Hearing Roman's words, Schiller and Bruce were stunned. Then they looked at each other and said in unison: "You two are in the same group?... I'm not familiar with him."
But Roman broke out directly. He shouted at the top of his lungs: "You ignore my work! You just let those stupid policemen investigate! You already know everything, but you pretend to know nothing and are acting here."
Me!! Damn you guys...damn..."
"Wait a minute, let me interrupt." Bruce stretched out a hand, looked at Roman and said, "What's wrong with you?"
Before Roman could speak, Bruce said: "Okay, Roman, I know that your father has put a lot of pressure on you, but I can help you solve this problem. This is not a charity or anything, it is just a mutual exchange between friends.
I’m just helping. If you feel sorry for me, you can help me in the future.”
"Bruce Wayne! Batman! You idiot!!!" Roman shouted Bruce's name loudly, and the word in the middle of his words made Bruce frown, and he said in surprise:
"What are you talking about? Roman? Well, with the strength of your family, it is not difficult to know that I am funding Batman, but this is part of my charity..."
But Roman looked at him gloomily and said, "Are you still going to keep pretending? Do you think I don't know that Batman is Bruce Wayne and you?!"
Bruce had a look of helplessness on his face, and just as he was about to continue explaining, Roman sneered and said, "You two, you should have guessed my identity from the day I committed the crime in the hospital, right?
"
"You are deliberately pretending not to know, just to break me psychologically!" Roman looked into Batman's eyes, nodded and said, "Gotham vigilantes... deserve their reputation."
Bruce opened his mouth, then licked his lips, looked Roman up and down, and said, "You just said that you were responsible for the case in the hospital?"
"That's right!" Roman gritted his teeth and said, "That's the case that you didn't pay attention to at all, that's the case that you threw to the ordinary police!!"
As he spoke, Roman's tone became filled with sadness and anger. He began to pace quickly in the room and said, "I spent three full months to find the perfect target and conduct the most meticulous research.
The planning has achieved the best results, but you... but you don't even look at it! Do you know how much effort I have spent? Isn't this exciting enough?!"
He sat down on the sofa in the office, covered his face with his hands, and said in a crying tone: "Not only did you refuse to look, you refused to investigate for yourself, you even completely ignored me, and you even came up with this idea.
A vicious way to humiliate me... Very good, you succeeded, okay!!"
Bruce opened his mouth, and he almost blurted out, "So, you are the genius killer who took Schiller as his second target?"
The reason why Bruce didn't say this was because he felt that it was too Schiller.
Regarding the details of these cases, Bruce really didn't understand something. Just when he was about to ask, Schiller said to Roman: "I'm sorry, I will not write letters of recommendation to anyone except my students."
, if you were rich enough to change my decision, the Bruce Wayne in front of you would not almost fail to graduate."
"What on earth are you doing?!" Roman stood up again. He looked at Schiller in disbelief and shouted: "I am a serial killer! I am a perverted murderer!! One who just brutally killed a doctor.
Man!!! Standing right in front of you!! Are you talking about a letter of recommendation?!”
"Then do you want to talk about your phone calls to harass me?" Schiller looked at Roman and asked.
Roman was stunned for a moment and said, "When did I call to harass you?"
"So, that's not you?" Schiller was also a little surprised, but then he shook his head and said, "Then it seems that we have nothing to talk about."
Bruce also understood what Schiller meant. He walked directly to the door, picked up the phone, and said to the other end: "Hello? Chief Gordon? There is a murderer here. I need you to come and arrest him... Yes,
He is the murderer of the case in the hospital."
After Gordon came over, Bruce didn't say anything. He just pointed at Roman. After Gordon took Roman away, Bruce looked at Schiller. Schiller made a gesture of invitation. Bruce touched his chin and started.
Analysis:
"He just emphasized that he chose a perfect target. In other words, Dr. Richard must have something special, otherwise, he would not emphasize it so much."
"The head nurse's description of Dr. Richard is indeed a bit strange. If what the head nurse said is true, then Dr. Richard doesn't sound like a Gotham native at all. How can Gotham have such a combination of character and knowledge?
Excellent, a doctor who doesn’t take drugs, doesn’t drink, and goes to the operating table with a clear head?”
"But Doctor Richard, what's so special..." Just when Bruce was deep in thought, Schiller reminded him at the right time: "Don't forget, his second target is me, and when serial killers commit crimes,
I like to find the common ground between my goals the most.”
"What they have in common..." Bruce pondered for a moment, and then said, "Yes, you two are both doctors, but what about other than that? Wait..."
Bruce suddenly turned his head and stared at Schiller. He narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "That Richard is also a serial killer?"
Before Schiller could continue to prompt, Bruce said: "It seems so, I understand."
"What did you understand?" Schiller asked.
"I understand... one of the weaknesses of serial killers." Bruce walked to the sofa and sat down, showed a smile, and then said: "Their weakness is that they are not ordinary people."
"Their emotions are inherently weaker than ordinary people, and their behavioral patterns are also different from ordinary people. Therefore, when they want to hide in ordinary people's society and pretend to be part of ordinary people, they always use too much force.
Isn’t it?…Professor Schiller.”
Bruce pronounced Schiller's name with extra emphasis, and after looking away, he continued: "In order to prevent others from suspecting that he is a bad person, he naturally has to disguise himself as a good person, but he doesn't know how to behave.
An ordinary good person can only choose to be a perfect person."
"Good moral character, excellent abilities, never arguing with others, and not even getting angry at all. This is what they imagine to be a good person. They think that as long as they pretend to be like this, they can integrate into ordinary society."
"That's why Dr. Richard has such a good reputation. He is a very typical example of someone who wants to pretend to be an ordinary person and integrate into society, but he tries too hard."
"However, there is another doubt. Wasn't the murderer's leg injured by Harley? Why does Roman's walking posture seem to be the same as usual, without any inconvenience?"
"...No." Bruce said aloud: "Roman should have an accomplice. Maybe there was not one person but two people who stayed in the hospital that day. After one of them was injured, the other saved him."
"Yes, that must be the case." Bruce stood up from the sofa and walked around the room while saying: "That day, I felt something was strange. A person with such a serious leg injury could still run out.
Returning so far to the base and leaving almost no traces, no matter how rich he was, he would not be able to do it."
"But if he has an accomplice, everything will be explained."
"The two of them teamed up to commit the crime. After committing the crime, they stayed in the hospital together to observe the situation. One of them may have wanted to do something, but he bumped into Harley and got a shovel."
"He jumped out of the window desperately, and his accomplices rescued him, took him to the base, and treated him... However, can such an injury really be cured?" Bruce said with some doubts: "These cold-blooded people
Wouldn't a guy with no humanity abandon his companions who have no use value?"
"I don't remember if I told you this before." Schiller suddenly said: "Generally speaking, real serial murderers will not cooperate."
Bruce thought about it for a moment, then nodded and said, "That's true. Could it be that Roman is not the real serial murderer? ...No, I feel that cold-blooded temperament in him."
"But there is one exception." Schiller continued: "That is, when they have a common enemy."
"Common enemy? You mean..." Bruce set his sights on Schiller. He still remembered that he had seen the note left in Roman's base before, saying that serial killers all wanted to kill him.
Die Schiller.
"You mean, all the serial killers who come here will cooperate?" Bruce's face became a little solemn.
In his mind, if Schiller faced any serial killer, Schiller would definitely not be the unlucky one, but if he faced a group of serial killers who were willing to cooperate, that might not be the case.
"Aren't you going to do something?" Bruce asked, looking at Schiller.
"What to do?" Schiller leaned on the office chair, showing no signs of nervousness at all. He picked up the newspaper next to his desk and read it, while Bruce slowly frowned.
"You are not Schiller." Bruce stared at Schiller and said. Schiller's eyes appeared from the top of the newspaper and looked at Bruce. Before he could speak, Bruce pointed at the newspaper and said: "When you used to read the newspaper,
You must wear finger cots because you think the ink will stain your hands."
"Moreover, I have seen the serial murder cases you concocted. You never get yourself covered in blood because you think it is neither elegant nor dirty." Bruce raised his eyebrows and said: "...you
I have severe mysophobia.”
"You're not Schiller." Bruce repeated.
"I am." Schiller looked at him and said seriously, but then he smiled and said, "It's just that it may not be the Schiller you know."
"who are you?"
"I told you, I'm Schiller." Schiller stood up from behind the desk, walked to Bruce, folded the newspaper in his hand, then looked up at Bruce and said, "Maybe, you should know, you
The Schiller I know is called 'arrogant', and perhaps you also know that he also has a personality trait called greed."
"So, you also have seven deadly sins?" Bruce asked.
Schiller nodded, but then shook his head, smiled at Bruce and said, "I used to be lazy...but not anymore."
Schiller raised his head slightly and looked at the scene outside the window behind Bruce. He slowly said:
"Arrogance became stronger as one, greed gained great power, and the first thing they did after becoming stronger was...to realize Schiller's dream."
"Dream?" Bruce repeated the word.
"Yes, the person I am now is the product of them using the power of improvement to realize their dreams." Schiller looked at Bruce with a smile and said: "Now, you can call me - 'Mediocre'."