The mission option at the bottom of the list is indeed much more verbose than the ordinary mission. www.biquge.info Lu Pingchuan lowered his head and checked his equipment, and after making sure that there was enough food and water, he walked out of the mayor's hall. As soon as he walked out of the door, Wen Jie's voice communication came from the earphones:

"Wow, sheriff mission! is worthy of Brother Lu, it sounds cool! That one...... Anyway, brother, do you know where the market gate is going? I seem to be lost......"

"You open the system watch face and click on the drop-down menu of 'Status', which will have a three-dimensional map of the town and a display of your current location." After replying to Wen Jie's inquiry, Lu Pingchuan also opened the system dial to confirm the general direction, and then strode towards the police station.

Fortunately, the police station was not very far from the mayor's hall, and ten minutes later, Lu Pingchuan was standing at the door of the town's police station. Pushing open the door and entering, there is a simple cell on the ground floor, a table at the corner of the stairs, and an old woman-like robot sitting straight behind it, with a name tag on the table that reads "Sheriff's Secretary".

"Excuse me, sheriff's mission." According to the task prompt, Lu Pingchuan scanned the badge on the robot's chest with the system dial, and activated the task command with his voice. The "old woman's" glass eyes lit up, and she raised her head and began to state to him the clues of the next mission:

"I've heard from the mayor about your application for the position of acting sheriff, but for now, we don't know much about you. Yesterday there was a murder in which George, a respected old pharmacist in the town, was poisoned...... If you can solve the case and catch the killer, we recognize that you are qualified for the job of sheriff. ”

"Tsk, I know that trouble is indispensable." Lu Pingchuan carefully read the synchronously refreshed mission plot on the system dial, and the system prompted him that he needed to go to the two mission locations of "Small Town Bar" and "Pharmacist's Home" to collect clues. The two locations on the three-dimensional map are far apart, and after thinking about it, Lu Pingchuan decided to go to a relatively nearby bar to have a look.

After walking slowly for more than twenty minutes, he finally came to the door of the only bar in this remote town. It's a bar, but it's actually just a decoration - just like during the closed beta and training camp, in order to prevent players from drinking too much, pastimes such as alcohol and alcohol are still available in limited quantities, even if it's called a "bar".

Yet the somewhat misnamed building is at least in shape faithful to the kind of western bars depicted in film and television productions, with its long narrow portico and low eaves skewed like a drunkard, and a liquor poster plastered at the doorway with cowgirl shoulders half-bare, as if inviting every thirsty passerby...... Lu Pingchuan stood alone outside the door, touched his empty waist bag and head, and suddenly felt very unconfident.

After taking a few deep breaths, Lu Pingchuan finally mustered up the courage to step forward and push open the half-length wooden door of the bar. It was packed, but no one cast a single eye on the rash intruder - the drinkers inside were all NPCs played by robots.

Sir, what do you need? As soon as he entered the door, a robot that looked like a bartender turned around from inside the door, just blocking Lu Pingchuan's way. Lu Pingchuan was no longer surprised by this situation, and blurted out: "Sheriff mission." ”

"Request received." The robot bartender's eyes flickered, and he raised his hand to indicate to the two tables of NPCs located by the window on the right, "Yesterday, Mr. George, a respected old pharmacist in the town, was found dead at home, and the police officers who came to investigate preliminarily determined that it was poisoned. In the last hours of his life, Mr. George visited Mr. Simon, the baker, Mr. Booker, the grocer, Miss Rebecca, the waitress of the store, and Mr. Constantine, another pharmacist in the town, and his neighbor, Mr. John, was the last to see him alive...... Now that they're all sitting there, you can go and ask them about Mr. George. ”

After completing the prompt, the bartender robot returned to standby and retreated to the door. Lu Pingchuan went to the wine table where the NPCs were and found that the NPC design of this game was indeed full of labeling - the baker was a fat man in a white cooking suit, and the barmaid was a bee waist ****, which was clear at a glance. Lu Pingchuan looked at the five robots in a circle a few times, and finally decided to start with the most honest-looking baker first: "Excuse me, sheriff task." ”

"What are you going to do?" The baker turned around, and at the same time the system dial gave the option for the next episode: "What are you going to do with Simon the baker?" Option 1: Treat him to a drink; Option two: Ask him about the pharmacist George. ”

Lu Pingchuan chose the second item without hesitation, and the fat baker's eyes lit up, and he began to talk about the relevant plot clues: "George? He's such a nice guy! Having been a pharmacist in town for over 30 years, I have almost never seen him fight with anyone and blush...... Yesterday morning he came to my shop to buy bread and butter, and I recommended him the newly arrived jam, I didn't think that just a few hours later, something like that would happen......"

The fat man babbled on and on about some of George's actions during the day, without giving any clear clues. Lu Pingchuan interrogated several other NPCs in turn, and the answers they got were all very different: the pharmacist George was an honest and kind old man, and he had no enemies in the town. Through the plot dictated by the NPC, Lu Pingchuan also roughly sorted out the activities of the last day of George's "life": yesterday morning, he successively visited Simon's bakery and Booker's grocery store, and bought bread, butter, coffee, feed and some other daily necessities respectively; Then he went to the bar for a drink and bought some ale from Rebecca to take with him; Coming out of the bar, he met another pharmacist, Konstantin, and the two went together to sit for a while in the latter's pharmacy, who sold him some medicines for horses and licking salt, etc.; Finally, in the evening, while walking his neighbor, John, saw George sitting alone under the porch at the back of the house enjoying dinner, but when John returned from his walk half an hour later, he found George lying on the ground, dead.

"When you found George down, was he already done with dinner?" Under the prompt of the plot option list, Lu Pingchuan sent further inquiries to John and other robot NPCs in turn.

"When I found him, there was a little bread left on the plate on the table, but the ale in the cup was gone." A robot named John answered the question one by one.

"George is a pharmacist himself, why did he come to you to buy medicine?" It's the same question under the plot option, but this time the interrogation object is changed to the young pharmacist Konstantin.

"I'm a veterinarian and his horse has been malnourished lately, so he came to me to buy some medicine for horses. And George is almost retired, and he hasn't been taking care of his pharmacy much lately, so sometimes he comes to me to buy goods. The NPC's answer was also unfounded.

"I heard you're the only one here who doesn't like George?" The last person to be questioned was Rebecca, a beautiful barmaid.

"No, although he is a nice and good man, he never tips every time he comes to drink!" Although the female robot is good-looking, the voice set is very harsh and harsh.

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After reading all the plot options related to the case, Lu Pingchuan fell into deep thought—although he had borrowed some mystery novels in the library in college, he was far from being familiar with various types of detective modes. Now, many clues and character relationships are stuck in his mind like a mess. He tried to inquire about the plot development of the mission-related NPCs a few times, and even poked a few unrelated NPCs around him, but he didn't find any more. After making sure that he couldn't ask anything, Lu Pingchuan took out the notepad and pen in his pocket and began to sort out the clues.

"The victim, George, a pharmacist by profession, bought bread, butter, coffee, fodder, ale, horse medicine, and licking salt from Simon, Booker, Rebecca, and Constantine, respectively, and the last person he met was his neighbor John...... Died of poisoning ......"