Chapter 2848: Demonic Forbidden Zone (XVIII)

Chapter 2822: The Demonic Restricted Area (XVIII)

Schiller walked over and flipped through the bookshelf, and found that most of the books on the bookshelf were world history and economics books, which were very consistent with Thomas's personality.

Schiller didn't know much about Thomas in this universe, but he had come into contact with another Thomas, the old man in the Flash Universe.

In short, Thomas Wayne was the product of the Wayne family's elite education. He received elite education, but he didn't accept it completely, because he was actually a very rebellious person when he was young. He never liked reading very much, let alone an economic career.

The Wayne family has always trained him to be the heir of the group, but he didn't want to study finance and economic management, but insisted on studying medicine. After studying medicine, he had to go to the battlefield. That is, he was old and had enough fun before he came back to get married and take over the family property.

Schiller didn't find any medical books on the bookshelf. It seems that Thomas in this universe may not have the experience of studying medicine, but has completed the whole set of elite education process and directly took over the Wayne Group.

Schiller found some annotations on the report on the desk. It seemed to be the renovation of Gotham's underground water system. Because the underground water system had been in disrepair for a long time and the drainage was not good, several major families took the lead in a project to renovate the sewer.

Thomas's opinion was that it could be repaired, but the major families must share the cost and share the results. He would not be a sucker and pay all the money and be scolded.

Then there were some trivial matters of the group and various financial statements. Basically, he just read them and did not leave any annotations.

There was nothing on the desk, so Schiller started to look through the drawers. He remembered that Thomas had the habit of writing a diary, because he needed to count the supplies every day on the battlefield and record the recovery of the wounded. After returning, he also left this habit. I just don't know if Thomas in this universe has it.

Schiller found a locked drawer at the bottom. After prying open the lock, he really found a diary, but there were only a few pages written. It seemed that he had not been writing the diary for a long time, and the handwriting was a bit sloppy, which did not match Thomas's academic level.

"I had that dream again. I think all this is God's punishment for me. He has abandoned me. Otherwise, why would that monster keep coming to my dreams?"

"I swear, I didn't know it was true. I didn't know that the monster was really capable of doing all this. If I knew, I would never agree to it. I think I might not have agreed to it. I was dying at that time. My thoughts didn't count, just like no court would accept the testimony of a mentally ill person..."

"He said I agreed to it. Yes, that's right, but I was dying at that time. I just wanted to survive. I didn't know it was What happened? I didn't mean to do that. God, please save me. "

"He came again today and seemed very disappointed in me, but I couldn't do what he said. I couldn't believe in the evil god. That would bring my family into an abyss of no return. Even if he came today, I would still reject him. "

"He didn't come today. Where did he go?"

"It's been almost 5 months. He hasn't come again. I believe that it's just an illusion of my post-traumatic stress disorder. It must be like this."

"It turns out that he didn't come..."

The last sentence made Schiller's heart skip a beat.

When Thomas wrote these words, he was obviously very anxious, even panicked. The words didn't make sense, and the handwriting was very sloppy. It felt like he was just venting something.

Through these words, Schiller could infer that Thomas seemed to have agreed to a condition of the evil god, which exchanged for his survival, but after he survived, he did not fulfill his promise. The evil god came to him every night, but he continued to refuse.

The evil god disappeared for a while, but later came back. However, Thomas's words "He did come" made Schiller confused.

But if combined with Martha's situation, Schiller could guess that the evil gods' routines were similar, just like loan sharks. If you refuse to pay, they will harass your family.

The evil god may have come back, but he did not go to Thomas again, but to Martha.

Of course, there is another possibility, and Schiller believes in this possibility more. That is, combined with his previous speculation, Thomas may not be Thomas anymore. The evil god took his soul and replaced him, but he didn't know it himself.

And when he knew it, it was too late.

This conjecture was confirmed when Schiller turned to the last page of the diary, where a few words were written very sloppily.

"Martha, if you see me, don't believe it's me. Resurrection is always a scam. The real me is dead. Don't believe it... don't believe it... don't believe it..."

It seems that Thomas, who wrote these words, has realized that the evil god's so-called salvation and resurrection of him is just a scam. The resurrected one is not him at all, but a monster with his consciousness and memory.

Then Martha's mental illness symptoms can be explained. Just like the old godfather Falcone, the person closest to her has been replaced, but there is no evidence.

You just feel that he is becoming more and more weird. He seems to be exactly the same as the person in your impression, but he is completely different. You can't help but start to think, is it you who are crazy or the world is crazy.

There is no answer to all the doubts about this person's identity. Everyone thinks you are overthinking. The other party's attitude is as good as always, so you can't find any faults, but when it is quiet and no one is around, he stands at your bedside and stares at you.

In this way, the timeline of the matter is straightened out.

Thomas may have encountered an accident. In a half-awake state, he was tempted by the evil god and agreed to the evil god's conditions so that he could survive, but in fact everything was a scam. The one who survived was not him at all, but the source of pollution that retained his memory, at least part of Nyarlathotep.

Thomas was gradually replaced until he completely turned into a monster. Martha noticed this, but could not find any evidence until Martha Wayne became pregnant.

Martha may have noticed that the child was abnormal, but in that era, it was difficult for her to get out of Thomas's surveillance and have an abortion herself. Maybe she also had a glimmer of hope and was unwilling to kill her child, so she could only confirm and pray over and over again.

But unfortunately, all this was not her hallucination. The existence of the evil god was real. When Martha was on the verge of mental collapse, she saw Thomas's true face.

She couldn't accept all this, so she went completely crazy.

But again, the power of a mother is almost endless. Martha is likely to have faced the monster directly, and may even have communicated with him and reached a deal, which gave her some breathing time.

Using this time, Martha made arrangements. She used the power she got from the evil god to pollute the hotel and the manor, but temporarily sealed the pollution.

After that, little Bruce was born. By that time, Thomas and Martha had been completely polluted by the power of the evil god. They were no longer his parents. Little Bruce had the blood of the evil god and was raised by the evil god, so he became so weird.

And Schiller speculated that the evil god might not have expected that he could not defeat the power of the will of the DC universe. Batman's parents were destined to die, so these two puppets might have died when they were supposed to die.

After his parents died, the pollution on Bruce's body did not erupt on time, and Nyarlathotep's arrangement was almost wasted, but he could not be willing to let it go, so he later entangled Bruce again.

Schiller also roughly guessed what Martha's back-up plan was, and his eyes fell on the file report of the Gotham sewer renovation project.

Jerome and Peter found the door to the negative third floor. In fact, this is not a puzzle at all. The door is hidden in the inspection room of the bathroom in the underground parking lot on the negative second floor.

It was Peter who mentioned that he did not see the sewer maintenance facilities on the entire floor, so they remembered to go to the bathroom to have a look.

Peter's uncle is an electrician. He is very proficient in this aspect. He knows that such a large hotel basically needs a separate room to maintain everything, such as the main distribution room, and the same is true for maintaining sewers.

Generally speaking, this kind of room will be set at the bottom, so that it is easier to check the status of the sewer. As expected, the two also found a passage down in the inspection room of the bathroom.

However, the appearance of the negative third floor was beyond their expectations. To be precise, there was no negative third floor, only sewers. After going down, it was a very typical Gotham sewer style.

Peter felt a cold and damp breath always surrounding here, and the water under his feet was not like water, but more like some kind of mucus, and he could pull silk when he lifted his feet.

He rubbed his arms and felt a little cold. Jerome looked around and said, "I think we have to go this way. The wind is blowing from this side."

Peter looked over there and didn't see anything unusual. To prevent getting lost, he left the spider silk on the wall as a mark, and the two walked in the direction of the wind.

Along the way, Peter found that the water in the sewer was always flowing to the hotel. He remembered Dr. Sosip's conjecture that the water in the sewer might be the source of the toilet water.

So the toilet water has been trying to break through the hotel's defense? But where does the water in the sewer get the power to show abnormality?

They continued to walk forward and turned a corner. There were still dense waterways in front of them. It seemed to be winding, but when they walked over, they found that most of them were dead ends. There was only one way to go, like a simple version of a maze.

The two kept walking forward until a ray of light appeared in front of them. They thought they were about to reach the ground.

But after gradually adapting to the light, what appeared in front of them was not the exit at all, but a tall, dark ancient city.

There was a lifelike owl sculpture above the gate of the ancient city, and its shining eyes stared at the long-lost visitor with piercing eyes.

Ten million words! ! ! !

I started writing on January 18, 2022, and I wrote ten million words in two and a half years! !