Chapter 155 Party and Umbrella (VI)

Batman is investigating the identity of the mysterious third person in the murder case. He is checking the surveillance video in front of the computer.

When transforming the living hell, Batman will of course bring his own goods into it, such as installing thousands of cameras.

If it is in an ordinary residential area, then with Batman's financial and technical strength, he can completely use cameras to monitor all residents without blind spots.

But in the living hell, this is difficult to achieve. The outrageous building structure and overly dense population make equipment monitoring a difficult task.

In other places, cameras have 80% viewing angles plus 20% blind spots, but in the building structure of the living hell, cameras basically have 80% blind spots plus 20% visible area.

And the people who live here have no concept of not occupying public space. They will pile up all kinds of debris in the corners where cameras can be hidden.

The people here had no idea of ​​not destroying public property. When they saw something messy on the wall, their first reaction was to shoot. As a result, within just a few weeks, 30% of the cameras hidden by Batman were scrapped, and another 30% were blocked or blurred.

The remaining 30% were still located by luck. Coincidentally, there were no usable cameras in the two or three corridors around the scene of Fish's death. Batman could only look for clues from farther away.

The population here is dense, and there are too many people coming and going every day. There are thousands of people recorded in the cameras in the nearby blocks alone. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack to find one of them who may know Fish and Cobblepot at the same time.

Even so, Batman still took out his patience and watched the surveillance screen frame by frame.

Hard work pays off. Soon, Batman found a familiar face from the screen of the equipment. It was Sal Maroni.

The surveillance equipment only captured a side face of him, but his appearance was very distinctive and his temperament was different from others. Batman found him at a glance.

After retrieving Maroni's information, Batman discovered that Maroni was not a resident of the living hell and had almost no relationship with anyone here. Therefore, his appearance here was very suspicious.

Batman decided to talk to Maroni. Even if he was not the murderer, he must know something if he appeared in the living hell at this time.

"Batman? What's wrong with him?" Schiller asked Cobblepot in the ward of Arkham Mental Hospital.

"I have observed this weirdo for a while and found a very strange thing about him - he doesn't kill people."

"And not only does he not kill people." Cobblepot said a little unbelievably: "He actually saved people. I saw him save a beaten child..."

"How can there be such a person in Gotham? Cobblepot said in a very ridiculous tone: "It seems that if you don't use him, you will lose..."

"Then how did you use him?"

"Just as Maroni and I arranged, I led Fish to a room, then angered her, and Maroni shot her from the side. "

"But what Maroni didn't know was that I had made arrangements before coming. When we started, I made some noise upstairs. I knew that the weirdo often patrolled here, so this would definitely attract him."

"Maroni heard someone coming, and he was eager to escape, but I offered to stay and clean up the mess. Then, just like Batman told you..."

Cobolt showed a creepy and evil smile and said, "I fell there, pretending to be sick, with signs of abuse all over my body. As expected, the weirdo not only didn't kill me, but also saved me, so I went to the police station..."

"I already know the whole process, so let's talk about the cause. Now that things have developed to this point, how do you plan to achieve your goal? "

"Maroni kidnapped my mother and forced a minor and a mentally ill person to participate in the murder. I heard him tell me about his plan to frame Falconet Jr...."

"I will stand up as the only eyewitness to testify against Maroni and prove that the Godfather's heir is innocent. Everything is Maroni's conspiracy..."

"Do you think you can use this to negotiate with the Godfather?"

"No, of course I know it's impossible."

Cobert looked at the ceiling and said, "From the fact that the Godfather asked me to kill old Edward, I understood a truth, a truth that makes the Godfather the Godfather, a truth that Falconet Jr. hasn't understood yet..."

"When the Godfather does something, he must be justified, with sufficient reasons and enough reason."

"He has no reason to persecute a humble...nobody who works diligently for him, is abused and coerced, and is mentally stimulated and hospitalized, and has solved problems for him before being admitted to the hospital. "

When Cobert's words fell, Schiller looked at him, and a shadow from the window beam fell on his face. Even though his face was still very young, the outline of the future ambitious Penguin could already be seen.

Wandering among various forces, maintaining a delicate balance, with interlocking plans and almost perfect execution capabilities, it is hard to believe that a teenager can accomplish all this alone.

"However, your perfect plan still has an accident."

When Cobert heard Schiller's question, he instinctively turned his head away and did not want to look directly at the doctor, but Schiller still said: "The accident is due to this genetic disease in your family. Your mother got sick first, causing you to waste too much time to subdue and comfort her. Then, when the plan was about to succeed, your pretending to be sick became a real illness, so at this time, you did not expose Maroni at the police station, but came here."

Cobert pursed his lips, as if he was unwilling to admit it, and then he said: "You said that this disease can be cured..."

"It can be, but you have to cooperate."

Schiller stood up, nodded, and said seriously: "If so, then I admit that you did not commit academic fraud in terms of crime, The setting, early layout, mid-term execution and ending of the whole plan are all at the same level as when you murdered old Edward. "

"Although some processes are a bit cumbersome, they are still meticulous. If this accident had not happened, everything would have been completed smoothly according to your plan."

"And you have a very accurate grasp of the Godfather's psychology. In this case, he really won't bother with you."

"Then let's analyze this accident."

Schiller walked to the other side of the room, then pushed a whiteboard from the side, wrote a series of words on it, and then pointed to the whiteboard and said: "Catonic schizophrenia, to understand this disease, we have to start with the general category of schizophrenia..."

Then, lying on the bed, Cobert was forced to listen to Schiller's popular science lecture on psychiatry.

Even if he had a genius brain, he was dizzy after more than an hour of Schiller's talk. There were too many medical terms he had never heard of, and there were also various case analyses.

While Schiller was drinking water, Cobert said, "I think I'm almost recovered. Let me go back to the police station. I still have things to do..."

"Don't worry, there's one last thing left, the most critical part, such as why you got sick at that time."

"First of all, dusk to night is the peak period for schizophrenia, and changes in light will stimulate mental patients."

"You should have started preparing at dusk and then acted at night. If I'm not mistaken, the window of the room where you acted can see the sunset, and the light is still very dazzling, which will cause greater stimulation to mentally unstable people. Remember to find a room without windows next time."

"And earlier, you were abused by Fish, and then in the process of subduing your mother, you were "These are all very typical external stimuli." Schiller turned the pen in his hand and said, "You thought you endured it silently when you were beaten by Fish, and you were helpless when you were hurt by your mother, but in fact, your subconscious mind remembered the pain more deeply than your reason." "You thought you didn't have any psychological trauma, but it's not the case." "The spirit of teenagers is not stable enough. If you don't get sick this time, you will still have post-traumatic stress disorder in about a month, such as continuous anxiety and nightmares, and difficulty falling asleep." "People always imagine themselves to be too powerful, and the more intelligent and rational people are, the more they think so." "But the human spirit is actually stronger than Be vulnerable in your imagination. Just because psychological trauma is not expressed does not mean it does not exist. "

Copper turned his head away to stop himself from thinking about these questions. He said, "I have to complete my plan. Although it's a little late, it should still be in time."

"No hurry..." Schiller walked to his desk and flipped through it. He took out a file and said as he flipped through it, "From your perspective, this matter has been explained very clearly."

"But do you want to hear the story from another perspective?"

Schiller opened the file and said calmly, "Ten days ago, a homicide occurred on Green Street next to the Living Hell area. The police officer in charge of the case was Harvey Bullock. In his report, he wrote this..."

"Kevin Brown , a gang leader was found dead in the alley at the end of Green Street. He was shot three times, the second shot hit his lung, which was a fatal injury. When the police arrived, he was dead on the spot. After investigating the crime scene, the police determined that it was a gang fight. "

"You should be familiar with this case. You have already mentioned it in your story just now."

"I am not going to talk about this case, but another case attached to this case."

"In the Viking Umbrella Shop at the end of Green Street, an umbrella maker was found dead at the door of the shop. The cause of death was a pistol shot, and he was still killed on the spot. After the police investigation, it was determined that he was affected by the gang fight..."

"Finally, the police investigation found that a gang fight occurred at the end of Green Street, and two people died."

Cobblepot saw Schiller leaning on the windowsill, with his back to the light. When he put down the file, the light from behind him shone on the lens, making it difficult for Cobblepot to see his eyes, but Cobblepot had a bad feeling.

"I know, you want to say that this kind of case is not uncommon and has nothing to do with me."

"But it has caused me a lot of trouble."

Schiller said in a calm tone: "It has rained a lot recently, and my umbrella has been used frequently. It broke."

"When I found the umbrella maker and wanted to repair it, I found that he was dead."

"Fish Mooney killed the only handmade umbrella maker in Gotham City."

"After that, I went to talk to her. Because of the guilt in her heart, she couldn't sleep or eat, so she went crazy."

"So now, Mr. Cobblepot..."

Cobblepot began to feel cold on his back. He struggled to move to the other side of the bed, trying to avoid Schiller's sight, but one of his hands was still tied to the armrest and he couldn't move at all.

Schiller took out an umbrella from behind the table, walked slowly to the end of the bed, then reached out and poked the tip of the umbrella between Cobert's eyes, and said to Cobert:

"Can you explain to me where this umbrella with the emblem of the Viking Umbrella Maker in your hand came from?"