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Chapter 2984

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After being brought down from the car, Wanda thought she would be brought into the crematorium. Unexpectedly, the other party led her around the crematorium, then led her around to the backyard, and even went out from a small door in the backyard and started climbing the mountain.

A group of people stumbled on the mountain for a long time. When they climbed to the hillside, the sky was dark. Bypassing the dense bushes, there was actually an abandoned air-raid shelter here.

God knows how they found this place, Wanda thought. Could this be an air-raid shelter from the Second World War?

During the Second World War, because it wasn't known whether the war would endanger the American mainland, the American government still built protective measures, not only encouraging the public to build basements, but also building mountain air-raid shelters in some mountains. However, time passed, and these protective measures were also abandoned because of no maintenance. Many materials had already been lost, and no one knew there was such a place at all.

Wanda felt that this air-raid shelter was such a place.

The gate of the air-raid shelter opened. Unexpectedly, there was no dust, and it wasn't dark. Clearly, people were active here for a long time. Wanda was pushed in by them, vaguely hearing some movements.

Footsteps echoed in the empty space, accompanied by subtle sounds from I don't know where, making people feel creepy.

Although a bag was put on her head, Wanda could still see with the Scarlet Power. She discovered that this was not a simple air-raid shelter, but was transformed into activity facilities by people later, with passages and rooms, but the traces of transformation weren't that new. It looked like it had been ten years.

And there was actually an elevator here. Wanda suspected that the sound she heard was the sound of a diesel generator, but she didn't see the generator and wasn't sure.

After getting on the elevator, she went down all the way, probably down three floors. Wanda used the Scarlet Power to detect and determine that this was the lowest floor, which should no longer be in the mountain, but underground. This was clearly a space expanded later. Because the surrounding groundwater system was rich, it was much colder than above.

Continuing to walk inside all the way, inside was actually a prison. There were about five or six on both sides of the corridor, and each one wasn't very big. Wanda was pushed into one of them and locked up.

The other party didn't even talk to her much and left after taking a few photos. Wanda pulled the bag on her head off and looked around.

She was really stunned by the audacity of this group of people, actually daring to build a prison here privately. They really hadn't tasted the iron fist of the Avengers. Captain America giving them a shield would make them honest.

Suddenly, Wanda heard movement opposite. She looked at the prison opposite following the faint light source, and in an instant, she was stunned there.

"Professor Schiller?! How could you be here???"

In the prison opposite, a familiar figure sat on the bed leaning against the wall, surprisingly Schiller wearing a black suit.

Schiller was also a bit surprised to see her and said: "Why is it you who came? Oh, right, you are in Gordon's house."

Seeing Schiller in an instant, the big stone in Wanda's heart fell to the ground, and the ominous premonition vanished. After all, there was nothing more ominous than seeing Schiller here.

"So you knew long ago that they would go to kidnap Mrs. Gordon?"

Schiller shook his head and said: "Just a possibility, but I didn't come here mainly for this. I didn't expect them to mistake the person."

"I also feel a bit strange. They actually haven't seen Mrs. Gordon."

"It's not impossible. Barbara is an outsider, and the two of them didn't make a big fuss about falling in love or getting married. James has always protected his wife very well, but I think it's more because it doesn't matter. Gordon will go to save whoever is kidnapped, even if it's a stranger."

"That's true," Wanda said: "I feel they are not right, so I followed them here. I didn't expect them to be so audacious, actually daring to build a prison here."

"This can't be called audacious in Cat Getan."

"You are really a group of outlaws." Wanda sighed, and then she said somewhat confusedly: "Then how did you get here?"

"Similar to you, but they are not to threaten others, just to threaten me."

"Threaten you to do what?"

"Determine that a certain person is a mental patient."

"This is your old profession."

"The problem is they want me to determine he is a mental patient without contacting him," Schiller shook his head and said: "A group of illiterates."

"Why not let you contact him?" Wanda immediately felt something was wrong, and then she reacted and said: "Oh, because you have mind reading, they are worried that the secrets in this person's brain might threaten them, so they both want you to send him to a mental hospital and don't want you to contact him."

Wanda shook her head and said: "They didn't think that what if you are like Professor Charles, not needing contact to read minds?"

"This is not the point. This person is also locked here now."

Wanda immediately laughed and said: "You have to contact him."

"Because there is indeed a secret in his brain."

"Why do they want to turn him into a mental patient?"

"According to them, it is to exonerate him, but clearly it is not that simple. I am more inclined to say that as long as he is turned into a madman, the secret in his brain will never see the light of day again."

Wanda narrowed her eyes slightly and said: "Perhaps I can find this person and take you to see him."

Schiller shook his head again and said: "It's not that simple. Before they knew I could read minds, they wanted me to see him, which is to say they felt that as long as I saw him, I would determine him to be a mental patient, which proves that this person's spirit is already abnormal."

"Even if such a person goes to court, there is no way to be a witness. Without me, there will be other mental doctors to determine him as a mental patient, and his testimony is invalid."

"Then what to do?"

"It's best to find him. If not, there must be evidence here."

"Evidence of their evil?"

"Yes, but I didn't expect you to come."

Wanda frowned because of this sentence. She said: "Do you think I will add chaos? I won't. I am already a mother of two children, absolutely won't mess around!"

"No," Schiller refused flatly, and then said: "Either you stay here, or I will find a way to contact Jarvis now and let him come to pick you up."

"No! Bringing children at home every day, I'm almost suffocated!" Wanda found that this trick didn't work and started to play rogue again: "Professor, you can't treat me like this! How can you leave me alone in such a dangerous place? Doctors absolutely wouldn't do this!"

"Dangerous?" Schiller sneered and said: "The most dangerous thing on the entire earth now is you."

"But it's very dark and cold here..."

Schiller didn't listen to what she said at all, pried the door open in two or three times, his figure soon disappeared into the end of the dark corridor, Wanda gritted her teeth and stood up too.

This broken prison wants to stop me? Wanda thought in her heart, you wait, I will definitely find evidence earlier than you!

Red light flashed on Wanda and she came outside the prison bars. After turning the corner, she walked toward the depths silently. She saw it when she came over. There seemed to be rooms over there.

Hidden so deep, there must be something unseen inside. If it was found by herself, she would move everything away with magic, not afraid they wouldn't admit it.

Wanda's figure walked slowly toward the depths, gradually disappearing into that thick darkness that couldn't be dissolved.

In the hospital ward of Cat Getan City Center Hospital, Gordon stood before the hospital bed with his arms crossed and said: "I must say, we really didn't know you hadn't died. This is our judgment error, and we feel very sorry, but we really can't give more compensation."

"No, I have no intention of blaming you at all," Mr. Nigma lying on the bed pushed his glasses and said: "On the contrary, I admire your dedication. I asked you to come, just to tell you the clues."

"It seems you have met the murderer who hurt you?" Gordon didn't be polite to him either. After all, he is not the mayor now, just a candidate for mayor. Gordon is the real Chief of the Cat Getan Police Station, and his official position is much bigger than his.

Nigma's face revealed a painful expression, and he said: "It's my nephew, that is, my brother's son. He was sent to a mental hospital a few years ago and hasn't recovered. This time I don't know why he ran out again and almost killed me."

"Your nephew? What is his name?"

"Edward Nigma, he is my brother's only son. His parents died in an accident, leaving him alone. He was still very cute when he was a child, but I don't know when his mental state became a bit abnormal. His parents also mentioned it to me, but I didn't expect..."

Gordon narrowed his eyes slightly and said: "We will investigate, but you'd better be prepared. If he is indeed a mental patient and has been hospitalized for a long time, it is very difficult for us to send him to prison..."

"I didn't ask you to do this," Nigma revealed a painful expression and said: "This child is already very pitiful. Only by staying in the hospital can his mental state be maintained stably. He cannot accept more stimulation."

"Alright, there is one more question, do you know what's going on with this thing?" Gordon took out the refrigeration device.

Nigma looked at the thing in Gordon's palm somewhat confusedly. He shook his head and said: "I haven't seen this thing. Was it discovered around me?"

Gordon immediately realized something was wrong and said: "Although we might not be able to convict your nephew, I still hope you can understand that we have to write a report. Can you tell us in detail how he hurt you?"

Nigma revealed a painful look again. He leaned weakly on the pillow of the hospital bed, his hand placed on his abdomen and said: "He suddenly appeared in my office and stabbed me in the stomach with a knife. You should have already seen the wound, and then I didn't know anything..."

Gordon restrained his expression to prevent himself from revealing any mocking and disdainful look. This guy surnamed Nigma was played in the palm of his hand throughout, but he didn't realize it at all.

When Nigma was sent to the police station, there were no external injuries on his whole body. The external injury he said was stabbed by his nephew was actually drawn by the forensic doctor. He should have heard the medical staff describe the situation of his wound after waking up, and then made up such a lie.

Wait, is it really a lie? Gordon had other thoughts. Perhaps he really thought it was his nephew who stabbed him?

"Why did he go to the office to find you?" Gordon asked.

"I don't know either," Nigma shook his head and said.

Gordon left two police officers to continue asking him for details, while he walked out of the room and made a phone call to Arkham Asylum.

"Hello, is this Dr. Brand? Has anyone surnamed Nigma been here lately?... Then has he called?"

"Okay... He asked to talk to Edward? Do you know what they talked about? I fully understand the confidentiality principle. Then do you know how long they talked? What reaction did Edward have afterward?"

"You mean after they finished talking, Edward went to find Cobblepot? Okay, I know, thank you."

After putting down the phone, Gordon roughly understood what was going on.

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