Chapter 945: The Three Detectives (Part 2)

Zatanna tilted her head and looked at Batman and said, "Yes, the entrance sign is very conspicuous. If you look at every room, you will find it, right?"

Batman recalled the building map he had seen in his mind, and said, "Let's not talk about whether there are other secrets in this building, or how to deal with Schiller, the mentally ill man who has been chasing us, do you know how many floors and rooms this building has?"

"How many?" Zatanna asked.

"If the map is correct, this building should have 9 floors, with at least 10 wards on each floor. If we add those functional rooms, utility rooms and tool rooms, we have to check at least 100 wards before we can find the room to leave."

"That's not a lot." Zatanna shrugged and said, "It's not a skyscraper with hundreds or thousands of rooms. Besides, the room structure here is very simple. You can just push the door and take a look. You don't need to go in. It should take only a few hours to check 100 rooms?"

"Then we may have to consider the one who has been chasing us..."

Batman just stopped talking here, because the three of them heard the sound of "da da da" at the stairs. After pausing for a moment, the three of them started to rush forward in a very uniform manner.

"Really, can't we try to defeat him?" Constantine said as he ran, "I think it shouldn't be that difficult for the three of us to work together?"

"Indeed, we have a chance of success." Batman also said as he ran, "But you have to consider the consequences of failure."

"I don't know where the group of Schillers in the Mind Hall have gone, but they may come back at any time. Once we are delayed and found by Schiller's large army, what do you think will be the consequences?"

Just as Constantine was about to speak, Zatanna said, "We can't outrun him! Get ready to enter the ring of fire!"

After she finished speaking, she waved her hand, and another circus appeared in front of her. The three of them jumped into the fire circle one after another. After the fire circle disappeared, they appeared in another empty room. Zatanna panted and said, "My teleportation distance is getting closer and closer. This is really too energy-consuming. I may not be able to use the teleportation magic for at most three more times..."

At this time, Batman said, "I think your method makes sense. Now there is no time. Let us slowly look for clues."

"The exhaustive method is not useless..." Batman walked to the table next to the bed in this room, took out the notebook in the cookie box, turned to a blank page, and then began to draw a map of the building on it.

"The map I saw before depicted the building structure of the ward area. In simple terms, this building is C-shaped, with staircase exits at both ends and the ward in the middle."

"Because the building is quite old, the structure of almost every floor should be similar, but there is a reminder note next to the map, saying that the shower area is on the 3rd floor and the cafeteria is on the 1st floor, which should be convenient for employees who have just arrived here to find their way."

"When I came to this space, I happened to be born in the ward where Schiller was. There was no exit there, which means that Schiller did not resist returning to the ward. Since he If you don't resist going back to your own ward, then the probability of resisting going back to someone else's ward will be relatively small. "

After saying that, Batman crossed out the architectural structure he had just drawn, and then continued: "If the probability of the ward is relatively small, then the probability of other functional rooms will be relatively large. "

"First of all, the follow-up room is not the correct exit, which means that other treatment rooms with similar functions may not be the target either."

"How can you be sure that the follow-up room you found is not the correct exit, so the others are not?" Constantine asked, looking at the pattern on the notebook.

"We don't have to infer the correct location at once, but we have to sort it out in order according to probability and start from the most prioritized location. This is the correct way to use the exhaustive method."

Without waiting for the other two to say anything, Batman began to speak on his own:

"According to the clues we have, it is written in Schiller's medical records that every time he gets sick, he will be taken to the observation room for observation. This is a room related to Schiller that is clearly mentioned in addition to the follow-up room. Therefore, I think it has the greatest possibility and should be placed first."

"Secondly, in addition to the observation room, In addition to the examination room and the follow-up room, other living rooms, such as the cafeteria, shower area, activity area, reading room, study room, etc., are placed in the second place. "

"The follow-up room is excluded from the correct answer. The treatment room, preparation room, etc. with similar functions are ranked third. "

"And the ward with the largest number and the smallest possibility is ranked fourth. "

"We should check in this order, so that we can find the exit room we want as quickly as possible. "

Zatanna glanced at Batman, then retracted her gaze and said: "Bruce, you have really changed a lot. "

"Okay, now is not the time to talk about love." Constantine looked at the map drawn by Batman and said, "Let's try it first according to this idea. I always feel that the situation is getting more and more wrong."

He was right. After the weak item in this memory space, that is, the straitjacket, was taken away, the whole space became more and more gloomy. There were several rooms with lights on on each floor before, but now it has become pitch black.

At this moment, the three heard the "click" sound again. Zatanna widened her eyes and said, "This is impossible. My teleportation distance is at least 4 floors. How could he get here so quickly?"

"I've said it before, things are getting more and more wrong." Constantine's hand glowed, and he said, "Either he has increased his speed, or he has the ability to locate. Let's go while he's not here yet."

After that, the three rushed out of the room again, but as soon as they went out, they found that in the dark corridor, countless tentacles-like things stretched out from the thick darkness. They were the fixing straps of the straitjacket, but at this time, they were like the devil's hands stretched out from the bottomless abyss.

Constantine waved his hand, and a magic shield appeared, just blocking the two attacking straps. Zatanna took two steps back and was about to use the fire ring to teleport again, but Batman stopped her and said to Constantine: "Don't fight, get rid of him first!"

Constantine fired a few more streams of light, which stopped Schiller's attack for a moment. The three of them began to run desperately in the corridor again, until the "tapping" sound of metal hitting the ground disappeared, and their steps slowed down.

"From the mark next to the map, the observation room should be on the top floor. Schiller happened to be downstairs. Let's go up and take a look." After saying that, Batman walked towards the stairs. Several people came to the top floor, the ninth floor, and found the so-called observation room at the end of the corridor.

It was a dark room. Of course, all the rooms now are very dark, but this room is different in that it has no windows and only a small observation exit on the door.

The floor, walls and ceiling of the whole room are all made of plastic. The light is a round safety light embedded in the ceiling. There is only one chair in the whole room, which is fixed to the ground in the center of the room. There is a metal ring on it to fix the buckle of the straitjacket.

In the darkness, Batman seemed to see Schiller in a straitjacket fixed on this chair, looking up and looking directly at the light above his head.

At this time, Batman suddenly felt a kind of emotion he had never had before, as if he saw his future on a certain timeline.

A person who is born crazy is pathetic. The world in their eyes is different from that of ordinary people. In the process of taming themselves to be able to integrate into the society of ordinary people, they must break their bones, peel off their skin, drain their blood, and rebuild everything.

In comparison, those who are born in the society of ordinary people, have a peaceful life, and never go crazy are undoubtedly very lucky.

Therefore, the behavior of ordinary people letting themselves slide into the abyss of madness is like throwing and trampling on something that others dream of but cannot get.

At this moment, Batman suddenly understood why Schiller was always hostile to him sometimes.

If those memories were true, then perhaps, the two of them were just like that: a madman tried hard to become an ordinary person, while an ordinary person allowed himself to become a madman.

Batman saw that when Schiller sat on a chair and looked up at the light, he seemed to be looking at the moon.

Perhaps at that time, he had never thought that one day, he would meet a bat that would leave the moon alone and fly towards the abyss.

Suddenly, Batman seemed to have found the answer he came here to find - what was Schiller most afraid of?

Those Gotham events where Schiller loomed in the background but always had a win-win situation, those killers who appeared in his dreams, the Joker who always appeared and disappeared at the right time, and the words Schiller said in the church...

Batman didn't know whether Schiller fabricated these events, said these words, and made these actions to force him to learn because he didn't want another madman who needed to wear a straitjacket and look at the moon here in this absurd society.

Perhaps, if one day, Batman really laughed because of madness, it would not only be the Joker who felt disgusted and collapsed, but also an ordinary person who was born crazy.

He heard such an answer in his heart, but after this answer flashed, it did not leave any deep impression in his memory.

It was not like what he had imagined before, even if the world was destroyed and the soul collapsed, he would put this answer in an absolutely safe place to prevent himself from forgetting it.

The answer that he got with great effort flew past so lightly, like a piece of waste paper thrown out of a parabola and thrown into a corner.

Batman glanced at the chair once more before turning away.

In a place that Zatanna and Constantine could not see, Batman, hiding in the darkness, mobilized all the muscles on his face, exerted great effort, and revealed a somewhat ugly smile.

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