Chapter 4237

Bruce listened as the agent recounted what he had seen in the real world, his brows furrowing in confusion before he asked, "If this is your brother's plan, how can he be certain he can seal the evil spirit within a single body? Does he have any background in the occult?"

"He naturally has his own methods," the agent said. "You can figure it out yourself: he has been in the spirit world for so long that it's impossible he was just hiding from that evil spirit; he must have been doing something else. That is what we need to find out in the spirit world."

"You said he has the ability to track spirits, so is there a possibility that he is tracking something else here?"

"What do you think is here?"

Bruce shook his head and said, "It is already clear that the evil spirit manipulating the clown actor, Aunt Kane, and all the mummified corpses must be high-ranking members of the Mormon Sect. However, as I said before, the Mormon Sect would not destroy the town. The person who caused the town's decline overnight was someone else. Who exactly this person is, I do not know. But I feel we should go to the waterfall and take a look."

The agent nodded, and the two walked out of the church together. On the way, Bruce told the agent about the memories he had seen in the cave behind the waterfall.

"So that's how it is," the agent said. "That evil spirit told many lies, but there is one thing he likely didn't lie about: that Bingo Burger, who appeared to be Linda's younger brother, was actually her son. This little boy must have been very intelligent, and it was precisely because he was intelligent enough that he drew the wariness of the Mormon Sect's high-ranking members. The thing these cults, which control others through brainwashing and hypnosis, fear most is a natural-born evil seed."

Bruce had a deep understanding of this. Moral education itself is a form of brainwashing. So, can evil geniuses whose natures cannot be reversed by the moral education of normal society be brainwashed by evil?

Perhaps those with only a bit of cleverness or those who are not evil enough would choose to join and climb the ranks. But just like the evil geniuses of Gotham City, there is a type of person who is naturally unable to integrate into any society.

They live in normal society, and they oppose normal society; they live in a cult society, and naturally, they will oppose the cult society. They are isolated islands in the mountains, hungry wolves among the flock. Their evil and cruelty never stem from the need for profit, but to satisfy their own mental enjoyment. This mode of obtaining pleasure is innate. If brainwashing were useful, they wouldn't be unable to integrate into normal society.

And if such people happen to have extremely high IQs, they are a disaster for any society. Every society needs stability, and a society led by a cult, because it is anti-human, requires even more extreme stability and order to keep believers firmly under control. Once an evil genius of this kind appears within such a group, the consequences will be catastrophic.

Think about it: if the Joker fell into a cult, what would happen? Can you expect the cult to brainwash him? Can you expect him to follow the doctrines and persecute others in a religious way? Or can he become a great hero, point out the errors of the cult, and liberate all the believers?

Of course he wouldn't do that; he would only treat these people as buzzing flies, feeling annoyed and bored. Then, when his anger accumulated to a certain point, he would send all these annoying bugs to meet Satan.

And judging by the final outcome of the town, someone must have done exactly that. He destroyed almost the entire town, wiped out these cultists and believers who had controlled this place for hundreds of years, and forced those Mormon Sect high-ranking members to create a self-deceiving perfect society in the spirit world.

Judging by various clues, the person most likely to have done this is little Bingo, who was roasting fish in the cave.

However, there are some questions. The agent had more contact with Linda, and he knew that the child's skeleton dug up from the cemetery was indeed only about four years old; it couldn't have been any older. How did this four-year-old child wipe out the entire town?

Even a master of poison like Scarecrow was probably still playing in the mud at four, right? And it's unlikely that a bomb fanatic like the Joker could get his hands on a large bomb at that age.

The agent felt that this evil spirit was probably not so easily eliminated; after all, his ability was possession. If he couldn't win, he could run away, and if he couldn't run, he could hide. To completely eradicate this evil spirit, he had to figure out how the culprit who wiped out the town back then managed to do it.

The two arrived near the waterfall in the spirit world. As soon as the agent approached, he smelled a scent of blood. Bruce shook his head at him and said, "Peter killed someone here who attacked him, and we put the body in that cave."

The agent did not let his guard down; he looked left and right, and it was no different from the waterfall in the real world. When Bruce led him near the cave entrance, he seemed to faintly hear some sounds.

"Did you hear anything?" the agent asked.

Bruce shook his head and said, "No, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, let's go in."

As soon as they went in, they saw a very bloody scene. The human remains that Peter had carried in earlier were piled up there. However, Bruce immediately discovered something unusual and said, "This stuff has been moved."

He began to search the surroundings for traces like footprints, but found nothing. The agent, however, held his breath and focused, saying, "I really heard something, it sounded like birds chirping."

"Birds chirping?" Bruce frowned and listened carefully. He had wanted to say that it was normal for there to be birds in the forest, but he thought of his previous experience coming to the forest; this forest didn't seem to have any birds. Whether in the real world or the spirit world, he had never heard birds chirping.

The agent walked out, climbed to the top of the waterfall, and then went down to the bottom. He stared at the lake surface and said, "It seems to be at the bottom of the water."

"At the bottom of the water?!" Bruce frowned deeply.

The agent had already quickly taken off his coat and jumped directly into the water. Bruce did not go down, but stayed on the shore to provide support. He watched as the agent's figure quickly disappeared into the water.

The agent swam downstream, but as he swam, he discovered that he didn't seem to need to breathe anymore, as if he had turned into a fish and could move freely in the water.

Immediately after, he felt his body lighten, as if he had landed on the ground. He looked around; it was a bit dark here, so he couldn't see anything clearly, but there was a point of light ahead, so he walked in that direction.

After approaching the point of light, he discovered it was a pink sphere, about as tall as a person. The agent reached out and touched the sphere lightly, and then felt a huge suction force, and his consciousness went blank for an instant.

When he woke up again, he suddenly discovered that he had appeared in a pink room. The surrounding walls were translucent pink, and looking out from the walls, he could see countless round, pale pink rooms, just like fish eggs squeezed together.

The agent heard some movement behind him; he turned his head and saw a little boy sitting behind a table, quietly watching him.

Although this little boy was young, his face looked seventy percent like Linda's. The agent tentatively called out, "Bingo?"

"It's me. Your brother told me you don't like to waste time, and neither do I, so I will tell you the truth as briefly as possible."

"The destruction of the town was indeed my doing. I can't say it was out of justice, probably just revenge. Because they killed me, I had to kill them too. Things are just that simple."

"Those bastards forced my mother, which ultimately led to my birth. But unfortunately, my mother was a foolish and awkward woman. She felt she should hate this child, but the motherhood brought about by hormonal changes made her unable to completely abandon this child. And because I wasn't liked by my biological father, my grandmother also hated me and my mother deeply. We two could only rely on each other, so we actually had deep feelings."

"After giving birth to me, because I was the Elder's 13th child, my brothers and sisters, in order to suppress me, spread rumors that I was the son of Satan, making up all kinds of lies to make the Elders hate me even more. My grandmother acted according to their mood, constantly abusing me and my mother. For a long time, we didn't even have enough food to fill our stomachs."

"However, it wasn't entirely a rumor. Because my grandfather, that is, my nominal father Burger, was a person who had received modern education and was quite intelligent. He taught me how to use modern equipment, which allowed me to learn a lot of knowledge from the radio. In order to get food, I made some small tools to catch fish, and the results were quite good. I would eat part of it myself and take the rest back to my mother. That was the only way we could survive."

"But when those people discovered that this couldn't defeat the two of us, they found a way to separate me from my mother. They sent my mother to the farm to do the dirtiest and most tiring work, and left me for my grandmother to take care of, but she only knew how to abuse me."

"Although I had a way to get food, without my mother covering for me, I was discovered once when I went to the waterfall. They found me catching fish, and they were salmon with roe. They claimed this was an extremely evil demonic act, so they planned to burn me to death at the stake."

"Just at this time, I learned something from the radio news, which was the issue of illegal discharge and water pollution in the industrial zone of Xivi City. A year before I died, the mayor of Great Canyon Town accepted bribes from Xivi City councilors, connected factory pipes to the nearby water system, and discharged a large amount of untreated factory sewage. Besides various heavy metals exceeding standards, there was also a very special excitatory neurotransmitter, commonly known as a stimulant. For a year, the town's residents and tourists had been drinking this sewage."

"So, I imitated the tone of a tourist and wrote a letter exposing this matter, but deliberately sent it to the mayor's desk. And this news reached Xivi City. In order to protect their own futures, the councilors personally planned an unprecedented tragedy, manipulating the water supply system to release a chemical raw material into the entire town that would cause chronic poisoning. Ultimately, within a month, everyone was dead."

The agent frowned slightly and said, "That sounds too crazy."

"There's nothing crazy about it. Councilors, factory owners, mayors, and cultists, they collude with each other but also oppose each other. When there are common interests, they can cooperate; once a conflict occurs, they will push the other party off a cliff at the first opportunity."

"Most city councilors have strong political backgrounds, factory owners have money, and the mayor has a guard force in his hands. Only these cultists are just tools used to amass wealth. They overestimated their own importance, and when it was time to be discarded, they were discarded without hesitation."

"As for those ordinary people brainwashed by the cult, in this game, they don't even count as foils, they are just fools who got implicated."