Chapter 3159: The Detective Shall Die (21)

Another piece of evidence that made Shiler feel his speculation was correct was that the Prowler had never attacked head-on.

If you count the corpse standing up and waving its claws as an attack, then this monster didn't have the ability to kill three people in a row. Moreover, the corpse's waving wasn't very good, and no one was injured.

So how exactly the three victims in the cabin died was worth discussing.

At this point, Shiler thought, although they seemed to see each other at the same time, did they really arrive at the same time?

Is it possible that someone actually arrived at the cabin before others and did something, then pretended to have just arrived when others came?

The key is whether their arrival method was truly like in the game, appearing out of thin air, or like in a cutscene, controlled by the system to walk into a certain place.

If it was the latter, it would have left plenty of time for those who arrived early to prepare. Everything he saw after opening his eyes could have been arranged by others.

Too many thoughts wandered in Shiler's mind. He looked for suspicious points in every event he experienced, feeling that every event had many suspicious points, but he couldn't grasp very strong evidence.

Shiler turned back to think from the perspective of motivation.

If this place was really just a very ordinary small village, then no one would probably care whether the people here were dead or alive. When some people were writing their background stories, in order to make the motivation more reasonable, they would definitely add some extraordinary aspects to this small village.

For example, it used to be a gathering place for a cult, some chemical leak incident happened, a landmark building had some mysterious imagery, etc.

In this way, they could say they came here to investigate these things, and the story could be rounded off.

And they didn't know what stories others had written, so it was possible that these abnormalities were superimposed.

Shiler remembered the opening animation was shown first, and then the attribute points were added and the story was written. In other words, the only thing they couldn't influence was the information in the opening animation. After all, it had already been shown to everyone, so it wouldn't be good to overturn it.

The opening only gave a few pieces of information: a detective came to this small village to investigate the Prowler, and the Prowler had indeed appeared.

This information was pitifully small, meaning the room left for the story writers was very large.

How did the Prowler appear? When did it first appear? What research did humans have on the Prowler? What was the villagers' attitude toward it?

These were all unknown and could be written. Even if Shiler didn't think carefully, he could think of several ways to integrate this information into his background story.

Batman and Greed couldn't have failed to think of this.

In other words, whether it was the diary or Madeline's research notes, the information recorded on them might not have been created by the Beyonder, but likely someone's setting.

Including the whole process of the disaster outbreak, such as the missing goats, the family that went crazy after drinking goat soup, the invitation for the detective to come here, etc., could all be part of someone's background story.

Then, why did they set these?

Even if Shiler didn't set his background story well, he could guess the Beyonder's attitude: you can make it up as you like, as long as you can round it off. The key is to round it off.

For many people, this is actually very difficult because writing a story is a kind of lying. People who aren't good at lying are rarely good at writing stories. Most writers are natural liars.

For example, you set a person to be incredibly strong, but in the story, he can't even kick open a door. This is clearly a contradiction between character setting and performance. To write a good story that rounds itself off, such logical contradictions cannot appear.

Assuming Greed really wrote a story about cultivating immortality, he must explain in detail what is going on.

There are cultivators in this world, so how can the strangeness run rampant? How can the human government stand by? This is the problem he needs to explain. In order to round off this lie, he has to write more lies, writing a few more stories outside the story.

Finally, it might develop into him having to write a whole process of human history evolution. Not to mention whether he can write it, there should be a time limit for writing stories for the Beyonder. Even if he doesn't seek precision, just writing a rough time, it's impossible to be enough, which also disguisedly limits some settings that are too outrageous.

And the diary and Madeline's research notes could be patches someone made for their own character, to supplement what kind of person they were and what kind of world this was.

Shiler first assumed his inference was correct, so whose patch would the information recorded on these two notes be?

The process of the disaster outbreak seemed to complete the background story, which was the encounter of this small village, but it seemed a bit wordy, mixed with too many personal emotions.

For example, I can reflect that the owner of the diary loves fishing, is ugly, not liked, but in a crisis, the villagers think of him first, is rich in sympathy and relatively compassionate, and can invite a detective, indicating a story in the past.

Shiler outlined the image of a cold-faced, warm-hearted, independent, free, and extraordinary tough guy in his mind the first time he finished reading the diary.

He clearly remembered that after reading the diary, his first feeling was that this guy might be a retired member of the clergy who had once been a big shot in a big city.

Such a character shaping is undoubtedly attractive. It can be said that in a disaster movie, he is the kind of local who can live for at least 20 minutes, and when he dies, he has to use his legendary experience to encourage the protagonist or tell some truth.

So this diary might look like it's telling the disaster outbreak, but in fact, it's for character shaping.

If Shiler's inference is correct, then this is definitely someone using the completion of information to gild their own face.

And looking at the identities of all the teammates, only the Hunter played by Batman fits this tough guy image.

Shiler still remembered that he saw animal skins obtained through hunting everywhere in the cabin at first glance. If the owner of the diary was really just someone who only knew how to fish, these skins couldn't have been bought from Amazon, right?

Is the Hunter played by the main-universe Batman actually the owner of the diary?

Continuing to think down, the note in Madeline's hand seems to be her research result, introducing the so-called strangeness to everyone in detail, as if completing the setting of the strangeness.

But it also introduced Madeline's life experience and mentioned the tragedy of Madeline's family.

Besides Bruce, would anyone really write their own life experience in an academic paper?

Even if not from a professional perspective, Shiler felt that if he saw his own unbearable past every time he opened his notebook, would he still have the mood to do research?

Only enemies would write your most terrible past everywhere, right?

So looking at it this way, this part about Madeline's life experience might also be the introduction of someone's character, providing a motivation for someone to come here.

In that tragedy back then, Madeline's family was almost wiped out, and only she and her youngest sister survived.

If only she survived, that would be a very classic protagonist script, but it also mentioned that her youngest sister survived, which shouldn't be a useless clue.

Although the notes didn't seriously write the story of Madeline's family, judging from common sense, she and her sister should rely on each other, and their relationship shouldn't be bad.

The sister came to such a remote small village to do research, the snow blocked the mountains, it is estimated that she has been missing for several days, her sister must be coming to find her.

Shiler's teammates have no women, but it is very likely that someone has a relationship with this sister, for example, her boyfriend, or someone she hired to find her sister.

And judging from Madeline's age, the most likely person is Bruce. Although he likes to act young, he is indeed the youngest here. The Pale Knight also has a certain possibility. Shiler doesn't know his specific age, but he looks relatively young, and his job is relatively decent.

In this way, the motivation of about 2~3 people is relatively clear.

According to the consistent style of the main-universe Batman, he must want to save the village, so he set himself a local tough guy identity. Such an identity is the most justified for saving the village.

And Bruce or the Pale Knight might be here to find Madeline, but it doesn't exclude that they know Madeline must die, so they want to inherit her will and avenge Madeline's family.

The remaining identity motivation is still unclear, especially Greed. Shiler is sure that he is full of bad water and definitely doesn't intend to do anything good. If he says he is a rich second-generation heir, if it's not a joke, he is very likely to have come here for business or political games, with the goal of eliminating dissidents.

And the Painter played by the Joker is also very confusing. This identity is a bit of an outsider, making people wonder why he came here.

And Owlman's policeman, just now Jeff and Owlman confronted each other, and the two clearly didn't know each other, which proved that one of them was an outsider, or both were outsiders.

But Jeff just said they were outsiders, which means Jeff is a local, which can deduce that Owlman is not a local policeman, at least not the sheriff in this village.

Thinking of this, Shiler remembered again, if the Hunter played by the main-universe Batman is a local, why didn't Jeff recognize him?

Oh, wait, Shiler put down the bread in his hand and turned to look at the main-universe Batman lying there. He wasn't actually lying face up, but lying there, and his face was facing the wall. Jeff might not have failed to recognize him, but didn't see his face at all.

Assuming the Hunter played by the main-universe Batman is really a hero who wants to save the village, is he lying there half-dead now a natural disaster or a man-made disaster?

Shiler couldn't help but look up at Greed. ===== CHAPTER 3160 =====