Chapter 3315: Bloody New City (75)

Schiller didn't want to think hard at all. He nodded perfunctorily. Jason said excitedly: "Although this sounds like that kind of very classic rumor, it may not be unreasonable."

"I believe more that it was Cat Getan that cursed General Arkham. Edmund Wei En killed him and inherited this curse."

"And then?"

"Maybe he didn't know about the curse at first, so he chose to kill General Arkham and inherit Cat Getan Village. But one day he discovered the curse, and in order to get rid of the curse, he chose to leave here and build a new city."

"But this conflicts with your previous deduction."

"It doesn't conflict." Jason said, "To be precise, it just corroborates my previous point of view. The Order of Order was completely using Edmund Wei En, using him to take down Cat Getan Village, and using him to bear the curse."

Jason drew a circle on the table with his finger and said: "Although I don't know much about the British aristocratic system, this Order of Order can publicly rob a car and successfully bring Edmund Wei En to the New World, so they should still have some skills."

"Why not use one of the many nobles in England, but have to use a liar who is considered to be impersonating a nobleman? What is this for?"

"Indeed, in that era, only nobles could be lords. Then why wouldn't it work to find a nobleman with a more certain identity and a better reputation?"

"Of course, it's because more powerful nobles have families. And the other members of the Wei En family where Edmund Wei En belongs all died in the plague, leaving only him."

"The Order of Order's plan was to throw him away after using him. If they used those nobles whose families were still there, it would be difficult to give an explanation to the family after the person was killed. But if they used Wei En, they wouldn't have to. This is the most important reason they chose Wei En."

"I even suspect that the other members of the Wei En family might not have died in the plague, but were killed by the Order of Order. Just like the Order of Order successively murdered Alfred, Fox, and Dr. Thompkins, it was to make Wei En a lonely person, so they could manipulate him."

"After Wei En successfully took down Cat Getan Village and successfully inherited the ruler's curse, the Order of Order thought his mission was completed. They began to do things unscrupulously in Cat Getan Village."

"But they didn't expect Edmund Wei En to be so simple. He discovered the conspiracy of the Order of Order, turned around and chose to cooperate with the East India Company, directly established a new city next to Cat Getan Village, and then built a dam to flood Cat Getan Village, making the Order of Order unable to achieve their goal."

Schiller almost wanted to applaud him. He felt that Jason might have guessed more than half, but there were still some mysteries that had not been solved.

After thinking about it, he said: "The key lies in what the Order of Order wants to do. What made them run thousands of miles to Cat Getan, and for this, they didn't hesitate to take such a big circle?"

Jason shook his head and said: "I guess it might be some religious matters. I don't know much about this, but it definitely has to do with their doctrine."

"Are you talking about fire?" Schiller frowned slightly. He had some research on religion, after all, he was a professional Pope, and he could easily handle various religious allusions.

"The culture of worshipping fire can be traced back to the primitive period. But to talk about a more specific religion, one has to mention the Mithra worship in the Aryan primitive religion. Simply put, it is natural element worship, advocating natural elements such as gold, wood, water, fire, and earth."

"And when it comes to fire, one has to mention one of the most famous religions, which is Zoroastrianism originating from Persia. It is one of the earliest foreign religions introduced to China, which can be traced back to the Northern Wei Dynasty."

It sounds like it's far away, but the matter of Yinglong last time made Schiller understand that the comic world really has gods. And religions are all unfolded around the appearance of these gods.

"Maybe a god shows up in the East and shows up in the West, forming different but very similar religious beliefs. This is not a coincidence, but a proof of the existence of gods."

"From the perspective of religious differentiation, the Order of Order still belongs to Christianity, but it respects fire to destroy the world, which is the biggest difference between them and other Christian sects."

Out of the conjecture that every religion wants to prove that they are the right one, Schiller suspected that this Order of Order might really want to destroy the world with fire to prove that their doctrine is the most correct.

Then, the things they did in Arkham Village at the beginning might have something to do with the destruction of the world by fire. But what is the specific relationship, it depends on what Batman can bring up from under the water.

Batman did not disappoint the two. The photos he brought back this time were not those ordinary broken walls.

This time he went deep into Arkham Fortress and most likely reached the underground prison, taking photos of some amazing anomalies.

Schiller sneaked into the Batcave to watch, didn't communicate with Batman, and didn't know his reasoning ideas. But fortunately, there was Jason. After Schiller printed the photos with gray mist, Jason quickly found clues.

At the bottom of Arkham Fortress, which had been corroded beyond recognition by the river water, some peculiar symbols were left on the walls and floors of the darkest prison. Judging from the shape, someone should have arranged a magic circle here.

In addition, there was a line of words on the wall—"When the stars hang on the treetops, fire vampires burn everything in the darkness in the forest."

No one could understand the runes left on the ground. Neither Jason nor Schiller had seen them. They looked like some self-created symbols, but this sentence was a very important clue.

First of all, it mentions an important factor, which is the forest. There is a forest next to the Cat Getan Reservoir.

In addition, for Schiller, the word vampire is of course not unfamiliar. Didn't Bruce become a vampire?

Of course, these are not the point. The point is "stars". Schiller now has a disease that as long as he sees words related to stars, he wants to catch Nyarlathotep and beat him up.

Although this sentence does not mention words like star descent, star return, etc., Schiller feels that this thing is probably related to the Cthulhu myth system again.

Greed is actually not very interested in Cthulhu myths, because he doesn't like things with strong randomness. Except when others spend money to draw cards.

However, since he got such a clue, he naturally has to go back and study it carefully. So he went to the high tower and turned out the "Necronomicon", preparing to study which blind and foolish big guy pooped without wiping his butt to cause a bunch of things in this universe.

As a result, guess what? He really found an acquaintance, and it was not DC, but Marvel.

As everyone knows, "The Dweller in Darkness" is a famous work in the Cthulhu myth system. Although some concepts proposed by its author are not recognized by enthusiasts, this work is still widely circulated and quite classic.

Its content doesn't need to be said, but there is a very key plot, that is, humans who are about to be driven crazy by the Dweller in Darkness thought of a way to summon the Great Old One Cthugha—represented as a huge big fireball. In the author's pen, it is the representative of fire elements.

Then this big fireball exploded a forest, successfully expelling the Dweller in Darkness—in the novel, it is an incarnation of Nyarlathotep.

Of course, Nyarlathotep is an acquaintance, and a bit too familiar. But the key is not him, but this so-called "Dweller-in-Darkness" is a character in Marvel comics, one of the seven fear lords, a cousin of Nightmare.

This character was later confirmed by Marvel officially as "a reliable successor to Cthulhu". This description probably means that this thing is likely an incarnation of a character in the Cthulhu myth system. Connecting with the original novel, it is highly likely an incarnation of Nyarlathotep.

But this is actually not the point, the key is that when Schiller was reading the information of this character, he found that one of the most famous plots of this character was destroying the M'kraan Crystal, and finally led to the end of the sixth universe.

And it is known that Anatoly used the M'Kraan Crystal to travel through various universe dimensions to collect stellar power, and most likely suffered the curse of the crystal, gathered all misfortunes, and then ran away, leaving this mess to Schiller.

Schiller doesn't believe this is a coincidence. He smoothed out the chronological order slightly. Since the stellar power collected by Anatoly is saved until now, he must have collected it in the seventh universe.

That is to say, the order should be that the incarnation of Nyarlathotep destroyed the crystal to end the sixth universe, and Anatoly used the crystal in the seventh universe to collect stellar power.

The problem now is, did Nyarlathotep reach a deal with Anatoly first, or did he end the sixth universe first?

Schiller always feels it is the former. It is very likely that after Nyarlathotep reached a deal with Anatoly, he ended the sixth universe by destroying the crystal and opened the seventh universe.

But such a big thing as restarting the universe is impossible without the nod of those big guys above. Nyarlathotep, an outsider, is probably just a scapegoat.

Schiller seriously suspects that it is because Anatoly persuaded Nyarlathotep to help Marvel open the seventh universe, and he used the crystal to pluck power everywhere, saving several planets of stellar potion, that he was not hit by those abstract entity big guys.

Otherwise, this kind of behavior of plucking wool and digging walls everywhere is impossible to escape. Not to mention that he also built a big gun, saying that one day he would stab these abstract entities in the ass. These groups of existence have no reason to let him mess around like this.

But if there is a credit for restarting the universe, then things are different. No wonder OAA was the first to tell Schiller that the doctor was not dead. You two have been colluding for a long time, right?

And Nyarlathotep, it's fine if you lend him power, and you even helped him take the blame. Give him the house, give him the money, give him the cat. After that, you cook two dishes for him and leave, right?

This is going far. The key is that Schiller found the information of the Dweller in Darkness, and naturally understood the meaning of the words on the wall under Arkham Fortress.

This refers entirely to the process of summoning Cthugha in the book "The Dweller in Darkness": when the star Fomalhaut reaches the treetop position, chanting the spell, the Flame Vampire, known as the Flame Vampire, descends and burns the N'gai forest where the Dweller in Darkness is located.

So the Order of Order summoned Cthugha in Arkham Village back then?

?? Nyarlathotep, he really made me cry to death

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