Chapter 3217: The Haze of Faraines (25)

Schiller looked around the corridor. The Beyonder said the evil spirit on this book was gone, but the clues used to open this lock should still be there. It's just that without anyone's guidance, I'm afraid it would be very hard to find.

But now his teammate is Batman, the world's greatest detective. He doesn't believe that he can't find clues without guidance.

Batman over there was clearly also just finished communicating with the Beyonder. The two looked at each other and saw the meaning of the other party.

The so-called Church Great Prophet is not a character to be trifled with. Schiller had seen his introduction in the encyclopedia before. This guy was one of the investigators who went to investigate the hotel incident.

Don't look at the fact that everyone in the hotel died, but that place was still a dragon's den. He not only could retreat unscathed, but also got something unknown from it to launch strange events globally, hard-heartedly pushing the Church to its current status. He can be called a legendary investigator of the previous generation.

To deal with him, the resources in Schiller and Batman's hands are still too few. But if they can get the clearance treasure in advance, there must be something useful in it.

"Have you seen any useful clues in that book?" Batman asked.

Schiller shook his head and said, "I didn't dare to look carefully, but I am sure there is nothing mixed in the content. They are all blasphemous incantations and patterns. If the clues are hidden in these things, perhaps we can only admit our bad luck."

"I'm talking about the *Bible*," Batman said. "Compared to that book of evil gods, the possibility of clues in the *Bible* is greater."

Schiller took out the *Bible* and handed it to Batman, but still said, "You can find that letters are missing after reading it once, but it's best not to arrange the missing letters in your brain. That might lead to a drop in your Sanity value."

Batman flipped through the *Bible* roughly. Out of caution, he didn't look at it all, but he could roughly outline what the missing letters could constitute. It looked like it should be a language like Latin.

"Could there be other arrangements?" Batman said. "This won't be a very complex puzzle. It's a pity my thinking is restricted, otherwise perhaps I could calculate it directly."

Schiller knew he was referring to the exhaustive method, which is to try all possible arrangements of letters in his brain one by one. This method can probably only be used by Batman, but since he can't use it now, they have to guess the thinking of the original evil spirit.

Just as Batman said, this won't be a very difficult puzzle, because the purpose of this evil spirit itself is to spread these blasphemous knowledge to the whole world. If it's too difficult, what if it encounters a stupid believer?

It's more likely that there is another arrangement of the missing text in the *Bible*, but it needs the hint of this evil spirit to think of it. But since the evil spirit is gone, they have to think about what kind of answer is neither complex nor easy to think of.

"Why don't we think about how the Great Prophet intends to open this door?" Schiller immediately changed his thinking. He said, "It's impossible that he came all the way here and then stared blankly at the door like us. He must have known the answer long ago."

Batman also began to think.

Suddenly, both of them looked up. Schiller took out the doorplate engraved with 1913 from his arms.

The last time Schiller used this thing, he used it as a weapon to smash Bruce's head. This clearly wasn't the correct way to use this doorplate.

And now, they encountered a door that couldn't be opened.

There was also a doorplate on this door, which said "Captain's Cabin." The doorplate was very gorgeous, with golden vine patterns around it. Schiller put the 1913 doorplate on it to compare, and found that the original doorplate of the captain's cabin was exactly one circle larger than the 1913 doorplate.

Schiller had some guesses. He reached out to Batman, and Batman put the kitchen knife directly into his hand.

Schiller smiled. He and Batman were indeed very tacit.

Schiller took the kitchen knife tip and began to remove the doorplate of the captain's cabin. The four cross-flower screws were soon removed.

Once the doorplate was removed, Schiller knew his guess was right.

Because inside the four screw holes of this large doorplate, there was another circle of screw holes. Schiller put the 1913 doorplate on it, and it fit perfectly, not a bit off.

Along with the removal of the captain's cabin doorplate, the shape of the door gradually disappeared, and this place became a piece of clean white wall, but the screw holes didn't disappear.

Schiller didn't fix the doorplate on. He retreated two steps quite vigilantly, looked left and right, and found that the scene inside the ship's cabin had changed.

He seemed to have returned to the hotel corridor, and that kind of rich darkness was swallowing everything.

Schiller, however, wasn't panicked. He just thought, no wonder the Bishop didn't dare to come, otherwise he would have to meet Nyarlathotep again after a long time.

Schiller looked behind him and found that Batman was still there, and he also noticed the abnormality. This proved that this wasn't an illusion appearing in his mental world, but that a change had indeed occurred inside the ship's cabin.

Schiller reached out and touched his priest robe, but suddenly found that there were some things in the inner pocket. He reached in and took them out, finding that they were actually a handful of screws.

He asked Nyarlathotep in his heart, "You did this?"

"Things you didn't take away last time," Nyarlathotep answered. "Returned to you."

"That's really timely," Schiller said, not without sarcasm.

The problem is that he only has one doorplate now. What does he need so many screws for?

Wait a minute. Since the hotel might be the source of the weirdness, the things in the hotel should be very extraordinary, right?

The Bishop found these things useless because he was in the middle of it. But now, according to the worldview, Schiller is in the decades after the hotel incident. The weirdness in the hotel hasn't spread to the whole world, and the power level outside is relatively low, so the things that come out of the hotel will naturally be easier to use.

Schiller looked down at those screws. They were still the same as when he removed them, with slight signs of wear. Currently, no abnormality could be seen.

Batman also looked at the things in his hand. Schiller explained it to him simply. Batman said, "If there is a lathe, I can modify your pistol and turn the screws into bullets."

Schiller counted the screws in his hand. He didn't quite remember how many he removed at the time, but there were about seven or eight in his hand. If they were used as bullets, maybe they could really catch some guys off guard.

Schiller sighed again, having Batman as a teammate is truly worry-free.

After putting away the screws, Schiller observed the situation around him. There were no other hotel doors in the whole corridor, only the wall in front of them had some changes, which proved that they were close to the correct answer.

Actually, Schiller had thought before that some rooms in the hotel would lead to other places, and those places were experiencing some strange events. Now it seems that this guess of his is very close.

So should they nail the doorplate on?

"You say there is a monster behind this door?" Batman asked. "Do you think the Great Prophet knows this?"

"He has been to the hotel. He must know what the hotel looks like," Schiller speculated. "Even if he doesn't know, he won't naively feel that there is no danger behind the door."

"You seem to know more about the situation inside the hotel than he does," Batman pointed out sharply. "You have dealt with Room 1913. How did you solve the problem last time?"

Schiller thought about it and said, "When I encountered this room in the hotel corridor, the door would open automatically as soon as I walked past. I felt it was a trap at the time, so I didn't act rashly."

"Later I found that the doorplate could be removed, so I walked over and closed the door directly, and removed the doorplate. In the process of removing it, the monster kept hitting the door."

"Then?" Batman asked with some curiosity.

Schiller shook his head and said, "I can't look directly at these things. After the collision ended, I saw that the doors of the two rooms were closed. After that, I never saw this doorplate again."

"That is to say, the two monsters didn't necessarily perish together. It's also possible that they retreated to their respective territories."

"Exactly, so I said, there might be a monster in this room," Schiller frowned and said, "I guess the Great Prophet should also have gotten the doorplate."

This is a speculation that has appeared in Schiller's heart for a long time.

It is known that the Church has triggered abnormalities all over the world. If it were just some camouflage means, such as poisoning or holographic projection, it would never reach such a realistic level, nor would it be possible for the Church to reach its position today.

The anomalies that appeared must be real.

Since it's not a cover-up, these things must have a source. Combined with the hotel incident and the law of monster appearance in the hotel, Schiller feels that the Church might have used the characteristics of hotel rooms and doorplates.

The doorplates of the rooms in the hotel can all be removed, and after being removed, the room disappears. Nail the doorplate on again, and the room will reappear.

This is simply a mobile monster generator. Schiller was able to use the monster behind the 1913 room door to collide with other monsters when he was exploring the hotel, and others can naturally use the doorplate to release monsters to do other things.

Although Schiller explored the hotel for a long time, there were also many floors he hadn't entered, and he didn't know what kind of monsters were inside.

Perhaps this Great Prophet entered a certain floor, took away many doorplates, and used his information advantage to use these doorplates to create various strange events to seek profit for the Church and himself.

So the Prowler and other monsters in the strange events that appeared all over the world are monsters in a certain room of the hotel.

Every time the Church appears to save people, it's not that they really have any means to deal with these monsters, but that only they know where the doorplate was placed. As long as the doorplate is recovered, the strange event is naturally solved.

Thinking of this, Schiller immediately realized that the doorplate of the 1913 room door didn't suddenly fall from the ceiling, but might have been deliberately placed here by the Church, with the purpose of releasing the monsters inside to create strange events in this village.

So the monster in the 1913 room door is the Prowler? ===== CHAPTER 3218 =====

So the monster inside the door of Room 1913 is the Prowler?