Chapter 3149: The Detective Shall Die (Part 11)

"By the way, should we count the last battle as our win?" Shiler said to the Beyonder in his mind. "After all, Madeline has been burned to ashes. You don't expect her to have any room to turn the tables, do you?"

The Beyonder seemed to have just remembered. He said, "Oh, right, another skill point was issued, and you can learn a skill again."

The skill list appeared in front of Shiler again. This time he didn't intend to learn literature reading, because he found that the people here also used English, and he didn't know what level those obscure documents would reach. Learning another level wouldn't make much sense.

He saw a very magical skill called "Spirit Vision." He asked the Beyonder what this skill was for, and the Beyonder didn't explain it very clearly, just gave an example.

"You saw the wind blade the monster hit on the wall earlier, right?"

"Yes, what about it?"

"Spirit Vision can peer into these intangible things."

"Can it see the monster itself?"

"If you learn it to the highest level, it might be possible," the Beyonder said. "But this thing cannot immunize you from the mental damage caused by looking directly at intangible things."

"It doesn't matter, anyway I have skills to restore mental health."

"Are you sure you want to learn it?"

After Shiler confirmed, he possessed level 1 Spirit Vision. He found that this was also an active skill, but the cooldown time was about 10 minutes, which meant it could be used even when not in battle.

"Can I see who is possessed through this thing?"

"Perhaps you can, but I don't think your mental health can handle it."

"Handling it is even better," Shiler said. "I'm a bit uncomfortable with how healthy I am now. I urgently want to regain my original state."

"You are really a lunatic," the Beyonder evaluated.

"This is nothing," Shiler said. "If the Prowler possesses me, then I will turn one of my teammates into a great work of art, and then commit suicide, letting him complete my last wish. I want to see how much of my skill this Prowler has."

The Beyonder couldn't help but curse.

Shiler ignored him and activated the Spirit Vision skill.

Instantly, the world changed its appearance. Everything became swaying and trance-like, but Shiler suddenly settled down. He looked at his few teammates.

Others suddenly saw Shiler bow his body and let out a scream, covering his eyes, and blood flowed out from between his fingers.

Everyone immediately took a fighting stance.

"Wait a minute," the Beyonder suddenly said in Main Universe Batman's mind. "Why is it a fighting stance? He is your teammate. Shouldn't you go and help him?"

"Then why don't you help?"

"I'm not in your..."

"Would you help if you were here?"

The Beyonder shut up.

Shiler knelt in the snow for a long time, took a few deep breaths, and after recovering, didn't rush to stand up. Instead, he wiped the blood stains on his face with animal skin, blinked, found that it didn't affect his vision, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"What's wrong?" Main Universe Batman asked.

"Nothing, I'm testing a new skill," Shiler stood up, patted the snow on his pants, and pulled the Roman collar looser.

"What skill did you learn?" Greed asked.

"Spirit Vision," Shiler said truthfully. He then explained, "I want to try to see if I can directly see who is possessed by the monster."

"Then did you see it?"

Shiler shook his head and said, "I guess it might be that my inspiration is not enough, and I didn't see any clues."

Main Universe Batman narrowed his eyes slightly. He remembered the feeling of being hit hard when he first saw the detective's corpse. If Shiler didn't see anything, why did his eyes bleed?

Main Universe Batman believed that Shiler had sufficient reasons to hide it. Whether the monster was in himself, in another himself, or in Bruce, he might not say it.

"What should we do next?" Night Owl was the only one among everyone who showed some impatience. He might not have expected the rhythm of this kind of game to be so slow.

But in fact, the rhythm of the game wasn't slow, but under the leadership of two Shilers, the game's process turned into a dead end.

Under normal circumstances, Madeline's death and the Prowler possessing players were almost inevitable.

But players could use curtains, carpets, and firewood to make torches for warmth, take survival supplies that could be found in the house, cross the long snowfield, and rush to the village as soon as possible to find a way to lift the possession.

There was a wilderness survival expert in the team who could just help them preserve the fire. They also had to share limited supplies during the relatively long journey, and might even encounter other dangers, so they had to unite and cooperate to reach the next mission point.

But Shiler set the house on fire, all survival supplies were gone, and now the fire was burning vigorously, they didn't intend to get some branches to make a torch or something, just gathered here to watch.

Once the fire went out, without any warmth measures, it was impossible for them to survive the night on the snowfield, and everyone would freeze to death.

But they didn't seem to care at all.

"Don't worry," Shiler looked at Night Owl and said, "There are only two kinds of living things here, humans and monsters. Humans are not in a hurry, so it should be the monsters who are in a hurry."

Shiler sat on the steps in front of the house door, and Greed followed him over. The fire in the house was still very big, and heat kept coming out. Shiler lowered his head and studied the animal skin in his hand.

Main Universe Batman, two Jokers, and Bruce stood a little further away. Night Owl finally became a bit impatient.

"How long do we have to wait here? Even if we don't set off for the village today, we should at least make some preparations, right?"

After speaking, he looked at Bruce. Bruce had been in a daze. Since he finished learning the skill, his attention hadn't been focused.

Shiler felt that he must have learned the second level of psychoanalysis.

Shiler didn't know what the effect of the second level of psychoanalysis was, but there were only three levels in total, and the second level should have a great improvement.

If the second level of psychoanalysis skill could let him know part of the correct answer, that would also be very good.

When the sun went down, the fire in the house finally went out. The whole house had completely collapsed, and the all-wood structure collapsed, becoming a pile of black firewood, still emitting thick smoke.

The good news was that the snow finally stopped.

I don't know if the Beyonder was also tired of waiting here, the heavy snow that had been falling for several days stopped unprecedentedly, and the white overcast clouds also scattered, revealing the blue sky, reflecting the snowfield into a cold color. The sunlight shining on the body had no warmth at all.

Shiler stood up, and Main Universe Batman also walked to the ruins of the house. After the wooden structure was burned clean, the remaining wreckage was mostly strange-shaped, with fragments of the kitchen's metal structure, small black hills formed by the melting of chemical fiber products, and a vaguely visible stone fireplace.

Main Universe Batman picked up a metal railing that hadn't been burned and used it to turn over the wreckage.

Shiler also walked to the ruins to search for something. The Pale Knight stood by and watched the two people, knowing that they were waiting here not to waste time, but really had something to do.

"Is there?" Shiler turned to look at Main Universe Batman and said.

Main Universe Batman stared at the ground. Shiler's gaze fell on the place he was looking at. There was a charred mark there, which seemed to be left after some kind of biological product was burned.

Shiler walked over, wrapped a piece of charred wood with animal skin, and then held the wood piece and drew a few times there.

A hole appeared.

To be precise, it was a cellar door.

Shiler looked up at the surrounding environment and quickly judged that this should be the location of the original carpet. The carpet was burned, the wooden floor was also burned, and the door was exposed.

The top of the door was also covered with a thin layer of mud, which was burned into a block by fire. If Main Universe Batman hadn't observed it, people might have fallen down while walking.

This new discovery attracted everyone over. Night Owl looked at Shiler with some surprise and said, "You knew this house was weird?"

Shiler shook his head and said, "I'm more suspicious of the diary owner."

"What do you mean?"

"The Prowler appeared in the village, and he called his friend to solve the Prowler problem. Then why wasn't it the two of them going to the village, but his friend coming here to find him?"

Night Owl fell into thought.

This wasn't Shiler being wise after the event. When they were discussing a series of questions about monsters, they deliberately avoided one person, and that was the owner of the diary.

Assuming the owner of the diary was the corpse in the kitchen, his death was undoubtedly problematic.

The detective was possessed, the detective died, the monster brought the detective to find him, the monster possessed him, the monster took him to the creek to fish, he returned to the house, the monster possessed Madeline again, and Madeline committed suicide.

Judging from the order of death of the three, there was no problem, but as Shiler said, the detective coming here to find him was problematic in itself.

His diary mentioned that when the Prowler incident just broke out, a villager came over, and he followed this villager to the village, and later witnessed a tragedy where people who drank mutton soup went crazy.

If he wanted to stop the Prowler incident, then when the detective came, they shouldn't have agreed to meet at their home, but should have met in the village, so that they could immediately start the investigation.

Assuming the village had reached a very dangerous point and living people had difficulty living there, the owner of the diary would definitely warn his detective friend not to go to the village and come directly to his house. Then the detective wouldn't have been possessed.

These two locations were not a mile or two apart, but very far apart. Under the condition of heavy snow blocking the mountains, modern transportation couldn't be used, and they could only rely on two legs to walk. In this climate condition, walking for a whole day was normal, and the whole process was very unsafe. Now that the enemy was at the door, anyone with a brain wouldn't waste time like this.

Either the detective or the diary owner must have a problem.

Shiler was more inclined to the latter, because it was the diary owner who invited the detective to come here, and no one knew how he invited him or what he wrote in the invitation letter.

And what led to this route of the detective was very likely the change of the diary owner.

For example, they agreed to meet in the village, but when the time came, the diary owner didn't appear on time. The detective waited for a long time without result and had to risk coming to the diary owner's house to find him.

If this was the case, why didn't the diary owner meet in the village on time? ===== CHAPTER 3150 =====