Chapter 3858: The Nameless Bat (39)

"Hello, John. No need to feel worried, this is just a routine inquiry regarding the Abidonis death case." Schiller sat in front of a young man and said, "Of course, it also involves the President's scandal photos. You don't need to feel too nervous; we won't sentence you just because of this."

This young intern tried hard to rub his fingers, bit his lip, and said: "I was really forced, my immediate supervisor was standing behind me. My supervisor's supervisor was also watching, what could I do? If I didn't do as they said, I wouldn't have a job. Not just anyone can be an intern at Wei En Group; I also spent a lot of effort to get this position. I don't want to lose it, I had no choice..."

Intern John kept repeating these things. No matter how Schiller asked him, he would only answer with this kind of shirking responsibility. This made Schiller lose patience very quickly.

"Alright, sir. This isn't a union." Schiller took out two documents from under the table and said, "This is the resume you submitted to Wei En Group, and this one here is your programming homework from your university days. Do you have anything to say?"

"I... I... what do I have to say?" He stuttered, "I submitted it according to the normal process..."

"Clearly, your university homework level does not match the level described in your resume. And the test work after the second round of interviews at Wei En Group is also different from your university coursework level. This proves that you falsified your resume and interview."

"I didn't!" John suddenly became excited and shouted, "I just self-studied in the second half of university! So my level improved; you can't just say I falsified my resume based on this!"

"I have to emphasize a common sense to you." Schiller waved his hand at his subordinate and said, "There are computers in the FBI base, and we have very professional technical personnel. And I am also very patient; I can give you a few hours to write a security program. That way we will know your true level."

The computer was placed in front of John; he turned pale, and cold sweat flowed down his forehead. Then he suddenly changed his face and begged: "No, I really didn't mean it, I just really needed this job opportunity. And they didn't check when they hired me, they also have responsibility, you can't make this public!"

Schiller of course knew how heavy the charge of falsifying a resume was. Once Wei En Group decided to sue, this young man might turn into a homeless person overnight, because all related industries would no longer hire him.

"Don't be nervous, I didn't say I would expose it." Schiller said, "I just want to know what you did the day you took the photos for them?"

"I... I actually didn't do anything." John was trembling all over and said, "At that time I had only worked for three days; I didn't know how to use Wei En Group's internal monitoring system. It's just that they said I was a very talented person, I, I also wanted to show off, so I volunteered to go. But I couldn't understand that interface at all..."

"Then how did you operate it?"

"I... I clicked wrong as soon as I went up. I clicked on a particularly remote camera. But I told them that in order to seize that timing, I had to check the situation of all cameras in advance. They even said I was very rigorous..."

"No wonder." Schiller shook his head and said, "And then?"

"I called up all the cameras, and found that a camera in the center was not bad. But regarding how to control it to turn, or focus and shoot, I didn't know at all. And that big shot, that red-haired woman, kept urging me behind me..."

"And then?"

"Then a miracle descended. Maybe because my mother is a devout believer, she always hoped I could enter a big company, I completed her wish, so God blesses me..."

"Get to the point!"

John was startled by the scare and said: "The computer moved by itself. The camera turned to the exact position, I pretended I was operating, but actually I didn't. Then it took a photo, which was the photo that was released."

"Very good. Have you received any strange emails?"

"I don't know, I forgot the password for the previous mailbox." John said, "It seems there wasn't one after changing to a new mailbox."

The technical personnel had him enter the mailbox address on the computer. After some operations, they retrieved the password for the old mailbox, and sure enough, they found an email inside.

The content of this email was evidence of John's resume falsification. And at the end of the email, a sentence was attached: "Submit all evidence to Wei En Group Security Department Head Abidonis in 24 hours."

Schiller glanced at this email and then at the bewildered John. He was sure the other party really hadn't received this email.

He should have thought of it earlier; if there was the hand of that electronic life in the photo, he would also try to silence Abidonis. Because as Barbara said, just erasing the traces on the internet wasn't safe enough; the traces in the real world also had to be erased to achieve true invisibility.

The candidate he chose was John, this intern who had falsified his resume. John was really too afraid of his secret being exposed; if he knew his supervisor's supervisor would directly get the evidence, he indeed had a certain probability of killing.

It's just that Lena Luthor acted one step ahead of him, provoking the relationship between Abidonis and his wife, letting Mrs. Abidonis kill Abidonis. And this unlucky guy John, because he forgot his mailbox password, hadn't read this email at all, and thus wasn't manipulated by the electronic life.

Or it's also possible that if Lena's silencing behavior hadn't succeeded, the electronic life would still go find John. John was his backup plan.

John's confession and this email made Schiller more and more certain of his guess. The mastermind behind all these events was the electronic ghost hidden in the network.

And soon after, this phone call from Seeing Natasha completely confirmed their guess.

"The female killer 'Codename Eve' has woken up." Seeing Natasha's voice was a bit low. Schiller heard rain in her background and guessed she should be in the car.

"What did she say?" Schiller asked.

"I haven't seen her yet, but Gordon told me the woman said she received an email containing evidence that she had helped the mafia sell drugs but swallowed the drugs herself. The other party threatened to send this stuff to the mafia boss, so she had to help the other party kill."

"As expected." Schiller said, "If I'm not mistaken, the technical personnel at the Gotham Police Station can't find the source of the email at all."

"Yes, and the Wei En Group's technical personnel can't either. That kid named Drake also tried, but found nothing. He said the other party might be a very powerful hacker, second only to Batman."

As she spoke, Seeing Natasha had already arrived at the hospital and took the elevator upstairs, soon walking into the ward.

Although this female killer had been rescued and was out of danger, she was skin and bones, and looked like she wouldn't live long. Maybe she knew this herself, so she very neatly confessed everything.

But actually, there was nothing to confess; she just received a threatening email and then had to help the other party kill. After all, she was a drug dealer, so killing those prostitutes and johns wasn't a problem. And having mixed in these chaotic communities for years, she hadn't been caught when selling drugs, which proved she had her own ways of avoiding the police. That's why the police dragged it out for a long time without catching her. If it weren't for Mnemosyne giving an accurate profile, she might still be at large now.

Not asking anything, Seeing Natasha sighed. Her communication with Schiller wasn't hung up, and Schiller also told her about his progress.

"You'd better go find the Barbara of your universe too." Schiller suggested, "She is a very powerful hacker, second only to Batman. It will be very useful to deal with the possible electronic life. Although Gordon might not agree, you can contact her privately."

"Fine, I'll try." Seeing Natasha nodded and said, "The situation on my side is getting more and more chaotic, I think I might need..."

Just as she said this, Seeing Natasha's phone rang. After she picked it up, she heard Gordon's slightly trembling voice: "Antonio is dead! He died in his home. Come over quickly."

Seeing Natasha put down the phone and rushed out, driving all the way to the location Gordon provided. When she got out of the car, she found that there were not only police here; to be precise, police were the minority, and most were bodyguards in black suits and black sunglasses. Clearly, the Penguin had come.

"... If it weren't for your torture and forced confession, he might not have committed suicide! Our clues are broken like this. What else do you expect us to use to find the Eden Killer?!"

"Torture and forced confession? Wasn't it your people who said Antonio was the killer that I acted?! Does the Eden Killer commit suicide?! This shows your judgment was wrong, and you have to be responsible for this!"

Seeing Natasha hadn't walked in yet, but she heard the fierce argument between Gordon and the Penguin coming from inside. She hurried forward to mediate, but clearly it was of no use. Both sides stuck to their own arguments, blaming each other.

Seeing Natasha had to focus on the crime scene. This crime scene was too easy to understand; it was Antonio lying on the bed, using a piece of broken glass to slit his own throat, and then dying from excessive blood loss.

Antonio's body had many scars, and one look showed he had experienced inhuman abuse. However, considering he might have been marked as a killer by the Penguin, it was normal for him to encounter torture and forced confession.

Seeing Natasha felt a bit strange. Although Antonio had some scars, it could be seen that the Penguin was relatively restrained, at most letting him see some blood, without using any cruel torture. Was someone who grew up under a mafia boss brother so fragile?

Seeing Natasha felt something was wrong, so she walked closer to check the corpse. She unbuttoned Antonio's shirt, originally just glancing at the scars on his chest, but soon felt something was wrong.

"Stop arguing." She said to the people behind her, "He has words on his chest."

Gordon and the Penguin both stopped and turned to walk toward her. Both stared at Antonio's corpse, but saw nothing. Gordon looked carefully and found that the scars on the front of Antonio's corpse seemed to have some regularity, but the horizontal and vertical lines didn't look like letters at all.

"Shit." The Penguin cursed, "Where are the words?"

"Of course you can't see them, because this isn't English at all. To be precise, it's not an alphabetic script."

Seeing Natasha stepped back two steps, used the photo-taking device that came with Battleworld to take a photo, and sent it to Schiller.

Schiller froze for a moment the moment he saw the photo of the scars. As a native Chinese speaker, he immediately saw that the dense scars overlapping each other were overlapping Chinese characters.

Schiller took out a piece of paper, traced the strokes on the screen one by one, extracted the strokes, and then combined them in the most common way, finally getting five Chinese characters—"Brainiac".

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