There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game-Chapter 767 - 653: Slept, Yet It’s Like I Didnt

Chapter 767: Chapter 653: Slept, Yet It’s Like I Didn’t

The deep of night brought a cooler breeze.

Some players launched into a grand battle on their first day, while others had just learned to walk.

Along the coast of the Tunus City-State.

On a secluded stretch of shoreline, a young boy with black hair and red eyes, about thirteen or fourteen years old, emerged from the sea.

He was stark naked, yet he didn’t feel cold in the chilly night wind. Of course, he had no intention of staying undressed.

Being without clothes was simply because while in his giant dragon form he was already bare; scales need no garments, and transforming didn’t conjure cloth out of thin air.

Creating clothes out of nothing—that would be fantasy.

The boy glanced around. It was pitch black, without a trace of human life.

However, he detected the scent of flesh and blood in the air.

Following this faint smell to the mainland, the boy saw a quiet, sleeping fisherman’s house and slipped right in, rifling through someone else’s wardrobe in the dark.

Rustling noises filled the room.

After he had dressed himself, he turned his head calmly only to see a little boy about ten years old on the bed, staring at him blankly.

The clothes fit him fairly well since the two boys were of similar height.

After a long moment, the awakened boy finally asked, “Why… why are you stealing my clothes?”

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The young boy didn’t speak, only stared intensely at him with those dark red eyes as if evaluating an interesting object.

Chilled by that gaze, the boy fell silent, terror-stricken. No matter how hard he tried to stay calm, his hands by his side trembled uncontrollably.

But the silence was even more unnerving, prompting him to stammer again, “If you… If you want to wear them… then go ahead… ”

As soon as these words left his mouth, the boy saw a strange smile creep onto the other’s face, but it seemed even more eerie and terrifying, those red pupils gleaming in the dark with a sinister light.

Then he was so scared that he buried his head under the covers, quivering uncontrollably.

“Please don’t eat me… ”

The boy shivered under the covers for a while, waiting for danger that didn’t come, until he cautiously peeked out and saw that the fearsome red eyes were gone.

The distant sound of waves carried faintly on the air, and the bright moonlight poured through the window, outlining the room’s contours.

Only when he was sure the other person was gone did the boy truly breathe a sigh of relief, though he probably wouldn’t be able to sleep that night.

…

Dressed in someone else’s clothing, the young boy walked barefoot towards Tunus City-State.

When he had been sizing up the human boy just before, he was suddenly reminded of his side quest—[Pass on the Black Dragon Bloodline].

Although side quests were optional to him, now it seemed he had found a way to complete this one.

But there was no rush for now.

After all, he still didn’t understand the systems of this world, nor did he understand his enemies. Any action would have to wait until he had gathered enough intelligence.

Having experienced dozens of Script Worlds, he had to act with a bit more caution.

With those thoughts, the boy climbed the wall and entered the city.

Tunus City-State used to have no curfew; its gates were open all year round, as it was a coastal City-State frequented by fishermen and ships at night.

But since the Holy Court issued a wanted notice, both inside and outside of Tunus City-State were under martial law.

At night, the streets were deserted except for the patrolling City Defense Forces. No free citizen walked about at will.

After walking a few steps, the young boy noticed a number of similar posters on the walls and pillars, so he stopped curiously to look.

The portrait was one drawn without care.

The girl in the picture had vague features, wore a veiled hat, and was dressed in the noble attire of Tunus City-State, her dark hair and light-colored pupils faintly visible beneath the hat.

But with such scant detail, finding the person depicted was nearly impossible.

The young boy tilted his head, examining it for a moment, then turned away uninterested.

But before he left, he casually swept his gaze around and suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar color in the trash pile of the alley.

Driven by curiosity, he rummaged through the pile and then picked up a veiled hat.

It resembles the hat in the portrait closely.

Young man: “…”

So, it seems that this wanted criminal once stood right next to this wanted poster and changed all his clothes.

Finding a criminal in ancient times was truly hard work.

The young man clicked his tongue, casually threw the hat on the ground, and turned to continue looking for somewhere to stay for the night.

There were plenty of inns in the city-state, and he randomly chose one that looked decent to climb over the wall and then lay down to rest in an empty house.

To avoid drawing attention, he had swum over from a great distance, so he planned to rest before going out to act.

However, not long after lying down, the young man suddenly sniffed, seemingly catching a scent of something.

Hm? Is that the same scent from before?

The next moment, he abruptly opened his eyes!

The young man sat up quickly, his gaze fixedly looking forward, as if he could see through the walls and perceive the scene on the other side.

Those red pupils slightly contracted.

It was as if he had seen his prey.

…

…

Meanwhile.

Zuo Fang, who had been waiting by the sea and was soaked with mist, also received the news.

The Order of the Sun Knights had already arrived at Black Dragon Island.

But after they hurriedly surveyed the entire Black Dragon Island, the result was disappointing. They did not discover the presence of any giant dragons on the island.

Even so, there were many traces on the island that resembled those left by a giant dragon, such as fierce claw marks and massive footprints.

These could prove that a giant dragon indeed lived here.

Dragon Island used to stretch over thousands of miles, but now only a corner of wasteland drifted on the vast ocean, and searching the entire Dragon Island did not take much time.

Thus, aside from leaving a few knights to guard, several others returned to the nearby seas to inform Zuo Fang.

By the coast.

Zuo Fang took out a compass, decrypted the characters on it, and then turned to walk toward Dawn Castle by the sea.

The compass could only communicate within thirty kilometers, so to convey a message to the Holy See of Light, they had to use the formation in the castle.

After sending the Jade Token, Zuo Fang glanced at the team list in the upper right corner and then pretended to let out a melancholy sigh.

He had not yet made contact with his little buddies.

Since he had to wait for a reply from the other side, he had nothing else to do. He casually picked up a Magic Book from the bookshelf in the Underground Palace and started to read.

Besides Magic Books and a Swordsmanship Compendium, there was quite a lot of material about Black Dragon Island here.

However, Zuo Fang, curious between “understanding the plot first” and “taking a look at magic”, chose the latter.

But before he had read much, a Sun Knight staying in Tunus City State suddenly sent a message over, just a very brief sentence—

[There’s a disturbance in the city related to that girl.]

A disturbance? That girl?

Zuo Fang paused for a moment, recalled the unengaging portrait and the girl’s disguised appearance, and, truly curious about who under such circumstances could find the other person, put down the Magic Book and walked out of the Underground Palace.

As a temporary base for the Order of the Sun Knights, Dawn Castle was not inside Tunus City-State but on a hillside near a sea cliff.

But without needing to enter the city, standing in the watchtower was enough for him to see the chaos inside the city.

In the middle of the night, fireworks blazed into the sky.

The noise seemed to be reaching all the way here.

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