Chapter 16 Good Friday
Morofushi Kagemitsu had never gotten sick when riding in the car driven by Hagiwara Kenji, but he never expected that he would get sick one day.
This word means physics.
Anyone who is losing blood and having their stomach poked while doing unscientific jumping and free-falling between tall and low buildings in the city will be dizzy from the magical perspective of being upside down and swaying.
Not vomiting all over Tiao Ye Jiu Shi and not fainting on the spot was his last act of stubbornness.
But when he managed to get to the safe house which was not exposed yet, his empty stomach had nothing to vomit except dizziness and nausea.
Morofushi Jingguang recalled that he hadn't eaten or slept properly for several days.
Yes, after meeting with Hisashi Jyouno as a witness of Hiroyuki Matae and joining the investigation commission, the famous detective Ling Chendu, as usual, led him and Toshika Yada into a trap.
Afterwards, he went to retrieve the files on his own, and in order to prevent his identity from being exposed, he used the organization's methods. However, there were too many files to check at the time, and there was no computer to assist him, so the workload was quite heavy.
...Huh? Why is there no computer?
This question flashed through Zhu Fu Jingguang's mind, but was naturally ignored by him without leaving a trace.
After checking the files, he didn't have time to rest. When he met the detective, he found out that the things he had worked so hard to find were backstabbed by his plastic colleague. At that moment, Morobushi Jingguang was really a little upset.
Later, he went to get intelligence on the Time Research Society. After returning from the investigation, the detective came up with a way to lure Jiang Haozhi out but did not tell him.
He knew that he would be closely watched by the organization during this period of time when he was with Hisaji Jyouno, so he did not contact the contact person, but found a way to store the information in one place.
Only Zero and he know a set of codes. If anything happens to him, Zero can get closer to the core of the organization with this information.
I finally managed to take a few hours' nap and pad my stomach. Then I was taken to the hospital by the detective to pick up Grandma Youjiang. Then things started to develop like a wild horse running wild.
The sniper's endurance is commendable, and because of this, after working non-stop for so long, Morobushi Kagemitsu only felt very uncomfortable now.
He was not complaining about Jyouno Hisaji or anything. After all, it was Jyouno Hisaji who was busy first and then made him busy without even sleeping.
If he remembered correctly, Hisashi Jyouno had not had a rest since he met Riko Yada, right?
In the past few days, I have been doing some errands for others in the city for no apparent reason. Now it seems that it was for the purpose of obtaining real maps and intelligence on suspicious locations (such as organization bases).
After finishing all these and officially starting the investigation, Hisashi Jyouno's attitude remained consistent.
Just like he couldn't understand how this guy could get so many bombs and install them in one night.
Could this be the famous detective who did everything he could to complete the commission? !
"Why are you shaking your head all of a sudden?"
After searching the safe house and only finding two cabbages and two carrots, the player came to the NPC to talk to him out of boredom.
Morobuchi Jingguang said in a frivolous tone: "I seem to have a strange misunderstanding about the profession of detective. Maybe it's just because I'm out of my mind."
"I don't know if you have water in your brain, but your health bar is only two-fifths left." The player was a little unhappy, "No, don't let your health bar drop completely while I'm not paying attention."
He pulled out two steaming mushroom and chicken skewers from his backpack and pushed them in front of Morobu Jingguang: "Eat them quickly!"
Morobushi Jingguang turned his head away. "Although I don't know where you took it from, can we not discuss this in front of the toilet? I don't have the habit of eating in the toilet."
When I was in junior high school, some students would eat their lunch boxes in the toilet because the environment there was actually pretty good, but generally speaking, it’s better to choose a more public place, like a rooftop.
Anyway, Morobushi Kagemitsu, who had always been a childhood friend, had never tried it.
The player made an incredulous sound, "I gave you two of my ten precious blood-recovering vegetables without knowing for sure whether they would restore your health or be wasted. And you actually rejected me?!"
"This shouldn't be called a rejection..."
"Do you know you are rejecting the love of a fourth disaster?!"
“…Where did you learn this?”
"The remnants of online forums from the Blue Star era."
Morofushi Kagemitsu: "..."
To be honest, he didn't understand.
Hisashi Jyouno often says strange things. I recognize every word, but when they are put together, it's like they are blocked and I can't understand them physically. However, I can roughly understand what he wants to express.
Morofushi Jingguang tried to change the subject: "If you have little food, I can make some, but there are only some long-lasting ingredients here, so there's not much I can do."
The player's eyes lit up: "Are you the NPC who taught me how to cook?"
Morobushi Kagemitsu was already familiar with responding to these strange words, "Simple food is still okay."
"But you don't have a blue exclamation mark on your head."
“…”
"Forget it, I'll just give it a try, just in case."
“…”
Morobushi Kagemitsu: Why do you look so reluctant? Didn’t you say you wanted to learn it?
Finally, after bandaging his wound which had almost stopped bleeding, Morobushi Jingguang still ate the two delicious wild mushroom and chicken skewers at the player's strong request.
He didn’t know if it was a psychological effect, or maybe it was because he had been hungry for too long and finally ate something delicious, but he did feel a lot better.
Suspecting that he had been tortured into hallucinations, Zhu Fu Jingguang felt a chill on his back and saw the player's gaze falling on his head.
He reached out and touched it, but there was nothing there.
The player didn't pay attention to the NPC's strange behavior. He was counting the number on Scotland's health bar as his health increased.
NPCs usually have more health than players. It is normal for monsters, especially elite monsters, bosses, and level 100 monsters in the Monster Abyss, to have health dozens or even hundreds of times that of player characters.
A delicious serving of Chicken and Mushroom Kebab restores 10% of the maximum health and an additional 1,100 health points.
Putting aside the number 1100, the other two numbers of 3000 that appeared can be used to calculate that Morobushi Jingguang's total health is 30,000.
It's a bit fragile from a humanoid monster's perspective, only a level 98 Hilichurl.
However, this is the health bar of the friendly NPC. When Scotland really turns into a monster, it may increase by thirty or forty times.
A monster with a million HP... The player has already thought of a set of combos to fight the monster in his mind. If the HP bar hadn't turned red, he would have wanted to do it.
The health bar was only two-fifths of the original one before, but now it has recovered 8,200, leaving him 9,800 short of full health. The player simply took out two more servings of wild mushroom and chicken skewers for Zhufu Jingguang to eat, and the health bar was finally almost full.
As for the remaining health, eating will overflow the recovery amount, so don't waste his scarce food.
The players' speed of action is always astonishingly fast. When they say they want to learn how to cook, they are ready to start immediately.
He checked off the menu he had: fried eggs, chicken skewers with wild mushrooms.
The ingredients needed are bird eggs, mushrooms, and poultry.
The ingredients he has are cabbage, potatoes, carrots, white radish...
In short, none of the ingredients needed were available.
The player suddenly realized that, yes, this place was not like the bridge in Mondstadt where there were always a bunch of pigeons producing poultry meat. He had never hunted a bird yet!
Zhu Fu Jingguang quickly stopped the man and said, "What are you going out for? It's not suitable to go out now."
"I'm going to get some poultry." The player thought about it and realized that they had already completed the task and didn't want to be robbed by monsters. "You come with me."
"Hunting...?"
"Yes." The player switched his weapon to a sniper rifle, "Use this."
"Where did you get this from? No, you used this to hunt?!"
Zhu Fu Jingguang persuaded the player to leave and took people to the kitchen to start cooking.
There were two unopened packs of noodles, dehydrated vegetables and canned meat that were still within the shelf life in the refrigerator, and Morobushi Jingguang planned to simply cook some noodles.
One is the limitation of materials, and the other is that even people who have never cooked before can learn how to make it quickly.
However, Morofushi Kagemitsu's good intentions always seem to be separated from the players by a pathetically thick barrier, which bounces back after hitting the wall with a bang.
From the moment Morobushi Kagemitsu started preparing the ingredients, the player walked around beside him, unable to stand still.
By the time Zhufu Jingguang was explaining the steps, from washing the wok, adding oil and water to cooking the noodles, the players were already looking at him with great disappointment.
"You are not."
"?"
“That’s not how cooking works.”
"What do you think?"
The player found another pot in the kitchen, took the pot of noodles from under Morobushi Jingguang, put the pot on top, and demonstrated to Morobushi Jingguang:
"It's a fire, a pot."
Morofushi Jingguang nodded without knowing why.
Then the player took out a cabbage, a potato, and a radish from his backpack and threw them directly into the pot.
The question marks in Zhu Fu Jingguang's mind were almost solidified.
The player looked at the burnt ingredients in the pot seriously, "This is because I don't have a recipe and I haven't learned how to cook, otherwise it would appear as a dish now."
Zhu Fu Jingguang was silent for a moment, "I can see that you really haven't learned how to cook."
Who in their right mind would cook like this?!
The magic world?!
Today, Zhu Fu Jingguang, who was complaining about the headache caused by excessive energy accumulation, couldn't help but drive the player out of the kitchen and reminded the player not to go out.
He put the pot of noodles back on to cook, and took out his cell phone as he heard the soup bubbling.
The undercover mission was declared a failure. Now that he was out of danger for the time being, it would be best to seize the opportunity to contact the contact person as soon as possible to see if the police could immediately arrange for his evacuation and clean up.
Zhu Fu Jingguang sent an emergency message requesting the police to assist in evacuation according to the contact code that was changed during their last meeting, and he received a reply within a few moments.
However, the message he received with the meeting point was in an old code.
Something happened to the contact person!
Your cell phone signal may be tracked!
Morofu Jingguang cleared the remaining messages in his mobile phone, turned on the faucet to the maximum, and using the noise as a cover, he shot the phone twice and threw it into the water tank of the toilet.
He turned off the fire and moved quickly, only to find that the wound on his thigh had no effect at all, but he didn't have time to check it now.
Pulling the player to the guest room, Zhu Fu Jingguang opened the secret cabinet, which contained not only pistols and bullets, but also a sniper rifle that he usually used.
"The address has been exposed. The organization's people will be here soon. We must leave immediately. Do you want to replenish bullets?"
As Morobushi Kagemitsu finished equipping his gun belt, he put the sniper rifle into the guitar bag.
He planned to find a location nearby to monitor the situation in the safe house and snipe the people sent by the organization. He and Hisashi Jiono couldn't just keep running. It would be useless to just run away.
Ambush Jingguang, who had already checked all the buildings near the safe house in his mind, found that the place where he put down his sniper rifle was empty.
The culprit, the player, was innocent: "Look, it glows."
Morofushi Kagemitsu didn't see where the light was coming from.
"It's a four-star weapon."
Zhu Fu Jingguang didn't understand.
“It can be put into a backpack.”
The scumbag player who robbed the NPC gradually became more and more confident: "Besides, if I can take it, it's mine."
The sniper rifle magically disappeared from the player's hand, and the player exclaimed in delight: "Great, refinement +1!"
Morofushi Kagemitsu: "..."
Every time he thought he was used to what Jyouno Hisahi did, Jyouno Hisahi would always break through his imagination the next moment, making him have an impulse to doubt his life and grab the ground with his head.
Finally, he sighed tiredly and hid the secret cabinet back.
"Let's go, hurry up."