Chapter 1247: Lone Shadow Becomes a Pair (4)

"This is..."

Standing in the corridor, Gordon looked at the man walking behind Batman with a slightly changing gaze, without changing his expression.

This scholar-like man was very tall, almost the same as Batman, but much thinner than Batman. He didn't look burly and strong, his temperament was gentle and elegant, and the suit he wore was very well-fitting. Even in the dim light, the fabric reflected expensive luster.

In the gold-standard social evaluation system, objects representing wealth always endow people with extra elegance and composure. Gordon saw at a glance that this was a scholar with taste and an old-fashioned style of doing things.

And what made Gordon even more surprised was that Schiller didn't have any fear or anger, which was not normal.

Batman looked omnipotent, but Gordon knew that he occasionally asked for help from professionals. After all, there were so many disciplines in this world, and there were so many scholars proficient in niche disciplines. Anyone with a little intelligence would understand the truth that professional things should be left to professionals.

But when Batman went to ask these people for advice, his attitude and means were often not so gentle. The people who followed Batman rarely could maintain a decent posture.

But precisely because of this abnormality, Gordon's mind was like lightning. He immediately understood that Batman was doing this on purpose.

Batman didn't use any violent means to treat the man behind him, and let him appear in front of Gordon in an extremely elegant and composed posture. The fundamental purpose was to issue a warning to Gordon—he was useful and difficult to deal with.

After understanding this information, Gordon inevitably looked at Schiller with the eyes of examining a criminal. In less than a second, he reached a conclusion, which was that Batman's eyes were like torches, and his judgment was as accurate as ever.

At the same time, Gordon was also surprised by Batman's boldness. He found another cruel serial killer to deal with those daring killers.

Within a few seconds, Gordon sorted out all his thoughts, so he walked to Schiller with a steady and powerful pace, shook hands with him, and said: "Hello, how should I address you?"

"Schiller Rodriguez, currently a professor at the FBI Intern Agent Training Academy, lecturing on psychology."

Gordon immediately increased the strength of his hand and shook Schiller's hand up and down, saying: "I've heard of you for a long time, Professor Schiller."

When hearing Schiller report his identity, Batman didn't even shift his gaze, as if he hadn't heard it at all, and what was very obvious was that Schiller's mood became better.

So, he took the initiative to say: "I heard that several cruel murder cases happened in this city a few days ago. Is there anything I can help with?"

"Come, please this way." Gordon walked in front to lead the way for Schiller, while keeping a distance from Schiller, ensuring that Schiller could hear him. Steady footsteps and words sounded at the same time.

"God bless, you didn't come here at the right time. The dark clouds of murder cases are shrouded over the heads of citizens. Everyone feels that some uncontrollable things are happening, but you also know that FBI people don't come here often, and people have doubts about the abilities and purposes of those agents..."

"You can rest assured, Commissioner Gordon. I came here just because of an accident. Anything that happens here is not within my scope of responsibility, and no one will pay extra attention to this place because of me."

Gordon breathed a sigh of relief. The three walked quickly to the underground. Gordon stood in front of the cold storage door and said: "There is still one corpse that hasn't been transported away. You shouldn't mind, right?"

"Of course, but I also need to ask, you shouldn't mind, right?"

"You mean, the views you express about the corpse next might be slightly shocking, or your evaluation of the murderer might be startling?"

Batman used an affirmative sentence again. Schiller stared into his eyes for at least ten seconds, then withdrew his gaze and said: "You predicted it all."

"We don't lack detectives who say startling things here." Gordon smiled and glanced at Batman at the same time, making a joke that the three of them knew well, and everyone understood his point.

Thus, in a relatively harmonious atmosphere, the cold storage door was pushed open. This was a very ordinary morgue. Except for the temperature being a bit low, it had no characteristics. The corpse that was pulled out next was also the same.

Gordon and another policeman worked together to put the corpse in the middle of the examination table. Schiller immediately leaned over.

Batman turned his head and saw Schiller's gaze when staring at the corpse, which was like substance. The focus in those gray eyes had completely exceeded the scope of normal staring. It was more like a connection.

Not connecting with the corpse, but connecting with the murderer, connecting with the process of death, he was reading death and trying to understand death.

Batman was very sure that this was not using observation to reason, because he had always done this in the past, so he understood that no detective would just stare at the corpse's eyes, especially when two obvious sharp weapon wounds appeared on the corpse's chest.

When Schiller's focus reached its peak, Gordon and Batman both felt a cold and gloomy temperament permeating from him, like a green pine in a snowy night, with pale and tough hardwood inside.

Schiller just stared straight at the corpse's face, but didn't speak, until Gordon felt a chill on his back, and Schiller withdrew his gaze. In an instant, that dark temperament disappeared, and the scholarly and gentle style covered up some terrifying things.

Batman found that he couldn't move his gaze from Schiller's face at all. He was attracted by something, not Schiller's appearance, but this carefully put-on human skin, and the things under the human skin.

"Erem Trek, originally one of the mayoral candidates, can also be considered a relatively prestigious candidate. He invested in three banks in Cat Getan and also established a charity for homeless children. His reputation is not bad."

"Just last night, he was found dead in his home. A sharp weapon cut open his chest, pierced his lungs, and he died on the spot, and it was very painful."

"He hates him." Schiller opened his mouth and attracted the attention of the other two. He continued: "Of course he would be very painful. The murderer could have killed him with just one knife, but he didn't choose to do so, but first seriously injured him, watched him struggle on the verge of death, and then ended his life with one knife. The purpose is to torture him. The murder must involve personal hatred."

"We also saw this point." Gordon nodded and said: "There is more than one wound on the bodies of the previous victims, but all the wounds appeared at the same time. The victims died very quickly and didn't struggle."

"Now we suspect that there is more than one killer." Batman spoke up.

"Do you set such an examination question for everyone who comes here?" Schiller turned his head. He looked at Batman for the first time, and instantly the invisible stance brought by the conflict between the two caused a dark storm to spread in the room.

"You are the first person to come here, but you don't appreciate it at all." Batman stared at Schiller, using a low and gentle tone.

The next second, the storm disappeared without a trace. Schiller moved his gaze away first and put it back on the corpse. His eyelids twitched upward, looking like he was squinting. This was not a very friendly expression, but the slightly raised corners of his mouth were even more confusing.

"You have long seen that although the deaths of several victims are similar, they are definitely not done by one person. You know that this may be a premeditated assassination by an organization. Their goal is very clear, which is the important figures in Cat Getan City."

"You asked me to come here, not to listen to these, so let's skip the stage of pleasantries. How should we use the psychology of this organization or certain people in the organization to catch their tail?"

Gordon's pupils shrank. He raised his eyelids slightly, looking like the corners of his eyes were twitching, but he was actually giving Batman a wink, roughly meaning "Are you sure he really has a way?", and "If he really has a way to solve this organization, how are you going to deal with him?"

Batman didn't respond. He was just listening to Schiller very intently.

Schiller tapped the edge of the examination table gently with the side of his finger, and then said: "This is the flaw they revealed."

"Usually, a regular murder by an organization must be for some purpose, usually profit, or I'll put it bluntly, it's for profit, and it can't be personal hatred."

"Because the difference between large-scale murder cases and serial murder cases is that the former has many murderers and many victims, while the latter only has many victims."

"Once the number of murderers increases, hiding them becomes a big problem, which takes countless manpower and material resources. If it weren't for greater benefits, no one would specifically establish such an organization."

"Before this corpse appeared, the personnel they murdered were profit-oriented. Killing victims in the fastest and most straightforward way is their creed of committing crimes. But this victim is special. I think this is also the reason why he appeared in front of me."

Schiller raised his eyes and looked at Batman, seeming to feel a bit surprised, both for Batman's long silence and for his gaze.

"The murderer tortured him contrary to the norm, which means that this murderer is not completely profit-oriented. He has personal hatred with the victim, so I said 'he hates him' at the first time. This is the answer to the problem, which has nothing to do with whether you ask or not."

"So, we should check from Erem's interpersonal relationships?" Gordon asked.

"Now, the examination level test is over. Shouldn't you ask me the real question?" Schiller looked at Batman and said.

"You have self-knowledge." Batman's voice was very low, like wind passing through the bottom of a valley.

"I live for this."

Schiller's answer was as light as floating on the water, carrying a kind of pleasure that others found difficult to grasp.

"I am also a bit confused." Jason supported his face with one hand and said somewhat doubtfully: "This professor doesn't look like someone who would accept others' such arbitrary and reckless evaluations, or rather, evaluating others directly is in itself a kind of disrespect."

"This is simply scolding people???" Clark widened his eyes and said: "'You have self-knowledge', no matter how you understand this sentence, it is scolding people?! Otherwise, it is contemptuous sarcasm, it is impossible to have any extended meaning!"

Morbid, sitting in the seat on the other side, looked at Bruce's slightly furrowed eyebrows. He leaned his head relaxedly on the back of the chair and then said:

"The key lies in 'aggressiveness'."

"If you show aggressiveness, even if you are discussing what to eat tomorrow morning, it will sound like you are going to make someone into breakfast. And if you don't show aggressiveness, like this, it sounds like sarcasm, it can also be understood as a compliment."

Bruce unconsciously turned his head towards Morbid's direction. At the same time as meeting Morbid's desolate eyes, he was stiff all over.

"So, do you want to know what I eat tomorrow morning?"

In an instant, Bruce felt his hair stand on end, but the next second, Morbid returned to his smiling appearance.

A trace of coldness climbed onto Morbid's tone, like a knife piercing Bruce's eardrum, falling with rumbling thunder in his brain.

"The trick to decency for yourself and others lies in freely controlling your aggressiveness when facing different people in different environments."

"Only trapped beasts will bare their teeth at every moment. Even if you are a wolf in human skin, you must be calm, self-possessed, maintain decency and elegance, and maintain meticulous beauty."

"In this way, when biting off someone's neck, you can see the shocked and fearful expression on their faces... That is the meat with the most wonderful taste that you should pursue among all parts of the human body." ===== CHAPTER 1248 =====