The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 2925 When Night Falls (43)

Chapter 2925 When Night Falls (Forty-three)

The truth always comes so suddenly, but when the veil of mystery is lifted, people have to learn to accept it no matter how hard it is to accept.

Gordon looked at the tied Barbara with a worried look on his face. That was his daughter, and they had been father and daughter for so many years. Even if she really became a vampire, she was the king of vampires. He couldn't let go of the feelings in his heart for the time being.

At this time, Schiller walked up and patted him on the shoulder. He gave Dick a look and asked Dick to go upstairs with the real Barbara. He brought the somewhat distraught Gordon to the porch behind the manor. Alfred looked at the fake Barbara, while the other Robins went back to rest and prepare for the next tough battle.

Gordon took out a cigarette with trembling hands, took a deep puff, and sat on the porch railing, supporting his knees with his elbows, lowering his head and remaining silent.

Schiller, sitting next to him, said, “You’re thinking about the videos.”

"Yes," Gordon replied in a bitter voice, "but all my professional experience tells me that the video is real. This is what Barbara did."

"Yes, that's what Barbara did." Schiller did not deny it. He said: "She herself admitted that she did all these things and she remembers them all."

Gordon looked up at Schiller because he felt that the man didn't seem to be repeating what he said, but emphasizing something.

But Gordon's mind was blank now. He had no clues, and he couldn't ignore the evidence and force himself to defend Barbara.

"What about what she doesn't remember?" Schiller reminded him, "There are some things that only you remember. Don't you want to think about it?"

Gordon then realized that Schiller was referring to when Barbara was a baby, but that was too long ago and he really couldn't remember it clearly.

"I don't know when they switched the babies," Gordon said. "They had so many opportunities. They could have bribed or controlled a nurse to do it..."

Gordon felt very painful, but what made him painful was that he could not ignore the facts. The fact was that the modern medical system seemed to have very rigorous procedures, but it was not enough in the face of vampire magic. Anyone could sneak in and replace the baby.

"Do you think you are special?" Schiller asked again.

Gordon didn't understand what he meant, but shook his head anyway. Although he didn't feel inferior, he wasn't so arrogant as to think he was special just because he dealt with this group of superheroes every day.

Even compared to Schiller, he was not special enough, and even the pain of losing his daughter was common.

"What about your wife? Is she a normal person?"

This triggered Gordon's memories again. He didn't know how long he had been thinking about it. Finally, he nodded and said, "Compared to you, she is certainly an ordinary person."

"So why does Barbara's blood make vampires immune to sunlight?"

Gordon froze for a moment, then shook his head helplessly and said, "I don't understand these things, but maybe it has something to do with her date of birth? Her blood type? Maybe even something she ate one day?"

"You actually know a lot about occultism," Schiller said. "It's often the case that the occult attributes displayed by humans have no regular pattern, nor are they subject to human subjective will. They always appear in unexpected places."

"Maybe Barbara just let Dick suck her blood because she liked him and didn't want him to suffer from hunger."

"I'm sorry, sir." Gordon shook his head in pain and said, "Just say whatever you want to say. I really don't have time to guess riddles right now."

"I should be the one to say sorry. This is just my professional habit." Schiller smiled and said, "If she let Dick suck her blood because she liked Dick, thus making Dick immune to sunlight, then what about Zan?"

"Who is Zan? ...the guy in purple clothes who was bitten later?" Gordon didn't know the Wonder Twins, or maybe he had seen them before but couldn't remember now, but he used the process of elimination, after all, he knew Dick and the Flash.

"Is he immune to sunlight too?" Gordon closed his eyes tightly. Under the effect of nicotine, his headache was relieved a little.

Schiller handed him a painkiller, and in order to calm himself down, Gordon took it and swallowed it.

"Not only that, another professional mage and I have discovered that there is a power in his body. It is this power that makes him immune to the judgment of sunlight. Where do you think this power comes from?"

"Who knows." Gordon shook his head and said, "Maybe there are many people who can make vampires immune to sunlight, and he bit one of them."

But Gordon found that this reason could not even convince himself, because if there were really a lot of such people, most vampires would be immune to sunlight, and the disaster would be dozens of times more terrible than it is now.

"Perhaps Barbara, out of sympathy, also let the boy named Zane suck her blood." Schiller proposed a possibility. He said, "Then, the boy appeared beside another team arranged by Batman and left this to me."

Schiller gently pointed to the scar on his cheekbone, which was scratched when he was trying to avoid the blood during Zan's sudden attack.

Gordon finally connected these scattered clues together. He said: "Someone gave Zan the power to be immune to sunlight, and then he attacked you. In other words, this power was prepared to attack you."

"The possibility of it being a coincidence is not very high." Schiller still maintained his euphemism.

His style is completely different from arrogance. He never states any set conclusions, but deliberately expresses some wrong answers in a speculative tone to guide the other party to think of the correct answer.

If Gordon was in a normal state, he would have reacted faster, but considering that he was in a bad mood, Schiller decided to make his words clearer.

"The vampires were doomed, and the vampire king was captured. Don't you think this is a little too smooth?"

Gordon finally turned and stared at him. Schiller shook his head slightly and said, "I'm afraid we're not the only ones who play with time."

He felt his heart beating again, and he looked at Schiller and said, "You mean that's not the truth, but Barbara is..."

"Yes, she is indeed the king of vampires, and she did bite three people in a row, creating such a farce, but what if it was not the case in the first place?"

Gordon was a little confused by him again. Schiller continued, "We thought this was a disaster that the vampires had planned for a long time, but now it seems that they may have just been passively attacked."

"The bad news for humans is that this is not the level they are fully prepared for. The good news is that when they are not fully prepared, their level is very poor."

"Because they can't handle the current situation, they have to make this happen smoothly. What do you do when you can't handle a case?"

"I firmly believe that there is no case that cannot be handled. I will work hard to find the truth. Even in the case of the Waynes, I did not give up."

"I'm sorry, you're a good cop, but what about those corrupt cops in your department who are just sitting there doing nothing?"

Gordon paused for a moment before saying, "It was classified as suicide."

Then he connected all of Schiller's previous words together and said, "This means that this disaster is also a disaster for the vampires. They don't want to end up in a situation like this."

"What they regret is not the war, but the fact that they did not win the war," Schiller said.

"Yes, but they were also cowards. When they found that they could no longer control the situation, they wanted to end the whole thing as soon as possible. The way they did that was to fake it as a 'suicide'..."

Gordon stood up and said, "If the Vampire King is from the Bat Family, then Batman must come out to clean up the mess and give everyone an explanation. He has the ability to end the war."

"Barbara is his good helper, and the two of them have supported each other's emotions before. Even if it is to save Barbara, he will not allow the situation to escalate, and the vampire will be able to stop the loss in time."

"And assuming that the Flash who can travel through time is also on their side, then they can travel back to the past and replace the so-called Vampire King with someone else."

Gordon turned suddenly, looked at Schiller and said, "You knew this a long time ago?!"

Schiller shook his head and said, "If the so-called real Barbara doesn't show up, everything will be logical. Even if I have doubts, I have no evidence and I have no obligation to investigate."

"It's just..." Schiller lowered his eyes, but Gordon could clearly see that his face darkened slightly. His intuition from years of handling cases made Gordon feel an unprecedented aura of danger from him.

"Have you ever seen a type of criminal who has a habit of returning to the scene of their crime, and even likes to chat with the police who come to investigate, just to see the police's confused look?"

Many figures flashed through Gordon's mind in an instant. He said in a complicated tone: "I have never met a few people who don't like to do this... I mean, Gotham, you know."

Then he realized what Schiller was referring to, and he said, a little suspiciously, "Are you saying that the person who claims to be my biological daughter is the kind of criminal who likes to return to the scene and feel superior to the police?"

"She was confident that her plan was flawless."

"To some extent, yes." Gordon's tone dropped again. He had the conclusive video of Barbara's crime in his hand. Even Batman could not deny it. Although the story of being stolen as a baby sounded a bit like a TV series, it was actually not impossible.

"And if, as you said, they traveled back in time and did something, then this kind of weird thing could really happen. If the Flash were to steal a child, who could stop him?"

"Yes." Schiller did not deny this. He said, "If we don't consider the magical factor, this is a reasonable explanation."

"In order to find a suitable growth environment for their experimental subject, an evil organization stole a normal human girl and stuffed the experimental subject in there."

"They thought it would be useful to keep the normal little girl, so they didn't kill her. As a result, the little girl escaped and followed the clues from that year to find the enemy who replaced her identity. She has been lurking around them, looking for an opportunity to take revenge."

"When the experiment finally shows her vicious fangs, she will stand up and reveal her true face, find her identity, and live in the sun."

"It does sound like a TV show." Gordon sat back down and said, "But reality is even more illogical than TV shows. If this reality was written by someone, it wouldn't be surprising if it turned out like this."

"The only problem is that she's back." Schiller said with a hint of sarcasm in his tone, "She's confident that she can replace your daughter and win the love of everyone in the Bat Family."

"She can't," Gordon said. "Barbara is unique."

"More importantly, she wanted to do a dance like this in front of Batman... and in front of me."