Chapter 3183: The Detective Shall Die (Part 45)

"Then let's talk about Madeline." Shiler opened his mouth again: "I think you should also see that Madeline is not a normal person. In fact, I highly suspect that this seemingly pitiful woman is the real culprit of the extermination case of her family."

Batman finally came back to his senses, because Shiler began to guess, so he asked: "Why do you suspect this?"

"Because of that research notebook."

Finally coming, Batman thought, sure enough, every Shiler can guess the truth directly through a little bit of fragmented clues.

Hearing Shiler mention the research notebook, Batman thought that he could only use psychoanalysis to conclude that Madeline was the culprit of the tragedy.

Because that notebook actually had no problems and was not enough to be evidence of a person's personality, but Shiler still said so, indicating that he might have empathized with something.

Unexpectedly, Shiler said: "According to my experience, Madeline was too indifferent when mentioning the encounter of her family. She might be a narcissistic psychopath."

"Experience? What experience?"

"Some... experience dealing with criminals." Shiler paused and then continued: "I have seen many similar criminals, and they all give me this feeling."

"So it's also a feeling?"

Shiler shook his head and said: "I'm just speaking generally. If you must pursue details, I can say that Madeline's wording has an obvious God's-eye view, macro and objective."

Shiler leaned back in his chair, recalling while saying: "Everyone lives in the first person, so when describing things they see, they must all be subjective."

"For example, when a murderer confesses their criminal facts, they will hide something. Some are to deliberately reduce criminal responsibility, but some are also unintentional."

"And among these inadvertent concealments, some are because their brains beautified themselves, and others are information gaps brought by subjective perspectives."

"They often say 'I see' or 'I think', which is an obvious subjective narrative method, such as 'I see him lying in the corner, his face full of blood, I am thinking whether he is dead'."

"This is some confessions I often hear. I think you should also hear them often, because many murderers, although cruel, are mentally normal, not lunatics and perverts. This narrative method is what normal people should have."

"And Madeline is not. Her perspective on describing such a thing is 'someone fell in a corner, he was killed'. This is not a subjective narrative at all, but more like an objective evaluation."

"If she was talking about something completely unrelated to her, it might be explained, but she was describing the death of her relatives. Once you substitute the identity of relatives, you will find that this sentence is coldly terrifying."

"Who would describe the death of their relatives by directly saying 'Mother fell in the corner of the kitchen, she was killed', 'Sister lay on the dining table, there is a triangular hole in her chest', or 'Father lay face down on the stairs, there are two bloodstains above his arm'?"

"Perhaps the later Madeline is excellent, she learned how to summarize a thing with the most concise words, but she was not old when she experienced all this. Subjective consciousness is more easily affected by emotions, so the images left in her memory shouldn't be clear and objective like an autopsy report, even if she said a pile of monster images, I would feel more normal."

"This proves that when Madeline experienced all this, she didn't collapse emotionally because of fear. She didn't even feel fear. She calmly accepted all this, remembered all this, and could still clearly recount it many years later."

"This is actually a very terrifying thing. If this whole thing was not a disaster for her, then what is the possibility that she became a survivor by luck?"

"In summary, I think Madeline has a mental disorder. It is very likely that she is a born psychopath. Of course, there is no substantial evidence for the speculation that she created this tragedy, but it is absolutely impossible for her to be a completely innocent victim as she described herself."

And Batman, who finished listening to all this, found that this Shiler possessed quite keen insight. Putting aside the analysis method, he was also a quite excellent detective.

But Batman couldn't put aside the analysis method, because these conclusions he had already had clues after reading Madeline's diary. What he wanted was something deeper behind this.

"Psychopath?" Batman pursued, this kind of thing involving professional psychological knowledge might be able to lead to Shiler's analysis of Madeline's personality.

But unexpectedly, Shiler began to analyze Joker.

He took the difference between Madeline and Joker as an introduction, and profoundly demonstrated to Batman the difference between a psychopath and an antisocial personality.

Many people say Joker is a lunatic, but if to be specific, he is a person with antisocial personality disorder, belonging to a mental illness in a broad sense, but not a lunatic in the public's cognition.

The reason has been said before, Joker has reason, all his behaviors are interest-oriented, just because the interests he pursues are evil themselves, so it makes him look very crazy.

And the biggest difference between a psychopath and him is that a psychopath is not interest-oriented, but desire-oriented.

Let's put it this way, throughout history, many celebrities in the upper class have antisocial personality disorder, and even in modern times, many people have admitted this.

And the reason why this problem appears is that antisocial personality disorder is highly interest-oriented, even excessively interest-oriented, which means they stop at nothing to achieve their interests, ignore all social rules, ignore morality, and can even ignore instinct and extinguish human nature.

Although it is a bit cruel, it has to be admitted that this kind of personality that doesn't recognize six relatives is easier to achieve success in the sociological sense.

It is not that upper-class people are more likely to suffer from antisocial personality disorder, but that antisocial personality disorder is more likely to become upper-class people.

But people see psychopaths more often in the lower class.

Don't think that a psychopath is a lunatic who goes to the street to hack people with a knife. Those who are severe to this extent are extremely rare, but mild psychopaths exist widely around the public.

One of their typical characteristics is harming others without benefiting themselves.

This is exactly the opposite of the highly interest-oriented antisocial personality disorder. Psychopaths don't pursue interests, and even to satisfy their desires, they can give up interests.

For example, a game is about to win, a teammate starts feeding; a group assignment is about to be completed, someone makes trouble; the project is going very smoothly, the person who makes trouble comes; the child finds a good job, they must stir it up.

More importantly, these troublemakers are actually members of the team themselves, commonly known as internal ghosts.

Many people will feel that this kind of person is unreasonable, because obviously this matter is developing for the better, which is also beneficial to them.

The game is won, they can score; the group assignment is praised by the teacher, they also follow the light; but they have to make trouble, simply like a lunatic, no matter how they can't figure out their logic.

But in fact, this is a manifestation of psychopathy.

The game is won, they want to feed, not because they don't want to score, but because they simply feel that they can't let teammates be happy, to be precise, they can't let teammates be happier than me.

The group assignment is about to be completed, they want to make trouble, not because they are not afraid of the teacher's reprimand, but because compared to being reprimanded by the teacher together, they don't want other students' weight in the teacher's heart to rise more than them.

Other things are inferred by analogy, so this kind of psychopathy has a prefix, called narcissism.

To be more specific, in order not to let anyone surpass themselves in any aspect, they can sacrifice any interest to satisfy this perverted desire of theirs.

It is conceivable that this kind of person cannot mix well.

Feeding some heads in the game or ruining a group assignment is not a failure, but the key is that the symptoms of this psychopathy cannot be retracted freely. They will also succumb to perverted desires when making key life choices, thereby giving up interests that are within reach.

Losing a city today, losing a pool tomorrow, sooner or later they will give up their whole life.

If you observe this kind of person carefully, you will find that most of their real lives are failures.

Some of them might be able to disguise for a while, but they will definitely make several key choices wrong like a lunatic, make their ugly face known to everyone, and then make their life a mess.

Many people might be confused about why some people are not incapable and not stupid, but they lose their minds at the critical moment of life, and it is a downward slide until they fall into the bottom, no matter how they struggle, they can't turn the tables.

Most people will feel that they are unlucky, but in fact, they might just be psychopaths who succumb to their perverted desires and ignore interests.

In Shiler's view, Madeline's life trajectory is very consistent with this standard, probably ups and downs, until she died, the goal she set for herself was not achieved.

If this character was made up by others, there is still a possibility of coincidence, but the one who made up this character is Greed, who is a psychiatrist and is no stranger to similar cases.

Another piece of evidence that convinced Shiler that Madeline had a mental problem is that Greed is a very greedy person. He won't just want profit when he can have both fame and fortune.

He set himself up as a rich second generation, which is not unexpected, but he made himself an unscrupulous capitalist who oppresses the bottom layer, which is actually inconsistent with his logic.

In the case where the background story can be set at will, he can completely set himself up as a wealthy righteous person. Money is not completely linked to evil. He can have both. Why only want one?

So Shiler firmly believes that the background story Greed set for himself must have a reversal, and the one that is least easy to wash white is nothing more than not paying for Madeline's family.

If this case itself does not meet the compensation standards and is a scam insurance case designed by someone, then what the Siltek Medical Insurance Company did is not a problem, and Greed will naturally be washed white.

The life experience written in Madeline's research notebook is naturally the foreshadowing buried by Greed, which can become strong evidence that Madeline is the villain.

Shiler believes that as long as this notebook is sent to a professional mental appraisal agency for appraisal, it will definitely be able to conclude that Madeline is mentally abnormal. This is what Greed deliberately did.

It can only be said that fortunately, the person who played the role of psychiatrist in this story is Bruce, and due to his amazing academic level, he failed to discover the wrongness of the notebook in the first time.

Others couldn't say it even if they found it because their occupations didn't match, which gave Greed a way to maintain the villain's image.

At this time, Shiler suddenly realized that if Greed actually wanted to play a positive role, then just relying on the reversal of refusal to pay is not enough. Besides washing white human experiments, he also has to give a reasonable explanation for inviting everyone to the laboratory, otherwise, isn't he still a kidnapper?

If inferred like this, then did Batman let others be invited to the laboratory in the case of knowing all this because he guessed that Greed didn't prepare to do anything to them?

Shiler couldn't help but look at Batman again, thinking that he really deserves to be Batman. ===== CHAPTER 3184 =====