Chapter 2846: Demonic Forbidden Zone (XVI)

Chapter 2820 The Demonic Restricted Area (Sixteen)

After getting the consultation results from Greed, the bishop contacted Peter immediately and asked him to try to leave the hotel.

Peter had just woken up. He rubbed his swollen eyes, got up, took his equipment, and went out to the elevator.

With a ding, the elevator door opened. He saw a woman standing inside, but he didn't look closely. He lowered his head and walked into the elevator. The moment the elevator door closed, he felt cold sweat running down his back.

What was that? ? ?

Peter took a deep breath. What did he just see?

He tried hard to search his memory, and then found a glimpse of the woman in his peripheral vision. What was that thing on the woman's neck? ? ?

Peter swallowed and sent a message to Schiller.

"Doctor, I just seemed to see a woman with a bunch of tentacles on her neck instead of a head, but when I looked closely, they disappeared again."

Peter couldn't help but look back at the woman, but she acted very normal and smiled at him when she saw Peter, as if everything Peter had just experienced was an illusion.

Schiller, who received the message, immediately realized that Peter's situation might have also begun to deteriorate. If the hotel could really leave, now might be the last chance.

"Don't be nervous, Peter, forget those anomalies, pretend they never happened, and don't mention them to anyone."

Schiller, who was now staying in Wayne Manor, could neither speak nor communicate with others, so sending messages to communicate with Peter was the only thing he could do. He tried his best to comfort Peter and told him not to be afraid.

Peter tried to calm down and delete the mental pollution images in his mind. The elevator stopped, but not on the first floor. As soon as the door opened, a man carrying a toolbox walked in.

"Sorry, the elevator is broken. If you want to go to the lobby, take the stairs." The repairman said this and stood at the door, obviously wanting Peter and the others to go out.

Peter didn't want to go out, but his eyes flickered, and he saw from the corner of his eye that the toolbox in the repairman's hand was not a toolbox at all, but a rotten human head.

Peter walked away, not caring about the woman and the repairman, and rushed out of the elevator and ran to the end of the corridor.

There were basically no accommodation rooms below the fifth floor. The third floor was the business area, with reception rooms and conference rooms, as well as a souvenir shop.

Peter ran all the way, passed two large conference rooms, and finally stopped at the door of the tea room.

He heard the sound of the door opening, so he looked back and found that a group of people in suits and leather shoes came out of the conference room one after another.

His vision flickered again, and he saw that each of them had fins behind their ears, their eyeballs protruding outward, and mucus dripping from their mouths, but when he looked more carefully, they were all gone.

Peter felt a little panic, but he was still able to move. He ran towards the stairwell following the sign of the emergency exit, but met an unexpected person, Jerome, standing at the corner of the stairwell looking at him.

"You've discovered it, right? The nightmare is about to end."

"Nightmare, you mean this is a nightmare?"

"Not exactly." Jerome said, "Where do you think we are now?"

"Of course it's the hotel." Although Peter said it with certainty, he actually felt a little guilty. He really couldn't figure out these weird things, but his intuition told him that something was wrong.

Jerome shook his head. He and Peter walked downstairs and said, "Do you know? About 20 years ago, the Wayne Hotel had undergone a large-scale renovation. It was said to be a hotel renovation, but in fact it was to hide something."

"What is it?"

"To be honest, I don't know, so I want to invite you to go and see it." Jerome said, "I think it will be amazing."

"I want to leave the hotel." Peter didn't talk nonsense with him and said directly, "I want to go to Wayne Manor."

"You can't leave the hotel now, or there is only one way to leave the hotel, that is, go to the basement of the hotel with me."

Peter stared at him for a long time, trying to find traces of lying on his face. He was not stupid. He knew that this might be a monster's trap. Jerome in front of him might just want to lure him to hell.

Finding that he couldn't convince Peter, Jerome changed the subject and said, "Did you go to the library?"

Peter sighed and nodded. He didn't find anything particularly important in the library, but he found a book about Gotham's history.

Peter didn't really like literature and history books, so he got sleepier and sleepier as he read. He was so sleepy that he had to go back to his hotel room and sleep. He had many bizarre nightmares and felt dizzy when he woke up.

"Have you ever wondered why you can see them suddenly?" Jerome said. When he mentioned them, he hooked his finger and made a quotation mark gesture.

Peter knew he was referring to the monsters that appeared in his peripheral vision, but he didn't know why. Jerome looked at him and said, "Only when you are on the verge of a mental breakdown can you see the truth of this world. I have spent a lot of effort to maintain this state. You are really lucky."

Peter didn't feel that he was on the verge of a mental breakdown. He felt that he was still quite rational, but he really couldn't explain why the world in his eyes had changed.

Peter tried to look at Jerome with his peripheral vision, but he did not see a monster on him. He scratched his head and said, "I don't think so either. Now that I go to the first floor and open the revolving door, I can walk out, but You have to tell me what’s underneath the hotel, or I won’t go with you.”

Jerome seemed to be thinking about it. He looked at Peter again, and then said: "I see an outstanding talent in you. It's hard for me to describe, but I think you and Bruce Wayne are the same kind of people. You two You are born to be entangled in something.”

"I don't think this is something to be proud of." Peter thought of the black sun. He suddenly remembered that he had the ability to return to the thick fog at any time, and maybe he could even take people back. In this case, he would be in danger. There is a way out.

Peter plucked up some courage again and said: "Since you think I can help, then you can't tell me no information, otherwise I won't cooperate with you."

Jerome looked at Peter strangely. He felt that this guy was too immature and couldn't see anything special about him. However, his intuition told Jerome that he was quite extraordinary.

Out of curiosity, Jerome said: "There is a road leading to Wayne Manor underground under the Wayne Hotel. This was part of the hotel's renovation that year. No one knows what it was for."

"You must know that," Peter said, surprising Jerome with his bluntness. "I think we can't waste any more time. It's best to be honest with each other."

"Well, it seems I can't hide it from you, but it starts from one of my jobs one day. A few years ago, I joined an insurance company and became an insurance investigator."

"You can understand that I want to pursue those insurance cases, eliminate the suspicion of insurance fraud, and strive for the interests of my company."

"This is not an easy job. It was okay at first. I could see through those people's lies at a glance. Because I did a good job, they sent me over as soon as the company encountered a difficult case. "

"At first, the company thought it was just a serial murder, and even the police thought so. But something happened to me that brought me to the verge of a mental breakdown, and I saw the truth of the world."

"Following the investigation, I discovered that some kind of mysterious pollution was spreading in the city. I followed it all the way and found that this pollution did not appear recently. All the clues pointed to 20 years ago."

"What happened 20 years ago?" Peter asked.

"Someone should have died, but they are still alive." Jerome showed some memories and said: "At that time, the Wayne family was not the only one in Gotham City, but there were four major families, and there were some others. The relationship between them is not stable."

“Every family wants to be the best, and the Wayne family’s ambitions are not small. Thomas Wayne, the head of the family at the time, was judged to be the most brilliant business genius in this century. Since he began to take over the family business, the Wayne Group has prospered. "

"I didn't investigate what happened afterwards very clearly. It seems that someone was deliberately concealing it. I only know that Thomas Wayne encountered an accident, but he did not die. He survived."

Peter heard what Jerome was saying and said, "Do you think Thomas should have died in that accident?"

"That's what I do." Jerome said: "Identify various accidents and determine whether someone deliberately defrauded insurance. I can say responsibly that among the files I investigated, that accident should have been terminated." Thomas Wayne’s life, but he didn’t die.”

Peter was very smart and he immediately realized, "Is Thomas Wayne still the one who survives?"

"That's the point." Jerome nodded and said, "Not only that, three months after the accident, Thomas Wayne reappeared in the public eye and enacted a series of reform measures. It is this A series of initiatives have established Wayne Group’s current position.”

"Isn't this inconsistent with his past style?"

"It can't be regarded as completely inconsistent, it can only be said that it is more radical." Jerome shook his head and said: "At the same time, his wife Martha Wayne also had problems. Half a year after the accident, Martha Wayne became pregnant. , but since then she rarely goes out, and her former friends don’t see her very much.”

"It's understandable that pregnant women need to recuperate."

"No, it's not that simple. Renovations at Wayne Manor started a few months after she was pregnant. It's very strange, isn't it? Who on earth would renovate a house when there is a pregnant woman at home?"

Peter nodded, but still said with some hesitation: "Maybe the environment of the manor is not suitable for newborns. They are so rich and have a lot of houses. It is normal to move to another place to live."

"Here's the problem. They had so many properties, but they didn't choose to move. Martha Wayne came to the Wayne Hotel alone, while Thomas was still dominating the mall."

Peter clearly showed disapproval and said, "It doesn't sound like Thomas is a responsible father, but this is a family matter after all."

"But what's even more strange is that they chose to separate during that period, and the outside world was speculating whether they were going to divorce. But as soon as the child was born, their relationship got better again, and they were inseparable. They attended various dinners together and became a circle. A model couple.”

"Maybe it's postpartum depression?" Peter also felt a little unable to convince himself. "If it is really depression, shouldn't the child be cured immediately after he is born?"

"This is very strange, so I conducted an in-depth investigation." The two had already walked to the lower half of the stairs on the second floor and were about to reach the first floor. Jerome continued.

"I found that although the Wayne Hotel and Wayne Manor were both owned by the Wayne family, the largest construction engineering company in Gotham at the time belonged to the Kane family, which was Martha Wayne's mother's family."

"If nothing unexpected happens, the Kane family must have participated in the renovation of these two places. As for what they did, we must go underground to see."