Fantasy Game: Infinite City

"boom."

A few minutes after Han Zu left the office.

Five magic boxes suddenly appeared in an office on the top floor of the firm. The boxes were quickly opened, and five figures walked out of the boxes and looked around.

"It should be here, Jerome. Are you sure the person you just saw was him?"

"It must be him."

Xerxes was talking to Jerome, watching Liu Qiuning outside through the window, pointing to a certain spot outside the window and saying,

"Is that him?"

"where?"

"Then, around the corner of the building on the right."

After hearing Liu Qiuning's words, the other four people also came to the window and saw Han Zu on the ground in the distance. He was smoking a cigar, looking around, and walking slowly.

When Han Zu's eyes swept across the vicinity of the office, the five people squatted down in an orderly manner, leaving only their eyes exposed, and continued to observe secretly. However, Han Zu did not seem to notice them. His gaze did not linger, and he quickly continued to move forward, walked around the corner, and his back disappeared from the five people's sight.

The five people waited until Han Zu left for a while before standing up and starting to talk.

"Jerome, you said before that you saw him come back here?"

"Well, there's a guy wearing a mask next to him. He's not the woman from before. He seems to be trying to lure that woman away."

"Let's go and look for clues."

The five people spread out and searched the building. Soon, they found the warehouse in the lobby on the first floor and the hidden elevator.

"Om~"

The elevator moved slowly downwards, and the five men carefully took out their weapons to guard against possible danger.

However, there seemed to be no one in the entire building, and the five people did not encounter any danger until they passed through the passage and entered the gate.

“Kala la la la…”

As soon as they entered the door, the five people heard a sound ringing. Jerome followed the direction of the sound and found the source of the sound, an instrument thrown on the ground.

"What is this? Why does it keep ringing?"

"There's a dashboard with some values ​​on it. It should be some kind of measuring instrument?"

"This is a Geiger counter. Why is there such a thing here?"

"Geiger counter? What's it for?"

"It's used to measure radiation levels. The value here shows that the residual radiation in this room is still very high. It has reached a level that can cause serious harm to ordinary people. Wait, that's not right."

Su Wen associated something bad with the arrangement of items in the secret room and the instrument, and she needed to confirm it.

"Jerome, use your backtracking to see what happened before."

"no problem."

Using skills, scenes from the past were vividly displayed in front of the five people. Although there was no sound, they roughly understood what had happened here before.

"It seems that my guess was right. Here..."

"What do you mean? Just now, through Jerome's skills, I saw that man cursed before he left. Could it be related to your guess?"

"It's possible."

"So what's your guess?"

Su Wen expressed her guess, and her bold guess stunned everyone.

"You mean..."

"Ah."

"this.."

Everyone was silent, with serious expressions. Meng Rou's expression was the most serious, as if she was thinking of something else.

"I think Su Wen's guess may not be the worst outcome."

"Ah? That's not the worst outcome? Do you want to listen to what you are saying?"

"I think I know who that man is."

"You know who he is? How is that possible? Have you been to this dungeon before?"

"No, I have never been to this instance. If I am correct, that man is not the hidden boss in the instance, but a player."

"Ah? How is this possible? We've seen what he looks like. He's not one of those players above level 90. How is it possible that the monsters on the train before listen to him?"

"You're right, because he's not a high-level player. Do you remember the most popular post on the Infinite City forum a while ago?"

"Some time ago? Let me think... Oh, you mean the one where all the basic information turned into garbled characters and the live broadcast of the game couldn't be watched?"

"Yes, I played a dungeon with him before, after being introduced by a friend. Although I haven't contacted him since then, I watched his previous game recordings, as well as his later ones, and the last dungeon live broadcast before his information went wrong."

"So you know him, what's the problem? Isn't it just running into someone you know? What's the big deal? What does it have to do with the bad outcome you mentioned?"

"Do you know which instance the last game recording he could watch was from?"

"is that one?"

Liu Qiuning seemed to have some impression of it, as if he had seen it before.

"I think I've seen it before, it seems to be... the old city?"

"Yes, it's 'Old City'. He is the first player to be given the title of Old City."

"Um... so what do you want to say?"

Meng Rou also felt that she had gone off topic a bit, so she cleared her throat and reorganized her words.

"Let me put it this way. When two people sit together and play chess, the normal way for a person to win is to rack his brains to think about how to make a move, but he doesn't. His way to win is to pick up the chessboard and beat his opponent to death. Without an opponent, he will win naturally."

"So, he's a lunatic?"

"Almost. But if you were his teammate, you would feel safe. But at least in this instance, I can be sure that we are not in the same group with him."

"So that's why the system reminds us not to let him find out? But why is this reminder gone now?"

"He may have discovered us, but we probably weren't in his way, so he left us alone."

"So, as long as we stay away from him, there won't be a fight? That's not a bad outcome, right?"

"Have you forgotten what Su Wen said just now? Those fighters and bombers we encountered before should belong to him. In addition, he should have discovered what this room is used for. Guess what he will do after he finds those things, given his personality?"

The five people reorganized all the information and tried to connect them together. With the guess provided by Su Wen, their ideas were clear. After a minute or two, everyone understood what Meng Rou said was the worst outcome.

"He can't play like this, right? He doesn't have any skills to move around, and he can't get out of that range!"

"You want to bet, would a madman dare to kill himself? I don't dare."

The five people looked embarrassed and frowned. If they really did what they thought, then there was only one way to leave this copy safely, and that was to run.

"Clearance mission:"

“Route 1: Leaving Chuangu County”

"Special rule: If you use this route to clear a level, the rewards you get will be halved."

"Line 2: Prevent the "leader" from obtaining clearance items"

"Special rules: After choosing this route, you will become permanently hostile to the "Leader""

"Route 3: Eliminate Saori Ito"

"Special rules: Ito Saori has two chances to revive. After each resurrection, she will be invincible for a short period of time. Find the special item where Ito Saori stores her soul to reduce the number of resurrections. Ito Saori's resurrection position is random."

Three different cursors were displayed on the mission map. One of the cursors pointed to the route closest to the five people, which was leaving Chuangu County. The other two cursors were constantly moving, representing two moving targets.

"Meng Rou, are you sure that man is a player? How can a player have the term "permanent hostility"? Are you sure he is not an NPC?"

"Now that you mention it, I'm not confident anymore, but his face does look the same, and that player also has the special ability to change his appearance."

"What do you say?"

"Whether he's a player or not, he's not something the five of us can handle, so I suggest we eliminate this route. The only thing left is to leave Chuangu County and kill...what's it called?"

"Ito Saori, from what I can see now, it is very likely that she is the woman who was with him before. They should not be in the same group."

"But according to what Meng Rou said, if that person is really the player she said, this Ito Saori is still alive, and he even deliberately helped her replace body parts before, so what's the point of keeping her alive? Let's not talk about whether the five of us can kill her. Even if we can, how do we know if it will ruin his plan and bring trouble to him?"

Meng Rou thought about it for a while and gave her own answer.

"If it's really him, based on my impression of his behavior logic, it shouldn't be possible. He seems to be a person who hates trouble. If we can kill Ito Saori and not get involved with what he's looking for, it should be fine."

"But how do we know what he's looking for?"

"It's not hard to guess actually." Su Wen said on the side.

"According to my guess, what he is looking for is most likely that thing, but as to whether it is a finished product or a semi-finished product, I don't know. Just avoid that kind of thing and ignore it."

After discussing for a while, the five people decided to try to kill Saori Ito. They rested for a while in the lobby on the first floor of the office, left the office, found a car, and headed towards the direction of Saori Ito on the map.

A few blocks away from the office.

Han Zu sat on a bench at a bus stop near the street, holding something in his hand and looking it up and down.

"What the hell is this painting? There's no pattern at all."

In his hand was a crudely drawn picture with no words on it and the lines were very twisted and chaotic, but it looked like it might be a map.

"How do these things fit together? They're not even touching. How did you draw this?"

Han Zu crumpled the picture into a ball and tossed it back and forth in his hands for fun. The message from the bee swarm attracted his attention.

"This direction... is it to find Saori?"

Han Zu was about to stand up, but after thinking it over, he sat back down.

"That's fine. Anyway, Saori is of no use to me right now, and it saves me from making an extra trip. Where did you let me throw the picture?"

Han Zu lowered his head and found the map that had fallen to the ground and was crumpled into a ball. As soon as he took it in his hand, he actually discovered some patterns on it.

After reopening the map and folding it a few times, a simple but accurate map appeared in front of Han Zu. The starting point of the map should be the previous office, and the end point was a park not far from the office.

But what’s strange is that the park can be reached in less than five minutes by walking straight ahead, but the route on the map takes a long detour. However, the route above does not mark other places, which is very strange.

Based on previous experience, Han Zu had an idea that the route on the map was definitely not a detour taken just for fun, there must be other reasons.

"Om~"

The roar of fighter jet engines was heard in the sky. Several fighter jets flew across the sky and listed the park location marked on the map as their attack target.

"Boom boom boom boom!"

The machine guns on the plane opened fire, and the sharp and loud sound of gunfire echoed in the neighborhood. After a while, the smoke dissipated, and the park was still intact.

"Sure enough, there is a barrier. This map should be a route map to bypass the barrier. However, the system did not show any prompts just now, which means that these barriers are not indestructible."

Han Zu stood up and confirmed his position according to the route map in his hand. Then he followed the route on the map, bypassed the barrier, and headed in the direction of the park.

Behind the man standing where Han Zu was sitting just now, there were a large number of mutilated corpses. Some were wearing samurai kimonos, and some were wearing onmyoji's clothes. Although the locations of their injuries were different, the cause of death for almost all of them was an exploding head, and only a few were torn apart by lazy waists.

A few planes flew across the sky not far away again, and it was unknown where they were attacking.

A few hours later, in a small temple on the westernmost side of Chuangu County.

"Clap!"

A jade vase that looked like an antique was thrown to the ground and smashed to pieces. Liu Qiuning threw out a few talismans, and several fireballs appeared from the location of the talismans, wrapping around the fragments of the vase and burning them and the contents of the vase to ashes.

"One of the mission cursors disappeared. The other one should be on Ito Saori. At least it should be near her."

"Let's get out of here first. It's impossible for her not to notice that something so important was destroyed."

"Well, let's go."

Jerome activated his skill, and five magic boxes appeared out of thin air, wrapping up the five people. With the crisp sounds of a few magic fireworks, those magic boxes disappeared out of thin air, and no one knew where they went.

A few minutes later.

A large number of warriors quickly poured into the small temple. The middle-aged warrior who was in the lead looked gloomily at the small amount of ashes left on the ground after the objects were burned.

"Go tell the young lady."

"Yes, my lord."

The warriors quickly left here, scattered, and began to search around the temple.