Chapter 3179: The Detective Shall Die (Part 41)

This actually stumped Batman.

Because even just talking about the video in front of them, it's hard to say that the monster is the most evil one among this group of people; it is very likely that it is just playing along, rather than being the culprit.

Whether the monster's level of evil ranks third or fourth depends on whether Bruce is outside the camera lens. To surpass the two things in front, one can only say that when Joker waved at the camera at the end, it wasn't an apology, but rather, "Little brother, you still need to practice."

"That lawyer..." Batman suddenly remembered that the justice camp seemed to have one last teammate, which was the Pale Knight.

Shiler shook his head, still the same sentence: a Joker who has become just is not Batman. The Pale Knight's base color is still Joker; his justice might be slightly more extreme than Batman imagines.

After watching this video, Shiler had basically cleared up in his mind the entire process from the start of the game until now.

Greed arrived the earliest. After landing, he should have headed straight for his underground laboratory, but he encountered the detective, the kitchen corpse, and Madeline, who had arrived in the underground cave for some reason, head-on, and launched a chase.

The detective escaped into a narrow cave. In the process of being chased, the top of his head brushed against the sand and debris on the cave ceiling, but he still couldn't escape in the end and was slashed to death by Greed using a wind blade.

Madeline should have also been caught up, but Greed didn't kill her, because Greed might have met Bruce at this time, and Bruce, as a psychiatrist, could hypnotize Madeline, and the two reached a deal.

Greed transported the detective to the cabin through the underground cave and also transferred the knocked-out Madeline to the upper floor of the cabin. Bruce hypnotized Madeline there, with the purpose of making the awakened Madeline pretend to be crazy to corroborate their guess about the monster, thereby letting everyone's attention fall on the monster and guiding others' lines of sight.

While Greed was chasing the detective and Madeline in the cave, Joker arrived at the pier a bit later and headed to the lighthouse that appeared in the opening introduction, spending some time capturing the Huff family.

Bruce stayed in the cabin to make arrangements, while Greed followed the cave back to the laboratory for inspection, then continued walking along the cave, entered the lighthouse through the exit on the top, met Joker, and the two reached a cooperation, jointly filming and saving this video.

It was also during this period that Greed and Joker exchanged skill information. Greed let Joker use the dice to pit the justice side to death as much as possible after the game officially started, while he himself formulated a plan to lure everyone to the laboratory.

Afterward, Greed might have met Owlman while returning to the cabin or simply in the underground cave. In order to achieve his goal of luring everyone, he also reached a cooperation with Owlman, letting him bring other players to the laboratory door at an appropriate time.

The process regarding the cooperation between Greed, Bruce, Joker, and Owlman might be like this.

Greed wants to win, Bruce might just want to watch the fun, Joker wants to torture the righteous, and Owlman wants to fulfill Bruce; this might be their motivation.

Shiler told Batman his conjecture, but he added another sentence, "This group of people are all harboring their own ulterior motives; everyone has their own plan and it is absolutely impossible for them to cooperate sincerely."

Batman nodded and said, "That's right, otherwise he would have already caught everyone."

Greed's plan might have been unable to be perfect from the beginning, Shiler thought, because he missed an important piece of information, which was that the Heath Joker in this game knew Pride, and Pride even pitted him, throwing him into the lake at his doorstep.

Shiler is narrow-minded, and Joker is not broad-minded either. Joker definitely recognized him the moment he saw Greed, but he pretended not to recognize him and specifically cooperated with Greed, just to pit him at a critical moment and avenge the last time.

As for Bruce, it goes without saying; it is absolutely impossible for him to cooperate sincerely with Greed. It is impossible for any Shiler, and he and Shiler are also incompatible. As long as they meet, they torture each other; there is almost no second possibility.

Owlman, as an evil Batman, seems to be neither showing nor hiding in the entire game process, which precisely means that he is also plotting something and it is absolutely impossible for him to be simply doing things for Greed.

A group of lunatics like this gathered together could form a new Crime Syndicate. Expecting them to cooperate sincerely is better than expecting Batman to become a fool.

Batman also realized that this game, which seems to be about luck and betting points, is actually still playing with information. Whoever knows more information about the other party can occupy the advantage.

And there happens to be an agent in front of him.

"Do you have any views on the other few people?" Batman asked.

Shiler knew the main event was coming. He cleared his throat and said, "What we need to figure out now is not who is standing on the photographer's side, but who will stand on the side of the Siltek Medical Insurance Company. After all, you want to overthrow this company, don't you?"

Batman nodded, signaling him to continue.

Shiler cleared his thoughts in his mind. He thought that this pharmaceutical company was made up by Greed, and others couldn't have known when they were making up the background story, so their stance toward this insurance company couldn't be naturally existing; they were all formed after the game started.

For example, Joker, why did he want to help Greed? It's because he knew that Batman would definitely stand on the opposite side of the Siltek Medical Insurance Company, because this company sounds like a villain, and Batman, as a righteous superhero, must overthrow it.

In order to disgust Batman, Joker would naturally help Greed, who owns this insurance company. Bruce is likely the same.

But in fact, their backgrounds might have nothing to do with this medical company. Although they might all be children of wealthy families, it is absolutely impossible for them to be specific to the name Greed made up.

This means that as long as the conflict between them and Batman is resolved, they can also defect.

Note, not defecting to help Batman, but not helping Greed.

It is too difficult to ask them to actively help the main universe Batman, but as long as they have no reason to help the Siltek Medical Company and thus stop in time and no longer help Greed, that is equivalent to weakening the other party's power.

As long as these few people maintain a neutral attitude, then facing Greed, Batman has an absolute advantage.

Because his persona is a local, a hero, and also a very capable hunter. As long as he is given a chance, he can physically eliminate Greed. I can make mistakes many times, but you can only make one mistake.

And how to make them return to neutrality naturally requires starting from their background stories.

Everyone has to set a motivation for coming here. The paragraph where they introduced themselves at the beginning as to why they came here was basically nonsense, but there must be a reason.

For example, Shiler is there because of his duty; he is a clergyman of the church, and there is monster activity here, so he must come. And as a person of the church, his ultimate goal is naturally to solve the monster. If he can't solve the monster, he can also solve everyone who knows about the monster's existence.

Other players must also have such a goal.

Disgusting the other party might be important, but the winner can disgust the loser most thoroughly, so if they spend their energy on achieving their own goals, they naturally won't come to disgust Batman again.

And regarding the purposes of the other few people, Shiler also had a rough speculation, but it was a bit inconvenient to talk like this now. He directly took out his kitchen knife from his bosom, gestured by his hand, and then looked at Batman.

Although Batman knew Shiler wanted to trigger a battle to lift the role-playing restrictions, he always felt Shiler was ill-intentioned.

In the end, Shiler chose to give Batman's arm a cut, which was just right to see if Batman really had first-aid skills.

But Batman was also a ruthless person; he didn't use skills at all, directly using the bandages he had scavenged in the lighthouse before to simply wrap his arm, seemingly not taking this minor injury seriously at all.

But this still successfully triggered the battle, and also allowed Shiler to better state his inference.

"What kind of person do you think Joker is?" Shiler asked.

Here it comes, here it comes, Batman thought. Sure enough, no matter which Shiler it is, they all have mind-reading skills. This game is not played in vain.

"He is a lunatic," Batman said. "A lunatic with reason and wisdom."

Under normal circumstances, at this time, Shiler should shake his head and then state his own more in-depth insights.

But the Shiler Batman encountered this time was not ordinary.

He nodded and said, "That's right, Joker is just such a person. He is very crazy, but he also has reason, or rather, his seemingly crazy actions all have a set of his own logic behind them."

"It is the same in this game. He seems to be doing whatever he wants, helping Greed when he meets him, but he gets away at the last moment, and might even have seen your abnormality without exposing it."

"These seemingly contradictory behaviors must all have his reasons. Helping Greed is because he knows he might meet a hypocritical hero like you in this game, and he likes to torture heroes, so of course, he must first help Greed establish an advantage."

"Finally, he chose to get away because he knows how heartbreaking it is when a perfect plan reaches the last moment but goes wrong. He wants to use this to humiliate Greed."

"He used his skills to change the dice to torture you, but he finally chose to let you go because he wanted to watch you fail, not die. All of this makes sense."

"Ordinary people can only see his fickleness and infer from this that he is a lunatic with a bad brain, but as long as you see his inner logic, you can see that every step he takes is to satisfy his evil desires, and he really did it."

"From this, it can be inferred that the background story he made up for himself must also be of this style. In his story, he satisfied his evil desires through seemingly crazy behaviors."

"What does he want to see most? Perhaps death, blood, and more cruel things, but these are all means, not ends. His goal is always to make people give up hope for kindness in human nature."

"Just like him helping Greed, it is to support the strong, promote injustice, and watch many innocent victims like Madeline sink and struggle in human selfishness and greed, finally falling into complete despair."

"Just like him using skills to pit you, it is not to see how painful your body is. What he wants to see is the pain in your heart at the moment you are considered valueless and abandoned by your teammates, because this can make you deny the existence of kindness in human nature."

"Just like him letting you go later, it is also to show you that evil is not suppressed by good. No matter how much effort you make, you will eventually fail because of the malice hidden in the human nature of the players."

"All of the above must be to make you no longer believe in human nature, make you feel that this group of selfish, greedy, and vicious people is not worth saving, make you deny everything you have done before, and also give up everything you will do in the future. This is Joker."

"Oh——"

The one who made this sound was not the main universe Batman, but Bruce, who saw the conversation between the two through the camera on the night vision goggles by Shiler's hand.

Pride said in his heart, "What are you 'oh-ing' about?"

"I think what he said makes a lot of sense."

Pride began to cut his ninth cigar. ===== CHAPTER 3180 =====