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Chapter 594

~10 min read 1,989 words

"Professor Shiler, I must remind you that all the cats in this Crazy Cat Asylum are very dangerous. They are the most heinous criminals I arrested during the process of renovating this city. Contacting them is probably not a good idea."

In the gloomy hospital, the blue-eyed black cat walking in front was fully armed. Countless visible and invisible equipment hung on his vigorous body. And the other black cat only carried a simple gray exoskeleton. His gray eyes appeared somewhat bright in the corridor.

"Don't mind it, Batman cat. I have already told you about my background. I'm just curious about these lunatics. Of course, if I can cure one or two of them, it would be good for you and for this city, wouldn't it?"

Batman cat was just about to speak, but Shiler continued to ask: "Speaking of which, why don't you just kill them? If you ask me, these heinous criminals have no need to live in this world. Wouldn't it be better to free up the hospital for more patients who need it?"

Batman cat seemed to be stumped by this question. He paused for a moment and then said somewhat unnaturally: "No, if they committed crimes because of mental problems, then they don't deserve to die."

"Then if their mental problems are innate and they can't control them themselves, then they are actually innocent and should enjoy the same freedom rights as others, shouldn't they?"

"But I can't let them go out and commit crimes again. This is irresponsible to those citizens who obey the law." Batman cat answered.

"Then if you kill them, they will never commit crimes again."

"You seem to hate criminals more than I do?" Batman cat paused and turned to look at Shiler.

Shiler didn't stop. While walking toward the depths of the corridor, he said: "I have already told you about my background. Why do you think I was investigating those serial murder cases?"

Batman cat didn't answer, because he didn't know the answer, or rather, the answer he guessed made him feel that it didn't fit his understanding of Shiler.

156n.

Shiler wouldn't be investigating all the serial murder cases just because he hated criminals, right? Compared to such a righteous matter, Shiler still gave him the feeling of a high-IQ criminal addicted to the stimulation of serial murder cases.

Batman cat stopped his footsteps and didn't follow Shiler forward anymore. He just stared at Shiler's departing back, as if comforting himself, stepped on the ground with his claws, and then turned and left.

When he left the hospital gate, he flicked a controller beside his neck. All the monitoring equipment here was turned on. Batman cat felt that he might be able to find evidence of Shiler's crimes from Shiler's so-called treatment.

Standing outside the hospital gate, Batman cat recalled his encounter with Shiler the cat. Not long after that strange tower appeared, a cat that had never appeared on Cat Getan's citizen list appeared in the monitoring equipment.

This city wasn't without outsiders, but they would soon be assimilated. And unlike other outsiders, Shiler had no intention of avoiding the monitoring equipment. Or rather, it was precisely by looking directly at the monitoring equipment that he attracted Batman cat's attention.

Batman cat personally sought him out, but Shiler had clearly learned about this city through other citizens. Shiler proposed to do that potential criminal possibility test. Batman cat had no reason to refuse.

The higher the score, the more likely to commit a crime. Batman cat had great confidence in this test system of his, until Shiler got a score of 0 in this test.

Shiler told him about his background. He claimed to be a university professor who had been investigating various serial murder cases before coming to Cat Getan, and only came here to take refuge after provoking a troublesome opponent.

He sincerely asked Batman cat to take him in and proposed that he actually had a better way to end the chaos here. Batman cat couldn't believe a stranger and outsider just like that, but that test method he had always been proud of told Batman cat that Shiler should be the person he could trust the most, because his possibility of committing a crime was zero.

Before meeting Shiler, Batman cat believed in this system deeply. And when the impossible happened, he instinctively didn't want to admit that there was a problem with this system of his. He tried several test methods and used all means, but Shiler's score was always zero. In other words, he was even more qualified to rule this city than Batman cat, because Batman cat's score wasn't lower than his.

Batman cat regarded Shiler as an experimental subject, and at the same time didn't mind getting some suggestions from him. The renovation plan for the patrol route given by Shiler achieved good results, which made Batman cat realize that Shiler could get a zero score not without reason. Perhaps he really had enough experience in stopping crime.

Batman cat never trusted Shiler, but he hoped to use this person to achieve his goal.

At the same time, he fell into some entanglement. His intuition was telling him that Shiler must be a criminal, and the kind of most dangerous criminal who should be locked in the bottom layer of the Crazy Cat Asylum.

But the test system told him that the facts were exactly the opposite. There was no one kinder than Shiler.

If he believed his intuition, it would prove that the entire test system was wrong. In other words, all the identifications he had made before were wrong. Those he thought were good people might be bad people, and those he thought were bad people actually needed protection.

Batman cat couldn't afford such a result. He refused to admit that his renovation over the past few years was a waste of effort, so he could only pretend to trust Shiler to add confidence to himself and not let himself fall into a logical contradiction dead loop.

But at the same time, that suspicion made him want to find Shiler's flaws.

So, he didn't refuse Shiler's proposal to go see the place where the most dangerous criminals were locked up. He thought that if Shiler stayed with those criminals, he would likely reveal his true colors.

Then, ten minutes after Shiler entered the Crazy Cat Asylum, all the monitoring went offline.

Batman cat, who had just returned to the Batcave, looked at the pitch-black screen and narrowed his eyes. But the emotion that appeared in his heart wasn't anger, but joy, as if it were the excitement of finally catching an opponent's flaw.

So, he began to prepare equipment, preparing to go to the Crazy Cat Asylum himself to deal with Shiler.

In his view, Shiler couldn't cause any trouble, because he had very strong confidence in the imprisonment measures he had set up. He had captured many criminals, and all facilities were set up according to the weaknesses of these criminals, having undergone countless safety checks to ensure nothing went wrong. Even if Shiler cut off the monitoring, it was impossible for him to release these dangerous criminals.

In the pitch-black Crazy Cat Asylum, Shiler walked leisurely in the corridor. Rather than a hospital, it was more like a very perfect prison. There wasn't even any medical staff here. All nursing was automated by machines, and therefore there was almost no route to escape.

The Superego who threw him out still had a bit of conscience, letting him bring the Gray Mist out together. Shiler used the Gray Mist disguised as an exoskeleton to paralyze all the monitoring and security equipment here, and then began to search room by room.

Since all the residents were cats, it didn't look much like a mental asylum, but rather felt like the base of a black-hearted cat dealer. All the cats were locked in cages. Different cats had different cages. Looking around, it was a bit cute, but also filled with a strange atmosphere.

Every time Shiler passed a hospital room, he shouted to the sick cat inside: "Hello, may I ask if you have seen a green cat? The kind that laughs!"

"Hello, have you seen a green cat? Or the top of the head and ears are green, likes to laugh, should be an old rival of Batman cat..."

"We are all old rivals of Batman cat." A low voice came from the end of the corridor. Shiler walked over. He saw that a cat with black and white patterns was lying in that cage, but the difference was that there were many tubes inserted into his body.

Looking at the familiar line direction, Shiler had a guess about this cat's identity, so he said: "Hello, I'm looking for a green cat. Do you know where it's locked?"

"Are you a new machine made by Batman cat? It's made quite like it, but this kind of old-fashioned trick has no new ideas."

"Can you tell me where a cat with green on its body and laughs is?" Shiler just kept repeating this question. Finally, that black and white cat with a pile of tubes inserted into him said: "Fine, if you insist, that lunatic is on the bottom floor, just below this cell of mine."

"You're lying. If there really were such a cat, you two should be locked on the same floor. After all, for Batman cat, your danger level might not be less than his."

At this time, that cat, who was lazily lying on the ground only moving his tail, finally raised his eyes to look at Shiler, and then he heard Shiler say:

"All the monitoring robots and security robots here have been destroyed by me. I know you don't believe it, thinking this might be Batman cat's trap, but if I'm not mistaken, Batman cat thinks you have a dependency on the liquid in the tank behind you, but actually, that's just a trap of yours..."

That cat finally climbed up slowly, shook the fur on his body, stared at Shiler with dangerous eyes, and asked him: "Who are you? Another Joker cat? Only he has seen through my disguise..."

"That's not important." Shiler stood in front of the cell door, stood up with the help of the cell bars, and then used his claws to hook the door lock. The black and white cat inside the cell said: "Don't waste your effort. Even if you cut off the signal, the physical protection performance of this door lock is..."

"Click."

The door lock was opened from the inside. The cell door opened a crack directly. At that moment, the cat inside rushed out with lightning speed.

Then, he stood in the corridor, turned his head, looked at Shiler, and said: "If letting me out is part of Batman cat's plan, I can only tell him that he is very wrong."

As he spoke, he turned to leave. Shiler called him back and said: "Let's introduce ourselves first. What's your name?"

"You can call me Bane cat." That cat licked his paws. Shiler looked at him and said: "I let you out, which is equivalent to doing you a favor, so shouldn't you also do me a favor?"

"What do you want to do?" Bane cat turned to look at Shiler. He had a strange feeling. His intuition was telling him not to approach the cat opposite him. He might be even more dangerous than Batman cat or Joker cat.

Then, he saw the cat opposite him smile, revealing two sharp teeth hidden in his mouth. The gray pupils emitted a faint shimmer in the darkness. He heard Shiler say:

"Go, let all the cats here out..."

"I want to let Batman cat understand a truth, that is..."

"A cat dressed as a bat is the one who is crazy."

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