The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

Gotham City, a megacity on the east coast of the United States, is located on the east coast with a pleasant climate and beautiful scenery. It is adjacent to Brudhaven in the south and faces the Imperial City in the north. It belongs to the subtropical monsoon humid climate.

Looking down at the entire city from the air, Gotham presents a rectangle tilted to the right, centered on the turntable of the central commercial street, and divided into four districts: east, west, north, and west.

It has been introduced before that the East District has piers and slums. It is the most chaotic but also the most dynamic district in Gotham. The south is Gotham's financial center and new rich area. In most photos of Gotham City, tall buildings The buildings and brightly lit scenes were all shot in this area.

The West End is the old city of Gotham, which was the first area to be developed. It has European-style manors and castles, as well as a large park. Gotham University is located on the border between the West End and the South End. At the same time This is also the best green place in Gotham.

A part that is rarely mentioned in Gotham City is the North District, because it is a completely independent district. There is a Gotham River in the north of the central commercial street, which divides the entire Gotham into two parts, the north and the south. , and the north of the Gotham River is the North District of Gotham.

On the west side of the Gotham River, that is, in the southwest corner of the North District, is the famous Arkham Asylum, and in the southeast corner of the North District is the largest lighthouse in Gotham.

The main reason why the North District is not mentioned is that it is the birthplace of the Falcone Family and the Twelve Family.

This has to start from the era when European immigrants ruled Gotham. Maybe many people, when they hear the history of the Italian mafia, will think of the soothing and melodious music in the movie The Godfather, with the old-fashioned light and shadow, The old godfather's elegant voice, the red poppy on the black suit, the cigar, the pistol...

But in fact, at that time, Italians in the United States were very discriminated against, because at that time, most of the people who would come to the United States to work were people from southern Italy, that is, the poor in Italy.

Noble European immigrants, manor owners and factory owners, of course, looked down on these Italian barbarians from Sicily, so they did not allow these people to come close to where they lived.

When Falcone set foot on Gotham with a group of people, there were already many Italians living here, but they all lived in the most desolate and remote North District, because the other three districts, even Even the chaotic East End is also full of discrimination against Italians.

Falcone's family history started from the North District, and when he gradually developed his own power in Gotham, he built the separated and independent North District as his base camp, and here A series of manor buildings and security systems were established.

The North District, divided by the Gotham River, is indeed a good place to make a base camp, but those European immigrants who came here first did not choose this place because the terrain here is not very good.

The entire Gotham has a terrain that is high in the north and low in the south. The south and west are plains, while the north is hills. Although the altitude is not high, it is obvious that it is more difficult to construct buildings in the north than in other places. Only unwelcome Italians live here.

Gotham has developed to this day, and the North District has been built into a very complete gang resident. The castle of the Falcone family is located halfway up the highest mountain in Gotham. Said, here is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

The locations of the other twelve families also revolve around the castle of the Falcone family, and the rest of the North District is an industrial chain serving the residences of these gangster families.

North Gotham, in the Ridge Manor, a lady with brown curly hair and rosacea wearing a white apron walked quickly up the stairs with a tray. She came to a room on the second floor, and there were two young men standing at the door. But she didn't show any surprise, but forced a smile and said to them, Gentlemen, would you like a glass of water?

Oh, no, thank you, but you can't go in now, the case is being investigated inside.

I know, I know... The lady nodded, but she still seemed to want to look inside. She reached out a hand under the tray and handed the policeman a roll of dollars. The young policeman coughed twice, Lower your voice and say, I know you're worried...

The lady wiped the corners of her eyes and said with a sad expression: Yes, the whole manor is in panic now, and no one knows if I will be the next...

The police officer waved his hand and said in a low voice, Now everyone can see that this serial killer only targets the bosses of gangsters. Okay, ma'am, you should go down first...

The police officer glanced back at the door he was guarding, squeezed the roll of dollars in his hand again, and said: I heard that Chief Gordon has hired a very good detective, maybe it won't be long before he can Find out who did it, and once it is found out, the godfather will definitely not let him go.

The lady sighed, handed the tray in her hand to the young police officer and said, In that case, I won't bother you, please ask the gentlemen inside if they want some water, and if you need anything, call me again. .”

The police officer wanted to refuse, but the other man looked down at his watch and said to his colleague: They have been in for more than two hours, maybe they are thirsty, I am here to watch, you take the water Send it in.

The policeman didn't say anything, he nodded, then turned around and knocked on the door, and a voice came from inside: Please come in.

When the policeman walked in with the tray, there were two people inside, one was Gordon and the other was Batman, but the young policeman was not surprised by this, he just put the tray on the table and said: Boss, if you are thirsty, here is water.

Gordon nodded and waved his hand to signal him to go out. The police officer put down the water and went out. Obviously he didn't want to stay in the room for a long time, because besides the two living people in this room, there was also a dead person, and the death of this dead person The situation was so tragic that the smell of blood filled the entire room.

He had been sawed in half, and vertically.

Batman said to Gordon: A few days ago, I read all the information about the twelve disciples of Jesus. If I remember correctly, this method of death should be one of the twelve disciples called the Zealot. The way Simon's apostle was executed, he was sawn in half along the middle of the leg...

Batman walked around to the other side of the corpse. Gordon stood behind the table, far away from the corpse. Even he had rarely seen such a brutal crime scene. The left side of the corpse on the ground was connected to more than half There is still a certain distance between the two parts, and the blood is almost all over the room. Gordon covered his nose and said, Did you see anything?

Batman frowned, and he said with some doubts: Actually, I can't understand it, the method is completely different...

what do you mean?

The murderer's method of killing Rich is completely different from the method of killing Lawrence and Hawke...

What do you mean? Can you explain in detail?

Batman squatted down, not minding the thick and somewhat choking bloody smell at all, he stared at Rich's grisly corpse and said: If the deaths of the first two people still have some meaning of execution, then that's it. The 'sense of ritual' that perverted murderers often admire, Qi's death there is too rough, obviously, his death was not peaceful...

Gordon whispered, Anyone can see that, right?

Batman pointed to a mark on the corpse and said: Look here, look at his neck, there is a footprint here...

Then he stood up again, pointing to the tail of the corpse and said: One of his feet was wearing a shoe, but the other was not, and one of the shoes was thrown aside, that's where...

Following Batman's gaze, Gordon looked at a shoe next to the corpse. Batman walked behind the corpse's foot, then pointed to one of the corpse's feet and said, This foot without a shoe has an ankle joint. Minor fracture, very swollen.

We can use this to deduce how the murderer killed the person.

The whole process was very simple. The murderer pushed Rich to the ground, put one foot on Rich's neck, then bent down and grabbed his ankle, lifted one of his legs, and then took the saw. He started sawing between his legs...

Obviously, at this time, Rich was still alive and had the ability to struggle. Because of the severe pain, he began to struggle desperately, but the man didn't stop his movements at all. In order to catch the struggling Rich, he had to increase his hands. The strength caused Rich's ankle to be broken, and the shoe was also torn off...

What does that mean? Gordon asked with his hands on his hips.

It shows that this is a very vicious murderer. He sawed a person in half alive. During the process, he ignored Richie's struggle and screams, and saw him from head to toe.

At the same time, he should have considerable strength. Rich is 1.86 meters tall and weighs 80 kilograms. It is already very difficult to completely subdue him, let alone saw him when he still has the ability to resist.

And what puzzles me is that the method used this time is completely different from the previous two. I even wonder if my deduction is wrong. Is this a serial murder case?

Logically, the first victim, Lawrence, died by crucifixion, with wedges driven into his limbs, heart and head...

The second victim Hawk died by beheading, and the third victim died by being sawed in half. These are the ways of death of the twelve disciples of Jesus, especially the way of death by sawing people in half. If it is not In order to restore Ximen's execution method, no one would use such a time-consuming and laborious method to kill people...

However, this case is completely different from the previous two cases. In the previous two cases, anesthesia was detected in Lawrence's body. That is to say, he was first anesthetized and then crucified. During the process of being crucified , without any ability to resist.

The same is true for Hawke. He was tied up first, and then his head was chopped off with a knife.

But according to common sense, if a person has the power to kill Rich in such a brutal way, then there is no need for him to anesthetize Lawrence, and there is no need to tie Hawk up.

Lawrence is also considered strong, but he is an old man after all. Hawke is tall, but relatively thin. Neither of them is as strong as Rich, who is in his prime. The killer has the strength to subdue Rich and saw him open. But it is very strange to have to subdue those two people first and then kill them by adding superfluous things...

Perhaps Rich's death was caused by the cooperation of two people?

Batman shook his head slightly, and he said: In the criminal psychology courses I have learned, in most serial murder cases, the murderer is alone, and no one else cooperates with the crime.

Besides the fact that the probability of two psychopaths who coincidentally match each other is very low, most murderers who commit serial murders have a special obsession with committing crimes and killing. own unique understanding.

They care not only about the outcome of the crime, but also about the process of committing the crime. They even enjoy the process of leading the police to make wrong judgments and seeing experts suspect and bewilder but fail to get an answer.

Moreover, they are unwilling to share this happiness with others. They think that no one can fully understand them. They may use some innocent passers-by to achieve their own murder goals, but they will never cooperate with anyone sincerely.

They enjoy the pleasure of playing with the world alone, and they won't let the second person know all their plans, or help them, let alone do it so rough...

Gordon pursed his lips and looked at Batman. He said, That doesn't sound like something you can learn in a psychology textbook.

It's really not something you learn from a textbook.

Your tone reminds me of someone, Gordon said with a sigh.

Then why didn't you invite him over?

Because I'm not sure whether he is analyzing the situation based on the scene of the crime, or... revealing his crime process.