Although the relationship between Batman and the police is not tense in this universe, it is still unlikely that he will stay in Arkham's main control room and watch surveillance video with Gordon for an hour or two.
Therefore, while downloading those videos, he chose to use the fast forward method to briefly look at the images left by Brother Jue on the screen.
Unsurprisingly, when the scene of Feng Bujue gesturing to the surveillance probe flashed by, Batman asked Gordon to rewind the video and slow it down... and finally the camera was fixed on Brother Jue's smile.
"What does he mean?" Gordon read, looking at the screen. "Does that gesture mean a bird... or an eagle? What is he implying?"
"That's... Bat..." Batman responded in a deep voice, unplugging his device from the computer port (you can think of him as having a Bat-USB), and it seems that the download has been completed, "He does this to the camera The action means that he wants to invite me into the game."
"Wait..." Gordon paused, wondering, "How did he know you would see this video?"
"I'll see it sooner or later," Batman replied, "because you're still there…"
Gordon thought about the meaning of these words, and after a while, he also realized.
The gesture of "Jack" is very common in the "hand shadow" game, and it usually represents a bird or an eagle. Anyone can think of this, and Gordon's blurted speculation just now is also based on this factor; and further thinking, "Hand shadow" itself is a game that uses light and shadow, the projecting source and the projected source to create illusionary images.
If you think about it by extension, you will understand... It is not so much that Jack is implying "bat", it is better to say that he is implying "bat light".
Assuming that Batman didn't come to Arkham at this moment, and didn't watch the video with Gordon, it wouldn't change anything; because at least Gordon would definitely see the video, watch it repeatedly, and Analyze... With Gordon's ability, it is only a matter of time before he can guess the true meaning of the other party's gesture. And once he understands it, he will go to the roof of the police station to turn on the bat light and notify Batman.
In other words, when this "Jack" gestured towards the camera, he had already thought about it... "This message is for Gordon"; according to common sense, this video should be seen by the police first. right.
Of course, he also considered the current situation of "being directly seen by Batman". There is no difference in the result, and it simplifies things in the process... because Batman will definitely understand the meaning immediately.
"What the hell is this guy trying to do..." Gordon's expression became solemn after he realized it, and his experience and intuition told him... This time he encountered a different and quite tricky criminal.
However, when Gordon asked this sentence and turned his head, Batman who was standing behind him had disappeared.
Gordon was the only one left in the room, as if he was talking to himself.
"Huh..." Two seconds later, Gordon shrank his neck, exhaled helplessly, and complained, "Compared to your appearance... your way of exiting is even more annoying..."
...
At the same time, in the outskirts of Gotham, in a certain sewer.
Feng Bujue was holding the [Oxygen Pipe] in his mouth, and was walking in it at a speed similar to jogging.
When leaving the asylum, he got into the same car as Kevin and consciously drove away in front of the fugitives who had just been released.
Brother Jue has already calculated... All those fugitives will be arrested within half a day; and when those guys are arrested, they will definitely be asked the question "How did the people who let you go escape?" At that time, at least the vast majority of prisoners will answer "drive away" in unison. If their minds are clear enough and their memory is good enough, they may even tell the color of the car and even the license plate number.
In this way, the direction of the police's investigation will be drawn to the idea of "the suspect fleeing by car".
But in fact... Ten minutes after the car left the lunatic asylum, Feng Bujue got off in the middle of a road without surveillance cameras; before getting out of the car, he gave Kevin an order to "keep driving in the direction of the metropolis ( There is a sign on the road) order to drive".
And Brother Jue himself, using the floating ability of [Taxu], ran in the opposite direction without leaving any footprints. In less than ten minutes, he found the spot he had seen on the street sign not long ago—a swamp, as he expected... There was a sewer outlet with a diameter of more than two meters.
"It won't be long... the police should find that car." Brother Jue, who was running, was not idle. Physical loss, and there is still time to respond to some unexpected situation that suddenly appeared, and a considerable amount of energy can be allocated to think, "Kevin's existence time is 45 minutes, and half of the time limit has passed before I split up with him. About; I asked him to drive at a speed of more than 60 kilometers per hour as far as possible under the premise of ensuring safe driving, considering that there are almost no traffic lights on the roads in the suburbs... When Kevin disappeared from the car, the car had been driven at least two times. More than ten kilometers.
"Counting the speed of the police's response, the time it takes to arrest the prisoner and ask for information, and the time it takes them to call the traffic department's surveillance and send someone to catch up...even if their efficiency is worse than I expected , after ten minutes at the latest, they should also find the empty car...
"Because Kevin suddenly disappeared into a white light, no one will step on the brakes, so the car will gradually slow down and slide for a certain distance without anyone controlling the steering wheel and releasing the accelerator; there may be many kinds of Circumstances arise... For example, the car hits a utility pole or a big tree on the side of the road due to slow drift, or happens to hit a reverse car, or even slides into a certain river...
"Many new hypotheses can be derived from this, such as the fact that the car was spotted and driven away by homeless people passing by, or that someone saw the abandoned car on the side of the road and called the police... But in any case, sooner or later the police Everyone will know that I am no longer in that car.
"That's when they shifted their thinking from 'driving away' and started thinking about other possibilities... As for how long it will take them to realize I'm planning to enter the city through the sewers... It's hard to say, it's just 'empty car' There is no trace of the driver escaping at all around. This kind of weird doubt is enough for them to think about it for a while.
"Well... So, by the time they think about investigating the sewers, I've already entered the city..."
Thinking of this, Feng Bujue changed his mind: "However, there is another extreme situation - if 'Batman rushed to the scene at the first time and participated in the investigation'... Is there any chance for him to catch up with me? "
Brother Jue's worries are justified, after all, in this universe, Batman...or Bruce Wayne's wife is working as a consultant in Arkham.
Even if the assumption that "Batman is monitoring his wife's daily activities" is excluded, with Batman's urine, he will at least monitor the communications of the Gotham police, right? Then when he learned of the accident in the lunatic asylum through the police communication network, he would rush to the scene as soon as possible, both public and private, to make sure his wife was safe.
In fact, Batman did exactly that... He arrived in Arkham earlier than the police; When I went to the main building of the lunatic asylum... only to find that the place was already empty.
At this moment, the siren sounded, and the police rushed to the scene one after another. Seeing this, Batman hid first, and hid in the dark to observe.
It didn't take long for the staff in the underground refuge room to come out by themselves, because several surveillance probes were also connected to the interior of the refuge room. When the people inside saw the police arriving, they opened the entrance and returned to the ground.
What happened afterwards, as mentioned above, Batman waited in secret for a while, and only showed up after the police finished the preliminary information collection work.
Judging from the actual plot direction, Batman did not intervene in the investigation at an earlier point in time as Jue Ge estimated, nor did he follow the route of the car all the way to find Jue Ge's alighting point; besides, To be honest... Even if he really stood at the alighting point, there was no sign that a car had stopped here, or that Brother Jue got off the car and ran in the opposite direction.
Because... Feng Bujue didn't leave that kind of trace in the first place.
"The greatest detective in the world" also needs evidence to make further inferences. Only a fake detective who is cheating can do the kind of "tell the whole truth without relying on logical order and then use evidence to prove it" thing.
"Huh?" Just as Feng Bujue was thinking, something suddenly entered his line of sight, making his steps stagnate.
"What the hell?" In the next second, he stopped by a wall, staring at the wall in front of him that was a different color from the surrounding ones.
In this dark sewer, even with a searchlight, it would be difficult for ordinary people to spot this abnormality. However, Feng Bujue captured this detail by relying on a flashlight (which he carried in his luggage)...
Boom—
Jue Ge tapped the wall with the end of the flashlight, and he immediately realized that the wall of a different color was made of a material that he could not identify at all; In this case, the wall is even more suspicious.
"Well... the edge is irregular, and there are cracks where it meets the surrounding walls, and..." Feng Bujue observed the wall carefully, and deduced in his heart, "This material has penetrated and filled these gaps..." No After two seconds, he understood, "In other words... there was no such wall here, but someone sealed it with a chemical mixture that can expand and solidify quickly..."
A smile appeared on Jue Ge's face: "Then here comes the question... What is hidden behind this wall?"