The group soon returned to Gotham through the Watchtower's portal.
In the Batcave, Red Robin, Tim, had already notified Gotham Hospital to send help to the area near the library. He had also found surveillance footage from the time of the incident and was tracking the kidnappers.
"They clearly came prepared. Most of the surrounding surveillance feeds were disrupted. Only a camera on the outskirts caught a few brief moments."
Tim put the only footage they had onto the Batcomputer's screen, enlarged it, and froze the frame.
Gotham's weather was gloomy and rainy more often than not. The footage was extremely dark, and even after repeated adjustments, the blurry images were barely discernible.
-Two matte-black vans with covered license plates appeared in the corner of the surveillance footage. Their windows were fully tinted, with no markings, no distinguishing features, and no unnecessary noise, like two ghosts lurking in Gotham's dark fog.
The image suddenly shook. Several burly men dragged and carried a slender figure into a van, then disappeared from view along with the vehicles.
Miaomiao watched the footage, her face expressionless.
But everyone present knew that she was very angry right now.
"This wasn't random," Batman said in his gravelly voice. "Professional methods, swift execution. They were lying in wait for a specific target."
"But why would they kidnap Lia Chen?"
Red Robin analyzed the situation while trying to track down information on the vehicles.
"Based on what John Elliott told us earlier, the kidnappers were only after Lia Chen. Seraphina Dumas probably stumbled onto the kidnapping and was taken along with her. But Lia is just an ordinary student. Although she belongs to a branch of the Kane Family, she has very little contact with the main family. Her family is generally friendly and has no enemies, at