"Sure enough, those clues are the ones that come and go, and you can only get so much information from the children who have disappeared." Jun Yao sat on the bench in the sunset square, leaning back tiredly, she tilted her head and stretched out her right hand to cover her eyes, feeling someone sitting down next to her, and then a slightly cold touch startled her to open her eyes and look at her, Xu Qingran looked at her with a smile with a bottle of water.

"It's hard work, let's drink some drinks to replenish energy." Xu Qingran handed over the drink, and then he also unscrewed a bottle of water and poured some of it, he wiped the overflowing water stains from the corner of his mouth casually, "Ai Yu, they have also finished asking, now wait for them to come, and then we will go into the bell tower together to see the situation." ”

"Although we have a lot of information now, and it seems that we can restore the secret behind the whole incident, but as far as the incident itself is concerned, we still have nothing, we don't know how the children disappeared, and we can't be sure of their fate or death. After all...... It's just a guess that the boss behind the scenes is a witch, and we haven't seen a witch yet, and we haven't found any traces of witchcraft so far. Therefore, the connection between the disappearance of the children and the cruel immortal witchcraft is just a little speculation for which we have no evidence. Jun Yao took the drink handed by Xu Qingran, watched his informality, and when he looked at herself, she realized that she was out of shape, so she gently unscrewed the bottle cap and took two sips, she looked at the blue sky, but she didn't feel happy.

"What makes me even more puzzled is that the main quest itself says 'Find the missing children in Eternal Sleep and unravel the truth about the strange events', these are two things, we have to find the missing children, but also understand the ins and outs of all these strange events, but are we still ignoring one thing?" Xu Qingran sat up straight, as if listening carefully to Jun Yao's analysis, "We understood from the beginning that this mission has a time limit, and both the mayor and his assistant Linda have said that 'children are the time of eternal sleep', so we deduce that the time of the mission is before all the children disappear." Now only five children are missing, and there are fifteen children in the whole town. This kind of incident will continue to happen until it is resolved......"

"I see, the system only said that the missing children were found, but it did not say that the disappearance of the children was prevented." Xu Qingran nodded, understanding what Jun Yao meant, "The system acquiesced in the incident of the disappearance of the children, and in its cognition, it is impossible for us to prevent this matter, so the condition that the system gave us at the beginning was to remedy and recover, not to prevent and prevent it." ”

"yes...... It's really powerless, there are no clues about midnight, if this is the system that we must fall asleep at midnight, then the mysterious song of midnight, the strange game, the sleepwalking child, these clues become for us to never open and unobtainable, unless...... We have a way to break through the limitations of this system, or to get this critical information from other sources. Jun Yao really feels tired, this task is only her first mission, but the difficulty is really much worse than the novice task, is it really her own novice task with the protagonist's aura? Or is this task with a reasoning pattern more difficult?

Intricate clues, difficult to assemble and assemble pieces of puzzles, Jun Yao has a hunch, it seems that the clues of all the tasks have been unearthed and sent in front of their eyes, but because there is no such a reference map, it is impossible to compare what to spell out, so in the process of groping, in such a difficult link of comparison, she is overwhelmed, and even feels a little boring. Whether it's a quest or a game, there are many paths to the ending, but the most uninteresting thing at the moment is that it seems that every road is blocked, and the path that can be found to be taken is either blocked by unknowable factors or artificially blocked. Do you want to work these dead ends, or do you want to find a new way in a different direction?

"Don't be discouraged, this task has created such a large background that it is not destined to be an easy problem to solve. We don't have a choice, but at least we can see the road in front of us, right? The bell tower is our breakthrough. Xu Qingran is the leader of this team, and he also feels that the difficulty of this mission is different from the past, and if it is really the level of the third mission, even he is a little struggling. But as the leader of this team, he can't show discouragement and powerlessness, he needs to give confidence to the members of the team, he needs to let them know that everything can be solved, he hasn't forgotten that his original plan was to start the ending, so he encouraged Jun Yao.

"Let's hope so, but will we really get any useful clues? Think back to the whole process since we entered the mission, whether it is the most primitive time curse or the origin of the disappearance, the mayor has not confessed to us, maybe this is something we need to explore ourselves, after all, it may involve death trigger conditions, but the next investigation, from the beginning of my inquiry about the incident, the mayor did not intend to tell us the truth, and he still kept silent about the origin of the town and the related rules, when I asked the children's residences to know more, He was hesitant and tried to trick me into being cautious. And think about all the surveys we've done so far, have they really gone well? Is one of these missing children's parents completely honest? We're here to solve the problem, and we're the ones who were asked by the mayor to come to the town to solve all this weird thing...... However, the resistance we encountered from beginning to end did not come from the people behind this incident, but from the victims who were deeply affected by this series of events. I have a feeling that they are afraid that the incident will be resolved. Jun Yao sighed, and said all these words in one go, as if she was catharsis, but what she said was so reasonable and well-founded, it seemed that she had not lost her mind to think.

"You...... That's right. Xu Qingran also felt that the talents in this town were the strangest, they were obviously afraid of this incident, they said that children were their most valuable treasure and they could not lose time, they hoped that this matter could be resolved, the sooner the better, but they themselves did not cooperate, and even set up various obstacles for the entire investigation. What are they hiding in such uncooperation?

"You're already there, huh? How's that, what's the catch? Ai Yu and his entourage finally came to Sunset Square, and saw Jiang Xian standing in the middle of the square carefully observing the bell tower, gesturing with her hands in the air, Chen Yang sat on a bench, looking at the system page very seriously, and Xu Qingran and Shen Junyao sat on another bench with heavy faces, as if they were discussing something, but Ai Yu felt that something was wrong with this atmosphere.

"Light dyeing, Jun Yao...... Are you alright? Ai Yu asked tentatively, Xu Qingran glanced up at her, and suddenly smiled, he reached out and scratched his hair, and stood up, "It's okay, it's just discussing the situation of the task, and it looks a little serious." Did you ask for anything new? ”

"There are only a few messages that come and go, and the gentleman from Mike's family is really not cooperative at all, and he doesn't answer what he asks, but fortunately, his wife is next to him to help set off two sentences, and the inquiry can finally go on smoothly, but the information is too little. When we talked about Alice's family, the gentleman was very emotional and behaved strangely, like a madman, shouting 'kill him,' 'kill them,' 'saboteurs,' and so on. We were driven out by the lady on the pretext of this. Ai Yu sighed, "I think the people in this town are really abnormal, more or less strange. ”

"System NPCs, besides, the origin of this town is so special, and there are so many wonderful pasts, it's strange that people living in this town can have normal people, right?" Lin Mo walked over, after half a day's rest, plus they deduced a lot of things, it would not trigger dangerous events, and there was no need for Lin Mo to predict or protect, she was able to rest in her spare time, and she looked much better.

"Everyone's here, right?" Xu Qingran looked around and confirmed that every Dream Traveler was present, he nodded and walked in the direction of the bell tower, "Then get ready to go into the bell tower together to see the situation, pay attention to not make too much movement when you go in, don't make loud noises, if you find anything, just communicate it directly face to face." There should be ethereal guards in the bell tower, so for the sake of safety, you should also be ready for battle at all times to ensure the state of your attack and defense items. ”

"Let's split up into groups, shall we? You haven't been in the bell tower before, but you've heard us talk about the inside of the tower. There were mainly two groups, one group went to see the secret door we found earlier, and the other group went upstairs to see the situation. The ethereal spirit we met before was on the second floor, trying to trick us into going upstairs, but it did tell some clues, although I don't know if it's true or not, but the area above the second floor must be to be seen. So if you group it, is it still according to our current ......" Ai Yu then said, Xu Qingran paused, as if thinking carefully, "Let's redivide the group, the area above the second floor will be a little more dangerous in my opinion, Chen Yang and Zhao Xiao are both novices, and there are no props on them, if you really encounter any situation, if you don't handle it well and disturb the void spirit and break the rules, even if the number of times we enter today is abolished, and the self-protection ability is too weak, we must also divide our energy to protect you, It's really not necessary. In comparison, when Lin Mo and I opened the secret door that day, we looked at the back of the secret door twice, it looked like a very long passage, I guess it should be a passage for someone to enter the bell tower without going through the gate, it looks very narrow, and it is likely to be one-way, and the danger factor is much smaller than that on the second floor, which is more suitable for the two of you. So, Lin Mo, Jiang Xian, Jun Yao, and Weiyu went to the area on the second floor, and Ai Yu and I took the two of them to see the situation of the secret door, what do you think? ”

"Okay."

got a positive response, so everyone stood in front of the gate of the bell tower, there was a lock hanging on the heavy and old door that looked rusty, Ai Yu took off a hairpin from his head, aimed at the keyhole and gently inserted it and stirred it a few times, the lock was easily broken, Jiang Xian carefully caught the lock that was about to fall on the ground, and placed it on the steps on the side, so Xu Qingran took the lead and slowly pushed open the dusty door.

The unpleasant smell of dust came to his nose, Xu Qingran raised his hand and waved it to dispel the haze in front of him, and finally saw the appearance of the entire inside of the bell tower.