"The Prowler seemed to be able to cover his footprints with human blood," Schiller said. "He split the detective's upper body open and then walked upside down so that the blood would spurt onto the ground as he walked."
"Similarly, he chopped off the arms and legs of the owner of the diary and crawled forward. As he walked, the blood flowing from behind would cover the path he came from."
Schiller actually had no evidence, it was just a bold guess, but he felt it made sense.
"Generally speaking, the blood at the murder scene will become important evidence, which can be used to determine the way the murderer committed the crime. If there are footprints left by the blood, of course we can guess the way the murderer left." The Pale Knight said: "
Considering that he is a lawyer by profession, it is normal for him to have such knowledge."
He continued: "If a murderer does not want to expose himself, then he must properly handle the large amount of blood in the human body. If he wants to move the body to another place without being discovered, then he must either use bloodless killing methods or
Wrap the body tightly while dragging it away."
"To sum up, if you don't want to expose yourself, you should try to avoid bloody scenes as much as possible, but this Mr. Prowler did the opposite, either splitting people open or cutting off their hands and feet. This is obviously inconsistent with him.
Hiding himself does not serve his purpose unless... it helps him hide himself."
Schiller admired the Pale Knight more and more. His ideas were always consistent with his own. He thought that the Pale Knight in the comics seemed to rely on drugs to suppress the virus. Maybe he could find a way to help him prolong the effects of the drugs.
Schiller looked at Madeleine lying in the corner again, and said: "Before she died, this lady said that the Prowler had arrived. This proves that she may be the Prowler's next possession. Then the question is, Prowler
How is the person going to make his next move?”
Everyone else was stunned, because they suddenly realized that Madeleine had come prepared.
This researcher was not defenseless, but she still chose to commit suicide. What does this mean?
Greed immediately figured out the key. He said: "Her last action was to commit suicide, but she is already dead, so will the Prowler help her complete the suicide action? I mean, kill the Prowler himself?"
"
Schiller also fell into thinking.
Obviously, in this world's world view, weirdness is not a recent phenomenon. Human beings seem to have been coexisting with these monsters. There are even world-wide professional organizations and churches to deal with these monsters. They are by no means newbies, but experienced ones.
old hunter.
So even if Madeleine was a retired clergyman, she would definitely not be helpless. At least Schiller didn't see much despair in her notes. She was as calm as ever.
Since it was not a suicide caused by loss of control, it proves that Madeleine did it intentionally, but what could make a determined researcher want to sacrifice his own life?
Drive away monsters? Save people in this village?
Schiller doesn't think so. He knows many such scientists. Many of them have no secular view of good and evil. They are only interested in their own research projects, and everything they do is for research results.
What if I trade one of my own lives for the Prowler's?
In Madeleine's own records, it seems that no one has ever killed a monster in history. How to completely kill the monster is the highest goal of every researcher. If there is a chance to practice it, then maybe at the cost of life
It's not unacceptable.
"Do you think she can succeed?" the clown nudged Schiller with his elbow and asked him.
Schiller slowly shook his head.
He admitted that this spirit of dedication to science was touching, but Madeleine seemed to have forgotten one thing - monsters cannot be killed by firearms.
"Monsters cannot be killed by firearms." The thinking of Batman in the main universe is almost synchronized with Schiller. He said: "Madeline committed suicide with a pistol, and assuming that the Prowler must complete her last action, what is the final result?
The good result is just a shot in the head..."
When he said this, Schiller and the main universe Batman suddenly looked at each other.
"This is her purpose!" the two said in unison.
Schiller explained quickly: "Anyone who kills a monster with a firearm will be cursed, so what if a monster uses a firearm to attack a monster? Who will be cursed? The answer she really wants to know is this!"
"But if we don't come and she dies, no one will be able to witness it." Bruce said aloud.
"This proves that she knew we would definitely come." Greedy is very good at guessing this kind of thing. He said: "It seems that we met here by chance, but maybe she arranged it. What do you think?"
"It's not impossible." Ye Xiao said: "The timing of our gathering here is too coincidental. Maybe it was her who used a series of coincidences to invite us here, and then made some noise to attract us to her.
By her side, so that we can witness the results of her experiments."
"So what are we going to do?" Bruce asked.
Schiller breathed a sigh of relief. He thought in his mind that although the game has many restrictions, the novice process is relatively clear. They are not allowed to face the monsters directly as soon as they come up. Instead, they are allowed to observe the research results of their predecessors so that they can
Better understand the weird existence.
But if he finished the novice tutorial so calmly, he wouldn't be Schiller.
"I felt the room was a little dark," Schiller said. "In order to better observe the changes in the body, I went downstairs to get the kerosene lamp."
Greed immediately looked over to him and said to him with his eyes: "What do you want to do?"
"Just in case." Schiller responded with a look.
Schiller went downstairs. He remembered that when he was touching the drawer key, he discovered that the kerosene lamp fixed on the pillar was dual-purpose and could be removed. He unscrewed a screw at the back and took the lamp off the table.
Come down.
There was still a lot of oil in the lamp, which should be enough to light it for one night, but Schiller did not just go upstairs with the kerosene lamp. Instead, he opened the lid of the lamp and poured more than half of the oil on the carpet.
Then he went to the wall where the wood was placed and threw the chopped wood on the floor of the living room. It was thrown very evenly, basically everywhere.
Then he walked to the window again, pulled down the curtains in the living room, piled them on the kitchen floor together with the curtains in the kitchen, and threw the last few pieces of wood into the pile of curtains.
He opened the back door of the house in the stairwell, then threw the animal skins hanging on the wall of the living room of the cabin along the back door into the snow. After throwing it, he did not close the door, and the cold wind kept blowing inside.
"What are you doing?" The Beyonder asked in his mind.
"I'm doing some precautions."
"Prevent what?"
"Experiment failed."
"I remind you that this house is very remote and you need to walk for at least 20 minutes to find the next building."
"I would also like to remind you that when you make a map next time, don't build an all-wooden building. It is easy to set fires and difficult to put out."
"You can't burn the house down, or you'll freeze to death on the road."
"Suppose we freeze to death on the road, what will the Prowler do?"
"What?"
"Why isn't the detective dead?"
"What?"
"The detective's body was split in half. Why is he still alive and moving?"
"Why do you think?"
"Because it is very likely that there is a third restriction, which is that he can only possess living people. At least during the process of possession, the person must be alive. Madeleine should not be completely dead."
Schiller said quickly while cleaning up: "If he has to possess a living person to move, then there will only be a few living people left within a few kilometers around us. If he lets us die, won't he live forever?"
Trapped here?"
Schiller didn't pay attention to the surpasser, but hurried upstairs. He didn't say anything unnecessary, but simply said: "If anything happens later, just run to the back door."
As soon as he finished speaking, Madeleine's body started to move.
She was only shot in the brain, and all other parts of her limbs were intact. After she stood up unsteadily, she suddenly rushed towards Greed.
Greed immediately realized that it was because he was holding the revolver that Madeleine used to commit suicide.
"Gun!" Night Owl reminded, his original intention was to let Greed throw the gun out, because only when the Prowler takes the gun and shoots himself can he see whether the curse will take effect.
But Schiller curled his lips. He let Greedy touch the corpse, not just because of his high dexterity attribute, but also because Greedy wouldn't want him to hand over anything in Greedy's hands.
The red dice appears again, which means Greed has to dodge. At the critical moment, the check is 26>23, and Greed narrowly escapes.
"You want to take my stuff? You're dreaming!" Greedy cursed, and directly pulled out the gun from Night Owl's waist, stood still, aimed, and shot.
Bang! The bullet shot directly into Madeleine's body.
"What are you doing?!" Night Owl was shocked. He shouted at Schiller: "Didn't you say that attacking monsters with firearms will cause a curse?!"
"How will you know if you don't try?!"
"Then why don't you use your gun???"
"I'm afraid of curses!"
As soon as Greedy finished speaking, he felt a gust of wind coming towards his face. He threw the dice again, 28>25, and the judgment was successful again.
Schiller only thought that his dexterity points were really high.
Greedy rolled to the side and escaped smoothly, but the gust of wind hit the wall straight and cut a sharp gap. Greedy looked back and said: "It seems that this is the culprit who cut the detective open."
."
In the blink of an eye, Madeleine rushed over again, a trace of mischievous malice flashed in her greedy eyes.
Whoosh!
He threw the revolver directly through the window where Madeleine's first shot had broken the glass.
Madeleine jumped up and threw herself out of the window.
"Is this an accident?" Bruce looked at Schiller and asked.
Schiller turned and ran downstairs, and everyone else followed him. Everyone was shocked when they saw the layout on the first floor.
Without any hesitation, Schiller waved his hand for them to leave through the back door. He picked up the kerosene lamp placed on the table next to him and threw it directly to the ground.
With a roar, a raging flame burst into flames. With the flammable materials all over the ground and the wooden structure of the house, the flames burned to an unstoppable level in just a few dozen seconds.
Everyone ran out of the back door into the snow.
Madeleine fell right next to them. Even though the second floor was not high, Madeleine didn't pay attention to her posture when she flew out. Her leg was obviously broken.
At this moment, she stood up with her hands on the ground in an extremely weird posture. Because she didn't bleed enough, as soon as she took a step forward, Schiller saw a dark footprint appear on the ground.