Gotham City, a megacity on the east coast of the United States, is located on the east coast with a pleasant climate and beautiful scenery. It is adjacent to Bludhaven in the south and Imperial City in the north. It has a humid subtropical monsoon climate.
Looking at the entire city from the air, Gotham appears as a rectangle tilted to the right, with the central commercial street roundabout as the center point, and is divided into four districts: southeast, northwest and northwest.
As mentioned before, the East District has docks and slums. It is the most chaotic but also the most dynamic district in the entire Gotham. The south is Gotham’s financial center and the new wealthy area. In most photos of Gotham City, high-rise buildings
The buildings and brightly lit scenes were all shot in this area.
The West End is the old city of Gotham, the earliest developed area. It has European-style manors and castles, as well as a large park. Gotham University is located on the junction of the West End and the South End. At the same time,
This is also the greenest place in Gotham.
A part of Gotham City that is rarely mentioned is the North District, because it is a completely independent district. There is a Gotham Inland River to the north of the Central Commercial Street, which divides the entire Gotham into two parts, the north and the south.
, and the north of the Gotham River is Gotham's North District.
On the west side of the Gotham River, in the southwest corner of the North District, is the famous Arkham Asylum, and in the southeast corner of the North District is Gotham's largest lighthouse.
The main reason why the North District is not mentioned is that it is the birthplace of the Falcone family and the Twelve Families.
This has to start with the era when European immigrants ruled Gotham. Maybe many people, when they hear about the history of the Italian Mafia, will think of the soothing and melodious music and ancient-colored lights and shadows in the movie The Godfather.
The elegant voice of the old godfather, the red poppy on the black suit, the cigar, the pistol...
But in fact, at that time, Italians in the United States were very discriminated against, because at that time, most of the people who came to the United States to work were from southern Italy, that is, poor people in Italy.
The noble European immigrants, manor owners and factory owners certainly looked down upon these Italian barbarians from Sicily, so they did not allow these people to come close to where they lived.
When Falcone led a group of people to Gotham, there were already many Italians living here, but they all lived in the most desolate and remote North District, because even the other three districts
It's a chaotic East End, and it's also full of discrimination against Italians.
Falcone's history of fortune began in the North District, and when he gradually developed his own power in Gotham, he built the separated and independent North District into his own base camp, and here
A series of estate buildings and security systems were established.
The North District, divided by the Gotham River, is indeed a good place to make a base camp, but the European immigrants who first came here did not choose this place because the terrain here was not very good.
The entire Gotham has a terrain that is high in the north and low in the south. The south and west are plains, while the north is hills. Although the altitude is not high, it is obvious that it is more difficult to build in the north than in other places.
Only the undesirable Italians live here.
With the development of Gotham to this day, the North District has been built into a very complete gang station. The Falcone family's castle is located halfway up the highest mountain in Gotham. It is very important to all Gothamites except Batman.
It is said that everything here is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
The other twelve families are located around the Falcone family's castle, and the rest of the North District is an industrial chain serving the residences of these gangster families.
In the North District of Gotham, in Rich Manor, a lady with brown curly hair and rosacea wearing a white apron carried a tray and walked quickly up the stairs. She came to a room on the second floor. Two young people stood at the door.
police officers, but she showed no surprise at this. Instead, she forced a smile and said to them: "Gentlemen, would you like a glass of water?"
"Oh, no, thank you, but you can't go in now, there's a case being investigated inside."
"I know, I know..." The lady nodded, but she still seemed to want to look inside. She stretched out a hand under the tray and handed the police a roll of dollars. The young policeman coughed twice and said,
He lowered his voice and said: "I know you are worried..."
The lady wiped the corners of her eyes and said with a sad expression: "Yes, the whole manor is in panic now. No one knows whether she will be next..."
The police officer waved his hand and still whispered: "Everyone can see now that this serial killer only targets gang bosses. Well, madam, you'd better go down first..."
The police officer looked back at the door he was guarding, pinched the roll of dollars in his hand again, and said, "I heard that Boss Gordon has hired a very powerful detective. Maybe it won't take long."
Find out who did it, and once found out, the godfather will definitely not let him go."
The lady sighed, handed the tray in her hand to the young police officer and said, "In that case, I won't disturb you anymore. Help me ask the gentlemen inside if they want a drink of water. If you need anything, call me again."
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The police officer wanted to refuse, but the other man looked down at his watch and said to his colleague: "They have been in for more than two hours, and they may be thirsty. I will guard here. You can bring the water."
Send it in."
The police officer didn't say anything. He nodded, then turned around and knocked on the door. A voice came from inside: "Please come in."
When the police officer walked in with the tray, there were two people inside, one of whom was Gordon and the other was Batman. However, the young police officer was not surprised by this. He just put the tray on the table and said: "
Boss, if you are thirsty, there is water here."
Gordon nodded and waved his hand for him to go out. The policeman put down the water and went out. Obviously he didn't want to stay in the room any longer, because in addition to the two living people in this room, there was also a dead person, and the dead person was dead.
The situation was so brutal that the smell of blood filled the entire room.
He was sawed in half, and sawed vertically.
Batman said to Gordon: "In the past few days, I have read all the information about the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. If I remember correctly, this way of death should be that one of the Twelve Apostles was called Simon the Zealot.
'The way the apostle was executed, he was sawed in half along the middle of his legs..."
Batman walked around to the other side of the body. Gordon stood behind the table, far away from the body. Even he had rarely seen such a brutal crime scene. The left side of the body on the ground was connected to most of the body.
The head, and the right side was connected to a smaller half. There was still a certain distance between the two parts. Blood stains were almost all over the room. Gordon covered his nose and said, "Did you see anything?"
Batman frowned and said with some confusion: "Actually, I can't understand it. The method is completely different..."
"what do you mean?"
"The murderer's method of killing Richie was completely different from how he killed Lawrence and Hawke..."
"What do you mean? Can you explain it in detail?"
Batman squatted down, not minding the strong and somewhat choking smell of blood. He stared at Richie's tragically shaped body and said, "If the deaths of the first two people still have some meaning of execution, then that's it."
This kind of 'ritual sense' that perverted murderers often admire, Naqi's death was too rough, and obviously his death was not peaceful..."
Gordon whispered: "Can anyone see this?"
Batman pointed to a mark on the body and said: "Look here, look at his neck. There is a footprint here..."
Then he stood up again, pointed to the tail of the body and said: "One of his feet was wearing a shoe, but the other was not. One shoe was thrown to the side, that is, there..."
Following Batman's gaze, Gordon looked at a shoe next to the corpse. Batman walked behind the corpse's feet, then pointed to one of the corpse's feet and said: "This foot without shoes has an ankle joint."
Slight fracture and severe swelling.”
"We can use this to infer how the murderer committed the murder."
"The whole process was very simple. The murderer pushed Richie to the ground, stepped on Richie's neck with one foot, then bent over and grabbed his ankle, lifted one of his legs, and then took the saw and cut it from
The saw started between his legs..."
"Obviously, at this time, Richie was still alive and had the ability to struggle. Because of the severe pain, he began to struggle desperately, but the man did not stop his movements at all. In order to catch the struggling Richie, he had to increase his hands
The force caused Richie's ankle to be broken and his shoes to be taken off..."
"What does this mean?" Gordon put his hands on his hips.
"It shows that this is a very cruel murderer. He sawed a man alive in half. In the process, he ignored Richie's struggle and screams and sawed him open from head to toe."
"At the same time, he should have considerable strength. Richie is 1.86 meters tall and weighs 80 kilograms. It is already very difficult to completely subdue him, let alone saw him open while he still has the ability to resist."
"What makes me confused is that the method this time is completely different from the previous two. I even doubt whether my inference is wrong. Is this a serial murder case?"
"Logically, the first victim, Lawrence, died by crucifixion, with wedges driven into his limbs, heart and head..."
"The second victim Hawke died by beheading, and the third victim died by being sawed in half. These are the ways in which the twelve disciples of Jesus died, especially the way of death by sawing a person in half. If not In order to restore the execution method of Ximen the Energetic, no one would use such time-consuming and laborious means to kill people..."
"But this case is completely different from the previous two cases. In the previous two cases, anesthetic drugs were detected in Lawrence's body. In other words, he was anesthetized first and then crucified. During the process of being crucified, , without any ability to resist.”
"The same goes for Hawke. He was tied up first and then his head was chopped off with a knife."
"But according to common sense, if a person has the power to kill Richie in such a brutal way, then there is no need for him to anesthetize Lawrence, and there is no need to tie up Hawke."
"Lawrence is also strong, but he is an old man after all. Hawke is tall but thin. Neither of them is as strong as Richie in his prime. The killer has the strength of one person to subdue Richie and saw him open. But he had to go the extra mile to subdue those two people and then kill them. This is very strange..."
"Perhaps Richie's death was the result of two people cooperating in the crime?"
Batman shook his head slightly and said: "In the criminal psychology courses I have learned, in most cases of serial murders, the murderer is one person, and there is no other person who cooperates with the crime."
"In addition to the very low probability that two mentally ill people with exactly the same characteristics will meet together, most murderers who commit serial murders have a special obsession with committing crimes and killing people. They are obsessed with murders. My own unique understanding.”
"They not only care about the results of committing crimes, but also pay attention to the process of committing crimes. They even enjoy leading the police to make wrong judgments and seeing the process of experts being suspicious and confused but unable to get answers."
"Moreover, they are unwilling to share this happiness with others. They believe that no one can fully understand them. They may use some innocent passers-by to achieve their murderous goals, but they will never cooperate with anyone sincerely."
"They enjoy the pleasure of playing tricks on the whole world by themselves, and they will not let the second person know all their plans, or help them, let alone do it in such a rough way..."
Gordon pursed his lips and looked at Batman, and he said, "This doesn't sound like something you could learn in a psychology textbook."
"This is definitely not something you learn from textbooks."
"Your tone reminds me of someone." Gordon sighed.
"Then why didn't you invite him over?"
"Because I'm not sure whether he is analyzing the situation based on the crime scene or... revealing the process of his crime."
