novelonline Chapter 3194 Detective is dying (45)
Chapter 3194 Detective is dying (45)
Chapter 3194: Detective is about to die (Forty-five)
"Then let's talk about Madeleine." Schiller said again: "I think you should have seen that Madeleine is not a normal person. In fact, I strongly suspect that this seemingly pitiful woman is the real murderer of their family's massacre."
Batman finally came to his senses because Schiller started to speculate, so he asked, "Why do you doubt it?"
"Because of that research notebook."
It's finally here, Batman thought, as expected, every Schiller can guess the truth directly through a few fragmentary clues.
When Batman heard Schiller mention the research notes, he thought that he could only use psychoanalysis to come to the conclusion that Madeleine was the murderer.
Because there was actually nothing wrong with the notebook and it was not enough to be used as evidence to judge a person's personality, but Schiller still said so, which means that he might have empathized with something.
Unexpectedly, Schiller said: "Based on my experience, Madeleine was too indifferent when she mentioned what happened to her family. She may be a narcissistic psychopath."
"Experience? What experience?"
"Some... experience dealing with criminals." Schiller paused and then said, "I have seen many similar criminals, and they all give me the same feeling."
“So it’s also a feeling?”
Schiller shook his head and said, "I am just speaking in general. If you must pursue details, I can say that Madeleine's wording has an obvious God's perspective, which is macro and objective."
Schiller leaned back in his chair and said as he recalled: "Everyone lives in the first person, so when they describe what they see, it must be subjective."
"For example, when the murderers confessed their crimes, they would conceal some things, some of which were intended to reduce their guilt, but some of which were unintentional."
"Among these inadvertent concealments, some are because their brains beautify themselves, while others are due to information gaps caused by subjective perspectives."
"They often say 'I saw' or 'I thought', which is an obviously subjective way of narrating, such as 'I saw him lying in the corner with blood all over his face, and I wondered if he was dead'."
"This is a confession I hear very often. I think you should hear it often too, because many murderers are brutal but mentally normal. They are not crazy or perverted. This kind of narration is what a normal person should have."
"But Madeleine is not like that. She describes such an incident from the perspective of 'someone fell in a corner somewhere, he was killed'. This is not a subjective narrative at all, but more like an objective judgment."
"If what she was talking about had nothing to do with her, it might be explainable, but she was describing the death of her loved one. Once you put the identity of her loved one into the picture, you will find that this sentence is horribly cold."
"Who on earth would describe the death of a loved one by saying 'My mother was lying in the corner of the kitchen, she was killed', 'My sister was lying on the dining table, there was a triangular hole in her chest', or 'My father was lying face down on the stairs, there were two bloody marks on his arms'?"
"Maybe Madeline was very good later on, and she learned how to summarize things in the most concise words. But she was very young when she experienced all this, and her subjective consciousness was more easily affected by emotions. So the images left in her memory shouldn't be as clear and objective as an autopsy report. I think it would be more normal even if she described a bunch of monster images."
"This proves that when Madeleine was going through all this, she did not collapse because of fear. She did not even feel fear. She accepted it all calmly, remembered it all, and could still clearly recount it many years later."
"This is actually a very scary thing. If this whole thing was not a disaster for her, then what is the possibility that she became a survivor by luck?"
"To sum up, I think Madeleine has a mental disorder and is most likely a born psychopath. Of course, there is no substantial evidence to support the speculation that she was the one who caused this tragedy, but she is definitely not an innocent victim as she described herself."
After hearing all this, Batman discovered that Schiller possessed a very sharp insight and, apart from his analytical methods, was also a very good detective.
But Batman cannot ignore the analytical method, because he had already come to these conclusions after reading Madeline's diary. What he wants is the deeper things behind it.
"Psychopath?" Batman asked. This kind of thing involving professional psychology knowledge might lead to Schiller's analysis of Madeline's personality.
But what was unexpected was that Schiller began to analyze the Joker.
He uses the difference between Madeline and the Joker as an introduction, profoundly demonstrating to Batman the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath.
Many people say that the Joker is a madman, but to be more specific, he is a person with antisocial personality disorder, which is a mental illness in a broad sense, but he is not a madman in the public's perception.
The reason has been mentioned before. The Joker is rational, and all his actions are profit-oriented. It's just that the interests he pursues are evil in themselves, so he looks crazy.
The biggest difference between a psychopath and a psychopath is that a psychopath is not profit-oriented but desire-oriented.
Let’s put it this way, throughout history, many celebrities in the upper class have had antisocial personality disorders, and even in modern times, many people have admitted this.
The reason for this problem is that antisocial personality disorder is highly profit-oriented, even excessively profit-oriented, which means that they will do anything to achieve their own interests, ignoring all social rules, morals, and even instincts and destroying humanity.
Although it is a bit cruel, we have to admit that this kind of ruthless character is more likely to achieve success in the sociological sense.
It's not that upper-class people are more likely to suffer from antisocial personality disorder, but that people with antisocial personality disorder are more likely to become upper-class people.
But psychopaths are more often seen in the lower classes.
Don't think that psychopaths are just crazy people who go out on the streets and slash people with knives. There are very few people who are this serious, but mild psychopaths are widely present among the public.
One of their typical characteristics is that they harm others without benefiting themselves.
This is exactly the opposite of the highly profit-oriented nature of antisocial personality disorder. Psychopaths do not pursue profit and may even give up profit in order to satisfy their own desires.
For example, when a game is about to be won, teammates give up, group assignments are almost completed, and someone messes up. The project is going smoothly, but someone comes to mess it up. The child has found a good job, but they are determined to ruin it.
More importantly, these troublemakers are actually members of the team themselves, commonly known as insiders.
Many people would think that such people are unreasonable, because it is obvious that this matter is developing in a positive direction and is also beneficial to them.
If they win the game, they can get points. If the group work is praised by the teacher, they also benefit from it. But they just insist on making trouble. They are like crazy and I can't understand their logic no matter what.
But in reality, this is a manifestation of psychopathy.
After winning the game, they want to give away the points. It’s not that they don’t want to gain points, but they simply feel that they can’t let their teammates be happy. To be more precise, they can’t let their teammates be happier than them.
The group assignment is almost finished, and they want to make trouble. It's not that they are not afraid of the teacher's reprimand, but rather that they don't want the other students' weight in the teacher's heart to rise more than theirs, rather than being reprimanded by the teacher together.
Other things are the same, so this kind of psychopathy has a prefix, called narcissism.
To be more specific, in order to prevent anyone from surpassing themselves in any aspect, they can sacrifice any interests to satisfy their perverted desires.
It is conceivable that such a person will never succeed in life.
Giving away some heads in the game or ruining a group assignment is not really a failure, but the key point is that the symptoms of psychopathology cannot be controlled freely. When making key choices in life, they will succumb to abnormal desires and give up the benefits that are within their grasp.
If you lose a city today and a pond tomorrow, sooner or later you will give up your entire life.
If you observe this type of people carefully, you will find that most of their real lives are failures.
Some of them may be able to disguise themselves for a while, but they will definitely make a few key wrong choices like crazy, making their ugly faces known to everyone, and then messing up their lives.
Many people may wonder why some people are neither incompetent nor stupid, but lose their minds at critical moments in their lives, and go downhill all the way until they hit the bottom, and cannot turn the situation around no matter how hard they struggle.
Most people would think that they are just unlucky, but in fact, they may be psychopaths who succumb to their own abnormal desires and disregard their own interests.
In Schiller's view, Madeleine's life trajectory fits this standard very well, which is probably a series of ups and downs. Until her death, she did not achieve the goals she set for herself.
If this character was made up by someone else, there is still a possibility of coincidence, but the person who made up this character was Greedy. He is a psychiatrist and is very familiar with similar cases.
Another piece of evidence that convinced Schiller that Madeleine had mental problems was that Greedy was a very greedy person, and when he could have both fame and fortune, he would not just seek profit.
He portrayed himself as a rich second-generation, which was not surprising, but he portrayed himself as an unscrupulous capitalist who oppressed the lower class, which was actually inconsistent with his logic.
Since the background story can be set as he pleases, he can just set himself up as a wealthy righteous person. Money is not entirely linked to evil. Why only have one when he can have them all?
Therefore, Schiller firmly believes that the background story that greed has set for himself will definitely have a reversal, and the most difficult one to whitewash is simply not paying compensation to Madeline's family.
If this case itself does not meet the compensation standards and is an insurance fraud case deliberately designed by someone, then there is nothing wrong with what the Siltec Medical Insurance Company did, and greed is naturally whitewashed.
The life story written in Madeline's research notebook is naturally a foreshadowing of greed, which will then become strong evidence that Madeline is the villain.
Schiller believed that as long as the notebook was sent to a professional mental evaluation agency for examination, it would be concluded that Madeleine was mentally ill. This was a deliberate act out of greed.
I can only say that it is fortunate that it was Bruce who played the role of the psychiatrist in this story, and because of his amazing academic level, he failed to discover the error in the notes at the first time.
Others found out but couldn't say anything because their professions didn't match theirs, which allowed Greed to maintain his villain image.
At this moment, Schiller suddenly realized that if Greedy actually wanted to play a decent role, then just reversing the situation and refusing to pay compensation would not be enough. In addition to whitewashing the human experiments, he also had to give a reasonable explanation for why he invited everyone to the laboratory. Otherwise, wouldn't he still be a kidnapper?
If this is the inference, then Batman allowed other people to be invited to the laboratory even though he knew all this. Did he guess that Greed was not actually planning to do anything to them?
Schiller couldn't help but look at Batman again, thinking that he was truly Batman.
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