Chapter 2971

Constantine and Shiler returned to the office of Arkham Asylum, but the summoning ceremony could not be held in the office. Brand took them to the basement of the asylum, which could also be said to be his magic studio.

"Have you been using magic all along?" Constantine looked up and down at this room and said: "Although I don't know who your creditor is, I must remind you that such high-frequency use of magic is not a good thing. You will pay the price one day."

"You don't need to worry about this," what made Constantine feel a bit surprised was that the person who said this wasn't Brand, but Shiler.

Brand subsequently walked in and closed the door. He took the materials from Shiler's hand, opened the box and looked at them, confirmed they were correct, and began to set up the magic circle.

Constantine sat on the side and watched.

The soul-summoning magic circle Brand set up was really nothing to write home about, as basic as it could be. Even if Constantine was deliberately looking for trouble, he couldn't pick out any flaws.

He had been observing this doctor who looked very kind. Of course, kind was compared to Shiler. He himself also had many strange things, for example, he was a bit too healthy.

Many times magicians have strange personalities and irritable tempers, not entirely because they are mental patients, but because the price of magic has been torturing them, and their mental state naturally cannot be good. Constantine is like this too.

Even Zatanna, who doesn't have to pay a price, always deals with those gods and ghosts, and will always be affected. Every time she deals with a supernatural event, there will be a long period of emotional depression.

But this guy named Brand is broad-minded and fat, not only is his body very healthy, but his mental state also looks very normal, which makes Constantine feel more and more curious about him.

Not long after, the magic circle was set up. Shiler handed that small section of finger bone to Brand. Brand placed the bone in the center of the magic circle. Accompanied by the magic brilliance slowly lighting up, the runes lit up one by one like joyful musical notes, and a wonderful calling sound rang in everyone's ears.

But this magic circle lit up for a long time, and the music also rang for a long time, but there was no movement. Brand shook his head with some regret and said: "It seems his soul has been lost. Now I will try to extract his memory from this small piece of bone..."

After speaking, he changed the positions of some parts of the magic circle, and the light condensed toward the center of the magic circle. Blurred images appeared in the magic circle.

It seemed to be the first-person perspective of a man. In front of him was a broken construction site. It was clear that the demolition work had reached the final stage, leaving only some broken building materials that hadn't been pulled away.

He continued to walk forward, and a violent sound rang out beside him, as if something had snapped. Immediately afterward, a black shadow fell before his eyes, and something huge seemed to fall on his head. Immediately afterward, there was a blood-red color before his eyes, and the memory stopped abruptly here.

After the power of magic dissipated, Shiler was still recalling what he had just seen. If one only looked at the surface phenomenon, this was a construction accident. It seemed that something on the beam had fallen and smashed the man to death.

But thinking carefully, it wasn't right. From the perspective of this man, judging by the messiness of the construction site, the house should have been completely demolished, leaving only some garbage on the ground that hadn't been cleaned up. Then how could there still be things falling from the head?

Moreover, even if the demolition had reached the final stage, there shouldn't have been only this one worker at the construction site. Garbage needed to be cleaned up, soil needed to be backfilled, and transporting garbage also required vehicles. But in the man's field of vision, he didn't see any companions, not even a car. The scene was desolate and barren.

Shiler carefully recalled the details again, and then found that this seemed a bit wrong. The abandoned construction site that appeared in the man's field of vision shouldn't have just been demolished. Many of the garbage on the ground showed signs of being exposed to the sun and weathered for a long time. It should have been a few years after the demolition.

That is to say, after the middle school and elementary school departments had been completely demolished, a worker from a certain Wodelaide Construction Engineering Team returned there and died there.

This school really had secrets. After Shiler confirmed this point, he knew the direction of the next investigation.

He pushed Constantine toward Brand without hesitation and then said: "Since you want to write a book, Dr. Brand should be able to give you a lot of inspiration. You two talk first, I have something to do, I'm leaving."

Constantine looked blank, but Brand raised his eyebrows and said: "You want to write a book? What book?"

"Just a novel, but..." Constantine looked up and down at Brand and said: "You can give me inspiration? A horror story about a mental hospital?"

"Are you writing horror novels?"

"To ordinary people, it should count as horror, but you are a magician, so how could you understand the fear of ordinary people?"

Brand smiled and said: "You underestimate me too much."

Just when Constantine wanted to say something, he suddenly saw that the shadow behind Brand was tall and slender. That kind of blackness was as rich as the back of light. When he looked at Brand's eyes again, a thin golden pattern cracked in Brand's pupils.

"You... you you you you you... ah!!!!!"

Shiler went to Wei En Manor, mainly to borrow Batman's computer. Now it was Tim's computer.

This computer itself had nothing special, it could just access the database of the Wei En Group. The database of the Wei En Group in this universe was different from the database of Batman in other universes. There were no materials on superheroes and supervillains, mainly recording the process of the city's transformation, as well as the business information of the Wei En Group.

Don't think this is useless. The architectural renovation project of the Wei En Group had a profound impact on Cat Getan. During the renovation process, countless workers were used, countless industries were contacted, countless factories were contacted, and even countless large groups were cooperated with. The information that could be collected was also massive.

Not to mention anything else, almost everyone living in the building of the East District architectural renovation project now had all their information from birth to the present recorded in this database. Basically, as long as some traits were entered, the target could be accurately filtered out. It could be said to be the Cat Getan version of Skynet.

It was the same in business. Basically, the groups doing business in Cat Getan now, from large multinational companies to individual businesses, could all query relevant materials in this database.

Shiler was exactly wanting to investigate this so-called Wodelaide Engineering Group.

After obtaining permission from Tim, Shiler quickly called up the information he wanted in the database. The information showed that this construction company was established about 20 years ago, but its scale had never been large. It wasn't until about ten years ago that the company obtained an investment and snatched several hot projects, which expanded its scale to its current level.

Although the largest construction team in Cat Getan was still the Wei En Construction Engineering Group, this Wodelaide had also drunk plenty of soup in Cat Getan's renovation project. When the Wei En Construction Engineering Group was busy with the East District renovation, they took on many projects in the West District and South District.

Their specialty wasn't building commercial buildings and residential areas, but specifically building clubhouses, casinos, and resorts for the rich. During the Cat Getan Music Festival, several hot resorts on the southern coastline were all built by them. One could imagine how profitable this kind of project was.

However, the information was about that much. After all, in a city as large as Cat Getan, there were at least eight hundred construction teams of this scale. The Wei En Group's ability to collect information was very strong, but there was no need to stare at such a small company.

Shiler didn't see that this Wodelaide Engineering Team had built any schools, and the company that built that boarding high school back then had long since gone bankrupt. The information about the construction situation of the middle school and elementary school was also not left behind, and now it was untraceable.

After investigating the overall information of the company, Shiler began to check the legal person and shareholders of this company, and clearly, one person stood out, and that was the manager who saved this company on the verge of bankruptcy ten years ago—Bob.

After calling up this person's resume information, Shiler found that he was a very capable manager who had led the Wodelaide Construction Engineering Team to complete many hot construction projects one after another, leading the entire group to flourish.

A group photo that popped up when this person's photo was entered into the search system made Shiler feel surprised. The person on the left of the photo was Bob, who was smiling brightly, and standing beside him was none other than Williams.

How did they get together?

Shiler then checked it, and found that although Bob did lead the Wodelaide Engineering Group to get better and better relying on his personal ability, the one who invested in this company ten years ago and made it survive the crisis was Williams' real estate company.

Then the timeline was very clear. Ten years ago, that is, two years after Shiler first arrived in Cat Getan, the Wodelaide Engineering Group was poorly managed, and Williams' real estate company invested in this construction group. Afterward, Bob entered the company under Williams' introduction and led the company to develop better and better.

At the same time, Shiler also queried the information of that boarding high school in the database. This school was established about 30 years ago, moved its campus once, and moved to its current place about 20 years ago.

Then about 10 years ago, the elementary and middle school departments were closed due to poor management. At least that was the explanation given to the parents. Shiler found some people who graduated from this middle school and elementary school in the database, but they had no abnormalities. Those who were studying at the time transferred to other schools after the school closed.

After closing, the school buildings of the elementary and middle schools were demolished. The database didn't show who contracted the demolition project, but Shiler suspected that it might be the Wodelaide Engineering Group.

At that time, this company had just received the investment from Williams' real estate company, but the money had just arrived and hadn't been converted into the company's scale so quickly. Recruiting people and bidding required time. During this period, the Wodelaide Engineering Group's manpower scale could probably only take on similar demolition work.

However, Shiler felt that everything wasn't that simple, because if this was just a job taken by chance, it couldn't explain why workers from Wodelaide reappeared in the school ruins a few years after the school was demolished, and why the place that still looked like school ruins a few years ago now looked no different from a forest.

This lacked a key link, and at this time, Pamela brought him good news.