Chapter 626: The Past Is Like the Morning Star (Part 2)
All these plans started when Schiller's car was damaged by claws on the way to his annual vacation.
Schiller thought he was very tolerant, and this tolerance meant that he treated every personality equally.
It doesn't mean that a personality with bad traits should be locked up forever. Since Schiller, who represented violence, had been allowed to go out for a breath of fresh air in Marvel, it is reasonable to let Schiller, who represented morbidity, go out for a breath of fresh air in DC, right?
Of course, Schiller didn't make this decision at the beginning. He just planned to get everyone to do some serious work while dealing with Owl. Among all these people, Batman, the source of all kinds of trivial conflicts in Gotham, was included.
What Schiller said to Batman was true. He did come to Metropolis, and the first stop for investigation in Metropolis was Anderson Mental Hospital.
And the reason was nothing special. It was purely an occupational disease. He wanted to see if there was anything in the mental hospital in Metropolis that was worth learning from Arkham Mental Hospital.
His infiltration process was similar to Batman's, so he also came to Isabel's room, and then learned the truth about this mental hospital from the letter left by Isabel.
After knowing this, Schiller knew that the opportunity to let some dangerous personalities out for a breath of fresh air had come.
After he released the sick Schiller, the sick Schiller made a serial murder case of all people related to this secret experiment, that is, the bank president, the boss of the Palo Company, the boss of the Snow Mountain Company, and Elisa, the female head of this experimental base.
When committing the crime, Schiller buried clues to guide the investigation in the first case, that is, the cleaner and the detergent.
The images captured by the surveillance camera were all carefully designed by him. First, a vague figure in a cleaning uniform appeared in the surveillance picture on the roof, guiding Batman to investigate the cleaner, and in the process of investigating the cleaner, the Snow Mountain Cleaning Company would inevitably be found.
Then Batman would find that if he wanted to borrow the cleaner to move the body, he had to use the big box used by the cleaner.
With Batman's wisdom, he would certainly notice that there is a problem that cannot be avoided when using such plastic boxes to transport corpses, and that is the smell.
Once you want to investigate the smell of the detergent, you will definitely find the supplier of Snow Mountain Cleaning Company, Palo Chemical Raw Materials Production Co., Ltd.
After finding Snow Mountain Cleaning Company and Palo Company, plus the clues of investigating the bank president, after the information of these three key figures is collected, with the wisdom of Batman and Lex, it will not be difficult to find that there is a hidden transaction between the three of them.
There will be no abnormality in the financial statements of these companies. This group of owls has been dormant here for too long and is familiar with doing this kind of thing. At this point, the only clue left is Palo Company's move to transform the West Suburb Mental Hospital.
This is indeed very abnormal, because to transform this mental hospital, it is necessary to go through a lot of procedures. In comparison, there are plenty of places in other suburbs of the metropolis. Even if it must be in the West Suburbs, there are better choices. Batman will definitely realize that Palo Company's choice of that mental hospital is not aimless.
After guiding Batman, Schiller still had one more line to lay out, which was to guide Kayla. After learning from the letter that a KGB agent might have died at the hands of Owl, Schiller knew that if Kayla found a clue, she would not sit idly by and would definitely come here to investigate.
But Schiller had no clues to lead Kayla here. He wanted to wait for Kayla to take action before starting the crime, but unexpectedly, Kayla found out very quickly and the time was almost seamless.
In Schiller's plan, Constantine and Angela were not there.
But in fact, it didn't matter if the two of them were missing from this plan. In the end, Schiller either died in the fight between Owl and KGB, or died in the explosion and collapse of the building during their fight. There was no difference in essence.
Schiller had used this trick in Marvel. When he died, Iron Man and Captain America united and faced the outside world together, and the demons around the world were in trouble. If he died again in DC, his friends would be in trouble again, and Owl would be in trouble.
More importantly, as long as Batman is involved, Schiller will definitely go to trouble Owl during his hospitalization, and he will have no time to go back to Gotham and quarrel with Lex and Clark.
In this way, without Owl, the trio fighting every day, and the aftermath of various events, Schiller can get a safe annual vacation.
Of course, just like all his previous plans, in addition to this main purpose, there are various other purposes.
For example, let Owl pay a small price for their car bombing, such as deceiving Batman's feelings and letting him know that fighting is wrong, or take the opportunity of fake death to ask Death in this world why he can't die in another world.
From the mouth of the dream god, Schiller knew that the members of the Endless Family knew that he would run away from this world. This kind of thing could be hidden from ordinary people, but it was unrealistic to hide it from these concept gods. Therefore, he planned to ask Death directly, what is so special about him? Why can't he die even if he wants to?
DC's death personality is weaker and seems more illusory, but she is still intelligent and can communicate, at least that's what the dream god told him.
Moreover, he told Schiller that death will witness everyone's death, so as long as Schiller dies, she will definitely hear what Schiller is asking.
This kind of concept god does not have any state of being too busy. They are almost omniscient and omnipotent. If they find that someone's state is special and pay attention to it, then as long as they want to answer, they will definitely answer, and they will not be unable to hear because of too many calls.
Unfortunately, if Schiller died in this state, this group of people would definitely send him to the best hospital, where there are doctors with the most superb medical skills. These people are really good at fighting with the god of death. Schiller has already suppressed his physiological state to the lowest, but he still didn't die.
This state cycled for a long time, and Schiller couldn't help but start to wonder, is it really because the doctors' medical skills are too superb? Or, just like Marvel, there is a special power that refuses him to enter the realm of death.
Logically speaking, it is understandable that Marvel Death does not accept him, because Schiller first traveled to the body of DC. According to fate, after the travel, his soul crossed the origin wall and went to the world of Marvel. In this case, his soul foundation may be in the world of DC, and it is normal for Marvel Death not to accept him.
However, it is very strange that the death of the DC world does not accept him.
Thinking of this, Schiller began to think about a question, that is, where did the soul of this original Schiller go before he came?
As Schiller and others said, all the personalities in his mind palace are actually a characteristic of his personality, a part of his soul, and the entire mind palace is his soul.
Therefore, there is no original Schiller disguised as a personality, hiding in his mind palace, just like a person's soul cannot be hidden in another person's soul. A file can be put into a system, but a whole system cannot be put into another system.
Did the soul of the original body who was once a KGB spy really disappear?
Thinking of this, Schiller began to systematically search his soul, trying to find the abnormal place, but he searched everywhere, the mind palace was normal, and there was no problem with the personalities. Everything was running step by step.
Thinking about it, Schiller looked down at the big hole under his feet. If there is something that he cannot control, it is the subconscious under the conscious.
Even Schiller cannot say that he can control his subconscious 100%, or if the subconscious is really completely controlled, then there is no meaning to exist.
Every time when he went from this hole to the dreamland, the black screen in the middle was not loading the map, but passing through the subconscious mind. Because Schiller did not pay special attention to his subconscious mind, it was completely dark there.
Thinking of this, Schiller planned to explore the secrets inside his subconscious mind to see if he could find clues to the original soul there. Perhaps there were some undiscovered things that his subconscious mind noticed, but his conscious mind did not.
Generally speaking, people's subconscious minds are very dangerous, full of chaos and disorder, and are a part that is not controlled by human rational thinking, but Schiller did not care, one because he had sufficient confidence in the power of his consciousness, and the other because he had a big ship.
Schiller first went to the dream world, drove the underworld ship over, and then went up along the hole and entered the completely dark consciousness.
There was no direction here, and he only moved forward by intuition. Schiller did not bring other personalities, but just rowed the famous boat silently forward alone.
There is no concept of time here. Perhaps an hour has passed, or perhaps hundreds of years have passed. Schiller finally found a strange thing in the empty and endless darkness.
It was a gray feather.
Because its color was brighter, it was like a lighthouse on the coastline in the dark subconscious. Schiller saw it from a distance, but did not dare to approach it rashly.
After rowing over, Schiller found that this feather was actually floating towards him. Schiller wanted to hide, but he did not feel any malice. Then, this feather floated onto the boat and came into Schiller's hands.
After getting this feather, Schiller found that it was not magical. It was just a feather. If you have to say, it was slightly larger than the goose feathers of domestic geese, and it was gray.
This made Schiller very confused. Even if he didn't find anything, it was better than finding such a strange thing. When did this thing enter his subconscious?
According to Schiller's control over his conscious world, if someone entered his consciousness, including his subconscious, he would immediately notice it, otherwise, he would not dare to let the hole stay there for so long.
Schiller went to the archives to look through all his memories again. He was very sure that he did not notice anything unusual.
Then he thought that if he had to find a time point when he had no control over his consciousness, it would be when he traveled through time.
And if anyone could tamper with this thing and put it into his subconscious when he traveled through time, it would probably be the original Schiller's soul.
But why put a feather when he couldn't put something else?
Schiller, who returned to his own mind palace, felt very confused because he really didn't feel any special properties on this feather.
Finding that death did not respond to him, and finding this strange feather, made the puzzle more complicated, but Schiller did not feel too disappointed. Originally, these were just incidental purposes. It would be a pleasant surprise if they were completed, and there would be no loss if they were not completed.
Schiller realized that death was indeed not going to respond to him, and he did not intend to maintain the state of suspended animation. He directly let the gray fog slowly repair his body and get out of the near-death state.
The lights in the emergency room suddenly went out, and the doctor who came out saw Bruce and Lex. Before they could ask, the doctor said: "The patient is out of danger. Now he is transferred to the general ward and waits to wake up."
When Schiller slowly woke up in the general ward, the first thing he saw was not Bruce or Constantine, but another blond man.
Schiller didn't know the man, but he was very handsome, with dazzling blond hair. He walked into the ward and saw Schiller. Before Schiller asked who he was, he spoke first:
"Schiller, what's wrong with you? Your phone is not working. I sent demons and hounds to find you, but they didn't come back."
The man looked at Schiller lying on the bed, and then said: "Well, if you are under too much pressure, you don't have to work so hard. Why did you put yourself in the hospital?"
Just as he was about to continue, Schiller stretched out a hand to stop him from speaking, and then asked: "Stop, I have a Question, who are you? "
The man showed a surprised expression, then he looked at the window, took a look at his appearance reflected on the glass, and said: "Wait a minute, the last time I saw you, were you a man or a woman?"
As he spoke, his figure changed and became a blonde beauty again. She lifted her hair and said: "You should recognize me now, right? You humans are really troublesome. You have to look exactly the same every time, otherwise you won't recognize me. "
"Still don't recognize me? Did I use this male image before?" After saying that, she changed back.
Schiller looked at him in silence, and said, "It has nothing to do with appearance. Has anyone told you that I have lost my memory?"
The blond man asked, "...When did it happen?"
"Just now."
The man was stunned for a moment, then said:
"My name is Lucifer, Lucifer Morningstar, do you remember?"
Before Schiller could speak, the door of the ward was suddenly pushed open, and Constantine, who looked tired, walked in and said, "Schiller, I helped you get revenge, you..."
Then, he and Lucifer, who was standing in the middle of the room, looked into each other's eyes.
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