Chapter 3032: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (Forty)
Chapter 3006: Long Summer Days under Thick Green Trees (Forty)
"Mr. Nygma, thank you very much for the information you provided us, but one of my colleagues wants to meet you."
Gordon stood up from his chair, walked over and opened the office door. A female police officer in an FBI uniform came over and showed her ID to Nygma, saying, "Mr. Nygma, we found that you had illegal financial transactions with Williams Real Estate when you were a consultant to the Urban Planning Administration. Now we suspect that you have accepted bribes and committed malfeasance. Please cooperate with our investigation. Thank you."
Nygma suddenly opened his eyes wide and turned to look at Gordon, who gave him a mocking smile.
Gordon is no longer the young man he used to be. He knows that if he wants to deal with this group of cunning criminals, he can only be more cunning than them.
There is indeed not enough evidence to prove that Nygma was involved in the child molestation case, because Williams and Bob are missing now, and the evidence about Nygma in their hands cannot be thrown out, and Edward, the only person who may accuse Nygma, has not fully recovered, and his testimony will not be accepted.
But this does not mean that Gordon cannot take other ways to control Nygma. Some things are not worth a thousand pounds, and the Urban Planning Administration is a good place to make money. Even if Nygma was an ordinary consultant who was unknown at that time, as long as you check carefully, no one has no flaws.
From the perspective of the child molestation case, it is not necessarily possible to apply for a search warrant and arrest warrant for Nygma, but Gordon can let the FBI participate in the investigation of the child molestation case as a condition, let them investigate Nygma's bribery and dereliction of duty, and detain him under this name.
As long as the person is detained, what evidence can't be found?
Ignoring Nygma's yelling behind him, Gordon immediately found Bullock and asked Bullock to contact several guys from the streets near Nygma's residence to go around Nygma's house to see if he could find any clues.
This is also a trick they often use. The police cannot conduct illegal searches, but street thugs may not be able to do so. They are just scouting for theft. Even if they are discovered, they will be sent to the police station. Most of them are minors and cannot even be sentenced to community labor. They will be released after a few verbal educations.
They have not given up the investigation of Williams and Bob. If the two do not appear in court one day, there will still be doubts about the child abuse case.
However, the main work at present is to count the missing children, comfort the family members who rushed over after learning the news, and get more clues about the missing children from them, so as to confirm the results of the investigation. These are all strong evidence in the court in the future.
The young people of the New Warriors Team and the Guardians of the Galaxy are all involved. They help maintain order, deal with the family members, and ask the family members about the children's situation as tactfully as possible.
In fact, both teams are very good at this job. The New Warriors team was originally the leader of young heroes in the Bronx. Although they are street heroes, they also do the work of the neighborhood committee, mediate quarrels between couples, find children who run away from home, find cats, dogs and hamsters, accept reports of back-kitchen visits, and crack down on petty thefts, accumulating rich experience in dealing with the masses.
The Guardians of the Galaxy in the Schiller Universe are originally intelligence agents. They seem to be mercenaries, but in fact they represent the Earth to collect information in the universe. To collect intelligence, they naturally have to get along with ordinary people. They have seen all kinds of people from all walks of life and can deal with most of them calmly.
Worried about the counterattack of the criminal gang, Wanda and Jarvis returned to Gordon Manor to protect his family. Wanda is not worried that the evil will not be punished. She knows very well how powerful the scarlet force is.
To be precise, the chaos power in the universe is not exactly the same as the scarlet power she possesses. The scarlet power has one more attribute than the chaos power, which is to modify reality.
It is not an influence, nor a distortion, but a direct modification. It is almost the most powerful force that ordinary people can control to directly affect the universe except for the universe administrator.
So, when Wanda borrowed the power of scarlet to say that, the fate of all participants was doomed.
But what she didn't know was that this matter was not a simple child abuse case, and the participants were not just ordinary people, and this powerful force they had never seen before made them completely panic.
Schiller found a passage at the bottom of the mountain air-raid shelter, which was the deepest layer where the prison and the bone museum were located.
This passage was very hidden, and the entrance was full of rocks. If Schiller hadn't searched here several times, he might not have found it, but in the end he still found this passage in a very hidden corner.
The passage was very narrow at first, but after drilling through it, it was just enough for an adult male to pass through with his back bent.
Schiller didn't know where this passage led to, but he probably guessed what the things behind the passage would be related to. Schiller was rarely hesitant, not sure whether to go directly to the end of the passage.
He had two concerns. First, he had no gray fog or umbrella, so his ability to protect himself was very weak. Although there was a fighting world, if he died, he would just return to his birthplace. The worst result would be the loss of this body, but he should try his best to avoid the loss.
Second, if he went over there, it would be very likely to alert the enemy. If he went over there without knowing what the enemy was going to do, he might not be able to get any information, and it might also make the enemy hide deeper because of vigilance.
Yes, Schiller has determined that there is a deeper mastermind behind the three unlucky guys, Williams, Nygma and Bob, and Edward may have noticed this as early as ten years ago.
Following this line of thought, combined with the riddle left by Edward, Schiller can roughly guess what kind of person this mastermind is.
Edward is smart enough. When he was a minor, he was able to find a way to force Mr. Nygma to destroy the elementary school and the middle school. It is enough to show that these three idiots are not his opponents at all.
So why did Edward end up in a mental hospital with injuries all over his body, and Nygma and his wife were also killed, but the other three are still at large?
This proves that some things cannot be changed by wisdom.
Edward's riddle describes this thing from his own perspective. In his opinion, this power is similar to-God.
Let the mountains rise, let the rivers dry up, let the civilization be destroyed, let the plants be reborn, let humans be clear and confused, never exist, but everywhere.
In his opinion, there were things that he didn't understand but couldn't be shaken by ordinary people, which had been controlling the development of things, so that even if he was smarter than Mr. Nygma, he still couldn't reverse the tragedy.
He interpreted this mysterious existence as God.
But Schiller knew that it might not be God, but just magic, but for ordinary people like Edward and Nygma, the power of magic was indeed infinitely close to divine power.
He came to this conclusion with another piece of evidence, that is, the three witnesses Edward, Pari and Miss Richie were crazy and unreasonable, and did not follow the psychological laws of human beings, which proved that there must be extraordinary power affecting them.
After realizing this, Schiller changed his route and came to this air-raid shelter, because he realized that all the other buildings were destroyed or built by those three idiots, except for this air-raid shelter, they just modified the internal facilities, and this place might hide some secrets.
To be precise, this group of people chose to start near the Porokin community, and they killed the children in the school here and built a crematorium here, which was most likely because of the existence of this air-raid shelter.
They may think that this is their own idea, but if there is a supernatural influence, someone may have made them make these decisions, but they don't know it and think they want to do it.
Once magic is involved, exploration will become very difficult. Schiller knows very well that DC's magic side may not be stronger than Marvel's, but it must be darker and more dangerous.
All the wizards here are crazy, very aggressive, cunning and evil, and difficult to deal with. Before they reveal their true colors, Schiller cannot immediately determine who they are. The unknown is more likely to bring danger.
It is not a good idea to go through the passage alone, but if you turn back to find help now, the person hiding behind the scenes is likely to hide again because the three people in front of the stage were caught. It will be difficult to find him again at that time.
Schiller hesitated for a moment, holding the wall with one hand, and took out his mobile phone with the other hand. He scrolled down the address book and locked his eyes on Brand's name.
As the saying goes, the more lice, the less worries. The debts have been owed, and it doesn't matter if you owe more. He doesn't believe that anyone's magic status is higher than Naya, at least it can provide him with life safety.
Schiller edited a message and sent it to Brand, which roughly meant that if he didn't call him after two hours, he should come to the air-raid shelter to find him.
Schiller walked down the passage.
The further he went down, the more damp he felt. The underground water system here was very rich, and the soil on the wall felt wet to the touch, but this passage that was completely inconsistent with the laws of engineering mechanics could spread all the way down, not only did it not collapse, but it also did not leak water.
This further confirmed Schiller's guess that there must be supernatural forces involved in the construction.
After walking for about 20 minutes, the descent had just ended. The passage in front was still dark, and he could barely see the road under his feet with the light of the mobile phone.
Schiller roughly judged the direction and found that he seemed to have been heading southeast. Could the passage under the mountain be connected to the bottom of the lake at his doorstep?
Schiller walked for about 20 minutes again. The passage did not become wider, but narrower and narrower. There was no wind or airflow, but there was no lack of oxygen. Soon, Schiller heard a subtle sound.
He turned off the screen of his mobile phone, groped forward for a while, and finally came to the end of the passage, where there was a wooden door.
Schiller didn't get too close, but he could still hear the voice coming from the wooden door.
The first to speak was a slightly shrill male voice.
"You can't put all the blame on me! I can guarantee that I have no superficial connection with them. They don't even know my existence, and the police will never find out!"
"... This is exactly what I want to ask you! You said you have powerful magic power, how can there be a curse that you can't break?! Even if we are infected with the curse, it's all your fault! It must be that your magic power has been exposed!"
Then another female voice was heard, but the other party spoke with a heavy accent and was vague. In order to hear more clearly, Schiller moved forward a little.
Suddenly, the scene in front of him distorted.
When his vision returned, Schiller found himself floating in mid-air, and below him, a woman with scarlet eyes and a short man were looking up at him.