Chapter 1174: The Cry of the Lamb (Part 3)

Shiler began to laugh. In the past, there was always a coldness in Shiler's laughter, but this time, his laughter sounded very low, yet contained genuine happiness.

"Fortunately, in the few years I've known this professor, I've understood part of his behavioral patterns."

"He has almost no worldly sense of morality or honor. When he wants to do something, whether it conforms to the shocking definition of society is not within his consideration."

"But there is only one thing that will make him feel ashamed, and that is his academic level being questioned."

"I knew that once Angela announced she was going to circulate the paper I wrote to everyone, Shiler would definitely stop this matter immediately. This professor couldn't afford to lose face."

"When he stopped it, he wouldn't even consider whether he would fall into trouble because of it; he just wanted to stop this terrible thing from happening as quickly as possible. So, he pleaded guilty."

"You indeed deceived arrogance and achieved success in this exam. What do you think is the biggest reason you were able to pass the exam?"

Shiler asked again, but soon added: "What do you think is the most critical point you utilized?"

"The gap between my status and Professor Shiler's." Bruce answered without hesitation: "I am a student, he is a teacher."

"For a student, not studying, making mistakes, and having all kinds of small problems in a thesis are forgivable to the public. I am just an undergraduate; it is normal that I can't write a good thesis."

"Even to the public, it is a pleasant surprise that a playboy who doesn't study and is flamboyant can complete a thesis better than the average level."

"Even, as long as I finish the thesis step by step, the public will think I have a tendency to turn over a new leaf. This will even become one of my advantages, because for the heir of the Wei En Group, university grades are indeed not necessary, but I tried my best to do it well, which proves that I respect teachers and value education, and am rough but detailed."

Bruce shook his head slightly and said: "But it's not like that for Shiler. He is a professor and a famous psychologist. No matter how powerful a thesis his student writes, it will still be considered as it should be by the world."

"And if there are some small problems in the student's thesis, people might feel that this master is not as good as his reputation, or that he didn't teach his students with heart and is not a good teacher."

"Professor Shiler has always valued his academic reputation and teaching level very much. He cannot tolerate anyone questioning these two aspects. But the higher he stands, the higher people's requirements are. Any flaw will be picked out and magnified, which is a devastating blow to a perfectionist."

Bruce changed his posture and leaned on the chair, hands in front of him, and said: "I deeply reflected on the last mistake. I found that my biggest problem is that I have always firmly believed that only the strong can gain an advantage."

"I must control everything, defeat everything, and let everyone realize that I am omnipotent, and they will succumb to me out of fear. If I appear weak, how can I restrict those people from acting recklessly?"

"In the last incident, I knew there was no good way to deal with you, but I was still bluffing."

"I didn't fight you because I couldn't be sure if I could beat you. I was worried that if a mistake occurred, it would put me in a weak position, making me even less able to restrict you... I didn't dare to take the risk."

"I stayed in your office to deal with those serial killers also because I knew I could defeat them, so I had to use them to highlight my strong position to deter you."

"But in this whole matter, the only moment I gained an advantage was actually when Lucifer and Gordon and the others rushed into this room."

"At that time, I seemed to have lost more than 1000 milliliters of blood and was almost completely unable to move, appearing very fragile. But at that time, I gained more things, and even if I persisted, I had the possibility of turning defeat into victory by using it. This thing is called 'empathy'."

"Every creature with humanity will instinctively feel fear and disgust toward power. If power happens to oneself, one fears it; if it doesn't happen to oneself, one is disgusted by it."

"When the group that is disgusted accounts for the majority, those who are cowardly due to fear also have the courage to speak out and fight against power."

"Lucifer, Gordon, and even Falcone all felt that what you did was a bit too much. They don't hate you, they just hate this kind of power. And I, who was in a weak position, obtained a sword, which I could use to fight against you by utilizing this disgust and the sympathy of others."

As Bruce's voice fell, Shiler was silent for a few seconds, then clapped his hands with his handcuffed hands, looked at Bruce, and said:

"You make me feel very surprised. I don't think this is entirely the result of arrogance's teaching. You have great talent, and your sharpness and wisdom are surprising."

Bruce turned his head away. He seemed very unaccustomed to Shiler praising him. Shiler continued: "But you also ignored a small problem. If you and I were strangers, would they have such great disgust?"

"People hate power, and they hate power imposed on those close to them even more, because they all know that you are my student and know that our relationship is friends, teacher-student, and even father-son, so they feel that my approach is very unreasonable."

"I am different from arrogance. I will never use the word 'stupid' on a genius like you. I understand that someone who hasn't tried will make mistakes, and the speed of correcting mistakes and what they can learn from them is the manifestation of their talent. And your performance completely exceeded my expectations, shockingly excellent."

Bruce just looked at his fingers and didn't respond. After a while, he was like a student who got a full score but still wanted to show his humility by nitpicking, cleared his throat, and said: "But I feel that this plan is not perfect, and some accidents still occurred."

"You mean, Jimmy's death?"

Bruce lowered his head and nodded: "When I saw Talia and William, I knew they had killed someone, and at that moment, I also guessed that if Shiler had seen them, he would definitely have been able to see that they had killed someone."

"I don't hope that the murder case they manufactured will affect my subsequent plan, so I found the corpse and hid it."

"This is another point I learned." Bruce shook his head and said: "The tragedy has already happened, and I cannot bring the dead back to life. Being angry and disrupting my own pace has no effect. If I cannot let go of anger, I cannot fight against cunning criminals who always remain calm, like you."

Bruce looked up at Shiler and said: "I admit that in the previous incident, it was my anger at the fact that you might be a cannibal that disrupted my thoughts, leading to one mistake after another."

"Anger should, and only should, appear after the murderer is brought to justice." Bruce continued.

"Then, why did you hide Jimmy's corpse?" Shiler asked.

"This has nothing to do with Shiler." Bruce shook his head and said: "Regardless, Shiler will plead guilty. Even without this corpse, he has other ways to make others believe he killed someone."

"But the FBI doesn't know this. In order to make Shiler plead guilty, they are very likely to manufacture a murder case to frame him. Jimmy is the victim."

"I hope to make their plan a little less smooth. For example, the originally agreed murder location was on the office balcony, but the corpse appeared mysteriously in the utility room."

"Although the ending hasn't changed at all, these agents are very suspicious. They will wonder if someone deliberately wanted to destroy this plan? Did a subordinate deliberately disobey their orders? Did the person who did it have other motives?"

"A small change will make them suspect everyone inside." Bruce lowered his eyelids and said: "And what is very obvious is that their interior is not of one piece. At least Talia and William, and Dai Weisi who appeared later, seem to stand on one side, but are actually wary of each other."

"A simple means of sowing discord." Shiler judged, saying: "The method of handling it can't be called brilliant, but it is already the best choice within your moral range."

Bruce pursed his lips and said: "I know the brilliant method you are talking about, which is to make the crime scene more cruel, such as dismemberment or other similar means. This would add a kind of fear to their interior in addition to suspicion."

"But I won't do that. Agent Jimmy doesn't have any achievements, but he can be considered a responsible agent."

Shiler shook his head, looked into Bruce's eyes, and said: "You should carry through what you have learned to the end, instead of being timid. This is a waste of your talent."

But Bruce stood up, rested his hands on the edge of the bars, brought his head close to the bars, stared at Shiler through the gaps in the bars with his azure eyes, and said:

"Even if you praise me and compliment me, I know that what made me pass this exam is not my interpretation of others' hearts, not my judgment of factual evidence, but the nature of this matter itself—I am forcing Professor Shiler to plead guilty."

"I am defying him, calculating him, and confronting him."

Bruce slowly lifted his lips, revealing his teeth like a wild beast full of wildness. He stared into Shiler's eyes and said slowly:

"I am proving that I am not your tame lamb."

Shiler's mouth didn't move, but his eyes curved. He suddenly hit the crossbar in the middle of the chair armrest with his hand, making a "clang" sound.

With a "bang," the door was kicked open, and two agents rushed in with pistols.

"The conversation time is over." Shiler stood up from the chair and let the agent open the lock on the chair.

When Shiler was taken by the agent and passed by Bruce's side, he tilted his head slightly and whispered in Bruce's ear: "You will come to find me... lamb."

Bruce clenched his fists. He stood in place and took a deep breath until Dai Weisi opened the door and walked in. Dai Weisi looked at him and said:

"Alright, Mr. Wei En, this case is over. Everyone has received the ending they deserve."

Seeing Bruce's bad complexion, Dai Weisi thought he was worried, so he looked left and right and lowered his voice to Bruce:

"If your teacher has threatened you, you don't have to care. No matter how he intimidates you, he probably won't have the chance to implement it."

"The world situation is changing, and violent conflicts are happening constantly. To maintain federal security, Congress has decided to activate in advance the Florence Supermax Prison, built near Denver, Colorado, in 1983."

"That place will become the most famous heavy-duty prison in the world. As far as I know, the new heavy-duty imprisonment method will make heavy-duty prisoners accept imprisonment for more than 23 hours a day in a fully enclosed cell of less than four square meters."

"Professor Rodriguez's sentence is as long as 40 years, and in the torture of sensory deprivation imprisonment in other heavy-duty prisons, 95% of prisoners don't live past three years, and the remaining 5% suffer from extremely serious mental illnesses, losing all ability to take care of themselves."

At this moment, brilliant fireworks exploded in Bruce's mind, and countless fragments of details swept past like the wind.

He understood that this Shiler, the most terrifying one he had ever encountered, had once again used a conspiracy to make him send his teacher into hell with his own hands.

Accompanied by the revelation of the truth, in the hazy and dreamy moonlight coming through the window, Bruce saw Shiler locked in the iron bars.

The lower half of Shiler's face was covered by a heavy metal mask, but Bruce could still see the smile of victory in his eyes and could hear that low sentence—"... lamb."

Guilt, besides being a knife, is also the iron chain that leads the lamb.

Instantly, Bruce felt the world spinning. ===== CHAPTER 1175 =====