"Bruce, I can call you that, right?" Angela turned around, sighed, looked at Bruce and said, "Actually, I know what the FBI is trying to do, I know their style too well." ”

"If I had to give this organization a comment, it would be never-ending doubt, and extreme greed, and everyone in this vortex is suspicious of everything around them, but they feel greedy for everything around them."

"When I first joined the FBI, I heard rumors that there was a faction in the FBI that had some other ideas about supercriminals who were far beyond ordinary people."

Angela stepped out from behind her chair, leaned back on her desk, and elaborated in a tone of reminiscence:

"In this world, there is a kind of person who thinks that all the power that is not in his hands is a danger, and now the head of the FBI's anti-violence investigation team, which is my immediate boss, Amanda Waller, is the best of them."

"She would choose to recruit me and let me join her group precisely because I had ample experience fighting these serial killers."

"But she needs this experience, not to let me be like a police officer and arrest these serial murderers, but to be able to harness the power of these madmen."

"She's a madman who is crazier than a madman." Angela concluded: "She was looking for a way to control this group of lunatics and enable them to work for the FBI. ”

Angela sighed softly and said, "Although this is not in line with mainstream values, and it sounds like it makes people feel jealous and fearful, in the circle of the Serious Crime Unit, every police detective with a little reputation knows one fact - many natural crazy people are gifted. ”

"This has not been explicitly demonstrated in modern medicine, and many people believe that it is a manifestation of a high-functioning antisocial personality, but years of experience as a front-line criminal investigator have taught me that it is difficult to say whether they are geniuses because of madness or madness because of genius."

"In an FBI survey of teenage personality and mental stability, about 4 million federal citizens said they had antisocial tendencies during their teenage years."

"That's actually a very large number, and excluding the nonsense or delusions, there are at least hundreds of thousands of potential natural murderers lurking in the society of ordinary people."

"Putting aside the mediocre talents among them who have almost no talent, or whose genius level does not exceed that of ordinary people, at least thousands or even tens of thousands of crazy geniuses can be screened out."

"And if we continue to strive for excellence in it, it is not difficult to build a think tank or army composed of dozens or even hundreds of super geniuses."

"That's Amanda Waller's plan." Angela sighed deeply, then explained:

"But everyone knows that this group of crazy people will not listen to instructions at all, although they are crazy, but they are not stupid, and even those talented crazy people are much calmer and wiser than ordinary people, of course they know that cooperating with the FBI is tantamount to conspiring with the tiger, and no one will take the bait."

"And what are you going to do with the Amanda Waller you are talking about?" Bruce asked.

"That's the origin of the Lamb Project I mentioned earlier." Angela said as she paced to the couch and sat down, moistened her throat with a sip of water, and continued:

Waller argues that these innate insane, although they are not able to choose whether they are crazy or not, because of the crimes they have committed and the heavy disasters they have brought to this society, they no longer have human rights like ordinary federal citizens.

"If they can never be caught, then they are great, but if they are caught and judged, they are turned from cruel and bloody hunters into lambs to the slaughter."

"The cruel crimes they inflicted on ordinary people will be rewarded for themselves, and their indifference to ordinary people will cause them to be treated in the same way."

"They once regarded the common man, who was weak and promising in their eyes, as a silent lamb who could not resist, but if they were lambs, there should also be shepherds who would whip them and admonish them, so that they might understand that the fear of blood and pain is not diminished by their special talents."

"Amanda Waller wants to create a society that is born a murderer, to be the shepherd of these lost lambs, the lord of ears of wheat and whips, and the Lamb Project was born for this."

"Amanda Waller's 1983, about a decade ago, agitated Congress to approve the construction of the Florence Super Prison in Colorado, which was the experimental site she had prepared for the project."

Over the next decade, she dismissed hundreds of serial murderers and selected 20 supercriminals to be included in the list of lambs, who were arrested, tried, and imprisoned in the last three years.

Bruce's eyes narrowed slowly, and Angela didn't notice the change in his expression, just continuing her narrative.

"Waller takes this experiment very seriously, all the target personnel are carefully selected, come from different industries, have different special abilities, and in order to ensure that the project can go smoothly, from the moment the target is identified, there will be a series of projects against him."

"From arrest to trial to detention, every step of the process has been carefully studied by Waller's team, and all the measures have been targeted, with or without intention, and the vast majority of the targets have not escaped arrest."

Angel stretched out her hand and rubbed her eyebrows, looking very worried, she squeezed the cup in one hand and said: "There are people in Congress and large corporations who support Amanda Waller behind her, hoping that the lamb she tame will be used for herself, so her plan went smoothly without any trouble. ”

"Just last night, I got the news that Schiller Rodriguez, your teacher, my benefactor, was being transferred to the Florence Super Prison, and I just learned that he had been targeted by Amanda Waller."

Angela pursed her lips and said: "Before, when Schiller was involved in the events in Central America, the reason why the FBI and the CIA did not investigate further, it was Waller who mediated in it, and she didn't want the lamb she liked to go to an ordinary prison on ordinary charges. ”

Angela glanced at Bruce with some hesitation, hesitated for a moment, but still spoke: "I was not trusted by Waller for a long time when I joined the FBI, and it was only recently that I learned the details of Project Lamb. ”

"Broadly speaking, Waller intends to create a completely enclosed testing ground for studying the methods by which these lambs can be tamed, including, but not limited to, the well-known torture."

Waller knew that she could not endanger the health of this group of lambs, and the reason why they were lambs was because they were fragile and precious, and they were extremely irreplaceable, so mental punishment became Waller's best choice.

"I think, as you know, heavy incarceration and sensory deprivation can bring great suffering, and if it is long enough and professional enough, it can completely destroy a person's personality and make them forget themselves completely."

Angela stood up, walked up to Bruce, looked him in the eye and said, "From the police's point of view, I have no sympathy for this group of murderous criminals, they deserve any punishment. ”

"When they hurt and abuse ordinary people, they didn't think that there would be this day, so they were extremely rampant, and when they had to pay for it, no one would save them, and they were to blame."

"But I think Schiller is different." Angela looked seriously into Bruce's eyes and said: "Maybe he has killed people, but he has also saved people, at least, as a rescued, I can't look at his actions completely from the perspective of justice, I am not a machine to enforce the law, I also have my own feelings." ”

"It is true that neither treating patients nor teaching students can make up for the harm he has done to other ordinary people, but as cured patients and students who have devoted their hearts and souls to teaching, we cannot evaluate the torture he may have with just one sentence of 'he deserves it', otherwise, what difference are we from those indifferent madmen?"

"What's more, Amanda Waller is not dedicated to the public." Angela shook her head and said, "From a macro point of view, all the forces behind this plan have other plans, they are not trying to save ordinary people with great kindness, but just to grab benefits. ”

"From a microscopic point of view, Waller is not just hating these criminals, she is envious of them, she is jealous of them, she wants to drain the blood called talent into herself, she is not a shepherd, but a jackal."

"That's why, Bruce Wayne, I came to you, hoping that you would join me in saving Schiller, instead of letting your teacher, my benefactor, shed blood in the darkness and become food for others."

"Answer me, Bruce, would you like to do that?"

Angela didn't see any expression on Bruce's face when she asked the question, or rather. As she uttered the shocking plan, Bruce didn't show any expression.

Angela felt that this should not be the reaction of a businessman, let alone the reaction of a pompous playboy, but Bruce was quiet as a statue.

After a long silence, Bruce asked:

"You mean that the Florence Super-Prison, where Schiller is held, is not actually a prison for criminals, but a testing ground for a mysterious plan?"

Angela took two steps back slowly, as she saw in those blue eyes the icy storm on the polar coastline, with a whistling coldness that sent chills down her back.

Angela took a deep breath, nodded, and went on with his words.

"It's not criminals who have gone through a fair trial and paid the price, but the silent lambs who satisfy Amanda Waller's lust and ambition."

Angela saw that Bruce on the other side slowly closed his eyes, as if he had made an important decision.

It seemed that at this moment, he had faded away from the youthfulness of his youth, and the silence was longer than the rainy night in Gotham.

But at this moment, he regained the purity of a newborn baby, and the cry that represented the newborn life was finally no longer the muffled whimper of the lamb begging for milk, but the only person standing in the world, the earth-shattering cry.

(End of chapter)