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Chapter 1958

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On the other side, Bruce and Loki also found some clues. They found some objects that looked old in an antique shop, and the same characters as the totem pole and the magic circle were actually written on them.

Some of them looked like sacrificial items, and some were daily necessities, but most were very broken, and one could only deduce from the sporadic patterns on the fragments that they came from the same civilization as the totem pole and the magic circle.

Since these things couldn't see anything, Loki and Bruce planned to go to the museum in the city to find them. There might be ancient characters recorded there.

The bystanders in the screening room felt more confused. Nightwing said while thinking, "Drawing a magic circle with paint in a few tens of minutes can barely be understood, but these things shouldn't be able to be made in a short while, right?"

But Red Robin, who had more detective intuition, had already seen something. He was slightly stunned and said, "These are real clues."

Everyone else looked at him. Red Robin pointed to the screen and said, "This is not forged by Professor Schiller. These are cultural relics of this civilization we see now."

"Then how could Schiller... oh, wait, he is not completely forging it either," Nightwing realized, "The characters and patterns drawn by Professor Schiller on the magic circle actually come from the totem pole fragment he got, and the totem pole fragment is indeed sent by the organizer, very likely coming from this civilization."

Now everyone on the scene had one feeling: it's broken, it matches.

But the speed of subsequent development exceeded their imagination.

Eddie and Batman found a ground crack under the third floor of the underground parking lot. It looked a bit like a crack left by an earthquake, but red crystals like crystal clusters appeared below, flashing with inexplicable red light.

Eddie confirmed that this was the red light he had seen before. Batman immediately judged that this red light was not just light, but a kind of energy.

Immediately after, they found energy pipelines in the collapsed building facilities. As a result, all functional energy pipelines in the building led underground, and the energy supply had not been interrupted until now.

Loki and Bruce came to the museum in the city. Their speed was very fast because the city itself was not big. After coming to the museum, the museum had collapsed more than half, but one could still find information about ancient ruins from the destroyed cultural relics.

As a result, they found that whether it was the totem pole or the characters and content on the magic circle, they were really meaningful, and they were used as daily tools for a long time in the development of this civilization.

Both sides reached a conclusion at the same time: this is a magic civilization that highly relies on natural energy.

Batman and Eddie planned to continue investigating in the surrounding area, but encountered Clark halfway.

Clark saw Batman and immediately flew over. He said to Batman somewhat anxiously, "Bruce, this matter might not be so simple. I met a weirdo on the way here, and he told me some things."

"Weirdo? What weirdo?"

"I don't know either. He insisted that he was the most genius person in the world. When I met him, he was driving a car."

"Driving a car?"

Clark nodded forcefully and said, "But that car was flying in the air, to be precise, it was flying against the roof, and it was glowing red, looking a bit scary."

Batman immediately associated it with the red crystals underground.

"What did he say to you?"

"He told me to be careful, don't fly up, and he said he found a way to use this energy, related to the characters and patterns on the totem pole. He started the car and flew up like this."

"Where is he now?" Batman stepped forward and said.

Batman immediately understood that the other party was probably a very powerful scientist. Being able to investigate the truth of energy in such a short time, analyze the role of characters and patterns, and even use these things to restart the transportation facilities of this world, this is definitely not something an ordinary person can do.

"He drove away, saying he wanted to find if there were any police stations or military areas here, and he was going to see what the thermal weapons here were like."

"Thermal weapons," Batman said to himself, "Indeed, if this is a civilization relatively similar to humans, their most cutting-edge technology will definitely be used in weapons, at least one can see how high their utilization efficiency of this energy is."

"I saw a police station on the street next to me when I came here. I'll take you there."

Clark picked up Batman without saying a word and flew to the other side of the street. Batman was still immersed in his own deduction, so he didn't let Clark put him down.

Crossing one side of the building, Batman really saw a building that looked like a police station, but as soon as they landed, they saw a silver-white figure.

The other party obviously discovered them earlier, but didn't even have time to say hello, and a few rockets were fired toward this side.

Clark immediately used his biological position to reverse the launch trajectory of the rockets and roared toward that side, "Don't shoot, we have no malice, we are here to investigate."

With a click, the mask opened, and Clark was stunned.

"Aren't you the person who was driving just now? Wait, no, your eyes look different."

"Have you seen another me?" The other party asked immediately.

Before Clark could speak, Batman said first, "It seems you are a hunter, but we also have a hunter here. If you want to have a fight, then come on."

A cold light flashed in the other party's eyes. Batman heard the slight sound of the weapon system preheating, so he immediately let Clark prepare.

But in the end, the other party's gaze stayed on Clark, obviously thinking about whether Clark was a hunter.

In the end, he still didn't choose to fire.

Batman continued, "It seems you are also here to investigate the police station. How about we cooperate for the time being?"

"I don't think you can provide any help to my investigation."

"I am Batman, the greatest scientist in the world."

"I am Iron Man, I'm afraid I'm a bit greater than you."

"Then we should join forces even more," Batman took a step forward and said, "I believe you have also seen that there are many secrets in this world, and there is not much time left for us."

"As far as I know, another you has restarted the transportation facilities of this world and set off to the military area to explore. Which of you two is more genius?"

The other party paused, sized up the two again, and said, "I can cooperate with you, but this stupid big guy beside you can't come in."

Unexpectedly, Batman agreed, and the two entered the police station together.

In this way, the exploration path of both sides was smooth and unimpeded. Whenever they obtained new clues but didn't know where to go next, there would happen to be someone who knew the clues or traces left by him, and then they could successfully go to the next location to obtain clues.

Batman was guided from the underground parking lot to the police station, and together with Iron Man, discovered a strange plane crash case in the police station. The two came to the transport plane airport, and then discovered the signal equipment of the dispatch center from the airport. After finding the dispatch center, they found that a dispatcher had been instructed by the government center building to dispatch, and obtained a meeting summary of an unknown technology group in the government center building, and came to the headquarters of this technology group.

Bruce and Loki came to the museum from the magic circle, and found information about ancient ruins from the destroyed cultural relics in the museum. After going to the tomb, they found the cultural relic records left by a scientific expedition team member in the temporary residence of the scientific expedition team, mentioning that a special cultural relic was put into the research institute, so they rushed to the research institute again. They found information about a person in charge in the research institute, and rushed to the person in charge's home, and finally found that the person in charge was a consultant of a technology group, and finally came to the headquarters of the technology group.

Even other participants checked and checked, basically checked to the above two routes, and finally all came to the entrance of the headquarters of the technology group.

The bystanders in the screening room, after watching the whole investigation process, had completely lost track of which evidence was true and which was false.

But there is no doubt that there must be private goods mixed in by Schiller, otherwise it is impossible for several parties to be guided to the headquarters of the technology group, and the arrival time is exactly the same.

Several parties were speechless at the entrance of the headquarters of the technology group.

Stark, who was driving a hover car, found that there was no familiar figure in the crowd, took a deep breath, and roared.

"SCHILLER!!! COME OUT FOR ME!!!!!"

Everyone else looked at him, their expressions each wonderful.

There was no response. Several people had to walk into the headquarters of the technology group, and then saw a figure standing in the center of the spacious hall, as if waiting for them for a long time.

"Everyone, allow me to grandly introduce to you..." Schiller turned around.

In his hand were three totem pole fragments stacked together.

"... This is the complete totem pole."

The three Robins slapped their foreheads together.

"Didn't you say that exploring the secrets of the thick fog is the main task?!" Red Hood roared, "How did he go to collect fragments again?!"

"Despicable," Nightwing commented.

"Even we were played by him," Red Robin said somewhat helplessly, "I thought he really mastered some clues, and then guided others to investigate."

Peter shrugged as usual and said, "Dr. Schiller is like this. He will write full of wrong answers on the test paper for others to copy, and then change them back to the correct ones one second before handing in the paper, so he is the highest score."

"Too despicable," Red Robin commented.

"But what about that Loki and Eddie?" Nightwing asked very puzzled, "They know Schiller's plan, why are they willing to cooperate with him?"

"Do they really know? Or do they really know everything?" Peter asked back.

"But if they were also deceived, then they should at least feel angry," Red Hood also retorted, "But they don't even have the intention to stand up now."

"Then it means the plan is not over yet."

And Schiller stepped forward in front of everyone, gently raised the hand holding the totem pole and said.

"I now have the ability to kill any one of you. Now tell me everything you have investigated one by one. Whoever lies dies."

The hall was so quiet that a needle could be heard.

"Schiller, what on earth are you..."

"From left to right, I count three seconds."

"Don't don't don't!" Eddie, who was standing on the far left, stretched out his hands and said, "Don't kill me! I'll tell you, okay?"

Eddie looked left and right somewhat embarrassedly, gave Batman an apologetic look, and then said, "He has a curse-to-death prop, but I don't want to die, even if it's just being eliminated, it hurts. Besides, telling him doesn't matter, right..."

Loki walked out and said to Schiller, "I think we can make a deal, right?"

Everyone in the screening room sighed together.

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