“There are some people in this world who have no vision. It’s not that they have poor vision, but that they don’t have it at all. They don’t have a standard for judging everything, and they can’t tell whether most things are good or bad, especially whether they like it or not.
Like, it’s hard to hear true praise and rejection of a thing from their mouths.”
"Many people think that this is just because they are more reserved and do not evaluate easily. They think that they have thoughts in their hearts but are not willing to express them verbally."
"But in fact it is not. Some people have lost the ability to judge their own preferences. This is a sign of excessive interference with the self."
“Every time they build themselves up or in the past, their choices are always questioned and despised. The positive feedback of making choices and reaping results is completely suppressed by the negative feedback of criticism and questioning, which makes making choices difficult for them.
Talking about it has become a painful thing in itself.”
"Positive feedback is gradually weakened, making it impossible for them to feel the joy of choosing something they like and getting a sense of security. Over time, the like no longer exists."
"Their preferences begin to rely on others or public judgment. It may become that someone says something is good, and they think they like it, or most people say it is good, and they feel it is real.
good."
"And if they get this thing, they usually feel that it is really good under the influence of psychological suggestion, and if it really causes them trouble, they will first doubt themselves."
"Recovering one's own perspective is a long process. Psychiatrists need to guide patients to make continuous decisions, discover their subtle emotions about each decision, and serve as external positive feedback to help them establish their own preferences."
"What if the excavation is wrong?" Gordon asked.
"There is no right or wrong." Schiller replied: "The psychiatrist only needs you to recover. Whether you like pink or blue has no impact on the psychiatrist or yourself."
"Maybe you should prefer pink, but under the guidance of a psychiatrist, you feel that you like blue more, but in fact this is not important. What is important is that you dare to like blue, which makes you healthier
Already."
"Every time I hear you say this, I feel a little scary." Gordon said sincerely: "This seems to be able to fundamentally change a person easily."
"It's not that simple, but it can be done, so psychiatrists have very strict evaluation procedures and have to undergo regular psychotherapy. But the more pessimistic thing is that if the psychiatrist just wants to do bad things, then these evaluations can't stop him.
Theirs.”
"Can we only rely on morality?"
"Yes, but the premise of what I'm saying is that the other person is an extremely good psychiatrist. If he is not good enough, good or bad will be meaningless. He is just a waste who cheats money."
"Let's get back to the topic. I roughly understand what the oil barrels you said represent, but what about the flames? You said the flames represent rebirth. Is this some kind of religious meaning?"
"It can be said that your level of psychoanalysis is only higher than that of Bruce, Chief Gordon. There is no religious suggestion in this serial murder case."
"Okay, thank you for your compliment, let's go on."
"The execution was also carried out in an oil barrel. If he had chosen to use water, I would think that his mental condition had not improved and he was still expressing his suffocating and painful emotions. Why should I say no more."
"Yes, talking about water always makes people think of suffocation."
"The same goes for fire, but the difference is that when a person is roasted to death, he undergoes a qualitative change. This is a physical problem, and I shouldn't need to explain it."
"His act of trapping people in oil barrels shows that he is using the victim as a metaphor for himself, and infers that he is saying that he has undergone a qualitative change, and then contacting the treatment methods I mentioned shows that he is going to
He expressed that through treatment, he had undergone qualitative changes and gained a new life."
"Okay, I understand somewhat." Gordon nodded and said, "Use the oil barrel to judge the mental state, and then use the mental state to infer the meaning of the way of death."
"Yes, this is psychoanalysis. We start from the mental state, feel the other party's mental state when committing the crime from the details at the scene, and then infer various implications from this."
"What about behavioral analysis?"
"It's completely the opposite. They will first pay attention to the way of death. For example, the person in the oil barrel was roasted to death. From this, they can guess, is the murderer venting his anger? Is it to metaphor his past? Is it to express something about himself?
A thought?"
"Then we eliminate each case one by one through more details in the case, and finally get the correct answer."
"They won't pay attention to the oil drums?"
"Maybe, but they are more concerned about where the oil barrel came from and whether they can find the prisoner's movement track through the location where the oil barrel once existed. As for why the oil barrel was chosen, they will only consider the thermal conductivity of the metal that caused the death of the prisoner.
Is there any evacuation time allowed between the time required and the time when the police can find the body?"
"I understand." Gordon felt that he really understood. He said, "Sure enough, behavioral analysis is more reliable."
Schiller was not angry, he just said: "It's just that it's better understood by ordinary people."
"Yes, I don't understand what mental emptiness or squeezing means, but I know that if I can find traces of the oil barrel, I might be able to deduce the murderer's trajectory."
"Okay, let's talk about the third case." Schiller picked up the photo on the side and was about to speak when the door was knocked.
Killer Croc walked over and opened the door. Bruce was outside. Killer Croc immediately grinned and said, "You are finally here. You don't know how hot it is in Gotham this summer. If you had come a few days earlier, you would have melted on the asphalt road."
superior."
"It's just because you knew I came back a few days late. Fortunately, it hasn't been very hot recently. Here, your dried fish." Bruce handed the bag of things in his hand to Killer Croc.
Killer Crocodile happily took it, winked at him and said: "Come in, your good professor is studying some murder case again. You'd better not mess with him, or he will throw you into the oil drum."
After saying that, Killer Croc sat down on the bed and started to eat his little fish. Bruce put his head in first. Schiller turned his head and saw the eight teeth he had exposed, and suddenly felt a headache.
"What are you doing outside the door?" Schiller said, "Don't interfere with the nurse's work, come in."
After Bruce came in, he put the things on the windowsill next to him. Schiller looked up, but then focused on the photo.
Bruce dragged his chair to sit on the opposite side of the table. He glanced at the things on the table and breathed a sigh of relief when he found that it was not his paper.
At this time, Schiller looked up at him again, looked him up and down and said, "It seems like you haven't had much time to write a paper recently."
Bruce choked back the series of words he had prepared. He coughed twice awkwardly and said, "I really don't have time. I can't write a paper when I'm so busy..."
"You didn't write anything without being busy. What did you bring?"
"Oh." Bruce stretched out his arm, took the things on the window sill and took them apart and said, "The thermos bottle newly developed by Wayne Group has dense ice in the interlayer. Whether it is filled with hot water or cold water, the insulation effect is very good.
, the temperature can be maintained for about two months without opening the lid.”
Schiller took it and looked at it, but he didn't see any difference from other thermos bottles. He stood up and went to the side and poured some hot water into it.
Bruce looked up at the ultraviolet light above, and then saw a glass of water placed in front of him, with steam rising from it.
"Let me confirm first, Professor, you don't have any fangs now, do you?"
Schiller rolled his eyes slightly and said, "If I wanted to poison you, would you still be alive today?"
Bruce smiled coquettishly, picked up the hot water and took a sip. Schiller looked at him again when he sat down, and then said while drinking water: "I have lost a lot of weight. Have you given up on your plan to gain muscle?"
"I don't have time to do that. Of course, I think it would be good to be thinner. It can significantly distinguish me from other Batmans."
"I'm going to talk to Chief Gordon about the third case. Has he shown you the photos?"
Bruce shook his head, took out his laptop from his bag, and said, "I have another task. I want to decipher the code left at the crime scene."
"Then go to that table over there and don't touch my photo."
Bruce had no choice but to carry the computer to the table next to him, and Killer Croc also moved a stool to sit next to him, watching him study the string of letters.
Schiller reconnected and said to Gordon: "Sorry, Bruce is here. He should be deciphering the code at the crime scene."
"No hurry, let's talk about your views on the third case."
"He's saying goodbye to the past."
"who?"
"The murderer, the murderer is saying goodbye to his past."
"The way to say goodbye is to hang someone on a wooden pillar?"
"It has three meanings. Which one do you want to hear first?"
"Any one will do, you have your own order."
"This is why I respect you, Chief Gordon. You are so considerate that you don't look like a Gothamite."
"No, professor, you have just been tortured by those students for too long."
"Thank you. The culprit is sitting next to you."
The two did not discuss this topic for too long, but began to talk about the third case. Schiller moved the photo in front of him with his fingers, looked at it and said.
"This will definitely be the last case, because this murderer adopts a structure that echoes from beginning to end. This is the first aspect I want to talk about."
"The first case is separate, scattered, irregular, and unfixed, while the third case is aggregated, concentrated, individual, and firmly nailed. This is a contrasting approach."
"But at the same time, this is a child's game. Smashing blocks and pinning insects may seem like children's means of exploring the world, but in fact they reflect human beings' innate desire to break rules and destroy order.
, destroying lives, both represent that the other party believes that children are born chaotic and disorderly, which is the theme of the two cases."
"It's both the same and different, so it will naturally achieve a perfect response."
"Except for the structure, the second aspect reflects the change in the murderer's own mental state, from torn to complete, from chaos to unity, from over-exposed flat to concentrated and confident upright. This is complete
growth process.”
"He thinks he's been cured?"
"In fact, he was indeed cured. From the last case, it can be seen that his current mental state is quite healthy and he has grown from a mental patient to an antisocial element."
"What kind of growth is this?"
"From a psychological point of view, I have indeed grown up."
"Okay, what about another aspect?"
"That's what I said before. He wants to say goodbye to the past. The corpse in the last case is a totem."
"totem?"
"Yes, it was something that humans used to perform sacrifices and mark their locations during primitive society. He wanted to commemorate his growth, so he pierced people upright on wooden stakes. There is no doubt that this is a totem."
"If I were to summarize this serial murder case, then I would think that it is of a personal nature. He did not want to express his views on the world, but just told himself to the world. He did not even want anyone to understand. He just
Just a souvenir for myself."
"What do you think he did, Professor?"
"As I said before, a choice is just a choice. There is no success or failure. He has deeply understood this, so he doesn't want to be good at it, he just wants to complete it."
"He prepares and takes action at his own pace. No matter what the result is, being able to take this step means that he has found a new self and that he has recovered."
"But he didn't expect you to understand."
"Maybe, but he would never have thought that I would be happy for him. No matter what, there is one less mental patient in the world."
"But there's an extra sociopath."
"No, Sheriff, he will not kill anyone again. This will be his last work. He will do something he is more willing to do."
"What is that?"
Just as he said this, Schiller heard someone knocking on the door again. This time he was closer to the door, so he stepped forward and opened the door.