Chapter 2313 Gotham Music Festival (Forty-Five)

Chapter 2306 Gotham Music Festival (45)

When Oliver rushed out, Amanda didn't react at all.

She was indeed an excellent agent once, but she has not been fighting on the front line for too long. Her reaction ability and crisis awareness are not as good as those of front-line agents, let alone Green Arrow.

Oliver had already rushed out the door, and Amanda had just started running. Like an arrow off the string, Oliver brushed against the side of the figure and ran to the stairwell without looking back.

But as soon as Amanda ran out, she bumped into the figure. She panicked and turned on the flashlight. In a flash of bright light, Schiller's facial features seemed to be dissolved into a pale mask.

Amanda froze in shock. She heard Oliver's voice coming from the stairs, "Run over here!! Hurry!"

Amanda shook her head and took a few steps back. She just shined the flashlight on Schiller's face and panted nervously.

Schiller still dragged the body forward at a steady speed. Even under the light of the flashlight, his gray eyes were still a little distracted, as if he couldn't see the figure in front of him at all.

But as he approached step by step, Amanda opened her mouth little by little, because she saw that the death state of David's body dragged by Schiller was very miserable. His neck became flaky, and it looked like it had been beaten by something After being hit and squeezed repeatedly, the thing became completely disconnected from the body.

Through Schiller's figure, Amanda saw the window at the end of the corridor - the windows on the cruise ship opened from the bottom up.

A terrifying scene instantly appeared in her mind. David was pressed against the window, with his head sticking out of the window. A hand grabbed the armrest of the window and smashed it down until the spine connecting his head was completely broken. The head hangs behind the body like a pendant.

This association completely defeated Amanda, and she took a few steps back in a panic, turned around and ran away.

At this moment, Oliver rushed out of the stairwell and blindly fired a few arrows in the direction of Schiller. Regardless of whether he hit the target or not, he jumped through the gap between Schiller and the corridor wall like a meteor, and grabbed Amanda. He fell to the ground.

Amanda hit her head on the corner, knocking her unconscious.

When she woke up again, Oliver was bandaging her with a bandage. Amanda blinked hard in confusion and said, "What happened? Why did Schiller..."

"He's out of control."

"he……"

"Haven't you been studying these serial killers?" Oliver folded the remaining bandages, looked at Amanda and said, "You don't know about Schiller's relationship with serial killers, do you?"

"Of course I know, and I also know that he is the most brutal one among them, but, but... I thought he was just a theoretical person."

Amanda took a deep breath and said: "In their exchanges, he usually only talks about some theoretical things, which are more like an extension of criminal psychology. He never publishes the murders he has completed like other serial killers. case and proposed the idea of ​​murder.”

"So you think he never killed anyone?"

"Of course not, it's just..."

Amanda seemed to be strangled by something. It took a while before she recovered and muttered, "This is not the professor, it doesn't look like him."

"Of course not. Since you know that Schiller has multiple personalities, why haven't you thought that if there are some responsible theories, there will naturally be some responsible practices?"

"Of course I thought of it..."

Amanda was speechless again. She tried hard to ignite the fire in her chest so that she could use her anger to argue and criticize. Unfortunately, the fire of anger that usually burned when she faced the serial killer was now Not even a flame could be found.

Amanda only felt the numbness of the rest of her life, as if after receiving a lot of stimulation in a short period of time, her mind activated the protection system and began to actively block it all.

Oliver closed his eyes and sighed, "It's very possible that Schiller got on the ship because of me. He's out of control and I'm also responsible. I have to find a way to stop him."

"Hey, don't forget what we just wanted to do." Amanda said suddenly: "Restarting the power system and then driving the ship back is the real thing. We can talk about everything after we dock."

"Are you scared?"

Amanda opened her mouth sharply, but just took a breath and said nothing.

After a while, she closed her eyes hard, clutched the ground with her fingers and said, "I will never be afraid of them, never."

Amanda gradually calmed down, then looked at Oliver and said, "You are Schiller's friend and you should know him better than me. Why did he lose control?"

After thinking for a moment, Oliver said: "Although we have exchanged a lot of letters, I really can't say that I know him well."

"But I saw him from another perspective. He told me about the Serial Killers Club before, and I started to decipher their codes and read articles about their exchanges."

"I have read almost all the articles that Schiller published. There is a clear dividing line in style. After Schiller came to Gotham to teach, the frequency of his articles became very low, and for a period of time he even disappeared completely."

"But the vast majority of his publications during this time were related to dissociative identity disorder, and he made assumptions about certain personalities, or that might not be just assumptions but his actual condition."

"He mentioned that the normality of normal people is inherently stable, and they control everything that is normal about a person, but the pathologies that everyone has have different degrees of stability because of their upbringing and education."

"It's like an evil idea suddenly pops up in your mind. This is your pathology. But most people will only regard this as a sudden fantasy and quickly forget it. It can be said that normal people's Pathologies only appear occasionally or are triggered by specific circumstances, rather than being the norm.”

"The pathology of patients with mental illness is much more stable than that of ordinary people, but it still cannot persist. One of Schiller's articles mentioned that if you want the pathology to persist, you need to give them an anchor point."

Amanda shuddered when she heard this. She said, "Is he teaching others how to perpetuate their pathology?"

"Can't he be teaching others how to make their illnesses disappear?" Oliver asked rhetorically.

"You're a little too optimistic." Amanda swallowed and said, "Especially after the close contact with Schiller just now, no wonder the Soviet Union always said that you are strong-willed."

"Drugs can save people, but when used in the wrong place, they can also turn into poison, but the drugs themselves should not be criticized harshly." Oliver expressed his understanding and said: "This is Schiller's theory. If used in a good place, Able to cure many suffering patients.”

"The pathology of serial killers is obviously much more stable than that of other people, which also means that they must have an anchor point, and as long as this anchor point is avoided or eliminated, they can be normal, or at least not crazy. So powerful.”

"Schiller also has an anchor?" Amanda asked.

"No, he may have many because he has many personality traits, but no matter how many personality traits he has, in the end only one will dominate. Just find the anchor of that one."

"What could that be?" Amanda asked.

"In Schiller's previous articles, he hypothesized many pathological personalities and analyzed them. Now we only need to determine which is the main pathological personality that controls the body, and we should be able to calm him down."

"What are you waiting for?"

But at this time, Oliver looked at Amanda silently and said, "How do you think we should investigate?"

"Uh..." Amanda was really stopped by the question.

She couldn't just ask Schiller. As long as Schiller still had some sense, he wouldn't have no sense at all, and he wouldn't completely ignore Oliver.

"Someone has to try." Oliver sighed and said, "No matter who Schiller is, he should have his own pursuit of murder, but we can't tell much from the death of the corpse he just dragged. information, so it is impossible to judge.”

"You don't want him to kill people, do you?" Amanda felt instinctively awkward, and she showed some hesitation.

"Of course not. No matter what, I will not condone brutal murder, so I decided to try it myself."

After Oliver stood up, he looked at Amanda and said, "But when I'm in it, I'm afraid I won't be able to observe all Schiller's reactions well, so you have to come with me and see it from the perspective of a bystander." to key clues.”

Amanda showed obvious resistance.

"Now you finally have a chance to confront a serial killer head-on," Oliver said.

"But not this serial killer!"

"I thought your hatred was directed at them all."

"certainly!"

"Then come with me."

"but……"

Amanda bit her lip and said as if she was extremely scared and angry: "At my most extreme, I just wanted to put Schiller in jail! Now you want me to fight with him?! This is simply ridiculous!"

"You're scared." Oliver didn't ask any more questions this time.

Amanda became in a trance, and she was somewhat unable to face herself. For a long time, she had been resentful of Schiller's refusal to tell her the identity of the murderer. All her actions related to Schiller were for this reason. , but Schiller always chose to avoid talking about it.

Many times Amanda scolded Schiller in her mind as a coward who only knew how to run away. She thought that the serial killer must be too cruel and made Schiller feel scared and unwilling to cause trouble, so she did not say his name. .

This is a perfectly normal train of thought, so Amanda is always looking for opportunities for Schiller to face her head-on.

She really wanted Schiller to face her, but not face her like this. How crazy was she to want to fight with such a murderer?

Amanda had to admit that the experience of facing Schiller just now left a deep psychological shadow on her, which made her go against what had always supported her life - to grasp without fear those things that frightened ordinary people. serial killer.

"Well, I think Flamingo also needs someone to deal with it." Oliver didn't force it anymore. He said, "The Confessor Cartel should have a headquarters on the ship. I guess it should be somewhere on the first floor. You can go find it. try to find."

Amanda felt her throat tightening. She stared at Oliver nervously and asked, "Will Schiller go to the first floor?"

"Probably not, he..."

"ah!!!!!!!!!"

When the screams came, the two of them turned to look at the stairs leading to the first floor.

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