mtl008 Chapter 3187 Detective is dying (38)
Chapter 3187 Detective is dying (38)
Chapter 3187: Detective is about to die (Thirty-eight)
The only explanation Schiller could think of was that Greedy deliberately used Madeline to confuse people's vision. After all, the words Madeline shouted and the subsequent series of operations were very misleading, shifting their focus to the characteristics of the Wanderer. This might be the effect Greedy wanted.
But that crazy state looked artificial. Although Schiller was now an agent, he also understood the basic principles of psychology. Madeline looked very much like she was hypnotized.
Greed can do this in real life, but certainly not in the game. So who hypnotized Madeline?
A thought flashed through Schiller's mind, and he suddenly raised his eyes and looked back into the depths of the cave.
There happened to be a psychologist in the team, that was Bruce Wayne. Although he was not very good at psychoanalysis, with the support of drugs, he was more than capable of hypnosis.
Could it be that Bruce and Greed were in the same group? Schiller thought, there was no definite conclusion on when Bruce came, if he and Greed came at the same time, the two reached some kind of agreement, and it was not impossible that Bruce helped Greed hypnotize Madeline to disrupt her vision.
Other Batmen wouldn't do such evil things, but it's hard to say for Bruce. The people in the game are not real people, so his moral bottom line can be lowered even lower.
Thinking time always passes quickly, and Schiller has arrived at the lake where the reeds are, but he is now on this side of the river, and the hole of the lighthouse entrance is on the other side.
Just then, he saw a dark figure jumping down from the cave entrance, dragging down a pile of metal.
The reeds seemed to have finally calmed down, no longer as crazy as before, but some leaves still stretched out tentatively towards the figure, and it was obvious that it was well prepared, pouring gasoline and setting it on fire to create a barrier for itself.
The bridge was quickly completed and extended, and Schiller saw Batman on the opposite side waving to him.
He had indeed expected that he would come.
But he actually knew that the bridge below was gone, which might mean he also knew that the clown had left the team, or maybe they had just agreed on it.
Schiller didn't think Batman would harm him, so he walked onto the bridge and quickly reached the other side. Batman didn't say anything and went up through the cave entrance, with Schiller following behind him.
Returning to the lighthouse, they did not stay on the first floor, but went up the stairs.
As they went up, they saw the bodies of the Huff family on the upper floors, and Schiller asked, "Do you know what happened to them?"
"That's my story," Batman began.
Schiller heard that he was hinting that the Huff family was actually part of the background story he had made up. No wonder this family appeared in the diary first.
If he remembered correctly, the family's story seemed to begin with a lost goat.
They were the first to see the story about the goat in the diary, and only then did they discover the Prowler's goat footprints under Greed's hint. This further confirmed that the footprints were fake, and that Greed must have wanted to frame Batman for all this.
Because once they find out that the diary is his, everyone will think that this must be a background story he made up, and that the Wanderer is also related to him, so it will be very difficult to determine the identity.
"Hef was a sailor when he was young. After he married his wife, he had two sons and a daughter." Batman's voice echoed in the lighthouse. He said, "But later, due to a shipwreck, he contracted a strange disease. From then on, no one was willing to hire him. His family's income came from raising goats and grouse."
"Not long ago, a goat from their family was lost. It was said that the goat ran away when they took it out to graze. The youngest daughter saw the direction where the goat was lost, but they went there to look for it but couldn't find it."
"Not long after, they found the goat's body there again. Because the family was not well-off, they didn't want to waste the goat, so they dragged it home and ate it."
"Since then, the Huff family has started to behave strangely. The eldest son, who was originally very gentle, began to show violent tendencies. The youngest son, who was also a sailor, refused to go out. The six-year-old girl kept having a fever and talking nonsense."
"Then strange things started happening in the village, and they blamed it all on the Huff family. They said the missing goat was a demon, and the Huff family ate the demon's flesh, which is why they went crazy."
"They couldn't stay in the village any longer, so Hef found me and asked me to send them away."
"Can you do that?" Schiller asked.
"Yes, I can. I'm not a complete local, and I have some friends outside. I considered sending them out of the village, but the weather forecast said there would be a heavy snow recently, so it's obviously not a good time."
Schiller suspects that this heavy snow may also be set by Batman, but the story still does not reveal what Batman wants to do with this background story.
"I met the keeper of the lighthouse when I first came to the village. He and I have a good relationship. Besides, this lighthouse is big enough to accommodate many people, and the villagers rarely come here."
"Because the heavy snow may make the journey from the village dangerous, I persuaded Hef to stay at the lighthouse for a few days to avoid the limelight. It won't be too late to set off again after you have rested."
"So they're coming?" Schiller asked.
He went through the timeline in his mind and felt that if the Huff family actually lived in the lighthouse for a while before killing each other, the state of the bodies would match.
Batman, who was walking in front, nodded and said, "Yes, they have settled down in the lighthouse, and Hef's little daughter's condition has improved."
Schiller was moved and asked, "How could it get better? Isn't it because of eating the demon goat..."
"I firmly believe that it is just superstition." Batman emphasized the word "superstition" and then said, "The situation of other family members is not good. It may be because their finances are too tight. Hef's eldest son just got married, which makes their family's financial situation even worse."
"My youngest daughter only had a common cold, but because we had no money to treat it, we kept putting it off, and naturally it got worse and worse."
Schiller pondered the truthfulness of what Batman said. Although he didn't think Batman was the kind of person who would deliberately make up a story about the death of a family for his own benefit, Schiller felt that this matter was not that simple.
"So what happened? How could they ..."
Batman shook his head and said, "I don't know either. I found their bodies after you did. I don't know why they killed each other."
Schiller felt that Batman should not have lied about this part. The Huff family played an important role to him, and there was no need for him to go to great lengths to make up such a story and then kill everyone overnight.
But this style of fratricide reminded Schiller of someone.
As we all know, the only thing that can be fully believed so far is what appears in the opening introduction, and the opening introduction just mentions that this village is called "the lighthouse covered with heavy snow."
That is to say, everyone can understand from the opening introduction that there should be a lighthouse in this village. So will anyone use this lighthouse as an example when making up a story?
This is actually very simple. The lighthouse is right at the dock. All you have to do is say that you came by boat. Then, after landing, you will most likely appear directly at the dock, and you will be able to reach the lighthouse as quickly as possible.
As for the modus operandi, Schiller thought of a very famous case, which is also a very typical case in psychology.
A murderer broke into a family's house and quickly took control of everyone in the house.
At this time, the murderer announced that he would punish the person who had done the most bad things in the family, and the punishment would be electric shock.
He asked everyone in the family to report on each other and tell the bad things that others had done. After a round, the person who was reported the most times, did the most bad things, and was the worst person would be demoted to the lowest level and receive electric shocks.
In order to avoid being electrocuted, everyone is desperately reporting on others and listing their shortcomings so that they can avoid punishment.
In the end, when the murderer let everyone go, they completely forgot that the murderer was the culprit of everything. Instead, they resented their family members for reporting them and making them receive electric shocks, so they started killing each other.
This can be said to be the most evil and perverted case of family crime in human history. This case is actually not bloody, and not even much physical harm was caused during the crime. It is much less violent and bloody than some home burglary and rape cases.
However, its damage and destruction to the human spirit is second to none, and it is still a famous case in the fields of criminal investigation and criminal psychology.
The murderer used a lot of psychological knowledge, but in fact there is only one most decisive one, that is, electric shock is different from other means of punishment.
Many people may have heard of electroconvulsive therapy (meCT). It must be emphasized here that the electroconvulsive therapy used in the treatment of mental illness is scientific and not abuse or torture. A thorough physical examination and anesthesia are required before electric shock. It will not cause substantial harm to the body and is almost painless.
The effect of this therapy is quite significant and it is basically popularized in more famous psychiatric departments.
On the contrary, another treatment is called electric shock aversion therapy.
This type of therapy is used in the field of correcting bad behaviors. That is, when the other person feels euphoria due to bad behavior, electric current is used to make the patient feel disgust and discomfort to offset the euphoria. In this way, conditioned reflexes can be artificially created. It is used in the fields of correcting sexual perversion, drug addiction, alcohol addiction, obesity, anxiety, etc.
Theoretically, this approach is inhumane, but there is already sufficient human experimental data to show that it is quite effective.
It can even be said that it is the most efficient drug rehabilitation method so far. Of course, this therapy is only responsible for drug rehabilitation, and any subsequent psychological problems are not within the scope of after-sales service.
And if this method is used in normal life, that is, aversion therapy is performed without producing euphoria, it can make humans feel disgusted with almost everything.
The murderer used this method to make the family members hate each other, so as to achieve his goal of making them kill each other.
This style of torturing Batman by testing human nature and playing with people's hearts is too much like the Joker.