amaotonovel Chapter 2986: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (2)
Chapter 2986: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (2)
Chapter 2986: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (Twenty)
Aisha is indeed worthy of being Bruce's daughter. She found the financial reports from a few years ago in just a few hours and identified the ones with problems.
In fact, the financial reports of such construction engineering groups will have some problems to a greater or lesser extent. Tax avoidance is legal in the United States, and most companies will entrust professional financial teams to reduce their taxes. In addition to legal tax avoidance, they can also skirt the rules and make some less easily detected adjustments to the financial reports to reduce some taxes.
Therefore, many companies' financial reports will have problems of one kind or another, which cannot be discovered unless you look closely. Aisha also found some such small problems in the financial statements of Wardlade Engineering Group, but it was obvious that they were done to evade taxes. However, Aisha felt that there was a big problem with the only one sent to Dick.
There was no clear source for this payment, but the amount was considerable. More importantly, the money was signed for personally by the company's general manager, Bob, and his signature was still on the financial report.
While the captured people were spending the night in the detention room, Elsa and Helen went to investigate the source of the money overnight.
They came in and out and came back again. After the group of people who invaded Williams Real Estate Company were caught, they entered the company again. Aisha used her powerful hacking skills to find the internal accounts of the real estate company.
Like the Wardlade Engineering Group, this company's accounts are also very messy, and it is obvious that it has evaded taxes a lot. However, there was an expenditure of exactly the same amount at almost the same time four years ago, and the person who criticized it was Williams himself.
That is to say, one day four years ago, Williams' real estate company approved a sum of money, and the Wardlade engineering team received a sum of money, with little difference in time and amount.
However, the recipient of the payment, Wardlaide Engineering Team, did not add any additional projects during this period, and the money was not previous debt, so it can be said that it was out of control.
After locking in the time of this strange payment, Aisha began to follow the clues, and then she found that at almost the same time, the Wardlade Engineering Team had an expenditure for renting an excavator.
In fact, the account details can reveal a lot of things. For example, the fuel costs can be used to tell how many vehicles the company has, and Aisha has seen from the equipment maintenance costs that the Wardlade engineering team at the time had about four excavators, two large and two small.
But at the same time as the mysterious payment four years ago, Wardled Engineering Group rented three more excavators, all of which were large excavators. But at the same time, the engineering group did not have any major projects ongoing. So what did it do by renting the excavators?
This made Aisha realize that Wardlade Engineering Group might have hidden a project from four years ago, and this project was done for Williams' real estate company, so the two of them had financial transactions and Wardlade Engineering Group rented a large excavator.
Aisha went to find the company that rented the excavator, which was a little-known equipment rental company. From their log, it was estimated that Wardlade Engineering Group should have rented it for about three days.
Three days is too short a time. Not to mention building a residential complex, it is not enough even to build a small building.
Following this clue, Aisha guessed that the Wardlade Engineering Group was not building anything, but dismantling something.
Because it is obvious that if you are building a house, it is unlikely that only excavators will be mobilized.
Moreover, the objects being demolished should not be very big, because although it is a large excavator, it is not a behemoth that is dozens of meters high. If it is to demolish a building in Gotham City, this small guy will have no chance at all.
But if it was to demolish residential buildings, how big a space would it take to fit six excavators, four large and two small? If it was to demolish residential buildings in large areas, it would not be rented for only three days.
All these unreasonable things made Aisha guess, and she began to look for surveillance videos from four years ago in Bruce's computer.
When Batman first debuted, there were actually a lot of surveillance cameras installed in Gotham. Although the damage rate was very high, there were still some very hidden ones that recorded valuable historical data.
Before this, Aisha sent a message to Dick, asking them to delay Williams as long as possible to prevent them from noticing anything. Dick immediately understood that the negotiations on the next day would be crucial.
Schiller arrived early in the morning and first came to the detention room to see them, but he did not seem very angry and asked the police officer to buy them breakfast.
Gordon and Schiller were old friends after all. Before Williams came, he took Schiller to an office nearby and said, "This guy is here with bad intentions. Are you ready?"
"No, and I don't plan to prepare," Schiller said. "But I have a perfect plan, and you'll find out soon."
Hearing him say this, Gordon felt his heart skip a beat again. It would be best if the perfect plan he mentioned had nothing to do with artistic creation.
Williams arrived almost on time. When he saw Schiller, he came over with a big smile, shook his hand and said, "I'm so sorry, Professor. I didn't have a good attitude that day. It might be because the weather was too hot. High temperatures always make people irritable. Please don't mind."
"It doesn't matter." Schiller shook his head. He really didn't mind now, because he did some small work last night and he would be able to get out of the quagmire soon.
"As you can see, these reckless little guys made a fatal mistake. Although I want to teach them a lesson, I won't really do anything to them for your sake. But I hope you can ensure that this kind of thing doesn't happen again..."
"What do you want me to do?" Schiller asked the key question.
It was obvious that this guy was coming for him. He first appeared near his territory to provoke him, and then took advantage of the reckless young man's mistakes to negotiate with him.
If nothing unexpected happened, even if these people did not run to Williams' real estate company to investigate in the middle of the night, he would definitely find ways to stimulate them and make them break the law so as to accumulate negotiating capital for himself.
But the most important thing is, why is he doing all this? Schiller doesn't think he has anything that can make this kind of real estate boss care about him. The role that psychology can play in doing business is really very limited. He is more useful to Gordon than to Schiller.
"It's like this. I have a friend whose son committed some crimes, but he doesn't want him to be shot or put in jail. He used to be a gangster. You know, if his son goes to jail, he might not come out alive."
Williams tapped his fingers together, the flesh on his face rising and falling as he spoke, then clasped his hands together again and said, "We hope to gain favorable conditions for him at the trial, and it would be best if we can confirm that he was not in a normal state of mind when he did it."
"So that's how it is," said Schiller.
He acted very calmly, which seemed to surprise Williams. Williams asked tentatively: "He killed someone, don't you think it's a bit..."
"This kind of thing happened a lot when Gotham was overrun with gangs." Schiller shook his head and said, "Many people came to me."
"then you……"
"Mr. Williams, you may not be familiar with psychology. Most people don't know it either. This forces me to explain my research direction to everyone - psychoanalysis."
"Out of a responsible attitude, I must explain to you that psychoanalysis is not the mainstream direction of psychology at present. The public now recognizes behavioral analysis more. Psychoanalysis is generally regarded as outdated, superstitious, and unreliable."
"The most important reason for this situation is that psychoanalysis is immediate and immediate. It is an analysis produced through contact with the current person, rather than judging the other person through his past behavior. It is closer to inspiration than logic."
"To put it simply, I need to contact the person now to analyze his current mental state, and I cannot contact him at the time of the murder, because that is his past self."
"Even without mentioning this professional knowledge, the jury members will not accept the testimony of a psychoanalyst on whether the murderer's behavior was normal at the time of the crime, because it is determined to be a pseudoscience."
"If you can get the jury to see my research direction, I'd be happy to help you, but the fact is that my several court appearances have ended in failure or inaction."
"If you want to try again, I can help you, but I can't give you any guarantees. If the court doesn't accept it, I can't change their opinion."
Williams showed a disappointed look, but then he said, "Then take a step back, can you find a way to diagnose him as a mental patient? That is, let him not go to jail, but to a mental hospital."
"That's fine." Schiller paused, then looked Williams in the eye and said, "I don't know if you listened carefully to what I just said."
"If you don't mind, I can explain it a little more." Williams turned over his palms and said, he obviously didn't listen just now.
"Psychoanalysis is closer to inspiration than logic. To put it bluntly, it's more like mind reading. You'd better make sure that your friend's son is not keeping any very important secrets."
The atmosphere in the room grew cold. Anyone could understand what Schiller meant. If psychoanalysis was a method that could understand or roughly guess the cause of a person's mental state simply by contact, then it would be better for the son of this so-called friend to only kill one person.
Williams was silent for half the game before saying, "Why are you telling me this?"
His doubts were reasonable. If Schiller had not said anything and just issued a diagnosis, no one would have known about it, and he would have completed his task perfectly.
"Because there were some idiots who wanted to get rid of me, but unfortunately I learned their secret. I'm not sure if you want to do the same, so it's best to make it clear to avoid more trouble."
Williams showed a hesitant expression, which obviously meant that he needed to gamble whether the so-called psychoanalysis was really that magical.
But in fact he knew that he had no other choice. Schiller had already emphasized that psychoanalysis was not the mainstream in academia, but Schiller still became a world-renowned psychologist, which means that he must have his own unique features. Perhaps he could really achieve an effect similar to mind reading?