Chapter 1446: A Study of Manipulation (12)
The special cell that made everyone in the prison look at it, this was the earliest cell that Amanda set up for high-risk prisoners with special abilities, which did not follow any humanitarian code and was held in harsh isolation 24 hours a day.
Bruce couldn't think of any reason why Bane would go to such a cell on purpose, but he did.
Amanda asked him to kill Elliot but he didn't kill him, let him protect Gallardo, and he killed Gallardo as soon as they met, which was obviously deliberately to provoke Amanda, and he had long expected that Amanda's final resort to deal with him was to transfer him to a special detention cell.
Why did he do it?
Bruce's envisioned encounters with Bane were over before they even began, and Bane didn't reveal any information during his few conversations.
Bruce should have breathed a sigh of relief, but now he can go back to his original plan and level up step by step, first manipulating Jimmy, then driving Donn crazy, and when the new cellmates are transferred, he can still use the same method to provoke their conflicts, summarize behavior patterns and manipulating other people's skills, and complete a good paper.
But Bane's appearance succeeded in piquing his curiosity, and he was very curious about the story of this beast with the soul of a philosopher.
At the end of the day, there's always a chivalry in Batman, who doesn't like to crush weak opponents, but rather hunts down equally powerful beasts.
There is a special attraction between madmen, and when the other person is not present, ordinary people can talk to each other for comfort, but once the real opponent is on the stage, the rest of the people, no matter how gorgeous they are, are just foils, like Batman and the Joker, like Batman and all the other Gotham villains.
Bruce is attracted to Bane's temperament and secrets, and when Bane kills Gallardo, he almost instinctively reveals the weakness of the shock ring on his foot, because he subconsciously doesn't want Bane to be taken away, because he desperately wants to see the secret behind Bane's mask.
And Bruce firmly believes that Bane is not completely uninterested in him, otherwise he would not have had to keep him after killing Gallardo, he can go on a killing spree in the cell, which can better stimulate Amanda.
Why, then, did he go to a special detention cell in isolation? What's in there?
Bruce sat quietly on the bed, the other two sat on the bed opposite, and the other stood in the center of the room, countless thoughts wandering between the three figures, and he felt his thoughts stagnate.
Bruce's vast memory bank was a little jerky when it came to mobilizing information, and he wasn't used to the feeling of himself communicating with himself while the other two selves were reminiscing, and those memories were in his mind at the same time.
Bruce's way of thinking is not much different from ordinary people, first recall, then summarize, and then think, he needs to retrieve information from memory first, and then analyze this information, human beings always need to recognize first and then think, if you don't think of one thing, it is impossible to analyze one thing.
But now Bruce is going through a very wonderful experience, one of which is thinking about one thing, and the other two are knowing it, cognition and thinking in parallel, thinking in parallel with thinking in another stage.
It stands to reason that if the human brain were divided into three threads, it would be much more efficient, but Bruce felt a little confused.
Obviously, one of them has already thought about node three, and the other one is still in node two, but the conclusion obtained by node three is not recognized by the other one, and then the other one he repeatedly thinks about node three, and the efficiency does not increase at all, and the repeated conclusion also increases the redundancy of memory.
It can be said that this way of thinking is still too early for humans.
I really don't know how Schiller's hundreds of personalities work, Bruce thought with some headaches, but in the end he decided that it was better to settle Bane's affairs first.
About half an hour later, the infirmary came to dispose of Gallardo's body lying in the room, the prison guards told the convict to crouch down with his head in his hands, and Bruce crouched in the corner and quietly put a hand into the ankle ring.
"Zila!" , a flash of electricity, Bruce quickly threw away the ankle ring, and his body flexibly passed between the medical staff who had not yet reacted, and his middle finger protruded into a fist, and punched the prison guard in the face.
"Whew!"
The guard covered his nose and leaned back, Bruce ripped off the gun in his hand, pushed open the door and rushed into the hallway, a sharp siren sounding.
It stands to reason that the best way to do this is to take hostages, but Bruce didn't do it, not because he had high moral standards, but because he didn't plan to escape from prison in the first place, he planned to go to a special detention cell to find Bane, but first he had to get close there.
He rushed to the end of the corridor with a gun in his hand, and then saw Amanda rush in with a team of armed men.
Bruce's pupils constricted, the armed guards who subdued Bane should have just disbanded at this point in time, they couldn't have regrouped so quickly, Bruce originally wanted to be taken around when the armed forces were insufficient, and then find a way to get closer to the destination.
Countless black holes pointed at Bruce, Bruce could only raise his hands to let the prison guards disarm, Amanda showed a sneer, her look made Bruce a little confused.
Amanda was not surprised, not angry, but stared at Bruce's one-eyed with a cold, mocking look, as if everything had been expected and under control.
Facing Bruce, Amanda took the phone from her subordinate, and after dialing, she said to the other side.
"Professor, he was as stupid as you expected, planning to take advantage of Bane's killing of Gallardo to escape from prison, and now, I have a legitimate reason to put him in a special cell."
Bruce's eyes widened slowly, and then he heard a familiar voice in the receiver of Amanda's phone.
"Yes, Amanda, what a stupid little lamb, a mercenary who takes money to do things, a drug dealer who is about to be executed, can make him act so recklessly...... So now, do what you have to do. ”
"Take him to a special detention cell, the highest standard of surveillance!"
Amanda raised her head and said, without looking at the escorted Bruce, she could feel the burning gaze of the other party, which filled her heart with the pleasure of successful revenge, this damn murderer finally got the punishment he deserved.
But if she tilted her head slightly to look at the criminal walking past her, she could see that the one-eyed one was not staring at her, but at the phone in her hand.
Schiller put down the phone in his hand, Konstantin, who was lying on the diagnosis bed in the office, put his hands behind his head, looked at the ceiling and sighed and said: "Before I met you, I never thought that there were such careful people in this world. ”
"Bruce put you in a harsh cell, and you're going to put him in too, even to the point where Zatana uses the power of her psychic magic to hypnotize Elliott to kidnap the surviving little girl."
Schiller gently wiped the dust off the phone receiver and sighed, "Bruce thought that everyone was as rigorous and leaky as him, but in fact, Elliott didn't want to cut the grass at all. ”
"He's forgotten about that little girl, and if I hadn't let Zatana control Elliott into Bruce's trap, how would he have been able to complete his perfect stand-in plan?"
"You know Bruce so well." Konstantin let out a long sigh, sat up from the bed and came to the couch, poured himself a glass of wine, and said: "But I'm still curious, how did you lock him in?" What happened in prison? ”
Schiller smiled, sat down across from Konstantin, unbuttoned his suit, and put one leg on the other.
Konstantin raised an eyebrow, he knew it was Schiller's relaxed gesture, so he took out the humidor from under the table and asked, "Come?" ”
Schiller nodded slightly, and while watching Konstantin cut his cigar, he said, "Bruce's biggest problem is that to treat everyone as a genius like him, you have to have a shocking motive and a mysterious backstory to prompt them to do a series of things." ”
"But in fact, most people except him have very simple motives and methods, and once Bruce makes this brain too complicated, he will do things that he thinks are very reasonable, but ordinary people seem stupid."
"For example, this time, he annoyed me with a field of broccoli, and he felt that I would not forgive him so easily, so instead of coming over to apologize, he planned to do some very difficult social practices, and even did not hesitate to cut his face and exchange identities with Elliott, and then put himself in prison."
"So actually, if he comes to apologize, you'll forgive him?"
"Generally speaking, anyone who sincerely apologizes to me without causing me serious harm will forgive him and will greatly reduce the severity of my subsequent retaliation."
"Sounds incredible."
"I do stick to that code." Schiller propped one hand on the armrest, a few fingers on the side of his head, and said, "But they always seem to have some misunderstanding of my temper, and even Clark thinks it's better to run away than to apologize to me." ”
"Even though he blew up my mind tower twice, I didn't do anything with him, he still firmly thought so, and the reason he usually stayed where he was and waited for me was because he pessimistically thought he couldn't run away."
"So far, you're the only one who has sincerely apologized to me and offered me the help I needed, so not only can you drink my wine now, but I don't mind if you cut the expensive cigar Alberto gave me."
Konstantin looked down at the cigar in his hand, smiled embarrassedly at Schiller, and said as he opened the matchbox: "Thank you for the things I messed up in the first half of my life, which convinced me that apologizing is the only thing I can do well." ”
When Schiller saw that he had taken out a match, he stood up, leaned forward across the coffee table, put one hand in the pocket of his suit pants, leaned over and bowed his head, Constantine handed over the cigar, he took it and put it in his mouth, Constantin raised his hand, one hand to protect the fire, and the other to light a cigarette.
Seeing that Schiller actually took a puff of the cigar he had cut, Konstantin's pupils shrank, as a magical consultant who often went in and out of the mansions of the upper class, Konstantin would not cut his cigars so badly, and he believed that Schiller knew this.
An inevitable guilt and remorse rose in his heart, and he knew that Schiller had a very serious obsessive-compulsive disorder, but still like a child who deliberately broke toys, wasting expensive objects without any scruples, expressing his dissatisfaction that he did not know where he came from and had no position to own.
Doing such a thing in front of a person with excellent self-control seemed even more vexatious, Konstantin took a deep breath and said in his heart ten thousand times that this must be another trap of Schiller, but he still leaned on the back of the sofa weakly, tilted his head to the side and said: "Condescension, professor, sorry, my hands are a little shaky." ”
Schiller sat back on the couch with a cigar, smiled and said, "It seems that the sickness has left a deep impression on you, but I am not him, I will not use every detail of life to manipulate others, I am telling the truth." ”
"I'm the only one who won't be involved in this, right?" Konstantin took another sip from his glass, trying to slow down his pounding heartbeat.
Seeing the expression on Schiller's face, Konstantin was still very surprised and said, "No, right? ”
"That's true."
Schiller exhaled a puff of smoke and continued, "Let's talk about what happened in prison, it's actually very simple......
"I know Bruce very well, he knows me very well, he knows that I must be the first to turn over the old accounts, so he must be the first to run."
"I've been keeping an eye on him, and when I find out that his itinerary coincides with Elliott, who is being hunted by the FBI, I know what he wants to do......"
"How did you know where the two of them were?"
"I was a psychology instructor at the FBI's Agent Training Institute for a while on the West Coast, so naturally I had a way to get track of important fugitives, and as for Bruce's itinerary...... He told me about it himself. ”
Konstantin stared at the lines of the pupils in Schiller's gray eyes, as if he had seen what had happened in Schiller's Thinking Tower a few days ago.
A knock on the door sounded in the hallway of the Thinking Tower, and Schiller, dressed in a black suit, opened the door and looked at Bruce standing in the doorway, who gave up his seat and said, "Come in." ”
Schiller walked to the table with Bruce and asked without looking back, "You left Gotham?" ”
"Yes, I'm talking about business at Monsanto's headquarters in Missouri."
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(End of chapter)