Chapter 3161: The Detective Shall Die (23)

What made Shiler relatively conflicted was Owlman.

Owlman wasn't a good person; he belonged to the evil Batman camp and had always been distracted by Bruce.

But his identity was a policeman. Logically speaking, it was unlikely for an American policeman to arrive so early. His appearance so early showed he had other intentions.

Shiler didn't know if Owlman knew Bruce was in the game when he wrote his background story. If he knew, he would definitely try to write a background story that leaned toward Bruce, so he was naturally standing on Bruce's side.

But the identity of a policeman was very important because many files could only be checked at the police station, and policemen naturally had the right to question. To figure out what was going on in the village, using the identity of law enforcement personnel to investigate directly was the simplest.

But if Owlman was also a corrupt cop whose purpose was to come here to silence people, he would definitely cause them huge trouble.

Owlman was a pure brother-con. Bruce had the upper hand in this regard. Shiler knew that he himself wasn't very good at attracting others' attention. It was difficult to win Owlman over.

Since that was the case, he had to prepare for the worst, which was that the main-universe Batman, who possessed the highest combat power, died on the spot, and he and the Pale Knight stood on the same front to deal with the remaining three people.

Don't ask Shiler why he didn't join if he couldn't beat them. As long as Greed was in this camp, he couldn't join, because Greed didn't let any Shiler go equally.

Thinking of this, Shiler stood up and said: "Let's do this, everyone who can stand up go."

Everyone turned to look at him. Shiler said: "Except for this Hunter, the others are not seriously injured. If we all leave, there is no value in attacking here."

"Are you going to abandon him?" The Pale Knight frowned and looked at Shiler.

"The professional doctor has already given the answer," Shiler said. "He is beyond saving. It is very irrational to slow down our investigation rhythm for a dying person."

"I disagree," the Pale Knight said. "Since you can treat our spirits, you must have a way to treat the flesh. It's too early to talk about giving up."

"I also disagree," Greed said. "The Hunter was seriously injured to cover our retreat. Out of humanitarian considerations, we can't just leave him here."

Shiler didn't know who the villain was now. How did it become that he was the cold-blooded one?

"Then you can take him," Shiler said. "And pray that the Prowler hasn't possessed him, and won't bite your throat off the moment he turns into a corpse."

"I'll stay and look after him," Owlman said. "Our injuries are the most serious among everyone. If we stay to rest, maybe the situation will ease. And if we are attacked, your losses won't be too great."

Everyone was silent. This seemed to be the only way. The main-universe Batman, who was dying, and Owlman, who had lost half an arm, were the ones with the lowest value among everyone and had almost no combat power. Even if there was an accident, it wouldn't be a weakening for the team.

"Now is not the time for you to be kind, little young master," Shiler looked at Greed and said. "If you really want to do something, go take a portrait of them."

After speaking, Shiler turned and walked out of the door. Greed showed an angry expression, threw the half-eaten bread to the side, and seemed to have no appetite at all.

Everyone except Owlman followed Shiler out one after another. Greed walked at the end. Soon, only Owlman and the main-universe Batman were left in the small room.

Shiler first came to the second floor, searched the room where Jeff was staying, and found nothing.

Then he came to the third floor, to the room with the bear trap, crouched down to untie the bear trap, held it in his hand, returned to the first floor, and placed it at the entrance of the stairs on the first floor. He explained.

"In case the Prowler really possessed the Hunter, and controlled his corpse to leave the room after he died, the sound of the bear trap can remind us and delay time."

"Do you think he will come up to find us?" The Pale Knight's brow hadn't relaxed. He always felt Shiler was a bit strange.

"The monster's purpose is to kill. Compared to leaving the lighthouse and going to the village, it's faster to block us on the floor," Shiler said while walking up the stairs, and said: "Killing us doesn't affect him going back to the village to kill later."

The Pale Knight barely accepted this statement. He thought for a while and said: "Should we send someone to guard downstairs?"

"Do you think any of you can beat the Prowler?"

Shiler's rebuttal made the Pale Knight stunned, but what he said was indeed very reasonable. The remaining few people were not capable of fighting. With the cooperation of others, it might be okay to solve a corpse, but don't think about fighting alone.

"Then we can send two people," Greed said. "Two people go downstairs to guard, three people go up to explore, this is just right."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a dark muzzle pointing at his forehead. Shiler, who was standing on the upper floor of the stairs, turned his head and pointed the shotgun at his brow from top to bottom, saying: "You'd better shut up during the next exploration."

Greed said sheepishly: "Aren't you afraid that the monster will possess me, and your using firearms to attack the monster will curse yourself?"

"I am the member of the clergy. Madeline's conclusion is wrong. Using firearms to attack monsters will not be cursed."

Shiler had already figured everything out at this time. Among all the settings, the only things that could be believed were the rules the Beyonder told him and that opening animation. Everything else that appeared in the game might be settings made by others to weaken others.

For example, not being able to use firearms to attack monsters was just Madeline's research. No one knew what Madeline's status in academia was. She was very likely a character in a background story someone wrote casually.

Besides using her to perfect his own origin story, it was also to use her mouth to say the rules they set themselves.

And the rule that firearms couldn't be used to attack monsters was clearly linked to the Prowler's possession rule.

It was known that shooting monsters would be cursed, and the Prowler would possess and not necessarily possess which person. This would lead to people with guns not daring to shoot teammates at all. What if they hit the Prowler? Wouldn't they be cursed?

Everyone's initial items were different, but as long as they finished watching the opening, they could fully expect that someone would have a gun. Still, shooting monsters might not cause any damage, but threatening people was definitely accurate.

So someone would definitely try to weaken the threat of the gun prop to the lowest level in order to level the gap between themselves and the gun holder.

They couldn't make the gun holder unable to shoot through the background story, but they could add settings out of thin air to make the gun holder have scruples.

In this way, it would be very difficult to directly rely on the gun to get the greatest right to speak in the team, and those without guns could compete for the right to speak more smoothly.

When writing the background story, although they didn't know if others had guns, they could infer if they had guns through their own identity. For professions like painters and photographers, the probability of having guns was not high.

So the person who set this rule that using firearms to attack monsters would be cursed must be someone without a gun.

Although the range was still large, Shiler felt it was Greed who did it.

But fortunately, although Pride didn't write his background story well, his profession was the biggest advantage. In the field related to monsters, the clergy from the church was the authority.

He said that using firearms was fine, so it was fine. If others wanted to refute, they must give examples, but their identities and professions determined that they couldn't give examples. If a photographer knew more about monsters than a priest, wouldn't this character setting collapse?

Shiler realized that his advantage wasn't any background story he wrote before, but what he said now. No one in the field had professional knowledge or professional background to refute him. If they wanted to speak, they would be muted.

Thinking of this, Shiler's steps were slightly lighter. He took back the gun, turned and went upstairs, and went to the third floor to look at the place where the doorplate fell. Through the light from the window, he saw that there seemed to be traces of glue on that piece of ceiling.

So that doorplate wasn't thrown here by any supernatural ability, but was stuck on the ceiling by someone and fell off.

If this was a trap set by Greed, just to frame Nyarlathotep, he must set a reason for someone to do so in the background story.

The hounds on the first floor, the bear trap in the room, the tripwire mechanism in the warehouse, should all be traps left by the lighthouse guardian. He might want to use these traps to deal with invaders.

Then the doorplate might also be a trap, but no lethality had been seen yet. Could it also be a curse or something?

Wait, Shiler suddenly thought, wouldn't the hotel's worldview and the worldview of the game they were in now be common?

There were also various abnormalities and monsters in the hotel, and these monsters also had various restrictions. Although it was finally proven to be Nyarlathotep's conspiracy, the Beyonder could also completely use the worldview of that universe directly. He dared to copy and paste Pride's skills, what else didn't he dare to do?

If this was the case, it was equivalent to the whole world now being a large hotel, but the hotel rooms that originally had various abnormal phenomena became cities or villages.

If the worldview was copied by the Beyonder, he shouldn't copy it mechanically, but should find a reasonable reason to explain how this situation of monsters everywhere was produced.

Would he set the hotel as the source of the strangeness spreading?

If that eerie hotel had truly existed in the history of this world, then that 1913 doorplate wasn't something thrown across the world, but an antique of this world, just appearing in the lighthouse for some reason.

Shiler took out the doorplate from his arms. He looked at it carefully but found no clues.

And if the hotel's rules could still be used here, then was it that as long as he nailed this doorplate to the designated position, he could re-enter that mysterious 1913 room?

What would be in the room? And what did that have to do with the situation of this world now? ===== CHAPTER 3162 =====