Chapter 3390

Schiller walked over and found that it was a spiral mine tunnel leading downward, with a deep well in the middle leading to the deeper part of the mine. There were clearly traces left by people here, which looked like Natasha and Arkham Batman.

"These two lunatics wouldn't have jumped down directly, would they?" Schiller looked at the footprints on the edge of the deep well and said, "I wouldn't be this crazy even in the high tower."

"What is that?" Strange pointed to something below. Schiller looked down, and there was a lamp there, as if there were a room. The light was very faint; if you didn't look carefully, you couldn't see it. If you jumped down directly, you probably wouldn't stop here.

Of course, the two of them wouldn't choose to go to the bottom of the deep well directly; even if they knew there was a problem there, they could only walk over slowly. So they planned to go to that door first to take a look.

The two walked down the spiral passage and came to the door. Schiller pushed the door lightly and found it wasn't locked. He walked in cautiously.

Unexpectedly, there was no dust here. When he saw the nurse's uniform hanging by the door, Schiller understood what was going on.

There were two special existences in the hospital: one was the nurse, and one was the bear orderly. Both of them were wandering in the inner layer of the hospital.

Schiller had asked Manny before: "Why can't the corridor outside the operating room be walked, but one must return to the front desk through the passage and then go to another operating room through another passage?"

Manny's answer was: "That's not my place."

That is to say, only the two ends connected by the passage were the hospital range that Manny could control. Each room was independent, like different USB drives plugged into a computer, all leading to the computer, but unable to connect directly to each other.

And the parts outside this, the bear orderly and the nurse could come and go freely. This proved that they were different from Wood and Mr. Raven; they didn't work inside the hospital, but were more like an external monitoring system.

According to previous speculation, if the monster being cultivated was a trap, then someone had to be watching nearby. The nurse and the bear orderly should be playing such roles.

Schiller began to rummage through the nurse's residence, and soon found a photo under the bedside table. He saw the nurse's face in the photo, but it was a younger version, looking more like a living person than the later gaunt appearance.

In the photo, she was standing with the same few young people, with a building behind them, looking like some research institute. A gear was drawn on the building's logo.

"It seems the nurse comes from the Steam Empire."

Suddenly, the two heard movement outside the door. Schiller immediately gave Strange a look. He approached the door and looked out through the crack; a figure was running wildly toward here.

Strange thought it would be some victim being chased by the nurse, but when he looked closely as the figure approached, it was actually the nurse herself, stumbling and running forward.

"She might want to rush in." Strange said.

"Knock her down when she opens the door." Schiller said. Because he had heard Pride talk about it before, Batman relied on a sneak attack to subdue the nurse, which proved that although she was a bit terrifying, she wasn't actually that strong.

Schiller and Strange both leaned against the door, seeing the figure approaching. Just as that person was about to reach out to pull the door, Strange made a fierce bump, and with a bang, the nurse was knocked to the ground.

Taking this opportunity, the two quickly slipped out of the doorway, ran down the spiral staircase without looking back, and didn't dare to look up until they had run down two floors.

A figure was slowly approaching the nurse sitting on the ground.

"Who is that?" Strange asked with some doubt.

Schiller's expression suddenly changed. He hurriedly pulled Strange, ran all the way down, didn't stop at all in the middle, and ran all the way to the bottom of the deep pit before he had time to catch his breath.

Strange was also exhausted, and he gasped and said, "Why are you running so fast?"

"Do you remember what I said... there might be new players joining?"

"What's wrong?"

"That should be a new player, but an old acquaintance." Schiller leaned against the wall and gasped for a while before catching his breath.

Strange asked him who it was, but Schiller shook his head and didn't speak. The two had to continue walking forward.

There were two passages under the deep pit; Schiller chose the wider one, and after walking to the end, he found a large door with a lock.

The shape of the keyhole was quite peculiar; Schiller knew at a glance that it should correspond to the key to the hospital's front door. Manny had given him the key that night.

Suddenly at this time, footsteps came from behind. Schiller turned around quickly and looked at the passage behind him. Walking over was Natasha supporting Stark, and Arkham Batman.

Schiller breathed a sigh of relief and said, "How did you come? Tony, what's wrong with you?"

Stark waved his hand and said, "There's a big guy underneath, a bit tricky, we can't deal with it now. The trap Batman set temporarily trapped him. We still have to go back and think of a way."

"Did you fall down directly?"

Stark nodded and said, "Fortunately, I was testing the mecha at that time, otherwise I would have really lost my life."

"What on earth is that thing?"

"A strange monster modified by machinery, it looks ugly, but it cries like a little girl." Stark said with a frown, "It's about six or seven stories high, and has many metal arms; that's the thing that reached out and dragged me down."

Schiller could basically be certain now that it was the Steam Empire that made the move, but this wasn't within the scope of his main storyline. So he just briefly introduced what he knew.

"Alright." Stark gritted his teeth and said, "I will let them know what real steam technology is."

Schiller took out the key to the hospital's front door and said, "If nothing goes wrong, the truth of the plague should be behind the door. Our main story should also end here."

"The problem now is, who should I hand the hospital and the money I earned to..."

"Does this even need to be said? Of course it's me!" Stark raised his voice and said, "I will give them a good look!"

"Although I also hope you help me teach them a lesson, clearly, I still like some more practical things."

"What do you want?" Stark asked.

"Do you have any Doujie Coins?"

Stark nodded.

"How many do you have?"

"About 800 or so." Stark curled his lips and said, "I bought all the gift packs in the mall, and there are also high-level battle passes, monthly cards, annual cards, and so on..."

Schiller gasped; this damn wealthy person!

"100 Doujie Coins, no bargaining. Otherwise, I'll sell it to Batman, and then all the equipment in this entire mine and hospital will belong to him."

"No!" Stark said, "He's too annoying. If he becomes the owner of the hospital, he will definitely renovate this place to be particularly ugly. I can't stand his dark, gloomy aesthetics..."

Natasha nudged Stark with her elbow, signaling that there was a Batman here. But Arkham Batman didn't care at all. He wasn't that kind of scientific research and infrastructure player; he was an assassin.

And he agreed with Stark's point of view. His suit was considered very fashionable among all Batmen, and he also felt that his counterparts were sometimes too cookie-cutter.

"50." Stark cut it in half directly.

"80, no more bargaining. I have already sorted out the management of the hospital, and all departments are in good order. There is such a large space underground; as long as you continue to run it, this is a base that can be completely self-sufficient."

Stark thought about it, but he was full of anger at being plotted against, so he nodded and said, "Alright, just 80. I'll transfer it to you when I get out."

Schiller nodded with satisfaction, then took out the key and opened the door—as expected, this was a complete chemical factory. All kinds of metal pipes, gas tanks, and liquid pumps were available.

At the end of the room, countless dense pipes led to one glass jar after another. The glass jars contained mummified corpses of various forms, and the corpses showed different symptoms: Black Death, Silver Moon Epilepsy, Ore Disease, Tentacle Parasitism...

Countless plague bacteria were produced here, spread to all places through the town's sewage system, and finally triggered the great plague.

Schiller sighed lightly; at least their story line was already very complete.

In general, it was that hundreds of years ago, someone persecuted a little girl, and then the Steam Empire used this to cultivate a monster to guard against neighboring countries. The method was to build a base underground to trigger the plague, let the little girl who had been modified and had a special constitution absorb the souls of the patients who died of the plague, and turn into a big bomb buried underground.

Schiller saw the inscriptions on the wall gradually change, turning into a line of words—"Truth of the plague has been investigated, please make your choice."

Another line of words slowly emerged: "Important choice: It is highly likely to cause turmoil in the world situation, please choose carefully."

Schiller just glanced at it, then turned to Arkham Batman and said, "Help me destroy this place, thank you."

Arkham Batman nodded and went to set explosives. But just at this moment, another familiar figure walked in from the door; it was the bear orderly.

"Do you really want to do this?" The bear orderly asked, "Our neighbors have always been restless. They have always wanted to use the convenience of magic to raid Westchester, but they were wary of the arrangements we made here, so they didn't make a move."

"Manny is the best deterrent to them; just sacrificing some descendants of cultists can ensure that the two major empires won't go to war and can save more people. And if you destroy this place, they will probably make a move immediately, which might trigger a world war..."

"If you didn't say this, he might not have made up his mind yet." Strange said with his arms crossed, "But if you say this can trigger a world war, he's probably determined to blow it up today."

When he said this, Schiller was already gone. He went to help Arkham Batman set explosives.

The bear orderly was choked, he looked around helplessly and said, "I said, this might trigger a war of the whole world! You can't do this!"

"We didn't do it, Schiller wants to blow it up." Natasha said.

"Then you should stop him..."

Several people looked at the bear orderly with contempt at the same time. Strange sneered and said, "If you don't stop him, at most the two empires will fight. If you stop him, maybe an alien civilization will run out tomorrow and fight an interstellar war with you."

"That's right," Natasha nodded and said, "if you are all wiped out together, and don't have a chance to fight a world war, it can be considered once and for all."

Just as the bear orderly wanted to say something, Schiller appeared behind him, kicked him out of the door, and then slammed the door shut with a bang.

"You go hide over there, the range of the bomb is limited, it won't blow you up. Don't come out until the movement outside subsides." Schiller pointed to the corner of the room.

Natasha looked at him with some doubt and asked, "Why? Isn't it safer to hide outside?"

Schiller shook his head and said, "For the sake of you helping a lot, I'll give you two pieces of advice."

"First, in the remaining game time, don't trust anyone who looks exactly like me. Second, never turn your back on anyone."

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Along with the smoke from the bomb explosion, the figures of Schiller and Strange gradually disappeared from the room.

After a brief silence, a miserable scream suddenly came from outside the door, which could vaguely be heard as the voice of the bear orderly.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh——"

The scream stopped abruptly, and the atmosphere became dead silent.

?? Stomach hurts, a bit late, sorry

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