Chapter 874 The Little Boy

"The police department?" Bailey was taken aback.

Lin Hui walked towards the police station and explained, "The dungeon notification says that the anomalies will begin to resurface on the day the red moon appears."

"As the city's law enforcement agency, the Public Security Bureau will most likely retain police reports or internal documents from the early days of the Red Moon. Going there to find clues will be much more efficient than us wandering around the streets aimlessly."

At this point, he stopped and glanced back at Bailey: "Concentrate this time. This is a nightmare-level dungeon, so don't get distracted."

Bailey blushed and lowered her head in shame: "Please rest assured, Mr. Lin! I will definitely not do it again!"

Lin Hui corrected, "In the dungeon, remember to call me the Jade Emperor."

Bailey immediately realized this was Mr. Lin's usual tactic to avoid revealing his real-world identity in the instance. She straightened her back and said earnestly, "Yes! Mr. Jade Emperor!"

Lin Hui nodded in satisfaction, and as he stepped into the police station, he casually asked, "By the way, what's your specialty?"

Bailey said directly, "Spiritual Arts - Contract."

"A contract?" Lin Hui's eyes flickered slightly.

The fifth seat of the Human Alliance, a demigod named Afar, seems to have ascended to demigod status through the power of the contract.

Bailey said awkwardly, "My specialization is practically bottom-tier in this dungeon; I can only play support roles..."

Is it because you can't bring your contracted creatures into the dungeon, nor can you contract with players stronger than yourself? Lin Hui wondered to himself, then casually reassured them, "It's alright."

He was just trying to be prepared for any unexpected situations that might arise.

As they spoke, the two arrived at the lobby of the police station on the first floor.

Lin Hui's eyes immediately fell on the huge electronic mechanical clock on the wall directly opposite the door.

[March 21, 12:00 PM.]

The watch that Gray and Blue Fox found outside kept perfect time, down to the second.

Lin Hui withdrew his gaze and casually pushed open the door of a room next to him that should be an archives room.

The room remained empty.

Lin Hui walked to a desk and wanted to pick up a newspaper from it.

However, the moment his fingers touched the edge of the newspaper, the paper, as if weathered for a thousand years, instantly crumbled into a fine gray powder.

"It's all turned to powder?" Lin Hui frowned slightly.

At this moment, Belle, who was following behind, showed a strange expression on her face: "Mr. Jade Emperor, don't you feel that... something is wrong here?"

"Something's not right?"

Bailey pointed to the ashes on the table: "The papers here crumble at the slightest touch, which means this city has been abandoned for quite some time!"

"But smell the air! The doors and windows are tightly closed, and it never sees sunlight, yet there's not even a hint of mold in the air!"

Lin Hui nodded slightly upon hearing this.

Not only was there no musty smell, but this city, which had been abandoned for who knows how many years, didn't even have a single weed or vine!

If this were a city on Earth, and humans disappeared for three to five years, all sorts of plants would have already pierced through the asphalt and climbed all over the skyscrapers.

Microorganisms decompose all wood and paper, filling the air with a putrid and damp smell.

But there's nothing here.

There are no fungi, no weeds, and no insects.

This world seems to have been stripped of all vitality!

"Mr. Jade Emperor, what should we do now?" Belle asked softly. "Should we continue searching for information related to the Red Moon?"

Lin Hui nodded and said, "Let's find it. Paper exposed to air will turn to powder, but if it's sealed in a closed space, it might be preserved."

For the next half hour, the two turned the police station upside down.

Finally, in a spacious director's office on the top floor, Lin Hui, relying on his terrifying physical strength, tore open a wall-mounted safe made of an unknown alloy with his bare hands.

Inside the safe, Lin Hui found two top-secret documents that hadn't been completely pulverized.

Although the edges of the paper were extremely fragile and the writing on it was somewhat blurred due to its age, Lin Hui was still able to piece together two pieces of intelligence through the system's real-time translation:

First: [On the evening of March 18th, the first day the Red Moon appeared. An unusual incident occurred in the 'Iris Flower Street' of the North District of Ent City: 3 residents died mysteriously, their deaths extremely bizarre...]

Second: [On March 20th, the Ente City Health and Safety Bureau issued a supreme joint directive: Effective immediately, "Red Hair Disease" is classified as a Level 4 infectious disease of annihilation level! Upon discovery of any Red Hair Disease patient in any area (regardless of whether they retain human sanity), the Bureau of Public Security has the absolute right to open fire without trial! Immediately kill, burn on the spot, or bury deeply! Never make eye contact with them for more than seven seconds!]

"A person with red hair disease?"

"Are they those red-haired creatures?"

Just as Lin Hui was deep in thought, the black communicator next to his ear suddenly came the voice of Leo, the young man in the baseball cap:

"Everyone! Can you hear me? This is Leo! Blue Fox and I have made a major discovery!"

Gray calmly replied, "Understood. What did you find?"

The young man in the baseball cap whispered, "Blue Fox and I found a living person! A little boy, about seven or eight years old!"

"What?!" Gray exclaimed in surprise. "Where?"

The young man in the baseball cap: "We're in the north of the city, on a street called... Iris Street!"

Iris Flower Street!

Lin Hui's gaze suddenly sharpened.

The top-secret document in the safe just now mentioned that the place where 156 people died mysteriously on the first day of the Red Moon was Iris Flower Street!

Without hesitation, Lin Hui pressed the communication button. "I just found a file at the police station! On the first day of the Red Moon, an anomaly occurred in Iris Flower Street, resulting in the deaths of 156 people!"

Upon hearing Lin Hui's intelligence, several gasps of surprise were heard over the channel.

Gray said, "Leo, Blue Fox! You two mustn't make any rash moves. Just keep an eye on him quietly until we all regroup!"

"clear!"

"Let's go to the North District." Lin Hui put the documents into his alternate dimension, waved to Bailey, and the two of them moved through the ruins under the red moon.

Ten minutes later, the eight players, who were scattered throughout the city, successfully met at the top of a clock tower on the outskirts of the Iris Street in the North District.

"There it is." The young man in the baseball cap leaned over the gargoyle statue on the clock tower and pointed ahead.

Lin Hui, Gray, and the others looked in the direction he was pointing and saw a three-story red brick building.

A little boy who looks only seven or eight years old, with a head of bright blond hair, is sitting quietly on the edge of the rooftop.

He was wearing a clean white short-sleeved shirt and blue shorts.

In this dusty city, the little boy was completely free of dirt and had not a single red hair.

Just like a normal little boy.

He sat quietly on the edge of the rooftop, his legs dangling in the air, his gaze fixed on the street below.

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