mtl008 Chapter 3550 Soul Catcher (8)
Chapter 3550 Soul Catcher (8)
Chapter 3550 Soul Catcher (VIII)
Schiller and his team found the freight elevator not far from the monitoring room. It was a cylindrical capsule elevator with a very large area, which could accommodate dozens of people and worked well.
With the help of the data in the monitoring room, Schiller has roughly guessed the meaning of some Kryptonian characters, especially numbers, so he can 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, Hale might be somewhere in the mine. He chose the number of the middle floor and planned to go up and down this floor to look for Hale's traces.
The elevator stopped quickly. He walked out and looked around. There were still many dark corridors. The entire mine was eerily quiet, with only the subtle hum of the machines and the buzzing sound of the lighting equipment coming from far away.
Silence represents safety, Schiller thought. When recalling the past, Hale felt very safe, perhaps someone was with him, and that was his anchor.
Standing at the edge of the passage and looking down again, Schiller saw light two floors below. That floor was obviously different and looked like a living area.
"Will they be there?" Injustice Batman also saw there and asked.
"We can go down and take a look," Schiller said.
They took the elevator down two floors. When the elevator door opened, many things became clear.
The closer you are to the owner of a dream, the clearer the dream becomes. Schiller thought, it seems that Hale is on this level.
In order to avoid conflict with the locals, they turned the corner as quickly as possible. Schiller quickly glanced at the house number on the corridor, which became clearer and clearer from left to right.
The doorplate at the end of the corridor on the left has just a number, the one in the middle has color, and the signs of wear and tear on the doorplate of the room on the far right are clearly visible.
Even a super brain has a fuzzy algorithm function, and infrequently used and unnecessary information will be blurred. The more clearly the information is remembered, the clearer it will appear in the dream.
"You stay and guard here." Schiller said to Unjust Superman.
Of course, Injustice Superman would not be willing to be ordered around, but since Injustice Batman stayed, he did not move forward.
Schiller held the door handle and felt a slightly cold touch. He gently pushed the door open, and behind the door was a lounge with silver-white walls and a soft bed.
A little gray-skinned boy was sitting on the bed, playing with a toy in his hand. When he noticed someone coming in, he looked up towards the door.
The first time he saw him, Schiller narrowed his eyes, because he found that Haer also had a terrible scar on his face when he was a child.
Unlike Barry, he is very familiar with this kind of scenario. The Al couple should not abuse him, so the problem may lie with his creator.
Schiller recalled everything he encountered when he traveled through the deep dream - the horrible baby, the pincers engraved with Kryptonian characters, the strange tentacles...
Schiller thought about a lot, but he still walked over. Hale looked at him curiously and said in Kryptonian language: "Hello."
Just by looking at him, Schiller could already see some clues. His eyes were on the toy in Hale's hand.
Hale mumbled a long string of words in Kryptonian language. Schiller keenly caught the syllable "Jor-El" from it, and his tone rose with some pride. When Hale mentioned this name, he was undoubtedly happy.
Schiller gradually restored the original appearance of this dream - Al took his adopted son with him when he went to work. Every ordinary day when he was busy at work, little Al was in his father's lounge, playing with toys while waiting for him to come back.
Al is the spiritual anchor of Hale. Al means to Hale what Lois means to Injustice Superman.
In a blink of an eye, Schiller had figured out how to make Haer in this dream out of control.
He looked around and saw that there was a bed, a table and a chair in the lounge. He walked over to the table and saw some drawing paper and a row of pens that looked like colored crayons.
Schiller picked up one of the pens and began to draw some lines on a piece of white paper. After a while, he picked up the paper and placed it in front of Hale.
What was reflected in Hale's pupils was the symbol of the Supreme Council.
His eyes revealed fear and his expression began to twist. He reached out and slapped the paper out of Schiller's hand, then hid in the bed clutching the toy.
Looking at his reaction, Schiller confirmed his guess.
The more impressive something is, the clearer it will be in the dream. When they came up, they saw this pattern on the huge pipe in the center, and even the details of the pattern were very clear. This means that Haier was deeply impressed by it.
Schiller also found this symbol on some equipment in the monitoring room. He guessed that it might be the symbol of the Supreme Ruler Council of Krypton.
This is actually not normal. It's like if you ask someone what the symbol of the ruler of his place looks like, many people can only remember the general shape and what elements are on it, but few people can answer the detailed description of each pattern.
Because this thing is not a daily necessity, even if it appears in news reports, no one will take a close look at it. They will just take a quick glance to know what it is and then move on.
Even with a super brain, the symbol is not something that must be remembered. Hale has been away from Krypton for so many years, but he still remembers the symbol so clearly, which means that this symbol has extraordinary meaning to him.
Sure enough, little Haier was feeling scared.
Schiller still refused to give in. He held the paper, pointed at the logo on it and asked Hale in English: "Do you know what this is? Can you tell me what this is?"
Hale didn't understand what he was saying, but creatures with empathy don't have to understand the other person's language to feel what the other person wants to express. Actions, attitudes, tone and emotions can also make people feel pressured.
Schiller's constant questioning attitude made Haer even more frightened. His breathing became rapid and he threw the toy in his hand at Schiller.
Suddenly, he shouted something and the whole dream was shattered.
Falling into darkness again, Schiller felt the familiar feeling of falling. This feeling followed him like a shadow as he went deeper into his dreams.
The Unjust Superman and Unjust Batman outside the door also fell together. But this time, they saw clearly how the dream was constructed.
First, some individual objects flew over, such as laboratory tables, lab tables, cabinets, and chairs. These objects kept spinning in the air, forming a storm.
There was a sound of water, 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 rotating around the room, and suddenly stopped at a certain angle. The furniture fell down with a swish.
Suddenly, this place became an ordinary room that looked like a laboratory.
The sun was shining outside the window, the breeze was gentle, and there was even the sound of some birds. There was no trace of the previous chaos.
The three of them were standing on one side of the laboratory, and on the other side of the laboratory table there was a specimen of an animal.
The most eye-catching thing is that there is a spherical machine fixed on the ceiling. Two robotic arms extend from the lower side of the machine. The tweezer-like tips are slowly rotating, as if waiting for the next command from the operator.
Schiller's breathing paused slightly when he saw the shape of the two mechanical arms - they were very similar to the tentacle that was chasing the car.
Schiller walked over and looked up at the machine above his head. There were many holes on the round machine, and it seemed that different mechanical arms would extend from it.
Injustice Batman walked to the operating panel next to him. He took a quick 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 deftly, and two sharp, tweezer-like tips reached into the wound of the dissected animal and pinched out a milky white nerve.
"It's an ingenious design." Injustice Batman said, "If we use the technology on Earth as an example, it probably imitates the movement of the octopus's arms. I just don't know what method they used to design the contacts..."
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 smooth skin, and a cut was made on its abdomen.
Schiller looked up at the robotic arm again, and then he found that the two pointed tips of the robotic arm that was chasing the car in his deep dream were obviously much larger, so it looked like a monster's teeth.
"Take it off," Schiller said, pointing to the animal on the dissecting table.
Unjust Batman took advantage of the situation and used the robotic arm to push the boar-like animal down.
And Schiller made a move that surprised both Unjust Batman and Unjust Superman.
He lay on the dissection table himself.
That's right. Schiller thought, lying flat on the dissection table, that pair of pointed heads would indeed look very large if he lay down here.
He sat up again and said, "You two go find Hale. He should be in the next room. Bring him over here."
Injustice Superman wanted to refute again, but when he thought of Schiller's sudden action of lying on the dissection table, he felt that this man was a lunatic. In addition, 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 Hale had some kind of childhood trauma. He may have been in a laboratory for experiments when he was a child, so he had a deep impression of the mechanical arm waving above his head.
He was very scared at that time, so in his memory the robotic arm became many times larger and became a terrifying monster tentacle that kept chasing every living thing.
It seems that the same is true for other monsters.
Just when I thought of this, Injustice Batman and Injustice Superman brought Hale in. But they didn't bring him in, but dragged him over directly.
It seems that the childhood Hale did not have such strong power, at least he was no match for Injustice Superman, and he was easily dragged into the laboratory by him.
He was shouting something, and Schiller heard the same syllables. He guessed that it might mean "Dad" in Kryptonian.
The moment he saw the mechanical arm behind Schiller, Hale screamed. His dream was shattered again.