Chapter 274 175 Paulson Street (18)

Chapter 274 175 Paulson Street (18)

A few minutes later, the destroyed storage room.

The four players gathered here discovered something strange. The damaged area of ​​the storage room was rapidly repairing itself. Unlike the first time Cao Yuan died, there was no one gathered here this time. It was as if someone had erased their memories. Even if servants passed by nearby, they would pretend not to see anything and either skipped this place or turned around and left.

"It should be that the Infinite City's system has repaired it. This way, we can confirm that Cao Yuan's body was indeed thrown up there."

"Normally when players are teleported away, there are usually no NPCs nearby, or there are other things covering the beam of light. In this case, the NPCs won't behave abnormally. It seems that whoever did it this time has already caught the system's attention. The four of us have been together the whole time, so it seems that the news about the cheater is indeed true."

"But why would they do this? Isn't it obvious that they will be discovered? Even if the cheaters are very powerful, they wouldn't be stupid enough to challenge Infinity, right?"

Pei Zuocheng, Wei Mingchen and Su Wen, if we infer from the perspective that they are not aware of the recent situation, what they said is indeed correct. Of course, they also cannot understand why people do this.

But Alba, who knew some of the situation, knew more than them. She quickly guessed that it was probably the employees of Infinite City or Infinite Company hiding in the copy who were using this method to attract the attention of people outside. This outside did not refer to them, but other employees who were doing maintenance outside the copy.

Alba believes that the relevant personnel of the Infinite City who entered the copy to search for cheaters and cheating methods should have a way to directly contact people outside, but now they used this eye-catching method to notify the outside world, which can only mean one thing, that is, the means of contact between these relevant personnel and the outside world have been interfered with. Alba does not think that this is due to the special nature of the copy. This must be that the cheaters used some interference equipment or program to cover up their tracks.

If Alba, who originally could only follow the other three players and had no other way to leave the copy, now seems to have another way, which is to take the initiative to find the people of the Infinite City hiding in the copy, or even the employees of the Infinite Company. As long as she explains the situation to them, she should be able to get out smoothly. As for whether she will be taken away for investigation by the Infinite Company later, that is another story for later.

The reason for this idea is closely related to other information related to the Infinite City that Alba had learned before, and this thing is the resurrection mechanism of the Infinite City.

Generally speaking, players in the Infinite City can obtain or purchase resurrections through professional characteristics, special skills, or through special malls. These resurrections are not closely related to the copy. Their function is to continue to revive dead players after the player has died multiple times and exceeds the system's initial resurrection number. The prerequisite for this resurrection to work is that the dead player leaves the current copy in any way.

After many observations, Alba discovered that the number of resurrections acquired after birth was actually limited. For example, if the area where the player died was not within the scope of the dungeon, then in order to successfully revive, they had to return to the dungeon area. Only when the light of teleportation appeared would the number of resurrections take effect. In previous dungeons, Alba had seen some reckless and arrogant players die outside the dungeon's restricted area. Of course, there were also players who knew the resurrection conditions, and their companions would try to get their bodies back to the dungeon range, but most people died directly outside the range.

From then on, there was no further news about the bodies of these people, either in the copy or in reality. But Alba learned on the forum that the bodies of these people were secretly recovered. Although it was not clear who they were, it was definitely related to Infinite Company and Infinite City, or at least it was inseparable from Infinite City.

As for why, Alba became particularly nervous after learning the accurate information, and after she entered the dungeon, she didn't want to have any intersection with other players. Now she can only follow other players without any help. It has something to do with what Alba learned about her current status, the resurrection items in the Infinite City, and the secret mechanism of the summoning items.

To illustrate this point, we must first explain the effects of the summoning items in the Infinite City that can pull players in the player lobby into their own copy. Here we can use the most famous item, the leaf of the world tree, as an example.

First of all, before using the item "Leaves of the World Tree", you need to know some simple information. To successfully activate the effect of the item, you need to know at least one piece of information about the summoned player. The simplest one is the nickname, or the real name. As long as you know this, unless the summoned player is in an unsummonable state, such as offline, resurrecting, leaving or entering the dungeon, dead but not resurrected, it can be activated at other times. And because summoning takes time, the more information about the player you want to summon, the faster the summoned player will be selected by the system, and the shorter the time to enter the dungeon will be.

The refresh position of players summoned into the dungeon will change according to the amount of information the summoner knows. The more information they know, the closer they are to the summoner, but there is a threshold, which will not be less than 50 meters. These summoned players do not have any tasks or information prompts. There are only two ways to leave the dungeon. One is for the summoner to complete the dungeon content and leave the dungeon, and the other is death. In this case, the summoned player will return to the location before being summoned. If the original location is no longer available, such as the dungeon is closed, then they will be sent to the player lobby.

Although the summoned players will not receive any benefits for clearing the level or helping the summoner complete the task, death or failure will not have any negative impact, and they will be sent back to their original location. However, there is actually a secret about this.

These special summoning props actually have a feature, which is that they can be regarded as resurrection props with their own safe zone, but the scope of this safe zone is limited to the summoned person himself. As mentioned before, if you leave the specified so-called safe area, then the resurrection or resurrection props will not be effective. These summoning props make up for this. They set the summoned players themselves into a safe zone, so as to avoid accidents.

But in other words, these players who were summoned to other copies, no matter where they were, including the original specified range within the copy, were actually outside the safe area. If it were not for the special protection of the props, then as long as they died, they would really die.

The reason why Alba became more and more nervous and uneasy was because of this. After checking the system data, Alba was able to confirm that she did not enter the current copy because of any summoning props. It should be that those cheaters used cheating for some unknown reason to get herself into this place. In other words, as long as Alba died in the current copy, she would be really dead, and other players had nothing to do with her, so Alba did not think they would try to control her.

At first, Alba was not that nervous, mainly because she had some understanding of this dungeon. This dungeon was one that could be completed without fighting. In other words, there was no risk of death in the fight. But the current situation was completely different.

First of all, Cao Yuan was killed by a cheater, and if someone hadn’t thrown him out, he would have really died and would not have been recognized by the system and teleported out of the copy. This could not have been done by a cheater, because they would not let Cao Yuan, the only one who knew their news, live like this. They should have known that once Cao Yuan was alive, the people of the Infinite City would definitely investigate the relevant information, or even ask Cao Yuan directly.

They initially chose to kill Cao Yuan who was alone. There must be some important purpose for that, but it is not clear at the moment. But it doesn’t matter now because more troublesome things are yet to come.

The staff of Infinite City hiding in the copy should have had their communications disrupted, so they used such a high-profile method to contact the outside world. Judging from the fact that the destroyed storage room has been repaired and the memories of NPCs in other copies have been modified, whether or not the insurance personnel who were rumored to be specifically responsible for dealing with cheaters have entered the current copy, they will definitely come in now. Since they are the last insurance, it can be imagined that their methods will not be gentle.

Since the cheaters have a way to interfere with the communications of ordinary employees, they must know more information and will know the existence of these insurances. Once this is true, they will try their best to complete the copy and leave here before these insurances find them.

But Alba knew very well that there was no way to clear the current copy. It was a trap set by Infinite Company for law enforcement. Soon, a brutal battle would break out in the copy. One could imagine how disgusting the cheaters were. But at the same time, the one who could fight against, or even more seriously, hunt down these cheaters must be no small character. As a result, Alba did not think that the four players would be able to come up with any substantial countermeasures once they were affected by their battle.

Alba had another problem that bothered her greatly. Firstly, even if the other three players were accidentally affected by the battle and died, they would be teleported away by the system, but she would not be like that. If she died, she would be really dead. Even if she was lucky enough and not injured, after the battle, she would inexplicably appear in this copy and would definitely be regarded as a cheater. According to the conspiracy theories spread on the Internet, Infinite Company was not that easy to deal with.

If Alba wants to get out of this matter, there is a way. That is, before the fight between the insurance personnel and the cheaters breaks out, she should find the official personnel hiding in the copy and tell them her situation truthfully. In this way, if the official personnel have time to investigate her information, then she will have the opportunity to leave here before things become irreversible. As for whether she will be visited by the official because of this, that is not something Alba needs to think about now. The most important thing is to survive.

How to find official personnel has become the only issue Alba is thinking about now. Making a big fuss and widely announcing that she is looking for official personnel is not a feasible option, because this will inevitably attract the attention of cheaters and bring trouble to herself, and ordinary official personnel may not show up. After all, their duty is only to find cheaters, not to deal with them, so they may not have an advantage in combat power.

Moreover, it can be seen from the fact that Cao Yuan was killed a long time ago that they will not take action until they are sure that the cheater has taken action.

"From the point of view of Cao Yuan's body being thrown up just now, if it was really thrown up, that person could easily kill the four of us in seconds. This reminds me of that... who was it? It was the guy without facial features who followed Jerome."

"!"

Wei Mingchen's unintentional words immediately reminded Alba of something. At the beginning, in order to disguise herself as a normal player, Alba once found a hidden secret door in the room. In the room inside, Alba found a blueprint of the manor, which marked a special room. It was the empty study that Alba secretly went to at the beginning. She found something in it, a small treasure map. It looked like it was drawn by a child not long ago. It was this treasure map that allowed Alba to dig up the iron box, and on the back of the treasure map, it was written "Jerome's Treasure".

Alba, who had no task prompts, initially just wanted to use the treasure map to pretend that she was doing a task, so she decided to look for Jerome. It was at this time that the four players split up and prepared to look for Jerome. At that time, Wei Mingchen was acting with Alba, and the reason why Alba chose to go to Jerome's room where no one was was because she didn't want to expose her identity because she couldn't tell Wei Mingchen the steps of the task after he received it.

Wei Mingchen's words just now reminded Alba of the man next to Jerome. It was the man who, after exchanging information with the four players, was able to accurately embed the shovel into the wall from a very long distance. Alba didn't think too much about it at the time, but now it seems that it should be related to the guy who they have never seen since then, and who was sneaky and obviously not an NPC in the dungeon.

Alba realized now that the man was most likely a cheater, and the strange man following Jerome was most likely an official, just disguised as an NPC. And judging from his strength, he didn't seem to be an ordinary official, and it was even possible that he was an official insurance.

And now Alba is even more certain of this, because she remembered that, except for herself, the other three players did not receive any updated prompts when they approached the man. If he was some hidden NPC or boss, then no matter how harsh the conditions for starting the task were, there would be some hints, at least as vague as the Riddler's. But according to the other three players, they didn't get any hints at all.

Alba immediately turned around and looked towards the main entrance of the manor. She saw Ha Jin and Jerome, who was holding his hand, returning to the room, but the mysterious man did not appear.

“This might be an opportunity.”

"Did you say anything Alba?"

"Oh, no."

A plan came into Alba's mind.

"Now should be the best time. I have to find a way to leave other players and act alone. And it must be fast." Alba thought in her mind.