"From the mayor's previous account, it can be summarized that a month ago something happened to the town's bell tower, and a strange song would always sound at twelve o'clock at midnight, and then the town's children were found to sleepwalk at this point in the street park. The townspeople tried all sorts of ways to stop the children from sleepwalking, but to no avail, as if the children had disappeared and appeared out of thin air. After the strange bells and the symptoms of sleepwalking appeared, children began to go missing in the town, there were fifteen children in the town, five children have been missing so far, and there are ten children left, if we count at the rate of one missing child a day, our mission time is only ten days at most, but it is very likely that it will be less than that. After having a luncheon in the restaurant, Xu Qingran briefly summarized some of the existing information of the entire mission, "At present, the suspicious points that can be concluded are the bell tower in Sunset Square, the home of the missing five children, and the street garden, I suggest that the soldiers divide into two ways, one group goes to the clock tower to see the situation, and the other group first goes to the mayor to inquire about the information of the five missing children, and then goes to the missing people's homes to inquire about the situation according to the children's information." ”

"There will be strange singing voices coming from the bell tower, I think there may be danger here, I and the three of us went to see the situation. The Mayor Mare is the initial NPC assigned by the system, and we still have clues to get from him at the moment, so the danger of the Mayor Mare is almost non-existent at the moment. You're going to go to the mayor and ask about the missing children, and then we'll meet up at Sunset Square? Ai Yu then assigned everyone's tasks, they decided to go to a more dangerous place, but they didn't have such a noble idea to take the lead in blocking the knife for the newcomers, just because the bell tower as the initial point of the event must imply a very important clue, rather than leaving it to the inexperienced newcomers to do, it is better for them to go.

"Okay, let's go now." Lin Mo nodded in agreement, so Xu Qingran, Ai Yu and Lin Mo packed up and went out, the rest of the people were still sitting at the dining table, Chen Yang blinked his eyes, and then set his eyes on Shen Junyao, "Then do we have to leave now, Sister Shen?" ”

Jun Yao obviously didn't expect this young man to be so upright, and he opened his mouth Brother Xu to shut up Sister Shen, is it really good as a junior high school student? Jun Yao wiped off the black lines on her head and smiled politely, "If everyone is ready, let's go." I just flipped through a guide map when I was in my room, the mayor's office is very close to Sunset Square, and the mayor's house is very close to our hotel, but we can't be sure whether the mayor is in the office or in his own home, so we will take a convenient road to the mayor's house first, and if he is not at home, we may be able to learn some of his whereabouts. ”

"Okay." Yin Weiyu nodded, in fact, she is not good at reasoning, positioning is not a wise person, rather than spending brain power, Yin Weiyu more often does physical work, and most of the props she has are attack props, you must use a positioning to describe her, she should be a warrior. The current composition of their group is probably led by Jun Yao, assisted by Jiang Xian, and then the others play soy sauce.

"Jun Yao...... What do you think is more important for this mission? Walking on the streets full of Western European style, but there were no residents, Jun Yao lowered her head and studied the guide map, Yin Weiyu suddenly asked, so Jun Yao raised her head and glanced at a woman sitting on a wooden chair, and the other party immediately avoided her gaze and left in a hurry.

"Like Ai Yu said, we really can't be sure now, but I care a lot about the clock as a symbol of Eternal Sleep Town, plus the mayor said that those children sleepwalk and disappear, I don't think it's likely to be ghosts." Jun Yao analyzed it seriously, and Jiang Xian on the side listened to her words and asked, "If it's not a ghost, what do you think?" ”

"It's a monster, I think maybe a vampire? This time the background city is European architecture, and we have just passed this way, many of the buildings are in a medieval style, their eaves are carved in reliefs, and there are even silver crosses on the doors of several houses, combined with these elements, I can think of vampires. Shen Junyao said his inference, and Jiang Xian on the side nodded, "That makes sense, so why don't we secretly go to the door of the house to get a cross to defend ourselves?" ”

Shen Junyao turned her head to look at Jiang Xian, her expression was very serious, not like a joke at all, so she shook her head and said a little helplessly, "Yes but it's not necessary, the mayor's house is in front, so many of us don't go up to ask for advice, but like we went to Xingshi to ask for sin and smash the field, so it is light rain...... Can you accompany Chen Yang and Zhao Xiao to wait for us here? Jiang Xian and I will go alone. ”

Yin Weiyu really felt that she was not suitable for using her brain, and besides, these two junior high school students looked really timid, and they wouldn't make any trouble, so she didn't need to bother too much, so she smiled and nodded, "No problem, you guys can go." ”

Yin Weiyu pointed to the chair on the side of the road and said, "Come and sit down, and I'll tell you about the task and you when I have time." Come on, don't be afraid, it's still early, this kind of plot wouldn't have clicked you in the first three hours. ”

Chen Yang and Zhao Xiao glanced at each other, Zhao Xiao swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and took the lead to sit next to Wei Yu, and then Chen Yang also sat down, so Wei Yu began to talk about the rules of the book that had nothing to do with the current task.

Jun Yao politely rang the doorbell, and after three rings, a sharp voice came, "Who?" ”

"Hello, my name is Shen Junyao, I am a traveler who has just come to the town, and we have some questions about the matters entrusted by the mayor and want to ask them in person."

There was a low sigh of a woman from the communicator on the door, followed by the sound of slippers clattering against the ground, the door was gently unscrewed, and a woman with long black hair looked at Jun Yao and Jiang Xian behind her in home clothes, she looked back at a certain place behind her, and then smiled politely, "James is still busy with his oil paintings in the study, don't stand at the door, come in and talk." I'm going to make you some tea, and then I'm going upstairs to call James down. ”

Jiang Xian leaned forward slightly and nodded, "There is Mrs. Lao." ”

"Don't bother, sit down." The woman turned and walked into the semi-open kitchen, took the tea bags from the transparent jar, boiled the hot water on the stove, and put the brewed tea in a pink and white teapot, with three cups, and brought it out and placed it on the coffee table. The woman poured tea for the two of them, and went upstairs to call the mayor.

About five minutes later, Mayor James appeared in the living room, he looked at Shen Junyao and Jiang Xian sitting on the sofa, his eyes fell on the teacups they had drunk, and his face showed an expression that they couldn't understand, and then he smiled, "It's really a shame to trouble the two of you to go on a trip in person." Are you here today to learn about the missing children? ”

"That's right, since we want to investigate this matter, we have to find some commonalities from the incident, all the children in the town have symptoms of sleepwalking, but why are only these five children missing, they must have done something unusual, so they will get a different result." Jun Yao replied that the mayor was already sitting on the couch, and his wife had made him a cup of tea, and then disappeared into the living room.

"You have a point, so I'll tell you about the children. The first missing child, Alice, is the daughter of William, a craftsman who lives in the East End, who seems to have gone to play in the forest during the day and never returned. Then there's Lily and Alex, who live in the West End, who disappeared on the same day, seemingly dating to play somewhere during the day, and then disappeared. The fourth child, George, who lives in the North End, ran away from home after hearing that he had a fight with his parents that day. The fifth child, Mary of the South Side, seems to have been buying something for her parents and then disappears. ”

"Hmm...... Can you please give us the specific house number? After all, there are still many households in each district, and we don't know these residents very well. Jiang Xian asked, the mayor hesitated for a moment, looking a little embarrassed, but he quickly sighed, "Okay, but you have to promise me, when you talk to them, try to be tactful, don't come up and mention the disappearance of the child, after all, the residents are very sad for the loss of the most precious thing." If they seem to have anything out of the ordinary, you must stop and leave immediately, after all, there are all kinds of people in the town. ”

Jun Yao naturally read the implicit meaning of the mayor, isn't this just to tell them: You should be careful when you speak, don't say something wrong and provoke them at that time, you can take care of anything bad that happens.

"Don't worry, we are specialized in this business, so we naturally know how to do it." Jiang Xian looked like "You don't have to worry that we are professional", and the mayor nodded, "Alice lives at 2-1 East, Lily is 1-1 West, Alex is 1-2 West, George lives at 3-1 in the North District, and Mary is 3-1 next door to our house." ”

So Jun Yao and Jiang Xian got up to say goodbye to the mayor, the mayor got up from the sofa tremblingly, and insisted on sending the two of them out, Jun Yao really couldn't resist the mayor's persistence, so the two had to slow down and slowly walk out of the mayor's house.

"You can send it here, I really bothered you to come here today." Jun Yao bowed, Jiang Xian bowed with her, and the mayor waved his hand, "Don't get in the way, speaking of which, I caused you trouble." The two of them walked slowly. ”

Yin Weiyu saw that Jun Yao and Jiang Xian had been at the mayor's house for so long, and the mayor had personally sent them out, so she understood that the information they needed should have been properly obtained, and the two of them waved at her while walking over. Weiyu smiled, and Yu Guang caught a glimpse of the mayor standing at the door who didn't want to go back, he looked directly at the back of Jun Yao and Jiang Xian leaving, although she was a little far away, she couldn't see the expression on the mayor's face, but she subconsciously felt a chill behind her back. Weiyu was stunned for a moment, speechless in shock by what she saw, she blinked, but the next scene was so frightened that she took a few steps back.

Mayor Mare turned his head to look at her, a strange smile on his face.

"Sister Yin, what's wrong with you?" Chen Yang, who was beside him, saw her move like this, and hurriedly asked.

Yin Weiyu came back to her senses, but found that the figure of the mayor had disappeared from the gate, so she smiled reluctantly, "It's nothing, it's just that I suddenly stood up after sitting for a long time, and my head was a little dizzy." ”

"Ah, I often have such a situation, I read a survey on the Internet, saying that this is actually a problem of insufficient blood supply to the brain, and there will be such symptoms when you stand up all of a sudden, as long as you move slowly." Chen Yang seriously explained the reason for Yin Weiyu's cover-up, Weiyu nodded in embarrassment, and said that he knew, even if he covered up what he had just seen.

"We've got the information about the five missing children, let's go to Sunset Square to meet them first, and then decide to investigate the situation of each family." Jun Yao said.

"Why don't we just go and ask a few of them first?" Zhao Xiao asked.

"The mayor of the town has something to say, and it seems that it will be dangerous to ask about the disappearance of the children, so we still discussed with Xu Qingran and the three of them whether it is better to act in a group or in groups. After all, your ability to save your life is too low. Jun Yao explained.

"I understand, that's all up to Sister Shen." Zhao Xiao nodded, very much agreeing with what Jun Yao said about "low life-saving ability".

So the five of them walked in the direction of Sunset Square, Yin Weiyu walked next to Jun Yao and asked softly, "Jun Yao, you just ...... When talking to the mayor, did you notice anything strange about the mayor? ”

"Weird place? What do you mean? Jun Yao was puzzled by Weiyu's question, and then she reacted that Weiyu should have seen and heard or found something, so she asked herself this question, "What did you find?" ”

"I just saw a very strange scene...... Even when you came out of the mayor's house, the mayor stood at the door and didn't go back, so I looked at him and noticed that he was looking at your back. Then he seemed to notice that I was looking at him, and he made eye contact with me and smiled very strangely. Yin Weiyu told Jun Yao everything he had just seen, Jun Yao frowned, pondered for a moment, "The mayor does have some questions, although he answered our questions very seriously just now, but I always feel that he is hiding something, and these parts that he has hidden are the most important things, and they are also the key to opening the hidden mission." ”

"What then? Now go back and ask him again? Yin Weiyu said that she was about to go back, Jun Yao grabbed her and shook her head, "Even if you go back now, it is impossible to ask something, since you have seen the unknown side of the mayor, then it proves that we have obtained enough 'safety' information from this NPC, and the remaining part is likely to be obtained at the cost of 'loss'." ”

The large bell tower that stands in Sunset Square is a milky white building, the base is made of stone bricks into a square, the whole bell tower is about 500 feet high, the top gold dome is dyed by the sun with a layer of gold, there is a huge cross at the top, the clock dials on the four sides of the clock tower are of different colors, and the four walls are carved with various reliefs.

Xu Qingran, Ai Yu and Lin Mo stood in front of the door of the bell tower, there were two rusty copper rings on the heavy iron door, and a lock that didn't look very strong hung on the copper ring, Xu Qingran squatted down and looked at the lock carefully, and then took out an axe and slashed towards the lock without saying a word.

[Pangu Axe: Attack weapon, increase combat power within ten minutes, increase attack power according to the degree of charge, because the ancient artifact material is excellent, it can split everything, and the cooldown time is three hours. 】

The lock fell in half in response, Xu Qingran took the axe in his hand, kicked up with one foot towards the door, the thick dust came to his nose, the three of them subconsciously covered their mouths and noses, Lin Mo took two steps back, it seemed that he was allergic to things like dust, Lin Mo coughed twice, Xu Qingran turned his head to look at her, "I forgot, you are very sensitive to these because of the problem of psychic physique." ”

Lin Mo shook his head, although he coughed a little hard, he still smiled at Xu Qingran, "No...... Relationship. ”

Ai Yu took out a spray from her bag, shook it twice and handed it to Lin Mo, Lin Mo took it, put it in her mouth and sprayed it twice, which was considered to be relieved, so she handed the spray back to Ai Yu, Ai Yu shook her head and pushed it back to her, "It was originally prepared for you, this time the three of us acted together, and the background was the Middle Ages in Europe, I guessed that there might be these substances that make you allergic, so I specially prepared a new spray, it seems that the effect is not bad." ”

"The lock of this bell tower looks like it's been rusting for some years, and although my Pangu axe can split everything, I feel like I don't even have the strength to do it, so I just touch it lightly and it breaks. Pushing open the door, I smelled a very heavy smell of dust, mixed with a little old, look at it again," Xu Qingran squatted down and touched the floor at the gate with his hand, his fingertips stained with gray and black things, "The floor is covered with dust, and no one has been here for a long time since this bell tower." ”

"Light dye, look there—" Ai Yu pointed to the opalescent stone staircase not far away, the handrail was also made of the same material, and on the almost pure white handrail, there were five bloody handprints. The three of them looked at each other and decided to go inside and have a look.

It was not a big bloody handprint, not like an adult's palm, but more like a child's handprint, and the five mudras were of different shapes and should belong to different people. Xu Qingran's face changed, and he immediately connected the five bloody handprints with the five missing children, "This is the handprints of those missing children?" If it's a bloody mudra......"

"But from the gate here, there is no sign of anyone else except our footprints. Besides, aren't the children sleepwalking in the middle of the street? Sunset Plaza is too far away from there, right? Ai Yu took advantage of the sunlight to carefully look at the road he had walked, and there was indeed no other trace except for the mark they had just stepped on.

"Is it possible that the children are coming down from above?" Lin Mo pointed to the space up the stairs, lowered his head and looked at the bloody handprints carefully, "You see these handprints, almost all of them are left handprints, but the bottom blood handprint is the right hand. According to our habit of going up and down the stairs, we will have a right-hand escalator when going upstairs, and a left-hand escalator when we go downstairs. ”

"It makes sense, but it's just that there are more doubts. How did the child who went upstairs at the bottom come here without leaving a trace, and the remaining four children who went downstairs came down from above, so how did they get up? Xu Qingran turned on the mode of talking to himself, Ai Yu and Lin Mo did not disturb him, the two surveyed around the stairs, and then Ai Yu seemed to remember something, and called up a camera from the inventory to shoot a few bloody handprints on the handrail of the stairs.

[Psychic Camera: A special prop that can take pictures of any scene in the character and generate a photo, and burn the photo alone in the moonlight at night, so that you can see the part of the scene taken by the photo. It can only be used three times in a mission, and only one photo can be burned per day. 】

"Light rain...... Are you going to recreate this scene tonight? Lin Mo saw that she was using this kind of single-time consumable prop so quickly, the progress of the task had just begun, and it was not clear whether it had reached 5%, so she was going to use this prop so rashly?

"No, this camera doesn't just recreate the past, it can also be used for documentation. Shen Junyao in our team, I think she is a very good newcomer, so some information is shared so that she can also see clearly, maybe it will be more conducive to opening the hidden mission. After all, we are going for the Ture ending, and we always have to spend time going through the same level of missions to hide the clues, which is too slow and too dangerous, after all, the people in the guild say that there will be a qualitative change from the fourth mission onwards. After Ai Yu took a picture of the bloody handprints on the handrail of the stairs, he turned to step on the stairs, ready to go up to see if there were any clues, and take some photos by the way. The camera focused on the corner of the stairs on the first floor, back and forth a few times, Ai Yu put down the camera, and felt that the light there was not quite right.

"What's wrong?" Xu Qingran stretched out her head from the handrail on the second floor to look at Ai Yu, and when she saw the camera in her hand, she was stunned for a moment, her expression was a little unnatural, Ai Yu didn't notice his abnormality, but went up two more steps, "I think the corner of this staircase is a little strange, from the camera, it looks like two worlds of light and dark, put down the camera and look at it with the naked eye, I can feel that the light on the side of the stairs I am standing on is normal, and the area you are standing in now feels very blurry, as if surrounded by some fog." ”

Xu Qingran turned his head to look at the area around him, and didn't seem to notice anything unusual, he put his gaze back on Ai Yu, staring closely at the steps under her feet. Ai Yu went up two more steps, raised the camera to focus again, but found that the boundary between light and dark became more and more obvious, "Maybe it's because I've been paying attention to the light all the way upstairs, it's okay if you don't notice it, I always feel that there seems to be a boundary here, you wait for me and I'll come up immediately." ”

Xu Qingran said "um", her eyes were locked on Ai Yu's action of going upstairs, and just when there were still two steps to reach the second floor, Ai Yu suddenly stopped, she turned sideways slightly, and stood on the stairs to look at Xu Qingran.

"Light dye, when did you come up?"

"Just now, when you took a picture with your camera, I don't think there are any other clues on the first floor except for the bloody handprint, since Lin Mo said that the four children ran down from the upstairs, it proves that there must be something on it, which makes the children afraid, so they have to run down." Xu Qingran's gaze still fell on the stairs that Ai Yu stepped on, "You said that this place seems to have some boundary, but I don't feel it at all, do you want to ...... Come up and have a look, shall we? ”

Ai Yu was suddenly silent, she lowered her head, the camera in her hand was clenched very tightly, as if a few minutes had passed, Ai Yu suddenly raised her head and asked, "Light dye, what's my name?" ”

"Ai Yu, what did you say suddenly?" Xu Qingran felt that Ai Yu suddenly became inexplicable, and asked herself what her name was, was this a sudden convulsion in the brain? He looked at her with some impatience, "You can't get up yet?" ”

Ai Yu suddenly smiled, as if the conspiracy had succeeded, she quickly raised the camera in her hand and pressed the shutter three times at Xu Qingran, and then she put the camera back, "I'm not coming up, I think it's safer down there." ”

Xu Qingran's face froze, his expression froze, and then he sneered, "I see." Xu Qingran took a few steps back and stood in the shadows, and then Ai Yu heard the footsteps, slowly hitting the wooden floor one by one, Ai Yu hurriedly turned around, and ran downstairs as fast as he could.

She didn't dare to look back, she didn't dare to stop.

For she heard, two footsteps.