Schiller first laid his eyes on Bruce, and Bruce turned his head. Looking at the pool of blood hidden in the darkness, his thoughts returned to last night.
In Wayne Manor at night, Bruce was looking up some information in the library. Although, after returning from the metropolis, he already knew that his butler was not an ordinary person, but there were also information about agents, Philby's list, the Soviet Union, and those old stories.
He still needs to investigate old things.
But at this moment, there was a strong noise from upstairs. Bruce closed the book helplessly, covered his forehead, then stood up and came upstairs.
In the room upstairs, Elsa is learning to speak from Dick and Alfred. She has already made some different tones like "wow, wah, wah," and can even speak English words with less than two syllables.
But everyone knows that every child is a trumpeter when learning a language. Loud pronunciation seems to help them build confidence in the language, so they often yell as loud as they want.
Moreover, they also like to repeat, and seem to be able to find the rules of language in repetition again and again. With the repetition loudly, Elsa is now a humanoid siren. Bruce even thinks that he can develop one based on Elsa's screams.
Alarm device in the Batcave.
Even though the Batcave is more than half the city away from Wayne Manor, Bruce can definitely hear it if there is a sound from there.
This is different from crying. When Elsa cries, Bruce and Selina will try their best to comfort her. When she is tired of crying, she will naturally go to sleep. But learning a language is serious business. Looking at Alfred
With that expression of appreciation, Bruce knew that he had no place to speak here.
Moreover, language learning classes have time requirements, and they will not stop until they study for a certain amount of time. Obviously, Alfred thinks that Elsa learning to speak is much more important than Bruce looking up information in the library.
.
Originally, Alfred would not disturb Bruce from doing his business, but some time ago, Bruce became addicted to magic and had a lot of misdeeds. Not only did he follow Constantine, but he also found some strange magic books. Alfred was very worried that Bruce would do this.
He went astray, so he always tried to divert his attention.
So now, the old housekeeper doesn't care when Bruce has to stay in the library to look up information, so he won't deliberately arrange for Elsa's language class to miss this time, which results in Bruce being so noisy that he can't do anything at all.
Some people may say that Bruce can go to the Batcave to work, but the problem is that the Batcave is far away from Wayne Manor, and Alfred requires Bruce to go home every day, so the library of Gotham University becomes
A better place to work.
Bruce checked information very late last night, so he simply slept in the dormitory. Although the facilities at Gotham University are a bit old, the layout is still good. The bedrooms in all dormitories are single rooms, and there is a common room on each floor.
But since it is an old dormitory after all, the sound insulation is relatively poor. In fact, when Lex was struggling to drag the box from the first floor, Bruce, who lived on the second floor, was already woken up.
And Lex and Thomas happened to meet in the stairwell on the second floor. Bruce heard everything they said, so he was not surprised when he saw Lex, and cooperated with him in pretending not to know each other...
"You may not have noticed, but the sound of you dragging the box was really too loud. The vibration of the box hitting the stairs even reached my bed." Bruce turned to look at Lex and said.
"And it is precisely because of this that I suspect Thomas, because the time it takes for you to drag the box from the first floor to the second floor is just enough for an ordinary person to go from the fourth floor to the first floor from the stairs on the other side.
Go through the entire corridor, go up to the first floor, and come to the stairwell on the second floor where you are."
Bruce looked back at the entire corridor and said, "Based on Thomas' stride and speed, the error will not exceed 3 seconds. Such a coincidence is not just a coincidence in a murder case."
"I speculate that when your box hit the stairs for the first time and made a sound, I on the second floor was awakened, and Thomas on the fourth floor who had just finished the case was also awakened."
"He realized that there might be new students coming, and he didn't know the specific number of them, so he hurriedly cleaned up the crime scene, then ran downstairs, and then followed you along the stairs you walked through.
you."
"When he found that you were alone, he realized that not only did he not need to panic, but he could also treat you as a co-witness at the scene of the crime. But it was a bit stupid. He didn't set up a delay mechanism. You came
By that time, Doris should have been dead, so there was no way for you to be his alibi witness."
"You only explained the reason why Thomas appeared." Lex folded his arms and said, "Estimating the time cannot be used as conclusive evidence. However, I knew he killed someone not long after I met him."
"He did a very stupid thing, that is, in order to cover up the blood stains on his shirt, he put on a suit jacket. Indeed, there was no clue from a straight angle, but when he was walking with his suitcase
When I was going up the stairs in front of me, I deliberately pretended to be exhausted and was left behind by him."
"In this way, there was a height difference between us, and I could examine the marks on his body more comprehensively. At this time, I discovered that I could see blood stains through the gap between the hem of his suit jacket and his shirt."
"Of course, it is also possible that he was injured himself, so I continued to observe and found that he was not relaxed when lifting the box. It could even be said that he was a little exhausted. If he was really injured,
Then there is no need to be so enthusiastic about helping me, after all we have never met, we are just strangers."
"I guessed that he was hiding something, and when I got to the fourth floor and saw the crime scene, I was sure that he was the murderer."
"Why?" Gordon asked.
Lex walked to the scene of the crime. He pointed at the body and said: "The victim was pierced through the chest by a javelin, and judging from the wound, the javelin penetrated from top to bottom. In other words, the murderer must be in this posture to commit the crime.
…”
As he spoke, Lex made a gesture of raising the javelin and stabbing it downwards. He held it with both hands, left hand in front and right hand behind, forming a straight line. After raising it above his head, he stabbed downwards with force.
Lex continued: "Thomas is taller than me, so he doesn't need to lift it so high. However, Doris is definitely not so short that Thomas can stab the javelin from top to bottom like this without having to lift it."
Kill her.”…
"Therefore, if he wanted to commit the crime in this way, he had to raise his arms, which means that if he was only wearing his shirt at the time, there would be blood stains in a place that would not normally be spattered with blood, and that would be his armpits.
"
"But before, the shirt I saw behind him through the slit in his suit jacket was stained with blood just under his right armpit."
"Wait a minute!" Gordon suddenly said, "You can still see the blood on your shirt through the gaps in your suit in the almost dark stairwell?" Gordon lifted up his windbreaker and took a look, and found that
It was pitch black, nothing could be seen, and he was already close enough.
At this time, the entire dormitory building was without power. There was still some dim light in the corridor because of the windows, but the stairs, because of the angle of the windows, had almost no light and were completely dark.
But at this moment, standing at this angle, Gordon saw a glimmer of light in Lex's eyes, which did not look like an ordinary human being.
Schiller also saw this. He remembered that Alberto's eyes also shimmered when he fell into the pool of wine. This may be caused by the Dionysian factor.
No one knows whether the Joker has night vision, but anyway, he can fight as well as Batman wearing night vision goggles in the dark Gotham night.
"Okay, now only the motive is left." Gordon stood next to the body, thought for a moment, and then said: "My subordinate just reported to me that nothing suspicious was found on the deceased. Her handbag
There are also some ordinary cosmetics inside, which seem to be used for touch-ups before going on stage."
"According to Christine, Doris has a boyfriend, but he works at the Central Research Institute of Metropolis. The two are in a long-distance relationship, but because they are not far apart and get together every week, she and Thomas should have nothing to do with each other.
Intersection.”
At this time, Bruce said: "Thomas also has a girlfriend, or fiancée, who was arranged for him by his family. He is not interested in baseball or football. He has never been close to the cheerleading group and only knows people from the dance group.
Captain Christine, and Christine didn’t say anything just now that Doris and Thomas had any emotional entanglements, so it shouldn’t be a love killing.”
"He should have planned ahead. Otherwise, it would be impossible to prepare something like a javelin. I have to admit that this is a useful weapon. However, to get this at Gotham University, you must apply to open the equipment room..."
"Then let's check the application records and we'll know, right?" Gordon immediately picked up the phone and said to the other end: "It's me, come over again and get the search warrant, we need to collect evidence...
"
Soon, several people came to the office where the physical education teacher was. The physical education teachers at Gotham University were divided into normal physical education teachers and aerobics coaches who led the cheerleading dance group. At this time, the person in the office happened to be the aerobics coach. She
He took out a form and said: "...here, three days ago, Thomas came to apply to borrow a javelin..."
"Can you identify which javelin it is?"
"Yes, all our equipment has numbers."
"Is it the javelin numbered 5012?" Gordon asked.
"Application record...equipment number...yes, it is 5012."
Now, the identity, motive, method, and murder weapon are all in place. It can be said that the evidence is conclusive. Thomas, who was taken to take notes, had no chance to resist. As the camera clicked, Thomas was wearing prison uniform and holding an information sign.
The images of his imprisonment remain forever in the archives of the Gotham Police Department.
This is a murder case that has a beginning and an end. The investigation process is very smooth and the evidence chain is very clear. It can be said to be a typical murder case.
Even if Bruce and Lex were not needed to make inferences, Gordon alone would eventually check the application records in the equipment room. It would only take one day at most, and the case would come to light.
The day after the case was closed, the Gotham Police Department received a call from Christine, the leader of the cheerleading group. She cried and said:
"Detective Gordon! Come on! Come to Gotham University Gym...Another member of the dance team is dead!!!"
