Chapter 272: Mission Progress Increased, Items Lost in the Vault

Chapter 271: Mission progress increased, items lost in the vault

On the evening of October 7, the thirteenth cycle, the Endless Sea world.

In the main tower of Fengxi Castle, in the Governor's office.

The warm golden sun in the evening shines through the tall and long retro windows, forming beams of light in the air, with tiny floating objects flying in them.

The floating objects dance in the rich warm sun, dyeing everything in the office golden.

Looking around, there are wooden tables and chairs, bookshelves, and a wall of various books.

Opposite the bookshelf is a huge globe half a person's height, and next to the globe is the sand table of the Endless Sea, the sand table of Storm Island, and various maps and sea charts on the wall...

At this moment, they all seem to have been filtered and become warm.

Gradually, the aroma of tea fills the room, and Xia, who is wearing a light blue dress, is making tea.

On the other side, in front of the Governor's desk, Li Feng was looking at the interrogation file of the player. The file showed that the person conducting the interrogation was Marsas.

Interrogee: Pete Bell

Occupation: Oyster vendor in Fengxi City

Reason for the trial: Stealing a first-level secret treasure, violently resisting and injuring people after being discovered, showing strength contrary to his thin body, suspected of having awakened the extraordinary.

Later, when the police arrived, he broke down emotionally, spoke a strange language, and tried to escape.

Interrogator: Marsas

Interrogation process: When I ordered people to tie him to the torture rack, Bell thought his problem was stealing secret treasures.

He claimed that someone was going to hunt him down, and he had to be promoted to the extraordinary to protect himself.

I told him that we have many preferential treatments for people who have awakened the extraordinary, and he seemed to be relieved.

Then I asked Bell who was going to hunt him down, and Bell said it was an Abyss Blessed, and he said he saw it with his own eyes.

I doubted this, because there was no reason for the Abyss Blessed to hunt down a quasi-extraordinary person, because the benefits were minimal.

Under my torture, Bell told me that the Abyss-Follower had a mission.

The word "mission" again, I asked him who gave him the mission, but at this time, Bell began to keep silent, even though I used some punishment on him.

After that, I began to ask him the real reason why he was sent here, why he knew those strange languages, and what did they mean?

When Bell heard me ask this, he had a visibly nervous expression.

At first, he refused to admit that he had spoken those languages.

But when I took the documents used by the police for recording and read out the strange syllables recorded by the police, Bell was horrified. He seemed to finally realize the problem, but he still kept silent.

After that, I tortured him once, and Bell finally spoke after being unable to bear the torture of his soul.

Sure enough, he said that he was a player who had traveled from another world, he had a "system", and he had some tasks that he had to complete.

He said that at first he just wanted to play a game, he applied for the qualification to play the game, and then came to the Endless Sea and became another person.

I don't quite understand the meaning of the game he mentioned, and the qualification to play the game.

The game that Bell was talking about seemed very complicated, and it was different from the games that children played as I understood it.

After that, I asked him questions about another world.

From his description, it seemed that he was similar to the previous players, and he also said some things that were incomprehensible.

Based on my investigation of their identities, I found that Bell and the previous defendants did not know each other, and they had no intersection in life.

Then, when I wanted to ask him the most important point, whether he would return to another world once every half a month as the player said, he began to become crazy and talk nonsense.

As usual, Bell also went crazy, and half an hour later, he became stupid.

I judged that the players must have been cursed by some kind of evil curse, which constrained them from telling the truth.

If they violated it, the curse would be triggered.

But I turned over Bell's upper and lower eyelids and found no traces of forbidden spells.

So, at present, I am not sure what curse they were under and who cursed them.

Finally, I confirmed through Bell's soul that he could no longer wake up, so I ended his life.

Trial date: August 2.

‘August 2…’

The setting sun shone in, adding a warm color to Li Feng’s black suit, and also brightened the interrogation record in his hand.

Li Feng remembered that a few months ago, the soldiers of Fengxi Castle were indeed arresting players, and he had encountered one once.

Recalling that experience, and adding this interrogation record, Li Feng found that Fengxi Castle mainly used the language of the player world to identify who was a player.

‘It’s still very primitive, and requires a certain amount of coincidence. ’

But even so, Fengxi Castle still has a lot of information about players.

Missions, systems, another world, and returning to the player world once every half a month…

Because the file in his hand was very thick, Li Feng continued to flip through it quickly.

Then he found that in addition to Fengxi Castle arresting players, the governors of other islands were also arresting players.

And they were also sharing information.

Li Feng was somewhat frightened holding this pile of thick documents, and when he flipped through them quickly, the document suddenly stopped at a page, and then a certain word came into view:

Exploration.

Li Feng:!

Time seemed to freeze for a second.

‘Exploration? Could there be another player who is related to the Exploration? ’

Not daring to be careless, Li Feng quickly browsed the page.

First of all, based on the sun emblem on the page and the first line of markings, Li Feng knew that this was a document sent from the Governor's Palace of Glory Island.

Unlike recording the interrogations of other players, this page only recorded an incident that happened a few months ago that they later believed was related to the player.

The protagonist of the incident was a sailor, a native of Sun City, Shining Island, who worked on the Discovery passenger ship during his lifetime, named Harvey.

Records say that in June this year, Harvey, who went to sea with the Discovery, began to act abnormally after returning to his home in Sun City, Shining Island.

Every night, he would speak some language that people couldn't understand, and do all kinds of weird or dangerous actions like he was mentally disturbed.

But every time the sun came up, Harvey returned to normal.

Harvey's brother and sister-in-law, who lived with him, thought he must be sick, so they sent him to a doctor to treat his hysteria.

When they arrived at the hospital, the doctors from Shining Island believed that Harvey had a mental problem.

But after some treatment, whether it was bloodletting, medicine, or even extraordinary methods, Harvey was not getting better.

Then, finally on the night of July 1st, Harvey, who was out of control, touched a knife and ended his life.

Harvey's story ends here, and at the bottom of the page is the summary of the person who recorded it.

Because Harvey spoke an unknown language that no one could understand at night, he suspected that Harvey was also a player.

So when the governors of each island discovered the existence of players at the end of July and beginning of August, some people remembered the dead Harvey and recorded all his details in the investigation report.

But Li Feng, who read the record, didn't think so.

Harvey only becomes abnormal at night, which is completely different from the consequences of violating the game's warnings.

But this doesn't mean Harvey doesn't have problems.

His fingers crossed July 1, the date Harvey committed suicide.

And Li Feng also clearly remembered that July 1st was the date he entered the game through time travel, and it was also the date the Discovery encountered a shipwreck and sank.

‘So there might be something on the Discovery, and its sinking doesn’t seem to be as simple as a shipwreck. ’

Recalling the investigation by the Black and White Institute, the Discovery was related to a fire-worshiping cult and the mysterious man who robbed the Glory Vault.

According to the system mission, it was also learned that the mysterious man was a player who smuggled himself from Xinxing.

As for Nova, there are only the last two months of that world.

‘So, we need to check out Xinxing and the Zoroastrian Cult. ’

Li Feng went through all the clues he got today and found some direction.

At the same time, footsteps sounded behind him, and the aroma of tea wafted up.

Knowing that it was Xia coming over with tea, Li Feng was about to close the document.

However, when he ran his hand across the paper and touched the footer, he found that the footer of the Harvey page he had just read had been folded up.

Li Feng's heart trembled when he touched the creases. No wonder this stack of documents was so thick. He had just flipped through it casually and stopped at this night.

It turned out that he had been tagged before.

But...who could it be?

The aroma of tea became stronger and stronger, and countless thoughts passed through Li Feng's mind in the flash of lightning.

In this pile of documents, Harvey's fictitious incident alone has nothing worthy of note compared with other records of real interrogations of players.

There's no reason for Penros Fell to fold a neat footer here, and Thea...

The investigation of players happened several months ago. Logically speaking, this kind of file should be hidden in a corner, rather than spread out on the table.

Therefore, Shia must have known about the player's existence.

'But why did she mark Harvey's page again...'

Li Feng's thoughts were racing, and he immediately realized:

‘Yes, I once told Sia that the ship I was on was called Discovery, and it was the ship where Harvey was a sailor.

Moreover, it was the governor's office that Sia brought me to just now. Did she already know something, or was she hinting at something? ’

Li Feng followed his guess and then remembered that Xia knew that Lai Yin was a pseudonym, so why did she deliberately hide it in front of Huang Yanyan just now?

Did she really guess something?

"What are you looking at?"

Just when Li Feng was feeling frightened, Xia came over and placed a beautifully crafted silver tea tray with camellias on the table. On the tea tray were two bone china teacups filled with tea.

"Look at some of the secret documents from Storm's End."

Li Feng's expression remained normal. He lightly raised the document in his hand. No matter what the facts were, he had no intention of hiding it.

Seeing this, Xia's golden eyes rolled on Li Feng's face, and then she laughed, took the pile of documents in Li Feng's hand, threw it aside, and then handed over the brewed tea.

"Last night, I received a letter from Governor Lloyd of Glorious Island. He wanted me to be on Storm Island and pay attention to the mysterious person who robbed Glorious Treasury."

Sitting on the velvet sofa by the window with Li Feng, Xia talked about the glorious island.

"I heard Morningstar talk about the mysterious man on Shining Island."

Li Feng replied that as for the mysterious man's robbery of the Guanghui Treasury, he heard from Huang Yanyan.

"Did the mysterious man steal anything?"

Li Feng asked casually. His system mission was to investigate the truth about the mysterious man's robbery.

Sia shook her head gently:

"I heard that something was indeed lost, but Governor Lloyd kept it secret, so no one knows what was lost."

‘The same news that Yanyan got. ’

Li Feng nodded. He didn't have much hope at first. After all, it was a system task. How could it be so easy to do?

However, at this time Sia smiled slyly:

"No one knows what's missing except me."

Seeing Li Feng's surprise after hearing this, Xia frowned and couldn't hide her pride:

"Actually, you and I have heard about the things that the mysterious man stole, and even got imitations of them. Do you remember the cinnabar cup at the Theater of Sorrow?"

"Cinnabar cup?"

Li Feng was really shocked when he heard this.

Recall that in the performance on the first floor of the Theater of Sorrow, the Cinnabar Cup was given birth to by a woman in a secluded cabin in the deep forest.

Moreover, for the smooth birth of the Cinnabar Cup, two people killed themselves alive.

"Yes, I got the news from Haishi."

Sia explained her sources.

After hearing this, Li Feng also remembered that after killing Penros Fair, he had asked Hazan to let the trolls run the sea market well.

Just as he was thinking about various details, Li Feng's system suddenly prompted a message:

[Your mission progress increases by 50%]

[Task: Investigate the lost items in the Glory Vault]

[Task progress: 50%]

[Task description: Players who smuggled in from Xinxing stole the Cinnabar Cup sealed in the Glory Vault and tried to find a way to investigate the subsequent truth of the matter. 】

[Task reward: ‘your’ memory. 】

As the text flashes line by line in front of you, the task progress on the task interface is also updated.

‘The mission responded, and it seems that it is indeed the Cinnabar Cup. ’

Li Feng thought for a moment, and because of the relationship between Hai Shi and Xia, he learned that the thing that the new star player snatched was the Cinnabar Cup.

But the mission requirement is to investigate the truth of the incident, so it seems that they also need to investigate the specific purpose of the rising star player who stole the Cinnabar Cup.

Outside the tall, slender window, the sun was setting.

Li Feng took out the cinnabar cup prop he had obtained at the Theater of Sadness. He looked at it carefully and couldn't help but ask:

"So what is the origin of the Cinnabar Cup? Is it related to the Mother of Gargoyles?"

Recalling the mother of the gargoyles who was captured alive by the trolls after the Theater of Sorrow collapsed, Li Feng felt that the cat demon must still be cute.

"I think you should ask the Mother of Gargoyles whose servants she is."

Seeing Li Feng's troubled look, Xia felt it was rare. Under the golden sunshine, Xia blinked and smiled.

"who is it?"

Li Feng asked, after not seeing each other for a few days, he suddenly realized that Xia knew a lot of things that he didn't know.

"It's the Lava Lord."

Sia answered seriously:

"From very ancient times, the master served by the Mother of Gargoyles is the Lava Lord."

"Lava Lord?"

Li Feng understood, but he didn't expect to come back to the lava lord after going in a circle.

However, since he is the lava lord...

This kind of creature allows you to fish out a godhead contaminated by filth, and exchange it for 200 points of godhead fusion in one go.

Li Feng suddenly became interested in Discovery, Glory Island, Cinnabar Cup, and Xinxing.