Fantasy Game: Infinite City

"Scrub..."

Wei Mingchen was standing by the wall, quickly drawing on the sketchbook with a pencil in his hand.

"All right."

"It seems we have to be careful about how we speak when we meet Jerome."

By comparing the contents drawn in the previous sketchbook, Wei Mingchen and Alba discovered that the man who threw the shovel from a very long distance and nailed it deeply into the wall was the man who followed Jerome.

some time ago.

"It seems you have a way to find Jerome?"

In the garden on the side of the main building of the manor, Pei Zuocheng followed Su Wen all the way to one of the walls. Pei Zuocheng observed Su Wen's movements, and it seemed that she knew very well what she was doing.

"They climbed over the wall."

"Jerome can't climb over a wall this high. Wait, you mean them?"

Pei Zuocheng looked up at the wall of the manor and estimated that it was about four or five meters high. There was nothing around that could be used for climbing, and nothing to stand on. Jerome was a child less than ten years old, and he could not do it by himself. But Pei Zuocheng heard the key information from Su Wen's words. When he described Jerome, he did not use "he" but "they".

"Someone is helping Jerome, male, big, tall."

"Is this what your ability tells you?"

"My guest room is diagonally opposite to the window of Jerome's room, or the room he has been to. I just saw a man carrying Jerome on his back, climbing out of the window, and then jumping over the wall."

"So that's why you're in such a hurry to get downstairs... where are you going?"

Su Wen hurried towards the exit of the garden, probably wanting to go out through the gate of the manor and then go around to the outside of the wall.

"Is there enough time to go around?"

"Then do you have any good ideas?" Su Wen stopped and looked a little impatient.

"of course."

Pei Zuocheng placed one palm on the wall, and Su Wen noticed that there were some energy fluctuations at the location of the wall.

"Give me your hand."

"What?"

"Do you still want to find Jeremy?"

Half believing and half doubting, Su Wen stretched out his hand. After Pei Zuocheng grabbed Su Wen's hand, he looked towards the wall, withdrew the hand that was originally pressing on the wall, and made a gesture. In a flash, Pei Zuocheng and Su Wen appeared behind the wall. It was the farmland full of tall crops that Su Wen had seen from the window of the room before.

"It seems that you are not lying. Following these footprints, it should be easy to catch up with that man."

After Pei Zuocheng and Su Wen passed through the wall, they found two deep footprints in front of where they were standing. They looked like they were made from a height. The soil in the farmland was moist and soft, and it was easy for people to leave footprints on it. Judging from the depth of the footprints, Su Wen's previous description of the man was correct. He was indeed very burly. The depth of the footprints was nearly half that of Pei Zuocheng and Su Wen's footprints.

After Su Wen used his skills to observe, he found an abnormal situation. Next to these deep footprints, one or two meters in front of the deepest footprints, there was a row of shallow small footprints. They should be Jerome's footprints, but they disappeared not long after. It should be that Jerome couldn't keep up with the man's pace, so the man carried him on his back or hugged him. Su Wen could sense a strong soul breath on the footprints left by Jerome.

Following the man's footprints, Jerome's soul breath has not faded or disappeared. According to this situation, Su Wen learned that Jerome is likely to be a soul body, in other words, a ghost. But Su Wen was very confused. Why did she never find any soul breath in the manor?

"The footprints are broken. Judging from the depth of the last footprint and the degree of collapse of the surrounding soil, the man must have jumped up and may have used force to move. The collapsed surrounding soil should be caused by the shock wave generated by the reaction force. With this level of impact, his displacement range is not close. Do you still have a way to track them?"

Following the footprints to the middle of the farmland, the footprints suddenly stopped. There were no other footprints within the range of vision. Su Wen used his ability to look up into the air according to Pei Zuocheng's statement. Sure enough, Pei Zuocheng's speculation was correct. Su Wen observed in the air a huge arc left by a strong soul breath, and the other end of the arc pointed far away from the farmland. Su Wen stretched out his palm towards the arc left by the soul breath, and then stretched his hand to Pei Zuocheng. Although he was puzzled, Pei Zuocheng still stretched out his hand. As the palms of the two touched, a soul energy rushed from Su Wen's hand to the position of Pei Zuocheng's eyes. Pei Zuocheng looked up and also saw the huge arc composed of the residual soul breath.

"I guess they're on the other side of the arc?"

"Let's go."

When Su Wen wanted to let go of Pei Zuocheng's hand and continue to move forward, Pei Zuocheng did not let go of Su Wen's hand, but continued to form a hand seal with one hand. Similarly, after a flash, Su Wen and Pei Zuocheng appeared in the middle of a main road at the other end of the farmland.

"They landed at this location and there is some dirt left in that direction of this stone road."

Letting go of his hand, Pei Zuocheng took a step forward and squatted on the ground to observe. Not far in front of the position where they moved, there was a large dent on the stone road, which was also caused by the impact of falling from a height. Outside the dented and broken stone road, there were some unclear marks, which were footprints with some mud remaining. The footprints moved along the stone road to the right and extended to the side of a small bridge.

The two walked to the small bridge. There was a wooden sign at the end of the bridge. It was a little damaged, as if it was caused by human damage. The remaining part could be roughly translated as "haunted".

When they reached the bridge, their footprints were becoming increasingly blurred. As they walked further, the traces of mud they were following gradually became smaller. By the time they reached the middle of the bridge, the footprints had completely disappeared.

"The footprints are broken. Can you still track their location?"

Su Wen frowned, looking troubled. It didn't look easy.

"Hajin and Magnus said before that there are many monsters around here. The sign on the bridge should mean that. There are many monsters. They interfered with the location of Jerome and the man. I can only roughly understand that they should not have walked along this bridge."

Pei Zuocheng and Su Wen stood in the middle of the bridge and looked around. Suddenly, Pei Zuocheng noticed that something was hanging on the tree by the river. Although it was not clear what that thing was, it was certain that no matter what it was, it was not complete and should be a part of the original thing.

"I think I found their whereabouts."

Su Wen followed the direction that Pei Zuocheng pointed to and also saw the part of the thing hanging on the tree. The two looked at each other and nodded, and used Pei Zuocheng's ability to move over. When they arrived under the tree, they observed closely and found that the thing hanging on the tree was a monster torn into pieces by brute force. Part of it, the remaining parts, were scattered around not far from the tree. The two followed the torn pieces of the monster and found more killed monsters. Following their search, they soon heard the roar of monsters and the sound of fighting not far ahead. At the same time, Su Wen also detected Jerome's soul again. All the clues pointed to a building complex in front. Judging from the appearance, it should be an abandoned town.

Pei Zuocheng and Su Wen looked at each other and walked into the abandoned town cautiously. In front of them were various corpses of monsters, or it would be more appropriate to say fragments. Through observation, they found that at other entrances of the abandoned town, some monsters were rushing into the town, as if they were protecting something.

"boom!"

Just as Pei Zuocheng and Su Wen were about to go deeper into the abandoned town, a loud noise accompanied by the roars of a large number of monsters reached their ears. However, after the sound stopped, some monsters around them suddenly stopped and wandered around aimlessly, as if they had suddenly lost their target.

"Clap!"

Not far away, there were some voices talking and the sound of water being stepped into a puddle. Because there was still some distance, Su Wen was not clear about what was being said. And because of the presence of monsters around, Su Wen could not determine Jerome's location.

"It's the voice of a child. He is communicating with someone. It could be Jerome and that man."

Although Su Wen couldn't tell right now, Pei Zuocheng, who had excellent hearing, could. He could hear a child's voice speaking, but it seemed that the child was also affected by the monsters around him, so he didn't know what the child said specifically.

"Hide first."

The two looked around and quickly ran into an abandoned tavern, hiding on both sides behind the missing door of the tavern. They waited patiently for the approaching sounds and footsteps in the distance.

A few minutes later, a burly man and a child riding on his neck came from the depths of the abandoned town to the street where Su Wen and Pei Zuocheng were. The two observed that there was a cloth bag hanging on the man's waist, and some liquids of various colors were seeping out of the cloth bag and dripping on the ground. According to the current surrounding situation, the contents of the cloth bag were probably related to the loud noise just now and the roar of those monsters.

"That should be enough. We can go back now. After completing the first step, we can look for the next step..."

The child was talking to the man carrying him, but the man suddenly turned his face in one direction, which was the direction of the manor. The man suddenly picked up Jerome and put him on the ground, interrupting his conversation, and then began to look around, as if looking for something.

Within a few seconds, the man found a dusty shovel with a rusty head in the half-broken bed of an abandoned hay cart nearby. He grabbed it in his hand, seemed to be taking aim, and then exerted force and threw the shovel out like a javelin. The moment the shovel left his hand, an air wave was even created.

After doing all this, the man reached out and pressed down the short-brimmed hat on his head, then walked back to Jerome, put him on his neck again, and continued along the road under his feet, leaving the abandoned town and walking to the edge of the town. Pei Zuocheng and Su Wen, who were hiding and observing, noticed that the man tightened the belt tied with the cloth bag, and Jerome hugged the man's head tightly. Then, accompanied by the sound of air explosion and the broken stone pavement, the man's body rose from the ground and leaped into the sky. After drawing a huge arc in the air, he disappeared from Pei Zuocheng and Su Wen's sight blocked by the buildings in the abandoned town. After the man left with Jerome for a few minutes, Pei Zuocheng and Su Wen, who were hiding and observing, left their hiding place again and returned to the stone road in the town.

"Did you see the man's face when he adjusted his hat just now?"

Pei Zuocheng seemed to want to say something, but hesitated and just asked Su Wen.

"The man had no facial features. I wasn't even sure if he was a human or something else."

"You knew it a long time ago? When he left the manor with Jerome?"

"I guess so, but I don't know if this person has anything to do with the dungeon mission."

"Do you think he was the one who killed Cao Yuan?"

As they left the abandoned town and returned to the nearby bridge, the two began to talk, and soon they talked about the dead Cao Yuan.

"I don't think so. The monster corpses we saw in the abandoned town just now were basically torn into pieces. If that person killed Cao Yuan, he wouldn't have used such a complicated method... Wait, that's not good!"

Su Wen suddenly thought of something and began to run quickly towards the manor. After hesitating for a second or two, Pei Zuocheng also thought of the same thing as Su Wen.

Wei Mingchen and Alba should still be near Jerome's room. If they don't understand the man's power, they might be regarded as a threat by the man because of their proximity to Jerome, and then a fight would start. Based on what they saw in the abandoned town just now, Wei Mingchen and Alba's chances of winning are not very high.

"Give me your hand!"

Pei Zuocheng quickened his pace, grabbed Su Wen's hand, made hand seals, and the two of them suddenly disappeared while running.

"Buzz!"

In a flash, the two returned to the manor. Looking at the surrounding furnishings, this should be one of the guest rooms in the manor.

"We have to meet up with the two of them immediately. I think the four of us may have accidentally completed the prerequisite steps for unlocking a hidden mission!"

After opening the door of the room, the two quickly ran towards Jerome's room.