Chapter 4497: The Blackest Night (32)
Brainiac didn't speak for a long time, he seemed completely unexpected that Schiller would answer this question seriously. This is not a good question to answer, nor is it a question that must be answered. But Schiller still answered.
Brainiac thought about it, and felt that it could not be attributed to Schiller suddenly having the interest to talk. He thought, perhaps it was because he had expressed his attitude towards humans before, so he could exchange for such an answer.
Brainiac had of course investigated Schiller's past, but that era was relatively long ago. At that time, the human Internet was not so developed, and there were not many materials left, vaguely glimpsing the snow mud claws of his legendary deeds, but most of them were still hidden in the fog.
This professor is like a puzzle, those large pieces that can be put together always appear in the corners, while the most core clues in the center are still scattered. Until today, Brainiac finally grasped some clues.
In fact, Brainiac has always been very curious, Schiller can even tolerate Jonathan Crane—this guy is a veritable mental patient, perverted beyond cure. Like Schiller, he is a psychologist, but he once tried to poison Gotham University. These things should have stepped on Schiller's thunder point.
But in fact, Schiller didn't have much malice towards him. Although he would give him a lesson when he was too much, Brainiac could see that Schiller didn't want to kill him at all.
In contrast, the deaths of Hugo and Mad Hatter were a bit suspicious. Although it is possible that it was indeed an accident, it happened that these two people with mental manipulation abilities died, which is really hard not to make people think. Brainiac had also thought about what the difference between Jonathan and these two people was.
Even including Jack. Don't look at Jack being honest now, Brainiac has heard of the prestige of other universe Jokers. In order not to stimulate him, Brainiac even stared at their barbecue card game, and took down whoever dared to steal cards. The feeling of being praised by the Joker as "Qing Tian Lao Ye" is strange, but Brainiac still persists.
Undoubtedly, the Joker is also a lunatic who is very good at playing with people's hearts. He and Schiller also often have intersections, but Schiller never thought of killing him. Not only did he not target him much, but sometimes he coaxed him.
Comparing like this, the deaths of those two people were too suspicious. Brainiac had suspected it before, but because he couldn't figure it out, he didn't think about it carefully. But today this question was answered.
The difference lies in whether the person who does evil accepts the consequences. Saying this might be a bit superficial. What Brainiac feels most deeply is Jonathan Crane's journey to prison.
Jonathan tirelessly makes trouble, and often fails. But interestingly, he doesn't cover up his whereabouts. The police came and he didn't run, and he rarely confronted law enforcement officers head-on. Unless the police caught him that day and he happened to have something to do, but he didn't kill the police, just knocked them down with fear gas.
And his crime method is the same for decades, which is using fear gas. Even if he transforms many different versions of fear gas, it still carries very distinct personal characteristics.
He is very proud of his technique, not only did he not think about covering it up, but he wished the whole world knew. If he used fear gas but no one saw it, then he would be broken.
The Joker is similar. If he wants to commit a crime, he must let the whole world know that this was done by the Joker. If Batman didn't see that the murderer was the Joker, then he would be furious.
Including Mr. Freeze, it's the same. Even if Mr. Freeze in other universes doesn't turn over a new leaf and still does the work of a super criminal, he rarely uses means other than freezing to commit crimes. He freezes people into ice cubes as soon as he makes a move, and doesn't think about covering it up at all.
In general, these people are proud, even conceited, about their personal characteristics. They just want to show themselves exaggeratedly, let the whole world see how powerful they are. Even if they bear the consequences of being beaten up or directly imprisoned, they will never give up.
It can even be said that bearing the consequences is also a part of their personal performance. Whether it is being beaten by Batman, or being arrested, or even going to court, they think it is reasonable, even interesting, and can help them be understood by more people.
You can say they are evil, but you can't say they are cowardly. They are evil uprightly, without any scruples, radiating the charm of mental perversion, and can even attract a group of perverted fans.
And Hugo and Tetch are different. Their crime methods carry a very strong "avoidance" tendency. They never show themselves in front of others, and the cases they do have no personality. On the contrary, in order not to let people find out that this case was done by themselves, they will look for scapegoats, or simply incite others, let others do it, and sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labor.
This can be said to be two crime styles, actually no one is better or worse. After all, they are all crimes, and there is no high or low difference between straight evil and hidden evil. But unfortunately, they have another attribute, that is, they like to catch people for experiments.
Hugo doesn't need to say, he has been researching mental patients in Arkham Asylum all year round. And, there is a display in the comics, he not only directly used patients for experiments, he also manufactured patients, and once tried to drive Batman crazy.
Mad Hatter doesn't need to say, he likes to use his brainwave controller to turn girls into so-called "Alice." Hugo at least pays attention to some psychological manipulation techniques, and will manipulate others through means such as amplifying desires, while Mad Hatter is pure violent brainwashing, without any skill.
His crime method cannot be said to be wrong, it is indeed very conducive to avoiding arrest, but it just happened to step on Schiller's thunder point.
His entire youth was spent hunting such evil upper-class people who stirred up the wind and rain behind the scenes, killing one when one came, killing two when two came, and when he got used to killing, he would fill these two crispy mages as soldiers.
Brainiac completed his life experience hidden in the fog through Schiller's few words. This gave him a further understanding of Schiller, and also understood that Hugo Strange is afraid that he will not be good.
Schiller has very rich experience in dealing with such people. Brainiac is not very clear about how Hugo was fished out by him, but he has no doubt that Hugo will definitely fall into the same trap for the second time, and it may not be a very clever trap, because it is precise, so it is effective.
Brainiac is busy with other shelters while observing Schiller. He wants to know how Schiller, who has an official status, will deal with Hugo Strange.
Victor took the certificate and looked at it, shook his head and sighed: "If Hugo knew that you obtained the status of a law enforcement officer so easily, he would probably be furious."
"Of course I want him to know," Schiller smiled and said, "He will know soon."
"What are you going to do?" Victor understood some overtones, he began to become a bit excited, "After the detective and criminal perspective, is it the police perspective? The detective story will definitely sell well."
Schiller didn't admit or deny it, just put on his coat again, and then said: "Was that all your students in the laboratory before?"
"How is that possible? The entire low-temperature physics major has dozens of people," Victor said, "But classes are suspended now, they are probably spinning in the activity classroom."
"Let's go, let's go over. By the way, call Gordon and ask him to come over in person."
"Wasn't he very busy before? He didn't even have time to accompany me to put the low-temperature device. I wish I could freeze the sewer now."
"What is he busy with?"
"Of course it's homicide cases."
"Then let him come over, I have the answer here."
About twenty minutes later, Gordon leaned against the door frame panting, saying: "If you dare to tell me that the answer is yourself or your group of students, I will go to the psychology department to hang myself."
Schiller shook his head, stood at the door of the physics department activity classroom, and then said: "There will be a few murderers in here, follow me."
He pushed the door open. At this time, the classroom was a bit noisy, and about a dozen pairs of students were practicing dancing here. They were all very involved, and only a few people at the door saw someone come in, and everyone else was busy dancing.
"How is your marksmanship?" Schiller looked at Victor and asked in a low voice.
"The feel is not bad, what's wrong?"
"Good. Later I will point to a few people for you, you must freeze them before they react. Freeze them firmly, don't let them run out."
Victor was a bit confused, but he was confident in his technology, and he wouldn't freeze people to death like that copycat. People frozen by dense ice will not suffer any harm. He had frozen himself and the students in the group meeting because he was too angry at the group meeting before, and Nora came to unlock it, and nothing happened.
Schiller focused his eyes on the crowd for about two or three seconds, then nudged Victor with his elbow and pointed to a few people in the crowd. Victor raised his gun and fired.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Fired five shots in a row, successfully freezing five people. Other students ran away screaming, and the nearest one raised his hands high and shouted: "Don't do this, Professor! We will go back to do homework immediately!"
"My god, Professor, there is not much time left for the dance party, can't we just practice for a while?" Some people complained.
"Professor, you came just in time. If you don't freeze him, my toes are going to be stepped on and broken."
"I happen to be tired, why don't we go to the library?"
Obviously, Victor had a bit too little prestige among the students. But this also has advantages, no one thinks Victor is attacking them, just thinking that Victor is dissatisfied because they don't do homework or practice dancing for too long.
But the police who rushed in later scared them, pushing and squeezing into the corner of the room one by one. Although low-temperature physics is full of talents, they are real talents. Unlike the psychology department, their hearts are relatively fragile.
"What is going on? Why did the police come?"
"Yeah, Professor, what crime did they commit?"
Victor also looked at Schiller and asked: "What crime did they commit?"
"They are murderers in serial murder cases," Schiller said, "Commissioner Gordon, please take them back to the police station and ask them carefully."
"What? Serial murder case?! How is this possible?!"
"How could Beavis be a murderer in a serial murder case, he doesn't even dare to hit a mouse!"
"Yes. Matt's leg was injured not long ago, how could he go out to kill?"
"John can't either, I've been with him recently, where does he have time to engage in any serial murder case."
The students discussed. Victor wanted to speak out to defend, but he had no good reason. Because this is too ridiculous, the low-temperature physics department actually hid murderers in serial murder cases, and there were five of them, he couldn't convince himself.
Schiller coughed twice, and everyone's eyes focused on him. Seeing those gray eyes hidden behind the lenses, everyone was instantly quiet.
"Uh, Professor Rodriguez," someone still stood up with a hard head, and said, "Could there be any misunderstanding in this? How could so many people be murderers in serial murder cases?"
Victor was a bit impressed by his courage. You know, Brainiac chooses not to understand but to respect, which shows the pressure of a face-to-face dialogue with this psychology professor. ===== CHAPTER 4498 =====
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