Chapter 167: The Long Easter (7)
In the interrogation room of the Gotham Police Station, Schiller blows on a cup of hot coffee, and the white mist rising from the cup spreads, staining the lenses of his glasses.
The police officer sitting across from him stood up and gave up his place to Gordon, who knocked on the table and said helplessly, "Can you look like a suspect?" This is the interrogation room of the police station! I don't handcuff you, and it's not a reason for you to drink coffee! ”
"The police officers outside are complaining that you don't drink American, you have to drink espresso, and he has to run to the fourth floor to use the new coffee machine......"
"Can you not act like a repeat offender who knows the interrogation room well?"
"I'm an outsider, so I'm sitting here drinking coffee, if it's a local......"
Schiller looked up and looked around, Gordon followed his gaze, the two looked at the dense bullet marks on the wall, Gordon was speechless for a while, he knew what Schiller wanted to say in the second half of the sentence, if he was a native of Gotham, he would have started to go all out at this time.
"No matter what you find, I can only tell you that you have found the wrong person, I am just a professor at the University who has never even fired a gun."
Gordon sighed again, he walked over to Schiller and sat down, and said, "According to our investigation, you are the only one in the school who has obvious conflicts with the new principal Shelton, and you are the target of our investigation. ”
"What contradiction do I have with him?" Schiller asked Gordon: "I have done all the teaching tasks he has arranged perfectly, even if they are beyond the scope of the work, I have not delayed at all." ”
"I worked as a freshman guide, librarian, and archivist, and I didn't ask for a raise......"
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"But according to the testimony of other faculty members at the school, the new principal, Shelton, is quite unhappy with you."
"He's not happy with me, so why is he dead?"
"That's what I have to ask you."
"You can't assume my motives by speculating on my heart, in my opinion, he is not a good principal, but he is not too bad, maybe he has a personal opinion of me, but we have no disagreements on our work, no substantive conflict, no infringement of each other's interests, there is no deep hatred at all that is worth killing."
Gordon looked at him silently, he also knew that what Schiller said was right, according to their investigation, although Sheldon seemed to have a bad attitude towards Schiller and always wanted to find trouble, but they did not have much conflict at work, and there was no such thing as Schiller's disobedience to the work arrangement, and the two had little communication, let alone a head-on dispute.
In fact, Gordon did not have much hope for Schiller's investigation, because with what he knew about the professor, if he had done it, he would not have taken such a direct method, and if he had done so, he would not have let anyone seize the evidence.
In contrast, it was Victor who was more suspicious, because he was the first to discover the scene of the crime, and he had a good relationship with Schiller, and he did not have a good relationship with Shelton.
And before, Victor had complained to his colleagues that Shelton's Easter arrangements were too tight, and although this was not enough to justify the killing, it could also be seen that he didn't like the new headmaster very much.
According to Gordon's investigation, Sheldon has no bad habits, if he has to say, it is that he is too much like a politician, always wandering among the powerful, participating in various Gotham upper class banquets and activities, and expressing opinions on various social events as his own principal.
Of course, perhaps out of fear of gangsters, he is not a righteous and strict person, and his attitude is quite vacillating, and this kind of person is not easy to make mortal enemies with others.
Schiller sat across from Gordon and said, "Actually, I do have a clue for you. ”
"What is it?"
Schiller put down his coffee cup, he put his hands on the table and said, "The new headmaster is keen to get acquainted with the upper echelons of the gang, just as he has befriended the powerful in other cities." ”
"But gangsters are different from ordinary businessmen, and the lifeblood and secrets of certain illegal industries cannot be known by anyone, I suspect...... Of course, just suspicion ......"
"You mean, Sheldon may have been killed?"
Gordon thought for a moment, and then said: "It is indeed possible that the level of the gangsters he befriended can indeed access some secrets that others don't know, and if Sheldon is involved in something......"
"Of course, I want to emphasize that this is just a speculation, and it is my own speculation, and I have in no way meant it, and I have not heard of any rumors."
Gordon stared at him, he rolled his eyelids up, looked above his eyes, and asked Schiller, "The law of silence?" ”
Schiller shook his head and drew a cross on his chest.
As Gordon continued his conversation with Schiller, a police officer knocked on the door, walked in, saluted Gordon, and said, "Boss, there's something new." ”
Then the young officer glanced at Schiller, as if asking Gordon if he wanted to go out and say, and Gordon said directly: "No need to go out, just say it here." ”
This is also a common method used in interrogations, using new developments in the case to increase the pressure on the person being interrogated, and Gordon did not actually want to deal with Schiller through this method, he just got used to it.
"We found that the victim's desk drawers and cabinets had all been turned over, and there was a locked drawer on the lowest level of the desk that had been pried open, so we carefully searched the entire desk and found a hidden compartment on the side of the middle drawer."
As he spoke, the young police officer took out a transparent plastic bag containing a tape, and Gordon motioned to the police officer behind him to bring a tape recorder, then put on gloves, took out the tape and looked at it, and said, "On the surface, I didn't see any damage, so I should be able to play it directly." ”
Gordon put the tape into the tape recorder and pressed the button on it, and when the tape recorder worked, the first thing that came out was the sound of an electric current, then a loud noise.
Immediately after, a familiar voice came from the tape: "Their Nine Plantation goods are on the path of old Wilgin, that is, the route through the three main streets of the East End, their goods are too large, so the delivery port is set up in the basement of a nightclub, if you need it, I can say hello to him......"
"Are you worried about this? No, as far as I know, the underground chemical plant in the West End is also a Falcone ......."
Hearing this, Gordon shook his fingers and immediately turned off the recording, and he said to the others in the room, "For the safety of your lives, you didn't hear anything, you know?" ”
The young subordinates instantly covered their ears, nodded, and left, and after they left, Gordon glared at Schiller, who said to Gordon: "Officer, I'm going to call the police, someone is eavesdropping on my privacy and recording." ”
"What kind of privacy is this? You ......"
"Then you can play this recording through the police station."
"If you want to eliminate the Gotham Police Department, just say it."
Gordon took a deep breath, he sat down in his seat first, and then made a gesture to Schiller to sit down, and said soothingly: "Okay, okay, I'm not saying that you killed Shelton, but you should at least explain to me, what's going on?" ”
"I repeat, I didn't kill people."
Schiller sat down, took another sip of coffee and said, "You should know there's a camera inside Gotham University, right?" Our principal Shelton is in his office every day, observing the situation on campus through his camera. ”
"That includes the calls I received in the public area, but I really didn't know he recorded it." Schiller shook his head and said, "I have to say, as an outsider, he is really bold. ”
Gordon exhaled the breath he was holding and said, "Looks like he's been killed......"
"This is the scene of the crime." Gordon took a stack of photos and said, "According to our investigation, Sheldon was pushed downstairs, and the balcony railing of his office on the eighth floor was very low, and he should have been pushed by someone while standing in front of the guardrail and then fell down." ”
"According to the on-site investigation, when he was pushed down, he should have turned his back to that person, that is, he was very likely to know the murderer, and he had no defense against the murderer, and when he was talking with his back to the murderer, he was pushed down."
"It was an acquaintance who committed the crime, and the modus operandi was very different from the Gotham style, and it didn't use a submachine gun or a shotgun, or even a pistol."
"So, Victor and I are suspects, right? Because the two of us knew Sheldon fairly well, and were outsiders, we didn't know much about guns, and we weren't strong enough. ”
"You're much more suspicious than Victor now, after all, he's heard some inside information from you, and you have a reason to shut it down......
At this moment, a violent noise came from the center of the police station hall, accompanied by shouts and shouting, Gordon immediately stood up, and an officer rushed in and said, "Sheriff Gordon, something is wrong!" ”
"Don't panic, what's wrong?" Gordon stood up and turned to ask him, and the officer shouted, "Winnie at the front desk and Bird on duty have gone crazy all of a sudden!" Others are stopping them ......"
"Crazy?" Gordon immediately thought of something, he turned and opened the iron door of the interrogation room, allowing Schiller to come out of it, and then several people hurried to the antechamber.
When he arrived in the antechamber, the mad man had been subdued, but he still kept struggling and growling, Gordon tried to get up, but another sheriff stopped him and said, "Don't go over, they're crazy, I almost got bitten just now!" ”
"What the hell is going on? Why did you ...... all of a sudden?"
"Who knows? I was talking to Winnie about what was going to happen for Easter this year, but she suddenly started convulsing, then leaned back so hard that she started smashing her arms against the counter and throwing her chair out, and Bird on the other side went crazy......" said one of the officers holding Winnie down.
Gordon wanted to go to the counter to check, Schiller sniffed, grabbed Gordon, and said: "Don't go over, evacuate the people first, send the patient to the hospital, and then look for the gas mask in your arsenal, there is probably a problem......"
"You mean......" Gordon paused and shouted, "All retreat!" Get out of this room! Go to the open and don't go near here! ”
When everyone went out, Schiller walked in alone, his steps too fast for Gordon to hold him.
When Schiller walked to the counter, he found that there were some fragments of eggshells, still colored,
Gordon stood outside the room and waved at Schiller, who looked around for a while, then walked out and said to Gordon, "There should be a problem with the Easter eggs." ”
"Easter eggs? I think I heard Winnie mention that she received a beautiful Easter egg today...... "said another female officer.
"Remember the Gotham University students who fell ill en masse?"
Schiller squinted, took out his phone, and called his colleague Anna and said, "Hello...... Yes, I would like to ask, have the Easter eggs you purchased outside already been distributed to the students? ”
"Really? Can you remember who they were sent to? Can you give me a list? Ok, thank you ......"
He then called Victor and asked, "Did you give those Easter eggs you made yourself to the students?" …… Already delivered? Do you remember who you gave it to? Can you give me a list? ”
Schiller explained to Gordon: "On Easter Eve, Principal Sheldon suddenly sent out a lot of materials for making Easter eggs, and asked professors to make their own Easter eggs and distribute them to students. ”
"One of my colleague Anna and I didn't make it ourselves, but bought ready-made ones from outside, and now both kinds of Easter eggs have been sent to students, I asked them for a list of students who have received Easter eggs, and we can compare them to know which Easter eggs are problematic......"