PFC Chapter 3188 Detective is dying (39)
Chapter 3188 Detective is dying (39)
Chapter 3188: Detective is about to die (Thirty-nine)
Schiller couldn't be sure that the Joker had used electric shock aversion therapy to deal with this family, because there might be a certain suspicion of imitation, but there is no doubt that if you have to pick out one person from the entire team who would do this, it must be the Joker. Nite Owl is not of this style.
Some people may think that the Joker who turns good is Batman, and the Batman who turns bad is the Joker, but in fact it is not the case at all. The bad Batman also pursues efficiency and will do anything for the sake of profit, but without profit, he will not do anything unnecessary.
Only a clown would do something like torturing others for fun.
And the clown that Schiller encountered this time was Hiss, who particularly loved doing this kind of thing. The most famous cruise ship kidnapping case was caused by him, and the main purpose was to show Batman the cruelty of human nature.
However, Schiller felt that he might have chosen the wrong target. This trick worked better on Batman because Batman had just debuted for a short time at that time, and his illness was not very serious, so he would be entangled and hesitant when faced with such a problem.
But the one here is the Batman of the main universe. It is a bit too much to think of hurting him with this kind of thing, because the Joker of the main universe did not kidnap strangers when he did similar things. He directly kidnapped Robin. What kind of storms has the Batman of the main universe not seen?
However, Schiller felt that since the Joker wanted to break the defense of Batman in the main universe, it was impossible for him to just leave a few corpses here.
"Did you find anything in the lighthouse?" Schiller asked.
"I was just about to tell you this." The main universe Batman said, "There is a lighthouse keeper's bedroom upstairs. There is a safe deep in the cabinet of the bedroom. I saw that the safe has been tampered with recently, but I don't know the password. Do you know?"
Schiller thought about it and felt that the question asked by Batman in the main universe was not without reason. Should he know the password?
"Take me there first," said Schiller.
They came to the 8th floor of the lighthouse, where there was indeed a very nicely decorated bedroom. After pushing open the door, Schiller saw the cabinet with the door open.
This is a wardrobe with some clothes inside. At the innermost part of the clothes is a safe, which is not embedded in the wall but can be taken out.
Schiller took it out and studied it. He didn't know how Batman figured out that someone had recently moved the safe, but it looked like this thing could not be cracked by brute force.
They didn't seem to come across anything related to numbers along the way. Even the posters on the wall and the quantity of some items should not be enough to form a password.
"Did you go to the crime scene?" Schiller asked.
Batman nodded and said, "I looked carefully at each body, but I couldn't see anything."
Schiller could tell that Batman was about to say that he had noticed some problems, but he couldn't say them out loud because of his identity. After all, he was a hunter and wilderness survival expert, not a detective, and he shouldn't know these things.
But since Batman looked at the password for a long time and didn't exit, it means that the password is not on the corpse. And Batman asked himself, which means that he touched something that he couldn't touch.
Schiller was slightly stunned. He took out the pistol that Tan Tan gave him. He didn't look at it carefully when he got it. Now when he looked carefully, he saw the number 8 engraved under the barrel of the pistol.
It's you again! Greed!
Schiller tried to input eight numbers into the safe. With a crisp click, the safe was opened, and there was actually a hard drive inside the safe.
Although he already knew that the background of this world was modern, Schiller still couldn't help but feel a little nervous when he saw such a modern hard drive. He could accept the appearance of an old-fashioned videotape commonly seen in horror movies, but it turned out to be a hard drive!
There was a computer in the lighthouse, but there was no internet. Led by Batman, Schiller went down to the 7th floor, where there was a study. The two put the hard drive into the computer.
They soon discovered that the hard drive should have originally belonged to this computer, and it contained a lot of stuff, but one folder stood out because its file name was a smiley face made up of symbols.
Schiller had a bad feeling, but Batman opened the folder without hesitation.
There is a movie file inside.
After double-clicking to play, the first thing that appeared in the camera was the clown's big face, and a familiar voice said, "Okay, I've adjusted it so you stay away from the camera, otherwise you won't be able to capture anything."
This is the sound of greed.
How could he forget that his main job is a photographer?
The Joker stepped back a little, and Batman and Schiller saw that the Huff family were tied to chairs and lined up in a row in a dim room, and everyone had a terrified expression.
Schiller looked carefully and found that the little girl was not there. Has the clown changed his personality?
But when I looked more closely, I saw that the little girl was being held by the clown's hand. Well, I had underestimated the extent of his perversion.
Schiller had almost guessed what the clown was going to do.
Seeing her daughter being held by this perverted weirdo, the lady in the headscarf, who was the little girl's mother, kept wailing even with her mouth sealed with tape.
And Huff glared at the clown.
Schiller simply observed the expressions of the people present and was able to roughly guess the relationship between the family. It was basically a virtuous mother, an irresponsible father, a selfish brother, and a helpless girl.
There is a saying that goes, "A poor couple has many sorrows." Although the original meaning of this saying may be different from the literal meaning, the literal meaning is not wrong.
Rich people's families may not necessarily be harmonious, but there are many reasons for their disharmony, while the majority of disharmony in poor families is simply due to poverty.
From the way this family is dressed, we can tell that their financial situation is very tight, to the point where they have trouble even getting food. And this situation must have lasted for a long time, so it is normal that there is not much affection left.
While Schiller was thinking, the clown on the screen announced the rules and asked the little girl to point out the person she disliked the most.
The little girl hesitated and shook her head, seeming not to want to do it. The clown squatted down and smiled at her and said, "Really? You don't plan to choose? Then why don't you close your eyes and point to one at random?"
The little girl showed a more hesitant expression, obviously she was worried about who she would point at. She first looked at Hef with a hint of fear in her eyes, then looked at her two brothers, and finally at her gray-haired grandfather.
At this time, her two brothers had already reacted and glared at the little girl. The little girl trembled and did not dare to stretch out her hand. Finally, she pointed a trembling finger at her sister-in-law.
Her eldest sister-in-law was the woman who died in a storage room with a man who had his throat slit and whose entire abdomen exploded.
Soon the clown walked out of the camera, and not long after, he pulled out a wire from somewhere. He had modified the middle of the wire into a device similar to an output limiter, and the end of the wire was tied with an iron rod made of multiple strands of iron wire.
This was clearly a homemade electric shock device.
"It looks like this is a copycat crime," Schiller said after a sigh. "But the details are a little different, and Huff doesn't look like the kind of person who would accept his fate."
Batman looked at him and raised an eyebrow, as if wanting him to explain.
"I've heard of a case..." Schiller briefly introduced the case, and then said, "But I heard that professionals analyzed that the victim chosen by the murderer must be a cowardly person who longs for love but lacks it, and has low self-esteem."
Schiller felt that Herf and his two sons should not be such people. Not to mention that Herf had been a sailor for most of his life and was able to escape from a dangerous shipwreck alone, it can be seen from the actions of the two sons threatening their sister that they are the kind of people who will never blame themselves for anything, and such people are very difficult to control.
But then Schiller understood why the Joker dared to do this. The thing he modified was almost as good as the professional equipment for electric shock slaughter. The thing used by the murderer in that case looked like a toy compared to it.
When the woman saw him coming, she struggled desperately, shaking her head and shouting, but Schiller heard something unusual in her voice. It seemed that she was not shouting for help, but saying something.
Schiller seemed to hear the pronunciation of "Siltek" from a few intermittent syllables.
He remembered that there was a fish in the woman's belly, which meant that she might also be one of Sirtek's experimental subjects. Could she be asking Greed to rescue her?
As expected, everyone else was very frightened, only the woman kept looking at the camera, but it was probably not the camera that was looking at her, but greed. She was indeed counting on greed to save her.
But the clown would not give her this chance. He directly pressed the electric shock device on the woman's shoulder. The next second, the woman let out a terrible scream, her body kept twitching, and white smoke began to emerge from the contacted part.
Seeing this horrific scene, all the others huddled aside, but their legs were tied to the chairs and could not touch the ground, so they could not escape at all.
After the clown took the thing away from his hand, the woman's eyes were completely out of focus, and she seemed to have fainted with her eyes open. The clown curled his lips, seeming to be bored.
Then he brought the little girl over again and asked her to identify another person she hated.
But this time, he took off the tape on everyone's mouth.
"Jenny! Jenny! I'm your father!!" Huff roared immediately, but soon he lowered his voice and said, "Mr. Siltek is very generous. He has promised to re-employ me, and he will give me money first. That money is enough for you to go to school!"
"Shut up! Hef!!" The middle-aged woman with a headscarf next to her seemed to explode suddenly. Everyone looked at her in shock, as if they had never seen her like this before.
"If you hadn't lost Doris's tuition, she would have gone to school in town by now! You damn bastard! You messed up everything! You deserve to go to hell! You deserve to go to hell!!!"
Hef's face turned red, as if he had never expected his wife to speak to him like this.
Soon he also exploded, and all kinds of ugly curse words came out of his mouth, while his two brothers kept begging Doris.
At this time, Schiller suddenly remembered that he had seen a sentence written by Hef to his daughter on the back of the family photo. It seemed that Hef loved his daughter very much, so how could he lose her tuition?
Batman seemed to see what Schiller was wondering about, and he said: "Maybe he doesn't not love his daughter, he just loves himself more."
This book has been awarded three stars!!!
This should be the first Samsung American comic fan fiction, right?