Chapter 3166

That phrase "Battle start" ringing in his ears made Schiller clearly pause, and many clues became clear in his mind.

Think carefully, when had he heard the system's battle start sound effect?

The first time was in the cabin, facing the suddenly moving corpse; the Beyonder gave this prompt, and the subsequent times were basically when human corpses moved, and then there was a battle start prompt.

But when fighting those five hounds, there was no prompt, and it didn't even enter a turn-based state; it was just a normal fight.

What did this mean?

At first, Schiller thought it might be events related to anomalies that would trigger the battle start sound.

Then why did he have it when fighting Greed?

Now there are two possibilities: one is that there is indeed a prompt sound only when encountering battles related to anomalies, so having a prompt sound when fighting Greed means Greed is related to anomalies.

There is another more hidden possibility, which is that there is a prompt sound only when fighting players like Greed, and those suddenly revived corpses are actually players playing tricks.

Schiller instinctively felt it should be the latter.

He wasn't shooting in the dark; first of all, they hadn't seen the Prowler from start to finish, and they didn't know if this guy was really as they had previously inferred—possessing the living to kill the living and then controlling the corpses; all of this was just their conjecture.

Secondly, if the Prowler really had such an ability, he shouldn't be so fragile and vulnerable. Those moving corpses didn't cause them any trouble. So far, the wounds on everyone's bodies were either from failed dice rolls that backfired on themselves or from being hit by that reed monster; the corpses' output was zero.

But every time the fight with a corpse ended, it counted as a battle victory, and once a battle was won, one could get points to spend on skills. Could this be considered grinding points in another sense?

Schiller went over the situation of the few people in his mind again. Greed's wind blade was too special and shouldn't be a normal skill that could be bought with skill points, but rather his innate skill. His own innate skill was Requiem, and the Joker's innate skill had a high probability of being related to dice. That left Owlman, the Prime Universe Batman, and the Pale Knight.

Schiller felt that the person most likely to possess the skill to control corpses was the Prime Universe Batman.

Because him controlling corpses to stand up and attack players was equivalent to players fighting players. If, in the system rules, only fights between players counted as battles, then this could obviously trigger a battle.

And after triggering a battle, there would be skill points. Among all the players, the one who needed skill points the most was actually the Prime Universe Batman.

Because he intended to use his severe injury to slip out of everyone's sight.

Without enough skill points, he couldn't buy skills like healing, but as long as he used his innate skill to pull corpses up and trigger battles to grind skill points, he could completely max out skills like first aid.

Through the development of Bruce's psychoanalysis skill, it could be seen that a level 3 skill was a qualitative change. If Batman really leveled his first aid skill to level 3, then using the skill once would at least restore half his health. It made sense that he could disappear on the spot while severely injured.

Schiller's thoughts raced. If all of this was planned by the Prime Universe Batman, then things definitely weren't as simple as they appeared on the surface. What Batman wanted to target might not be the anomaly, but that Siltek Medical Insurance Company.

Based on Schiller's understanding of Batman, what he wanted to target might not just be this insurance company; there might be a bigger conspiracy behind this insurance company.

It wasn't that Schiller didn't want to let Batman save the world, but the problem was, who dared to say they were an absolutely good person in front of Batman?

Schiller hadn't forgotten that he was a member of the Church.

If the medical insurance company wasn't a good thing, then could the Church be a great benefactor?

When Jeff met them, he told them that the Church adopted a very harsh isolation policy regarding anomalous events. Although it was useful in theory, one could imagine how many unjust, false, and wrong cases would be created during execution.

When Pride made up his backstory, he didn't touch any information related to the Church at all, which meant that what the Church was really like was in the hands of others.

If others said the Church was a charitable organization, then the Church was a positive character; if others said the Church was a hypocritical money-grubbing institution, then it couldn't be whitewashed no matter what.

Batman wanted to take action against the insurance company, but what if the insurance company and the Church were in cahoots? Wouldn't he also be sent to the guillotine?

Having figured this out, Schiller put down the gun that was out of bullets, looked at Greed's ugly expression, and said, "Now you have two choices. You tell me what's going on..."

"I choose the second one," Greed said decisively.

"We fight, and you tell me what's going on."

Greed's face turned even uglier.

Bruce nudged him with his elbow and said, "He's threatening you."

"I know," Greed said, gritting his teeth.

"Then you should fight him!"

Greed also lowered his voice and said, "Violence is the strongest among us because his muscle limit is the most thoroughly removed, allowing him to burst out with the most powerful strength, but the Agent's fighting skills are the most outstanding. I can't beat him!"

"Do you want me to help you?" Bruce's tone revealed a hint of a smile.

"I advise you not to..."

Just as he said this, Greed felt a huge force push him to the side; his shoulder slammed directly into the wall next to him. When he came to his senses, he only saw a flash of a blade, and a bloodstain on the side of his neck was bleeding.

"Hiss..." Greed gasped, then looked at Schiller, who had just retracted his knife, and said, "Don't go too far!"

"Yeah, although we've entered a battle, it's not just a battle between the two of you. Are you trying to fight one against three?" Bruce made it clear he was going to stand on Greed's side, and Owlman clearly wanted to stand on Bruce's side as well.

Schiller snorted coldly and said, "If you were really confident, you wouldn't be talking nonsense here."

After speaking, he flipped the hand holding the knife and stabbed toward Greed's neck again. Greed immediately lowered his head to dodge, but at this moment, that black and gold dice appeared again.

The landing number was "1"—another critical failure!

Pfft!

The sharp blade sliced across his neck, and a massive amount of blood from the severed carotid artery sprayed straight toward the wall. Greed covered his neck and groaned, but that sharp kitchen knife had no intention of letting him go, immediately stabbing toward his eyes with another strike.

"Joker!!!" Greed roared, "Get rid of that piece-of-junk dice! Otherwise, I'm going to die here!!!"

Schiller hid the smile on his lips well, but the stabbing motion didn't pause at all.

Greed went to dodge again, seeing the dice thrown in the next second finally turn red. Before he could even breathe a sigh of relief, Dexterity 38 < 40, check failed!

Greed's movement paused, his dodge a split second late, failing to avoid it completely. The tip of the knife sliced straight from the center of his brow bone to his temple, and blood instantly flowed into his eyes.

The moment Schiller retracted the knife, he saw Bruce muttering something. He deliberately tilted his body to the side, exposing a flaw. Sure enough, Bruce grabbed Greed and pulled him out of the blind spot.

Schiller saw that the moment Bruce touched Greed, the blood on Greed's neck and eyes stopped, and the wounds were slowly healing.

It is known that there are four skill points in total now. Bruce has already maxed out his psychoanalysis skill, so he only has one skill point left, and a level 1 first aid skill doesn't have such a good effect.

This means that the healing skill Bruce is using on Greed now should be his innate skill.

Very good, another one confirmed.

Schiller retracted his knife and stepped back. Greed took a deep breath; just as he was about to say something, he saw Bruce assume an attack stance. He hurriedly pulled Bruce back and glared at him, saying, "What are you doing?"

"Aren't we supposed to be fighting?"

Greed wiped the blood off his face and said, "I can finally understand Pride's feelings. Are you stupid? Haven't you dealt with agents before?"

"The agent I'm most familiar with is named Amanda Waller," Bruce replied.

Greed was speechless for a moment, but he could only explain, "All of an agent's coercive means aren't really for the sake of fighting you to the death; they're just trying to obtain information through it."

Bruce wasn't really stupid either. The next second, he realized what Schiller was doing. He suddenly attacked Greed, not to kill Greed, but to figure out what their innate skills were.

Greed directly used a wind blade to slice the bullet, which proved that his innate skill was very likely the wind blade.

When fighting Greed, he heard the "Battle start" prompt sound, which could roughly infer that someone's skill was controlling corpses, with a high probability of being the Prime Universe Batman's skill.

Directly attacking Greed with a knife forced Greed to make a dodge check, forcing him to shout for the Joker to replace the dice, confirming that the Joker's innate skill was related to dice.

Slicing Greed's carotid artery forced Bruce to hand over his healing skill to save Greed's life, inferring that Bruce's innate skill was healing.

Now, except for the skills of Owlman and the Pale Knight which remain unclear, everyone's cards are basically on the table.

Now Bruce understands a bit why some of his friends' teeth itch with hatred whenever they mention agents.

The key isn't actually how much information they can force you to reveal, but that as long as you deal with them, they can dig information out of you.

And if you don't deal with them, they can find ways to dig your information out of others while you're hiding, and by the time you come back, everything is already too late.

Greed shook the blood off his hand and said, "You know enough now; do you still want to keep fighting?"

Schiller glanced at Bruce. He was hesitating whether to move against Bruce. Although this was also his first time seeing Pride's student, he knew from his memories that without using any special abilities, his combat power wasn't that strong, far worse than the top-tier fighting experts.

Now that all his superpowers couldn't be used in this game, looking purely at physical strength, beating him up was no problem.

The evil Batman next to him called Owlman clearly wasn't likely to watch Bruce get beaten up. If he moved against Bruce, he would inevitably have to take action, and perhaps he would also expose his own skills.

In that case, it would be one bullet exchanged for the important information of four innate skills, which would be a huge profit.

Just as Schiller was hesitating, Greed pointed out sharply, "When do you think Pride will be back?"

"By the way," Schiller said suddenly.

Greed thought he was going to give up, but the next second, Schiller leaned in and punched Bruce.

"When you graduated, Pride played broadcasts in the tower for two days, causing me to not get any sleep. I haven't settled that score with you yet."