Chapter 572

Schiller first cast his gaze on Bruce, and Bruce turned his head. Looking at the pool of blood hidden in the darkness, his thoughts returned to last night.

In Wayne Manor at night, Bruce was checking some information in the library. Although, having returned from Metropolis, he already knew that his butler wasn't an ordinary person, but he still needed to investigate matters concerning agents, the Philby list, the Soviet Union, and those old stories.

But just at this time, a strong noise came from upstairs. Bruce helplessly closed the book, covered his forehead, and then stood up and came upstairs.

In the room upstairs, Aisha was learning to speak with Dick and Alfred. She had already been able to make "wa-wa-wa" sounds with different tones, and could even say English words with two syllables or less.

But everyone knew that every child is a loudspeaker when learning a language. Loud pronunciation seems to be beneficial for them to establish confidence in language, so many times they roar as loudly as they can.

And they also like to repeat, seemingly able to find the laws of language in one repetition after another. Loudness combined with repetition, Aisha was now a human alarm. Bruce even felt that he could develop an alarm device for the Batcave based on the principle of Aisha's cries.

Although the Batcave spanned more than half the city from Wayne Manor, as long as that side rang, Bruce could definitely hear it.

This was different from crying. When Aisha cried, Bruce and Selina would try their best to coax her, and when she cried until she was tired, she would naturally go to sleep. But learning language was serious business. Looking at Alfred's appreciative expression, Bruce knew that there was no room for him to speak here.

Moreover, the language learning class had class hour requirements. It wouldn't stop until a certain amount of time was learned. Obviously, Alfred believed that Aisha learning to speak was much more important than Bruce checking information in the library.

Originally, Alfred wouldn't disturb Bruce from doing serious business. But some time ago, Bruce was addicted to magic, had a bad track record, not only followed Constantine but also brought back some strange magic books. Alfred was very worried that Bruce would go astray because of this, so he always tried every means to divert his attention.

So now, the old butler didn't care at all when Bruce wanted to stay in the library to check information, and wouldn't deliberately arrange for Aisha's language class to miss this time, which led to Bruce being so noisy that he couldn't do anything at all.

Some people might say that Bruce could go to the Batcave to work, but the problem was, the Batcave was far from Wayne Manor, and Alfred required Bruce to return home every day. Thus, the library of Gotham University became a better place to work.

Bruce checked information until very late last night, so he simply slept in the dormitory. Although the facilities of Gotham University were a bit old, the layout was still good. All the bedrooms in the dormitory were single rooms, with a public lounge on each floor.

But because it was an old dormitory building after all, the soundproofing was poor. In fact, when Lex was dragging the box laboriously from the 1st floor, Bruce, who lived on the 2nd floor, had already been woken up.

And Lex and Thomas happened to meet in the stairwell on the 2nd floor. Bruce heard everything they said, so he wasn't surprised when he saw Lex, and cooperated by pretending not to know each other.

"You might not have noticed it yourself, but the sound of you dragging the box was really too loud. The vibration of the box hitting the stairs even reached my bed board." Bruce turned his head to look at Lex and said.

"And it was precisely because of this point that I suspected Thomas, because the time it took for you to drag the box from the 1st floor to the 2nd floor was just enough for an ordinary person to come from the other side of the stairs from the 4th floor to the 1st floor, cross the entire corridor, go up to the 1st floor again, and arrive at the stairwell on the 2nd floor where you were."

Bruce looked back at the entire corridor and said: "According to Thomas's stride and pace, the error won't exceed 3 seconds. Such a coincidence in a murder case isn't just a coincidence."

"I speculate that when your box hit the stairs for the first time and made a sound, I, who was on the 2nd floor, was woken up, and Thomas, who was on the 4th floor and had just finished the case, was also alarmed."

"He realized that a freshman might have arrived, and he didn't know the specific number of people, so he hurriedly cleaned up the crime scene, then ran downstairs, and then followed the stairs you walked along to catch up with you."

"Upon discovering that you were alone, he realized that not only did he not need to panic, but he could also use you as a joint witness to the discovery of the crime scene. But the stupid thing was, he didn't make a delay mechanism. When you arrived, Doris should have already died, so there was no way to let you be his witness for not being there."

"You only explained the reason for Thomas's appearance." Lex hugged his arms and said: "Estimating from the time, it can't be used as solid evidence. However, not long after I first met him, I knew he had killed someone."

"He did a very stupid thing, that is, in order to cover up the bloodstains on his shirt, he put on a suit jacket. Indeed, you can't see any clues from a level angle, but when he was carrying the suitcase and walking in front of me up the stairs, I deliberately pretended to be physically exhausted and was left behind by him."

"In this way, there was a height difference between us, and I could examine the traces on him more comprehensively. And at this time, I discovered that looking in from the gap between the hem of his suit jacket and the shirt, I could see bloodstains."

"Of course, it's also possible he injured himself. So, I continued to observe. I discovered that he wasn't relaxed when lifting the suitcase, and could even be said to be exhausted. If he really injured himself, then there was no need to show such an enthusiastic attitude to help me before. After all, we had never met before and were just strangers."

"I guess he was hiding something, and not until I arrived on the 4th floor and saw the crime scene did I confirm that he was the murderer."

"Why?" Gordon asked.

Lex walked to the crime scene and pointed at the corpse: "The victim was pierced in the chest by a javelin, and judging from the wound, the javelin was stabbed in from top to bottom. That is to say, the murderer must have used this posture to commit the crime..."

As he spoke, Lex made a gesture of raising a javelin and stabbing downward, which was holding the javelin virtually with both hands, left hand in front, right hand in back, forming a straight line, raising it above his head, and then stabbing downward with force.

Lex continued: "Thomas is taller than me, so he didn't need to raise it so high. However, Doris's height definitely wasn't so short that Thomas didn't need to raise the javelin to stab her to death from top to bottom like this."

"Therefore, if he wanted to commit the crime in this way, he had to raise his arms. That is to say, if he was only wearing a shirt at the time, then there would be bloodstains in a place that wouldn't normally be splashed, and that is the armpit."

"And before, on the shirt I saw through the gap of the suit jacket behind him, it was exactly the right armpit that was stained with blood."

"Wait a minute!" Gordon suddenly spoke and said: "In the almost pitch-black stairwell, you could still see the bloodstains on the shirt through the gap of the suit?" Gordon lifted his trench coat to look and found it was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything, and he was already close enough.

At this time, the entire dormitory building was experiencing a power outage. The corridor had some faint light because of the windows, but the stair part, because of the angle of the windows, was almost pitch black.

But at this time, Gordon, who was standing at this angle, saw that a faint light was flickering in Lex's eyes, looking unlike an ordinary human.

And Schiller also saw this point. He remembered that Alberto, who fell into the pool of fine wine before, also had eyes that would emit a faint light. This might be caused by the wine god factor.

No one knew if the Joker had night vision, but anyway, he could fight neck and neck with Batman, who was wearing night vision goggles, in the pitch-black night of Gotham.

"Alright, now only the motive is left." Gordon stood beside the corpse, thought for a while, and then said: "My subordinate just reported to me that nothing suspicious was found on the victim. The cosmetics in her handbag are also ordinary cosmetics, which look like they are for touch-ups before going on stage."

"According to Christine, Doris has a boyfriend, only he works at the Center for Research in Metropolis. The two are in a long-distance relationship, but because the distance isn't far, they meet every week. She and Thomas shouldn't have any intersection."

And at this time, Bruce opened his mouth and said: "Thomas also has a girlfriend, or rather a fiancée, arranged by his family. He isn't interested in baseball or football, hasn't approached the cheerleading dance troupe, and only knows the troupe leader Christine. And Christine just now didn't say that Doris and Thomas had any emotional entanglement, so it shouldn't be a crime of passion."

"He should have planned it long ago. Otherwise, it's impossible to prepare something like a javelin. I have to admit, this is a useful murder weapon. It's just that to get this at Gotham University, you have to apply for the equipment room..."

"Then wouldn't we know if we check the application records?" Gordon immediately picked up his phone and said to the other side: "It's me, you come over again, take the search warrant, we want to retrieve the evidence..."

Soon, several people arrived at the office where the physical education teacher was. Gotham University's physical education teachers are divided into normal physical education teachers and aerobics coaches who lead the cheerleading dance troupe. And at this time, the one in the office was the aerobics coach. She took out a form and then said: "... Here, three days ago, Thomas came to apply to borrow a javelin..."

"Can you determine which javelin it is?"

"Yes, all our equipment has numbers."

"Is it the javelin with number 5012?" Gordon asked.

"Application record... equipment number... that's right, it's 5012."

Now, the identity, motive, method, and murder weapon were all in place. It could be said that the evidence was conclusive. Thomas, who was taken to make a transcript, had no chance to resist. With the sound of the camera "crack," the image of Thomas, wearing a prison uniform and holding an information card, entering prison was permanently left in the archives of the Gotham Police Department.

This was a murder case with a beginning and an end. The investigation process was very smooth, the chain of evidence was very clear, and it could be said to be a typical murder case.

Even without Bruce and Lex to make deductions, relying on Gordon alone, he would eventually check the application records of the equipment room. At most, it would delay one day, and this case would come to light.

And the day after this case was closed, the Gotham Police Department received a report call, coming from the leader of the cheerleading dance troupe, Christine, who said while crying:

"Detective Gordon! Come quickly! Come to the Gotham University gymnasium... another member of the dance troupe is dead!

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