Chapter 82 Shuise: It didn’t say it was such a crystal skull! In a physical sense, right? !
The town that Feicui mentioned is located in the opposite direction of Yuhe Village where the meteorite fell. It is closer to the prosperous urban area of Mo City and is more like a town than a village.
Leaving the dense jungle, the wide and huge river disappears, and what comes into view is a small town with a perfect combination of local characteristics. The roadside is full of lush marigolds, bright orange and white, and banners with words such as "Celebrate the Day of the Dead" and "Happy Day of the Dead" are hung on the streets and alleys.
This small town is the nearest stop for jungle explorers around Ink City, and it is also the last place to replenish supplies for foreign travelers and explorers who are keen on challenging nature and the Rain River. As soon as Feicui took them to the edge of the town, many explorers wearing sophisticated equipment hurriedly passed by them. Some relaxed rainforest tourists, led by tour guides wearing local traditional ethnic costumes, walked towards the tree house tribe from which they came.
The town was bustling with people, and the streets were filled with stalls and shops selling all kinds of tourist souvenirs and outdoor equipment. Many people placed beautiful marigold wreaths at their doorsteps. The hawking and cheering mixed with the music from the shops, which was completely different from the mysterious and strange tribe where all the residents were silent. Simply put... it was a little too sunny and cheerful.
"Huh... finally out of the forest... this town looks pretty normal, let me see what it's called..."
Shuise looked down at his phone, and the location displayed on it was - "Skull Town".
Shuise was petrified on the spot: ...! ! ! The ghost is still chasing me!
"A few days ago, at the end of the first season, a dark green meteorite fell in the Rain River near the Tree House Tribe. The cemetery manager of this town claimed that he saw the figure of the Phantom Thief Wonder and clues about the crystal skull, one of the Ten Rings tokens."
Feicui's voice was as cold as ice, but Youyu, who was familiar with her, still heard a hint of uneasiness and fear in her voice.
Strange, even Emerald feels uneasy... What on earth happened in this town?
Could it be that the Phantom Thief Wonder is really so fast that he took action here right after leaving Huangquan Town?
You Yu touched his chin, that was his movement when thinking. He looked at the people around him with enthusiastic smiles on their faces in anticipation of rainforest exploration, the stall owners who actively promoted their products, the residents who arranged marigolds and various small local folk decorative flower beds, and the explorers who carefully selected the natural miracle - the rainforest of Ink City in the outdoor shop...
This town is too normal, but its excessive normality has become abnormal at this moment. The crystal skull incident can be said to be due to the local Sun Law Enforcement Bureau blocking the news in time and preventing the rumors from spreading to the outside world. This place is not far from the rainforest tribe, but it seems that no one noticed the meteorite burning with strange flames that fell from the sky a few days ago.
The fallen meteorite, but no matter how hard the Sun Enforcement Bureau tried to block the news, it was useless.
"How did the traces of the crystal skull appear? Is it related to wonder?"
After pondering for a moment, You Yu looked up at Feicui. The top priority now was to gather all the known information. Skull Town gave him a feeling of being more comfortable and more dangerous than Yellow Spring Town. In order to analyze the truth behind it, You Yu now needed more information.
"...No...It's hard to say it's related. That kind of scene might not be caused by Wonder. I think you can only understand it thoroughly after you see it with your own eyes."
Feicui shook her head upon hearing this, and her voice trembled even more: "That is simply a weird phenomenon that cannot be described in words..."
Linglan, who was walking at the end, looked at Bai Ye and silently switched positions with Shuise, letting Shuise walk at the end of the team and become the last person to see the truth in a while, protecting his fragile little heart.
You Yu did not ask any more questions. Feicui was the youngest outstanding law enforcer at the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau Headquarters. Since she had made such a judgment, the best thing to do now was to act on her words.
Skull Town is a tourist town that was gathered because of the existence of the Rain River Rainforest. It is not very large in area. Jade and several colleagues walked through the crowded crowd celebrating the upcoming Day of the Dead. After a few minutes, they stood in front of the cemetery of this small town.
Surprisingly, the cemetery in Skull Town was not built in a remote place. Instead, it was located in an important market that could almost be called a downtown area. Emerald led the Squid Detective Agency into a corridor between two residential buildings. At the end of the corridor, a huge stone block with the word "cemetery" in the local language stood there. Behind the fence made of wood and stone materials were cold stone tablets.
White and orange wreaths of marigolds woven around the quiet stone monuments brought a little comfort, as if they could warm the cold place of death.
You Yu, who was walking in front, stopped after Feicui opened the wooden door.
"This is it. I know what you are worried about. The captain is now packing up and arranging the number of people at the B&B. There are many supporters from the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau coming this time, so he won't get here so quickly."
Feicui's eyes swept over Bai Ye who was standing next to Lily of the Valley, and suddenly turned cold.
Shuise, who was walking at the end of the team, staggered and almost bumped into Bai Ye in front of him. He tapped his forehead in confusion, then realized what Feicui was talking about.
After fighting side by side at Solomon College and jointly resisting the enemy in Huangquan Town, Shuise almost forgot that Bai Ye’s current identity was different from that of the Squid Detective Agency, which they had specially invited to provide support.
He attended the reunion as a criminal under observation, and his main purpose of attending was not to realize his last wish, but to get out of the inspection period and become an ordinary high school student again.
Shuise's eyes slowly swept over Bai Ye's sleeves. The boy's sleeves were very long, covering a section of his dangling fingers. Only the people from the Squid Detective Agency and the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau knew why he wore clothes with such long sleeves.
Because he still had a restriction ring made of pixel blocks on his hand. The handcuff-like thing invented by the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau using the restraining power of the DM system could make any soul tag owner lose the ability to use the soul tag in the real surface world.
One of the reasons why Bai Ye fell into this state was Faust.
To be honest, after spending such a long time together, Shuise would rather believe that Qianmian, the deputy of the Demon Apostle boss, was undercover in the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau than to believe that an altruistic guy like Bai Ye would backstab the captain of the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau who rescued him from the Devil's Game during the Wheatfield Town incident.
"No matter what, now that the clues to the two Ten Commandments tokens have appeared in the sight of the Law Enforcement Bureau, I don't have the time and energy to go over the past with you. You have your position, and I have mine."
Jade took a deep breath. She seemed to have temporarily recovered from the strange incident of the crystal skull and regained her usual seriousness and coldness. Her eyes swept across the white night, which was still mixed with clear distrust and hostility.
Mr. Faust is her benefactor, the instructor of the law enforcement team [Wings of Victory], and the person with the greatest hope of becoming one of the four leaders, or even the new Jack. She cannot stand in Faust's perspective and still have no grudges against Bai Ye.
"Yeah, we understand."
You Yu didn't say anything, but Bai Ye was faster than him. The boy with cobalt blue eyes ignored the completely disapproving gazes of the three people around him and dispelled the tense atmosphere with a spring-like smile.
"Then I wish us...a happy cooperation."
Jade looked at him deeply, and the moment when Bai Ye turned the tide in the Solomon Academy incident seemed to be still in front of her, but she could only sigh and suppress all the messy and complicated emotions in her heart.
After all, there are more important things than that right now.
"You don't have to be so... bland."
You Yu stopped beside Bai Ye. He hesitated for a moment before selecting a less direct adjective from the vocabulary, implicitly hinting to Bai Ye that the Squid Detective Agency was with him.
Whether it was Miuse, Linglan, or himself, after spending some time together, they all realized that the previous incident in Wheatfield Town was by no means as Faust said, that a law enforcer who saved the people was betrayed by the born evil he saved, and was almost ambushed in the devil's game.
There are lies spreading among the law enforcers, but Bai Ye does not want to expose these lies now, allowing others to misunderstand him, making the three members of the Squid Detective Agency who already have a strong sense of mission all feel a little frustrated.
"There's no need for you to be so...excited."
Bai Ye was stunned for a moment, then chuckled. Although he used the same sentence structure as You Yu, and it even seemed a bit confrontational, his voice was very gentle, so gentle that the three people from the detective agency ignored the fact that it was a rejection.
After further understanding the DM system and t173, Bai Ye realized that such a terrible system could never be created by an individual. The force behind it, apart from the demon apostles, could only be the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau headquarters spread throughout the entire surface world.
In other words, the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau has lost all of Bai Ye's trust since the Faust incident, and there must be some corrupt officials inside it trying to achieve its own goals.
As the only hidden thorn exposed on the surface, there was no need for Faust to be pointed out so quickly and alert the monster in human skin behind the deep water.
"In short, the most serious problem now is still this cemetery, isn't it? As for Faust..."
Bai Ye narrowed his eyes: "We have a long way to go."
The cemetery in Skull Town is not big. Even though they were delayed for a while, Youyu and his companions quickly caught up with Feicui who was walking in front of them. Outside the tent that was temporarily set up in the cemetery, Feicui handed the case in her hand to everyone in the Squid Detective Agency, and then pulled open the curtain of the tent.
"See for yourself."
The room was set up like a typical makeshift treatment facility, with several unconscious patients lying on the beds. Doctors from the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau's direct hospital were anxiously conducting basic examinations on the patients. On the machines next to them, everyone's electrocardiogram curve was extremely weak.
You Yu walked forward and saw an extremely strange scene from a safe distance.
The hair that was sticking out from the patients' bedding...was all a strange white color.
That white color is not biological protein, but more like some kind of quartz mineral, such as... crystal.
"Are you kidding me?!"
Shuise murmured, his eyes fixed on the medical record in his hand. He saw under the X-ray that the diagnosis result was: quartzization of the skull.
"Those, those people's skulls have turned into crystals?! Is this what the crystal skull is?!"
Shuise's voice was shaking so badly that even Youyu and Baiye were speechless facing such a strange situation.
Because those patients are obviously still alive.
"Yes... a real crystal skull... what a miracle..."
Jade clenched the curtain beside her and murmured like a fanatic witnessing a miracle: "Before this strange disease occurred, we captured a figure suspected to be Wonder on the surveillance."
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