Why didnât the Travel Services announce the codename III-9 when it issued the prompt, but gave an inexplicable codename ???.
Countless people all over the world were trying to dig up more information on â???âs identity.â Among these people, the people of the Asia region were close to the water pavilion, so they could get to the moonlight first. The vlogs of the tours III-9 previously led were all found by various people, and they repeatedly studied them.
In the past, few people had paid attention to this III-ranked tour guide. The tour guides that were the most well-known were either special or crazy. However, although III-9 had a terrifying reputation for being a slaughterer tour guide, he was not crazy and bloody compared with those bigwig slaughterer tour guides. He kept suppressing his abilities and did not want to promote his rank. Except for the few times he slaughtered the entire tour group, most of the time, he would leave one or two people alive. Lin Xi followed him for several tours, and he hadnât been abandoned by III-9
In any case, he was not crazy or cruel enough, and he can be considered a very âmediocreâ slaughterer tour guide.
Now, after watching his performance in Intoxicating Xiangxi and looking through the vlogs of his past tours, they felt like III-9âs identity had been âswapped.â
When this post first appeared in the forum, it was initially because the poster didnât believe that a III-ranked tour guide could participate in a tour of the 30th parallel north.
However, after watching all of III-9âs past vlogs, many people felt that III-9âs past performance was completely inconsistent with his performance in the Intoxicating Xiangxi tour.
[III-9 used to ignore the tourists]
[And it seemed his capabilities were ordinary]
How could such a tour guide show overpowering dominance in an Intoxicating Xiangxi tour? If one shared parts of the Intoxicating Xiangxi vlog to others, they would mistakenly think that the tour guide in the vlog was a II-ranked tour guide. They might even think that they were a bigwig from the II-rank!
Not only did they study III-9âs past vlogs, but everyone also tried to find people associated with III-9. However, they soon found that most of the tourists who had traveled with III-9 had died. This left only the tourists of the Intoxicating Xiangxi tour, of which Lin Xi was the key to unraveling the mystery behind III-9âs identity, because he had followed III-9 in his previous tours.
But before these people could make a move, Miao Fangfei and the others were quickly taken in and protected by the Sunset tour party. The strength of the Sunset tour party had temporarily stopped many people with evil intentions. Those who had some ties with the Sunset tour party tried to leverage their connections to get more information from them.
It was the first 30th parallel north tour in China, and even the first 30th parallel north tour in Asia. Whoever could find âIII-9â first would be able to seize the opportunity to get more clues about the tour.
Thus, III-9 was very important!
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The very important âIII-9â was still studying the Travel Services app, which was mainly divided into different sections: the virtual hall, livestream room and vlogs, shopping mall, forum, and personal information.
Although a sparrow was small, it had all the internal organs it needed. At present, Wei Xun could only click onto the personal information section. He pressed the âXâ and a prompt of [Click to bind identity] appeared. After clicking away from the prompt, on the upper-left corner of the personal information section, he saw the butterfly he first saw on the Travel Servicesâ logoâa blue butterfly. The words [Click to bind identity] remained on the right.
Below, there were the tabs âMy Tour Groups,â âMy Tours,â âMy History,â and âMy Personal Information,â while below them were the tabs âMy Personal Status,â âFollowing,â âMy Circle Of Friends,â and âMy Fans.â
Wei Xun clicked on each of them and found that except for âMy Personal Information,â everything else was either blank or the app prompted him to bind his identity to see more about it. The âMy Personal Informationâ tab was his information as a tourist that was generated when he first woke up on the bus.
[Tourist Information]
[Name: Wei Xun]
[Identity: Not bound]
[Grade: Not bound]
[Countdown to deathââ11:40:25]
[Omen of death: sudden death]
[Titles you have achieved: Not bound]
[Points: Not bound]
[Special Item: Maria Butterfly Fragment (1/4)]
[Customer Type: Not bound]
Although the Travel Services seemed tolerant and gave him 12 hours to consider binding his identity for his initial promotion, a long series of âNot boundâ appeared. The shockingly low amount of time for his countdown to death and the words âomen of deathâ were the most prominent on the screen. The app explained to him that if he didnât bind his identity, not only was he unable to use the points he earned from the tour or buy props, but the whole Travel Servicesâ app would be completely unusable. He could only watch his countdown to death decrease.
Few people could calmly think under the threat of death, but Wei Xun was not in a hurry. He comfortably sat cross-legged with his cat and flying fox on the bed, patiently browsing through all the sections and tabs in the app. He then took out a laptop from a drawer in his bedside table and after starting it up, tapped in a few lines of information.
Wei Xun had entered the tour on August 15. Today was August 20, which meant that the time in the Travel Services might be synchronized with the real worldâs time.
Wei Xun opened another software. After logging in, the scene of his bedroom and villa impressively appeared on the laptop screen.
After the news of his brother Wei Xuechenâs bizarre disappearance in the companyâs office had been leaked, the news had brought an upheaval to the business industry because the Wei familyâs status was not low. The disappearance of CEO Wei had also made it into the entertainment section of the news. At that time, a large number of police had been dispatched, and even many private detectives were hired to look for him, but neither the police nor private detectives could find his brother who had strangely gone missing.
Since then, Wei Xun no longer believed in external forces like the police and private detectives. Besides, he felt that the police might have to add one more missing person to the list, him. After all, his father, mother, and brother had all disappeared over the years, and he was the only one left in the Wei family.
Wei Xun was not short of money. His brother had left him enough property for him to live extravagantly. Wei Xun had planned to decorate the villa long ago. He had renovated the villa based on the standards a safe house would have, and he had even installed cameras everywhere in the villa. After Wei Xun had grown seriously ill, he had secretly moved into the villa. Only the police knew that he lived here, and only Wei Xun and his policeman childhood friend knew the password to view the CCTV of the villa.
Wei Xun has long since been prepared for the likelihood of him disappearing one day. Maybe these cameras could leave some clues for his childhood friend. He turned off the camera interface and clicked on a folder that was full of video files sorted according to their dates.
Wei Xun first clicked on the folder named â815â and selected the video clip for the ârooftop.â There were no blind spots due to the positioning of the cameras in the villa. Furthermore, there were even cameras in the bathroom. There was even a camera facing the roof.
In his last impression before entering the Travel Services, Wei Xun remembered that he had been basking on the roof. But when he had returned, he had been sleeping in the bed and covered with a quilt.
Was the tour a virtual space or the real world? Did his physical body also take part in the tour, or did his âconsciousnessâ take part in it?
Wei Xun looked at his current outfit. He was only dressed in a loose bathrobe, and his extremely pale skin appeared particularly bright against the black bathrobe.
Before Wei Xun had left the tour, he had felt that his entire body had begun to mutate, and the clothes he had been wearing had basically become a few rags. However, before he had entered the tour, he had not been wearing this bathrobe.
Who had put this bathrobe on him? When had this happened?
Was there someone else who had came to his house during these couple of days?
Wei Xun slowly held his mobile phone and pressed the shortcut key to dial 110. Then he clicked to open the video clip. Afterwards, Wei Xun frowned. The clip of the rooftop only showed his figure at 12:00:00. Subsequently, the screen went black. Wei Xun looked at the videos of the other cameras one by one, and found that they were all black at noon on August 15, as if his whole villa was shrouded by something invisible.
âThat is to say, I canât record the time when I left for the journey,â Wei Xun said to himself, and he suddenly remembered something. Wei Xun brought over a stool and placed it on the bedside table. He carefully stood up on it and unplugged the camera that was stuck between the curtainâs crossbar and the ceiling from its cable.
This camera was made of sterling silver and was not big. It was no different from other cameras except that there was a black and yellow compass mark on the edge.
However, Wei Xun had prepared a specially encrypted notebook to store the video files in the camera.
This was because this was a so-called âcamera that could detect supernatural things,â which Wei Xun got from a reader who claimed to be an orthodox descendant called âMaoshan Taoist.â
The reader named âMaoshan Taoistâ was Wei Xunâs crazy fan. He had been chasing Wei Xunâs novels for a few years. This fan of his supported him in every book he wrote. And unfortunately, Wei Xun had dropped every book he supported. He once stubbornly rewarded Wei Xun 100k yuan to beg Wei Xun to complete his <<Maoshan Taoist>> novel, but Wei Xun was not someone without principles and refused straightforwardly.
Later, âMaoshan Taoistâ had got to know Wei Xunâs WeChat from Wei Xunâs fan group, and he had added Wei Xunâs WeChat. He urged Wei Xun everyday and rewarded him, and then actively gave him all kinds of inspirations and provided him with all sorts of âsupernatural casesâ for him to analyze. Afterwards, they became friends with a good relationship.
Once, while chatting they had discussed whether âcow tearsâ would allow humans to see ghosts, and âMaoshan Taoistâ had said that it had been preliminarily determined that a ghostâs body was in a special Yin energy state, and there were cameras in the country that could detect whether there was a supernatural reaction.
Coincidentally, soon after this, Wei Xun began to have the same nightmare every night. It was a dream where he became the devil. A mere nightmare wouldnât attract his attention, but the nightmares he experienced every night felt strange. Wei Xun suspected that his parents and brother had been captured by some supernatural force, since he had also seen this nightmare with increasing frequency now.
Therefore, Wei Xun had installed more cameras in his home, especially in his bedroom, and bought a âsupernatural cameraâ through âMaoshan Taoist.â