Artifact Report

Chapter 141 Chai Si He watched the video

Before going home, Han Liuyue said hello to several hunters with whom he was on good terms.

She said she was tired after a day and a night and was ready to go home and have a good sleep.

She said that she felt very sorry and sad about the hunters who were injured and killed in the cemetery, and decided to go to the hospital to visit the wounded after getting up tomorrow. She also asked the Kai family when they would arrange their funeral.

...Overall, she seemed to really believe that she was Han Liuyue.

It was as if she had just changed her shell, but the essence underneath the shell remained unchanged.

Judging from her behavior, it seemed to be true: not only did she return the camera to Kai's house safely, she also handed over the paper bag artifact and the red hair found in the empty coffin to Chai Si.

Was it due to Han Liuyue's final sense of responsibility? Or was there some other reason?
"Han-Han Liuyue has not left the house since returning home,"

The subordinate who was talking on the phone had a slightly trembling voice when he mentioned the name "Han Liuyue".

"She must be sleeping, just as she said. From my rooftop view, after she drew the bedroom curtains, the lights went out and she hasn't moved since. There's been no report of her leaving through the main entrance."

Chai Si said "hmm" in a deep voice.

Ever since Han Liuyue - let's call her that for now - left his room, Chai Si had placed two hunters behind her to follow her.

From what she said to whom when she went out, which route she took home, whether she had contact with anyone on the way... even the way she tied her hair, Chai Si asked his subordinates to report and describe it in detail.

Because he also wanted to know what her ears and skin would look like when Han Liuyue tied up her long straight black hair, which she had never worn before.

After asking, he remembered that he had never looked closely at Han Liuyue's ears and skin before.

"Just keep an eye on her tonight and don't move. Don't let her visit the hospital tomorrow," Chai Si said, suppressing an inexplicable anger. "Those who are still alive will die too if they see her like this."

"Understood," the subordinate replied. "What if she makes any unusual moves?"

"Then tie him back to me." Chai Si said and hung up the phone.

It is a turbulent time now, and manpower is already tight, and two people have to be assigned to monitor Han Liuyue.

In addition, she usually has a good relationship with people, so this incident immediately added another layer of panic to the Kai family.

As the second-in-command, Chai Si spent half an hour just to appease people; Huang Li was recruited by Han Liuyue, and in order to hold Huang Li down and prevent her from rashly entering the nest, he had to get angry.

When Han Liuyue comes back——

He pinched his eyebrows.

...if I could come back.

Chai Si took a deep breath and leaned back in his chair.

Uncle Kai's injuries were not serious, and he has been secretly discharged from the hospital. He will be receiving treatment from a private doctor at home and does not need to stay in the hospital for the time being. The red hair will also be sent to the laboratory tomorrow to see if any useful information can be detected.

He glanced at his watch.

11:43... In 17 minutes, it will be the 21st.

Chai Si thought about it and turned on the computer again.

Even if only 30% of Vesile's memories were recorded, there were still an incredible amount of content worth exploring and clues worth pursuing - he was sure that among the contestants, he should be the first to know about the existence of the "false image report".

...In the last "artifact report" that Vesile obtained, the third action point was to find a way to transfer the pathway.

As long as you complete this action, you will receive the next artifact report; and in the next report, there will be a 95% chance that the target artifact of "Domination of the Game" will appear.

With such a high probability, Weisilai will definitely focus on it and work hard to find it.

If someone in Blackmore City already knows how to divert the passage... perhaps there is a passage waiting to be taken away.

As long as he follows the traces left by Vesile, he can find it?
Can he also have access?

Chai Si raised his big hand with white scars on it and brushed the fallen hair back.

Even though his hair was already neatly combed, he couldn't help but run his fingers through it two or three times, as if hoping to calm himself down.

There's just one problem.

It will be a time-consuming and laborious process to find clues to the "pathway" from the countless fragments of Vesile's life.

...He didn't know if Han Liuyue still had time.

Chai Si closed his eyes and let out a long breath.

He cursed Han Liuyue in a low voice, unable to contain his annoyance, and simply lowered the indoor temperature a few degrees - he finally made up his mind.

He clicked on the video from the fixed camera and moved the progress bar to the part where Han Liuyue was about to "cut off the view".

Chai Si pressed pause and observed the screen carefully.

This is a video from a camera on a tripod; at this moment, Han Liuyue is standing on the left side of the screen because he needs to hold the camera with one hand.

He couldn't see Han Liuyue in the camera image, he could only see her blurry shadow on the floor - even with such a blurry shadow, he could tell that part of her head was square, because that was the shadow cast by the supermarket paper bag on her neck.

Filling the center of the picture is a piece of candle that is gradually melting; the candle wax hangs down in the air, revealing a small image of Jin Xueli, who is about seventeen or eighteen years old.

On the right side of the picture is a vulture whose joints were temporarily removed by Han Liuyue.

There seemed to be a bit of Jin Xueli's expression left on the vulture's face, but it was distorted and out of tune, and only the human features could be barely seen.

With its joints broken, it couldn't stand up and could only fall limply to the ground, like a piece of melted ice cream falling out of a cone.

Removing the joints was merely a precautionary measure—after all, the vulture would recover in no time. A rope still clung to it, sliding across the ground, through the camera lens, and disappearing into Han Liuyue's hand on the left. From what Chai Si knew about her, this rope was the true preventative measure.

Not to mention hurting people, even if the vulture sneezes, its movements will be transmitted along the rope and into Han Liuyue's hands.

The vultures probably know this too.

Chai Si pressed play.

"...As for Brother Chai Si, how are you going to hide Jin Xueli's history from the audience? I'll leave this difficult question to you."

From the side of the screen, Han Liuyue's calm voice came: "Goodbye, Brother Chai Si."

After saying this, she turned off the handheld camera.

A blurry figure bends down; the handheld camera is placed on the ground with a soft thud.

Chase snorted softly through his nose.

Like Han Liuyue, if nothing unexpected happens, he should now be included in Jin Xueli's "novel world" and become one of the character perspectives.

Although it is hard to believe, we still have to assume that there are "audiences" watching him at this moment, watching everything he sees.

However, this did not affect what he was about to do.

He already knew what to do.

This may be a method that only he can use.

If the audience can only see the world through him, then as long as he disagrees, Jin Xueli's secret will not be exposed.

As long as he doesn't cooperate and uses his willpower to build a wall between himself and the audience, even if the audience is blinded, they still won't be able to see any information.

Chai Si turned off the computer sound.

On the computer screen, candle wax gradually fell and rippled into a lake in the air.

Nearly ten years ago, Jin Xueli's biggest secret was beginning to play out frame by frame on the screen.

However, all of Chai Si's attention was focused on Jin Xueli's secret.

If Jin Xueli is like a newborn puppy who can't suppress his curiosity and whose attention is always drawn to the slightest movement, then Chai Si is the other extreme.

When he concentrated his attention, the world seemed to be wiped white and receded, and only he and the target he was staring at were left in the world.

In the next hour, Jin Xueli's secret was like the scenes of a movie playing, switching and flickering in the candle wax, casting bright and dark shadows on the ground - but not a single shot was taken into Chai Si's field of vision.

For an hour, he stared silently at the vulture and Han Liuyue's shadow on the ground.

Boredom, curiosity or irritability are all just distant and unfamiliar nouns.

He has endless patience and self-control to catch his prey.

An hour passed, and Chai Si remained motionless. Jin Xueli's secret might be over, but he couldn't let go of his attention rashly; besides, he still had to wait for Han Liuyue to appear on screen again.

"Her secret is over," Han Liuyue's voice rang out from off-screen. "Everything is fine now. I was so worried for so long. You can go home now."

As she spoke, she walked into the picture, approached the candle, turned off the flame, and then took off the paper bag on her head - revealing a face that looked like a Noh mask.

The vulture didn't seem surprised at all and chuckled quietly.

Chai Si pressed pause and turned off the video.

He has already collected the information that needs to be collected.

1. The vulture did not move during this hour.

Perhaps because it had also experienced a lot of torture, or perhaps because it knew that it would be noticed if it moved, it had been lying obediently on the ground to rest - only once, it suddenly turned its head slightly towards Han Liuyue.

It stared at Han Liuyue's back without blinking. After a few minutes, a distorted expression, not sure whether it was a smile or anger, appeared on its distorted face, and then it turned away.

Chase checked the time; it was around half past five.

2. At half past five, Han Liuyue's shadow did not change.

Rather, during the entire time that Chai Si was staring at her, her shadow never changed at all; there was nothing extra nearby, let alone anyone else's reflection.

She was standing facing the wall...

In other words, the thing that hit Han Liuyue came out from the direction of the wall. It is not known whether it was small in size, blocked by Han Liuyue, or it had no shape at all.

It seems that the next step is to go to the exhibition hall to look for clues.

It turns out that we should find a way out.

Chai Si thought about it and opened the video file recorded by the handheld camera.

...He was sure that the "audience" had not been able to learn any information about Jin Xueli's secret from him just now.

And never will.

　The second half of the title is, so what?
　　By the way, I can only read more serious homosexual literature like Brokeback Mountain. I don’t know why, but I can’t read BL at all.

　　There are quite a few articles with novel and interesting settings, and I am very interested in reading them, but the words "top" and "bottom" in the text make it difficult for me to click on them. I finally overcome all difficulties and bite my teeth to click on them, but as soon as the first male protagonist appears, I can't continue reading.

　　So when I read other people's tweets, it's easy to fall into the trap. If I accidentally see BL, my soul will shrivel up and return to my grandma's house...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)