Chapter 572

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

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

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 some different tones with "wah wah wah," and could even say English words with less than two syllables.

But everyone knew that every child was a loudspeaker when learning a language. Loud pronunciation seemed to be beneficial for them to build confidence in language, so many times they roared as loudly as they could.

And they also liked 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 screaming.

Although the Batcave was across more than half the city from Wei En Manor, as long as it rang over there, Bruce would definitely be able to hear it.

This was different from crying. When Aisha cried, Bruce and Selina would try their best to coax her, and once she was tired of crying, she would naturally go to sleep. But learning a language was a serious matter. 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. Clearly, Alfred believed that Aisha learning to speak was much more important than Bruce being stuck in the library checking materials.

Originally, Alfred wouldn't disturb Bruce from doing serious business. But some time ago, Bruce was addicted to magic and had a bad record. Not only did he follow Constantine, but he also found 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 materials, and wouldn't deliberately arrange 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 that the Batcave was far from Wei En Manor, and Alfred required Bruce to return home every day. Thus, the library of Cat Getan University became a better place to work.

Bruce checked materials until very late last night, so he simply slept in the dormitory. Although the facilities of Cat Getan University were somewhat old, the layout was still good. All 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 transmitted to 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, and come to the stairwell on the 2nd floor where you were."

Bruce looked back at the entire corridor and said: "Calculating based on Thomas's stride and pace, the error won't exceed 3 seconds. Such a coincidence in a murder case is not 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 didn't know the specific number of people, so he hurriedly cleaned up the crime scene, then ran downstairs, and 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 discover the crime scene. However, the stupid thing was that he didn't make a delay mechanism. When you came, Doris should have already been dead, 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 said, hugging his arms. "Estimating from the time, it cannot be used as solid evidence. However, when I first met him, I knew he had killed someone."

"He did a very stupid thing, which was, in order to cover up the bloodstains on his shirt, he put on a suit jacket. Indeed, looking from a flat angle, one couldn't see any clues. But when he was carrying the suitcase and walking up the stairs in front of me, 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 more comprehensively examine the traces on his body. And at this time, I discovered that looking in from the gap between the hem of his suit jacket and his shirt, I could see bloodstains."

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

"I speculate that he was covering up something. And not until I arrived at 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, saying: "The victim was pierced through 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 committed the crime in this posture..."

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

Lex continued: "Thomas's height is taller than mine, so he didn't need to lift it so high. However, Doris's height definitely wasn't short enough that Thomas didn't need to lift 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 lift 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 with bloodstains, and that is the armpit."

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

"Wait a minute!" Gordon suddenly spoke. He 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, even though 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, standing at this angle, saw that there was a trace of faint light flashing in Lex's eyes, looking unlike an ordinary human.

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

Whether the Joker had night vision ability, no one knew. But anyway, he could fight neck and neck with Batman, who was wearing night vision goggles, in the pitch-black night of Cat Getan.

"Fine, now only the motive is left." Gordon stood next to the corpse, thought for a while, and then said: "Just now, my subordinate reported to me that nothing suspicious was found on the victim. Her handbag also contained ordinary cosmetics, which looked like they were for touch-ups before going on stage."

"According to Christine, Doris had a boyfriend, only he worked at the Central Research Institute in Metropolis. The two were in a long-distance relationship, but because the distance wasn't far, they would meet every week. She and Thomas shouldn't have had any intersection."

And at this time, Bruce opened his mouth and said: "Thomas also had a girlfriend, or rather a fiancée, arranged by his family. He wasn't interested in baseball or football, hadn't approached the cheerleading dance troupe, and only knew 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 premeditated it. Otherwise, it would be impossible to prepare something like a javelin. I have to admit, this is a useful murder weapon. However, to get this at Cat Getan University, one must apply to open the equipment room..."

"Then wouldn't we know if we go to 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 are going to retrieve evidence..."

Soon, several people arrived at the office where the physical education teacher was. The physical education teachers at Cat Getan University were divided into normal physical education teachers and aerobics coaches who led the cheerleading dance troupe. And at this time, the one in the office happened to be 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 the 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 prison clothes and holding an information card, entering prison was permanently left in the file room of the Cat Getan Police Department.

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

Even if Bruce and Lex didn't need to make inferences, just by Gordon alone, he would eventually go to check the application records of the equipment room. At most, it would delay for one day, and this case would come to light.

And the day after this case was closed, the Cat Getan Police Department received a report call, coming from the leader of the cheerleading dance troupe, Christine. She cried and said:

"Detective Gordon! Come quickly! To the Cat Getan University gymnasium... Another member of the dance troupe is dead!

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