Chapter 2914: When Night Falls (43)

The truth is always so sudden, but when the mysterious veil is lifted, no matter how difficult it is for people to accept, they have to learn to accept it.

Gordon looked at the tied-up Barbara with worry. That was his daughter. They had been father and daughter for so many years. Even if she really became a vampire, and the Vampire King, the feelings in his heart could not be let go for a while.

At this time, Schiller walked up and patted him on the shoulder, first gave Dick a look, let Dick and the real Barbara go upstairs, and he took the somewhat dejected Gordon to the porch behind the manor. Alfred looked at the fake Barbara, and the other Robins went back to rest, preparing for the bitter battle ahead.

Gordon took out a cigarette with a trembling hand, took a deep breath, sat on the railing of the porch, elbows on his knees, head down, and remained silent.

Schiller sat beside him and said, "You are thinking about those videos."

"Yes," Gordon replied in a bitter voice, "But all my professional experience tells me that the video is true. This is what Barbara did."

"Yes, this is what Barbara did," Schiller did not deny it. He said, "She admitted it herself. These things were all done by her, and she remembers them all."

Gordon looked at Schiller, because he felt that this man didn't seem to be repeating what he said, but emphasizing something.

But Gordon's brain was blank now. He had no clues and couldn't make a decision to ignore the evidence and forcibly defend Barbara.

"Then what about the things she doesn't remember?" Schiller reminded, "There are some things only you remember. Don't you plan to think about them?"

Gordon finally understood what Schiller meant, but that was a bit too long ago, and he really couldn't remember clearly.

"I don't know when they swapped the baby," Gordon said. "They had too many opportunities. They could just buy off or control a nurse to do it..."

Gordon felt very painful, but what made him painful was that he couldn't ignore the facts. The fact was that the modern medical system seemed to have a very strict process, but it was not enough in front of vampire magic. Anyone could be mixed in to steal the baby.

"Do you think you are very special?" Schiller asked again.

Gordon didn't understand what he meant, but still shook his head. Although he was not inferior, he was not arrogant enough to feel that he had anything special while dealing with this group of superheroes every day.

Even compared to Schiller, he was not special enough, and even the pain of losing his daughter was very ordinary.

"Then what about your wife? Is she an ordinary person?"

This triggered Gordon's memories again. He didn't know how long he had been thinking, but finally nodded and said, "Compared to you guys, she is of course an ordinary person."

"Then why can Barbara's blood make vampires immune to sunlight?"

Gordon's movements stiffened slightly, but then he shook his head helplessly and said, "I don't understand these things, but maybe it has something to do with her birth date? Her blood type? Maybe even something she ate one day?"

"Actually, you know a lot about occultism," Schiller said. "Many times it is like this. The occult attributes presented by humans have no rules, do not shift with human subjective will, and always appear in unexpected places."

"Maybe the real Barbara just liked Dick and didn't want him to suffer because of hunger, so she let him suck her blood."

"Sorry, sir," Gordon said painfully, "If you have anything to say, just say it directly. I really don't have time to guess riddles now."

"I should say sorry, this is just my professional habit," Schiller smiled and said, "If she let Dick suck her blood because she liked Dick, thereby giving Dick the ability to be immune to sunlight, then what about Zan?"

"Who is Zan?... That little guy in purple clothes who was bitten later?" Gordon didn't know the Wonder Twins, or maybe he had seen them before and couldn't remember now, but he used the elimination method, after all, he knew Dick and the Flash.

"Is he also immune to sunlight?" Gordon closed his eyes tightly. Under the influence of nicotine, his headache eased a little.

Schiller handed him a painkiller. In order to calm down and think, Gordon took it and swallowed it.

"Who knows," Gordon shook his head and said, "Maybe there are many people who can give vampires the ability to be immune to sunlight, and he bit one of them."

But Gordon found that this reason couldn't even convince himself, because if there really were many such people, most vampires would be immune to sunlight, and the disaster would be dozens of times more terrible than it is now.

"Perhaps Barbara, out of sympathy, also let the boy named Zan suck her blood," Schiller proposed a possibility, "And then, this boy appeared beside another small team arranged by Batman, and left this for me."

Schiller pointed lightly at the scar on his cheekbone, which was scratched when he dodged the blood light when Zan attacked before.

Gordon finally connected these scattered clues and said, "Someone gave Zan the power to be immune to sunlight, and then he went to attack you, which means this power was prepared for attacking you."

"The possibility of it being a coincidence is not very high," Schiller still maintained a euphemistic wording.

He and Pride were two completely different styles. He never said any established conclusions, but deliberately used a guessing tone to say some wrong answers, guiding the other party to think of the correct answer.

If it were Gordon in a normal state, he should react faster, but considering his poor mood now, Schiller decided to make it clearer.

"The vampire situation is gone, so the Vampire King was caught. Don't you think all this is a bit too smooth?"

Gordon finally turned his head to stare at him. Schiller shook his head lightly and said, "I'm afraid we are not the only ones who can play with time."

He felt his heart beating again. He looked at Schiller and said, "You mean the truth is actually not like this, but Barbara is indeed..."

"Yes, she is indeed the Vampire King, indeed bit three people in a row, and created such a farce, but what if it wasn't like this originally?"

Gordon was a bit dizzy again. Schiller continued, "Before, we thought this was a disaster that vampires had premeditated for a long time, but now it seems that they might also be passively responding."

"For humans, the bad news is that this is not their level when they are fully prepared. The good news is that their level when they are not fully prepared is too poor."

"Because they couldn't handle the current situation, they had to let this matter land smoothly. When you can't handle a case, what would you do?"

"I firmly believe that there is no case that cannot be handled. I will try my best to find the truth. Even for the Wayne couple's case back then, I didn't give up."

"Sorry, you are a good policeman. Then what would those corrupt police officers in your bureau who are in positions but not doing their jobs do?"

Gordon paused slightly and said, "Characterize it as suicide."

Then he connected all of Schiller's previous words and said, "That is to say, this disaster is also a disaster for vampires. They don't want to end up in today's situation either."

"They don't regret the war, they regret not winning the war," Schiller said.

"Yes, but they are equally cowardly. Finding that they can no longer control the situation, they want to end the whole thing quickly. The method is to forge everything as 'suicide'..."

Gordon stood up with a swoosh and said, "If the Vampire King is a member of the Batman family, then Batman must come out to clean up the mess and give everyone an explanation. He has the ability to end the war."

"Barbara is his good helper, and they once supported each other's emotions. Even to save Barbara, he will not allow the situation to expand further, and vampires can stop the loss in time."

"And assuming that the Flash who can travel through time is also on their side, then they can completely travel to the past and let someone else be this so-called Vampire King."

Gordon turned around and looked at Schiller, "You knew it all along?!"

Schiller shook his head and said, "If the so-called real Barbara didn't appear, everything would be logical. Even if I had doubts, there was no evidence, and I had no obligation to investigate."

"Just..." Schiller lowered his eyes, but Gordon could clearly see his face sink. The intuition of investigating cases for many years made Gordon feel an unprecedented dangerous atmosphere from him.

"Have you ever seen a criminal who has a hobby of returning to the scene, and even likes to chat with the police who come to investigate, just to see the confused look of the police?"

Many figures flashed through Gordon's mind. His tone was a bit complicated and said, "I haven't seen many people who don't like to do this... I mean, Gotham, you know."

Then he realized what Schiller was referring to. He was a bit suspicious and said, "You mean that person who claims to be my biological daughter is the kind of criminal who likes to return to the scene and find a sense of superiority from the police?"

"She is confident that her plan is seamless."

"To some extent, yes." Gordon's tone sank again. He had solid video evidence of Barbara's crime, and even Batman couldn't deny it. Although the story of being stolen in infancy was a bit like a TV series, it was actually not impossible.

"And if as you said, they traveled back to the past and did something, then this strange thing could really happen. The Flash went to steal the baby, who could stop him?"

"Yes," Schiller didn't deny this either. He said, "If you don't consider magic factors, this is a reasonable explanation."

"Some evil organization, in order to find a suitable growth environment for the experimental product they created, stole a normal human girl and stuffed the experimental product in."

"They felt that keeping the normal girl was useful, so they didn't kill her, but instead let this girl run out, find the enemy who replaced her identity along the clues of the year, and lurk by their side, looking for an opportunity to take revenge."

"When the experimental product finally revealed her vicious fangs, she stood up to expose her true face, find her identity, and live in the sun openly."

"It really sounds like a TV series," Gordon sat back down and said, "But reality is less logical than TV series, and if it is a reality arranged by someone, it is not surprising that it develops like this."

"The only problem is that she came back," Schiller's tone had some faint mockery. He said, "She is confident that she can replace your daughter and gain the love of everyone in the Batman family."

"She can't," Gordon said, "Barbara is unique."

"More importantly, she wants to dance such a dance in front of Batman... and in front of me." ===== CHAPTER 2915 =====

"More importantly, she wants to dance a dance like this in front of Batman... and in front of me, too."