Chapter 3148: The Detective Shall Die (Part 10)

Accompanied by the Beyonder's "Battle start!", everyone entered the second battle since coming here, and the object they had to confront was naturally Madeline, who was currently acting strangely.

But now a strange situation appeared: Madeline didn't want to fight them; she just wanted to get the handgun. This confirmed that this monster called the Prowler indeed had certain behavioral patterns. Although it was unknown whether it was completing the last action of the possessed person before death, it was definitely related to this, otherwise she wouldn't have such an obsession with this handgun.

But Greed was faster than her. As soon as he rushed downstairs, he picked up the revolver thrown down by her from the second floor, and was determined not to give the handgun to the monster.

If it were something else, others would probably advise him, but the gun indeed had a certain danger. It might not be useful against monsters, but it was definitely one shot per person against humans. Giving it to the monster didn't seem very good either.

Greed wouldn't give it, Madeline insisted on having it. She chased, he ran, and others could only watch them go around in circles in the snow.

Taking this opportunity, Shiler observed Madeline. He found that the monster's speed wasn't actually very fast, equivalent to the medium running speed of an adult.

If she were chasing others in this team, she might really catch up, but Greed definitely had very high agility points. The monster chased him for a long time, only leaving a pile of footprints on the ground, not even touching the corner of his clothes.

Once again running past Shiler, Greed stopped to catch his breath, waved the gun in his hand at the monster and said, "Keep chasing! Do you believe I can run with you here for a year?"

This significant provocative attitude clearly angered the monster. Madeline suddenly roared, and Shiler saw her head split open, just like the detective, the entire upper body was divided into two.

She walked upside down, and her speed was much faster than walking with hands. Everyone was prepared for Greed to give up the chase, and Main Universe Batman even raised the shotgun in his hand.

Greed dodged her first pounce, but didn't panic at all. At this time, the fire in the house was already burning very big. He turned directly and ran toward the house, and the monster followed closely behind him.

Arriving in front of the house door, Greed paused intentionally, dodged Madeline's second pounce with a side step, and then threw the revolver in his hand hard into the house burning with raging fire.

Madeline pounced into the sea of fire.

If it were in a movie, this could be called a perfect ending. But unfortunately, everyone knew that fire could burn the body, but it couldn't eliminate the monster.

Everyone walked to the front of the house, watching the raging fire burning in the house silently. Madeline was soon burned to a crisp, but still stood up shakily, reaching out to the revolver on the ground, but the collapsed roof beam fell on her, and she had no more movement.

"Is it over?" Greed asked knowingly.

"Can the monsters in this game possess us?" Shiler asked the Beyonder in his heart.

The Beyonder replied, "Yes, but they will follow the existing restrictions."

Shiler nodded to indicate he understood. He turned to the others and said, "I infer that this monster called the Prowler must possess a living person. Madeline should have been possessed before she shot herself."

"Possess first, then die?" Main Universe Batman summarized what Shiler said very accurately.

"Exactly," Shiler thought for a while and then said, "Possession probably won't lead to death. Even for a period of time after possession, the possessed person doesn't know they have been possessed and can still act freely, until they trigger certain rules, they will be killed."

"Now there are only a few of us living people left here," Night Owl said. "If the monster can continue to possess, it can only choose us."

"Someone among us might have already been possessed," Main Universe Batman said with a chill when he spoke.

"Then should we try walking a few steps?" Joker suddenly grinned and said, "Whose footprints are wrong, maybe we can kill him in advance."

Greed stood in the snow, staring at the ground. Others walked over. Greed pointed to the traces on the ground and said, "Our inference is correct. Human blood can erase the monster's footprints."

After everyone gathered over, they discovered that Greed hadn't led the monster to run here for no purpose. He led the monster to turn around here a few times, and the monster had passed by its own footprints.

Before Madeline jumped from the second floor, her head was shot, and after jumping down, her leg was also broken. Although the amount of bleeding wasn't large, there was still some. It was inevitable that blood would fall to the ground while running.

Everyone discovered that when human blood fell on the goat's hoof prints, the pitch-black traces disappeared completely, which proved that human blood could indeed cover footprints.

Shiler immediately thought of the key and said, "There is no blood from the first floor to the second floor of the house. Does it mean the monster won't leave footprints when the person is not dead?"

"I think we can treat the Prowler as a virus," Greed said. "His possession process is: possess living person, incubation period, virus outbreak, living person death, control corpse, leave footprints."

Main Universe Batman went through the state of the three corpses in his mind and then said, "I also think the possessed person shouldn't die immediately, but has an incubation period."

Main Universe Batman picked up a branch on the side and started drawing on the snow. He said, "A normal adult has about four and a half liters of blood. If used to cover footprints in a very precise way, I think it can erase about five miles of footprints. But the problem is, can the monster take such a precise method?"

Shiler thought of the posture of the first corpse. The operation of directly splitting a person's upper body couldn't make people bleed at such a slow speed. Such a wound would probably cause a person to lose 30%-40% of their blood within a few seconds.

"With the monster's way of using blood, covering 1-2 miles of footprints is considered very good," Main Universe Batman said. "However, this wooden cabin is very remote, about seven or eight miles away from the village. Assuming no footprints were left along the way, it's clearly not as simple as covering the footprints with blood."

Shiler understood what Batman was saying. An adult's blood volume is not enough to sprinkle on a 7-8 mile road. Even if this monster could control blood perfectly, it was impossible to cover the footprints along the way.

Then if the detective was killed in the village and was split at that time, he would likely have run out of blood halfway, and there would definitely be footprints around the house.

Although the outside of the house had been covered by heavy snow, even if there were footprints, they couldn't be seen, but the inside of the house would definitely leave black goat hoof prints because there was no blood to cover them.

But in fact, there was blood inside the house, but no footprints, which showed that until the detective arrived at the cabin, he was still bleeding.

This proved that the detective couldn't have started bleeding from the village, but more likely was split halfway. In this way, the blood would be enough for him to use until the cabin, covering the footprints in the house.

Then there is only one question left: was the detective possessed and killed immediately halfway, or was he possessed in the village, but the monster was dormant for a period of time before killing him halfway?

Shiler was more inclined to the latter. On one hand, the Prowler monster appeared in the village. On the other hand, if possession meant immediate death, Madeline wouldn't have had the chance to commit suicide.

So the situation was very likely that the detective received the diary owner's letter and prepared to come to the village to investigate. After arriving here, he first rested in the village for a night, but was possessed by the Prowler.

The next day, he set off for the diary owner's wooden cabin. Halfway, he triggered the monster's killing rule, was killed, and then came to the wooden cabin.

The snow kept falling, and the atmosphere became very silent. Because the cabin was still burning, they didn't feel very cold, but this raging fire would always go out.

No one present felt anxious. They looked like they were appreciating an art performance, watching the house burn.

"Someone among us might have already been possessed," Bruce said again. He said, "It's just that we don't know what conditions will trigger the monster to break out."

Shiler thought of Madeline's death. She wasn't killed by the monster, but committed suicide, but was still controlled by the monster.

This meant the monster had two ways to control humans: either wait for humans to trigger some condition, then take action to kill the person and control his corpse, or humans commit suicide or are killed by others, and the monster can still control the corpse.

"Is it time to leave here?" Night Owl said.

Shiler looked at him but shook his head. Main Universe Batman didn't say anything either. Night Owl frowned and said, "I don't understand what riddles you are playing."

"Madeline's performance has proven that the monster will indeed control the corpse to complete the last thing the possessed person wants to do. Madeline wanted to trap or kill the monster by inducing the monster to commit suicide. This is not feasible."

Shiler's voice was colder than the wind and snow in the sky. He said, "But what if the last thing I want to do is kill all of you? What will he do?"

Night Owl's movements stopped.

Joker suddenly laughed wildly. He held his cheeks and said, "Did you hear that? Little guy, if you were in my body, I would do this. Will you listen to your good mother? Hahahaha!"

The Pale Knight frowned. He thought of what Shiler was going to do.

Now they were in a place where no one lived and no birds laid eggs. There was nothing but snow around, and it could basically be seen as having no animals, only a few of them living people.

Within the range where an adult human's blood can cover footprints, no second civilized settlement can be found.

If the person possessed is Shiler, and the last thing he was doing before death was to kill all living people within range, then the monster that controlled his corpse after his death must also do so.

This will have two results. One result is that all others are killed, because the monster cannot possess a dead person and can only leave with Shiler's corpse, but his blood can only cover a very small distance of footprints. Then when the monster appears again, people can immediately see his abnormality through the footprints.

Another result is that he cannot kill the people around him, the people around him escape, and he must chase. Before completing the goal, he cannot kill others.

"The terrible thing about this monster is that the wishes of ordinary people are always very simple," Shiler said. "Arriving at a certain location, eating something, figuring out certain problems, this restriction is almost equal to nothing."

"But we are different," Shiler turned to look at Main Universe Batman, smiled and said, "If your wish is to save a city that cannot be saved, then perhaps, there will be another superhero named Prowler there?" ===== CHAPTER 3149 =====