Chapter 569: Black Sun and Bat Lamp (Part 2)

There were too many people here, so Schiller didn't use flash. He ran up the stairs and came to the third floor of the building where the power distribution room was located.

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

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

She was stabbed twice in the abdomen. The incision was not big. It should be caused by a small knife such as a fruit knife. The corner of her mouth was broken and there was bruises on the side of her nose. Schiller guessed that someone must have attacked her from behind. He stretched out one arm to cover her mouth, and then stabbed her abdomen with a fruit knife in the other hand.

"Oh My God"

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 stop for a while."

"I'll go take a look." Schiller looked back at the injured girl. The police officer was bandaging her urgently. The girl's pretty face was extremely pale at this time. She was trembling with pain and couldn't speak.

Schiller walked out quickly, and Victor hurried to catch up. 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 will bring the murderer to justice."

Schiller didn't say anything, but just kept walking forward. At this time, Gotham was covered with dark clouds, making it impossible to judge whether the morning had passed, but soon, thick dark clouds covered the city again, and Gotham started to rain again.

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 was still there, but the surrounding things had been moved away.

The cause of death was easy to identify, because only the fatal wound on the neck was very conspicuous. Schiller walked over and checked it briefly, and then took another look at the belt stored in the evidence bag.

It was a decorative belt, which should have been hung around the waist by the dance troupe members during the performance. Therefore, it was made of metal and a thin iron chain, which caused the scar on the neck of the deceased to be so obvious.

There were no fingerprints, no footprints, and almost no traces left. There was no motive, no bystanders, and no secret room. This was completely opposite to the typical murder case that had happened before.

Victor stood in the middle of the room, his face solemn. Obviously, he also found that it was difficult to investigate because there was too little evidence, but Schiller seemed to be thinking about something. Victor saw his expression and walked up to him and asked, "Do you have any ideas?"

"If you only look at this murder case, it may be difficult to judge, but if you connect all the recent murder cases, you will find that the methods used by the murderer are completely different and there is no connection between them. The crime locations have nothing in common except that they are all in Gotham University."

"The only thing that can be called a common point is that the victims are all women."

"Yes, they should all be members of the dance troupe. Could it be that someone is the enemy of the dance troupe, so..."

Schiller shook his head and said, "The one who was just victimized in the storage room That girl is not a member of the cheerleading group. I remember her. She is a junior in the Department of Physics. Because of her good grades and serious study, she is very popular with the professor. The teaching aids used in the physics class are prepared by her, so she appeared in the storage room of the teaching aids..."

"In this way, it is more difficult to identify the murderer."

"Another common point is that the victims are very beautiful." Schiller recalled: "And their temperaments are somewhat similar."

Victor also thought about it. He felt that what Schiller said made sense. At least the two girls he saw were indeed very beautiful. It is not wrong to say that their temperaments are similar. The temperaments of college students are similar, youthful, lively, and a little childish and ignorant.

Even if Gotham is a hopelessly rotten city, the students of Gotham University are still better than other Gotham citizens, because the high proportion of outsiders here dilutes the dark atmosphere, and even the sunny and positive atmosphere can be seen from the daily activities of the students, which is rare in the city of Gotham.

On the way back to the office, Schiller opened up for the first time in a long time and talked to Victor about his views.

"Perhaps I should have said before that serial killers 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 killers with compulsive behavior even have requirements for the way and time of the body being found and the identity of the bystanders."

"Creating connections and guiding attention are their specialties. They like to let the police officers who are handling the case be guided by the clues and evidence they leave behind, and find the answer little by little. This will give them a sense of accomplishment, a sense of accomplishment of killing and playing with their own kind."

"Among the serial killers I have encountered, it is not the case that the more brutal the method of committing the case, the more dangerous it is, nor is it the case that the less evidence left, the more clever it is. Sometimes, it is just the opposite."

"Each of the cases they committed may be very ordinary, but there is an incomprehensible theme when they are connected together. They may leave a lot of clues at the scene, and then watch the police officers being played around with great interest..."

"In general, killing someone is not their purpose. Breaking the law and breaking the bottom line, but wandering in the danger of paying or not paying the price, using themselves as a bet to observe the reaction of the whole society, is their purpose of killing others."

"So, although these cases have some elements of serial murders, for example, all occurred at Gotham University, and the victims were all women, but But this is still not a serial murder case. "

"Because the murderer is not only not making connections, on the contrary, he is desperately erasing the connections. He wants each case to look unrelated and reduce the number of common points in each case to a minimum. "

"Another point can be proved, that is, he destroyed the evidence at the scene as much as possible, making the person who did it come and go without a trace, leaving the police confused and unable to investigate anything. "

"For the serial murderer, this is too boring. They want to control and guide the investigators, let them visit according to the instructions, instead of watching others like headless flies, blindly running around in their carefully crafted exhibitions. "

"And from this conclusion, it can be inferred 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 this murderer is precisely to kill. "

Victor held an umbrella, and he saw that Schiller's face was shrouded under his umbrella, and in the shadow, no expression could be seen clearly.

But whenever Schiller talked about these things related to his past, there was always a kind of indifference that made people feel cold, as if he had a natural resonance with those perverted murderers and lunatics he talked about.

When he stood from the perspective of an examiner and used this resonance to examine the case and find the real murderer, he was more like a black sun hanging high in the sky, chaos from himself to others, and no light shone on everything.

The rain kept falling, and the shadow of death enveloped the few pure lands in Gotham. The days of Gotham college students were no longer as peaceful as usual. The sharp sirens and the smell of blood in the air made it seem as if this place was grasped by a big hand in the abyss, just like other places in Gotham, being pulled into endless darkness.

When I returned to the office, the lights here had been lit again, but now, the bright and clean light bulbs could not give people a sense of security.

Because no one knew when the lights would go out again, and no one knew whether there would be another scream and another corpse when the power went out again.

Not long after returning to the office, Gordon called and said, "The girl who was attacked in the storage room is out of danger. I conducted a preliminary inquiry with her, but as expected, the man attacked her from behind and she saw nothing."

"According to her recollection, the attacker should be a boy, strong and fast, so the victim had no way to resist."

After hanging up the phone, Schiller sat at his desk and pondered for a while, then he picked up the phone and called Bruce first, 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 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 and killed on the spot.

The reason why Bruce knew about these cases earlier than the police was that Batman was still in Gotham City that night, but someone escaped his eyes and committed a murder. When Batman arrived at the scene, only the body was left on the ground.

Facing the tragedy that seemed familiar, Batman could not remain indifferent. Thomas and he knew each other in childhood. They were not close friends who talked about everything, but they were old friends. Batman felt that he had to find out the truth about this case.

Of course, he had a suspect, that is, Godfather Falcone.

Thomas killed people in Gotham University, and the Godfather would definitely be very dissatisfied, because he had already said that no one was allowed to commit crimes in Gotham University, but Thomas, as the only son of the Elliot family, deliberately violated this rule, and the Godfather would regard this as a provocation.

On the day Thomas was imprisoned, a conflict broke out between the Elliot family and the Falcone family. The Elliots were convinced that their son was wronged, and they tried desperately to find fault with the Gotham Police Department, but the Gotham Police Department was also under the control of the Godfather.

Their unkind behavior annoyed Falcone. He blocked part of the Elliot family's business in Gotham and even invited the Elliots to the Falcone Manor for a talk. But on their way to the North District, they were killed.

So who is the biggest suspect? Batman thinks that starting with Falcone would be the most efficient choice.

Therefore, Batman began to look up 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 anyone.

He is innocent.

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