Chapter 1179: The Cry of the Lamb (Part 8)

"Bruce, can I call you that?" Angela turned around, sighed, and looked at Bruce, saying, "Actually, I know what the FBI wants to do. I know their style of doing things too well."

"If I have to give this organization a comment, it is endless suspicion and extreme greed. Everyone in this whirlpool suspects everything around them, but also feels greedy for everything around them."

"When I first joined the FBI, I heard rumors that there was a faction in the FBI that had some other ideas about super criminals whose abilities far exceeded ordinary people."

Angela walked out from behind the chair. She leaned her body against the desk and explained in a tone with a bit of recollection:

"In this world, there is a kind of person who thinks that all power not in their own hands is a danger. And now, the head of the FBI's Anti-Violence Investigation and Criminal Investigation Team, which is my direct superior, Amanda Waller, is the best among them."

"She chose to recruit me and let me join her team precisely because I have sufficient experience in fighting these serial murder case killers."

"But she needs this experience not to let me act like a police officer and bring these serial murder case killers to justice, but in the hope of being able to utilize the power of these madmen."

"She is a madman crazier than a madman." Angela summarized: "She has been looking for a way to control this group of madmen and make them work for the FBI."

Angela sighed gently and said: "Although this is inconsistent with mainstream values and sounds like it would make people feel jealous and fearful, in the circle of major case teams, every detective with a little reputation knows a fact—many born madmen are gifted."

"This has not been clearly demonstrated in modern medicine. Many people think this is a form of high-functioning antisocial personality, but years of front-line criminal investigation experience tell me that it's hard to say whether they are geniuses because of madness, or mad because of genius."

"In the survey of adolescent personality and mental stability conducted by the FBI, about 4 million federal citizens stated that they had antisocial tendencies during their adolescence."

"This is actually a very huge number. And after removing those who are talking nonsense or having illusions, there are at least hundreds of thousands of potential born killers hidden in the society of ordinary people."

"And setting aside those among them who have almost no talent, or whose genius level does not exceed ordinary people too much, it is at least possible to screen out thousands or even tens of thousands of crazy geniuses."

"And if one continues to strive for excellence among them and build a think tank or army composed of dozens or even hundreds of super geniuses, it is not difficult."

"This is Amanda Waller's plan." Angela sighed deeply and continued to explain:

"But everyone knows that this group of madmen won't listen to instructions at all. Although they are crazy, they are not stupid. Even those talented madmen are much calmer and wiser than ordinary people. They certainly know that cooperating with the FBI is no different from seeking skin from a tiger. No one will take the bait."

"Then what does that Amanda Waller you mentioned plan to do?" Bruce asked.

"This is the origin of the Project Lamb I mentioned earlier." Angela said while pacing to the sofa to sit down, drank some water to moisten her throat, and continued:

"Waller believes that although this group of born madmen cannot choose whether they are crazy, the crimes they committed because of their madness and the heavy disasters they brought to this society make them no longer possess human rights like ordinary federal citizens."

"If they can never be caught, that can be considered their skill, but if they are caught and put on trial, they change from cruel and bloody hunters into lambs for slaughter."

"Those cruel crimes they inflicted on ordinary people will all be repaid on themselves. The cold attitude they treated ordinary people with will also cause them to be treated the same way."

"They once regarded the ordinary people they saw as weak and vulnerable as lambs that couldn't resist and were silent. But if they become lambs, there should also be a shepherd to whip them, discipline them, and let them understand that the fear brought by bleeding and pain will not decrease because of their special talents."

"Amanda Waller wants to build a society belonging to born killers, becoming the shepherd of this group of lost lambs, the Lord holding wheat ears and whips. And Project Lamb was born for this."

"Amanda Waller instigated Congress to approve the construction of the Florence Supermax Prison in Colorado in 1983, about ten years ago. This is precisely the experimental site she prepared for this plan."

"And in the following ten years, she successively released hundreds of serial killers and selected 20 super criminals, including them in the list of lambs. In the last three years, they were arrested one after another, put on trial, and finally imprisoned."

Bruce's eyes slowly narrowed. Angela didn't notice the change in his expression, just continued her narration.

"Waller attaches great importance to this experiment. All target personnel have been carefully selected, come from different industries, and possess different special abilities. In order to ensure that the plan can proceed smoothly, from the moment the target personnel's identity is determined, there will be a series of plans aimed at them."

"From arrest to trial to detention, every link has been carefully studied by Waller's team. All measures are targeted. With intention calculating the unintentional, the vast majority of targets failed to escape arrest."

Angela reached out and rubbed her brow, appearing very worried. She squeezed the cup tightly with one hand and said: "Congress and large enterprises have people supporting Amanda Waller behind the scenes, hoping that the lambs she tames can be used by them, so her plan went smoothly and encountered almost no trouble, and was pushed forward smoothly."

"Just last night, I received news that Schiller Rodriguez, your teacher, my benefactor, was transferred and escorted to Florence Supermax Prison. I also just learned that he had been targeted by Amanda Waller long ago."

Angela pursed her lips and said: "Before, when Schiller was involved in the incident that happened in Central America, the reason why the FBI and the CIA didn't investigate further was precisely because Waller mediated in it. She didn't want the lamb she had her eye on to enter an ordinary prison under an ordinary crime."

Angela glanced at Bruce somewhat hesitantly. She hesitated for a while, but still said: "For a long time after I joined the FBI, I was not trusted by Waller. It was only until recently that I found out the details of Project Lamb."

"Broadly speaking, Waller intends to build a completely closed experimental field to study what methods can be used to tame these lambs, including but not limited to many well-known tortures."

"Waller knows that she cannot harm the physical health of this group of lambs. The reason they are lambs is because they are fragile and precious, and have extremely strong irreplaceability. So mental punishment became Waller's best choice."

"I think you also know that heavy imprisonment and sensory deprivation can bring great pain to people. If the time is long enough and the means are professional enough, it can completely destroy a person's personality and make them completely forget themselves."

Angela stood up, walked to Bruce, looked into his eyes, and said: "From the perspective of a police officer, I have no sympathy for this group of cruel criminals. Any punishment they receive is deserved."

"When they hurt and abused ordinary people, they didn't think there would be such a day, so they were exceptionally rampant. And when they have to pay the price for this, no one will save them, and it is also their own fault."

"But I think Schiller is different." Angela looked into Bruce's eyes seriously and said: "Perhaps he has killed people, but he has also saved people. At least, as a survivor, I cannot completely view his behavior from the perspective of justice. I am not a machine that executes the law, I also have my own feelings."

"Whether it is treating patients or teaching students, it indeed cannot make up for the harm he caused to other ordinary people. But as a cured patient and a student taught with painstaking effort, one cannot just use the sentence 'deserved' to evaluate the torture he might receive. Otherwise, what is the difference between us and those cold madmen?"

"What's more, Amanda Waller is not wholeheartedly for the public." Angela shook her head and said: "From a macro perspective, all the forces supporting this plan behind the scenes have other motives. They are not saving ordinary people out of kindness, but just to seize benefits."

"From a micro perspective, Waller doesn't just hate these criminals. She envies them, is jealous of them, and wants to drain the blood named talent and pour it into her own body. She is not a shepherd, but a jackal."

"Therefore, Bruce Wayne, that's why I came to find you, hoping that you can save Schiller with me, instead of letting your teacher, my benefactor, bleed out in the darkness of torture and become someone else's food."

"Bruce, answer me, are you willing to do this?"

When Angela raised this question, she didn't see any expression on Bruce's face, or rather, in the process of her telling this shocking plan, Bruce also didn't have any expression.

Angela felt that this shouldn't be the reaction of a businessman, and even less should it be the reaction of a flamboyant playboy, but Bruce was as quiet as a statue.

After a long silence, Bruce asked:

"You mean, the Florence Supermax Prison where Schiller is imprisoned is actually not a prison for imprisoning criminals, but an experimental field for a mysterious plan?"

Angela retreated two steps slowly, because she saw a cold storm on the polar coastline in those deep blue eyes, carrying a whistling chill, making her back feel cold.

Angela took a deep breath, nodded, and followed his words.

"What is imprisoned there are not criminals who have paid the corresponding price after a fair trial, but silent lambs that satisfy Amanda Waller's desire for control and ambition."

Angela saw Bruce opposite her slowly close his eyes, as if he had made an important decision.

It seemed that at this moment, he shed the greenness of a teenager, and the silence was longer than Gotham's rainy night.

But also at this moment, he found the purity of a newborn baby again, and the cry representing the new life was finally no longer the vague whimpering of a lamb begging for milk, but the earth-shattering cry of the only person standing in this world.