Chapter 2848 The Forbidden Zone of Strange Demons (18)
Chapter 2822 The Forbidden Zone of Strange Demons (18)
Shiller walked over and flipped through it, and found that most of the books on the bookshelf were books on world history and economics, which suited Thomas's personality very well.
Schiller didn't know much about the Thomas of this universe, but he had come into contact with another Thomas, the old man from the Lightning Universe.
To put it simply, Thomas Wayne is the product of the elite education of the Wayne family. He received the elite education, but did not fully accept it, because he was actually a very rebellious person when he was young and never liked reading very much.
I don’t like any economic career.
The Wayne family has always trained him to be the heir to the group, but he doesn't want to study finance and economic management. He has to study medicine. After studying medicine, he has to go to the battlefield. That is to say, he is older and has had enough time.
Come back to get married and take over the family property.
Schiller found no medical-related books on the bookshelf. It seems that Thomas in this universe may not have any experience in studying medicine. Instead, he went through the entire elite education process and directly took over the Wayne Group.
Schiller found some comments on the report on the desk, which seemed to be about the renovation of Gotham's underground water system. Because the underground water system was in disrepair and had poor drainage, several large families took the lead in a project to renovate the sewers.
Thomas's opinion was that it could be repaired, but the major families must share the cost and the results equally. He would not be taken advantage of and spend all the money and still be scolded.
Then there are some trivial matters about the group, including various financial statements. I have basically only read them without leaving any comments.
There was nothing on the table, so Schiller began to look through the drawers. He remembered that Thomas had the habit of writing a diary, because on the battlefield he needed to count supplies every day and record the recovery of the wounded. This habit stayed with him after he came back, but
I don’t know if there is a Thomas in this universe.
Schiller found a locked drawer at the bottom. After also picking the lock, he found a diary, but there were only a few pages written. It seemed that he had started writing the diary not long ago, and the handwriting was a bit sloppy.
Meet Thomas's academic level.
"I had that dream again. I felt that all this was God's punishment for me. He had abandoned me. Otherwise, why would he let that monster keep coming to my dream?"
"I swear, I didn't know that was true. I didn't know that monster was really capable of doing all this. If I knew, I would never have agreed to him. I think I might not have promised him either. At that time, I didn't even agree to it.
I'm dying, and my thoughts don't count, just like no court will accept the testimony of a mental patient..."
"He said I promised him, yes, that's true, but at that time I was dying, I just wanted to survive, I don't know what happened, I didn't mean it, God, help me
Let me."
"He came again today, and he seems to be very disappointed with me, but I can't do what he said, and I can't believe in the evil god. That will bring my family into an abyss of eternal destruction, even if he still comes today.
, I will still reject him."
"He didn't come today, where did he go?"
"Almost five months have passed and he has never come again. I believe it is just a hallucination caused by my post-traumatic stress disorder. It must be like this."
"It turns out he didn't come..."
The last sentence made Schiller's heart skip a beat.
Thomas was obviously very anxious when he wrote these words. It can even be said to be panic. The preface and follow-up words are inconsistent, and the handwriting is very sloppy. It feels like he is just venting something.
From these words, Schiller can infer that Thomas seemed to have agreed to a certain condition of the evil god, which allowed him to survive, but he failed to fulfill his promise after he survived. The evil god came to him every night, but he continued to refuse.
.
The evil god disappeared for a while, but later came back, but Schiller was a little confused by what Thomas wrote: "It's not like he didn't come."
But if combined with Martha's situation, Schiller can guess something. The tricks of these evil gods are similar, just like loan sharks. If you refuse to pay back, then they will harass your family.
The evil god may have returned, but instead of looking for Thomas, he looked for Martha.
Of course, there is also a possibility, and Schiller believes this possibility even more, that is, combined with his previous speculation, Thomas may not be Thomas anymore. The evil god took away his soul and replaced him, but he didn't know it.
And when he knew it, it was too late.
This suspicion was confirmed when Schiller turned to the last page of his diary, where he wrote a few words in a very scrawled manner.
"Martha, if you see me, don't believe it's me. Resurrection has always been a scam. The real me is dead. Don't believe it... don't believe it... don't believe it..."
It seems that Thomas, who wrote these words, has realized that the evil god's so-called rescue and resurrection of him was just a scam. The person who was resurrected was not him at all, but a monster with his consciousness and memory.
Then there is an explanation for Martha's mental illness symptoms. Just like the old godfather Falcone, the people closest to her were replaced, but no evidence could be found.
You just feel that he is getting weirder and weirder. He seems to be exactly the same as the person in your impression, but very different. You can't help but start to think about whether you are crazy or the world is crazy.
There is no answer to all questions about this person's identity. Everyone thinks that you are thinking too much, and the other person's attitude is as good as ever, so you can't find any fault. But when there is no one in the silence, standing there
Your bedside is staring at you.
In this case, the timeline of events will be smoothed out.
Thomas may have encountered an accident. While he was half asleep, he was tempted by the evil god and agreed to the evil god's conditions so that he could survive. But in fact, everything was a scam. The one who survived was not him at all, but only retained.
The source of contamination in his memory is at least part of Nyarlathotep.
Thomas was gradually replaced until he became a complete monster. Martha was aware of this, but could not find any evidence until Martha Wayne became pregnant.
Martha may have noticed that there was something abnormal about this child, but at that time, it was difficult for her to escape Thomas' supervision and have an abortion on her own. Maybe she also had a glimmer of hope and was unwilling to kill her own child, so she could only confirm it over and over again.
and pray.
But unfortunately, all this was not her hallucination. The existence of the evil god was real. When Martha was on the verge of mental collapse, she saw Thomas' true face.
She couldn't accept all this, so she went completely crazy.
But again, the power of a mother is almost endless. It is very likely that Martha faced the monster directly, and may even have completed communication with him, reached a deal, and gained some breathing time for herself.
Using this time, Martha made arrangements. She used the power she obtained from the evil god to pollute the hotel and the manor, but temporarily sealed the pollution.
Then little Bruce was born. By that time, Thomas and Martha had been completely contaminated by the power of the evil god. They were no longer his parents. Little Bruce had the blood of the evil god and was raised by the evil god, so he became
It became so weird.
Schiller speculated that the evil god may not have expected that he would be no match for the power of the will of the DC universe. Batman's parents were destined to die, so these two puppets may have died when it was time to die.
After his parents died, and the pollution in little Bruce didn't break out on time, Nyarlathotep's plan was almost in vain, but he couldn't be willing to do so, so he later entangled little Bruce.
Schiller also roughly guessed what Martha's backhand was, and his eyes fell on the documents and reports of Gotham's sewer improvement project.
Jerome and Peter found the door leading to the third floor below. In fact, this was not a puzzle at all. The door was hidden in the maintenance room of the bathroom in the underground parking lot on the second floor.
It was Peter who pointed out that he didn't see sewer maintenance facilities on the entire floor that they thought of going to the bathroom to take a look.
Peter's uncle is an electrician, and he is very proficient in this area. He knows that in such a large hotel, basically everything needs to be maintained in a separate room, such as the main distribution room, and the same is true for maintaining sewers.
Generally speaking, this kind of room will be set up at the bottom, which makes it easier to check the status of the sewer. As expected, the two also found a downward passage in the bathroom inspection room.
However, the appearance of the negative third floor was beyond their expectations. To be precise, there was no negative third floor, only the sewers. After going down, it looked like a very typical Gotham sewer.
Peter felt a cold and damp atmosphere always surrounding this place, and the water under his feet didn't look like water at all, but more like some kind of mucus, which could cause strings to form when he lifted his feet.
He rubbed his arms and felt a little cold. Jerome looked around and said, "I think we have to go this way. The wind is blowing from this way."
Peter looked over there and saw nothing unusual. To prevent him from getting lost, he left spider silk on the wall as a mark, and the two of them walked in the direction of the wind.
Along the way, Peter discovered that the water in the sewer was flowing towards the hotel. He remembered Dr. Sohip's conjecture that the water in the sewer might be the source of toilet water.
So the toilet water has been trying to break through the hotel's defense? But where does the water in the sewer have the power to behave abnormally?
They continued to walk forward and turned a corner. In front of them was still a dense waterway, which seemed to have twists and turns. But when they walked over, they found that most of them were dead ends, and there was only one way to go down. It was like a simple
version of the maze.
The two kept walking forward until a ray of light appeared in front of them, and they thought they were about to reach the ground.
But after gradually adapting to the light, what appeared in front of them was not an exit at all, but a tall, dark ancient city.
There is a lifelike owl sculpture above the gate of the ancient city, its bright eyes staring at the long-lost visitors.
Ten million words!!!!
I started the book on January 18, 2022, and worked on 10 million words in two and a half years!!
