The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 3217 The Shadow of Faraines (4)

Chapter 3217: The Shadow of Faraines (XIV)

Batman's willpower is absolutely impeccable, but it's another matter in this kind of game. Although Schiller thinks he should give himself enough willpower points, if he fights monsters above his level, it will be useless no matter how high the points are.

Judging from Batman's appearance, he must have come into contact with some high-level existence, at least higher than the Deep One, and accidentally fell into his trap.

But Batman must not be defenseless and powerless to resist, otherwise he would not have behaved abnormally so frequently and aroused Schiller's vigilance.

If Batman really behaved as usual, Schiller couldn't say that he wouldn't be fooled by him, but Batman's behavior was really wrong, as if the words "there's something wrong with me" were written on his face. Schiller felt that he was not being controlled by someone, but might be mentally affected by something.

This reminded Schiller of the little girl with strange behavior, Jeff's youngest daughter. She also looked fine on the outside, but she exuded a kind of weirdness.

Schiller thought of the book of the water god he found in Jeff's cellar. The boxes covering the book were empty, except for the top box which contained some hay crumbs.

The feed piled in the cellar is used to feed animals. Although Schiller has never been involved in animal husbandry, he roughly understands the principles of breeding. These livestock raised for food are often not just released to the mountains to graze.

Generally speaking, no matter how abundant the grass is, ranchers will definitely stockpile feed, because sometimes the weather is bad and sometimes the grass cannot provide enough nutrition to allow livestock to reach the weight standard, and additional supplements are needed.

Schiller calculated the date and found that it was not too early in the day when Jeff's sheep were lost as mentioned in the diary. It should also be winter. Although goats can eat grass roots, there is no fresh grass after all. Jeff would probably have to use feed to supplement their nutrition.

The boxes placed above the Book of the Water God were obviously obstacles that Jeff used to cover up the traces of the book. He deliberately did not put feed in them, perhaps because he was worried that the book might affect the feed.

But Schiller found that there were traces of feed in the top box, which meant that someone had put feed in that box.

Although this book doesn't seem to be poisonous, it is hard to say what the effects of such a horrible thing will be. No one knows what the effect will be if you put something you are going to eat on it.

If there really is something wrong with the feed, then there might be an explanation for the goat that suddenly went missing.

Batman is like the goat and also like Jeff's little daughter. They look normal, but that is just a disguise. They use seemingly normal behavior to lure people into the trap step by step.

To be honest, this doesn't look like the style of Cthulhu mythology, but rather like the behavior of a demon.

"There are no demons in this game." The Transcendent said, "There is no heaven or hell, and no real magicians. You can rule out this inference."

Schiller understood that this was obviously not a copy of sword and magic. It was definitely impossible to have a battle between heaven and hell or a magic showdown.

Then this is a bit like what people do.

Except for Naaa, the high-level beings in the Cthulhu mythology system have basically nothing to do with cunning. They don't engage in conspiracies, and won't deliberately murder anyone. They just exist quietly. Everything that collapses because of them is just because they can't restrain their greed for taboos.

Schiller doesn't think Batman is a greedy person. He can control his desires very well, so it is possible that he is in the right place.

Schiller checked Batman's body and found nothing suspicious, but he discovered a wound on his right hand. It seemed that the bloody spells in the study were written by him with his own blood.

Recalling that Batman clicked on psychoanalysis, it was probably because his mental health was depleted, so he had to click on this skill in an attempt to turn the tide, but he failed, so he went crazy.

No, it is also possible that it was not a failure, but it was this psychoanalysis that caused his already low mental health value to drop rapidly.

Look, what did he say? This thing is not reliable at all. Anyone who uses it will die, except Schiller.

Schiller sighed in his heart, but he still had to find a way to rescue Batman.

Just when he was thinking about where to go to trigger a few battles, let his skills cool down, and restore some sanity to Batman, Batman lying on the ground suddenly groaned.

Schiller was shocked, but he did not forget that Batman was still in a crazy state. He was not sure he could defeat a crazy Batman.

Watching Batman slowly getting up from the ground, Schiller held the crowbar in one hand and reached for the pistol in the other. As long as the other party showed any sign of wrongness, he would take action immediately.

But Batman simply rolled over and lay back down, and Schiller heard him say, "I'm fine."

"What's wrong with you?" Schiller still couldn't completely trust him, so he stood two meters away.

He saw that the wound on the back of Batman's head was gradually healing, and guessed that he must have used a healing skill, but he felt that the opponent's mental health value still did not improve, because he also knew that there was no skill in the skill list that could directly restore this value.

"There's something wrong." Batman said, "Have you ever thought about why we go crazy when we are mentally unhealthy?"

Schiller was stunned by his question. He said, "You might as well ask directly, why do we go crazy when we go crazy?"

"I mean, why do we go crazy when we hit rock bottom? Is that who we are?"

Now that the battle has not been triggered, they cannot directly say some words related to skills and values, and can only hint at them in a roundabout way.

Schiller is not stupid, he understood Batman's hint, Batman was actually asking why they went crazy after their mental health hit rock bottom.

Schiller has always felt that this is actually just a setting, a game setting. Don't worry too much about it. There must be a punishment when any value reaches the bottom. Won't you die if your health reaches the bottom?

But Batman seems to have a different opinion.

"Someone told me that I was cursed." Batman said, "An indescribable magical existence. My contact with him made my spirit fall to the bottom, but just when I was about to go crazy, he helped me break free and told me the truth."

"Who is he?"

"He said his name was 'Dagon.'

Schiller was shocked. As expected, Batman really came into contact with the Old Ones. Dagon was the god believed in by the Deep Ones.

However, as far as he knew, Dagon was very mysterious. K would occasionally capture a few ships, but this guy seemed to have been staying at the bottom of the sea, without any movements, and he had never heard of him communicating with anyone. Most sailors had only dreamed of such a monster and seen some vague shadows. How could Batman really contact him?

"Why would he help you?" This is what Schiller is most puzzled about. Dagon is the god of fish. He should not have any good feelings towards humans, and it is even less likely that he would take the initiative to help humans.

“He found it very novel.”

"what?"

"I said, I found the right way to apply psychoanalysis." Batman said, "He was so shocked by what he saw that he thought I was the same as him."

Schiller stood there in a daze.

He seemed to understand what Batman was saying, but it was because he understood that he found it ridiculous.

Schiller himself knew that when his mental state deteriorated to a certain extent, his talent for psychoanalysis would gradually emerge, but rather than being a talent, it was more like some bizarre and seemingly unfounded hallucinations.

But these hallucinations can accurately predict many things and even serve as his senses, allowing him to understand the world more clearly than ever before.

The Transcendent had said before that the third-level psychoanalysis method was actually to connect one's own talents to the past, which meant that people who had clicked on this skill were likely to see more things the worse their mental state was.

If Batman does max out this skill, and he happens to be at very low mental health, the hallucinations he sees will be very shocking.

If he communicated with Dagon mentally under this circumstance, what would Dagon think of the hallucinations in Batman's mind?

According to Batman, Dagon was also shocked.

This world is so crazy that humans can even mentally pollute the Old Ones.

However, it seemed that it was precisely because of this bizarre mental state that Dagon did not realize that Batman was a human being. He might have thought that Batman was also an Old One similar to him, so he simply helped him.

Schiller suspected that it might be because of these hallucinations that Batman had the ability to communicate with Dagon. After all, the Old Ones could not speak human language, and the information they transmitted through their spirits was polluting. Special methods must be used to communicate with them, and Batman should not know any special methods.

It just so happened that Schiller's gifted senses were confused, and all the ways he perceived the world were based on illusions. He transformed Dagon's language into illusions that he could understand.

This is truly a sign of progress and society development. Humankind is no longer satisfied with accepting gifts from God and has begun to use the Black Tiger Heart-Ripping Technique directly on God.

But it may be this coincidence that saves Batman and pulls him back from the brink of complete madness.

"What's the curse?" Schiller asked after being shocked for a moment.

"Literally, it's a curse that when our mental state deteriorates, we go crazy," Batman said.

This made Schiller think. He originally thought that this was actually a game setting. After all, the Transcendent had specially emphasized it. But although it was a setting, it was not impossible to make up a story. In other words, in relatively attentive scripts, stories would be made up for the player's special abnormal states. This could enhance the sense of immersion, rather than thinking of the setting as soon as such a state was encountered.

If you think about it carefully, it is quite abnormal. Batman’s experience shows that after his mental health value is gone, he does not go crazy and attack everyone indiscriminately, but actually sets a trap carefully and leads people into it.

This doesn't seem like he's going crazy at all, but more like he's being controlled by something. If I had to say, it's a bit like being poisoned. He's completely lost his mind, and yet he can do such a thing. It's really strange.

Schiller thought for a moment and said, "Although we all have our own reasons for coming here, it can also be said to be a kind of fate. Perhaps it is because we have the same curse that we came to such a remote place at the same time."

"Where do you think the curse will come from?" Batman looked at him and asked.

Schiller did not speak, but turned his head silently and fixed his gaze on the towering cross beside him.