The United States was known as a nation on wheels. Nearly every household had at least one car, and a driver's license had therefore become an ID that allowed passage throughout the Federation.
The Department of Transportation sounded like an ordinary traffic administration department, but in this country, it was better to think of it as the household registration office.
If one wanted to find a single person among eight million people but had no leads, it was advisable to check the driver's license system first. Only if that failed should one look into the social security system, because the former was less confidential. Even without using shady methods, a lawyer could find all sorts of reasons to access it.
Naturally, Su Ming had no need for such methods. He only needed to sneak into the recently thawed transportation office, find an internal-network computer that still worked, and have Strangle read the data in the database.
The process went very smoothly. There was not even a security guard here tonight, and even the alarms had been damaged by the previous deep freeze.
The next victim was Jean-Paul, the Deathstroke of this Earth. According to the Timeline information Gideon had provided, this madman would kill Gordon, cripple Barbara, bomb the city, and drive Batwoman into a killing spree in the future.
Of course, that was before Su Ming intervened. In the original Timeline, Jack would turn back into Joker tonight, escape from Blackgate Penitentiary where he was being temporarily held, impersonate God, and incite Paul into becoming a madman.
Now that Joker, the trigger, was gone, events might develop very differently.
But Su Ming still had no intention of letting Jean-Paul live, because his hostility toward Bruce Wayne stemmed from the two families' feud of the past two hundred years. Once