Gotham City, a megacity on the east coast of the United States, is located on the east coastline with a pleasant climate and beautiful scenery, adjacent to Brughhaven in the south and Imperial City in the north, with a humid subtropical monsoon climate.

Viewed from the air, Gotham presents a rectangle that is tilted to the right, with the central shopping street carousel as the central point, divided into four districts: south, east, west, and northwest.

As mentioned earlier, the East End, with its docks and slums, is one of the most chaotic but also the most vibrant districts in the whole of Gotham, and the south is Gotham's financial center and the new rich district, and most of the photos of Gotham City, with its high-rise buildings and bright lights, are taken in this district.

The West End is the old town of Gotham, which is one of the first districts to be developed, with European-style manors and castles, as well as a small park, Gotham University is located on the border between the West End and the South End, and it is also the best green place in Gotham.

One of the parts of Gotham City that is rarely mentioned is the North District, because it is a completely independent district, and there is a Gotham River in the north of the central shopping street, which divides the whole Gotham into two parts, North and South, and the north of the Gotham River is the North District of Gotham.

On the west side of the Gotham River, in the southwest corner of the North Side, is home to the famous Arkham Asylum, and in the southeast corner of the North End is Gotham's largest lighthouse.

The main reason why the North End is not mentioned is that it is the birthplace of the Falcone family and the Twelve families.

This has to start from the era when European immigrants ruled Gotham, and many people may think of the soothing and melodious music in the film The Godfather, with the light and shadow of the old color, the elegant voice of the old godfather, the red poppies on the black suit, cigars, and pistols......

But in fact, in those days, Italians in the United States were very discriminated against, because at that time, most of the people who would come to the United States to work were people from southern Italy, that is, poor people in Italy.

The noble European immigrants, the haciendas, and the factory owners, of course, did not look down on these Italian barbarians from Sicily, so they did not allow them to come near the places where they lived.

When Falcone and his men set foot on Gotham soil, there were already a number of Italians living here, but they all lived in the most desolate and remote part of the North End, because the other three districts, even the chaotic East End, were full of discrimination against Italians.

Falcone's fortune began in the Northside, and as he developed his power in Gotham, he made the isolated Northside his home base, where he built a series of manor buildings and security.

The North End, which is separated by the Gotham River, is indeed a good place to base up, but the European immigrants who came here first did not choose it because the terrain was not very good.

Gotham is high in the north and low in the south, with plains in the south and hills in the north, and although the altitude is not high, it is clear that it is more difficult to build in the north than in other places, and only those of unpopular Italians live here.

Today, Gotham's Northside has been transformed into a well-established gang station, and the Falcone family's castle is located halfway up Gotham's highest mountain, making it easy for all Gotham people except Batman to defend it.

The other twelve families are also located around the castle of the Falcone family, and the rest of the North District is the industrial chain that serves the residence of these gangster families.

In Gotham's North Side, in Richie's Manor, a lady with brown curls in a white apron and rosacea walked briskly up the stairs with a tray and came to a room on the second floor, where two young police officers stood at the door, but she did not show surprise at this, but reluctantly squeezed out a smile and said to them, "Gentlemen, do you want a glass of water?" ”

"Oh, no, thank you, but you can't go in right now, there's an investigation going on inside."

"I know, I know......" The lady nodded, but seemed to want to look inside, she held out a hand under the tray and handed the policeman a roll of dollars, the young policeman coughed twice, lowered his voice and said, "I know you're worried......"

The lady wiped the corners of her eyes, showed a sad expression and said, "Yes, now the whole manor is panicking, and no one knows if it will be her next ......"

The police officer waved his hand, still whispering: "Now everyone can see that this serial killer only picks the boss of the gang, okay, madam, you better go down first......"

The officer glanced back at the door of his guard's room, pinched the dollar in his hand again, and said, "I heard that Gordon has found a very good detective, and it may not be long before he can find out who did it, and once he finds out, the godfather will definitely not let him go." ”

The lady sighed, handed the tray in her hand to the young officer, and said, "In that case, I will not disturb you, but help me to ask the gentlemen inside if they want water, and if they need anything, they will call me again." ”

The officer wanted to refuse, but the other man looked down at his watch and said to his colleague, "They've been in for more than two hours, maybe they're thirsty, I'm here to watch, you can bring water in." ”

The officer didn't say anything, he nodded, then turned and knocked on the door, and there was a voice inside, "Please come in." ”

When the officer walked in with the tray, there were two people inside, one of them was Gordon and the other was Batman, but the young officer was not surprised by this, he just put the tray on the table and said, "Chief, if you are thirsty, there is water here." ”

Gordon nodded, waved his hand and motioned for him to go out, and the officer put down the water and went out, obviously not wanting to stay in the room any longer, because there was a dead man in this room in addition to two living people, and the dead man's death was so tragic that the smell of blood filled the room.

He was sawn in half, and it was sawn vertically.

Batman said to Gordon, "I had read all the information about the Twelve Apostles of Jesus the other day, and if I remember correctly, this was probably the way one of the Twelve Apostles was executed, Simon Zealot, who was sawn in half along the middle of his legs......"

Batman walked around to the other side of the corpse, Gordon stood behind the table, far away from the corpse, even he had rarely seen such a murderous crime scene, the corpse on the ground was connected to most of the head on the left side, and a small half was connected to the right side, there was still a certain distance between the two parts, blood stains were almost all over the room, Gordon covered his nose and said, "Do you see something?" ”

Batman frowned, and he said with some confusion: "Actually, I can't understand it a little, the method is completely different......"

"What do you mean?"

"The murderer's method of killing Richie is completely different from the method of killing Lawrence and Hawke......"

"What do you mean? Can you elaborate on that? ”

Batman half-crouched down, not minding the strong smell of choking blood, he stared at Richie's tragically shaped corpse and said: "If the death of the first two people still has some meaning of execution, it is the kind of 'sense of ritual' that perverted murderers often admire, there is too rough Qi's death, obviously, he died peacefully......"

Gordon whispered, "Anyone can see this, right?" ”

Batman pointed to a mark on the corpse and said, "Look here, look at his neck, there's a footprint mark here......"

Then he stood up again, pointed to the tail of the corpse and said, "One of his feet is shoeed, and the other is not, and one shoe was thrown aside, that is, there ......"

Following Batman's gaze, Gordon looked at a shoe next to the corpse, Batman walked to the back of the corpse's foot, and then pointed to one of the corpse's feet and said, "This foot without shoes has a slight fracture in the ankle joint, and the swelling is very bad." ”

"We can infer from this how the murderer actually killed the people."

"The whole process was very simple, the killer pushed Richie to the ground, stepped on Richie's neck with one foot, then bent down and grabbed his ankle, lifted one of his legs, and then took the saw and started sawing ...... between his legs"

"Obviously, at this time, Richie is still alive and has the ability to struggle, because of the severe pain, he began to struggle desperately, and the man did not stop his movements at all, in order to catch the struggling Richie, he had to increase the strength of his hand, causing Richie's ankle to break and his shoes to be broken off......"

"What does that mean?" Gordon crossed his hands on his hips.

"This is a very murderous murderer who sawed a man in half, and in the process he sawed him from head to toe despite Richie's struggles and screams."

"At the same time, he should have a lot of strength, and with Richie standing at 1.86m and weighing 80kg, it will be difficult to subdue him completely, let alone sawn him apart while he still has the ability to resist."

"And what makes me wonder is that this time the method is completely different from the previous two, and I even wonder if my inference is wrong, is this a serial homicide after all?"

"Logically, the first victim, Lawrence, died of crucifixion, and the killer drove a wedge into his limbs, heart, and head......"

"The second victim, Hawke, died by beheading, and the third victim died by being sawn in half, these are the deaths of the twelve disciples of Jesus, especially the death method of sawing people in half, if it were not for the restoration of Simon's execution method, no one would have used this time-consuming and laborious method to kill......"

"But this case is completely different from the previous two, the first two cases, Lawrence's body was detected with narcotic drugs, that is, he was first anesthetized and then nailed, and in the process of being crucified, there was no ability to resist."

"It's the same with Hawke, who was first tied up and then cut off with a knife."

"But according to common sense, if a man had the power to kill Richie in such a brutal way, then there was no need for him to anesthetize Lawrence or tie up Hawke."

"Lawrence is also strong, but after all, he is an old man, Hawke is very tall, but relatively thin, these two are not as strong as Richie in the prime of life, and the killer has the power to subdue Richie and cut him apart, but he has to subdue those two people first, and then kill them, it's strange......"

"Perhaps, Richie's death is a case of two people working together?"

Batman shook his head slightly, and he said, "In the criminal psychology course I learned, in most cases of serial murder, the murderer is one person, and no one else is matched with the crime. ”

"In addition to the low probability of two psychoses coming together because of the same nature, most murderers who commit serial murders have a special obsession with committing crimes and murders, and they have their own unique understanding of murders."

"They care not only about the outcome of the crime, but also about the process of committing the crime, and even enjoy the process of guiding the police to make wrong judgments and seeing the experts' doubts and confusion but not getting answers."

"And they don't want to share this happiness with others, they think that no one can fully understand them, they may use some innocent passers-by to achieve their murderous goals, but they will never cooperate with anyone sincerely."

"They enjoy the thrill of one person playing around the world, and they won't let the second person know their whole plan, or do it for them, let alone do it so crudely......"

Gordon pursed his lips and looked at Batman, saying, "That doesn't sound like something you could learn in a psychology textbook." ”

"It's really not something I learned from a textbook."

"Your tone reminds me of a person." Gordon said with a sigh.

"Then why didn't you invite him over?"

"Because I'm not sure if he's analyzing the situation based on the crime scene, or ...... In revealing his criminal process. ”

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