Chapter 2995

"Mr. Nigma, thank you very much for the information you provided, but one of my colleagues wants to see you."

Gordon stood up from the chair. He walked over and opened the office door. A female police officer wearing an FBI uniform walked over, showed her ID to Nigma and said: "Mr. Nigma, we discovered that you had illegal capital dealings with Williams Real Estate Company when you were a consultant for the City Planning Administration. Now we suspect you of accepting bribes and dereliction of duty. Please cooperate with our investigation, thank you."

Nigma opened his eyes wide suddenly and turned his head to look at Gordon. Gordon revealed a mocking smile at him.

Gordon had long since not been that greenhorn. He knew that if he wanted to deal with this group of cunning criminals, he could only be more cunning than them.

Now there is indeed no sufficient evidence to prove that Nigma participated in the child abuse case, because now Williams and Bob are missing, the evidence about Nigma in their hands cannot be thrown out, and Edward, who is the only one who might accuse Nigma, has not fully recovered, and his testimony will not be accepted.

But this doesn't mean Gordon cannot take other ways to control Nigma. Some things are not two taels on the scale, and a thousand catties can't be stopped on the scale. The City Planning Administration is a place where it is easy to fish for oil and water. Even if Nigma was just an unknown ordinary consultant at that time, as long as he is checked carefully, no one has no flaws.

From the perspective of the child abuse case, it might not be possible to apply for a search warrant and arrest warrant for Nigma, but Gordon can use the condition of letting the FBI participate in the investigation of the child abuse case to let them check Nigma's acceptance of bribes and dereliction of duty, and detain Nigma under this name.

As long as the person is detained, what evidence can't be found?

Ignoring Nigma's roaring behind, Gordon immediately called Bullock and let Bullock contact a few boys in the streets near Nigma's residence to turn around and see if they could find any clues.

This is also a trick they often use. The police cannot illegally search, but street thugs might not be. If they say it to the end, they are just stepping on the spot for theft. Even if they are discovered, they are just sent to the police station. Most of them are minors, and they can't even be sentenced to community service. They are just given verbal education and released.

They also didn't give up on the investigation of Williams and Bob. If the two don't arrive at the case in one day, the child abuse case still has doubts.

However, the main work currently is still counting missing children, comforting the family members who came after learning the news, and getting more clues about missing children from their mouths, so as to verify with the investigation results. These are all strong and powerful evidence in court in the future.

The young people from the New Warriors team and the Guardians of the Galaxy all participated in it. They helped maintain order, deal with family members, and ask family members about the children's situation as tactfully as possible.

These two teams are actually very good at doing this work. The New Warriors team was originally the leader of young heroes in the Bronx. Although they are street heroes, they also do the work of the neighborhood committee, mediating husband and wife quarrels, finding runaway children, finding cats, dogs, and hamsters, visiting the back kitchen after receiving reports, and cracking down on petty theft, accumulating rich experience in dealing with the masses.

The Guardians of the Galaxy in Schiller's universe were originally from intelligence gathering. Although they look like mercenaries, they actually represent the Earth to collect information in the universe. To collect information, they naturally have to mingle with ordinary people, having seen all kinds of people from all walks of life, and most can deal with it calmly.

Worried about the counterattack of the criminal group, Wanda and Jarvis returned to the Gordon Manor to protect his family. Wanda was not worried at all that evil would not have evil rewards. She knew very well how powerful the Scarlet Power was.

To be precise, the Chaos Power in the universe and the Scarlet Power she possessed were not exactly the same. The Scarlet Power had one more attribute than the Chaos Power, and that was modifying reality.

Not influencing, not twisting, but directly modifying, almost the most powerful direct power to influence the universe that ordinary people other than universe administrators can control.

So, when Wanda borrowed the Scarlet Power and said that sentence, the ending of all participants was already doomed.

But what she didn't know was that this matter was definitely not a simple child abuse case, and the participants were not just ordinary people, and this powerful power they had never seen before made them completely panic.

Schiller found a passage in the deepest part of the air-raid shelter in the mountains, that is, the level where the prison and the bone museum were located to the deepest part.

This passage was very hidden, and the entrance was full of scattered stones. If it weren't for Schiller looking here several times, he might not have discovered it, but in the end, he still found this passage in a very hidden corner.

The passage was narrow at first, but after crawling through, it was almost just enough for an adult male to pass through while bending over.

Schiller didn't know where this passage led, but he roughly guessed what the things behind the passage would be related to. Schiller was rarely a bit hesitant, not sure whether to walk directly to the end of the passage.

He had two concerns. First, now he had no gray fog, nor an umbrella, and his self-protection ability was very weak. Although the Battleworld existed, death was just returning to the birth point, and the worst result was just losing this body, but if he could avoid loss, he should try his best to avoid it.

Second, if he just went over like this, it was very likely to alert the enemy. In the case of not knowing what the other party was doing, just going over like this might not be able to overhear information, and might also make the other party hide deeper because of vigilance.

Yes, Schiller had already determined that there was a mastermind hidden deeper behind those three unlucky people, Williams, Nigma, and Bob, and Edward might have noticed this point as early as ten years ago.

Thinking along this line of thought, combined with the riddle left by Edward, Schiller could roughly guess what kind of person this mastermind was.

Edward was already smart enough. He could think of ways to make Mr. Nigma have to destroy the primary school and middle school departments when he was a minor, which was enough to see that these three fools were not his opponents at all.

Then why did the matter develop to the end that Edward entered the mental hospital covered in wounds, the Nigma couple was also killed, and the other three were still at large?

This proves that there are some things that cannot be changed by wisdom.

Edward's riddle described this thing from his own perspective. In his view, this kind of power is close to—God.

Makes high mountains rise, makes rivers dry up, makes civilizations perish, makes plants grow anew, makes humans clear and makes humans confused, doesn't exist, but exists everywhere.

In his view, some things he didn't understand but were completely unable to shake by ordinary people's power had been left and right to the development of things, so that even if he was much smarter than Mr. Nigma, he still couldn't reverse the tragedy.

He explained this mysterious existence as God.

But Schiller knew that it might not be God, just magic, but for ordinary people like Edward and Nigma, the power of magic was indeed infinitely close to divine power.

He had another piece of evidence for this conclusion, that is, the madness of Edward, Pali, and Miss Richie was not reasonable, did not follow human psychological laws, which proved that there must be supernatural power influencing them.

After realizing this point, Schiller changed his route and came to this air-raid shelter, because he realized that all these buildings were destroyed or built by those three fools, only this air-raid shelter, they just transformed the internal facilities, this place was afraid of hiding some secrets.

To be precise, this group of people chose to take action near the Bolokin community, either harming the children of the school here, or building a crematorium here, very likely because of the existence of this air-raid shelter.

They might feel that this was their own idea, but if there was the influence of supernatural power, it might be that someone made them make these decisions, but they didn't know it themselves, thinking it was what they wanted to do.

Once magic is involved, exploration becomes very difficult. Schiller knew very well that the magic side of DC might not be stronger than Marvel's, but it must be darker and more dangerous.

All the mages here are lunatics, extremely aggressive, cunning, and evil, very difficult to deal with, and before they show their feet, Schiller couldn't immediately determine who they were. The unknown is easier to bring danger.

Walking through the passage alone is not a good idea, but if he goes back to find help now, the person hidden behind the scenes is very likely to hide again because the three people on the stage are caught. It will be difficult to find them again by then.

Schiller hesitated slightly, supported the wall with one hand, took out his mobile phone with the other, slid down the address book, and locked his eyes on Brand's name.

The so-called lice are not worried, the debts have already been owed, and it doesn't matter if you owe a little more. He doesn't believe that anyone's magic position is higher than Nyarlathotep, at least it can provide a guarantee for his life safety.

Schiller edited a text message and sent it to Brand, roughly meaning that if he didn't take the initiative to call after two hours, then come to the air-raid shelter to find him.

Schiller walked down the passage.

The further he went down, the more he felt the humidity. The groundwater system here was very rich, and the soil on the wall felt moist, but this passage that completely didn't conform to the engineering mechanics law could spread all the way down, not only didn't collapse, but also didn't seep water.

This further strengthened Schiller's guess that there must be supernatural power participating in the construction.

Walking for about 20 minutes, the descending journey finally ended. The passage in front was still pitch black, and only by relying on the brightness of the mobile phone could he barely see the road under his feet.

Schiller judged the orientation slightly and found that he seemed to have been moving toward the southeast. Could this passage under the mountain connect to the bottom of the lake at his door?

Schiller walked for about another 20 minutes. The passage didn't get wider, but became narrower and narrower. There was no wind or airflow, but it wasn't oxygen-deficient either. Soon, Schiller heard a faint sound.

He turned off the mobile phone screen, groped forward for a distance, and finally came to the end of the passage, where there was a wooden door.

Schiller didn't get too close, but he could still hear the sound of talking coming from the wooden door.

The first to speak was a slightly sharp male voice.

"You can't push all the responsibility on me! I can guarantee that I have no surface connection with them at all. They don't even know of my existence, and the police definitely can't find out!"

"... This is precisely what I want to ask you! You said you possess powerful magic power, how can there still be a curse you can't break?! Even if we are contaminated with the curse, it's all your fault! It must be your magic power that was exposed!"

Afterward, he heard a female voice, but the other party's accent was very heavy, and it was vague. In order to hear more clearly, Schiller moved forward two steps slightly.

Suddenly, the scene in front of him twisted.

When the vision recovered again, Schiller found himself floating in mid-air, and below, a woman with scarlet light in her eyes and a short man raised their heads and stared at himself.