Star Trace Gate

Ren Ye listened to the response in the headset and said in surprise: "Xiao Shuai? Damn, why is it you?"

"Brother, your tone is so hurtful. What's wrong with me? Are you disappointed?" Xiao Shuai replied.

Ren Ye originally thought that he would continue to fight side by side with Brother Hu in this round. After all, both sides were holding clues about Song Mingzhe. However, he never expected that the system would match him with a teammate with poor stress tolerance, who would transform into the Zaun God of War at any time and was extremely powerful.

Ren Ye scratched his nose and replied politely: "No, you think too much. I'm not very disappointed, I'm just a little upset and want to vote 15."

"... Damn, I've given you the money, and you're speaking human language?" Xiao Shuai was ready to start performing language art.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense." Ren Ye thought for a moment and said softly, "Let's meet on the sixth floor of the mall and have a brief chat and exchange information."

"Okay, I'll go now."

"Ah."

After the conversation ended, the two ended their communication and Ren went straight to the elevator.

When he went downstairs, he deliberately observed the environment inside the building and found that the architectural layout here was somewhat different from that of ordinary family buildings. Each corridor was very long and had many corners, which were intertwined with each other, like a large maze.

Inside the building, there are at least a hundred households on each floor, which is very much like the style of a large hotel, or the haunted building layout commonly seen in Hong Kong ghost movies in the 90s.

However, the decoration here is relatively luxurious, the corridors are very clean and popular, many neighbors know each other, and everyone greets each other warmly when they pass by.

While observing the environment, Ren Ye took the elevator and arrived at the sixth floor of the shopping mall.

It is even more lively here. There are restaurants, high-end clothing stores, Shang K Entertainment City, children's playground, and everything else. Moreover, the flow of people is huge. It should be that not only the residents of this building are consuming, but also a large number of residents from the county.

It was dinner time and almost all the restaurants were packed, so after Ren took a stroll, he used the intercom headset to make an appointment with Xiao Shuai to meet at the door of a cold drink shop.

During this period, he took some time out from his busy schedule to go to a snack shop and bought a lot of delicious food for his beloved concubine.

Not long after, Xiao Shuai, wearing a suit, appeared in Ren Ye's sight. He was hunched over and sat on a plastic chair.

Ren Ye drank his cold drink and asked curiously, "Why do you look like you've been abused?!"

"This star gate is really abnormal, too difficult." Xiao Shuai shook his head speechlessly and said softly: "You have also experienced the door opening mission, right?"

"correct."

"I don't know what your mission is, but mine is very disgusting." Xiao Shuai narrated, "Star Gate asked me to find out who is the real manager of the inner warehouse from a large number of personnel confessions with important information hidden. I deduced three times from more than twenty personnel files...but failed twice, and was deducted 60 Tiangong points."

"Brother, calm down. I was wrong too. I was fined thirty dollars." Ren Ye comforted him.

When Xiao Shuai heard this, he felt much more balanced: "So you still have 120 points left?!"

"No, it's one hundred and forty."

"What's wrong? Isn't the starting point 150?" Xiao Shuai was a little confused.

"Yes, but I have a wife." Ren Ye said softly: "Xingmen asked me to please her, so I served her hard, so I got an extra ten points as a reward."

When Xiao Shuai heard this, he was stunned and said, "Fuck! Xingmen is your father, right? You still have this plot?! I'm so handsome, it shouldn't be your turn to serve me... I'm not bad at it either."

"Brother, you have to be content. Didn't Xingmen say that we patrol members have a special status? Our initial Tiangong value is higher than Brother Hu and the others." Ren Ye comforted him: "Don't compare with me, compare with the worst, then you will feel better."

Xiao Shuai was so jealous that his teeth were about to break: "Brother, you...you really served?!"

"Ah."

"...Okay, take it back and I'll go visit my sister-in-law." Xiao Shuai picked up the drink that Ren Ye ordered for him and drank most of it in one breath as if to cool down.

"You've got the guts to do this." Ren Ye cursed and immediately asked, "Tell me the results of your investigation."

"The warehouse manager is called Lao Yan. On the first day the fire talisman was lost, he was held accountable, a statement was made, and then he disappeared." Xiao Shuai heard the other party mention the business and immediately replied, "He hasn't been home for seven days and there is no news from him."

Ren Ye heard this and fell into deep thought.

"Brother, my first feeling is that the case of the missing fire talisman is more like the crime committed by an acquaintance inside the company, and it must be someone who knows Tiangong Fire very well." Xiao Shuai added: "Otherwise, Old Yan would never disappear for no reason. You see, this Lieyang Tiangong Fire is a fourth-grade magical flame, with a very high level and is quite precious. The inner storehouse that contains it must be an important place among important places. But I didn't see in the confession materials that any unit went to the inner storehouse for reinforcement at the time of the incident... This shows that no one heard any movement at the time. Therefore, the supernatural person who robbed the fire talisman must be very familiar with the Tiangong Building, and did not cause too much noise when he killed the three storekeepers. After succeeding, he left calmly."

Ren Ye's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he praised: "You think it through very carefully, and this direction has a sense."

"Ha." Xiao Shuai sneered, "I'm just a coward, not a bully. There must be nothing wrong with my brain."

"...!"

Ren also blinked: "Where are your follow-up clues?"

"It's the monitoring room." Xiao Shuai replied, "In the main control center on the 7th floor. I think there will be some video footage there."

"My clue is in the inner warehouse. We need to investigate the three warehouse managers who were killed." Ren Ye thought about it for a while and came up with an idea: "Since Star Gate has given us two clues, let's go separately. This way it will be more efficient. You go to the monitoring room to investigate the video data first, and I will go to the inner warehouse to check. We can keep in touch with each other through headsets at any time and meet if there is any problem."

When Xiao Shuai heard this, he panicked: "No, brother! I give you 300,000 a day just to ask for your protection. I don't want to go alone!"

"You are an adult now, and I can't help you with the toilet, right?" Ren Ye said speechlessly: "You have to learn to be self-reliant."

"Shit, in this star gate, a mission with a death mechanism could be triggered at any time. I won't feel safe if I'm not with you!" Xiao Shuai insisted, "I think it would be more stable if we two run on the same line first."

"Brother, listen to me. The difficulty of the death mechanism will not change according to the number of people. In other words, even if you and I go the same route, we will still encounter the death mission. The risks are the same, and if the mission fails, both of us will definitely die together." Ren Ye analyzed patiently: "Also, the time we give Song Mingzhe to submit the correct answer is 11:30. If we can't do it, we will die. Therefore, we can't go on one route and waste time. We must go on two routes in parallel and advance quickly."

"Then wouldn't it be like I'm giving away my three hundred thousand a day for nothing?!" Xiao Shuai felt a bit at a loss.

"Brother, I treat you as my own brother, how dare you negotiate money with me?" Ren Ye stood up and said, "If you have this kind of personality, then we will definitely not be able to pee in the same pot! So, you pay today's fee, and from now on, we brothers will be strangers..."

When Xiao Shuai heard this, he stood up and clasped his fists and said, "Brother, you are even worse than Xiao Yuan."

"Brother, you are too kind."

"Goodbye." Xiao Shuai turned and left.

Ren Ye glanced at him and shouted, "If you feel that you really don't have confidence when you hear the mission description, then contact me and wait for me to come over."

Xiao Shuai was stunned for a moment, then turned around and smiled: "Oh, that's more like it."

After saying that, the two of them left.

……

Not long after.

Ren Ye, holding a glass of cold drink in his right hand, found the elevator leading to the Tiangong Building's inner warehouse on the first floor. There was a special guard from the engineering department guarding the door.

When the three people on the other side saw that the person coming was Ren Ye, they recognized him and immediately stood up and said, "Master Jiu."

Ren Ye looked at them and said calmly: "Open the elevator, I want to go to the inner storehouse to take a look at the scene."

"it is good."

A burly man with a rough look immediately stepped aside and called for the elevator.

The lights in the corridor were bright, and the elevator sounded heavy with the creaking sound of gears turning.

"Wow...!"

After three or four seconds, the elevator door slowly opened.

Ren also let out a long breath and walked in.

"Snapped!"

Just as he entered, the rough-looking man suddenly stopped the elevator door and reminded him with a serious face: "Master Patrol, let me say one more thing... In the past two days, some of our brothers have been to the inner storehouse... They all said that it is not very clean inside, so please be careful."

"How is it dirty?" Ren was also annoyed by him and immediately asked back.

The big man grinned and said, "People who died suddenly always have a lot of resentment. As for the case...it's not convenient for us to discuss or inquire about it. Anyway, please be careful."

Damn, you’re messing with my mentality, right?

"Okay, I got it." Xingmen had specifically reminded the inspectors not to reveal too many details of the case, so Ren didn't want to ask them any more. He just replied calmly and pressed the button for the second floor below ground.

The elevator door closed and slowly descended.

"Ding--!"

After a while, a clear reminder sounded, and we had arrived at the second floor below ground.

The door opened, and a cool breeze blew in his face, causing Ren to shudder for no apparent reason.

He turned his head and looked around, and found that there was a very empty parking lot in front of the elevator door, with only one entrance for cars, which was separated by a heavy iron door.

Ren Ye paused briefly, then walked out of the elevator.

The dim lights in the parking lot flickered on and off, and in the unknown blind spots of vision, there was also the sound of dripping water, which sounded empty and distant.

An eerie aura was lingering around me.

Ren also felt uncomfortable all over, and immediately activated the power of the star source, causing a ray of light to flash between his eyebrows, illuminating the way ahead.

"Tap tap...!"

The sound of footsteps echoed in the empty space. Ren walked across the parking lot and came to the gate of the inner storehouse. However, he found that there was also a tightly closed iron gate of the inner storehouse, and above the gate was hung a plaque with the words "Tiangong Building Inner Storehouse".

The iron door looked very mottled. Ren Ye tried to raise his right arm, touch the door panel with his hand, and push it forward, but the whole door did not move at all.

He frowned, turned around and tried to look around.

Ren Ye shook his neck, his eyes slowly swept across the scene on his left side, and finally stopped on a duty tower...

The dim light reflected on the window of the watchtower. Ren Ye saw his own shadow, but his face froze immediately.

He saw from his reflection that there were three people standing behind him, their faces were livid, staring at his head motionlessly!

"Fuck!"

A chill rushed straight to the top of my head.

……

On the other side, in the equally dimly lit monitoring room, an old man on duty was watching TV.

"Boom boom boom!"

There was a knock on the door.

The old man looked at the TV and shouted, "Come in."

"Squeak."

The door opened, and Xiao Shuai walked in, nodding and bowing, saying, "Uncle, I'm from the Patrol Department...!"

I don't know when a cigarette was put between the old man's lips.

He turned his head slowly, a smile appeared on his wrinkled old face, and he said, "My cigarette won't light."

Xiao Shuai was stunned for a moment, then he immediately bared his teeth and said, "Haha, I'm popular!"