PFC Chapter 2983: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (7)
Chapter 2983: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (7)
Chapter 2983: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (Seventeen)
Pamela used the roots of forest plants to carefully search the ruins of the junior high school and elementary school that Schiller mentioned, and finally found more things - other body parts of the man.
Because several years had passed, the other tissues were certainly not found, but Pamela found most of the bones and took them back home.
It was the first time that Schiller came to Pamela's house. Pamela was supposed to hold a housewarming party after she moved in, but it happened to be the Great Depression. The mortgage had already made her exhausted, so of course she was not in the mood to hold a party. Others also understood her and did not bring up the matter.
Fortunately, the unexpected wealth allowed Pamela to pay off her mortgage, and she is already preparing for her housewarming party.
Pamela bought a small house in an ordinary community in the South District. It was not a villa, but a very ordinary American-style small house with two floors, a front yard and a back yard. The decoration style was modern. Pamela used a lot of plants to decorate it, which made it look somewhat naturalistic.
Of course, although it was just an ordinary house, the price was not cheap because it was located in a wealthy area with relatively good public security. In addition to various renovations and adjustments, it cost Pamela more than $20 in total. This was more than $20 around the millennium, which was already very expensive.
But this only shows the value of the $500 million that greed gave her, as there was still a lot left after paying off the mortgage.
In the backyard of the house, Pamela and Schiller were putting bones together while saying, "I have already agreed with Roy that this money will be considered as my investment in him. Together with the part of the working capital he can take out now, we can already carry out the initial greening transformation of Gotham."
"What do you think?"
"It is unrealistic to directly transform the current roads, but the Wayne Group has very mature roof garden technology, which has been used on a large scale in the buildings in the East District. Now we plan to popularize this technology in the other four districts."
"Is the money enough?"
"It adds up to nearly 10 million US dollars, which is barely enough, but it means we can't carry out the cooling plan. Fortunately, just like the last mosquito incident, as long as we survive these few months, the temperature will naturally cool down, and it will be much better next year."
Schiller nodded, and began to concentrate on the task at hand. Two skilled workers quickly put the bones together. It was pretty much as Schiller expected, an adult male around 30 years old who had been doing physical labor for a long time, nothing special.
Then all that was left was a broken skull. After the two of them pieced the skull fragments together, they discovered that the impact site was not actually on the top of the skull, but on the back of the head.
This confirmed Schiller's conjecture that the man was not actually killed by something falling on his head.
It is a little-known fact that, in many cases, the injuries of people who are killed by falling objects are not on the top of the head or on the back of the head, but on the forehead.
Because once humans hear movement above their heads, they instinctively look up, so unless the thing teleports directly to the top of their heads and falls down, many people are killed while they maintain the posture of looking up.
So in many TV dramas, the people who are killed by flower pots falling from high altitudes are lying on the ground. In fact, this is not very scientific. There are many more cases where the bodies of people who are killed by flower pots lie on the ground rather than lying on the ground.
Of course, there are also some people who are slow to react. They don't react even when things are about to hit them on the head. There is a probability that these people will be knocked down, but it is more likely that they will be hit right on the top of the skull. If you want to hit the back of the head, you must ensure that the person keeps his head down. The probability is really too small.
This kind of scar on the back of the head is usually man-made, that is, caused by being hit from behind.
Schiller and Pamela looked at the signs of skull fracture and agreed that the man had been murdered.
In fact, blunt instruments are the main murder weapons in daily life. The back of the human head is very fragile, and a wine bottle can kill a person. Therefore, in crimes of passion, many corpses have marks of being hit on the back of the head.
Some people try to fake suicide by throwing the bodies of people who died from being hit on the back of the head down the building, but in fact, modern criminal investigation technology can fully determine the specific form of the weapon that hit the back of the human head, and it is easy to tell whether it was a hit or a fall.
Forensic scientists can even use skull cracks to perfectly restore the shape of the murder weapon, the angle of impact, and even the way the murderer exerted force. They can even determine the murderer's height and left or right hands. This method is simply not feasible.
Pamela and Schiller actually did not have such professional technical means, and the body was not fresh. Only bone fragments were left, and many detailed texture patterns could no longer be seen clearly.
Even so, Schiller could tell that the man who smashed the worker to death was very strong, and he only hit the man once, and did not finish him off after the man fell.
This proves the most important thing, which is that the other party is not panicking.
Many people, even those who have premeditated crimes, will be extremely worried that the victim is not dead yet, so it is not enough to stab the victim once, they have to stab the victim into a sieve. The same goes for smashing the head, for fear that they will not be able to kill the victim in one blow, so they will hit the victim a few more times even after the victim falls down.
Once traces of finishing blows are discovered, it proves that this person is not a veteran. On the one hand, he is rather panicked, and on the other hand, he does not have a clear judgment of his own strength and the opponent's physical signs, and does not know whether he can make a fatal blow. An experienced killer will not make such a mistake.
As I said before, the more traces left on the body, the easier it is to provide clues to the police. Forensic scientists are not pushovers. If there are enough wounds, they can use exhaustive methods to infer the height and dominant hand.
Schiller expressed his thoughts. Pamela pondered for a moment and then said, "But I think he didn't hit him more because he knew that even if he didn't finish him off, the man wouldn't survive."
Schiller thought about it and realized that it was true. If it happened on the street, he might have to hit the man a few more times to prevent him from coming back to life and calling the police. However, the man died in the deep mountains and forests. Even if he was only stabbed once, as long as he lost his ability to move, he would definitely die.
What's more, the murderer finally buried the man in the ruins of the school. Even if he wasn't crushed to death, he would have suffocated to death. There was really no need to finish him off at that time.
This also reveals a very important clue, which is that the other party was not worried at all that the body would be found.
But this is actually not normal. Although the man died in a forest, there is a high school not far away. Why did he think that no one would come near here?
Where does he get such confidence?
Schiller had already guessed something. He looked at Pamela and said, "Brand performed a necromancy ritual. Before the man died, the ruins of two buildings still existed on the ground, but when we went there, there was basically no trace of the buildings there."
"You mean, after this man died, someone cleaned up the ruins of the construction site a second time."
"Yes, ten years ago, the two buildings were demolished, but a lot of construction debris and foundations were left there. A few years later, a man died there, and someone took the construction debris and foundations away, turning the place back into a forest."
"This man must have discovered something." Pamela looked at the bones on the ground and said, "Otherwise he wouldn't have suddenly returned to the ruins of the school, and someone wouldn't have chased him, killed him, and then cleaned up the ruins again."
"But you didn't find anything there, did you?"
Pamela nodded and said, "They are very cautious, otherwise they wouldn't have killed this man as soon as he arrived... Professor, if you continue investigating, they will definitely target you."
"Why are you suddenly worried about me?"
Schiller did feel a little strange. How could Pamela not understand him? What could the other party do to him?
"Professor, you are not a person with super powers now." Pamela reminded: "If the other party is really just a serial killer who is motivated by interest, they may not be able to cause any harm to you, but if this matter involves interests, they may dare to use any despicable tricks."
Schiller stared at Pamela. Pamela looked around, then walked to the tree in the corner of the backyard and waved to Schiller. After Schiller walked over, Pamela shoveled down and Schiller saw a complete shoulder blade.
"Do you know who he is?" Pamela sounded a little indifferent. Schiller could tell that she didn't need an answer. Sure enough, she answered herself, "He is a plant protectionist. He is firmly opposed to the existence of people like me in the world who can reproduce and revive plants at any time. Because of me, they can't attack other people's methods of raising plants at will, and they can't do their environmental protection business."
"When I went to the lab, he sneaked into my house and tried to set it on fire. Fortunately, the vines I planted in the backyard caught him, otherwise my house would have been lost."
"In the months after the economic crisis began, my house, car, and even my job were threatened by these people. Did I mention that my black Ford car caught fire for no apparent reason, and I had no way to stop it?"
"Professor, they are from two different worlds." Pamela was obviously referring to the serial killers and those who were driven by profit. She said, "Your rules can only protect you from gentlemen, but not from villains like them. Even if they can't kill you, they can still find ways to make you lose money. A thief can steal for a thousand days, but you can never be on guard against thieves for a thousand days."
After leaving Pamela's house, Schiller thought carefully about what she said and felt that Pamela was right.
The Gotham before was purer, everyone was just crazy. I kill you for my own enjoyment, and if I can't enjoy it or I'm not as skilled as you, then I'll just accept it.
But it's different now. After the situation in Gotham has improved, it can be said that the door is always open. Isn't the hard work of saving Gotham just to make the city return to normal? People come here to do business, why can't they be allowed in?
It was precisely because of this that Schiller did not cause trouble for Williams. He is a legitimate businessman who obtained the land through legal means and built the resort within the scope permitted by the law. He may have a bad temper and a bad attitude, but it is not illegal after all. Why should you stop him from building?
In other words, haven't the people of Gotham worked so hard for so long just to have a boss like Williams come to develop Gotham?
However, the normal world of normal people does not mean that it is not dangerous. Rather, compared with the world of madmen, the interest struggles in the world of normal people are more complicated and dangerous, interest groups embrace each other closely, and extreme means emerge in an endless stream.
And apart from interests, they have no other pursuits, which means they will have no bottom line. Because they are pure, they are powerful.
(End of this chapter)