Whenever a complex problem in this world had a simple solution, countless people who had been running themselves ragged over it felt like complete idiots.
And that was not entirely meaningless, because their headless-chicken scrambling provided entertainment for another group of people: Fun-seekers who knew this was the Village of Fools and still lived here to observe the full spectrum of life.
When Lex saw the transparent cover in Bruce's hand, he did not know what to say for a moment. Bruce irritably set it down on the table with a smack.
Lex leaned over to look and saw a tiny fluttering figure beneath the transparent glass cover.
It was a mosquito.
Lex was briefly dazed. He thought the world's greatest detective might have been driven insane by a riddle he could not solve.
Then Bruce understood the pleasure Schiller took in watching all this. Seeing a genius ask in bewilderment, "Are you serious?", "Why?", and "How could that be?" was genuinely hilarious.
And if a whole group of people did it at once, it became more than ten times as funny. So Bruce immediately gathered everyone who knew about the matter and announced the answer.
"Summer Killer is a mosquito."
Everyone fell silent. Then came the string of "Are you serious?", "Why?", and "How could that be?" that both Bruce and Schiller had been hoping for.
But the truth was unexpectedly simple.
Earlier, Gotham's citizens had been dropping one after another under the unbearable midsummer heat. Pamela had also found the awful weather difficult to endure, so she sent Lex two pots of newly developed guardian plants.
The two flowers were quite eloquent. But after they spent two weeks chasing Lex around and trying to bite him, Lex used his genius intellect to improve the machine controlling Gotham's weather.