“？”

The continuous prompts made Mu You stunned.

He wasn't particularly surprised that he died after the move, but what really surprised him was that the text of this death didn't even describe the slightest process.

In the past, deaths at least reminded of the process of being killed, as well as the situation of the killer, etc., for example, when he was killed by that Tang Po not long ago, the text at least told him that he was killed by the shadow ghost, but this time it was not at all.

This kind of death without any hint is the first time since entering the game.

Mu You hurriedly pressed the pocket watch and tried other ways to attack.

[You switch to a vampire skin, jump up from the insect tide again, and after appearing, you release a small fireball spell towards the high platform in the distance.] 】

[However, before your fireball can be formed, in the darkness above the high platform, there is some kind of terrifying existence that instantly locks you ......]

[You feel a powerful coercion coming, making you unable to move and confused......]

【You are dead......】

"Backtrack ......"

Mu You reluctantly pressed the pocket watch again.

Using the vampire skin, the result is still the same, except for a slight change in the text, the whole process is changed without changing the medicine, the moment he appears, one of the 'beings' above will awaken, and then he will die instantly......

In this way, the 'monster' that Louise keeps mentioning in her diary is really not a casual mention. However, it would be too tactful to describe this thing only as a 'monster'.

Next, Mu You backtracked a few more times, trying to break through from other directions.

As a result, all failed, and the entire surrounding area of the high platform was all the hunting range of that 'thing', and the surrounding circular Gu pond surrounded the middle high platform like a moat, but rather that this Gu pond was to protect the high platform, it was better to say that these insects were to separate the high platform from other areas, in case someone strayed into it and was swallowed by that thing.

At this moment, the sound of hurried footsteps suddenly sounded.

In just a few seconds, the hemp pole man went and returned, and reappeared on the high platform.

"President, what do you command?"

There were seconds of silence in the darkness before another man's voice was heard.

"Today's Gu Pond always feels a little discordant...... Let's look to see if there's anything mixed in. ”

"Yes."

The Ma Pole Man immediately jumped into the Gu Pond, and the surrounding Gu insects were all instantly away from the Golden Silkworm under the deterrence of the Golden Silkworm, and wherever he passed, all the insects would consciously give way to a road.

In this way, the Ma Pole Man explored the entire Gu Pond inside and out, and did not find any abnormalities.

"President, nothing." The hemp pole man returned to the high platform to report.

"Delusion......

Another voice muttered to itself, and only added after a moment, "Be careful lately, don't let any creature step into the meeting." ”

"I understand that the entrance to this place has been well hidden, and I am personally guarding it, and it is impossible for anyone to get close to the entrance without my permission." Said the man with a hemp pole.

"It's not enough to just guard against people, now that Sky City is docked in the Cook Islands, those fools will always have some strange abilities, you have to monitor the movements of those fools, it's best not to even put a bug in!" Another said.

"Yes."

After the man finished speaking, he retreated and soon disappeared again.

Now there was silence again.

It wasn't until a few minutes later that a dull roar suddenly sounded in the darkness on the high platform.

With this sound, the sea of insects in the Gu insects below suddenly burst into a commotion, and the insects on the side of the high platform retreated like a tide, revealing a circular clearing in the pool, and the range of the open space was still getting bigger and bigger, until the insect tide was squeezed to the limit on the side of the Gu pond before finally stopping.

The insects trembled and stacked on top of each other, not daring to move, and the part on the other side of the Gu pool was exposed, and everything at the bottom of the pool became unobstructed.

At one point, an extremely small object slowly floated up from a crack in the ground and landed on the platform.

It was a metal severed foot smaller than grit, shaped like the hind legs of an arthropod.

……

On the other side, Mu You had already turned back the same way at this time.

When he noticed that the man was going and coming back, he returned to the sewage pipe ahead of time.

As for the golden silkworm chrysalis, he didn't move for the time being, after all, there were people in the Gu pond who were watching it all the time, and it was too obvious if it moved.

By the time the characters climb out of the pipe, the sky is already bright in reality.

Mu You temporarily quit the game and checked the message on the satellite phone.

Last night's overnight meeting between the exchange group and the Defense Agency has ended, and after a night of discussion, the Japanese side has finally come up with a fairly reliable response plan: a thorough nationwide investigation and monitoring!

According to the current intelligence, although these shadow people can perfectly disguise themselves as human beings, the cycle and cost of obtaining a shadow should not be low, otherwise it would not be possible to mix in the single-digit personnel of the high-level government after so many years.

And the few people who didn't come to the self-inspection last night, after tracking, found that they had been missing for one to two months in the past five years.

From this, it can be concluded that in order to obtain the shadows, these shadow people must first kidnap someone, at least a month later, before they can replace them.

Therefore, in order to find these shadow people, it is only necessary to investigate the people who have disappeared in the last five years, especially those who have been missing for more than a month, and finally suddenly appeared, so that the search scope can be greatly narrowed, and it is said that the Japanese government has connected the country's surveillance cameras overnight to search for the portraits of these databases in real time.

How the specific Japanese side is going to investigate, Mu You doesn't care.

At this time, in the group of the exchange group, their own tasks have also been announced.

The first is a data software, which was shared by the Japanese side, which stores the files of all the missing persons in Japan in the past five years, and if they encounter suspicious people, they can be compared at any time.

There is also a map of Japan covered with dense red dots.

"This is the result of marking all the missing people on the map corresponding to the missing location."

Director Wang typed in the group.

"It's clear that there is a pattern of missing people in Tokyo, especially in this area."

Director Wang also sent out a zoomed-in local map, which showed that the main area was a place called 'Chiya Ward' in Tokyo, and the density of red dots in this area was much higher than that of the surrounding area.

"So, the focus of our search for the next few days is this area."

In the mission of the exchange group, it is not mandatory for everyone to go where to check, but it is said that everyone should go out and investigate freely, investigate those people and things that they think are suspicious, and the only thing to pay attention to is to keep the mobile phone unblocked at all times, because there may be shadows and ghosts at any time recently, and timely support is needed.

Mu You is not optimistic about the investigation plan exchanged by the two sides at the meeting, after all, this kind of investigation takes too long, and the boss behind the scenes will escape in two days, and there is no time to find out how much.

What he notices now is another position.

Previously in the game, the person behind the scenes said a sentence: No. 14's residence is very close to the spatial rift!

The number 14 here should refer to ward 14, that is, sleep.

Then the 'No. 14 residence' is, of course, the home of Ye Rumeng and the Mianmian sisters in Japan.

The address of the little girl's house, Mu You had already asked before coming, and marked it on the map software.

At this time, open the map software, and compare it with the map of 'Qiangu District' sent by Director Wang, and everything becomes clear at a glance: the location of the little girl's home is just on the west side of Qiangu District, only about a kilometer away from this area.

It's no wonder that the person behind the scenes did not hesitate to arrange for his subordinates to blow themselves up, and he also tried his best to divert the attention of mankind from this side.

The spatial rift is in the vicinity of their key investigation area, and as long as they expand the search area a little bit on the original plan, it is possible to cover the location of the spatial rift.

However, Mu You didn't plan to announce the matter of the space crack, otherwise a group of people would all come here to search, and they would definitely startle the snake, once the person behind the scenes was forced to choose to continue to lie dormant on the earth, it would be difficult to find him.

Therefore, this spatial crack can basically only be found by Mu You himself.

This is not in a hurry, there are many people during the day, and Mu You plans to wait until night to check.

After checking in and signing in the group, Mu You returned to the game.

[You appear in front of the Black River outside the West District, and the surrounding area is empty, and the cleaning robots that were originally fishing for insect corpses by the river are all gone. 】

After going online, the robots gathered in this place seemed to disappear, and Mu You didn't care, just when they were charged, he hurriedly controlled the characters and rushed to the North District.

[You came to the North District Hospital and found Ward 15. 】

[Looking through the window into the ward, the contents of the room have long been emptied, leaving only dust and empty bed boards.] 】

[You switch back to the Vampire skin and use the Lockpicking Charm.] 】

[The lock pops open, and you creep into the room, only to find a line of footprints on the floor, which from the point of view of clarity, seem to have just been left behind.] 】

[Time is limited, you ignore the footprints, wave your wand and use the search charm......]

【Search successful!】 You have found two items related to Cordelux. 】

"Oh?"

Mu You was overjoyed, and actually found two clues at once?

[You hurriedly follow the directions, and soon find a note under the crack in the wall in the corner of the room.] 】

[Fragment of Louise's diary.] 】

【…… Sleepy and I would send some whispers on a note every night, and we quickly became good friends, and she taught me a lot and helped me quickly adapt to life here...... But what makes me strange is that Mian Mian always seems to be very sleepy, and he will sleep with his eyes closed at every opportunity, and sometimes he will even fall asleep suddenly while playing, eating, and walking, so he often throws himself into a bruised nose and swollen face...... I once asked Mianmian why she loved sleep so much, and she whispered to me a secret: when she fell asleep, her consciousness would wander into another world, a wonderful world, no oppression, no disease, and all kinds of novelties that she had never seen before...... Every day, Mianmian would tell me what she had seen and heard in the dream world, and I was fascinated by the dream world she described...... This is what I look forward to every day for a long time to come......

——2/8】

I found the second page of the diary again, this time the diary is completely about 'sleeping', sleepy really has a similar ability to Ye Rumeng, and can also enter the dream world when she falls asleep, but it's a pity that there is no space backpack in this place, otherwise she can escape with the help of the rules of the backpack like the little girl.

Coming back to his senses, Mu You continued to search, and just now found two clues.

[You continue to follow the directions, and finally find a broken music box behind the windowsill.] 】

[You open the music box, only to find that it is empty.] 】

[Obviously, you are a step late, and the contents have been taken away......]

"Huh?"

Mu You was stunned, and the second clue was actually broken.

Combined with the 'footprints' prompt just now, it seems that someone has really come in here before and found the diary in the music box in advance.

Aside from him, the humans who are able to freely enter this abandoned area can obviously only be 'Administrators'.

[You realize that some administrator may have taken the clue before you.] 】

[Judging from the footprints on the ground, this person is a woman, and there is only one female administrator you have seen in this underground factory so far, and it is the old lady in green wearing reading glasses!] 】

The clue was actually preempted by the administrator......

Mu You frowned, which meant that if he wanted to get all the diaries, he had to grab them.

After thinking about it, Mu You decided to go to the central area where the administrator lived first to determine where this person was.

As a result, when he arrived in the central district, he realized that the situation was not quite right.

[You see cleaning robots and drudgers gathered in the area ahead, and there are several administrators around, all covered in the image of shadow ghosts with fangs and claws, who are wandering through the robot queue and mercilessly attacking the robots around them, one after another of the robots are reduced to scrap metal under their hands. 】

"Destroy robots?"

Mu You was stunned, why did he suddenly destroy the robots in large quantities, could it be that he had already been exposed?

Mu You was thinking about what flaws he had exposed, and a prompt suddenly popped up on his phone.

["The robot in front, stop! You hear a shrill shout from behind you. 】

[Looking back, there is an old lady in green walking towards you behind you. 】

[The old man wearing reading glasses looked at you vigilantly, and scolded in his mouth: "Didn't you all go to the Central District to wait in line for inspection, why didn't you go?" "You choose ......]

Suddenly discovered, Mu You originally planned to go back immediately, but what was found here was actually the green-clothed administrator......

Mu You hesitated for a moment and made a decision: do it directly!

Anyway, he has been exposed, and if he doesn't do it now, there is a high probability that he will be surrounded and intercepted in the future, until he is driven out, it is better to fight before leaving, it is best to grab things over if he can beat them, and if he can't beat them, he will only live for a year.

[You choose to disguise the appearance of an injured track, show the other party your damaged walker, and broadcast it in a mechanical voice: "The walker is faulty, and you can't move ......"]

[The green-clothed administrator relaxed a little when she heard this, and motioned for you to stand still and let her go over to check.] 】

[You lie dormant in place, but secretly you are quietly preparing to attack. 】

[When the other party approached five meters in front of you, you suddenly burst out, and a cold energy wave shot out from your chest, hitting the other party, and the green-clothed administrator instantly froze and couldn't move. 】

[Above your hands, the spiral barrel quickly emerges, and a massive amount of bullets rains down towards the opponent.] 】

[The green-clothed administrator was furious, and his body quickly changed to an old male old man, and at the same time, the phantom of an elderly shadow ghost appeared on his body, and he immediately broke free from the ice and pounced on you! 】

[You activated the smoke spitting device, and the scene was instantly covered in a large cloud of smoke, and you couldn't see anything clearly.] 】

[Your twin guns shoot indiscriminately into the smoke as your cannon begins to charge ......]

[A surging cannon blasts out, and the dazzling light disperses the smoke and destroys all obstacles in its path.] 】

[You killed an elderly shadow ghost, lifespan +1......]

You have obtained the remnants of the Old Shadow Ghost. 】

[You have obtained the 'clue hidden in the music box.'] 】

[You were torn apart in anger by the other shadow ghosts who rushed to help!] 】

(End of chapter)