Chapter 3307

Shiler was a bit depressed.

That damn demon Etrigan didn't stay honestly in hell, but had to run to the human world to meddle in other people's business.

Not only could he not do his own job well, but he also ran over to interfere with himself, trying to get himself to do psychological treatment for him without paying a penny.

He had worked conscientiously here for so long, and he was still living in the office of the municipal building. And this useless rotten demon actually had such a good house!

He had made it so clear, but the other side didn't understand it at all. This is the disadvantage of demons getting a job without taking an exam! This emotional intelligence level, go sit at a table with Batman!

Thinking of Batman, Shiler became even more depressed.

Yesterday, after he woke Jason up, he asked Jason to keep an eye on Batman. Shiler's original intention was to let Jason eavesdrop on what Batman found under the reservoir, and whether he discovered the relationship between the forest next to the reservoir and the previously polluted natural woodland.

As a result, Jason told him that Batman might have discovered that he was faking madness, and the two had a big fight. Jason had now run away from home from Wei En Manor.

Shiler found it strange, does this world destroy itself if it leaves Batman? Why is the core logic of everyone's action Batman?

Immediately after, Shiler received an even heavier piece of bad news. After the White Knight woke up, Batman went to find him again.

In fact, Shiler also believed that the White Knight might be hiding other secrets. Whether it was sending Jason to Blüdhaven back then or locking the Penguin in Blüdhaven, it proved that he might have other arrangements in that small seaside town. These arrangements might have been made when he was still the Joker.

If Batman mentioned the results of his investigation during this period to the White Knight, he might be able to ask for more clues from his mouth.

After all, in the plot, Blood obtained that diary from the Joker's hands. This proves that the Joker had been paying attention to Cat Getan's history early on. If the White Knight was prepared early, he might know some important information.

As a result, the two of them had another big fight after meeting.

According to Ruth's report, the content of the quarrel was unsurprisingly another pile of philosophical thinking. The two of them fully explored issues related to family, children, education, responsibility, etc., and didn't say a single serious thing in the hospital room for two full hours.

Shiler had discovered that the panel attributes of everyone in this universe were very high. One moment he is the world's greatest detective, the next he is the White Knight who surpasses the world's greatest detective, the next he is the strongest Robin, and the next he is stronger than the strongest Robin.

But panel attributes don't represent real strength. Or rather, if they were given infinite time, let them fully think and debate, express their philosophical talents, conduct ideological exchanges and collisions with each other, and then go do serious things, the results should be quite good.

But the problem is, Shiler doesn't have that much time at all. The water they pour into their talents will seriously lower Shiler's efficiency.

And most importantly, the philosophical questions they think about and discuss don't make sense to Shiler. Their feelings for each other are too twisted, neither loving nor hating, not only awkward but also not talking. For Shiler, it's just the difference between chocolate-flavored shit and shit-flavored chocolate.

If he had known it would be like this, Shiler would rather go drink with Nyarlathotep.

But since he was already here, Shiler could only bite the bullet and check the information himself, mainly investigating what happened in Cat Getan Valley back then.

Checking information itself is a very boring thing, which made Shiler quite impatient. This Blood kept calling, wasting his time.

This is no longer a matter that a house can solve. Regardless of what demon you are, give me the house, give me the cat, give me the money, and then fry two dishes for me before you leave.

Shiler's eyes turned, and he thought of a good plan.

However, he first had to finish the work at hand. Just in time, Catwoman came to find him.

When Catwoman walked in, she looked at this spacious and luxurious office and clicked her tongue and said: "You complain there that you don't have enough money, I thought you were really short of money. I didn't expect you to be pretending, you are also a rich man."

Shiler waved his hand and said: "Where did that car finally go? What goods were unloaded?"

"Went to a scrap yard near the south pier." Catwoman sat opposite the table, looking at the Cat Getan map full of sketches, and asked curiously, "What are you doing? Studying urban planning?"

"Studying some historical issues, damn history." Shiler put down the book in his hand and said, "What goods did the driver unload from the car?"

"This is exactly what I want to say," Catwoman said, "Two pieces of equipment that look very new and intact, one look and you know they are the very expensive kind. I was worried they had some high-tech detection means, so I didn't dare to get too close. But that thing must be very valuable!"

"How did the scrap yard handle it?"

"They threw that thing directly into the shredder," Catwoman covered her chest and said, "I dare say that if that thing was resold, it would sell for at least a million. It was shredded just like that!"

"It seems the scrap yard is also colluding with them," Shiler thought and said, "After going to the scrap yard, where did that car go?"

"Oh, this is a bit strange. They should have returned the same way, but I don't know why, they went around to the east."

"What's in the east?"

Catwoman thought for a while and said: "Nothing very special, but if you go further east, it's the Charabanc chemical factory that exploded earlier. Could they be wanting to go there and take a look?"

The clues in Shiler's mind connected immediately, and he said: "Do you have any understanding of the Cat Getan Reservoir?"

"Cat Getan Reservoir?" Catwoman recalled seriously and said, "I really have some impression. It was about ten years ago, when I was still a little girl. The then-new Mayor of Cat Getan announced the abandonment of the old dam and the construction of a new dam."

"At that time, this proposal was opposed by many people. People felt that the original dam was used well, and there was no need to waste tax money to build a new one. And people felt that the old dam had great commemorative value and should not be demolished."

"Later, the two sides argued for a long time, and there were always people parading. The Mayor might have been to keep his approval rating, and finally decided that although the old dam would no longer be used, it would not be demolished, and it would be placed there as a tourist attraction."

"At that time, it was close to Cat Getan's completion anniversary, and many people spontaneously went to the dam to hold commemorative activities. But not long after, the news of the pollution of the Cat Getan Reservoir broke out. I remember I didn't dare to drink tap water at that time, and would rather spend more money to buy bottled water to drink."

Catwoman said a lot about the things back then intermittently, but they were all from the perspective of an ordinary Cat Getan resident, and there was no inside information. But Shiler heard many clues from it.

Catwoman looked at the map on the desktop again carefully, and she immediately recognized the focus Shiler had sketched. She said: "Isn't this the Cat Getan Reservoir?... Wait, you wouldn't be hitting the idea of the reservoir, would you?"

"It's not me hitting the idea of the reservoir," Shiler stood up and picked up a book from the bookshelf behind him, then said, "Do you know that the original Cat Getan Village is in the depths of the reservoir?"

"Cat Getan Village? You mean the little village established at the very beginning?" Catwoman touched her chin and said, "Isn't that something from hundreds of years ago? Why are you investigating this?"

Shiler pointed to the map and said: "If Cat Getan Village is here, why is Cat Getan's city center here?"

"Oh, you mean, you want to figure out why the people who established Cat Getan back then didn't build the city on the basis of Cat Getan Village, but changed to another place, right?"

Shiler nodded.

Catwoman suddenly said mysteriously: "Do you know what the Wei En Group relies on to make its fortune?"

Shiler also gave face and leaned over to ask: "What?"

Catwoman looked left and right, lowered her voice and said: "Smuggling! They were the largest partner of the British East India Company on the east coast of the United States. Whether it is black slaves, spices, textiles, or opium, they all flowed into the United States through the Cat Getan port with the acquiescence of the Wei En family."

"What does this have to do with the problem I want to study?"

Catwoman pointed to the book in Shiler's hand and said: "The book says that Edmund Wei En defeated General Arkham and saved Cat Getan from the evil warlord, right?"

"But if the ancestor of the Wei En family did these things, drove away the unorganized pirates and smugglers, and then brought in the world's largest smuggling company, then this can only be considered dog-eat-dog."

"This angle is quite novel," Shiler paused and said, "Even, the colonial strategy of the East India Company is not very friendly. Their business is much bigger than those pirates."

"That's it," Catwoman said, "If it weren't for cooperating with the East India Company, why would a down-and-out noble from England be able to guard a port with such an important geographical location? I heard that Edmund Wei En was just an ordinary lord. Is it that there was no one left in the British nobility?"

Shiler thought deeper than Catwoman.

In that era, the East India Company was a behemoth. It is no exaggeration to say that this company almost ruled the world. At its peak, it had an army of 260,000 people, and its routes were all over the world. Even the British Emperor had to toast when he came.

It was also this company that used opium to open the Chinese market and obtained astonishing huge profits from such trade, which also triggered the Opium War.

In the process of the development of the New World, of course, there was no shortage of the East India Company. They established colonial points on the east and west coasts of the United States, constantly scraping the wealth of the New World, triggering the Boston Tea Party, causing the British colonists to oppress the United States more and more severely, and finally triggering the North American War of Independence.

In the comics, it is clearly mentioned that Edmund Wei En relied on cooperating with the East India Company to expel the pirates and smugglers of Cat Getan.

Shiler didn't notice this at first because he treated Edmund Wei En as an American. But in fact, Edmund Wei En should be a British person, and an out-and-out British colonist.

General Arkham was also British. The war between the two of them actually belonged to the struggle between colonists for interests, not who saved Cat Getan from whom.

If you have to say it, Wei En might be the more evil one.

The East India Company did things like starving tens of millions of people to grow opium, which belongs to the level where even the devil has to kowtow to them. You expect Wei En, who dared to cooperate with such an organization, to be Cat Getan's savior?

If you think from this angle, then Edmund Wei En didn't want the original Cat Getan Village, but established a new city in another place, and used a flood to submerge the village. Was it really out of his own will?

Or was it that the East India Company, which had ruled the world for a century, also played an important role in it?

(End of chapter)