Fantasy Game: Infinite City

"Click."

Han Zu snapped his fingers, and the door to the first floor of the manor was opened from the inside. Garcia came out carrying a dust cover wrapped in a pile of dry bones and threw the dust cover at the feet of Han Zu who was stepping on the female ghost's neck.

"How's it going inside?"

"With the help of the hounds, they were all killed. This feeling is really... strange..."

“Is there any damage to the house?”

"No, this guy has great strength. There's not even a scratch left in the building."

Garcia pointed at the female ghost under Han Zu's feet, her head a little dizzy. Before today, although Garcia had never seen a ghost with her own eyes, she was very afraid of this kind of supernatural things. However, after killing several ghosts with her own hands just now, her fear is disappearing rapidly, and she has always had a strange feeling.

"You're hard to kill, eh? See how it goes this time."

The female ghost under his feet was different from other ghosts in the manor. Han Zu's power was not enough to absorb her ghost directly. Although his attacks could cause damage to her, it was always a little short of killing her completely. Once the female ghost was fatally injured and entered a near-death state, there would always be a strange force that quickly repaired her soul damage, which was why the fight took so long.

"Boom!"

A fire burned the wreckage and the dust cover to ashes, but even so, the female ghost did not disappear, but became extremely weak. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Han Zu quickly crushed and absorbed her soul, ending the farce and bringing peace back to the entire manor.

Han Zu lit a cigarette with the fire that had not yet burned out. He glanced at Garcia and found that she was staring at the burning flames with a complex emotion in her eyes.

"There's still a painting that hasn't been finished." Han Zu said, turning and walking towards the door.

Garcia didn't seem to hear him, still lost in his own thoughts.

"Garcia?" Han Zu turned around and called out.

Garcia suddenly came to his senses and followed Han Zu's pace.

The two walked back to the main building of the manor. The occasional flickering flames on Han Zu's body made Garcia feel warm.

"I think I understand what that strange feeling is." Garcia said suddenly.

"Oh?" Han Zu looked at her curiously.

"That's a relief... Huh..." Garcia slowly relaxed and exhaled, "I think I should have overcome my fear of ghosts. It turns out that they are not that great. Even I can easily destroy them."

Han Zu smiled and patted Garcia on the shoulder: "As long as you have the courage to face it, nothing is scary."

Garcia fell silent and stopped talking until they reached the room with the portrait on the third floor. Garcia did not speak again. Han Zu understood that she had not really overcome her fear of supernatural events.

Garcia was able to muster the courage to face his fear because he believed in himself, and he was still confused afterwards because of his own heart. Han Zu understood this.

"I must find an opportunity to help her completely overcome this fear in the future." Han Zu thought to himself, then Han Zu focused his attention on the portrait and took it down from the wall.

As soon as he took it in his hand, Han Zu felt something unusual. There was actually enough energy on this portrait for him to absorb. Han Zu stretched out his hand and stroked the portrait, absorbing the remaining energy on it. Just when the energy was about to be absorbed, a suction force suddenly appeared, trying to suck Han Zu into the portrait. However, due to the exhaustion of the power on the portrait and the fact that Han Zu himself was now a huge energy furnace, the suction force was soon offset by the energy overflowing from Han Zu's body. The portrait itself also suffered a backlash and quickly self-ignited, and soon turned to ashes in Han Zu's hands, leaving only a few pieces of the frame fragments that were not burned into charcoal because Han Zu held them in his hands.

"Ding!"

A small piece of metal fell to the floor, making a crisp sound in the quiet room. Han Zu bent down to pick it up, blew away the embers on it, and observed it carefully.

This small metal piece should be the brand of the picture frame. Although it has been twisted and deformed due to high temperature, it can still be judged from the completed icon on the remaining part that this should be a brand of art supplies.

Taking out his cell phone, now that the signal had returned to normal, Han Zu used his phone to identify the remaining icons and found a niche luxury brand of art supplies. He looked through the brand's information but didn't find anything unusual.

However, when Han Zu looked at the origin of this brand, he suddenly felt that something was wrong. He looked at Garcia who was still in a daze next to him.

"Garcia, Garcia?"

Garcia did not reply, but stood silently beside Han Zu, her pupils were a little dilated, and her thoughts were not here. Han Zu put his hand on her face and patted it twice.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"are you OK?"

"I'm fine." Garcia shook his head, "Just thinking about something."

"It's already been cleaned up here. The only window I damaged, I can fix it myself. How about we go back first? You can have a good rest."

"I'm fine. What were you going to ask?"

"This brand is from your country, and it's an old brand. Do you have any impression of it?"

"Let me see." Garcia took Han Zu's phone and checked the brand on it, but strangely, Garcia had never seen this brand before.

"Are you sure this is a brand from our country? But I've never seen it before, or even heard of it. Is it a mistake?"

Garcia looked at the unfamiliar brand, a little confused. Han Zu trusted Garcia, so she was not lying, but if that was the case, Han Zu thought of another possibility.

"Do you know this attraction?"

Han Zu typed the name of a scenic spot in a Nordic country into his mobile phone, and then asked Garcia to confirm the picture. Sure enough, Han Zu's guess was correct.

"I... have never seen this place before, but the place shown here is the country where I was born? How can this be..."

Han Zu got Garcia's answer and immediately sorted out his thoughts. "My previous guess seems to have some small errors. I originally thought that you were just sent to an island that is difficult to contact the outside world, but now it seems that you are not from this world, but from a parallel world similar to it."

"If that's the case, then our original theory about the Infinite City dungeon..."

"The replica is indeed a real place, but it is a mirror image of some original place, or a parallel world with major changes. I was wondering why no matter how big the commotion in the replica is, it will not cause chain reactions. So that's how it is..."

"That means, those forces you have encountered before..."

"They may be experiencing countless forced reincarnations. This is also the nature of those, no, a large number of copies of the Infinite City."

"But the rat removal company is indeed growing. What's going on?"

"Unlimited companies must have some way to control it, that's why it's like this..."

"Oh, right, if I think about it carefully, in addition to the empty mirror world in City C, there is also the tunnel incident you mentioned. But if your guess is correct, the tunnel incident shouldn't have happened, right?"

"It may be related to me. There may be something in me that can influence it... In short, it is related to me, but I don't know the specific relationship yet."

After cleaning up the ashes of the portrait, Han Zu found a dust cover and sealed the broken window with it, then packed up the cleaning tools and put them back in the trunk of the car.

"Let's go, the cleaning work is done, let's go back first. When I have time, I will contact construction teams in other cities to see if we can find one. If not, we can do it ourselves. Anyway, the rat problem has been solved."

"Rat infestation? Isn't it haunted?"

"No difference."

Driving to the gate of the manor, Han Zu got out and opened the gate. Garcia drove out and closed the gate. Han Zu took out the new lock he had prepared and locked the gate of the manor again.

After getting in the car, it was already around five o'clock. "Do you want to have breakfast?" Han Zu said.

"Okay, it's a good time to have something to distract yourself, let's go."

Although it was winter and it was not yet daybreak, some breakfast shops were already open. After driving out of the manor, Han Zu went to the downstairs of an old house in the old city, found a breakfast shop and bought some food. He and Garcia returned to the old house to eat and rest.