Oh?
It was Zhao Yulong.
Irin looked at the flashing avatar in the communication channel.
She didn't expect Zhao Yulong to be so efficient.
But —
How did he find out so quickly?
Was he also in Haiting City?
That shouldn't be the case, right?
As Yi Lin thought about it, he ignored Li Changge, who was chattering at the side, and opened a chat with Zhao Yulong.
…
Zhao Yulong: Cough, cough.
Irin:?
Zhao Yulong: I'm just asking. Don't take it to heart. You haven't seen the forum, right?
Irin: I haven't seen it in the past two hours. Why?
Zhao Yulong: That's good! Hey, there are a few things going on these few days. You know, the work of the Special Case Group. But the leader has already handed it over to someone else. Although it's a bit sudden to tell you now, with your level … it's not suitable for you to get involved in this.
Irin: Involved in this? Which one?
Zhao Yulong: Something happened in Haiting City. Forget it, I'll tell you later. You don't have to worry about it for now. If your level is …
Irin: I'm in Haiting City.
Zhao Yulong: Mm, that's good. Anyway, after this — mm?
Irin: I'm in Haiting City.
Zhao Yulong: Did you type the wrong word?
Irin: I'm in Haiting City.
Zhao Yulong: Shocking!
…
Beep, beep, beep —
A voice call between apostles.
Beep.
The call was connected.
Zhao Yulong's roar was transmitted through space through some kind of supernatural power.
"What the f * ck? Why are you in Haiting City? "
Irin smiled bitterly. "I was just helping a guy who's a friend to solve a small supernatural incident."
— Oh, cake seller.
Zhao Yulong seemed to have slapped his forehead and shouted.
Then.
"You received a mission? I'm talking about a real-life mission. "
Irin replied calmly, "Yes."
After giving it some thought, Irin added, "I didn't expect Tower to be able to issue missions in the real world. This … is quite sudden."
What Irin said was obviously a lie.
This was just the Irin's "excuse" to Zhao Yulong.
Zhao Yulong was silent for a moment, then suddenly said in a mournful voice, "It's over, I feel like I can't keep this phone anymore. If something happens to you, I'm afraid … "
Irin: "?"
Zhao Yulong: "Cough, cough, cough … Anyway, you're in a very dangerous situation. This mission is a little strange. "
Irin thought for a moment and nodded in agreement. "I do feel that something is strange."
Irin knew that there was a very small possibility that Tower would issue a mission to an apostle.
However, in most cases, such weird reality missions would only be issued when certain "anomalies" in reality would cause great harm or chaos to the existing human civilization.
From this point of view, Tower seemed to be fighting with the "Mystic Group".
However, there was still no clear explanation as to the purpose of Tower's real-life missions.
If it was to protect humans …
It seemed that the apocalypse would not be explained.
In short, Irin felt that something was amiss.
But for a moment, he couldn't figure out what was going on.
Tower went through so much trouble to issue a real-life mission just to kill an apostle called "Zhang Huichun"?
While Irin was pondering.
Zhao Yulong sent a voice message.
"Since you've already intervened in this matter, I'll report to the team leader later. After this' anomaly 'has been dealt with, it will be recorded in your performance."
Performance?
When these words came out of Zhao Yulong's mouth, Irin felt that something was wrong.
Zhao Yulong suddenly said quickly, "Hey, wait. This matter … is a little strange. You said that your friend, what kind of supernatural event is it? Why would it be involved in this matter? "
Hearing this.
Irin recalled for a moment.
He should have only met Zhao Yulong at a later time. He was not sure how powerful Zhao Yulong was now.
However —
For the "Mystic Group", the existence of Spirit Augmentation weapons should not be a secret.
Therefore, Irin embellished a little and briefly described how he accidentally discovered that the spirit on Li Changge's back was an ownerless mother spirit.
Irin hid the fact that he already knew about the "ownerless spirit" beforehand.
After all, under normal circumstances, with his experience in Zhao Yulong's file, he should not have known about the existence of the "ownerless spirit".
This was a bit too much information.
Zhao Yulong was silent for a full three minutes.
Then, he sent a voice message.
"What the f * ck?"
“？”
"The legendary ownerless spirit is on the back of the international superstar Li Changge? Wait, it's actually a mother spirit? I'm envious … Ahem, no, this matter is very serious! "
"You probably don't know what an ownerless spirit is …"
Blah, blah.
Zhao Yulong long-windedly explained the "ownerless spirit".
Irin also cooperated and pretended to be suddenly enlightened.
"Well, sigh … This is a bit troublesome." After Zhao Yulong finished speaking, he could not help but let out a long sigh. "Take a look at the forum first. The most popular post at the moment is first."
Forum?
Irin closed the chat window.
Then, he opened the forum.
The first thing that came into view was a post that was pinned to the top.
The post was posted by an anonymous apostle.
…
[Shocking! Ownerless "Spirit Augmentation Weapon" unexpectedly appeared in Haiting City!]
It was just a simple title, but a large number of apostles replied to the post below —
[Cute newbie asking, what is a Spirit Augmentation Weapon?]
[Are you a fan? Are you naive? No pictures, no truth!]
[I suspect that the person above is driving a car, but I have no evidence!]
[What the f * ck, is this for real? Spirit Augmentation Weapon? That's a weapon of a higher level than an epic weapon! It's comparable to a golden legendary weapon!]
[Spirit Augmentation Weapon is like a dragon saber in hand, 999 points per slash!]
[Huh? Fishing post, appraisal complete!]
[Lanzhou sesame seed cake.]
[Sesame seed cake + 1]
[Sesame seed cake + 2]
[Sesame seed cake + 3, please line up properly below.]
[It's better to believe it's true than not. At most, we'll just waste some money and treat it as a vacation! Mantis Shrimp, let's go!]
[I highly suspect that the original poster posted this to promote the development of Haiting City's tourism industry! We're just waiting for the scammer to act pitiful.]
[Sesame seed cake above? Do you need us apostles to promote the prosperity of Haiting City? Have you not woken up from your dream?]
What followed next was a bunch of useless replies.
But —
In the end, someone suddenly replied anonymously.
[This is a trap! Trap! Trap! Stage two apostles, do not come to Haiting City! This is a realistic mission! A forced realistic mission! If you fail … you'll be obliterated!!!]
This anonymous apostle even posted the details of the mission in the post.
That glaring word "trap" stung everyone's eyes.
The word "obliterated" made countless people tremble in fear.
It's actually —
Who would issue such a forced obliteration mission in reality!
Many people had never even heard of this "realistic mission" before.
Irin silently closed the forum.
He went through his train of thought.
He roughly understood.
The last anonymous apostle who posted to warn others had posted half an hour ago.
That was not long after Irin came into contact with the third corpse.
Rushing to Haiting City in the middle of the night?
The apostle who posted this probably only had a big 'F * ck' left in his heart.
"This matter has indeed become very troublesome …"
Irin was very clear about the nature of the apostles.
After this post was posted, those who did not believe it crazily posted it online. However, the real apostles who "would rather believe it's true" had already stepped onto the Earth Network bus and silently rushed to Haiting City.
If such a thing really happened, making a fortune in silence was the way of the king.
They would not post it online at all.
They would also not come out to clarify that this was a rumor.
Of course, among those who posted online, there were some who deliberately posted to confuse others to reduce the number of competitors.
"Hehe."
Irin suddenly couldn't help but laugh again.
When a group of apostles came to Haiting City and suddenly received a "forced realistic mission" for no reason, there was only one apostle who jumped out to warn others in the end.
This was a strong contrast to the number of apostles who posted online previously.
The meaning was actually very simple: I have been tricked, but I will not say anything. See if I can drag more people down with me.
— The more the better.
For this kind of mission, any apostle who had a bit of brain would feel that something was wrong.
Moreover, no matter what, if it was just to kill one apostle, the more the better.
There was no doubt about this.
It was mentioned before.
The relationship between apostles was extremely complicated.
It could not be explained by simple hostility or companionship.
Generally speaking, if there was no deep hatred, apostles would not kill each other in the real world.
After all, apostles had many different abilities and all kinds of tools to turn the situation around were endless. Without full confidence or sufficient reason, no apostle would provoke another apostle for no reason.
— Unless there was a great deal of confidence.
In addition to the conflict of interests, it was even harder to say.
"No wonder Zhao Yulong reminded me to not go to Haiting City at all costs."
"This mission is restricted to rank 2 apostles?"
"Why is that?"
Irin lowered his head.
Silently thinking.
Thinking about everything.
He knew very well that the power of "Tower" had limited influence in the real world.
It seemed to have to follow some kind of "rule".
Even "Tower" couldn't casually kill any apostle without a "reason".
Of course, "Tower" had no intelligence and no "emotions". Normally, it wouldn't target any apostle because it didn't like them.
Unless — —
There was no "unless".
…
Irin finished browsing the forum.
He contacted Zhao Yulong again.
— — Apostles were talking to each other.
"What? What do you think? "
Zhao Yulong said in a muffled voice.
"This matter is a bit complicated."
"It is very complicated! And, this matter is very strange! "
Zhao Yulong said in a low voice, "Let's not talk about the mother soul on Li Changge's back first."
For some reason, Irin felt that when Zhao Yulong mentioned "mother soul", his tone was a bit strange.
Zhao Yulong continued, "Let me tell you something first. In the mission you accepted in the real world, the apostle called" Zhang Huichun ", I know who she is."
Hearing this, Irin was a bit surprised.
But he didn't say anything to interrupt Zhao Yulong's words.
This was obviously an extremely important piece of information.
"Zhang Huichun, female, 26 years old. She is a young doctor in a hospital in the city center of a certain city."
"Of course, because she didn't commit any crimes in the real world, nor did we meet her in the inner world, she didn't reveal her identity at all. So, before the incident, we didn't know that she was an apostle."
Irin heard the hidden message in his words, "Before the incident?"
Zhao Yulong continued, "On the morning of September 5th, she was found dead in her own home. Because she lived alone, in the morning, the unit found that she didn't come to work and couldn't get through to her phone. So, they sent her friend to Zhang Huichun's home to find her. So, when it was close to noon, the body was found and sent to the morgue of the unit."
"On the surface, there were no wounds. There were also no strange signs at the place of death. The initial diagnosis is that the cause of death is heart disease."
Heart disease?
That means …
"Hehe, you should have guessed it. That's right. My conclusion is that she should have died in the inner world trial."
Died?
Irin frowned.
He didn't say anything.
What Zhao Yulong said next should be the main point.
Zhao Yulong suddenly chuckled. His tone became strangely gloomy, "What happened next, you shouldn't be able to guess. That night, in the hospital where Zhang Huichun's body was, a security guard died. The cause of death was … … his cervical vertebra was broken. Moreover, only one side of his neck was bruised. His neck was broken by one hand. "
Irin smiled faintly, "Why do I feel like you are telling a thriller story? If I am not wrong, what you are going to say next … … is that Zhang Huichun came back from the dead and killed the security guard, right? "
“！”
Zhao Yulong was shocked.
He did not think that Irin would be able to guess the ending.
Hey, he had spent most of his time on this little story!
How could you guess the ending so easily just from the beginning? You are not giving me face, brother!
"How did you guess it?"
"Is there a need to guess? You have already used the tone of a thriller story. The most shocking ending, isn't it Zhang Huichun coming back from the dead and killing people? Other than that, what other ending could there be? "
Although Irin had guessed this ending, in truth, when he made a reasonable guess about the ending of this little story, he could not help but feel shocked.
At the same time, he could not help but make many guesses.
An apostle coming back from the dead?
Some kind of skill?
Or some kind of tool that takes effect after death?
Or was it someone else pretending to be Zhang Huichun?
The one who died in the beginning was not Zhang Huichun?
All kinds of possibilities intertwined in Irin's mind.
Zhao Yulong was a bit depressed, but he continued to speak. After all, there was a serious matter.
"For some reason, Zhang Huichun did not destroy the hospital's surveillance footage."
"After the incident, we retrieved all the footage and found that Zhang Huichun did crawl out of the cryogenic chamber by himself. Then, he walked along the corridor and seemed to have exchanged a few words with the dead security guard. Then, he turned back and suddenly broke the security guard's neck."
"And then?"
"And then? And then that's it! After Zhang Huichun killed the security guard, he left the hospital. Oh, right, you should know that there are blind spots in the surveillance cameras. We never saw Zhang Huichun show his face under the camera again. "
Irin's eyes twitched slightly, but he did not deny it.
He was very clear about the blind spots in the surveillance cameras.
"And that's not all."
Zhao Yulong's tone became heavier. "After that night, we received reports of murders from all over the country … We suspect that after Zhang Huichun's' resurrection ', he was hunting apostles."
“！”
"Of course, some of the murders may appear to be more 'normal' on the surface, so the relevant data has not been collected yet. However, the corpses that died in an 'abnormal' way are all under the jurisdiction of our 'Special Case Group'."
"The 'Z5 Council' attaches great importance to this matter."
"Although the method of death in these murders is a bit different, we have preliminarily confirmed that there are at least four apostles who died in the hands of Zhang Huichun. Moreover, the route that he took to hunt the apostles …"
Irin said the following words silently, "Haiting City."
"That's right. If we include Li Changge's mother spirit, tsk tsk … cough cough, in this case, logically speaking, there are at least five apostles who died in his hands."
— At least.
In other words, there might be more.
"In short!"
Zhao Yulong threw away the distracting thoughts related to the mother spirit and said in a serious tone, "This matter is very complicated, very complicated! If it's not handled well, it might cause a very serious accident! In the past ten years, ever since the establishment of the 'Special Case Group', there has rarely been such a blatant and aimless act of hunting apostles! "
"If I'm not wrong, there are two possible reasons for triggering the reality mission. First, Zhang Huichun is still in Haiting City. Second, as an apostle, you came into close contact with the bodies of the dead apostles in the city where Zhang Huichun is."
"Of course, this is only my speculation. No matter what, since you've been forced to accept the mission, you can't run away."
Irin was silent.
What Zhao Yulong said was … the truth.
Irin was just a human, not a god.
Even if he thought about everything carefully, he would not be able to predict the supernatural incident that Li Changge encountered. It was just a coincidence that he was one of the links in this chain of events.
He was inadvertently involved in this whirlpool.
But —
What made Irin feel strange was that …
In his memory, the trajectory of "that future" did not have such a serious apostle hunting incident.
Or …
At that time, he had not become an apostle. Was he not qualified to know?
Was it covered up?
Irin could no longer return to "that future". Many of his speculations could not be verified one by one.
Now, the most important thing was to solve this incident.
"Oh, right! I'm still investigating this matter in other places. If there's any news, I'll inform you immediately! Also, a senior member of the 'Special Case Group' has arrived in Haiting City. You should have a chance to meet him when the time comes. "
After saying that, Zhao Yulong hurriedly cut off the voice call.
It seemed that he was really troubled by this "apostle hunting" incident.
Originally, Irin wanted to ask Zhao Yulong to send him the surveillance footage of Zhang Huichun in the hospital.
— There was no time.
Forget it, I'll talk about it later.
As for Zhang Huichun's information, the parts that did not involve confidential information should be able to be found online.
At the very least, the name, age, gender, and photo should be able to be found.
As for the rest … it was probably suppressed by the Special Case Group.
"Abnormalities" were all handled by the Special Case Group.
After all, Zhang Huichun was a doctor in an official hospital when he was "alive".
There was still time left —
72 hours!
It seemed to be sufficient.
However, it was not easy to find an apostle in the vast sea of people in Haiting City.
At the very least, if Irin really wanted to hide, he believed that very few people could find him.
A person who could kill apostles all the way to Haiting City was definitely not easy to deal with.
Starting from Zhang Huichun's resurrection.
This matter was intricate and complicated.
It was not something that could be sorted out in a short period of time.
However, what Irin lacked the most now was time.
Moreover, if he guessed correctly, the entire Haiting City would become the first apostle gathering that Irin witnessed with his own eyes after his resurrection!
"Headache."
Irin rubbed his temples and frowned.
Li Changge saw that Irin seemed to have finished his work and looked over eagerly.
For Li Changge to be able to receive the mission, in other words, he had reached at least level 10, a second-order apostle.
"I suggest that you take a look at the forum first."
Irin chuckled.
Li Changge was dumbfounded at first.
"Forum? What does it have to do with the forum — hmm, what the hell?! What the hell??? "
Li Changge muttered and opened the forum to take a look.
One minute later.
Li Changge's face first turned red, then gradually turned green, and finally purple.
"Oh?"
Irin smiled.
The special effects behind Li Changge had changed.
A crematorium.
There were cherry blossoms floating all around.
Ah, it seemed that Li Changge wanted to be cremated among the cherry blossoms.
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