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Chapter 690 - 363: Identity Exposed_1

Chapter 690: Chapter 363: Identity Exposed_1

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The continuous prompts made Mu You pause.

He wasn’t particularly surprised by the death, but what really surprised him was that this death text didn’t describe any process at all.

In previous deaths, at least the course of being killed and the conditions of the killer would be reminded, such as when he was killed by Granny Tang not long ago, the text at least told him he was killed by Shadow Ghost, but this time there was no description at all.

This was the first kind of death without any hints since he entered the game.

Mu You hurriedly pressed the pocket watch and tried other attack methods.

[You changed into the Vampire skin, leapt out from the swarm of insects again, and after appearing, you released the Small Fireball Technique towards the distant platform.]

[However, before your Fireball could form, some terrifying entity in the darkness above the platform locked onto you...]

[You feel a strong pressure coming at you, making you unable to move, your consciousness blurring...]

[You have died...]

"Rewind..."

Mu You helplessly pressed on the pocket watch again.

The result was the same even after he used the Vampire skin. Except for a slight change in the text, the whole process was the same. The moment he appeared, an ’entity’ above would awake, and he would die instantly...

It seemed that the ’monster’ repeatedly mentioned in Louise’s diary really wasn’t just a casual mention. However, to describe this thing as just a ’monster’ was too euphemistic.

Finally, Mu You reversed it a few times, trying to break through from other directions.

All attempts failed. The entire area around the platform was that ’thing’s hunting ground. The circular Gu Venom Pool around the platform was like a moat protecting the central platform, but it was more accurate to say that the insects were there to separate the platform from other areas, preventing anyone from inadvertently venturing in and discovering that thing’s existence.

Suddenly, there was a flurry of footsteps.

In just a few seconds, Stick Man came and went, reappearing on the platform.

"President, do you have instructions?"

After a silence of several seconds in the darkness, another voice came.

"Today’s Gu Venom Pool seems a bit discordant... Go see if anything has slipped in."

"Yes."

Stick Man immediately jumped into the Gu Venom Pool. All the insects, subdued by the Golden Silkworm, scattered instantly. Wherever he went, all the insects made way.

Stick Man thoroughly probed the entire area of the Gu Venom Pool without finding any abnormalities.

"President, nothing was found," Stick Man reported once he returned to the platform.

"A misperception..."

The other voice muttered to himself, and then after a while continued: "Keep a closer eye in the future, don’t let any creature enter."

"I understand, the entrance here is well hidden. And with my personal guard, unless with my permission, no one would be able to get close to the entrance" said Stick Man.

"Merely guarding against humans is not enough. Sky City is now anchored at the Cook Islands. Those fools always have some strange abilities. Watch out for the activities of those fools, and it would be best if not even an insect were to come in!" said the other person.

"Yes."

After Stick Man replied, he excused himself and quickly vanished.

Once again, silence descended.

It was many minutes later when a muffled growl suddenly echoed from the darkness on the platform.

Accompanied by the sound, all the insects below began to roil. Those nearest the platform retreated like the tide, exposing a ring of ground in the pool. Their retreat continued, squeezing farther and farther toward the edge of the pool until they stopped at their limit.

The insects, all trembling and piled together, didn’t dare to move. On the vacant side of the Gu Venom Pool, everything at the bottom of the pool was exposed.

At some moment, a tiny object drifted gently from a crack in the ground and fell onto the platform.

It was a piece of metal, smaller than a grain of sand, shaped like the hind leg of an arthropod.

...

On the other side, Mu You had already retraced his steps and returned to the sewage pipe.

When he noticed Stick Man going back and forth, he had already retreated back into the sewer pipe.

As for the Golden Cocoon, he hadn’t touched it yet, after all, someone was watching the Gu Venom Pool nearby at all times. If he moved, it would be too obvious.

By the time the Game Character crawled back out of the pipe, it was already broad daylight in the real world.

Mu You temporarily exited the game, checking the messages on his satellite phone.

The overnight meeting between the Exchange Group and the Defense Society had concluded. After a night of discussion, Japan finally produced a reasonably reliable response: A nationwide sweep and surveillance!

Based on the information, these Shadow Men may perfectly mimic human looks, but the cycle and cost of obtaining a shadow shouldn’t be low, otherwise there wouldn’t only be a single-digit amount of personnel from the government infiltrated after all these years.

As for the few who didn’t show up for the self-check last night, after a follow-up investigation, it was found that they had all disappeared for a period of one to two months in the past five years.

From this, we can conclude that to get a shadow, these Shadow Men must kidnap someone, at least for a month, before they can replace them.