Chapter 945: Schiller

Seeing the knife Constantine handed over, Batman, who had just finished listening to Constantine's experience, asked: "How tall was the teenager Schiller you saw?"

Constantine recalled and said: "He looked like he was less than 6 feet tall."

"In other words, this memory you experienced should be earlier than the memory we are in now."

"You said you encountered a man and a woman in the memory, mentioning Patient No. 1, experiments, and test subjects. That is to say, Schiller might have been a test subject of some mysterious organization, and at the age of about 15, he held a cold weapon and killed more than ten fully armed security personnel with full magazines of bullets."

Constantine sighed and said: "I am sure he has this ability. His strength is astonishing. If I have to describe it specifically, I think, in the case of the same age, his strength might be 2~3 times yours."

Batman's pupils shrank, and he said: "How is it possible? Humans cannot have such strength. I mean ordinary humans..."

"Do you think he is an ordinary human?" Constantine asked back. But Batman said: "You used electric shock to paralyze him, but he didn't turn into a cloud of mist. Perhaps at that time, he didn't have this ability. Otherwise, you couldn't have driven away from there. He could easily catch up with you."

"The knife you got also has no special power. In the case of him being so thin and weak and having so little muscle mass, it is almost impossible for him to explode with such powerful strength."

When he said this, Batman froze for a moment. Constantine saw his expression and asked: "Did you think of something?"

"If I have to say, under what circumstances can a person who is almost untrained, very thin and weak, and not old, explode with strength far beyond ordinary people, then there is only one possibility—he lifted the brain's restriction on muscles."

"And under normal circumstances, humans cannot do this, unless he falls into a state of extreme mental excitement, commonly known as a mental illness onset."

"Boom," a loud noise came, and the two turned their heads to look at the window on the door at the same time.

Suddenly, a scream came from upstairs. Constantine immediately rushed to the door and said: "It's Zatanna. She probably ran into Schiller."

Both of them knew clearly that even if they had their own agendas on this journey, they must unite at this moment. If there was no Zatanna, the difficulty of them leaving here would increase linearly, not to mention taking away any weakness items.

The two rushed out of the room and came upstairs. Sure enough, they saw Schiller in a straitjacket blocking Zatanna in the Follow-up Visit Room.

Apparently, Zatanna also entered from that door, but as soon as she entered, she ran into Schiller who was patrolling on this floor.

"I'll go lure him away. You take Zatanna to that utility room, and we'll meet there later."

After saying this, Batman rushed out immediately, successfully attracting Schiller's attention and bringing him to the other side of the corridor. Constantine rushed up and helped the panting Zatanna up.

Zatanna seemed to be a bit frightened and appeared a bit lost. Constantine dragged her downstairs, and she didn't say a word until they came to the utility room, when she regained a bit of her senses.

Soon, Batman also returned. He looked at Zatanna and said: "What did you encounter in the memory space? Tell us about it."

Zatanna shook her head hard and said: "I really can't believe what kind of tragedy I saw..."

Accompanied by Zatanna's somewhat dull eyes, she saw that hell-like scene again.

Zatanna, who fell into the orphanage cabinet, saw a small figure sitting in the center of a small blanket, playing with a very worn building block.

But what really made Zatanna feel fear was that more than a dozen corpses were lying beside this child, including adults and children.

A row of rice buckets on the far right of the entire room were overturned on the ground. A fat Asian woman holding a rice spoon had a hole in her forehead caused by a bullet. Beside her, two young women and three children fell together, almost covered in blood.

In front of the boy, a man was lying on the ground, looking like he was about to pounce on him. The other two men fell beside the bookshelf, and an even older one fell beside the little boy's hand.

And the little boy sat on the round blanket, watching the blood gather under the blanket. But facing such a human tragedy, he just held the building block with one hand, placing it in the void.

Zatanna couldn't understand what he was doing at all. He could only walk out of the wardrobe, walk toward the little boy, crouch down halfway, look into his eyes and say: "You are Schiller, right? Your eyes and your soul possess the same color..."

"What exactly happened here? Who killed this group of people?"

Zatanna's series of questions didn't get an answer. Little Schiller didn't speak at all, nor did he have any reaction. Just when she wanted to continue asking, she heard a series of footsteps coming from outside the door.

Hearing the hurried footsteps, Zatanna knew that it might be the attackers who had come.

She hurriedly picked up little Schiller and hid in the wardrobe. At this moment, a group of people wearing strange uniforms pushed open the door, and one of them said in English: "Everything has been cleaned up. He should be in this room... hmm? Where is he?"

The person who spoke ran into the room immediately, looked around, and didn't see the target he was looking for. But another person with a higher status cast his gaze on the building block that little Schiller had dropped.

He picked up the building block and found that it still had residual warmth when his fingertips touched it. So he said: "The target hasn't gone far. He should still be in this room. Search carefully."

Watching the shadow walk toward the wardrobe, Zatanna looked down at little Schiller who was still expressionless. She gritted her teeth, and the moment the shadow approached the cabinet, flames lit up. With a "bang," the violent explosion blew the cabinet door and the shadow away together.

Zatanna rushed out of the door with little Schiller. The sound of gunfire followed behind her. She heard someone shout: "Chase! Don't let No. 1 run! He is the one with the most hope of success, and there can be no mistakes!"

Little Schiller didn't look very old and was relatively thin and weak, but Zatanna couldn't run while holding such a child. She could only run out for a distance after pulling him, and then conjured a fire circle in mid-air, jumping into it with little Schiller.

Everyone in the room chased into the corridor. No one noticed that in the original room, a fire circle lit up in mid-air. Zatanna jumped out again with little Schiller and said: "This is a sleight of hand."

But then, looking at the corpses all over the floor, she felt her fingertips trembling. Zatanna hadn't seen big scenes, but in such a small room, so many corpses and blood made her feel horrified.

But just then, little Schiller broke free from her hand and ran toward the door. Zatanna was still immersed in her thoughts and didn't react. When he turned his head, little Schiller had already run into the corridor.

"Come back quickly! They will catch you!" Zatanna shouted hurriedly.

She also rushed out of the door, but that group of people had already rushed over. Zatanna wanted to rush up to pull little Schiller, but the next second, a hail of bullets descended. She had to condense a magic shield to protect herself first.

Just then, a group of people rushed up, and one of them took little Schiller away. Zatanna's card attack knocked down a few people, but didn't stop all of this.

That group of people was very well-trained and took their target onto the car at the fastest speed, leaving only Zatanna stomping her feet in anger in place.

"They were definitely professionals!" Zatanna emphasized in the utility room: "They might have injected Schiller with some kind of drug, the kind used for sedation. Otherwise, why wouldn't he resist? And didn't say a word?"

Batman and Constantine looked at each other and completed the whole story by combining their own experiences.

"Schiller's childhood should have been spent in an orphanage. According to what you said, you also saw Chinese characters, so it shows that this orphanage might not be on the East Coast, or even in the United States." Batman concluded.

"It's not strange that Schiller is not an American, but this conflicts with the information we have already obtained." Constantine spoke up: "His childhood should have been spent in Germany. He should be a German, and he should have plucked a feather from Lucifer at an age similar to the little Schiller Zatanna saw."

Zatanna frowned and said: "No, this doesn't conflict, because we don't know where that group of people took little Schiller. What if they just happened to take him to Germany?"

Constantine stroked his chin and said: "That's true. In the memory I saw, little Schiller had accepted some kind of experiment. When the experiment was nearing its end, he reappeared in the country where the orphanage was located."

"The organization that experimented on him is unlikely to have placed the experimental site in an Eastern country they were very unfamiliar with. In that era, the international situation had basically stabilized, and the bipolar pattern had already formed. It wasn't that easy to do this kind of thing in other countries."

"You heard they were speaking with British accents?" Zatanna muttered to herself: "I should have heard it too, but it wasn't that standard, not as pretentious as you speak..."

"You have to consider one thing: all spies in the world speak English. Many spies not only speak English but also speak the languages of many hostile countries, or they are people from that country. You can't determine someone's nationality based on language." Batman spoke up.

"Let's continue to reason along the previous train of thought: Schiller was born in an orphanage in a certain Eastern country. One day, a group of people from a mysterious organization rushed into this orphanage, killed almost everyone there, and took Schiller away."

"Known: in reality, young Schiller had appeared in Germany. So assume they took little Schiller to Germany and carried out some kind of experiment on him. This experiment allowed him to possess strength far beyond ordinary people."

"Then one day, Schiller returned to the Eastern country again. This might be a necessary link in the experiment, or it might be that some accident occurred. The 'unsealing' mentioned by that group of people might be related to this."

Batman looked at Constantine again and said: "But everything you experienced later shows that they didn't succeed. Schiller, who had received professional training and had strength far beyond ordinary people, might have killed everyone who participated in this link."

"And next, it reached the part I experienced. A certain organization in this country, which calls itself the 'Ninth Management Office', sent Schiller into this mental hospital. It is very likely that this Ninth Management Office discovered Schiller's abnormality, subdued him, and then sent him here for treatment."

"This can also explain why I could see in the diagnostic record that Schiller has extremely strong aggressiveness and can break through safety measures every time. And in the warning about Schiller, it was written that he had received professional training. This so-called professional training might be professional killing training, which was received in that mysterious organization."

"So now, we are facing the biggest doubts: First, and most importantly, what exactly is the content of this experiment? Why can it make the teenager Schiller have such powerful strength?"

Constantine looked at Batman's thoughtful expression and said: "Didn't you just say that there is only one possibility for a person who is so thin and weak to have such powerful strength?"

Batman frowned deeply and said: "But there are also many problems in this. First, lifting muscle restrictions can only increase strength by 20%~30% at most. Even in a state of extreme mental frenzy and excitement, it can at most double."

"In addition, this state of excitement will cause a great burden on the body. After lifting muscle restrictions and maintaining this state for a period of time, it may lead to extremely serious consequences. This is also why mental hospitals actively use sedative drugs for patients who have entered a state of excitement."

"If they are allowed to be so excited, they might more easily hurt themselves before hurting others."

"In addition, the basic value determines the degree of improvement. If a person has almost no trained muscles, it is impossible for him to explode with great strength in a state of excitement."

Batman fell into deep thought, but Constantine said: "Is there a possibility that Schiller is gifted?"

Batman wanted to use probability theory to refute, but soon, he found that this was possible. He heard Constantine speak: "They have been emphasizing that Patient No. 1 is special. And judging from the international situation at that time, if it wasn't particularly important, they wouldn't have broken in like this."

Batman rarely didn't use that cold expression to face Constantine. He thought for a while and said: "It is indeed possible. If he wasn't extremely rare, it might not have happened later."

"Then, there is another question: how did he change from a mental patient to a psychologist?" ===== CHAPTER 946 =====

"I know you want to say that such extremely special geniuses are rare, but in fact, there are two standing in front of you. Everyone who can use magic is one in ten thousand."

Batman rarely faced Constantine without that cold expression. He thought for a moment and said, "Indeed. It is possible that if he weren't so extremely rare, the subsequent events might not have happened."

"Then, another question is, how exactly did he go from a mental patient to a psychologist?"