Chapter 1115: Chapter 633: Rat Granary (Part 2)

"Our real bodies have long been controlled by this group of demon mice, living in muddled confusion all these years."

"Thank you for waking us up and saving this inn; please accept our gratitude..."

The government official’s captain took out a token from his pocket.

"This token is the exclusive token for all inn officials along the Deregistration Road. Holding this token can spare you a lot of trouble, and I hope your journey along the Deregistration Road goes smoothly..."

Yang Qiangjin accepted the token.

Yang Genshuo glanced at it and directly shared the information.

[Inn Passage Token]

[In the inns you encounter in the future, you will gain favor from government official-type characters, reducing passage difficulty...]

[Note: After completing the White Grain Warehouse story, this token will transform into a Magic Treasure...]

"A good thing!"

The Deregistration Road is long, and there will undoubtedly be various inns to encounter. If they can gain favor from the ’officials’ in the story, it could provide extra support for the rest of their story.

"And after the story ends, it transforms into a Magic Treasure... That would be even better. It’s said that the Magic Treasures produced by the Legendary Land are all top-quality, ones that current Artifact Refiners can’t even produce."

Among them, the Magic Treasures ranked above Spiritual Artifact from the Legendary Land often exist for thousands of years, and their Artifact Spirit’s strength is often extremely powerful.

Legend has it that the strength of some top-level Artifact Spirits can even reach the Nascent Soul Stage!

Terrifying indeed!

A single Spiritual Artifact can be equivalent to a Nascent Soul Cultivator, which is a great fortune.

It’s one of the reasons why so many people are keen on the Legendary Land.

Once you strike it rich, it’s the path to prosperity!

Yang Qiangjing didn’t hesitate and directly put the token into her Storage Ring.

The officials, seeing the gift received, bid farewell with clasped hands.

"Please two of you set off; the Deregistration Road is long... In the future, we need to pay more attention, we must go and clean up the mouse infestation in the inn."

"These damn mice, they should have been burned with a torch a long time ago."

"Farewell!"

Yang Qiangjin and Number Nine left the inn.

Number Nine was very satisfied with the outcome.

"The harder you work, the luckier you get. My efforts haven’t gone to waste—there are indeed treasures here..."

Yang Qiangjin then asked:

"I actually don’t quite understand... How did you know these mouse servants were actually people and not mice? That’s different from what we saw last night."

Yang Genshuo was also waiting for Number Nine to reveal the mystery.

He had roughly pieced together part of the puzzle but didn’t understand why Number Nine was so confident.

"Because our reasoning from the beginning was incorrect... The real bodies of the official have been trapped behind, and at the time, we thought it was a case of the stoat replacing the prince, the mouse head swapping for the human head, but the truth might be otherwise..."

"Based on the emphasis on ’characters’ in this story, combined with the information provided by the Ancestor... The introduction of [Mouse Servant] was about this inn and the officials. If it were truly imposters, fake mice should have been included unless the Ancestor’s information is false, which is of course impossible."

Yang Genshuo suddenly woke up!

Exactly!

[Character Card]!

He saw the [Mouse Servant] character card clearly introduced as an official; how could it be mice disguised?

If that’s the case, the mice would be the strongest enemy his system has ever encountered!

The Sect Leader of the Heavenly Mechanism Sect can only show him [???] information, but the mice would directly alter his information display interface!

Referring to mice as officials!

This is evidently impossible!

These man-eating mice do not have this ability.

In other words, yesterday his and many Puzzle Solvers’ speculation of mice substituting officials was wrong!

They had entered a fallacy yesterday!

Yang Qiangjin nodded: "And then?"

Number Nine, seeing Yang Qiangjin understand, continued:

"Meaning, the mouse servants outside are essentially officials too! So... there would be two groups of officials in the inn: one being the meat Ganoderma officials being gnawed by mice, and another being the mouse servants maintaining the inn’s operation, coincidentally, their numbers are the same, and the officials behind hardly resisted, just being parasitized by the mice... like twenty hunks of meat without souls."

"At this point, I boldly made an assumption... assuming the officials in front and those trapped behind are indeed the same group of officials? Their physical bodies are trapped, yet their souls continue doing what they used to do... making this inn appear normal."

Such a bold assumption!

Yang Genshuo, hearing this, directly thought of a movie!

The Matrix

It’s a plot identical to it!

In it, aliens raise humans in captivity, continuously extracting essence liquid from their spines, preventing them from committing suicide and death by placing their consciousness in a virtual world, making them live within it.

And these man-eating mice... used some means for long-term consumption of officials’ flesh and blood, allowing officials’ souls to keep doing what they used to do, pretending everything was normal.

Hiss~~~

This Number Nine indeed has something!

Yang Genshuo confirms he has never watched The Matrix but could open his mind, directly and boldly constructing relationships between mice, meat Ganoderma officials, and mouse servants... truly a genius.

"Of course, assumptions before being verified are merely assumptions and potentially whims, so I didn’t disrupt your thinking yesterday, instead collecting others’ information, figuring out ways to obtain more validation..."

"Next, the Ancestor indeed provided several messages supporting my deduction."

At this moment, Yang Genshuo recalled yesterday, when Number Nine seriously suggested to Yang Qiangjin that the Ancestor must share the message with him...

No doubt, he had started deducing the truth by that time.

"The first message appeared timely... the mouse servants actually ate roasted mice, this almost directly confirmed these mouse servants’ souls belong to the officials, not the mice."

"The second message looks seemingly insignificant but is actually crucial... the Ancestor said yesterday, a team used their own Spirit Food to feed the mouse servants, who accepted without showing any anomaly, allowing me to realize... these mouse servants aren’t physical entities but a type of soul body inherently not requiring food."

"The third comes from deducing based on the mouse servant’s ability [Chewing], we’ve seen man-eating mice chewing, directly chewing off and swallowing people’s hands, whereas [Chewing] of mouse servants attacks the soul, another proof that these mouse servants are basically soul bodies influenced and controlled by mice!"

Yang Genshuo now looking at the [Chewing] skill description, also inhaled sharply.

[Chewing: When night falls, mouse servants transform into mice to stealthily gnaw the souls of Deregistration Officials dreaming. Those gnawed will experience a continuous decline in Essence Qi...]

The secret, actually hidden within a seemingly insignificant skill description!

"Such detail, finer than a Daoist!"

Number Nine ended with an elegant smile, clasping hands towards the sky:

"So, once the assumption succeeded, I simply needed to awaken the mouse servants! They must recall their parasitization by mice, or else if we forcefully break through... these mouse servants are too strong, we wouldn’t be able to defeat them directly."

"Ancestor, please share this inn’s story with everyone else so they can quickly obtain the token."

"Okay!"

If this succeeds, every team guarantees obtaining a treasure!

Inadvertently, this accident might instead become the Yang Family’s fortune!

"Wow~ Xiao Jing is impressive, and cultivated her own impressive people, too amazing!"

Just as he planned to share the news with others, he suddenly felt Number Nine’s deduction seemed to lack something...