After running for nearly half an hour in the scorching desert, Lu Pingchuan finally found the house of the pharmacist George. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

It is a humble house in a desert town, located on the edge of the desert, consisting of a low townhouse and a stable. The door was open, there didn't seem to be any NPCs and living people, Lu Pingchuan pushed open the door and walked into the outside of the room, inside there were a series of cabinets more than one person high, on which different empty medicine bottles were placed in alphabetical order, showing that the owner was a thoughtful and patient person. Lu Pingchuan glanced at the cabinet a few times, didn't see anything wrong, and pushed open the door leading to the inner room.

Different from the outer room, which is obviously a work place, the inner room is the pharmacist's bedroom, and the layout full of life inside makes Lu Pingchuan feel a trace of fireworks, but when he opens the closet and cloakroom in the bedroom, it is empty. It seems that the scenographer is too lazy to spend time in the unseen. After Lu Pingchuan roughly inspected the furnishings in the inner room, he still didn't find anything, so he opened the back door to the corridor.

The back porch of the house connects the horse farm and the drying ground, a stone's throw away from the stables, and is much wider than the front porch. In the back porch, near the window, a white round table was placed, on which some food was also placed. Under the round table, two long legs in brown suede boots and jeans are exposed—it seems that this is the most crucial "George's corpse" in the plot.

The remains of the dummy named "George" fell to the ground in a prone position, his shirt and jeans looking clean, and it seemed that this slightly remote mission location had not been disturbed by other players. Lu Pingchuan leaned down, fumbled around it a few times, and pulled out a note from his jacket pocket - it turned out to be only its purchase list the day before.

After touching the "corpse" a few more times, Lu Pingchuan squatted a little sore, and had to sigh and want to stand up, but accidentally hit his head on the edge of the table, and stumbled and fell back to the "corpse". The fall led him to discover a new world: the "corpse" seemed to be holding something in his right hand in front of him. Lu Pingchuan crawled over the table with his hands and feet, and it took a long time to break open the knuckles of his fingers, and inside was a handful of withered yellow hay.

In this desert, which is almost green, it is not easy to catch this handful of grass before dying. Lu Pingchuan looked in the direction of his right, and his eyes were locked on the stable not far from the back porch—the hay that fell from the trough to the back porch was scattered and stretched to the back porch, which seemed to indicate the direction of the next search.

Lu Pingchuan approached the stables along the scattered hay, and the simple building of wide planks and iron sheets was also very quiet. The door of the stable was not locked, and Lu Pingchuan pushed it open and touched the surrounding walls twice, but did not find the light switch. The stable is very deep, and the sunlight that penetrates from the door can't shine far, so Lu Pingchuan had to turn on the night vision mode of the system dial, half-looking and half-touching to search for possible gains - just took a few steps, didn't want to stumble under his feet, Lu Pingchuan lowered his head, and the camera search box of the system dial happened to be on the object under his feet, and the yellow frame jumped out in an instant: "George loves the corpse of Masani."

"Even the horse is dead...... Lu Pingchuan quickly understood that this discovery would not be accidental. While it seems unlikely to be possible to dissect NPC "corpses" in the game at this time, it is clear that the horse and the owner should have died of poisoning for the same cause. In this way, the most likely suspects were the grocery store owner who sold feed and coffee, and Konstantin, another pharmacist.

More than half of the suspects were eliminated at once, and Lu Pingchuan instantly lifted his spirits. However, just as he was about to grope further along the robot horse's torso to see if he could find more clues, a slightly smaller quest item tooltip popped up in the camera view of the system's watchface - however, the name of the item was not displayed in the tooltip because the object was not found.

Following the direction indicated by the prompt box, Lu Pingchuan found a narrow hard object in the saddle bag - when he looked at it in the sun, he found that it was an old cast iron key, and at the same time, the system dial that had successfully scanned the item gave its name and introduction: "Constantine's key - it belongs to the key of the pharmacist Mr. Constantine, but the lock that matches it is still a mystery." ”

Although no more information could be displayed in the system dial, Lu Pingchuan was still overjoyed, put the key back in his waist bag and ran to the bar. As soon as he entered the door of the bar, Lu Pingchuan bypassed the bartender's inquiry, and couldn't wait to point to Konstantin in the seat:

"I see! Mr. Constantine, you are the murderer! ”

"How so?" The NPC named spoke in an unusually calm tone.

"Because ......" Lu Pingchuan paused for a moment and sorted out the clues in his mind before continuing to speak, "George's horse is also dead, and George bought medicine from you that day!" And, I was in George's stable, and found this! ”

Lu Pingchuan said, took out the key in his pocket and handed it to the NPC's eyes. However, Konstantin's reaction was not at all as he imagined, his eyes lit up and then quickly returned to their original state, and the voice plot coming out of the player once again exceeded Lu Pingchuan's expectations:

"I don't know what you're talking about, sir."

The robot's one-by-one answer made Lu Pingchuan fall into embarrassment again, and a few seconds later, a piercing scream came from the hostess's mouth: "You stupid donkey inspector, you actually slandered Mr. Konstantin!" ”

With this order, countless wine glasses smashed towards Lu Pingchuan again. Just as he was about to hug his head, he heard a shout from behind: "Don't go out, come here!" ”

Lu Pingchuan heard that it was Henry's voice, so he didn't think about it at that time, and got behind the bar where Henry was holding his head. Strangely, the cups that were originally flying seemed to have long eyes, and as soon as he entered the bar, the robots stopped moving. When there was no more sound of the cup falling to the ground, Lu Pingchuan raised his head, looked at the messy bar, and said to Henry: "Thank you." ”

"You'd better think about whether this task is really right for you." Henry was still in the bar unhurriedly wiping all kinds of bottles and cans, and he didn't even turn his head to look at Lu Pingchuan. However, this seemingly indifferent sentence made Lu Pingchuan, who was still related to him, frown--he already understood that Henry had helped him a lot just now: because he failed to challenge again, the balance in his identity card at this moment was no longer enough to pay for another bar clean-up fee. If he ran out in a panic just now, then the next time he entered the door, he would be stopped by the bartender at the door, and he would completely lose the opportunity to complete the task.

And now, Henry's timely reminder seems to have pointed out two ways for him: one is to give up the task of sheriff, just leave the bar, and choose an easier position again; Or...... In this bar, maybe there is any room to turn the plot around?