amaotonovel Chapter 2831: An Ant Trying to Shake a Tree (Part )
Chapter 2831: An Ant Trying to Shake a Tree (Part )
Chapter 2831: An Ant Trying to Shake a Tree (Part )
No wonder I saw a figure standing in the window of another hotel when I first arrived at the hotel. That should be me now.
But the figure disappeared later and never appeared again. What would happen if I continued to stand here?
Schiller heard a noise coming from the bathroom.
He turned his head and stared at the bathroom for a while, and finally walked over and pushed open the bathroom door. The toilet was intact and seemed to have been repaired. The sound came from the bathtub drain.
Gulu gulu gulu...
Schiller remembered that when he first entered the room, he found that the drain of the bathtub was not so unobstructed. Now the noise was even more intense, as if something was ventilating underneath.
Gulugulugulugulugulu...
Schiller felt his head hurting more and more, and his vision began to go dark. He covered his ears desperately and ran towards the bathroom door. The sound chased him for a while, and it was not until he returned to the living room that it finally quieted down.
There seemed to be no hallucinatory monsters in the room, and the toilet was in good working order, as if this was just an ordinary hotel.
That's not the case. Schiller leaned against the door and took a breath. He felt himself getting weaker and weaker. An idea in his mind reminded him that he didn't have much time left.
“Where the hell am I???”
When Schiller stood up, he fell sideways on the coffee table, knocking it over. The things on it scatter all over the floor. The mineral water bottle fell to the ground, and the water spilled out, soaking the carpet.
Countless bubbles rose from the water.
Schiller seemed to realize something suddenly. He began to concentrate hard. Countless images flashed through his mind. He rushed to the window with his last bit of strength.
I opened the window and saw a staircase of bones spreading upwards outside.
Schiller took out the knife from his pocket and hit the bottom support hard.
Wow!
The bones shattered and the entire bone staircase collapsed. The moment Schiller looked up, he saw two figures suddenly standing up on the roof of the opposite building, and then he completely lost consciousness.
When he woke up again, Schiller suddenly spat out two mouthfuls of water, lay on the ground and coughed violently. With his blurry eyes, he saw the faces of Jerome and Cobert.
Gordon, who was soaking wet, was lying on his stomach not far away.
Schiller tried hard to turn over, and in the dim moonlight, he could see clearly that there was a straight stream of water in front of him, and at the end of the stream was a huge swimming pool.
At this time, the moonlight shines on the surface of the swimming pool, the breeze blows, the waves sparkle, and the light on the water surface weaves into a large silver-white net, floating and swinging...
Gordon, who was standing next to him, coughed hard and spit out all the water he had choked on. He said in a hoarse voice, "I told you a long time ago, this thing is very dangerous..."
Schiller lay flat on the roof, looking at the moon in silence.
Is Wayne Manor the real Wayne Manor? Is Metal the real Metal? Is Naija the real Naija?
If they were all fake, Schiller looked at the wound on his right shoulder, then how did they come about?
Suddenly he reached into the pocket of his coat, where there was a knife. Schiller took out the knife, but found that it was not the ordinary knife in Jerome's hand, but the vibranium knife he had used to pry the screws before.
There was still his own blood on it.
So the pool is just like room 1905, with a hallucinogenic monster in it?
No, I'm afraid it's not that simple.
Schiller's gaze suddenly turned to Gordon. He got up from the ground and walked towards Gordon. Before Cobert and Jerome could react, Schiller directly stabbed the knife into Gordon's head.
Schiller pried open Gordon's skull, took out a piece of silver-gray metal from his head, threw it to the ground, and cursed.
When he turned his eyes and glared at Jerome and Cobert, they both shuddered.
The swimming pool gave him a bad ending, at the cost of him almost drowning.
"Hand over your metal." Schiller held the knife, covered the wound on his shoulder and gasped, but stared at Jerome and Cobert and said, "Your plan full of loopholes will not succeed. I won't let Naya have the opportunity to laugh at me again."
The black manager's smile was a silent mockery, foreshadowing the worst outcome - everything would be as usual, but they would never be able to escape the entanglement of the evil god.
Gordon, whose head was cut open, was not dead yet, but his words shook Jerome and Cobert. The sheriff sighed helplessly and said, "Give it to him. We were unsuccessful in the end. The city returned to its previous 'peaceful' state, but the evil god found each and every one of us."
Jerome and Cobert were a little hesitant, but Schiller obviously didn't intend to wait for them to hesitate. Cobert didn't react at all, but Schiller had already rushed in front of him and stabbed his calf with a knife, but what flowed out was not blood, but a wine-red liquid that reflected metallic luster.
"what!!!!"
Cobert let out a scream, and the swimming pool water on Schiller's body fell on him and dripped into his eyes. Cobert's whole body froze, as if he saw some incredible scene.
He suddenly turned around and pushed Schiller away. Schiller found that he was much stronger, as if his self-protection instinct had been activated, but it was not because of the stab he had made.
A few seconds later, Cobert went limp, his pupils dilated, and he said tremblingly: "Fish... Fish is... the Red Queen..."
Schiller immediately remembered that the Red Queen was also an incarnation of Naija, and it seemed that it was her that Cobert met in the end.
He turned to Gordon and asked, "Who is the Outer God that came to you?"
"A baron," Gordon answered.
"Baron Samedi." Schiller added, "The god of death in voodoo, one of the incarnations of Nyarlathotep."
Schiller got up from the ground and, ignoring the trembling Cobert, grabbed Jerome directly, lifted him up and pushed his head into the swimming pool.
Gulu gulu gulu gulu...
It turns out that the gurgling sound in the bathtub is the sound of people exhaling. When you can't help exhaling, you are basically drowning. The next step is choking on water and then drowning.
Schiller pulled Jerome up only after realizing that he had exhausted all his energy. Jerome also turned pale.
"Who did you see?"
"A man who was completely black, from his skin to his lips, everything was black, only his eyes had a little light."
"The Dark One, who brings the Dark Word to witches and cultists, is also one of Nyarlathotep's incarnations."
Jerome spat out two mouthfuls of water and sat by the swimming pool. He looked at Cobblepot and said, "Give him the metal. This plan is meaningless to Nyarlathotep and cannot deal with the Outer Gods at all."
Cobblepot opened his mouth, but in the end, he cut the muscles in his leg and let all the burgundy metal flow out.
Suddenly, Peter sent a message.
"Doc, the hotel is starting to change, but now I'm...oh my god, what is that???"
Schiller immediately realized that the hotel Peter was in was indeed in the future.
If the ending for all of them is that their plan succeeds but they fail to actually contact Nyarlathotep, then the ending will be that everything returns to peace, but this peace is only superficial, and all of them will be found by the incarnations of the Outer Gods.
The person he met was the Black Pharaoh, the person Gordon met was Baron Samedi, the person Cobert met was the Red Queen, and the person Jerome met was the Man of Darkness.
This means that while they did restore peace to Gotham as planned, they were also cursed forever by Nyarlathotep, whose incarnations will haunt them until the end of time and space.
The situation in Peter's Hotel is exactly the same as this future, and the same future that Schiller saw in the swimming pool. It seems to have returned to calm, but in fact it is weird everywhere. But there is no useful clue, and people live in terror and fear forever.
Now, Schiller has collected the metals in advance, which means that they have given up the plan to go to the ancient city. The future has been changed, but it is difficult to perceive what the future has become just through Peter's experience.
Do you want to go into the pool again?
As soon as Schiller put his hand into the swimming pool, he found something wrong. The water in the swimming pool no longer had its normal buoyancy. This time, if he went in again, he would sink directly to the bottom. He might only be able to stay in it for a dozen seconds.
Moreover, once he enters the water, he will be completely trapped in the illusion, and someone must pull him out; he will not be able to escape by himself.
Do you want to take a gamble and see how it ends?
As soon as Schiller thought of this, Peter sent him a bunch of photos. When Schiller took a look, he found that they were photos taken by Peter of the monster appearing in the future hotel.
As soon as this monster appeared, Schiller knew that this was another bad ending, because the monster's body surface was shining with a layer of metallic luster, exactly the same as the luster of amber gold, which meant that the pool containing amber gold under the ancient city was out of control and might even pollute the entire Gotham.
If Schiller guessed correctly, this ending might be that in order to deal with Naa, they had to let the Amber Gold spread through the sewers throughout Gotham. The people of Gotham do have antibodies, but no matter how strong the antibodies are, they cannot withstand this dose, so they all turned into monsters similar to the Claws of the Court of Owls.
This may be another trick of Nyarlathotep, making them think they have a chance against him, but in fact everything is just like the first ending, just a cunning scam.
Naya's pleasure is to see people in pain and despair, so he will not kill people directly, but use this method to deceive, give hope, and then end hope.
Schiller had to admit that the moment the black manager smiled at him, he felt an unspeakable terror and despair.
There were clearly no monsters, and everything was so peaceful and quiet. He clearly looked like an ordinary person, and his smile was just the right amount of friendly, but it still made people feel deeply desperate.
He looked at the swimming pool again. When he found out that the water in the Reckless Faction was actually amber gold, he knew that this kind of hallucination-producing thing was not created by the four major families.
In other words, this swimming pool where one can see the ending also belongs to Nyarlathotep.
Of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, attacking the heart is the best. Naya seems certain that no matter how they look at it, they will never find a good ending.
It suddenly occurred to Schiller that this might be exactly what he was aiming for.
Martha also disappeared into the swimming pool. Perhaps she also discovered that this swimming pool could allow her to see different futures. She tried again and again, but could never find a future that would allow her to be saved.
Drowning is extremely painful for humans and can be considered one of the most painful ways to die.
But just for that glimmer of hope, which they don't even know if it's a scam, humans are willing to throw themselves into mountains of swords and seas of fire thousands of times.
When they exhausted their limited lives in endless pain, weaved a rope with their own hands to strangle themselves, and looked forward to the arrival of light before taking their last breath, but knew that they would rot in darkness forever, the burst of pain and despair was the highest satisfaction and enjoyment for Nyarlathotep.
This is much more exciting than that pile of dog shit, Schiller thought, good, this is my reward for playing with shit diligently.
Schiller took out a half-burnt red candle, lit it, and silently recited the name of the operator in his heart.
After a moment of stiffness, Schiller slowly stood up, looked at the shimmering water, and revealed a gentle smile.
ending?
You guys are overestimating Schiller's cunning mind. How can this happen if we don't treat this arrogant Naya? !