Chapter 631: Past Events Like Morning Stars (Part 3)

All of this plan started from the time Schiller was on his way to his annual vacation and his car was broken by a Talon.

Schiller considered himself very tolerant, and this tolerance meant that he treated every personality equally.

It didn't mean that personalities representing bad traits should be locked up forever. Since he had already let the moonlight Schiller, who represented violence, out for a breath when he was in Marvel, then it was only natural to let the pathological Schiller out for a breath when he was in DC, right?

Of course, at first, Schiller didn't make this decision. He just planned to get everyone to do some serious work while dealing with the Owls. This "everyone" included the source of all kinds of trivial contradictions in Cat Getan—Batman.

What Schiller said to Batman was all true. He did come to Metropolis, and his first stop for investigation in Metropolis was the Anderson Psychiatric Hospital.

And the reason was nothing special; it was purely an occupational disease. He wanted to see if there was anything in the Metropolis psychiatric hospital that was worth learning from Arkham Asylum.

His infiltration process was similar to Batman's, so he also came to Isabelle's room, and then, from the letter Isabelle left behind, he learned the truth about this psychiatric hospital.

After knowing this, Schiller knew that the opportunity to let some dangerous personalities out for a breath had come.

After he let the pathological Schiller out, the pathological Schiller turned everyone related to this secret experiment—that is, the bank president, the boss of the Pailuo Company, the boss of the Snow Mountain Company, and the female person in charge of this experimental base, Yilaisha—into a serial murder case.

When committing the crime, Schiller buried clues to guide the investigation in the first case, which were the cleaner and the cleaning agent.

The images captured by the surveillance cameras were all carefully designed by him. First, a blurry figure wearing a cleaner's uniform was exposed in the surveillance footage on the roof, guiding Batman to investigate the cleaner. And in the process of investigating the cleaner, he would inevitably find the Snow Mountain Cleaning Company.

Then Batman would discover that if he wanted to use a cleaner to transport corpses, he had to use the large box used by the cleaner.

And with Batman's wisdom, he would certainly notice that there was a problem that couldn't be bypassed when using such plastic boxes to transport corpses, and that was the smell.

And once he wanted to investigate the smell of the cleaning agent, he would definitely find the supplier of the Snow Mountain Cleaning Company, the Pailuo Chemical Raw Materials Production Co., Ltd.

Having found the Snow Mountain Cleaning Company and the Pailuo Company, plus the clues of investigating the bank president, after gathering the information of these three key figures, with the wisdom of Batman and Lex, it wouldn't be difficult to discover that they had unspeakable transactions between them.

And there wouldn't be any abnormalities in the financial statements of these companies. This group of Owls had been dormant here for too long, and they were very familiar with doing such things. And at this step, the only remaining clue was the move of the Pailuo Company wanting to renovate the psychiatric hospital in the western suburbs.

This was indeed very abnormal because renovating this psychiatric hospital required a lot of procedures. In contrast, there were plenty of places in other suburbs of Metropolis. Even if it had to be in the western suburbs, there were better choices. Batman would definitely realize that the Pailuo Company's choice of that psychiatric hospital was not aimless.

After guiding Batman, Schiller still had a line to arrange, and that was to guide Kayla. After learning from the letter that a KGB agent might have died in the hands of the Owls, Schiller knew that if Kayla found clues, she would definitely not sit idly by and would definitely come here to investigate.

But Schiller didn't have any clues that could lead Kayla here. He originally wanted to wait for Kayla to make a move before starting the crime, but he didn't expect Kayla to discover it so quickly, and the timing was almost seamless.

"Fairy Wood Origin"

In Schiller's plan, there was no figure of Constantine and Angela.

But in fact, this plan wouldn't matter even if they were missing. The final result was that Schiller would either die in the fire between the Owls and the KGB, or die in the building's explosion and collapse during their battle. Essentially, there was no difference.

Schiller had used this trick in Marvel before. Once he died, Iron Man and Captain America joined forces to face the outside world, and the demons of the world suffered. He died in DC again, and his friends would join forces to face the outside world, and the Owls would suffer.

More importantly, as long as Batman was involved, during the time Schiller was hospitalized, he would definitely go to trouble the Owls, so he wouldn't have time to return to Cat Getan and circle around with Lex and Clark.

In this way, without the Owls, without the trio fighting every day, and without the aftermath of various events, Schiller could get a stable annual vacation.

Of course, just like all his previous plans, besides this main purpose, there were various other purposes.

For example, making the Owls pay a small price for their act of blowing up the car, for example, deceiving Batman's feelings to let him know that fighting was wrong, and for example, taking the opportunity of faking death to ask Death in this world what was going on with him not being able to die in another world.

From Dream, Schiller knew that members of the Endless family all knew that he would run away from this world. This kind of thing could fool ordinary people, but it was unrealistic to want to fool this group of conceptual gods. So, he planned to ask Death directly what was special about him and why he couldn't die even if he wanted to.

DC's Death personality was weaker and appeared more ethereal, but she still had wisdom and could communicate. At least Dream told him so.

Moreover, he told Schiller that Death would witness the death of everyone, so as long as Schiller died, she would definitely hear what Schiller was asking.

This kind of conceptual god didn't have a state of being too busy. They were almost omniscient and omnipotent. If they found that a person's state was special and paid attention to it, then as long as they wanted to answer, they would definitely be able to answer, and wouldn't be unable to hear because of too many phone calls.

Unfortunately, in this state of death, this group of people would definitely send him to the best hospital, which had the most superb doctors. This group of people was truly good at fighting against the God of Death. Schiller had already suppressed his physiological state to the lowest, but still couldn't die.

This state cycled for a long time. Schiller couldn't help but start to wonder, was this really because the doctors' medical skills were too superb? Or was it that, just like in Marvel, there was a special power refusing him to enter the realm of death.

Logically speaking, it was understandable that Marvel Death wouldn't accept him because Schiller first traveled to this body in DC. According to Fate, after traveling, his soul crossed the Source Wall and went to the Marvel world. In this way, his soul foundation might be in the DC world, and it was normal for Marvel Death not to accept him.

However, DC world's Death also wouldn't accept him, and this point was very strange.

Thinking of this, Schiller began to think about a question, that is, where did the soul of this original Schiller go before he came?

Just as Schiller said to others, all the personalities in his mind palace were actually a kind of trait of his personality, a part of his soul. Therefore, the entire mind palace was his soul.

Therefore, there was no such thing as the original Schiller disguising himself as a personality and hiding in his mind palace, just as one person's soul couldn't hide in another person's soul. A file could be put into a system, but a whole system couldn't be put into another system.

Did the soul of the original body, who was once a KGB spy, really dissipate like this?

Thinking to this point, Schiller began to systematically search his soul, wanting to find abnormal places, but he searched everywhere, and all parts of the mind palace were normal, and the personalities had no problems. Everything was running according to plan.

Thinking and thinking, Schiller looked down at the big hole under his feet. If there was any place that he couldn't control, it was the subconscious below the surface consciousness.

Even Schiller couldn't say that he could 100% control his subconscious, or rather, if the subconscious was really completely controlled, then there would be no meaning to existence.

Every time he went from this hole to the dream realm, the black screen in the middle was not loading the map, but was passing through the subconscious. Because Schiller didn't pay special attention to his subconscious, that place was complete darkness.

Thinking this way, Schiller planned to explore the secrets inside his subconscious to see if he could find clues to the original soul there. Perhaps there were some things that hadn't been discovered that his subconscious had noticed, but his surface consciousness hadn't.

Generally speaking, a person's subconscious is very dangerous, filled with chaos and disorder, and is a part that is not controlled by human rational thinking. But Schiller didn't care. One reason was that he had sufficient confidence in the power within his consciousness, and the other was that he had a big ship.

Schiller first went to the dream world and drove the ship of the underworld over, then followed the hole upward and entered that completely dark consciousness.

There was no direction here, only moving forward by intuition. Schiller didn't bring other personalities, just rowed the boat forward alone silently.

There was no concept of time here. Perhaps an hour had passed, perhaps hundreds of years had passed. Schiller finally found something strange in the endless darkness that was empty.

That was a gray feather.

Because its color was relatively bright, it was like a lighthouse on the coastline in the pitch-black subconscious. Schiller saw it from far away, but didn't dare to approach it rashly.

After rowing the boat over, Schiller found that this feather actually floated toward him. Schiller originally wanted to dodge, but he didn't feel any malice. Then, this feather floated onto the boat and came into Schiller's hand.

After getting this feather, Schiller found that it didn't have any magical aspects. It was just a feather. If he had to say it, it was slightly larger than the goose feather of a domestic goose, and it was gray.

This made Schiller very confused. Even if he didn't find anything, it would be better than finding such a strange thing. When did this thing enter his subconscious?

According to Schiller's ability to control his own consciousness world, if someone entered his consciousness, including the subconscious, he would immediately notice it. Otherwise, he wouldn't dare to let that hole stay there for so long.

Schiller went to the file room again to search all his memories. He was very sure that he didn't notice any abnormalities at all.

Then he thought, if there was a time point when he had absolutely no control over his consciousness, it was when he traveled.

And if there was anyone who could move his hands and feet when he traveled and stuff this thing into his subconscious, it was probably only the soul of the original Schiller.

However, why did he have to put a feather?

Schiller, who returned to his mind palace, felt very confused because he really didn't feel any special attributes on this feather.

Discovering that Death didn't respond to him, and finding this peculiar feather, made the puzzle even more. Schiller didn't feel too disappointed. Originally, these were just incidental purposes. If it could be completed, it would be an unexpected joy; if it couldn't be completed, he wouldn't lose anything.

Discovering that Death really didn't intend to respond to him, Schiller didn't intend to maintain that state of faking death anymore. He directly let the Gray Mist begin to slowly repair his body and get rid of the state of near death.

The light in the emergency room suddenly went out. The doctor who walked out saw Bruce and Lex. Before the two of them asked, the doctor said: "The patient is out of danger. Now transfer to a general ward and wait for him to wake up."

And Schiller, who slowly woke up in the general ward, didn't see Bruce or Constantine at first glance, but another blond man.

Schiller didn't know this man, but he looked very handsome, with blond hair that was dazzling. He walked into the ward and saw Schiller. Before Schiller asked who he was, he spoke first:

"Schiller, what's going on with you? Your phone can't get through, and I sent demons and hounds to find you, but they didn't come back either."

That man looked at Schiller lying on the hospital bed and then said: "Uh, if you are under too much pressure, you don't have to work so hard. How did you get yourself into the hospital?"

He was about to continue speaking, when Schiller stretched out a hand to stop him from speaking, and then asked: "Stop, I have a question, who are you?"

That man revealed a surprised expression, then he looked at the window, took a look at his appearance reflected on the glass, and said: "Wait a minute, what was my appearance when I last saw you, male or female?"

Saying that, his figure changed, and he became a blond beauty again. She brushed her hair and then said: "Now you should recognize me, right? You humans are really troublesome. Every time you have to look exactly the same, otherwise you won't recognize me."

"Still don't recognize me? Did I use this male image before?" After speaking, she changed back.

Schiller looked at her changing back and forth somewhat speechlessly. He said: "This has nothing to do with appearance. Has anyone told you that I have amnesia?"

The blond man asked: "... When did it happen?"

"Just now."

That man was stunned for a moment, and then said:

"My name is Lucifer, Lucifer Morningstar. Remember now?"

Before Schiller could speak, the door of the ward was suddenly pushed open, and a tired-looking Constantine walked in, saying: "Schiller, I avenged you, you..."

Then, he and Lucifer, who was standing in the center of the room, looked at each other. ===== CHAPTER 632 =====