[You are resurrected in the watchman’s cabin. 】
As luck would have it, the administrator in green seemed to be carrying an old shadow ghost with him. He was very weak, far inferior to the Yubaba whom he met before, and he killed him with a cannon shot.
After coming back to his senses, Mu You first checked the loot dropped from the kill.
In addition to the clues in the music box, the dropped items just now also contained an additional item exploded by the Shadow Ghost.
[The remains of the shadow ghost: The remains left after the death of the shadow ghost, which looks like a squirming shadow. Depending on the strength of the shadow ghost, the fusion can slightly increase the strength of your shadow, thereby indirectly increasing the ability of your body. After fusion, your health will be permanently increased by 56 points (the upper limit for similar effects is increased by 5,000 points), allowing you to gain the ability to control the shape and direction of your shadow, and allowing your shadow to move out of the body for a short period of time, with a maximum of one hour out of body every 24 hours. , if the shadow does not return to the creature for more than an hour, it will disappear permanently. 】
The description of the shadow ghost remnants was gaudy, so Mu You tried to click on it and take a look.
A wriggling shadow appeared on the ground. It looked like a slime, but it was illusory, without entity or weight.
Mu You tried to walk under the shadow. The thing actively blended into his shadow and disappeared, while his shadow seemed to become more solid.
Mu You looked at his phone again, and sure enough, it showed that his health had increased by 56 points.
"Is the shadow separated from the body..."
Looking at the instructions in the game, Mu You tried to concentrate and connect his consciousness to the shadow.
The next moment, the shadow began to change shape, from a human shape to an oval, and then to a thin line according to his will, and could rotate around his body at will.
After a few seconds, the shadow broke away from his feet, swam around the wall in the room, and finally returned to his body again.
After a simple attempt, Mu You has initially understood the changes in his shadow. Simply put, as long as he concentrates, he can make his shadow into a controllable state.
When the shadow is out of the body, it is equivalent to a clone. He can share the shadow's perspective, and can use the shadow's lack of collision volume to penetrate into places that humans cannot reach to conduct reconnaissance and other tasks.
Unfortunately, it can only be separated from the body for a maximum of one hour, and they have learned from the previous capture of the Uchimura that the shadow of the separated body can be injured normally, which greatly limits the use of this ability.
Of course, the original text in the description is that 'the shadow will not disappear until it has not returned to the living creature for more than an hour.' In other words, after the shadow leaves the body, it does not necessarily have to return to the main body, as long as it becomes the shadow of another living creature. .
This is also the principle why those shadow people can cast shadows on the earth: make humans into 'shadow ghost skins'. As long as these shadows are transformed into the corresponding 'skin' shapes, a real human being can be generated on the shadow, disguised as This human shadow can allow these shadows to leave the body for a long time and live in another world.
Of course, Mu You does not have this kind of shadow ghost skin, so his shadow cannot exist for a long time after leaving the body. He must return to his body as soon as possible. This ability is better than nothing for him.
What is really useful about this thing is that it adds health points to him. Even though it is only 56 points, it shows the upper limit later. By killing the shadow ghost, you can increase his health limit by up to 5,000 points. This value is very impressive!
But having said that, he had also killed two shadow ghosts on Earth before, the giant shadow ghost and the muscular shadow ghost in K City, including Uchimura who he captured after coming to Japan. None of these shadow ghosts were left behind after their death. This shadowy wreckage.
The only difference between them and this old shadow ghost is that these three shadow ghosts were all killed on earth.
From this point of view, this thing should only be dropped by killing Shadow Ghost in the Star Spirit Realm.
After seeing the changes in the shadow, Mu You looked back at his phone and continued to take stock of his harvest.
[You opened the 'clue hidden in the music box', which was a neatly folded piece of paper. 】
[Fragments of Louise’s diary. 】
[...It has been three years since I was captured here. A few days ago, I was told by the administrator that my 'condition' had worsened and that I needed to leave here and move to a hospital in the West District to receive deeper 'treatment'. It was huge bad news for me to leave Mianmian. She is my spiritual support here. Without her, I don’t know how to live here in the future... Mianmian comforted me and promised that in the future When we are cured and leave here, I will call her loudly whenever I need her, and she will definitely come to see me no matter how far away it is...
Two days later, I was taken to a newly built hospital in the West District. The new room was much larger than before, but it was turned into a double dormitory. The person who was imprisoned with me was a baby even smaller than me. The girl is only seven years old and her name is Sayaka. She seems to have just come here. She has been cowering in the corner and shivering in fear all day long, like a pitiful little rabbit. What’s even more troublesome is that the words she speaks are not in the language of the stars, but in the language of the stars. It's a language we've never heard of before, and we couldn't communicate... Fortunately, the administrator later sent us a tool that allows people to communicate directly, and the language barrier was lifted... After communicating with Sayaka, we found that we were in Many hobbies seemed to match up unexpectedly... After a few days of brief contact, Sayaka became very attached to me and admired me very much. I somewhat enjoyed this feeling and treated her as my own sister... Now I have lost her Mianmian, but I have a new goal, which is to protect Sayaka from surviving here...
——6/8]
The diary on page six, this diary spans a long time, and it goes directly to three years later. Louise changed her residence and separated from Mianmian, but at the same time she welcomed a new roommate, who was the previous roommate. The new character 'Sayaka' is mentioned in the seven-page diary.
The diary specifically mentioned that Sayaka spoke not the Star Spirit language, but another language, which made Mu You even more convinced that Sayaka might be an Earthling who was kidnapped to the Star Spirit world through a space rift. .
And Louise entered the underground factory four years ago, and what is written in the diary is three years later, which is what happened one year ago.
Mu You opened the exchange group group, called up the missing persons database shared by Japan, and searched for the three conditions of 'Sayaka', '6-8 years old', and '10-15 months ago'.
However, the search results came up empty.
Mu You tried to relax some conditions again, but the result was still the same. There were many missing people named Sayaka, but the youngest was over 13 years old, which obviously didn't match up.
Did you guess wrong, not Japanese? Or is it that Sayaka is not actually her real name?
Mu You couldn't be sure for a while.
No matter what, with the discovery of the sixth page of the diary, he has now found the first seven pages of all eight pages of the diary, and it has finally been connected into a complete story, telling the story of Louise's three days after entering the factory. What happened during the years, through her perspective, revealed the darkness in the Society of the Dead. Seeing the big from the small, she can also think of everything that other children who were captured experienced in the Society of the Dead.
The eighth page that is still missing at the end is the most important page, because this page should tell the ending of Louise and how the Shadow Ghost was created.
Unfortunately, now that his identity has been exposed, those shadow people have begun to be wary of the existence of mechanical life forms, and it is almost impossible to sneak into the underground.
Within the next day, the two-point and one-line life of the academy and the dungeon resumed in the Muyou game.
Now the progress of Dawn City dungeon has advanced to the fourth level.
Yes, the boss on the third floor has been killed by a certain wasteland development team in advance. Mu You is not too surprised about this. After all, he has focused most of his energy on the Undead these days and has not paid much attention to the dungeon. It's normal to get ahead of the game once.
After a few days of adaptation, the land reclamation team system organized by the major forces has now basically matured, and everyone has gained experience. As they advance to the lower levels, the difficulty increases, and the progress tends to gradually accelerate.
At this rate, it would be possible to break through the dungeon within a week.
Muyou was very satisfied with this speed, so the dungeon did not make any unnecessary moves, and all members were allowed to perform freely.
In addition, around 7 pm that day, a prompt popped up in everyone's game.
[Twilight City has been successfully activated, the first city owner: Holy Light Nana. 】
Another sky city is activated. The city owner’s ID is a name that is unfamiliar to many people. More importantly, this is another person from the Celestial Dynasty!
International forums are once again in an uproar, and the number of fairness fighters emerging has surged. Before, half of the eight cities were settled by the Celestial Empire, which was already too much. However, now the ninth city is the Celestial Empire, with a ratio of five-nineths, directly crossing the half line, which also made people from other countries completely unable to sit still.
The issue of whether Sky City should receive players from all over the world evenly has been debated again, and the trend is getting more and more intense, so much so that not many people care about who the new city owner, Holy Light Nana, is.
The members of the Secret Art Association are quite calm about this, because they all know this 'Holy Light Nana', and she is actually the substitute card of Libra.
Libra and Capricorn had already said at the early morning meeting that they were preparing for the battle for Twilight City, and had made arrangements with others for remote support. Now that they successfully won the city lord, everyone was not surprised and left messages of congratulations. .
In this way, their Secret Art Association finally had a second sky city that was completely their own.
About an hour later, Muyou received private messages from Libra and Capricorn, asking him for his experience in building Sky City.
Mu You did not hide his secrets and directly passed on a copy of the construction sequence document that Jiuyou had given them before. At the same time, he briefly told them about some of the pitfalls he had gone through and the savings he had made during the construction of Dawn City. experience of.
By the time the Twilight City matter was dealt with, it was already night in Japan, and it was completely dark outside.
Mu You put on the skin of a herb collector that was not commonly used and went out in Yuebeifeng High School.
Following the address given by Ye Rumeng, Mu You rushed all the way to Qingmu District next to Qiangu District, and found the residence of Ye Rumeng's family behind a commercial street.
This is a two-story building, but it is dark inside, the door is closed, and the yard is overgrown with weeds. It looks like no one has lived there for a long time.
Mu You walked to the door and took a look, and found that there were seals and notices posted in front of the door.
Muyou checked it with translation software, and the general idea was that the house had been nationalized and was undergoing property disposal procedures. If you have any questions, please contact the phone number below.
"who are you looking for?"
Mu You was busy checking the translation software when a woman's voice suddenly sounded next to him.
Mu You turned around and saw a middle-aged woman looking at him warily at the door of the next room. She was carrying large and small bags of ingredients. She seemed to have just returned from get off work.
"I'm looking for someone from this family..."
Just as Mu You spoke, he remembered that he didn't speak Japanese.
Just as I was thinking about how to communicate, the other party suddenly spoke fluent Chinese: "Are you from China? So you are a relative of Mr. Ye's family?"
Mu You glanced at her, and after confirming that there was a player logo above her head, he shook his head and said, "I am Mr. Ye's friend in China, and I came here specifically to visit him this time."
"Ah? Well... Actually, Mr. Ye's family had a car accident a year ago, and all three members of the family died on the spot..." the woman sighed.
"Car accident?"
Mu You was stunned, this little girl had never told him.
"Wait, a family of three?"
Mu You immediately noticed this: "You mean there are only three people in their family?"
"Yes, Mr. Ye, Mr. Ye's wife, and their daughter." The woman looked at Mu You strangely, not quite understanding why he asked.
"Mr. Ye...have you had other daughters before?" Mu You tried to ask.
"You mean an illegitimate daughter?" The woman looked at him even more strangely and waved her hands hurriedly: "I don't know about this. I have lived here for more than ten years and I have only seen that little girl named Mengmeng... "
Only one daughter...
Mu You frowned. The little girl clearly said that Mianmian was her sister. How could her biological sister who had grown up with her not appear before?
Then Mu You didn't ask any more questions, and quietly cast the Forgetting Curse on the woman, making her forget what happened just now, and then left the scene and hid in the dark.
After the woman came to her senses and entered her home in a daze, Mu You turned back and sneaked into the building in front of her.
There are all kinds of household items in the room, and everything seems to be as it was before it was closed. Only a layer of dust on the table on the floor reminded him that no one had been here for a long time.
Mu You searched the room and quickly determined that this was indeed a family of three. All the daily necessities were for three people. He also found a family photo album, which contained Ye Rumeng's photos from childhood to adulthood. In all the photos, only three members of the family appear repeatedly, and there is never any trace of the fourth family member.
The question is, is Mianmian a child of this family?
Did the little girl lie to him? Mianmian is not her sister?
But in the previous conversation between the two people from the Undead Society, No. 14 was mentioned again, which is Mianmian’s residence. It should be here...
After thinking about it, Mu You opened the lock cylinder space, found the little girl in the space, and took her out.
"Eh? Mu You, this is my home!"
Ye Rumeng appeared in the dim room. She was stunned for a moment, then quickly recognized something and started running around the room, rummaging around for her belongings.
"My pillow, my toys, my certificate... Mu You, come and see, this is my room..."
The little girl ran back to the room excitedly and subconsciously wanted to press the light in the room, but was stopped by Mu You.
"Mengmeng, what is the last scene you remember about your parents?" Mu You squatted down in front of her and asked seriously.
"parents……"
Ye Rumeng then calmed down, recalled for a few seconds, and said with some pain: "I remember that my father was driving, and the car suddenly flew up, and then...then, I don't remember anything..."
Mu You nodded, at least the memory about her family was correct.
"Your sister, have you been living here with you before?" Mu You asked again.
"Of course!" The little girl nodded firmly.
"Then why aren't there any of your sister's things here?" Mu You asked.
"Why not? My sister's things are... are..." The little girl subconsciously pointed to the room.
However, his fingers hung in the air for a long time, but they never stopped at any specific thing.
The little girl was stunned and ran to other rooms.
However, even after searching all the rooms, she could not find any proof of her sister's existence.
"how so……"
The little girl stood there blankly. After a while, she suddenly hugged her head in pain and became swaying.
"Muyou, my head hurts so much...I feel so sleepy..."
The little girl said as she fell to the side and was caught by Mu You in time.
Looking down, she had closed her eyes and fallen into a deep sleep, with a painful expression on her face.
Mu You sighed. Through Louise's diary, it can be determined that 'Mianmian' definitely exists and has been imprisoned by the Undead in that underground factory a long time ago. However, she and Ye Rumeng are not likely to be sisters.
The car accident that this family encountered may have been caused by the Undead Society, who used the car accident to cover up the situation and kidnapped the little girl.
Then, the little girl probably went into the underground factory, and maybe she met Mianmian there. Something should have happened between the two of them.
In addition, the little girl's memory seemed to have been tampered with, so sometimes what she said was a little confusing. As for whether it was Mianmian who did it or someone from the Undead Society, he still didn't know.
(End of chapter)
