Chapter 3539: Mind Hunter (8)

Schiller and his party found a freight elevator not far from the monitoring room. It was a cylindrical capsule elevator with a very large area, capable of holding dozens of people, and it was operating well.

With the help of the data in the monitoring room, Schiller had roughly deduced the meaning of some Kryptonian characters, especially numbers, so he could understand the meaning of the buttons on the elevator.

Schiller wanted to go directly to the ground, but considering that the scope of the dream might not be that large, H'El might be somewhere in the mine. He chose a middle-layer number, intending to go up and down this floor to find H'El's trail.

The elevator stopped quickly. After he walked out, he looked around, and there were still many pitch-black tunnels. The entire mine was terrifyingly quiet, with only the faint humming of machines and the buzzing of electrical currents from lighting equipment coming from very far away.

Silence represents safety. Schiller thought. When recalling this past, H'El felt very safe; perhaps someone was with him, that was his anchor.

Standing on the edge of the passage and looking down again, Schiller saw light two floors below. That floor was obviously different, looking like a living activity area.

"Will they be there?" Injustice Batman also saw it and asked.

"We can go down and see," Schiller said.

They took the elevator down two more floors. After the elevator door opened, many things became clear.

The closer to the owner of the dream, the clearer the dream becomes. Schiller thought, it seems H'El is on this floor.

To avoid conflict with the locals, they turned the corner at the fastest speed. Schiller took a quick look at the doorplates in the corridor, from left to right getting clearer and clearer.

The doorplate at the end of the left corridor probably only had a number, the middle one had color, and the doorplate of the room on the far right had clear traces of wear.

Even a super brain has a fuzzy algorithm function; unused and unnecessary information will be blurred. And information that is remembered clearly will be expressed more clearly in the dream.

"You stay here and guard," Schiller said to Injustice Superman.

Injustice Superman of course wouldn't be willing to be ordered around, but Injustice Batman stayed behind, so he didn't walk forward again.

Schiller grasped the doorknob, feeling a slightly cool touch. He gently pushed the door open, and behind the door was a lounge with silver-white walls and soft bedding.

A little boy with gray skin was sitting on the bed, fiddling with a toy in his hand. Finding someone coming in, he looked up toward the door.

Seeing him for the first time, Schiller narrowed his eyes, because he found that the young H'El also had very terrifying scars on his face.

Unlike Barry, he was too familiar with this kind of script. The El couple shouldn't have abused him, so the problem was likely with his creator.

Schiller thought of everything he encountered when crossing the deep dream—that terrifying baby, the pliers engraved with Kryptonian characters, the peculiar tentacles...

Schiller thought of a lot, but he still walked over. H'El looked at him curiously and said "Hello" in Kryptonian.

Just looking at him, Schiller could already see some clues. His gaze was placed on the toy H'El was holding.

H'El said a long string of words in Kryptonian. Schiller keenly captured the syllable "Jor-El" from it, with an upward tone and some proud emotions. When mentioning this name, H'El was undoubtedly happy.

Schiller gradually restored the original appearance of this dream—El brought his adopted son with him when he was working. Every ordinary day he was busy with work, little H'El was in his father's lounge, playing with toys while waiting for him to come back.

El was H'El's spiritual anchor. The meaning of El to H'El was like Lois to Injustice Superman.

In the blink of an eye, Schiller had already thought of how to make H'El in this dream lose control.

He looked left and right, and there was nothing in the lounge except a bed, a table, and chairs. He walked to the table and looked, and saw some drawing paper and a row of pens that looked like colored crayons.

Schiller picked up one of them at random and began to outline some lines on a piece of white paper. After a while, he picked up the paper and placed it in front of H'El.

What was reflected in his pupils was the symbol of the High Council.

His eyes revealed horror, his expression began to twist, and he reached out to pat away the paper in Schiller's hand, clutching the toy and hiding in the bed.

Looking at his reaction, Schiller confirmed his guess.

The more impressive things are, the clearer they will be in the dream. When they came up, they saw this pattern on the huge pipe in the center, and even the direction of every fine pattern was very clear. This means that H'El has a deep impression of this.

Schiller also found this symbol on some equipment in the monitoring room. He guessed it might be the symbol of the Kryptonian supreme ruler Council.

This is actually not very normal. It's like you ask someone what the symbol of the ruler of their location looks like, many people can only remember a rough idea, such as what shape it is, what elements are on it, but very few people can tell the fine depiction of every pattern.

Because this thing is not a daily necessity, even if it appears in news reports, no one will look at it carefully, just glance at it and know what it is.

Even with a super brain, a symbol is not something that must be remembered. H'El has left Krypton for so many years, but he still remembers this symbol so clearly, which means this symbol has an extraordinary meaning to him.

Sure enough, little H'El was feeling scared.

Schiller still didn't give up. He held the paper, pointed to the symbol on it, and asked H'El in English: "Do you know what this is? Can you tell me what this is?"

H'El couldn't understand what he was saying, but creatures with empathy don't necessarily have to understand the other party's language to feel what the other party wants to express. Actions, attitudes, tone, and emotions can all make people feel pressure.

Schiller's attitude of constant questioning made H'El even more afraid. His breathing became rapid, and he even threw the toy in his hand at Schiller.

Suddenly, he shouted something, and the whole dream shattered.

Falling into darkness again, Schiller felt the familiar falling sensation. When heading to a deeper dream, this feeling followed like a shadow.

Injustice Superman and Injustice Batman outside the door also fell together. However, this time, they saw clearly how the dream was constructed.

First, some separate items flew over, such as experimental tables, experimental benches, cabinets, chairs. These items rotated constantly in the air, forming a storm.

A sound of water came over, and the surrounding walls seemed to float up from a river, gradually appearing under their feet, and then gathered together to form a room.

The light source was also constantly rotating around the room, suddenly stopping at a certain angle. The furniture fell down with a "swish."

In a flash, this place became an ordinary room, looking like a laboratory.

Outside the window, the sun was bright, the breeze was gentle, and even some kind of bird call came, totally unable to see the chaotic appearance before.

The three of them stood on one side of the laboratory, and on the other side of the experimental bench was a specimen of some animal.

And the most eye-catching thing was that a spherical machine was fixed on the ceiling, with two mechanical arms extending from the lower side of the machine, rotating slowly like tweezers, as if waiting for the next command from the operation end.

Schiller, who saw the shape of these two mechanical arms, felt his breathing slightly stagnant—this was very similar to the tentacle that chased the car.

Schiller walked over and looked up at the machine on his head. There were many holes in the circular machine, and it seemed that different mechanical arms would extend from them.

Injustice Batman walked toward the operation panel on the side. He took a look and roughly understood how to operate this thing.

He reached out and pressed a button, and the mechanical arm on the left bent very nimbly, and the two sharp, tweezer-like tips reached into the wound of the dissected animal and pinched out a milky white nerve.

"Clever design," Injustice Batman said, "If you use Earth's technology as an example, it's probably imitating the movement method of an octopus arm. It's just that I don't know what kind of method they used for the design of the contact points..."

Schiller looked at the animal lying on the dissection table. It was an animal about the size of a wild boar, but with a long nose and a smooth skin surface, and a knife cut open on its abdomen.

Schiller looked up at the mechanical arm again, and then he found that the two tips of the mechanical arm that chased the car in the deep dream were obviously much larger, which is why they looked like monster teeth.

"Get it down," Schiller pointed to the animal on the dissection table.

Injustice Batman followed suit and manipulated the mechanical arm to push the wild boar-like animal down.

And Schiller made a move that surprised both Injustice Batman and Injustice Superman.

He lay on the dissection table himself.

That's right. Schiller thought while lying here, looking from here, the pair of tips would indeed look very large.

He sat up again and then said: "You two go find H'El, he should be in the room next door. Bring him here."

Injustice Superman wanted to refute again, but thinking of Schiller's sudden action of lying on the dissection table, he felt that this person was a lunatic. Plus Injustice Batman was waiting for him at the door, so he simply went out.

Schiller sorted out the clues he had obtained in his mind.

There is no doubt that H'El has some childhood trauma. He might have been in a laboratory being experimented on when he was a child, so he had a deep impression of the mechanical arms waving non-stop above his head.

At that time, he was very afraid, so he turned the mechanical arms into terrifying monster tentacles that were many times larger and constantly chasing every living creature in his memory.

Then it seems that other monsters are the same.

Just thinking of this, Injustice Batman and Injustice Superman brought H'El in. It's just that they didn't bring him in, but dragged him over directly.

It seems that the young H'El didn't have such powerful strength, at least not Injustice Superman's opponent, and was easily dragged into the laboratory.

His mouth was shouting something, and Schiller heard the same syllable. He guessed it might mean "Dad" in Kryptonian.

Upon seeing the mechanical arm behind Schiller, H'El let out a scream. The dream shattered instantly.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 3540 =====