Chapter 3183 The Detective Is About to Die (VIII)

Chapter 3157 The Detective is about to die (VIII)

Madeline's manuscript records her investigation process.

In her records, she came to the village on the 18th. Because she was a clergyman, she stayed in the village church and the villagers welcomed her.

Here, she wrote, "... This is a very quiet little village. The villagers are a little wary, but I can understand them. After I introduced myself, they were quite enthusiastic..."

There is only one sentence about the description of the village, and the rest is basically all about the description of the monster called the Prowler.

Madeline emphasized that this was not the first time she encountered the Prowler. The last time was when she was 9 years old, which was also the last time the Prowler appeared in the record.

Like the clues provided by the detective's body, Madeline mentioned that 30 years ago, it was still a heavy snow. She and her family were spending Christmas together in the holiday villa, but it was on that night that the terrible Prowler appeared. Her family was killed, and only she and her youngest sister survived.

Since then, she has been tracking this monster, but there is no special pattern for all the weirdness to appear, and the wanderer does not come every snowy day, so she has never found anything.

But this does not mean that her research has no results. On the contrary, after she successfully became a clergyman, with the help of the church's information, she summarized several characteristics of this kind of weirdness.

First of all, all the monsters among the weirdness cannot do whatever they want. They are subject to certain restrictions.

This is good news for Schiller. Of course, if they are really invincible, there is no need to play this game. There is no unrestricted existence in the world, even God.

However, the more you read, the sank Schiller's heart.

Because the second point mentioned that monsters are not just monsters, they are cunning demons. They have their own thinking ability, and they are even smarter than humans. They can use their wisdom to circumvent their own restrictions and kill.

In other words, all humans are not fighting against mechanisms, but fighting against another group of cunning intelligent creatures. You can imagine how difficult it is.

And the last and most important point is that humans cannot use firearms to solve abnormalities.

The so-called firearms, in addition to modern weapons, even the old-fashioned muskets are included. In short, hot weapons are useless and can only be solved with cold weapons.

Madeline mentioned that on the one hand, hot weapons cannot hit monsters and the attack is ineffective. On the other hand, all people who use hot weapons to attack monsters will be cursed and will immediately fall into madness.

In the end, Madeline also added that all monsters are invisible. They are a concept and do not really exist in this world.

If they want to do something, they must rely on entities, which are usually humans and animals. In places where strange things appear, don't believe anything that breathes.

Schiller continued to look down, but the following things are all Madeline's speculations, without real evidence, and most of them are about the wanderer.

Madeline also noticed that the bodies killed by the wanderer moved in very strange postures, some walked with their hands, some walked with their heads, and moved on the ground with their bellies. Anyway, they didn't walk with their feet.

And this kind of monster only appears on snowy days, which makes people have to think that the wanderer doesn't want to leave footprints in the snow?

With Madeline's idea, Schiller continued to associate.

Madeline's notes mentioned that all monsters have no entity, they can only possess people or animals.

The most dangerous thing about this situation is not how terrible the monster itself is, but that there is no way to tell who is a monster.

When the weirdness falls somewhere, your mother, child, daughter, or even pet may have been possessed, but you can't see it at all. He may even use your feelings for him to induce you so that he can ignore the restrictions and kill everyone.

Then the so-called restrictions are likely to be the flaws of monsters, that is, the differences between them and normal people.

For example, maybe they have special marks on their bodies, and if they don't want to be discovered, they have to cover them up, or maybe they have abnormal movements, and if they don't want to be discovered, they have to find excuses.

So is the restriction of the wanderer that his footprints are different from those of normal people? And his way to break this restriction is to walk without feet?

Schiller thought about it and felt that it was not that simple. If just walking without feet can avoid leaving special footprints, then what kind of restriction is this restriction?

He could just possess a person and let him commit suicide, and then when someone else came to check the body, he could possess that person and let him commit suicide. In this way, he would not have to move from beginning to end, and naturally there would be no footprints left.

Schiller felt that this monster should have another limitation, which might be related to what the researcher had just done.

Assuming that Madeline was conscious, she attracted everyone and then committed suicide, which might be another limitation.

The detective who did not die in the cabin but ended up in the cabin, the owner of the diary of Reed who died in the kitchen but had the body of the diary of Reed, the researcher who came to investigate the wanderer but ended up committing suicide on the second floor...

Countless clues wandered in Schiller's mind, like a math problem that needed to find a pattern. His own thinking did not spark any inspiration, so he told the contents of the notes and his own guesses.

This is not a violation of the character setting, because their purpose of coming here is to investigate the Prowler, and it is normal to discuss clues.

"Invisible monster..." The main universe Batman muttered this sentence, and he seemed to be thinking.

"I think we have to figure out a problem." Bruce said: "Can monsters be eliminated?"

"Ms. Madeline didn't mention it, but I am pessimistic." Schiller said: "Invisible and intangible existence means that humans can't even observe them, let alone eliminate them."

"In other words, this is a natural disaster." Greed touched his chin and said: "Humans have no way to prevent natural disasters from happening. What they can do is to minimize the losses as much as possible, and perhaps the same is true when facing monsters."

"I think we can analyze the gains and losses from the perspectives of humans and monsters at the same time." The Pale Knight said: "For humans, the greatest benefit is naturally to survive in the hands of monsters, and for As for the monsters, although I don't know their purpose for doing this for the time being, they seem to want to kill more humans. "

"The more humans who survive, the fewer humans the monsters kill, and vice versa. This is a zero-sum game, an irreconcilable contradiction. Humans try their best to survive, and monsters kill people by any means. This is the conflict of interests between the two parties. "

"In this case, any means that can reduce human losses must be disadvantageous to monsters. I think the most fatal one is to find the law of monster possession. "

Schiller immediately realized that the Pale Knight and he had the same idea. The best way to reduce the threat of this invisible monster is to find out who they are possessed by.

Of course, the person who is possessed should not be able to run away, but as long as you figure out who is possessed, others can still run away.

At least in Madeline's research, there is no monster that can physically fly and hide and is omnipotent. Most monsters have some attack methods beyond human cognition, but the distance is also limited. They are very fast and powerful, but as long as they are prepared, they are not completely unable to escape.

In this case, as long as the characteristics of the possessed person are figured out, most people can be saved.

So the core interest of the monster must be not to let people find him.

Then the restriction on the monster may be to let people find his characteristics.

From this logical inference combined with the state of the corpse, the point where this monster called the wanderer is easily discovered by people may be footprints.

Schiller raised the question he had thought about before, and he said: "If he just doesn't walk with his feet, he won't leave footprints, then he can get himself a wheelchair, or simply not walk, wait in one place, and kill one by one."

"There must be other restrictions." said the Pale Knight.

The main universe Batman nodded and said, "I think another restriction may be forced movement."

Schiller became interested and said, "How do you say it?"

"After this monster possesses someone, it must move." The main universe Batman proposed a bold assumption. He said, "The detective may have been possessed, but he still completed the invitation of the diary owner and came to the cabin. The diary owner may also be possessed, but he still ran to the pond and brought back a lot of fish and ate them."

Hearing the main universe Batman say this, Schiller suddenly had an idea. He said, "The detective's last purpose before his death was to come to the cabin to find his friends. The diary owner's last wish before his death was to eat the fish he caught... Does the wanderer need to help the possessed person fulfill his last wish?"

"I guess it should be the last action." Bu Ruth said: "The detective's last action was to go to the cabin, and the diary owner's last action was to go fishing. After they were possessed, the Wanderer helped them complete this action."

"I understand." Greed snapped his fingers and said: "The restrictions on the Wanderer are composed of two restrictions together."

"When the Wanderer moves, it will leave footprints. Humans can observe whose footprints are different to find out who is possessed. The Wanderer must complete the last action of humans before they die, which means he must move, and he must leave footprints, which leaves humans with the opportunity to find the possessed person."

"But the Wanderer is obviously unwilling to be restricted." Schiller continued: "This is why the posture of the corpse we saw is so strange."

"But as long as you don't walk with human feet, there will be no footprints?" Night Owl asked.

Everyone thought this was ridiculous. If there would be no footprints as long as you don't walk with your feet, then this monster is suitable to possess a high-level paraplegic patient and then rock the wheelchair to kill people.

The clown snorted softly and said, "I'm afraid it's not that simple. I guess as long as he moves, he will definitely leave footprints. But if you are a murderer, you don't want to expose yourself, so wouldn't you remove the footprints?"

Everyone fell into deep thought again. Schiller felt that what the clown said made sense. The wanderer controlled the corpse to do so many tricks, not necessarily to completely avoid leaving footprints, but more likely to cover up the footprints.