The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

Bruce never thought that so many unexpected situations would arise during his internship trip.

The person who troubled him the most was, of course, his psychology professor Schiller.

It was as if this professor had not only been in Gotham for a few months, but was a native born and raised here. No, maybe the vast majority of locals couldn't do this.

Schiller quickly figured out all the rules of the city at a speed that even Bruce was caught off guard. On this basis, he not only understood them well, but also became the best among them.

Bruce once heard Gordon say that Gotham is like a big quagmire. Anyone who enters will slowly fall into this quagmire that is difficult to extricate themselves from.

But Schiller, the professor who claimed to be an ordinary person, plunged into this quagmire in front of Bruce. Not only did he react quickly and move quickly, he jumped into the deepest place without any thought of extricating himself. mean.

He transformed and seamlessly became a bad person worse than a bad person, down to the staffing and geographical advantages of the gang war, the protection fee standards of bars and restaurants, the odds of underground casinos, and the large-scale contraband trade. Rules, arms transportation security, dangerous goods smuggling routes, there is nothing this professor does not know.

Falcone nodded at the suggestions he gave, and praised Schiller for being born to do this. If he had come to Gotham thirty years earlier, Rodriguez would have been a member of the Twelve Families.

This made Bruce's view of Schiller very complicated.

You want to say that this professor is doing good things, but the methods he uses can no longer be called dishonorable. He is simply complicit.

But if you want to say that he is doing evil, he is indeed using his own abilities to constantly stir up the original situation in Gotham, and through some extremely outrageous methods, he changes the situation in the direction he wants.

And in Bruce's view, this change does not seem to be in a bad direction, but rather a very strange establishment of a shaky but better new order.

Especially when Bruce received the news from Gordon that the crime rate in Gotham had dropped significantly in the past two weeks, he even felt ridiculous.

In the industrial chain created by Schiller, the police's combat effectiveness has been greatly strengthened because they are in league with Gotham's largest gang, the Falcone family.

Because the police chief was directly supported by Falcone, the godfather provided them with a large number of heavy weapons, and they also used the godfather's power to intimidate others.

Now, whenever there is a gang fight, they can even arrive at the scene within 10 minutes, quickly suppress both parties, and then capture them and throw them into a mental hospital.

Unlike in the past, the police officers are so enthusiastic about their work that they even compete for the opportunity to go out in the field. As long as they can send a formal member to the mental hospital, they can draw 2 out of all the fees paid for his hospitalization. points as your own reward.

Gordon has been going crazy these days, and even those thousand-year-old water monsters are clamoring to rush to the front line to fight for justice and fight against gangs.

Recently, this just detective didn't even know what justice was. It should be a good thing to crack down on gangs so effectively, but he always felt that something was wrong.

However, such actions not only curbed the gang's arrogance, but also improved the lives of the police officers, making them fall in love with this damn job.

Recently, Gordon was extremely shocked to discover that now, people in the entire police station are actually working overtime! Are they controlled by some devil? !

Indeed, that is a devil called greed, with a gun in his hand and no panic in his heart. When you hold a heavy machine gun with sufficient ammunition and ask the gang to cease fire, you will also feel that this job is nothing more than that, and when you are After doing this, you can get a lot of money, and you will feel that this is simply the best job in the world.

At the beginning, Falcone needed to send out his black gloves to sow discord between certain gangs and get them to shoot each other.

But later, the anger was stirred up. Hyena and Captain joined forces to attack the Stealer two streets away. Locomotive on the edge of the East District quickly joined the battle. Three of the four giants on Elizabeth Street Everyone wanted to help, and Maroni, who had just finished digesting the bodies of the Red Crow Gang, happened to have a good fight in the chaos, and the entire East District became a mess.

Many people died in the fight between gangs. When the fighting was in full swing, the police rushed into the battlefield with heavy machine guns and rocket launchers. The gangsters were stunned. Are we gangsters or are you gangsters? Where are the police using rocket launchers to enforce the law? !

In this way, he got angry and killed a wave of people, and was arrested by the police. The most powerful gangsters in the East District were seriously injured. None of them dared to jump out, and they all hid in their hometowns. The wound is gone.

The field team led by Gordon became famous in one battle. The whole Gotham knew the violent tactics of these policemen. The armed pickup truck stepped on the accelerator and entered directly. After the bulletproof shield was set up, the heavy machine gun swept randomly, and the RPG focused on the attack, advancing all the way. , and finally use grenades to wash the ground.

The most capable gangsters in the East District are all gone. How can the remaining people dare to say anything?

Although this is more for Falcone's face, after all, the old godfather is willing to fully support the police, so he has all the principles and force. Ordinary gangsters are not willing to pay such a high price to control the old godfather. Tiger Beard, who was willing to pay the price, was severely beaten by this sudden punch, and Gotham became strangely quiet.

All this happened because of a sudden flash of inspiration one morning by an ordinary professor.

Bruce thought, this professor has become the black sheep of a group of black sheep, and the black sheep regard him as a companion, but the enemy of the enemy has become a good friend of justice.

Bruce really didn't know how to evaluate this behavior.

Of course, Batman is a genius. After the initial struggle, he felt that he had discovered a new possibility in Schiller's behavior.

Originally, he always felt that criminals should be attacked quickly, accurately and ruthlessly, and with a knife to kill chickens. It was best to root out the evil forces so that they could never come back again.

But Schiller didn't use this method. Whenever he attacked a force, not only would he not eradicate the roots, but he would even add some fertilizer to the force he had attacked at some point, so that the force that had already been defeated would be wiped out. The poisonous seedlings that had fallen out grew vigorously again. Then use them as wedges to dismantle another complex vine.

After Bruce saw these behaviors, he asked Schiller that question again. Bruce said: Are you really just an ordinary person? Or do you have some unknown special power that can do all this?

Schiller was sitting in the office seat. He turned the ballpoint pen in his hand, then tapped the table and motioned Bruce to sit down. He said: I tell you that I am an ordinary person. The point of this answer does not lie with me. Do you have some magical powers that ordinary people don’t have?”

But, I want to tell you that the most amazing power of human beings is their thinking brains.

Schiller stood up and walked to the window. The chief physician's white coat was worn on his body, making him look more upright. Compared with the stern-looking professor in school, the doctor-like Schiller appears calmer and gentler.

He said: The answer to this question is not whether I am really an ordinary person, but that, as I once warned you, your advanced armor and expensive equipment cannot make you a real ordinary person. Batman.”

Because the answers to the questions that bother you don't lie in these external objects.

And in our brains, which any normal person has.

Actually, as long as you calm down and think about it, you will know that complete violence cannot achieve any of the conditions you want, whether it is revenge or saving the city. This is destined to be a dead end.

Schiller lowered his head and fiddled with the ballpoint pen with both hands, and then said: Actually, the path you chose is a dead end in itself, but if you don't want to die, you have to find a way to live among countless dead ends.

I just showed you one of the methods, but not all, not...

Bruce said: Isn't this enough? Isn't force, wisdom and determination enough?

And Gotham, Schiller said.

...When will I learn Gotham?

Maybe by the time you die.

Before Bruce could speak, Schiller said, Gotham is a book you can never finish.

I'm just a professor. What I have to do is just like what I do in class. I have drawn the key points for you, and you have to write the test paper yourself.

Bruce said: Is it about maneuvering and checks and balances? Or is it the power of intelligence? Is it thinking and foresight?

“No, just like I do in class—the whole book is focused.”

Bruce was speechless. He didn't know if Schiller was mocking him for not paying attention to the lecture, or if he was hinting at something.

But Schiller's answer made him think about a problem.

If using violence to stop crimes in this sin city is doomed to be fanciful, and if Batman's military and financial resources cannot flatten this quagmire with this simple and crude method, then perhaps, put aside pure violence and use It would be better to use his other specialty, wisdom, to control all this behind the scenes.

In this city filled with countless violence, violence cannot solve all problems. Strong force is only a stepping stone for him, but it is by no means the whole story.

When he opened the door with strong financial resources and equipment, he met Schiller, a teacher, and Schiller showed Batman a brand new Gotham.

A Gotham that puts aside the violence, bloodshed, and fierce conflicts on the surface and is filled with countless fogs and intricate relationships.

When Batman followed the veins inside the huge tree canopy and came to the deep roots under the earth, and when he slid along the gully of the iceberg from that corner and fell under the cold sea, he finally saw the true face of Gotham. .

This is a new world, Batman thought.

But this is not a setback or a blow to him, but a shot of stimulant.

His brain had never been running so fast as it was today, and he had never thought that he had the ability to accept and clarify these complex relationships so quickly, until he could follow Schiller's every move.

The pleasure of gradually digging out huge roots along small veins fascinated Batman. He experienced a stronger excitement and joy than beating criminals with fists.

Bruce thought, maybe, this is the right answer.

Perhaps, he is such a person, excited like a madman in the face of this complex problem that may make any ordinary person feel extremely desperate.

This is him, this is Bat.

A paranoid, pursuing morbid spiritual pleasure, and even crazier than a mental patient - a bat.