Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Magnus's hasty departure made the five players present feel a little strange, but since the system's task has appeared, completing the task and then clearing the level has become the current priority. As for Magnus's abnormal behavior, it may not be related to the task at present, and further investigation is needed.

"Would you like to introduce yourselves?"

The player in the aisle between the sofa and the bookshelf put down the book in his hand and looked around at the other four players. Although everyone heard what he said, no one answered him.

"In that case, let me introduce myself first. My name is Wei Mingchen."

"Cao Yuan."

The burly man who was still dozing off on an antique chair waved at Wei Ming and said his name.

"Su Wen."

"Pei Zuocheng."

The man who had used his ability to teleport back to his guest room, Pei Zuocheng, also gave his name. He was quietly observing the woman he had followed before, but he was not observing with his eyes, but with his ears. He could hear that one of the woman's hands hidden in her sleeve seemed to be clenched nervously, but there was still no expression on her face.

However, the only woman who did not give her name did not plan to stay in the study for long. She looked around at the other players in the room, stood up from the sofa, walked straight to the door, and prepared to leave.

"Aren't you going to introduce yourself? At least let us know your name?" Wei Mingchen asked, pushing his glasses.

"That's not necessary." The woman stopped and replied, turning her head slightly.

"Maybe we will need to cooperate or discuss in the future. It's just a name. At least it's convenient to call each other." Pei Zuocheng also said.

"No need."

Afterwards, the only woman who did not say her name left the study directly. By listening to her footsteps, Pei Zuocheng was able to determine that the woman left in the direction of her own guest room. However, after all, the range of hearing was limited, so he could not be sure whether she really returned to her guest room.

"Everyone, would you like to chat?" Wei Mingchen glanced at the woman's departing back, then turned around and began trying to communicate with others. This time he was not rejected.

"I'm fine with that. What do you want to talk about?" Pei Zuocheng leaned back in his chair, answering Wei Mingchen's questions while observing him. He couldn't see any solution at the moment.

"Although we don't have any clues about the main quests needed to clear the dungeon, at least we know what to do. So I decided not to talk about that for now. Should we discuss the sharp drop in the number of players before the dungeon officially starts?"

"There are fifty-five people, and now there are only five of us left. Originally there were eight, but after we entered the manor, three of them suddenly disappeared. What do you think?"

Cao Yuan, who was dozing off in his chair, stood up, stretched, became a little more alert, and told his problem.

"Did you all arrive at the manor by carriage? I wonder if you noticed that during the carriage's journey, it circled on a certain road for a while. Although the carriage did not stop, it circled the same distance."

Su Wen thought quickly and told the other players about the anomaly he had observed before, and this information seemed to resonate with the other players, who had also experienced the same situation.

"Also, when the carriage was traveling on this loop, for some reason, everyone in the carriage felt very sleepy, and those players who actually fell asleep were eliminated because of this. Do you have any other information you can share?"

Cao Yuan left his original chair, walked to the desk where Magnus was standing, leaned on the desk, and told his experience. Su Wen and Pei Zuocheng both nodded. Their experiences were the same. The other players in the same carriage were eliminated because they fell asleep on the circular path.

"I had a different experience." Wei Mingchen seemed to have a different experience. "On the carriage I was riding, a player jumped off the carriage from the circular road while the carriage was moving, but he was not eliminated directly at that time."

"But the players who arrived at the manor and were able to continue the copy were indeed the remaining five people. If this is the case, either the one who jumped out of the car was not a player, or the woman who did not say her name was not a player." Su Wen expressed his opinion.

"Based on the composition of the people in the carriage and the behavior of that woman, I am more inclined to the latter." Cao Yuan thought for a while and expressed his thoughts. Pei Zuocheng remembered that when he followed that woman before, she was very purposeful and found something in an empty study, but he did not hear any sound of rummaging, which means that the woman knew very well what she was doing.

Now, it has only been two hours since the player entered the manor, and the time it took for the woman to find the item, including the time she stayed in the guest room and the time she arrived at the empty study and found the item, the whole process took less than 20 minutes. It is not normal to accurately find something in such a huge manor. Pei Zuocheng believes that the information in this copy should not be simple. However, out of caution for the other three people present, Pei Zuocheng did not tell the news.

"But we can't completely confirm whether that woman is a player. Do you have any good ideas?" Su Wen asked his question.

"This is easy," Cao Yuan said. "There are three guilds participating in this instance. Even if there are many people from the same guild, they may not be familiar with each other, but as members of the same guild, they can at least recognize each other's appearance. By using this, we can determine whether the woman is a player or not."

"But your method is not reliable. It is very likely that someone among us is from the same guild as that woman and is just pretending not to know her. They may have discovered some information and are using this method to attract our attention and mislead us."

Pei Zuocheng crossed his chest with one hand and touched his chin with the other, constantly observing Cao Yuan who proposed this method, and Wei Mingchen who said that someone jumped out of the carriage he was riding on. He thought that Wei Mingchen's words could not be fully trusted. Cao Yuan's proposal to use the guild to identify the identity of women was a feasible method, although it might expose his identity.

Pei Zuocheng was unfamiliar with the other four people, but what he was sure of was that he was the only remaining player in the guild he represented, which was a very unfavorable situation.

Pei Zuocheng echoed the conversation of others while thinking. He began to try to infer the relationship between the other three people present. There were four rooms in the corridor where his guest room was located. In addition to the sealed room, the other two rooms belonged to the woman and Su Wen who was present. When following the woman, Pei Zuocheng actually found that someone seemed to be following him from behind, and judging from the distance, this person should be Su Wen.

When they were at the stairs, Pei Zuocheng thought that Su Wen and the woman were in the same group, but after he followed the woman up the stairs, Su Wen took the opposite route, and after that, Su Wen did not appear in his detection range. According to his observations during the period, the woman that Pei Zuocheng followed did not communicate with anyone, and one more thing, Su Wen was the last person to enter the study. Through the previous conversation with Magnus and the butler, it can be learned that Su Wen was not in his room when the butler first sent someone to invite him. And because Magnus's butler whispered in his ear at the time, the news was unknown to the other three except him, and only he could hear it.

At that time, Pei Zuocheng observed the expressions and actions of the other three people and found nothing unusual, so it should be possible to rule out the possibility that Su Wen and that woman had no relationship. Although it was not absolute, the possibility was very small.

As for Cao Yuan and Wei Mingchen, their guest rooms are not located on this side, so there is no way to infer where they are for the time being.

"It is indeed possible, so it is better for us not to reveal our identities for now."

While Pei Zuocheng was thinking, Wei Mingchen was also thinking. He did not lie. Someone did leave the carriage he was riding in, but he did not jump out of the carriage. Instead, it seemed that the player did something that angered the coachman and was kicked off by the coachman. After he left the carriage, he was not eliminated immediately. The reason why the player was eliminated was that he became angry and attacked the carriage and the coachman.

However, before the attack hit, the player suddenly fell to the ground, then began to snore, and was eliminated. At that time, Wei Mingchen discovered that some NPCs in this copy seemed to be unable to be attacked, and attacking them would also cause one to be eliminated. However, similarly, except for Cao Yuan, Wei Mingchen did not tell this important news to anyone else.

As for why Cao Yuan knew the information that Wei Mingchen had learned, it was because the two of them were from the same guild, and they were friends and very familiar with each other. After entering the manor and before reaching their own guest rooms, they exchanged information with each other. And there is another point, Cao Yuan and Wei Mingchen lied and deliberately dispelled other people's attention on this matter, that is, the eight people who arrived at the manor suddenly became five people.

The three players, Cao Yuan and Wei Mingchen, saw with their own eyes how they were eliminated. In other words, this incident was actually related to them. In fact, when Wei Mingchen first entered the manor, he noticed a strange place. In the garden of the manor, there were several flower rooms that were locked, and some maids were transporting something to those locked flower rooms. Cao Yuan smelled something strange, and he told Wei Mingchen that the things in the boxes seemed to be raw meat.

After arriving at the guest room, Cao Yuan went to find Wei Mingchen and wanted to continue discussing the matter. However, before their conversation began, Wei Mingchen discovered that someone was following Cao Yuan. However, Wei Mingchen and Cao Yuan did not point this out, but continued to point out the suspiciousness of the locked greenhouse, and successfully let the person following him hear this information. After they left, Wei Mingchen and Cao Yuan returned to Cao Yuan's guest room together. Coincidentally, the window of Cao Yuan's guest room was facing the greenhouse not far away.

Not long after, Cao Yuan and Wei Mingchen saw three figures. They quietly left the building and ran to the locked greenhouses near the garden. They avoided the servants who were transporting things and opened one of the locked greenhouses. Through observation, Cao Yuan and Wei Mingchen discovered that there was someone locked in the locked greenhouse.

When the three players wanted to communicate and touched the person in the greenhouse, they suddenly fell to the ground and died. Then, the system's elimination announcement popped up. Cao Yuan and Wei Mingchen did not tell the news because they wanted to use it as an insurance policy. When they compete with players from other guilds in the future, they might be able to save a lot of effort. After all, this was a guild competition, not a casual dungeon.

"This is all the information we know right now, and we can't make any judgement. Why don't we separate and act on our own, then gather here to brainstorm and discuss?" Pei Zuocheng gave a reasonable suggestion.

"It's all right."

“It’s a feasible solution.”

"Ah."

The other three also agreed with Pei Zuocheng's statement. Without any more information, the four people present left one by one.

Pei Zuocheng returned to his room and used his skill again, leaving an anchor point in the guest room, then left the guest room and continued to explore the manor. He noticed that after Su Wen returned to his room, he had not left the room except for calling the maid and asking for some food and drinks. He went to knock on the door of the woman whose name was not given. The woman was in the room, but she didn't want to communicate with Pei Zuocheng. After looking at Pei Zuocheng, she closed the door and stopped communicating with him. Pei Zuocheng also began to investigate the main task. He first went to find Magnus and learned some relevant information. Then, after getting Magnus's consent, he began to search the manor legitimately.

Cao Yuan and Wei Mingchen did not return to their respective guest rooms. Instead, they went to the room of the three players who had followed them and were already dead. They started an investigation there, hoping to find some useful information.

At the same time, on one of the floors of other buildings in the manor.

"Tuk-tuk."

"Who?"

"It's me, Jerome, Uncle Harkin."

"Click."

A little kid stepped on a stool and opened the door of the room. It was Ha Jin outside the door. He did not push the door open immediately, but waited for Jeremy behind the door to get off the stool. He looked very experienced and must have come here often.

"What's wrong uncle?"

"Nothing, Jerome, I just..."

Jeremy sighed like a little adult, pulled Ha Jinde and brought him into the room.

"Uncle Ha Jin, please stop blaming yourself. My sister's choice was not wrong. As long as it can wake mom up, I will do it even if you don't help my sister complete the ritual."

"But I..."

"Did grandpa scold you again?"

"Father is right. This is indeed my stupidity."

"Don't take it to heart, uncle. Grandpa is just using his bad temper to cover up his sadness. Mom always told me that Grandpa actually loves his family very much, but his way of doing things is not acceptable to others. Grandpa doesn't want you to get involved in this matter because he is afraid that you will become like Mom before. This is also the reason why Grandpa sent Mom out of the manor and let other relatives of the family distract her attention."

"But I..." Ha Jin seemed very depressed.

"Oh! Uncle! How can you be weaker than a child like me! Be strong! Where is your courage to fight against monsters? Mom always praised you and said that my brother Ha Jin was an amazing warrior. Was my mom wrong?!"

The little adult Jeremy pinched his waist and slapped his uncle Ha Jin to cheer him up. Instead of getting angry, Ha Jin laughed and felt much more relaxed.

"Thank you, Jerome. You are right. Uncle should be strong. Don't worry, I will find a way to bring your sister back."

"I believe you, Uncle Ha Jin, but you should go see Grandpa now. Although he doesn't say it, I guess he's not in a good mood right now."

"Well, if there's anything you need me to do, feel free to contact me."

"Oh! By the way, uncle, can you take this letter to my mother? I want to stay a few more days to accompany grandpa."

"Sister...I don't think you want to see me now..."

"Oh, you're here again, uncle! Go quickly!"

"Ok."

Jerome handed the letter he wrote to Ha Jin, then pushed him and told him to deliver the letter quickly. Although Jerome was less than ten years old, he was mentally mature. He was doing his best to maintain the rift in the family caused by this incident.

"Den."

After Ha Jin left, Jeremy stepped on a stool, locked the door of the room, and then prepared to get down from the stool. However, he accidentally stepped on empty air and fell off the stool.

"Ouch!...Huh?"

However, Jerome did not fall to the ground. A strong arm caught him in mid-air and put him steadily on the ground.

"Thank you. I almost fell again. If only I were taller, I wouldn't have to stand on the stool."

Jerome turned around and thanked the person behind him. The man was wearing a black robe and was tall and sturdy, but there were no facial features on his face and he made no sound. It was Han Zu, who was summoned from the magic circle by Jerome by accident and whose appearance had changed for some unknown reason.

"I don't know what grandpa was thinking, he made the door lock so high..."

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