In the wilderness at night, a hazy mist fills the grassland.

Moonlight shone through the mist, and a faint glow shrouded it.

Occasionally, some deformed creature crawls through it, like a perpetual motion machine that never knows how to stop, and doesn't know how to sleep.

Under the shadow of the moon, a figure that almost blended in with the surrounding darkness was also moving forward at high speed.

Lin Ling held the system in her arms and ran at high speed on the flat grassland.

[Host, there are about seven to eight infected creatures hovering two hundred meters ahead.] 】

The infected creatures in the system's mouth refer to the virus monsters that are called hairless beasts.

[Do you want to go around?] 】

As soon as the words were asked, the system knew that they were bothering to speak, because Lin Ling's footsteps were still straight forward, without the slightest intention of stopping.

It shrank into Lin Ling's arms, already guessing what would happen next.

Just as it had expected, the host rushed straight ahead of it as several shadows appeared.

In a moment, the knife slashed.

The hairless beasts crawling on the ground were cut through their chests, their internal organs and blood spilled all over the ground, and the pain caused them to wail and struggle on the ground, but they did not move even a step because of the pain.

Some faint whistling sounds also came from afar, as if in response to the screams of these hairless beasts.

Lin Ling didn't choose to kill them, because if these hairless beasts left their corpses, they would definitely be detected by the scenic spot.

Therefore, leaving their lives like this, which can prevent exposure and attract the attention of other monsters for Lin Ling, can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

So taking advantage of this time, Lin Ling accelerated and rushed forward again, leaving the group of monsters directly behind.

She quickly broke away from the monsters and reached the ruins of the stone pillars.

Compared with the screenshots given by the system, there is nothing too surprising here except for these stone pillar forests.

Lin Ling looked around one of them.

The stone pillars, which can only be held by five people holding hands, are full of traces of weathering, but they can vaguely see their original shape - just like ordinary stone pillars.

"Can the system see the white shadow from before now?"

[Hmm...... Sorry, host, it seems that this time, no matter how much you debug, it is not represented in the painting. 】

The system looked at the image in the footage that was not too different from the previous screenshot, and no matter how it debugged it, it could no longer find the white shadow that resembled a human.

"I see."

Lin Ling's gaze stayed straight on the root of the stone pillar, bent down and dug out the dirt at the bottom and rummaged through it in her hands.

A small particle of rust was found in it.

The small ones are like grit and can be ignored.

Lin Ling's face showed a realization, and she took the particles into her arms, and immediately began to observe around the other stone pillars.

After examining several stone pillars one after another, she found the same particles at the roots.

Each grain is more or less rusty, with different subtle edges and patterns, but the same upper edges are very smooth.

This made Lin Ling subconsciously look at the stone pillar in front of her, she wiped the ash layer on the stone pillar, and stretched her head to look closely at the epidermis on it.

I don't know why the patterns on the stone pillars are inexplicably similar to the grains.

And the more you look at it...... The more it looks......

Lin Ling got closer and closer, and her active thoughts raced in her brain.

Suddenly, her eyes shrank and she retreated sharply.

An almost impossible conjecture crossed her mind, and while it was incredible, her intellect told her that it was the most likely fact.

"It's crazy......"

If this possibility comes true, then the humans of this world are probably too crazy......

Lin Ling looked at the system.

"System, let's go, let's go back now."

[Huh? Are you sure about the host? It's only been less than an hour! 】

Like Lin Ling, the system is also taking samples for analysis, and is also recording and analyzing the details of each stone pillar ruin.

But before he wanted to turn his back, he heard Lin Ling's words.

There was confusion in its words, and its two diamond-shaped eyes seemed to be tilted on both sides, which was particularly puzzled.

"I already know what's going on, and if I look for it now, it won't work."

Lin Ling, who had already made up her mind a little bit in her mind, hugged the system back into her arms, and couldn't help but take it back to the original route, bypassing the area where the hairless beasts gathered halfway back to the city.

She thought that even if she didn't want to find out the problem with Tian Sibo, she had to find this Tian Niu.

On the night road, she took advantage of the darkness to jump into the top of a passing truck and hitchhike all the way.

By the time I arrived at the Internet café, it was around 3 a.m.

She poked her head out, only to see a few gamers who had already had a little impression still insisting on staying up late.

Other than that, everyone else had fallen asleep, and there was no trace of Boss Xiong sitting on the stage.

After making sure that there was no big black figure in her field of vision, she crept into it, and then was about to rush into her compartment quickly.

A furry bear paw slapped directly on her shoulder.

"Sister Ah Ling, you really can't do this."

Listening to the familiar voice, Lin Ling turned her head stiffly, and saw a bear face that could be called "kind" appeared in front of her.

She looked at Boss Xiong's smiling face, and her heart jumped.

Oh, it's over.

A few days ago, she didn't return in the middle of the night, and after listening to Boss Xiong's "teachings" for a full day, Linling made up her mind that "this kind of thing must not happen again".

However, now it seems......

I'm afraid she will feel Xiong Tai's "magic sound" brainwashing punishment again.

"System, I said it's okay to pop my eardrum now?"

[I don't think so. 】

The prescient system began to close its auditory program and log in to the web to open the site.

[Come on, host, you have to be strong. 】

……

It's been a day since that day.

The Human Mythology Exploration Conference was also officially launched.

At six o'clock in the morning, Lin Ling gathered and changed clothes according to the regulations.

She sat on a lounge chair and looked at the sheds built around the exhibition hall and the entertainment literature pictorials posted on the walls, and felt more and more that this event would be like a comic exhibition from the ancient earth period.

Especially the orcs who wear strange costumes, it's definitely cosplay, right?! Right?!

[Host, are you alright?] 】

The system sensed Lin Ling's slightly strange emotions and was a little worried.

It always feels like its host is about to get out of control.

Even if the latter's face was calm, the system felt the same.

“……”

Lin Ling calmed down a little, and then the corners of her mouth twitched when she saw a few "humans" dressed as bats again.

Sure enough, the inhabitants of this world have a deep misunderstanding of human beings.

If it weren't for the mission requirements, Lin Ling really wanted to take off the holster and show them what it means to be human.

Although she is not strictly human.

"Hey! Ling! It's time to take the stage! Come on! ”

When Lin Ling had more and more of this idea, Banoya, who was still waving her hand backstage, interrupted her thoughts.

This made the system breathe a sigh of relief.

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