Chapter 1140: Professor (20)

Shiler walked into the classroom and then closed the door with his hand. Seeing his figure, Dick struggled twice, and his mouth, sealed with tape, made "hmm hmm" sounds, seemingly wanting to say something to Shiler, but Shiler couldn't understand at all.

"This fake disguised himself as me and wanted to pick up Dick after school." The Batman standing on the left spoke.

"It was you who kidnapped Dick and wanted to disguise yourself as me to confuse the public." The Batman on the right looked at the other Batman with a serious face and said.

The two Batmans were not only identical in appearance, figure, and equipment, but even the tone and demeanor when they spoke were the same.

And when both Batmans cast their gazes toward Shiler, Shiler felt his head start to ache. He was really afraid that these two Batmans would say in unison, "I want to go back and write my thesis."

According to common sense, a real Batman, when encountering a fake, shouldn't talk so much nonsense with him and should just move directly because he didn't believe at all that there would be another person in this world who could surpass him when pretending to be him.

But the problem was that there was still Dick in this room. The fake Batman was betting that this would make the real Batman hesitate, and the real Batman would definitely worry that if he moved directly, the other party would be desperate and might use unscrupulous means to harm Dick.

And Dick was tied up now, unable to hide, and he was young, his body very fragile. Once he suffered serious injury, it might make Batman regret it for the rest of his life.

To put it plainly, this was a trap set by the fake Batman, using Dick to force the real Batman to play a game of who is real and who is fake, making him unable to break the rules with violence and only able to rely on the judgment of others.

It was just that the fake Batman didn't expect that it would be Shiler who came.

In his plan, his teammate Black Mask would hold Gordon for a while, allowing him to complete the plan of kidnapping Dick. But afterward, Black Mask would pretend to be defeated and escape again, leaving clues after escaping to let Gordon come here to distinguish the true from the false.

The fake Batman was confident that the judgment Gordon made would be wrong.

By then, he would kill Dick in front of Batman and tell him at the same time that even his most trusted friends and comrades didn't understand him at all, and Dick's death was the price he paid for his usual arrogance.

And at the same time, when Gordon made the judgment, he would definitely ask many questions. And if he finally chose the fake, wouldn't it mean that there was someone in this world more suitable to be Batman than Batman? Wouldn't it also mean that Batman didn't do well enough and should be replaced?

Every criminal in this world targeting Batman had the ultimate goal of making Batman have a mental breakdown.

But at this time, the situation had changed. Shiler came here, which made the fake Batman feel a bit nervous.

He understood that this professor was not easy to fool. He went over all the questions he thought the other party might ask in his mind again, as well as the answers he obtained through long-term tracking and observation of Batman.

But unexpectedly, Shiler didn't say anything. He stood in place and sighed deeply, then started looking around.

Just as he turned to look at the blackboard, he found what he wanted. Shiler walked quickly to the table beside the podium, where there was a phone.

He picked up the phone, dialed a number, and then said to the other side, "Hello? Do you have time now? Batman wants to invite you to play a game. Can you come over?"

Shiler switched the phone to the other hand and said, "Wait! Don't be in such a hurry to leave! I think you should need a sufficiently gorgeous entrance! Yes, it's best to give Batman a big surprise, just like you are good at."

After hanging up the phone, Shiler came to the opposite side of the two Batmans, extended a hand toward Batman, then spread five fingers, and afterward, slowly brought his little finger and thumb together, leaving only three fingers, and said: "Three..."

Both Batmans revealed a trace of confusion.

"Are you saying there is a third Batman?"

"Are you saying there are four people here, and three are real?"

"Two, one..."

"Bang! Crash!"

"Batman!

Your good friend Joker has come!

How is it?! Is it surprising enough?!

Hahahahahahahaha!

!

"

Joker Jack, who broke in through the window, directly tackled the Batman on the left to the ground. Joker rode on Batman and strangled his neck tightly.

"Bang!"

The gunshot rang out suddenly. The Batman who wasn't tackled by Joker lowered his head, looked at his shot chest, and then looked up, looking at Shiler who fired the shot in disbelief.

Shiler actually discovered that the bullets from the ordinary pistol didn't cause too much damage to this fake Batman. His fake bat suit, although not as good as the real Batman's bat suit in terms of protection, had a certain bulletproof effect.

However, Shiler didn't continue to fire, but let this fake Batman jump out of the window and escape. In fact, when this fake Batman took two steps back, Shiler discovered that one of his legs might be a prosthetic limb.

That is to say, the one who took a shovel from Harley that day was precisely this fake Batman.

And regarding his identity, Shiler actually had some speculation. In the comics, there was indeed a villain who wanted to undergo plastic surgery to look like Batman because of his fanatical obsession with Batman, and that was Hush.

And what made Shiler more certain of this was precisely the figure of this fake Batman. This wasn't the first time Shiler had seen him.

Hush's real name was Thomas Elliot. That's right, it was the Thomas who manufactured a murder case in the dormitory where Bruce was staying when Lex Luthor first came to Cat Getan University.

After the case was solved, Thomas was almost unable to move because he was covered in Victor's freezing liquid. Fortunately, in order to be able to bring him to court, Gordon contacted Victor to save him.

Afterward, Thomas was accused of murder and was locked into Cat Getan Prison, which was later Blackgate Penitentiary. And this time, he appeared again, and he should have escaped from prison.

Speaking of which, it's very interesting. The settings of Hush and Black Mask are very similar, whether it's family background, experience, or goals, they are simply like they were cast from the same mold.

Both come from wealthy families in Cat Getan, one from Sionis, one from Elliot.

Both manufactured accidents and murdered their own parents. Black Mask manufactured a fire, and Hush manufactured a car accident.

Both embarked on the path of crime because of jealousy toward Bruce Wei En. What's more interesting is that both discovered that Batman was Bruce Wei En only after many years.

However, perhaps it was precisely because serial killers communicated more frequently, and Shiler specifically published a thesis about Batman, which allowed the two to guess Batman's true identity in advance. These two villains with very similar backgrounds and experiences actually joined forces to formulate a conspiracy plan, wanting to break Batman's defenses.

Clearly, the death of Dr. Richard at Wei En Hospital was a beginning.

The two joined forces to manufacture this murder case and almost hid in the hospital at the same time. Because they committed the crime in Wei En Hospital, Bruce Wei En, the owner of the hospital, would definitely arrive at the scene. They stayed there to observe Bruce's reaction.

And among these two, Thomas was likely responsible for pre-case reconnaissance, but his actions weren't meticulous enough and were discovered by Harley, who was a nurse at Wei En Hospital. Harley had premeditated and gave him a shovel, causing a very serious injury to one of his legs.

But fortunately, he had an accomplice. Roman saved Thomas, took him to the base, and after emergency treatment, transferred him overnight.

At the same time, in order to make Batman believe that their target wasn't him, they deliberately left Shiler's photo, wanting to mislead Batman, making him think that this was a serial murder case with doctors as the theme.

Both of them knew that Shiler was Batman's teacher and was very important to Batman. They believed that once Batman knew his teacher was targeted by a serial killer, he would definitely strive to protect him, thereby neglecting the protection of other people around him. In this way, they would have a chance to succeed.

But just like this wouldn't work either. They had to manufacture a trolley problem, letting Batman save one but not the other.

Among them, Roman, that is, Black Mask, pretended to break his defenses and expose himself because of being ignored by Batman and Shiler, and was then taken away by Gordon, entering the detention room of the Cat Getan Police Department as a prisoner, which could bypass the astonishing firepower density at the gate of the police station, thereby achieving a breakthrough from the inside.

On the other side, Thomas, who had successfully undergone plastic surgery and became completely identical in appearance to Bruce Wei En, took out the fake Batman attire he had prepared long ago, came to Dick's school, and kidnapped Dick.

And when the real Batman arrived, he used Dick as a hostage, making Batman unable to subdue him with violence, thereby achieving the purpose of misleading the judgment of Batman's friends and making him break his defenses.

Shiler was right. These serial killers just like to engage in these conspiracy plans with seven twists and eight turns. If a thing doesn't go around five or six times, perform three or four plays, and pull seven or eight people into the game, it seems as if they aren't smart enough.

Of course, Shiler's response was also very simple. He didn't need to know which Batman was real; Joker knew.

In fact, Joker didn't need to know which Batman was real either. When he made his gorgeous entrance, the one he smashed was 100% the real Batman.

Shiler, standing in front of the window, saw that the fake Batman, because his escape was too hasty, didn't grab the claw hook tightly and fell directly from the height of the third floor. His prosthetic leg had already broken.

What was more serious was that the bone at the connection point between the prosthetic limb and the limb also had problems. If there were no accidents, he was afraid he would completely lose this leg.

Shiler didn't care about Joker and Batman who were wrestling together. He walked to Dick's side but didn't help him untie the rope, instead flipping his eyelids to check his mental state. He hadn't forgotten that Dick's mental state was abnormal and might have been hypnotized by someone.

Shiler didn't think Black Mask and Hush had the ability to hypnotize Dick. I'm afraid someone else did something to Dick.

But after thinking about it, Shiler still didn't directly treat Dick. After all, since Bruce had already intended to cultivate Dick and regarded him as his adopted son, the relationship between the two of them always had to go through such a pass. It was better to let Bruce solve this kind of thing himself.

Shiler first let Gray Mist knock Dick unconscious, fed him some sedative medicine, and then drove him back to Wei En Manor and handed him to Alfred.

When Batman and Joker finished fighting and limped back to his bedroom in Wei En Manor to check on Dick's condition, he found a bottle of wine on the nightstand and a note pressed under the wine bottle.

"This is madness wine. You can use it to communicate with Dick and go into his heart to have a good talk with him—Shiler."