Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Since signing the temporary employment contract, Han Zu has basically not gone out since he returned home. After returning to the warehouse that day, Han Zu asked Garcia to find a notebook to write down the records of the previous tests.

While Garcia was recalling and writing down the data, Han Zu went to the car outside the warehouse and made a long phone call. So far, Han Zu basically told Garcia everything and there were no secrets. Garcia thought that if she asked, Han Zu would also tell her what was said in the call and who the call was made, but Garcia did not do so.

It took more than half an hour to recall the data. However, when he looked out the window, Han Zu had not finished his call, and Garcia tactfully did not go over.

After another cigar, Han Zu came back from outside, picked up the data written by Garcia and looked at it carefully, without saying a word. He spent two hours looking at the data, probably thinking about something through it. After reading the data, Han Zu blew out flames and burned them clean. After that, Han Zu turned on his phone and ordered a lot of things online, mostly snacks, and some notebooks and pens.

The express delivery was very fast and everything was delivered at noon the next day. Han Zu took out a pile of notebooks from a package, and then found a complete set of documents in one of them and handed them to Garcia.

"Visa, driver's license, ID... The name is mine?! How did you do that... Forget it, just pretend I didn't ask."

It seems that the phone call Han Zu made yesterday should be related to these documents.

For the next few days, apart from going back to the house in the old city to clean it, Han Zu basically lay on the sofa in the living room of the warehouse, watching marginal videos on his phone, as if everything that had happened before had never happened and had nothing to do with him.

The two Death Realm Hounds that Han Zu and Garcia had talked about were also released. Garcia was very interested in them and proposed to Han Zu that he wanted to study them. Han Zu and the hounds had no objection, but due to the lack of relevant equipment and instruments, the research could not be carried out for the time being.

However, Han Zu said that now that he had money, he could find a way to get these things, but it might take some time. Moreover, given the current situation, suddenly getting some equipment for live research might attract the attention of Unlimited Company, so this matter was temporarily put on hold.

Three days passed quickly, and Han Zu went to the branch of Infinite City again, found the middle-aged employee who had received him before, and asked about the contract. The middle-aged employee said that the head office was busy with the year-end assessment, so there was no time to deal with the contract for the time being, so the time might need to be extended.

"I will call you as soon as the contract is processed. During this period, you will still not be able to log in to the Infinite City. I am very sorry for the inconvenience caused to you."

Han Zu didn't say anything. After getting the answer, he left the branch of Infinite City and returned home. He lay on the sofa in the living room and browsed his phone. Perhaps he couldn't stand Han Zu's monotonous life anymore, so Garcia took Han Zu's phone, put it aside, and pulled Han Zu out the door.

"Don't you have any other hobbies?"

"Yes, playing games."

"I mean normal hobbies, like traveling, sports, etc."

"It seems not. I don't like going out much. But if I have to say, I do like skiing."

"Then let's go skiing. Is there a ski resort near City C? Would you like to teach me how to ski?"

"Okay, since we don't have anything to do right now, let's go buy some equipment first."

They drove to the city center, and Han Zu got a set of ski equipment for himself and Garcia. Then they drove onto the highway and left the city. While Garcia was looking at the scenery in the car, he found that they had passed the ski resort on the other side of City C and continued to drive forward.

"Have we already passed the ski resort, or do we need to find an exit off the highway and go around it?"

"What's the point of going skiing at a ski resort? Besides, the New Year is just a few days away, and there will be a lot of people there. We won't go there."

After driving for several hours, Han Zu got off the highway at a fork in the road and drove towards a small road. Through the car window, Garcia saw a snow-capped mountain not far away. He guessed that the place Han Zu mentioned should be here.

This path did not extend to the foot of the snow-capped mountain, but went in another direction. Han Zu turned near the snow-capped mountain, drove the car onto the deserted snowy area, and drove towards the snow-capped mountain.

"Where does that road lead to?"

"If I remember correctly, it seems to be a reservoir. Occasionally, fishermen and college students majoring in geology would go there. This path was also built by those fishermen themselves."

"Sure enough, no matter which world or country, fishermen and geology students always appear in various places. I can understand those fishermen, but why don't those geology students go to the snow mountains? Logically speaking, aren't snow mountains a better research topic?"

"Oh, the snow mountain was explored by the Geological Survey Institute many years ago. There is nothing on it, no rare minerals, no special animals or plants. It is just an ordinary snow mountain. Except for some skiing enthusiasts, there are basically no other people here."

"Then why don't you open the ski resort here? Is the snowy mountain too steep? It doesn't look like it?"

"It's nothing else, it's just too far from the main road, it's not cost-effective to develop here. Not to mention them, even those ski enthusiasts have better places to go."

With a flip of his wrist, the terminal of the swarm appeared in Han Zu's hand. Through the terminal, Garcia saw that except for Han Zu's car tracks, there were no other traces near the snow mountain. It seemed that no one had been near the snow mountain for at least several years.

The car drove up for a distance, and Han Zu found an open place to park the car. Han Zu and Garcia got out of the car with their ski equipment and reached the top of the mountain directly through Han Zu's orbital airdrop.

Looking down from the top of the mountain, the scenery is very nice. On this side of the snow-capped mountain, the mountain is very flat and more suitable for skiing beginners. Under Han Zu's guidance, Garcia began to learn slowly and tried skiing.

Garcia gradually mastered the skills of skiing. She and Han Zu slid down from the top of the mountain, feeling the wind whistling past their ears.

Suddenly, Garcia saw a small black bump in the snow ahead, and she thought it was a rock, so she tried to go around it. However, when they got closer, they found that it was a naturally formed cave.

Han Zu slid to the entrance of the cave, put away his snowboard, and sent several swarms of drones into the cave.

"Is there anything unusual here?" Garcia asked.

"Not yet, but as far as I can remember, there are no caves on this side of the snow mountain, and its direction is wrong. It doesn't look right." Han Zu frowned.

"The entrance to the cave faces the top of the mountain, which is indeed a bit problematic."

However, several swarms of bees quickly scanned the entire cave. The cave was not big, only three or four meters deep, and all the traces in the cave were naturally formed, with no signs of human mining or animals.

"Nothing unusual, strange, did I remember it wrong?"

However, Han Zu seemed very confident in his memory. He always felt that there was something wrong with this cave, so he walked in and planned to take a look for himself. Garcia also took off his double board and walked in together.

However, after the two of them checked, there was indeed nothing unusual. Neither the bee colony's perspective nor Han Zu's eyes found anything.

"Did I really remember it wrong?"

However, in order to confirm, Han Zu thought of the two hunting dogs and released them as well. However, after the hunting dogs searched the cave under Han Zu's instructions, they still found nothing.

"It seems that I really remembered it wrong..."

"Woo!"

However, the hounds seemed to smell something and barked to attract Han Zu's attention. Han Zu walked over and took a closer look and found a small piece of dark green ice crystal that looked very familiar.

"This seems to be... your gift of death? Why does this thing appear here?"

Han Zu sprayed flames to melt the ice crystals and held it in his palm, but strangely, Han Zu had no way to absorb it.

"Strange, isn't this the case? I can't absorb it."

Han Zu bit his palm and dripped a few drops of his own blood on it. The drop was wrapped by his own blood and made some noises, but this time it went very smoothly. Not long after, the drop of the gift of death was swallowed up by his own blood, and Han Zu absorbed them again.

"There seems to be some... ashes or something on your hand. What are those?" Garcia saw the some things left on Han Zu's palm and spoke.

"slightly..."

Han Zu took a look, then suddenly stuck out his tongue, licked it, and swallowed the "ashes".

"They felt weird and tasted like nothing, but they melted in my mouth."

"You really should get rid of this bad habit of eating everything..."

There was nothing else in the cave except this droplet. The cave was indeed formed naturally, and there was no sign of human mining. However, Han Zu still felt something was wrong. Using the bee colony, Han Zu and Garcia spent some time searching the entire snow mountain and some places near the snow mountain. They handed over the suspicious places to the two hounds for investigation, but they found nothing.

"It seems like it might be a coincidence."

"I'll check past news and whether there have been any new ores in the gambling stone market. Although the cave looks like it was formed naturally, it is also possible that someone mined it a long time ago, and then it became a natural formation after being weathered and eroded by nature. Let's go back first."

"Forget it, there's no rush, let's continue skiing."

However, at Garcia's request, the two stopped skiing and returned to the car. While Han Zu was sorting out his equipment, Garcia checked the past news on the Internet, as well as the news of the gambling stone market in City C and nearby. It was really amazing that he found a piece of news from a few years ago in the gambling stone market, saying that a special ore was found, but because the color was not very good and there were many impurities, it had not been sold and remained in the gambling stone market.

"I look at this photo, it seems to be a gift from the realm of death. What do you think? Do you want to go and take a look?"

"I didn't expect you to actually find it. I was planning to forget about it. In that case, let's go. It's only a little after three in the afternoon, so there's plenty of time."

The two drove back to City C from the snow-capped mountains and found the ore in the gambling stone market. As expected, the gift of death was wrapped inside the rock.

Han Zu did not buy the ore directly, but bought some other things first. Since Han Zu was very generous and he had been arguing with the boss, the owner of the gambling stone shop decided to give Han Zu some scraps. The ore that had not been sold naturally became the first choice. However, in the words of the gambling stone shop owner, the stone became a very expensive item.

Holding a pile of boxes filled with jade, Han Zu casually threw the ore containing the Gift of Death into the trunk, then carefully placed the other things he bought on the back seat, drove to the city center to have a meal, and then returned to the warehouse in the suburbs.

Returning to the warehouse, Han Zu threw all the other things he had bought into the basement and began to study the ore that contained the Gift of Death. He spent some time opening it, took out the frozen Gift of Death inside, and absorbed them.

"Every time I absorb the Gift of the Dead Realm and increase its concentration, there will be some problems. I wonder if there will be any problems this time."

Garcia asked Han Zubie some questions while eating snacks.

"Since you don't use your giant size very often anymore, why don't you consider getting a normal house to live in?"

"You're right. I didn't have time before, but now I can think about it."

However, while he was talking, Han Zu suddenly fell silent. Garcia hurried to the sofa and saw Han Zu slumped on the sofa with lifeless eyes. He checked him and found nothing wrong with his body. But Han Zu would not answer when he was called, as if he had entered a strange state.

The two Death Realm Hounds also showed abnormalities. After approaching Han Zu, they suddenly fainted. Han Zu's body seemed to have a suction force, which quickly pulled them into Han Zu's body, but soon "spitted" them out. Garcia observed that the appearance of the two hounds suddenly became extremely unstable and very blurry, but Garcia always felt that they looked familiar.

"This seems to be... similar to the strange black shadow I saw before. What changes have taken place in you..."

Garcia didn't know what was going on and was completely confused. Just when she was trying to figure out what was going on, her body seemed to have abnormalities. A strong and irresistible feeling of dizziness suddenly appeared, and Garcia's body fell weakly on Han Zu and fainted.

After a while, Garcia woke up, rubbed his swollen head, picked up the mobile phone that Han Zu had dropped on the ground, and looked at the time. It had been about ten minutes since he fainted.

Han Zu's appearance remained unchanged, he lay on the sofa with empty eyes, Garcia got up from Han Zu and sat beside him, rubbing his eyes.

"Uh... this feels really bad... it seems like we have to wait until he recovers to know what happened."