"There have been three cases of missing people in Central City recently, and the families of the missing gathered at the gate of the Central City scenic spot to protest against the police's inaction, saying that insufficient police force is not an excuse......"

"A 26-year-old female teacher was found in a suburban wooden house and her ribs were removed, and the police are making every effort to investigate, and no effective clues have been found to locate the suspect......

"Don't panic, don't panic, the Imperial City police force has been fully rolled out, searching for 'streetlight murderers', and the FBI's criminal investigation team in Pennsylvania has been fully engaged in the case......"

"California's 'human skin hunters' have been punished, and the seven skinning cases they created can be called the most cruel and crazy cases in California's criminal history......

"Click", one hand pressed the switch on the radio, Gordon withdrew his hand and pressed it on the corner of his eyebrows, he sighed very helplessly, and sighed: "What's wrong?" Is the whole world starting to Gothamize? ”

"Boss, the news of the last week, it's really weird, every state is reporting on serial murderers, turn on the radio, I thought I was on the wrong station, tuned to the local radio station in Gotham."

A young police officer sat on his desk while sorting out the information, shook his head and said, a female police officer next to him, put down the phone in his hand, and said with some surprise: "In the past week, it seems that there have been a lot of serial murderers in various places, and the police force in many areas is insufficient, and some places have called us to say that we have experience and want to learn from it." ”

"Where did this group of people come from?" The young male police officer asked puzzledly, "And how can you commit a crime at the same time?" ”

Gordon's brows also furrowed, and he said in a deep voice: "This is definitely not a coincidence, from my many years of practice, although there is no shortage of serial murders in various places every year, but this is the first time I have encountered such a dense time of crimes." ”

The female police officer grinned and said: "Moreover, this group of serial murderers is much crazier than before, in the past, they could do three or four cases, and they could be called brilliant, but this time, the serial murderers in several states killed seven or eight people at every turn, and the methods were extremely cruel, as if they were afraid that others would not know how murderous they were." ”

Gordon sighed, and although he didn't continue to speak, he had already made up his mind that he had to go to Batman and ask what was going on.

Late at night, Gordon finished all his work for the day, grabbed the car keys, and planned to drive to Wayne Manor to find Bruce, but as soon as he was about to go out the door, a dark shadow appeared behind him.

"Batman, every time you come here, you scare me." Gordon shook his head and turned to look at Batman standing in the shadows of the room.

To Gordon's surprise, Batman was in a very bad state, his body was covered in rain, his face was pale as if he had lost too much blood, and even his eyes looked a little hollow.

"Have you followed the latest news?" Batman's deep voice sounded, and without waiting for Gordon to answer, he said to himself: "There are frequent serial murders in many places, and the number of murderers and crimes has increased more than tenfold in just one week. ”

"Of course I heard." Gordon walked back to his seat and sat down, took out some papers, threw them on the table and said, "I was going to go to you and ask if you knew what was going on, and it seems that you didn't know either. ”

"It's about Schiller." Batman spoke.

Hearing Schiller's name, Gordon's face stiffened, he sighed rather complicated, and said: "He has only been gone for a week, and I thought it had been a year." ”

After saying that, Gordon leaned forward, took a pen from the table, fiddled with it in his hand, and said: "I know that Schiller is guilty, and even if murder is common in this city, it only shows that this city is not normal, and criminals must pay for their defiance of the law." ”

"But I don't think Schiller deserves that long sentence in a heavy prison sentence, Batman, you don't want to know how prisoners are treated in that kind of prison."

"I know you're all dissatisfied." Batman spoke: "You think that Schiller did not get a fair trial, and I, as his most valued student, did not fight for a justice for him. ”

Gordon shook his head lightly and said, "No one has the responsibility to fight for something for another person, but I am afraid that hatred for criminals may affect your standard of justice." ”

Gordon glanced at Batman again, and seeing that he was not in a good state, he didn't continue.

"Schiller is the head of these serial killers, and he is the founder of a mystery club that gives these serial killers a stage to show themselves...... He is their shepherd. ”

Batman's words fell, Gordon's hands clenched suddenly, he looked back at Batman and said, "You mean, Schiller drove these serial murderers to commit crimes like crazy?" ”

"Quite the opposite." Batman stared into Gordon's eyes and said, "It's because Schiller is gone that these serial killers will go crazy to commit crimes." ”

Gordon was stunned for a moment, he didn't react for a while, but soon Batman spoke: "Yesterday, Jonathan Crane, who is also a serial murderer, found me and asked me if I knew Schiller's whereabouts. ”

"When I told him that Schiller was in prison, he looked very excited, and then he told me that once the serial killers thought the owner of the club was going to show up again, they would start competing spontaneously."

"When the flock loses its shepherd, all the sheep want to be the leader." Batman's face was serious, and his tone was still very low, and he said, "Just yesterday, I learned about something that Schiller has been doing. ”

"What's the matter?" Gordon asked.

"Schiller is saving the world."

"What ????!"

Gordon stared at Batman with wide eyes, as if he didn't know him, he thought he had misheard, and just as he opened his mouth to ask again, Batman opened his mouth to explain:

"Last night, after Jonathan left, I started investigating information about this mystery club......"

As Batman narrates, the lights at Wayne Manor slowly turn on, and looking through the bright panes, Bruce is meditating at the desk in the study.

In front of him lay stacks and stacks of newspapers, dated even two years ago, and he spread each one out on the table, and when he read and put it away, he wrote it all down in his head.

After about three hours of comparison and sorting, Bruce discovered that the clues of the so-called newspapers that Jonathan had provided him might have played tricks on him, and that there were no clues available in these newspapers.

The reasoning and investigation had reached this point, and even if Bruce didn't want to use it, he had to start using the brute-force approach.

Bruce mentally searched for keywords like Schiller, newspapers, serial murderers, and all the words derived from them, and the process took him about two hours.

Just as he was searching for the words related to newspapers, Bruce suddenly had an idea, and he thought of a key word, which was "thesis".

It just so happened that Angela had been reading Bruce's thesis at Wayne Manor and had printed out a copy, and Bruce found the printed copy of his own psychology dissertation and began to reminisce about the time when he wrote it.

Of course, during the period when he was writing his dissertation, the highest proportion of memories was that he and Schiller constantly tortured each other, and revised some of the subtle faults in the dissertation.

And one of the biggest headaches for Bruce is symbols.

English writing uses half-width symbols, but many separators should be followed by half-width spaces, and the improper use of commas, separators, and connectors will change the semantics, but long and difficult sentences that do not use separators are prone to language problems, and the use of symbols is also an important part of English grammar lessons.

Bruce's grammar is very good, but everyone who has written a paper knows that when writing is dizzy, it is good to be able to remember the clauses, and it is normal to lose a space here and a separation there.

On the issue of symbols alone, Schiller and Bruce have fought for at least hundreds of rounds, sometimes the symbols have been changed, and after a large section of content has been changed, the new content and symbols have to be changed again, and sometimes the content has been changed for the better, because the sentence structure is not properly expressed, and the symbols have to be changed again.

In the process, Bruce fully understood Schiller's habit of using symbols, and if Schiller's habits were used to read certain articles in newspapers or magazines, it was obvious that some of the symbols were used incorrectly.

Ordinary regional daily newspapers and some less formal magazines do not have such strict requirements for manuscripts, and the requirements for academic papers are completely different from the requirements of academic papers, and it is normal for there to be errors in symbols, and not everyone has a Schiller following them and asking them to use every symbol correctly.

But if you look at the connection between this symbolic error and Schiller's club and the possible existence of serial murderers, then the symbol is likely to be an important clue.

After Bruce put all the newspapers and magazines together and compared them repeatedly, he found that many articles had wrong symbols, and there was really a pattern.

These reports are not only about criminal cases, but also some messy content, such as advertisements that can be used for money, lace news, citizen complaints, nutrition science, and so on.

Bruce speculates that the serial killers were using the pattern of symbolic errors to inform serial killers who also knew about it by publishing articles similar to symbolic errors in newspapers or magazines.

Schiller may have changed the law of symbol errors to issue different new codes to avoid the prying eyes of some well-intentioned people.

"Through the decipherment of the wrong patterns of symbols, I learned what they were communicating, and I discovered a fact that shocked me very much." In Gordon's office, Batman's tone trembled for a moment, and then he said:

"Schiller is not encouraging these serial murderers, but he is controlling them, even preventing them from killing, and he is saving ordinary people."

Gordon's eyes widened slowly, and he said to Batman in an extremely ridiculous tone, "Do you know what you're talking about??! How can a club among serial murderers stop them from killing??! ”

"Sounds ridiculous, right?" Batman shook his head slightly.

"But the fact is that Schiller has set a series of criteria for judging serial killers, and only a serial murderer who meets this standard can be called a talented and tasteful serial killer."

"This criterion includes, but is not limited to, that every serial murder case should have its own theme, that thoughtless slaughter is ostracized, that there are not enough ideas to make up the numbers will not work, and that only cruelty and gore are soulless."

The corners of Batman's mouth twitched down, his lips pursed tightly, and then he spoke: "He created an academic circle of serial murderers, and set extremely strict standards for this circle. ”

"He uses his cruel, ruthless, but extremely self-consistent theories of terror to demand that serial murderers take every case seriously and carefully, and that they must prove their academic standing with a perfect serial murder case."

And in order to complete what he called the perfect serial murder case, this group of murderers had to spend several years thinking about a perfect theme, and another few years to find a perfect victim.

"Then spend a few more years to make the perfect plan of crime, and finally a few more years to put that plan into action, and then spend the rest of your life savoring this perfect serial murder."

"It became their lifelong pursuit to become the perfect serial murderer in Schiller's eyes, and he built a new society and shaped new rules for these naturally perverted, immoral and shameless madmen, who were ashamed of their indiscriminate killing."

Batman slowly closed his eyes, he raised his head slightly, his tone trembled slightly, his pale face was precisely because of the trap he originally envisioned was deep enough, but there was an abyss deeper than the deep.

"He harnesses the serial killers' thirst for recognition and perception to forge chains that bind them and lead them to action."

"He made the madmen cry unbridled in silence that ordinary people could not see, and at the same time control them, make them love him, chant his name, and sing praises for him."

"And his actions have in fact saved countless victims who should have died as a result of uncontrolled slaughter......"

Batman lowered his head again, and the hazy and dreamy moonlight in front of him gradually overlapped with Schiller's deep voice, his voice and Schiller's voice.

"He knew that after he left, this bunch of maniacs out of control would make me understand what he had done."

"It made me understand that he is not destroying, but saving, and doing better than me, saving more than me, and going further than me on this road."

"Let me know that he is not a criminal, but a real educator."

"In this way, he wants me to love him, to revere him, to walk on the path he wants to lead me on, and willingly, to become his meek lamb."

Hiss......

(End of chapter)