stonecrandall Chapter 8 The Mist
Chapter 8 The Mist
While dreaming ambitious dreams in the Special Phenomena class.
A "cleaner" who had just seen Light Yagami off was hiding in a secluded, deserted underpass.
Xu Yuan opened the system panel and glanced at it.
"Examine the corpse of the counterpart."
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[The corpse of Cosmic Correlator No. 77]
Type: Item/Special
Quality: Special
Effect: unknown
Evaluation: Maybe it'll be useful, who knows? But there's no doubt it's extremely rare. After all, in a sense, it's your corpse.
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This place is very remote; there's no one here and no surveillance cameras.
Xu Yuan took the body out.
He turned on his phone's flashlight and carefully examined the area, but still couldn't find any wounds.
This made him frown.
After collecting the body, Xu Yuan began searching through his phone, hoping to find some clues.
There are unread WeChat messages.
Zhang Kaicheng: "Not coming back tonight?"
He looked through their chat history and concluded they were probably roommates.
After skipping over that, Xu Yuan continued searching for clues.
However, after searching for a long time, I still couldn't find anything useful.
The interpersonal relationships of isotopes are very simple.
He doesn't usually get in touch with anyone.
The latest news on WeChat and Line comes either from self-media or from group messages.
Those groups weren't anything special.
It's either a family group or a classmate group.
Or perhaps it's a gaming group.
In addition, he was an orphan.
My parents died in a car accident a few years ago.
My grandparents and maternal grandparents have also passed away.
His parents left him two houses, as well as cars, bank deposits, stock funds, and other assets after their deaths.
His guardian is his uncle.
Because he lived at school at the time, his uncle rented out all the houses.
The monthly rental income is around 10,000.
During the period of trusteeship, the uncle did not embezzle the inheritance.
Although he was only given two thousand dollars a month for living expenses during high school, his entire estate was handed over to him after he came of age.
This includes rental income and investment returns from those years.
All accounts are clear and detailed.
Xu Yuan opened Alipay, mobile banking, and Tonghuashun apps and found that his savings, stocks, and funds totaled about two million RMB.
They also receive more than 10,000 yuan in rent every month.
Clearly, the isotopes are not living in poverty.
In addition, he has an ex-girlfriend who is also an international student.
But the two have already broken up.
The other party made the suggestion because she was going back to her home country.
However, all of this happened six months ago.
Xu Yuan searched for a long time but couldn't find anything like a diary, which made him a little angry.
He doesn't even keep a diary! He's actually a decent person!
In short, everything is normal.
No reason was found for the isotope to commit suicide.
Besides, shouldn't someone who wants to commit suicide on the rooftop jump? How did they die silently on the rooftop?
Did he go to the rooftop to overdose and commit suicide?
That would be too strange.
It was definitely murder.
But why did he go to the rooftop?
There were no signs of binding on his body.
Why would he go to the rooftop of an abandoned building on a rainy night?
What was he doing there?
Or were you threatened?
Who killed him?
What methods were used?
Medication? Or something else?
Could it be related to those fantastical creatures?
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【Ding--】
You have a new task.
[Mission Objective: Investigate the truth behind the death of Cosmic Correlator 77.]
[Task Reward: Unknown]
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A new task.
Moreover, there is no penalty for failure.
After spending a considerable amount of time going through his phone, Xu Yuan gained some understanding of isotopes.
She is 20 years old this year and was originally studying at a university in the country.
Because I wanted to study at a better university, I took a leave of absence and came to Japan to study.
Currently attending a language school in Shinjuku.
A language school is a place that specializes in teaching Japanese, and it can provide student visas for up to two years.
It can be considered a stepping stone to studying in Japan.
Genuine international students can use this to prepare for exams in Japan.
Fake international students can use this to find part-time jobs.
As a college student who owns a car and a house, has two million yuan in liquid funds, and has already achieved great success in life before even entering the workforce, he is quite ambitious.
He is a somewhat idealistic person.
In addition, he seems to have been busy working part-time since about six months ago.
This was found in the chat history of the classmates' group.
Someone mentioned that "Xu Yuan is working part-time."
As for what kind of work he does, no one knows. All they know is that he disappears from time to time, seemingly very busy.
In fact, some teachers even tagged him several times.
Remind him not to skip classes, as attendance not only affects his university application but also his visa.
Is this... reasonable?
Would a student who is studying abroad to get into a better university and who is not short of money spend a lot of time, energy and physical strength working part-time?
They even skipped classes for it?!
Xu Yuan checked his Japanese bank account.
No related financial transactions were found.
Did they give me cash?
There's something strange about this.
A rooftop on a rainy night, a bizarre cause of death, and a mysterious part-time job that keeps disappearing...
"System, was he your previous host?"
If the isotope is the previous host of the system, then everything makes sense.
He was caught off guard while doing a mission.
【no. 】
But thinking about it, it makes sense.
If he was the system's previous host, the system would definitely know how he died.
Why would they assign him an investigation task?
With no leads and no further clues, Xu Yuan had no choice but to put the matter aside for the time being.
Turn off your phone and put it in your inventory.
The phone can be located, and since I've already checked most of the items inside, I'll just put them in my inventory.
He didn't believe that he could still be located this way.
Next comes the enhancement.
As Xu Yuan was thinking, his ears suddenly twitched slightly.
With a "plop" sound!
It seems something has fallen into the water.
The sound was a little distant, but it was exceptionally clear in the quiet, cold winter night.
Xu Yuan poked his head out of the bridge arch and looked at another bridge not far away; that must be it.
Should we go take a look?
After a slight hesitation, he decided to go and take a look.
Running to that area, Xu Yuan could vaguely see someone struggling in the water, even in the dim light.
But the person stopped moving after only a few struggles.
"System, how long will it take to strengthen my physical body to level one?"
If it were an ordinary person with good physical fitness, Xu Yuan wouldn't have gone into the river to save someone in the dead of winter when it was still pitch black.
Doing that would only get him into trouble.
But the first order is different.
The monster that Yagami Tsuki transformed into was of the first tier.
If I had that kind of physical ability, rescuing someone from the river wouldn't be a problem.
He's not the kind of person who jumps into the river on a whim.
But they weren't so indifferent as to stand by and watch someone die.
[Approximately six minutes.]
"Then... let's strengthen it."
[100 points deducted.]