Chapter 3176

The only explanation Schiller could think of is that Greed deliberately used Madeline to confuse the line of sight. After all, the sentence Madeline shouted and the subsequent series of operations were very misleading, turning the focus of their attention to the characteristics of the Prowler. This might be the effect Greed wanted.

But that kind of crazy state looked artificial. Although Schiller is an agent now, he also understands the basic principles of psychology. Madeline looked very much like she was hypnotized.

Greed can do this in reality, but it definitely won't work in the game. Then who hypnotized Madeline?

A thought flashed through Schiller's mind. He suddenly raised his eyes and looked back at the depths of the cave.

There happened to be a psychologist in the team, and that was Bruce Wayne. Although his psychoanalysis wasn't very good, with the support of drugs, hypnosis was more than enough.

Could it be that Bruce and Greed are in the same gang? Schiller thought. There is no conclusion as to when Bruce came. If he and Greed were one after another and the two reached some agreement, it's not impossible that Bruce helped Greed hypnotize Madeline to disturb the line of sight.

Other Batmen wouldn't do such evil things, but it's hard to say about Bruce. In the game, they aren't real people, so his moral bottom line can be lowered even further.

Thinking time always passes quickly. Schiller had already arrived at the lake where the reeds were, but he was now on this side of the river, while the cave at the entrance of the lighthouse was on the other side.

Just then, he saw a pitch-black figure jump down from the cave entrance and drag a pile of metal down as well.

The reeds seemed to have finally calmed down, no longer as crazy as before, but some leaves were still tentatively reaching towards that figure, and it was obviously prepared, splashing gasoline and lighting it to burn a firebreak for itself.

The bridge was soon made and extended over. Schiller saw Batman on the opposite side waving at him.

He really had anticipated that he would come.

However, he actually knew that the bridge below was gone, so perhaps he also knew that the Joker had left the team, or simply the two of them had agreed on it.

Schiller didn't think Batman would harm him, so he walked onto the bridge and soon arrived on the opposite side. Batman didn't say anything, went up along the cave entrance, and Schiller followed behind him.

Returning to the lighthouse, they didn't stay on the first floor but went up along the stairs.

During the process of going up, they saw the corpses of the Huff family on the floors above. Schiller asked, "Do you know what happened to them?"

"That is a story that belongs to me." Batman said.

Schiller heard that he was hinting that the Huff family was actually a member of the background story he wrote. No wonder this family appeared in the diary at the beginning.

If he remembered correctly, the story of this family seemed to start with a lost goat.

It was they who first saw the story about the goat in the diary, and then discovered the Prowler's goat footprints under Greed's hint, which further confirmed that the footprint was fake and should have been Greed trying to frame Batman for all this.

Because as long as it was discovered that the diary was his, everyone would think that this must be the background story he wrote, and the Prowler was also related to him, so his identity would be very difficult to handle.

"Huff was a sailor when he was young, and after marrying his wife, they had two sons and one daughter." Batman's voice echoed in the lighthouse. He said, "But later, because of a shipwreck, he contracted a strange disease. Since then, no one was willing to hire him anymore, and their family's income came from raising goats and grouse."

"Not long ago, one of their goats was lost. It is said that it ran away when they took the goats out to eat grass. The little daughter saw the direction the goat was lost, but they went there to look for it and didn't find it."

"Not long after, they found the corpse of this goat there. Because the family was not wealthy, they didn't want to waste this goat, so they dragged it home and ate it."

"Since then, the Huff family began to become strange. The eldest son, who was originally very gentle, began to have violent tendencies. The younger son, who was also a sailor, refused to go out again. The six-year-old little girl kept having a fever and talking nonsense."

"Later, strange things began to appear in the village, and they blamed all this on the Huff family. They said that the lost goat was a demon, and the Huff family ate the demon's meat, which is why they became crazy."

"They could no longer stay in the village, so Huff found me, hoping that I could send them away."

"Can you do it?" Schiller asked.

"Yes, I can. I am not completely a local. I have some friends outside. I considered sending them out of the village, but the weather forecast said there would be a heavy snow recently, which was obviously not a good time."

Schiller suspected that this heavy snow might also be set by Batman, but the story told here still didn't expose what Batman wanted to do with this background story.

"When I first came to the village, I met the guardian of the lighthouse. He had a good relationship with me, and this lighthouse is big enough to accommodate many people, and villagers rarely come here."

"Because the heavy snow might make the journey out of the village dangerous, I persuaded Huff to come to the lighthouse to live for a few days first, avoid the wind, and it wouldn't be too late to set off after resting."

"So they came?" Schiller asked.

He sorted out the timeline in his mind and felt that if the Huff family actually lived in the lighthouse for a period of time before killing each other, then the state of the corpses would match.

Batman, walking in front, nodded and said, "Yes, they settled down in the lighthouse, and Huff's little daughter's condition also improved."

Schiller's heart moved and he asked, "How could it improve? Didn't they say it was because they ate the demon goat..."

"I firmly believe that it was just a superstitious statement." Batman emphasized the word "superstitious" and said, "The poor condition of other family members might be because their economy was too tight, and Huff's eldest son had just gotten married, which made their family's economic situation worse."

Greed said he was a rich second-generation heir, and the clothes he wore were indeed designer brands, and his camera was also worth a fortune. Could it be that he set his own parents as giants of some insurance company?

Schiller thought about the authenticity of Batman's words in his heart. Although he didn't think Batman was the kind of person who would deliberately make up a story about a family's death for his own benefit, Schiller felt that this matter was not that simple.

"Then what happened later? How could they..."

Batman shook his head and said, "I don't know either. I found their corpses after you, and I don't know why they killed each other."

Schiller felt that Batman shouldn't have lied about this part. The Huff family had an important role for him, and he didn't need to go to great lengths to make up such a story and kill everyone overnight.

But this style of killing each other reminded Schiller of someone.

As everyone knows, the only things that can be believed so far are those that appeared in the opening introduction, and the opening introduction just mentioned that this village is called "the lighthouse covered by heavy snow."

That is to say, everyone can learn from the opening introduction that there should be a lighthouse in this village. So will someone make a fuss about this lighthouse when making up a story?

This is actually very simple. The lighthouse is on the pier. You only need to say that you came by boat, and there is a high possibility that you will appear at the pier after landing, so you can reach the lighthouse at the fastest speed.

As for the modus operandi, it reminded Schiller of a very famous case, which is also a very typical case in psychology.

A murderer rushed into a family's house and quickly controlled everyone in the house.

At this time, the murderer announced that he would punish the person in this family who had done the most bad things, and the punishment was to suffer electric shocks.

He asked everyone in this family to report each other, tell the bad things others had done, and the person who was reported the most times, did the most bad things, and was the worst in a round would be reduced to the lowest level and be electrocuted.

In order not to be electrocuted, everyone was desperately reporting others, listing the shortcomings of others, so that they could avoid punishment.

And finally, when the murderer let everyone go, they completely forgot that the culprit was the murderer, but resented why their family members reported them and let them accept electric shocks, so they began to kill each other.

This can be said to be the most evil and perverted case of family crime in human history. This case is actually not bloody, and it didn't cause much physical harm during the crime process, much less violent and bloody than some home invasion murders and rapes.

But its damage and destruction to the human spirit are second to none, and it is still a famous case in criminal investigation and criminal psychology.

The murderer used a lot of psychological knowledge, but in fact, only one was decisive, and that is that electric shock is different from other punishment methods.

Maybe many people have heard of electroconvulsive therapy (meCT). It must be emphasized here that the electric shock therapy used in the treatment of mental illness is scientific, not abuse or torture. Before the electric shock, a full physical examination must be carried out, and anesthesia must be performed. It will not cause substantial harm to the body, and there is almost no pain.

And the effect of this therapy is also relatively significant, and it is basically popularized in more famous psychiatric departments.

On the contrary, another therapy is called electric shock aversion therapy.

In the field of correcting bad behavior, such therapy will be adopted, that is, when the other party feels euphoria due to bad behavior, use electric current to make the patient feel aversion and discomfort to offset the euphoria, so that a conditioned reflex can be artificially created, which has applications in the fields of corrective perversion, drug abstinence, alcoholism, obesity, anxiety, etc.

Theoretically, this approach is inhumane, but there is already sufficient human experimental data to show that it is quite effective.

It can even be said that it is the most efficient drug abstinence method so far. Of course, this therapy is only responsible for drug abstinence, and subsequent psychological problems are not within the scope of after-sales service.

And if this method is used in normal life, that is, aversion therapy is carried out without euphoria, it can almost make humans feel aversion to anything.

And this murderer is using this method to make a family hate each other, thereby achieving the goal of making them kill each other.

And this style of torturing Batman by testing human nature and playing with people's hearts is too much like the Joker.