Chapter 275 175 Paulson Street (19)

Chapter 275 175 Paulson Street (19)

In the corner of the manor, there is a building that looks very dilapidated.

Now everyone is in the main building of the manor, which gives Han Zu the opportunity to act alone. Using the evolved blood mist ability, Han Zu decided to deal with the thing disguised as the system first after obtaining enough information. At present, he already knows that the woman named Alba among the four players seems to be a little different from the other three. Judging from the fact that she was the only one looking in Jerome's direction at the time, they seem to meet soon. Alba either knows something or has some secrets of her own, but what can be confirmed is that she is not a cheater.

But there is no need to rush about that matter for now. The most important thing now is to find a way to get rid of this fake system. Although its interference has a small impact, it is better to have nothing than to have it.

According to the tasks provided by this fake system, Han Zu conducted some investigations. First of all, Magnus, Ha Jin, and Jerome should be a disguise of this thing, because their appearance is very reasonable in the current copy. Then the only thing that is not right is Gloria. It seems that this fake system is not very smart, at least for now.

By asking Jerome and after the blood turned into mist, Han Zu used some cards or notes to induce many people to lead the conversation to the name Gloria. From the information he got, there was no one with this name in the manor, neither man nor woman. In the current copy context, although it is not common for men to have women's names, there are precedents.

No one in the manor had heard of this name, which was very strange. Han Zu began to think that someone had died in the manor and his bones were buried somewhere in the manor. Because through the background of the copy, the manor had several other owners before it became Magnus's property. Han Zu also knew that the so-called copy was actually a region of varying sizes cut out from parallel worlds at different times by Infinite Company using various means, and the essence of the game warehouse was actually a portal to these places. According to the operating model of a company, no matter how powerful and excellent a company is, there will be employees who are lazy and deserted, so there must be a lot of things in the copy that should have been disposed of, but were not disposed of cleanly.

And this is what Han Zu thinks, someone's bones may be left somewhere in the manor, and this fake system will guide him to find them. Han Zu believes that this thing disguised as a fake system may be related to things like souls. In short, it is haunted. Although he can use internal combustion, which is the same as forcing the real system to shut down, to make the fake system have problems, but at present, this seems to be the most plausible reason. As for whether someone can hack into the Infinite City's system, Han Zu does not think so. Invading the Infinite City's main system is not something a cheater can do.

But nothing is absolute. In order to find out the real reason and to avoid being disturbed by the fake system when dealing with cheaters later, Han Zu followed the guidance of the fake system and came to this place.

This is a very dilapidated building. It looks similar to the layout of other secondary residential buildings in the manor, but it has only three floors, and the style inside is more aged than other normal secondary buildings. In addition, none of the paths built in the manor lead to here. The outer wall of this building is almost covered with parasitic plants. These parasitic plants are extremely strong because no one destroys them. Han Zu took a simple look and found that these parasitic plants that have grown wildly and penetrated into the gaps of the building may be the reason why this dilapidated building has not collapsed.

This place was very strange and dusty. No one had been here for at least years. No one maintained it or took care of it. Han Zu noticed that no one in the manor cared about the existence of such a building, including the owner of the manor, Magnus. The existence of this building was very abrupt, at least according to the information Han Zu obtained before entering the copy, it did not exist.

"This is probably proof that an employee is lazy and slacking off at work." Han Zu thought to himself.

According to the hint given by the fake system before, this thing called Gloria, no matter what it is, should be located on the top floor of this dilapidated building, that is, in a room on the third floor. However, there has not been a real head-on conflict between the cheaters and the players in the manor yet, so Han Zu still has time. He decided to search this abrupt building carefully. With the powerful ability of Blood Mist to collect information, it won't take much time.

"puff!"

His body quickly exploded into a bloody mist, and Han Zu began to search the first floor, but the results of the search were not very important.

There were also old furniture that was equally dilapidated and even broken into pieces, as well as rusty metal decorations. There were also some clothes covered with cobwebs and torn into pieces that were stored or hung in cabinets. There were also books, papers and other things, but due to moisture or other reasons, they would crumble into powder at the slightest touch and become useless.

The only place that made Han Zu feel a little curious was the stairs leading to the basement, but the door there had disappeared, having been blocked by other parasitic plants growing out of the cracks in the building. Observing through the cracks, he saw that the stairs below were also broken.

Han Zu tried to use the blood mist to get through the gaps in the plants, but the blood mist was destructive to a certain extent, and the skin of the plants was extremely fragile. When the blood mist scraped the skin of the plants, some juice would spray out from them, and for some reason, the juice was so special that it could immediately stop Han Zu's blood mist. So Han Zu couldn't use this form to get through the gaps. He thought that this was probably because he didn't fully master the ability of the blood mist. Because he tore off a small piece of these parasitic plants and ate it, except for the taste of the plants, there were no abnormal consequences.

Even if the flames cannot flow out of the body now, as long as Han Zu gets close to them, the heat is enough to instantly ignite these parasitic plants. But he can't do that now, because according to the number of these parasitic plants, Han Zu may directly set the whole building on fire. Not to mention attracting other people's attention, if it destroys what he is looking for, or some other important thing, Han Zu's efforts will be in vain.

The force was enough to tear apart the parasitic plants, but when Han Zu first exerted his strength, he felt the building shaking violently. It seemed that what he had thought before was correct. These parasitic plants were indeed the reason why the dilapidated building had not collapsed. So Han Zu had to temporarily give up the idea of ​​exploring the basement and prepare to go to the second floor to take a look.

The staircase of this building has a very strange layout. It is built on the far left side of the building. The reason why it is strange is not only its layout, but also its structure. It is completely made of wood.

Generally speaking, in the context of this timeline, the stairs in a building of this scale should all be made of polished stone. There are very few wooden stairs, and even if there are, they will not be very long. All the stairs in this building, including the handrails, are made of wood, so of course, these stairs are now rotten. But fortunately, relying on the movement ability of the blood mist, Han Zu still went up to the second floor. However, something even stranger happened. The stairs leading to the second floor were blocked by stones and soil.

Without knowing whether destroying these sealed locations would affect the stability of the building, Han Zu carefully used his little finger to make a small hole in the sealed entrance. Then, he turned into blood mist again and floated in through the small hole. However, after entering, the situation inside did not improve, and everything was weird.

First of all, this floor was very dark. Apart from the small hole Han Zu had just made, there was no other light source. Fortunately, in the blood mist state, Han Zu was not affected by the brightness. Through observation, he found that except for the outer wall, there were no parasitic plants on this floor. However, there were quite a few molds on the ground and in some corners. All the rooms on this floor were like the entrance to the stairs, completely sealed off by stones and soil, making it airtight.

And there is one more thing. After Han Zu released the blood mist form, he found that the temperature of this layer was very high, just like the hot summer at noon. The perceived temperature was at least 40 degrees, and it was very humid. There was also a strong strange smell in the air. As for what it was specifically, Han Zu couldn't say.

After spending some time to open a small hole in each blocked entrance without destroying its integrity, Han Zu used the power of blood mist to observe what was inside these sealed rooms.

There were a large number of skeletons, at least dozens of them. The clothes they originally wore were either rotten or not worn at all. The bones had changed color due to the presence of moisture and mold. Next to them, there were some small plants that seemed to have mutated. It was at this time that Han Zu figured out what the strange and strong smell he was smelling was.

First of all, the smell was a mixture of rotten and moldy smells, which came from the skeletons, or their original appearance. Then there was a unique and strong fragrance, which came from the small plants near the pile of skeletons. The two smells combined together to form what Han Zu smelled now. The smell was so strong that Han Zu couldn't help but frown.

Han Zu had no idea why these skeletons appeared in this place. A thorough investigation might very likely destroy the integrity and stability of the building. So after finding nothing else worthy of note, Han Zu returned the same way and left this floor.

Continuing upwards along the rotten stairs, Han Zu finally arrived at the third floor. The situation here was slightly better than the second floor, but only slightly better.

There is a big hole in the roof at the right corner of the third floor. The parasitic plants that are entangled with each other did not repair the hole, but instead formed a funnel-like shape. It is conceivable that there will be a puddle of rainwater under the hole.

The puddle is not small, about two or three meters in size, but not deep, only about twenty to thirty centimeters. However, because it is stagnant water, not flowing water, the stagnant water has become smelly, and the water body is covered with algae. It can be seen that parasitic plants once lived in it, but now they have rotted away. The puddle is surrounded by slippery moss, which is more humid than other places, at least near the puddle.

There weren't many rooms on the third floor. Although the area was larger, most of them were empty due to decay and parasitic plants. So Han Zu quickly searched the third floor in the form of blood mist. In a room not far from the puddle, Han Zu found the so-called "Gloria". To be honest, its true form also surprised Han Zu a little.

In one of the rooms, Han Zu found several skeletons covered by parasitic plants, and a woman who was cut into several parts. The reason why it was called a woman and not a skeleton was that although the woman's body was also covered by parasitic plants, she did not rot, and even her facial features were relatively clear and easy to identify, of course, if those parasitic plants had not grown into her eye sockets.

However, after careful inspection, Han Zu found something wrong. First of all, this woman was not a normal person, but a cyborg who had undergone extensive mechanized transformation. In fact, she was a bit like the assassination forces under the board of directors, but the model of this woman's body was obviously more backward than those people. It was even more backward than the cyborg that Han Zu had seen in the copy of the space station a long time ago, Letty. Compared with them, it was not an exaggeration to say that the body of the woman in front of him was a prototype.

According to the traces and clues that can still be preserved at the scene, there are many traces of sharp weapons and bullets on the woman's modified body, but now these places are full of parasitic plants, and the specific weapon models cannot be seen.

But these are not the most important things. The most important thing is that the woman is actually still alive.

As for why Han Zu confirmed this, it was because the "fake system" could no longer perform, or in other words, it was forced into a desperate situation by Han Zu.

After the "fake system" was restarted and Han Zu entered the dilapidated building, the "fake system" had been conveying messages to Han Zu intentionally or unintentionally, wanting him to get to this location as soon as possible. After discovering the body of this cyborg, the anxious message was actually exposed. This thing disguised as a system should be someone else. Combined with the current situation, it can only be that cyborg.

But if this is the case, it proves that the cyborg in front of him is capable and has hacked into the Infinite City's system, which does not match her outdated body. The damage to the body cannot be faked in terms of time, which means that the cyborg's body was destroyed into this state a long time ago, at least a year ago, which was when he just learned about the Infinite City. As for why this is not the time when this copy was first blocked, it is because although the body is outdated, it is not the earliest prototype model, and that kind of prototype does not have the ability to remotely invade the system, not to mention that it requires a large number of native limbs. The person in front of him has obviously been modified in many areas. Han Zu estimates that she is like other cyborgs now, only the brain is not mechanized. After all, this technology has not been around for a long time.

After investigating the cyborg's body, Han Zu did not plan to continue investigating immediately. Instead, he prepared to return to the first floor and go to the basement to take a look. However, as soon as Han Zu left the cyborg's body, the "fake system" would immediately send a message, asking Han Zu to take the cyborg's body away. Han Zu played tricks on the "fake system" several times for fun, but ended up breaking its defense. He simply gave up and got so angry that he even started cursing. At least that was what Han Zu read from the textual and voice-activated "system prompts."

"Are you out of your mind? I told you to take me away! Take me away!!!"

However, after breaking the defense, the "fake system" immediately realized that it had been fooled. Although the man squatting in front of it had no facial features for some reason, it always felt that he was grinning with ill intentions.

"rustle..."

The man in front of her used his sharp fingertips to scratch the skin on his face without any facial features, and used it as a writing board, writing something. He must be trying to communicate with her. However, when the "fake system", that is, Gloria, saw what he wrote, her defense was broken again and she started cursing.

There are only three words and two punctuation marks written on the "writing board", which together read:

"Ha! Are you anxious?"

"Fuck...!!!"

However, just as Gloria was cursing, she suddenly stopped because she found that the man was groping on the damaged body of her machine, as if looking for something.

"You're looking for... me!"

"Kabang!"

The head of Gloria's body was violently pulled off by Han Zu without any warning. To a certain extent, Han Zu did "rescue" Gloria from the hell inhabited by parasitic plants.