Chapter 3236: The Shadow of Faraines (VII)
Chapter 3210 The Shadow of Faraines (VII)
When Schiller saw the large number of electric shock devices that the Joker had made, he felt that the White Knight must have wrongly blamed Bruce.
In the video shot by the Joker, only the front half of the device was shown. Seeing the full picture now, Schiller realized that it was normal for this thing to be poorly debugged, because the device in front of him had a steampunk aesthetic, like a product left over from the Victorian era. Schiller couldn't tell which part of this thing could generate electricity.
Schiller began to consider whether to hand over this Deep Diver to Bruce.
It was still quite troublesome to catch the fishman, and his night vision device was running low. Now they only had this precious sample in their hands. If Bruce had to artificially save him again, it would be troublesome.
But Bruce was quite confident. He fiddled with the equipment for a long time, and then asked Schiller and the White Knight to lift the Deep Diver to the center of the house, and Bruce was ready to connect him to the electric shock device.
The Deep Diver's calf was shattered by bullets, and his nasal cavity and mandible were smashed by Schiller with a crowbar. He couldn't speak at this time, and could only scream.
"Let me make it clear that I have no sympathy for these monsters, but I think if we want to get information from him, it shouldn't be this way." The Pale Knight said.
In fact, Schiller didn't intend to ask any information from the Deep Diver's mouth. This guy should not be able to communicate with humans. As long as humans hear what they say, they will lose their minds, so there is no need for any interrogation.
But the agent can't do autopsy. Currently, only Bruce has autopsy skills. But in this situation, if you don't let Bruce have fun, he will definitely not do his job, so he can only let him do it.
Schiller didn't think the Deep Diver would be electrocuted. The vitality of this thing should be quite tenacious, and Bruce, who had tested it once with the Joker, should have some experience, so it's okay to electrocute it.
Bruce clamped the huge metal clamps that conduct electricity on the Deep One's limbs, and then inserted a metal rod into his abdominal cavity.
After starting the machine, Schiller only saw the room suddenly light up. The power of this thing modified by the clown is high.
The Deep One screamed terribly, and then lost consciousness. It was the first time Schiller knew that this ugly monster could faint.
Humans' fear of lightning even predates their fear of fire. Although modern humans have allowed electricity to penetrate into all aspects of social life, they still have a strong fear of direct contact with electric current. The reason is that electric current is simply the natural nemesis of carbon-based organisms.
If you eat something bad, you can spit it out, and if you are burned by fire, you can run away, but carbon-based organisms have almost no way to resist the electric current passing through the body. When the electric current enters the body, everything is too late.
Bruce seemed very satisfied with his debugging results. Although he had not used mechanical engineering knowledge for a long time, the basics were still there. Soon he debugged several electric currents to make the muscles of the unconscious deep diver twitch, just like a fish that kept tumbling after coming ashore.
After debugging was almost done, Bruce finally started to do the real work. He used a sharp boning knife to cut open the deep diver's abdomen.
The Pale Knight also leaned over to take a look, but the result disappointed him greatly. The internal organs of the deep diver were not much different from those of humans, or in other words, the vertebrates that grew into this form had no room for evolution in the internal organs.
Then he checked the chest cavity and genitals and found that they were similar to humans, but what was more bizarre was that their respiratory and circulatory systems were very different from those of humans. Like fish, they relied on gills to filter oxygen in the water, while their lungs could store oxygen for activities on the shore.
In other words, they did not actually breathe on the shore, but relied on the oxygen stored in their bodies for internal circulation breathing.
After Bruce stabbed a few times, he found that the weakness of this monster was not the heart or the brain. To be precise, the heart and the brain were also critical parts, but the easiest way to kill them was to attack the air sacs in the lungs. Once the oxygen they stored was exhausted, they would suffocate to death.
And through this dissection result, Schiller knew that the time that each deep diver could move on land was limited. After Bruce threw a successful dice, he guessed that this time was about 8 hours.
Every 8 hours, the deep divers moving on land had to return to the water to breathe, and they also needed a certain amount of time to accumulate oxygen. After throwing another successful dice, Bruce guessed that the time to accumulate oxygen was also about 8 hours.
In other words, the deep divers were on a 16-hour shift system, 8 hours on and 8 hours off. The importance of this information was that it let the group know that this monster was destined to change shifts.
Friends who have been assassins know that no matter how tight the defense is, as long as there is a need to change shifts, there will be opportunities to take advantage of it.
Bruce also speculated that there is no reproductive isolation between the Deep Ones and humans, because the two are indeed too similar, but there is no accurate conclusion as to whether the offspring they give birth to are human-monster hybrids or both are monsters.
However, Schiller himself knows that after the Deep Ones mate and reproduce, the children will be human when they are young, but as they grow older, they will become closer to the Deep Ones and are destined to return to the ocean and cannot survive on land for a long time.
After he told Bruce about his speculation, Bruce deduced that the reason why they looked like humans when they were young was probably because their respiratory system was not fully developed, and that as they grew up, they looked more and more like deep divers, because the genes belonging to the deep divers gradually transformed their respiratory system, forcing the hybrids to return to the ocean, otherwise they would not be able to breathe.
But Bruce also speculated that this kind of product of human-monster intermarriage would have weaker and weaker reproductive ability, and would not be able to produce offspring after about 1 to 2 generations. Otherwise, the number of deep divers would increase exponentially just with this invasion, and humans would sooner or later become deep divers.
Schiller did not want to study the genetics of deep divers for the time being. He had more important work to do, but he could not take Bruce and the Pale Knight with him, because they had no knowledge of this aspect and no resistance. If one of them went crazy, Schiller did not want to waste resources to deal with them.
"You have two choices now." Schiller said, "There are a group of survivors in the village. They have quite good weapons, but they are not very smart. You may want to go find them."
He was actually hinting that Bruce and the Pale Knight should take over the resources in the hands of the survivors. He was not asking them to rob them openly, but to see if they could become the leaders of the survivors.
Even if it was for resources, it was estimated that a few people could be rescued in the end, and then the identity of the survivors could be used to make a fuss.
"What about the other way?" Bruce asked. He really didn't want to save people, especially those who were evaluated by Schiller as not very smart. He could imagine how stupid those people were.
"Go find Batman." Schiller thought for a while and said, "He went to the dock, but his condition is probably not very good. I think you can find a way to rescue him. Now that the Joker is gone, he should be able to exert his full strength."
The Pale Knight opened his mouth. He actually wanted to save the survivors. He was not completely kind-hearted, but he considered that if there were survivors, the tragedy here would be made public, so that more people could be saved.
But saving Batman is equally important. The White Knight can certainly see how strong this Batman is, especially when compared with Bruce, he seems more reliable. They need such a leader.
"Don't think about dividing the troops." Schiller said, "Next you may encounter something far beyond your cognition, horrible, bizarre, and weird, which makes everyone unable to control their own destiny. Human life is as worthless as grass, and even if you try your best, you may not be able to completely protect yourself."
The White Knight's face gradually became serious. He said, "If there is only this monster you call the Deep Diver, it should not be so serious. Is there anything else?"
"Of course, these visible and tangible monsters are far from being a disaster. The real disaster is always invisible."
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The Pale Knight took a deep breath and said, "I think we should go back to the village first. In addition to my belief in the ability of the Batman, I also think that he may not need us to rush over to help. On the contrary, if he is there, he should choose to receive the survivors."
"Okay, I may meet you later, but I may not. It depends on whether I can get useful clues at the next investigation site."
"Do you have any suggestions for us?" Although the Pale Knight felt that Schiller might not know more, which might also increase his pressure, listening to each other's suggestions can at least deepen the trust between each other.
On the surface, the few people who are alive now have no conflict of interest. At least the players' camps have been unified. Now that the enemy is at hand, even if the camps of the characters in the game are not unified, they can at least cooperate for a short time.
Schiller thought for a while and said, "Don't be tempted."
"Don't be tempted?" The Pale Knight repeated this sentence. He really didn't expect it to be such a suggestion. He thought it would be a suggestion to stay calm or not to be indecisive.
Schiller nodded and said, "Try not to be interested in unknown creatures as much as possible, and don't think there is a shortcut to solve this problem, let alone go, otherwise you will only get deeper and deeper."
"What about me?" Bruce came over and asked, "Do you have any suggestions for me?"
After hesitating for a while, Schiller said, "Can you tell me what your intelligence points are?"
"Uh... is it important? Well, I didn't add any extra intelligence points."
"So what is it?"
"5."
"That's fine."
"What? No suggestions?"
"You don't need any suggestions, just be restrained." Schiller looked at Bruce and pointed at the Pale Knight and said, "If possible, don't let him die."
The Pale Knight raised his eyebrows, and that expression was like saying, "Let him help me, are you serious?"
It's not that the Pale Knight is too arrogant, but Bruce's unreliability is already written on his face. Apart from anything else, is there any normal person who can only have an intelligence of 5 when playing this kind of game?
"I'm counting on him to save me? I'd rather count on the Joker who just survived a disaster to take me away."
Looking at the backs of the two people leaving, Schiller sighed in his heart. Bruce's personality is now a natural match for this kind of weird game setting. If he had a little bit of spirituality in this regard, he wouldn't have been unable to learn psychoanalysis after ten years.