MM Racing Chapter 3206 The Shadow of Faraines (3)
Chapter 3206 The Shadow of Faraines (3)
Chapter 3206: The Shadow of Faraines (Part )
These very deliberate cases can all cause the greatest possible public outcry. Once an incident breaks out, all media outlets will join in, with one group analyzing and another group refuting. Various experts will take turns to speak out, and the victims' families will accept seven or eight interviews a day.
Generally speaking, when public opinion ferments to this extent, it is not good for the local country and government. In order to maintain social stability, they should also exercise a certain degree of control.
But what is even more coincidental is that whenever public opinion erupts, some cases of corruption and bribery will break out at the same time in the local area, or someone will make groundless rumours and release some news that is unfavorable to certain people, or even simply the death of an important person.
This led to a very pessimistic control of public opinion, and later almost no one was willing to take action.
Combining all these characteristics, Schiller speculated that, except for the hotel tragedy at the beginning which was indeed the influence of foreign gods, all these weirdnesses might have been man-made.
This is not to say that we are filming a movie. Those tragedies may have really happened, and they are indeed beyond the reach of human beings. However, the source of this danger is controlled by certain people.
Weird things and monsters do exist, but some people can use them to gain benefits for themselves.
This is also consistent with the previous inference about the Joker's fundamental purpose. He wants all this to be a man-made disaster, so that after Batman saves the world, he will find that his real opponent is not a natural disaster at all, but his compatriots whom he is determined to save.
In fact, theoretically speaking, the development trajectory of the church is not very scientific, and it would be impossible for them to reach their current status with just these means. However, Schiller himself is a clergyman of the church, so he did not pursue these details.
Now that I have figured out my true identity and have some guesses about the weird origins of this world, my investigation of this house has not been in vain.
However, Schiller still had to find a way to find old Sirtek. To be able to make such an inference, he must know something, and the sailor's diary was also wrong. Schiller needed to get more information from him.
After a quick tour of several bedrooms, Schiller found traces of wheelchair tires in one of them and guessed that this might be Mrs. Siltek's room.
Now the only place in the whole house that had not been checked was the garage. If there was any other place for the couple to hide, it would either be the garage or the basement under the garage.
But before heading to the garage, Schiller called out the Transcendent and said, "Do you have any mental defense skills? Something that can prevent your mental health from decreasing..."
"No, to resist mental attacks you rely on your willpower. If you had increased your willpower, you would naturally be immune to minor mental attacks."
Schiller's willpower value is actually not low, but judging from the current situation, it seems to have no effect.
Schiller thought for a moment and said, "Then are there any physical defense measures, such as shields?"
The Transcendent thought for a moment and said, "There is no skill like in the game that can create a magic shield out of thin air, but you can choose a blocking mastery, which will reduce the value of the dice check when you block."
"Do all mastery skills have this effect? Is there a willpower mastery?"
"Your initial skill is to restore mental health to a large extent. Why are you always worried about this?"
Schiller shook his head without further explanation. He thought for a moment and said, "Then is there any skill that can prevent strange possession?"
"Isn't that your clairvoyance?" The Transcendent explained, "A full-level clairvoyance can see almost any strange phenomenon. If it comes towards you, can't you just dodge it?"
"Can this thing be hidden?"
"Of course you can, but you have to dodge it in the right way."
Schiller seemed to understand a little bit. Clairvoyance is probably about being able to see strange characteristics. Once you see the characteristics, you can almost guess how to avoid them, and you may even be able to guess how to restrict them. This is the qualitative change of the full-level skills.
Thinking of this, Schiller felt a little relieved, and he began to think about whether he had any shortcomings.
"Do you want to choose this?" The Transcendent suggested, "It seems that only you can choose this skill at the moment."
"what is this?"
"Cthulhu Mythos."
"I can read. I mean what is this skill for."
"It's to remind you of some knowledge about Cthulhu mythology."
"I don't need to recall, I know..."
"But you can't tell it, because that's outside the game, and are you sure you know all the spells in the Cthulhu Mythos?"
Schiller instinctively grasped the key point and said, "So this is what I'm going to encounter later?"
"In fact, this skill is not originally allowed to be upgraded with ordinary skill points. You can only gain points after you encounter a mythical creature. However, because all other players' professions do not have the conditions to recall mythical knowledge, only your profession has a certain possibility, so as an exception, you can use ordinary skill points to upgrade it."
Schiller thought about it and understood what the Transcendent meant. In the setting of this world, the Cthulhu mythology has not always existed, nor is it known to the public at all.
They did not come here to investigate because they knew something in the myth in advance. In other words, they were not investigators at all, but just a group of ordinary people with ulterior motives.
In this case, the character settings of other people determine that they are unlikely to be exposed to similar knowledge. It is unreasonable to ask an ordinary doctor or lawyer to recall the knowledge about Dagon as soon as he sees the Deep One.
Because this thing has never appeared in the eyes of ordinary people, and even the church has no relevant records, how can they know it? Not to mention that they can remember it as soon as they see it.
And even outside the game, it's actually almost the same. Only Schiller, the Joker, and the main universe Batman know about it. Even Bruce doesn't know much about it because he's not interested in this kind of thing. Among them, the Joker and the main universe Batman don't know much about it. At most, they know about Cthulhu and Naaar. Marvel may know about the Beholder. Schiller is the only one who is proficient in this aspect.
Therefore, if none of them has this skill now, they will be completely in the dark about these things. The Transcendents may be afraid that they will be wiped out here due to lack of information, so they made this exception.
"Are you sure that Greed didn't put a gun to your head and force you to agree?" Schiller asked knowingly.
"Haha, stop joking. He can't beat me." The Transcendent laughed dryly twice. Now Schiller was sure that it was Greed that pointed a gun at his head that made him agree.
Since the Transcendent said so, Schiller decided to choose this skill. His two skill points can only be used at level one, but this skill can reach a maximum of level five, so Schiller asked.
"So can I still get points for encountering mythical creatures?"
"By fighting mythical creatures, you can gain extra skill points." The Transcendent said, "By the way, I'll give you some information. Someone has already gained the points."
Schiller's heart sank. He guessed that Batman might have gone to the dock, but he didn't expect that they had already started fighting.
Schiller doesn't hold high hopes for the outcome of the battle between Batman and possible mythical creatures, because these things are very restraining to Batman. Not to mention fighting with them, even looking at them will make him lose his sanity, and the most precious thing for Batman is his sanity.
This was a bit of a misstep, Schiller thought, he should actually go with Batman so that he could restore Batman's mental health, but now the two of them are separated, which gives the other side a chance to defeat them one by one.
Schiller put away his thoughts and entered the garage from the door inside the house. He then found that as he expected, there was no one in the garage, but there was a door leading to the cellar.
Before going down to the cellar, Schiller first took a quick look with his spiritual vision, but didn't see anything special. After he went down, he put on the night vision goggles, held the crowbar tightly, and walked forward with light steps.
After walking out of the cellar, we arrived at the underground cave. In front of us was a whole unobstructed tunnel, and some subtle sounds came from the other end of the tunnel.
Schiller approached the limit of the range of his psychic vision skill, and after turning on his psychic vision, he immediately saw the figure of a woman.
The woman was sitting, and the outline of her internal organs was clearly visible, but what made her internal organs visible were some densely packed small spots of light that were circling and dancing around her internal organs.
The woman's body was shaking as if she was vomiting, but Schiller saw that the woman's upper respiratory tract had been modified, or to be more precise, removed. She wore a breathing device on her chest to help the lungs exchange air, and a tube was inserted into her stomach, apparently for providing food.
Schiller immediately realized that this was probably a restriction measure for the monster in her body.
Considering what Greed said before that people would vomit out their own internal organs, Schiller suspected that the monster might be parasitic in people's internal organs and then spread through the air.
The way the light spots gather indicates the former, and the reason for spitting out the internal organs is to allow the light spots to come into contact with the air.
No wonder Greedy said that if the Joker wasn't prepared he would surely die, the equipment the woman was wearing must have a way to create the light spots, and if one didn't know the rules, the light spots would be inhaled into the body just by breathing, and then one would definitely vomit out all of one's internal organs.
But now that he had seen it, Schiller naturally had a way to deal with it.
The other party didn't know that he had night vision goggles. In such a dark space, whoever can see clearly will naturally have a huge advantage.
Schiller first used the night vision goggles to see the situation in the small cave in front. In addition to this tunnel, there was also a tunnel on the left side of the woman, and it looked large enough to accommodate an adult.
There was a man next to the woman. He seemed to have heard something and put his hand on the device on the woman's chest.
It seems that this is his way of using monsters to kill people, but Schiller will not give him this opportunity.
Schiller took a deep breath, held his breath, closed his eyes, and relying on his memory, he rushed in front of the woman.
He heard the man turn a button and it made a click, but the next second, Schiller grabbed his neck, pulled him off the chair, and ran into the corridor on the left at the fastest speed.
Walking forward along the corridor, they came to another cave. Schiller still felt unsafe. He could at least hold his breath for another minute, so he simply took the man through twists and turns and came to a cave completely far away from the previous place, and threw the man on the ground.
In order to prevent him from having any more tricks, he directly took off the gas mask on the man's face and put it on his own face, and then said, "Are you Sirtek?"
"You bastard!! You…"
"Okay, let me ask it another way." Schiller picked up the crowbar and hit the man's ankle directly. After a scream, he asked.
"Are you Siltek?"
Some readers reported typos.
The author types phonetically, so there may be typos with the same pronunciation. I cannot check them no matter how many times I read them, and the proofreader cannot understand the content very well. So if there are typos, please correct them. I will fix them the next day if you see them.
The typos that were not corrected during the re-flash were from before the error correction function was launched. There are too many of them to correct, so I’m sorry.
(End of this chapter)