Conquering alien worlds starts from the game

Xinxili Town is a small town with a small floating population. It is far away from the land caravan transit route, and there are no decent minerals around. The development of handicraft industry is not as good as other towns in the northern part of Takia. , A small place with a slow pace of life.

The decent families in the town can be counted on one hand, except for the original lord Viscount Carter's family, there are only the Sheriff Aubrey's family, the Morgan family who runs a furniture factory, and the Baron Eli's family who runs a bakery .

Not to mention the Carter house and the Aubrey house... The factory owner Morgan and the bakery owner Eli Baron were often "visited" by the undead; because their houses are relatively large and do not look like ordinary towns. People's residences, the number of "forced visits" is quite a lot...

The mansion of Baron Eli's family is located in the center of the town, adjacent to the town hall; because the undead visited his door several times, Baron Eli, who was disturbed by the undead, has moved to the countryside with his wife and children to hide from the disaster. An old butler and a footman guard the door.

When Professor Yin Zhengliang and Qi Tian came to the door... the housekeeper let out an "oh" and rushed out of the servant's room to open the gate of the yard. In the main house of the master's house, all the doors were hastily opened.

Professor Yin Zhengliang: "..."

Qi Tian: "..."

Walking into Eli's house while the servant and the old butler looked on bitterly and bitterly but helplessly, Professor Yin Zhengliang complained in a complicated mood: "Okay, good interplanetary communication, we've fallen into the status of devils." .”

Qi Tian tightly shut his mouth, not uttering a word.

This Baron Eli...is a person with a name in the city hall—a local who has survived the three rounds of hell elimination mode, Yang Qiu's hot hand cleaning, all players plowing the land, and the city hall overturning old cases and liquidating. Aristocrats can be described as rare, so they can naturally have a name on the national team.

Counting Baron Eli, the old aristocrats who can still keep their family property and live without being confiscated or have their titles wiped out, there are only three families left...

Of course, the biggest reason for the survival of these three small nobles is: no land, no real power, and almost transparent status in the old aristocratic group.

That is... no money, no power, no private soldiers.

For example, Baron Eli was a character who was completely incompetent in the era when Earl Gekkat was in power-their family was suppressed by the Viscount Carter's family decades ago, and all the fiefdoms were annexed and left by their ancestors There were only two small farms left in his property, and he was once so distressed that he couldn't even afford the wedding money when the current baron got married.

The Baron Eli knew very well that Xinxili Town could not accommodate their family to become bigger and stronger, so he simply set up a bakery with all his heart, and did not get involved in the vanity fair stuff... It was an accident that made their family It was a blessing in disguise, and this time, the catastrophe facing the nobles of the entire fiefdom was avoided.

Eli's house, a big house handed down from ancestors, looks splendid, but the inside obviously can't compare with those real power aristocrats, it can be described as simple... the curtains hanging in the living room are even mended.

The players harassed Eli's house a few times, and decided that this unrecognized passer-by aristocrat (mainly because he looked not rich and could not steal his home) had nothing to do with the mission and stopped coming. The national team must not be so careless.

Professor Yin Zhengliang, who had read the information on Baron Eli's family members in the city hall, carefully went through Eli's house responsibly.

It's a pity... Eli's house has been undercrowded for many years, and there are many empty rooms, so nothing can be found.

After investigating Eli's house, we arrived at the house of Morgan, the owner of the furniture factory.

The Morgan family is not aristocratic, but has a little relationship with the Carter family - the Mrs. Carter who was killed by Yang Qiu personally, her sister-in-law (husband's sister) married into the Morgan family.

Now Mr. Morgan, the factory owner, is called Mrs. Carter's aunt according to relatives... Although Mrs. Carter seems to be younger than this Mr. Morgan.

The Carter family was reclaimed land, the head of the house, Mrs. Carter (her husband had passed away many years ago), was killed, and the whole family of the Carter family who lived in the mansion in Creek City was arrested. When the news spread to the town, Mr. Morgan was quite frightened; Fortunately, their family did have little contact with the Carter family (mainly because they couldn't climb high), and they only received a sum of funding, and the new city hall did not intend to pursue this relationship, which made Mr. Morgan secretly relieved.

Although it didn't take long to relax... When a large number of undead flocked to New Sealy Town, the Morgan family, which had a relationship with the Carter family, was also harassed severely.

The house was built in the Morgan House on the outskirts of New Sealy Town. Mr. Morgan, who was resting smoking a pipe in his living room, saw a ghost coming to the door through the window, and he choked all the smoke into his throat.

"Quick, cough, cough! Go to someone to open the door! Hurry! Cough, cough!!" Mr. Morgan, who is over 50 years old and not young, slapped his chest hard, and pointed at the factory gate with hissing voice.

The house of the Morgan family and the factory are built together, and share the walls and gates. The square where the factory stacks wood and semi-finished furniture for drying is the courtyard of the Morgan family.

The worker squatting on the square and painting the furniture quickly spread his feet and rushed to the gate...

When Professor Yin Zhengliang entered the factory, the first thing he saw...was a three-no product processing site like an underground black workshop.

The so-called factory building is two long rows of earthen houses next to each other. The tool racks standing in front of the earthen wall are full of carpentry tools, and a group of shirtless workers (the climate in the Rhine Kingdom has become hot in April and May) are sweating profusely. Processing various furniture components on a simple workbench.

There is no cut-resistant overalls, let alone labor protection gloves. The only protection for workers is the dirty leather apron tied in front of the stomach.

Assembled furniture, such as chairs, stools, tables, cabinets, beds, sofas, etc., were moved out of the "factory" to the pitted square with untamped ground, and then began to be deburred with gauze, painted and dried...

The workers responsible for deburring and painting were not even grown-ups—like the little painter who came to open the door for them, he was less than 1.4 meters tall.

"You still want to use child labor?" Professor Yin Zhengliang looked at Qi Tian with piercing eyes.

"Uh... Taqiya's enrollment of minors hasn't started yet..." Qi Tian was dripping with cold sweat.

"Okay." Professor Yin Zhengliang didn't say anything, and stepped into the small square full of sundries.

Compared with the houses of the townspeople, the house of the Morgan family is not very outstanding. The only advantage is that it is large enough - it covers an area of ​​about [-] square meters. It is a single-story brick and wood structure. The front door faces the square and the side door opens. In the "factory" direction.

In front of the side door is a rather crude shed, which is probably used for cooking food by the workers. The inside of the shed is fairly clean. The dishes, spoons and forks are all placed in bamboo baskets. There are two women wearing headscarves and aprons. Sitting in front of the shed, one was washing potatoes, and the other was peeling radishes with a knife.

When the two undead entered the courtyard, the younger woman who was washing the potatoes let out a low cry, and nervously called out "Dad" to the old man standing at the window, staring at the two undead like an enemy... Mr Morgan's daughter.

When Professor Yin Zhengliang accepted the collective attention of the aborigines with a blank face, another young and middle-aged man, who seemed to be less than 30 years old, rushed out of the side door with an axe, yelling violently at The two undead rushed over.

The cursing voice of this young and middle-aged man also has a relatively strong Takia accent, and coupled with the excitement, Professor Yin Zhengliang can barely hear clear words such as "fuck" and "bastard"...

Of course, he failed to rush over smoothly. As soon as he ran out of the side door, the woman washing vegetables and the workers next to him rushed up and hugged him tightly, and dragged him away without any explanation.

While this person was being dragged away, he kept yelling and cursing words such as "Fight it" and "Let me go".

Professor Yin Zhengliang looked at Qi Tian expressionlessly.

Qi Tian wiped off his cold sweat: "...uh... the son of this family seems to have been a trainee mercenary, and he once took the initiative to attack the player who came to investigate, but the player snatched the weapon and was almost kidnapped by the player... When I was about to tie him up, I clicked the prestige warning, and it didn’t work.”

The corner of Yin Zhengliang's mouth twitched.

Well...he can understand why those old acquaintances who "work part-time" online GM with Lao Geng and Lao Liu are all so speechless when they mention players.

"This lord Yang... alas!" Yin Zhengliang shook his head and sighed.

The old professor's opinions on the players who regard this alien world as a game must be less than that of Lord Yang—if it wasn't for that messy guy who disguised this alien world as a game and let those young people mess around. Come on, how can there be so many things!

The furniture factory of Morgan’s family has a taste of family business... Most of the workers are relatives or familiar neighbors and relatives with Morgan’s family. Mr. Morgan himself is also a good furniture maker—this one comes from the living room The male master who came out to stare at the two undeads in person also wore a leather apron covered in sawdust around his belly.

Mrs. Morgan and her daughter are preparing lunch for the workers. Mr. Morgan’s youngest son is also squatting on the square with other half-grown children to sand and paint the furniture...

In other words—a rather modest family with whom the Carters were unlikely to remain close.

Yin Zhengliang walked around the messy factory building before stepping into Morgan's house.

The furnishings in Morgan's house are also quite ordinary... It looks like the middle-class people in the city, and they don't see too expensive furnishings; their house doesn't look like someone who pursues a refined life, you can even see it on the carpet in the bedroom. to sawdust.

Professor Yin Zhengliang looked around the rooms of Morgan's house, and suddenly thought of something, and strode straight to the semi-outdoor kitchen outside the side door.

Under the fearful and disgusting eyes of Mrs. Morgan and her daughter, Professor Yin Zhengliang stretched out his dirty bone claws and turned over the dinner plates stacked in the wooden frame...

Qi Tian watched from the side, hesitating to speak.

Just... if the old professor is reminded that he is using a skeleton body and touching the tableware of the aborigines, it will make the aborigines even more unhappy, and I don't know if it will make them angry?

Professor Yin Zhengliang probably really forgot that he was not using his own body. He turned over the clean plates, bowls and spoons, hurried back into the house, and ran to the indoor kitchen connected to the living room.

The Morgan family has used the open-air kitchen like their own workers for many years. This indoor kitchen has not been fired for a long time, and it is only used as a storage room for storing food.

In the kitchen cabinet, there are some spare tableware, including dinner plates, plates, soup bowls, forks, spoons and so on.

From the corner of the cabinet, Professor Yin Zhengliang found two small wooden bowls no bigger than an adult's fist, and a spoon for children.

Yin Zhengliang pondered for a while, looked up from the window and looked at the youngest son of the Morgan family who looked fifteen or six years old in the square, and did not jump to conclusions, got up and ran to the room of the youngest son of the Morgan family.

Because the Morgan House occupies a large area, the children's rooms are quite wide, and the bedroom of the youngest son is almost as big as the master bedroom of the Aubrey House that was investigated before.

Professor Yin Zhengliang asked Qi Tian to help move the bed, and Qi Tian did so without saying a word.

The life of the Morgan family is not very meticulous, and there are a few mildew spots on the wooden floor under the greasy and dusty carpet that has not been replaced for an unknown period of time.

Professor Yin Zhengliang naturally didn't care about others talking about hygiene. After rolling up the carpet...his eyes suddenly became sharp.

As long as the furniture is placed on the wooden floor for more than one year, it will leave obvious marks.

Although this kind of trace can be eliminated and covered up by technical means... But the Morgan family is obviously not a family that pays attention to such details.

Sure enough, in the youngest son's room, under the carpet, there was still a deep imprint of the double bed, which was much larger than the small bed that had been moved to the wall.

"Sure enough...Old Zhang is right to worry."

Professor Yin Zhengliang sighed and put down the rug, his mood was not at all relaxed because of the evidence, but even heavier.

Qi Tian, ​​who followed him all the way, is still at a loss: "Professor, this is... what is this?"

"Someone has been vaporized." Professor Yin Zhengliang said succinctly, "It's hard to say that Baron Eli's family has a small population. The Aubrey family of the hereditary sheriff and the Morgan family who run a furniture factory have no family members." gone."

Qi Tian: "??"

"The garage of Aubrey's family is the layout of a residence." Professor Yin Zhengliang said, "The inner compartment should be the bedroom, the outer compartment should be the living room and kitchen, the utility room in the attic, the toilet and bathroom are the same as those of the Aubrey family. The shared cabin between the two houses...the carriage should be parked in the yard, the open space between the swing and the house."

Qi Tian was shocked.

"Judging from the peeling condition of the outer wall of the garage, that building should have been completed for more than ten years. Wesford Aubrey reported to the night watchman twice 11 years ago, and it should be at that time that he had a vague feeling My relatives are gone." Professor Yin Zhengliang sighed again, "But something ghostly interfered with his thoughts, making him unable to express his suffering, so he instinctively asked the night watchman for help."

"As for this family..."

Professor Yin Zhengliang turned his head and looked at the owner, Mr. Morgan, who was staring at them irritably in the corridor.

"They may...not realize that there are fewer people in their house." Yin Zhengliang said sadly.