Chapter 2846 The Forbidden Zone of Strange Demons (16)
Chapter 2820 The Forbidden Zone of Strange Demons (16)
After receiving the consultation results from Greedy, the bishop immediately contacted Peter and asked him to try to leave the hotel.
Not long after Peter woke up, he rubbed his swollen eyes, got up, picked up his equipment, and went out towards the elevator.
There was a ding, and the elevator door opened. He saw a woman standing inside, but he didn't look carefully. He lowered his head and walked into the elevator. The moment the elevator door closed, he felt cold sweat flowing down his back.
What is that???
Peter took a deep breath, what did he just see?
He searched his memory hard, and then found a startling glimpse in his peripheral vision, what was that thing around the woman's neck???
Peter swallowed and sent Schiller a message.
"Doctor, I just seemed to see a woman's neck that was not a head, but a bunch of tentacles, but when I looked carefully, they disappeared."
Peter couldn't help but look back at the woman, but she acted normally and smiled at Peter when she saw him, as if everything Peter experienced just now was an illusion.
After receiving the news, Schiller immediately realized that Peter's side might have begun to deteriorate. If the hotel could indeed be left, now might be the last chance.
"Don't be nervous, Peter. Forget about those anomalies. Treat them as if they never happened and don't mention them to anyone."
Schiller, who is now staying in Wayne Manor, can neither speak nor communicate with other people, so sending messages and communicating with Peter is the only thing he can do. He comforts Peter as much as possible and tells him not to be afraid.
Peter tried hard to calm down and delete the mentally polluting images from his mind. The elevator stopped, but it didn't stop on the first floor. As soon as the door opened, a man carrying a toolbox walked in.
"Sorry, the elevator is broken. If you want to go to the lobby, just take the stairs." The repairman said this and stood at the door, obviously wanting Peter and the others to get out.
Peter didn't really want to go out, but his eyes flickered and he saw with his peripheral vision that the toolbox the repairman was holding was not a toolbox at all, but a rotten human head.
Peter walked away without caring about the woman and the repairman. He rushed out of the elevator and ran towards the end of the corridor.
There are basically no accommodation rooms below the fifth floor. The third floor is the business area, with reception rooms, conference rooms, and a souvenir shop.
Peter ran all the way, passing two large conference rooms, and finally stopped at the door of the tea room.
He heard the sound of the door opening, so he looked back and saw a group of people in suits and ties walking out of the conference room one after another.
His vision flickered again, and he saw that each of them had fins growing out from behind their ears, their eyeballs protruding outward, and mucus dripping from their mouths, but when he looked closer, they were all gone.
Peter felt a little panicked, but he was still able to move. He ran towards the stairwell following the signs for the safety exit, but met an unexpected person. Jerome stood at the corner of the stairwell and looked at him.
"You've discovered it, right? The nightmare is about to wake up."
"Nightmare, you mean this is a nightmare?"
"Not exactly," Jerome said. "Where do you think we are now?"
"Of course it's the hotel." Although Peter was sure, he actually felt a little guilty. He really couldn't figure out these mysterious things, but his intuition told him that something was not right.
Jerome shook his head, and he and Peter walked downstairs together and said: "Did you know? About 20 years ago, the Wayne Hotel underwent a large-scale renovation. It was said to be a hotel renovation, but in fact it was for
Hide something."
"What?"
"To be honest, I don't know, so I want to invite you to come and see it." Jerome said: "I think it will be very amazing."
"I want to leave the hotel." Peter didn't talk nonsense to him and said directly: "I want to go to Wayne Manor."
"You can't leave the hotel now, or there is only one way to leave the hotel, and that is to go to the hotel underground with me."
Peter stared at him for a long time, trying to find traces of lying on his face. He was not stupid. He knew that this might be a monster's trap. The Jerome in front of him might just want to lure him to hell.
Realizing that he could not convince Peter, Jerome changed the subject. He said: "You went to the library?"
Peter sighed and nodded. He actually didn't find anything particularly important in the library, but he did find a book about the history of Gotham.
Peter actually didn't like literature and history books very much, so the more he read, the more sleepy he became. He was so sleepy that he had to go back to the hotel room and take a nap. He had many bizarre nightmares and was dizzy when he woke up.
"Haven't you ever wondered why you can suddenly see them?" Jerome said, and when he mentioned them, he made a quotation mark gesture with his fingers.
Peter knew he was referring to the monsters that appeared in his peripheral vision, but he really didn't know why. Jerome looked at him and said: "Only on the verge of a mental breakdown can you see the truth of the world, and in order to keep it that way
, I put a lot of effort into it, you are really lucky."
Peter didn't feel that he was on the verge of a mental breakdown. He felt that he was quite sane, but he really couldn't explain why the world in his eyes had changed.
Peter tried to look at Jerome with his peripheral vision, but he did not see a monster on him. He scratched his head and said: "I don't think so. Now that I go to the first floor and push the revolving door, I can walk out, but
You have to tell me what's under the hotel, otherwise I won't go with you."
Jerome seemed to be thinking about it. He looked at Peter again and said, "I see an outstanding talent in you. It's hard for me to describe, but I think you and Bruce Wayne are the same type of person. You two
You are born to be entangled in certain things.”
"I don't think this is something to be proud of." Peter thought of the black sun, and suddenly he remembered that he had the ability to return to the thick fog at any time, and maybe he could even take people back. In this case, he would be in danger
There is a way out.
Peter plucked up some courage again and said, "Since you think I can help, you can't tell me no information, otherwise I won't cooperate with you."
Jerome looked at Peter strangely. He felt that this guy was too immature and couldn't see anything special about him. However, his intuition told Jerome that he was quite extraordinary.
Out of curiosity, Jerome said: "There is a road leading to Wayne Manor underground under the Wayne Hotel. This was part of the hotel's renovation that year. No one knows what it was for."
"You must know." Peter surprised Jerome with his bluntness. "I think we can't waste any more time. It's best to be honest with each other."
"Well, it seems I can't hide it from you, but it starts from one of my jobs one day. A few years ago, I joined an insurance company and became an insurance investigator."
"You can understand that I want to pursue those insurance cases, eliminate the suspicion of insurance fraud, and strive for the interests of my company."
"This is not an easy job. It was okay at first. I could see through those people's lies at a glance. Because I did a good job, they sent me over as soon as the company encountered a difficult case.
"
"At first, the company thought it was just a serial murder case, and even the police thought so. But something happened to me that brought me to the verge of a mental breakdown, and I saw the truth of the world."
"Following the investigation, I discovered that some kind of mysterious pollution was spreading in the city. I followed it all the way and found that this pollution did not appear recently. All the clues pointed to 20 years ago."
"What happened 20 years ago?" Peter asked.
"Someone should have died, but they are still alive." Jerome showed some memories and said: "At that time, the Wayne family was not the only one in Gotham City, but there were four major families, and there were some others.
The relationship between them is not stable."
"Every family wants to be the best, and the Wayne family's ambitions are not small. Thomas Wayne, the head of the family at the time, was judged to be the most brilliant business genius in this century. Since he began to take over the family business, the Wayne Group has prospered.
"
"I didn't investigate much about what happened after that. It seemed like someone was deliberately concealing it. I only know that Thomas Wayne encountered an accident, but he didn't die. He survived."
Peter understood what Jerome was saying and said, "Do you think Thomas should have died in that accident?"
"That's what I do." Jerome said: "Identify various accidents and determine whether someone deliberately cheated insurance. I can say responsibly that among the files I investigated, that accident should have been dismissed."
Thomas Wayne's life, but he didn't die."
Peter was very smart and he immediately realized, "Is Thomas Wayne still the one who survives?"
"That's the point." Jerome nodded and said, "Not only that, three months after the accident, Thomas Wayne reappeared in the public eye and promulgated a series of reform measures. It is this
A series of initiatives established Wayne Group’s current position.”
"Isn't this inconsistent with his style?"
"It's not completely inconsistent, it can only be said to be more radical." Jerome shook his head and said, "At the same time, his wife Martha Wayne also had problems. Half a year after the accident, Martha Wayne became pregnant.
, but since then she rarely goes out, and her former friends rarely see her."
"It's understandable that pregnant women need to recuperate."
"No, it's not that simple. Renovations started at Wayne Manor just a few months after she was pregnant. That's weird, isn't it? Who on earth would renovate a house when there's a pregnant woman at home?"
Peter nodded, but still said with some hesitation: "Maybe the environment of the manor is not suitable for newborns. They are so rich and have many houses. It is normal to change their lives."
"The problem is here, they have so many properties, but they did not choose to move. Martha Wayne came to the Wayne Hotel alone, while Thomas is still dominating the mall."
Peter clearly showed disapproval and said: "It doesn't sound like Thomas is a responsible father, but this is a family matter after all."
"But what's even more strange is that they chose to separate during that period, and the outside world was speculating whether they were going to divorce. But as soon as the child was born, their relationship got better again, and they were inseparable. They attended various dinners together and became a circle.
The model couple here.”
"Maybe it's postpartum depression?" Peter also felt a little unable to convince himself. "If it is really depression, shouldn't the child be cured immediately after birth?"
"This matter is very strange, so I conducted an in-depth investigation." The two of them had already reached the lower half of the stairs on the second floor, and were about to reach the first floor, Jerome continued.
"I discovered that although the Wayne Hotel and Wayne Manor were both properties of the Wayne family, the largest construction engineering company in Gotham at the time belonged to the Kane family, Martha Wayne's maiden family."
"If nothing else happens, the Kane family will definitely be involved in the renovation projects of these two places. As for what they have done, we have to go underground to see."