Bruce and the Pale Knight were driving on the road, rushing back to Faraines as quickly as possible.
This time it was the Pale Knight who was driving. Bruce was checking something with a newly bought mobile phone. The Pale Knight glanced at it and saw who he seemed to be chatting with.
"What are you doing?" asked the Pale Knight.
"Look for someone to ask for clues." Bruce said: "I just got on the line with a guy and asked him about Siltec."
The Pale Knight became more and more curious about him, but he did not directly ask about something outside the game, but said: "You said before that you were an agent, so the identity of the psychiatrist is your disguise?
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"So be it." Bruce said.
"Who do you work for?"
"Is this important?" Bruce said without raising his head: "You are a lawyer, and I didn't ask who you work for."
"I don't have a very clear employer. In my own setting, I just need to investigate strange incidents and collect more favorable evidence. Of course, based on previous inferences, I may also be involved in insurance compensation cases."
"Me too." Bruce said.
Since he didn't want to say anything, the Pale Knight didn't ask any more questions. At this moment, the Pale Knight braked suddenly. Bruce was shaken and hit his forehead, but the Pale Knight stared straight ahead.
Two black cars were coming from the opposite direction, and when they approached their car, they turned and blocked the intersection.
The Pale Knight saw the road sign for Faraines. They were almost approaching the entrance of the village, but at this time they were blocked by someone. The other party must have come with bad intentions.
Sure enough, before the Pale Knight could react, several people rushed out of the black vehicle ahead, all of them fully armed. Not only did they hold guns, but they also wore body armor and explosion-proof shields, and they immediately surrounded their vehicle.
The Pale Knight instinctively picked up the gun, but the opponent was approaching fiercely, with many people and complete equipment. Head-on confrontation was really not a good idea.
Bruce gave the Pale Knight a look, and the two had no choice but to get out of the car. The group of people surrounding the car was led by a woman. She shook the gun in her hand and motioned to the Pale Knight to drop the gun.
The Pale Knight hesitated for a moment, but finally threw the gun on the ground. Someone immediately came over, cuffed their hands behind their backs, put hoods on their heads, and stuffed them into the car.
The Pale Knight used his sense of direction to judge that the car was driving towards the village, which meant that this group of people were probably members of the church, and the church was more tightly guarded than they imagined.
The car drove for more than ten minutes, starting and stopping for a while. The pale knight could not fully feel the route they were traveling, except that they probably had not left the village yet.
Soon the car came to a complete stop and the Pale Knight was taken out. He felt himself being pushed into a room. The handcuffs were probably handcuffed to the railing of the extinguished fireplace, so he could only sit on the ground.
He didn't hear any movement from Bruce. He suspected that the two of them were being held separately and someone wanted to get information from them.
Sure enough, after a while, footsteps sounded at the door, the pale knight's hood was taken off, and he saw the woman who had surrounded them sitting opposite him.
There was also movement next door, and the Pale Knight thought it might be Bruce, as someone also passed by there.
The woman took off her body armor and jacket, revealing the robe underneath. It looked a bit like a nun's robe, but it was obviously a simplified version. It was just longer than a priest's robe and didn't have as many patterns.
The woman wore a cross necklace around her neck. After she sat down, she held the cross and muttered a few words. Then she looked at the Pale Knight and asked, "What did you do in Sigelturk?"
It was getting late, and Schiller and Batman had successfully sneaked into the vicinity of the lighthouse. They went around the woods, and Batman found the door of the power distribution room not far from the lighthouse.
The power distribution room of the lighthouse is not in the lighthouse, but underground on the east side of the lighthouse. The Joker and Batman improved the electric shock facilities here. However, the church people did not seem to know about this place and did not send anyone to defend it. The two of them were very relaxed.
The ground went in.
Here, when it was completely dark, Batman cut off the power supply in the lighthouse, and the lighthouse was instantly dark.
Schiller heard the commotion. It was obvious that the people stationed here by the church did not expect that there would be a sudden power outage. They took this opportunity to touch the side of the lighthouse.
The detective left a rope when he came down from the lighthouse. As I said before, the lighthouse is very big and it takes a lot of time to go around it. A thin rope is not conspicuous, and no one from the church noticed it.
With the help of this rope, the two of them successfully reached the window on the second floor and jumped in without disturbing anyone.
Schiller observed the situation in the lighthouse. Just as he expected, the lighthouse shrouded in thick fog had almost no light. There was a little light within about one meter of the window, and everything else was pitch black.
It is simply a natural hunting ground for night demons.
But Schiller was not in a hurry to take out the Cubic Trioctahedron. Instead, he and Batman went up two more floors to the middle of the lighthouse, that is, on the fourth floor to the patio, and placed the Cubic Trioctahedron on the patio railing.
below.
During this period, Schiller kept shining his flashlight on the box to prevent the Night Stalker from appearing. After putting the box down, he continued to shine his flashlight there until the two of them retreated to the window and heard footsteps on the stairs next to them.
"...Why did the power suddenly go out? Didn't those people check the switch? I didn't bring a flashlight."
"Let's hold on to the wall and walk, be careful not to trip..."
As the voices became clearer and clearer, Schiller and Batman had climbed out of the window and hung on the rope again. The moment Schiller turned off the flashlight, a black figure flashed past the patio.
Then a shrill scream came from the lighthouse.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
The two people hanging outside the lighthouse did not go down, but went up, because based on their previous observations, the church people seemed to regard the lighthouse as a base. Now this is their command center, and many people came and went.
, and the person who commands them should be at the top of the lighthouse. Even if he is not a great prophet, he should be an important figure in the church.
Schiller and Batman did not immediately enter the top level, because if the Great Prophet is really a dead pretender as he speculated, then he is likely to stay at the top level, where the security must be the strictest. Rushing in directly is about the same as
Throw yourself into a trap.
So they went to the eighth floor. As long as they moved quickly and the other party was still trapped in the chaos of sudden loss of light and did not react, they should be able to break through faster.
Sure enough, when the two climbed in through the window, the church guards had not been able to adapt to the sudden darkness, and were frightened by the screams downstairs. The defensive formation was completely messed up. Schiller and Batman caught
Given the opportunity, he knocked down two or three people in an instant.
Walking around the huge patio to the other side, Schiller originally wanted to rush up the stairs, but Schiller, who was wearing night vision goggles, found that many people had gathered in front of another intersection. He instinctively felt that something was wrong.
So he immediately grabbed Batman, and the two of them walked quietly along the passage on the other side.
The group of people gathered at the intersection looked very confused. The sudden power outage caused the circle around the patio to be so dark that no light could be seen. Human vision had no effect at all in this environment. Everyone was walking along the wall.
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As soon as Schiller walked over, he saw someone holding an anti-riot shield. The weapons in his hands were better than those downstairs, and the staffing was more reasonable. This was obviously a well-trained defense team.
But why are they guarding this intersection?
Schiller was a little curious. He glanced at the stairs. Batman understood his worries and said, "The lighthouse's power system has been completely destroyed. It doesn't matter how many people they sent to repair it."
Schiller couldn't help but give Batman a thumbs up. Having Batman as a teammate was so worry-free. If the power system couldn't be restored, they would have plenty of time.
So Schiller took advantage of the confusion among the defense team and sneaked directly along the gap in the wall, with Batman following behind him.
Schiller had night vision goggles, and Batman even turned on X-ray vision. When the two of them slipped past, the group of people whose vision was completely dark didn't notice it at all, thinking that the noise around them was coming from their companions.
The two walked along the corridor and saw a door at the end with a small crack. As soon as Schiller opened the door, he saw the horrified face of a man.
The other party seemed not to have expected anyone to come. Just as he was about to scream, Schiller rushed over to cover his mouth and pulled him into the room.
After just one encounter, he recognized who the other person was - the great prophet Gad, one of the three sages.
Schiller covered his mouth, dragged him all the way to the deepest part of the room, and said in his ear: "Shut your mouth, or you will be finished."
This brief threat was obviously the most effective. When the other party recovered from the initial surprise, he nodded slowly.
When Schiller retreated into the room, he had already discovered that the chairs in the living room were overturned and ropes were scattered around them. It looked like someone was tied here.
After Batman locked the door, Schiller let go of his hand and lit the flashlight.
The great prophet Gad's expression, which had just improved a little, cracked again when he saw the pattern on Father Schiller's robe.
"It's not important," Schiller said. "I'm sure you haven't seen me in the Pope's bodyguard."
Gad was stunned for a moment, then raised his eyes to look at Schiller's face. After studying it for a long time, he realized that what he said was actually true. He lowered his voice and said, "So you are pretending? You are not from the Pope?"
"Should I be?"
"You do look different from the Guardsmen." Gad took a deep breath and said, "Are you here to save me?"
"Tell me why you are here first." Schiller looked at him and said, "I hope you will tell the truth. I think you can also see that we are the only ones here who can solve your troubles."
Gad looked at him for a while and then said: "I don't know where you get your confidence. All of you here are the Pope's people..."
"So you didn't come here voluntarily?"
"Of course not." Gad gritted his teeth and said, "How could I come here voluntarily to be sacrificed? I'm not crazy!"
Schiller frowned deeply and said: "The Pope wants to sacrifice you? But I met a man on the ghost ship who claimed to be your subordinate. He wanted to go to the captain's cabin..."
"No matter who claims to be my people, they are all lying to you. The great prophet Gad who appears in public is just a puppet. They are all the Pope's people."
"But I heard that the Pope's decree will not be long."
"It's true. If the old guy wasn't about to die, he wouldn't be so crazy." Gad sighed and said, "He has been planning this for many years. If his lifespan hadn't really come to an end, he wouldn't be so crazy."