Chapter 3008: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (XVI)
Chapter 2982 The green trees are dense and the summer is long (16)
Constantine and Schiller returned to the office of Arkham Asylum, but the summoning ceremony could not be held in the office. Brand took them to the basement of the asylum, which can also be said to be his magic studio.
"Have you been using magic?" Constantine looked up and down the room and said, "Although I don't know who your creditor is, I must remind you that using magic so frequently is not a good thing. You will one day There will be a price to pay.”
"You don't have to worry about it." What surprised Constantine was that the person who said this was not Brand, but Schiller.
Brand then walked in and closed the door. He took the materials from Schiller's hand, opened the box, looked at it, and started to set up the magic circle after confirming that it was correct.
Constantine sat and watched.
The spiritual summoning array that Brand put out was really lackluster, and it couldn't be more basic. Even if Constantine was deliberately looking for trouble, he couldn't find any faults.
He has been observing this doctor who looks very kind. Of course, the kindness is compared to Schiller. He himself also has many quirks, such as he is a little too healthy.
Many times magicians have weird personalities and bad tempers, not entirely because they are mental patients, but because the pain caused by the price of magic has been tormenting them, and their mental state naturally cannot get better. The same is true for Constantine.
Even if Zatanna didn't have to pay the price, she would always be affected by dealing with those mysterious things. Every time she dealt with a supernatural incident, she would be depressed for a long time.
But this guy named Brand is broad-minded and fat. Not only is he very healthy, but his mental state also seems to be normal. This makes Constantine more and more curious about him.
It didn't take long for the magic circle to be set up. Schiller handed the small finger bone to Brand, and Brand placed the bone in the center of the magic circle. With the magic light slowly lighting up, the runes were like jumping for joy. The notes lit up one after another, and a wonderful call sounded in everyone's ears.
But the magic circle was lit for a long time, and the music played for a long time, but there was no movement. Brand shook his head with regret and said: "It seems that his soul has been lost. Now I will try to see if I can get out of here." Extract his memory from a small piece of bone..."
After speaking, he changed some positions of the magic circle. The light condensed toward the center of the magic circle, and a blurry image appeared in the magic circle.
It seemed to be a man's first-person perspective. In front of him was the dilapidated construction site. It seemed that the demolition work had come to an end, and only some broken building materials were left.
He continued to walk forward, and there was a violent sound around him, as if something was broken, and then a black shadow fell in front of him, and something huge seemed to fall above his head, and then there was blood in front of him, and the memory stopped abruptly.
After the power of the magic dissipated, Schiller was still recalling what he had just seen. If you only looked at the surface, it was a construction accident. It seemed that something on the beam fell and killed the man.
But if you think about it carefully, it's wrong. Judging from the messiness of the construction site from this man's perspective, the house should have been completely demolished, leaving only some garbage on the ground that has not been cleaned up. Then how could something from the top of his head fall down? Woolen cloth?
Moreover, even if the demolition reaches the final stage, this man should not be the only worker on the construction site. The garbage needs to be collected, the soil needs to be backfilled, and vehicles are needed to transport the garbage. But the man did not see any companions in his field of vision, not even the car. No, what I saw was a desolate and desolate scene.
Schiller carefully recalled the details again, and then realized that something seemed wrong. The abandoned construction site that appeared in the man's field of vision should not have been demolished just now. Many garbage on the ground showed signs of drying and weathering for a long time. It should be demolition. It will be a few years later.
In other words, after the junior high school and primary school had been completely demolished, a certain Ward Ryder construction engineering team worker returned there and died there.
There is indeed a secret in this school. After Schiller confirmed this, he knew the direction of the next investigation.
He pushed Constantine in Brand's direction without hesitation, and then said: "Since you want to write a book, Dr. Brand should give you a lot of inspiration. You two will talk first. I have some things to do in advance." Gone."
Constantine looked confused, but Brand raised his eyebrows and said, "You want to write a book? What kind of book?"
"It's just a novel, but..." Constantine looked Brand up and down and said, "Can you give me some inspiration? Can you give me horror stories about mental hospitals?"
"You write horror novels?"
"It should be scary to ordinary people, but you are a magician, how can you understand the fears of ordinary people?"
Brand smiled and said, "You underestimate me."
Just when Constantine was about to say something else, he suddenly saw that the shadow behind Brand was tall and slender. The dark and rich shadow looked like a bright backside. When he looked into Brand's eyes again, there was a trace of it. Thin golden lines cracked in Brand's pupils.
"You...you you you you...ah!!!!"
Schiller took a trip to Wayne Manor, mainly to borrow Batman's computer, now Tim's.
This computer itself is nothing special, it just can access the Wayne Group's information database. This universe Wayne Group's information database is different from other universe Batman's information databases. There is no information about superheroes and super criminals. It mainly records the process of the city's transformation and the business information of the Wayne Group.
Don't think that it has been useless for a long time. The Wayne Group's building renovation project has a far-reaching impact on Gotham. During the renovation process, the workers used, the industries contacted, the factories contacted, and even the large groups cooperated are countless, and the information that can be collected is also massive.
Apart from other things, almost everyone who lives in the East District Building Renovation Project Building now has all their information from birth to now recorded in this information database. Basically, as long as you enter some characteristics, you can accurately screen out the target. It can be said to be the Gotham version of Skynet.
The same is true in business. Basically, the groups doing business in Gotham now, from multinational companies to self-employed individuals, can query relevant information in this information database.
Schiller just wants to investigate the so-called Wardred Engineering Group.
After getting the authority from Tim, Schiller quickly retrieved the information he wanted from the database. The information showed that this construction company was established about 20 years ago, but its scale has never been large. It was not until about ten years ago that the company received an investment and snatched several hot projects, which expanded to its current size.
Although the largest engineering team in Gotham is still Wayne Construction Engineering Group, this Wardred has also benefited from the Gotham renovation project. When Wayne Construction Engineering Group was busy with the renovation of the East District, they took on many projects in the West District and the South District.
Their strengths are not in building commercial buildings and communities, but in building clubs, casinos, and resorts for the entertainment of the rich. During the Gotham Music Festival, several popular resorts on the southern coastline were built by them. You don’t have to think about how profitable this kind of project is.
However, that’s about all the information. After all, in a city as big as Gotham, there are at least 800 engineering teams of this scale, if not 1,000. The Wayne Group has a strong ability to collect information, but there is no need to keep an eye on such a small company.
Schiller had not seen the Wardlade Engineering Team build a school, and the company that built the boarding high school had long since closed down, and no information about the construction of the middle school and elementary school was left, and now there is no trace of it.
After investigating the company's overall information, Schiller began to check the company's legal person and shareholders, and obviously one person stood out from them, that is, Bob, the manager who saved the construction company on the verge of bankruptcy ten years ago.
After retrieving this person's resume, Schiller found that he was a very capable operator, who had led the Wardlade Construction Engineering Team to complete many hot construction projects and led the entire group to prosper.
Entering this person's photo into the search system, a group photo popped up that surprised Schiller. The person on the left of the photo was Bob, who was smiling brightly, and standing next to him was Williams.
How did the two of them get together?
Schiller then checked and found that although Bob did lead the Wardlade Group to get better and better with his personal ability, it was Williams' real estate company that invested in the company and helped it overcome difficulties ten years ago.
Then the timeline is very clear. Ten years ago, when Schiller had just come to Gotham for about two years, the Wardlade Engineering Group was not doing well, and Williams' real estate company invested in the construction group. Then Bob joined the company under the introduction of Williams and led the company to develop better and better.
At the same time, Schiller also looked up the information of the boarding high school in the database. This school was established about 30 years ago, moved once, and moved to the current location about 20 years ago.
Then about 10 years ago, the elementary school and junior high school were closed due to poor management. At least this was the explanation given to parents. Schiller found some people who graduated from this junior high school and elementary school in the database, but they did not have any abnormalities. Those who were studying at that time transferred to other schools after the school was closed.
After the closure, the elementary and middle school buildings were demolished. The database did not show who contracted the demolition work, but Schiller suspected that it might be the Wardlade Engineering Group.
At that time, the company had just received investment from Williams Real Estate Company, but the money had just arrived and had not yet been transformed into the company's scale. Recruiting people and bidding took time. During this period, with the manpower scale of the Wardlade Engineering Group, it could only accept similar demolition work.
However, Schiller felt that everything was not so simple, because if this was just a job that happened to be accepted, it would not explain why Wardlade's workers reappeared in the ruins of the school a few years after the school was demolished, and why the place that could be seen as the ruins of the school a few years ago now looked no different from the forest.
This lacked a key link, and at this time Pamela brought him good news.