Chapter 570: A Typical Murder Case (Part 1)

Gotham City, a morning that was neither bright nor particularly warm, saw Shiler put down his coffee cup as he heard the clack of his colleague Anna's high heels; soon, a blonde American sweetheart walked in and tapped on the partition of Shiler's desk, saying, "The folks at the new student registration desk called in sick—you go..."

"I'm not going."

Shiler didn't look up as he replied; had this scene occurred a year ago, he might still have been just an ordinary university professor in Gotham, rather than what he was now—publicly writing papers, but beneath those few sheets lay the Green Lantern Corps' project proposals and the mist-crystal industry's planning documents.

Anna rolled her eyes. "You've got the fewest classes this week—who else is going?"

Suddenly, Shiler snapped back from his pile of chaotic work, turned to glance at the calendar beside him, and said, "It's January now. Shouldn't this be spring enrollment season? Doesn't Gotham University have any majors that start in spring?"

"Who says that?" Anna walked over to Shiler's desk, arms crossed. "You forgot—former President Xie Dun was a humanities major. Right before he left, he got both the Gotham Studies and Psychology programs approved—and set their start date for spring."

"Oh right—he probably forgot to tell you that Psychology was moved under the Wenxue Academy too, so the program you teach also starts in spring."

Shiler narrowed his eyes, recalling: American universities differed slightly from Chinese ones; many American universities operated on three semesters—with enrollment in January, May, and August—with new students arriving in both the January (spring) and August (fall) terms.

But Gotham University was closer to the Chinese model: though it also had three semesters, new student enrollment occurred only in August—no one came in spring.

The reason was simple: Gotham University had few colleges and chaotic administration; some staff, for convenience, had lumped all majors into fall enrollment.