Chapter 3180: The Detective Shall Die (Part 42)

"What's wrong?" Bruce asked in his heart, and then he added, "I just think what he said is quite easy to understand."

"Of course, of course it's easy for you to understand," Shiler said almost word for word, "because the agent is the best among us at behavioral analysis."

"Uh..."

Very good, he perfectly avoided the field his teacher studied again, Bruce thought, but he was already used to it.

The main universe Batman was obviously also surprised by the agent's way of inference.

What's going on? Mind-reading is not allowed? How does this sound well-founded?

The main universe Batman and Shiler hadn't known each other for a short time. The two of them often wrote letters to each other, and occasionally Batman would mention some cases he had recently encountered in his letters, seeking Shiler's advice.

Shiler's replies every time could hit the nail on the head, but the problem was, while it hit the nail, how it hit it wasn't very clear.

Several times Batman had also questioned Shiler on how he could draw such an accurate conclusion from just a few words in a letter. You must know he hadn't seen the people in the case at all, nor had he examined the crime scene.

At first, Shiler would say some ambiguous things, which made Batman feel baffled, even suspecting he was an impostor of the Riddler.

But later, Shiler seemed to be impatient, and he directly said it was mind-reading. But the problem was, the main universe Batman didn't not know people who could read minds, but the conclusions they gave were different from Shiler's and didn't hit the nail on the head at all.

For Batman, this had always been a mystery.

Later, Batman also got to know some people with relatively strong empathy, and he only then roughly touched the threshold of this kind of ability, roughly understanding how Shiler drew such conclusions.

But unfortunately, this is not an ability that can be learned. Batman doesn't lack empathy; on the contrary, if he didn't empathize with the people of Cat Getan, he wouldn't have become a superhero.

But for most people, this is a passive ability, an uncontrollable ability that can even get in the way at critical moments.

For example, seeing others cry, you want to cry too, always excessively empathizing with strangers, leading to being too soft-hearted and getting into trouble.

Although Batman wouldn't go to this extent, he was far from being able to turn this ability into his own weapon. The process from starting to empathize to getting a conclusion was too long and abstract. After trying a few times, Batman gave up.

Actually, if he worked hard in this direction, it wouldn't be completely impossible, but there was no need. With this effort, he would have already caught the murderer, so later he didn't care much about this matter.

His discussions with Shiler about psychology were often like a donkey's lips not matching a horse's mouth.

That's why when he wanted to send the Robins to Shiler, he also handed him a copy of "Stray Birds". The main reason was that he felt Shiler's ambiguous words were closer to poetry and should have more common topics with Tagore.

Batman also realized that Shiler didn't not understand behavioral science, it was just that for him, psychoanalysis was simpler, didn't need any factual basis, and was just spoken out of thin air. He was more accustomed to using this method.

And it wasn't just Pride; almost all other Shilers were like this, muttering things that sounded very much like sleep talk, but all were surprisingly accurate.

But what's wrong with this Shiler today? Why is there a Batman personality in the tower? How does this sound like it came out of his own mouth?

Thinking of using the four words "well-founded" to describe Shiler, Batman felt his scalp tingle.

Batman felt he was somewhat ashamed of the ancestors of behavioral science.

"Batman? Batman?! What's wrong with you??"

Shiler's voice pulled Batman back to the real world. After Batman was stunned for a moment, he nodded and said, "Yes, what you said... makes a lot of sense."

Batman touched his conscience and felt a bit of pain, the degree of pain even higher than the first time he tricked Dick into going to the dentist.

Facing Shiler's conclusion, he would usually only say "You are right," meaning the result was right, but the process couldn't be thought about in detail.

Shiler seemed to be encouraged, and he continued, "In order to achieve the goal of extinguishing your hope, he must want to reveal the ugly side of human nature in front of you, so his background story must also be set up based on this. For a hero like you, what kind of fact would make you feel collapsed?"

"Wait a minute." Batman held out a hand.

"What's wrong? Why do I feel you are strange?"

"You... don't you think you asked a bit too specifically?"

"What?"

"I mean, shouldn't you ask 'what is the thing that makes you feel closest to the last ray of sunset on the horizon' or something like that?"

"I don't have the habit of flirting in the interrogation room."

"Cough, cough, cough!" Batman swore he actually wasn't that easy to choke, but this time it really didn't work.

Shiler spread his hands and said, "Anyone who has dabbled in criminal investigation shouldn't ask like that, right? What the hell is the sunset on the horizon? A coffee brand?"

Batman waved his hand and said, "If we look at this story in the game, then I think perhaps it is... the truth of the anomaly?"

Shiler nodded and said, "That's right. When Joker was making up his background story, he didn't know you would come, but he must have known there would be some righteous people, and he must have set up a hero background for himself."

"And what makes a hero most desperate is that the world they paid the price to save actually didn't need them to save it at all; their seemingly saving behavior is actually destroying the world."

"Do you think he edited the truth of the story?"

"Joker and Greed's utilization of the story-editing function is on par. If Greed is targeting the monster itself, then Joker must be targeting the story itself."

"What do you think he would do?"

"I am more inclined to think he would set this up as a scam."

"A scam?"

"That's right." Shiler leaned his body forward, elbows resting on his knees, and said, "If the anomaly is really attacking everyone indiscriminately, and there is a possibility of being attacked anywhere in the world, then from a probabilistic point of view, does the system of the real world really have a possibility of existing?"

"You mean the national system?"

"That's right. Don't look at the fact that it's a small village suffering now, but it's not impossible for the anomaly to attack the presidential palace, right? Important military bases, nuclear missile silos, densely populated city centers, no matter which one, it could cause a huge disaster."

"Not to mention that the monster also has intelligence. Their goal is extreme killing, so even if they possess one and kill one, sooner or later they can jump to the person in charge of nuclear missile launches, right?"

Shiler didn't care about Batman's reaction, but said, "But even looking at some things in the computer, the outside world is relatively peaceful. There is even a band poster on the first floor of the lighthouse, and the time it was held is less than a year ago, which proves that at least there is no danger of the world ending in recent years."

"You mean this disaster can actually be artificially controlled."

"Exactly." Shiler nodded and said, "Some people want an anomaly to happen somewhere, and it can happen there."

"Doing this has several obvious benefits." Shiler held up a finger and said, "First, Madeline's background story mentioned that her family bought insurance related to anomalies."

"Although her family's conditions are not bad, they are not considered very wealthy, which proves that this type of insurance business has spread to the civilian level. Facing this natural disaster that may come at any time, how many people will choose to buy a guarantee for themselves? I think the number will definitely not be small, and this is a huge income."

"Then there are the military and security departments. The difficulty of dealing with anomaly events is different from dealing with humans. To quickly curb the development of events, it is inevitable to use a large number of troops and weapons, and military spending must definitely not be approved less."

"Then there are various scammers. When the disease is not so severe, there are also many people who will be cheated of money because they seek medical advice indiscriminately. If the anomaly is real and can take a life as soon as it descends, then there will definitely be people who pin their hopes on feudal superstition."

"The church can develop to its current scale, which is also related to the existence of anomalies. If the church Huff mentioned clears all survivors within the range of the anomaly's existence, then this is not ordinary control, but having the power of life and death within the borders of various countries. How many people can such a transcendent organization let stand on the tip of the pyramid?"

"And if a hero who desperately wants to eliminate all these abnormalities eventually finds that the real enemy is not the monster at all, but his compatriots, what would he think?"

"Even if he risked his life and property, turned the tide, and after going through thousands of hardships to pull people out of hell, what he gets is not a blanket and food, but a dark muzzle, what kind of feeling would he have?"

Batman listened quietly to all this, and then he said, "This is indeed the despair Joker wants, but he really underestimates me a bit too much."

Shiler looked at him.

"Does he think I haven't experienced all this?" Batman said lightly, "In fact, on the way to saving Cat Getan, I am backstabbed by people of the same class as me 2.8 times a day on average, argue with my teammates 1.7 times, am cursed by the people I protect 357 times, and am slandered 63 times by people who benefit from my actions."

"If I were afraid of these, I would have stopped long ago."

Batman thought for a moment and said, "Although I don't think I would exhaust myself to save this village, but assuming I really used up all my preparations and have no other backhands, I also have the confidence to persuade the person pointing a gun at me, and even fight for a chance to talk to his boss."

"Many people call this a desperate comeback, but for me, this is far from being a desperate situation. At least the people behind me and in front of me can understand human language."

"Even if I must die, I will make my last words exert the greatest effect. When it really comes to that time, who can be sure that death is not my last strategy?"

Batman finished everything very calmly. He subconsciously glanced at Shiler's expression, and then choked himself again.

Why does he seem to see an emotion of worship in Shiler's eyes?

You are Shiler, not Clark! Are you serious???

Batman couldn't help but turn around. He now urgently had an impulse to let the Prowler take him away. ===== CHAPTER 3181 =====