The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

On a rainy night with lightning and thunder, the rain fell on the roof of the manor, making a rustling sound, which was mixed with the sound of the firewood in the fireplace that had not been completely extinguished.

It was a very hypnotic sound, so Schiller, who was lying on the bed, fell into a deep sleep, but at this moment, the telephone rang in a hurry, and Schiller on the bed opened his eyes.

He looked out of the window, and at this moment, a flash of lightning flashed across the sky, the grid of the window was rubbed on the floor and the bed, and one of the shadows happened to pass through Schiller's eyes.

He took a deep breath, then stood up from the bed, walked through the dark manor in his slippers, came downstairs, picked up the phone receiver, and it was completely unexpected that Gordon's anxious voice was on the opposite side, and he said: Harry Cooper is dead, Professor Schiller, you must come.

Is it related to the serial murder case? If so, go to Batman.

Batman has arrived, Professor Schiller, I know, it's so late, I shouldn't disturb you, but this time the situation is really bad, you'd better come here...

Schiller looked up at the grandfather clock in the room, and the pointer on it just pointed to two o'clock in the morning. He remembered that the last time Gordon called him on a rainy night was when Fish Mooney died.

He went upstairs to get dressed, then took the umbrella, and when he walked out of the gate of the manor, the night in Gotham was still a bit horribly dark, and the damp moisture was sucked into his lungs, dispelling his drowsiness.

A black car drove into the gate of the manor, wearing a black suit, black umbrella, and black sunglasses, in the silent style unique to Gotham gangsters. The person who opened the door didn't say anything, and Schiller didn't ask anything.

Cooper's manor is on the west side of the North District, far from the Falcone manor. When the car carrying Schiller stopped at the gate of the Cooper manor, Gordon ran down in a hurry, and Schiller stepped out of the car. Gordon led him up.

What's going on? It's rare to see you in such a panic. I don't think even if it's a serial murder case, it shouldn't make you so panicked, right?

Gordon's complexion was not very good. He didn't explain too much, but said to Schiller: You will know it when you see the scene of the crime.

They walked up to the third floor, and there were many policemen at the stairs. After Gordon walked over, he nodded to one of the people in a special uniform. It was a dignified old policeman. He looked at Schiller, walked up I went to shake hands with him and said, Hello, I am Chief Smith of the Gotham Police Department, and I have known you for a long time...

Schiller shook hands with him and briefly introduced himself. The director didn't seem like a polite person. He waved to Gordon and said, Take this professor in, but be careful.

Gordon nodded, walked through the crowd with Schiller, and came to the door of a room at the end of the corridor on the third floor. He took out the key and opened the door. In the room in front of Schiller, the situation was extremely tragic.

Surprisingly, there was no corpse there, or rather, no complete corpse.

This is a red house, but the floor, ceiling and furniture in the house should not be this color. All the red on it is blood and pieces of internal organs.

The reason why it is said that there are no corpses here is because the corpses have been evenly smeared throughout the room.

Batman stood in a corner, his eyes fell on the center of the room, there was a very eye-catching thing, it was a pattern drawn in black ink like a magic circle, and there was a pile of black gray in the middle of the pattern .

Schiller walked in and stopped at the door. Gordon squeezed between him and the door frame, turned and closed the door. Schiller tapped the ground with the tip of his umbrella, then picked it up and looked at the blood on it.

Then he raised his head and looked around the whole room. This room is not big, about twenty square meters, and it looks like a reception room. The floor-to-ceiling windows, the wall on the right side of the door and the wall on the side of the door are placed There are three sofas, a round table in the middle, and a table and bookshelf on the other side. This is a common pattern of reception rooms in English manors, and it is the same in Schiller's manor.

The black magic circle is located in the center of the room, while the red color spreads to the lower half of the room with the magic circle as the center, including the entire floor, most of the walls, and the ceiling in the center of the room.

The reason why I didn't go into detail with you on the phone is because I don't know if this situation can be called a dismembered corpse. It's really a bit...too dismembered. Gordon said while covering his mouth.

Schiller turned to Gordon and asked, Any shoe covers?

Gordon took out shoe covers and gloves from his pocket, which are necessary aids for investigation, and then took out a mask and mask to put on for himself. He wanted to pass it to Schiller, but Schiller shook his head and refused.

Putting on the shoe covers, Schiller walked into the room, and he looked around the entire room. During his observation, Batman said: Cooper's body was smashed, and then spread evenly on the In the whole room, this method is completely different from the previous three cases...

Schiller squatted not far from the magic circle and looked at the ground. He said, The corpse was crushed? No, this statement is not very accurate.

Isn't this called crushing? Gordon asked: We can hardly find a complete body fragment. Blood, skin, and bones were all crushed and spread in the room.

True, but not all.

Schiller stood up, looked up at the ceiling and said, The bodies here are not of sufficient quality.

What's the meaning?

What you see now, the red part in the room, that is, the fragments containing blood, internal organs, skin and bone tissue, after all collected and put together, it is only about two-thirds of the mass of a person.

One-third of the mass of the corpse is gone.

Gordon opened his mouth for a while, as if he wanted to ask Schiller how he knew, but the question circled around his mouth, and finally he didn't ask. After all, this realistic scene is scary enough, and there is no need to ask. A few more horror stories to set off the atmosphere.

Batman came over, stood beside the magic circle and said: This pattern is not any recorded magic circle, but I can confirm that the hexagram in the center of the pattern should be related to the devil.

Things are getting more and more mysterious, right? Gordon also held back his nausea and walked over and said: At first it was the serial murder of the Twelve Apostles, and then there was a man who was sawed in half. , They have already started to grind the corpses into minced meat and smear them on the wall, so what are they going to do next? Vaporize people?

Obviously, this is not something an ordinary person can do. Schiller spoke slowly and in a steady tone, but it always gave people a creepy feeling. He said: In this case , the murderer's power level has been raised to another level.

Haven't you been patrolling around here recently? Did you find anything? Schiller said, looking at Batman.

I was the first to discover that Cooper was dead, and the reason why I came here was because I heard an explosion, but when I arrived, I didn't find any suspicious figures.

Schiller walked to the sofa next to him and rubbed the tip of the umbrella in his hand on the sofa that was not stained with blood. He said: Although what I say next may make you question my professionalism, I still don't know what to say. Still...the case may have something to do with supernatural forces.

Supernatural power? . . . what do you mean?

Isn't this magic circle already expressive? Someone summoned a demon here, and the demon killed Cooper.

Gordon pursed his lips and tilted his head, he said: I thought that you would give us a very subtle reasoning process, and then tell us an amazing result, and I also thought that you might show all kinds of evidence It proves that your reasoning is correct, but I never thought of it...

Detective Gordon, don't look at what happened in this city through the eyes of ordinary people.

Batman said, Why did you make that judgment?

Schiller walked over again, looked down at the ground and said, Pay attention to the direction in which the blood and muscle tissue are sprayed. They spread out from the center, which means that Cooper was not killed by an external bomb. He exploded from the inside out.

Could it be that some madman forced him to swallow the bomb?

Good reasoning, Detective Gordon, this is indeed something that a prisoner in Gotham would do, but we have to ask our weapons expert Batman...

Is there a kind of bomb in the world that can crush a person's skin, muscles, and internal organs evenly when it explodes, and then spread it across the room?

If it is possible to say that it is possible to explode, it is difficult for these blasted tissues to spread so evenly on the floor and walls of the room.

Could it be that someone blew up Cooper and then smoothed these things out manually? Gordon asked another question.

Schiller made a gesture of approval and said, Detective Gordon, your thinking is very suitable for being a detective. Seriously, you are very talented.

If the person who did it is really a perverted killer, then it is possible that he did this, and they have done even worse things, but judging from the details, it is unlikely that it was artificially smoothed out.

Look here... Schiller walked over, his heels stepped on the floor, with a sticky dull feeling, but still attracted the attention of the two of them.

Schiller pointed to a leg of the couch, where some tissue had accumulated, and said: This is the part that was stopped when the explosion, the human tissue splashed out, and poured onto the floor.

It can be seen that the part closest to the leg of the sofa is skin tissue, even the epidermis and dermis can be seen. On top of them, there are some fats, and on top of them are fragments of internal organs.

This means that it is unlikely that the murderer blew up people, chopped them up and then spread them evenly on purpose, because in that case, the order of the tissues accumulated here would not be so regular, but mixed together.

You can imagine that Cooper, who was blasted by some unknown force, was first completely melted, then turned into a cake, spread flat on the ground, and then crushed even more, and began to flow towards him like a sea wave. The floor was pouring all around.

The legs of the sofa are like the pier of a bridge standing on the sea, except that the crushed human tissue is denser. Therefore, this pier intercepts a part and preserves its original state.

I also think this is impossible for an ordinary person to do. It is difficult for a bomb to achieve this effect. If you want to crush the human body so much, you must use some mechanical tools.

From the time I heard the explosion to the time I came to this room, it is absolutely not enough for one person to transfer the large machinery.

Gordon also looked up and down the room, and said, Is there a mechanism or something?

Before I called you, I checked all the corners of this room. There are no traps, secret doors, hidden compartments, or secret passages. This is a very ordinary manor reception room.

So you both think, it might have been done by that supernatural force?

That's right, and it shouldn't have anything to do with the Twelve Apostles murder case. At least I've never heard of anyone in the Bible who exploded and was crushed.

With all due respect... Gordon said with some embarrassment: If it comes to this aspect, the Gotham Police Department may not be able to help. There is no one here who is proficient in this aspect.

Even, if I go out now and announce the results of your two investigations, they will definitely regard us as lunatics and drive us out.

Schiller shook his head and said, That's not necessarily true, maybe they are more superstitious than you...

At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and a police officer hurriedly pushed the door open, and then said to Gordon: Boss! No, Mrs. Sanchez, the principal of the boarding school near the Gotham River, is dead!