Chapter 427: Kuroshio Plane World (Two in One)

According to Bai Xiaowen's understanding, this special spiritual item should actually function as a "locator".

On Bai Xiaowen's body, the psychic items that can function as "locators" are not only the prophetic clay tablets, but also the key to the latent shadow maze, the eye of Amotawa, etc., which are all possible to locate. Therefore, Bai Xiaowen is very confident that this time he will enter the matrix plane of the treasure land of the Necromancer Lake.

When looking up information, Bai Xiaowen also made targeted choices, looking up keywords such as snake people, lobster people, and Amo Tawa for in-depth understanding.

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"Matching the plane world... the match is successful!"

"The character data has been scanned and is queuing, please wait..."

"Entering the plane world..."

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"Wandering portraits, dim light..."

"Suffocating invitation..."

"Explore the mysterious creatures and go to the legendary dinner together!"

"The round table turns, the earth trembles..."

"Fear, cowardice, suspicion, revenge..."

"Who can find the fragments of the key of truth through lies?"

"Those who gaze into the abyss, have you ever felt..."

"The will of the abyss will live forever in your heart..."

Just like the prelude to entering the Kane plane last time, Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi did not enter immediately after the frame was frozen, but stopped in the void.

Prompt information on the rules of the spirit world:

"Due to the particularity of the spirit world ticket you used, you have obtained the following rewards."

"Reward 1: Speculation (omitted)."

"Reward 2: Challenge (omitted)."

"The elite challenge task is being generated... it has been generated!"

"Elite side mission: The secret of voodoo, open."

"Mission objective: Find out the hidden voodoo lair in Hodge Town and destroy it."

"Mission Difficulty: A."

"Task Reward: Unknown."

"Task duration: 72 hours."

Due to the permanent team building, Li Shuyi also got this mission reminder.

"Go ahead. It's a side mission anyway. If it's not suitable for you, it doesn't matter if you give up." After Bai Xiaowen finished speaking, he chose to accept the mission.

After Bai Xiaowen accepted the task, the prompt message of the rules of the spirit world continued to come:

"You will explore the world of the Kuroshio Plane as a free citizen."

"Please confirm your name."

Bai Xiaowen still used the name "Dior Skelboom" without changing his name or surname. Then, under the reminder of the rules of the spirit world, Li Shuyi cut in again as Bai Xiaowen's younger sister, and her name was still Charlotte Skelboom.

After finishing it, the void in front of Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi dissipated and appeared in an ordinary wooden house.

The cut-in memory about the brothers and sisters of the free people was transmitted into the minds of the two of them. The two already had experience, and both closed their eyes, carefully digesting the previous memories of this identity.

Bai Xiaowen opened his eyes first.

"There is nothing special about the identities of the brothers and sisters who cut in. Let me first briefly outline the background of this plane world, and you can add later."

"This world is called the 'Kuroshio' plane world, and our 'birth point' is a seaside territory named Hodge Town. The brother and sister who cut in are orphans and work in the bread mill in Hodge Town maintain lifehood."

Li Shuyi nodded and said: "There is another thing in my memory, that is, there have been consecutive missing persons in Hodge Town recently, and the sheriff Yahan has posted a reward order, and any residents who provide clues will get 10 A gold coin reward."

There is also such a thing in Bai Xiaowen's digested memory. He nodded and said: "I think the missing persons incident is likely to be related to the target of the elite challenge mission we received, Voodoo... Judging from the name, Voodoo is not What a good deal."

Li Shuyi agreed.

The two confirmed each other's memory fragments again, and it didn't take long before the prompt message of the rules of the spirit world sounded again:

“[Main Quest: The Truth in the Fog] is on.

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"【Mission Objective: Assist the sheriff of Hodge Town to solve the missing persons case.】"

"[Task period: 10 days]"

"【Mission Difficulty: A】"

"[Task Reward: Unknown]"

The two exchanged a quick glance.

"When I just sorted out the memory fragments, I didn't say anything. Sheriff Yahan, who lives in the same block as us, has some impressions of us," Bai Xiaowen said slowly, "For the main task, the public security Guan Yahan should be a key person... In this way, the difficulty for us to find Yahan and win his trust has been greatly reduced. This should be a certain manifestation of the "speculation" of ticket rewards, which reduces the difficulty of the main task. But it won't affect the reward."

Li Shuyi curled her lips: "Is this the only effect? ​​The speculative prefix is ​​really not very effective. I think the impression of a security officer is not as exaggerated as reducing the difficulty by 50% for this main task."

Bai Xiaowen smiled and said, "No, the rules of the spirit world shouldn't lie. If it says 50%, it's 50%... I don't think Yahan is a simple character."

"Then shall we go find this key sheriff now?" Li Shuyi asked.

"My personal tendency is not to go for the time being," Bai Xiaowen said after thinking for a while, "We don't have any clues now, so we rushed to the door, and there is no help except to spend Yahan's favorability. Disturbing a distressed sheriff for no reason , I am afraid it will be counterproductive.”

After a pause, Bai Xiaowen continued: "Besides, Yahan's status in the town should be more important, and every move might be noticed by someone with a heart. We are still in the dark, and we can investigate secretly. Once in contact with Yahan, it is inevitable To turn from the dark place to the bright place, and fall into the sight of those who care."

Li Shuyi nodded in conviction.

The two discussed it and decided to investigate secretly first.

When they pushed the door out, under the reminder of the rules of the spirit world, the two spent 100 power points each to convert the language into ancient Latin.

Although Bai Xiaowen can speak ancient Latin, he is not proficient, and his accent is a bit awkward. So the 100 power points cannot be saved.

Opening the wooden door, a sea breeze with a slightly fishy smell blows in.

The sky is clear and the sea is blue. Looking east along the intersection of the town, Bai Xiaowen could even see the scene of the water and the sky, breathing the sea breeze, which made him feel refreshed.

Bai Xiaowen went to the magistrate's mansion first, and saw the reward order in front of the door.

On the reward order, not only did it say a reward of 10 gold coins for providing clues, but it also posted a list of missing persons and portraits—the portraits are quite detailed, meticulously drawn, and better than the sea catchers in the Chinese costume dramas that Bai Xiaowen watched. The official arrest warrant is much more reliable.

"So many people have gone missing?"

Bai Xiaowen's heart skipped a beat. The list of missing persons posted by Sheriff Yahan already had as many as thirteen people.

"A lot?" Li Shuyi, who had many "human lives" under her command, wondered why Bai Xiaowen was so surprised.

Bai Xiaowen thought about it and said: "There are thirteen people who have been documented, so the real number may be far more than that. In a town, the most likely to be 'missing' must be homeless people, beggars and other lonely and helpless people. You can see that almost all of the thirteen people posted have complete families, and their families rushed to report the case. In other words, many homeless people in Hodge Town have been 'disappeared', and there is no one behind the scenes After they were caught, they began to extend their black hands to residents with complete families."

Li Shuyi nodded: "That's right, it's easy to understand. If I were the mastermind behind the scenes, I would definitely start with the helpless people."

Speaking of this, Li Shuyi's face suddenly changed slightly: "Then... tell me, aren't the identities of the two of us being alone and helpless? Why haven't we been attacked? Two orphans, homeless, even if The world has evaporated, and no one will pursue it."

Bai Xiaowen said: "No, after all, we live on the same street as the sheriff, and the bakery where we work is also on this street. Our life trajectory is single. It's reasonable that the black hand behind the scenes didn't touch us."

"And you missed something just now," Bai Xiaowen added, "Since there have been thirteen cases of disappearances in a row among residents with families, it means that the mastermind behind the scenes has been caught and must continue their activities at the risk of alerting the sheriff. .So ... the probability that we will be attacked next will also increase."

"Well, the rules of the spirit world will not give us tasks that we cannot complete, so as time goes by, the actions of the black hand behind the scenes will become bigger and bigger, and will eventually reach us," Li Shuyi used her brain to speculate, "We are Shouldn't we take the initiative? For example, go to a desolate area at night to create a little opportunity for the mastermind behind the scenes?"

Bai Xiaowen smiled and said: "It makes sense, waiting passively is really a waste of time. The method you mentioned will undoubtedly increase the chances of the black hands behind the scenes coming to us. However, I have a better way. Follow me."

It was still daytime, and the attack by the black hand behind the scenes would not be so open and aboveboard. Bai Xiaowen took Li Shuyi to walk in Hodge Town. He didn't walk aimlessly, but conducted a survey based on the last place where the missing person appeared.

Hodge Town is a big town with criss-crossing roads, which is quite complicated. However, in Bai Xiaowen's super brain, a planar road map has been formed. The thirteen missing persons and their final places of appearance are all fixed in his mind, and then he outlines possible routes.

In the end, Bai Xiaowen took Li Shuyi and stayed in the south of Hodge Town, near a dilapidated street in the "commercial district".

It is a bit exaggerated to say that this is a commercial area. Compared with the bustling and neat commercial area of ​​the earth city, the commercial area here is very different. There are only a few small shops with wooden signs hanging. The doors are dilapidated and even There is not a single decent ditch, the road is muddy, and there is a bad smell.

"It stinks." Li Shuyi slapped her nose.

"The stinky ditch is the only way to hide the mice." Bai Xiaowen smiled, and led Li Shuyi into the first shop in the street.

The name of this store is "Akea's Cauldron", and the owner is named Akea just like the name of the store.

This store sells alchemy potions. The shelves are filled with life restoration potions, bull strength potions, mongoose potions and other combat potions. They are lackluster in terms of attributes, and they are not as good as potions made by ordinary pharmacists on earth. They are comparable to Bai Xiaowen's. The craftsmanship is incomparable.

In fact, alchemy in the spirit world is very similar to the medicine business on earth. The pharmacist industry on earth is the alchemist industry born out of the spirit world.

Moreover, because the earth pharmacists have relatively accurate pharmaceutical instruments - such as stopwatches, beakers, alcohol lamps, etc., the finished products of pharmaceuticals are better than the low-end alchemists in the spirit world. Moreover, medicines on the earth can be purchased with the currency of the earth, while alchemy items in the spirit world can only be purchased with currencies such as gold and silver in the spirit world, and the competitiveness is even lower.

However, there are some masters in the alchemist industry in the spirit world, who can not only make potions, but also make many special alchemy items. This is incomparable to earth pharmacists, so they can only learn slowly.

"Welcome, two young people," the shopkeeper Akaia sitting behind the counter raised his eyelids, accurately identified that the two of them had no purchasing power, and quickly lowered his eyelids, saying weakly, "The potion I have here is Best of all, let me know what you see."

"I'm here to inquire about some things." Bai Xiaowen expressed his intention.

"Please, I don't do intelligence business." Akaia was a little impatient, and quickly glanced at Bai Xiaowen.

"Hey, I understand, but no one has trouble with money, right?"

Bai Xiaowen flicked his fingers, a few gold coins dangled in his hands, and a pleasant voice sounded.

Akaia's eyes were a little straight, and he found that he seemed to be underestimating the young man in front of him. What's the matter with being young, it's okay to wear shabby clothes, as long as you have money, you are an uncle.

"Let me see if your gold coin is real or not." Akaia still kept an eye out.

These gold coins are psychic currency that Bai Xiaowen obtained in the Kane plane world. They can be taken out of the spirit world and used as currency in specific spirit planes.

Since they are all western fantasy plane worlds, Bai Xiaowen speculates that the gold coins in the Kane plane world should be similar to the gold coins here. Bai Xiaowen handed over a gold coin first.

Akaia took the gold coin and looked it over carefully for a while, then frowned and said, "It's strange, why haven't I seen the king's head portrait and the text behind it? The Plantagenet Empire..."

Bai Xiaowen said indifferently: "This is an ancient imperial gold coin that I got by chance. No matter when it was minted, it's all shiny gold, isn't it?"

Akaia put the gold coin in his mouth and bit it hard, his eyes quickly turned into two arcs of laughter: "Yes, yes. Generous young man, you can ask questions now, for the sake of gold, I will Say everything you know, say nothing.”

This reaction was within Bai Xiaowen's expectations. Since the currency of the spirit world can circulate in the world of a specific plane, it will not be rejected because of the factors of casting empires and emperor statues. Because these gold coins are all made of gold and silver from the spirit world, so they are spiritual items.