Yo?

It's Zhao Yulong.

Irin looked at the flashing avatar of the communication channel.

I didn't expect Zhao Yulong's efficiency to be quite high.

But—

How could he know so quickly?

Could it be that he is also in Haiting City?

Probably not, right?

While thinking about it, Yi Rin ignored Li Changge, who was chattering on the side, and opened the chat window with Zhao Yulong.

……

Zhao Yulong: Ahem.

Irin: ?

Zhao Yulong: I'm just asking casually, asking casually, don't take it to heart. You probably haven't read the forums, right?

Irin: I haven't watched it for two hours, what?

Zhao Yulong: That's good! Hey, there's a couple of things these days, you know, the work of the anomalies team, but the team leader has already left it to someone else to deal with. Although it is a bit abrupt to tell you now, your level ...... Not very suitable for wading in this troubled water.

Irin: Muddy waters? Which trip?

Zhao Yulong: Something happened in Haiting City, forget it, I'll tell you afterwards, you don't have to pay attention to this matter for the time being, if your level goes......

Irin: I'm in Haiting City.

Zhao Yulong: Well, that's fine, anyway, after the fact- huh?

Irin: I'm in Haiting City.

Zhao Yulong: Did you make a typo?

Irin: I'm in Haiting City.

Zhao Yulong: Surprised!

……

Doodoooooo –

Apostolic voice call.

Backbite.

Connected.

Zhao Yulong's roar came across the space through some kind of supernatural power.

"? Why did you kid run away to Haiting City? ”

Irin smiled wryly: "I was just helping a, well, a friend's guy, to solve a small supernatural event." ”

- Oh, the cake seller.

Zhao Yulong seemed to snap and covered his forehead and shouted such a sentence.

And then.

"You've been tasked with? I'm talking about realistic tasks. ”

Yi Rin's tone was calm: "Got it." ”

After thinking about it, Irin's added, "I didn't expect the 'Tower' to be able to issue missions in reality, this ...... Quite suddenly. ”

It's natural that Irin's statement is false.

This is just Yi Rin's "rhetoric" to Zhao Yulong.

Zhao Yulong was silent for a moment, and then suddenly said in a crying voice: "It's over, I feel that I can't keep this mobile phone again." If something happens to you, I'm going to—"

Irin: "? ”

Zhao Yulong: "Ahem, ahem...... In short, you are in danger right now. This task is a bit quirky. ”

Irin, who thought for a moment, nodded in agreement, "I do find it a little weird. ”

Knowing that there is a rare chance that the Tower will issue a realistic mission to the Apostles.

But in most cases, some "anomalies" in reality will cause great harm to the existing human civilization, or when there is chaos, such strange realistic missions will be issued.

From this point of view, it seems that the tower and the "special group" are fighting for food.

But what is the purpose of the "tower" to issue realistic tasks, so far there is no too clear statement.

If you want to protect human beings......

It seems that the coming of the end doesn't make sense.

Anyway, Irin felt that something was wrong.

But for a while, he couldn't figure out why.

The "Tower" went to great lengths to issue realistic missions, just to kill one ...... An apostle called "Zhang Huichun"?

While Irin's thoughts.

Zhao Yulong sent a voice again.

"Since you have already intervened in this matter, I will report to the team leader later, and when the time comes, after this 'abnormal event' is handled, it will be recorded in your performance."

Outstanding achievement?

When these words came out of Zhao Yulong's mouth, he always felt that something was strange.

Zhao Yulong suddenly said quickly: "Hey, wait." This thing...... It's a little wrong, what kind of supernatural event did you say your friend? How can it be mixed up with this? ”

Hear the words.

Irin recalled.

He should have met Zhao Yulong at a later point in time, and he was not sure what Zhao Yulong's strength had reached now.

But—

For the "special group", the existence of spirit weapons should not be a secret.

So Yi Rin retouched it a little, and said concisely about the fact that he accidentally discovered that Li Changge's back was a masterless mother spirit.

Irin hid the fact that he already knew about the "Ownerless Spirit" beforehand.

After all, under normal circumstances, with his experience on Zhao Yulong's file, he should not have known about the existence of the "masterless spirit".

A bit informative.

Zhao Yulong was silent for three minutes.

Only then did a voice message come again.

"?"

“？”

"That legendary ownerless spirit is actually on the back of international superstar Li Changge? Wait, it's still a mother spirit? Real-name envy...... Ahem, no, it's very serious! ”

"You don't know what a Spiritless Spirit is......"

Balabala.

Zhao Yulong said the origin of the "ownerless spirit" in a wordy manner.

Irin also cooperated and pretended to be suddenly enlightened.

"Well, alas...... It's a bit of a hassle now. After Zhao Yulong finished speaking, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh: "You take a look at the forum first, and then talk about the most popular post at the moment." ”

Forum?

Irin closed the chat.

Then the forum opened.

The first thing that catches your eye is a post that has been pinned to the top.

The post was made by an anonymous apostle.

……

[Shocked! Haiting City was shocked to see the ownerless "Spiritual Weapon"! 】

It's just a simple title, but there is a large number of apostles who have replied to the post below-

[Pink and cute, what is a spirit weapon? 】

【Powder?】 Is it tender? No picture, no truth! 】

[I suspect that there is a car upstairs, but I have no proof!] 】

[Is it really fake? Possession weapons? That's a more advanced weapon than an epic weapon! Comparable to the Golden Legend! 】

[Spiritual weapons, like dragon slaying knives in hand, nine hundred and ninety-nine with one sword! ] 】

[Huh? Fishing sticker, identification completed! 】

【Lanzhou baked cakes. 】

【Baked Cake +1】

【Burnt Cake +2】

[Baked cake +3, please line up downstairs.] 】

[Rather believe it, don't believe it, it's a big deal to waste a lot of money on online tickets, when it's a tour! ] Pippi shrimp let's go! 】

[It is highly suspected that the landlord's post is to promote the development of tourism in Haiting City!] Waiting for the fooled to sell miserably. 】

[Upstairs baked cakes? Is Haiting City prosperous or not, and does it still need our apostles to promote? Haven't you woken up from your dream? 】

This is followed by a bunch of useless water restores.

But—

At the end, someone suddenly replied anonymously.

[It's a trap!] Pitfall! Pitfall! Second-order apostles, don't come to Haiting City! It's a realistic mission! Mandatory Realistic Missions! Once it fails...... Obliterate!!! 】

The anonymous apostle even posted the details of the mission.

The dazzling word "trap" stinged everyone's eyes.

The word "erasure" has made countless people frightened.

Unexpectedly—

In reality, such forcible obliteration tasks will be issued!

Many people haven't even heard of the "reality mission" thing.

Irin silently closed the forum.

Smooth the train of thought.

Roughly understood.

The last anonymous apostle to warn others was half an hour ago.

That is, shortly after Irin first touched the third corpse.

Rushed to Haiting City overnight?

It is estimated that the apostle who posted the post was left with a big groove in his heart.

"It's really getting a lot of trouble......

Irin's knowledge of the apostles' pee.

After this post was published, those who didn't believe it were crazy about the water sticker, but the apostle who really "would rather believe it" had already stepped on the ground network shuttle bus that silently rushed to Haiting City.

If this is the case, it is the king to make a fortune quietly.

Won't run out of water stickers at all.

Nor will he run out to clarify that this is a rumor.

Of course, there are also some people who deliberately post to confuse others in order to reduce their competitors.

"Huh."

Irin suddenly couldn't help but laugh again.

When a group of apostles came to Haiting City, they suddenly inexplicably accepted a "mandatory reality task", and finally jumped out to post a warning to others, but there was only one person.

This is in stark contrast to the number of apostles that preceded the water.

The meaning is actually very simple: I was tricked, and I didn't say anything, to see if I could drag more people into the water.

- The more the merrier.

This kind of task, the apostle with a little brain, will feel that something is wrong.

And, in any case, if you just kill one apostle, the more people you have, the better.

There is no doubt about that.

It was also mentioned before.

The relationship between the apostles was extremely complex.

It cannot be explained by simple hostility or companionship.

Generally speaking, the apostles would not kill each other in the real world without a deep hatred.

After all, there are many and complex abilities among the apostles, and all kinds of turning props are endless, and there is no complete certainty or good reason, and no apostle will provoke another apostle for no reason.

– unless there is a great deal of certainty.

Add to that the conflict of interests, and it's even harder to say.

"No wonder Zhao Yulong reminded himself overnight not to go to Haiting City."

"This task is restricted to only second-order apostles?"

"Why is that?"

Irin lowered his head.

Ponder silently.

Think about it all.

He is well aware that the power of the "tower" has a limited impact on reality.

It seems that there is some kind of "rule" to follow.

Even the tower, without a "reason", cannot arbitrarily erase any of the apostles.

Of course, the "tower" has no wisdom and no "emotion", and generally does not look at which apostle is not pleasing to the eye.

Unless—

There is no unless.

……

Irin finished browsing the forum.

Zhao Yulong was contacted again.

- Voice calls between apostles.

"What? What do you think? ”

Zhao Yulong said in a sullen voice.

"It's a bit complicated."

"It's very complicated! Moreover, it's weird! ”

Zhao Yulong said in a deep voice: "Let's not talk about the mother on Li Changge's back, the mother spirit. ”

For some reason, Yi Rin always felt that Zhao Yulong's tone was a little strange when he talked about the "mother spirit".

I only heard Zhao Yulong continue: "Let me tell you one thing first, in the realistic mission you received, I know who the apostle called 'Zhang Huichun' is. ”

Hearing this, Yi Rin was slightly stunned.

But he didn't say anything to interrupt Zhao Yulong's words.

This is clearly extremely important information.

"Zhang Huichun, female, 26 years old, she is a young doctor in a central hospital in a certain city."

"Of course, because she didn't commit any crimes in the real world, nor did she meet her in the inner world, and she didn't reveal her identity at all, so we didn't know that she was an apostle before the accident."

Irin heard the hidden message in the words: "Before the accident? ”

Zhao Yulong continued: "On the morning of September 5, she was found dead in her own home, because she lived alone, so in the morning, the unit found that she did not come to work, and the phone could not be reached, so she asked her friend to go to Zhang Huichun's house to look for her, so it was close to noon that the body was found, and then sent to the morgue of the original unit. ”

"There were no wounds on the surface, and no strange traces were found at the place of death, so the cause of death was preliminarily determined to be a heart attack."

Heart disease?

That is to say-

"Hehe, you should have guessed, that's right, my conclusion is that she should have died in the trial of the inner world."

He's dead?

Irin frowned.

Didn't speak.

Zhao Yulong's words next should be the point.

Zhao Yulong suddenly smiled, and his tone became a little gloomy inexplicably: "You shouldn't be able to guess what happened next." That same night, at the hospital where Zhang Huichun's body was, a security guard died, and the cause of death was...... The cervical vertebrae were broken, and the neck was bruised on only one side, and he was twisted off with one hand. ”

Irin smiled slightly, "How do I feel like you're telling a little story about the thriller?" If I'm not mistaken, you should be talking next...... It's Zhang Huichun who died and came back to life and killed the security guard, right? ”

“！”

Zhao Yulong was shocked.

He didn't expect Irin to really guess the ending.

Hey, hey, this little story of his has been paved for most of the day!

You guessed the ending so easily when you heard the beginning, it's a bit face-saving, brother!

"How did you guess?"

"Still guessing? The tone of your thriller story has been put out, isn't the most terrifying ending Zhang Huichun coming back from the dead and killing people? What else could there be like to this ending? ”

But although Irin guessed this outcome, in fact, when he reasonably guessed the ending of this little story, he couldn't help but be shocked in his heart.

At the same time, many speculations involuntarily surfaced in my mind.

The apostles rose from the dead?

Some kind of skill?

Or is it some kind of item that takes effect after death?

Or is it someone else pretending to be Zhang Huichun?

It wasn't Zhang Huichun who died at the beginning?

All kinds of possibilities are intertwined in Irin's mind.

Zhao Yulong was a little depressed, but he continued to say, after all, business matters.

"Zhang Huichun didn't know why, and didn't go to destroy the hospital's surveillance video."

"We retrieved all the footage afterwards and found that Zhang Huichun did get up from the freezer by himself, and then passed through the corridor all the way, seemingly chatting with the dead security guard, and then turned back and suddenly broke the security guard's neck."

"And then?"

"And then? And then it's gone! After Zhang Huichun killed the security guard, he left the hospital, well, by the way, you should know very well that the monitoring equipment will have some dead ends, and we never saw Zhang Huichun appear under the camera again. ”

The corners of Irin's eyes twitched slightly, and he didn't deny it.

He is really clear about the blind spots of monitoring equipment.

"And that's not all."

Zhao Yulong's tone became a little heavier: "After that night, from all over the country, we received homicide reports one after another...... We suspect that Zhang Huichun was hunting the apostles after his 'resurrection'. ”

“！”

"Of course, there are some homicide cases that may seem relatively 'normal' on the surface, so no relevant data has been collected, but the corpse death method is 'abnormal', and it is all under the treatment of our 'special group'."

"The 'Z5 Council' attaches great importance to this matter."

"Although the death methods of these homicides are a little different, we have preliminarily confirmed that there are at least 4 apostles who died in the hands of Zhang Huichun, and the route she took to hunt the apostles ......"

Yi Rin silently said the next words: "Haiting City." ”

"That's right, if you add Li Changge's mother spirit, tsk...... Ahem, in this case, it stands to reason that there are at least 5 apostles who died in her hands. ”

- At least.

In other words, there could be more.

"Anyway!"

Zhao Yulong put aside the distractions related to the mother spirit, and his tone became serious: "This matter is very complicated, very complicated!" If it is not handled well, it may cause a very serious accident! In the past ten years, since the formation of the 'Anomalous Group', there has been very little such a blatant hunt for the Apostles! ”

"If I'm not mistaken, there may be two reasons why the realistic mission will be triggered, first, Zhang Huichun is still in Haiting City, and second, as an apostle, you have close contact with the body of the apostle's deceased in the city where Zhang Huichun is located."

"Of course, this is just my speculation, anyway, since you were forced to take the mission, you can't run away."

Irin's silence.

What Zhao Yulong said was...... Fact.

Irin is a man, not a god.

Even if he thought about everything carefully, he couldn't expect the supernatural incident that Li Changge encountered, but it just happened to be one of the links in this series of events.

He was inadvertently drawn into this maelstrom.

But—

What makes Irin feel strange is this.

In his memory, the trajectory of "that future" did not have such a serious hunt for the apostles.

Or is it ......

He was not yet an apostle at that time, so he was not qualified to know?

Hidden?

Irin can't go back to "that future", and many speculations can't be confirmed one by one.

Now, the most important thing is to solve this incident.

"Oh, yes! I'm still looking into this elsewhere and I'll let you know as soon as there's any news! Also, there is a senior member of the 'Special Group' who has already arrived in Haiting City, and you should have a chance to meet at that time. ”

After speaking, Zhao Yulong hurriedly cut off the voice.

It seems that he was really overwhelmed by this "hunting for the apostles" incident.

Originally, Yi Rin also wanted Zhao Yulong to send the surveillance video of Zhang Huichun in the hospital.

- I didn't have time.

Forget it, we'll talk about it later.

As for Zhang Huichun's information, the part that does not involve confidentiality should be searchable on the Internet.

At the very least, the name, age, gender, and photo can still be found.

As for the rest...... It is estimated that it has been suppressed by the specific group.

"Abnormal" is handled by the specific group.

After all, Zhang Huichun was a doctor in a formal hospital "before his death".

There's still time left—

72 hours!

It seems to be abundant.

But it is not easy to find an apostle in the vast sea of people in Haiting City.

At the very least, Irin really wanted to hide from his own words, and he believed that few people would be able to find him out.

It is definitely not easy to deal with the people who can hunt the Apostles all the way and go all the way and kill them to Haiting City.

It started with Zhang Huichun coming back from the dead.

It's a complicated affair.

It's not like it's going to be cleared up in a while.

But what Irin lacks most now is time.

Moreover, if you don't guess wrong, the entire Haiting City will become the first apostle gathering that Irin's rebirth has witnessed with his own eyes!

"Headache."

Irin rubbed his temples and frowned.

Li Changge saw that Yi Rin seemed to be busy, and looked over again.

Li Changge was able to receive the task, in other words, he had also reached at least level 10, a second-order apostle.

"I suggest you take a look at the forums first."

Irin smiled.

Li Changge looked confused at first.

"Forum? What's the matter with the forum - well, I'll go?! Groove ??? ”

Li Changge muttered and opened the forum to take a look.

A minute later.

Li Changge's face first turned red, then gradually turned blue, and finally turned purple.

"Yo?"

Irin smiled.

The special effects behind Li Changge have changed tricks.

A crematorium.

There are cherry blossoms all around.

Ah, it seems that Li Changge wants to be cremated among the cherry blossoms in the sky.