The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 572 The Black Sun and the Bat Lamp
There were too many people here, and it was useless for Schiller to flash. He ran up the stairs and came to the third floor of the building where the power distribution room was located.

It used to be an old cafeteria, but because a new cafeteria was built, it was converted into a warehouse, where teaching aids, office equipment and sports equipment were stored. Schiller came to the room where teaching aids were piled up. A girl was lying on the floor. The ground was covered in blood.

Schiller went up and found that she was still breathing. At this time, Gordon and others rushed up and found that she was still alive. Gordon and Victor were relieved. They hurriedly called an ambulance, Before the ambulance arrived, Schiller observed the girl's wound.

She was stabbed twice in the abdomen, the incisions were small, it should have been caused by a small knife like a fruit knife, the corner of her mouth was broken, and there were bruises on the side of her nose, Schiller guessed that someone should have attacked her from behind, He stretched out one arm to cover her mouth, and then stabbed her in the abdomen with a fruit knife with the other hand.

Schiller turned his head and asked Gordon, "Is the scene of the murder that happened in the gymnasium lounge still there?"

"Someone is packing up, do you want to go over? I can call and tell them to stop for a while."

"I'll go take a look." Schiller looked back at the injured girl. The police officer was bandaging him urgently. The girl's pretty face was extremely pale at this moment, and she was trembling with pain, unable to speak.

Schiller walked out quickly, and Victor hurriedly followed. Although he didn't see Schiller's expression, Victor knew Schiller very well. He stepped forward 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 walked straight ahead. At this time, the sky over Gotham was covered with dark clouds, making it impossible to judge whether the morning had passed, but soon, thick dark clouds enveloped the city again, and Gotham began to rain again coming.

When they arrived at the gymnasium, the crying dance troupe members had been evacuated to the back of the seats. There were two police officers waiting at the door of the lounge. Obviously, they all knew Schiller. When Schiller walked in, the body It's still there, but everything around it has been moved.

The cause of death of the deceased is easy to identify, because only the fatal wound on the neck is very conspicuous on the whole body. Schiller walked over, checked it briefly, and then glanced at the belt kept in the evidence bag.

It was a decorative belt, which should be hung around the waist by the members of the dance troupe during the performance, so it was made of metal, and it was made of thin iron chains, so the scars on the neck of the deceased were so obvious.

No fingerprints, no footprints, almost no traces, no motives, no bystanders, no secret rooms, which is the opposite of typical murders that have happened before.

Victor stood in the middle of the room with a serious expression on his face. Obviously, he also found out that there is too little evidence to investigate, but Schiller was thoughtful. Seeing his expression, Victor stepped forward and asked, "You Got an idea?"

"If you only look at this murder case, it may indeed be difficult to judge, but if you connect all the recent murder cases, you will find that the murderers used completely different methods and there is no connection between them. There's nothing in common outside of Gotham University either."

"The only thing that could be called a common denominator is that the victims were all women."

"Yeah, they should all be members of the dance troupe. Could it be that someone is the enemy of the dance troupe, that's why..."

Schiller shook his head and said: "The girl who was victimized in the storage room just now is not a member of the cheerleading troupe. I remember her. She is a junior student in the Department of Physics. Because of her good grades and serious study, she is very popular with the professor." I really like it, the teaching aids used in physics classes are prepared by her, so they appear in the storage room of the teaching aids..."

"That way, it will be even more difficult to determine the murderer."

"Another thing they had in common was that the women who were victimized were all very beautiful," recalls Schiller, "and they had similar auras."

Victor also thought about it, and he felt that what Schiller said made sense. At least the two girls he saw were indeed very beautiful. It is true to say that they have similar temperaments. College students have similar temperaments. , lively, but also a little childish and ignorant.

Even if Gotham is a rotten and hopeless city, the students of Gotham University are better than other Gotham citizens, because the high proportion of outsiders here dilutes the gloomy atmosphere, and they can even go from The students can see sunshine and a positive atmosphere in their daily activities, which is rare in the city of Gotham.

On the way back to the office, Schiller opened up the conversation box after a long absence, and talked about his views to Victor.

"Perhaps I should have said before that serial killers love to make connections."

"They will choose a theme, and then arrange the identity of the victim, the time of the attack and the location of the crime according to this theme. Some murderers who have compulsive behavior even have requirements for the method, time and identity of bystanders when the body is discovered. "

"Creating connections and guiding the line of sight are their forte. They like to let the police officers who handle the case be guided by the clues and evidence they left, and find the answer bit by bit. This will give them a sense of accomplishment, a kind of killing of the same kind. , playing with the same kind of sense of accomplishment."

"Among the serial murderers I've met, it's not that the more ferocious the crime, the more dangerous it is, nor the less evidence left, the better. Sometimes, it's just the opposite."

"Every case they committed may be very ordinary, but there is a theme that is difficult to figure out together. They may have left a lot of clues at the scene, and then watched with great interest as the investigators were tricked. Round and round..."

"In general, killing a certain person is not their purpose. They break the law and break the bottom line, but they are in danger of paying or not paying the price. They use themselves as a bet to observe the reaction of the whole society. The purpose of killing others."

"So, although these cases have some elements of a serial murder case, for example, all of them took place 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 a connection, on the contrary, he is desperately erasing the connection. He wants to make each case look unrelated, and reduce the number of common points in each case to a minimum."

"There is another point of proof, that is, he eliminated the evidence at the scene as much as possible, so that the perpetrators came and went without a trace, leaving the police confused and unable to investigate anything."

"For serial killers, this is too boring. They want to control and guide the investigators, let them visit according to the guidelines, instead of watching others like headless chickens in their elaborate exhibits. Running around blindly."

"From this conclusion, it can be deduced that the purpose of the murderer in this case is opposite to that of the serial murderer. In other words, if the purpose of the serial murderer is not to kill, then the purpose of the murderer is to kill .”

Victor was holding an umbrella, and he saw that Schiller's face was covered under his umbrella. In the shadows, no expression could be seen clearly.

But whenever Schiller talked about these things related to his past, there was always a palpitating indifference, as if he had a natural resonance with the perverted murderers and lunatics he spoke of.

When he stands in the perspective of an observer and uses this kind of resonance to examine the case and find the real culprit, he is more like a black sun hanging high above the sky, where chaos spreads from himself to others, and no light shines on everything.

The rain has been falling, and the shadow of death has shrouded one of the few pure lands in Gotham. The days of college students in Gotham are no longer as peaceful as usual. The sharp sirens and the smell of blood in the air make this place seem to be held by big hands in the abyss Live, like the rest of Gotham, is drawn into endless darkness.

When I returned to the office, the lights here had been turned on again, but now, the bright and clean light bulbs can't 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 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 before is out of danger. I made a preliminary inquiry to 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, with a strong body and quick movements, so the victim could not resist."

After hanging up, Schiller sat down at his desk, pondered for a while, then picked up the phone, called first Bruce, then Lex, and both were invited to Schiller's office.

At this time, Bruce, who received the call, was dealing with another matter, because on the second day Thomas Elliott was in prison, Elliott's current owner 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 was in the heart, and died 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 a murder. At that time, only the corpse was left on the ground.

Faced with the familiar tragedy, Batman cannot remain indifferent. Thomas and him have known each other since childhood. The two of them are not close friends who can talk about everything, but they are also old friends. Batman feels that he must investigate this case.

Of course he has someone who can be suspicious, and that is the godfather Falcone.

The godfather will definitely be very dissatisfied with Thomas killing people in Gotham University, because he has already said that no one is allowed to commit crimes in Gotham University, but Thomas, as the only son of the Elliott family, deliberately violated this policy. According to the article, the Godfather will take this as a provocation.

On the day Thomas was imprisoned, conflicts erupted between the Elliott family and the Falcone family. The Elliotts firmly believed that their son was wronged. Tan police station is also under the control of the godfather.

Falcone was annoyed by their ignorant behavior. He sealed off part of the Elliott family's property in Gotham, and even invited the Elliotts to the Falcone Manor to talk, but in On their way to the North, they were killed,

In this way, who else has the biggest suspicion?Batman feels that starting with Falcone should be the most efficient choice.

Therefore, Batman began to search for past information to learn more about Falcone, so as to find his flaws.

Then, he learned an extremely absurd fact.

Carmine Falcone, the godfather of the mob who has ruled Gotham for decades, has never killed a single person.

He is innocent.

(End of this chapter)