Chapter 200 The Mystery of the Statue, Solved

"These statues can neither move nor turn, and there is no part of the statues that can be triggered..."

McGilson carefully examined the four statues.

Finally, he came to the same conclusion as Barbara.

"How about it, Kidd, have you figured out a way to crack this mechanism?"

Barbara and Pamela asked expectantly.

McGilson pondered in silence. If these four statues were really some kind of mechanism, then perhaps certain conditions would need to be met to activate the device that triggered the mechanism.

He suddenly thought of the riddle left by the Riddler.

"You are trying to find me. When I was lost, you struggled to get me. What am I?"

"I can be a member of a group, but I can never fit in. What am I?"

"The more you cut me, the faster I grow. What am I?"

"Riddles without riddles."

There are also four riddles in total, which is exactly the same as the number of statues in front of him. Is it a coincidence?

Maggieson thought this possibility was very small, assuming that the mechanism was set up by the Riddler - after all, all the clues to the nuclear bomb were connected by the riddles left by the Riddler.

The answers to the first two riddles pointed to the clock tower, which not only allowed Maggieson to rescue Gordon, but also allowed him to successfully deduce the location of the third riddle.

Then he captured Silence on Midtown Island and learned the final riddle of the Riddler on the top of Wayne Tower.

By now, the answer to the so-called "no riddle" is naturally ready to be revealed.

"No" is zero, the starting point of all natural numbers, which means the source of all things.

Converted to the concept of the hiding place of the nuclear bomb, of course, it means that the nuclear bomb was hidden by the Riddler at its origin, which is near the Wayne Building.

Thinking about it this way, the statue mechanism may only be the work of the Riddler.

And the mechanism set up by the Riddler must be related to the riddle. If the riddle cannot be found here, it must be related to the riddle that appeared before.

Thinking of this, Maggieson took out four cards with riddles printed on them.

The first three were obtained from Silence, and the last one was found in Wayne Tower and was pasted on the Riddler's recorder.

These four cards are exactly the same in size and material.

Maybe there is some special meaning.

Maggieson looked at the cards and the statues.

Barbara and Pamela looked at Maggieson's actions, wondering what Kidd wanted to do.

"Huh?"

Not long after, Maggieson noticed that each statue had one thing in common.

That is, the lips were slightly open and closed, and the mouth was opened very slightly, leaving only a gap, as if it was about to say something but stopped.

What's more amazing is that the gaps in the lips of each statue are the same width, which is definitely not something that ordinary craftsmen can carve.

At first, Barbara and the other two girls and Maggieson thought that this was just to show the exquisite skills of the statue carver.

But at this time, in Maggieson's extremely careful observation, these gaps seemed a little too deep...

"Could it be..."

Maggieson took out a card and tentatively inserted it into the lips of the lady statue.

Perfect insertion!

The end of the card just overlapped with the upper and lower lips, and it fit perfectly.

Then, Maggieson took out another card and inserted it into the lips of the young nun statue opposite, and it was just inserted.

The statue of the noble on horseback and the statue of the kneeling poor peasant were of course in the same situation.

Because the statues and cards themselves did not indicate any order, there was no need to consider which statue to insert which card.

When the four cards returned to their positions, they immediately triggered a certain mechanism, and a slight sound of gears turning came from under their feet.

"Barbara, is this the way to trigger the mechanism?"

At this time, the two women were stunned, and Pamela asked Barbara beside them in disbelief.

"I never thought it would be like this..."

Barbara said with a smile.

Soon, a small stone tablet rose up in the diagonal center of the four statues.

The three of them gathered around excitedly.

However, when they saw the inscription on the stone tablet clearly, they could no longer laugh.

"Ladies all ignore the men's love, and poor farmers pay the harvest to the nobles based on luck. - Only in this way can you see the final thing."

"Fuck! Edward Nygma again!"

Barbara couldn't help but swear.

Originally thought that inserting the card would trigger this inexplicable statue mechanism.

Unexpectedly, it only triggered the mechanism that can trigger the statue mechanism.

"What does this mean?"

Pamela asked.

However, the other two were in no mood to pay attention to her, and almost entered the thinking mode at the same time.

"Ladies, men, poor farmers, it should refer to these four statues, but what does it mean to ignore the love? What does it mean to pay the harvest?"

"To show love... to show love, when one person shows love to another, he must look at her, which means that the direction of each statue must change."

"The same is true for paying the harvest."

"But the direction of the statues could not be changed before, can they be turned now?"

Thinking of this, Maggieson and Barbara walked towards the statues of the two "ladies" tacitly, and then tried to turn them.

Unexpectedly, they changed the direction of the statues easily without much effort.

The two worked together to turn the nun and the noble lady who were originally facing the poor peasant to look at each other, so that no matter which "man" showed love to them, they would be "ignored".

The poor peasant obviously had to face the noble, and the noble had to face the nun.

Because the image of the noble lady was a married young woman, she could not be the object of the noble's love.

Pamela looked at Maggieson and Barbara as if they were in tune with each other, and they divided the work and cooperated without any communication, and suddenly felt a sour taste in her mouth.

It turned out that Maggieson and Barbara were right.

After each statue was moved, another sound of gears turning was heard.

This time the sound was much louder than before, and the ground was slightly shaken.

"No, this will alert the guards!"

Barbara shouted that it was not good.

Even McGinson's eyes flashed. He knew the defense force that Talia had arranged in the Diamond District best. It would be very difficult for the three of them to escape unscathed.

Moreover, they even took precautions against the ability of Poison Ivy. Various super-strength barriers or plant removers were randomly arranged underground. It was not safe to rely on Pamela as before.

"We can't stay here for long. Don't worry. They hid the nuclear bomb and the whole car together under here, and set up so many mechanisms, which means that they don't have the ability to transfer the nuclear bomb remotely in a short time."

"So don't worry that we will lose the whereabouts of the nuclear bomb if we leave now."

At this time, Talia, who had just returned from the Knight Dome and planned to gather the shadow warriors to monitor the black mask, found something wrong at the first time.

She immediately sounded the alarm.

First, the defense forces of Wayne Building rushed out. The statue was very close to the building. In less than five minutes, hundreds of fully armed soldiers surrounded it.

The armed helicopter that was always parked on the top of Wayne Building also flew over.

This was not the end. All the men in the Diamond District received the notice and were rushing here at full speed.

It was a fierce attack.