Chapter 568 Black Sun and Bat Lamp (Part 1)
In Schiller's office at Gotham University, Victor stepped on the stool under his feet, stretched out his arms, and twisted the light bulb above his head.
He removed the old broken light bulb, looked at it in his hand, and then said: "If Gotham is going to build a museum, I must donate this light bulb. It can even stay there." In the main display cabinet in the lobby of the building, because at least more than 20 generations of insect corpses have been condensed here..."
Anna, who was holding a flashlight underneath, showed a disgusted expression and said, "Can you please stop saying such disgusting things? I haven't had breakfast yet."
"Did you hear the sirens?" Schiller, who was standing aside and looking up, said, "Since just now, three police cars have passed by here. Although this is not unusual in Gotham, the frequency is too high. Is it high?”
"A murder occurred at Gotham University. Although the death of an individual is nothing in Gotham, the nature of someone who dares to do it blatantly in the student dormitory is completely different."
"The Godfather feels that the Elliot family is challenging his majesty. Recently, the Falcone family and the Elliot family have been in tit-for-tat, and the situation seems a bit tense." Anna said with a frown.
Victor, who was replacing the new light bulb, sighed and said, "Actually, I have a very good impression of Thomas. He is not bad, polite, and he is more interested in learning than others. How come..."
"By the way." Schiller suddenly said: "The dead Doris was a student in the chemistry department. Did you teach her?"
"She is a senior this year and has very little time in school, so I don't know her. However, there are several girls who are members of her group in the course I teach, and I have heard about her from their mouths."
Victor paused for a moment and recalled: "They were gossiping about Doris's boyfriend during class, saying that he was young and promising, very handsome, and a lovable young man. No wonder Doris was so obsessed with it. to him."
"I heard that Doris's boyfriend works at the Metropolitan Institute of Technology?" Schiller asked.
"Yes, and he is doing research with a very famous tutor at a young age. I heard that after completing this year's project, he can be promoted from an intern assistant to a full-time employee. This is not easy."
Anna's eyes widened in surprise, and she asked: "How old is Doris's boyfriend? He can directly become a formal assistant of the Central Research Institute. This is indeed a young and promising thing."
"Yes." Victor said full of memories: "Back then, I had a colleague who also came from the Metropolitan Center Research Institute. There are many talented people there. If you want to occupy a place there, you must have real skills."
"I heard from Lex, a freshman from Metropolis, that he called the Central Research Institute and found Doris's boyfriend David, but David acted very coldly and didn't even want to come over to see Doris' last One glance." Schiller said with a sigh.
·It’s really strange. I heard those girls say that the two of them have a very good relationship, especially David. For Doris, every time he comes to Gotham to find her, he has to bring a large bouquet of flowers. Those girls’ His tone was full of envy. "Victor shook his head.
"The world is so unpredictable, so I often advise my students not to focus on falling in love." Anna walked aside, threw the book in her hand on the table, and said, "Young love is always impulsive and exciting. It’s unreliable. If Doris hadn’t died, she would have been crying over her boyfriend’s indifference.”
Schiller looked up at Victor's movements and said, "Are you done? Aren't you the most famous cryogenic scientist in the world? Why is it so troublesome to change a light bulb?"
"What does a cryogenic scientist have to do with changing a light bulb?" Victor choked on the dust on the lampshade and coughed twice. He waved his hand in front of his face to disperse the dust and continued to focus on playing with the light bulb.
"This interface is very insensitive. I'm cleaning it. If I don't clean it, it's still easy to have problems after screwing it on... Oh, okay, I screwed it on. Anna, turn on the switch and see if it lights up. Not bright..."
Anna walked outside the room, opened the door of the electric box, and then raised the switch. In an instant, the light returned to the room. Victor and Schiller both breathed a sigh of relief. Schiller stretched out his hand and supported Victor. Get off the stool more often.
But at this moment, there was a "pop" and the light bulb went out again. Victor stumbled on the chair and almost fell down. Fortunately, Schiller held him up. Anna walked in again holding a flashlight. Victor Do had to stand on the chair again to check the light bulb.
After unscrewing the light bulb and checking it, he said, "No, it's not the light bulb. It seems the power is out."
At this time, it was early in the morning, and the room without lights was dark. Anna walked to the door and looked towards the corridor and said, "Okay, it seems that our building has another power outage."
"What's going on recently?" Schiller walked out with a frown, came to the window in the corridor, and said, "The power was cut off seven times in three days, and our building was affected every time, even during snowstorms. It’s not that serious. What on earth are the power management departments doing?”
"The First Cause of All Realms"
"You can't blame the power management department for this. Except for Gotham University, all the buildings are normal. Last time I stopped the electrician who came to repair it. He said it was because of the aging of the circuit. This is an unexplainable excuse. There is nothing anyone can do about it. ." Anna shrugged.
"It can't always be like this. It has affected normal teaching." Victor also came out and said, "Let's go to the power distribution room. If it's really the aging of the circuit, I should have a way."
"Aren't you from the Department of Chemistry? Do you know electricity?... Oh, you made the device to freeze your wife all by yourself. Don't you have a degree in physics and mechanical engineering?" Anna raised her eyebrows and asked.
Victor smiled and took the lead. When he was about to reach the stairwell, he turned around, leaned his elbow on the handrail, and said with a smile: "You are right. In addition, I also have a degree in materials science and engineering..."
Anna shook her head, shrugged, and followed Victor up the stairs quickly, while Schiller paused at the window for a moment because he saw a police car parked on the east side of Gotham University, that is, outside the west gate of the gymnasium.
The power distribution room is not far from the teaching building. The three of them quickly walked into the door of the power distribution room. It can be seen that there are also traces of recent maintenance here, but it didn't work. Three of the electrical boxes did not work properly.
Victor began to check one by one, and even Anna could help him, but Schiller could only watch, because after the electrical box was opened, there were at least hundreds of wires in it, and they were all in a mess.
"If you ask me, this electrical box should be donated to the museum. I have seen at least five generations of technology in it. Could it be made by Europeans?" Schiller said in disbelief.
"It's not that exaggerated." Victor said while sorting out the wires: "In fact, it just looks messy, just sort it out. If you think it's dusty here, go outside and wait..."
"Okay, I..." Schiller was about to turn around and walk out, and with a "pop", the door of the distribution room was opened, and several policemen rushed in, pointing guns at the people inside. Schiller frowned, but then he saw the familiar Gordon in the crowd.
Gordon was surprised to see Schiller and Victor. He quickly came through the crowd and pressed down the hand of the police officer holding the gun. He asked, "Why are you here?"
"This is my question, Detective Gordon. What are you doing here?"
"It's like this..." Gordon explained calmly and methodically, "About half an hour ago, we received a report that another murder occurred at Gotham University. The scene of the crime was in the lounge of the gymnasium."
"The victim, Karina, is a sophomore student at Gotham University and also a member of the cheerleading troupe. About half an hour ago, someone strangled her with a belt."
"At the time of the incident, the members of the cheerleading troupe were rehearsing next door. In just five minutes, Karina lost her breath, and there were no witnesses. The reason was that at the moment of the incident..."
"The power went out." Schiller received that their office also had a power outage about half an hour ago, so they came here to check the distribution room. Obviously, these policemen thought the same as them.
Gordon put his hands on his hips, sighed and said, "The technicians checked the lights in the gymnasium lounge. The bulbs are new and there are no problems. The switch is also working normally. The only possible problem is here."
"Hey! Someone help me!" Victor suddenly called out. Schiller wanted to go over, but Gordon winked at his subordinate next to him. The young police officer walked over and took the flashlight from Victor.
Victor's half body was in the huge electrical box, as if he was checking something deeper. After a while, he straightened up, tidied his messy hair, and then said, "The recent power outage was not an accident, nor was it due to the aging of the circuit, but it was man-made."
Hearing this, Gordon and Schiller narrowed their eyes. Obviously, they both thought of one thing, that is, the murder case. If the power outage is good for someone, it can only be the murderer of the murder case.
Perhaps in other places, students may hope that the school will have a power outage so that they don't have to go to class, but at Gotham University, even if they don't have to go to class, there is nowhere to go because it is too dangerous outside.
And staying in a school without electricity without attending classes is simply a torture, so no student would damage the equipment in the distribution room just because they don't want to go to class.
Victor leaned in again and pointed inside and said: "The pipeline may be aging, and a controller will not appear here out of thin air. Someone installed a remote control switch here. If I'm not mistaken, all the power facilities here have been installed with this thing."
"What's the use of this?" Gordon didn't see what Victor was pointing at at all, and he was sure that even if he saw it, he wouldn't understand it, so he asked directly.
"Obviously, it can cut off the power supply to the school. I suspect it can even control the power outage of a building or even a room."
Victor touched his chin and said: "In fact, it doesn't need to be so troublesome to cut off the power supply to the school's buildings and rooms. Just come here, find the electrical box, and then operate it a little bit, and you can do it."
"He needs to get such a device, which means that he may not be able to come here all the time, so he can only control it remotely." Schiller said.
"Then he should not be a student or teacher of Gotham University, but an outsider." Gordon speculated, he seemed to have some ideas, and then looked at Victor and said: "Professor Victor, please check this device to see if you can find the person holding the remote control by following the signal. I will go to retrieve the security guard's surveillance to see if there are any suspicious people."
After that, Gordon sighed, he drove the other police officers out, and when only he and a few professors were left here, he said: "The homicide case in Gotham University made the Godfather very dissatisfied. He thought that someone was provoking him, so I was under a lot of pressure."
"If you have any clues, be sure to tell me, the students are innocent, I don't want this tragedy to happen again."
As soon as he said this, a police officer rushed in and shouted: "3rd floor! Someone on the 3rd floor was attacked again!
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