Chapter 140: The Woman Holding a White Cat
On the night of August 7, the lights in the player world were on.
Li Feng opened the chat channel to see if there was any latest news about the paper servant today.
Since the return on August 1, the servant suspected to be the paper crane committed two massacres in Yuncheng.
And all the players received the task of stopping the paper servant from reviving the paper crane on that day.
But since that day, the paper servant seemed to have disappeared, never committing crimes again, and never appeared again.
*: "Good news, everyone, there is no news of major vicious cases today."
*: "Is it not allowed to be reported or it didn't happen?"
*: "It should not have happened. I have some connections in this area. There are first-hand news in various news, but I really haven't heard of vicious murders."
*: "This is really great."
*: "Yes, but it has been 6 days in a row. What is the paper servant doing?"
*: "It won't have resurrected the paper crane?"
*: "No, I accepted the trigger task, but the task did not show failure."
*: "Hey! Do you think that paper man will seek revenge on No. 67?"
*: "┌(。Д。)┐"
*: "It's possible, but No. 67 is still alive."
*: "How did you know?"
*: "Because of the death list, No. 67 is not on the death list published by the system."
*: "No one has completed the task of stopping the paper man servant, and No. 67 is still alive, which means that the paper man has not found No. 67 yet."
Since the players received the task, many of them have speculated that the paper man servant left by the paper crane will seek revenge on Li Feng.
Li Feng sometimes agrees with it, but he doesn't care too much.
After all, the player world is not the game world.
The official is not the Violet Eye, they will use high-tech criminal investigation methods to capture the paper man servant with all their strength.
And the official players have also explained in the chat channel that the official is now using all their strength to capture the paper man servant.
Besides, the current task of the paper man servant is to revive the paper crane.
As for revenge, it would probably take until the paper crane is really resurrected.
And now, Li Feng has a more difficult problem, that is, how to escape from the Sad Theater.
Avoid being castrated and having his heart gouged out.
To deal with the paper crane or the paper servant, at most, it would be a fight to the death.
But Li Feng has not found a way to escape from the Sad Theater, and the bloody performance he is about to perform with his life.
The night outside the window is turbid, and the neon lights cover the stars.
Li Feng turned the desk lamp to the brightest, and the light illuminated the gargoyle head on the desk.
On the head that is the size of a watermelon, made of stone, and looks like a bat, lines of grotesque words appeared.
This gargoyle head with words was obtained by Li Feng from the paper-like corpse after he killed the paper crane in the game world.
Based on Li Feng's long-term fishing experience, generally speaking, the items he fished out are directly or indirectly related to the medium of fishing.
Fishing leaves will get you water, fishing stones will get you moss.
Then this gargoyle head with words should also have some relationship with the paper crane.
As for the paper crane, Li Feng remembered it clearly.
In the game world, the official player said at first that the paper crane was a weaver of the second level and fifth rank.
But when he killed him, the game system's notification showed that the paper crane was a weaver of the third level.
In this regard, the official player explained that his information about the rank of the paper crane was wrong.
But Li Feng doubted this statement, and he thought there was another hidden story.
The most likely one is that the paper crane gained power from the Lost Land - the Sad Theater.
And the official player concealed this matter in order to prevent others from imitating.
Looking at the gray and extremely hard gargoyle head in front of him.
Li Feng began to recall all the clues he knew about the gargoyle.
At the beginning, Li Feng heard the word gargoyle for the first time in the promotion task he received.
"Investigate the gargoyles and kill the mother of the gargoyles."
The reward for the mission is to be promoted to the next level on the original hunter rank.
After asking around.
From Candice, Li Feng heard that in history, dragons had hunted gargoyles in large numbers.
Secondly, Xia said that the head of the gargoyle is a rare extraordinary material, and the dragons do need it.
However, not all dragons need it, only her mother, the Black Dragon Queen, needs it.
Finally, the paper crane, who got involved in the power of the Lost Land-Theatre of Sorrow and was quickly promoted, had the head of the gargoyle on him.
So, as an extraordinary material, is the gargoyle head the key for the paper crane to obtain the power of the Theatre of Sorrow?
In order to escape, Li Feng is now unwilling to let go of anything related to the Theatre of Sorrow.
With the bright light, Li Feng picked up the gargoyle head and looked at it left and right.
One by one, strangely shaped words that looked like hieroglyphs and special patterns appeared in front of him.
Looking at these unfamiliar words, Li Feng felt a little regretful.
He had fished for this gargoyle head with words a few days ago, hoping to learn the words on it and understand its meaning.
Perhaps there were too few words on the head, and through fishing, he only got some not-so-precious extraordinary materials, but did not learn this language.
Feeling regretful and unwilling in his heart, Li Feng continued to stare at the words, trying to decipher the patterns in the words.
But suddenly when he took a closer look, he realized that he seemed to have seen these patterns before.
Immediately go to the bookshelf cabinet, open the safe, and take out the set of red coral cards.
This set of coral cards was discovered by Li Feng at Huang Yanyan's house last time he returned.
It was precisely because of this set of cards that Huang Yanyan was still mentally depressed at that time, as if he was seriously ill.
And what makes Li Feng strange is that this set of cards cannot be put into the system backpack for some reason.
Now, Li Feng took them to the desk.
Under the bright light, a total of five coral cards glowed like jewels.
Behind them are the vast sea, the bright starry sky, forest-like coral groups, majestic underwater palaces, and a mermaid with her back to the picture.
As for the front, Li Feng recognized two kinds of characters among the various sacred and weird patterns.
One is the troll language he newly learned, and the other is the same pattern and text as the gargoyle's head.
And Li Feng discovered.
The pattern on the coral card, as long as it is combined with the text, seems to be something traceable like a compass.
'Maybe... I can try to crack it. ’
…
"There should be results of divination at the headquarters today—"
On the evening of August 7, Huang Yanyan said to the official players patrolling with her in the center of Yuncheng City.
Because the paper servants still had no clues, the institute asked them to take turns patrolling every bustling place in Cloud City.
To prevent the paper-man servants from causing a large-scale security incident.
Since August 1st, the paper servants left behind by Zhihe have mysteriously disappeared after committing two murders.
The criminal investigation side analyzed the crime scene and found that the paper servant did not take any valuables.
But judging from its behavior of rummaging through the closet, it should have taken away some clothes.
"Is it through killing that it becomes more human?"
Some players analyzed it this way.
The institute doesn't have much research data on paper spirits, let alone paper controllers who are more advanced than paper spirits, and the servants of paper controllers.
But Huang Yanyan, who is a forensic doctor, has always felt that in the player world, the criminal investigation methods of modern society are sound enough.
They definitely have the ability to find and capture a person, even if it is a paper man.
But the actual result is.
All monitoring data in the cloud city are transmitted to the research institute from time to time for retrieval by the technical department.
The servers with the strongest computing power in the city were also allocated to the research institute for them to do analysis and calculations.
However, even so, the institute still did not find out the whereabouts of the paper servant.
It's as if the world has evaporated.
But similarly, the institute not only has technological power, but also has extraordinary players.
At the institute headquarters, there are currently a group of official players specializing in divination.
It is using divination to divine the whereabouts of the Paper Man's servant and how it plans to resurrect the Paper Crane.
However, because there is no transcendence in the player world itself, the divination ceremony requires complex preparations and a long divination process.
News from the headquarters said that their divination is expected to take 6 to 7 days.
The waiting process was painful, but fortunately the paper servants did not do any evil these days.
And now, with the neon lights flashing on the night of August 7, six days have passed, and the divination results are about to be obtained.
…
"What will be lost?
Where to find mercy?
What words make the earth sweet?
Before starting this path, please allow me to pass through the Gate of Day and gain the power of my ancestors. "
In the early morning of August 8th, the player world.
Facing the first ray of sunshine on the horizon, Li Feng roughly deciphered the text on the gargoyle's head by comparing it with the troll language.
'It sounds like a poem. ’
But Li Feng was confused. Where is this?
The power of ancestors? Is he the ancestor of the gargoyles?
But since the result is like this, and the matter has reached this point, Li Feng has no other choice.
He looked at the poem he had translated on the paper, carefully read it to the gargoyle's head, and solemnly read it.
However, the sunshine was peaceful and the air was fresh, and nothing around him reacted at all.
I don’t know whether to feel relieved or disappointed.
After that, Li Feng used the common language of the Endless Sea and the troll language again, but there was still no response.
“Isn’t the solution to the Theater of Sadness here?”
Li Feng sighed, feeling that he had been busy all night in vain.
Helpless, he put away the coral cards and the gargoyle head with poems engraved on it, and then went to sleep.
…
"What? The souls of 177 living people, or the hearts of enemies?"
At noon on August 8, Huang Yanyan, who had gone home to sleep after getting off the night shift, was woken up by a phone call.
It was the divination result from the headquarters that came out.
"Yes, something happened. I don't have time to elaborate. Yanyan, you should rush to the top floor of Building A of the institute immediately. You must be quick!"
Captain Qi Heng urged on the phone.
Huang Yanyan was shocked after hearing this. The top floor of Building A of the institute was not the helipad for the helicopters in the institute?
Could it be that the paper servant did something?
Not daring to delay, Huang Yanyan rushed to the research institute immediately.
On the way, Qi Heng also sent the detailed information.
It turns out that just now, the divination results from the headquarters came out.
According to the divination results, although the location of the paper servant is very vague, it is in Yuncheng and several surrounding cities.
But the headquarters clearly divined the way for the paper servants to resurrect the paper cranes.
Either sacrifice 177 living people or use the enemy's heart.
The institute guesses that for the paper servants.
It should be relatively difficult to sacrifice 177 living people in Yuncheng or surrounding cities.
Because ever since the institute learned that the Paper Man Servant was going to resurrect the paper crane, the institute has coordinated with other departments to maintain a high level of control over various dangerous goods.
In addition, strict security checks have been set up in crowded places, and official players have been assigned to patrol in turns.
The same is true for Yuncheng, and the same is true for the cities surrounding Yuncheng.
Therefore, in this case, compared with sacrificing 177 living people, it is relatively simple to get the enemy's heart.
'The heart of the enemy, No. 67...'
Thinking of this, Huang Yanyan couldn't help but worry about No. 67.
However, later information showed that the research institute was predicting the paper servant's next move.
The technical department, which has been analyzing the city's surveillance, finally found clues.
During surveillance, they found two people who looked exactly the same.
These two people appeared in two places far apart at the same time.
But by querying the resident information, the technology department found that this person did not have a twin sister.
Sensing such a strange situation, the technical department guessed that one of the two people should be the paper servant.
"That paper servant can actually imitate someone else's appearance?"
Huang Yanyan and other official players gathered here on the top floor of Building A of the Research Institute Building.
"That's right, it's because it changes its appearance, so we searched for surveillance, but we never got any useful clues."
Captain Qi Heng continued to introduce the team members on this mission:
"Just now, the technical department tracked that this morning, the paper servant was in a funeral supplies store and asked the boss to make a specially made white cat made of paper.
Then it went to the bus terminal and took a black bus to Xuzhou City.
According to our analysis, this trip should be to find No. 67, the enemy who killed Zhihe, and take his heart.
And that paper cat should be a prop to get close to No. 67.
Now we have to catch it before it does its thing. "
With the rumble of the helicopter taking off, except for the few who stayed behind, most of the remaining official players from the Yuncheng Research Institute went to Xuzhou to capture the paper servants.
"No. 67...is it really in Xuzhou?"
On the helicopter, Huang Yanyan asked Qi Heng.
She just informed No. 67 in the chat channel, but what is worrying is that No. 67 did not reply.
"It should be, the headquarters said that the Theater of Sorrow in the Lost Land is suspected to contain the power of the black dragon ancestors.
If Zhihe has gained such a powerful and unknown power, then it should not be difficult for his servants to find No. 67 who killed Zhihe. "
Huang Yanyan nodded after hearing this and looked out the window worriedly.
Although No. 67 can kill the paper crane, what about this paper man servant who has become no different from a living person?
Looking at the video in my hand, I saw the beautiful woman holding the white cat.
Huang Yanyan was worried whether No. 67 would lower his guard and fall into her trap.
Because of the official priority dispatch, within an hour, the official players of Yuncheng Research Institute had already appeared downstairs in a residential building in Xuzhou.
According to the data from the technical department, the paper servant is in this building at the moment, and the number 67 it came for should also live in this building.
"Dong dong dong."
A player who had long been dressed as a real estate agent knocked on the door of a certain house in this building.
At the same time, in a certain residential building in Yuncheng, there was a knock on the door of a certain house.
After staying up all night, Li Feng was still sleeping when he was woken up by a knock on the door.
Through the surveillance outside the door, he saw a woman holding a white cat.