Chapter 2857: An Ant Trying to Shake a Tree (Part 2)
Chapter 2831: An Ant Shaking a Tree (Part 2)
No wonder I saw a figure standing in the window of another hotel building 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 stood here all the time?
Schiller heard a sound coming from the bathroom.
He turned his head and stared at the bathroom for a while, and finally walked over and opened the bathroom door. The toilet was intact and looked like it had been repaired. The sound came from the drain of the bathtub.
Gurgle gurgle gurgle...
Schiller remembered that when he first came to the room, he found that the drain of the bathtub was not so smooth. Now the sound was more intense, as if something was ventilating underneath.
Gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle...
Schiller felt his head hurt more and more, and his vision began to darken. He desperately covered his ears and ran out of the bathroom door. The sound chased him for a long time until he returned to the living room and finally quieted down.
There seemed to be no hallucinatory monsters in the room, and the toilet was fine, as if this was the most ordinary hotel.
This was not the case. Schiller leaned against the door and took a breath. He felt that he was getting weaker and weaker. There was a thought in his mind reminding him that he didn't have much time.
"Where am I???"
When Schiller stood up, he fell on the coffee table and knocked it over. The things on it were scattered all over the floor. The mineral water bottle fell on the floor, and the water spilled out, soaking the carpet.
Countless bubbles rose in the water.
Schiller seemed to suddenly realize something. He began to concentrate hard. Countless pictures flashed through his mind. He rushed to the window with his last bit of strength.
He opened the window, and outside the window was a staircase of bones spreading upwards.
Schiller took out the knife in his pocket and knocked hard on the bottom support.
Crash!
The bones shattered, and the entire bone staircase collapsed. When Schiller looked up, he saw two figures standing up suddenly on the roof of the opposite building, and then he completely lost consciousness.
When he woke up again, Schiller suddenly spit out two mouthfuls of water, and lay on the ground and coughed violently. In his hazy eyes, he saw the faces of Jerome and Cobert.
Not far away was Gordon, who was soaked all over.
Schiller tried to turn over. With the help of the hazy moonlight, he saw clearly that there was a straight water stain in front of him, and at the end of the water stain was a huge swimming pool.
At this time, the moonlight shone on the surface of the swimming pool, the breeze blew, the waves sparkled, and the light on the water surface woven into a large silver-white net, floating and swinging...
Gordon next to him coughed hard and spit out all the water he 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 without saying a word.
Is Wayne Manor the real Wayne Manor? Is the metal real metal? Is Naya the real Naya?
If they are all fake, Schiller looked at the wound on his right shoulder, so how did it come from?
Suddenly he reached for his coat pocket, where there was a knife. Schiller took the knife out, but found that it was not the ordinary knife in Jerome's hand, but the vibranium knife he used to pry the screws before.
There was still his own blood on it.
So the swimming pool is the same as Room 1905, with a monster that can create illusions?
No, I'm afraid it's not that simple.
Schiller's eyes suddenly turned to Gordon. He got up from the ground and walked towards Gordon. Before Cobert and Jerome could react, Schiller directly inserted 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 hard on the ground, and cursed.
When he turned his eyes and glared at Jerome and Cobert, they both trembled.
At the cost of him almost drowning, the swimming pool showed him a bad ending.
"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 smile of the black manager was a silent mockery, which showed the worst ending-everything is as usual, but they will never be able to get rid of the evil god's entanglement.
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 didn't succeed in the end, and the city returned to its previous "peaceful" state, but the evil god found each of us."
Jerome and Cobert hesitated, but Schiller obviously didn't intend to wait for them to hesitate. Cobert didn't react at all, but Schiller had rushed to him and stabbed his calf with a knife, but what flowed out was not blood, but a wine-red liquid reflecting the metal light.
"Ah!!!!"
Cobert screamed, and the pool water from Schiller fell on him and dripped into his eyes. Cobert froze, as if he had seen something incredible.
He turned around and pushed Schiller away. Schiller found that he was much stronger, as if he had activated his instinct for self-protection, but it was not because of the knife he had stabbed.
A few seconds later, Cobblepot went limp, his pupils dilated, and he trembled as he said, "Fish... Fish is... the Red Queen..."
Schiller immediately remembered that the Red Queen was also an incarnation of Nyar, and it seemed that Cobblepot finally met her.
He turned to Gordon and asked, "Who is the Outer God who came to you?"
"A baron." Gordon replied.
"Baron Samedi." Schiller added, "The god of death in voodoo, one of the incarnations of Nyarlathotep."
Schiller got up from the ground, and without paying attention to the trembling Cobblepot, he grabbed Jerome and held him and pushed his head into the swimming pool.
Gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle...
It turns out that the gurgling sound of the bathtub is the sound of people exhaling. When you can't help exhaling, you are basically drowning. The next step is choking and drowning.
Schiller found that Jerome had exhaled all his air, so he pulled him up, and Jerome also turned pale.
"Who did you see?"
"A man covered in black, from skin to lips, all black, only eyes have a little light."
"The man of darkness, brings dark decrees to witches and cultists, and is also one of the incarnations of Nyarlathotep."
Jerome spit 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 can't deal with the Outer Gods at all."
Cobblepot opened his mouth, but in the end, he still cut the muscles on his legs and let all the wine-red metal flow out.
Suddenly, Peter sent a message.
"Doctor, the hotel is starting to change, but now I... my God, what is that????"
Schiller immediately realized that the hotel where Peter was was indeed in the future.
If the ending of all of them is that the plan succeeds, but they fail to really contact Nyarlathotep, then the ending is that everything returns to peace, but this peace is only superficial, and all of them will be found by the Outer Gods.
I met the Black Pharaoh, Gordon met Baron Samedi, Cobblepot met the Red Queen, and Jerome met the Dark Man.
This means that although they did restore peace to Gotham according to the plan, they also suffered the permanent curse of Nyarlathotep, and these incarnations will continue to haunt them until the end of time and space.
The situation in Peter's hotel is exactly the same as this future, just like the future Schiller saw in the swimming pool, that is, it seems to have restored peace, but in fact it is weird everywhere, but there is no useful clue, and they live in terror forever.
Now, Schiller has collected the metal 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 detect what the future has become just through Peter's experience.
Do you want to enter the swimming 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 has normal buoyancy. This time he will sink directly to the bottom if he goes down again. He may only stay in it for more than ten seconds.
Moreover, after entering the water, he will be completely trapped in the illusion, and someone must pull him up. He can't get out of it by himself.
Do you want to take a gamble and see how this ending will be?
As soon as Schiller thought of this, Peter sent him a lot of photos. Schiller saw that it was the monster that appeared in the future hotel taken by Peter.
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, which was 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 Nyar, they had to let the amber gold spread throughout Gotham along the sewer. The people of Gotham did have antibodies, but no matter how strong the antibodies were, they could not resist this dose, so they all turned into monsters similar to the claws of the Court of Owls.
This might be another deception of Nyarlathotep, making them think that there was a chance to deal with him, but in fact everything was just like the first ending, just a cunning scam.
Nyar'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 when the black manager smiled at him, he felt an unspeakable horror and despair.
There were obviously no monsters, everything was so peaceful and quiet, he looked like an ordinary person, and his smile was just right and friendly, but it made people feel deeply desperate.
He looked at the swimming pool again. When he knew that the water in the reckless faction was actually amber gold, he knew that this kind of hallucination was not made by the four major families at all.
In other words, this swimming pool where the ending can be seen also belongs to Nyarlathotep.
Among the thirty-six strategies, attacking the heart is the best. Nyar seemed to be sure that no matter how they looked at it, they would never find a good ending.
Schiller suddenly thought that this might be his purpose.
Martha also disappeared in the swimming pool. Perhaps she also found that this swimming pool could see different futures. She tried again and again, but she could never find a future that could 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 the sea of fire and swords thousands of times.
When they exhaust their limited lives in infinite pain, braid a rope with their own hands to strangle themselves, and when they take their last breath, they are still looking forward to the arrival of light, but they know that they will rot in the darkness forever. The pain and despair that burst out are the highest satisfaction and enjoyment for Nyarlathotep.
This is really much more exciting than that pile of dog shit, Schiller thought, very good, this is the reward for my diligent playing with shit.
Schiller took out a red candle with only half of it left, lit the candle, and silently recited the name of the operator in his heart.
After a moment of stiffness, Schiller slowly stood up, looking at the shimmering water surface, and only showed a gentle smile.
The ending?
You overestimate the size of Schiller's mind. This Nyar is so arrogant, how can it end if he is not treated? !