mtl008 Chapter 2306 Gotham Music Chapter (45)
Chapter 2306 Gotham Music Chapter (45)
Chapter 2306 Gotham Music Festival (Forty-Five)
Amanda didn't react at all when Oliver rushed out.
She was indeed an excellent agent, but she has not been fighting on the front lines 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. Oliver was like an arrow, brushing past the side of the figure and running into the stairwell without looking back.
But as soon as Amanda ran out, she bumped into the figure. In panic, she turned on the flashlight. With a flash of strong 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! Quick!"
Amanda shook her head and took a few steps back. She just shone the flashlight on Schiller's face and breathed nervously.
Schiller continued to drag the corpse forward at a steady pace. Even under the light of the flashlight, his gray eyes were still a little unfocused, as if he could not see the figure in front of him at all.
But as he got closer, Amanda opened her mouth little by little, because she saw that the body of David dragged by Schiller was in a very miserable state of death. His neck had become flaky, and it looked like it was completely disconnected from the body after being repeatedly hit and squeezed by something.
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 horrifying scene instantly appeared in her mind: David was pressed against the window with his head sticking out of the window, and a hand grabbed the window handrail and smashed it down until the spine connected to the head was completely broken, and the head was dragged behind the torso like a pendant.
This association completely defeated Amanda. She took a few steps back in panic, turned around and ran away staggeringly.
At this time, Oliver rushed out from the stairwell and shot several arrows blindly in the direction of Schiller. He didn't care whether he hit the target or not. He jumped through the gap between Schiller and the corridor wall like a meteor and knocked Amanda to the ground.
Amanda's head hit the corner of the wall, knocking her unconscious.
When she woke up again, Oliver was bandaging her. Amanda blinked hard in confusion and said, "What happened? Why would Schiller..."
“He’s out of control.”
"he……"
"You've been studying these serial killers, haven't you?" Oliver folded up the remaining bandages, looked at Amanda and said, "You don't know the relationship between Schiller and serial killers, do you?"
"Of course I know that. I also know that he is the most brutal one among them, but, but... I thought he was just a theorist."
Amanda took a deep breath and said, "In their communication, he usually only talked about theoretical things, more like an extension of criminal psychology. He never published his completed murders and put forward his ideas for murder like other serial killers."
"So you think he didn't kill anyone?"
"Of course not, it's just..."
Amanda felt as if something was strangling her neck. After a while, she recovered and muttered, "This is not that professor. It doesn't look like him."
"Of course not. Since you know that Schiller has multiple personalities, why didn't you think that if there are some responsible theories, there will naturally be some responsible practices?"
"Of course I thought of that..."
Amanda was speechless again. She tried hard to ignite the fire in her chest so that she could use the anger to argue and criticize. Unfortunately, the raging fire of anger that she usually burned when facing the serial killer was nowhere to be found.
Amanda only felt the numbness of surviving a disaster, as if after being subjected to a large amount of stimulation in a short period of time, her mind activated the protection system and began to actively block out everything.
Oliver closed his eyes and sighed, "It's very likely that Schiller got on board because of me. I'm also responsible for him losing control. I have to find a way to stop him."
"Hey, don't forget what we just did." Amanda said suddenly, "Restarting the power system and driving the boat back is the real thing. Everything will be easy after we dock."
"Are you afraid?"
Amanda opened her mouth sharply, but just took a breath and still said nothing.
After a while, she closed her eyes tightly, gripped 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, you should know him better than me. Why did he lose control?"
Oliver thought for a moment and then said, "Although we have exchanged many letters, I can't really say that I know him very well."
"But I saw him from another perspective. He told me about the serial killer club before, so I started to crack their codes and read the articles they communicated with each other."
"I have read almost all of Schiller's published articles. There is a clear dividing line in his style. Probably after Schiller came to Gotham to teach, the frequency of his publications became very low, and for a period of time he even disappeared completely."
"But the vast majority of his publications during this time were about dissociative identity disorder, where he was assuming certain personalities, or maybe that wasn't just an assumption, it was his reality."
"He mentioned that normal people's normality is inherently stable, and they control everything that is normal about a person, but the pathology that everyone has has different levels of stability depending on their upbringing and education."
"It's like an evil idea suddenly pops up in your mind. This is your morbidity at work, but most people will just treat it as a sudden fantasy and quickly forget about it. It can be said that the morbidity of normal people will only appear occasionally or be stimulated in specific circumstances, and it will not always exist as usual."
"The pathology of patients with mental illness is much more stable than that of ordinary people, but it still cannot persist. Schiller's article mentioned that in order to make the pathology persist, they need to be given an anchor."
Amanda shuddered. She said, “Is he teaching others how to keep their sickness alive?”
"Couldn't he be teaching others how to make their own illness disappear?" Oliver asked.
"You're a little too optimistic." Amanda swallowed and said, "Especially after your close encounter with Schiller just now. No wonder the Soviet Union always says that you are determined."
"Medicine can save lives, but it can also become poison if used in the wrong place. However, the medicine itself should not be blamed." Oliver expressed his understanding and said, "Schiller's theory is like this. If used in a good place, it can cure many suffering patients."
"Serial killers' pathology is clearly more stable than that of other people, which means they must have an anchor point, and avoiding or removing that anchor point can make them more normal, or at least less crazy."
“Schiller has an anchor too?” Amanda asked.
"No, he may have many, because he has many personality traits, but no matter how many personality traits he has, only one will dominate in the end. It's just a matter of finding the anchor of that one."
"What would that be?" Amanda asked.
"In Schiller's previous articles, he hypothesized many pathological personalities and analyzed them. Now we just need to determine which pathological personality controls the body. This should help him calm 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 stumped by the question.
She couldn't just go ask Schiller. If Schiller still had a little bit of common sense now, he wouldn't be so completely irrational, nor would he completely ignore Oliver.
"Someone has to try." Oliver sighed and said, "Whichever Schiller it is, he should have his own pursuit of murder, but from the death of the body he just dragged, we can't see much information, so we can't judge."
"You don't want him to kill someone, do you?" Amanda felt instinctively uncomfortable and acted a little hesitant.
"Of course not. I don't condone brutal murder anyway, so I decided to try it myself."
Oliver stood up, looked at Amanda and said, "But if I'm in the middle of it, I'm afraid I won't be able to observe all of Schiller's reactions very well, so you have to come with me. Only by standing from the perspective of an observer can you see the 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 all of them."
"Of course!"
"Then come with me."
"but……"
Amanda bit her lip and said in a rage, "At my most extreme, I just wanted to put Schiller in jail! Now you want me to fight him? This is ridiculous!"
"You're scared." This time Oliver didn't use a question.
Amanda became dazed and 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 the actions she took related to Schiller afterwards were for this reason, but Schiller always chose to avoid talking about it.
There were many times when Amanda cursed Schiller in her heart for being a coward who only knew how to escape. She thought that the serial killer must be too cruel, which made Schiller feel scared and unwilling to get into trouble, so he didn't say his name.
This is a very normal line of thought, so Amanda has been looking for opportunities to let Schiller face her head-on.
She did want Schiller to face her, but not like this. How crazy must one be to want to fight a murderer like this?
Amanda had to admit that the experience of facing Schiller just now left her with a deep psychological trauma, which made her go against what had always kept her alive - to fearlessly catch those serial killers who frightened ordinary people.
"Well, I guess Flamingo needs someone to take care of it too." Oliver didn't force it any further. He said, "The Confession Cartel should have a headquarters on the ship. I'm guessing it should be somewhere on the first floor. You can go look for it."
Amanda felt her throat tighten. She stared at Oliver nervously and asked, "Will Schiller go to the first floor?"
"Probably not, he..."
"what!!!!!!!!!"
When the screams were heard, they both turned their heads to look at the stairs leading to the first floor.
Hee hee
(End of this chapter)