Chapter Summaries

Miao Mu awoke in Gotham as an intern police officer at the Arkham Police Department and learned he had arrived in the main Batman universe just before Bruce Wayne became Batman. After discovering a mysterious Adventure Treasure system, he joined Jerry Cabson to pursue the thief who had robbed Captain Wei Fei.

• Miao Mu transmigrated into the body of an Arkham police intern and was dragged from the bathroom by Jerry Cabson to join the search for a cat burglar.
• Captain Wei Fei berated the precinct over the theft from his home, then ordered the officers to investigate despite providing no clues or access to the crime scene.
• Miao Mu read a Gotham Gazette report about Bruce Wayne's return to Wayne Enterprises and concluded he was in the main Batman universe before Batman's career began.
• Miao Mu activated the Adventure Treasure system and received a message that a treasure had refreshed for him to explore.
• Jerry Cabson claimed he knew who had robbed Wei Fei and told Miao Mu that catching the thief could earn them full-time positions and a promotion, so Miao Mu set off with him.

Miao Mu and Jerry Cabson left Arkham Precinct and traveled to the Lower East Side to seek information from Oswald, a former acquaintance who had joined Carmine Falcone’s Button Men. Miao Mu also wondered how to use his newly obtained Adventure Treasure ability as the two entered the rain-soaked neighborhood.

• Miao Mu and Jerry walked through Arkham District, and Jerry said Oswald could help them find information about a criminal.
• Jerry explained that Oswald had become one of Carmine Falcone’s Button Men, and he and Miao Mu decided to look for him.
• Miao Mu and Jerry took the elevated subway to the Lower East Side, where Miao Mu pondered his Adventure Treasure ability.
• Miao Mu and Jerry walked through the rain toward the poor apartment blocks as hostile residents watched them.

Miao Mu and Jerry visited Oswald for information about the burglar who robbed Wei Fei, and Oswald directed them to Fesso Grocery Store. On the way there, Miao Mu sensed a hidden treasure near the garbage mountain, split from Jerry, and entered the dangerous dump.

• Miao Mu and Jerry reunited with Oswald, who welcomed them into his apartment and heard their request for leads on the burglar who robbed Wei Fei.
• Oswald gave Miao Mu a Fesso Grocery Store business card as a clue, asking him not to reveal the source.
• Miao Mu and Jerry headed toward the garbage mountain, but Miao Mu sensed a hidden treasure and sent Jerry to the store alone.
• Miao Mu approached the garbage mountain, covered his face against the stench, and shot a hostile wild dog that fled wounded.

Miao Mu found the Eye of True Sight, used it to spot and kill a coyote, and helped Jerry pressure a shopkeeper for information about a thief. The pair left the store in their underwear and set off to find Otis.

• Miao Mu dug through rotten garbage and found a magical pendant called the Eye of True Sight, which let him see all around himself for five minutes.
• Miao Mu used his new sight to detect a coyote behind him and shot it dead.
• Miao Mu entered Feiso General Store, saw the shopkeeper preparing to spray him, and threatened him into checking his coded ledger.
• The shopkeeper revealed that a man with stolen goods had asked about prices and pointed Miao Mu and Jerry toward a cabinet in exchange for their clothes and Oswald's umbrella.
• Miao Mu remembered the suspected thief was Otis and ran out into the rain, while Jerry hurried after him holding up his shorts.

Miao Mu and Jerry tracked down Ratcatcher Otis Flanagan at the DeAngelo Wastewater Treatment Plant, hoping to confront him. Otis fled toward the sewers, but Jerry blocked his escape and left him trapped between them.

• Miao Mu recalled how Otis had been wrongfully imprisoned for ten years and later gained the ability to control rats.
• Miao Mu prepared a gasoline bottle while Jerry armed himself with baseball bats and protective gear.
• Miao Mu and Jerry reached the homeless encampment at the DeAngelo Wastewater Treatment Plant and used a cream bun to draw out Otis.
• Miao Mu recognized Otis when a rat appeared from his pocket, and Otis ran toward the sewer entrance.
• Jerry cut off Otis's route to the sewers, trapping him between himself and Miao Mu as Otis raised his hands and declared they had brought this on themselves.

Miao Mu defeated Otis by fighting him and convincing him that he had been framed and was innocent, calming the rats Otis controlled. In the sewers, Otis showed Miao Mu and Jerry the valuables he had stolen, and Miao Mu let him keep his dignity and called him a hero.

• Miao Mu used fire and close combat to overpower Otis while Jerry fought off the rats at the sewer entrance.
• Miao Mu told Otis that he had been framed and had committed no crime, and Otis broke down crying as the rats settled and retreated.
• Miao Mu chose not to arrest Otis and followed him with Jerry into the sewers to recover the valuables Otis had stolen.
• Otis showed them the hidden stash and explained that he had stolen the valuables after leaving prison because he had nowhere to go.
• Miao Mu gave Otis his coat and reassured him that he was a righteous outlaw who could become a hero.

Miao Mu and Jerry delivered stolen gang records to Chief Wei Fei and secured their appointments as full officers. After Jim gave them shabby uniforms and guns, Miao Mu kicked open the warehouse door and confronted him.

• Miao Mu gave Otis Feiso General Store’s business card and left with Jerry, while Otis wondered whether they were friends.
• Miao Mu and Jerry told Chief Wei Fei that they had recovered the gem box and account books from a wastewater ditch, and Wei Fei confirmed they could become full officers.
• Miao Mu and Jerry revealed that they had pried off the gems, damaged the box, soaked the records, and made themselves look battered to conceal what they had done.
• At Logistics, Jim drove Miao Mu and Jerry away, then tossed out worn uniforms and Colt Lawman revolvers without holsters.
• Miao Mu kicked open the warehouse door, sent Jim sprawling, and entered with a revolver as Jerry followed and shut the door.

Miao Mu confronted Jite over stolen pay and withheld police supplies, then discovered that Gotham's police equipment had been stripped or replaced with useless gear. He left the logistics warehouse with a new Glock 17 and uncovered the extent of Chief Wei Fei's corruption.

• Miao Mu threatened Jite with Russian roulette until Jite admitted he had taken half of the probationary officers' pay, while Jerry angrily tried to shoot Jim with an unloaded revolver.
• Miao Mu demanded the officers' money back and required Jite to replace their worn uniforms and guns according to regulations.
• Miao Mu found that the warehouse's bulletproof vests contained plastic plates instead of ballistic material, and Jite blamed Chief Wei Fei.
• Jite showed Miao Mu that most firearms, grenades, and ammunition were missing from the warehouse, with only a few Colt Lawman pistols left.
• Jite gave Miao Mu and Jerry two Glock 17s that he had kept privately, and Miao Mu took one while Jite agreed there was no problem.

Miao Mu and Jerry celebrated becoming regular police officers, then reported to the Arkham Police Department and were sent out to patrol. After joyriding around Arkham District, Miao Mu drove toward the Lower East Side to sell the gems and retrieve their belongings from Fesso Grocery Store.

• Miao Mu and Jerry toasted their new lives as police officers on a rooftop in Arkham District.
• Miao Mu and Jerry arrived at the Arkham Police Department, where Deputy Chief Leto Granger assigned them desks under Captain Floyd.
• Captain Maide ordered Miao Mu and Jerry to patrol and gave them a police car.
• Miao Mu and Jerry drove around Arkham District, passing Arkham Asylum and enjoying their new police car.
• Miao Mu told Jerry they were heading to Fesso Grocery Store to sell the gems and retrieve their uniforms and umbrella, and drove toward the Lower East Side.

Miao Mu and Jerry sold a genuine sapphire, recovered their pawned belongings, and used the money to plan a celebration at the Zeus Grand Hotel. Miao Mu invited Oswald and Otis, then brought Otis a suit and told him to meet them at seven.

• Miao Mu and Jerry learned that most of their gemstones were fake, sold the genuine sapphire, and reclaimed their clothes and umbrella.
• Miao Mu suggested celebrating at the Zeus Grand Hotel and invited Oswald and Otis along with Jerry.
• Miao Mu gave Jerry half the money to buy a suit, and Jerry said he would meet them at the hotel.
• Miao Mu drove to the DeAngelo Wastewater Treatment Plant, found Otis, and invited him to dinner.
• Miao Mu handed Otis a suit and told him to meet them at the Zeus Grand Hotel at seven.

Miao Mu, Jerry, Otis, and Oswald shared a meal at the Zeus Grand Hotel, where Oswald asked Miao Mu to help find a killer who stitched victims together. Oswald left after learning his men had been attacked, while Miao Mu agreed to watch for the killer in Arkham.

• Miao Mu brought Jerry and Otis to the Zeus Grand Hotel, where Oswald joined them for dinner.
• Oswald introduced himself to Otis, and the group toasted their friendship over an elaborate meal.
• Oswald asked Miao Mu to find someone in Arkham who mutilated victims by sewing body parts together, explaining that the killer had murdered his man’s five-year-old brother.
• Miao Mu suspected the crimes were linked to Pig-Faced Professor, while Oswald said Lieutenant James Gordon’s investigation had traced the killer toward Arkham.
• Oswald received a call that a hooded attacker had struck his men and left to deal with it, taking back his cleaned umbrella from Miao Mu.

After dinner, Otis went into Gotham’s sewers with Bastian and a swarm of rats to search for a man, while Miao Mu and Jerry were requisitioned to respond to an emergency in Coventry District. They pursued a bus carrying Red Hood gang robbers, and Miao Mu opened fire as the chase reached the bus.

• Otis thanked Miao Mu, accepted his Glock 17, and set off alone to search for the person mentioned earlier.
• Otis changed into sewer gear, descended underground, and sent rats out to find the man.
• James Gordon requisitioned Miao Mu and Jerry’s patrol car and ordered them to 46th Street in Coventry District.
• Miao Mu and Jerry joined a police pursuit of a bus carrying Red Hood gang members and stolen valuables.
• Miao Mu leaned out of the patrol car and fired at the bus, killing Red Hood Number 7.

Miao Mu and Jerry pursued the Red Hood gang’s getaway bus, trading gunfire until Miao Mu blew out a tire and their police car plunged into the Gotham River. The bus stopped nearby, and the gang began fleeing as police sirens approached, leaving Red Hood No. 1 and No. 9 behind with the injured No. 3.

• Red Hood No. 1 fired at Miao Mu and Jerry’s police car, and Miao Mu reported the chase to Feras of Gotham’s Special Operations Unit.
• Miao Mu urged Jerry to keep pursuing, and the two fired at the bus while Jerry drove and Miao Mu switched to the back seat.
• Miao Mu used his Golden Hexagram to aim at the bus’s rear wheels and burst a tire, but their police car went through a guardrail and sank into the Gotham River.
• Red Hood No. 1 fired at the river while Red Hood No. 10 ordered the gang to retreat as police cars approached.
• Red Hood No. 10 left Red Hood No. 1 and No. 9 to look after the injured Red Hood No. 3, and Red Hood No. 1 boarded the bus with his rifle.

Miao Mu and Jerry escaped the river, defeated the Red Hoods, and were taken into custody by the Special Action Team after Miao Mu found a Shark-Tooth Armguard. They left for a precinct while Chief Gordon arrived at the scene.

• Miao Mu found a Shark-Tooth Armguard in the river and used it to help overpower Red Hood No. 1 after Jerry shot Red Hood No. 9.
• Miao Mu stopped himself from killing Red Hood No. 1, then took cash and jewelry as police surrounded the bus.
• Flass questioned Miao Mu and Jerry, who explained that they had stopped the robbers and asked about their wrecked police car.
• The Special Action Team escorted Miao Mu and Jerry away to change and give statements, while Miao Mu hid the stolen valuables and admired the armguard.
• Chief Gordon arrived as Miao Mu and Jerry were taken to a nearby precinct.

Suspended Gotham officers Miao Mu and Jerry were denied credit for stopping a robbery, and Miao Mu considered making money from LexCorp stock. When Bastian delivered Otis’s message about a body at the sewage plant, Miao Mu set out to meet him.

• Miao Mu read that Gotham officials had taken credit for the robbery arrests while he and Jerry received no reward and were blamed for the destroyed police car.
• Miao Mu considered trading LexCorp stock based on the pattern of Lex Luthor’s defeats and inventions, then inspected his Shark-Tooth Armguard.
• Bastian arrived with Otis’s note saying he had found a body and wanted Miao Mu to meet him at the sewage plant.
• Miao Mu armed himself and left to meet Otis, while Jerry stayed behind with the Mexican restaurant owners’ twin daughters.

Miao Mu and Otis found a grotesquely stitched corpse in the sewers of Arkham District, along with bloodstained tools that might belong to its maker. When Myers ordered Miao Mu to stay and guard the body, Miao Mu refused, warning that the killer might come to silence them and demanding to know what Myers would do.

• Bastian led Miao Mu to Otis, who said he had found a corpse in the sewer and had been attacked by a fast-moving creature.
• Miao Mu examined the swollen corpse, which had four arms, three legs, and pieces of several faces sewn onto it.
• Otis showed Miao Mu bloodstained saws, drill bits, and stitching wire, and Miao Mu told him to call the police because he was suspended.
• Miao Mu and Otis discussed the homeless people living near the treatment plant, and Miao Mu suggested helping them learn to support themselves.
• Myers and two officers arrived to photograph the body, and Myers told Miao Mu his suspension was lifted and ordered him to guard it.
• Miao Mu refused, warning that the killer might return to silence them and asking Myers what he wanted.

Miao Mu and the police investigated a badly decomposed corpse at a sewage plant, where he met the unusually composed part-time forensic worker Edward Nygma and solved one of his riddles. Nygma began a gruesome on-site dissection as the officers struggled to stomach the sight.

• Jerry arrived at the sewage plant with Detective Harvey Bullock and other officers to inspect the corpse Miao Mu had been guarding.
• Bullock and the officers recoiled from the corpse's stench, while Jerry and another officer vomited.
• Edward Nygma arrived to examine the body and posed Miao Mu a riddle, which Miao Mu solved by answering that it was a person's name.
• Nygma explained that he worked part-time in police department logistics and began examining and dissecting the corpse with Miao Mu's assistance.
• Nygma cut open the corpse's organs and skull, prompting more officers and nearby homeless people to flee or vomit.

The Arkham Police Department briefed Bullock and the officers on the Dollmaker’s gruesome murders and began setting up a command center in Arkham District. Miao Mu invited Nygma to dinner, and Bullock joined them as the group left together.

• The police presented evidence that the Dollmaker had committed eleven cases, leaving nineteen confirmed victims, and narrowed his location to Arkham District.
• Bullock took charge of the investigation because Gordon was occupied with the Red Hood Heist and requested local manpower and a command center.
• Miao Mu asked Bullock for details about the suspect, but Bullock said he had no information yet and that files would arrive that night.
• Bullock selected Miao Mu and several others to help establish an office, while Director Wei Fei promised support.
• Miao Mu invited Nygma to a Mexican restaurant and answered Nygma’s riddle with a joke about steak.
• Bullock joined Miao Mu, Nygma, Jerry, and the others as they headed to dinner.

Miao Mu treated Nygma to an expensive dinner at the Carmen family’s Mexican restaurant, earning the detective’s friendship and admiration. As they discussed the Dollmaker, Nygma deduced that the killer was a skilled surgeon refining his work and revealed that the latest victim’s spine had been smashed by brute force before the body drowned.

• Pemola Carmen served Miao Mu and Nygma steaks, and Miao Mu bought the Wayne Estate fiftieth anniversary wine to honor Nygma.
• Nygma accepted Miao Mu’s praise and toasted him as a friend, while Captain Bullock watched and thought more highly of Miao Mu.
• Miao Mu asked Nygma what kind of person the Dollmaker was, and Nygma identified him as a skilled surgeon based on the neat stitches on the bodies.
• Nygma explained that the Dollmaker’s victims had become progressively more complete, as though he were practicing to create something extraordinary.
• Nygma said the latest victim had been drowned and that someone with brute force had smashed the corpse’s spine.

Miao Mu befriended Edward Nygma and drove him home, where Nygma reflected on his loneliness and watched Miao Mu keep guard outside. Later, Miao Mu met Oswald to collect money for an SSS Card and told him the police had a lead on the Dollmaker.

• Miao Mu drove the drunken Edward Nygma home after the two bonded over riddles and friendship.
• Nygma returned to his apartment, contemplated a painting about loneliness, and watched Miao Mu wait outside before driving away.
• Miao Mu met Oswald and collected twenty thousand dollars to buy an SSS Card for a brilliant strategist.
• Oswald borrowed ten thousand dollars from Miao Mu to sponsor promising students through university.
• Oswald told Miao Mu that the police had a lead on the Dollmaker and warned him about rats nearby.
• Miao Mu told Oswald that a light-brown rat named Bastian liked sweets, then left him pondering the clue.