Chapter 167 The Long Easter (VII)

In the interrogation room of the Gotham Police Station, Schiller held a cup of hot coffee and blew on it. The white mist rising from the cup dispersed and stained the lenses of his glasses.

The police officer sitting opposite him stood up and gave up his seat to Gordon. Gordon knocked on the table and said helplessly: "Can you look like a suspect? This is the interrogation room of the police station! I won't give it to you. Wearing handcuffs is no reason for you to drink coffee!”

"The police officer outside also complained that you don't drink American coffee and insist on drinking espresso. He has to go to the fourth floor to use the new coffee machine..."

"Can you stop acting like you're familiar with the interrogation room, like a repeat offender?"

"I'm a foreigner, that's why I'm sitting here drinking coffee. If I were a local..."

Schiller raised his head and looked around. Gordon followed his gaze. The two of them looked at the dense bullet marks on the wall. Gordon was speechless for a moment. He knew what Schiller wanted to say in the second half of the sentence. If he was a native of Gotham, he would My son has already started practicing martial arts.

"No matter what you investigate, I can only tell you that you have the wrong person. I am just a university professor who has never even fired a gun."

Gordon sighed again. He walked to sit across from Schiller, and then said: "According to our investigation, you are the only one in the school who has an obvious conflict with the new principal Seldon. You are our key investigation target."

"What's the conflict between me and him?" Schiller asked Gordon: "I have completed all the teaching tasks he arranged perfectly. Even if there are other arrangements beyond the scope of my work, I have not been delayed at all."

"I concurrently serve as a freshman guide, librarian, and archivist, and I don't even ask for a salary increase..."

"But according to the testimony of other school staff, the new principal Seldon is quite dissatisfied with you."

"He was dissatisfied with me, so why was he the one who died?"

"That's what I have to ask you."

"You can't assume my motives by speculating on my heart. In my opinion, he is not a good principal, but he is not too bad either. Maybe he has personal opinions on me, but we have not had any differences at work. , and there is no real conflict, no violation of each other's interests, and no deep hatred worthy of killing. "

Gordon looked at him silently. He also knew that Schiller was right. According to their investigation, although Seldon seemed to have a bad attitude towards Schiller and always wanted to find trouble, they did have a good relationship at work. There was no major conflict, and there was no such thing as Schiller's disobedience to work arrangements. The two of them had very little communication, and there was no direct dispute.

In fact, Gordon doesn't have much hope for Schiller's investigation, because based on his understanding of the professor, if he were to take action, he would not adopt such a direct method. Will let anyone seize the evidence.

In comparison, Victor is more suspected because he was the first person to discover the crime scene. At the same time, he has a very good relationship with Schiller and a poor relationship with Seldon.

Moreover, Victor had previously complained to his colleagues that Seldon's arrangements for Easter were too tight. Although this was not enough to justify the killing, it could also be seen that he did not like the new principal very much.

Hobby

According to Gordon's investigation, Seldon does not have any bad habits. If I have to say, it is that he is too much like a politician. He always walks among the powerful and participates in various banquets and activities of Gotham's upper class. As a principal, he expresses his views on various social events.

Of course, perhaps out of fear of gangsters, he is not a strict and righteous person, and his attitude is quite vacillating. It is not easy for such a person to form a mortal enemy with others.

Schiller sat across from Gordon and said, "Actually, I do have a clue to tell you."

"What is it?"

Schiller put down his coffee cup, put his hands on the table and said, "The new principal is as interested in meeting the upper echelons of the gang as he is in other cities."

"But the only difference between gangsters and ordinary businessmen is that the lifeblood and secrets of certain illegal industries cannot be known to anyone. I doubt... of course, just doubt..."

"You mean, Seldon might have been silenced?"

Gordon thought for a moment and then said: "It is indeed possible. The level of gang members he has befriended can indeed have access to some secrets that others do not know. If Seldon is involved in something..."

"Of course, I want to emphasize that this is just a guess, and it is my personal guess. I am not implying anything, and I have not heard any rumors."

Gordon stared at him. He rolled his eyelids upward, looked from above his eyes, and asked Schiller: "Law of silence?"

Schiller shook his head and crossed himself.

While Gordon continued to talk to Schiller, a police officer knocked on the door, walked in, saluted Gordon, and then said: "Boss, there is something new."

Then the young police officer glanced at Schiller and seemed to ask Gordon if he wanted to go out and speak. Gordon said directly: "No need to go out, just say it here."

This is also a commonly used method in interrogations, using new case developments to increase pressure on the person being interrogated. Gordon actually didn't want to use this method to deal with Schiller, he was just used to it.

"We found that all the drawers and cabinets of the victim's desk had been turned over, and a locked drawer at the bottom of the desk had been pried away, so we carefully searched the entire desk and found that the side of the middle drawer There is a hidden compartment.”

As he said that, the young police officer took out a transparent plastic bag with a tape inside. Gordon motioned to the police officer behind him to get a tape recorder, then put on his gloves, took out the tape, looked at it, and said: " On the surface, I don’t see any damage, so it should be able to be played directly.”

Gordon put the tape into the tape recorder and pressed the button on it. After the tape recorder started working, the first thing that came out was the sound of sizzling electricity, and then a noisy noise.

Immediately afterwards, a familiar voice came from the tape: "Their goods from Plantation No. 9 take the old Wilkin's route, which is the route that passes through the three streets in the East District. The volume of their goods is too large, so the delivery port Set up underground in a nightclub, I can say hi to him if you need..."

"Are you worried about this? No need to. As far as I know, the underground chemical plant in the West District is also Falcone..."

Hearing this, Gordon twitched his fingers and immediately turned off the recorder. He said to the other people in the room: "For the safety of your lives, you didn't hear anything. Do you understand?"

The young subordinates covered their ears for a moment, nodded, and then left. After they left, Gordon glared at Schiller. Schiller said to Gordon: "Officer, I want to call the police. Someone is eavesdropping on my privacy and recording."

"What kind of privacy is this? You..."

"Then you can definitely play this recording through the police station radio."

"If you want to wipe out the Gotham Police Department, just say so."

Gordon took a deep breath, sat down on his seat first, then made a gesture to Schiller to sit down, and said in a soothing manner: "Okay, okay, I'm not saying that you killed Seldon, but You should at least explain to me, what's going on?"

"I'll say it again, I didn't kill the person."

Schiller sat down, took another sip of coffee and said, "You should know that there are cameras in Gotham University, right? Our President Seldon is in his office every day, observing the situation in the school through cameras."

"Including the calls I answered in the public area, but I really didn't know that he also recorded the audio." Schiller shook his head and said, "I have to say, as a foreigner, he is really brave."

Gordon let out the breath he was holding, and then said: "It seems that he has indeed been silenced..."

"This is the crime scene." Gordon took over a stack of photos and said, "According to our investigation, Seldon was pushed downstairs. The balcony guardrail of his office on the 8th floor is very low. He should have been standing in front of the guardrail. "I was pushed by someone and fell down."

"According to the on-site investigation, when he was pushed down, he should have turned his back to the person. In other words, he probably knew the murderer and had no defense against the murderer. When he was talking to the murderer with his back turned, he was pushed Go down."

"This was a crime committed by an acquaintance, and the method was far from Gotham style. It did not use a submachine gun or a shotgun, or even a pistol."

"So, Victor and I became the suspects, right? Because the two of us are relatively familiar with Seldon, and we are from outside the country. We are not good at using guns, and we are not strong enough."

"Now you are more suspect than Victor. After all, he heard some inside information from you. You have a reason to silence..."

At this moment, a violent noise came from the center of the police station hall, accompanied by shouts and curses. Gordon stood up immediately, and a police officer rushed in and said: "Chief Gordon, something happened!"

"Don't panic. What's going on?" Gordon stood up and turned around to ask him. The police officer said loudly: "Winnie at the front desk and Bird on duty suddenly went crazy! Others are stopping them..."

"Go crazy?" Gordon immediately thought of something. He turned around and opened the iron door of the interrogation room, letting Schiller come out. Then several people hurried to the front hall.

When they arrived at the front hall, the crazy man had been subdued, but he still kept struggling and growling. Gordon wanted to get closer, but another police chief stopped him and said, "Don't go there, they are crazy, I was almost killed just now." Take a bite!”

"What's going on? Why did it suddenly..."

"Who knows? I was chatting with Winnie, and we were talking about the arrangements for this Easter, and she suddenly started twitching, then leaned back hard, and then started hitting the counter with her arms and throwing the chairs. When he got out, Bird on the other side also went crazy..." said a police officer holding down Winnie.

Gordon wanted to go to the counter to check. Schiller sniffed, pulled Gordon and said, "Don't go there, evacuate the people first, send the patients to the hospital, and then look for the gas masks in your arsenal. It's very difficult to find gas masks in your arsenal." There may be a problem..."

"You mean..." Gordon paused and shouted: "Everyone retreat! Get out of this room! Go to an open area and don't come near here!"

When everyone went out, Schiller walked in alone. His steps were too fast and Gordon didn't catch him.

When Schiller walked to the counter, he found some eggshell fragments there, which were still colorful.

Gordon stood outside the room and kept waving at Schiller. After Schiller looked around, he walked out and said to Gordon: "There must be something wrong with the Easter eggs."

"Easter egg? I think I heard Winnie mention that she received a very beautiful easter egg today..." said another female police officer.

"Do you remember the mass illness among students at Gotham University?"

Schiller narrowed his eyes, took out his cell phone, called his colleague Anna and said: "Hello... Yes, I want to ask, have you distributed the Easter eggs you purchased outside before to the students?"

"Really? Do you remember who you sent them to? Can you give me a list? Okay, thank you..."

Then, he called Victor and asked: "Have you given the Easter eggs you made yourself to the students? ... Already sent them? Do you remember who you sent them to? Can you give me a list?"

Schiller explained to Gordon: "On the eve of Easter, President Shedon suddenly distributed a lot of materials for making eggs, and asked professors to make Easter eggs themselves and give them to students."

"My colleague Anna and I thought it was troublesome, so we didn't make them ourselves, but bought ready-made ones from outside. Now both types of eggs have been distributed to students. I asked them for the list of students who received the eggs. We can compare them and know which egg has problems..."