Chapter 272 175 Paulson Street (16)

Chapter 272 175 Paulson Street (16)

A few minutes ago, in Jerome's room.

Thanks to Han Zu's help, Jerome completed the steps of the ceremony extremely smoothly. The preliminary preparations have basically been completed, and now only the last ceremony is left. If the information Jerome got is correct, he should be able to proceed to the final step. If successful, Jerome's sister should be able to be rescued.

Now the last important item is needed, which is Jerome's sister's personal belongings, such as clothes or accessories. Most of these things were taken away when Jerome's mother left the manor, but through the previous ceremony, Jerome discovered that there was an item dropped somewhere in the manor, and the specific location was Magnus' study.

But according to what Jerome knows now, Magnus is talking to Ha Jin in the study. In this case, he cannot take Han Zu with him. After all, Han Zu looks like a monster now, and Magnus and Ha Jin are not stupid. Even if they don't conflict with Han Zu, after knowing Han Zu's identity, they will definitely stop Jerome from completing the final ceremony.

And there is another point. When hunting monsters and obtaining their hearts, Jerome deeply realized what a competent guardian is. This powerful guardian seemed unwilling to talk to anyone except Jerome himself. Also fearing that this powerful guardian would hurt his family in order to protect himself, Jerome let Han Zu stay in his room and went to Magnus' study to find the last thing.

Time returns to the present.

Not long after Jerome left, Han Zu heard a noise outside the room. He got up and walked to the door, opened it a crack, and observed what was happening outside. At this time, he saw a maid running and shouting in the corridor, and the servants behind her who wanted to stop her.

"Cao Yuan was killed by a cheater! Cao Yuan was killed by a cheater..."

"Boom!"

"Let me go! Let me go!!"

The running maid was tackled by a sturdy butler and pinned to the ground. He had good intentions and wanted to ask what had happened and why the maid behaved like this, but the maid was obviously ready to continue her original actions. However, she was not as strong as the butler, so she could only struggle and make a noise, which caused the butler to receive several slaps for no reason. However, for safety reasons, he still did not let go of the maid.

After hearing the news, Han Zu immediately closed the door again. If he had facial features, his expression would have become serious. He began to think about what the maid said.

First of all, as original existences in the copy, it is impossible for the maids to know the word cheater and what it means, but she can clearly say the correct pronunciation of the word, so someone must have told her. And after the maid was controlled by the housekeeper, she still wanted to continue her behavior, including the terrified expression on the maid's face and the subconscious trembling of her body, which shows that she must have been threatened and forced to do so.

If the maid was telling the truth, then who discovered the cheater? If so, why didn't they find a way to deal with the cheater, but went to so much trouble to threaten the maid to spread the news everywhere? Especially when they knew that once the news was spread, it would alert the cheater and give him time to respond.

Based on this information, Han Zu began to analyze the identity of the mastermind behind the maid's behavior. First of all, it should not be a player, or a player with normal thinking. Although Infinite Company and Infinite City have basically blocked the news of the existence of cheaters, it is not airtight. Some quick-thinking players should be able to guess it. Therefore, Han Zu did not think there was anything wrong with the players knowing that there were cheaters. Instead, it was normal.

But if they are players, they should know that once this news spreads and is widely publicized, there is a great possibility that they will be retaliated by cheaters, unless they have absolute strength to fight or even defeat cheaters. But this is impossible, at least the players in the current dungeon cannot do it. This is related to the matching mechanism of the event dungeon. The players who can enter the same dungeon have similar strengths. Because strength comparison is one of the underlying mechanisms of the Infinite City system, even cheaters need to abide by this rule.

However, due to the cheating methods, after these cheaters successfully enter the dungeon, their strength will surpass other players. Han Zu believes that because there are many people in this dungeon, there are probably many cheaters who sneak in, so both the number and strength are far beyond ordinary players, so normal players with clear minds will not take this self-destruction method. However, there are exceptions, that is, they know the specific number of cheaters, and after that, they still have enough strength to fight.

However, Han Zu thought that this was unlikely. But no matter what, if they had a little bit of brains now, they should have started to act in groups. Such behavior had both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage was that they had enough strength, not to mention confrontation, but at least they had a chance to resist. The disadvantage was also obvious, that is, once the number and strength of the cheaters were sufficient, they would all be wiped out.

Judging from the number of remaining players, there should not be many cheaters or remaining cheaters. Jerome's room is not in the main building, but in another building. It takes some time for the maid who was just taken away outside the door to run here. So Han Zu guessed that the four players should have known about this earlier than he did, and they should have gathered together. Now the number of players has not changed, which means that the cheaters have not attacked them. This can only mean one thing, that is, the cheaters are not sure they can eat up the four of them at once, which means that their number is not large.

And if the maid's abnormal behavior is not instructed by the player, then there are two possibilities left.

First, due to his interference with the Infinite City system, the staff outside could not contact him in real time, especially in this copy. There was an error in the way Han Zu entered the copy, not to mention the voice disguised as the system. They might have discovered something, so in an emergency, they would use this method to tell him this information.

But after thinking carefully, Han Zu ruled out this possibility for two reasons. First, the staff outside knew where he was. They would not teleport the maid to a random location. They could have teleported specific things to him. If it was to avoid Jerome before, but now Jerome has left, and Han Zu has not received anything teleported. Second, although they cannot contact him in real time, the staff can send text to him in encrypted broadcasting, but currently nothing appears in the text column of the encrypted broadcast. So this should not be done by his own people.

That leads to the second possibility, which is that the news came from the cheater's camp.

As for why the cheaters did this, Han Zu was not sure, but this could show that there should be a big disagreement in the cheaters' camp. Han Zu believed that those cheaters should know more or less about the solutions used by Infinite City or Infinite Company against cheaters. So it was possible that they knew the existence of insurance personnel, that is, operatives of their own identity, and even if they risked being found out and killed, they still wanted to report the news. This proved that their internal contradictions had reached a point where they could not be reconciled, so they wanted to kill someone with a borrowed knife.

However, it is also possible that they are using this method to lure me out so as to achieve their other goals, or to retreat early, or to avoid me and act on their own after knowing my detailed location. But either way, it is possible.

But no matter what, no matter whether the masterminds behind the scenes are those cheaters or not, they have put Han Zu in an awkward dilemma, that is, to investigate or not.

Whether it is investigating players or investigating other things, those cheaters will probably leave spies everywhere, which will expose your position. You will not be able to be the hidden enemy, but will give them an opportunity to take advantage of you.

Not checking would be tantamount to allowing cheaters to do whatever they want, which Han Zu could not do given his character.

What to do next became the primary focus, but soon, Han Zu thought of the most important thing, which was Cao Yuan.

Although Han Zu knew that Cao Yuan was dead, he was not at the scene at that time. Although he heard other servants in the manor discussing this matter when he was working with Jerome, including the approximate time of Cao Yuan's death, the wounds on his body, and the location of his death. In the conversations of some servants, Han Zu heard that Cao Yuan's body was still kept in the storage room near the garden. This was not right. Normally, after the player died, he would be teleported away. Han Zu was not sure whether it was related to the cheater.

However, all the above thinking is based on the premise that Cao Yuan was indeed killed by a cheater. Although Infinite Company said that this copy is used to screen cheaters, it cannot guarantee that the object of their suspicion will definitely exist in this copy. So in order to confirm that his next judgment will be correct, Han Zu decided to go to the storage room where Cao Yuan's body was stored and check Cao Yuan's body to see if he can find more clues.

Thinking of this, Han Zu decided to act immediately, but he needed to determine Jerome's location first, because Jerome might have an important connection with the thing that disguised itself as a system and issued tasks. If there was enough time, Han Zu was also prepared to investigate the matter.

So using his perception ability that had been changed, Han Zu began to search for Jerome's location. Due to unknown interference, although the range of Han Zu's perception ability had been further increased, he could only perceive specific things or people now. Fortunately, Jerome was one of them. Through perception, Han Zu discovered that Jerome was in a large room with two people next to him, and Jerome seemed to be talking to them. Jerome was located on the fourth floor of the main building of the manor. According to the markings on the map, that location should be Magnus's study. Jerome should be talking to Ha Jin and Magnus at this moment and is safe for the time being.

After solving this problem, Han Zu began to look for a way to leave. Most of his abilities were blocked and he had become without facial features. If the servants in the manor saw him in this state, it would definitely cause panic. If he found something to cover his face, it would be too conspicuous. Just as Han Zu was thinking, he suddenly remembered an ability that he had not used for a long time, which was the ability he obtained in Q City. The ability to transform himself into soul-grabbing miasma helped him a lot at that time.

However, due to the blockade, Han Zu did not hold out much hope, but out of rigor, he still tried it, and then a strange thing happened.

"Snapped!"

The part of the body that the force was directed to suddenly exploded without any warning, and exploded into a ball of blood-red fog. The color was very dark and looked uncomfortable, but the strange thing was not the color, but the state of the blood-red fog.

At the beginning, if Han Zu wanted to use the ability of Soul-Grabbing Miasma, his entire body would turn into mist, and he could not choose to turn part of his body into mist. He could only use the whole body, and either maintain his original body or completely turn into Soul-Grabbing Miasma. Now, only the arm of Han Zu that guided the power exploded into blood mist, and the other parts of his body did not change at all.

After moving the part of the body that had turned into blood mist, it became no different from the rest of the normal body that had not changed. Moreover, that part of the body that had turned into blood mist could still enter the narrow terrain that the main body could not enter, and Han Zu could also understand the detailed environment inside.

The reason why it is understanding rather than seeing is because that kind of observation feeling is not vision or similar abilities. If you have to say it, it is a bit like sonar. The part of the body that has turned into blood mist automatically emits some imperceptible energy waves, and then these energy waves bounce back into the blood mist. Then the surrounding environmental information can be clearly displayed in Han Zu's consciousness. This way of exploration is so clear that Han Zu can even sense small insects lurking in the corners or tiny things like dust.

When he used the ability of soul-grabbing miasma before, Han Zu saw the surrounding environment more through vision, as if there was a pair of eyes hidden in the smoke. However, his current form is even more powerful than before, and he can detect more information.

After trying it, Han Zu discovered that now that his entire body had become like this, he no longer needed to use his eyesight to observe. It seemed that this was not a special feature. This should be an evolution of the Soul-Grabbing Miasma that he was not aware of.

But this is a good thing. Han Zu didn't think there was anything wrong with it. With this ability, Han Zu could move quickly and at the same time hide from others so as not to be easily noticed. If he moved more quickly, he might be able to complete the investigation of Cao Yuan's body before Jerome returned to the room.

It happened to be gloomy outside, and Han Zu immediately turned into a ball of dark blood mist and floated out from the open window. He stayed in the shadow under the eaves for a while, and after confirming the location of the storage room where Cao Yuan's body was stored, he floated over silently.