Chapter 3031 The green trees are dense and the summer is long (thirty-nine)
Chapter 3005 The green trees are dense and the summer is long (thirty-nine)
Schiller went to see Edward again, but before meeting Edward, he first met Cobot, who told him the news about the nurse.
The situation described by the nurse is basically consistent with the timeline investigated by Schiller. They discovered the clues ten years ago, went to the construction site four years ago, and were unfortunately killed.
But the nurse provided an additional piece of information, that is, the worker learned about Edward through investigation and asked his wife to protect Edward.
How did he know that Edward might be a witness?
There shouldn't be any intersection between their two life trajectories... No, Edward later went to high school in Polokin Community. The worker should still be alive at that time, so they had an intersection during this period?
Schiller thought it was possible that Edward found the worker on his own initiative.
Back then, he was able to catch his uncle's flaw through observation, forcing him to destroy the body and eliminate all traces. It was not impossible to observe the abnormality of this worker and use him to do something.
Four years ago, workers went to the ruins of the primary and secondary schools. Could it be that they were ordered by Edward?
Now that the question has come full circle, Edward may know more than anyone else, even Schiller, who has investigated the whole circle.
Schiller even suspected that Edward was using him for something. After hypnosis, Edward acted as if he was hinting at this,
Schiller saw Edward again. Edward still looked very happy. He was sitting on the bed by the window, staring motionlessly out of the window. There was only a faint glimmer of light on the sea outside the window, which seemed particularly quiet and mysterious.
Seeing Schiller coming, he smiled and said, "You're here."
Schiller sat opposite him and looked into his eyes. Edward suddenly turned his head and stared at Schiller with bright eyes and said: "You must have a lot to ask me, but I don't want to guess riddles now. I want to give you answers."
A riddle.”
Schiller was really annoyed by the Riddler, but he felt that Edward was not like that. He was an overly smart boy and he should know what was best for him.
He heard Edward say: "It makes mountains rise, it dries up rivers, it destroys civilization, it makes plants reborn, it makes humans clear, it confuses humans, it does not exist, it is everywhere, the answer is
What?"
Schiller kept thinking about this riddle on the way out. He didn't think it was an anagram, but that it should describe something.
But the problem is that Edward's perspective is different from his own. Something he describes using such words may not seem so to him. He must step into Edward's perspective to figure out the answer to this riddle.
The images of mountains and rivers are very interesting. Schiller thinks this may be a literal meaning, because the woods are on the mountains. The destruction of civilization may refer to the demolition of the buildings of the middle school and elementary schools, and the rebirth of plants may refer to the
Plants regrowing on the ruins.
To make humans clear and to confuse humans, this may mean that some people learn the truth, but some people become crazy. It does not exist, it may mean that the truth has not been revealed, and it is everywhere.
The crime did occur.
From this point of view, the answer to this riddle should be this group of criminals, but Schiller felt that it was not that simple. Edward might be using this riddle to allude to the murderer behind this group of criminals.
Then the riddle must be understood from another level. We must put aside the combination of facts and interpret it from a more philosophical perspective. Who can do all the above?
While driving to the residence of the last suspect, Nygma, Schiller suddenly had the outline of the answer in his mind.
As soon as he turned the steering wheel, the car drove in the completely opposite direction. Half an hour later, Schiller reappeared at the foot of the mountain.
There were no lights in the crematorium, and there were only thick shadows cast by the dense trees in the mountains. The deep darkness before dawn almost swallowed up everything.
Schiller followed the path of the crematorium to the door of the air-raid shelter. After the door opened, the dark cave was like a big mouth that preyed on people. Schiller slowly walked in.
"That's what happened. We found a lot of bones there. I was a little panicked, so I didn't take them all out, but I think these are enough. Sheriff, you must..."
"Don't worry, madam, these many bones are enough for us to open a case for investigation. Do you have any other clues to tell us? Be sure to name every person you suspect in as much detail as possible."
The Gotham Police Station was brightly lit. Wanda, Jarvis, Tim, Elsa, Helen, the New Warriors team and the Guardians of the Galaxy were all standing in the lobby of the police station, with Gordon standing opposite them.
"We investigated a lot of things." Jarvis said, "All the clues match up."
After that, he handed the thick information to Gordon and said: "Tim has conducted genetic comparisons on most of the skeletons and found the files on the missing children case, but we cannot call the information from the police system.
It's up to you, Sheriff."
"No problem, just wait a moment. I will tell you as soon as I have the results. And now I am going to apply for a search warrant to solve Williams' problem first. Are you saying that you saw the body in his resort construction base?
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"That's right." Xingyun stood up and said, "I could see it clearly and took a few photos. The face of the corpse was not shown, but it can be seen that it was an adult and was already dead."
"It's regrettable, madam. Please submit the photos to us. As soon as the search warrant is received, we will go to arrest you immediately."
Ten minutes later, police officers in blue uniforms poured out of the gate like a school of fish. Countless police cars sounded their sirens and surrounded and blocked major intersections as quickly as possible.
The reporters who were on the lookout for the crime arrived at the scene of the crime as quickly as possible, but were stopped outside the cordon set up by the FBI.
The head of the FBI saw Gordon coming and nodded to him. Gordon showed his search warrant and said: "I know the case of the body in the lake is important to you, but now, there is
More serious cases have occurred, and we now suspect that the owner of the construction site is related to hundreds of missing children..."
The head of the FBI looked at the reporters outside the cordon with caution, and did not want to bear the responsibility of being an accomplice in the missing child case, so he had to ask his men to get out of the way.
The police officers filed in, not sparing any detail, and soon someone came to report to Gordon.
"Boss, we found it. A male body was buried about three meters deep. It is now very decomposed. Do you want to call the forensic doctor?"
"Call the forensic doctors over and look for anything else."
Just as Gordon was about to explain something more, the phone rang. After he answered the phone, he frowned and said, "What? Who reported the crime? Nygma?!"
Half an hour later, Gordon returned to the Gotham Police Station facing the rising sun. Nygma, who had just been discharged from the hospital and was still pale, sat on a chair. When he saw Gordon coming over, he forced himself to stand up.
Gordon quickly asked him to sit down, "If you want to die, don't die here."
"I'm sorry, Chief, but I have to come here now. I have clues about the child abuse case and I have to tell you now..."
Gordon's face became serious and he said, "Let's go in and talk in detail."
Soon he brought Nygma to the reception room. Nygma said: "It started when I was the principal in Polokin Community. Yes, you must be surprised, but I did serve as a principal in that district.
I became the principal and was responsible for the teaching management of the middle school and primary schools."
"And the reason why I was transferred was because I discovered a certain secret. It wasn't that I didn't want to call the police, it was just that Gotham was really..."
"Of course, I am not saying that there is anything wrong with the police. You have done a good enough job. It's just that you were so powerless against the gangs back then. I feel so helpless and afraid when facing this group of extremely vicious criminals."
"That's why I can only tell the truth at this time. About ten years ago, I discovered that students in my school often disappeared outside the school, and the number of disappearances was unusually high."
"I have been organizing activities and courses to raise awareness of prevention in school, but for some reason nothing improved until one day a student told me that there was a group of people wandering around outside the school..."
From Nygma's mouth, Gordon heard another version of the story, which roughly meant that, as the principal, he had noticed the disappearance of children very early and was investigating the situation diligently.
Then because he attracted the attention of criminal gangs, he lost his job and suffered several assassinations, but he was lucky enough to avoid them all. Because he was worried about his own life, he never dared to expose their crimes, until now things are going wrong.
Only when he got older did he dare to stand up and correct him.
Theoretically speaking, there is nothing wrong with this logic. After all, Gotham used to be so bad. If these people had some relationship with the gangs, they would die without a burial if they came forward to testify. It is normal for them not to dare to come forward.
There is nothing wrong with standing up now. After all, investigations also require clues and evidence. As long as they provide useful clues and are willing to testify in court, they will be considered valuable witnesses and will be regarded as having contributed to the solution of the case.
When Gordon started to ask him for specific evidence, he mentioned the crematorium. He said there were several jars of ashes in there, which were evidence that the murderers destroyed the corpses. He only needed to compare the identity of the owner of the ashes and then check.
The trajectory of their actions may lead to the discovery of the real murderer.
But Gordon had already obtained the ashes, and Andre had already sent him a sample of the ashes, and started comparing them a few hours ago, and the results are almost there now.
Then Nygma said that there should be a person buried at the ruins of the middle school and elementary school. He was an innocent person who was killed by the mastermind behind the scenes. However, the bodies there have been exhumed a long time ago. If the police go there, nothing will happen.
Can't turn it over.
Nygma finally said that there was something wrong with the resort built by Williams, and that it might have been to destroy the bodies and dump them in the lake.
At this time, the male corpse dug up in the resort had just been sent to the police station. As for the corpse in the lake, it belongs to Amanda's federal shield. All the corpses fished out so far are not those who died recently.
After discovering that all the clues he provided were of no value, Nygma gritted his teeth and said: "I also know someone. He is the sister of the wife of the manager of the Ward Ryder engineering team. She may know about her brother-in-law.
Secret, maybe you can go..."
He found that the serious and deep expression on Gordon's face had disappeared, and his eyes only revealed contempt and teasing.
Nygma suddenly realized that he might have been deceived.
He had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: "I also know that Williams wants to put Bob's wife's sister in a mental hospital to invalidate her testimony. He is eyeing Gotham's most famous psychologist Schiller Rodri.
Gus, Williams must have been looking for him."
"If you can get in touch with this psychologist, you will know that what I say is true!"
Gordon thought about all the sad things in his life before trying hard to control his expression and not laugh on the spot.