tailor.
After Lu Ning walked out of the clinic, she looked up at the slightly gloomy sky.
Those who don't know will not understand the existence of this person at all, but for those who know, this is not a secret.
After finding another clinic, she asked where the tailor was.
Located on the edge of the black market, in a deserted alley in District 10, someone opened an incense and candle shop. Two candles burning with blue flames hang outside the store, never extinguished day or night. In the window at the entrance of the store are paper figures dressed in gorgeous paper clothes, with lifelike faces drawn on their pale faces, and heavy makeup, which makes them look even more terrifying.
The shop owner here, Guo Mengyu, is what people call a tailor.
Guo Mengyu can sew paper, cloth and even flesh perfectly. From this perspective, this tailor has also mastered certain mortician skills. The most amazing thing is that no matter how many corpses are eaten here, there seems to be a bottomless landfill behind the store. There are also rumors that the corpses sent here are made into various sacrificial items in the store.
When no one is visiting, Guo Mengyu will sit in the shop and make sacrificial objects such as paper figures and paper sedans. Although no one comes to buy, the goods in the store are always updated.
"good afternoon."
Lu Ning walked through the store door between the two blue candles and felt a cold wind blowing inexplicably.
"Shhh."
The tailor sitting in the shop gave a slight signal to be silent, and then raised his head.
A head of smooth black hair that just reached her shoulders, a slightly pale face, bright eyes, a simple but clean shirt and jeans, this was the first impression Guo Mengyu gave to Lu Ning.
With a completely neutral appearance, it was impossible to tell whether it was a boy or a girl. Lu Ning was stunned for a moment before nodding towards the shop owner.
"Are you a guest?" Guo Mengyu tilted her head, and then her eyes lit up, "You are a crow."
The sound is also a deep neutral sound, but it's nice to listen to.
"The same to you?"
This is not good news, because then the information carried by the tailor will be completely eaten up, and he will lose one clue. However, if the other party is a cooperative type, there may still be discussions.
"How did you determine my identity?"
Lu Ning asked.
Guo Mengyu just smiled at this question.
"This store is the intersection of Yin and Yang. No living person can enter in the flesh. You can look back and look behind you."
Lu Ning was startled and turned to look behind him. Standing at the door surrounded by blue flames was a man wrapped in a coat. The metal mask on his face looked particularly familiar.
That's herself.
At the same time, she felt that the field of vision in front of her that was blocked by the mask immediately became wider, and her clothes returned to their normal attire.
"Your soul state will change as your consciousness changes. Your current appearance is different from the person standing there. This is because we came to this world and temporarily replaced the soul of the original person. In this world, the state of the soul can only be shown in the original appearance of that person." Guo Mengyu explained, "The only one with such a strange change is the crow."
"Plastic surgery……"
"After plastic surgery, people's self-perception will also change, and the shape of the soul will also change simultaneously. This different state of spirit and body is only different for those of us who have a clear understanding of our own identities - —Maybe there are different types of multiple personalities, but I haven’t seen them.”
Lu Ning was silent for a moment and nodded, accepting the explanation.
"Now, let's get to know each other. My name is Guo Mengyu, and I am the shopkeeper here. I am very happy that you are the first crow to find this place, because you seem to be quite easy to talk to." Guo Mengyu smiled and extended her hand to Lu Ning. hand.
"Lu Ning. It seems that you have something to ask for from me." Lu Ning held Guo Mengyu's hand. It was so cold that it was surprising that his soul could actually feel the temperature.
"Scenes always assign some strange identities to people, I think you also know. In this scene, there are three 'crows' like me." Guo Mengcocoon showed a happy expression, "First of all, explain This is not a confrontational scenario, but it is necessary for me to find out the identity of the other party before the other party. This particularity may also cause my mission to be very different from yours."
"You can't leave here?" Lu Ning looked around.
"Although it's not impossible, it's quite difficult. Do you know painted skin? I'm in a similar situation. I don't have a physical body in the world, so I have to wear other people's flesh as clothes before I can leave the shop."
"Is this your job as a tailor?"
"One of the jobs." Guo Mengyu said, "The shopkeeper here originally separated the soul from the body for extradition work. However, because this world does not seem to have an underworld institution like the underworld, no one cares whether the soul is sent away or intercepted. , so the shopkeeper extracted the resentful souls attached to the corpses and injected them into paper figures to make spirit puppets. You can see from the outside that every paper figure in the window has a resentful ghost inside."
These words make people's scalp numb.
"Don't worry, the dead souls can't escape from here, nor can they return to the earth, and the owner of this shop has absolute control." Guo Mengyu noticed that Lu Ning looked a little bad, and comforted her, "This can be said about me. situation."
As the three special tourists in this scene, Guo Mengyu was assigned five special backgrounds.
First of all, these three tourists all abide by certain "restraints". Outside the scope of the constraints, they can only be as ordinary as ordinary people, but within the scope of the constraints, they have great strength.
Second, the tasks of the three tourists are different from the rest of the tourists, whether they are mandatory or optional. And the three tourists cannot take the initiative to find other tourists to communicate.
Third, these three people have been granted a large number of secrets due to their identities, but they do not have to worry about the pursuit and killing in the scene caused by the leakage of secrets, unless they seek death and run out of their own constraints.
Fourth, the three tourists are not from opposing camps, and there is no task of opposing camps. However, the death of the other party will cause a multiplier bonus to the final reward of this task. The person who assists in the killing and the person who directly kills will also receive this bonus. This bonus is not included in the usual upper limit of 10,000 points in rewards.
Fifth, the three tourists must stay for thirty days.
Guo Mengyu told Lu Ning all this, but she had some reservations after thinking about it. After hearing this, Lu Ning wasn't worried that it was a lie, because generally speaking, it didn't have much to do with him.
"So you want to kill the other two? Or do you have other ideas?"
"There is no need to kill people without grudges, but I am worried that others will come to kill me. After all, this is a world where even the Yin and Yang Realm exists, so is there any way to bypass my store and kill me? Isn't it impossible? My mission instructions never said that I am invincible within this range." Guo Mengyu frowned with some worry, "And although I am strong, the information about the entire city is completely closed. I need a tourist who can move freely to join forces with me."
"So you waited for me?"
"Well, I'll provide you with some intelligence from here in exchange for outside action capabilities. Is that good? Just find those two people. I can also take precautions, and you can also use my intelligence here when necessary. The power is hidden." Guo Mengyu laughed, "I got a lot of secrets, I guess they were exchanged by the scene."
Lu Ning thought for a moment and then agreed to the deal.
"Great, let's talk about the structure of this city first. Some places are actually very dangerous, but they don't show it on the surface..."
"The structure of the anti-life tree, and the evil of the element of matter corresponding to the ten sephiroths, right? I already know this." Lu Ning sat down next to him, "Not to mention anything else, the evil of the element of matter here in the black market corresponds to matter. ism, do you know who is behind it?”
Guo Mengyu was really stunned for a moment.
"I don't know, this should be considered the ultimate secret."
"It's okay, I'm just asking casually." Lu Ning waved her hand, "For a change, you know there are many serial killers here, right? Do you have any information about them? It's best to get the location of the activity and identity information."
"There are fifteen serial killers operating in this area of the black market. If you are looking for it, there is a dilapidated house at the end of this street that is the base of one of them. But I am not sure whether that killer has superpowers."
"Hmm...White Butterfly, do you know this name?"
Guo Mengyu shook her head.
"Among the people who have sent corpses over these days, are there people from nearby clinics? Two people sent corpses before you arrived. One of them is named Liu Xiang, and the other's name is unknown. Do you have any records here?"
"I can check this." Guo Mengyu couldn't keep up with Lu Ning's thinking speed. When she asked about something he knew, he immediately went to check it out.
After a while, the results were available.
"At the end of March, two people from the 102 Clinic did deliver corpses. The resentful spirits on the corpses had been used to make paper dolls. Those two people... according to the records, they haven't been here since. I'm afraid they were worried. What’s wrong—wait, there’s a record here from the past few days.”
Guo Mengyu took something like an account book and flipped through two pages, and then found something interesting.
"Liu Xiang's body was moved and disposed of a few days ago. Most of his internal organs were severely damaged, and the rest that were not damaged have been removed. Although most resentful souls have been dead for a long time and do not remember much about their lives, but I can help you recreate the memories of your death."
"Then please."
Guo Mengyu walked to the shop window and looked for it, then quickly brought a paper man back and laid it flat on the ground.
"Relax, everything you see next is an illusion and is not harmful to you."
After saying that, the scene in front of Lu Ning suddenly turned aside.
Under the dark sky, two panting figures ran out of an alley.
"Lu Bin! You really killed me this time! What does what the doctor does have to do with us? As long as we can learn the skills soon, that's all!"
"I'm sorry. I didn't expect that I would be chased after seeing that one. Fortunately, you took me out."
"Tsk, there's nothing we can do about it. The only safe place right now is District 4. With our skills, we can make a living there and just avoid the limelight..."
At this moment, there was a sudden light on the other side of the road, and a truck with its high beams on roared around the corner of the intersection and rushed straight towards the two of them!
"Run!"
One of the people pushed the other person into the narrow alley next to him, but he couldn't avoid it and was hit by the truck and flew out. Then his memory was shattered, and the surrounding area suddenly became blurry, and the scenery of the incense and candle shop slowly returned to the scene.
"How? Is it helpful?" Guo Mengyu asked.
Lu Ning pressed her forehead. The moment Liu Xiang was hit by the car, she even felt a burst of piercing pain, but now it has all disappeared.
"Thank you, there are a lot of key clues. I want to go over and take a look now. This matter can't be too late."
"Okay... I can't communicate with the outside world here, take this." Guo Mengyu handed a piece of paper money folded from gold foil paper to Lu Ning.
"What's this?"
"The path to the underworld, if you look through the square hole in the middle of the paper money, you will be sent to the underworld, which is another space completely isolated from the underworld. Then as long as you find the two blue candles at the door of my store, you can come directly. . It can also be regarded as a self-defense and convenient teleportation object. Don't use it too much, or a living person will turn into a living corpse if he walks too much in the underworld." Guo Mengyu warned.
"Then let's make a little agreement. I will come over again next Saturday. Of course, that is without any accidents. I will help you investigate those two people. During this time, I hope you can help me keep an eye on the movements of several clinics in the black market. , especially 102."
"learn."
Lu Ning nodded, walked back and overlapped her body, her vision returned to the state covered by the mask, and then she waved to the store and left the incense shop area.
It was already around two o'clock in the afternoon.
Lu Ning quickly left the tenth district, withdrew some money from her account and took a taxi to the fourth district, fearing that her time would be further delayed.
The time when Lu Bin was being hunted had already entered April, not long after her clue had just begun. After so many days, I still don’t know whether the person is alive or dead, and it’s a bit strange that the room in the clinic has not been cleaned.
The chaos in the fourth district is no worse than that in the tenth district.
There are indeed strict regulations on killing here, but other than that, no one cares about petty theft and the like. Lu Ning's outfit couldn't stop the homeless people and orphans here from stealing, but as soon as a dirty hand reached for her pocket, she was frightened back by the sudden pop-out of the sword.
This is a dirty little boy.
Although District 4 has some organization and order, it is still the poorest place in the entire Sin City. Children like this are not an exception. Even if they are caught on the spot, they will just give you a hard look and then run into the dark alley. lane.
If you dare to chase, petty theft will turn into robbery. It is not uncommon for people to be kidnapped and sold. For the poor and crazy bottom people in the fourth district, everything can be bought and sold.
Lu Ning turned her body slightly so that her eyes could fall on the little boy.
He didn't even run away, but looked at Lu Ning provocatively and raised his fingers at her.
"Little man! Why are you hiding here with a mask on? You can take it off if you can!"
