The Death Knell

Su Ming took the piece of paper from Harley's hand and looked at the clues from a different angle according to what she said.

The woman went to open the window first to ventilate the room. The smell in this room was similar to the room where she kept cats.

The wind in Los Angeles was still noisy late at night, and the music from the nightclub not far away came clearly. Even if I didn't see where the store was, I knew that the business was good just by listening to the loud music.

Poor Harley looked out the window longingly and became absent-minded. She suddenly remembered that she hadn't gone to the disco for several days, and listening to this song made her want to dance.

So her little face pulled down, and she gritted her teeth with an unhappy look on her face and said:

"It's annoying to death. The Laughing Bat is annoying to death. He'd better die soon. Then you have time to go to Gotham with me. Let's go to Black Mask's nightclub. He will not dare to accept your money. When the time comes, I’ll drink his best wine for free.”

Su Ming composed the picture in his mind and looked for the corresponding code words and symbols, but he said: "How can Black Mask have any good wine? His family heritage is not comparable to that of Penguin. Why don't I take you to my territory when this matter is over? Go play, I have a city called New London, it’s so fun, even the aliens know about it.”

"Can you take Xiao Dai and Xiao Hong with you? They are both good at tying up, and I love them." Harley blinked her big eyes and ran back from the window.

Su Ming smoked a cigarette and laughed, turned the paper in his hand and said:

"Diana will not leave here. She has her own responsibilities and ideas. Being a first-line superhero in the Justice League is already very stressful. She also has a lot of mess on Paradise Island. Poison Ivy should not be able to do it either. Time, the Queen of May now controls the greenness of all things, and as a spokesperson, she will probably have to go all over the world to fight against the sinners who destroy vegetation."

Harley's little mouth tilted to one side, she whined, and her shoulders slumped: "Ugh...Okay, let's look at this picture first. Do you need me to help you continue to analyze it?"

"I'd like to hear your perspective, if I may."

Deathstroke put the paper on the table. The marks on the paper looked like a few ants digging into several balls of yarn.

Harley, who once again put on her glasses and switched personalities, began her narration: "First of all, we have to confirm one thing, that is, when Alberta wrote and drew these things, her control over her own thoughts declined. Judging from the vomit on the previous piece of paper, she must have drunk a lot, and may be in a stage where she relies on instinct to do things."

"It can also be seen from the fact that she did not take the piece of paper with her when she left. She may have completely forgotten about it the next day and buried it under a pile of garbage."

"In this case, these patterns can reflect her mental state at the time, as well as her inner wishes and demands. We should also rely on these to judge her whereabouts, right?"

The vast majority of people are desire-driven. They want to do something first, have ideas and plans, and then take action.

And if you do something suddenly without any thoughts or desires, and you don't even know it, then it is a mental illness or psychological problem.

Obviously, as a sorcerer, Alberta cannot be a mental patient. In the group of spell casters, crazy people often kill themselves long ago, perhaps from an experiment, or from gods, demons, and demons. The hands of peers.

How to make a normal person reveal his true nature and desires? The answer is to give him narcotics, such as alcohol and drugs, which will cause the brain to lose control of the cerebral cortex, thereby showing the side of self-release.

The strange handwriting drawn by the witch can be decoded using a similar theory.

Some idle Superboys on the side were holding their arms. Those two huge biceps were as big as two footballs: "Can you tell me the conclusion directly? No offense, I just want to save some time."

"Of course." Harley smiled and slid her fingers on the paper: "Have you ever seen how psychiatrists test patients? Some doctors ask patients to draw pictures to identify the patient's mental state from the pictures. Here you need to use One of the basic skills learned is the Rorschach test."

"Is it the Rorschach I know?" Superboy's fingers circled his face twice, representing the ever-changing black and white facial makeup: "I have read his story. A man who was determined to pursue the truth exploded on the spot. story."

Su Ming nodded, holding a cigarette in his mouth, and handed Superboy a bottle of soda: "For me, the truth is sometimes not important, but in order to solve problems, sometimes the truth must be found. Rorschach's death is just Because the truth he sought might cause more problems, he died due to Dr. Manhattan's inflexible binary logic."

"The man codenamed Rorschach was named after the patterns on his face, and those patterns were first used to judge a person's mental state and psychological needs." Harley sighed, it was rare for her to be serious for a while, and the result The person next to me went off topic again: "Letting patients draw their own paintings is a more advanced experimental application of the Rorschach test. Because there are no specific quantitative standards, the diagnosis depends entirely on the doctor's level."

Deathstroke also pressed his finger on the table, and he wiped out a trace of the thick dust, revealing the wooden texture underneath.

"continue."

"In short, the entire test is divided into four stages and five analysis methods. I won't go into details with you here." Harley's finger stopped at a place on the paper: "First, here, the center of the paper, This is the starting point of Alberta's painting, and she drew a messy mess of threads here, which represents her inner chaos at that time."

"Then she started writing crookedly in all directions from here. We put these words together in our imagination and saw them as several line segments. These lines have various symbols and words like leaves. I can't understand the details. What it means, but these are not important, because this is the 'analogy stage' in psychology, which means that the subject came up with some plans in his heart, but chose one of them."

Superboy raised his hand: "There is a plan, so the witch we are looking for is not a psychopath."

"She wasn't originally. Continue to listen to me." Harley rolled her eyes at Clark and chose the direction where the black thread was obviously offset and had the most words: "This is the longest line made of words. She has thought about it the most, so it should be The final plan, look at it from a distance, see it as a pattern and then look at the big picture. Maybe the words and symbols are spells or something, I don't understand, but we can conclude that the way she left was through magic, which was her last Something to be good at.”

"Then, there is a pause here. In the middle of this line, she paused here and drew a few different symbols." The girl picked up the paper and clicked on that position: "This means that she is between the starting point and There is a stop between destinations, like a gas station, and if we can find where this stop is, we may be able to find her whereabouts."

Su Ming carefully looked at the manipulation of the paper and agreed with Harley's analysis. After all, she was the professional.

"Very good, then let's find a reliable wizard now to decipher the spell or cipher text that may exist." After that, he walked towards the door: "By the way, Clark, don't forget to close the window and Turn off the lights, although she has nothing to steal here.”

Deathstroke hugged Harley and flew out of the window. Superboy, who was left behind, shrugged his shoulders and followed Deathstroke's instructions, but still muttered:

"When I have time, I will also study clinical psychology. Although I don't understand it, I feel that it is very powerful..."