"Hey, are you okay?" A voice woke up the drowsy Peng Ziqian.

It was the officer who was driving for her.

Three days ago, Peng Ziqian changed another place. After she detonated the nuclear reactor for Tony and was submerged by a huge energy wave, she regained consciousness again, and she found that she had changed another place.

It's not a pleasant thing to be thrown directly at the scene of the case, but it's gratifying that this time her identity has allowed her to use her old profession-a profiler-so she won't make a fool of herself in a hurry.

After finishing that case, she returned to the FBI headquarters. What surprised her was that the time point of this world was obviously similar to the two worlds she used to, but the process was completely different.

For example, the world where Tony lives is obviously more technologically advanced, but in this world, the FBI's bau team has just been established.

As Gordon once said, bau was understaffed when it was first established and often handled cases independently.

This is the situation of Peng Ziqian now. As the bau veteran of this world, she is being led by Gotham City police to the victim's home.

This is a child abduction case, which is already the third case so far.The dossier was on Peng Ziqian's lap. She had read it on the plane, but because she was woken up early in the morning, she was in a bad mood.

This is also related to her recent insomnia... After being a wandering soul without rest for a long time, she is still a little uncomfortable after returning to the human world. Every time she closes her eyes, she always has the illusion that she is still floating.

"So the third time is..." Peng Ziqian rubbed his glasses and flipped through the documents with his other hand.

"It's 7 hours ago now." Officer Gordon, who picked her up at the airport and was in charge of the case, looked back and said, "The mother put the child to play on the door frame outside the house, and then went in to answer a phone call. There was only 2 minutes. , the child is gone...the first child disappeared nine days ago, and was found in the garbage in an alley three days ago."

"A cycle of seven days, we are lucky, there are still six days." Peng Ziqian rubbed his temples to wake himself up.

"Good luck?" Obviously, Police Officer Gordon didn't quite understand the meaning of this sentence. In his opinion, a kidnapping case couldn't be worse.

"Of course... Statistics show that 44% of children who were kidnapped and abducted died within the first hour, 75% died after three hours, and 99% died after 24 hours... This unknown person obviously has a longer cycle... Police officer Sir, can we go to the last victim family first?"

"Of course." Officer Gordon didn't think there was anything wrong with this request, so he turned the car around.

The families who had just lost their children were very nervous and disturbed. Obviously, what happened to the previous children made them feel uneasy.Before jj went to the field, Peng Ziqian was responsible for the contact with the public reporters, so she helped Officer Gordon to comfort the family.

Then she went to the kid's room.

The room was neat, like all children's rooms.

"What do you think you can find here?" Officer Gordon stood at the door and watched Peng Ziqian wandering around the room, picking up a photo frame from time to time.

"I don't know ... but what we do is we use the details of the surrounding environment to speculate on the behavior of the victim and the suspect and then determine their next move."

"So what did you find?"

"For example, the child Jimmy of this family raised a dog, but unfortunately it died, so he is very likely to have sympathy for the suspect who pretended to lose the dog, and then he was abducted..." Peng Ziqian nodded Jimmy's child hug on the table. Looking at a picture of a dog and saying "but this is just speculation, now I have to go to the third scene to see."

"The third scene?"

"Obviously, the victim didn't die there, so it can only be called the third scene. The suspect first suffocated the child and then took him to the rubbish dump."

Peng Ziqian followed Officer Gordon to the place where the body was found. Although there 2 has been cordoned off, there are still people coming and going.

"The site was completely destroyed." Peng Ziqian turned around and found that the trash bins had been emptied, and the marking lines drawn on the ground were messed up.

"No way, no one will care about these..." Police Officer Gordon said so, seeing Peng Ziqian's weird look at him, he shrugged helplessly, "People always care more about their own lives. Die, no one will delay their life because of a child."

"But do you care?"

"If I don't care, no one really cares..."

"Okay..." Peng Ziqian came out from the alley.The clues she wanted to find were no longer there.

Because the clues were broken, she could only go back to the police station to look through the files.

Then she discovered what was wrong with the sense of incongruity that this city gave her when she walked in.Although the people in the police station seem to be at their posts, they don't seem to be busy. In fact, such a serial abduction case can be regarded as a major case in any place, but the police here have not actively mobilized When she got up, she just watched from the sidelines, and the files in the police station were also in a mess, which made her very uncomfortable for a person who was used to reading the materials compiled by a good policeman who worked hard.

At this time, Peng Ziqian suddenly remembered Officer Gordon's hesitation before saying [If I don't care, no one cares. 】

If a place even the police are killed.Then this city is really fucked to the bone.

While Peng Ziqian was struggling with a lot of messy materials, bad news came. The body of the second kidnapped child was found on the ground in an alley near the park.

It was nightfall after Peng Ziqian and the others rushed over to wait for the evidence collection to be completed. She first asked a few words about the little boy who found the body.But obviously he didn't see the person who threw the body.

"Obviously he didn't see anything." Peng Ziqian stood up and shook his head in disappointment at the approaching Police Officer Gordon, then thought for a while and added, "It's lucky for this kid." Might be next to be kidnapped.

"..." Police Officer Gordon obviously knew what she meant and nodded, "Let's go and have a look at the scene."

Peng Ziqian nodded. He was about to go with Police Officer Gordon, but he was caught by the little boy in the air of leaving, "He will come to help us, right?"

"Who?" Peng Ziqian frowned and asked.

"Batman, everyone says he's defending the city, so he won't let it go, will he?"

"...Maybe..." Peng Ziqian smiled at the child, then pulled out the sleeve that was pulled and left with Officer Gordon.After staying away from the children, Peng Ziqian asked in a low voice, "Batman?" Before she came to Gotham City, she spent a little time figuring out the things about this city that she had never heard of in her previous world. She knew this city It has always been very prosperous and extravagant, and I also know that a Zorro-style hero suddenly rose up not long ago. With previous experience, Peng Ziqian can remain calm about this, but just like Tony's matter, Peng Ziqian does not agree with this kind of thing. "You guys Do you really expect a heroic figure to be your patron saint? This is completely against the law..."

"..." Listening to Peng Ziqian's words, Officer Gordon didn't say anything, but remained silent.However, this cannot be hidden from Peng Ziqian's glasses. In the silence of Officer Gordon, Peng Ziqian had some guesses, "My God, officer, don't tell me you support this kind of thing, this is..."

"No matter who it is, as long as it can help this city, I will not oppose him." Officer Gordon suddenly stopped, and then slowly said this thoughtful sentence after changing his expression, "He at least helped us capture Gotham The biggest underworld leader in the city."

"A person is above the law, which is a regression of civilization. Can you guarantee that what this person does is always right?"

"I can't, but I don't have a choice."

"but……"

"Detective." When Peng Ziqian was still trying to argue, Police Officer Gordon suddenly interrupted her loudly, "Now I just want that poor child to come back and stop these tragedies."

"...Me too..." Peng Ziqian said, looking at Gordon, who was holding his glasses at a loss, and then turned his attention to the place where the body was found. "Okay, let's find something in common. When they were found, they were all neatly dressed, clean, and there was no sexual assault, which means that the suspect felt guilty about the deceased. The time when the child was kidnapped was not fixed, which meant that the suspect needed a lot of time to observe the victim’s family. He should be a white man, and there was no fixed time. Work, he has a car, so he can dispose of the body conveniently... Notify the first victim's family that the funeral will be held tomorrow."

"Do you think the suspect went back to participate?"

"Very likely, in most cases, once the suspect feels guilty, he will continue to recall what they committed, return to the crime scene, the place where the body was thrown, and even attend the funeral of the deceased. In addition, he may have been secretly concerned about the victim's family , which means that he will not give up any opportunity to watch the grief of the victim's family at close range." Peng Ziqian said a lot, then looked up at the unresponsive Police Officer Gordon, and simply stated the following plan." You have to pay attention to those who drive, he may not be dressed very well, always aiming at the family of the victim, oh yes, let Jimmy's parents go too, it will be better to identify this person, and then come back and cross-check according to your suspicious list Their previous criminal records, as well as the accident records in the past two months, must have a source of stimulation, something happened around the suspect, which stimulated him to start the murder... Officer Gordon, is there any question?"

"No..." Police Officer Gordon tried his best to remember Peng Ziqian's words, then shook his head, and suddenly remembered something, "Do you think Jimmy is still alive?"

"Maybe." Peng Ziqian didn't really want to answer this topic, because talking about the possibility of a victim's life and death is too heavy. I'm going to see the autopsy, and the family is sorry for your trouble." After getting Gordon's nod, she quickly turned around and was about to follow the police car to leave, when she suddenly remembered something and turned her head, "Officer Gordon, thank you for your hard work." Peng Ziqian said The police station saw the discord between Officer Gordon and others. If he is a police officer at his age, it means that he is not loved by his boss. Only Officer Gordon followed her throughout the whole case, like Officer Gordon If such a conscientious police officer is not in line with the general trend, it can only show that this city is indeed corrupt.

The next day, according to Peng Ziqian's intention, they really recruited several suspicious people, and then compared their previous records to lock down a white man who had a history of theft, and found his son in the medical records Died in a car accident a month ago.After a search warrant was obtained they found a terrified Jimmy hidden in the man's home, before the man finally confessed to his crimes.

"Thank you for your help." When Gordon came to express his thanks, Peng Ziqian was preparing to go back to the hotel to pack her things. She would take the earliest flight back to Quantico tomorrow morning.

"You're welcome, this is my job." The suspect has already confessed, and the rest is up to the prosecutor and the court. Peng Ziqian knew that the rest was not his concern, so he smiled and said, and then she thought about it She asked another question that she had thought about for a long time, "Officer Gordon, do you really believe that a lone ranger can change the status quo of a city?" The question that has been on her mind ever since she saw what Tony Stark did.

"……I have no idea."

"So you don't trust him completely, do you?"

"I trust my old friend more than I do." Police Officer Gordon said with a rare humor, "I will come to trouble you."

"If that's the case, I hope we meet less." Peng Ziqian shrugged and replied, and then both of them smiled, and she watched Officer Gordon leave.

The hotel she booked was not far from the police station, just two blocks away, so she walked on the deserted street without any pressure, but she did underestimate the security of Gotham.At the first intersection, she felt someone trailing behind her. She touched the gun at her waist, thinking that it would be better not to move as a last resort, and then continued walking calmly, but she was obviously too optimistic, and she hadn't Walking out of this street intersection, she saw a person coming out in front of her, obviously trying to flank him.

They can be mistaken.Peng Ziqian thought, touching his waist.

But before she moved, the person in front was dragged into the shadow by the suddenly falling black shadow. Turning her head, Peng Ziqian saw that the people behind her were obviously frightened and fled. She was not in the mood to ignore that person , took out his gun and slowly approached the shadow.

However, that person was obviously not malicious, and with Peng Ziqian's gun pointed at him, he calmly walked out of the shadows.

It was a man wrapped in a black cloak and wearing a helmet. The black body and the two pointed ears on the helmet made Peng Ziqian immediately understand that this was the urban legend of Gotham, Batman.

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