Seven o'clock in the morning, Seahorse City, Zero Point Tavern.

Unlike Coral City, the tavern branch of this city can indeed be described as "chaotic".

Su Xia sat in the corner of the first floor on the ground, holding a glass of cheap wine in his hand, his eyes drooping slightly, and he took a sip from time to time.

The surroundings are chaotic and noisy, like a chaotic vegetable market.

Some people drank too much, their faces flushed, and they shouted about their past deeds.

There are also people talking in whispers, telling stories about the whole world.

"That masked geek is terrible, if it were us, who would dare to openly confront the automatons?"

"Hehe, people live for a lifetime to be chic."

"That's wrong, people live for money, chic has a fart, and no money is uncomfortable!"

「……」

Arguing, boasting, fighting, all kinds of voices rubbed together.

Su Xia alone could distinguish the accents of the northeast and northwest of the continent, and it seemed that there was also a soft accent unique to the southern coast.

There are ordinary people here, and there are killers from the Zero Tavern.

On the ground floor, you don't need an identity card, as long as you are willing to drink, you can come, and even there are a lot of players.

There was a small team of players in another corner not far from Susha, drinking and pointing at the NPCs around them.

One of the players looked around and asked the other players, "Which of these people is the strongest?"

Another player said, "I've heard that the people on the first floor of the tavern are not very powerful, and the really powerful people are on the first floor of the basement, and they are all officially registered members of the tavern, and almost all of them are psionic creatures."

"I think that bartender just now is quite powerful, just like the sweeping monk of Shaolin Temple." One player gestured to the bartender behind the bar.

"No, did you see the man sitting in the corner?"

A sharp-eyed player pointed at Su Xia and said, "This kind of person who sits in the corner and doesn't speak is usually a master."

Susha: "......"

Sitting in the corner and not talking would attract attention, which he didn't expect.

He didn't bother to bother with the players, and continued to sip his drink, listening to the conversations of the people around him, and capturing the information he needed.

Most of the people here are here for the Mask Geeks, and most of the topics discussed are related to the Mask Geeks.

But now the situation is too chaotic, many people are here to fish in troubled waters, and Su Xia has not heard much useful anything after listening to it for a long time.

After a while, there was a sudden exclamation from the group of players.

"Damn, do you see, the person sitting in the corner, why are they all "?" , not even a name!"

"Master, true master!"

For a while, many players looked at Su Xia, their eyes burning, as if they were looking at some treasure.

High-level NPCs, which can be met but not sought.

Su Xia shook his head helplessly, sighed, drank the wine in the cup, got up and left this position.

The player's built-in game system can read the data of the characters or items in the game, which is quite convenient for the player himself. But this feature is quite annoying for the characters in the game.

Before, there were several high-level psionic creatures, because they were tired of fighting, they left the big city and went to the small towns and villages to live in seclusion, just to be clean, after all, the residents of the surrounding villages and towns could not see their true strength, and they could live with them as ordinary people.

But as soon as the players came, they began to look for quests and special NPCs all over the world, and they searched everywhere with the system on, and it didn't take long to find those high-level NPCs who were reclusive, which was annoying.

In the past, if the identity was exposed, it was enough to live in seclusion in a different place.

But now the world is full of players, even in the vast wilderness and the raging sea.

Su Xia walked to the bar and gently put down the cup in his hand.

"Winter!"

Glass with wooden table top touch,

The sound is crisp.

The bartender smiled and asked, "What more could a guest want?"

Susha said, "Buy some news."

"Is the guest a registered member of the tavern?"

"It's not."

"Non-registered members, buying messages, need to triple the price." The bartender smiled, "The guests are good, why not register at the tavern?"

The bartender is also a psionic creature with a keen sense of perception and has seen various characters in the tavern over the years.

He could tell at a glance that Su Xia was a master, and he could even smell the surging smell of blood around Su Xia, so he invited Su Xia to join the tavern.

Su Xia shook his head: "No need, three times is three times, I have money."

"Non-registered members can't buy core messages." The bartender added, "Don't the guests really think about it? Tavern registrants have absolute freedom."

"Oh? How free?"

"Customers can register now, then buy the news they need, and then cancel their identity after the purchase is finished, without paying any price."

"Hehe......"

This zero point tavern, in order to attract high-quality members, has also exhausted all means, and even used the routine of mobile companies to apply for cards.

Su Xia was originally invited by Yin Mo and did not go through these inducement processes.

If the inside of the tavern was as free as he advertised, the members of the North Wind Tales would not have been placed under house arrest in the basement of the Coral City Tavern.

"What do you think?" The bartender asked with a smile.

"I don't have that idleness." Susha refused again.

"Okay, what kind of news do you need?" The bartender doesn't talk about registration anymore, after all, it's not more than three.

"Something to do with masked monsters."

"All the news?"

"Well, all of them."

"Guests can have some extra money."

"It doesn't matter, if you have money, you don't care."

「……」

The bartender immediately went to call someone to replace him, and then made a gesture of invitation to Su Xia.

"Guest, please come with me."

"Okay."

One after the other, the two left the public area on the first floor of the noisy bar and walked into a quiet corridor covered with a crimson carpet.

Non-registered members are not eligible to go to the basement level.

If you need to buy a message, you will be directed to the side of the room.

"Guests, please come in." The bartender opens a separate room for Susha.

The room was small, with only a dark black desk with a monitor on it. ....The bartender asked Su Xia to sit down, then took out his own ID card and swiped it on the sensor next to the display screen, and the display screen instantly lit up, and the interface of the tavern information system displayed to the outside world appeared.

"Ding Dong—"

With a soft sound, a number of simple modules pop up on the interface, and the bartender clicks on the module named among them to enter the sub-interface.

At the very top of this sub-interface, there is a message.

Perhaps there are so many people who have recently bought these messages that they have been pinned to the top and placed in the most prominent position.

In addition, you can also see the words , , , etc., which seem to be available for purchase.

"There's a lot of news, you can't take the guests away, you can only watch it here." The bartender said.

"Can't you take ordinary news with you?" Susha asked.

"No, it can't be reproduced, but guests can keep it in their minds."

"Okay."

"Are you going to start from the beginning?"

"Well, bring up the news of the first appearance of the masked monsters."

The earliest information is most likely made by Daddy's team.

Su Xia originally sent some nanobots to follow Daddy.

It stands to reason that even if the distance is far away, those nanobots should send back news to Su Xia every once in a while.

But Daddy didn't know how to use it

Somehow, maybe it was the discovery and destruction of those nanobots, so Su Xia still hasn't received any news, and he doesn't know where they went.

"Guest, that's the first news." The bartender concocted a document called 0001 for Susha, "At that time, when the tavern members were on a mission, they saw a figure wearing an iron mask flash by, this is his dictation report."

In Document 0001, there are no photographs, only an oral document, scattered with a few hundred words.

Su Xia took a brief look at it, it was similar to what he thought, there was no useful information.

The subsequent documents 0002-0007 are all eyewitness reports in written form, and some of the content has long been circulated on the Internet, and some people have mentioned it in the tavern just now.

In all seven sightings, from east to west, from inside the city to outside the city, witnesses were convinced that what they saw was the masked monster.

Moreover, on the 0005 document, there is also a comment.

Because, the eyewitnesses at that time did not pass the polygraph.

"We suspect that this man deliberately said he had witnessed the masked monster in order to gain attention." The bartender explained.

"Well, it's possible." Su Xia nodded.

According to the words on the other side of the earth, the masked monster is now the top class, and the eyes of the entire continent are focused on this operation of the Zero Point Tavern.

As long as you can rub a little relationship with him, if you are lucky, you can earn money that you can't spend in a lifetime.

Therefore, some people take risks and use their lives to rub traffic.

Su Xia continued to flip through, and in the eighth document, a paragraph finally appeared.

This section was provided by a supermarket, when the supermarket was stolen and a large amount of cash was missing, and after checking the surveillance, it was discovered that a man with a metal mask had entered the supermarket in the middle of the night.

Below this paragraph, there is also a comment. "This is true." The bartender continued, "But after analysis, it is impossible for the person in it to be a masked monster, and with his person, it is impossible for him to sneak into the supermarket in the middle of the night to steal money."

"Yes......"

Su Xia was a little speechless, his good reputation had been ruined by these imitators.

In the following documents, the masked monster not only stole money, but also stole bread, fruits, greenhouse vegetables and other food, and even stole chickens and dogs, and there was a child who robbed the street.

These examples and news made Su Xia almost have a heart attack.

If it was really done by one person, the image of the masked monster would have changed from a dashing master who came and went without a trace to a street gangster who was beaten by everyone.

Thankfully, most of the documents have endings attached.

Many of the thieves have been caught, and all have been proven not to be masked monsters.

Copies of their confessions, corrections, and other materials have been sent to the tavern and entered into a file for purchase and reference.

The one who robbed the child was found two days later, and was finally beaten to death by the angry crowd on the street, and the body could not be seen in human form.

"Hasn't this information been filtered?" Susha asked.

"Guest, you are the one who asked for all the information." The bartender replied respectfully.

"Okay, give me the sifted, useful information."

"Okay, wait a minute."

The bartender operates in the system in one meal and filters out slightly important files.

Su Xia noticed that among the filtered documents, there was a symbol in front of one of the documents, which seemed to be impossible to open.

He clicked a few times and got the hint.

"Guest, this document requires a registrant to view." The bartender smiled and explained, "If the customer really wants to see it, why don't you register first?" A few minutes, very quickly."

"Forget it, I'll look at something else."

Susha skimmed over the file and began to look at the rest of the information.

This time the information that appears is more useful.

First of all, the cyborg - the tavern got the information that the mechs had a team led by a fifth-level creature named "Todd" who had secretly arrived in Seahorse City and was on the trail of masked monsters throughout the city

Trace.

This Todd, like Mercer, is a very trusted subordinate of the master of the mechanical clan, and he is also extremely strong.

There are more than a dozen documents about the Cybtons, documenting most of the details of their actions in Seahorse City.

"Do you have an undercover agent within the cybborgs or something?" Su Xia asked casually, "Can you get such a detailed route of action?"

"No need to go undercover." The bartender replied, "The Automata have always believed in themselves, and they will not actively hide their whereabouts, as long as you have the heart to look for them, you will naturally find them."

"Isn't it written 'Secretly Arrived'? I know exactly when I arrived."

"That's ......."

The bartender explained earnestly: "The secret arrival of the automaton probably means "arriving in the dark", that is, in the middle of the night."

「……」

Literally, it can still be understood in this way.

According to the information in the system, this Todd has taken over the entire Mecha base in Seahorse City, and just like Mercer, he has become a behind-the-scenes boss. ....The strength of the local mechanical city lord is not strong, he is just an ordinary fourth-level creature, and his reputation is not obvious, not as famous as Coral City Yu Tuo.

Su Xia continued to look down, and soon saw a familiar name - Wang Teng.

The tavern got the information, and Wang Teng, the king of mercenaries in the wilderness, has become a level 5 creature, but the information inside the tavern has not been updated, and it still shows level 4.8.

Since Wang Teng is clamoring to kill the Mask Monster every day, which is also related to the Mask Monster, he has a high priority in the news.

This was followed by the tavern's own message.

There were indeed two fifth-level creatures from the Northern Branch, one named Hu Hanhai and the other named Liu Jinjia, who were now resting on the first basement floor of the tavern.

It's not that they're short of money, it's just for fame.

"The tavern is crowded, and with these two adults in charge, it must be safe." Susha said.

"The guest laughed, the situation is unclear now, and it's impossible to say if the masked monster is really in Seahorse City."

"Isn't there a proper inference inside the tavern?" Su Xia asked again, "For example, who could be the real body of the masked monster?"

"Yes, there are some suspicious objects in the locked document, if the guest wants to see it......

"Forget it."

Su Xia waved his hand, and this thing wanted to trick him into registering.

He continued to look down, for other news, and to see all the recent events in the city related to the masked monsters.

What puzzled him was that after reading it, he couldn't find any information related to Daddy's team, even if it was suspicious.

Both the tavern and the automaton suspect that someone is behind the trouble, but so far they have not been able to find any details to support this suspicion.

It's worthy of a daddy.......

Southern Dynasty Guard