Chapter 2811

Schiller walked over and flipped through it, finding that most of the books on the bookshelf were world history and economics books, which was very consistent with Thomas's character.

Schiller didn't know much about the Thomas of this universe, but he had come into contact with another Thomas, which was the old man in the Flash universe.

Simply put, Thomas Wei En was a product of the Wei En family's elite education. He received elite education, but didn't fully accept it, because he was actually a very rebellious person when he was young, never liked reading very much, and liked economic careers even less.

The Wei En family's training direction for him had always been the successor of the group, but he insisted on not studying finance and economic management, and insisted on studying medicine. After studying medicine, he had to go to the battlefield. It was only because he was older and had played enough that he came back to get married and take over the family property.

Schiller didn't find any medicine-related books on the bookshelf. It seemed that the Thomas of this universe might not have had the experience of studying medicine, but had completed the full process of elite education and directly took over the Wei En Group.

On the desk, Schiller found some annotations on reports, seemingly about the renovation of Cat Getan's groundwater system. Because the groundwater system had been in disrepair for a long time and drainage was poor, several major families took the lead in a project, preparing to renovate the sewers again.

Thomas's opinion was that it could be repaired, but several major families must share the costs and share the results. He wouldn't be a sucker, paying all the money and still being scolded.

Then there were some trivial matters of the group, various financial statements, basically all just read through, without leaving any annotations.

There was nothing on the desktop, so Schiller started flipping through the drawers. He remembered that Thomas had the habit of keeping a diary, because he needed to count supplies every day on the battlefield and record the recovery of the wounded. After coming back, he also kept this habit, but he didn't know if the Thomas of this universe had it.

Schiller found a locked drawer at the very bottom. After prying the lock open, he really found a diary, but it hadn't been written for many pages. It looked like the time he started writing the diary wasn't long, and the handwriting was a bit sloppy, not quite consistent with Thomas's academic level.

"I had that dream again. I feel that all this is God's punishment for me. He has abandoned me. Otherwise, why would he let that monster keep coming into my dreams?"

"I swear, I didn't know it was true. I didn't know that monster really had the ability to do all this. If I knew, I would never have agreed to him. I think I might not have agreed to him either. I was almost dead at that time, my thoughts didn't count, just like no court would accept a mental patient's testimony..."

"He said I agreed to him, that's right, it's like this, but I was almost dead at that time. I just wanted to survive. I didn't know what was going on. I didn't mean it. God, save me."

"He came again today. It seems he is already very disappointed in me, but I can't do as he said. I can't believe in the Evil God. That would bring my family into an abyss of eternal damnation. Even if he still comes today, I will still refuse him."

"He didn't come today. Where did he go?"

"It's been almost 5 months. He never came again. I believe it was just a hallucination of my post-traumatic stress disorder. It must be like this."

"So he didn't not come..."

The last sentence made Schiller's heart skip a beat.

When Thomas wrote these words, he was obviously very anxious, or even panicked. The preface didn't match the aftermath, and the handwriting was very sloppy. It felt like he was just venting something.

Through these words, Schiller could infer that Thomas seemed to have agreed to a condition of the Evil God, which earned him his survival, but after he survived, he didn't fulfill his promise. The Evil God came to him every night, but he kept refusing.

In the middle, the Evil God disappeared for a period of time, but later came back. It was just that Thomas's "he didn't not come" made Schiller a bit unable to understand.

But if combined with Martha's situation, Schiller could guess some things. The routines of these Evil Gods were all similar, just like a loan shark collecting debts. If you insist on not paying, they will harass your family.

The Evil God might have come back, but didn't go to find Thomas again, but went to find Martha.

Of course, there was also a possibility, and Schiller believed in this possibility more, which was combined with his previous speculation, that Thomas might no longer be Thomas. The Evil God took away his soul and replaced him, but he didn't know it himself.

And when he knew it, everything was too late.

This conjecture was confirmed when Schiller flipped to the last page of the diary, where a few sentences were written very sloppily.

"Martha, if you see me, don't believe it's me. Resurrection has always been a scam. The real me is already dead. Don't believe... don't believe... don't believe..."

It seemed that Thomas, who wrote these words, had already realized that the Evil God's so-called salvation and resurrection of him was just a scam. The one resurrected wasn't him at all, just a monster possessing his consciousness and memories.

Then Martha's mental illness symptoms also had an explanation, just like the old godfather Falcone back then. The person closest to her was replaced, but no evidence could be found.

You just feel that he has become more and more weird, seemingly exactly the same as the person in your impression, but also completely different, and you can't help but start thinking, is it you who is crazy or is this world crazy.

All questions about this person's identity had no answer. Everyone felt that you were thinking too much, and the other party's attitude was as good as ever, making you unable to pick any faults, but it was just when it was quiet and no one was around, standing at your bedside and staring at you fixedly.

In this way, the timeline of the matter was straightened out.

Thomas might have encountered an accident. Between half-dream and half-awake, he was seduced by the Evil God and agreed to the Evil God's conditions to let himself survive, but in fact, everything was a scam. The one who survived wasn't him at all, just the source of pollution that retained his memories, at least a part of Nyarlathotep.

Thomas was gradually replaced until he completely turned into a monster. Martha noticed this, but couldn't find any evidence, until Martha Wei En became pregnant.

Martha might have noticed that this child was abnormal, but in that era, it was difficult for her to escape Thomas's monitoring and go for an abortion herself. Perhaps she herself held a glimmer of hope and was unwilling to kill her child, and could only confirm and pray again and again.

But unfortunately, all this was not her hallucination. The existence of the Evil God was real. When Martha's spirit was on the verge of collapse, she saw Thomas's true face.

She couldn't accept all this, so she went completely crazy.

But still, the power of a mother was almost endless. Martha very likely faced that monster directly, and might even have completed communication with him, reached a deal, and gained a period of breathing time for herself.

Using this time, Martha made arrangements. She used the power she gained from the Evil God to pollute the hotel and manor, but also temporarily sealed this pollution.

Later, little Bruce was born. By that time, Thomas and Martha had been completely polluted by the Evil God's power. They were no longer his parents. Little Bruce had both the Evil God's bloodline and was raised by the Evil God, which was why he became so weird.

And Schiller guessed that the Evil God might not have expected that he couldn't defeat the power of the DC universe's great universe will. Batman's parents were destined to die, so these two puppets might also have died when they should have died.

Once the parents died, the pollution on little Bruce didn't break out on time. Nyarlathotep's arrangements almost went down the drain, but he couldn't be willing to be like this, so he later entangled little Bruce again.

And Schiller also roughly inferred what Martha's backup plan was. His gaze fell on the document report of the Cat Getan sewer renovation project.

Jerome and Peter found the door leading to the basement level 3. Actually, this wasn't a puzzle at all. This door was hidden in the maintenance room of the restroom in the basement level 2 parking lot.

It was Peter who suggested that he hadn't seen sewer maintenance facilities on the entire floor, so they thought of going to the restroom to take a look.

Peter's uncle was an electrician. He was very proficient in this aspect and knew that such a large hotel basically needed a separate room to maintain everything, such as the main power distribution room. Maintaining sewers was the same.

Generally speaking, this kind of room would be set at the bottom, which made it easier to check the condition of the sewers. The two indeed also found the passage leading down in the maintenance room of the restroom.

However, the appearance of basement level 3 exceeded their expectations. To be precise, there was no basement level 3, only sewers. After going down, it was the very typical style of Cat Getan sewers.

Peter felt a cold and damp breath always surrounding here. The water under his feet didn't look like water either, but more like some kind of mucus, which could be drawn into threads as soon as he lifted his feet.

He rubbed his arms and felt a bit cold. After Jerome looked left and right, he said: "I think we have to go this way. The wind is blowing from this side."

Peter looked toward that side and didn't see anything abnormal. To prevent getting lost, he left spider silk on the wall as a mark. The two walked toward the direction the wind was blowing.

Along the way, Peter discovered that the water in the sewers was always flowing toward the hotel. He remembered Dr. Sothip's conjecture that the water in these sewers might be the source of the toilet water.

So the toilet water had always been trying to break through the hotel's defenses? But where did the water in the sewers get the power to appear abnormal?

They continued to walk forward and turned a corner. In front, there were still dense waterways, looking like nine twists and eighteen turns, but after walking over, they found that the vast majority of them were dead ends, and only one road could be walked down, just like a simple version of a maze.

The two walked forward all the way until a ray of light appeared in front, and they thought they were about to reach the ground.

But after gradually adapting to the light, what appeared in front of them wasn't an exit at all, but a tall, dark ancient city.

Above the city gate of the ancient city was a lifelike owl sculpture, its shining eyes staring intently at the long-lost visitors.