OBS Chapter 3172 Detective is dying (23)
Chapter 3172 Detective is dying (23)
Chapter 3172: The Detective is about to die (Twenty-three)
What bothered Schiller the most was the night owl.
Night Owl is not a good person. He is a member of the evil Batman camp and is always attracted by Bruce.
But he happened to be a policeman. Logically speaking, it was unlikely that American police would arrive at the scene so early. His appearance so early meant that he had other intentions.
Schiller wasn't quite sure whether Night Owl knew that Bruce was also in the game when he was writing the background story. If he knew, he would definitely try to make up a background story for himself that was closer to Bruce, and then he would naturally be on Bruce's side.
But the identity of a policeman is very important, because many files can only be found in the police station, and the police naturally have the right to ask questions. To find out what is going on in the village, it is easiest to investigate directly using the identity of a law enforcement officer.
But if Night Owl is also a corrupt cop and his purpose is to silence them, it will definitely cause them huge trouble.
Night Owl is a complete brother-con, and Bruce has the upper hand in this regard. Schiller knows that he himself is not very good at attracting other people's attention now, and it is extremely difficult to win Night Owl over.
In this case, he has to prepare for the worst, that is, the main universe Batman with the highest combat power dies on the spot, and he and the Pale Knight stand on the same front to deal with the remaining three people.
Don’t ask why Schiller joins when he can’t beat them. As long as there is greed in the opposing camp, he will not join, because greed will not let go of any Schiller equally.
Thinking of this, Schiller stood up and said, "Let's do this. Everyone who can stand up will go."
Everyone immediately turned to look at him, and Schiller said, "Except for this Mr. Hunter, no one else is seriously injured. If we all leave, there will be no value in attacking here."
"Are you going to give up on him?" The Pale Knight frowned and looked at Schiller.
"Professional doctors have given the answer," Schiller said. "He is already beyond help. It is irrational to slow down the pace of our investigation for a dying person."
"I disagree." The Pale Knight said, "Since you can heal our spirits, there must be a way to heal our bodies. It's too early to give up now."
"I don't agree either." Greed said, "Mr. Hunter was seriously injured in order to cover our retreat. For humanitarian reasons, we can't just leave him here."
Schiller doesn’t even know who the villain is now. Why does it seem like he is the cold-hearted one?
"Then you can take him with you," Schiller said, "and pray that the Prowler doesn't possess him and bite your neck off the moment he turns into a corpse."
"I'll stay and take care of him." Night Owl said, "The two of us are the most seriously injured among all the others. If we stay and rest, perhaps the situation will be much better. And if we are attacked, your losses won't be too great."
Everyone was silent. This seemed to be the only solution. The dying Batman from the main universe and Night Owl who had lost half of his arm were the least valuable of all. They had almost no combat power. Even if something unexpected happened, it would not be considered a weakening of the team.
"Now is not the time for you to be so kind, young master." Schiller looked at Greed and said, "If you really want to do something, go take a photo of them both."
After saying that, Schiller turned and walked out the door. Greedily revealed an angry expression and threw the half bread in his hand aside, as if he had completely lost his appetite.
Except for Night Owl, everyone else followed Schiller out. Greedy walked last. Soon, Night Owl and the main universe Batman were the only ones left in the small room.
Schiller first came to the second floor and searched the room where Jeff was, but found nothing.
Then he went to the third floor, to the room with the traps, squatted down, untied the trap and held it in his hand, went back to the first floor and put it at the stairs on the first floor, he explained.
"If the Prowler really possessed Mr. Hunter and controlled his body to leave the room after his death, the sound of the trap could alert us and also delay time."
"Do you think he will come up to find us?" The Pale Knight's brows never relaxed. He always felt that Schiller was a little strange.
"The monster's goal is to kill people. It's faster to block us upstairs than to leave the lighthouse and go to the village." Schiller said as he walked up the stairs. "Killing us won't affect him returning to the village to kill people later."
The Pale Knight reluctantly accepted this statement. After thinking for a while, he said, "Should we send someone to guard downstairs?"
"Which of you do you think can defeat the Prowler?"
Schiller's rebuttal stunned the Pale Knight, but what he said did make sense. The remaining few people were not good at fighting. With the cooperation of others, they might be able to deal with a corpse, but they had better forget about fighting alone.
"Then we can send two people." Greedy said: "Two people go downstairs to guard, and three people go upstairs to explore. That's just right."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a black muzzle of a gun pointed at his forehead. Schiller, who was standing on the upper stairs, turned around, pointed a shotgun at his forehead and said, "You'd better keep your mouth shut during the rest of the exploration."
Greedy said, "Aren't you afraid that a monster will possess me? Will you curse yourself by attacking me with a firearm?"
"I am a clergyman. Madeline's conclusion is wrong. Attacking monsters with firearms will not cause a curse."
Schiller had figured everything out at this point. Of all the settings, the only ones he could trust were the rules told to him by the Transcendent himself and the opening animation. Everything else that appeared in the game might have been settings made by others in order to weaken others.
For example, you cannot use firearms to attack monsters. This is just Madeline's research. No one knows what Madeline's status in the academic world is. She is most likely just a character in a background story made up by a player.
In addition to using her to complete their own origin story, they also wanted to use her mouth to speak out the rules they set themselves.
The rule that monsters cannot be attacked with firearms is obviously linked to the Wanderer's possession rule.
It is known that shooting monsters with a gun will result in a curse. The Prowler will possess a person and not necessarily a specific person. This will cause people with guns to not dare to shoot at their companions. If they hit the Prowler, wouldn't they be cursed?
Everyone starts with different initial props, but as long as you watch the opening credits, you can completely predict that someone will have a gun. As I said, shooting monsters with a gun may not cause any damage, but it can definitely threaten people.
Therefore, there will definitely be people who will try to minimize the threat posed by guns in order to narrow the gap between themselves and gun holders.
They can't use background stories to prevent gun owners from firing their guns, but they can create settings out of thin air to make gun owners hesitate.
In this way, it is difficult to gain the greatest voice in the team directly by relying on guns, while those without guns can compete for the voice more smoothly.
When making up background stories, although you don't know whether others have guns, you can infer whether you have guns through your own identity. For professions like painters and photographers, the probability of having guns is not high.
Therefore, the person who created the curse of using firearms to attack monsters must be someone who does not have a gun.
Although the scope is still large, Schiller believes that it was caused by greed.
Fortunately, although Pride did not give himself a good background story, his profession is his biggest advantage. Only clergymen from the church are the authorities in the field of monsters.
He said that it was okay to use firearms, and if others wanted to refute it, they had to give examples, but their identities and professions meant they could not give any. If a photographer knew more about monsters than a priest, wouldn't his character collapse?
Schiller realized that his advantage was not any background story he had made up before, but what he said now. No one present had the professional knowledge or background to refute what he said, and anyone who wanted to speak would be muted.
After figuring this out, Schiller's steps became a little lighter. He put away the gun and went upstairs. He went to the third floor to take a look at the place where the doorplate fell. With the light coming in from the window, he saw that there seemed to be traces of glue on that piece of ceiling.
So the doorplate was not thrown here by some supernatural power, but was stuck to the ceiling by someone and then fell down.
If this was a setup out of greed to frame Naya, he must have set up a reason in the background story for someone to do this.
The hounds on the first floor, the traps in the room, and the tripwires in the warehouse should all be traps left here by the keeper of the lighthouse. He may want to use these traps to deal with invaders.
Then the door number could also be a trap, but I haven’t seen any signs of its lethality so far. Could it be a curse or something?
Wait a minute, Schiller suddenly thought, could it be that the worldview of the hotel and the worldview of the game they are in now are the same?
There are also various anomalies and monsters in the hotel, and these monsters also have various restrictions. Although it was finally proved to be Naya's conspiracy, the Transcendent can also directly use the worldview of that universe. He dares to copy and paste the arrogant skills directly, so what else is he afraid of?
If this is true, it is equivalent to the entire world being one large hotel, except that the hotel rooms that originally had various abnormal phenomena have become cities or villages.
If the worldview was copied by the Transcendent, he would not have copied it blindly, but would have found a reasonable reason to explain how such a strange situation came about.
Would he set up the hotel as the source of the spread of weirdness?
If that strange hotel really existed in the history of this world, then the door number 1913 was not something thrown across the world, but an antique of this world that appeared in the lighthouse for some reason.
Schiller took out the house number from his arms. He looked at it carefully but found nothing.
And if the hotel's rules still apply here, then as long as he nails the doorplate to the designated location, he can re-enter the mysterious room 1913?
What would be in the room and what does it have to do with the state of the world right now?