Chapter 3022: Green Trees, Thick Shade, Long Summer (30)
Chapter 2996: Long Summer Days under Thick Green Trees (30)
About the day before Nygma was killed, he called Edward. No one knew what they talked about on the phone, but Gordon guessed that Nygma might have deliberately provoked Edward and revealed his location, and he wanted to lure Edward over.
But Edward went to find Cobblepot, which should have been beyond Nygma's expectations. The two of them dug a trap for Nygma together.
Nygma led Edward over to stimulate him to hurt himself. Edward might have really broken in, but he didn't really hurt Nygma. He might have just knocked him out and made him believe that he was hurt.
Then he sent the refrigeration device to the other party's stomach. Considering that there were no signs of external injuries, it could only be sent in through the esophagus. Considering that this thing is not big, it is still very likely.
Then this thing froze Nygma. The principle is similar to Victor freezing his wife. It can make people lose all vital signs and their body temperature is still very low.
So when Nygma was found in the alley, everyone thought he was dead, and even professional forensic doctors could not see any signs of life.
However, the abnormal body temperature will soon be discovered by the forensic doctor, who will want to find out what is going on. The verification process of the forensic doctor includes the process of confirming the condition of the internal organs, and often the digestive tract must be opened for examination.
The forensic doctor is very likely to cut open the stomach for examination, and once the refrigeration device in Nygma's stomach is found, it will definitely be taken out to see, and once it is taken out, Nygma will gradually thaw and revive.
The forensic doctor thought he was a corpse, so he would not hold back when he cut, and would inevitably cause a wound in the abdominal cavity. If the person died, it would be fine, but if he suddenly came back to life, of course he would be sent to the hospital.
When Nygma woke up from the rescue, he only knew that his stomach was injured, which was consistent with what he thought was stabbed by his nephew.
But most of the police station knew that the wound was not actually stabbed by someone. When he was sent here, he was not injured at all, but the forensic doctor thought he was dead, so he cut open his abdominal cavity.
In other words, the nephew's stabbing did not happen at all. The facts and his cognition did not match, and there were only two results.
Most people would think that he was lying and that he was framing his nephew, because there was no wound when he was sent to the hospital, so how could he be stabbed? All his testimony against his nephew seemed like he was lying deliberately to frame him.
But Gordon knew that there was a very small possibility that he was not lying, and he really thought that Edward stabbed him, and to do this, someone must have taken action, and that was Schiller.
Gordon actually knew that hypnosis was not that magical, but he also knew that hypnosis was actually more magical than he thought. Theoretically, it was unlikely to let a person lie peacefully in the room and make him believe that he was stabbed.
But if someone really broke into someone's office with a knife and made the stabbing action, the other person really felt the pain and then lost consciousness. It would be very easy to hypnotize him who was half asleep and half awake at this time that someone stabbed him.
Sometimes hypnosis is not even necessary. Coma itself is the self-protection mechanism of the brain. After waking up from a coma, it is very normal to have disordered memories, just like forcibly shutting down a computer may cause program errors.
Gordon didn't know if Schiller could do the former, but he knew he could definitely do the latter. Some misleading behaviors and words, combined with hypnosis, made it very easy for Schiller to slightly distort something that had already happened.
But this was not a conspiracy, but an open conspiracy, because if Nygma really loved his nephew, he would not say anything, or just tell the responsible police in private, trying not to make a big deal out of it.
Now he used the name of love to make his nephew stab him and made it public. He stepped into a trap himself. Gordon saw it, but he had no way to stop it.
Could he go and tell Nygma that you fell into a trap, and the more you yell, the more you look like a madman and a fool?
Moreover, it does not make sense to say that he is determined to uphold legal justice and will not tolerate a grain of sand in his eyes, so he will kill his own relatives for the sake of justice, because he knows that his nephew is in a mental hospital, and he is not a person with full behavioral capacity, and he will not receive more legal punishment. It is meaningless to uphold legal justice in this matter.
If he really wants to uphold justice, he should trouble the mental hospital and ask them to strengthen management, so as to protect the interests of his nephew.
And now he does this, there is only one possibility left, that is, he wants to make his nephew's madness and hurting people known to everyone.
So Gordon guessed that he deliberately led Edward over, which is not the victim-blaming theory, but he behaved a little too obviously.
Of course, if he really came with a knife wound, then people would only sympathize with him if he said so, but now everyone knows that he was intact when he was sent to the police station, so the malice hidden in his guiding words is too easy to be detected.
Sure enough, when Gordon went in again, the two young police officers who stayed behind had strange expressions on their faces, and they glanced at Nygma who was crying from time to time. Gordon had no doubt that as soon as they returned to the police station, they would share this matter with their colleagues who had watched Nygma's resurrection with their own eyes.
And he also complained that this guy deserved to be so unlucky. He obviously had no wounds when he was delivered, and he still framed his nephew.
Although Nygma had fallen into the trap and there was no chance of a comeback, Gordon still dutifully told him the truth.
"Sorry, sir, I didn't say anything because I saw you were very emotional before, but according to the forensic files... you didn't have any wounds on your body when you were sent to the police station."
This sentence hit Nygma directly on the head. Gordon also saw what is called a dimensionality reduction attack on IQ. Nygma seemed to be stunned.
"This is impossible! I obviously lost too much blood and fainted! If there were no wounds, how could I be in the hospital?! And my wounds are obviously still hurting..."
The policemen in the room all showed embarrassed expressions, and Gordon really didn't know how to explain, so he had to call the attending doctor over.
It was time to change the dressing, and the doctor opened the bandage around his abdomen. At that moment, Nygma was stunned.
As we all know, wounds caused by being stabbed and cut are completely different. No matter what, it is impossible for a knife to make such a perfect cross. It seems that this was done by someone who is proficient in surgical techniques.
"Impossible...impossible!!" Nygma roared and said, "You are all lying to me! Has someone bribed you?! You are all talking for that little bastard!!!"
Now, Gordon felt that this should be Schiller's work. His works always revealed such black humor. After seeing it too much, Gordon could distinguish it.
In fact, it is difficult to expose a hypocrite. This is true for anyone. It is still a matter of the right to speak. If a person behaves politely, gentle and reliable in front of everyone, then let people believe that he is a hypocrite. Being an abuser is very difficult. Countless people suffer from this dilemma and cannot escape.
But Schiller had set a perfect trap.
In essence, it is still taking advantage of the information gap. During the period when Nygma was in coma, he did not know what the police did. What the police did happened to meet his purpose, but the truth was different from him. Think completely different.
And after he wakes up and finds that everything is exactly as he imagined, he will naturally have inertial thinking and reveal the so-called truth according to the situation he imagined.
But this truth is completely different from the facts, and the so-called disclosure of the truth has become a malicious frame-up.
As far as this matter is concerned, Nygma is the victim who fell into the trap. Logically speaking, Gordon should help and protect him, but this is the brilliance of this strategy.
If Nygma had no malice at all, he would not have fallen into the trap. As long as he fell into the trap, it would prove that he did have malice, and it would be easy for Gordon to see that his malice was the reason why this happened. The origin was entirely his own fault. No matter how kind Gordon was, he could not argue more for him.
And the consequences of this are terrible, because before Gordon came, Nygma met with reporters as soon as he woke up, probably to build momentum, and used the same rhetoric of being stabbed by his nephew.
But at that time, everyone saw him being transported into the police station and out again. If it was just an accidental injury case, how could the victim enter the police station?
The reporter squatting at the door of the police station was not stupid. What if you were stabbed several times by your nephew and came back to life?
These reporters are born hyenas, they will stir up trouble no matter what, and they will make up random moments in an effort to show off the charm of journalism. There is no way they can dig deep into the heart of the earth for this apparently inconsistent situation. I'll give up,
Sure enough, as soon as Gordon walked out of the hospital gate, he was surrounded by a group of reporters. The reporters asked him with microphones.
"Chief, is it because Mr. Nygma insists that his nephew hurt him because he suffers from some mental illness? Or is the police department asking him to say this in order to evade responsibility?"
"Chief Gordon, some people have described this as the worst forensic incident of this century. Is Mr. Nygma's insistence that he was stabbed related to this? Did the police department put pressure on him?"
"Mr. Director, I am a reporter from Gotham Medical News. Do you think the Nygma family has a hereditary mental disorder? Is Mr. Nygma's memory disorder related to this?"
"Mr. Director, this is Mary from City News. Do you think Mr. Nygma's mental state allows him to run for mayor? Is he more willing to retreat for treatment or actively fight for it?"
Gordon waved to them and got in the car without answering. These were all the questions that gave Nygma a headache.
Sitting in the car, Gordon couldn't help but think that in every case Schiller did, the fate of the victims revealed what they had done. Although Nygma did not die, was he in the same situation as him? Does what he did in the past echo?
What is more difficult than exposing a hypocrite is self-evidence. Although it is often said not to self-evidence, the underlying logic of this statement is that self-evidence can never prove innocence, and no amount of evidence is enough.
Once you fall into the vortex of self-evidence, you will only be pressed step by step until you collapse in despair.
Did Schiller want Nygma to end up in this situation?
In other words, Nygma once put others in such a situation, at this moment, just like that moment.
Gordon thought about Edward Nygma who was sent to a mental hospital.
Gordon always felt that sometimes, the theory of "evil will be punished by evil" was not completely without merit. A policeman like him, even if he knew the truth, could never do anything to Mr. Nygma, the mayoral candidate, but Schiller could.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, how could it not be another kind of justice?
Gordon added in his heart - it's time for you to be Batman's teacher.
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