Weiwei came back as they expected, and it was easier to build a wall with steel bars than with bricks - the latter still looked like a house, while the former looked like building a prison - and when she came back they had just completed her request.
Millie took the initiative to send the engineering team away. Weiwei stood in front of the former Secretary-General: "How to activate the follow-up mission? Who hired the killer? Do you want to talk?"
"I won't tell you," Sherk didn't quite understand what the other party was saying, but he still sneered, "You will soon face real despair!"
"Do you think you are superior because you are the mayor? You are so naive. Gotan is far from what you imagine. Outsiders can't play with Gotan!"
"I suggest you learn your lesson, let me go right now, resign voluntarily, and maybe—"
Are there so many NPC dialogues in this quest?
Can't I just skip it?
After the other party said "I can't speak", Weiwei immediately looked at the panel and found that the task had not progressed, so she automatically ignored the subsequent meaningless words from the other party.
She decided to try to interrupt the skill.
"Well, you're fired," she said.
He could save 3,000 gold by quitting - the mayor's salary was only 5,000 gold per month.
After returning, Millie asked softly, "Do you need a body search, ma'am?"
Weiwei: A path that has never been imagined?
Is this game so free?
She nodded in agreement, and the secretary quickly stepped forward. During the body search, the red-named girl in front of them was still swearing, but Weiwei didn't care at all.
She was given an M1911 (a military automatic pistol), the other person's ID (with a blank name field) and cell phone, a wallet with a small amount of US dollars, and a strange mask (a bit ugly) hidden on her chest.
【Mission updated】
[It seems that the killer sent by Black Mask broke your glass, and your employees were bribed by him. There is a huge conspiracy behind it, but first, Black Mask must compensate you for the glass.]
[Mission: Obtain compensation for the glass from the gangster Black Mask (the compensation will be converted into gold coins and will be deposited into your personal property account)]
[All funds obtained [reasonably] during the mission can be converted into gold coins, but funds obtained in other cases are still local cash]
[You have unlocked the new character card [Black Mask]]
The secretary also shouted out the line as if it was set: "It's Black Mask, he is the Black Mask man!"
Weiwei knew that the secretary would take the initiative to provide her with clues for the mission and turn into an encyclopedia to explain who the so-called "Black Mask" was.
But before that...is what you get from searching an enemy considered a fair gain?
Weiwei tried to put Sherk's wallet into the system package. This time, the system automatically converted the US dollars into gold coins.
Apparently searching Sherk can be considered as "funding" obtained during the mission?
[You get personal funds: 400 gold coins (the funds paid from the mission-related personnel will automatically become your personal funds)]
[Gold Coin Mall is now open]
[The current public fund status is [Debt (You need to repay the bank balance at the end of the month)], which cannot be used in the gold coin mall. Please pay off the balance as soon as possible.]
[Currently, items in the Gold Coin Mall can only be purchased with personal funds]
The new module was activated, and Weiwei put it aside and decided to continue her mission.
As expected, she learned the information about [Black Mask] from the secretary, and as the other party spoke, the information given in the character data card was automatically completed.
[Note: The data card will only complete the "real" information]
In other words... it can automatically distinguish between truth and exaggerated rumors?
However, Weiwei glanced at the labels such as "Killed parents", "Rampant gang boss", "Torture pervert", etc. and asked: "Why is Black Mask not dead yet?"
Secretary Millie: "There is no death penalty for Gotan, ma'am."
Weiwei: “…”
She frowned: "But he doesn't seem to be in prison?"
He even seemed to be living a happier life than her, the mayor. He hooked up with the former secretary-general and hired a killer to assassinate her, the mayor, causing her to spend a lot of money to repair the windows.
Great, Gotan once again showed her how terrible the city of [Public Security -10] is.
——Although the player has a map and does not need a window at all, there is a difference between voluntarily giving up and being forced to lose.
Weiwei pointed at the man in front of her and said, "Let the police take him away."
Isn't the police station in the game used to lock up criminals? Lock up this red-named person first, maybe you can use it later.
Sherk's eyes widened in astonishment.
"No, you can't..."
Because the other party's subsequent words did not trigger any mission, Weiwei ignored him. She instructed her secretary to call the GCPD (Gotham Police Department) to catch the "thief who stole the documents" Sherk. The mayor said he stole it, and he must have stolen it.
"No," Sherk quickly understood what Millie was doing when she saw her actually start to make a call, "Wait a minute, ma'am, wait, I'd like to say -"
He understood.
If Weiwei had only tortured or detained him, he would not have been so panicked. On the contrary, it would have been exactly what he wanted. But he was openly taken away by the police... Oh my God!
For Black Mask, he is not irreplaceable, and if he is really taken away by GCPD, what will his reputation become in the media? They may throw any dirty water on his head - think about it, the secretary of the previous mayor was arrested by the police for "stealing confidential documents" by this mayor! He will be finished, and Black Mask will not save him!
Because he is of no use to Black Mask!
"I can provide other information, Black Mask... Yes, I know a lot about the other party - it must be useful to you!"
oh?
Seeing that the mayor seemed interested in what he said, Sherk immediately said, "I have evidence that Black Mask assassinated the previous mayor. You can send him to prison!"
This is a lie!
Sherk could tell from the mayor's expression that she didn't seem familiar with Gotham - information about Black Mask could be found on the Internet, but it seemed like she was hearing about it for the first time.
And Sherk just wants to buy time... He can't be kicked out of the city hall as a prisoner, otherwise he will be useless to Black Mask!
Millie on the side clutched her phone angrily.
Of course she could understand what Sherk meant, and she wanted to tell the mayor immediately, but she hesitated... In her eyes, the mayor had made all the preparations before going to Gotham, and even investigated the information of a small employee in the city hall. Could it be that she didn't know the information about Black Mask and couldn't see through Sherk's lies?
When the mayor asked Millie about the black mask before, he was probably just testing her loyalty.
She shouldn't talk too much and just trust the mayor.
Did Vivi figure out that Sherk was deceiving her?
Because she didn’t care about what he said, she didn’t activate the new mission no matter what he said, but—
After the other party said he wanted to betray Black Mask, the opposing camp represented by red in the system turned into the green passerby camp. Although he is still not one of Vivi's "own people" like Millie next to her, he is one of the employees of the City Hall (she has not dragged him out of the system list yet), and Vivi can view his personal attributes.
This check activated a task.
[Side Quest: Secretary's Work]
[Being a qualified mayor is a hassle. You always have to deal with various general documents... Are you sure you want to let these troublesome and boring things occupy your personal time? ]
[Not so confidential document] has been placed in the package]
Although this man's labels include obviously wrong attributes such as [deception], [ambition], and [greed], he has one thing that no one else has, which is [expertise in document processing]. Compared to Millie, an NPC who was captured temporarily and has mediocre attributes, this man, as the main NPC mixed in with the mission, was indeed a qualified secretary-general before his betrayal.
As for the secretary beside him——
The secretary put on a simple makeup, but she was obviously not very old. She had a round face and didn't look very smart.
Personally, he is not very smart.
The rain gradually stopped, the sky darkened, and the panel showed that it was time for the NPCs to go off work. Although I think it is absurd that NPCs also need to go off work and rest, considering that this game is famous for its "realism" and "freedom", it is not unbearable.
Anyway, Vivi is not a devil.
She waved her hand to let the secretary go off work and decided to deal with the former secretary-general herself.
She first operated on the panel to transfer Sherk's position from [Secretary-General] to [Secretary], making him equal to Millie - this would save her 2,000 gold coins in salary each month, and then she tried to drag the small [Not So Confidential Document] icon in the open package interface onto Sherk's head.
[Sherke rejected your work arrangement because you are not his real boss.]
[Maybe we should start from somewhere else, like Sherk's current boss... Black Mask? ]
The system prompt is very clear. If you complete Black Mask's series of side quests, you can get a tool man who specializes in processing files.
Before that, this guy can't be let go. What if he runs to Black Mask? It doesn't matter if he runs away, but he doesn't seem to be very smart and can be easily killed.
Weiwei thought about it, dragged Sherk, whose mouth was gagged again, to under the desk, opened the cabinet door below, and stuffed him in without saying a word.
Thank you for the spacious space under the desk.
Sherk: ???
This is not what he thought!
Shouldn't this woman ask him where the evidence is?
But Weiwei left him behind and went to the lounge next door to check out the new [Gold Coin Mall] module.
Five minutes later——
【Your unknown attribute 10】
[The 'reputation' module is not currently activated and cannot be viewed]
[Please improve the recognition of the people of Gotan as soon as possible. When more than 50% of the people know that you are the mayor, the reputation module will be activated.]
Huh?
It was 1 1 before, how come it suddenly increased to 10?
Forget it, we’ll know once the reputation module is actually activated.
The main office lobby.
Sherk moved his hands, trying to get out of trouble, but he bumped into something... The strangely cold touch made his body freeze.
It was already late. "Click", it seemed that the mayor turned on the light in the lounge next door. There was always a gap in the connection of the cabinet, and the light came through the gap. Sherk squinted.
……? !
He saw a pair of lifeless green eyes.
A strange girl's body was stiff, her brain was opened, and she was beaten to pieces but no blood was coming out. It was obvious that she was dead.
But she died with her eyes open, stuffed like a piece of trash in the space under the desk—and now the bound Sherk was stuffed in there too.
He was stunned for a moment, then struggled even harder.
—Mayor Anna Ellech is a crazy woman! She is a lunatic!
Of course it was a corpse. She actually hid a corpse under the table!
Sherk was almost in despair: his current treatment was the same as that of the corpse, and it was not difficult to imagine how likely he would follow in the footsteps of this innocent girl in the future.
Will Anna let him go? Obviously!
He had to escape and expose it all!