Lu Ning explained to Tang Ling why she came here and what she wanted to find, and then Tang Ling also roughly told Lu Ning the clues that led her here.
The target of both of them is undoubtedly the distortion point. The mission given to them by this distribution center is left in their subconscious. Once it appears, it will attract their attention and start to investigate. Even if the two don't meet here, it's only a matter of time before they meet somewhere else.
Tang Ling learned from another cult figure derived from the distortion point that one of their associates had sent an important "sacred artifact" here, but he didn't know what it was like. And what she found along the way was just fragmentary information about distortions. Those believers were all extended subordinates, and they didn't know much about the core information. They just spread like a virus.
"Won't that boy hear this?" Lu Ning suddenly remembered that there was someone in the next room.
"The people who follow me can only hear what needs to be heard and see what needs to be seen." Tang Ling crossed his arms and said, "Even if he follows me, it doesn't mean that I trust him. If you are not very strong, just be with him." Way to deal with it.”
Lu Ning has already been mentally prepared for the fact that Tang Ling is not a good person. She still remembers the last time her memory awakened, which means that the people on the first floor of the "Distortion Point" game company are all under Tang Ling's hands. She didn't make it clear, but she was probably going to suffer a lot of blood along the way.
There was nothing good to say about killing follower Lu Ning, but Tang Ling probably hurt a lot of innocent people in that incident alone.
"What? Are you feeling uncomfortable?" Tang Ling saw Lu Ning's momentary hesitation.
"It doesn't fit with my style of action."
"Then you don't have to worry about it. In short, we are just cooperating temporarily to get through this difficult situation. We will not like each other anymore. Now, since the two of us have found the house, let's look through it carefully and find everything we can. come out."
"Okay, let's do it."
Tang Ling called Tong Yang out of the house, and the three of them began to carefully search for the remaining things in the house. Of course, the first thing to search was the painting that Lu Ning was looking for, and the three of them were much faster. And Tang Ling didn't care about destroying the painting at all. He roughly took out all the words in the box and threw them away to see if they were signed and threw them aside.
"...It turned out to be the best thing in the box?"
At the bottom of the box, Lu Ning finally pulled out the painting. Before she even unfolded the scroll, the two of them saw the problem with the painting at the same time.
"Hmph...it's weird things like this that make people more and more annoying." Tang Ling raised his hand gently, "Distortion...its essence is probably like this."
"A real 'landscape' painting." Lu Ning slowly unfolded the scroll and began to increase the pressure on his hands. The soul-stirring magic of this painting was suppressed within a certain range, but the landscape above People are still lifelike.
"Dimensional projection?" Tang Ling looked at the painting attentively. She naturally had a way to be immune to this kind of mental obstruction, but she was not so sure about the true form of the painting.
"I can't completely confirm it, but it should be something similar. The problem with the painting itself is not big, but with the words underneath... I'm afraid it's hard to tell."
"The words below?"
"It is not human writing. This writing should come from the distortion point itself. I have seen it several times. Those people are imitating the writing from the distortion point... No, can it be said to be writing? This itself is a taboo secret. Technique."
"So we're going to destroy the painting?"
"Of course it must be destroyed. This thing can only cause harm if left in the world. But this is probably not our mission. I don't think it is that simple."
"Those with aberrations... hum." Tang Ling crossed his arms, "The leader of the believers still has some real abilities. Although this thing is evil, it can be seen that it is an artificial thing. This is the finished product they successfully made... "
"So, those things that have begun to leak distortion points and cause various hazards are all waste products?" Lu Ning did not see any sense of distortion in this painting. At most, it was the magic power of the painting itself. This is It means that the things Lu Ning encountered before are completely different from this one.
"Eighty percent of it is like this. Make a bunch of copied junk and throw it out as a medium to develop followers. Guys with brain problems like to do this." Tang Ling snorted.
"If we want to complete the mission, we have to figure out what constitutes a resolution. The mission requires only one incident to be resolved, which means we don't need to address all the issues."
"Yes, the problem is that at present, any one of them can be regarded as an event, but none of them may really be an event. Isn't it unclear how small the distribution center is?" Tang Ling said.
Of course Lu Ning knew that killing the monsters that came out of the distortion point, disposing of the artifacts attached to the distortion point, and even killing a main character who caused the distortion point could not complete the mission. Even if the painting in my hand is destroyed, the result will probably not be good. After all the attempts have failed, there are actually very few possible answers.
"We probably have to completely defeat their plan."
"You don't need to say this."
In the flash of electric sparks, the scroll was ignited, and the paintings on it even began to slowly float and flip in the air. However, without support, it was just a phantom in the air. As the scroll slowly turned into ashes, the paintings finally disappeared. Gone.
Tang Ling suddenly said: "Let me ask a question, do you have any idea about advancing to the next stage?"
Lu Ning shook her head. She could still relate to other tasks, but this task was really unclear.
"Okay, let's do a mission first. Frustrate the plan? We don't know how many believers there are, so what should we choose to do?"
"If you don't have a goal, I can provide you with one." Lu Ning replied.
Compared to aimlessly expanding the scale, what I encountered at Lu Ning University was more purposeful. The most obvious of these was the incident involving the street parade. Those people must have been instructed by someone to carry out that parade, but they had no idea that people would die during the parade. Relatively speaking, the person behind the scenes must have understood that there would be such an incident.
As long as a person is deliberately left to die on the street, there must be his special needs. Lu Ning didn't know what it was specifically, but it was definitely a plan.
What's more, if the distribution center didn't arrange the tasks in an easily accessible place, would it be possible that she would still have to spend half a year investigating and searching? What if she never remembers?
"Your university?"
"Anyway, I encountered some incidents. In fact, you should have also encountered them. But judging from what you said before, you have traveled to several places during this period, right? You probably missed it because your stay was too short."
"Stop talking nonsense, which province or city is your university in? I will conduct an investigation myself after I get there. Anyone who is not particularly difficult to deal with will just kill him. No matter what the plan is, it will naturally fail as long as no one implements it."
"You are quite confident... don't cause any trouble." Lu Ning told the address, "You should know that this is a fourth-level scene. It has given us such strong strength. This scene itself is definitely not simple. Be careful. Where’s the deus ex machina coming from?”
"It's not like I haven't fought against the Deus Ex Machina before." Tang Ling sneered, "It seems that your time at the fourth level is still short. As long as you gain experience, you don't need to be timid even here."
Parting on bad terms can completely describe the state in which the two finally left the house. Lu Ning and Tang Ling have completely incompatible personalities. Even if they join forces, they can only share news. It is impossible to act together.
I searched the house thoroughly afterwards and found nothing special. Tang Ling took Tong Yang and left Zhiyu Town directly, but Lu Ning stayed.
She also wanted to investigate.
Regardless of whether the old man holding the painting is a believer or not, the origin of the painting needs to be carefully investigated. According to Tang Ling, the scroll was deposited here by a believer from the Distortion Point. However, the believer she killed knew very little about the details, which meant that it was someone else who actually deposited it. Cui Fu was able to view this painting about a year ago, so the painting was stored here at least a year ago.
A year... that time?
Lu Ning began to visit the town. She just asked around and found out that people in the town talked a lot about the old man. People always seem to be happy to spread this kind of gossip. Both adults and children know many stories about the elderly.
The old man has a good reputation in the local area. He lives alone and hires a local nanny. He often painted outside and was even able to climb mountains with painting tools on his back at an old age. Many people were a little surprised by his sudden death.
In fact, many townspeople had been given paintings by the old man, or had them framed by themselves. Lu Ning had the opportunity to look at a few of them. They were all paintings drawn by the old man himself, which were similar to the ones she had seen in the pile of paintings. When she asked the old man if he had done anything special in recent years, she got a bunch of messy information.
For people in mountain villages, many of them can be considered special actions. After Lu Ning patiently listened to a lot of nonsense, she finally found a piece of useful news.
Also more than a year ago, someone came to visit the old man and lived in his home for nearly a week. He was described as a tall, thin man in his forties. The people in the town recognized the old man's children and knew very well that this was not the case. However, after the tall and thin man moved in, except for running around the town every morning for morning exercises, he spent the rest of the time in the house and did not go out for sightseeing or sightseeing. Communicating with the townspeople is actually quite strange. The few people I talked to that man were early risers in town.
The overall impression is that this person is relatively taciturn, but there is no obstacle to communication. From his conversation, he can feel that he is well educated, and his etiquette also has the feeling of family etiquette, but other than that, he will try his best to The way he ended the chat seemed like he didn't want to communicate more with others.
Someone also asked the old man after the man left. The old man said that he was a collector like him and had some collections of calligraphy and paintings. For a long time, the two of them exchanged letters or emails. Now that they have time, they invite each other over. A guest at home. Of course, he has a slightly unsociable personality, but he is not a bad person, so there is no need to worry.
……no need to worry?
Lu Ning smiled. That person was probably the believer who gave the painting to the old man. Even the old man's sudden death was probably related to this. Is this someone who doesn't need to worry?
Of course, the clues ended here. Since the man behaved like this, he was actually avoiding being remembered and asked about his origins. Even if she could find the contact information in the old man's home, it would probably be useless. Since she did this, all the contacts from the old man's line would probably be processed later. Lu Ning was not going to waste time anymore.
She found a local B&B to stay in, and planned to check again tomorrow. If it didn't work, she would try the painter's clue. Mao Yizheng lived in a province further south, and she didn't have to do it in front of her roommates this time. It seems that I am not going to take the car anymore.
All lightning in "Judgment Day" can be displaced, and the speed is a matter of speed. But the overall speed of running in a straight line is already faster than the train, and it also saves time waiting for the train. After coming to this "reality" for so long, Lu Ning has never tried how strong her extreme running ability is on Judgment Day.
But when they set out the next day, a young man who Lu Ning had become familiar with yesterday hurried over and showed her something.
"Sister! Grandpa and I went up the mountain together before. This is a gift he gave me to thank me for accompanying him up the mountain!"
Gift?
Lu Ning looked at it and saw that it was a paperweight with cold tentacles and words engraved on it. But in her impression, the old man had no carving skills.
"Is that your name written on it?"
"Well! Grandpa said he prepared it specially for me! Sister, didn't you ask what grandpa gave him? He gave others calligraphy and paintings, but I am the only one who has this stone. Isn't it special?" the young man said proudly.
"It's very special. By the way, when did grandpa give this to you? Was there anyone in his family at that time?"
"It was many months ago, I forgot about it. But grandpa passed away not long after that, and his family...oh, I remember that the nanny sister also left during that time."
nanny?
"Has he always used the same nanny?"
"They change every once in a while. They don't seem to want to stay here all the time."
"Then when you got this... stone, was the nanny there?" Lu Ning asked.
"Yeah... yes! That sister is beautiful and gentle, and she comes out to buy groceries every day. I hope she can stay longer!" the young man said with some disappointment.
"Thank you. This is a precious thing. Keep it well." Lu Ning returned the paperweight to the boy and gave him some money. The boy ran away happily. Lu Ning immediately turned back and entered the house where the old man lived again.
Things like the records of hiring nannies were not taken away at all. According to the habit of elderly collectors, these things were all put in a cabinet. She still had the impression that they were placed together with many contract documents.
Soon, Lu Ning found the documents. The nannies were all hired from the same company and arranged in chronological order. Lu Ning quickly found the nanny the boy was talking about.
Tian Qiuxian should be twenty-four years old this year, but the contract only attached simple personal information and no detailed files.
