PFC Chapter 2320 Gotham Music Chapter (59)
Chapter 2320 Gotham Music Chapter (59)
Chapter 2320 Gotham Music Festival (Fifty-nine)
"So you deliberately gathered this ship full of sinners' souls and gave them to Schiller to execute. You then drew a sacrificial circle under the hull to offer these souls to the devil."
Oliver said as he thought about it, but he still felt a little confused. After all, with so many threads coming together, it was really hard to make sense of it.
Schiller laughed, leaned his back against the railing of the deck, put his hands on the top of the railing and said, "You may not believe it, but Arrogant has a much better temper than me. He can ignore seasickness once, or simply not go to sea, but I won't."
"I can choose not to go, but you can't stop me from going. If you forbid me from going, I need to pay for the ticket."
Oliver didn't understand the logic at all. In his opinion, Schiller's new personality trait was even more insane and lacked even the most basic logic.
"You can divide this matter into three parts. First, the part about the ocean is basically investigated by professors you are familiar with, and the clues finally stopped at the Atlantis."
"After much investigation and speculation, I thought the ship was coming for me, but I didn't take the initiative to board the ship because I knew they would get impatient one day. Sure enough, I received an invitation letter, and the monitoring equipment installed by Batman at sea discovered the ship on its way to the east coast in advance."
"At the same time, Gotham's social structure needs to change. The gang order is in jeopardy, and it's time for these once powerful gang bosses to leave the stage."
"We had originally planned to arrange a disaster to cut off their retreat. The Green of All Things arrived at the right time and destroyed their last hope. As expected, they were forced onto the ship."
"Then there is the wizarding world. Although the disaster killed many wizards, the sky is still there. Most of the victims were great wizards. Many apprentices with bad conduct took away their inheritance. Within a year, the news spread all over the world and caused many cases."
"The people from the Forgotten Bar, that is, the Dark Night Squad led by the Dark Night Master, have been traveling around the world in recent years to handle similar cases and bring the murderers to justice. After a period of hard work, most of the cases have been solved."
"Some overly cunning exiles heard from the mystical world about the results of an investigation published by the authoritative experts and scholars of the All Souls Academy. The Atlantis, which has caused a stir among ordinary people, is not a ghost ship, but is related to the mysterious Atlantis."
"According to research, Atlantis was once a glorious kingdom on land. Even if it sank to the bottom of the sea, it was still as beautiful as a utopia in the sea. This ship is traveling back and forth on the surface of the sea of the Kingdom of Atlantis. As long as you can get on the ship, you will have the opportunity to go to Atlantis."
"At this time, most of the exiles in the wizarding world have been forced into a desperate situation. After hearing the rumor, most of them rushed to the East Coast and planned to take a gamble."
"Finally, it's the FBI. It's an indisputable fact that they are involved in Mexico, but agents alone are still not enough. The goal is to have the cartels repent."
"In order to get the largest transnational drug trafficking organization to join, Cobert asked his men to offer a high reward for drugs. The high price and large quantity required will naturally attract people willing to take the risk, and the Confession Cartel will not let go of this piece of fat meat that is within reach."
"But you have already taken over Guazhou, which is the most suitable place for growing poppies. They are eager to transport large quantities of drugs out, and they will not have enough time to work secretly. A conflict is bound to occur between you two sides. Coupled with the FBI's instigation, your defeat is inevitable."
"But failure is only temporary. If you choose to retreat, someone will naturally follow you. The Confession Cartel wants to have it both ways. After driving you away, on the one hand, they can transport drugs in large quantities, and on the other hand, they want to kidnap or kill you to threaten the FBI. These two things are their main goals for the future work and they cannot afford to make mistakes. So no matter who is transporting drugs here or chasing after you, they must be the best among them."
"In this way, we gathered three groups of criminals, including the gang boss who had been rooted in Gotham for a long time and refused to repent, the remaining magicians who were causing trouble all over the world, and the most vicious killers in the largest transnational drug trafficking organization in the United States and Mexico. A total of more than 200 people were brought onto the ship."
"Wait a minute." Oliver interrupted and said, "There are only about 200 people on this ship. Did you bring all of them here?"
Schiller smiled and nodded.
"They didn't disappoint us." Schiller continued, "We have indeed gathered 200 souls of sinners from more than 99 people. Just as you said, I will be responsible for the execution, the Dark Night Squad will be responsible for the collection, and the demons will be responsible for receiving the goods."
“But I don’t understand, what’s the benefit for us?”
"First of all, it is obvious that if all 200 people were executed, some of them might be innocent, but if every other person was executed, a large number of those who deserved to die would definitely be missed. Removing hazardous waste and maintaining the social environment is everyone's responsibility."
"But as the saying goes, garbage is a resource placed in the wrong place. If we just clear them out, the damage they have caused to the world cannot be repaired. It is better to let them provide a little final value and make a good start in changing our long-term trading methods with the devil."
Schiller snapped his fingers and said, "From now on, the way our universe trades power with the devil will no longer be by offering one's own soul or organs, but by sacrificing the souls of sinners to them in order to gain power."
"That is to say, a brand new profession is about to be born in this universe, that is, the Sinner Hunter. They sign a contract with the devil, obtain the Eye of Judgment from the devil, which can see through the weight of the soul, embark on the road of hunting all evildoers, execute sinners, offer souls, and gain power."
"It is conceivable that they will be the most powerful magical force in the universe in the future. In addition, since the cunning of these born lunatics makes it impossible for modern laws to hold them accountable for their crimes, let the demons directly judge the severity of their sins from the soul level. There may be some who are missed, but there will definitely be no wrongful convictions."
"This wave has ended almost all of the good players of the Confession Cartel, which can significantly ease the pressure on Mexico. However, once there is no external enemy, some people's fangs will definitely be exposed, and the situation in Mexico will continue to decline until those oppressed can no longer survive and set off a real revolution of blood and fire."
"The FBI also suffered heavy losses, but this is a good thing. It tells them not to worry about the super prison and the special case investigation team. A transcendent organization like SHIELD should have appeared here a long time ago. I believe that after Amanda and Nick have a discussion, they will know what to do when they come back."
"So what's going on with Atlan?" Arthur asked. "What do you know about the Queen?"
Schiller shook his head and said, "I know almost nothing. I can infer that Atlan is the murderer because I have some knowledge beyond the facts. However, from this conclusion, I can also figure out that someone must have given me Atlan's power when he was asleep."
"There are not many people who know the secret of Atlantis and have the ability to steal this power. Atlanna, the queen of Atlantis, is the most likely suspect."
"As for the specific details of the transaction between me and Atlanna, they are actually not important. The queen must have wanted to kill two birds with one stone. She used this power to weaken Atlantis while also weakening me, provoking a fight between the two of us so that Atlantis could benefit from it."
"So what did you do just now?" Arthur asked again: "Atlan looked very painful, and his strength suddenly weakened a lot."
"This is the key part of the plan." Schiller withdrew his arm, walked to the front of the deck, and looked down at the sea.
The others didn't understand what Schiller was doing, so they walked behind him and looked into the depths of the ocean like him. Then they found that dark whirlpools appeared under the ship.
A certain dark power leaked out from the magic circle under the ship, and flowed towards a certain direction with a very purposeful purpose, like the most agile school of fish in the sea, running towards the deepest part of the mysterious sea without stopping.
At the bottom of the Mariana Trench, Hal and his two companions who were floating in the water also discovered this abnormality. More and more sea water above their heads began to turn black, and it was so airtight that not even the light from the bat flashlight could penetrate it at all.
"What's that?" Hal asked.
"I don't know, but it makes me very uncomfortable." Clark took a deep breath and said, "There is a strong dark force in there, and they seem to be converging towards a certain point."
"Go take a look," Batman said.
He realized what this power was. Although he didn't know much about the occult, he was Batman after all. His investigation showed that the source of darkness pointed to in countless myths and legends might have the same name.
"Barbatos..." Batman pronounced his name seriously.
Hal led the other two towards the place where the darkness gathered. Then they saw that the golden light shining through the cracks in the ground was constantly entangled and destroyed by the power of darkness. Atlan's screams came from underground.
"What is that?" Clark noticed with his sharp eyes that a pattern appeared in the place where the golden light was the most intense. It looked very complicated, composed of many runes, with some goat hoof and horn elements in the middle.
"Is that a curse?" Hal knew a little about this, and said with some doubt: "It looks like some kind of devil's curse. Wait, those dark forces seem to be converging on this curse."
"Atlan was plotted against." Batman saw through everything. He said, "Atlan was cursed by some kind of curse, and this curse will attract dark forces to gather here. This force is very likely to engulf him."
"But why was Atlan cursed? Wasn't he asleep the whole time?"
"I'm afraid you'll have to ask Schiller about that."
"What's going on?" Oliver asked, lying on the side of the boat. "What is this power? Where are they going?"
"Of course, we are going to give Atlan a big surprise." Schiller supported his head with one hand and said, "Although the 99 sinners' souls we provided are for trading tests, this is still normal. Trading can be exchanged for something."
"What did you change?" Oliver had a bad feeling.
"It's a curse, a curse written by a demon king. Of course, it's not a powerful lethal curse. You don't need two demon kings to kill Atlan. It's a beacon."
"Beacon? Guidance or something?"
"Barbatos's dark power." Schiller's smile turned cold, and finally his fangs were exposed. He said, "It's about time Barbatos realized something was wrong."
(End of this chapter)