Gotham afternoons are always a little drowsy, and the already unbright sunlight becomes fainter through the gauzy curtains, and when it falls on the floor, it is like a golden sunset wave.

Schiller was standing behind a desk, fiddling with a telescope from the age of Discovery, the treasure of the estate's original owner, who had accompanied his ancestors across the seas from thousands of miles away in Europe.

Most of the decorations on Schiller's table were left by the original owner of the estate, so they all have some English classical charm, such as the yellowed globe, the gramophone in the corner of the table, and the walking stick hanging on the side of the bookshelf.

Schiller was looking forward with the telescope, and suddenly, a black shadow flew in the field of vision of the telescope, and Schiller put the telescope down and turned his head to look at the uninvited Batman.

Batman picked up the globe in the corner of the table very naturally, and in his field of vision, the globe blocked Schiller's head, as if everything was back in a dream.

Batman flicked the globe with his hand, but soon, it stopped, and Batman said to Schiller, "You know, what am I here for......"

Schiller was turning to pick up something from the shelf, and as he rummaged through it, he said, "You can't be here to arrest me, is you?" Detective Batman? ”

"Gordon told me that when something strange and incomprehensible happens in Gotham, I must come to you."

"Oh, how did I not know what strange things had happened in Gotham lately? You don't mean the mundane murders, do you? ”

Batman read the words "mediocre" in his mouth, and suddenly felt that his next long list of introductions and explanations was a little difficult to speak.

Schiller turned, with a bottle of wine and two glasses in his hand, and then he sat Batman across the table, and he said, "The presentation of language is always a bit boring, far less interesting than the immersive one, what do you say?" ”

Perhaps because he didn't want his next topic to get a "mediocre and boring" evaluation, Batman drank the glass of wine in front of him like a drug, and Schiller also took a sip of wine, then relaxed and leaned back in his chair, drunk and drowsy.

As the afternoon sun floated in the air, Batman suddenly woke up, he saw that the globe on the table began to rotate slowly, but the head of Schiller on the opposite side was normal, he opened his eyes, paused, and said, "Oh, I forgot." ”

Then he leaned forward and reached out to take the globe on the table, blocking it in front of his face, and in Batman's field of vision, the globe overlapped Schiller's head, and Schiller's head became a globe.

Now Batman knows how the globe-headed Schiller in the dream came from.

After Schiller stood up, Batman also stood up, and the two walked to the center of the room, Schiller made a gesture of please to Batman, and Batman began to concentrate, remembering the details of Richie's room in his memory.

This was the first time he had constructed such a large-scale scene in a dream, and even with physical memories as support, Batman had consumed most of his energy in an instant.

As he slowly raised his arm, the scene in the room began to change, the books on the shelves melted back into the walls one by one, the partitions were removed one by one and melted into the side walls, the desks retreated and sank into the floor, and the floor turned over one by one, turning from dark brown to light brown.

Richie's corpse appeared on the floor, blood spreading across the pale floor, and then seeping into the cracks.

Schiller smacked his lips and said, "It's tragic enough, isn't it?" ”

"Three days ago, the leader of the Lawrence family in the Gotham Twelve family was found dead in his bedroom, with a total of seven wounds on his body, including a penetrating wound in the heart that was fatal, and the body was detected with narcotic drugs......"

"Two days ago, a member of the Hawke brothers of the Hawk family, who are also members of the Twelve Families, were found dead in their study, and after being tied to a chair in the study, they died from being beheaded and killed with a knife."

"A day ago, the leader of the Rich family, one of the twelve families, was found dead in the parlor, he was sawed open from the middle of his body, and died of blood loss."

"What these three cases have in common is that they died in the martyrdom of the apostles of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, and Gordon and I both thought it was a serial murder case, but until today, after Richie's death, I found that the murderer's modus operandi was different from the previous two cases."

Schiller's hand grabbed into the air, and a cane appeared in his hand, and he tapped the ground lightly with the cane and said, "Why do you judge that this is a serial murder?" Because the way they died fit in with some kind of religious story? ”

"Doesn't that fit the characteristics of serial homicides?" Batman asked, "I remember hearing in class that most serial killers like to find a backstory with numbers to apply to their crimes, such as the Seven Most Common Deadly Sins, Black Friday, Sabbath, ......etc."

"So I told you in class, why is that?"

"Because of the 'sense of ritual', the murderers of serial murders, especially the kind of homicidal maniacs who randomly choose the targets of the crime, they do not kill for revenge, but purely to enjoy the pleasure of killing their own kind, so for them, the important thing is the sense of ritual."

"Even if they kill seven people in seven days, it may greatly increase the probability that they will be caught by the police, and the various clues left behind may also increase the possibility of their own arrest, but they will still do it, and they will not experience the joy brought by this sense of ritual, and killing people will become meaningless for them."

"That's right, that's why a savvy detective can sometimes be easier to deal with than a regular murderer, because they always take the initiative to leave all sorts of clues."

"So, this should be a very typical serial murder ......"

Schiller shook his head and said, "It may seem like this on the surface, but in fact, I can only say that this is a poor imitator." ”

"Mimics? What do you mean? ”

"It means that the person who did it is not the psychopathic murderer I told you about, that is, he is not a real serial murderer, but a somewhat lame imitator."

Batman looked Schiller in the eye and asked, "Why?" ”

"First of all, I am not legally responsible for what I say next, because it is just a dream, and because it is just a dream, I will only tell you this in my dream, and you don't have to think of activating some audio or video recording device in reality to use some of my dreams as evidence......"

Schiller, with his cane, began to pace around Rich's corpse, which lay in the middle of the room, and said, "Do you know what I would do if I were to do this case? ”

Batman didn't expect him to start with this topic, but he really couldn't think of an answer, and in the end he could only answer: "I don't think you will do this kind of case because it is not necessary." ”

"I'm glad you still know me a little bit, but we're hypothetical now, let's say, I just suddenly changed my mind and started planning a serial murder case......

"First of all, let's start with the topic, since you said that the murderer's topic is Jesus and his twelve disciples, then I will also use this topic."

"I think you've read the story of Jesus and his twelve disciples, right?"

Batman nodded, Schiller looked up with a look of remembrance, and he asked, "Do you remember who was the first of the twelve apostles to die?" ”

“…… Is it St. James? ”

"Yes, in the Bible account, he was the first disciple to be martyred for Jesus, do you know what kind of man he was?"

"The brothers James and John, both sons of Zebedee, and their mothers were disciples of Jesus, and Jacob was beheaded by King Herod, and both he and John were men of strong temperament......"

"That's why I say that the man who did it was just a poor copycat, who is Lawrence? Did he and Jacob have anything in common? Why did he become the first to be martyred? ”

Batman didn't understand what Schiller meant, and Schiller continued, "If it were me, the first target I would choose would have to be a brother, just like Jacob, and old Lawrence would be an only child." ”

"Secondly, Lawrence's temperament was not strong enough, and he was much worse than Jacob's in appearance and inwardness."

"And you also said that the first martyr was beheaded, not crucified."

"So, if I were to do this, my first target would be a man with an extremely strong personality, a living brother and mother, and his death would be to be beheaded."

"What if Lawrence corresponds to St. Peter?"

"Oh yes, St. Peter is called the closest man to Jesus, and he was also named the first pope, and if he was the first to die, that would make sense, but what do old Lawrence and St. Peter have in common?"

Batman was silent, Schiller tilted his head, looked at the corpse on the ground and said, "Not to mention, the process of the murderer crucifying old Lawrence upside down is simply telling you very bluntly that he is a fake." ”

"If you read history, the victim of the crucifixion should not die of vital organ penetration, but of heart failure from bleeding or exhaustion after being crucified through the limbs, exposed to the outdoors, and exhausted."

"The nail through the heart is part of the vampire legend, not the biblical story, and has nothing to do with the Twelve, and the crucifixion should also die of brain congestion, not the heart penetrated."

"Obviously, the person who did it either didn't read the story carefully or didn't have the patience to wait for the other person to die slowly."

"If it were me, what I had was patience, I could spend a year setting up a scene and let him be nailed to the bedroom for ten days without being discovered, which is the way to die in line with this backstory."

"Not to mention, the murderer also pierced his head with a spike, my God, I feel creepy when I think of him hammering people in the head with a spike......"

"Your diction always makes me feel ...... Quite unexpected. Batman commented.

"And, the biggest failure is, he actually used anesthetics? God, if he really was a serial murderer, then he should have been crucified, this damned heretic doesn't have any sense of ritual at all......"

Batman looked at Schiller's rather dissatisfied expression, and for a moment, he didn't know what to say.

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