According to her records, she came to this village on the 18th. Because of her status as a former priest, she stayed in the village church, and the villagers welcomed her.
Here, she wrote, "... this is a very quiet little village. The villagers are a little wary, but I can understand them. After I introduced my identity, they behaved quite enthusiastically..."
There is only one sentence about the description of the village, and the rest is basically a description of the monster Prowler.
Madeleine emphasized that this was not the first time she encountered a Prowler. The last time she encountered a Prowler was when she was 9 years old, which was also the last time a Prowler was recorded.
Like the clues provided by the detective's body, Madeleine mentioned that there was still a heavy snowfall 30 years ago. She and her family were spending Christmas in their vacation villa, but that night, the terrifying prowler appeared.
Her family was brutally murdered, and only she and her youngest sister survived.
Since then, she has been tracking down this monster, but all the strange appearances have no special pattern, and the prowler does not come every snowy day, so she has found nothing.
But this does not mean that her research has yielded no results. On the contrary, after she successfully became a clergyman and with the help of church materials, she summarized several characteristics of this kind of weirdness.
First of all, all weird monsters cannot do whatever they want, they are subject to certain restrictions.
This is good news for Schiller. Of course, if they are really invincible, there is no need to play this game. There is no unrestricted existence in the world, not even God.
But the further he looked down, the heavier Schiller's heart sank.
Because as mentioned in the second point, monsters are not just monsters, they are cunning demons. They have their own thinking ability and are even smarter than humans. They can use their wisdom to circumvent their own limitations and open up a lot of possibilities.
Killing.
In other words, all human beings are not fighting against the mechanism, but against another group of cunning intelligent creatures. You can imagine how difficult it is.
And the last and most important point is that humans cannot use firearms to solve abnormalities.
The so-called firearms include not only modern weapons, but also old-fashioned muskets. To put it simply, hot weapons cannot be used and can only be solved with cold weapons.
Madeleine mentioned that on the one hand, thermal weapons cannot hit monsters and the attacks are ineffective; on the other hand, anyone who uses thermal weapons to attack monsters will be cursed and will immediately fall into madness.
At the end, Madeleine also added that all monsters are invisible. They are a concept and do not really exist in this world.
If they want to do certain things, they must use entities, which are usually humans and animals. Where weird things appear, don't believe in anything that gasps.
Schiller continued to read down, but the things below were all Madeleine's speculations, without real evidence, and most of them were about the Prowler.
Madeleine also noticed that the corpses killed by the prowler moved in very strange ways. They walked on their hands, their heads, and moved on their bellies. Anyway, they did not walk on their feet.
However, this kind of monster only appears in snowy weather, which makes people wonder, does the Prowler not want to leave footprints in the snow?
Using Madeleine's idea, Schiller continued to think about it.
Madeleine mentioned in her notes that all monsters have no entity and can only possess people or animals.
The most dangerous thing about this situation is not how scary the monster itself is, but the fact that there is no way to tell who the monster is.
When something strange happens somewhere, your mother, child, daughter, or even pet may have been possessed, but you won’t be able to tell it at all. He may even use your feelings for him to seduce you so that he can
He can ignore restrictions and kill everyone.
So the so-called limitations are most likely the flaws of monsters, that is, what makes them different from normal people.
For example, maybe they have special marks on their bodies, and they have to cover them up if they want not to be discovered, or maybe they act abnormally, and they have to make excuses if they want not to be discovered.
So is this limitation of the Prowler because his footprints are different from normal people? And the way he breaks through this limitation is to walk without feet?
Schiller thought about it and felt that it was not that simple. If he just walked without feet and left no special footprints, then what kind of restriction was this?
He can directly possess a person and make him commit suicide. When others come to check the body, he can possess this person and make him commit suicide. This way, he doesn't have to move from beginning to end, and naturally he won't leave any footprints.
Schiller felt that this monster should have another limit, which may be related to what the researcher just did.
Assuming that Madeleine is conscious, she attracts everyone and then commits suicide, which may be another restriction.
The detective who obviously did not die in the cabin but ended up in the cabin, the owner of the diary who obviously died in the kitchen but had reeds on his body, the researcher who obviously came to investigate the prowler but ended up committing suicide on the second floor...
…
Countless clues were wandering in Schiller's mind, like a mathematical problem that required finding rules. His own thinking did not bring out any inspiration, so he spoke out the contents of his notes and his own guesses.
This is not a violation of human character, because the purpose of their coming here is to investigate the Prowler, and it is normal to discuss the clues.
"Invisible monsters..." Batman in the main universe muttered these words, and he seemed to be thinking.
"I think we have to figure out a question." Bruce said: "Can monsters be destroyed?"
"Ms. Madeleine has not mentioned it, but I have a pessimistic view." Schiller said: "The existence of the invisible and insubstantial means that humans cannot even observe them, let alone eliminate them."
"That is to say, this is a natural disaster." Greedy touched his chin and said: "Human beings have no way to prevent natural disasters from happening. All they can do is to minimize the losses as much as possible. Perhaps the same is true for monsters."
"I think we can analyze the benefits and losses from the perspectives of humans and monsters at the same time." The Pale Knight said: "For humans, the greatest benefit is naturally to survive at the hands of monsters. For monsters, although I don't think so for the time being.
I know their purpose of doing this, but they seem to want to kill more humans."
"The more humans who survive, the less humans the monsters kill, and vice versa. This is a zero-sum game, an irreconcilable contradiction. Humans try their best to survive, and monsters kill people at all costs. These are the two sides.
Confrontation of interests between.”
"In this case, any method that can reduce human losses must be detrimental to monsters. I think the most fatal one is to find the law of monster possession."
Schiller immediately realized that the Pale Knight and he had thought together. The best way to reduce the threat of such invisible monsters was to find out who they were possessing.
Of course, the possessed person shouldn't be able to escape, but as long as we figure out who is possessed, others can still escape.
At least in Madeleine's research, there is no omnipotent monster that can physically fly into the sky and escape from the earth. Most monsters have some attack methods beyond human cognition, but the distance is also limited, and their speed is very fast.
It's very powerful, but as long as you're prepared, it's not impossible to escape.
In this case, as long as the characteristics of the possessed person are known, most people can be saved.
Therefore, the core interest of the monster must be to prevent people from discovering him.
Then the restrictions on monsters may be so that people can discover his characteristics.
From this logical inference combined with the state of the corpse, the point where this monster called the Prowler is easily discovered may be the footprints.
Schiller raised a question that he had thought about before. He said: "If he just walks without feet and leaves no footprints, then he can get himself a wheelchair, or he can simply not walk and wait in one place.
Kill one by one."
"There must be other restrictions." The Pale Knight said.
Batman of the main universe nodded and said: "I think another restriction may be forced movement."
Schiller became a little interested and said, "How do you say that?"
"This monster must move after possessing someone." Batman in the main universe put forward a bold idea. He said: "The detective may have been possessed before, but he still completed the mission of the diary owner.
Invited to the cabin, the owner of the diary may have been possessed, but he still ran to the pond and retrieved a lot of fish and ate them."
Listening to Batman in the main universe say this, Schiller suddenly had an idea. He said: "The detective's last purpose before he died was to come to the cabin to find his friends. The diary owner's last wish before his death was to eat himself."
The fish he caught...the Prowler needs to help the possessed person fulfill his last wish?"
"I guess it should be the last action." Bruce said: "The detective's last action was to go to the cabin, and the diary owner's last action was to go fishing. After they were possessed, the Prowler helped them complete this action.
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"I understand." Greedy snapped his fingers and said, "The restrictions on the prowler are composed of two restrictions."
"The prowler will leave footprints when he moves. Humans can observe whose footprints are different to find out who is possessed. The prowler must complete the last action of a human being, which means he must move, and he must move.
Leaving footprints gives humans the opportunity to find the possessed person."
"But the Prowler is obviously not willing to be restricted." Schiller continued: "This is why the posture of the corpse we saw is so strange."
"But as long as you don't walk with human feet, you won't leave any footprints?" Ye Xiao asked.
Everyone thought this was ridiculous. If walking without feet would leave no footprints, then this monster would be suitable to possess a high-level paraplegic and then kill people in a wheelchair.
The clown snorted softly and said: "I'm afraid it's not that simple. I guess as long as he moves, he will leave footprints. But if you are a murderer and you don't want to expose yourself, won't you clear the footprints?"
Everyone was lost in thought again. Schiller felt that the clown was right. The prowler controlled the corpse and did so many tricks, not necessarily to leave no footprints at all, but more likely to cover the footprints.