amaotonovel Chapter 2814: Demonic Restricted Area ()
Chapter 2814: Demonic Restricted Area ()
Chapter 2814: Demonic Restricted Area ()
Facts have proved that the saying "learn math, physics and chemistry well and you will not be afraid to travel around the world" is indeed a wake-up call.
Schiller took a photo of Jerome's drawings and showed them to Peter, because he was certainly not that careless. If Jerome tampered with the structure of the stairs, this would be the best opportunity to wipe them out. Currently, only Peter was trustworthy among all the people, and he also happened to understand this part of knowledge.
Peter took a closer look, but there was actually nothing to see. The structure of this thing was simple, and there was basically no room for tampering. As long as there were no problems with the connecting parts, it would not be a problem for one person to pass through it at one time.
Moreover, Peter added windproof devices based on Jerome's design. He had noticed the unusually strong wind outside the window several times he opened it before. Although the wind usually only blows from one direction, Peter still added some guardrails on both sides to prevent people from being blown down from the upper floors due to strong winds.
When Jerome saw the altered drawings, he knew that Schiller was also accomplished in this area. However, he did not ask more questions, but started to proceed to the next step of the plan, which was to take the screws from the door.
The screws that Schiller had fixed on the 19th floor were obviously not enough. They still had more than twenty floors to go up, and they had to remove at least three or four more floors of screws. Schiller and Cobert had to do this together.
Schiller mainly went to the floors he had swept before, while Cobert was responsible for the 8th floor, which was where the restaurant was located.
The good news is that there are more rooms on the 8th floor. Although not all of them are guest rooms, the screws of the doorplates of other rooms can also be removed. The bad news is that Schiller didn't have many candles left, so he didn't light candles this time. The bishop was a civil servant and not very good at fighting, so he suffered some injuries.
Jerome bandaged Schiller's arm wound, which was on his left forearm. It looked like he was scratched by something. Jerome shook his head and said, "Are we really not going to rest here for a while? I think we all need to recover."
"You wanted to do it, didn't you?" the bishop said. "You don't care about our lives, not even your own. I saw the mark you left for your brother. You asked him to find a way to get to the roof, right?"
Jerome snorted but didn't refute. He had obviously been in contact with Jerome because they were in the past timeline, so Jerome could see any marks Jerome left.
And now Jerome also knows that Peter has the ability to communicate with this side in real time. Once he discovers anything, he will definitely tell Jerome.
It's not that Schiller looks down on Peter. The Amazing Spider-Man of the main universe still has some abilities. The problem is that his moral bottom line is a bit too high. At most, he can do some petty thefts for the sake of the overall situation. He can't use those more Gotham methods, but Jerome can, so his investigation is destined to make more progress than Peter's.
But Schiller himself knows Spider-Man's advantages. Spider-Men have one thing in common: they have scholarly personalities and have great potential to develop into mad scientists. The Spider-Man in Schiller's universe is like this. Their concentration sometimes makes it easier for them to discover the true nature of things, which is two completely different paths from a madman.
Schiller asked Peter to find the library in the hotel. At least there was a library in the Wayne Hotel in Schiller's universe. It was right next to the leisure and entertainment area and should not be far from the elevator. It was not very dangerous, but it was very likely to hide some secrets.
In the Cthulhu mythology system, the library is a place where rewards and risks coexist, and entering it requires some special abilities. Extremely high concentration is the only way to obtain forbidden knowledge.
Peter and Jerome were busy with their own things in another hotel. After a while, Jerome brought back good news.
The elevator they had was working fine, so he could go up to the top floor first and then look up from the window in the top corridor.
Of course, he was not looking at the hotel on his side, but at the hotel opposite. Normally, the hotel opposite cannot be seen directly and can only be seen with peripheral vision. However, there are exceptions. Schiller had discovered before that in the middle of the night, the hotel would not disappear just because one's eyes were moved away.
However, the hotel was more dangerous at night and the view was not good. Jerome didn't see much. He just told Schiller that there was a castle on the roof of the hotel.
Everyone who received the news found it ridiculous, but with so many monsters in the hotel, having a castle on the roof was not something very unusual.
After almost confirming all the situations, everyone started to work between the two buildings. Since everything in the hotel was unusable, there were no safety ropes or anything like that. Basically, they nailed the parts together indoors and then sent them outside.
In the field of outdoor construction projects, a dozen meters is actually not far. Even if you throw it like a javelin, you can throw some building components to the other side. As long as the first road leading to the other side is successfully built, the rest is nothing more than repetitive work.
It took them about four hours to build the first road, from dusk to dawn. The main reason was that someone had to keep an eye on the hotel to anchor its existence, otherwise the road would collapse once the hotel disappeared.
Because the hotel would move one meter closer every other day, even though Jerome had left some redundancy in the design, they still had to spend 2 to 3 hours every day on the renovation. If nothing was done for two consecutive days, the thing would collapse.
In general, there are shortcomings everywhere. It is expensive and troublesome. However, these many shortcomings cannot outweigh the only benefit of this road, which is that Schiller and others no longer have to rely on the elevator in the hotel.
It took about a day and a night to get the rest of the parts done. Jerome went up first to try it out and found no problem. The next step was to study the order in which to go up.
The load-bearing capacity of the stairs is limited, and only one person can pass through at a time. Assuming that the quality of the stairs is fine, there is only one way to reduce the number of people in the group, and that is to be the first or last person to go up the stairs. When there are people on the stairs, turn around and not look at the hotel, causing the hotel to disappear directly, and the stairs and the people on them will naturally fall down.
Of course, they could also climb up in the middle of the night, but they really didn't need to waste another day, so they decided that Schiller would be the first to go up and Jerome would be the last.
At least they were two people who seemed uncontaminated, and neither Cobblepot nor Gordon could guarantee that they would not do anything, so they finally made this decision.
Schiller took a deep breath before stepping onto the staircase of bones. He didn't have any feelings like "one general's success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of lives". His arm just hurt a little. The wound on his hand was actually caused by himself. While riding the elevator, he encountered a kaleidoscope. In order to prevent himself from being dragged into the mirror, he used his own blood to smudge the lens.
Schiller walked up the stairs carefully, holding the handrail. Strong winds blew several times during the walk, but fortunately there were handrails and no large walls on the stairs, so the area exposed to the wind was not very large and it was still relatively stable.
Climbing more than twenty floors is already a strenuous task, and with the strong wind and the difficult stairs, it took Schiller nearly an hour to climb up.
As soon as he reached the roof, he was stunned.
How can this be a castle? Isn't this Wayne Manor?
The building in front of him looked like Wayne Manor, but it was not surprising that Jerome mistook it for a castle, because what was surrounding it was not the fence of Wayne Manor, but a city wall, and there were even a bunch of cannons on the wall.
There used to be many Gothic spires in Wayne Manor, but now they have all become small urn windows, inlaid on the surface of the gorgeous Gothic building, which looks very inconsistent.
Schiller had a bad feeling, and his premonition reached its peak when he saw Martha's wet footprints in front of the castle gate.
Wasn't the Martha Wayne in the room an illusion?
That only proves that Wayne may have been to the Wayne Hotel when he was pregnant with little Bruce, but the illusion in the room cannot affect the outside of the room. If Martha's footprints appear here, it proves that Martha has been here in reality.
But that was 20 years ago, how could the footprints still be there? Did Martha leave her room in the middle of the night and go to the swimming pool on the roof? Why did she go to the swimming pool?
Schiller always felt that they might have discovered some unknown secrets, but in the Cthulhu mythology system, the bigger the secret, the greater the danger.
Not long after, Cobblepot also came up and was surprised to see the huge Wayne Manor, or Wayne Castle.
Next came Gordon. He raised his eyebrows when he saw the castle. Schiller knew from his expression that he knew a lot.
But Schiller did not ask any further questions, because he knew that sometimes the more you know, the faster you die. Old knowledge is a double-edged sword, and stories may be the same.
After Jerome came up, they divided their forces according to the original plan.
In this situation, splitting the troops was the stupidest option, but they had to do it because they had to leave a group of people here to watch the hotel. If the hotel disappeared, they would have no way of retreat.
If we leave one person here, he will have no ability to resist and his sacrifice will be almost in vain, so it is better to leave two.
Because Jerome was seriously injured and Cobert, who swallowed the restaurant, was the stronger one among them, it was finally decided that the two of them would stay, while Schiller and Gordon would enter the castle to explore.
Schiller didn't really want four people to go in together, because that would make them too conspicuous. However, it would be equally dangerous to go in with Gordon, who had been here before. As long as he interfered with Schiller's judgment at the critical moment, it would make it easier for Schiller to capsize.
However, there was no better choice at this time. Schiller could only take a gamble. He knew that Gordon had his own purpose, but he did not think that Gotham's conscience would be so easily corrupted. If he was doing this for the good of the city, he would soon find that sincere cooperation with himself would be the best way to solve the problem.