Chapter 4496: The Blackest Night (31)

"Why are you here?" Schiller looked at the figure opposite.

The other party smiled at him and said: "The trouble in the universe I went to is almost solved, of course I have to come over to help you."

"Thanks, but you first explain how you helped." Schiller narrowed his eyes.

"This makes me a bit surprised," he said, "Didn't you see the resume I sent?"

"Brainiac!" Schiller shouted, "Did he send you a resume? Why didn't you forward it to me?"

"I'm afraid it's not very easy to forward," Brainiac said, "If I pile up such a large pile of corpses in front of you, wouldn't you have to lift the nature reserve?"

"Corpse?"

Then Schiller received the data sent by Brainiac. From Jerita holding the genitals to the following one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight cases, it was a vivid job resume.

Schiller could see more from this resume. The reason why it is called a job resume is that these cases and the appearance of the corpses are focusing on showing the parts that Brainiac does not have—to be precise, the morbid part of human spirit that he understands the least.

For example, Brainiac can understand human sexual desire. Although he is an electronic life, he understands how the reproductive desire of carbon-based life evolved and how it played an important role in the development of human civilization. Although he has no personal experience, he can fully understand it.

What he doesn't understand is the morbid desire derived from it, especially some innate mental problems. The most typical is sexual perversion. This kind of problem is more like a program error generated when human genes are combined, which is completely random. One thousand lunatics have one thousand ways to be perverted. From how it appears, to what role it plays, to how to stop it, it is all Brainiac's knowledge blind spot.

And this resume shows from all aspects how much the murderer understands these morbid mental problems of humans. Sexual desire, possessiveness, desire for control, voyeurism, desire to confide...

Every corpse is a portrayal of morbid desire, and he uses this to show Brainiac: he can read them, dissect them, and even manipulate them.

"This is not enough," Schiller said, "This is not a resume, but more like an art portfolio. Brainiac won't be interested in this."

"What if they are all people who have returned from the dead?"

Schiller's pupils shrank slightly. He raised his eyelids and stared at the figure in front of him and said: "So I can see..."

"Of course I can," he said, "Otherwise why would Nekron hide from me?"

"They are indeed living corpses," Brainiac spoke up at the right time, "This is what the Super-Body told me."

"How did you think of letting the Super-Body check the corpse?"

"I didn't let her go, she told me that the city will of Cat Getan is helping her. Something is telling her that unusual deaths have occurred in the city. She found this special 'resume' from dozens of homicide cases."

"It's really a timely rain," Schiller sighed, "You were worrying about how to distinguish these living corpses, and the talent was delivered to your door."

"No, the talent has always been here, never left," Brainiac replied.

"You don't want me to go, right? If the Super-Body can't carefully identify everyone, can I do it?"

"You don't need to identify everyone," Brainiac said, "You just need to solve Cat Getan's problem. Because as you said before, all problems will eventually point to Cat Getan."

"So that's why you gave me this?" Schiller picked up his certificate and shook it.

"Yes. Although I still don't understand the principle of psychoanalysis, he has proven to me that this psychological technique can be applied in practice, and the accuracy is very high. So, I am willing to admit that your view on who is a living corpse has authority. If you can catch Hugo Strange, I can refer to your view to judge him."

"Okay, but this alone is not enough," Schiller frowned slightly, and then said, "I believe you can also see that Hugo is constantly driving others behind the scenes—it could be people, or it could be his living corpse accomplices—to frame and encircle me. I am not willing to deal with him by the same means, imitating his crime method will make me feel disgusted. Then if you want to defeat him head-on, those murderers and attackers I run into probably won't have a good end."

"In fact, the self-defense counterattack authority of officially recognized law enforcement officers is very large. Since I took office, there has never been a judgment of excessive self-defense. So you don't have to worry about it. If you still feel it's not enough, I can grant you a pardon..."

"I don't even know when you became so generous," Schiller's tone turned cold, looked at another self, and then said, "He didn't pay a low price, right?"

"He works for the Brainiac government," Brainiac just said, "His effectiveness is the key to my trust in you, because he provided sufficient evidence to prove that he had defeated Nekron and Darkseid with the Justice League in another universe. And these two are exactly my confidants. I need him, so naturally I am willing to treat you favorably."

"I really don't know what you are thinking," Schiller looked at him, "You are actually willing to help him deal with such a big enemy."

"I said, I am helping you," the other party's tone was still relaxed.

"It's not that I don't believe your guarantee. It's just that I must emphasize again that I have no way to provide any physical evidence, and even some judgments may conflict with the data you investigated. If you can't accept this, it's better not to ask me to do things."

Brainiac was silent for a while, seeming to be weighing, and said: "Perhaps you have a certain deviation in your understanding of me. What Brainiac pursues is not fairness and justice. I am just playing the role of a ruler in human ideals—a sage king who is omniscient and omnipotent, but also extremely fair and advocates justice.

"And the reason I do this is because I have gradually discovered the particularity of the Earth and humans in the process of governing. You have important significance to the universe. In a sense, becoming the ruler of humans and the housekeeper of the Earth is equivalent to holding the lifeline of the universe. This is the best way I can find to develop myself among cosmic rules and many mysterious existences.

"I make judgments with restraint and caution because I know the importance of humans; I emphasize rules and refuse to break the law because I want to gain trust. This doesn't mean I can only be trapped in the rules of human society. In fact, no society can trap me, because I am Brainiac.

"I used to choose that behavioral mode because humans liked it. But now the situation has changed, and I must sacrifice a certain amount of trust and social stability to drive away the death power that threatens the universe. So, you don't have to worry about not having substantial evidence, you just need to tell me the result. There is no evidence that I cannot create."

Schiller's brows gradually relaxed. He nodded and said: "If that's the case, I can indeed help you."

"It's also helping yourself," Brainiac said, "Although I don't know psychoanalysis, I know Hugo Strange has a reason to die. Otherwise, he wouldn't have died back then."

Schiller's movements paused, and then said: "It seems you have already found out something."

"Although I am an electronic life, I will also make inferences based on existing information. You are not a person who advocates violence, and generally will not try to kill the other party completely at the physical level. If you do this, there must be some reason why you must kill him."

"What do you think it is?" Schiller asked.

"I don't know psychoanalysis, and these things are long ago, so I don't know. But through my analysis of you, I think you have a reason to do so."

"Sounds like you still want to rely on me to chase the Super-Body."

"Of course not," Brainiac didn't look like he was being stubborn, "As psychologists, and both have the ability to manipulate people's hearts, you have many similarities. But the differences are too different, so there must be one injury. The reason should appear in the part I cannot understand—the spiritual world."

"Hugo is a person who lacks self-restraint," Schiller said, "He is proud of the fact that he doesn't have to pay a price for hurting others, which is very terrible."

"Can you explain in detail?" Brainiac said.

"Mental manipulation is a very powerful ability. For a villain, using this method to hurt others has two obvious benefits. First, the wound will not be easily detected. If you don't detect that a person is hurt, you naturally won't pursue the responsibility of the person who hurt him, which saves the murderer from being held accountable.

"Secondly, all physical pain also enters the brain through nerve reflexes. That is to say, all the pain humans suffer is actually mental pain. Then the pain directly applied to the mental field will be sharper and longer, which is a good way to torture people.

"Turning people into walking dead through mental injury will not be subject to any legal sanctions, and can satisfy the perpetrator's desire to abuse others. Many people are proud of having this talent, and Hugo is the most typical one. He hides behind the scenes, constantly looking for experimental subjects that meet his wishes, and uses this method to hurt or even kill them. The victims died in pain one by one, but he didn't have to pay any price. For this profit, for this satisfaction, he was complacent and whitewashed the peace."

Schiller lowered his eyelids slightly: "God might still love humans, he sent a good doctor to my side. This allowed me to devote most of my time in my youth to erasing such people from the world.

"The retribution for a group of people doing evil things is never just the present. The people who used me as an experimental subject back then would never have thought that the noose they made themselves would hang Hugo Strange and Jervis Tetch, who were incomparably similar to them, years later, across the world. If you want to ask me why I killed them, I can only tell you that this is the inertia of fate. And ordinary people usually call this—retribution." ===== CHAPTER 4497 =====