Looking at Jonathan, who was covered in blood but calmly carried into the ambulance, Gordon stood at the door of the police station and shook his head, when he turned his head to look behind him, he found that Batman had disappeared at some point, Gordon sighed and said to himself:

"What the hell is going on? What's crazy all of a sudden? ”

Gordon glanced down at his hands, where he had just helped Jonathan press on the wound, and his hands were covered in blood, including the cuffs and the edges of his shirt.

Gordon turned his head and tried to go back to the bathroom in the police station to wash his hands, but as soon as he stepped through the door, he found that the soles of his shoes were also on, and every step he took left a bloody footprint.

Gordon felt that he should not cause unnecessary trouble to the cleaning lady's wife, so he tried to rub the soles of his shoes on the carpet, but as soon as he stepped on the carpet, he found that the carpet was also covered in blood, and it only got dirtier and dirtier the more he stepped on it.

Gordon looked left and right with both hands, and found that there were just two extra newspapers on the shelf next to the umbrella, and he leaned his elbow on the door frame, took the newspaper with the other hand, and began to wipe the soles of his shoes.

But as if he remembered something, he took two steps back, shook off the bloodstained newspaper, stared at the dense text on it, and said to himself: "Full width separator......

Gordon stared at the newspaper for a long time, but he didn't really understand the difference between full-width and half-width symbols, and from the typography, there was nothing unusual about it.

Gordon knew that he wasn't really good at verbal and graphical reasoning, and that he had to find someone who was good at it.

In the dimly lit corridor of Arkham Psychiatric Hospital, Hallie was pushing an infusion stand in one hand and a prescription in the other, looking down at the prescription as she walked forward, and just turned a corner when she met Mrs. Miller.

"Hallie, why are you here? Come with me, Sheriff Gordon wants to see you. Mrs. Miller beckoned to Hallie.

Hallie raised her eyebrows, also showing an impatient expression, she pursed her lips, pushed the infusion stand to the side like a tantrum, hugged her arms and said, "Why is that Gordon so much going on?" Didn't he know that I was going crazy? ”

Mrs. Miller hesitated, patted Harley on the back and said, "If you feel too tired, I'll push you off." ”

"What is he looking for me?" Hallie asked.

"It seems to be solving the case...... Still looking for clues or something, I don't understand what he's saying, but it should be quite dangerous, if you don't want to go, I'll help you turn him down. Mrs. Miller tilted her head to look at Hallie.

Harry's eyes lit up, and she took two quick steps to catch up with Mrs. Miller, and said, "No, I'm not tired at all, let's get over quickly!" ”

In the office on the first floor, Gordon frowned, looking at the newspapers and magazines spread out in front of him, judging from his serious expression, he did not make any progress, and after Hallie came in, he immediately beckoned to Hallie, and said, "Come quickly, Hallie, help me see, what's wrong with the symbols of these articles?" ”

Hallie walked over, half-kneeling and looking at the newspaper spread out on the floor, and before she could ask, Gordon briefly told her about what had just happened at the police station.

Hallie's eyes widened slowly, and she raised her voice and said, "You mean, Batman updated the code for the Serial Killer Club??" That's impossible!!! ”

After saying that, she fell her gaze on the newspaper on the ground again, and like a dragonfly dotting water, she guided her gaze with her fingers, and began to search between the layout and content of the newspaper, and after a few minutes, Harley stood up, shook her head, and said in an incredulous voice:

"They're really using a new cipher, full-width separator......"

"What the hell is going on?" Gordon was puzzled and asked, "How the hell does this club work?" How did Batman get involved? ”

Harley glanced at him, opened her mouth for a moment, but closed it again, as if she didn't want to speak, she paused a little hesitantly, but said anyway:

"One of the characteristics of natural murderers is that they are extra sensitive to information about gore and violence, which makes them excited, even if they don't necessarily show it."

"At first, I noticed the anomaly in the newspaper, also because the Gotham Daily reported the news of a hawker who was unfortunately run over by a truck, and the person who wrote this report directly put the picture of the bloody corpse that was crushed on the front page, I don't want to see it."

"The moment I saw this picture, my heart began to beat violently, and an indescribable excitement rose up, and I almost couldn't wait to open the newspaper and start reading the contents."

"There's nothing to say about this report, it's just an accident, and the writer of the article is also very dry, just a simple explanation of the cause and effect, without any detailed description, which can't satisfy my desire at all."

"Since then, I've been paying attention to the bloody murders in various newspapers, consciously or unconsciously, and I'm immersed in them every time I read about the murder by some beautifully written writers."

"After reading a lot of this kind of report, I found that some writers have good writing, but I don't know why, they don't seem to pay much attention to grammar, some sentences are not written smoothly at all, and the symbols are also wrong."

"At the time, I was in a grammar class, so I was extra sensitive to that...... Well, well, I feel like I'm a bit obsessive-compulsive, and something that was supposed to be perfect suddenly has a stain that makes me feel uncomfortable and want to hit the wall. ”

Harley pursed her lips tightly and tilted the corners of her mouth downward, revealing a very unhappy look, and the muscles between her eyebrows and eyes were all wrinkled, as if she had eaten a fly.

Although Gordon doesn't specialize in serial murderers like Angela, he has been a police officer in Gotham for so many years, and he is more experienced in it, so he nodded and said, "It's true that many murderers I know have cleanliness and obsessive-compulsive disorder. ”

"When I found their grammar and symbolic errors, I couldn't help but revise the correct grammar and symbols in my mind, and every time I did this, I developed a habit, but gradually I found that this was a little wrong, and these grammatical and symbolic errors were regular."

Hallie frowned tightly and stared at the newspaper on the ground and said, "After I found out about this, I began to study what exactly the patterns of these symbols and grammatical errors were, and why they were. ”

"Then I discovered the astonishing fact that there was an organization that I didn't know about was using grammatical and symbolic errors in the text content of various pages in newspapers and magazines to communicate."

Hallie shook her head and said, "It's not difficult at all, the wrong way corresponds to a word in a sentence with errors, and by extracting the wrong words in all sentences, you can form a sentence, and then arrange these sentences by the number or position of sentence grammatical errors, you can form an article, which is a simple word puzzle." ”

"And when I composed the article, I realized that there is a world that ordinary people don't know at all hidden under the surface of calm, and that is the crazy world of murderers."

"Murderers use this method to write their own essays, describing their ideas for committing crimes, including what kind of theme they have established for their case and why they have established such a theme."

"Wait a minute!" Gordon shouted to stop, he looked at Harley in amazement, and said, "What does this mean?" ”

Hallie sighed, thinking about how to explain it, but finally decided to use an example to illustrate to ordinary people Gordon how this crazy club really works.

"For example, if a person does a skinning case, he peels off the victim's skin and does some kind of treatment, he will first come up with a name for himself and then determine the subject of the case."

"For example, he might call himself a 'skin hunter,' and the subject of his crime would be, 'What's under the skin?' ”

Of course, a one-sentence description is not enough, he must fully explain why he is doing this subject.

"Maybe it's because he was abused when he was a child, and his seemingly kind relatives or friends sexually assaulted him, or maybe he went out hunting as a child and saw animals being skinned alive struggling in pain."

"He had to explain what made him interested in doing this research."

"Wait, what you mean by academic research is actually murder?!" Gordon raised his voice, this kind of thing was cruel enough even in Gotham.

But Harley didn't show any guilt, she nodded lightly, and then said, "Then they are going to write about their own crimes, and according to my observations, when I first found out that this club existed, many murderers were describing the pain of their victims, and they were proud of their methods of abusing others. ”

"But later, a secret scholar codenamed Professor published an article denouncing this superficial academic research, and wrote several papers that far surpassed other articles in terms of content, phrasing, grammar, innovation, etc., expounding a completely self-consistent logic and showing an unparalleled dark charm."

"These papers have caused a sensation in the academic world, and his philosophical reflections, reasoned and evidence-based logic to form a closed loop, and rigorous and beautiful wording have simply elevated a chaotic third-rate circle to the height of the academic industry."

"Since then, the vast majority of murderers who publish articles have become more academic and reserved."

"Instead of seeking to abuse their victims and depicting the suffering of others, they began to articulate their thoughts and opinions as rigorously as possible, to show their minds and souls to everyone, to tell their suffering."

"If everyone in the world had to take a philosophy exam, then it would be easy to tell who is stupid, and whether a person's view of the world and whether he can express this opinion clearly, to a large extent, shows whether he is a smart person or not."

Harley spoke in a way that was not as rigorous as a child of her age, and her ability to express herself shocked Gordon.

"After the academic atmosphere changed to this, those butchers with confused thinking, low taste, and very boring were rejected by everyone, and all the murderers began to chase the professor's style."

"I still don't understand, what kind of style is this professor?" Gordon asked.

Harley gave a look of reminiscence, and with a hint of frenzy on her face, as if she were captivated by her own fantasies, she spoke in a somewhat excited tone:

"The professor prefers to dissect himself rather than focus on others, which is why all serial murderers are madly obsessed with him, and he shows us through his words how a sick soul survives in this world, and this is exactly the stimulation we need."

"He makes us discover that the pleasure we get from sadomasochism comes from an incoherent soul, from a pathology that has been suppressed by us for many years, and everyone who understands and accepts this theory wants to know how he coexists with his other self."

Hallie sighed softly and said, "The recent serial killer is not an academic discussion at all, but the butchers who have been expelled from academia think they have won and celebrate it. ”

"And those souls who really feel pain because of their sickness and their talents, are waiting for a new Savior."

Hallie's eyes fell to the newspaper on the ground again, then she turned her head to look into Gordon's eyes and said, "And now, they've accepted a new code, a code made by Batman, and you know what that means?" ”

Gordon looked at her in silence, and Hallie's eyes became a little moist, like a jewel soaked in rain.

"This shows that the theories that Batman expounded in his published articles have convinced the vast majority of people."

"He will carry up the mantle of the Professor, appease these restless souls, control them, lead them, accept their sacrifices, and tell them the answer."

And we will listen to him, follow him, love him, honor him, and consider him our Savior and Father...... Be his tame lamb. ”

(End of chapter)