'Hey, dear man.

I am writing this letter to tell you that the study of sculpture and gemstones is already somewhat impressive.

In the past few months, we have been publishing a collection of relevant clues in the most authoritative "Naturalist Newspaper" in Europe, and have received many letters from all over the world.

Of course, the vast majority of the so-called 'clues' in these letters are false, and only a very small part of them are worth verifying.

After a process of screening, we finally determined that one of the letters from the city of Arberton in North America was related to sculpture.

I have re-transcribed the letter and sent it to you in the annex, and by the way I would like to invite you to join me in the city of Alberton to discover more about the sculpture.

This will also be a great opportunity for you to make a name for yourself in the Explorers Society.

- Your friend, Rick Jones. ’

After reading the letter, Bai Ye thought back to the process of teaching the game as a novice, and the appearance of Rick Jones came to mind.

This is a strong man with a height of 1.9 meters, with a square face and beard, with resolute eyes, wearing an army-green canvas waistcoat, the sleeves are always stacked up, revealing two stout forearms covered with thick black hair.

"Strictly speaking, beginner's teaching is the first game I play...... When the system formulates an exclusive plot for players, it usually starts from the first game, so is it possible that my main story actually started with a beginner's tutorial? ”

If it weren't for the exclusive plot that was formulated, then the novice teaching scene should have ended after the player cleared the level, so why would there be a follow-up quest to 'study the secrets of sculpture'?

"Strange, really strange."

Bai Ye seemed to be getting more and more confused about his own plot conjecture......

There are two attachments below the letter, one is a hand-copied letter from Rick Jones, which is very long, with tens of thousands of words. The other is an ocean-going ticket to the city of Aberton, which, unsurprisingly, is a location prop.

Bai Ye unfolded the handwritten letter:

'I am an unnamed Mr. Thurber, and I am writing to tell you that I have seen your sculptures published in the Naturalist Newspaper!

What I want to remind you of...... It was an evil thing, and it was stored in an evil place.

Three years ago, I lived in the North Point district of Arberton, and it was in that ghetto that I met a guy named Pickman, a painter of little known who liked to add a quirky occult element to his work.

I treated him to two ales at the North Point Bar, and the drunken guy offered to take me to see his paintings.

I followed Pickman out of the North Point bar and helped a lady in her eighties as I crossed the street...... (1000 words of nonsense omitted in between)...... Finally, we stood in front of a house.

It is an old house from the last century...... (500 words of description omitted) ...... In the gallery on the first floor, we finally saw Pickman's work.

Probably because of the addition of a lot of occult elements, his work looks full of weirdness, and it is by no means my favorite genre...... (2000 words of nonsense omitted in between)...... Oh, my God! How could he have drawn such a vivid monster without a tangible reference?!

Then Pickman took me down the dry well in the basement, and we walked through wet tunnels, empty subway platforms, and sewers crawling with rats and cockroaches...... Finally, arrive at a strange underground plaza.

Standing in that dark square, you could hear the sound of some waves, and on the platform in the middle of that square, there was the strange sculpture, surrounded by countless monsters that looked like half-humans, half-dogs.

Oh! OMG! I was terrified, but my extraordinary survival instincts told me that I had to be calm, no matter how frightened I was, and I had to pretend that I didn't think anything else about them......

It was definitely the most terrible memory of my life, and the one I didn't want to recall, if you hadn't published an exact sculpture in the Naturalist......

Bai Ye read it for more than ten minutes before he finally finished reading this long letter of nonsense, and he felt sore, swollen and tired.

"Hmm...... So water? Could this Thurber be a web novel writer by profession? ”

When his letter was put away, a system prompt popped up in front of him:

- The main quest [Investigation of the North Point District] has been triggered.

He immediately cut out of the task interface and looked at it:

【Survey of North Point District】

[Description: From Rick Jones's letter, you learn about the whereabouts of the second sculpture, but to learn more about the sculpture's secrets, you must go to the North Point district of Arberton City.] 】

[Objective: Use positioning props to go to the North Point district of Arberton City to investigate and find the second 'Mysterious Sculpture'.] 】

……

Bai Ye took a look at the [Key to No. 75 Deyue Street, Beihai], and the positioning cooldown time on it was still several hours.

I checked the standings again.

After an afternoon and half a night of not playing, he had dropped to 10th in the standings, finishing 17th.

The first place in the ranking is still the Blue Star Club's Blue Star Blue Sky, with a current score of 370 points.

"Wouldn't it be too much to play two games today?"

For Bai Ye, controlling points is much more difficult than rushing to the rankings, and he must keep himself in a position that is not so conspicuous and not too far behind—within the 50th is a more suitable position.

Judging by the points he gets for each game, a game is estimated to catch up with other players for a whole day.

"Anyway, let's finish Rick Jones' adventure commission first."

What kind of secret is hidden behind the sculpture makes Bai Ye curious, and he also wants to find out whether the novice teaching scene is related to his own exclusive plot line.

"Embroidery, we're going to a new world."

Greeted the stinky embroidery girl who was floating in front of the vanity mirror - since she brought the embroidery girl to the preparation space, she quickly understood the setting and principle of the game - it seems that the system implanted relevant memories in her.

"Uh-huh."

The embroidery girl nodded obediently, changed her body, and changed back into the image of a mad female ghost wearing a red wedding dress, a pearl hijab, and white eyes - this is what Bai Ye had asked her before, she can dress up as she wants in the preparation space, but after entering the game, she needs to maintain the appearance of a female ghost to facilitate work.

The body turned into blue light, and with a whoosh, the embroidered girl drilled back into the soul bead in Bai Ye's hand.

Then, Bai Ye took out the scene positioning props in the shape of the ferry ticket, activated the special effects, and stepped forward to open the wooden door of the preparation space.

……