Chapter 3499: A Study of Cats and Dogs (58)

After knocking Tan Da down, Schiller didn't even take another look at his corpse, but first took out the first aid kit from his car and then led Aisha upstairs.

Seeing the dirty little girl lying on the bed, Aisha was startled, but then reacted to what was going on.

"He didn't kill her?" Aisha said with some surprise, "I thought he was that kind of pervert... why didn't he kill her?"

"This is the strange thing, but now is not the time to study this." Schiller opened the suitcase placed on the side, picked out a set of Aisha's clothes, and then said to Aisha, "When she wakes up later, you first wipe her clean, then help her bandage her wounds, and then change her clothes, can you do it?"

"Rest assured," Aisha patted her chest and said.

"Okay, I'll go downstairs to make something to eat, there are still two corpses to deal with," Schiller turned and walked out the door.

Schiller went downstairs and first rummaged through the kitchen. Fortunately, Tan Da had taken a lot of fresh vegetables from the warehouse earlier.

He thought about it and decided to boil a bowl of oatmeal porridge and make a portion of salt-steamed vegetables, which should be relatively easy to digest.

Oatmeal porridge is very simple; just put the oatmeal in a pot and boil it; salt-steamed vegetables are just steaming the vegetables and sprinkling some salt. It was done in ten minutes.

When Schiller brought the food up, the little girl had already woken up, and Aisha was chattering away with her.

Betty's expression was a bit dull, as if she was always distracted. Schiller put down the food, and Aisha dragged Betty to the bathroom.

Another ten minutes passed, and Betty, who had wiped her body clean and changed her clothes, walked out of the bathroom. Schiller checked the wounds on her body again and found that apart from some abrasions, there were no very serious injuries, and he felt slightly relieved.

Aisha nimbly helped Betty apply medicine, then held her hand, and the two sat on the bed together.

Schiller knelt halfway by the bed, looked into Betty's eyes, and said, "Do you still remember what happened at that time?"

"That person named Tan Da tricked us into his house, killed my mother, and locked me there..."

"How did he trick you into going there?"

"He said we could live there."

"Live where? In his house?"

Betty nodded.

"Did he cook for you? Food, did he provide you with food?"

Betty nodded again.

"Did he attack you after eating?"

Betty continued to nod.

At this time, Schiller didn't continue to ask, but returned to the origin of the problem. He continued to ask:

"He invited you and your mother to their house, and your mother agreed? What did she say at that time?"

"We were going to town," Betty said.

"Was it your mother who said that? When he invited you, your mother said you were going to town, right?"

Betty nodded again.

"Then why didn't you go to town?"

Betty fell into thought. She looked a bit painful, but finally shook her head and said, "... I don't know."

"Your mother refused him, right?" Schiller grabbed her hand and said, "She said 'no', or 'no thanks', or 'we are going to town', did she say these things?"

Betty nodded.

"Do you remember what Tan Da said?"

"He said the town was far away, and also said there was food in his house," Betty tried hard to recall, then continued, "He said he had a younger sister the same age as me."

"Then what did your mother say?"

"She still said she was going to town. We had a place to stay there," Betty said, "We stayed there, then came here to play, and were leaving tomorrow."

Caught the key point, Schiller thought.

Aisha also reacted, she said, "So you had already gone to town to stay, just came over here to play. Then Tan Da invited you to stay, you definitely wouldn't stay, because you had a place to stay."

Schiller thought the same thing. In the wheat field, the police officer showed him the hairpin and said it was found at the place where the missing mother and daughter were staying, and he realized: if this missing persons case was done by Tan Da, then he couldn't have lured the mother and daughter over like he lured the two of them.

On one hand, they already had a place to stay in town, whether it was a hotel or an inn, and their luggage and such were already settled. They might have come to the wheat field to take a look on the way, why would they have to run to a stranger's house to stay?

On the other hand, although it couldn't be determined if this mother was a single mother, a woman with a child, and a girl at that, basically wouldn't agree to a stranger's invitation to stay together.

That is to say, as long as this mother was mentally normal, it was impossible to accept Tan Da's invitation.

Betty's memory also said that her mother emphasized they were going back to town and refused Tan Da's invitation. Then how did these two come to Tan Da's house?

Basically, the possibility of Tan Da using violent means to knock the two out on the spot and bring them back can be ruled out.

Because Betty also said that Tan Da invited them to eat, and made a move after eating. If he had knocked them out directly, he could have just thrown them into the warehouse, without needing to eat.

Moreover, Tan Da was not old, and looked very thin and weak. Being able to have such a pale complexion in the central United States shows that he basically hadn't gone out much, and it wouldn't be that easy to knock out an adult woman.

In summary, the mother-daughter missing persons case was done by Tan Da, but there is something tricky about it.

Schiller still remembered that when they first arrived at Tan Da's house, a police officer came over. Looking at the traces on his shoes and trouser legs, it was the police officer who stopped his car earlier.

And this police officer didn't comply with police regulations, came alone, and didn't turn on the police lights and sirens of the police car, which was very suspicious.

Another suspicious point is that when he first discovered the little girl in the cellar and asked her what was going on, the little girl's answer was almost exactly the same as the answer just now.

You know, this child had just stayed with her mother's corpse for three days; it was already good enough that she wasn't mentally deranged, and it was even more shocking that she could speak clearly.

And repeating it twice, with a coincidence rate of 90% in wording and narrative order, is almost impossible.

From the above facts, Schiller could roughly infer that there was the participation of a telepath.

It is also known that Ma'alefa'ak wanted to replace J'onn's identity, and J'onn is a police officer in the comics, so Ma'alefa'ak is very likely to have also disguised himself as a police officer. This question is easy to solve.

Ma'alefa'ak and Tan Da cooperated, using his telepathic ability to lure the mother and daughter to Tan Da's house, Tan Da killed the mother, and locked the daughter up.

Assuming this is true, Schiller had to think: what was Ma'alefa'ak's purpose in doing this.

Tan Da's motive is quite simple; either he was controlled by Ma'alefa'ak, or it was because of the appearance of his younger sister, he was full of malice toward little girls of this age. But no matter what, he is a very typical antisocial personality, and the evil of such people doesn't need any reason.

But Ma'alefa'ak's motive is worth thinking about.

If it were Tan Da alone doing this case, then this little girl would definitely have died long ago. Because Tan Da's younger sister also died, if he could kill one, he could kill a second; otherwise, if it wasn't for violent desire, nor for sexual desire, why would he make a move on this mother and daughter?

But it just so happened that the little girl was fine; this wouldn't be what Tan Da wanted, so I'm afraid it was what Ma'alefa'ak wanted.

Then why did Ma'alefa'ak need this little girl?

In Schiller's view, although Ma'alefa'ak has a high probability of suffering from sexual psychological disorders, judging from his various previous behaviors, his sexual psychological disorder is more inclined toward "objectification and occupation."

Simply put, it is to first objectify the object of desire, and then occupy things that do not belong to oneself.

For example, he didn't see the relationship between his brother and his sister-in-law as equal lovers or husband and wife, but felt that his brother owned his sister-in-law, saw his sister-in-law as his brother's accessory, and then developed desire for the accessory within the accessory relationship.

This desire is essentially directed at his brother, that is to say, occupying his brother's property and items, making him feel happy, which belongs to a very typical sexual psychological disorder.

Research shows that such sexual psychological disorders mostly act on one's own relatives and acquaintances, and are relatives and acquaintances whose status and conditions are superior to one's own, which is a distorted psychology that attempts to express victory or defeat through sex.

And the little girl Betty doesn't fit this situation at all; Ma'alefa'ak and this mother and daughter might not have had any intersection, so naturally, there is no talk of any sense of occupation and acquisition.

However, there is another possibility, and that is that Betty looks very much like the Martian Manhunter J'onn's daughter.

The police officer in the wheat field earlier said similar words; although I don't know if he is J'onn or Ma'alefa'ak, no matter who it is, this should be true. Betty might indeed look very much like J'onn's daughter who has passed away.

In this way, Ma'alefa'ak letting Tan Da lock Betty up was still to target his brother. He also saw J'onn's daughter as his accessory, and now he also wants to occupy this accessory.

As for what he plans to do, Schiller can roughly figure it out; anyway, it's nothing more than re-enacting the tragedy of that year, and then watching J'onn collapse and feeling complacent.

Actually, this is what was said before; what these psychopaths are best at is harming others without benefiting themselves.

They simply cannot rationally start from interests, clearly judge their own situation, and make the wisest choice, but are more likely than normal people to make irrational choices emotionally.

For example, a job is being done well, but he insists on making trouble, which obviously has no benefit to himself, but he just wants to do it, just because he is dominated by perverted desires and has lost his mind.

Ma'alefa'ak came this time to gain the trust of the KGB and then mix into the Justice League. It stands to reason that if he played the role of a police officer step by step, this matter might have been done.

But he didn't; as soon as he saw his brother, he couldn't help it, and had to do some things that were completely unhelpful to the overall situation but could satisfy his own evil desires.

People are often curious, since the Joker is smart and has no morals, why does he lose to Batman, who has moral constraints, every time? One of the reasons is that he often does extra things to satisfy his evil desires. This can also be considered a significant weakness of antisocial lunatics.

Are there any antisocial people who can control their evil desires? Actually, there are. But if they can control it, they naturally can't do anything earth-shattering, and ordinary people will call such people normal people and won't pay too much attention.

Ma'alefa'ak is that typical lunatic who loves to do extra things, leaving the original plan unobserved, and insisting on creating a missing persons case, wanting to use Betty to torture his brother again.

But unfortunately, this time he ran into Schiller, so it's hard to say who is torturing whom.

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