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Chapter 1126

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"Not passed." Shiler said without raising his head: "You don't have a recommendation letter."

With a "slap," a document was handed to Shiler. Shiler said without even looking: "No way, no one's recommendation letter is useful. Your grades are really too poor. It's already good enough that your graduation thesis can let you graduate."

Another piece of paper was handed over. Shiler glanced at it and discovered that it was a transfer application for Cat Getan University that had already been stamped several times. Only then did Shiler raise his head, lean his body against the back of the chair very relaxedly, look at Bruce, reveal a triumphant smile, and then say: "You definitely won't think that my resignation application was handed in earlier than yours."

But Bruce wasn't panicked at all. He took out another document and handed it to Shiler. That was the approval notice for an intern doctor at Arkham Asylum. Shiler hummed, and then said: "Regardless, I don't pass. I don't accept graduate students. Can you still..."

Just as he said this, the phone rang again. Shiler stood up from behind the office desk, looked at Bruce when passing by him, then walked over to answer the phone. Gordon's loud voice came from the other side:

"Shiler, do a good deed! Let Bruce find some proper work to do!

Hurry up and let him go to your place to study! If he pesters Selina every day, we will lose another excellent nurse!"

"Is it not okay for him to study with Victor?" Shiler asked.

"But his study life in the Physics Department is too happy! He only needs to spend two hours a day to complete his study tasks, and then spend 10 hours falling in love with Selina! Please! Selina has two children. If she still has to spend time falling in love, then who will do the nurse's work?"

Shiler rolled his eyes and said: "You mean, he comes to the Psychology Department, we two torture each other, and he can..."

Just as Shiler said this, the door was knocked. Shiler said "I'll hang up first" to the other side of the phone, then walked over to open the door. Appearing outside the door was Mrs. Miller.

After she came in, seeing Bruce standing here, she froze. Subsequently, she smiled and nodded at Bruce, then said: "Look at this kind-hearted big tycoon, he just provided a new electronic system for our hospital to record insurance information, so that nurses don't have to write by hand anymore!"

"He is so young, intelligent, full of drive, and even willing to come to an old mental hospital in person to intern. Jesus, how many years have I not seen such a great young man!"

"But he..."

"God, hurry up and put down your set of old pedantic thoughts! Professor Shiler, we are almost too busy to handle it. It's already a great thing that someone is helping. You won't refuse other people's kindness, right?"

Shiler opened his mouth. He turned around, sized up Bruce from head to toe. Bruce revealed a fake smile at him that didn't reach his eyes. After Mrs. Miller left, Shiler looked at Bruce and asked: "... What exactly do you want to do?"

Bruce shook his head gently and said: "No more joking. Last night, I followed the clues and tracked down the murderer of the hospital murder case to a temporary base near the hospital. He seems to want to take you as his next target."

"I learned from him that quite a few serial murder case killers have set their sights on you." Bruce stared at Shiler's face, seemingly wanting to find a flaw from his expression. After discovering that Shiler's expression didn't have any changes, he had to directly open his mouth and ask: "Why do you think this is?"

"Probably because... I'm a psychologist?" Shiler walked back behind the office desk, sat on the chair, leaned his head on the headrest of the back of the chair, looked diagonally upward, and said: "Do you know? This group of perverted murderers disdains to be with ordinary people, but likes to hide among ordinary people and look at problems from their perspective."

"They feel that ordinary people are stupid and slow, but they are also curious about the inner world of ordinary people. They hate mainstream views, don't want to integrate into society, but also want to know what public psychology and social direction are."

"In their view, psychology is a very magical discipline, a discipline that can understand them without joining society and without communicating with ordinary people. They see this as a shortcut."

Bruce frowned and asked: "Since this is the case, shouldn't they learn psychology as a student?"

Shiler shook his head gently and said: "Don't use the thinking of normal people to speculate about them. When they know that there is this shortcut in the world, their first reaction isn't that they also want to take this shortcut, but that they want to kill the person who takes this shortcut."

"As long as they can kill me, they can prove that they are stronger than me." Shiler lowered his eyes, and then cast his gaze out the window.

Bruce shook his head. He felt that this reason was really too far-fetched, and there were many flaws.

For example, since Shiler's reputation had long been renowned worldwide, then why did this group of serial murder case killers only take action now? And, they even agreed that if they didn't come, none would come, and if they came, they would all come together?

Thinking of this, Bruce felt that a flash of inspiration flashed through his brain. Was this group of serial murder case killers too organized?

How did the murderer of the hospital murder case know the movements of other serial murder case killers? Could it be that they still had communication between them? How did they communicate? And what was the significance of communication?

Several questions flashed through Bruce's mind. He had no clue about the other questions for the time being, but he could answer the last question immediately. What significance could the communication of this group of crazy killers have? Wasn't it just showing off how they killed people?

Thinking of this, a feeling of anger rose from Bruce's heart.

After experiencing so much, Batman knew that some people committed crimes out of necessity, and some people committed crimes on impulse. Regardless of the reason for the crime, they should accept punishment, but there should also be people to explore the causes of the crime and the stories behind it.

He also understood that if the complex causes of crime were shallowly interpreted as personal choices, the problem of crime couldn't be solved from the root. To solve crime, one had to first "understand" the criminal.

The "understanding" here didn't refer to empathizing with the criminal, but seeing the motivation behind the criminal's criminal behavior and the social problems it might represent, searching for similarities between cases, and analyzing the causes of similar cases more from a social level.

But regardless, killing for fun must be the most vicious type of criminal behavior. Behind this, there were almost no social problems worth exploring. It was purely some born lunatics using their innate evil and cruelty to harm others.

Bruce, standing on the spot, felt his mood become heavy again. Originally, his choice to transfer back to the Psychology Department was actually just to watch the fun, and by the way, ensure that the group of murderers who came to find Shiler wouldn't accidentally hurt ordinary people.

But now, he was somewhat rejoicing that he had made this decision.

After Batman returned from hell, he conducted deep thinking. He had never forgotten his fundamental purpose, and that was to eliminate criminals.

And the key to Batman's change in thinking was that he realized that eliminating a certain individual criminal couldn't achieve this purpose.

Because crime itself was a social problem. Even if some people committed crimes of passion, in essence, it was also because family and social education failed to make them have good self-control.

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Although people often said not to blame society for everything, actually, the personality shaping of every individual living in society was the responsibility of society. He had to bear the consequences for every mistake he made, but this didn't mean that problems couldn't be found from the social level.

After learning various doctrines and undergoing various ideological struggles and tempering, Batman found a path that belonged to him.

Since crime actually wasn't a personal choice but a social phenomenon, he would strive to solve the problems that might exist in this society and eliminate crime from the root.

After returning to Cat Getan, Batman had already put this into practice.

For example, in terms of people's livelihood, actively carry out building renovation to deal with the chaos caused by the poor living conditions in the slums, and build a city-wide clean water system to weaken the impact of rainwater that might contain unknown substances on Cat Getan citizens.

In terms of education, vigorously support technical schools, and at the same time, start from the children's gang to carry out compulsory education in bottom-tier technical directions, and then gather small classrooms into large schools for systematic education.

In terms of employment, relax the age threshold for technical workers of Wei En Group, no longer entangled in procedural justice. If children go to the factory to work, at least they can learn some skills. Mixing with gangs, besides learning all kinds of bad things, has no benefits.

At the same time, also cooperate with Mayor Luo Yin to push forward his self-rescue plan for cities on the East Coast, introduce casinos from the Imperial City, draw lessons from the beach and tourism development of Blüdhaven, and cooperate with Chicago to establish a police training school.

So far, these plans have been carried out very smoothly, so Bruce could have the leisure to come and watch Shiler's fun.

But now, he suddenly realized a problem. If all his plans were carried out according to the ideal state, the final result was very perfect, the whole world became the way he imagined, and everyone lived the life they wanted, could crime be completely eliminated?

Before today, Bruce felt that it should be possible.

Although crimes like petty theft and property encroachment might not be completely eliminated, at least, vicious crimes like murder could be eliminated. And what Batman hated most was exactly murderers.

But at this moment, he realized that the answer might be negative.

Because, in this world, there was a type of person who was a "born murderer."

They were born different from ordinary people. Their brains could receive a signal that ordinary people couldn't receive. They would feel happy because of harming their own kind, become addicted to this, sink deeper and deeper, and be unable to extricate themselves.

From the perspective of probability, this kind of person was very, very few. Standing on the earth, with such a large population base, even if there were few, I'm afraid there were tens of thousands distributed all over the world.

Could Batman stop them?

Perhaps, when Wei En Group really controlled the whole world, Batman could indeed rely on dense monitoring equipment to find them one by one. But the problem was, could he stop this type of person from being born?

The so-called brain lesion was just a metaphor. This group of people actually didn't have pathological characteristics, and there were no problems with their genes. It could be foreseen that, whether now or in the future, it was unlikely that there would be technology to see whether a person was cold-blooded after being born.

Even if Batman's black technology allowed him to judge which person was born cold and cruel, he couldn't stop a baby from being born for this reason. If so, did people with irritable tempers not need to be born? Did people with melancholic personalities not need to be born?

And for such a person, from birth, to growth, to the ten-plus years of having the ability to kill, no one could judge whether he was such a person, so there was no way to prevent it early.

No one knew whether a certain ordinary child around them was planning to chop off the neighbor's head.

After thinking about it, Batman felt that he still had to rely on psychology.

Since there was no way to stop this group of people from appearing, and he had to be prepared to fight them for a lifetime, it was better to hold the weapon in his own hands.

"So, you came here, what exactly are you doing?" Shiler looked at Bruce and asked.

Bruce appeared a bit distracted, but soon, he refocused his attention, then looked at Shiler, and said very seriously.

"I want to take a shortcut."

"...... Speak human language."

"I'm going back to write my thesis."

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