amaotonovel Chapter 3173 Detective is dying (24)
Chapter 3173 Detective is dying (24)
Chapter 3173: Detective is about to die (Twenty-four)
Back at the stairs, Schiller looked up and Greed followed behind him, seemingly not taking the previous embarrassment seriously at all. The two clowns walked behind him and Bruce walked at the end.
Greedy lagged behind a few steps as he climbed the stairs, and came to Bruce's side. Bruce said to him, "I see you didn't eat much. Are you okay?"
"Not bad." Greedy nodded and said, "How about you, how is your hand?"
Bruce looked down at his hand. He had failed miserably during the treatment and his hand was cut, but the cut was shallow and not serious.
As soon as he walked up to the fourth floor, Schiller smelled a familiar stench again, the smell of rotting fish. The stench was so strong that he had almost no time to care about anything else.
He stopped at the top of the stairs, stood sideways, looked at the people going up and said, "You go ahead."
"What does this mean?!" Greedy shouted, "Do you want us to be cannon fodder to explore the way?"
"That's right. There are only two people with guns now. The other person besides me can't shoot faster than me. You better hurry up."
Although the others moved slowly, they still walked ahead. Schiller did this to prevent himself from walking in front and suddenly triggering a check. The rigged dice threw him a big failure, causing him to be seriously injured. The wound on his shoulder was already a profound enough lesson.
Greed walked forward slowly, pinching his nose as he walked. When he got close to the room where the smell came from, he couldn't bear it anymore, "Ugh!"
The clown also bent over and vomited, seeming to be extremely sick. The faces of the other people also did not look very good. The smell in the corridor was somewhat beyond the acceptable range for humans.
When Schiller walked in, he saw fish all over the floor. Next to them lay the corpse of a woman with her stomach burst open and the corpse of a man with his throat cut. Blood, excrement, and fragments of internal organs were everywhere. It was a complete mess.
There were obvious signs of a struggle in the house. Schiller could tell at a glance that the two dead bodies in the room must have fought each other. If nothing unexpected happened, the man wanted to kill the woman, but was killed by the woman instead.
However, what is rather strange is that after the woman killed the enemy, she did not deal with the body or run away. Instead, like the body in the kitchen of the cabin, she ate a large amount of raw fish, and finally her stomach exploded for some unknown reason.
Schiller first looked at the man's body. He was wearing a plaid shirt and had calluses on his hands. Schiller reached into his trouser pocket and found a few screws.
The black dice was thrown again, and it was undoubtedly a big failure. However, Schiller stepped aside immediately after examining the body, so a big failure was at most just a lack of clues.
Schiller originally thought so, but after the dice were thrown, the body moved.
Schiller was so angry that he laughed. Isn't this much more useful than necromancy? Now he would go through the pockets of all the corpses in turn and throw the big failure at them one by one. Then he could become the coolest necromancer in the world.
"The battle begins..."
There was that vague tone again, and no explanation of what constituted victory. Schiller resigned himself to standing aside, waiting for time to stop and the round to begin.
After time stopped, Greed said sarcastically: "Didn't you say it's okay to use firearms to kill monsters? Then kill one now!"
Schiller picked up the shotgun, took aim, and fired, "Bang!"
The bullet hit the body in the chest.
Everyone was startled by him.
No, buddy, are you really going to hit me?!
Then the black muzzle of the gun was aimed at greed.
"Wait a minute!" Greedy stretched out his hand and said, "Don't shoot yet! Listen to my explanation!"
"Don't waste bullets." Bruce seemed to realize that Schiller was not arrogant, so he said, "Get rid of the monster first."
"This isn't a matter of monsters at all." Schiller didn't follow their train of thought at all. He said, "If you don't explain clearly, I promise this will be the last chance to stop time."
"Don't be impulsive." Bruce said, "You are not the only one with a gun here. You can't keep threatening us with a gun."
"You know I'm Schiller, so you should understand that threatening you with a gun is the gentlest way I choose." Schiller turned the gun and pointed it at Bruce.
Greed quickly pulled Bruce and whispered in his ear, "Don't mess with him, this is not arrogance!"
"Who is he?" Bruce asked in a low voice.
"Didn't he say that? An ordinary agent."
"He's an agent?! You've been an agent???"
"It's all old news," said Greed.
Bruce pursed his lips. This was a bit troublesome.
Agents are quite magical creatures. Their life creed is to refuse to give in and not to take responsibility.
During the first training session for new agents, it is emphasized that they cannot show weakness at any time, because they represent not only themselves, but also the law enforcement power of the law enforcement agencies behind them.
Once one agent bows to one person, all agents can bow to everyone, and law enforcement power becomes a joke.
Therefore, agents will definitely be taught that they should never show weakness at any time. Even if the conflict is intensified, they are not the ones responsible, but others who do not give in to them, and they will face more accusations as a result.
At least this is the case for all American agents, and this range even includes the police and the military, because all of the above law enforcement agencies are simply stability maintenance machines. They do not bear any mission for national survival and development. They are just the blades of the American meat grinder.
Agents will not negotiate. Either you listen to him, or you go to his boss and ask his boss to listen to you. There is no other way to deal with them. Even if you have once stood at the highest point in this country, you can only use a delaying tactic when facing them.
"This is a problem." Bruce said, "He only has one bullet now. Do you think he will shoot you or me?"
"He can kill you first, and then use the knife to kill me." Greedy said, "I don't think there is much room for us to resist, what do you think?"
Bruce had never actually seen Schiller take action. He was the kind of person who wouldn't cry until he saw the coffin. He felt that he was very capable until his death. But today he was no longer able to do so because he couldn't see anything.
"Calm down, sir." The Pale Knight stepped forward and said, "We now have a common enemy. There is no need to quarrel over minor frictions. They disagree with your choice of explorers, but they just want to take care of the wounded. Besides, didn't they follow you out? Since you have chosen to take the risk, there is no need to bother with them."
Schiller slowly lowered the gun.
Greedy immediately looked up at the Pale Knight and realized Schiller's plan to win him over. At this time, Bruce asked, "Who is this guy? He looks a bit like the Joker when he was young."
"He is the Joker," Greed said.
That's not right, Bruce shook his head. Although he couldn't see it now, he could see it before. This guy's every move didn't seem like someone from the lower class. Instead, he seemed like a well-educated heir.
“It’s complicated.” Greedy continued, “But he saved Gotham.”
"What?!" Bruce added in his mind, "How come there is another expert? Whose general is this?!"
"Don't be so hypocritical." Night Owl suddenly said, "If you really want to protect them, you should have agreed to their proposal to stay. The doctor's presence is very valuable and we shouldn't take such a big risk."
Bruce breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Night Owl speak for him, but not because of his current situation. Instead, he thought that it was a good thing that Pride was not there, otherwise Night Owl would have been stunned.
Schiller turned the gun and pointed it at Night Owl, and Night Owl also took out his pistol and pointed it at Schiller.
The Pale Knight had already walked to Schiller's side. He looked at Night Owl and said, "You don't look like a Batman at all. I don't know where you came from as an imposter, but the Batman downstairs is ten thousand times more noble than you even if he is dead."
This guy's mouth is just as bad, Bruce thought, but we can't let them quarrel any longer. Now is not the time to fall apart.
He was about to speak when the Pale Knight turned around and said to him, "You are almost the same. You two are birds of a feather. You are evil and he is incompetent. Together, you are both evil and incompetent."
Bruce's anger immediately rose. He looked at the Pale Knight and said, "What about you? A madman disguised as a righteous man? What use do you think you are?"
"I agree with his point of view." The Joker stood beside him and smiled sinisterly, but his eyes were on Bruce. Obviously, he agreed with the Pale Knight's point of view. He said, "You are like a child who has not been weaned. Does this make you feel particularly proud? Fortunately, you have enough mothers."
Bruce took a deep breath, and Greed quickly grabbed him.
Seeing Greed's actions, Schiller understood that the one he should fight for the most was not the evil Batman Nite Owl, but the Joker.
Night Owl is not a crazy Batman. He is rational and to some extent a lawful to neutral evil, not a chaotic evil like the Joker.
The Joker never truly cooperates with anyone. Even when it comes to dealing with Batman, he doesn't need any teammates at all. Even if greed makes him take action once or twice, it's only because the results of the action can make him feel fun, not because he really considers the interests of the team.
Schiller figured it all out in an instant.
What is the Joker's core interest? Of course, it is always to torture Batman.
There are three Batmen present, one has betrayed, one has gone crazy, and only one is normal left. The Joker will definitely choose to torture this normal one.
So the main universe Batman fell first.
Although the mastermind behind this may be greed, the Joker must have made great efforts to bring down the Batman who is most like Batman.
If he really replaced the dice, his purpose was not to let Bruce treat the main universe Batman, he wanted the main universe Batman to be tortured.
But once this goal is not achieved, there will be no basis for cooperation between him and greed, and they may even turn against each other.
"Batman is dying." Schiller suddenly said to the Joker, "Is this what you want? To have him die at the beginning of the game for no apparent reason?"
“Isn’t this great?” The Joker curled his lips and said, “There are so many people waiting to be saved, and so many mysteries waiting to be solved, but he can’t do anything. He can only leave this beautiful world with a lot of questions in his heart.”
As soon as Schiller heard it, he knew that this was the Joker's design. For a patient with advanced detective cancer, it was indeed torturous enough to leave this world before the mystery was solved and the murderer was caught.
"No," Schiller began. "For a detective, powerlessness is more painful than death."
"There's nothing he can do now."
"He's just dying, not losing his wisdom and means. If he dies now and watches our game, he will only think that he could have done better."
The Joker's face darkened.
"Only when he's here can you prove that he's incapable. If he dies, he'll always be the greatest detective."
Schiller: Irritable