And these highly deliberate cases were all capable of causing the greatest possible public uproar. Once they broke out, every media outlet rushed in together—one group analyzed, another refuted, all kinds of experts took turns arguing, and the victims' families gave seven or eight interviews a day.
Generally speaking, when public opinion fermented to this extent, it was detrimental to the local country and government. To maintain social stability, they should have exercised some degree of control.
But more coincidentally, whenever public opinion erupted, corruption and bribery cases would break out locally at the same time, or someone would release unverified information unfavorable to certain people, or an important figure would simply die.
This made controlling public sentiment an extremely bleak prospect, and later, almost no one stepped in anymore.
Taking all the characteristics together, Schiller guessed that aside from the initial hotel massacre truly being the influence of an Outer God, all these strange incidents might have been man-made.
That was not to say they were filming a movie. Those tragedies might really have happened, and they truly might have been beyond human capability, but the source of that danger was controlled by certain people.
The anomalies and monsters really existed; it was just that someone could use them to seize benefits for themselves.
This also matched the previous deduction about Joker's fundamental goal. He wanted all of this to be man-made disasters, so that after Batman saved the world, he would discover that his true enemy was not some natural calamity at all, but the very compatriots he had devoted himself to saving.
The church's development trajectory was not very logical in theory. These methods alone should not have been enough to elevate them to their current position, but Schiller was a clergyman of the church himself, so