amaotonovel Chapter 2982: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (6)
Chapter 2982: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (6)
Chapter 2982: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (XVI)
Constantine and Schiller returned to the office of Arkham Asylum, but the summoning ceremony could not be held in the office. Brand took them to the basement of the asylum, which could also be said to be his magic studio.
"You have been using magic?" Constantine looked around the room and said, "Although I don't know who your creditor is, I must remind you that using magic so frequently is not a good thing. You will pay the price one day."
"You don't have to worry about that." What surprised Constantine was that the person who said this was not Brand, but Schiller.
Brand then walked in and closed the door. He took the materials from Schiller, opened the box, took a look, and after confirming that everything was correct, he began to set up the magic circle.
Constantine sat aside and watched.
The necromancy circle that Brand had set up was really unremarkable. It was so basic that even if Constantine was looking for trouble, he couldn't find any fault with it.
He had been observing this seemingly kind doctor. Of course, he was only kind compared to Schiller. He himself had many eccentricities, such as being a little too healthy.
Many times magicians have strange personalities and bad tempers, not entirely because they are mentally ill, but because the pain brought by the price of magic has been tormenting them, and their mental state is naturally not good. Constantine is the same.
Even though Zatanna doesn't have to pay a price, she always deals with those supernatural things and will always be affected. Every time she deals with a supernatural event, she will have a long period of depression.
But this guy named Brand was kind-hearted and fat. Not only was he physically healthy, but his mental state also seemed normal. This made Constantine more and more curious about him.
It didn't take long for the magic circle to be set up. Schiller handed the small section of finger bone to Brand, and Brand placed the bone in the center of the magic circle. As the magical light slowly lit up, runes lit up one after another like joyful notes, and a wonderful calling sounded in everyone's ears.
But the magic circle was on for a long time, and the music played for a long time, but there was no movement. Brand shook his head with some regret and said: "It seems that his soul has been lost. Now I will try to extract his memory from this small piece of bone..."
After saying that, he changed some positions of the magic circle. The light gathered towards the center of the magic circle, and a blurry image appeared in the magic circle.
It seemed to be a man's first-person perspective. In front of him was a dilapidated construction site. It was obvious that the demolition work had come to an end, with only some broken building materials left to be taken away.
He continued to walk forward. A loud noise was heard beside him, as if something broke. Then a black shadow fell in front of him. It seemed that a huge monster fell on his head. Then there was a sea of blood in front of him. His memory ended here.
After the power of magic dissipated, Schiller was still recalling what he had just seen. If one only looked at the surface phenomenon, then this was a construction accident. It seemed that something from the beam fell down and crushed the man to death.
But if you think about it carefully, it doesn't make sense. Judging from the messy construction site from this man's perspective, the house should have been completely demolished, with only some garbage on the ground left to be cleaned up. Then how could something fall from above his head?
Moreover, even if the demolition has reached the final stage, this man should not be the only worker on the construction site. The garbage needs to be collected, the soil needs to be backfilled, and vehicles are needed to transport the garbage. But the man did not see any companions in his sight, not even a car. All he saw was a bleak and desolate scene.
Schiller thought about the details carefully again, and then found that something seemed wrong. The abandoned construction site that appeared in the man's field of vision should not have been demolished just now. A lot of garbage on the ground showed signs of being dried and weathered for a long time, which should have been a few years after the demolition.
That is to say, after the junior high school and primary school had been completely demolished, a worker from the Wardelaide construction engineering team returned there and died there.
This school indeed has a secret. After Schiller confirmed this, he knew the direction of the next investigation.
He pushed Constantine towards Brand without hesitation and said, "Since you want to write a book, Dr. Brand should be able to give you a lot of inspiration. You two can chat first. I have something else to do and I'm leaving first."
Constantine looked confused, but Brand raised an eyebrow and said, "You want to write a book? What book?"
"It's just a novel, but..." Constantine looked Brand up and down and said, "Can you give me some inspiration? A horror story about a mental hospital?"
“You write horror novels?”
"It should be terrifying for ordinary people, but you are a magician, how can you understand the fear of ordinary people?"
Brand smiled and said, "You underestimate me."
Just when Constantine was about to say something, he suddenly saw that the shadow behind Brand was tall and slender, and the dark and rich color was like the back of light. When he looked into Brand's eyes again, a thin golden line appeared in Brand's pupils.
“You…you you you you you…Ah!!!!”
Schiller went to Wayne Manor, mainly to borrow Batman's computer, which is now Tim's computer.
There is nothing special about this computer itself, it just can access the Wayne Group's information database. The information database of this universe's Wayne Group is different from the information database of other universes' Batman. It does not contain much information on superheroes and super criminals. It mainly records the process of this city's transformation and the business information of the Wayne Group.
Don't think that it has been useless for a long time. The Wayne Group's building renovation project has a far-reaching impact on Gotham. During the renovation process, countless workers have been used, industries have been contacted, factories have been contacted, and even large groups have cooperated. The amount of information that can be collected is also massive.
Not to mention anything else, almost everyone living in the East District Renovation Project Building now has all their information from birth to the present recorded in this database. Basically, as long as you input some characteristics, you can accurately screen out the target. It can be said to be the Gotham version of Skynet.
The same is true in business. Basically, anyone doing business in Gotham, from multinational corporations to self-employed individuals, can find relevant information in this database.
Schiller wanted to investigate the so-called Wardlade Engineering Group.
After obtaining permission from Tim, Schiller quickly retrieved the information he wanted from the database. The information showed that this construction company was established about 20 years ago, but its scale has always been small. It was not until about ten years ago that the company received an investment and grabbed several hot projects, and then expanded to its current size.
Although Wayne Construction Group is still the largest engineering team in Gotham, Wardred has also benefited a lot from Gotham's renovation project. While Wayne Construction Group was busy renovating the East District, they took on a number of projects in the West District and the South District.
Their strength is not in building commercial buildings and residential areas, but in building clubs, casinos, and resorts for the entertainment of the rich. During the Gotham Music Festival, several popular resorts on the southern coastline were built by them. You can imagine how profitable this kind of project is.
But that's about all the information we have. After all, Gotham is such a big city, and there must be at least 800 engineering teams of this size, if not a thousand. The Wayne Group has a strong ability to collect information, but there is no need to keep a close eye on such a small company.
Schiller did not see the Wardlade engineering team build a school, and the company that built the boarding high school had long since gone bankrupt. No information about the construction of the middle school and elementary school was left, and now there is no trace of them.
After investigating the company's overall information, Schiller began to check the company's legal persons and shareholders, and one person obviously stood out from them. He was Bob, the manager who saved the construction company from bankruptcy ten years ago -
After looking up this person's resume, Schiller discovered that he was a very capable operator. He had led the Wardled Construction Engineering Team to complete many hot construction projects and led the entire group to prosperity.
When the photo of this person was entered into the search system, a group photo popped up that surprised Schiller. The person on the left side of the photo was Bob, who was smiling brightly, and standing next to him was Williams.
How did the two of them get together?
Schiller then did some research and found out that although Bob did lead the Wardlade Group to better and better status with his personal ability, it was actually Williams' real estate company that invested in the company ten years ago and helped it overcome difficulties.
Then the timeline is very clear. Ten years ago, about two years after Schiller came to Gotham, the Wardled Engineering Group was not doing well, and Williams' real estate company invested in this construction group. Then Bob joined the company under Williams' introduction and led the company to develop better and better.
At the same time, Schiller also found the information of the boarding high school in the database. The school was established about 30 years ago, moved once, and moved to its current location about 20 years ago.
Then about 10 years ago, the elementary school and junior high school were closed due to poor management, at least that was the explanation given to parents. Schiller found some people who graduated from this junior high school and elementary school in the database, but there was nothing unusual about them. Those who were studying there at the time transferred to other schools after the school was closed.
After the closure, the elementary and junior high school buildings were demolished. The information database did not show who contracted the demolition work, but Schiller suspected that it might be the Wardled Engineering Group.
At that time, the company had just received an investment from Williams Real Estate, but the money had just been received and had not yet been quickly converted into company size. Recruiting people and bidding took time, and during this period, with the manpower scale of the Wardlede Engineering Group, it could only take on similar demolition work.
However, Schiller felt that everything was not that simple, because if this was just a job that happened to be accepted, it would be impossible to explain why Wardelaide's workers reappeared in the ruins of the school a few years after the school was demolished, and why the place that could be seen as the ruins of the school a few years ago now looked no different from a forest.
There was a key missing link, and then Pamela brought him good news.
(End of this chapter)