Chapter 3182: The Detective Shall Die (Part 44)

After listening to Shiler's speculation, Batman nodded. Although the evidence was insufficient, the logic was sound.

"Then from this, the background story of the Pale Knight can be inferred." Shiler said while thinking. He was obviously combining the behavior of the Pale Knight in the comics and the behavioral logic shown so far to speculate what kind of background story he would make up.

"He might also have come for a certain case." Batman speculated. He said, "Since he is a lawyer, coming here might also be to collect some evidence, perhaps also related to the Prowler. He might be here to investigate the laws of the Prowler, so as to facilitate giving evidence at a certain trial in the future."

Shiler shook his head.

"No, I speculate that the background story he made up is not entirely related to interests." Shiler recalled the comics related to the Pale Knight in his mind and said, "Perhaps you won't believe it, but he is a person who believes in love."

"What?"

"I said he believes in love."

Shiler deliberately stared at Batman's face, and sure enough, he didn't miss the expression that gradually cracked.

"Do you have any extra information?" Batman couldn't help but ask. He had to admit that the news Shiler just threw out was indeed heavy enough, and he was very interested.

"Of course, I have, but what do you plan to exchange it with?"

Batman paused slightly. So he was waiting for him here. He indeed still had trump cards that hadn't been used, but he couldn't hand them out now, so he thought for a while and said, "What do you want me to exchange it with?"

"Can I ask you a few questions?"

"No."

Batman refused too cleanly, so much so that Shiler was stunned. His hand on the table tapped the desktop and said, "Would you refuse so cleanly when facing other Shilers?"

Batman really seriously thought about this question, then shook his head and said, "Perhaps not. I mean, there wouldn't be such an opportunity, because they don't need to ask me questions, because they will read what they want to know out of thin air. Can't you?"

"I understand." Shiler nodded.

Batman didn't know what he understood. He just wanted to ask, but Shiler opened his mouth and said, "Are you the kind of person who likes to flirt in the interrogation room? Do you want me to talk to you about the sunset on the horizon? Or some other coffee brand?"

Batman's subsequent words were directly blocked back. He didn't know if Shiler was doing it on purpose.

But the feeling other Shilers gave him was just that he couldn't see through that layer of mysterious background color, just like peeling off one layer of human skin after another, still unable to determine whether he had a monster's heart.

And this Shiler, who was suspected to be an agent, even his appearance was a bit unpredictable. The aggression he showed didn't carry any characteristics of civilized society. He seemed to have never dressed himself up as a gentleman in a suit and leather shoes, but he didn't appear cold and distant. People usually call this kind of personality true feelings.

It's just that Batman has come into contact with too many people with true feelings. Clark and Diana can be counted as the best among them. Others in the Justice League, no matter what their appearance is, always have a hot and sincere heart.

So he could feel that the true feelings expressed by Shiler were not pure enough, but this kind of impurity seemed to be his deliberate doing.

If you look closely at the difference from other Shilers, it is probably that smart people have long expected what is under the human skin of other Shilers. Some people choose to expose it, while others don't. Batman belongs to the latter.

But now, for this Shiler in front of him, the human and monster parts are distributed chaotically, not presented in an orderly state from the surface to the inside; it is as if two types of limbs have been stitched together, and he is never stingy about showing it.

Before you truly reach out to touch, you will never know which part you are touching; what is pumping blood to the sincere words that humans can understand might be a multi-angled heart, yet if you follow the sharp white bones protruding from the skin to reach inside, what you touch is a fragile joint no different from an ordinary person's.

It makes people unable to tell what is true and what is false, like a rainbow mixed in a bottle and shaken evenly. The mixed color is haggard and ugly, but you can glimpse the once brilliant truth through the little phantom light left on the inner wall of the bottle.

Batman knew very well that the gold-digging plot is a trap that humans can never avoid. The charm of a gold mountain is sometimes not even comparable to a little gold in a sand mountain.

Besides the sense of achievement brought by rare things, the most precious thing about this little bit of gold is that it allows people to attribute the reason for obtaining gold to their own unremitting efforts, rather than the luck bestowed by heaven.

Batman believed that there must be many gold diggers who paid a bloody price in order to find that trace of elusive sincerity in the soul of this Shiler, which was full of countless traps.

Suddenly, Batman realized that his thoughts just now didn't seem to be judgments based on Shiler's behavior, but more like pure feelings.

The master of psychoanalysis is actually me???

This has to mention the social effect opposite to the mirror effect—the antagonist effect, described in old words, is the radical method.

Specifically, when you want to obtain some information from someone, you have to start from the opposite angle, making him produce a logical thinking of confrontation with you, thereby telling the truth.

The difference between these two effects is: the former uses human empathy, focusing on setting off the atmosphere, while the latter uses human empathy, focusing on displaying logic. The former uses emotion as a knife, and the latter uses reason as a sword.

Now Batman is sure that this Shiler must be an agent, because these two methods are the most common interrogation methods.

Good, good, good. Batman has lived for so many years, and it has always been his turn to interrogate others. No agent who doesn't open his eyes dares to interrogate him. Today he met an opponent?

"Don't you want to try?" Batman continued the topic just now and said, "The doctor I know is very good at this kind of thing."

"What thing?" Shiler asked knowingly.

"I can't find a more rigorous word to describe it, but if I have to say it, it's probably a kind of mind-reading."

"You mean guessing blindly?"

At this moment, Batman heard a loud swear word in his heart. This reaction was too instinctive, so much so that he didn't have time to control it, fortunately, it wasn't spoken out.

But after reacting, he still couldn't help but savor it. What did Shiler just say? He said his other psychoanalysis was guessing blindly?!

He hadn't had time to say anything, and Bruce began to howl in his inner world, the content of which could be roughly summarized as "Oh heaven, oh earth, which angel sister vented this anger for me?!"

Pride has given up cutting his cigars.

"Do you think that's guessing blindly?" Batman asked.

Batman's reason told him not to discuss this issue with Shiler. If he did, he would become one of the gold diggers. In essence, he was still looking for that glimmer of gold in the sand, but he really couldn't control it.

Because Batman really studied Shiler's psychoanalysis talent, and the result was naturally that he didn't study anything. This is unacceptable to a genius scientist.

To put it exaggeratedly, his psychology at this moment can be roughly summarized as "Please heaven, distinguish between loyal and treacherous!" or "What did I say? What did I say?!"

"I think a part of it is." Shiler replied, "I think any rational person shouldn't adopt these groundless words. I know they might sound very right, but there are too many things in this world that are correct in result, not every one is a good thing."

"For example?"

"For example, every world war."

That really makes sense, Batman thought. If this wasn't spoken from your mouth, I would think I met a normal person.

This is a quite rare conclusion. After all, in Batman's eyes, even Clark is not a normal person.

Shiler leaned his body forward again, looking into Batman's eyes and said, "You aren't the person who would adopt this nonsense, right?"

Batman's lips moved. He was recalling whether he had ever gone out without solid evidence, just because of Shiler's analysis. After going through it in his mind, he found that there shouldn't be.

Then he made his most righteous shaking head action this year.

"That's good." Shiler said, "I think we should be able to talk very well. Since that's the case, I can tell you some things."

"About psychoanalysis?"

Shiler looked at him strangely and said, "About the Pale Knight, he is a person who believes in love."

"Because he would choose to embrace the fog in the forest on a rainy day?"

"Because Harley Quinn saved him! The two of them have a good relationship! Batman... Batman?!"

When Batman came back to his senses, he found that Shiler was actually looking at him with disapproving eyes.

It's really time to drive those nonsense out of his mind, Batman thought.

He believed that the main reason he was distracted frequently was that if Shiler was a lunatic, he would naturally appear like a normal person, but if Shiler was too much like a normal person, it would inevitably make him appear like a lunatic.

Batman didn't encounter such situations very often, because adding all universes together, there weren't many people more normal than him.

More importantly, among the thousands of assumptions he had made, this normal person shouldn't be Shiler.

And Shiler said helplessly, "Well, you might not be particularly interested in talking about marriage topics, so let's change our thinking. When the Pale Knight was making up the story, he didn't know what story Greed made up, so there couldn't be any medical insurance company in his story."

"Even if he did make up a case that he must come here, it's impossible to have a tacit understanding with Greed. If the Transcendent wants to connect all our stories, he will choose to avoid the important and take the easy way in the Pale Knight's background story."

"The best choice is to throw the case he made up that has nothing to do with the main line far away, and if we put aside specific events, the only thing that can let him enter the main line story is the emotional line."

"This looks like it has nothing to do with the Pale Knight's personal choice, but if he learned about this through some channels, he wouldn't choose to have to pull the case he made up back to the main line, but would rather choose to play along."

"Because he is not only the only one among all Jokers who understands love, but also possibly the only one among them who understands romance." ===== CHAPTER 3183 =====