Chapter 1199 The Cry of the Lamb (XI)

Looking at Jonathan, who was covered in blood but calmly carried to the ambulance, Gordon stood at the door of the police station and shook his head. When he turned his head and looked back, he found that Batman had disappeared without a trace. Gordon sighed and said to himself: Lan

"What happened? Why did he suddenly go crazy?"

Gordon looked down at his hands. He had just pressed Jonathan's wound and his hands were covered in blood. Even his cuffs and the edges of his shirt were stained with blood.

Gordon turned around and wanted to go back to the bathroom in the police station to wash his hands, but as soon as he stepped into the door, he found that his soles were also stained with blood. Every time he took a step forward, his shoes would leave a bloody footprint.

Gordon felt that he should not cause unnecessary trouble to the cleaning lady, so he planned to rub his soles on the carpet, but as soon as he stepped on the carpet, he found that the carpet was also covered with blood, and it would only get dirtier and dirtier.

Gordon raised his hands and looked around. He found that there were two extra newspapers on the umbrella rack next to him. He leaned his elbow on the door frame, took the newspaper with his other hand, and began to wipe his soles.

But as he wiped, he seemed to remember something. He took two steps back, shook out the blood-stained newspaper, stared at the dense text on it and muttered to himself: "Full-width separator..."

Gordon stared at the newspaper for a long time, but he couldn't figure out the difference between full-width symbols and half-width symbols. From the perspective of typesetting, there was nothing unusual.

Gordon understood that he was not good at text and graphic reasoning. He had to find someone who was good at this.

In the dimly lit corridor of Arkham Psychiatric Hospital, Harley pushed the infusion stand with one hand and held the prescription with the other. She looked down at the prescription while walking forward. Just after turning a corner, she met Mrs. Miller.

"Harley, why are you here? Come with me, Sheriff Gordon wants to see you." Mrs. Miller waved to Harley and said.

Harley raised her eyebrows and showed an impatient expression. She pouted her lips, pushed the IV stand aside as if she was in a bad mood, and said with her arms crossed: "Why is Gordon so busy? Doesn't he know that I'm going crazy with work?"

Mrs. Miller hesitated for a moment, patted Harley's back gently and said: "If you feel too tired, I will help you turn it down."

"Why did he look for me?" Harley asked.

"It seems to be to solve a case... or to find clues or something. I don't understand what he is saying, but it should be a dangerous thing. If you don't want to go, I will help you refuse him." Mrs. Miller tilted her head and looked at Harley and said. Lan

Harry's eyes lit up, she took two quick steps to catch up with Mrs. Miller, and then said, "No, I'm not tired at all, let's go over there quickly!"

In the office on the first floor, Gordon frowned and looked at the newspapers and magazines spread in front of him. From his serious expression, he didn't make any progress. After Harry came in, he immediately waved to Harry and said, "Come over quickly, Harry, help me see, what's wrong with the symbols in these articles?"

Harry walked over, half-knelt on the ground and looked at the newspapers spread on the ground. Before she asked, Gordon simply told her what happened in the police station just now.

Harley slowly widened her eyes, and she raised her voice and said, "You mean, Batman updated the code of the serial killer club? This is impossible!!!"

After that, she set her sights on the newspaper on the ground again. Like a dragonfly touching the water, she guided her sight with her fingers and began to search between the layout and content of the newspaper. After a few minutes, Harley stood up, shook her head, and said in an unbelievable voice:

"They are really using new codes, full-width separators..."

"What is going on?" Gordon asked very confusedly: "How does this club work? How did Batman get involved?"

Harley glanced at him, opened her mouth, but closed it again, as if she didn't want to say it. She paused hesitantly, but still said:

"Natural born killers have a characteristic. They are extra sensitive to bloody and violent information, which makes them excited, although they may not show it. "At first, I noticed the abnormality in the newspaper because the Gotham Daily reported a news about a street vendor who was unfortunately run over by a truck. The person who wrote this report directly put the picture of the bloody body on the front page. I couldn't help but see it. " "The moment I saw this picture, my heart began to beat violently, and there was an indescribable excitement rising. I almost couldn't wait to open the newspaper and start reading the content. " "There is nothing much to say about this report. It was completely an accident. The writing style of the article was also very dry. It just simply explained the cause and effect without any detailed description, which could not satisfy my desire at all. " "Since then, I began to pay attention to the bloody murders in various newspapers intentionally or unintentionally, and every time I read the process of the murderer's crime written by some writers with beautiful writing, I felt as if I was there. "

"After reading so many reports like this, I found that some writers have good writing skills, but for some reason, they don't seem to pay much attention to grammar. Some sentences are not smooth at all, and the symbols are used incorrectly." Lan

"At that time, I was taking a grammar class, so I was particularly sensitive to this...Okay, okay, I think I have a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder. A perfect thing suddenly has a stain, which makes me want to bang my head against the wall."

Harry pursed her lips tightly and turned her mouth down, revealing a very unhappy expression. The muscles between her eyebrows and eyes were all wrinkled, as if she had eaten a fly.

Although Gordon is not as specialized as Angela in dealing with serial killers, he has been a policeman in Gotham for so many years and has more experience in this regard. So he nodded and said, "Indeed, many killers I know have mysophobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder."

"When I find their grammar and symbol errors, I can't help but modify the correct grammar and symbols in my mind. I do this every time and I develop a habit, but gradually I find that this is a bit wrong. These grammar and symbol errors have a pattern."

Harry frowned tightly and stared at the newspaper on the ground and said, "After I discovered this, I began to study what the pattern is for these symbols and grammar errors and why there is a pattern."

"Then, I discovered an amazing fact that there is an organization that I don't know about that uses grammar and symbol errors in the text content of various pages in newspapers and magazines to communicate."

Harry shook her head and said, "This is actually not difficult at all. The way of error corresponds to a word in the sentence with error, and the error pointing words in all sentences can be extracted to form sentences, and then these sentences can be arranged according to the number or position of sentence grammatical errors to form articles. This is a very simple text puzzle. "Lan

"And when I formed the article, I found that there is a world that ordinary people don't know at all hidden under the calm appearance. It is the crazy world of murderers. "

"Murderers use this method to write their own articles and describe their thoughts on committing crimes, including what kind of theme they have established for their cases and why they have established such a theme. "

"Wait a minute!" Gordon stopped, he looked at Harley in surprise and said, "What does this mean?"

Harley sighed, she thought about how to explain it, but finally decided to use examples to explain to ordinary people Gordon how this crazy club works.

"For example, a person committed a skinning case. He peeled off the victim's skin and processed it in some way. He would first come up with a name for himself, and then determine the theme of the case."

"For example, he might call himself the 'Human Skin Hunter', and the theme of his crime is 'What is under the human skin?'"

"Of course, a description in just one sentence is not enough. He must fully explain why he wants to do this theme." Lan

"Maybe it's because he was sexually assaulted when he was a child. A seemingly kind relative or friend sexually assaulted him. It may also be that when he went out hunting when he was a child, he saw the painful struggle of animals being skinned alive."

"He must fully explain what made him interested in conducting this research."

"Wait, what you call academic research is actually murder?!" Gordon raised his voice. This kind of thing is cruel enough even in Gotham.

But Harley showed no guilt. She nodded with ease and said, "Then they have to write about their crimes. According to my observation, when I first discovered the existence of this club, many murderers were describing the pain of the victims and were proud of their methods of torturing others."

"But later, a secret scholar codenamed Professor published an article, denouncing this superficial academic research, and wrote several papers that far surpassed other articles in terms of content, wording, grammar, innovation, etc., expounding a completely self-consistent logic and showing unparalleled dark charm."

"These papers caused a sensation in the academic world. His profound philosophical thinking, well-reasoned and closed-loop logic, and rigorous and beautiful wording simply turned a The chaotic third-rate circle has risen to the height of the academic industry. "Since then, most of the murderers who published articles have become more academic and restrained." Lan "They no longer seek to abuse victims, no longer focus on describing the pain of others, but begin to express their thoughts and opinions as rigorously as possible, showing their minds and souls to everyone, and telling their pain. "If everyone in the world has to take a philosophy test, then it will be easy to tell who is a fool. A person's view of the world and whether he can express this view clearly, to a large extent, shows whether he is a smart person." Harley's way of speaking is not like a child of this age, and her ability to express shocked Gordon.

"After the academic atmosphere changed like this, those butchers with confused thinking, low taste and boredom were rejected by everyone, and all the murderers began to pursue the professor's style."

"I still don't quite understand, what is the style of this professor?" Gordon asked.

Harry showed some reminiscence, with a hint of fanaticism on her face, as if she was fascinated by her own fantasy, she spoke in a slightly excited tone:

"Compared to paying attention to others, this professor prefers to analyze himself, which is why all serial killers are crazy about him. He shows us through his writing how a sick soul survives in this world, and this is exactly the stimulation we need." Lan

"He makes us discover that the pleasure we get from abusing others comes from a soul that cannot be self-consistent, from the morbidity that has been suppressed by us for many years. Everyone who understands and accepts this theory wants to know how he is with another self. Coexist. "Harry sighed lightly," The recent serial murderer is not an academic discussion at all, but the butchers who were expelled from the academic industry thought they had won and celebrated it. " On the ground newspaper, she turned to look at Gordon's eyes, saying, "Now, they have accepted a new secret code, a secret code formulated by a Batman, do you know what this means?" Gordon looked at her silently. Harry's eyes became a little humid, like a gem soaked in the rain. The theory persuaded the vast majority of people. "" He will inherit the mantle of the professor, soothe these restless souls, control them, lead them, accept their sacrifice, and tell them the answer.