PFC Chapter 3181 Detective is dying (32)
Chapter 3181 Detective is dying (32)
Chapter 3181 The Detective is about to die (Thirty-two)
After coming out of the narrow cave, Schiller found that it was a spacious hall. There were many holes on the walls. This underground cave was much larger than they had imagined.
Schiller guessed that this might be the main reason why Sirtek chose this small village as his base. This place was extremely suitable for avoiding searches. Unless one was a local who had been active here all year round, no one would be able to find the hiding place of the laboratory.
"Which passage should we take?" Schiller asked.
Bruce seemed to want to suggest looking for traces of Batman, but if he had not taken this path, he might not have passed through these passages, and naturally there might not have been any traces left.
Schiller walked to the passages and looked inside. It was pitch black and he couldn't see clearly what was going on.
"I have a suggestion." Bruce said, "I have been in a cave like this for a while before. Generally speaking, we can judge which way is the exit by the wind direction, but I don't feel any wind here. Maybe we can rely on listening."
"Listen to the sound?"
"The sound reverberates in this type of structure in a certain pattern. We shout toward each road and can roughly judge the size of the space inside by listening to the echo."
"Are you a bat spirit?" Greedy said half-jokingly, but he actually knew that the base of Batman in the Fighting World was also a cave like this, and Bruce had indeed lived there for a period of time, so it was normal for him to have experience.
Before they could try this method, a strange vibration came from above their heads and they heard a buzzing sound.
The sound was so loud and obvious that one could tell it was coming from the direction of the road they had come from.
Besides that, the sound is very similar to the hum of a lighthouse.
Most practical lighthouses also make sounds when they light up to attract the attention of ships. In order to make the sound travel farther, there are requirements for the frequency and wavelength, so it sounds unique and generally cannot be mistaken.
"Someone activated the lighthouse?" Schiller said, frowning.
Logically speaking, there should be no living people in the lighthouse now.
No, wait!
Schiller and Greed looked at each other.
They were fooled!
Batman did not return to the underground cave through the hole in the room. He just hid in other rooms of the lighthouse. After they left the lighthouse, he could return to the top floor of the lighthouse to activate the lighthouse. This was his purpose!
After realizing this, Schiller immediately understood that this was Batman deliberately leading them to do this, and he might even have anticipated this scene when he was writing the story.
Because the most important clue that made him think Batman must have left through the underground cave was the letter, which meant that Sirtek had a secret laboratory.
Because this is very logical. If the fish were actually brought by Sirtek to develop vaccines, then the secret laboratory cannot be too far away from the fish. Moreover, such a thing must be done behind people's backs and it cannot be built in the village. So the only option left is the underground cave.
Through the last letter, Batman from the main universe made them believe that he pretended to be seriously injured in order to get everyone to explore the lighthouse so that he could go to the underground cave to find the laboratory, obtain evidence and expose Siltek.
But in fact his purpose was to get everyone into the underground cave and leave himself in the lighthouse so that he could activate it.
Schiller remembered the moved body of Jeff that he had seen. That was the trace that Batman had left intentionally, in order to remind him of how he defeated Reed. This would provide more evidence that he had gone down the cave, allowing him and his group to chase him.
"Go back!" said the Pale Knight. "The activation of the lighthouse is probably not a good sign. We have to go back quickly."
"No." Schiller shook his head and refused, saying, "How do you know that he didn't activate the lighthouse to transfer us back? If we keep following his ideas, we will always be led by him by the nose."
Bruce nodded and said, "Yes, that cunning hunter must have some secrets that we don't know. I don't want to be fooled by him all the time."
"It's already this late, and you're still not going to tell me?" Schiller stared at Greedy. He and Batman were definitely the ones who put the most effort into writing the story.
"I have said everything I should say..."
"Really? Including the sheep's hoof prints made of wood ashes?"
The other two people's eyes fell on Greedy's face.
Schiller gently twisted his fingertips and said, "Don't tell me that the traces left by the devil are exactly the same color as the ashes left by the burnt wood in the fireplace."
His greedy eyes flickered, and he said, "What do you mean? Do you think the Prowler footprints we saw were fake?"
"If I hadn't gotten some ashes on my hands when I went to check the ruins after the house burned down, I wouldn't have known how the footprints appeared."
"What do you think?"
"You drew that footprint, Mr. Photographer." Schiller stared at him with cold eyes and said, "You deliberately threw away what Madeline wanted, led her around in the snow, and let her leave footprints to interfere with our judgment and make us attribute everything to supernatural events."
"But you all saw that I didn't even bend down to draw footprints."
"That's because the footprints were not drawn on your feet, but on Madeleine's hands," Schiller said. "Madeleine's body walked with her hands, and we saw a black hoof print after she took a step."
"And you were the only one who touched the gun that Madeleine had from beginning to end." Schiller said, "It was not an accident that you picked up the gun, because if Madeleine had a pattern drawn with ashes on her hand, there would definitely be traces on the gun. You were afraid that others would find out about it, so you kept holding the gun."
"Otherwise, since we are not related, you can just throw the gun to one of them and avoid the monster's pursuit, right? Or just throw it on the ground. Does the life or death of the monster have anything to do with you?"
The Pale Knight raised his eyelids. Looking back now, Greedy's behavior at that time was indeed a bit strange. The strangest thing was that he picked up the gun but threw it downstairs.
"But I've been under your noses the whole time. How can I have the time to draw any pattern on Madeleine's hand?"
"You can kill a person and move the body in advance, so is it difficult to draw a pattern with the ashes of the wood in the fireplace?"
"But Madeleine is a living person. How could she sit there and let me draw her?"
"This shows that she was not fully capable of moving at that time." Schiller's tone was very firm. He said: "When we met Madeleine, her condition was very abnormal, almost like she was crazy."
"Are you saying I made her crazy? I'm just a photographer, how could I have such ability?"
Schiller understood what Greed was actually saying. Although he was a psychologist and could hypnotize people in real life, he was just a photographer in the game and could not use such skills.
There were no wounds on Madeleine's vital parts, so she was probably not knocked unconscious. Judging from the strength of her movements before her death, she did not seem to be anesthetized. Greed must have used some other method to subdue her.
Schiller suddenly remembered Madeleine's constant shouting of "He's coming."
He narrowed his eyes and stared at Greed, guessing his motives. From the very beginning, Greed seemed to have been leading them in the direction of the Wanderer. The appearance of the footprints further confirmed their guess, and their thoughts were stuck on the path of the Wanderer's characteristics.
In the game, their thinking is actually limited, just like what Batman in the main universe said at the beginning, it seems that they can only think about one thing at a time.
They were busy deducing the characteristics of the wanderer and naturally overlooked many things. Schiller began to understand why the clown returned to the cabin. He might be looking for the lost clues.
"Should we continue exploring the caves? Or go back to find Batman?" asked the Pale Knight.
Schiller knew very well that if they continued to explore the cave, it would take several days to find a clue, judging from the number of cave roads. They had underestimated the complexity of the cave and did not bring too many supplies. If they continued like this, it would be troublesome if they got lost.
So this was not an option. Schiller hesitated whether to go upstream in the river or return to the lighthouse.
At this moment, a voice came faintly from the road they had crawled in, "Are you still there? I found something, do you want to come and take a look…"
That was the sound of the Night Owl. Schiller did not delay any longer and crawled back into the cave and returned to the place where they had separated from the Night Owl.
The flashlight flickered, and Night Owl said, "I went upstream in the river and found a big door there. I think we can go and take a look."
Without further ado, the group walked upstream together. After walking for about twenty to thirty minutes and turning a few corners, they arrived at the gate that Night Owl had mentioned, which was also the source of the river.
Schiller saw that the river was not naturally generated at all, but flowed out from dozens of water pipes embedded in the walls of the cave, and the fish also jumped out from them. This was indeed a breeding farm.
Schiller went to look at the door again. It was a very tall security door with a sign of three circles put together and cut by a cross, and "Siltek Biology" was written in English letters at the bottom.
My goodness, he is afraid that the agents will go to the wrong door when they come.
However, the fact that he was so confident just showed how powerful this guy was. Schiller thought, he just didn't know what was inside this laboratory.
Just as Schiller was thinking about how to open the door, to his shock, there was a vibration sound of gears meshing, and the door slowly opened.
A row of automatic machine guns appeared behind the door, all of which turned their muzzles and aimed at the people at the door.
The only thing Schiller could be sure of was that he and his men did not have the ability to instantly run out of the shooting range.
At this time, a figure walked out from behind him.
Greed stood in the middle of the gate. The light coming through the gate shone on his back, as if to cut him out of this world, but he just stood there and smiled.
"Welcome home."