hotmtlnovel Chapter 3203: Detective is dying (end)
Chapter 3203: Detective is dying (end)
Chapter 3203: Detective is dying (end)
Batman upstairs calculated that the time was almost up and was about to end the meaningless argument with the Joker, but he saw a sly smile in the Joker's eyes.
Batman's heart sank, but he was actually mentally prepared. Compared to Schiller, he knew the Joker better. The Joker dared to face him without fear, so he must have something to rely on.
Usually this situation only occurs when the Joker has successfully completed his big prank and Gotham is in danger. Batman wants to kill the culprit in front of him, and he has to hurry to save the city and cannot waste any time on him.
Although such situations often occur, the Joker miscalculated this time. Batman does want to save the world, but there are many people here who don't want to let him go.
Batman turned to Bruce and said, "You stay here and watch this guy. I'll go check downstairs."
After saying that, he didn't even look at the Joker and walked straight downstairs. The Joker turned around to look at Batman and was kicked in the butt the next second. Bruce, who had been enduring for a long time, kicked the Joker down the stairs.
Batman stepped over the Joker who was lying on the ground. Before the Joker could get up, Bruce lifted him up from the ground. Bruce looked up at the Pale Knight and said, "Are you afraid of blood?"
The Pale Knight shook his head, then gestured for invitation, nodding with such elegance that he looked like he was attending a celebrity banquet.
"Where did you hide the electric shock device you made earlier?" Bruce's voice gradually disappeared at the end of the corridor.
Batman went downstairs and quickly figured out what Schiller had done from the water stains. Seeing the footprints spreading to the door, Batman guessed that he must have gone to the village.
But Batman thinks differently from him. Since there might be a problem at the dock, he has to go to the dock. Even if there is something he can't deal with now, he has to know what it is.
So Batman also took his equipment and went out towards the pier. It was not yet dark and the heavy snow obscured his vision.
Batman noticed something was wrong as soon as he approached the dock. Normally, there would be no fog on a snowy day, but it was extremely humid here, and the thick fog limited his vision to only about two meters.
Batman first hid in a small house near the dock and looked at the situation outside through the window. He had just found some water stains on the ground, but they were obviously not human footprints. They looked more like those left by some webbed creatures.
Batman had seen the "Book of the Dead" from Pride and had a certain understanding of the Cthulhu mythology system. He immediately connected the abundant fish in the underground river with the current clues.
Legend has it that deep in the sea lives a huge half-human, half-fish monster named Dagon. Legend has it that people who believe in Dagon can catch abundant fish.
Batman had noticed before that there were an abnormally large number of fish in the underground river, which was not the number that should be naturally generated in a river. It was said that these were fish that were salvaged from the sea by the team boss, Sirtek.
Are the Siltek family followers of Dagon?
This is not mentioned in Greed's backstory, but Batman also knows that if the Beyonder wants to connect all the backstories together, he will inevitably expand on some details.
Maybe old Sirtek really had such an experience, so he wanted to do something, and the Joker might have been hired by him to do all this.
While Batman was thinking, he heard a rustling sound. He quickly lowered his body and held his breath.
He had previously clicked on the Listening skill, and now he chose to activate the skill. Listening 23>15, and the skill check was successful.
But Batman felt like he had been punched in the brain, and although his strong willpower prevented him from making a sound, the dizziness did not ease.
He heard a whisper and remembered the syllables, but could not understand the meaning. He thought he might not have the relevant skills, and maybe he could try to decipher it after meeting Schiller later.
But at this moment, he heard the footsteps getting closer.
Could these monsters be able to locate people by breathing? Batman felt that he was in trouble. His current ability was not enough to deal with these monsters. The Joker was really good at making trouble.
Suddenly, a pair of swollen, bulging, cloudy eyeballs appeared in the window of the house where he was squatting. The eyeballs turned and then stared down at the corner where Batman was hiding.
Batman was looking up at this moment, and the moment he saw that pair of eyes, his brain buzzed and he felt as if his brains were being shaken, and he was almost completely unable to resist.
With a swish, a wet and dirty trident came in through the window and pierced straight into Batman's shoulder blade. Batman was unable to dodge and bright red blood flowed down his shoulder.
The moment he smelled the blood, he knew something was wrong. Sure enough, the next second the door was kicked open and a terrifying black shadow rushed in.
Batman has learned his lesson. He no longer looks up at anything, but instead looks at the opponent's shadow. From the shape of the shadow, he can tell that it is a hunchbacked monster with a fish head and scales on its back.
The sticky, wet and foul smell rushed into his nasal cavity. Batman felt that his mental health value was still declining. He half-knelt on the ground and covered his wound. The wound was abnormally painful. What made him feel worse was that the moist smell was invading his blood through the wound, which made his health value drop rapidly.
With no other choice, Batman rushed towards the door, but his dexterity was 25<50 and he failed the check.
Looking at the test value of 50, Batman knew that his hope of escaping successfully was slim, but the monster in front of him didn't seem to intend to kill him, so Batman had to wait and see.
The trident blocked his way, and the monster grunted a few times, as if he thought Batman had no ability to resist. He took out a long chain, nailed it through Batman's shoulders, and dragged him out.
Batman pretended to faint, but he was still able to secretly open his eyes to look at the situation on the road. He found that the dock was full of these monsters, and they seemed to be capturing humans.
He must figure out where these things came from, otherwise the disaster will spread out of control.
Schiller walked for more than an hour, until it was almost dark when he arrived at the village. As expected, the village was so quiet that it seemed as if no one was there.
Schiller believed that if they had followed the normal procedure and headed towards the village from the beginning, they should still be able to find a few survivors, but it might be difficult now.
It is known that when Greed landed, Doggett and Madeline were being hunted by the Wanderer, so where were they before they escaped into the cave?
If they were in the village, the best way would be to run out of the village. At the very least, they should run to the dock to see if there was a boat. However, they chose to enter the underground cave, which proved that they could not escape from the village.
But it is more likely to prove that the Prowler can move freely in the village, and the Prowler can only move in blood, which means that the village should be covered with blood.
Schiller followed a path into the village, climbed over a low stone wall and came to a family's backyard, where there were some sundries and a dilapidated doghouse. Schiller found the dog's body on the side of the doghouse, and its death was very miserable.
When they pushed open the back door of the house, even though a long time had passed, the strong smell of blood still hadn't dissipated. The whole family was dead.
Based on the crime scene, it can be roughly judged that this family died in infighting. The youngest daughter should have been possessed. She used a kitchen knife to kill her mother who was cooking. The father wanted to stop her, but he was too busy trying to stop his daughter. The ghost had already moved to the mother's body and killed the father as well.
Someone in the family must have run away, and judging by the footprints, it must have been a child. Sure enough, Schiller saw the body of a little boy not far away in the front yard.
The streets were littered with corpses in miserable states of death.
A monster that can move through blood is simply not something ordinary people can fight against. The more they want to kill the monster, the more blood they produce, and the easier it is to be possessed.
From the clues on the street, Schiller could see that a group of people were conducting an organized resistance, and Schiller suspected that it was Madeleine and her group.
After all, Madeline was an expert in this field, and the detective was known to be extremely capable, so he must have some ability in this area. However, their resistance ultimately failed, so they had to escape.
However, Schiller felt that there should be more people in the resistance organization than just the two of them. Since the Wanderer was taken away by them, there might be other survivors left.
But it was difficult to deal with this group of people. After all, he was an outsider and a church member. It would be terrible if they thought he was here to silence him.
Schiller pushed the door open and walked into a house, where he found several more bodies, but nothing unusual.
Schiller checked every room one by one. The village was actually not very big, so even if he used an exhaustive method, he should be able to find some clues.
Finally, Schiller found fresh signs of activity in a store in the southeast of the village. Someone had raided the store for supplies about an hour ago, which meant that there were indeed survivors.
But unfortunately, the heavy snow covered almost all traces, and Schiller could not tell where he came from or where he was going.
Schiller speculated that these people were not hiding on the ground, but might be hiding in a complex underground cave, coming out of a cave and going to the store to get supplies.
In this case, he would not dare to go down rashly, because the other party was a local and was much more familiar with the environment in the underground cave than he was. If he went down alone, he would be walking into a trap.
There are so many houses here, he doesn't believe that these people have taken away all the supplies. As long as they can find weapons, especially high-powered firearms, they will no longer be a threat.
Schiller felt that there should be a gun shop in this village. The more remote the village, the more places where guns could be used. Moreover, there were professions like hunters in this village, so there should at least be a place selling hunting supplies. If there were no guns, a high-powered compound bow would do.
Schiller also picked up some food from the store and returned to the street to search for weapons stores.
On the other side, Batman was thrown into a dark room. He found that there were still living people in the room. They were covered with wounds and hiding in the corner tremblingly. Some of them had even started to talk nonsense like crazy.
But Batman had no time to worry about them for the time being, because the wounds on his body began to worsen. Although the injuries were not serious, his current condition was worse than the previous times he was injured, and it was even more dangerous than when a kitchen knife was stabbed into his heart.
The key point was that the clear thinking that he was most proud of began to become chaotic. The syllables he had memorized kept circling in his brain, cutting his thoughts into pieces.
Batman finally understood the Joker's sinister intentions.
No matter how severe the physical injury is, it cannot defeat Batman, but this kind of attack on the mind can directly disrupt his thinking. Once his mind is problematic, he is only one step away from death.
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