OBS Chapter 3315 Bloody New City (64)
Chapter 3315 Bloody New City (64)
Chapter 3315 Bloodshed in New City (Sixty-four)
Schiller sat in his office in the municipal building, staring at a document on which appeared the logo of Odein Medical Equipment Manufacturing Company.
However, unlike Batman's unfamiliarity with the logo, Schiller is very familiar with it, because it is the logo of the Order in the original work.
Back to Gotham history. In the original comics, the process of Edmund Wayne, the ancestor of the Wayne family, coming to the New World was full of twists and turns.
Although he is a descendant of the Wayne family, he had been away from home for too long and his original relatives died in the plague, so no one could prove his identity.
In Britain at that time, pretending to be a noble was a serious crime. Edmund Wayne was arrested as a liar pretending to be Lord Wayne and was about to be exiled.
At this time, a priest named Bakar saved him. The priest claimed to be from the Order, and he killed the guards guarding Edmund with a swing of his sword, rescued him, and suggested that he go to the New World together to rebuild his family.
Bakar did this not entirely to help Edmund. He wanted to spread the gospel of the Order in the New World, but Gotham Valley was full of pirates and smugglers at the time, and a clergyman would not be able to get along well here.
Bakar wanted to restore order in Gotham, but in that era, only nobles could be lords. Without bloodline and status, even if he killed General Arkham, he could not become a legitimate ruler. So he brought in Edmund Wayne, who had a noble status, in order to use Edmund's lord status to become the lord of Gotham.
The comics don't mention much about the Order that Bakar came from. This is a cult that worships "fire destroying the world."
In a series of beliefs in God, there are two theories about the end of the world: one is the end of the world by flood, and the other is the end of the world by fire.
The story about the former is well known to everyone, because this kind of sect won the final victory, making the story of God destroying the world with a flood and creating Noah's Ark widely circulated.
But at the same time, a sect that believed that God would send down fire and burn everything was also popular, and the two sides fought endlessly.
At that time, Puritans ruled Britain and labeled all similar sects as cults, including the Order.
Schiller speculated that perhaps because the Order was suppressed so severely in Britain, they were forced to send priests like Bakar to explore the New World and spread their beliefs.
However, on the surface, their pioneering behavior was not successful. Instead, the Catholicism believed by the Irish became the main religion in Gotham. In a sense, this can be regarded as a defeat of the Puritans.
When Schiller read the original comic, he thought the Order would be the biggest villain. Unfortunately, the comic editor did not give a deep portrayal of this organization. Although there were many foreshadowings in the beginning, the ending was hasty and there was really no clue.
Because of this, Schiller was on high alert. Did the Order Cult really not win back then? Or did they just change the way they ruled here?
Schiller stood up from the table and walked to another desk. There was a map of Gotham. Gotham was a peninsula surrounded by the sea on three sides. The most eye-catching thing on the map was the Gotham River leading to the sea.
Schiller stared at the map for a while, and finally pinned a red thumbtack on the Gotham Reservoir upstream of the Gotham River.
Schiller rested his hands on the table, carefully observing the direction of the water veins on the topographic map. In fact, it did not require any special professional knowledge to see that the course of the Gotham River had been artificially modified.
The upper reaches of the Gotham River is a valley. Streams flow out from the mountains and gradually converge to form a river.
But the angle of the valley is somewhat different from the current angle of the Gotham River. Without human intervention, the river upstream would not be what it is now.
Schiller used a pen to draw a mark at the place where the river was changed, and the map showed that it was Gotham's old dam.
In the history of Gotham, among the several outstanding contributions made by Gotham Lord Edmund Wayne to Gotham, the most famous one was leading workers to build the Gotham Dam, control floods, and restore navigation of the Gotham River.
But Schiller, who had read the comics, knew that the river reconstruction project was not just to dredge the shipping route, but more to cover up the old site of Gotham Village.
At the bottom of the Gotham Reservoir today, there should be the remains of the earliest Gotham village. Edmund deliberately diverted the river here so that the reservoir would flood the remains and cover up the truth of the early history.
This is actually what puzzled Schiller the most when he read the comics. He couldn't understand what Edmund's intention was.
When Gotham was still a village, it was ruled by General Arkham. They defeated General Arkham, cleared out pirates and smugglers, and successfully built it into a city.
If you want to erase all traces of General Arkham's rule, you can just flatten the village and rebuild the city buildings. That way, no trace will be left.
But Edmond preserved the ruins of the village and just covered them up with water, which made things even more obvious.
This made Schiller think of religious factors.
In the original book, the Order that Bakar believed in worshipped fire, but it did not mention what Edmund Wayne believed in.
He was born into the Wayne family in England, and England was ruled by Puritans at that time. Is it possible that Edmund Wayne was actually a Puritan?
The struggle between him and Bakar was not just a disagreement between the two of them, but it was also likely to be essentially a religious struggle.
From a religious perspective, there is another explanation for Edmond's behavior of transforming the river and covering up the ruins. He was reenacting the process of God's flood, which was a religious declaration.
When he was down and out, he had to rely on Bakar's power to build his own city in the New World. But when he got Gotham, he revealed his true colors. He did not believe in fire, but worshipped floods.
He did not want the beliefs of the Order to spread here, and was eager to allow the Puritans to flourish and gain a foothold in the New World, so he imitated the process of a flood that destroyed the world, diverted the river, and built the Gotham Reservoir.
This could be the beginning of the split between Bakar and Emond, because at this moment, their core interests diverged.
But after staring at the map for a long time, Schiller felt that although this speculation made sense, it was a little far-fetched.
Because building a dam is not a small project. At that time, Edmund should have just ruled Gotham, and his foundation was not stable, but he was eager to start such a large project, which seemed a bit too hasty.
Schiller is more inclined to believe that he didn't want to do this, but had to do it. But what exactly forced him to flood Gotham Village?
Schiller didn't have time to daydream here. Since he had a question, he wanted to know the answer immediately. So he drove to Gotham Reservoir quickly.
Coincidentally, Batman is here too.
After he carefully read his ancestor's diary, he discovered that the village ruled by General Arkham described by Edmund was not in the same location as the current city center of Gotham.
In other words, the New Gotham was not built on the basis of Gotham Village, but rather the foundation of Gotham Village was abandoned and another place was found to build a city.
This is obviously not logical. Batman is also wondering what made Edmund abandon Gotham Village and build a new city.
Based on the clues in the diary, Batman deduced the location of the original Gotham Village. After discovering that Gotham Village was actually the current Gotham Reservoir, he also thought of Edmund's action of building a dam to divert the river.
He believes there may be secrets buried within Gotham Village.
Schiller stood at the other end of the reservoir, watching Batman walk towards the edge of the reservoir. He stood behind a tree so Batman wouldn't see him. After Batman entered the water, he slowly walked to the edge of the water.
Batman went into the water first, but Schiller did not rush to follow him. Instead, he observed the terrain around the reservoir.
There is a forest on the east side of the reservoir. Apparently, the abundant water here nourishes the trees and forms a forest. But further east from here is the natural forest that was previously polluted by the Chalabang factory.
After using gray fog to check the underground water veins and plant root systems, Schiller discovered that the forest next to the reservoir and the natural woodland belonged to the same forest system. Both were forests that grew on the basis of the underground water veins of the Gotham Reservoir.
This discovery is much more important than the ruins of Gotham Village in the Gotham underground reservoir. There may not be any clues in the village, but if the pollution from the Charabon Chemical Plant is not an accident, but directly points to the Gotham Reservoir, it proves that the river diversion is indeed not a simple matter.
Although he gained something, Schiller still felt that he was not suitable to be a detective. He was too lazy to investigate things that happened decades or even hundreds of years ago and then combine them with modern clues to conduct reasoning and analysis. This was obviously what Batman should do.
Since they can't help with the revolution in Gotham City now, they might as well use their remaining energy to help investigate historical events.
However, after he has finished his investigation, he may not tell me even if I ask him directly, so I still have to be on the safe side.
While Batman was swimming in the reservoir, Schiller came to Jason's room in Wayne Manor, where Jason was still unconscious.
Schiller has two kinds of capsules in his hand: one is the red wine given to him by Naya, which is the reward for the group copy. It is a mysterious red wine that can make people fall into hallucinations forever and never wake up.
Some people who Schiller didn't need to wake up took this capsule, such as Miss Charabon and the drug addicts on Bourbon Street. The ingredients in this capsule have been proven to be impossible to analyze by any technology in this universe.
Others who Schiller just wanted to make unconscious temporarily took another kind of capsule, which contained a part of the gray fog. The gray fog would only temporarily put their brains to sleep, without causing any harm, and it could also help them check their bodies. Jason and the Pale Knight took this kind of capsule.
Schiller came to Wayne Manor just to wake up Jason.
As soon as Jason woke up, before he could ask Schiller what was going on, he was overwhelmed by the massive amount of clues Schiller gave him.
The Order of Hundreds of Years Ago, the Great Achievements of the Wayne Family, the Odein Company that suddenly appeared, the mysterious Gotham Reservoir and the natural woodland...
Looking at Jason's focused expression, Schiller knew that this father and son detective pair would be very busy in the future.