PFC Chapter 3319 Bloody New City (68)
Chapter 3319 Bloody New City (68)
Chapter 3319 Bloodshed in New City (Sixty-Eight)
In the lower right corner of the map, Schiller drew a symbol of the Order and wrote the name of the Order. Now, he wrote the name of the East India Company in the lower left corner of the map.
The two organizations both originated in Britain, but their influence is incomparable. Compared with the East India Company, the Order of Order is a small transparent organization that few people have heard of.
But Schiller knew that things might not be that simple.
This has to start with the story of the original comic book. A large part of the investigation plot is omitted, but the final result is that Bakar, a priest of the Order, defeated the corrupted Edmund Wayne and killed him, restoring peace to Gotham.
The term "corrupted Edmund Wayne" is very interesting. According to some hints in the original comics, Gotham seems to be cursed. If you take over the city, it will become corrupt and cruel.
But suppose that there is actually no magical influence at all, and there is no real curse, then what is the so-called fall of Edmund?
Schiller speculated that this might refer to Edmund's collaboration with the East India Company.
The way this company behaves is no longer a cult. The most famous cults in the world are child's play compared to it. The highest massacre record of NAZI is not even a hair of its. Even if Hydra comes, we have to call it the Grandmaster.
If cooperating with a company like this is not called degradation, then nothing is called degradation.
If it was Bakar who discovered that Edmund was cooperating with the East India Company, thought he was corrupt and killed him, then there would be an unsolvable question: how did Bakar win?
The East India Company at that time was not at its peak, but it had already ruled half the world. Bakar, who was from the Order, fought with Edmond, who cooperated with the East India Company, and it was Bakar who won, which was very abnormal in itself.
And there is another problem here. Why did the East India Company not look for General Arkham, the original ruler of Gotham, but instead insisted on cooperating with Edmund Wayne?
In theory, such a large company doesn't care who the agent is, as long as he can do the job. Although General Arkham is a bit extravagant, this is not a disadvantage but an advantage in their view.
The core of the colonizers is to oppress and exploit the indigenous people. The more extravagant and lustful they are, the more they know how to exploit. So why not use the existing ones and support another one?
Schiller thinks that these two questions should actually be the same. The reason why Edmund Wayne can defeat Arkham General and Bakar can defeat Edmund Wayne should be the same.
The problem begins in the original Gotham Village. What is buried there?
Although Schiller was thinking, he did not stop working. The first target he needed to deal with was the Odein Company, which was suspected to be a puppet of the Order Cult.
The company recently moved to the original site of the municipal building, but they originally had a company in Gotham, but the location was a bit remote. Schiller drove for more than an hour before arriving at their company's original office building.
Then he found that there was a church not far from the company. Schiller drove over and found that it was the San Marino Church, the church where Brad was.
This is really a coincidence. The company's original address was close to Brad's work, and the company's current address is close to Brad's home. No one would believe that this company has nothing to do with Brad.
The company's old office building had been emptied. Schiller walked around inside but didn't find anything. It was getting late, and fortunately there were many communities nearby, so Schiller found a restaurant and sat down.
From the menu prices and the quality of the food, it can be seen that this place is also a slum. The quality of life of the people coming and going is not very high. If Odein Company is considering the land price, it is not difficult to understand why it puts its headquarters here.
After Schiller finished his meal, he sat in the restaurant and listened to the noise. As he looked around the restaurant, he found a piece of paper on the notice board next to the menu, which looked like a promotional poster.
He walked over and took a closer look, and found that it was actually a poster released by Odein Company to recruit volunteers for human experiments.
In the United States, it is normal for poor people to volunteer for human experiments. Many homeless people make money by testing drugs, and pharmaceutical companies will come to such areas to advertise and recruit.
But Odein doesn't produce medicines, they produce medical equipment. It makes sense that they need volunteers, but aren't they asking for too many?
Medical equipment is not updated that quickly. It may take ten years to develop a new device. After it is developed, similar devices will not be developed again in a short period of time. So the number of volunteers needed for a machine cannot reach 2000, right?
But the poster clearly states that they want to recruit 2000 volunteers and the salary offered is not low, much higher than the average drug testing job.
This completely overturns the possibility that the company set up its headquarters here because the land price here is cheap. Odein Company should not be short of money.
Schiller looked at the date on the poster and found that the recruitment had ended two days ago. But Schiller also found that there seemed to be another poster underneath this one.
Schiller scratched the edge of the poster with his hand and saw that there were several posters underneath this one. Maybe the restaurant owner was lazy and directly covered the previous poster when he posted it.
Judging from the thickness of the posters, there must have been dozens of them. The recruitment period for each phase lasts three months, so they have been recruiting people here for at least a few years.
After dinner, Schiller went to the old office building again. He used the gray fog to carefully explore it, but did not find any evil laboratory. This proved that the other party should not be doing any evil human experiments under the guise of recruiting people.
This proves that there is definitely something wrong with the machine they developed.
Because a normal medical device cannot use so many volunteers, let alone recruit them for several consecutive years. This is a considerable expense, and they will not do this if they cannot gain benefits.
Schiller thought about it and went to a nearby community hospital. The hospital was closed at this time, but the access control could not stop Schiller. He soon arrived at the doctor's office and began to rummage through the cabinets.
All recent medical records were kept here. What surprised Schiller was that such a small community hospital had so many medical records. The number of medical records in one day was almost the same as that of an ordinary hospital in a week.
Schiller flipped through the medical records, checked them one by one, and then discovered a shocking fact - the probability of symptoms suspected to be cancer was as high as 40%.
This is not a specialized hospital, nor does it have complete tumor detection equipment. It should be impossible for cancer patients to come here specifically for a check-up.
Then why is the probability so high?
Schiller couldn't help but think of the ridiculous number of test subjects. Plenty of places, high salaries, and seemingly harmless test procedures. I'm afraid everyone in the nearby community has been there in the past few years, right?
Odein is mass-producing cancer patients?
But if the rate of cancer patients in a community is so high, someone must be able to sense that something is wrong. Don't they want to think about why?
But Schiller soon realized that the medical record in his hand only recorded the details of the doctor's examination, but did not record the doctor's diagnosis. It was because of his professional knowledge that he could see that many symptoms were suspected of cancer.
Ordinary people don't have professional knowledge, so they just take whatever the doctor says. What if the doctor doesn't tell them?
Some people may feel that they are not feeling well but cannot find out what is wrong. In that case, they must change hospitals until they find the problem.
But this is not the case in the U.S. The poor people living in these chaotic communities do not have good insurance. It is already difficult for them to maintain a normal life. It is impossible for them to spend so much time and money on repeated disease checks, which will make them starve to death.
Moreover, community hospitals will prescribe them a lot of painkillers. If they feel uncomfortable, they will just take a few pills. Most cancers are incurable. If they are treated conservatively, they will only rely on painkillers to maintain their condition. They will be even less able to detect the problem.
This is a perfect cycle. Community hospitals conceal the truth and prescribe painkillers, while harsh insurance terms restrict patients from seeking the truth, leaving them feeling uncomfortable but unable to find out.
If you want to better check your health problems, you have to buy insurance that covers medical equipment inspection items. If more people want to buy it, medical equipment manufacturers can raise the price of insurance, making money without doing anything.
Looking at the medical records in his hand, Schiller really wanted to tell them to behave like human beings. But after thinking about it, since the other party was no longer a human being, wasn't it a good time to strike back?
Schiller calculated the date and found that Odein Company should be recruiting volunteers again. However, since their company has moved, the recruitment area should also change, and they should recruit near the original site of the municipal building.
Schiller drove back to Bourbon Street and found the drug vendor. He gave him a bunch of capsules and some money, and told him: "Go and give these capsules to those drug addicts and tell them that someone asked them to try a new drug for free."
Seeing the vendor's suspicious look, Schiller shook his head and said, "Don't worry. If it was poison, would I appear in front of you so easily? If you are really worried, find a few dying people to try it out. I guarantee that the effect of the drug will exceed your expectations."
After leaving Schiller's phone number, the vendor left quickly. Not long after, Schiller received a call. The vendor's tone revealed surprise: "It's amazing, sir, where did you get this good stuff? Those people have been taking cocaine for several years, and ordinary stuff can't make them excited at all. Your drug is too effective. Do you have any more? Can I get some?"
Schiller smiled and said, "Of course, but this is a new drug and its efficacy is not very stable yet. You can sell it at a lower price and promote it first..."
After hanging up the phone, Schiller looked at the capsule in his hand and sneered. How could the effect be bad? The gray mist could directly stimulate their brains. No chemical could be as effective as direct physical stimulation.
The next day, before Odein had even finished moving into the company, posters were posted to recruit test subjects. There was a long queue at the entrance of the office building. In order to earn more money to buy drugs, the drug addicts were willing to sell their souls, not to mention their bodies.