The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 3157 Detective is dying (8)

Chapter 3157: Detective is about to die (VIII)

Madeleine's manuscript records her investigation process.

According to her records, she came to the village on the 18th. Because of her former clergy status, she stayed in the village church and the villagers welcomed her.

Here, she wrote, "… this is a very quiet little village. The villagers were a little wary, but I could understand them. After I introduced myself, they were quite welcoming…"

This is the only sentence describing the village, and the rest is basically all about the description of the monster called the Wanderer.

Madeline emphasized that this was not the first time she had encountered the Prowler. The last time was when she was 9 years old, which was also the last time the Prowler was recorded to have appeared.

Just like the clues provided by the detective's body, Madeline mentioned that it was still a heavy snow 30 years ago, and she and her family were spending Christmas in a holiday villa, but that night, the terrible prowler appeared, and her family was killed. Only she and her youngest sister survived.

Since then, she has been tracking down the monster, but there is no particular pattern to all the weird appearances, and the wanderer does not come every snowy day, so she has never found anything.

But this does not mean that her research has yielded no results. On the contrary, after she successfully became a clergyman, with the help of church information, she summarized several of these strange characteristics.

First of all, all the monsters among the weird ones cannot do whatever they want, they are subject to certain restrictions.

This is good news for Schiller. Of course, if they are really invincible, there is no need to play this game. There is no unrestricted existence in the world, not even God.

But the more he read, the gloomier Schiller's heart became.

Because the second point mentioned is that monsters are not just monsters, they are cunning demons. They have their own thinking abilities and are even smarter than humans. They can use their wisdom to circumvent their own limitations and go on a killing spree.

In other words, all humans are not fighting against mechanisms, but against another group of cunning intelligent creatures. You can imagine how difficult it is.

And the last and most important point is that humans cannot solve anomalies with firearms.

The so-called firearms, in addition to modern weapons, even include old-fashioned muskets. Simply put, hot weapons are useless and only cold weapons can be used.

Madeline mentioned that on the one hand, hot weapons cannot hit monsters and the attacks are ineffective, and on the other hand, anyone who uses hot weapons to attack monsters will be cursed and will immediately fall into madness.

Finally, Madeline added that all monsters are invisible. They are a concept and do not really exist in this world.

If they want to do something, they must rely on entities, which are usually humans and animals. Where there are weird things, don't trust anything that breathes.

Schiller continued to read, but what followed were all Madeline's speculations, with no real evidence, and most of them were about the Wanderer.

Madeline also noticed that the corpses killed by the Wanderer moved in very strange postures. Some walked with their hands, some walked with their heads, and some moved on the ground with their bellies, but no one walked with their feet.

However, this monster only appears on snowy days, which makes people wonder whether the wanderer does not want to leave footprints in the snow?

Based on Madeline's idea, Schiller continued to associate it further.

Madeline mentioned in her notes that all monsters have no physical form and can only possess humans or animals.

The most dangerous thing about this situation is not how scary the monsters themselves are, but that there is no way to tell who is the monster.

When the monster descends somewhere, your mother, child, daughter, or even pet may have been possessed, but you can't tell at all. He may even use your feelings for him to lure you so that he can ignore restrictions and kill everyone.

Then the so-called limitations are most likely the monsters’ flaws, which is what makes them different from normal people.

For example, maybe they have special marks on their bodies, so they have to cover them up if they don't want to be discovered. Or maybe they behave abnormally, so they have to find excuses if they don't want to be discovered.

So is it that the Wanderer's limitation is that his footsteps are different from those of normal people? And his way to overcome this limitation is to walk without feet?

Schiller thought about it and felt that it was not that simple. If one could avoid leaving special footprints by simply walking without using his feet, then what kind of restriction was this?

He could simply possess a person and make him commit suicide. When others came to check the body, he could possess that person again and make him commit suicide. This way, he wouldn't have to move from beginning to end, and naturally, no footprints would be left.

Schiller felt that the monster must have another limitation, which might be related to what the researcher had just done.

Assuming that Madeleine was conscious, her attracting everyone and then committing suicide might be another limitation.

The detective who didn’t die in the cabin but ended up in the cabin, the owner of the diary of Reed who died in the kitchen but had a reed on his body, the researcher who came to investigate the wanderer but ended up committing suicide on the second floor...

Countless clues lingered in Schiller's mind, like a math problem that required finding a pattern. His own thinking did not produce any inspiration, so he spoke out the contents of his notes and his own guesses.

This was not considered a violation of character, as their purpose in coming here was to investigate the Wanderer, and it was normal to discuss clues.

"Invisible monster..." The main universe Batman muttered this sentence, he seemed to be thinking.

"I think we have to figure out one thing." Bruce said, "Can monsters be eliminated?"

"Ms. Madeline didn't mention it, but I'm pessimistic," Schiller said. "The existence of invisible and intangible things means that humans can't even observe them, let alone destroy them."

"So this is a natural disaster." Greedy stroked his chin and said, "Humans have no way to prevent natural disasters from happening. All we can do is minimize the losses. Perhaps the same is true when facing monsters."

"I think we can analyze the benefits and losses from the perspectives of both humans and monsters." The Pale Knight said, "For humans, the greatest benefit is naturally to survive the monsters. For monsters, although I don't know their purpose for doing this for the time being, they seem to want to kill more humans."

"The more humans that survive, the fewer humans the monsters kill, and vice versa. This is a zero-sum game, an irreconcilable contradiction. Humans try their best to survive, while monsters kill people at all costs. This is the conflict of interests between the two parties."

"In this case, any means that can reduce human losses must be detrimental to the monsters. I think the most fatal way is to find the pattern of the monsters' possession."

Schiller immediately realized that the Pale Knight had the same idea as him. The best way to reduce the threat of these invisible monsters was to find out who they possessed.

Of course, the person who is possessed will not be able to escape, but as long as you figure out who is possessed, others can still escape.

At least in Madeline's research, there are no monsters that can fly and hide physically. Most monsters have some attack methods beyond human cognition, but the distance is also limited. They are very fast and powerful, but as long as you are prepared, you can still escape.

In this case, as long as we figure out the characteristics of the possessed person, we can save most people.

So the monster's core interest must be to prevent people from discovering him.

Then the restrictions on monsters may allow people to discover their characteristics.

Based on this logical inference and the state of the corpse, the point where this monster called the Wanderer is easily discovered may be the footprints.

Schiller raised a question he had thought about before. He said, "If he could just walk without his feet, he wouldn't leave footprints. Then he could just get himself a wheelchair, or just not walk at all, wait in one place, and kill everyone who came."

"There must be other restrictions," the Pale Knight said.

The main universe Batman nodded and said, "I think another restriction might be forced movement."

Schiller showed some interest. He asked, "What do you mean?"

"After possessing someone, this monster must move." Batman from the main universe put forward a bold assumption. He said: "The detective may have been possessed, but he still completed the invitation of the diary owner and came to the cabin. The diary owner may also be possessed, but he still ran to the pond, brought back a lot of fish and ate them."

After listening to the main universe Batman's words, Schiller suddenly had an idea. He said: "The detective's last purpose before his death was to come to the cabin to find his friends. The diary owner's last wish before his death was to eat the fish he caught... The Prowler needs to help the possessed person fulfill his last wish?"

"I guess it should be the last action." Bruce said: "The detective's last action was to go to the cabin, and the diary owner's last action was to go fishing. After they were possessed, the Prowler helped them complete this action."

"I understand." Greed snapped his fingers and said, "The restrictions on the Wanderers are composed of two restrictions."

"When the wanderer moves, it leaves footprints. Humans can observe whose footprints are different and find out who is possessed. The wanderer must complete the last action of the human before his death, which means he must move and leave footprints. This gives humans the opportunity to find the possessed person."

"But the wanderer obviously doesn't want to be confined," Schiller continued. "That's why the postures of the bodies we saw were so strange."

"But as long as we don't use human feet to walk, there will be no footprints left?" Night Owl asked.

Everyone thought this was ridiculous. If a monster would not leave footprints as long as it walked without using its feet, then this monster would be suitable to possess a high-level paraplegic patient and then kill people in a wheelchair.

The clown snorted softly and said, "I'm afraid it's not that simple. I guess as long as he moves, he will definitely leave footprints. But if you are a murderer, you don't want to expose yourself, so wouldn't you remove the footprints?"

Everyone fell into deep thought again. Schiller felt that what the clown said made sense. The Wanderer controlled the corpse to do so many tricks, not necessarily to completely avoid leaving footprints, but more likely to cover up the footprints.

(End of this chapter)