Chapter 3318: Bloody New City (78)

If it weren't for the gray mist being professional enough, Schiller would have suspected that this analysis result was wrong. How could this be an ingredient of the Pale Knight's medicine?

The radiation emitted by this substance can even directly create cancer patients. How could the Pale Knight be fine after eating it for so long?

Then Schiller immediately realized that Harley Quinn must know something, because this drug was developed by her.

He went to the hospital where Harley was.

The pregnant Harley was already slightly showing her belly, lying on the hospital bed drinking milk. When Schiller visited, she didn't show surprise, but instead showed an expression of as expected.

"Are you trying to ask me about the Joker and Napier?"

Schiller withdrew his question and nodded. He also really wanted to know what was going on with the Pale Knight.

Harley rummaged through the bedside drawer, handed Schiller a playing card, and said: "I promised him that I would never give up on him. I did it."

"A very touching love story, ma'am, I admire your persistence and courage. But I want to know what this is all about."

"Don't you want to look at it carefully?"

Schiller looked at the playing card. The playing card was tattered, and the key was that the handwriting on it was also very sloppy. It didn't look like it was written by the Pale Knight.

When working in the municipal building, Schiller had seen the Pale Knight approve official documents. His handwriting was very beautiful, and it was a calligraphy style that had been practiced.

Although the handwriting on this playing card carried the writing traces of the Pale Knight, it was obviously not that good-looking, the letters were out of shape, and it took effort to recognize what was written.

Schiller immediately realized what Harley was referring to.

If this playing card was written before Napier got mental illness, then he would definitely write it very seriously, and it was impossible to write it on such a casual playing card, at least he would write it as a love letter. After all, this is a promise written to the person he loves.

But this playing card is so sloppy, it doesn't look like his style at all, so it can only mean that this thing might have been written after he got sick.

But Napier became the Joker after getting sick, and the Joker couldn't say anything to Harley Quinn about not giving up on him, so the appearance of this playing card is very strange.

In this regard, Schiller believes there is only one explanation, that is, the Pale Knight has actually always been there, but he couldn't compete with the Joker for body control, so he couldn't show up often.

It was he who had been calling for help to Harley, and Harley tried every means to come up with a drug to suppress the Joker.

"Do you know Jason?" Schiller asked, "He said that during the process of being kidnapped by the Joker, you helped him."

"Yes, I secretly changed some torture tools and gave him some painkillers to help him carry it through."

"And then you sent him away?"

Harley nodded and said: "Yes. Although the Joker didn't intend to kill him, he just threw him in an alley casually. He wouldn't have survived like that. I found a way to send him to Blüdhaven."

"So you weren't crazy from beginning to end?"

Harley shook her head and said: "No. After Napier went crazy, I was indeed infected by the Joker's madness. But Napier woke me up. In order to save him, I have been pretending to be crazy to gain the Joker's trust."

"Was it also you who helped the Pale Knight imprison the Penguin?"

Harley didn't deny it either, she said: "Yes. I have a reliable friend in Blüdhaven."

Schiller didn't continue to ask, because he could see that Harley didn't want to say it. He just silently remembered this information, ready to check it later.

"Actually, I came to ask you about the drug."

"Drug?" Harley frowned slightly.

"Yes, how did you develop that drug? Do you know the specific ingredients in it?"

Harley showed a slightly embarrassed expression, she said: "Actually, I don't understand pharmacology at all. But I have sufficient opportunities to experiment."

Then she told Schiller how she developed that drug, simply put, it was the exhaustion method.

Harley ran into the drug storage room of Arkham Mental Hospital and took all the mental drugs for the Joker to eat. The Joker didn't seem to worry that he would be cured. In order to see Harley's disappointed expression again and again, he ate them all.

And just like this, Harley found a few drugs that seemed to be relatively effective, and used Batman to let the Joker eat a whole bunch at once, unexpectedly it really worked.

However, when Schiller asked for the specific drug names, Harley couldn't say them either. It could be seen that she really didn't understand pharmacology and couldn't remember the names of those complex drugs at all.

In order to figure this out, Schiller went to Arkham Asylum again. Fortunately, the cameras in the drug storage room were not broken. He flipped through the surveillance footage from the many surveillance screens when Harley robbed the drugs.

At that time, Harley was still wearing the exaggerated Joker girl costume, but she didn't look like a madman, her movements were very agile, and she was also very careful not to touch other things.

However, it was in this footage that Schiller found something tricky. The Joker girl took two cans containing something unknown from under the shelf against the wall. It didn't look like a completely modern drug, but she didn't look carefully at the time, put it in the box and took it away together.

Schiller went to the drug storage room himself, and then found that there was still one can left, placed at the bottom of the edge shelf of the drug storage room. After opening it, the things inside looked a bit like mud. No wonder the gray mist scan of the storage room didn't find this thing at the time, it looked like soil, not like a drug at all.

But after pouring out the mud, Schiller discovered that the color of this soil was darker than the soil common in Cat Getan, and it really looked like the state after the special substance they found in the instrument was ground into powder.

Just when Schiller was thinking about what was special about this thing, he suddenly thought of the map of Arkham Asylum.

He returned to the office upstairs, picked up the sample of the trap booklet, opened the map on the last page and looked at it carefully.

If he remembered correctly, in the comics, the Joker discovered the remains of General Arkham and the truth of the year in the prison under Arkham Asylum.

That is to say, General Arkham was buried here. But according to the truth, someone else was buried here. That is Edmund Wei En, who was killed by Bakar.

There are quite a few prison cells in the underground prison. According to the comic panels, it is impossible to see which prison cell it is.

He searched for a long time inside before finally finding a clue in the prison cell in the corner, successfully finding the leg bone of General Arkham that appeared in the comics.

He didn't need professional equipment to see that this was General Arkham's bone. Then he used gray mist to check the ground, and sure enough, he found a more complete skeleton. Judging from the body shape, it was Edmund Wei En.

If there is no accident, this guy's soul should have fallen into the hands of Etrigan. But he signed the contract himself, so there is nothing to say. However, his physical body appearing here is simply too unreasonable.

In that era, this place was not a prison, and it was quite far from Cat Getan Village and the city center of Cat Getan City later, so it must be a place where birds don't shit. Bakar couldn't have been dueling with Edmund here.

Then whose hands was Edmund's skeleton brought here and buried?

Although it is unbelievable, after excluding all possibilities, only one possibility remains—General Arkham.

General Arkham brought Edmund's body here, buried him, and then died here himself.

Schiller stood in the center of the prison cell, as if seeing a tall man constantly digging a grave. A corpse was lying at his feet, it was Edmund Wei En.

After a while, he threw the corpse into the grave, filled it with soil. Then he sat in the prison cell, quietly leaning against the wall, turning into a handful of dry bones as time passed.

Later, the people who built Arkham Asylum found the nameless skeleton, but because it looked ancient, they didn't pay attention, just dug a shallow pit and threw it in, and piled bricks on the floor above.

In Schiller's memory, this absurd guess became more and more reasonable.

Because Edmund Wei En killed General Arkham back then, Bakar didn't participate in it, so whether General Arkham died or not, only Edmund knew.

And judging from Edmund's series of actions later, he saw through the conspiracy of the Order of Order. Did he see through it himself? Or did someone tell him?

Schiller suspected that General Arkham's so-called fallen corruption was just a disguise. He might have long ago discovered the Order of Order's plot against Cat Getan Village, and when Edmund Wei En came to him for a duel, he told him the truth.

This made Edmund Wei En completely terminate the cooperation with the Order of Order, and brought in the East India Company to compete with it. Then he made a deal with the demon Etrigan to build a dam to flood Cat Getan Village, everything was to prevent the realization of the prophecy.

But why did Edmund choose to let General Arkham bring his body here? What is special about Arkham Asylum?

"I seem to know," the gray mist said, "follow me."

The gray mist gradually sank under the floor, crossed Edmund's grave and continued to sink.

Soon, a huge dark hollow appeared in front of Schiller. He saw countless black crystals like the special substances in the instrument in the pit, densely attached to the soil, spreading from the center to the outside.

This is a huge meteorite crater.

?? The Pale Knight's pit is too much, I'm filling it hard

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"I think I know," the Gray Mist said, "follow me."

The gray mist gradually sank toward the floor, passing the excavation site of Emond's grave and continuing downward.

Soon, a vast, dark void appeared before Shiler's eyes. Within the pit, he saw countless black crystals, similar to the special substances found in instruments, densely clinging to the soil and spreading outward from the center.

This was a massive meteorite crater.

?? Pale, this pit is too much, I'll fill it up fiercely.

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