The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

Schiller's eyes fell on Bruce first, and Bruce turned his head. Looking at the pool of blood hidden in the darkness, his thoughts returned to last night.

In the Wayne Manor at night, Bruce was looking up some information in the library. Although he came back from the metropolis, he already knew that his butler was not an ordinary person, but the secret agents, the Philby list, the Soviet Union, and those old Years old, he still needs to investigate.

But at this moment, there was a strong noise from upstairs. Bruce closed the book helplessly, covered his forehead, stood up, and went upstairs.

In the room upstairs, Aisha is learning to speak from Dick and Alfred. She has been able to pronounce some different tones of wah wah wah and even speak English words with less than two syllables.

But everyone knows that every child is a master of the trumpet when learning a language. Loud pronunciation seems to help them build up their confidence in the language, so they often yell as loudly as possible.

And they also like to repeat, they seem to be able to find the law of language in the repetition again and again, loudly cooperate with the repetition, Aisha is now a humanoid siren, Bruce even thinks that he can use Aisha's cry as the principle to develop a Alarm device in the Batcave.

Although the Bat Cave is more than half the distance from Wayne Manor, Bruce can definitely hear it if there is a sound from there.

This is different from crying. When Elsa is crying, Bruce and Selena will try their best to coax her. When she is tired from crying, she will naturally go to sleep, but learning languages ​​is a serious matter. Looking at Alfred With that admiring expression, Bruce knew that there was no room for him to speak here.

Moreover, the language learning class is required for class hours, and it will not stop until a certain amount of time has been learned. Obviously, Alfred believes that Aisha's learning to speak is much more important than Bruce not looking up information in the library .

Originally, Alfred would not disturb Bruce to do business, but some time ago, Bruce was obsessed with magic, and he not only followed Constantine, but also found some strange magic books. Alfred was very worried that Bruce would Astray, so always trying to divert his attention.

So now, the old butler doesn't care when Bruce has to stay in the library to look up information, and he won't deliberately arrange Aisha's language class to miss this time, which makes Bruce so noisy that he can't do anything at all.

Some people may say that Bruce can go to the Batcave to work, but the problem is that the Batcave is far away from Wayne Manor, and Alfred requires Bruce to go home every day, so the library of Gotham University has become A better place to work.

Last night, Bruce checked the information very late, so he simply slept in the dormitory. Although the facilities of Gotham University are a bit old, the layout is still good. All the bedrooms in the dormitory are single rooms, and each floor has a common room.

But because it is an old dormitory building after all, the sound insulation is relatively poor. In fact, when Lex struggled to drag the box from the first floor, Bruce, who lived on the second floor, was already woken up.

And Lex and Thomas happened to meet in the stairwell on the second floor, and Bruce heard everything they said, so he wasn't surprised when he saw Lex, and cooperated with him to pretend that they didn't know each other.

You may not have noticed it yourself, but the sound of you dragging the box is really loud, and the vibration of the box hitting the steps of the stairs even spread to my bed. Bruce turned to look at Lex and said.

And it is precisely because of this that I suspect Thomas' head, because the time you drag the box from the first floor to the second floor is just long enough for an ordinary person to go from the fourth floor to the first floor from the other side of the stairs, Go through the entire corridor, go up to the first floor, and come to the stairwell on the second floor where you are.

Bruce glanced back at the entire corridor, he said: Based on Thomas' stride and pace, the error will not exceed 3 seconds. Such a coincidence is not just a coincidence in a murder case.

I speculate that when your box hit the stairs for the first time and made a sound, I was awakened on the second floor, and Thomas, who had just finished the case on the fourth floor, was also alarmed.

He realized that there might be some freshmen coming, and he didn't know the exact number, so he hurriedly cleaned up the scene of the crime, then ran downstairs, and followed up the stairs you walked by. you.

When he found out that you were alone, he realized that not only did he not need to panic, he could also use you as a co-witness who discovered the scene of the crime, but it's a bit stupid that he didn't set up a delay mechanism, you came Doris would have been dead by then, so there was no way for you to be his alibi.

You only explained why Thomas appeared. Lex folded his arms and said, Estimated from the time, it can't be used as definite evidence, but I knew he killed someone shortly after I met him.

He did a very stupid thing, that is, in order to cover up the blood stains on his shirt, he put on a suit jacket. Indeed, it was not obvious from the head-up angle, but when he was walking in the When I went up the stairs in front of me, I deliberately pretended to be exhausted, and he dropped me a little.

In this way, there is a difference in height between us, and I can examine the marks on his body more comprehensively. At this time, I found that I can see blood stains from the gap between the hem of his suit jacket and the shirt.

Of course, it's also possible that he was injured himself. So I continued to observe and found that he was not easy when lifting the box, and it could even be said that he was a little exhausted. If he was really injured by himself, Before that, there was no need to show such a warm attitude to help me, after all, we have never met, just strangers.

I guessed that he was covering up something, but when I came to the fourth floor and saw the crime scene, I was sure that he was the murderer.

Why? Gordon asked.

Lex walked to the scene of the crime, pointed to the corpse and said, The victim was pierced through the chest by a javelin, and judging from the wound, the javelin was pierced from top to bottom, that is to say, the murderer must commit the crime in this posture. ...

As he said that, Lex made a gesture of raising the javelin and stabbing downwards, that is, holding both hands empty, with the left hand in front and the right hand behind, forming a straight line, and after lifting it above the head, he thrust downwards forcefully.

Lex went on to say: Thomas is taller than me, so he doesn't need to lift it so high, but Doris is definitely not too short, so Thomas doesn't need to lift the javelin, so he can stab from top to bottom like this. kill her.

Therefore, if he wanted to attack in this way, he had to raise his arm, that is to say, if he was only wearing a shirt at the time, there would be blood in a place that would not normally be splashed with blood, and that was the armpits.

Before, I saw blood on the shirt behind him through the slit of the suit jacket, which happened to be the right armpit.

Wait a minute! Gordon suddenly said, You can still see the blood on the shirt through the gap in the suit in the almost dark stairwell? Gordon lifted his windbreaker to look and found It was pitch black, nothing could be seen, and he was close enough.

At this time, the entire dormitory building was cut off, and the corridors had some dim light because of the windows, but the staircase part, because of the angle of the windows, had almost no light and was completely dark.

But at this moment, standing at this angle, Gordon saw a glimmer of light in Lex's eyes, which did not look like an ordinary human being.

And Schiller also saw this. He remembered that Alberto, who fell into the pool of fine wine before, also shimmered in his eyes, which may be caused by the Dionysian factor.

Whether the Joker has night vision ability or not, no one knows, but anyway, he can fight on par with Batman wearing night vision goggles in the dark night of Gotham.

Okay, now only the motive is left. Gordon stood next to the corpse, thought for a while, and then said, Just now my subordinate reported to me that nothing suspicious was found on the deceased, her handbag There are also some ordinary cosmetics, which seem to be used for touch-ups before going on stage.

According to Christine, Doris has a boyfriend who works at the Metropolitan Central Research Institute. The two are in a long-distance relationship, but because the distance is not far, they meet every week. She and Thomas should have nothing to do. intersection.

At this time, Bruce said: Thomas also has a girlfriend, or a fiancee, who was arranged for him by his family. He is not interested in baseball or football. He has never been close to the cheerleading dance troupe. Captain Christine, and Christine didn't say just now that Doris and Thomas have any emotional entanglements, so it shouldn't be love killing.

He should have planned it in advance, otherwise, it would be impossible to prepare something like a javelin. I have to admit that this is a useful weapon, but in order to get this at Gotham University, you have to apply for the opening of the equipment room...

Then let's check the application records, don't we know? Gordon immediately picked up the phone and said to the other end: It's me, come over again, get a search warrant, we need to collect evidence...

Soon, several people came to the office where the physical education teacher was. The physical education teachers at Gotham University were divided into normal physical education teachers and aerobics coaches with cheerleaders. At this time, the one in the office was the aerobics coach. Pulled out a form, and said, ...Here, three days ago, Thomas came to apply to borrow a javelin...

Can you determine which javelin it is?

Yes, all our equipment has numbers.

Is that the javelin number 5012? asked Gordon.

Application record...equipment number...that's right, it's 5012.

Now, the identity, motive, method, and murder weapon are all in place. It can be said that the evidence is conclusive. Thomas, who was taken to make a record, had no chance to resist. As the camera clicked, Thomas, wearing a prison uniform and holding an information card, The images of being in prison are permanently left in the archives of the Gotham Police Department.

This is a murder case with a beginning and an end. The investigation process is very smooth, and the chain of evidence is very clear. It can be said to be a typical murder case.

Even if Bruce and Lex were not required to make inferences, Gordon alone would eventually check the application records in the equipment room, and the case would come to light after a delay of at most one day.

And on the second day after the case was closed, the Gotham Police Department received a report call from Christine, the head of the cheerleading dance troupe. She cried and said:

Detective Gordon! Come on! Come to Gotham University Gym...Another member of the dance troupe has died!!!

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