Chapter 299: Preaching and Teaching

Cat Getan City, a mega-city on the East Coast of the United States, is located on the East Coast line with a pleasant climate and beautiful scenery. It borders Blüdhaven to the south and faces the Imperial City from afar to the north, belonging to a subtropical monsoon humid climate.

Looking down at the entire city from the air, Cat Getan presents a rectangle tilted to the right, with the central commercial street roundabout as the center point, divided into four districts: East, South, West, and North.

It has been mentioned before that the East District possesses docks and slums and is the most chaotic but also the most vibrant district in all of Cat Getan. The South District is Cat Getan's financial center and new wealthy area. Most of the photos of Cat Getan City, with high-rise buildings and brightly lit scenes, are taken in this district.

The West District is Cat Getan's old city district, the first district to be developed. It possesses European-style manors and castles, and also a not-so-small park. Cat Getan University is located on the boundary line between the West District and the South District, and it is also the place with the best greening in all of Cat Getan.

And a part of Cat Getan that is rarely mentioned is the North District, because it is a completely independent district. There is a Cat Getan Inner River to the north of the central commercial street, which divides the entire Cat Getan City into two parts, north and south, and the north of the Cat Getan River is Cat Getan's North District.

On the west side of the Cat Getan River, which is the southwest corner of the North District, sits the famous Arkham Asylum, while in the southeast corner of the North District is Cat Getan's largest lighthouse.

The main reason why the North District is not mentioned is that this is the birthplace of the Falcone family and the Twelve Families.

This has to start from the era when European immigrants ruled Cat Getan. Perhaps many people, when hearing the history of the Italian Mafia, will think of the slow and melodious music in the movie "The Godfather," the light and shadow with an old-fashioned color, the elegant voice of the old godfather, the red poppies on the black suit, cigars, pistols...

But in reality, in that era, Italians in the United States were very discriminated against, because at that time, most of those who came to the United States to work were people from southern Italy, which is the poor of Italy.

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The noble European immigrants, manor owners, and factory owners, of course, looked down on these Italian barbarians from Sicily, so they didn't allow these people to get close to the places where they lived.

When Falcone brought a group of people to step on Cat Getan's land, there were already quite a few Italian descendants living here, but they all lived in the most desolate and remote North District, because the other three districts, even the chaotic East District, were filled with discrimination against Italians.

Falcone's history of making a fortune started from the North District. And when he gradually developed his own power in Cat Getan, he turned the independent North District that had been separated into his own base camp, and established a series of manor buildings and security systems here.

The North District, divided by the Cat Getan River, is indeed a good place to be a base camp, but those European immigrants who came here first didn't choose this place because the terrain here wasn't very good.

The entire Cat Getan City presents a terrain that is high in the north and low in the south. The South District and West District are plains, while the North District is hills. Although the altitude cannot be considered high, clearly, building in the North District is more difficult than in other places, and only those unpopular Italian descendants would live here.

Cat Getan has developed to today, and the North District has been built into a very perfect gang base. The Falcone family's castle is located on the mountainside of one of the highest mountains in Cat Getan. For all Gothamites except Batman, this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

And the locations of the other Twelve Families also surround the Falcone family's castle. The rest of the North District serves the industrial chain of these gang family bases.

In the Ricci Manor in the North District of Cat Getan, a lady wearing a white apron, brown curly hair, and a wine-red nose was holding a tray and walking quickly up the stairs. She came to a room on the second floor. There were two young police officers standing at the door, but she didn't express surprise at this, but barely squeezed out a smile and said to them: "Gentlemen, do you want a glass of water?"

"Oh, no, thank you, but you can't go in now, they are investigating the case inside."

"I know, I know..." That lady nodded, but still seemed to want to look inside. She stretched out a hand under the tray and handed a roll of dollars to the police. That young police officer coughed twice and lowered his voice: "I know you are very worried..."

That lady wiped the corner of her eye, revealing a sad expression and said: "Yes, now the whole manor is in panic. No one knows if the next one will be themselves..."

That police officer waved his hand and still said in a low voice: "Now anyone can see that this serial killer only picks on gang leaders. Alright, ma'am, you'd better go down first..."

That police officer looked back at the door he was guarding, and then squeezed the roll of dollars in his hand, saying: "I heard that Gordon the boss found a very powerful detective. Perhaps it won't take long before he can find out who did it. And once it's found out, the godfather definitely won't let him go."

That lady sighed, handed the tray in her hand to the young police officer, and said: "Since that's the case, I won't disturb you. Help me ask the gentlemen inside if they want to drink water. If there is any need, come and call me again."

That police officer originally wanted to refuse, but another person looked down at his watch and said to his colleague: "They have been in for more than two hours. Perhaps they are thirsty. I'll guard here, you send the water in."

That police officer didn't say anything. He nodded, then turned and knocked on the door. A voice came from inside: "Please come in."

When the police officer walked in with the tray, there were two people inside, one of whom was Gordon, and the other was Batman, but the young police officer didn't find it strange. He just put the tray on the table and said: "Boss, if you are thirsty, there is water here."

Gordon nodded and waved his hand to signal him to go out. The police officer put down the water and went out. Clearly, he didn't want to stay in the room for long, because besides two living people, there was also a dead person in this room, and the dead state of this dead person was very tragic, so much so that the smell of blood filled the entire room.

He was sawed into two halves, and it was sawed open vertically.

Batman said to Gordon: "Before a few days, I read all the materials about Jesus's Twelve Disciples. If I remember correctly, this way of death should be the way an apostle among the Twelve Disciples called 'Simon the Zealot' was executed. He was sawed into two halves along the middle of his legs..."

Batman circled to the other side of the corpse. Gordon stood behind the table, relatively far from that corpse. Even for him, he had rarely seen such a brutal crime scene. The corpse on the ground had more than half of its head connected on the left side, while the right side was connected to a small half, and there was a certain distance between the two parts. The blood stains almost covered the entire room. Gordon covered his nose and said: "Did you see anything?"

Batman frowned, and he said somewhat puzzled: "In fact, I'm a bit unable to understand. The method is completely different..."

"What do you mean?"

"The method the murderer used to kill Ricci is completely different from killing Lawrence and Hawk..."

"What do you mean? Can you talk about it in detail?"

Batman half-squatted down, not caring at all about the heavy, somewhat choking smell of blood. He stared at Ricci's tragic corpse and said: "If it is said that the death of the first two people still carried some meaning of execution, which is the 'sense of ritual' often advocated by those perverted serial killers, then Ricci's death is too rough. Clearly, he didn't die peacefully..."

Gordon said in a low voice: "Anyone can see this, right?"

Batman pointed to a trace on the corpse and said: "Look here, look at his neck, there is a footprint trace here..."

And then he stood up again, pointed to the tail of the corpse, and said: "One of his feet was wearing a shoe, while the other was not. One shoe was thrown to the side, which is there..."

Following Batman's gaze, Gordon looked at a shoe next to the corpse. Batman walked to the back of the corpse's feet, and then pointed to one of the corpse's feet and said: "This foot that wasn't wearing a shoe has a slight fracture in the ankle joint, and the swelling is very severe."

"We can infer how the murderer killed people from this."

"The whole process is very simple. The murderer pushed Ricci to the ground, stepped on Ricci's neck with one foot, then bent down to grab his ankle, lifted one of his legs, and then took a saw and started sawing from between his two legs..."

"Clearly, at this time, Ricci was still alive and possessed the ability to struggle. Because of the severe pain, he began to struggle desperately, and that person didn't stop his movements at all. In order to grab the struggling Ricci, he had to increase the strength in his hands, leading to the fracture of Ricci's ankle, and the shoe was also kicked off..."

"What does this explain?" Gordon put his hands on his hips.

"It explains that this is a very cruel serial killer. He sawed a person into two halves alive. In the process, he didn't care about Ricci's struggle and screams, and just sawed him open from head to toe."

"At the same time, he should possess considerable strength. Ricci is 1.86 meters tall and weighs 80 kilograms. It is already very difficult to completely subdue him, let alone saw him open while he still has the ability to resist."

"And the place that makes me feel puzzled is that this method is completely different from the first two times. I even doubt whether my inference is wrong. Is this really a serial murder case?"

"Logically speaking, the first victim Lawrence died of being nailed to a cross. The murderer nailed wedges into his limbs, heart, and head..."

"The second victim Hawk died of beheading, the third victim died of being sawed into two halves. These are all ways of death of Jesus's Twelve Disciples, especially the way of sawing a person into two halves. If it wasn't to restore the execution method of Simon the Zealot, no one would use such a time-consuming and laborious means to kill people..."

"But this case is completely different from the first two. In the first two cases that occurred, anesthetic drugs were detected in Lawrence's body, which is to say, he was anesthetized first and then nailed to death. In the process of being nailed to death, he had no ability to resist at all."

"Hawk was the same. He was tied up first and then had his head cut off with one knife."

"But according to common sense, if a person possesses the strength to kill Ricci in such a cruel way, then he has no need to anesthetize Lawrence at all, and no need to tie Hawk up."

"Lawrence is also considered strong, but after all, he is an elderly person. Hawk is tall, but relatively thin and weak. These two people are not as strong as Ricci who is in his prime. The killer possesses the strength to subdue Ricci alone and saw him open, but has to draw a snake and add feet to subdue those two people first, and then kill them. This is very strange..."

"Perhaps Ricci's death was a joint crime by two people?"

Batman shook his head slightly and said: "In most serial murder cases I learned in criminal psychology courses, the murderer is one person, and there is no one else cooperating."

"Except because the probability of two mental patients with exactly consistent compatibility meeting is very low, most murderers who commit serial murder cases have a special obsession with the matter of committing crimes and killing people. They have their own unique understanding of murder cases."

"They care about the results of the crime, but they also value the process of committing it; they even thoroughly enjoy the process of guiding the police to make wrong judgments and watching experts guess and feel confused while unable to find the answer."

"And, they are not willing to share this happiness with others. They believe that no one can completely understand them. They might use some innocent passersby to achieve their goal of murder, but they will never sincerely cooperate with anyone."

"They enjoy the pleasure of one person playing with the whole world, and will not let a second person know all their plans, or help them take action, let alone do it so roughly..."

Gordon pursed his lips and looked at Batman. He said: "This doesn't sound like something that can be learned in a psychology textbook."

"This is indeed not learned from a textbook."

"Your tone reminds me of someone." Gordon sighed and said.

"Then why didn't you invite him over?"

"Because I can't be sure whether he is analyzing the situation according to the crime scene, or... revealing his own crime process." ===== CHAPTER 300 =====