Chapter 9: Enter the card pool!
The brown hair on Miss Squirrel's head has become thinner, and she can more sensitively detect the changes in Black Cat Detective's attitude towards her.
When she came to continue the commission, Detective Black Cat was much colder than her initial enthusiasm that made the animals shudder.
Did she say something wrong and made the other person unhappy?
Or did her failure to call a veterinarian make Mr. Detective's condition worse?
Uh, it seems that we can’t assume the other person like this.
Because of this, I didn't even have the courage to say again: "If the bar is closed, go see Mr. Scotland tomorrow."
Suddenly, the voice of the Black Cat Detective came from the side: "You can actually curl up your tail?"
"I'm sorry!" Yada Rika turned around in panic, and sure enough, her big, fluffy tail had curled up into a big ball, like a burst dandelion. "That's what happens when I'm nervous. How rude!"
"No need to apologize," the player felt a little better. "Very cute. As expected, the NPCs in the main story are different. They are more animalized?"
...Detective Tiao Ye is muttering something incomprehensible again.
However, the other party's improved attitude gave Rika Yada the courage to ask about her previous doubts.
"Hate you?" The player, who rarely heard such a question from an NPC, shook his ears and answered calmly, "No, it's better to say that my favorability towards you was 100 at the beginning, but now it has dropped to 10."
Rika Yada was shocked: "Isn't this just being disliked?"
The player said, "This is my most basic respect for furries. Because you don't look like animals at all, my feelings have been deceived!"
Yada Rika couldn't understand: "But animals are like this. I saw in the newspaper that animals in other animal towns are the same."
An angry player refuses to continue the conversation.
He likes furry things, but he is not only interested in the furry appearance.
Even a horrible furry creature like an alien that has been polluted and has abnormal appearance and brain is cute in his eyes.
But what about the animals here?
The modeling is much more realistic than the previous Genshin Impact series, but not a single one looks like an animal. They all look like a group of people wearing animal shells.
It has no animal habits at all, and it doesn't look cute at all. It's even worse than a simple, dull humanoid NPC.
Velvet Control feels like his brain is about to be polluted.
He will never love again.
He has to finish his mission and leave this copy immediately.
The player quickly forgot the ecstasy he felt when he first entered the dungeon and thought extremely coldly.
Fortunately, when they arrived, the bar was closing and hadn't closed yet.
Warm orange light shone through the windows of the large mushroom house, and inside one could vaguely see a round wooden table with wine bottles and plates on it. Two dogs were standing upright, sweeping with brooms held in their paws.
It's not cute, it's real.
The picture was once very abstract.
Player: “…”
Lost san.
Yada Rika opened the door and saw Scotland cleaning up the bar. She immediately called the players over with surprise, and she also wanted to save face for Forest City:
"Detective Tiaoye, look at Mr. Scotland. His favorability is definitely more than ten!"
"At least thirty!"
The scene that is revealed to the players through the gradually opening cracks in the door is, without exaggeration, as pleasurable as drawing a card and getting gold.
The glass bottles in the wine cabinet reflected a dazzling light under the lights, and there were several wine barrels next to the oily brown wooden bar that was full of age.
The protagonist of these story-telling objects is a large dog with long, white, soft fur, sky-blue eyes, and a natural mouth that looks like it is smiling.
That gentle and healing temperament matches perfectly with this appearance, and the affinity is simply max!
Moreover, when he washed the cups, he actually wore waterproof gloves and wrapped them with a small towel, so as not to let his hair get on the cups at all!
At that moment, the player forgave the evil behavior of humans in animal skins deceiving players in this dungeon.
He rushed to the bar and said to Scotland sincerely:
"Go into the card pool!"
A question mark silently appeared on the big white-haired Samoyed's head.
The player added: "I don't want the humanoid one, I'll just take this model now. If you enter the card pool, I'll grind all over the world to get you full life!"
"Although I don't quite understand what you are talking about," Scotland smiled soothingly, "but if you need my help, I will do my best, Detective Tiaoye."
The player who has regained his love for this dungeon instantly enters the black cat detective state and takes out a very detective notebook:
"I heard from the client, Ms. Tanida, that you have met Grandma Yujiang's son. Could you please explain the details?"
Rika Yada, who couldn't keep up with the rhythm, sat beside them with a confused look on her face.
Scotland first put away the washed and wiped clean cups, poured water for the two people, and then cautiously gave them a precautionary shot:
"I have never met Grandma Youjiang's son Youjiang Haozhi before, and I can't be completely sure that I am talking about him. I just thought that if this is a clue, it would be helpful."
Rika Yada took out a picture of a dolphin that looked a little tired.
She explained: "This was painted by a grandfather who had met Jiang Haozhi before.
When I was at the bar to watch a band perform a while ago, I overheard the waiter talking about Mr. Scotch having seen a strange dolphin, but they had no recollection of it ever happening.
Since there are very few dolphins in the Forest City, I took the portrait to Mr. Scotland and asked him about it. He confirmed that the person he saw was Hiroyuki Matae.
Scotland nodded, pointed to the spot in the far corner of the bar, and recalled:
“It was almost dawn half a month ago, and business was still good.
After my show was over, I helped deliver wine to my colleagues who were too busy to attend.
I noticed that Mr. Dolphin, who was lying on a chair in the corner, had not ordered anything. I wanted to offer him a glass of lemonade, but when I went back, he was gone.
At this point, Scotland said helplessly, "Because I was a little worried that he might have encountered something. I had never seen him in Forest City before, but when I asked my colleagues, they all said that they had never seen the dolphin I mentioned in the bar."
"Nothing actually happened, and I don't know if this clue is useful or not."
Detective Black Cat wrote down what he said and questioned the two waiters who were cleaning the bathroom. Their answers were exactly the same as what Scotland said.
Players generally don't doubt NPCs. Even if NPCs lead players into a trap with malicious intent, players will jump in directly.
——Then smash the pit, and then come up and smash the NPC.
The crushing power makes the player never use his brain when pushing the plot. Anyway, even if he is trapped in front of the big boss, he can beat the big boss and drop materials all over the ground.
But the detective was not so easily convinced by words.
If Scotland's clues are true, they have no effect other than proving that Jiang Haozhi exists and has appeared recently.
I don't know what happened to Jiang Haozhi, nor do I know where Jiang Haozhi went, and we haven't even had a conversation.
But if this news is false, it is understandable.
Jiang Haozhi, who has never seen any other animals in the bar except Scotland, said that Scotland must have some purpose in telling this lie.
Seeing that the black cat detective was thinking, the white-haired Samoyed, who looked like an angel with a halo even with a faint smile, whispered to Rika Yada:
"Is Ms. Tanida worried?"
Rika Yada gave a bitter smile and said, "I went to the hospital to see Grandma Youjiang today, and her condition has not improved..."
Samoyed's expression became more serious. "In that case, more animals mean more strength. I'll come and help. Ms. Tanida has been very supportive of my performances in the past, and I want to help you as much as I can."
"Mr. Scotland!" Yada Rika was very moved, "But won't this delay your work?"
"No, the performance time can be arranged freely. It depends on whether Detective Tiaoye agrees..."
"sure."
The black cat detective, smoking a cigarette, joined the conversation.
"You are very welcome, Mr. Scotch."
Scotland lied to get a commission.
Aren’t the clues to the case here?