amaotonovel Chapter 3228 The Shadow of Faraines (25)
Chapter 3228 The Shadow of Faraines (25)
Chapter 3228: The Shadow of Faraines (Twenty-Five)
Schiller looked around in the corridor. The Transcendent said that the evil spirit in the book had disappeared, but the clues to open the lock should still be there. It was just that without anyone to guide them, it would probably be very difficult to find.
But now his teammate is Batman, the greatest detective in the world, and he doesn't believe that he can't find clues without guidance.
Batman had obviously just finished communicating with the Beyonder. The two looked at each other and understood what the other meant.
The so-called great prophet of the church was not an easy person to deal with. Schiller had seen his introduction in the encyclopedia before. This guy was the investigator who went to investigate the hotel incident.
Even though everyone in the hotel died, it was still a dangerous place. Not only did he escape unscathed, he also got something from it and used it to launch strange events around the world. He brought the church to its current status and can be regarded as a legendary investigator of the previous generation.
Schiller and Batman still have too few resources to deal with him, but if they can get the clearance treasure chest in advance, there must be something useful in it.
"Did you see any useful clues in that book?" Batman asked.
Schiller shook his head and said, "I didn't dare to look closely, but I'm sure there's nothing mixed in the contents. They're just some blasphemous spells and patterns. If the clues are hidden in these things, maybe we can only consider ourselves unlucky."
"I'm talking about the Bible," Batman said. "It's more likely that there are clues in the Bible than in that evil book."
Schiller took out the Bible and handed it to Batman, but still said: "You can see that there are letters missing if you look at it once, but it's best not to arrange the missing letters in your mind, which may cause your mental health to decline."
Batman flipped through the Bible briefly. Out of caution, he didn't read the whole thing, but he could roughly outline what the missing letters could form. It looked like it should be a Latin language or something like that.
"Is there any other arrangement?" Batman said, "This won't be a very complicated puzzle. It's a pity that my thinking is limited, otherwise I might be able to calculate it directly."
Schiller knew that he was referring to the exhaustive method, which was to try all possible arrangements of the letters in the mind. This method was probably only Batman could use, but since he couldn't use it now, they had to guess the original evil spirit's thinking.
Just like Batman said, this won't be a very difficult puzzle to solve, because the purpose of this evil spirit is to spread this blasphemous knowledge to the whole world. If it is made too difficult, what if we encounter a stupid believer?
What is more likely is that the missing text in the Bible has another arrangement, but it requires the hint of this evil spirit to think of it. But now that the evil spirit is gone, they have to think of what kind of answer is neither complicated nor easy to think of.
"Why don't we think about how the Great Prophet intends to open this door?" Schiller immediately changed his mind and said, "It's impossible for him to come here from afar and just stare at the door like us. He must have known the answer long ago."
Batman also began to think.
Suddenly, they both raised their eyes at the same time, and Schiller took out the houseplate with 1913 engraved on it from his arms.
The last time Schiller used this thing was when he used it as a weapon to hit Bruce on the head, which is obviously not the correct use of this doorplate.
And now, they encountered a door that could not be opened.
There was also a doorplate on this door, which read "Captain's Room". The doorplate was very gorgeous, with golden vine patterns around it. Schiller put the 1913 doorplate on it and compared it, and found that the original doorplate of the Captain's Room was exactly one circle larger than the 1913 doorplate.
Schiller had some guesses. He stretched out his hand to Batman, and Batman directly put the kitchen knife in his hand.
Schiller smiled. He and Batman did have a good understanding.
Schiller used the tip of a kitchen knife to remove the doorplate from the captain's room, and the four cross-shaped screws were quickly removed.
As soon as the house number plate was removed, Schiller knew his guess was correct.
Because there was another circle of screw holes inside the four screw holes on the doorplate, Schiller put the 1913 doorplate on it and it fit perfectly, without any error.
As the doorplate of the captain's room was removed, the shape of the door gradually disappeared, and the place became a pure white wall, but the screw holes did not disappear.
Schiller did not put the door number on it. He took two steps back cautiously, looked left and right, and found that the scene inside the cabin had changed.
He seemed to be back in the hotel corridor, where the thick darkness was swallowing everything.
Schiller was not panicked, he just thought, no wonder the bishop refused to come, otherwise he would meet Naya again here after a long separation.
Schiller glanced behind him and found that Batman was still there, and he also noticed something unusual, which proved that this was not an illusion in his spiritual world, but that there were indeed changes in the cabin.
Schiller reached out and touched his priest robe, but suddenly found something extra in the inside pocket. He reached in and found that it was a screw.
He asked Naya in his mind, "Did you do this?"
"The things you didn't take last time." Naya replied, "I'll return them to you."
"How timely," Schiller said sarcastically.
The problem is that he only has one house number now, so what does he need so many screws for?
Wait a minute, since the hotel might be the source of the weirdness, then the things in the hotel should be extraordinary, right?
The bishop had no use for these things because he was in the middle of it, but now according to the world view, Schiller was in the hotel incident decades later, the weirdness in the hotel had not spread to the whole world, the power level outside was relatively low, and the things coming out of the hotel would naturally be more useful.
Schiller looked down at the screws. They were still in the same condition as when he had removed them, with slight signs of wear and tear, and there was nothing unusual to be seen.
Batman also looked at what he had in his hand, and Schiller briefly explained it to him. Batman said, "If I have a lathe, I can modify your pistol and turn the screws into bullets."
Schiller counted the screws in his hand. He didn't quite remember how many he had removed, but there were about seven or eight in his hand. If they were bullets, they might be able to catch some guys off guard.
Schiller once again sighed that it was great to have Batman as a teammate.
After putting away the screws, Schiller observed the surrounding situation. There were no other hotel doors in the entire corridor. Only the wall in front of them had some changes, which proved that they were close to the correct answer.
In fact, Schiller had thought before that some rooms in the hotel would lead to other places, and those places were experiencing some strange events. Now it seems that his guess is very close.
So should we nail the door number plate?
"You said there's a monster behind this door?" Batman asked. "Do you think the Great Prophet knew this?"
"He's been to the hotel before, so he must know what it's like inside the hotel," Schiller speculated. "Even if he doesn't know, he wouldn't be so naive as to think there's no danger behind the door."
"You seem to know more about the situation in the hotel than he does." Batman pointed out, "You have dealt with Room 1913 before. How did you solve the problem last time?"
Schiller thought for a moment and said, "When I came across this room in the hotel corridor, the door would open automatically as soon as I walked past it. I thought it was a trap, so I didn't act rashly."
"Later I found out that the doorplate could be removed, so I walked over and closed the door and removed the doorplate. While I was removing it, the monster kept banging against the door."
"Then I found that the monsters in the hotel seemed to have two systems, and I encountered a monster that was difficult to deal with. I nailed the doorplate directly opposite the monster and let the two collide with each other."
"What's the result?" Batman asked curiously.
Schiller shook his head and said, "I couldn't look at these things. After the collision, I saw that the doors of the two rooms were closed. After that, I never saw this house number again."
"That is to say, the two monsters may not have died together. They may have retreated to their respective territories."
"That's right, that's why I said there might be a monster in this room." Schiller frowned and said, "I guess the Great Prophet should have also got the door number."
This was a speculation that had long been in Schiller's mind.
It is known that the Church has caused anomalies all over the world. If it were just some disguise methods, such as poisoning or holographic projection, it would never be possible to achieve such a realistic level, and it would not allow the Church to reach its current position.
The weirdness that appears must be real.
Since it is not a trick, these things must have a source. Combining the original hotel incident and the pattern of monsters appearing in the hotel, Schiller felt that the church might have taken advantage of the characteristics of hotel rooms and house numbers.
The room doorplates in the hotel can be removed, and after being removed, the room will disappear. When the doorplates are nailed back on, the room will reappear.
This is simply a mobile monster generator. Schiller was able to use the monster behind the door of room 1913 to collide with other monsters. Naturally, others can also use the doorplate to release monsters to do other things.
Although Schiller explored the hotel for a long time, there were many floors he had not entered, and he did not know the nature of the monsters inside.
Perhaps this great prophet had entered a certain floor, taken away many house numbers, and used his intelligence advantage to create all kinds of strange events with these house numbers to profit for the church and himself.
So the Prowler and other monsters that appear in strange events around the world are monsters in a room in the hotel.
Every time the church comes out to rescue people, it is not because they really have any means to deal with these monsters, but because they are the only ones who know where the doorplate is placed. As long as they retrieve the doorplate, the strange incidents will naturally be solved.
Thinking of this, Schiller immediately realized that the door number 1913 did not suddenly appear and fall from the ceiling, but might have been placed there deliberately by the church with the purpose of releasing the monster inside to create strange events in this village.
So the monster behind the door of room 1913 is the Prowler?