On a rainy night with lightning and thunder, the rain fell on the roof of the manor, making a sound of squeezing, mixed with the sound of firewood in the fireplace, which had not yet been completely extinguished.

It was a very hypnotic sound, so Schiller, who was lying on the bed, slept deeply, but at this moment, a rapid telephone rang, and Schiller on the bed opened his eyes.

He looked out the window, and at this moment a bolt of lightning streaked across the sky, and the edges of the window were rubbed on the floor and bed, and one of the shadows crossed Schiller's eyes.

He took a deep breath, then got up from his bed, walked through the dark manor in his slippers, went downstairs, picked up the telephone receiver, and to his complete surprise, Gordon's somewhat anxious voice was opposite, and he said, "Harry Cooper is dead, Professor Schiller, you need to come here." ”

"Is it related to serial killings? If you have one, go to Batman. ”

"Batman has arrived, Professor Schiller, I know, it's so late, I shouldn't bother you, but this time it's a bit bad, you'd better come over and ......"

Schiller looked up at the floor clock in his room, the hands on which pointed to exactly two o'clock in the morning, and he remembered that the last time Gordon called him on a rainy night was when Fish Mooney died.

He went upstairs to get dressed, then grabbed his umbrella, and when he walked out of the manor gate, the night in Gotham was still a little dark, and the damp moisture was sucked into his lungs, dispelling the sleepiness.

A black sedan drove into the gate of the manor, black suit, black umbrella, black sunglasses, the silence style characteristic of the Gotham gangsters, the person who opened the door said nothing, and Schiller didn't ask anything.

Cooper's manor is on the west side of the North End, far from Falcone Manor, when the car carrying Schiller stopped at the door of Cooper Manor, Gordon hurried down, Schiller got out of the car, and Gordon led him up.

"What the hell is going on? It's rare to see you so flustered, I think even if it's a serial murder case, it shouldn't make you so panicked, right? ”

Gordon's face didn't look good, he didn't explain much, just said to Schiller: "You know when you see the scene of the crime." ”

They walked up to the third floor, where there were quite a few policemen at the top of the stairs, and when Gordon walked over, he nodded to one of the men in a special uniform, it was a majestic-looking old policeman, he looked at Schiller, walked up to shake his hand and said, "Hello, I'm the chief of the Gotham Police Department, Smith, and I have long admired the great name......"

Schiller shook his hand and briefly introduced himself, the director didn't seem to be a polite person, he waved his hand at Gordon and said, "Take this professor in, but be careful." ”

Gordon nodded, and walked through the crowd with Schiller, to the door of a room at the end of the corridor on the third floor, he took out the key and opened the door, and in the room in front of Schiller, the situation was extremely miserable.

Surprisingly, there were no bodies there, or rather, there were no intact corpses.

It's a red house, but the floor, ceiling, and furniture in the house shouldn't be this color, and all the red on it is blood and shards of internal organs.

The reason why there are no corpses here is because the corpses have been evenly smeared throughout the room.

Batman was standing in a corner, his gaze falling on the very center of the room, where there was something very eye-catching, a circle-like pattern painted in black ink, with a pile of black ash in the middle.

Schiller walked in the door, then stopped in the doorway, Gordon squeezed between him and the door frame, turned around and closed the door, Schiller tapped the ground with the tip of the umbrella, then picked up the umbrella and looked at the blood on it.

Then he looked up and looked around the whole room, this room was not large, about twenty square meters, it looked like it should be a reception room, the floor-to-ceiling windows, the wall to the right of the door and the wall on the side of the door, there were three sofas respectively, there was a round table in the middle, and a table and bookshelves on the other side, which was a common reception room layout in an English manor, and the same was true in Schiller's manor.

The black circle is located in the center of the room, and the red color spreads to the bottom half of the room, including the entire floor, most of the walls, and the ceiling in the center of the room.

"The reason I didn't talk to you on the phone is because I don't know if this situation can be called a broken corpse, which is a bit ...... It's too broken. Gordon said, covering his mouth.

Schiller turned back and asked Gordon, "Are there shoe covers?" ”

Gordon took out shoe covers and gloves from his pocket, and then took out a mask and face shield to put on himself, he wanted to hand it to Schiller, but Schiller shook his head and refused.

Putting on his shoe covers, Schiller walked into the room, he looked around the room, and as he observed, Batman said, "Cooper's body was shredded and then evenly spread throughout the room, and this method is completely different from the previous three cases......

Schiller crouched not far from the magic array and looked at the ground, and he said, "The corpse is shattered? No, that's not too accurate. ”

"Isn't that a smash?" "We could barely find a single piece of corpse, blood, skin, bones, all crushed and laid out in the room," Gordon asked. ”

"Yes, but not all."

Schiller stood up, looked up at the ceiling and said, "The quality of the corpses here is not enough. ”

"What do you mean?"

"What you see now is that the red part of the room, which contains the pieces of blood, internal organs, skin, and bone tissue, is only about two-thirds the mass of a human being, when all collected and put together."

"A third of the mass of the corpse is gone."

Gordon opened his mouth for a moment, as if to ask how Schiller knew, but the question went around his mouth and finally didn't ask, after all, this realistic scene was terrifying enough, and there was no need for a few more horror stories to set the mood.

Batman walked over and stood next to the magic circle and said, "This pattern is not any recorded magic circle, but I can be sure that the six-pointed star in the center of the pattern should be related to the demon." ”

"It's getting more and more mysterious, right?" Gordon also held back his nausea and came over and said: "At first, it was a serial murder case of the Twelve Apostles, and then there was a person who was sawn in half, and today, they have begun to crush the corpse into minced meat and smear it on the wall, so what are they going to do next?" Evaporate people? ”

"Obviously, this is not something that an ordinary person can do." Schiller's voice was slow and steady, but always creepy, saying: "In this case, the murderer's strength has been raised to another level." ”

"Haven't you been patrolling around here lately? Did you find anything? Schiller took a fancy to Batman and said.

"I was the first to find out that Cooper was dead, and I rushed here because I heard an explosion, but when I arrived, I didn't find any suspicious figures."

Schiller walked over to the couch next to him, rubbed the tip of his umbrella against the bloodstained couch, and said, "Although my next words may cause you to question my professionalism, I will say it anyway...... The case may be related to supernatural forces. ”

"Supernatural powers? …… What do you mean? ”

"Isn't this circle already expressed? Someone summoned a demon here, and the demon killed Cooper. ”

Gordon pursed his lips and tilted his head, and said, "I thought that you would give an extraordinarily subtle reasoning process and then tell us an amazing result, and I also thought that you might come up with all kinds of evidence to prove that your reasoning was right, but I never thought ......"

"Detective Gordon, don't look at what is happening in this city through the eyes of ordinary people."

Batman said, "Why did you make this judgment? ”

Schiller walked over again, looked down at the ground again, and said, "Pay attention to the direction of these blood and muscle tissue jets, they are spreading out from the center, which means that Cooper was not killed by an external bomb, he exploded from the inside out. ”

"Could it be that a madman forced him to swallow the bomb?"

"Good reasoning, Detective Gordon, this does seem like something a Gotham prisoner would do, but that's up to our weapons expert, Batman......"

"Is there a bomb in the world that when it explodes, it can crush people from the skin, to the muscles, to the internal organs, very evenly, and then spread them flat into the room?"

"It's possible to blow up, but it's hard to get the blasted tissue to spread so evenly on the floor and walls of the room."

"Could it be that someone blew up Cooper and then manually wiped it out?" Gordon raised another question.

Schiller made a gesture of approval, saying, "Detective Gordon, your mind is perfect for being a detective, and really, you're very talented." ”

"If the person who did it was really a psychopathic killer, then it was possible for him to do it, and even worse things they had done, but judging by the details, it is unlikely that this could be artificially erased."

"Look here......" Schiller walked over, his heel on the floor with a sticky dullness, but still drawing the attention of the two men.

Schiller pointed to one leg of the couch, where some tissue had piled up, and he said, "This is the part of the body that was stopped when it exploded, when it splashed out and poured onto the floor." ”

"You can see that the part closest to the leg of this sofa is the skin tissue, even the epidermis and dermis, and on top of them are some fat, and then on top are fragments of internal organs."

"This means that it is unlikely that the killer blew people up, chopped them up, and then deliberately smeared them evenly, because then the tissues piled up here would not have been so regular, but would have been mixed together."

"You can imagine Cooper, blown open by some unknown force, first completely melted, then turned into a loaf of bread, spread flat on the ground, and then crushed even more, and began to pour down the floor like a wave."

"The legs of the sofa are like the piers of a bridge standing on the sea, except that the crushed human tissue is denser, so the pier intercepts part of it and preserves its original state."

"I also don't think it's something that an ordinary person can do, it's hard to have a bomb that can have this effect, and if you want to crush the human body to pieces, you have to use some mechanical tools."

"From the time I heard the explosion to the time I came to this room, there was definitely not enough time for one person to move a large machine."

Gordon also looked the room up and down, and said, "Could there be a mechanism or something?" ”

"Before I called you, I had already checked all the corners of this room, there were no organs, no secret doors, no secret compartments and no secret passages, this is a very ordinary manor reception room."

"So you both think that this could be the supernatural force that did it?"

"That's right, and it probably has nothing to do with the murder of the Twelve, at least I've never heard of a man in the Bible who exploded and was crushed."

"With all due respect......" Gordon said with some embarrassment, "if it comes to this, then the Gotham Police Department is probably not able to help, and there is no one here who is proficient in this skill." ”

"Even, if I go out now and announce the results of your two investigations, they will definitely take us for madness and get out."

Schiller shook his head and said, "Not necessarily, maybe they are more superstitious than you are......"

Just then, there was a knock on the door, and a police officer hurriedly pushed it open, and then said to Gordon, "Boss! Oh no, Mrs. Sanchez, the principal of that boarding school near the Gotham River, is dead! ”

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