amaotonovel Chapter 2823: Demonic Restricted Area (9)
Chapter 2823: Demonic Restricted Area (9)
Chapter 2823: Demonic Restricted Area (XIX)
Sure enough, it was here. Jerome's eyes lit up, but Peter was a little puzzled. He knew that this madman in front of him was hiding something from him, but the sudden appearance of such a big ancient city still scared him.
Jerome stepped into the ancient city without hesitation. Peter was a little frightened. Seeing this, Jerome no longer concealed it. He walked in and talked.
"Although the evil god is terrifying, the people of Gotham are not completely helpless. As early as 20 years ago, someone had predicted what would happen today and left clues in the Gotham Cathedral."
"About 20 years ago, the four major families worked together to repair Gotham's sewer system, but they discovered a secret site and countless cultists hiding in the sewers."
"Could it be that they were the ones who caused the changes in the city?" Peter asked.
"On the contrary, they delayed the city's mutation. The mutation should have occurred 20 years ago. The four major families tried their best to kill all the cultists and threw them into a special pool. In the process of transforming the sewers, they spread their special powers through the water system."
Peter immediately thought of toilet water. No wonder he was splashed with toilet water when he pressed the button before, but did not turn into a monster. This thing was not in the same system as the pollution in the hotel now.
"Is this power uncontaminated?" Peter asked.
"Actually, there are." Jerome sighed and said, "But the people of Gotham are no longer afraid, because we have discovered that this kind of pollution has been continuously eroding our bodies since the city was founded. A little more won't do any good."
Peter was speechless, wondering if this could be considered fighting poison with poison.
Jerome continued.
"Twenty years ago, people with lofty ideals cooperated with each other to accomplish this great feat, but unfortunately, this could only delay the evil gods' pace, but could not completely eliminate them, so they could only leave a message in the Gotham Cathedral, hoping that later generations could complete the task."
"I don't understand." Peter shook his head and said, "How can we accomplish something that the whole city couldn't accomplish now?"
"The reason why the four major families failed to complete the task was not because they were incapable, but because they lacked something. It took 20 years to find these things."
"What's missing?"
At this time, Jerome shook his head and stopped talking. The two of them walked into the ancient city together. Jerome seemed to have a map, leading Peter through twists and turns inside but they did not get lost. Instead, the road became wider and wider.
Soon there was a light ahead, and Peter thought they were going to go out again. However, after turning a passage, they saw a huge temple in front of them. The temple was surrounded by owl statues, but in the very center was a pool.
The pool was not filled with water, but a liquid with a psychedelic luster. Peter actually smelled a charming sweet scent in this damp and corrupt underground.
He walked to the side of the pool as if possessed by a ghost.
Like a person who has been thirsty for a long time, Peter could hardly resist the sweet taste, and he instinctively reached out to touch the psychedelic liquid.
Jerome said behind him, "Drink, and you will not be thirsty after drinking."
In Wayne Manor, Schiller left the study and sneaked to the first floor. Actually, it couldn't be considered sneaky. After Alfred found that Schiller disappeared, he turned around and looked for the door handle that was entangled with Martha's hair.
But after getting the door handle, he did not stay where he was, but headed to the 4th floor. Schiller guessed that it might be because the master bedroom was on the 4th floor, but now he couldn't care less, he had to get Gordon's head back.
To be fair, Gordon is a good policeman, mainly because Schiller also promised to help him find the body of his comrade in the manor. Since he made such a promise, he had to do it. Now that the body has not been found, he can only find a way to get Gordon back.
Sure enough, Schiller found the headless body next to the dining table in the hall on the first floor. He followed the blood trail to the stairs and found Gordon's head at the bottom of the corner of the stairs. He could still blink, and was obviously still alive.
Schiller felt something strange. Some tentacles had pierced Gordon's neck before, so it was not surprising that he could change bodies. But after he picked up the head, he found that there was actually nothing on the head and there was no sign of contamination. It was quite strange that Gordon's head could survive on its own.
Schiller wanted to study it, but he had no time because the two figures rushing in from the gate were Jerome and Cobert.
"Something happened." Jerome's face was a little pale. Schiller found that his clothes on the abdomen were stained with blood. It was obvious that his wound had burst open during the desperate escape.
Cobert's legs also began to bleed, and he limped even more severely when he walked. For some reason, the granulations also drooped.
Schiller frowned slightly, but Jerome said, "Jerome is now in the past timeline, and it's not 20 days ago, it's 20 years ago."
Schiller's eyes widened immediately. Jerome shook his head and said, "He just found a way to send me a message, telling me that there is a passage under Wayne Manor. We can go back in time 20 years ago through this passage and meet up with them."
"I don't see the point of meeting up now." Schiller shook his head and said, "I have to go to the fourth floor and see what Martha left in the bedroom."
Jerome and Cobert looked at each other. Schiller saw that they didn't want to leave, so he didn't make things difficult for them. Instead, he said, "You can stay here, but I have to go to the 4th floor. I want to know what's going on."
"You will have the answer." Jerome looked at Schiller and said, "We will help you lead that big head away. If you can come back alive, take the underground passage behind the big tree in the garden and come to the basement to find us."
Schiller nodded without saying anything more. He went to the second floor, took out the door handle and hid in the study. Big Head was quickly led to the first floor.
There was some noise outside, but Schiller did not go out rashly. He waited until all the noises died down before he pushed the door open a little.
But as soon as he looked out, Schiller froze because Alfred's tentacle-covered face was facing him.
Those guys are really unreliable!
Schiller was about to regard all this as a trap, but he found that Alfred did not move at all and did not attack him with his tentacles. Schiller walked out quietly and found that there was a bloody hole under the big head. Obviously something was missing.
Could it be that the monster living in the big head chased them, but why did it leave its tentacles behind?
Schiller didn't think much about it. He was determined to go to the 4th floor to find the answer. He knew that in Martha's room, he could learn more about the truth.
He rushed up to the fourth floor in two steps. Sure enough, Martha's bedroom was not among the door handles in his hand, but at the end of the fourth floor.
Schiller pushed open the door. There was not much dust here, as if someone had cleaned it diligently. Schiller walked to the head of the bed and found a diary in the bedside table, but there was only one note on it.
"The fact that you can see this note proves that my plan is close to success."
Schiller frowned when he saw this. Martha had indeed anticipated this. What kind of plan had she come up with 20 years ago?
The following sentence gave Schiller a great shock.
"I will welcome the coming of the Dark God."
"I know that Thomas's deal with the evil god is inevitable. I don't blame him. Everyone has an instinctive desire to survive between life and death. It's better to say that all this is a conspiracy by the evil god. He is forcing us to submit and wants us to blame the crime on ourselves, but we don't want to do that."
"My only regret is that Thomas found out too late. If he had discussed it with me earlier, there might have been a better solution, but at this moment we can only take a gamble."
"Thomas promised the evil god but didn't fulfill his promise. He refused to release the pollution into Gotham, but for some reason, the evil god didn't take his life. We are not happy about this at all. We just think that the evil god will definitely take it back somewhere else."
"When I got pregnant, I understood everything. He wanted our child, and he wanted everything except this."
"Fortunately, there is always a way out. At this time, Thomas told me that the plan to rebuild the sewer had encountered obstacles. They found an incredible big thing underground. I went to visit it and it was amazing."
"The water in the pool in the mysterious ancient city has improved my mental state. I think there must be a secret in it. I dare not drink it, but there is another way to get in touch with it."
"I came to the hotel secretly, mixed the mysterious pool water into the water of the rooftop swimming pool, and then jumped in. Between suffocation and hallucinations, I spied a terrible secret that came from the blood of those cultists."
"The city we live in has been polluted. This group of cultists mixed some mysterious metal into the buildings of Gotham, which made everyone cruel and crazy. This is the reason why Gotham is going downhill."
"This should have been bad news, but it was like a life-saving straw for us because we knew that this group of cultists and the evil god were not in the same group. They were not that difficult to deal with and would die if shot."
"But the power they hold cannot be underestimated. From their memories, I know that all of this is a conspiracy led by a great dark being. We don't care what he wants to do. We only care that Gotham can only have one master."
"The evil god forced us to pollute the four major families, and the dark existence also wants to pollute the entire city. Let them compete. If they can fight to the death, perhaps we can struggle to survive in the cracks."
"Even if my child might be contaminated by both parties at the same time, at least I gave him the freedom to choose once. This is the most I can do."
"The four major families all agree with my opinion. It is obvious that the evil god wants to repeat his old tricks on them. In just one week, many of their young people have encountered accidents and have been entangled by the monster."
"What shocked me was that Falcone couldn't escape their clutches. This old fox ruled Gotham's underworld for most of his life, and young Thomas also suffered at his hands. It was then that we realized that the evil god was much more difficult to deal with than we thought."
"From the cultists' memories, I learned a method to make the Dark God descend, but unfortunately the requirements are too high, and we don't have that much time, so we thought of a way to delay time. As long as we can delay it for another 20 years, the backup plan we have laid out will be enough to save the city."
"After some discussion with them, I confronted the evil god and made a deal with him. Thomas and I would give up our bodies and let the evil god raise my child. At the same time, he couldn't do anything to anyone else in Gotham until little Bruce was truly converted to him."
"When I said this, the tall, dark figure kept staring at me. I couldn't see his eyes clearly, but I could see the unpredictable expression under his hypocritical mask."
"What makes me feel desperate, but also gives me strength, is that he seems to have guessed what I would say long ago. Everything about us is under his control. He probably just enjoys watching these weak ants struggle under his manipulation."
"I thought I would panic, but until the deal was done, I felt nothing but calm. I'm not sure what the future holds, but I know my children won't let me down."