The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

After Gordon and Batman left the basement of the chapel, both of them seemed a little silent. After all, in the place where they were just now, dozens of lives were buried in just one month.

Gotham is a dark city, but when this darkness is laid bare in front of people, only those with strong willpower can digest the impact of this deep darkness.

In the hearts of Batman and Gordon, countless emotions are now surging. The first case that the newcomer Batman handled, this seemingly boundless evil and darkness without light was in front of him, and he suddenly realized that, as Schiller said, he might indeed not be fully prepared for it. .

Powerful force is only a means to survive here, but to save this city, force alone is not enough.

Just thinking about it, Batman turned a corner and saw Schiller standing on the second floor again, holding an umbrella. Under the balcony is where the beggar used to stay.

Batman felt a kind of absurdity again, this damn criminal who killed dozens of innocent lives, how dare he stand here? Why are some people in this world indifferent to fresh life? It can even be cruel enough to kill them without hesitation.

The depression in Batman's heart turned into anger. Under Gordon's gaze, he jumped up along the street and jumped directly onto the balcony more than two meters high.

Your trial is coming, damned murderer, Batman said.

Have you found the evidence you want? Schiller asked

Of course, and the evidence is enough to judge you.

Schiller suddenly laughed, and he said in a very light tone: How ridiculous, you are still thinking about trying me, the Gotham City Police Department should award you a good citizen medal, you are a great man police.

How nice it would be if, when your parents died, there was such a great policeman who found the evidence left by the murderers and tried them? You think so, don't you?

You don't trust the police, you don't trust the court, but you still look for evidence and try to judge me with judicial correctness. Don't you think what you are doing is contradictory?

You're proving that I broke the law, Batman, and so did your actions. If I'm going to stand trial, so will you. You're proving that a criminal is a criminal by committing a crime, aren't you?

Schiller raised his voice, and said in a cadenced tone: You think you have the ability to avenge the criminals by your own means. But in the end, you are still an ordinary person domesticated by this orderly society, and you are still talking about evidence and demanding Judgment.

If you can't get rid of these things, the shackles imposed on you by these orderly societies, and the concepts about law and judicial procedures in your mind, you will never be able to achieve the justice you want.

Bruce... Schiller looked him in the eyes and said:

The law is not justice, you are.

Gotham's laws didn't save your parents, just like they didn't save these dozens of missing people. If you have any unnecessary illusions about it, you will never be the real Batman.

Schiller could clearly see that Batman's arm was trembling, his hand holding the bat dart was covered with blue veins, and even his whole body was trembling, obviously, he became extremely angry.

Schiller's words were too harsh. He exposed one of the young Batman's biggest contradictions.

Gotham's laws failed to save his parents, but Batman, who kept saying he wanted revenge, was still kidnapped by the law of order. In the end, he still followed judicial justice.

You want me to do my own justice? Batman asked. Then he raised a gun and pointed it at Schiller's forehead.

Of course Batman has a gun. In Gotham City, you can hardly survive without this hot weapon. Let alone justice.

Schiller remained calm. He said: You haven't answered my earlier question. Have you found the evidence you want? What is it?

On the side of the crate under the chapel, there are stains left by you. There are soil and leaves in it. They are the leaves of North American red pine that are only found in Gotham University.

What does that mean? Schiller said.

It means you're the murderer, Batman said.

Really? I appeared on the streets of Mawson Street alone for no reason, dressed and acted suspiciously. And you found a leaf belonging to Gotham University at the scene of the crime, indicating that the murderer may be a student of Gotham University. So I'm the murderer, what a rigorous reasoning, Schiller said.

Batman looked at his unrepentant and guilty expression, his understated tone, his anger had really reached its peak, and the moment he wanted to pull the trigger, Gordon ran over and shouted: Stop it! Put the gun down!

Batman was interrupted for a split second when Schiller dropped a memory card on the ground between them, saying:

The evidence is conclusive? The murderer has been to Gotham University, and I am a university teacher. It is really conclusive.

Yeah, how much you wish that when your parents died, there would be someone like you now who would simply shoot the murderer, because the evidence is overwhelming.

Forget about my parents... Batman said with a trembling voice, You criminal.

You think of a lot of parallels, Schiller said.

But your anger has overlooked much, much more difference.

For example, I have never had any education background related to chemistry and biology. For example, I have participated in the investigation of countless serial murders. The anti-investigation awareness is not so bad that I can't even clean up the footprints. More importantly...

Schiller looked at the memory card and said, My evidence is much more conclusive than yours.

Batman's anger subsided slightly because of Gordon's interruption. After regaining his sanity, he felt that even in such a wet and cold weather, the sweat on the back of his shirt was soaked.

Batman vigilantly picked up the USB flash drive, and he inserted the USB flash drive into the microcomputer in his arm, and a projection popped out.

At this moment, Gordon also took a detour and ran into the balcony. He saw in the video that a man in a plaid shirt was standing furtively on the outside unit of an air conditioner in a house, sticking a hose into the window. The standing and sitting figures in the building fell down one after another, and the man jumped off the air conditioner and walked into the corridor. After a while, he dragged two large boxes, put them on the trailer, and pushed them away. , and the figures in the room have disappeared.

This was Batman's inspiration to Schiller. Jonathan really lacked anti-detection awareness. Schiller was standing in the corridor opposite him, holding a camera to shoot, but he didn't even notice.

But yes, no one in Gotham City would come out to hang out in the middle of the night, especially if they came to such a slum, they would lose their lives if they were not careful.

Suddenly Gordon exclaimed, No wonder!

I remember when registering the address of the missing person, it was true that the residents on the lower floors suffered more, and almost all the houses of the victims had balconies... Gordon said.

Then he looked at Batman and Schiller, and he said to Batman angrily: I really misread you, did you want to shoot just now? Do you know that you almost killed someone just now?!

Batman silently looked at the projection on his arm. Anyone who is not blind can see that the murderer's body size is a thousand miles away from Schiller's.

Although Schiller doesn't know how to fight or exercise, he is still tall and tall. He is only a little shorter and thinner than Batman, but he is still close to 1.9 meters. Mi Qi, the weight will not exceed 60 kg.

Professor Jonathan is a nice guy, you think so, right? Because he doesn't check your homework, treats you very well, and will never fail your subject. But I'm different, I'm a very troublesome professor, always on Picking faults in homework, taking exams when there is nothing to do, and threatening all students with the possibility of failing.”

So of course I'm a murderer and he's not. After all, how can such a cowardly, taciturn, thin, small man be a serial murderer?

Stop talking. Batman said in a trembling voice.

He recalled the scene when he faced the beggar that day. From the corner of his eye, he could still see the stain left by the beggar leaning against the wall, and that strong sense of guilt and shame surrounded him again.

And Gordon's words added fuel to the fire, saying, I don't care where you're a weirdo, wearing tights and causing trouble in the city, but you almost killed a good guy. What's the matter with you two? If you have If you have a personal grudge, then go and resolve it yourself, and don't interfere with the police's handling of the case.

Aren't the police in Gotham busy enough? You want to kill people in front of me, and you want me to send you to prison immediately? Gordon said.

Working overtime for several consecutive days had already made him irritable, and he said impatiently: Weird in tights, give me that USB flash drive quickly, I want to take it back for filing... This gentleman, please go back with me, You seem to know who the murderer is, we need clues...

After a moment of silence, Batman silently stretched out his arm and handed the USB flash drive to Gordon.

He found that his smug debut trip was just adding to the chaos. The criminal Schiller he thought was the one who helped a lot and provided the most critical evidence.

Schiller didn't speak any more, Batman stood where he was, and on the street outside, it started to rain endlessly again.

Just as he was about to follow Gordon to leave, he heard Batman behind him say, ...I'm sorry, Professor.

Schiller's footsteps stopped, he felt a little incredible, what did Batman just say? ? ?

He just apologized? ? ?

Schiller turned his head in disbelief, Batman was standing in the shadow cast by the building, the only light was shining on his mask, he pressed his lips tightly, Schiller felt very absurd.

He is Batman.

Because he is Batman.

And Batman is always right.

Batman doesn't apologize to anyone.

In the face of everyone's doubts, he would only say: Because I am Batman.

Schiller has seen too much about the dark side of Batman in Batman's comics, such as preparing kryptonite to defend against Superman, such as preparing a set of plans for everyone in the Justice League to deal with them. He doesn't seem to trust anyone Man doesn't even trust himself.

It has to be said that when the editors of the manga created this character, these dark sides made him even more attractive. It can also leave a deeper impression on readers.

But this also created Schiller's prejudice against Batman.

He thinks Batman should be like that, in the comics. Batman never apologized, because he didn't think he was wrong, he thought those precautions against his companions were necessary.

This has created a prejudice against Schiller. Batman is not incapable of apologizing. When he really finds out that he is wrong, he will still feel regret and guilt.

Schiller really wants to teach the young Batman some principles, such as not to be prejudiced, not to judge people by their appearance, not to be carried away by anger, and to maintain independent thinking.

But Schiller suddenly discovered that he is actually not qualified to teach Batman not to be prejudiced, because he himself has an indelible stereotype of this character, and he hopes that Bruce can become the bat in the comics in his mind Xia, and the faster the process, the better.

But now it seems that this story is not a wise and knowledgeable professor and his young reckless student, but a very classic Pride and Prejudice.

Batman, with the sheer arrogance of his own reasoning, thinks that Schiller must be the murderer, and he almost shoots Schiller when he has a preconceived bias, coupled with some evidence that just happens to fit that prejudice.

But Schiller also has a prejudice against Batman, thinking that he should be the mature, cautious, suspicious dark hero in the comics.

Two people don't say that they are fifty steps and laugh at a hundred steps, but it can also be said that they are half a catty.

Now Batman seems to have learned this lesson, and he clearly realizes that he is not omniscient.

His reasoning, too, would be bound by prejudices to produce great fallacies, and his impulses would be all the more deadly under this arrogance.

He saw the scar on the side of Schiller's neck, which was left by him with the bat dart before. At that time, he assumed that Schiller was a criminal and threatened him in the same way as a criminal, although he did not shoot today. But as Gordon said, the wound was deep, and I'm afraid there must be a scar.

Batman felt guilty about this, but also terrified.

He thought that the inability of the law to judge every criminal correctly was not the reason for him to judge others arbitrarily with his own arrogance.

And when he can't guarantee that he is 100% right, any impulsive violence may leave an indelible scar on an innocent person, even a good person.

He was just rejoicing that the price innocent people paid was not their lives.

Standing in the shadows, Batman thought that he wanted to prevent this possibility from happening forever, so he decided that no matter how vicious criminals he faced in the future, he would never kill anyone.

If any innocent person died unjustly in his hands, then he would become a more heinous criminal than killing his parents.

Because the criminals who killed his parents, maybe just for money or revenge, the damage they caused was two lives.

And if Batman kills innocent people indiscriminately, there will be no hope for this city anymore.

In the comics, the setting that Batman doesn't kill people seems to have existed from the beginning.

Schiller didn't explore why this was, and he found it annoying that the setting was missing. For example, in the face of those nasty criminals, those lunatics who escaped from prison again and again to make trouble, why couldn't Batman kill them? He had thought of this countless times while reading comics.

But what he didn't expect was that in this world, the young Batman was determined not to kill criminals precisely because of him, precisely because of Schiller.

Because he's Batman, he's the only hope for the city, and if he's overwhelmed by the guilt of killing innocent people, then the city is hopeless.

By coincidence, although Schiller still failed to let the young Batman establish his own spiritual support, he succeeded in completing one of Batman's settings, that is, not killing people.

Schiller would never have imagined that he would regret his meddling this time countless times in the days to come.

When Batman fully matured, Schiller yelled in his heart countless times, why can't Batman move his fingers to strangle those damned criminals, so that they don't appear in front of him again and again Break his peaceful life! !

And all of this stems from what happened today, and it's all his own fault.