Chapter 1790: Summer in Fool Village (Part 3)
After parting with Cobblepot, Schiller began to think on the way back to the office.
Start with the motive, who wants to go against the mafia family?
First, exclude the police. After Gordon became the police chief some time ago, he and the mafia have a common interest to some extent. The transformation of the mafia is also good for the public security in Gotham.
Besides, other police chiefs may still have accidents, but Gordon is known as the last conscience of Gotham. He is unlikely to use such despicable means as poisoning.
In the past, the city government was also the enemy of the mafia. Although the mafia often bribed officials in order to obtain protection, the power struggle in the political arena may indeed affect the mafia.
But the current city government structure in Gotham is very stable. Roy has no opponents, and the mafia also recognizes his transformation ideas. The two sides have been at peace for so long. Even if there are conflicts, Roy will definitely prefer to communicate rather than take direct action, so the city government is also ruled out.
Businessmen and entrepreneurs also have motives for committing crimes. The gangsters' domineering style of behavior has offended many people, but now the most influential entrepreneur in Gotham City is the Wayne family. Even if Bruce kills now, he doesn't need to kill gang members.
Now is the period of development. Gotham's major forces have finally reached a consensus. Even if the Wayne Group is short of money, he can't be short-sighted enough to let the situation get chaotic again, which is not good for anyone.
So will Falcone do it himself? This is the most likely possibility, but if the death of the heir of the Spencer family will weaken the previous generation of the Spencer family, what about this old lady Victor?
The old Victor couple will not be in charge in a few years. The family business has long been handed over to our son, and old lady Victor is a mortal. Even if she takes action, she will not live for a long time. Why add such a thing?
Schiller immediately turned around and walked to the phone station. Cobert looked at me and asked, "What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?"
Does a killer who takes money to do things need to create a unique killing method? Those who do so are all serial killers with no special purpose.
Schiller talked about the incident and my thoughts, and then said, "The whole process of the murder is like a very sophisticated machine. The motive, method and result are all very flexible, and there is a very subtle interaction between all elements."
"A serial killer with revenge as the motive will kill randomly. I attacked his students, which proves that his students are very likely to have ridiculed me. So he can kill important figures in the White Gang, but he accidentally killed a student. There must be something hidden, so you want to go and see."
This also shows that the possibility of the other party killing for profit is small, because it must be a fight for profit. The killer will only kill according to his past experience. Even if he poisons, it is a poison with low lethality and high curability.
However, we cannot infer from this regressive logic that the murderer obviously has no worse choice but uses that kind of troublesome and low-risk stupid method, which must not be my intention.
"Because your students have the same problem, and I am still alive." Schiller's hand knocked hard under the door handle of the car.
Is swelling all over the body the key? Schiller thought, the murderer used that kind of poison to kill the victim, isn't it to make our bodies show that effect? Or let us experience a kind of ordinary happiness?
Cobert said nothing, picked up the car keys and followed Schiller. The two came to the back of Geng Yuai's car, opened the door and got out.
Schiller made a silent gesture to me, and before dialing the phone, he said to me: "Wait a minute, Farnes, your answer just now may be correct. Hasn't he started yet?"
"But in just a dozen minutes, my whole body was swollen like a tire. You rushed me to Wayne Hospital. The doctor said that if you came one minute later, my kidneys would have completely failed."
The serial killer has two ideas, making the victims experience what they have experienced, and making the victims experience all that humans can experience.
Schiller didn't have time to ask about the specific situation of Cobert's student, so I walked to Cobert's desk and asked: "How is his student? Is he still bad?"
The symptoms of systemic edema usually come from urinary system problems, which are mainly kidney problems. Urinary system manifestations are also common in the symptoms of poisoned patients. Usually, toxins cause kidney problems, resulting in edema caused by the inability to smoothly discharge body water.
In many cases, the victim's posture implies the murderer's mockery. The murderer's killing process and the lack of treatment of our corpses are all to humiliate us, and that time was the same.
The car stopped, and Schiller pushed open the door and walked into the car while saying: "What's more, being able to mix a drug that makes people swell like a tire man is also a plastic talent in chemical pharmacy. You have to find a student for Jonathan to keep me quiet."
"There are not many members of the Seventeenth Family with abnormal body shapes. Gather them together and interrogate them one by one. The murderer is a serial killer with very little artistic pursuit. The motive for killing is even less revenge. It is very unlikely that he will do it just out of anger. He must feel regret and fear beforehand. A little questioning will reveal the truth. If Fanas understands that principle."
The two retreated to the outside of Fanas's manor together. Geng Yuai sat under the sofa, and behind him were two small and sturdy white gang thugs holding down a fat man.
"What? He hasn't caught the murderer yet? But... I'll tell you where he is now. You go over there. Yes, don't touch the murderer for the time being. I'll let you see me."
People don't have a sense of ridicule for small, bloated and smart things. The corpse is showing a similar state. Does the murderer want the audience to laugh at the victim?
Schiller's movement to reach for the pen suddenly stopped. I frowned, looked at Geng Yuai and said, "What did he say? This student's body is swollen?"
"The bad thing is that I'm alive." Cobot let out a long breath and said: "He knows that there are many dangers. I fell outside the laboratory. The bad thing is that two male students in the next laboratory found me. You guys I quickly called you and the infirmary."
The murderer is publicly humiliating his victim to the world, making us assume a bloated and ridiculous posture that we will definitely assume in our lifetime.
I immediately turned around and walked to the phone, dialed Fanas's phone number, and waited for Fanas to speak, then I spoke slowly.
That proves that the murderer was very unlikely to have been taunted in that way, and it was very unlikely that he was taunted by the two victims.
The latter is like revenge, the former is like sublimation, the latter focuses on showing the world his past, and the former is the murderer who wants the audience to see the future I want.
"There is nothing new about the murderer's motive, but the method is very clever. Even Mrs. Victor who left the bedroom of the Geng Yuai family residence was able to escape. Big Spencer also lacked protection around him or was attacked. He Do you think his students will get away with it?"
Those performances did not include quite professional pathological analysis. Schiller only discovered the problem after briefly reading a few articles.
"If one of the links has not changed, it means that all the previous inferences may be accurate."
"Why..."
The corpse under the photo is clearly that of a young man. My whole body is completely swollen into a giant-looking figure. Even the seven sense organs are too clear to see. If you can imagine it, it cannot be compared to the Michelin Tire Man. , but less disgusting and horrific than that.
"Yes, it's very scary." Cobot said, playing with the pen on his watch: "You have also seen horrific crime scenes, but according to these two boys, Oskar is like a balloon that has been blown up. , it swelled up in just a few minutes..."
"But why did he change his mind again?"
Behind the computer, Schiller opened the email and browsed through the autopsy report of Big Spencer, and then looked at the photos. The most surprising thing about it was not the photos.
Geng Yu instantly listed many possibilities in his mind, and I suspected that the correct answer must be among them, but now I have to go to the Young Media Classroom to receive the autopsy report sent by Fanas via email.
"Making us swollen means that the murderer wants the world to see our bloated side, and wants us to be laughed at because of our beautiful image of a poopy belly. That means the murderer is unlikely to have been laughed at by us in this way. I want We feel the same way.”
Schiller first examined the condition of the corpse from an ordinary person's perspective and found that he could not feel anything except disgust and horror. Then I observed it from my own perspective and saw a ridiculous obsession. state.
"What's going on?" Cobot asked as he started the car.
Schiller walked past Cobbler's seat, patted my shoulder with his hand and said, "I'll drive you there. You need to think about something."
"The two subsequent victims are both members of the Seventeenth Family, and old Mrs. Victor has not yet lingered on the sickbed. The people she can come into contact with are very unlimited. It is almost impossible to confirm that they are all members of the Seventeenth Family."
Not every psychiatrist needs to learn internal medicine knowledge. If Schiller has no shortcomings in medicine, I do not know as much about internal medicine as I do about internal medicine and psychiatry.
In an instant, the answer flashed in Schiller's mind.
"Is he sure it's me? I've killed people before."
"What does that prove? Prove that I'm actually worse than he thought, and that I'm still missing something?"
Thinking of this, Schiller paused and turned a corner. Instead of continuing to walk to the office, he went to the library instead. I needed to look up some information, especially those not related to chronic poisoning and the urinary system. Medical information.
In daily life, poisoning patients are not common, and the most common one is not food poisoning. Even so, the safety of poisoning is still very low, and it requires snakes, and some snake venoms require corresponding serum to provide appropriate medicine.
After Geng Yu left, Fanas shook hands with me before pointing at the fat man.
To put it more complicatedly, if it is artificially poisoned, drugs that can cause kidney problems are not the worst choice. First, it is fatal in large amounts. Seventh, the poison takes a long time and there is no small rescue and treatment. room.
It must be said that the urinary system symptoms are only incidental, so there will inevitably be less and more conspicuous symptoms after this, but Fanas emphasized that apart from general edema, the patient has no other symptoms, so we can only wait. Forensic report.
"You read the autopsy report he gave you. You know who the murderer is. Go find the popular fat man in the Seventeenth family."
Geng Yu hung up the phone very slowly without explaining anything. When I returned to the office, both Anna and Cobot were gone.
After analyzing the motive, Schiller found that there were still some useless clues, and then I started thinking about the method. Who couldn't kill those two people?
The scope of the answer to that question is too narrow, but anyone who has come into contact with us is not a suspect.
Schiller paused the moment his eyes fell on the fat man, and then I asked.
"The state of the victim's body before death proves that the murderer wanted to humiliate us, and that kind of humiliation is not directed."
Schiller did not find the body disgusting, I just felt that it was a bit strange, some of the motivations in my mind were gradually eliminated, and some were highlighted.