Five fingers slowly loosened, High Life put away the black and white photo of the first working group of the Unicorn Game into his bag, he looked not much different from before, but some special emotions were hidden in the depths of his eyes.
"After the disaster truly erupts, things a hundred times more brutal than this are possible."Xuan Wen watched the shadows fade, "I thought you'd be used to all this from working in a felony prison."
"Let's go back to Nightlight Studio."High Life interrupted Xuan Wen, "There are only four floors in the escape site, there are no living people on the three floors below, the murderer should be hiding on the 13th floor, and the murderer might even be one of the Night Light's staff."
"Everyone has their own choices, leave it alone and the ghosts will kill too, and the number of ghosts will increase this way, maybe everyone will die in the end."Xuan Wen spread her hands, "That guy made his choice, and he happened to have the power to fulfil his choice."
"The ghost didn't do anything, and that guy killed seven people."
"But he saved the others too."
The lights in the building flickered a few times, and after the shadows had all faded, the lights in the building returned completely to normal, indicating that the game was completely over.
This was the third game that High Life had experienced, and the one that had affected him the most.
Returning to the doorway of the Night Lights Game office, High Life looked inside, where everyone was already working at full capacity.
"Next."Zhang Wang threw a bottle of energy drink to Gao Life: "Getting older, if this was a few years ago, it wouldn't have been a problem for me to pull an all-nighter!"
Everyone didn't give that text message a second thought, and they didn't know that they had brushed shoulders with the Grim Reaper, or in other words, they didn't yet know that the Grim Reaper was sitting amongst them.
Gao Life scanned everyone in the office, and they all behaved as usual, not seeing any abnormalities at all.
"Teacher Xia, did you go downstairs just now?"
"I heard someone shouting for help downstairs, so I went over to take a look, the safe passage was dark, I couldn't see anything, so I came back."Xia Yang was drawing the latest murder scene on the computer, his drawing style is often difficult to understand, there is a kind of maniacal and chaotic beauty: "You know, I'm very timid."
"Where's that delivery man?Didn't I ask you to keep an eye on him?"High Life didn't see the delivery man at the door.
"As soon as the lights went on, the person called the police and ran away, I suspect this is his prank."Xia Yang leaned against the back of his chair, "We're just doing a horror game, we can't really tie him up because of a text message, right?"
The cat's purr sounded, the office door was pushed open again, Wei Dayou cursed and entered the studio, "This building in charge is so unlikeable, there isn't even an electrician on duty."
"Dayou, you just went to the power distribution room?"
"I was close to kicking in the door!If I didn't have my mobile phone, I would have complained about it just now."Wei Dayou returned to his workstation and started working as well.
Gao Ming chatted with all the staff in the nightlight studio, and none of them had a "problem".
The police arrived at the back and told everyone to stay inside the studio and not to go out.Only then did everyone realise that something had happened in the building, but no one knew exactly what.
At around 1:00 a.m., Manager Gou, who was not wearing a wig, was called to the studio, where he was locked in a small room to talk to the police.
Manager Gou felt puzzled by the police's questions, and his astonished voice could be heard through the door panel: "I really don't understand what you're talking about!I'll retry again, we are simply doing the game!The most offensive behaviour these people under me have ever done is to pick up a keyboard and curse."
"This is our planner Wei Dayou, looking very strong, in fact, even small bugs are afraid, inside is a teenage girl!The main beauty Lao Xia, you say which bad guy is as weak as him?A square dance aunt can even dry him out with one punch."
"Her name is Xuan Wen, our newly recruited little girl, gentle and soft, shy when she sees strangers talking.If she can make seven people disappear, I'll eat this table for you right now on the spot!"
"It's not that I'm excited, it's that you guys are outrageous!"
The North City police conducted questioning one by one, and at around three in the morning, High Life was called to a room on the tenth floor alone.
After the police turned off all the surveillance and recorders, they turned around and walked out, leaving Gao Life alone.
A full half hour passed before the door to the room was opened again, and instead of the police, three people in black uniforms came in, all of them wearing a black ring device on their wrists.
"Bureau of Investigation?"
"Take it easy."The man in the lead was less than one metre six, but his aura was exceptionally powerful: "I am the North City Investigation Sub-bureau of Hanhai, the Future Science Park Sub-district, and the Deputy Director of the Investigation Department, Cen Coffin."
"Are you looking for me for something?"
"This person you should know."A tall, thin man following Cen Coffin walked up to Gao Life, and the black ring on his wrist projected a video on the desktop - a disfigured-faced investigator earnestly recommended Gao Life to the Investigation Bureau.
"He went through a Level 3 anomaly with me, and told me a few things about the Bureau."High Life propped his hands on his chin, "Are you here to arrest me?"
The tall, thin man shook his head and closed the black ring before saying faintly, "He died two hours ago."
"Died?"High Life didn't even know the disfigured investigator's name yet.
"He was drawn to East Hays to carry out a mission and died in the middle of a Level 3 anomaly."The tall and thin man sat down on a chair and signalled the other two members of the Investigation Bureau to both sit down as well, "We came here in the hope that you can join the Investigation Bureau."
The investigator who followed at the end placed the black box he was carrying in his hands on the table, he entered the password and opened the lid, which contained a blood-stained black ring.
"Qin Tian and I are both from Xinhu, he is my most trusted henchman, and he told me all about your various behaviours in the unusual incident.Calmness, decisiveness, bravery, strong mental qualities
Extraordinary mind, you seem to exist to solve abnormal events."The tall and thin man's voice is calm and powerful, he has long been accustomed to seeing life and death: "Qin Tian was very excited and happy when he was telling me this, since his wife and child died in the abnormal event, this is the first time he has ever shown a smile, and he said that he sees hope in you."
"That investigator is called Qin Tian ... "The anomalous event is a game, but it has also long exceeded the scope of the game, the seven staff members of the Unicorn Studio, as well as the investigators who escaped from the game together yesterday, they have all been buried in the middle of another world.
"Hays Investigation General Bureau, under the jurisdiction of nineteen sub-bureaus, corresponding to the nineteen districts of Hays.We, the Old Town Branch, are further subdivided into five investigation bureaus, Li Shan, Jin Wan, Fuding, Pukou, and Dazhai, according to the boundaries and population."The tall and thin man looked at Gao Life, "Hanhai's population is twice as large as Xinhu's, and we are severely understaffed after the unusual events appeared.The newly recruited investigators who haven't experienced abnormal events have an extremely high mortality rate, and the number of veteran investigators who can take them on is too small, so we need to absorb ordinary people like you who have experienced abnormal events."
"Joining the Bureau of Investigation is indeed a very dangerous thing, but if we don't face it positively, when something gets out of control, even more terrible things will happen."Cen Coffin spoke, "No one can hide from it, and understanding the disaster one step earlier might be a better choice for you."
"I'll think about it again."With his own power, it would be difficult for High Life to find the strange stories that were growing in the city, joining the Bureau of Investigation was indeed a good choice.
The source of the disaster was on him, and if he moved up the ladder step by step and became the director of the Hays Investigations Directorate, then he could probably be considered to have investigated the disaster.
"Almost no ordinary person can solve a Level 3 anomaly on their own, and your appearance meets our highest recruitment standards."The tall, thin man made himself appear as sincere as possible, "We won't set you up with mandatory missions or overly interfere in your life, you have full autonomy."
"So what if I want to leave Hanhai and go to another city?"Gao Life wanted to go to Xinhu, but with the heavy rain closing the roads, he didn't have that opportunity for the time being.
"In the future, there might be traffic control, and only people from the Investigation Bureau will be free to travel anywhere."The tall and thin man made a promise, "If you are willing to join the Investigation Bureau, we will give you high permissions to travel freely."
"Traffic control?"
A fierce battle of thoughts was taking place in High Life's brain as he stared at the black ring placed amongst the black box.
Blood stained, the blood-stained black ring seemed like a piece of the gears of fate.