Laurenna, the female agent, continued forward along the passage, then glanced back at Schiller and asked, "Why did you burn those things?"
Schiller narrowed his eyes in pain and said, "Do you know why rats can fly in the sky?"
Laurenna froze for a moment and instinctively asked, "Why?"
"Because that wasn't a rat. It was a bat."
Laurenna gently shook her head, feeling that Schiller really had started talking nonsense. She looked at the map in her hand, pointed at an intersection, and said, "Turn this way. There's another safehouse nearby..."
With that, she took the lead and led the group onward. Schiller was supported by an agent and walked in the middle of the group, while Scott and another agent followed at the rear, watching him closely.
"Who's chasing us?" Scott asked as he walked. Schiller shook his head and said, "I already told you. A bat."
"Let's hope you still have the energy to come up with riddles like that during the interrogation," Scott said coldly. But Schiller wore a somewhat despairing expression and did not speak again on the way to the other safehouse.
When they arrived at the next safehouse, he calmed down slightly and took in the room.
Rather than a room, it was more like a roughly modified underground pit. It seemed to be beneath Gotham's sewers. Someone had installed a generator and lighting system there, along with a small table and several chairs.
Schiller had only seen rooms like this in old movies from a long time ago. After decades of taking the long way around, had the Federal Bureau of Investigation finally remembered Tunnel Warfare?
But after looking around more carefully, he realized that this was unlikely to have been built by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. First, constructing such a