After Schiller got into the FBI car, there was silence in the car. Schiller's face was groggy and his breathing was very rapid. The escort agent sitting next to him couldn't bear it any longer. He said: "What's wrong with you? I need it."
Medication?”
"I have a very severe stress reaction. You must... you must provide me with sufficient sedative drugs immediately. Otherwise, I cannot guarantee that I will live to see your boss..." Schiller said while gasping.
The driver did not hesitate. He immediately picked up the communicator and said: "Send someone to the hospital and prescribe a sufficient amount of sedative drugs."
After speaking, he looked back and observed Schiller's symptoms, and then said: "Strong sedatives are needed to target mania and nervousness..."
"Thank you, you are even more professional than my students." Schiller raised his head and leaned on the backrest of the back seat.
The agents had a very good attitude. A female agent sitting in the passenger seat said: "If you insist, we must take you to our temporary base first before we can give you medicine."
Schiller has closed his eyes and suppressed the nervous excitement together with the gray fog. However, since it is a psychogenic nervous reaction, as long as the stimulus source is always present, the excited reaction will not stop. The specific symptoms include excessive breathing, limb trembling,
Increased blood pressure, etc.
Just as Schiller leaned back in the chair with a pale face, the female agent in the passenger seat whispered to the driver: "Scott, in this case, can we put a hood on him? This can easily cause him to
Apnea, right? If he goes into shock, we have no rescue measures..."
After saying that, she glanced at the road outside and said: "The streets are full of broccoli now. We can't even drive fast. If he really goes into shock, we won't even be able to send him to the hospital."
"There is equipment in the car to monitor his heart rate and blood pressure. If the reaction is really severe, there is no need to wear a hood. He doesn't have time to pay attention to where he is being taken anyway," replied Scott, who was driving.
"But..." The female agent looked back at Schiller and said, "What if he is pretending? He is a very powerful psychologist. He may be able to hypnotize himself to produce such symptoms..."
"But we can't bet." Scott steered the steering wheel again to avoid a piece of broccoli, slowly turned a corner and said, "Whether the identity he said about himself is true or not, we have already reported it.
He must be sent to Washington safely, and any problems on the way will be our responsibility."
"He can die, but he must not die in our hands. From the moment he reveals his identity, our task becomes to do everything possible to ensure his safety."
"Okay, you are an expert, so forget it." The female agent looked left and right again and said, "No, we can't drive through in front, let's find a road here."
The car stopped slowly, and the female agent in the passenger seat got out of the car first to survey the surrounding situation. After a while, she came back, knocked on the window and said, "Get out of the car and follow me."
After the one on the left escorted the agent down, the one on the right also wanted to get out of the car, but Schiller sat where he was and didn't move at all.
The agent looked back at him and then said to the female agent: "No, I'm afraid he has lost the ability to move. We have to drive the car as close as possible to the stronghold. Otherwise, he will faint on the way and there will be a great danger.
"
The female agent hammered the car window and said, "Okay, I'll direct you to back the car into the alley. There is an entrance there."
Scott sat back in the driver's seat. Under the command of the female agent, the car backed into the alley. In a hazy moment, Schiller felt that he was being pulled out of the car. In a daze, he saw,
A sewer entrance appeared in front of him.
Even though he was already feeling uncomfortable and unconscious, he still said: "I really didn't expect that your base would be in the sewers. This is not the time when you call spies moles, right? Sewer pests?"
The female agent hammered the wall angrily. He looked at the driver next to him and said, "He is so weak, yet he still doesn't forget to curse people?! Are all psychologists like him? People are dying, but their mouths are still the same.
Hard?!"
"Calm down, Laurenna, I hope he has so many words during the interrogation." The driver finished speaking coldly, opened the entrance to the sewer, and the group entered the sewer.
They had only walked for two minutes when a dark figure appeared above the alley wall.
When Batman first jumped down, he didn't notice anything unusual in this alley, because all the traces here had been cleaned up. Like all the dark alleys in Gotham, there was a broken car parked in the middle of the dark and narrow road.
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However, the positioning device installed on Schiller's raincoat indicated that this was the destination. Batman jumped off the roof of the car and realized something was wrong. This alley was too clean.
Everyone knows that in a city like Gotham, it is difficult to expect anyone to be public-minded. The vast majority of people do not care whether they drive or walk, step on the flowers and plants on the roadside, let alone
Deliberately clean up your muddy footprints.
However, in this alley, not only are there no footprints of people getting on and off the car, but the weeds on the ground and the moss on the road have no trace of damage. This is not what those big and powerful truck drivers can do.
Batman often hears some tavern owners describe Gotham's truck drivers as being like one steamroller after another. No matter where they go, they leave the place in a mess. Batman, who has lived in the slums for a while, knows that they
You're right, expecting these people to be clean and tidy is definitely overthinking.
However, although there is a half-new pickup truck parked here, there are no traces of moving goods, no footprints, no drunken vomit, no coughed up phlegm, not even a cigarette butt, no matter how you look at it.
, are all suspicious.
There is no place to hide people in this alley, and the most eye-catching thing is the sewer manhole cover. Batman walked over and found that the moss on the edge of the manhole cover showed no signs of damage, but this did not mean that there was no one.
Moved it.
Batman alone knows at least three ways to move bricks or manhole covers without destroying moss and weeds.
Realizing that there might be something wrong with the manhole cover, he did not rush to lift the manhole cover directly. Instead, he inserted a night vision monitoring device tied with a wire along the ventilation opening of the manhole cover.
Taking out a screen from his belt, Batman saw that the situation in the sewer was not unexpected. It was filled with dense ice and there was no place for people to walk.
Batman squinted his eyes, controlled the camera to turn left and right, and then saw a very hidden little red dot in the darkness and ice.
He controlled the camera to zoom in, and then discovered that there seemed to be a power distribution room hidden behind the ice. At this time, a certain device was flashing red light.
Gotham's sewer system is very large and complex. When the floods first flooded, not every place was breached immediately. There were some functional rooms with better quality built later, but there was only slight water seepage and ice.
It's not thick and can accommodate a lot of space.
The only question is, how did they get in? Batman frowned and started thinking.
The power distribution room is separated from the sewer manhole cover by a thick layer of dense ice. Batman doesn't think they have the ability to break this ice layer. Even if they can break it, they can't restore it to its original state.
After confirming that there was no danger below, Batman put away the surveillance equipment, opened the manhole cover, and jumped in himself.
When floods occur, the water rushing into this channel is wavy. When it is frozen, there is a certain space under the sewer manhole cover for Batman to fit in.
After he jumped down, he discovered that not only was there space above the ice, but there was also a very narrow gap on the side, right next to the power distribution room. The moment it was frozen due to the surge of water, there was no water there, and therefore no ice.
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After sliding towards the narrow gap on the side and reaching the bottom, Batman discovered that someone had dug a hole here.
The wall at the door gap of the power distribution room has been dug out. There is a hole facing downwards on the side of the wall, which is just enough for a person to pass through. However, under the cover of ice, this hole cannot be seen from near the sewer entrance.
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Looking at the nearby support structure, Batman understood that this hole was not dug in a day or two. Has the FBI gone to this point to control Gotham?
Batman turned on the flashlight and walked in, but the further inside, the more Batman felt something was wrong. Logically speaking, the soil beneath Gotham is not that solid. If you want to dig such a long tunnel, you must use various wooden or metal materials.
Structure, tunnel support.
However, this road was very complete, without any support, but it did not collapse at all. Batman reached out to touch the wall of the underground passage and found that it was very dry and even impervious to water.
This is almost impossible in a city with abundant underground water resources, rain every now and then, and poor drainage facilities.
Batman immediately heightened his vigilance, because he knew that with his current level of engineering, it was almost impossible to create such a long tunnel so deep underground without any support structure without collapse or any waterproofing measures.
He couldn't do it completely without water seepage, and naturally the FBI couldn't do it either.
Continuing to walk along the passage, we came to another sewer intersection. There was still a thick layer of ice here, but there were still gaps, leading to another passage that continued downward.
When Batman's figure disappeared into the dark passage, light suddenly appeared in front of Schiller's eyes. He was led by agents, swaying in various directions, for an unknown length of time, and finally came to a bright room again.
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He was taken to a chair in the center of the room, then looked up at the agent and said: "When will my medicine arrive? I hope you will move faster. What I mean is, if I recover as soon as possible, you will
Can you take me out of here by plane, otherwise..."
Schiller shook his head, and then said feebly: "You will build so many tunnels under Gotham simply because you cannot attack this city from the ground, which means that you know how many tunnels there are here.
Danger."
"I have to remind you that if you want to get me out of this city, you are very likely to face great danger...ahem..." Schiller took a few more breaths and then said: "I hope, in
During the next journey, you can trust me. Only I can take you out of here, otherwise...ahem..."
"Hurry up and find medicine for him." The female agent said: "He has already started talking nonsense...Listen, Mr. Rodriguez, we really need to take you away from here, because this is not suitable for interrogation.
conditions of."
"But how and where to go are matters that only we can decide. You are just a prisoner now."
"Why don't you take a deep breath quickly to relieve your symptoms? Your heart rate has reached the edge of danger." The female agent stepped forward, checked Schiller's pupils, and then looked at the heart rate monitoring device worn on his wrist.
Reading on the device, I shook my head.
She took two steps back and said to the two agents next to her: "Call the agents who are going to get the medicine again and ask them to hurry up. By the way, prepare some medicines to lower blood pressure and stabilize the heart rate. We can't let him die here.
…”
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Continuous loud noises and tremors came from very close to the room. In an instant, everyone was a little unsteady, and the chair Schiller was sitting on was shaken to the ground.
"What's going on?! What's the noise?!!" Female agent Laurenna looked around, and one of the agents said loudly: "This sounds like the sound of engineering blasting, someone is blowing up the sewer!"
Schiller got up from the ground, half-knelt on the spot to recover his strength, and then gritted his teeth and said: "Take me away quickly, this place has collapsed, and we can't run away. Don't tell me that when you dug the mouse hole, you didn't even have the emergency exit."
Not even prepared..."
Laurenna seemed to have just come to her senses and said, "Oh, yes, help him quickly. Let's go through the back door. Let's go quickly!"
Just when the agents were holding Schiller to the back door, Schiller broke away from them, leaned against the wall precariously, pointed to the center of the room and said with closed eyes: "Make a fire...make a fire...quickly"
point!!!"
"What are you going to do? Get out of here!" Laurenna shouted anxiously. She looked up at the ceiling and said, "This place is going to collapse!"
“Hurry up and light the fire!!!!”
Laurenna and several agents stepped forward and found that Schiele could not be pulled. She had no choice but to dismantle the wooden chair and use tinder powder to light a fire.
In the thick smoke, Schiller was choked and coughed, but he still took off his raincoat as quickly as possible, took off his watch, and took off all the extra accessories except his tie.
Thrown into the fire.
When Batman followed the blasted passage and came to this room, he discovered that Schiller was not here, and the signal tracking Schiller's location had completely disappeared.