It was a long journey this time, because of the underground tunnel flooding, Cindy had to detour the North Loop, and when she arrived at the previous location, the time was already a little over 1 o 'clock.
There was water everywhere in the dark night, and the line between the ground and the sky was blurred, but Sheriff Gordon's brown car could be seen on the side of the road not far away, its taillight on.
Eugene and Cindy get out of the car to check out the clues. As for the two reporters, Vicko won't leave even if she gets rid of her right now. She's still waiting for more dirt and the promo for the fight that Eugene has promised her.
Peter is Vico's sidekick, and Eugene doesn't think he has the guts to walk through three gangs alone in the middle of the night.
"Can I go down? Make a documentary about solving a crime or something? ' Vico immediately threw on his clothes in a hurry and looked at Eugene with an eager face.
Eugene didn't mind. The video might be useful.
"Sure, but don't film Deathstroke and me at the same time. Don't film Barbara. No live footage. Try any tricks and I'll make your lives a living hell."
Cindy was okay with that, either Deathstroke was thinking the same way. On the contrary, she felt something at ease for the first time, like being with her best friend Holly.
Barbara wanted to go down too, but she couldn't move, so she had to stay in the car.
The cold chill returns to Eugene and his emotions leave him in an instant. He strides to Gordon's car and opens the door.
The car smelled of tobacco and coffee, but there was no blood in it. The cell phone lay safely on the dashboard. It showed several of Barbara's missed calls, which were confirmed to be Gordon's.
The car keys were still in and the engine was in neutral, suggesting that he had planned to leave the car for a short time, but an accident had taken place.
The gas was half empty, the battery was fully charged, and neither the hood nor the trunk had been moved, which ruled out the possibility of vehicle malfunction.
So what caused him to leave his car and fall into the trap of the men in black?
'Sue, there's a body in the water over here,' he said.
Cindy, who had gone to check the surveillance probe, jumped off the pole and made a big splash. Sure enough, the kerb camera had what looked like a music player attached to it, and she recovered the equipment with the intention of researching the technique in the future.
As she walked toward Eugene, she noticed a faint white shape, not far in front of the car, beneath the sewage. Experience immediately told her it was a dead body.
Eugene learns that the body is the reason Gordon left the car, and as a police officer, this is the only guarantee that Gordon will stop and check at any time.
It is good news that the men in black want Gordon alive, not dead.
Cindy used her feet to pick the body out from under the sewage. The body was already a little deformed, the impact of the rain had accelerated the breakdown of fat, and the skin was baggy.
The cause of death was immediately identified as massive blood loss due to trauma, and an autopsy was performed on the spot.
As a killer, it is essential to know the anatomy of the human body, and when necessary, it is no problem to act as a forensic doctor, Cindy to examine the internal organs, Eugene to examine the limbs and the head.
"Folks, we are watching the scene of the disappearance of Chief Gordon, and behind me,......"
In the distance, Vico's voice is heard recording the program into the camera. She does not intend to record the two Deathknell together. After all, she knows that this is supposed to be a kind of bottom line, once the line is crossed, Deathknell will immediately turn over.
Unfazed by her, the two quickly went through their respective motions, all four hands using the same technique.
After 30 seconds, they both confirm that they have not missed anything, and in the rain, there are only so many clues to pick up.
"Who's going first? Eugene laughs and asks, "I don't want to play the game of saying the same thing at the same time again."
"Me first." Cindy stood up and looked around, but there was nothing but rain. "In addition to the knife wound, the victim's internal organs also showed signs of bruising. They had been hit before death."
"She had a well-developed cardiorespiratory system. She was a manual laborer or an athlete; There wasn't much in her stomach and she probably starved for two or three days, so I think she was executed in a secret prison somewhere. She was a prisoner."
Eugene nodded, stood up, looked around him, and then said:
"What I found agrees with yours. The victim did not walk here by herself. The soles of her feet were perfectly sound.
"Her knuckles were thick, with visible scratches and calluses on the first three fingers of her right and left hands; The muscular balance of her limbs suggests that she was a fighter or a swimmer. Defensive injuries to the forelimbs, indicating that she fought with others, and there were ligature marks on her wrists and ankles."
'She was tortured and then executed.'
For a dozen seconds, the two stood still, thinking, with only the sound of rain between them.
"There were no obvious torture injuries." "Cindy said, looking into the distance at Vikovari, the woman who was actually acting lovingly for the camera as if nothing had happened.
"It could have been waterboarding, a form of punishment called pasting, where you cover your face with paper and then water it, which would have shown signs of suffocation in an autopsy." Eugene thought of it immediately.
"Where did you hear that?"
Cindy said that she had not seen this kind of torture method, they are popular to put people in the toilet or something, but it can cause water in the lungs, the autopsy will show drowning.
"Well, similar punishments have been practiced in all the ancient civilizations, so you can learn from them sometime."
In fact, he learned it from a TV series when he was a security guard, but it is believed to be a Chinese original.
Cindy sighed and shook her head:
"I guess what you think is what I think. It's a complicated situation right now."
Eugene understood, of course, that the average person could never reach this woman's physical level:
"Those guys are coming, too."
"The Shadow Dancers League." X2
Again, they said the same thing at the same time, only this time, they just looked at the body on the ground silently and said nothing more.
The assassin of the Shadow Dancer League died here, and whoever did it, the assassins would avenge her, such was the tradition of that ancient organization.
If this is the work of the people who kidnapped Gordon, the Shadow Dancer Alliance won't take the time to tell. They'll destroy anything alive as a deterrent, and Gordon will die.
"How many hours from Gotham is Nanda Parbat? "Eugene asks first, needing to know the time.
"Don't you know? How long do you usually stay there?"
Cindy was curious. She knew that Eugene had something that they didn't. Did it make people run faster?
Nanda Parbat, the headquarters of the League of Shadows, is not in the south, but in a place of ice and snow, a mysterious place that cannot be recognized by any technological means.
Like Paradise Island, Atlantis, and the House of Mysteries, it seems to be obscured by some power or absent from the physical world.
But the general location, from the Arrow series and the Dark Knight trilogy movies, would be Iceland or Greenland?
"About seven hours?" Eugene calculates where Gotham is, about the same if it's by plane.
"It's slow! On our end, in four hours, you'll find Gotham crawling with Shadow Dancer Assassins."
What the hell? Faster than a plane ride? Do they have special travel skills?
"It's not something to keep up with, is it? We're already running out of time!"
Eugene interrupts her angrily. God knows why she's so proud of the speed of the League of Assassins.
"Well, those men in black are probably lurking in the two buildings. Let's see if there's any trace left behind." Cindy was helpless.
"Ok, I'll go over there."
Eugene turns away, more pressed for time, and Cindy shrugs in the rain. She just wants to show off her power. Amazon women are so attractive, but Sue doesn't seem to buy it.
She walked to the building on the other side of the street, kicked down the door, and went from house to house asking questions as if she wanted to chop something off.
As they leave, Vic leads Peter over to the body and starts taking pictures. Suddenly, she feels like she stepped on something, and then she sees the wound on the body's waist. The discovery makes her smile.