Chapter 2272: Cat Getan Music Festival (20)

New Yorkers all chose to avoid talking about Schiller's past experiences. In their view, Schiller was Schiller now, and also their friend; what the past was like didn't matter.

So even if Stark and Steve had seen what was suspected to be Schiller's past in some dreams, they had never actively brought up such topics in front of Schiller. At most, they chatted in private, and they were all guesses; no one said any definite conclusion.

Nick had conducted an investigation after learning that Schiller might be a visitor from another world, but it was mainly to investigate when Schiller came and in what capacity. He wasn't very interested in the universe Schiller once stayed in.

They blurred this topic with a tacit understanding, as if they were keeping a secret together, because they knew this would certainly be a secret. The past of a person like Schiller was destined not to be ordinary and boring, but no matter how many magnificent waves there were, it didn't matter anymore.

Gothamites also maintained a similar attitude in this regard, but for different reasons.

They knew that Schiller's past must be a big secret, and there must be a reason why a secret is a secret.

Schiller had his own arrangements for this, so even Bruce, who was extremely curious, didn't take a tough attitude to make Schiller explain everything clearly.

Because both sides maintained a muddled attitude of letting things slide, both sides were unclear about the details. They guessed it might be an accidental event, but didn't expect it to be death.

At this time, Stark suddenly remembered a scene he had seen in Schiller's Tower of Thought.

"... Airplane?"

Stark instinctively spat out a word, but it made everyone turn their eyes to him. Then they all looked at Schiller, meaning why was he the only one who knew?

Stark recalled the whole process in his mind. At that time, they bought tickets to experience the study life of a magic school called Hogwarts in a room in Schiller's Tower of Thought.

There, they heard a rumor that there was a mirror in a certain room that could see what one desired most. At that time, Stark saw his parents there.

And when Schiller passed by the mirror, Stark saw a blue sky and white clouds and an airplane flying in the clouds.

He didn't know why Schiller's deepest desire would be an airplane, but when Schiller said he came to this world through death, Stark instinctively thought of this airplane.

"Air crash?" Stark asked Schiller tentatively.

Schiller nodded, paused for a moment, and said in the most concise language, "The plane crashed, I died, and after waking up, I came here."

He didn't explain everything that happened between him and Lucifer and God, because that actually didn't matter, and it had nothing to do with what he was going to say now, at least it didn't constitute a direct causal relationship.

Bruce immediately captured the key information. He also turned to look at Schiller and said, "Where did it crash?"

"At sea."

Everyone was silent.

After hesitating for a moment, Natasha still spoke, "Do you think this is the reason for your seasickness?... Is there any psychological principle in this that I don't understand?"

"Are you saying that this death of yours caused you psychological trauma?" Steve's speculation was bolder. He said, "This probably depends on the posture of the plane crash. Some air crash victims indeed didn't die during the process of the plane falling, but after the plane fell, due to improper operation, they missed the best chance of survival. This often happens when the plane crashes into the sea."

"If the plane didn't disintegrate in the air but fell into the sea in a relatively stable posture, then at this time, the vast majority of passengers should still be alive. If they carefully listened to the safety rules explained before the plane took off, they should be able to use the life jackets and breathing masks under their seats to save themselves."

"But if they didn't listen carefully, most people couldn't save themselves by swimming in that situation, so the cause of death for most people in such air crash accidents is drowning."

Everyone looked at Schiller again. They were clearly wanting to know whether Schiller died from the disintegration and explosion of the plane, or was drowned after the plane fell into the ocean.

"I can't be sure." Schiller shook his head and said, "But the last scene I saw before I died was the ocean."

And then Peter finally couldn't help but ask, "How could the plane crash? Air crashes are extremely low-probability events, and there haven't been many in human history. How could it just happen to..."

Although everyone made an expression of "you'd better not ask," in fact, they were all pricking up their ears to listen. If Schiller's cause of death was an air crash, then this air crash certainly wasn't that simple.

They would absolutely not think that Schiller's previous life was an ordinary person who kept to himself. From the various fragments they had pieced together now, Schiller, who possessed a pathological personality, must have had a magnificent past in his previous life. Would this air crash have anything to do with Schiller's past?

Although it was a bit impolite, as long as a disaster happening to Schiller was mentioned, people's first thought would definitely not be who wanted to do something to Schiller, but what Schiller had done to others.

The people present, no matter how biased they were toward their friends, had to admit that every time Schiller fell into big trouble, it was basically his own doing. To be sharper, it was purely deserved.

"We discussed and thought it was possible." Schiller tugged at the blanket on his body and said, "This is the only intersection I've ever had with the ocean. If not for this, I can't think of any other reason."

Schiller sighed softly and said, "It's not that I'm a psychologist and can completely figure out the principles of all trauma disorders. Some inexplicable things just happen to inexplicable human beings. You can understand it as a miracle of evolution."

"Nonsense." Bruce evaluated.

"Alright, let our patient rest." Stark clearly intended to turn the page on this matter. He had always adhered to pragmatism. If Schiller is seasick, then don't go on a boat; if he is sea-sick, then don't go to the ocean. Wouldn't the problem be solved?

As for what disasters might happen because of this later, then wait until it appears. Soldiers come to block, water comes to cover. This was also the attitude of the vast majority of New Yorkers.

They all stood up and prepared to disperse. Steve sent Schiller back to his room, and the others also walked toward their respective rooms.

Bruce, the main universe Batman, and the Bat-Batman all had rooms on the same floor. On the way back, they were walking in the corridor at the same time. The main universe Batman took the initiative to speak, "It seems I underestimated the brilliance of his past. He actually isn't a native here."

"Of course he isn't, but you believed it?" Bruce looked back at the main universe Batman while walking and said, "Have you never seen the Joker?"

Batman frowned slightly. Bruce snorted coldly, strode forward, and said, "When he makes a gesture of wanting to reveal the truth to you, you will know that it is never the truth. He just wants to use a fact that looks like the truth to stun you, so you won't ask more."

"I dare guarantee that this is not an important matter for him, and just now he didn't have a trace of discomfort." Bruce stood next to his bedroom, holding the doorknob, and looked back, saying, "He revealed a secret about himself that seemed very important, just to let you have the satisfaction of obtaining information, so that you feel that what you got today is enough."

"He made that weak posture just to make you believe this is his psychological trauma, to make you stop asking out of humanitarianism, or because you are worried about stimulating him to have an accident, and stop the topic."

Two Batmen stood on the left and right in front of Bruce, their eyes both saying, "Why are you so experienced?".

"Because I don't know how many times I've been cheated!" Bruce bared his teeth and said, "If you two were at my age, and had two Jokers at the same time, one chasing you so you had no time to write a thesis, and one chasing you every day for a thesis, you would know how I figured these things out."

With a 'bang', the door closed. The main universe Batman and the Bat-Batman looked at each other and shook their heads slightly.

The main universe Batman also didn't believe things would be so simple, because he had observed many suspicious points based on his own observations.

Judging from the reactions of that group of otherworldly visitors who were completely different in style from them, Schiller was neither sea-sick nor seasick in their universe. Then this made Schiller's so-called trauma disorder theory collapse, because if one would feel uncomfortable seeing the sea, it's impossible for it to only attack in one universe's sea.

And from Batman's detective perspective, the trip on the sea just now had much bigger problems with the sea than with Schiller.

Although Batman knew very well what the sea in Cat Getan was like, the sea area where they stayed just now was still abnormal.

First of all, the sea surface was too calm. Although it is said that there are no waves without wind, that was the ocean after all. How could it not shake at all? But at that time, the sea surface was like ice, motionless. If not for this, how could the ship be so stable when Spider-Man and the Robins were shouting, jumping, and making a scene on the boat?

You have to know, although these young people looked like ordinary children, Spider-Man had infinite strength. The commotion they made was enough to make a cruise ship unable to sail steadily, but during the time they were having a water fight, the cruise ship was like it had been welded to the ground.

And there was the fish problem. Batman knew that there weren't many fish in the sea area around Cat Getan. Besides water pollution, this wasn't a fishing ground passed down through generations.

Although the intersection of cold and warm currents made the seafood here exceptionally delicious, Cat Getan didn't have a history of developing a fishing and hunting civilization. It was more of a cargo distribution terminal. The number of dock workers far exceeded that of fishermen. On the contrary, Blüdhaven and Mercy Harbor not far from here were famous fishing centers.

Even so, according to the speed and time of the cruise ship, they had already penetrated quite deeply into the sea area, far away from Cat Getan's shore. Water pollution shouldn't affect this place, and precisely because no one was fishing, there should still be some wild schools of fish.

When Steve cast his line, Batman was also watching from the side. The high-power fish-attracting light almost illuminated the area within a few meters below the water surface, but not only was there not a single fish, the seawater was also as quiet as if it were dead.

This was very abnormal. Batman knew it, but what was even stranger was that Schiller didn't perform any investigation behavior at all and attributed everything to himself. Combined with what Bruce said before, Schiller either didn't want to investigate, or wanted to investigate it alone.

But why would it be like this? Batman knew he must have missed a lot of important information. What could it be? ===== CHAPTER 2273 =====