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Chapter 299: Three Detectives (3)

Batman entered the room first, followed by Gordon. The situation inside the room was indeed very strange. Apart from Schiller, who stood in the middle holding an umbrella, there was a blond man who looked like he had indulged himself excessively. He had a black book floating in his hand. Jason, Dick, and Sliphead, three children, were sitting on the floor at the far end of the room, while on the right side of the room, there was a peculiar altar.

Just after they entered, Schiller walked up to the demon he had pinned to the wall and glanced at it, saying, "Is this Mrs. Sanchez?"

Gordon looked puzzled and said, "Mrs. Sanchez? Isn't she already dead?"

Constantine walked up to the monster and chains flew out from the book in his hand, restraining the monster. Gordon then turned his head to look at the children lying on the floor and said, "Can someone explain to me what's going on here?"

"Very well," Schiller raised his voice and tapped the ground with his umbrella. "Alright, let's hear it one by one, starting with you."

Saying that, he pointed at Jason and Dick. Dick looked at the umbrella in front of him, which had directly knocked the monster onto the wall, unable to be pried off. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and obediently began to narrate.

"...Two days ago, I came to this school to study. Everything was normal on the first day. After I finished packing my belongings, I went to sleep. However, because I changed beds, I had trouble falling asleep. When I woke up in the middle of the night, I noticed that my roommate had wounds on his back..."

"When I asked him what had happened in the morning, he showed a scared expression and didn't say anything. I became suspicious, so I started observing and noticed that many students had injuries..."

"I was certain that someone was abusing them. During class the next day, one of my classmates didn't pay attention during prayers, so the teacher said he would have to go to the confession room. He displayed a very frightened expression. I was convinced they must have abused him in the confession room."

"And then?" Batman asked.

"...A woman entered. She said her name was Mrs. Sanchez and that she was the school principal. She threatened me with various things, like even if I'm an adopted child of the Wayne Family, I must obey her here, or else she would make me suffer..."

"I asked her if she had been abusing those children, but it seemed to anger her. She said those disobedient children should be hanged..."

"Then she beat me with a cane, leaving the same wounds as my classmates. That damned woman is a sadist, she..."

Before Dick could continue, Batman walked up to him and lifted his clothes, revealing many fresh scars on his back and waist. The scars were deep, some even turning slightly black. Batman's expression started to darken, but Dick didn't pay much attention and continued speaking.

"The woman intended to continue beating me, but someone called her from outside, saying that Mr. Cooper had come to see her, so she left..."

"I thought I needed to expose her true nature and rescue my classmates. So, while she was leaving, I picked the lock of the confession room and secretly followed her..."

"She met Mr. Cooper on the fourth floor. I'm quite agile, so I climbed up the balcony through the pipes and eavesdropped on their conversation from outside the room..."

Dick pursed his lips and said incredulously, "I overheard that Mrs. Sanchez had a deal with Cooper."

"What kind of deal?"

"It seems like that, the son named Cooper died, and he has been trying to resurrect his son. And Mrs. Sanchez is a witch. They say she made a deal with a demon or something... Anyway, Cooper gave Mrs. Sanchez a lot of money, and then Mrs. Sanchez helped Cooper resurrect his son..."

"They said something about sacrificing children to the demon. The more sacrifices they make, the more they can bring Cooper's son's soul back from hell. Anyway, they used a bunch of terms I didn't understand, but that's the gist of it..."

"At first, I thought they were crazy because it sounded like nonsense. But then they started arguing, and Mrs. Sanchez made things in the room fly. It startled me, and I accidentally made some noise."

"Mrs. Sanchez immediately noticed me, but luckily I ran fast and she couldn't catch me right away. I know that if what they said is true, then all the students in this school might be in danger. Mrs. Sanchez wants to sacrifice them all to the demon. I have to stop all of this..."

"What about you? How did you two end up here?" Schiller looked at Jason and Sliphead, and Jason and Sliphead glanced at each other. They said, "Well, originally, we were staying at Batman's hideout. It was pretty good there, but after a while, we got a bit bored..."

"Earlier, our friend Tire told us that the boarding school is like a prison for kids. Even though he said this boarding school up north is different, we were still a bit worried. Well, we had nothing better to do, so we thought we'd come and see how Dick was doing..."

Dick sighed and covered his forehead. "I was actually trying to find an opportunity to sneak out and contact Batman, but they secretly came into the school and got caught by the janitor."

"It seems like Mrs. Sanchez was in need of sacrifices, so she locked the two of them in the basement. I need to find a way to save them..."

"Speaking of the janitor." Gordon scratched his head with confusion and said, "What about him? Why didn't I see him downstairs? He couldn't have left that quickly, right?"

"Obviously, he's working with this demon. Haven't you noticed that he always tried to lead us to the seventh floor?"

"Uh..." Gordon paused and said, "So the seventh floor is a trap? But how did they know we were coming?... Oh, they called the police, so they intentionally called the police to lure people here, and then they took them to the seventh floor to kill them. But what's the point of doing all this? Does Mrs. Sanchez have a grudge against the police?"

"She wants to sacrifice you and gain more power for herself because she knows she can't defeat me."

Constantine lit a cigarette, but in an instant, the cigarette in his hand was knocked away and pinned to the wall by a bat-shaped dart. Batman looked at him and said, "Didn't you see there are children here?"

Constantine made a helpless expression and said, "Okay, next is my story."

"I won't introduce myself, but in short, my previous residence was a mental hospital. I was wrongfully accused, and I'm not mentally ill. For various reasons, I was locked up in a mental hospital."

"A few days ago, a gang leader named Harry Cooper pulled me out of there, so I could use my knowledge of the occult to resurrect his son."

"Wait, didn't Dick say earlier that Cooper asked Mrs. Sanchez to resurrect his son?"

"Obviously, the person he found wasn't capable enough." Constantine glanced at the monster chained to the wall.

"Cooper told me that the person he originally found was too greedy and he couldn't afford their price, so he decided to find someone else."

"Cooper told me that the solution he found from that wizard was to sacrifice the souls of thirteen children to demons in hell on the night of the full moon, in exchange for his son's soul."

"When I heard this solution, I knew who he had found."

Constantine glanced at the monster once again and said, "There's a specific branch in witchcraft that involves harnessing the souls of children for power. I usually refer to this branch as 'Ghost Mother.' As far as I know, there's only one 'Ghost Mother' in the current mystical community, and that's Lorena Sanchez."

"When I heard that Cooper had actually approached her, I almost burst out laughing. Lorena is nothing more than a fraud! She definitely knows that sacrificing any number of children's souls wouldn't bring back Cooper's son from hell. No one can snatch their sustenance from the clutches of devils."

"But Cooper, being an outsider with little knowledge, believed Lorena's claims. Not only did he give her a significant amount of money, but he also arranged for her to become the headmistress of a boarding school, giving her the opportunity to harm those children."

"After I learned about all of this, I couldn't let her succeed. So, I confronted Lorena and demanded that she stop her deceitful actions and leave."

"She claimed she would consider it, but behind my back, she set up traps and an altar at the school, all in preparation to strike me when I came looking for trouble."

"As expected, after I arrived, she used the altar to summon the shadow of a demon, which attached itself to her and transformed her into the monster you see now..."

"So, how did Cooper die?"

"Lorena cursed him to death because he refused to provide her with more funding and lost trust in her. As the boy mentioned earlier, Cooper had a heated argument with Lorena, and after they separated, she must have used a spell to kill him."

"Does the recent series of murders in Gotham have anything to do with you?" Batman stared at Constantine and asked.

"Series of murders?" Constantine paused for a moment and replied, "Whatever it is, I have no idea. I've only been in Gotham for a few days..."

"Constantine, do you know..."

Schiller turned around and walked to the other side of Constantine, who also gazed at Schiller and asked, "...know what?"

Schiller lowered his head, leisurely slid his hand down the umbrella handle, and then held the middle part of the umbrella with both hands.

With a loud "bang," Constantine was knocked down by the lifted umbrella handle, falling to the ground. Before he lost consciousness, he saw Schiller standing with his back to the light, the umbrella planted firmly on the ground, and he spoke:

"I don't believe a single word you said."

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