Chapter 2311: Cat Getan Music Festival (59)

"So you specifically gathered this ship of sinner souls and handed them to Shiler for execution, while you drew the sacrificial magic circle under the ship's hull, just to offer these souls to demons."

Oliver thought about it and said, but he still felt somewhat confused. After all, so many lines put together really made people somewhat unable to sort out the clues.

Shiler laughed, leaned back against the railing of the deck, placed his hands above the railing, and said: "You might not believe it, but Arrogance's temper is much better than mine. He can get seasick once and temporarily ignore it, or simply not go into the sea, but I won't."

"I can choose not to go, but you can't stop me from passing. Prohibiting me from passing requires paying a ticket."

Oliver didn't understand the logic in this at all. In his view, this new personality trait of Shiler was more crazy, without even the most basic logic.

"You can look at this matter in three parts. First, regarding the ocean, it was basically investigated by the Professor you are all familiar with. The clues finally stopped at Da Xizhou."

"After multiple investigations and speculations, I believe this ship is aiming at me, but I didn't take the initiative to board the ship, because I knew they definitely had a day when they couldn't hold back. Sure enough, I received an invitation letter. The monitoring equipment Batman installed on the sea discovered the ship's figure on the route to the East Coast in advance."

"And at the same time, Cat Getan's social structure has reached the time for change. The gang order has been precarious, and these gang bosses who were once at their peak have reached the time to exit the stage."

"We originally planned to arrange a disaster to cut off their retreat. The Green of All Things came just in time, destroying their last hope. They were indeed forced onto the ship."

"Then there is the magical world. Although the initial catastrophe caused many mages to die, when the sky falls, the tall ones hold it up. Most of those who met with disaster were high-level mages. Many apprentices with poor character made off with their legacies, and within a year, they spread across the world, triggering many cases."

"The people from the Oblivion Bar, that is, the Night Team led by the Night Master, have been wandering around the world in recent years to handle similar cases and brought the murderers to justice. After a period of effort, the vast majority of things have been solved."

"Some overly cunning fugitives heard from the mystery world that the authoritative expert scholars announced by the Spirit Academy investigated and concluded that the Da Xizhou, which was making a lot of noise in ordinary society, wasn't a ghost ship, but related to the mysterious Atlantis."

"According to the investigation, Atlantis was once a glorious land kingdom. Even after sinking into the seabed, it was as beautiful as a sea utopia. And this ship is traveling back and forth above the Atlantis Kingdom sea surface. As long as one can board the ship, there is a chance to go to Atlantis."

"At this time, the vast majority of fugitives in the magic world have been forced to a dead end. After hearing this rumor, most of them rushed to the East Coast in a hurry, intending to gamble."

"Finally, there is the FBI. Their intervention in Mexico's affairs is an indisputable fact, but agents alone are still not enough. The Penance Cartel is our target."

"In order to let this largest transnational drug trafficking organization enter the game, Cobblepot offered high rewards for drugs. The price offered was high, and the quantity of goods required was large. Naturally, some people were willing to take risks, and the Penance Cartel wouldn't let go of this piece of fat meat that came to their mouths."

"But the Gua State, which is most suitable for planting poppies, has already been taken by you. They are anxious to transport large quantities of drugs out. Sneaking around definitely wouldn't be fast enough. Your two sides inevitably clashed. Coupled with the FBI's sowing of discord, your defeat has become inevitable."

"But failure is only temporary. You chose to avoid, naturally someone will follow. The Penance Cartel wants to eat from both sides. After driving you away, on one hand, they can transport drugs in large quantities, and on the other hand, they want to kidnap or kill you to threaten the FBI. These two things are the main goals of their future work and cannot be missed. So whether it's those transporting drugs here or those chasing behind you, they must be the best among them."

"Just like this, we gathered three batches of sinners, the gang bosses who have taken root in Cat Getan for a long time and refuse to repent, the remnants of mages who are making waves around the world, and the vicious killers in the largest US-Mexico transnational drug trafficking organization, a total of more than 200 people, all were put on the ship."

"Wait." Oliver interrupted and said: "There are only 200-plus people on this ship in total. Are they all gathered by you?"

Shiler smiled and nodded.

"They didn't let us down either." Shiler continued: "Among the 200-plus people, 99 sinner souls were indeed gathered, and just as you said, I am responsible for execution, the Night Team is responsible for collection, and the demons are responsible for receiving the goods."

"But I don't understand, what is the benefit of this for us?"

"First of all, it's obvious that these 200 people might have been wronged, but if you kill one every other one, you will definitely miss more than half of those who deserve to die. Clearing harmful garbage and maintaining the social environment is everyone's responsibility."

"But as the saying goes, garbage is a resource in the wrong place. Just clearing them out doesn't compensate for the damage they caused to this world. It's better to let them provide a little final value and make a good start for us to change the long-term trading method with demons."

Shiler snapped his fingers and said: "From now on, the way our universe trades power with demons will no longer be offering one's own soul or organs, but offering sinner souls to them to obtain power."

"That is to say, a brand-new profession is about to be born in this universe, which is the Sinner Hunter. They sign contracts with demons, obtain the Eye of Judgment that can see through soul weight from demons, embark on the road of hunting all evil people, execute sinners, offer souls, and obtain power."

"It can be imagined that they will be the most powerful magic force in this universe in the future. In addition, since the cunning of natural madmen makes modern law unable to hold them accountable for their crimes, then let demons directly judge the weight of their sins from the soul level. There might be missed kills, but there will definitely be no wrong judgments."

"This wave ended almost all the good hands of the Penance Cartel, which can significantly slow down the pressure in Mexico. But once there is no external enemy, the fangs of some people will definitely be exposed. Mexico's situation will continue to decline until those oppressed can no longer live and launch a real revolution of blood and fire."

"The FBI also suffered heavy losses, but this can be considered a good thing. Let them stop thinking about any super prison and special case investigation team. A transcendent organization like S. H. I. E. L. D. should have appeared here long ago. I believe after Amanda and Nick have an exchange, they will know what to do when they return."

"Then what is going on with Atlan?" Arthur asked: "Regarding the Queen, what do you know?"

Shiler shook his head and said: "I know almost nothing. I can infer that the murderer is Atlan because I have some understanding beyond facts. However, inferring from this conclusion, it must be that someone handed his power to me when Atlan was sleeping."

"There aren't many people who know the secrets of Atlantis and have the ability to steal this power. Atlantis Queen Atlanna is the most suspicious."

"As for the specific details of the deal I once had with Atlanna, it actually doesn't matter. The Queen must have been thinking of killing two birds with one stone at the time, using this power to weaken Atlan while also weakening me, provoking a fight between the two of us, so that Atlantis could benefit from it."

"Then what did you just do?" Arthur asked again: "Atlan looks very painful, and his power suddenly weakened a lot."

"This is the key part of this plan." Shiler withdrew his arm, walked to the very front of the deck, and looked down at the seawater.

Others didn't understand what Shiler was doing and also walked behind him, looking toward the depths of the ocean like him, and then discovered that one after another dark vortexes appeared under the ship.

Some kind of dark power leaked out from the magic circle under the ship, rushing toward a certain direction with a very purposeful goal, like the most agile school of fish in the sea, running toward the deepest part of the mysterious ocean without a moment's stop.

At the bottom of the Mariana Trench, Hal and the other two floating in the water also discovered this anomaly. More and more seawater above their heads began to turn black, even to the point where the light of Batman's flashlight couldn't penetrate half a point.

"What is that?" Hal asked.

"I don't know, but it makes me very uncomfortable." Clark took a deep breath and said: "There is very rich dark power in it. They seem to be concentrating toward a certain point."

"Go over and take a look," Batman said.

He realized what this kind of power was. Although he didn't know much about the mystery world, he was Batman after all. His investigation showed that the dark source pointed to by countless myths and legends might have the same name.

"Barbatos..." Batman said his name with a serious expression.

Hal led the other two toward the place where the darkness gathered, and then they saw that the golden light leaking from beneath the cracked ground was being continuously entangled and extinguished by the power of darkness; Atlan's screams came from underground.

"What is that?" Clark discovered with sharp eyes that a pattern appeared where the golden light was most intense, looking very complex, composed of many runes, and also had some goat hoof and horn elements in the middle.

"Is that a curse?" Hal had some understanding of this and asked with some doubt: "It looks like some kind of demon curse. Wait, those dark powers seem to be gathering into this curse."

"Atlan was plotted against." Batman saw through everything and said: "Atlan was hit by some kind of curse, and this curse will attract dark power to constantly gather here. This power is very likely to swallow him."

"But why would Atlan be hit by a curse? Didn't he always sleep?"

"This is probably something to ask Shiler."

"What is going on?" Oliver lay on the side of the ship and asked: "What is this power? Where are they going?"

"Naturally, to give Atlan a big surprise." Shiler supported his head with one hand and said: "The 99 sinner souls we provided were for testing the transaction, but this is still normal. Transactions can be exchanged for things."

"What did you exchange for?" Oliver had a bad premonition.

"A curse, a curse written by a demon prince. Naturally, it's not any powerful lethal curse. It doesn't take two demon princes to kill Atlan. That is a beacon."

"Beacon? Guiding what?"

"Barbatos's dark power." Shiler's smile turned cold, finally revealing his fangs, and he said: "Barbatos should also be about to discover that something is wrong." ===== CHAPTER 2312 =====