring person in this world to set up such a boring game?Are you all free? ? !

"This jigsaw puzzle is not just a pure jigsaw puzzle, it is actually a crossword puzzle. The text left by the Riddler is the key to decryption. The horizontal sentence of this text represents a fragment, and the vertical sentence represents a fragment. , the positions of all the pieces of this puzzle are marked in this sentence..."

Bruce told Jason the rules in the riddle, listed all the possible words, and tried to put the pieces of the puzzle together.

Jason's explanation of Bruce was completely in the left ear and out in the right ear. He couldn't understand why someone would develop such a brain-burning game in a hurry?

Why?What did Bruce say just now?What happened to the woman named Artemis?Why did you put the piece with the moon pattern in the upper left corner?Why did you put the piece with the deer in the lower right corner again?The remaining space next to it feels that there is no room for a new fragment...

"Do you understand, Jason?"

Jason didn't understand what Bruce was saying. In his opinion, Bruce was like a magician, and then the inexplicable pieces turned into a beautiful pattern.

"Um……"

Jason nodded blankly, although he didn't understand at all.Bruce didn't see through Jason's lie. After all, it was the Riddler's riddle, and it might have been too difficult for Jason.

"However, what can Bruce do with this picture?"

Jason looked at the jigsaw puzzle with a missing piece. It was a beautiful picture, but what did the Riddler want to express with it?

"This picture is the time and place of the Riddler's next action"

Jason looked at it for a long time but couldn't figure out the time and place from the picture.

"...is it evening?"

Because the picture on the picture is the scenery under the moon, it is not surprising to think so.

"No, the moon represents the place"

Bruce opened the Gotham map on the computer at some point, searching for all the places related to the moon.

"...Then this vacant fragment is his target?"

Jason looked at Bruce's actions and guessed something.

Bruce looked from the screen to Jason's face, and gave him an affirmative look.

"Then the deer is also the location?"

"right"

Jason finally saw something, the moon was in the upper left corner of the gap, the elk was in the lower right corner, the upper right corner was an empty landscape, and the lower left corner was a distant view of a mountain range and a close view of a blooming flower.

If all of this is replaced with a map of Gotham...

"Headache……"

Jason rubbed his head, he felt something coming out from the top of his head.

"found it!"

Bruce's voice successfully attracted Jason's attention, and in an enlarged area map on the screen, a store named Brilliant Starry Sky was marked as the focus.

Brilliant Starry Sky is a handcrafted jewelry store. They do not have their own brand, but process the jewelry brought by customers according to the requirements of customers. However, the superb craftsmanship quickly made this store a star.Many celebrities in the entertainment industry have become frequent customers of this store in order to avoid embarrassing collisions with others.

The bright starry sky is located at the corner of a bustling cross street. Adjacent to its northeast side is a dress shop named Selene, which occupies two floors. Selene, like Artemis, is the moon in ancient Greek mythology. goddess.

And the location in the southwest corner of the bright starry sky is a commercial building. There is nothing particularly worth paying attention to on the ground, but there is a bar named Elk in its basement...

"So this also represents the ground position?"

After listening to Bruce's explanation, Jason could only sigh meaninglessly.

"Then what time?"

Jason could already understand the purpose of this jigsaw puzzle for the Riddler, but what about the time?

"Tomorrow at ten o'clock"

Regarding Bruce's answer, Jason could only ask with wide-eyed eyes.He couldn't really ask where Bruce got the time.

"The moon in the picture is a full moon, and the blooming flower is a kind of flower called epiphyllum, which usually only blooms at ten o'clock in the evening"

"...and tomorrow is the full moon"

"……right"

Jason rubbed his head, listening to Bruce's explanation made him think it was easy, but let him see for himself, he couldn't figure out one, two, three from this puzzle.He might not even be able to put the puzzle together.

"He...how boring is he! Shouldn't someone who steals jewels sneak away on a dark and windy night? Just like Catwoman?!!"

Jason really couldn't understand why the Riddler took so much effort to come up with such a brain-burning thing, is it just to tell others what he wants to do?When do you do it?Where do you do it? ? ?

"He didn't want to do it himself, but he couldn't help it"

Bruce answered his question lightly.As for him, he had dealt with the Riddler many times, and he knew him quite well. If he guessed correctly, the Riddler had already guessed his identity, but there was not enough evidence to prove it.That man has a fanatical desire for performance, so he can't stand his mind being unknown to others, so he will spare no effort to leave clues that can prove his own mind at every time and place.Even if he didn't want to stay at all, he couldn't control his desire to show off.

"...is really a lunatic"

Jason once again deeply felt that none of Gotham's underground bosses is normal.

"Okay, let's rest early, we have to catch this guy tomorrow"

Jason looked at Bruce's back, glanced at the pile of inexplicable things on the screen, and then made a decision:

"Tomorrow I will definitely lift this boring guy's ass hard!"