Due to the speed limit sign, Weiwei arrived at the Gotam Police Station at a normal speed.
The Gotam Police Station is located in the old town, which is actually not far from the City Hall. Weiwei went there in a circle, mainly to experience the joy of riding a motorcycle.
This is the headquarters, which also manages local police departments such as South Hinckley County. Gotham has a population of over seven million, and there are more than two thousand staff members in the headquarters alone - of course, the new police officer Bella doesn't know this, and the mayor has to review their salary expenditures.
However, it seems that not all of these 2,000 people are paid by the City Hall. Weiwei always feels that there is some hidden message in this.
The police station building is of the same age as the town hall. If you look closely you can see traces of repairs on the walls. As a headquarters where some criminals are often temporarily detained, this building has suffered too many disasters.
Weiwei: ...
The troubled building seemed to foreshadow her troubled future.
After completing the registration formalities at the gate, she was led to meet Jim Gordon, the current chief of GCPD. Chief Gordon naturally had no time to talk to her and asked her to follow a guy named Joe Holm. Before she could work on her own, Joe was her supervisor and would help her get started as a police officer.
Qiao was a middle-aged man who looked a little sloppy at first glance, probably because he had not shaved cleanly. He was slightly shorter than Weiwei, and had a slightly frowned brow, seeming to be in a state of annoyance.
"Come with me, new guy." He grabbed a bag of dry cereal in one hand, poured the remaining half into his mouth, and crumpled up the garbage and stuffed it into his pocket.
It seems that this person is responsible for guiding newcomers. Why does he look unreliable?
"Let me first introduce you to the situation of our police station..."
As they walked, Qiao said, "There are three main departments in the police station. We are responsible for handling small cases. The homicide department focuses on theft, robbery and murder of ordinary people--"
Weiwei: "Are murder cases also common?"
Qiao glanced at her and said, "I looked at your file. You are not from Gotan, right? If you stay in Gotan for a long time, you will find that everything is very ordinary."
"Then there's the MCU," he continued. "They deal with some of the more unusual criminals, as well as psychotic serial killers, planned bombings, etc. The people who commit these crimes are either geniuses or psychopaths. Of course, the most annoying type is the psychopathic genius."
Weiwei touched her chin and said, "Then can I transfer to MCU?"
"It's better not to," Qiao shrugged. "There are very few people in the MCU who can retire on time. The MCU only accepts those who are capable or qualified... As for you?"
Qiao turned around and looked at her, but because of his height, he had to raise his head.
The words he was about to say seemed to be choked: "...You keep working hard."
"Marin, I'm bringing a newcomer here to take charge of the guns," Joe said as he headed towards the logistics department. "The new police officer is named Bella Bettivan."
With that, Weiwei equipped herself with her Glock 17, police ID, and received a walkie-talkie and a new cell phone.
Weiwei played with her new phone and asked, "Isn't there another department?"
Joe waved his hands: "SWAT, the special forces, you usually don't see them... No, not necessarily, after all, anything can happen to Brother Tan, but I don't know much about SWAT, they are very mysterious and directly responsible to the parliament."
He actually didn't report directly to the mayor. Weiwei had a blank expression on her face and gave a bad review.
"You can occasionally see Batman when he's on duty at night. He always appears at night. There's also Robin, but Batman has had several Robins. The little boys are all different. This one is the third one I've seen..."
Weiwei glanced at the data card that was being automatically completed and asked, "Where were the two of you before?"
Qiao smiled and said: "After all, little boys will not always be little boys."
"When you see Batman, you can take pictures but you can't go up to him to take pictures. Although Batman won't do anything to you... He will send the prisoners here. Generally speaking, the prisoners sent here are ordinary criminals who robbed and injured people. Those particularly vicious guys basically went to Arkham Asylum."
"We're here," Qiao pushed open the door, revealing a small shooting range. "Come and try your hand at shooting. If you're not good enough, I'll send you back."
[[Shooting] Learning, reading completed]
[[Close Combat] Learning, reading completed]
[Observation] Studying, reading completed]
[[Basic Detective Knowledge] Learning, reading completed]
Qiao: "…Although I wasn't very proficient at first, I got the hang of it pretty quickly. I think I learned well in school."
Of course, after the opponent made a battle teaching gesture, Vivi finished loading the new skill in a few seconds.
She looked at the empty tables around her and asked casually, "Is it a holiday today? Why are there only so many people here?"
"We take two days off a week, and we choose our own time," Qiao spread his hands, "but there are few people today because they are all in the hospital."
Weiwei: “?”
"Just a few days ago, we and the MCU were hunting down the killer crocodile hiding in the sewers. You may have heard of this nickname, a poor man who turned into a humanoid upright crocodile due to an experiment, but he did kill a lot of people... The injured were sent to the hospital, so if there is a mission, I have to take you, a newbie, with me."
Isn't that perfect? But...
"Why didn't the special forces go? Aren't they more professional and relevant?"
Qiao did not give a direct answer, but just said "Haha" with a cold face.
[You get a side mission: Special Forces SWAT]
[You have heard a lot about the "parliament", "parliament" and "parliament". It seems that they have never appeared, but they are secretly controlling Gotham. It is time to let the "parliament" know that you are the real ruler of Gotham. ]
[Perhaps you can find some helpful information by following "SWAT". Try to find out more about SWAT. ]
[Tip: Keep getting promoted, or join SWAT]
[Reward: 0~500,000 gold coins, 60 diamonds]
Well, no more questions.
Weiwei flipped through the panel and found that she didn't have to pay for the "SWAT" salary. Correspondingly, she couldn't transfer these people. Let her think about it. Qiao seemed to have mentioned how to get promoted -
Continue to handle cases and gain experience.
Weiwei: "So what cases do we have on hand right now?"
Qiao was silent for a moment, and said speechlessly: "You just arrived, how is it possible that you have——"
"Wait," he pulled out the vibrating intercom, "what happened... OK... but I'm bringing someone new?... OK!"
He took a deep breath and said, "Come with me, new guy. We have a case."
The one driving was Joe, and it looked like he didn't trust the newcomer's driving skills.
In the car, he quickly recounted the "case" -
"The person who reported the case is a teacher from Gotan College. Their students found a female corpse in the canteen sewer. Security guards have been sent to the scene. They are internally investigating whether the girl is a student of the school."
"The specific information will be sent to your phone in a while. I guess they wanted to suppress the news. After all, it might be a school scandal. Maybe all the information had been processed by the time we arrived. They always do this."
Vivi didn't choose to simply fire someone like Commissioner Gordon and then drag her position up to the position of "Commissioner" - although she could have done that - but if she had done that, Gotham would probably have been destroyed.
Just like she was reluctant to pay the monthly salary, Weiwei did not fire all the employees at once. She only kicked out those who were just slacking off and made small adjustments to the jobs of some people because anyone can do that kind of job, but a police officer's job is not something that can be done by just picking up a homeless person on the street.
For example, Joe, who looks very lazy in front of us, has the police skills that Weiwei has just learned in his personal attributes, and he is proficient in detection. This shows that although this guy is impatient, he is really a reliable senior.
[Joe Holm], a native of Gotam, has been with the GCPD for over eight years. He has handled many cases but has not been promoted, nor has he been transferred to the MCU. His ex-wife left him a six-year-old daughter. [Detective][Proficient], [Shooting][Experienced], and there is no other information on his data card.
Vivi decided to handle a few cases quickly and accumulate merits, so that it would not be strange to be promoted gradually. She had already thought about whose position she would replace when the time came - Chloe Andre, the deputy chief of the homicide department, was a red-named person and was hostile to the mayor "Anna Alec", so Vivi decided to take him over.
"By the way," Qiao seemed to have thought of something as the police car drove onto the Gotham Bridge, "Have you rented a house?"
Weiwei: “?”
"You are not from Gotan. The City Hall provides housing subsidies for civil servants, but only those with seniority can get them. I have my own house. If you need it, I can transfer this part of the subsidy to you. Anyway, it can only be used for renting a house." Qiao said with a "tsk". "If you had reported two months earlier, you might have been able to apply for housing allocation. But it's very difficult now, unless you have some connections with the higher-ups-"
Weiwei was shocked: Can I still get a house?
She quickly found out from the panel that the person in charge of this part was the logistics department of the city hall - logistics again - anyway, they were all old acquaintances, so Vivi directly entered the order and secured the housing quota for "Bella Betiven".
She showed Qiao the text message on her phone and declined his offer: "I've been assigned a house."
Qiao: “…”
How long have you been here? Has the logistics department changed?
He began to feel that the newcomer he was bringing in seemed a little weird.
Qiao felt that... he should pay more attention to this new partner.
"Ah, the information has been sent." When the mobile phone screen lit up, she could see the gate of Gotan College in the distance. She began to read the information and gradually fell silent.
[Photo of the deceased]: The photo shows a brown-haired girl lying on the concrete floor. Her clothes are so dirty that the color cannot be seen. It can be clearly seen that her feet are bare.
[Crime scene photo]: The angle of the photo is from top to bottom, the girl is lying in a small space, a bunch of metal keys are shining on her abdomen, it seems to be under the drain. Obviously, after this photo was taken, someone took the body out of the drain and then took a photo of the deceased in the open space.
[Information of the reporter] The reporter, Tim Drake, is Bruce Wayne's third adopted son. He is currently in charge of most of the work of Wayne Enterprises and is a young CEO. No wonder the teachers at Gotham College failed to stop the report.
【Situation at the time of the incident】
"The first person to discover the body was a third-year student named Whiterian. His key fell into the drain, so the students dismantled the drain without the permission of the staff and found the body. Their first reaction was to take photos and upload them to the school forum."
"The forum administrator deleted the post immediately and tried to contact the poster. At the same time, Tim Drake called the police. After receiving the message, we chose to dispatch the police immediately."
[You get a side mission: First case investigation]
[Whether as a police officer or as the mayor, you cannot tolerate murders in the city. Put an end to the case. This is your first job mission.]
[Reward: 1 skill point for any police officer]
Weiwei: “…”
Weiwei thought it was outrageous!
She recognized the body; it was hers, the second dead body killed by Deadshot, the first one still stuffed under a bookcase in the mayor's office at City Hall.
But "Death Shooter" has been imprisoned in Blackgate Prison!
At that time, Deadshot thought he had killed the "mayor". It was useless to pull him out of prison to confront him - this crappy game has been bugging since the moment it was launched! The mayor's career advancement would not be stuck at the very beginning!
"What's wrong with you?" Qiao saw the newcomer was so silent, thought for a moment and said, "Is it your first time seeing a real corpse? This is quite normal, you have to get used to it in the future. Besides, think about it, every time you handle a murder case, you can get a high subsidy, won't you feel better?"
The newcomer seemed stunned for a moment, then slowly raised his head: "...High subsidy?"
"You can think of it as a bonus," he explained. "It's a bonus provided by the foundation that supports the parliament. I don't know the details, but it has been going on for many years. Anyway, isn't it a good thing to have a bonus?"
[Side mission "Special Forces SWAT" is in progress]
[Clue 1: Why does the parliament give out bonuses for solving homicide cases?]
Weiwei looked at the photo.
Weiwei seemed to be thinking about something.
It's not impossible to torture Death Shooter into confessing...
When Weiwei's heart drifted to Blackgate Prison, someone was one step faster than her and was already there.
"I knew you would come to me," the Penguin Man sat on the chair with a frown on his face, looking at the man on the other side of the glass, "Batman."
"I just can't believe you'll truly repent, Cobblepot," Batman didn't never appear in the daytime, but people rarely found him in the daytime, he said in a low voice, "Tell me what happened."
"I just lost a bet," the Penguin Man was not stupid. Now thinking back, it was a conspiracy from the beginning when "C" invested, but Mr. C could not control him directly. Apparently, the bet that he did not particularly care about was a mysterious side product that was truly effective. He sneered maliciously, "Just as you guessed, Batman, someone was controlling me behind the scenes. I lost to him and had to act according to his ideas--"
Batman leaned close to the glass and looked at the Penguin Man: "Who is he?"
"I don't know," the Penguin gritted his teeth. "It sounds funny, doesn't it? That's it, I lost everything, but I don't know who he is. He didn't even try to stop me from looking for him. Batman, do you think he wanted to save Gotham by asking me to turn myself in and perform such a trick in public?"
He stared at Batman's expression, trying to find some emotional fluctuations in it, but there was nothing.
Penguin: "'You don't understand the game', that's what the guy said. That man, 'Mr. C', he just treats everything as a game. He didn't even stop me from leaking information about him... It looks like he's having a lot of fun now."
The alloy door slowly fell down, Batman left, and the Penguin stood up and walked out of the visiting room—
He guessed Batman's reaction, because villains often have no soft spots, but Batman's soft spots are too obvious, and he has to protect Gotan.
He must be going to investigate "Mr. C", and the Penguin Man is waiting for the day when they will face off. What kind of damage will a guy who treats Gotam as a playground and the Dark Knight of Gotam bring to Gotam?
Anyway, as long as they become enemies, his goal will be achieved.
A smile appeared on his face, and he took another step forward. "Pop!" A toilet brush fell from the sky, and a guy wearing the same orange prison uniform shouted to him: "Hey, Penguin, it's your turn to clean the bathroom today——"
"I told you..." The Penguin Man gritted his teeth and picked up the toilet brush, "Don't call me a penguin!!!"
While the penguin man was working hard, the police car had already stopped at the Gotan Institute.
Qiao got off the car before Weiwei, but did not move. He just stared into the distance with an unlit cigarette in his mouth: "The future of Gotan is created by us, Gotan's..."
"Hey, let's go!" Weiwei raised her hand to greet him and pointed, "Look, the school is here to pick us up."
Qiao did not continue reading, turned around and followed, and after a while he said, "It seems that I don't understand the current school very well."
It would be fine if they just painted the slogan on the wall, but why is the color of the slogan dark red? Don’t you think it doesn’t match the scenery of the campus?
The teacher who received them said: "We sent the body to the school's biology laboratory. Of course, we didn't perform a private dissection. It's just that the students had already moved the body out of the ground. If we just left it out in the open, it would have had a bad impact..."
Qiao showed a disapproving expression: "The clues may be lost in the process of transfer."
The teacher looked a little strange: "Actually, the body itself is a little strange... You will know the specific situation once you take a look."
"The students who discovered the abnormality and the students who reported the case are in the office next to the laboratory. You can chat with me."
Qiao said coldly: "Accompany? Then I hope you won't stop us from investigating the case."
Although Weiwei knew who the murderer was, she found the confrontation between the two men quite interesting.
They pushed open the door of the laboratory first. The teacher saw the situation inside and exclaimed: "Mr. Drake, Whiterian, wait... and Parker, why are you here?"
Huh?
Weiwei had met Tim Drake in different identities. Coincidentally, she found that "Parker" was the boy who worked for half a day in the logistics department of the city hall for free. The only unfamiliar man with glasses should be "Whiterian". He wore thick black-framed glasses and held a Sony camera in his arms. He did not look panicked when the teacher screamed. Instead, he held up the camera and took a picture of a teacher and two strange policemen.
“Don’t you guys smile when you take the picture?” The boy shrugged. “It’s a nice picture though.”
Qiao stepped forward and pressed his camera, glaring at the boy who didn't know the seriousness of the matter: "Delete it. You are not allowed to take photos during the investigation."
"Will you please cooperate with the case, Mr. Whiteyon Scott?" The teacher took a deep breath. "Now, who can answer me? I clearly told you to wait in the office, so why are you here now?"
Wilder was reluctant, and a hand reached out from his side and deleted the photo in a few seconds. It was Tim Drake. He said: "Wilder said he suddenly remembered other information, but he needed to look at the body again to remember."
It was clear that the wannabe discoverer just wanted to take a picture of the body and maybe post it on Twitter later.
Weiwei noticed that although the boy with the camera seemed unaffected, the other two students present were relatively normal - they seemed a little depressed, such as Parker, who hadn't said a word.
Joe pointed at the boy with the camera. "If we find any information leaked before we close the case, we'll come after you, little bastard. Got it?"
Wilder said unhappily, "Hasn't it occurred to you that this might not be a case?"
"What are you talking about?" Joe said. "You think this carcass is going to sit up and tell us this is an April Fool's joke, boy?"
"No," Tim interrupted, "it's just that we checked the body in advance and found that it... didn't seem to be a body."
"She doesn't bleed," Peter Parker, who appears here as Tim's friend, uses the pronoun "she". "There are four bullets in her body, embedded in her body. If this is a human, then the one that broke her heart is a fatal injury. The remaining three were shot into her body later than the previous one, but she... is not a human."
"So this is just a very sophisticated mannequin," Wilder said, holding up his camera. "It's a really amazing piece of performance art!"
Peter, Peter Parker, felt very conflicted - he was sure he had seen the "corpse", or the living girl, who was the reference for making this dummy, but at that time he was Spider-Man, not an ordinary student Peter.
If I tell it, my identity might be exposed.
No one is really dead, right? It's not a real body in front of me, she won't even decay, but... what if there is a conspiracy against innocent people? A lifelike fake person, this is too disturbing.
Tim, Tim Drake, was thinking about how to provide information to the police. He had also seen the prototype of the "corpse", but at the time he was the vigilante Robin. If he said it out, his identity might be exposed.
In fact, it was only after he called the police that he discovered that the deceased was the girl he knew. He had thought she was a student at school.
If it really doesn't work, just investigate the results yourself. Tim sensed a terrifying conspiracy, and he would find the answer behind it like a qualified detective.
"No one has seen this child..." The teacher frowned, "We have checked the photos of the students in the school, but there is no such girl. Maybe she doesn't exist at all. After all, this is not a corpse. You can take it away and make sure it is not a corpse..."
"So there was no murder at the school—"
"Ah!" The tall female police officer suddenly snapped her fingers. "I remember now. I've seen her!"
"?"
Joe frowned and turned around. Tim and Peter looked up at the same time, and Wilder also looked over with interest.
Weiwei said, "I seem to have seen her before, in Crime Alley, but my impression of her is not clear..." She pretended to be thinking and continued to make up a story, "Just a quick glance? Maybe we should go to Crime Alley to take a look?"
By the way, she has never been to Crime Alley during the day because it is too dangerous for the "Mayor". This is a good opportunity to investigate the people in the East District who have always been opposed to the underground facility renovation project.
Gotan College.
In another building, Sheila was in class, looking at the "corpse" photo circulated by classmates in the group, and slowly typed a question mark.
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