Fantasy Game: Infinite City

“Uh ...

Suddenly, a heart-wrenching scream was heard in the manor. The main building of the manor, which was originally pitch black, suddenly emitted a bright dark green light. The heat wave that continued to spread outward even extended to the outside of the main building. The gate of the manor was not closed. If someone was attracted by the screams in the manor at this moment, they could clearly see the abnormality of the main building of the manor through the open gate.

However, it was already past three in the morning, and it was winter, so there were not many people on the street. Therefore, even though the screams could be clearly heard outside the manor, no one noticed.

"boom!"

"Bang!"

"boom!"

Continuous loud noises continued to be heard from the manor. Logically, with such a loud noise, the main building of the manor should have been severely damaged. However, strangely, apart from the abnormal loud noises and flames, the manor's buildings were not affected at all. However, the continuous loud noises still attracted the attention of the outside world.

Outside the manor, at the outermost edge of the new city residential area across the road, in an all-weather convenience store close to the road, night shift employees are eating instant noodles and browsing their phones. It is winter and there are basically no people coming in the early morning. Normally, in a few hours, students going to school and workers going to work will become the first customers of the day.

"What's the noise?"

The night shift employee heard some faint noises but could not find the source. When he looked around the store, he saw through the glass door of the convenience store an unusual light appearing in the manor directly across the street. Of course, from the convenience store, he could only see a dark green light spot.

"Is this place haunted again?"

The night shift employee was very young, a college student on vacation who came here to do odd jobs. Compared to the elders who were terrified of the haunted manor, he seemed much more excited and more curious than afraid.

"Oh! Is this a will-o'-the-wisp?"

The night shift employee took out his cell phone, adjusted the focus, and saw clearly the abnormality in the main building of the manor in the distance. The front of the main building facing him was almost entirely shrouded in a strange dark green light. The strange noise he had heard before also came from the light.

"Hey, hey, hey! Look, look! I saw with my own eyes that the manor is haunted! Haha!"

The night shift employee shot a video and sent it to his dormitory group. As expected, college students are all night owls. Within a few seconds, he received replies from everyone.

"What the hell! What a coincidence!"

"Why don't you come closer and take some photos? I can't see the details clearly!"

"Get lost! I am brave, not stupid. I am seeing a haunted place and I am still moving forward? Isn't that crazy?"

"Send a video, send a video! I want to see the scene!"

"Yes, yes, yes! Start a multi-person video, I want to watch it too!"

"Where are you? Tell me your location!"

However, one of the night shift employee's roommates was obviously much more anxious. For some reason, he wanted to come to the scene and take a look in person.

"It's at a certain convenience store. I work here. I remember telling you about it before."

"almost there!"

The night shift staff turned on the multi-person video and filmed the interior of the manor far across the street while having an intense conversation with their roommates. Everyone was very excited.

"squeak!!"

Not long after, a sports car came speeding from the far end of the road and stopped steadily in front of the convenience store. The brake discs made a pleasant friction sound, and a young man in plush pajamas got out of the car. He was one of the roommates of the night shift employee.

"Fuck! You really came?!"

"I have nothing to do at home, so I'm so excited to see something fun!"

"Living close by is convenient! Oh, did you bring your camera? Use that to take pictures! They'll definitely be clearer than a cell phone!"

"Ha! Of course!"

The rich young man in plush pajamas took out an expensive news camera from the trunk of his sports car and walked into the convenience store with it in his arms.

"Go in and take pictures! It's freezing outside! Bring in the tripod."

"Can we take pictures from such a distance? Or we should take pictures outside!"

"Oh, don't worry! This is a news-grade camera. It can capture clear images even from a distance! Come in!"

After entering the convenience store, the young man first set up the camera with the help of the night shift employee, adjusted the angle and focus and started filming. Then, after sharing the footage to the dormitory group, he ran to the counter and wolfed down the instant noodles that the night shift employee had not finished.

"You are so rich and yet you still want to steal my instant noodles?"

"What a disobedient son! Isn't it enough for your father to eat your instant noodles?! It's not like I don't want to pay! Go! Bring some more food to your father! He's not full!"

"Brother! The picture is a bit blurry! Is your camera okay?" The voices of other roommates were heard in the dormitory group.

"Blurred? That shouldn't be the case. Let me see... Ouch..."

The young man checked the camera and indeed found that the picture was a little blurry. However, after a careful inspection, he found that the problem was not with the camera, but that there was a layer of heat waves around the main building of the manor. It was because they refracted the air that the picture appeared a little blurry.

"What's going on? Glasses, aren't you from the Physics Department? Do you understand what's going on?"

"This is...very weird. Logically, a heat wave of this magnitude would only occur if the manor was on fire. But from what you filmed, the main building of the manor wasn't on fire. Besides, this haunting has nothing to do with physics!"

"Why is the light getting brighter? And the loud noises coming from the manor are getting more frequent. Should we call the fire department? If this continues, the whole manor will burn down, right?"

"I think you should tell the police first. I think this is a big deal."

“Can the police handle hauntings?”

"Not sure, but you two are on the scene, do you have any better ideas?"

"...All right then."

The young man stuffed the snacks he had just bought into his mouth, picked up his phone which was stuck on the payment completion screen, and called the police. "Hello? Hello, we are at..."

A few minutes later, sirens sounded approaching from a distance. Six or seven police cars led the way, followed by ambulances, fire trucks, and even a team of fully armed special police. The convoy quickly stopped next to the convenience store. After explaining the situation to the person in charge, the young man hurried out to move his car to another spot.

While the security personnel were discussing countermeasures, a large number of private vehicles also gathered here. They should be the journalists who got the news and were vying for the right to report first-hand.

The head of the SWAT team temporarily ignored these reporters who gave him a headache, and asked the young man and the night shift employees in detail about what happened.

"I was on night shift and suddenly heard some unusual noises outside, so I wanted to go out and take a look, and that's when I found this."

"What's the matter with you?"

"Report! I'm his classmate, I'm here to watch the fun, hehe."

"Did your camera capture the scene?"

"Uh... sort of. We filmed inside here and didn't go inside or get close to the manor."

"Very clever. The manor... is very dangerous. Is this a first-hand record?"

“No, I took the photo with my phone at first.”

"We may need to take these video footage away for investigation, including the originals. I hope you two will cooperate."

"No problem, no problem! You can even take away the cell phones and cameras! We will definitely cooperate."

"Don't bother. The technicians will take the video directly. Does anyone else have a backup of the video?"

"No, we were probably the only ones who took the video."

"Very good, you two stay in the convenience store for now and don't leave."

"Promise to cooperate!"

The captain of the SWAT team walked out of the convenience store, returned to the command vehicle, and started talking with the heads of the fire department and the police force.

"How's the investigation going?"

"I checked the nearby surveillance cameras. All the cameras that could capture the manor were not working properly. The only camera that was far away from the manor did capture a SUV driving towards the manor last night."

"Have you found out who it is?"

"Well, the owner of the car has been found based on the license plate number. According to the video taken by the two college students, that car is parked next to the main gate of the manor."

"Who's crazy enough to come to this place so late at night?"

"Do you remember the news I shared with you yesterday?"

"Remember, didn't they say a foreigner bought this haunted manor? What happened?"

"The name registered on the estate property and real estate certificate is the owner of this car."

"What's wrong with him? Why did he buy this place? Did you find out his specific information? Did you find anything unusual?"

"A few years ago, when the owner of the car was just entering college, a murder case occurred with three victims."

"A few years ago...was that guy called Han Zu?"

"Yes, how did you know?"

"Ha, I handled that case before, but I wasn't the SWAT captain at the time. Okay, this shouldn't be a big deal. By the way, did anyone else enter the manor? Besides Han Zu?"

"No, at least the surveillance camera didn't find it. But the camera angle that captured the SUV wasn't very good, so I don't know how many people were in the car."

"What about the other information? Is there anything unusual?"

"Yes, half a year ago, Han Zu received hundreds of huge gifts, each of which was the maximum legal amount for a single gift, and all of them had been taxed. All the amounts were transferred to a bank card in Han Zu's name. This bank card was already over the limit, but someone in the banking system changed the nature of the card while retaining the card number. Now this card is no different from a card with no limit."

"A card? Who gave you so much money?"

"You probably won't believe it if I tell you."

"Tell me about it?"

"Infinite Company, and it is the head office of the Moon."

"What the hell? Unlimited Company?! Why are they here again? Is this Han Zu one of theirs?"

"It should be. But Han Zu only signed an agreement with Infinity Company last month, and it was a temporary employment contract."

"That's strange..."

Halfway through the conversation, the heads of the police force and the SWAT team received calls at the same time. Both were from their respective superiors. After hearing the messages on the phone, the two men hung up and looked at each other with serious expressions. It seemed that the orders they heard had similar meanings.

"It says..."

"Well, let's leave that alone."

“What about those reporters?”

"I don't know. It says don't worry about it."

"Then we can't just leave like this, right? What if there are other people..." The heads of the fire brigade and medical staff raised questions, but were pulled aside by the heads of the police and SWAT teams, who whispered something to them.

"It says that as for matters involving the Infinite Company, try to let them resolve them themselves. What it means is that even if there are other people involved, they are either related to the Infinite City or the Infinite Company. Do you understand what I mean?"

"Superman vs. Superman?"

"Well, anyway, let's just ignore it. Let's go and pack up."

Although they didn't know what exactly happened, the night shift employees and the young men who were observing outside the convenience store noticed something was wrong. After their respective leaders whispered a few words, the team outside quickly left, leaving only the confused journalists.

The reporters quickly shifted their target to the two people in the convenience store. They quickly blocked the door of the convenience store and rushed in like a swarm of bees. The microphones and cameras almost hit the two people's faces.

In order to avoid this level of harassment, the two men said nothing, citing the police prohibition on leaking the information. The reporters who could not get the information soon let them go. The TV station reporters received orders from their superiors and soon left. Only some tabloid reporters and some individual self-media people remained here.

The number of people suddenly dropped by more than half. Some of the timid people did not dare to approach the manor across the street. The two people in the convenience store could not get anything out of them, so they could only go home.

Finally, only a few brave self-media people and adventure anchors were left. They crossed the road and came to the wide-open gate of the manor, ready to go in and take a closer look. They were not afraid of death and stepped into the manor, and clearly saw the abnormal situation in the main building of the manor.

As they gradually approached the main building of the manor, they also felt the heat wave, which even made them feel very hot and sweaty in the cold winter morning. The person walking in front was an adventure anchor, and he had even come to the gate of the main building of the manor and next to Han Zu's car. Others also slowly approached Han Zu's car. They took out their cameras and prepared to take a few photos. When they found the right angle but hadn't pressed the shutter, the abnormality inside the manor suddenly disappeared, and the surroundings fell into darkness again.

“Bang! Crash…!”

In the darkness, a loud noise could be heard from the upper right, and then a glass hit the ground heavily and broke into pieces. The people hiding next to the car were startled, and when they were about to see what happened, a figure hit the ground heavily from above. Everyone picked up their cameras and took pictures, and found that it was a terrifying ghost with a hideous face, and it seemed to be a woman.

The people who realized it later and were about to run away had already started to feel weak in the legs before they even moved. It was not entirely because of fear, but because the power of the female ghost affected them. She let out a miserable howl, and just when everyone thought they were going to die, the moonlight suddenly broke through the clouds, and under the moonlight, a black shadow suddenly and rapidly enlarged on the ground.

"Boom!"

A sturdy male figure appeared in front of them, with dark green flames occasionally dancing on his muscular lines. He stood astride the female ghost's body. Fear suddenly appeared on the female ghost's face. Then, a creepy low laugh came from the man with his back to them.

“Hehehe…”

"Boom!"

Then, a ball of blazing dark green flame appeared instantly and enveloped the terrified ghost in an instant. Although she did not die in the flames, her screams, like a pig being slaughtered, showed that she was suffering unbearable torture.

The people's desire to survive temporarily suppressed their curiosity, and they fled in all directions like cockroaches seeing the light, crawling out of the manor. When they left the manor gate, they ran into several people in long down jackets. The strange thing was that after they bumped into them, everyone instantly returned to normal, without any fear or tension, as if what had just happened had never happened.

However, if you look closely at them, you will find that their pupils have turned gray.

Looking at the background of people walking away woodenly, several people in long down jackets continued to walk forward. When passing the gate of the manor, they looked inside, then closed the gate of the manor, and then left quickly, disappearing on the zebra crossing on the road.