Chapter 2518: Rustling Down (13)

After Shiler said that sentence, the Joker left without looking back. He knew this wasn't a person who could be easily swayed by words, so he would wait and see how Shiler intended to be an ordinary person, and he wouldn't mind adding a few small obstacles for Shiler during this process.

After the Joker left, Shiler finally had time to carefully inspect the bank. Then he discovered that this guy really had left a hand in it. He had been in the middle of making a deposit, but the deposit receipt had already been signed. After the clerk hid and ran upstairs, Shiler hadn't had time to see where the deposit receipt he had been holding had gone.

This thing should have been placed on the counter, but after Shiler searched the counter for a circle and didn't find it, he knew it must have been taken by someone. He turned around for a long time before finding it under a pile of ruins at the entrance. It had his signature on it, and a smiley face drawn on the back.

There was no need to think about it; when the police came to clean up the mess later, they would definitely find it. Once this thing was delivered to Gordon, Shiler would be the prime suspect in this bank robbery.

Shiler wasn't afraid of being suspected by Gordon. Suspicion is suspicion, but it wasn't really him who robbed it, and the money didn't fall into his hands. Wouldn't it be a loss to be suspected?

Shiler pressed his head lightly with his hand. He really had been influenced by Greed; now his whole brain was filled with money, money, money.

Well, he could understand why the Joker turned and left so easily, because money really was a big problem. Shiler was facing a situation similar to Bruce's at the time; he didn't have many friends at the ordinary person level, nor did he have sufficiently abundant social connections, so he was always tied up when doing things.

Of course, he could also adopt some illegal means like he did in the slums to create job opportunities for himself, using a lack of morality to make up for the lack of interpersonal relationships. But now wasn't that era, and crime wasn't easy to commit either. If he really wanted to do it, he would have to plan carefully; he had to solve the problems of food, clothing, housing, and transportation first.

He still had to go see the house first, Shiler thought. He actually had a deposit, the amount of which was about what someone of his class should have, and he usually ate in the faculty cafeteria, where the reimbursement rate was very high. Recently, there was no need for any pathology to emerge, so there was no need to buy new clothes or ornaments. He could still afford to drive and get gas, so the most troublesome thing was the house.

Shiler got into the car and drove toward his destination. On the way, he thought that although he couldn't ask Harley to buy a house, he could entrust her to sell his manor.

The car slowly drove into the South District. The agent hadn't been wrong; the location of this house was good. It was on the edge of an entire villa area, relatively quiet, with a large lawn next to it, an artificial lake, and a small forest on the right side. Everything within sight was green.

Of course, that had to be during the day. Looking at it at night now, the moonlight reflected off the lake surface was even paler, shadows were flickering in the forest as if countless ghosts were drifting by, and the shrubs on the lawn were swaying in the breeze, as if something were hiding under every cluster.

Shiler observed carefully and found that besides natural phenomena that might cause fearful associations, there was nothing unusual. The haunting was indeed fake.

But to prevent accidents, he still used the energy in the gray mist to activate his Spirit World Vision and took out his umbrella.

After obtaining the new umbrella surface, Shiler had also tested it. At first, he hadn't tested anything, just because of the existence of the equation, the umbrella surface was unbreakable; no matter what chemical reagents were put on it, it couldn't be corroded.

The cause of discovering the abnormality was one day when it rained. After Shiler came back from using the umbrella, he handed it to Merkel. Merkel also casually opened the umbrella and left it to dry on the side. After a while, no matter how Shiler called Merkel, there was no response.

Shiler walked downstairs and found Merkel squatting next to the umbrella surface, muttering to himself, his consciousness not very clear. Shiler spent a lot of effort to wake him up. After a thorough examination, he discovered that Merkel had been hypnotized.

Although it was hard to believe, this umbrella had a hypnotic function, and it was independent; it didn't need anyone to use it. It only needed to be placed there, and if someone saw its umbrella surface, the other party would be hypnotized.

And after further testing, Shiler discovered that if he actively used this umbrella, any creature could be hypnotized, even plants. And according to Pamela, who assisted in the experiment, this actually wasn't hypnosis, but a transformation.

The electric waves released by all things were converted into anti-life electric waves by the equations on the umbrella surface, and naturally, they could be controlled by the Anti-Life Equation.

However, this ability wasn't completely controllable. Shiler guessed that if he had come down any later, Merkel, after being transformed into an anti-life creature, would probably have completely lost control.

Fortunately, if Shiler didn't actively use it, it generally wouldn't produce any influence. However, one still had to be careful; when the umbrella was stored independently, someone might accidentally fall for it.

Shiler now tried his best to avoid opening the umbrella. He got out of the car, carrying the closed umbrella like he was carrying a knife.

Standing on the street at night, Shiler examined the exterior of the house. This was a very typical American city villa, two stories high, with gray-white exterior walls and a blue roof. The space between the first and second floors extended outward to form a porch. The color of the top of the porch was the same as the roof, and below it were four pillars separating two small and one large arch. The main entrance was right under the largest arch in the middle.

Shiler walked toward the main entrance. The door of the house was actually brownish-red. Shiler touched the door lightly, and the gray mist told him it was made of high-quality walnut wood.

There were no complicated and gorgeous decorations like those at the manor entrance; it was simple but very chic. Shiler walked to the side to look at the window, but unfortunately, the curtains of the house were drawn, so he couldn't see the internal structure clearly.

He knew the real estate agent might want him to see what was going on with the haunting, but Shiler was indeed here to see the house. As long as the house satisfied him, he didn't particularly mind having an extra roommate who wouldn't make things dirty. Anyway, he had already adapted to Merkel's existence before.

Shiler walked over and knocked on the door. The abrupt knocking sound echoed in the empty room, sounding exceptionally loud. After a long while, Shiler heard a thud, as if something had suddenly fallen to the ground.

The sound wasn't very loud and seemed to have come from the second floor. Shiler took a few steps back and looked up at the second-floor window, but the curtains were drawn there too, so he couldn't see anything.

An ordinary person should have been scared away by now, but logically speaking, an ordinary person in Gotham would definitely try again. Moreover, it was impossible for the real estate agent and the previous few people who came to see the house not to have brought guns. This level of intimidation wasn't enough to break their psychological defenses.

Shiler used the gray mist to open the door lock, turned the doorknob, and walked in.

As soon as he entered, it was the living room, which also used a common European and American decoration style. Historically, it was mostly the Irish who landed on the East Coast, so many wealthy areas liked to use Irish-style decoration.

The walls were olive green, the lower half was a beige wainscot, and the floor was covered with a floor decorated with a pattern of brownish-red and beige intertwined. On the left hand was a small fireplace, followed by a sofa and armchair of the same olive green. In the middle was a small round table, and on the round table was a vase with hydrangeas.

The entire wall facing the entrance was full of paintings, basically portraits in the Caravaggio style. Walking to the left, there was a wall cabinet also made of walnut wood. After walking past it, it was the dining room.

The dining room was generally in brownish-red tones, only the soft parts of the chairs were dark olive green, the table runner on the table was also green, and in the middle were white and blue intertwined hydrangeas.

Although it was always said that red and green didn't go well together, in fact, brownish-red and olive green were a very typical British style combination, widely used in interior decoration. Similar ones included red and gold, and red and blue.

Although the decoration style was relatively retro, it could still be seen that this was a new house, and the furniture and everything were brand new. More importantly, it was equipped with modern furniture suitable for modern people. Shiler felt a bit moved when he saw the 70-inch TV hanging in the living room.

Shiler still quite liked watching TV, but the manor he lived in before had no place to hang it. There was indeed a space above the fireplace, but he wasn't sure if current electronic equipment could withstand the high temperature of the fireplace. The wall on the side of the living room could also hang it, but the problem was that those famous paintings would have to be taken down, and the wall would be pitch black, as if a hole had been dug in it, which was really not very good-looking.

Trying to stuff modern electronic equipment into such an old manor was difficult for both the manor and the electronic equipment, and it easily led to a lack of both practicality and aesthetics.

However, a new house didn't have such concerns. It was very clear that when this house was built, space for a TV had been left, and because it served the wealthy class, the space for the TV was left very large.

Thanks to the Wei En Group and the Lex Group, plasma TVs appeared early, and LED screens also had a prospect. Although it wasn't the millennium yet, large 60-inch and 70-inch TVs had already begun to become popular among the wealthy class.

Shiler even picked up the remote control with great interest to bet on whether the boot animation was a bat or the Earth. The former was the logo of the Wei En Group, and the latter was the logo of the Lex Group.

As soon as the TV turned on, it was indeed an Earth logo. The Lex Group did better in civilian equipment; Lex Luthor really knew how to make money.

The quality of this TV was quite good. At least Shiler couldn't see any difference between it and the TV he watched in the research institute in his previous life with the naked eye. As for whether there was any difference from the TVs later, Shiler didn't know, because he was relatively busy at that time and didn't have time to watch TV.

He had originally only intended to check the quality of the TV, but the midnight radio station happened to be broadcasting a variety show. The production team found several highly skilled carpenters to go to various farms to use their skills to help farmers solve various problems.

Today's episode was about them working together to help a farmer improve the environment of an old barn. Some were studying wooden pillars eaten by insects, some had already taken out various cool cutting machines to show off their skills, and others were listening carefully to the farmer's complaints, preparing to discover more problems.

Shiler was quickly attracted. He really wanted to know how to replace rotten wooden pillars without tearing down the entire roof, how they planned to build support structures, or if they planned to abandon the troublesome wooden structure and use reinforced concrete.

Just as he was watching the backstage interview with the leader analyzing the load-bearing structure of the entire house, the screen suddenly flashed, the TV made a screeching noise, and then the screen went black.

Shiler stood up, looked left and right, walked to the side of the TV, and patted it. Just as he leaned over to see if there was anything unusual on the screen, a ghost shadow suddenly flashed across the screen.

Shiler was slightly stunned, tapped the screen with his finger, and said, "You're in the TV? Are you actually Sadako?"

But Shiler actually didn't have time to worry about so much. He said to the gray mist, "Hurry up and find a way to fix the TV. I have to keep watching." ===== CHAPTER 2519 =====