There were too many people here, so Schiller didn't use flash. He ran up the stairs and arrived at the third floor of the building where the power distribution room is located.
It was originally an old cafeteria, but because a new cafeteria was built, it was converted into a warehouse. Teaching aids, office equipment and sports equipment were all stored here. Schiller came to the room where the teaching aids were stacked. A girl was lying on the floor.
The ground was covered in blood.
Schiller walked up and found that she was still breathing. At this time, Gordon and others rushed up and found that the person was still alive. Gordon and Victor breathed a sigh of relief. They hurriedly called an ambulance.
Before the ambulance arrived, Schiller looked at the girl's wounds.
She was stabbed twice in the abdomen. The incisions were not large and should have been caused by small knives such as fruit knives. The corners of her mouth were broken and there were bruises on the side of her nose. Schiller guessed that someone had attacked her from behind.
He stretched out one arm to cover her mouth, then stabbed her in the abdomen with a fruit knife in his other hand.
Schiller turned around and asked Gordon: "Is the scene of the murder that happened in the gymnasium lounge still there?"
"Someone is cleaning up, do you want to go over? I can call them and tell them to pause for a while."
"I'm going to take a look." Schiller looked back at the injured girl. The police were bandaging him urgently. The girl's beautiful face was extremely pale at this time. She was shaking all over in pain and could not speak.
Schiller walked out quickly, and Victor hurriedly followed. Although he didn't see Schiller's expression, Victor knew Schiller very well. He walked up and patted Schiller on the shoulder and said, "Don't be angry, we
The murderer will be brought to justice."
Schiller didn't say anything, just kept walking forward. At this time, the sky over Gotham was covered with dark clouds, making it impossible to tell whether the morning had passed. But soon, the thick dark clouds enveloped the city again, and it started to rain again in Gotham.
coming.
When they arrived at the stadium, the crying members of the dance troupe had been evacuated to the back of the seats. There were two police officers waiting at the door of the lounge. Apparently, they all knew Schiller. When Schiller walked in, the body was
It's still in place, but everything around it has been moved away.
The cause of death of the deceased was easy to identify, because only the fatal wound on the neck was very conspicuous on the whole body. Schiller walked over, did a brief inspection, and then took another look at the belt that was kept in the evidence bag.
It was a decorative belt that was probably hung around the waist by the members of the dance troupe during performances. It was therefore made of metal and had a thin iron chain, which was why the scar on the deceased's neck was so obvious.
There are no fingerprints, no footprints, almost no traces left, and there are no people with motives, no bystanders, and no secret rooms. This is completely opposite to the typical murder cases that have occurred before.
Victor stood in the middle of the room with a solemn expression. Apparently, he also discovered that there was too little evidence and it was difficult to investigate. However, Schiller was thoughtful. Seeing his expression, Victor stepped forward and asked: "You
Do you have any ideas?"
"If you look at this murder case alone, it may be difficult to judge, but if you connect all the recent murder cases, you will find that the murderers used completely different methods and have no connection between them.
There is nothing in common either inside or outside Gotham University."
"The only common denominator is that the victims are all women."
"Yes, they should all be members of the dance troupe. Could it be that some of them are enemies of the dance troupe, so..."
Schiller shook his head and said: "The girl who was victimized in the locker room just now is not a member of the cheerleading team. I remember her. She is a junior student in the physics department. Because of her good grades and serious study, she is very popular with professors.
She likes it, and she prepares the teaching aids usually used in physics classes, so they appear in the storage room of the teaching aids..."
"Then it will be more difficult to identify the murderer."
"Another thing they have in common is that the women who were victims were all very beautiful," Schiller recalled, "and their temperaments were somewhat similar."
Victor also thought about it, and he felt that what Schiller said made sense. At least the two girls he saw were indeed beautiful. It was correct to say that they had similar temperaments. The temperaments of college students were similar, and they were youthful.
, lively, but also a little childish and ignorant.
Even if Gotham is a hopelessly rotten city, students at Gotham University are still better off than other Gotham citizens, because the high proportion of outsiders here dilutes the gloomy atmosphere and can even
The sunshine and positive atmosphere can be seen in the daily activities of the students, which is rare in the city of Gotham.
On the way back to the office, Schiller opened up the conversation for the first time in a long time and talked about his views to Victor.
"Perhaps I should have said before that serial murderers like to deliberately create connections."
"They will choose a theme, and then arrange the identity of the victim, the time of the crime and the location of the crime according to this theme. Some murderers with compulsive behavior even have requirements on the way, time and identity of bystanders when the body is found.
"
"Creating connections and directing sights are their specialties. They like to let the police officers who handle the case be guided by the clues and evidence they left and find the answers bit by bit. This will give them a sense of accomplishment and a sense of killing similar people.
, playing with the same kind of sense of accomplishment.”
"Among the serial murderers I have encountered, it is not that the more brutal the crime, the more dangerous it is, nor does it mean that the less evidence left behind, the more clever it is. Sometimes, it is quite the opposite."
"Each of the cases they committed may be ordinary, but together they have an incomprehensible theme. They may have left a lot of clues at the scene, and then watched with great interest as the investigators were fooled.
Round and round..."
"In general, killing someone is not their purpose. They break the law and break the bottom line, but they are still in danger of paying or not paying the price. They use themselves as a bet to observe the reaction of the entire society. That is what they kill.
The purpose of killing others."
"So, although these cases have some elements of a serial murder case, for example, they all occurred at Gotham University and the victims were all women, this is still not a serial murder case."
"Because the murderer is not only not making connections, but on the contrary, he is desperately trying to erase them. He wants to make every case look unrelated and reduce the number of commonalities in each case to a minimum."
"Another point that can be supported is that he tried his best to eliminate the evidence at the scene, allowing the perpetrators to come and go without a trace, leaving the police confused and unable to investigate anything."
"For serial murderers, this is too boring. They want to control and guide investigators and let them follow the guidelines, instead of watching others like headless flies in their carefully crafted exhibitions.
Ranging blindly among them."
"From this conclusion, it can be deduced that the purpose of the murderer in this case and the murderer in the serial murder case are opposite. In other words, if the purpose of the murderer in the serial murder case is not to kill, then the purpose of this murderer is precisely to kill people.
.”
Victor held an umbrella, and he saw that Schiller's face was shrouded under his umbrella. In the shadow, no expression could be seen clearly.
But whenever Schiller talks about these things related to his past, there is always a chilling temperament, as if he has a natural resonance with the perverted murderers and lunatics he talks about.
When he stands from the perspective of an observer and uses this resonance to examine the case and find the real culprit, he is more like the black sun hanging high in the sky. Chaos spreads from himself to others, and no light shines on everything.
The rain has been falling, and the shadow of death has enveloped the few pure lands in Gotham. The days of Gotham college students are no longer as peaceful as usual. The sharp sirens and the smell of blood filling the air make this place seem to be grasped by big hands in the abyss.
The house, like the rest of Gotham, is pulled into endless darkness.
When I returned to the office, the lights here had been turned on again, but now, the bright and new light bulbs could not give people a sense of security.
Because no one knows when the lights will go out again, and no one knows if there will be another scream and another corpse will appear when the power is cut off again.
Not long after returning to the office, Gordon called. He said: "The girl who was attacked in the storage room is out of danger. I made a preliminary inquiry about her, but as expected, the girl
Someone attacked her from behind and she didn't see anything."
"According to her recollection, the attacker should be a boy. He was strong and moved very quickly, so the victim could not resist."
After hanging up the phone, Schiller sat at his desk and thought for a while. Then he picked up the phone and called Bruce first and then Lex. Both of them were invited to Schiller's office.
At this time, Bruce, who received the call, was dealing with another matter, because on the second day after Thomas Elliot was imprisoned, Elliot's current head of the family and his wife were killed.
They died in an alley not far from Gotham Cathedral. The cause of their death was that one of them was shot twice in the chest, one of which hit the heart, killing him on the spot.
The reason why Bruce knew about these cases earlier than the police was because, that night, Batman was still haunting Gotham City, but someone avoided his eyes and committed murders. When Batman arrived at the scene
At that time, only corpses were left on the ground.
Faced with a tragedy that seemed familiar to him, Batman could not remain indifferent. Thomas and Thomas had known each other since childhood. The two of them could not be said to be close friends, but they could be considered old friends. Batman felt that he must investigate this case.
Of course he has someone he can doubt, and that is Godfather Falcone.
If Thomas commits a murder in Gotham University, the godfather will definitely be very dissatisfied, because he has already said that no one is allowed to commit crimes in Gotham University, but Thomas, as the only son of the Elliot family, deliberately violated this rule.
Article stipulates that the godfather will regard this as a provocation.
On the day Thomas was imprisoned, a conflict broke out between the Elliott family and the Falcone family. The Elliotts believed that their son was wrongly accused, and they desperately wanted to find fault with the Gotham Police Department, but the brothers
Tan Police Station is also under the control of the Godfather.
Their unsightly behavior made Falcone angry. He blocked part of the Elliott family's properties in Gotham and even invited the Elliotts to the Falcone Manor for a talk. But right there
On their way to the North District, they were killed,
In this case, who else has the biggest suspicion? Batman feels that starting with Falcone would be the most efficient choice.
Therefore, Batman began to search for past information to learn more about Falcone and find his flaws.
Then, he learned an extremely absurd fact.
Carmine Falcone, the gangster godfather who has ruled Gotham for decades, has never killed a person.