Chapter 213: Scavenger (9) Hei Yan Kai, you forced me to do this...
Gao Mengtang was thrown into the back seat of the car and his hands were handcuffed behind his back.
"Is this the Nine Thousand Year Old Man?" Inspector Xu asked, "Why is he paralyzed?"
Yin Mingwu: "I don't know. Wuyun is researching some mysterious potion. I guess it's a side effect of the potion. I should be able to recover after a while."
"Got it, let's go." Inspector Xu got into the driver's seat.
Yin Mingwu sat in the passenger seat, fastening his seat belt, and asked in a low voice: "Superintendent Xu, the thing I told you..."
His voice was getting lower and lower. Gao Mengtang couldn't hear clearly and felt anxious. The two of them chatted for a long time in whispers.
"Xiao Ming, you are really strange. You are the first one who is always eager to be transferred out or to die. I will talk to the director some other day." Inspector Xu said, operating the mobile phone on the stand, "To join that action team, you need to complete the assessment task. Choose a task first."
The car-mounted mobile phone holder was installed on the air outlet. Gao Mengtang was lying on his side in the back seat, and his line of sight could not directly see the mobile phone screen.
But he would look up.
Gao Mengtang quietly straightened his upper body, stretched his neck, and stared at the screen of Inspector Xu's mobile phone.
【Agents: Atlantis】
【Assessment Task List】
Due to Wei Xiangchen's carelessness and forgetfulness, he accidentally dragged the Yuefan members into the "Scavenger" dungeon. According to the original plan, the key to open the dungeon should be given to Xiao Tien and others.
In other words, entering the dungeon with the Yuefan members was not in Yin Mingwu's plan. He entered this dungeon not for the rich rewards of the first-level dungeon, but for other purposes.
Gao Mengtang didn't know why Yin Mingwu wanted to enter this dungeon. Based on the current situation, it was speculated that the "Atlantis Agents" were closely related to Yin Mingwu's real purpose of entering the dungeon.
"I choose this assessment task." Yin Mingwu tapped the screen, "Shipwreck in snowstorm."
Superintendent Xu: "Are you sure? This task is a bit difficult."
“Sure,” Yin Mingwu said, “I like a challenge.”
"Okay, then I'll leave this task to you. Two people in a group, you should contact your teammates in the next few days." Superintendent Xu said, turning off the screen of his mobile phone.
Suddenly, he looked back.
Gao Mengtang immediately lay back down, staring blankly ahead, motionless.
Superintendent Xu frowned: "Why do I feel like the Nine Thousand Year Old Man seemed to move just now?"
"Impossible, you must have seen it wrong." Yin Mingwu was quite confident in the effectiveness of his skills.
The police motorcade started and was about to leave when a group of people suddenly surrounded them and shouted at them: "Where did the car come from? Get out of here, get out of here! Stop being an eyesore."
"Why the hell are you rushing me?" Inspector Xu stepped on the accelerator unhappily.
Gao Mengtang was thinking: Why are these people not attending Chen Yuan's coming-of-age ceremony and running outside to clear the place? They looked very nervous, as if something important was about to happen.
Yin Mingwu also noticed something was wrong: "Brother Xu, they are a little abnormal, should we observe them for a while?"
The police's car drove to a ravine farther away, and they used binoculars to observe the situation around the villa.
The waiters were busy rolling out the red carpet, and the guests lined the streets to welcome us. Everyone was so nervous that they dared not even breathe. After waiting for 15 minutes, a white car without a logo or license plate slowly drove out of the forest.
Two people got out of the car first, holding up umbrellas to block the rear door tightly, and then a waiter ran over to open the door. A pair of white button boots stepped out of the car, and before he landed, someone sprinkled flower petals on the red carpet.
Above the boot opening was a section of ankle bone, and the white trouser legs were embroidered with dark patterns in silver thread, which flashed in the sunlight.
By the time everyone came to their senses, a group of people had already surrounded them, shielding the man tightly with umbrellas and escorting him all the way into the villa.
"Fuck, what a grand show. I squatted for a long time and only saw a foot." Inspector Xu put down the telescope angrily, "Don't leave in a hurry, let's wait for another three hours to see if there is anything new."
After they got off the car, Gao Mengtang was the only one left in it. He quietly raised his head, looked left and right, but no one noticed him for the time being.
Wei Wei's body was extremely flexible and his shoulder joints were incredibly flexible. Even though his arms were handcuffed behind his back, he could easily move his arms around in front of his body.
Gao Mengtang kicked the handcuffs off and said in a low voice: "He Luo, you become like me and lie here. I will go back to the villa to take a look."
Before leaving, Gao Mengtang wanted to hide a teleporting black clay puppet in the trunk, but the system prompted that [teleportation skills are temporarily disabled].
"He Luo, how long can you maintain your shape-changing ability?" Gao Mengtang asked.
"Guji guji, gurgle guji." I am quite familiar with my master and can maintain this for more than 48 hours.
That's enough.
"Thank you for your hard work. I'm going to go back to the villa to take a look." Gao Mengtang said, "The person who just went in, I suspect is... Inari."
He Luo: "Gulonggulonggulong"
Why were you able to break free from Yin Mingwu's [cage]?
Gao Mengtang didn't know either. He and Wei Wei had swapped bodies, so logically speaking, he should not be able to move.
"Maybe I'm the twelfth virtuous king, and Yin Mingwu's skills can't deal with me." Gao Mengtang shrugged. While no one was paying attention, he quickly got out of the car.
*
"What's going on? There's no sound outside." He Lun lay on the wall and listened carefully.
Someone just shouted "He's coming", and then everyone rushed out as if a tourist attraction was closed. In just two minutes, the villa, which had been so noisy that it hurt my ears, became silent, and the sound of people's voices could be heard dimly from a distance.
After listening for a long time, He Lun mustered up his courage and pushed open the secret door. The painting in the living room was opened, and He Lun's head popped out from the edge.
There was no one in the living room.
"What happened?" Wei Wei couldn't see anything clearly, which made him feel unsure. At this moment, he particularly admired Gao Mengtang's psychological quality.
In a dungeon full of dangers, Gao Mengtang was able to remain calm despite being blind. Without vision, the anxiety in his heart would only be magnified. Now Wei Wei was overly sensitive to the slightest disturbance.
"I don't know." He Lun said. He was about to retreat back to the secret passage when those people came back, surrounding a man in a white suit.
After entering the room, the umbrella that had been blocking the view was folded up, and the man's face was illuminated by the light.
When He Lun saw the man, he took a breath and subconsciously retreated back to the secret passage.
"What's wrong?" Wei Wei asked anxiously.
He Lun stared for several seconds. After being asked three or four times, he finally found his voice: "Brother Mengtang...the man outside looks exactly like Brother Mengtang!"
Wei Wei was startled: "Inari?"
"It must be Inari, that's right..." He Lun said incoherently, "Everyone said they looked exactly the same, who would have thought that they really looked exactly the same! Oh my God, how could this be..."
Hearing that they looked the same was not the same as seeing them with my own eyes. He Lun was stunned for a long while.
"Let's go," Wei Wei said, "The police should have left. Let's just break out."
*
When Gao Mengtang ran back to the villa, he heard a loud "bang". Not far away, He Lun dragged Wei Wei out. The players had a head-on confrontation with the NPC guarding the exit of the secret passage.
Pegana howled, scaring a small number of people so much that they started bleeding from all their orifices. The black swamp quickly dragged the remaining half of the people down and drowned them alive, and the ice crystal fragments cut the other half into small pieces.
It happened suddenly and ended cleanly. The people guarding the exit of the secret passage didn't even utter a scream.
Gao Mengtang sighed, as expected of Wei Wei, he was so ruthless and showed no mercy at all.
Seeing his teammates leave, Gao Mengtang was relieved. He turned into a sommelier, carrying a wine barrel and swaggering around the villa.
"I heard that Inari is here?" Gao Mengtang asked a waiter.
The waiter looked at him in surprise and said a lot of gibberish in Esperanto.
Gao Mengtang: “…”
After swapping bodies, why didn't he possess Wei Wei's language skills and couldn't even understand punctuation marks?
"Okay." Gao Mengtang nodded and ran away.
After wandering around the villa for several times, he finally saw a white figure in a secluded corridor.
A man with long black curly hair, wearing an exquisite suit, had his back to him and was talking to several people.
One of them said excitedly: "I didn't expect you to come!"
"Why?" Inari asked in confusion, "Chen Yuan is my adopted son. I watched him grow up. Of course I will come to his coming-of-age ceremony."
"But... Chen Yuan did that to you... He put a knife to your neck and yelled at you!"
Inari smiled gently: "It's just a small misunderstanding, I don't care, why do you care. By the way, where is Chen Yuan? I prepared a birthday present for him."
"He is waiting for you outside the vault. Chen Yuan said that he hopes you will go to the vault to meet him alone."
"Well, I'll go find him." Inari said, and walked towards the corridor alone.
Gao Mengtang found a secret passage and a hidden door. According to his memory, he shuttled through the secret passage and came to the location where the secret passage connected to the vault.
It took him some time to find the location of the vault after wandering around in the secret passage.
When Gao Mengtang arrived, he heard Chen Yuan shouting with a hoarse voice.
"You only believe in Thunder God, not me!" Chen Yuan was so angry that his cheeks turned red and he kept stamping his feet. Inari, who was sitting opposite him, frowned in confusion, watching Chen Yuan go crazy, and he himself was very quiet.
Thanks to Wei Wei's excellent body flexibility, Gao Mengtang took advantage of their inattention, curled up into a small ball, hid behind two large iron barrels, and continued to eavesdrop.
"Chen Yuan, don't be angry first..."
Inari was halfway through his words when Chen Yuan suddenly became furious, picked up a gold ornament beside him and smashed it to the ground.
With a swish sound, the sharp edges of the ornaments cut through Inari's trouser legs.
"Leave the spot in the Black Tower Laboratory in Epiphyllum Ridge to me!" Chen Yuan almost roared.
Inari looked a little hurt: "You and Leigong, both of you were raised by me..."
"So do you agree or not?" Chen Yuan's roar was as loud as thunder. He pointed at the tip of Inari's nose and said word by word, "If you refuse, I promise you will regret it."
Gao Mengtang, who was eavesdropping in the dark, couldn't help but shake his head repeatedly.
Chen Yuan has such a bad temper, like a madman.
From listening to their conversation, it seems that there is still one spot left to enter Epiphyllum Ridge, and Lei Gong and Chen Yuan are both vying for it.
System: "Congratulations to player [000 Blind] for triggering the side quest [Self-Proof]"
"Mission objective: Help Lei Gong obtain a place to enter Tanhualing"
The current possibilities for the two NPCs to enter Epiphyllum Ridge are:
Thunder God: 30%
Chen Yuan: 70%
Note: This branch quest is a long-term quest. You only need to complete it before completing the main quest.
[Main Mission]: Kill Thunder God
Side Quest: Self-Proof
Side quest hint: Chen Yuan, who has always been a loner, suddenly proposed to hold a grand coming-of-age ceremony this year. It's unusual, isn't it?
: If players can find out the purpose of Chen Yuan's coming-of-age ceremony, it will be of great help in completing the side quest [Proof of Self].
Gao Mengtang felt deeply sorry when he saw this side quest. Chen Yuan might not know that he had a higher chance of entering Epiphyllum Ridge.
But if Chen Yuan continues to do this, he will lose Inari's favor, and things will get worse in the future.
What Gao Mengtang was more concerned about was who was Inari to Tanhualing? He seemed to have great power, and what was his real name?
"Don't be angry, child. I love you and Raikou equally," Inari said as if sighing, "I have prepared a birthday present for you."
As he spoke, Inari took out a scroll and unfolded it for Chen Yuan to see.
In the painting, there is a torii gate standing on the sea. The vast and gloomy sea makes the red torii gate more gorgeous, brilliant and sacred.
It was the Torii again. Gao Mengtang couldn't help but take a few more glances. Why did they have such a special liking for the Torii?
"I don't care about birthdays at all!" Chen Yuan became even angrier and pulled the painting over and threw it to the ground!
Inari stood there stupidly, looking at Chen Yuan with hurt eyes. Gao Mengtang peeped in the corner, also feeling sad for Inari.
If it was Gao Mengtang, who had carefully drawn a picture for his classmate's birthday, but had it thrown on the ground like this, he would definitely be depressed for a whole week.
The painting fell right in front of Gao Mengtang, and he looked at it sadly. The Torii looked particularly lonely between the empty sea and sky.
After looking for a few seconds, Gao Mengtang's expression suddenly changed and he gestured twice in the air with his fingers.
The two horizontal beams and two vertical beams of the Torii Gate, when combined, look like the Chinese character “kai” (open)!
Could it be that Inari's real name is...
"I absolutely cannot watch Lei Gong enter Epiphyllum Ridge. I will definitely kill Lei Gong." Chen Yuan gritted his teeth and approached Inari step by step.
He stepped on the painting, leaving a dirty shoe print. Chen Yuan grabbed Inari's neck and said through gritted teeth:
"Black Banquet is open. You forced me to do this."
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