After Gordon and Batman left the underground of the chapel, both of them seemed a little silent. After all, the place where they were just here buried dozens of lives in just one month.

Gotham is a dark city, but when this darkness is naked in front of people, only people with strong willpower can digest the impact of this deep darkness.

Batman and Gordon had countless emotions in their hearts. The first case that Batman, who had just arrived, took place in front of him, seemed boundless evil, and darkness without light. He suddenly realized that, as Schiller said, he might not be fully prepared.

Strong force is just a means to survive here, but to save this city, force alone is far from enough.

Just as he was thinking about this, Batman turned a corner and saw Schiller standing on the second floor again, holding an umbrella. Under the balcony was where the beggar once stayed.

Batman felt a sense of absurdity. How could he dare to stand here for this damn criminal who killed dozens of innocent lives? Why are there some people in this world who can remain indifferent to living lives? They can even kill them without hesitation.

Batman's inner depression turned into anger. Under Gordon's gaze, he jumped up along the street and jumped directly onto the balcony more than two meters high.

"Your trial is coming, damn murderer," Batman said.

"Have you found the evidence you want?" Schiller asked

"Of course, and this evidence is enough to judge you."

Schiller suddenly laughed, and he said in an extremely brisk tone: "How ridiculous, you are still thinking about trying me. The police department of Gotham City should really give you a good citizen medal. You are such a great policeman."

"How good would it be if your parents died, such a great policeman found evidence left by the murderers and tried them? That's what you think, right?"

"You don't trust the police or the court, but you still look for evidence and try to judge me with the correctness of the judiciary. Don't you think you're doing something contradictory?"

"You want to prove that I violated the law, Batman, your actions violated the law. If I will be tried, you will. You are using the act of crime to prove that a criminal is a criminal, aren't you?"

Schiller raised his tone and said in a slight silence: "You feel that you have the ability to avenge the criminals with your own means. But in the end, you are still ordinary people who are domesticated by this society of order. You are still talking about evidence and keep asking for judgment."

"If you can't put aside these, you can't put aside these shackles imposed by the society of order and society, and you can't erase the concepts of law and judicial proceedings in your mind, you will never be able to uphold the justice you want."

"Bruce..." Schiller looked into his eyes and said:

"The law is not justice, you are."

"Gotham's law has not saved your parents, just like it has not saved the dozens of missing people. If you have any meaningless fantasies about it, you will never become the real Batman."

Schiller could clearly see Batman's arms trembling. His hands holding the bat dart were covered with veins, and even his whole body was trembling. Obviously, he became extremely angry.

Schiller's words were too heartbroken. He revealed one of the biggest contradictions of young Batman.

Gotham's laws failed to save his parents. Batman, who kept saying he wanted to take revenge, was still kidnapped by the orderly arrangement. In the end, he still followed judicial justice.

"You want me to give my justice?" Batman asked. Then he raised a gun and pointed it at Schiller's forehead.

Batman certainly has a gun. In Gotham, without this hot weapon, you can hardly survive. Not to mention justice.

Schiller still seemed calm. He said, "You haven't answered my previous question yet. Have you found the evidence you want? What is that?"

"There are stains left by you on the crate below the chapel, which are dirt and leaves, and are the leaves of North American red pine that are only found in Gotham University."

Schiller said: "What does that mean?"

"It means you are the murderer." Batman said.

"Is that right? I appeared alone on the streets of the Morson neighborhood for no reason, and my dress and actions were suspicious. And you found leaves belonging to Gotham University at the crime site, which shows that the murderer may be someone from Gotham University, so I am the murderer. What a rigorous reasoning." Schiller said.

Batman looked at his expression of regret and guilt, his tone of slight distortion. His anger had really reached its peak. Just as he wanted to pull the trigger, Gordon, who ran over, shouted: "Stop! Put the gun down!"

Batman was interrupted for a moment, Schiller threw a USB flash drive on the ground between them and said:

"The evidence is conclusive? The murderer has been to Gotham University, and I am a university teacher, which is really conclusive."

"Yes, how much you hope that when your parents die, someone will be like you now, just like you, just because the evidence is conclusive."

"Don't mention my parents..." Batman said with a trembling voice, "You criminal."

"You think of a lot of similarities," Schiller said.

"But your anger makes it ignore more, more differences."

"For example, I have never had any educational background in chemistry and biology related majors. For example, I have participated in the investigation of countless serial murders. The anti-investigation awareness is not so bad that I can't even clear my footprints, and more importantly..."

Schiller looked at the USB flash drive and said, "My evidence is much more conclusive than you."

Batman's anger dropped slightly due to Gordon's interruption. After a sensible reply, he felt that even in such a cold weather, sweat soaked his shirt on his back.

Batman picked up the USB flash drive vigilantly, and he inserted it on the microcomputer in his arm, and a projection popped up.

At this time, Gordon also ran into the balcony. He saw in the video, a man in a plaid shirt stood sneakily on the air conditioning unit of a house, and put a hose into the window. The figures who were originally standing and sitting in the room fell down one after another. After the man jumped off the air conditioning unit, he walked into the corridor. After a while, he dragged two big boxes, put them on the trailer, and pushed them away, and the figures in the room were gone.

This was the inspiration given by Batman to Schiller. Jonathan really lacked anti-detection awareness. Schiller stood in the corridor opposite him, taking a camera to shoot, but he didn't even notice it.

However, no one in Gotham City will even come out to stroll in the middle of the night, especially when you come to such slums, you will lose your life if you accidentally.

Gordon suddenly shouted: "No wonder!"

"I remember when registering the address of the missing person, it was true that the residents on the lower floors suffered more victims, and almost all the victims' houses had balcony..." Gordon said.

Then he looked at Batman and Schiller, and he said to Batman with some anger, "I really misread you. Did you want to shoot just now? Do you know you almost killed someone just now?!"

Batman looked at the projection on his arm silently. Anyone who was not blind could tell that the size of the murderer inside was 108,000 miles apart from Schiller.

Although Schiller can't fight or exercise, he is still tall, only a little shorter than Batman and thinner, but at least he is close to 1.9 meters. The person in the video is only 1.7 meters tall and weighs no more than 60 kilograms.

"Professor Jonathan is a good old man. That's what you think, right? Because he doesn't check his homework, he treats you well, and will never fail your subject. But I'm different. I'm a very troublesome professor. He always finds faults in his homework, takes exams when he's fine, and threatens all students with the possibility of failing the subject."

"So of course I am the murderer, and he is not. After all, how could such a cowardly, taciturn, thin and small person be a serial murderer?"

"Stop talking." Batman said in a trembling voice.

He recalled the scene when he was facing the beggar that day. From the corner of his eyes, he could see the stain left by the beggar leaning against the wall. The strong sense of guilt and shame surrounded him again.

Gordon's words added fuel to the fire. He said: "I don't care where you came from. You are wearing tights to cause trouble in the city, but you almost killed a good person. What kind of hatred do you two have? If you have personal hatred, then go and resolve it yourself and don't interfere with the police's case."

"Are the police in Gotham City not busy enough? Do you want to kill someone in front of me because you hope I will send you to jail immediately?" Gordon said.

The overtime work for several consecutive days has made him feel irritated. He said impatiently: "The weird guy in tights, give me that USB flash drive, I'm going to take it back for filing... Sir, please come back with me. You seem to know who the murderer is. We need clues..."

After a moment of silence, Batman silently stretched out his arm and handed the USB flash drive to Gordon.

He found that his ambitious debut trip was a complete insult. He thought that the criminal Schiller was a great help and provided the most critical evidence.

Schiller didn't speak anymore, Batman stood there, and on the street outside, endless rain began to rain again.

Just as he was about to leave with Gordon, he heard Batman behind him say, "...I'm sorry, professor."

Schiller paused, and he felt a little incredible. What did Batman just say???

He just apologized???

Schiller turned back in disbelief, Batman stood in the shadow cast by the building, the only beam of light shone on his mask, his lips tightly pursed, Schiller felt very ridiculous.

He is Batman.

Because he is Batman.

And Batman is always right.

Batman won't apologize to anyone.

Faced with everyone's doubts, he would only say one thing: "Because I'm Batman."

Schiller saw too many dark side of Batman in Batman’s comics, such as preparing kryptonite to defend Superman, and preparing a set of solutions for everyone in the Justice League to deal with them. He seemed to not trust anyone, or even himself.

It has to be said that when the editor of the comics created this character, these dark sides made him more charming and could leave a deeper impression on readers.

But this also caused Schiller to have a prejudice against Batman.

He thought Batman should be like that, in the comics. Batman never apologized because he didn't think he was wrong. He thought those measures to guard against his companions were necessary.

This created a prejudice for Schiller. Batman didn't know how to apologize. When he really found out that he was wrong, he would still feel regret and guilt.

Schiller indeed wanted to teach young Batman some truths, such as not being prejudiced, not being judged by appearance, not being overwhelmed by anger, and keeping independent thinking.

But Schiller suddenly realized that he was not qualified to teach Batman not to be prejudiced, because he himself had an indelible stereotype about the character. He hoped that Bruce could become Batman in the comic in his mind, and the faster the process, the better.

But now it seems that the story is not a wise and knowledgeable professor and his young and reckless student, but a very classic book called Pride and Prejudice.

Batman, with absolute arrogance towards his reasoning, believed that Schiller must be the murderer. When he had preconceived prejudice and some evidence that happened to match the prejudice, he almost shot Schiller.

But Schiller also has a prejudice against Batman, believing that he should be the mature, cautious and suspicious dark hero in the comics.

Not only did the two of them laugh at each other, but they could also say that they were half a dozen or so.

Now Batman seems to have learned this lesson, and he clearly realizes that he is not omniscient and omnipotent.

His reasoning will also be confined to prejudice and thus produces great fallacies, and his impulses appear even more deadly under this arrogance.

He saw the scar on the side of Schiller's neck, which he had left with a bat dart before. At that time, he assumed that Schiller was a criminal and threatened him in the way of treating the criminal. Although he did not shoot today, as Gordon said, the wound was very deep and probably would have left a scar.

Batman felt guilty and very scared about it.

He thought that the law cannot judge every criminal correctly, not the reason why he tried others with his own arrogance.

And when he cannot guarantee that he is 100% correct, any impulsive violent acts may leave a scar that will never be erased on an innocent person or even a good person.

He was just glad that fortunately the price paid by innocent people was not life.

Batman stood in the shadow and thought that he would forever prevent this possibility, so he decided that no matter how vicious the criminal was, he would never kill anyone.

If any innocent person died unjustly in his hands, he would become a more abominable criminal than killing his parents.

Because the criminals who killed his parents might just be for money or revenge, the damage they caused was two lives.

If Batman kills innocent people indiscriminately, there will be no hope in the city.

In the comics, the setting of Batman not killing seems to have existed since the beginning.

Schiller has not explored why. He thinks that this setting is wrong and is very annoying. For example, when facing those annoying criminals, those lunatics who have repeatedly escaped from prison to cause trouble, why can't Batman kill them? He has thought about it countless times when he was reading comics.

But what he didn't expect was that in this world, the young Batman was determined to not kill criminals because of him and Schiller.

Because he is Batman, he is the only hope of the city. If he is defeated by the guilt of killing innocent people, the city will be completely helpless.

By chance, although Schiller still failed to allow the young Batman to establish his spiritual pillar, he successfully completed one of Batman's settings, which is not to kill.

Schiller would not have thought that he had regretted his meddling in other people's business countless times in the days to come.

When Batman became completely mature, Schiller roared in his heart countless times, why can't Batman just move his fingers to strangle the damn criminals, so that they don't appear in front of him again and again to break his peaceful life!!
Chapter completed!