Chapter 3008: The green trees are dense and the summer is long (16)
Chapter 2982 The green trees are dense and the summer is long (16)
Constantine and Schiller returned to the office of Arkham Asylum, but the summoning ceremony could not be held in the office. Brand took them to the basement of the asylum, which can also be said to be his magic studio.
"Have you been using magic?" Constantine looked up and down the room and said, "Although I don't know who your creditor is, I must remind you that using magic so frequently is not a good thing. You will one day
There will be a price to pay.”
"You don't have to worry about it." What surprised Constantine was that the person who said this was not Brand, but Schiller.
Brand then walked in and closed the door. He took the materials from Schiller's hand, opened the box, looked at it, and started to set up the magic circle after confirming that it was correct.
Constantine sat and watched.
The spiritual summoning circle that Brand put up was really lackluster, and it couldn't be more basic. Even if Constantine was deliberately looking for trouble, he couldn't find any faults.
He has been observing this doctor who looks very kind. Of course, the kindness is compared to Schiller. He also has many quirks, such as he is a little too healthy.
Many times magicians have weird personalities and bad tempers, not entirely because they are mental patients, but because the pain caused by the price of magic has been tormenting them, and their mental state naturally cannot get better. The same is true for Constantine.
Even if Zatanna didn't have to pay the price, she would always be affected by dealing with those mysterious things. Every time she dealt with a supernatural incident, she would have a long period of depression.
But this guy named Brand was kind-hearted and fat. Not only was he very healthy, but his mental state also seemed normal. This made Constantine more and more curious about him.
It didn't take long for the magic circle to be set up. Schiller handed the small finger bone to Brand, and Brand placed the bone in the center of the magic circle. With the magic light slowly lighting up, the runes were like jumping for joy.
The notes lit up one after another, and a strange call sounded in everyone's ears.
But the magic circle was lit for a long time, and the music played for a long time, but there was no movement. Brand shook his head with some regret and said: "It seems that his soul has been lost. Now I will try to see if I can get out of here."
Extract his memory from a small piece of bone..."
After speaking, he changed some positions of the magic circle, the light condensed toward the center of the magic circle, and a blurry image appeared in the magic circle.
It seemed to be a man's first-person perspective. In front of him was the dilapidated construction site. It seemed that the demolition work had come to an end, with only some broken building materials left.
He continued to walk forward, and there was a violent noise around him, as if something was broken, and then a black shadow fell in front of him, and something huge seemed to fall above his head, and then there was a blood red in front of his eyes, and the memory stopped abruptly.
After the power of the magic dissipated, Schiller was still recalling what he had just seen. If you only looked at the superficial appearance, it was a construction accident. It seemed that something on the beam fell and killed the man.
But if you think about it carefully, it's wrong. Judging from the messiness of the construction site from this man's perspective, the house should have been completely demolished, leaving only some garbage on the ground that has not been cleaned up. So why would something from the top of his head fall down?
Woolen cloth?
Moreover, even if the demolition reaches the final stage, this man should not be the only worker on the construction site. The garbage needs to be collected, the soil needs to be backfilled, and vehicles are needed to transport the garbage. But the man did not see any companions in his field of vision, not even the car.
No, what I saw was a desolate and desolate scene.
Schiller carefully recalled the details again, and then realized that something seemed wrong. The abandoned construction site that appeared in the man's field of vision should not have been demolished just now. Many garbage on the ground showed signs of drying and weathering for a long time. It should be demolition.
It will be a few years later.
In other words, after the junior high school and primary school had been completely demolished, a worker from a Ward Ryder construction engineering team returned there and died there.
There is indeed a secret in this school. After Schiller confirmed this, he knew the direction of the next investigation.
He pushed Constantine in Brand's direction without hesitation, and then said: "Since you want to write a book, Dr. Brand should give you a lot of inspiration. You two should talk first. I have some things to do in advance."
Gone."
Constantine looked confused, but Brand raised his eyebrows and said, "You want to write a book? What book?"
"It's just a novel, but..." Constantine looked Brand up and down and said, "Can you give me some inspiration? Can you give me horror stories about mental hospitals?"
"You write horror novels?"
"It should be scary to ordinary people, but you are a magician, how can you understand the fears of ordinary people?"
Brand smiled and said, "You underestimate me."
Just when Constantine was about to say something else, he suddenly saw that the shadow behind Brand was tall and slender, and the black and rich shadow was like a bright backside. When he looked into Brand's eyes again, there was a trace of it.
Thin golden lines cracked in Brand's pupils.
"You...you you you you...ah!!!!!"
Schiller went to Wayne Manor, mainly to borrow Batman's computer, which was now Tim's computer.
The computer itself is nothing special, it just can access the information database of Wayne Group. The information database of Wayne Group in this universe is different from the information database of Batman in other universes. There is no information about superheroes and super criminals. The main records are this
The process of urban transformation, as well as the business information of Wayne Group.
Don’t think it’s been useless for a long time. The Wayne Group’s building renovation project has had a profound impact on Gotham. During the renovation process, the workers used, the industries they came into contact with, the factories they contacted, and even the large groups they cooperated with
There are countless of them, and the information that can be collected is also massive.
Not to mention anything else, almost everyone living in the East District Construction Renovation Project Building now has all the information from birth to the present recorded in this information database. Basically, as long as you enter some characteristics, you can accurately filter out the target.
It's said to be Gotham's version of Skynet.
The same is true in business. Basically, everyone doing business in Gotham, ranging from large multinational companies to small self-employed individuals, can search for relevant information in this information database.
It was this so-called Wardled Engineering Group that Schiller wanted to investigate.
After obtaining the authority from Tim, Schiller quickly retrieved the information he wanted in the information database. The information showed that this construction company was established about 20 years ago, but its scale has never been large.
, it wasn’t until about ten years ago, when the company received an investment and secured several hot projects, that it expanded to what it is today.
Although the largest engineering team in Gotham is still the Wayne Construction Engineering Group, this Ward Ryder also had a lot of trouble during the Gotham renovation project. When the Wayne Construction Engineering Group was busy with the renovation of the East End, they were there
The West and South districts have received many projects.
Their specialty is not the construction of commercial buildings and communities, but the construction of clubs, casinos, and resorts for the entertainment of the wealthy. During the Gotham Music Festival, they built several popular resorts on the southern coastline. This kind of project
You don’t need to think about it to know how much money you can make.
But that's about it. After all, in a city as big as Gotham, there are only eight hundred engineering teams of this size. Wayne Group's information collection capabilities are very strong, but there is no need to keep an eye on such a person.
Small companies won’t let it go.
Schiller did not see that the Wardled engineering team had built a school, and the company that built the boarding high school had long since closed down. There was no information about the construction conditions of the middle school and elementary school, and now there is no trace.
Can be found.
After investigating the company's overall information, Schiller began to investigate the company's legal persons and shareholders, and one person obviously stood out, that is, the manager who saved this construction company on the verge of bankruptcy ten years ago - Bao
Bo.
After pulling up this person's resume information, Schiller discovered that he was a very capable operator. He had led the Ward Ryder construction engineering team to complete many popular construction projects and led the entire group to prosper.
Entering this person's photo into the search system, Schillerton was surprised by a group photo that popped up. The person on the left side of the photo was a smiling Bob, and standing next to him was William.
S.
How did the two of them get together?
Schiller then made some inquiries and discovered that although Bob did lead the Wardled Group to better and better places through his personal abilities, it was Williams who invested in the company ten years ago and helped it get through the difficulties.
Real estate company.
Then the timeline is very clear. Ten years ago, about two years after Schiller came to Gotham, Ward Ryder Engineering Group was not operating well, and Williams' real estate company invested in this construction group, and then Bob
Under the introduction of Williams, I joined the company and led the company to develop better and better.
At the same time, Schiller also looked up the information about the boarding high school in the information database. This school was established almost 30 years ago. It moved once and moved to its current location about 20 years ago.
Then about 10 years ago, the elementary school and junior high school were closed due to poor business performance. At least this was the explanation given to parents. Schiller found some people who graduated from this junior high school and elementary school in the database, but there was nothing abnormal about them.
, everyone who was studying there transferred to other schools after the school closed.
After the shutdown, the elementary and middle school buildings were demolished. The database does not indicate who was responsible for the demolition work, but Schiller suspects it may have been Wardled Engineering Group.
At that time, the company had just received investment from Williams Real Estate Company, but the money had just been obtained and had not yet been transformed into a company in size. Recruitment and bidding took time. During this period, Ward Ryder Engineering Group's
The manpower scale is probably only enough to handle similar demolition work.
However, Schiller feels that everything is not that simple, because if this is just a job that happens to be received, it cannot explain why Ward Ryder's workers reappeared in the ruins of the school a few years after the school was demolished, and why a few years later
What could be seen as the ruins of a school before now looks no different from a forest.
A crucial link was missing, and that's when Pamela brought him good news.