Chapter 146 Lookout Woman

"A strange creature was killed by a player." This information was relayed to Ye Xiaowu by Unsworn Sword. Of course, Ye Xiaowu didn't have the intelligence network that these guild leaders possessed.

"What about Qianli Yizui?" Ye Xiaowu asked.

"Didn't catch him, but the monster has been killed." Unsworn Sword stared intently at Ye Xiaowu. The agile classes were all rushing to scout ahead, so Across the World's arrow formation stood out, exerting the greatest energy in the battle to eliminate this monster. Unsworn Sword hoped this was a legendary branching plot that could lead to the final outcome. He hoped that Ye Xiaowu, who claimed to have knowledge, could give him some hints.

But Ye Xiaowu was not at all disturbed by this plot and continued to ask, "What's the situation at the Cloudtop Mine?"

"Over there? Nothing's happening..." Unsworn Sword said.

"Go take a look over there," Ye Xiaowu said.

Unsworn Sword's eyes lit up again, and he leaned close to Ye Xiaowu and whispered, "What's over there?"

Ye Xiaowu looked at him, just about to speak, when Unsworn Sword cleverly noticed that Upstream Threesome were also approaching, and quickly looked away as if nothing had happened. The three of them came over to ask about the relationship between the monster and the quest, their eyes filled with envy towards Unsworn Sword. Clearly, the major guilds all knew that Across the World had gained the upper hand in killing the monster.

"Let's go to the Cloudtop Mine and take a look!" Ye Xiaowu still had this opinion.

The four guild leaders nodded on the surface, but privately sent speed squads to the Cloudtop Mine to investigate the situation. After finishing the arrangements, they breathed a sigh of relief, looked around, and saw three mirror-like expressions each, tacitly understanding each other.

The speed scouts didn't find anything, and the four guild leaders were all disappointed, looking at each other again, the mirror-like expressions reappearing. The four of them remained silent and continued to follow Ye Xiaowu to the Cloudtop Mine. This guy seemed very familiar with the place, going straight to a spot, as if he was going to squat down and search for something.

Unsworn Sword's reaction was always so keen at certain moments. With a wink, he immediately had his subordinates understand. One of them dove in front of Ye Xiaowu, grinning and saying, "Why do you need to trouble yourself? What are you looking for? Let me do it!"

Upstream Threesome's reaction wasn't slow either, but Fan Ziling, who was trying to understand his intentions, lacked that kind of unswerving spirit. As he hurried forward, Unsworn Sword's subordinate had already pounced to Ye Xiaowu's feet, the lines all said. Cloud Herder and Black Finger reacted a little slower, and when they realized what was happening, they quickly sent people too. One shouted, "Let me do it!" and the other yelled, "I'm good at rough work!" Two figures flew out, and Fan Ziling was directly thrown to the back.

Ye Xiaowu stared blankly as a large pit was quickly dug in front of him, enough to bury him alive. The four guild leaders came over personally at this time, probing Ye Xiaowu, "What are you looking for?"

"There would have been something, but now it seems that Qianli Yizui and the others should have taken it," Ye Xiaowu said.

Unsworn Sword was furious and turned to find the players who had been questing here all along, "There's an important situation here, why didn't you discover it while doing quests here?"

The players were speechless. They really didn't expect that a quest could be dug out here.

"What should we do next?" the four guilds asked Ye Xiaowu.

"We can only continue to stop them," Ye Xiaowu sighed.

Gu Fei, ignoring the three of them, returned to Cloudtop City and headed straight for the Hall of Government. But when he entered, he saw Drifting and his two buddies wandering inside.

"Why are you back? Any progress on the quest?" Drifting asked.

"Still under further investigation. What are you doing here?" Gu Fei asked.

"Seeing if any quests are posted here! You know, ordinary people can't get in," Drifting said.

"That's right, why didn't I think of that?" Gu Fei slapped his forehead.

"Hehe," Drifting laughed.

"You're busy." Gu Fei hurriedly said goodbye and went straight to the Guard Corps affairs. He didn't know how many times he had been here, so he didn't bother being polite. He kicked open the door and charged at the captain, took out the necklace and went straight to the point, "Giljino's assistant is dead, leaving this thing behind. Who is Courtney? Where is she!"

"Dead?" the captain was stunned. "Did he leave anything behind?"

"Isn't it right here?" Gu Fei waved the necklace in front of the captain's eyes, expressing his indignation at the guy's attitude of ignoring him.

The captain took the necklace and looked at it, put it aside casually, and asked, "Did he leave anything else behind?" This time he added an "else," the system's thinking still had a certain logic.

"There are also some notes. The content of the notes shows that a woman named Courtney has a very close relationship with Giljino, perhaps she can give us some help," Gu Fei said.

"Courtney? I haven't heard of this name. Let me check. What's her full name?" the captain said.

"I don't know!" Gu Fei was angry. He felt that the system was deliberately trying to challenge the players' patience. It was rare to encounter a system willing to help find someone, but it had to create some trouble to annoy people. It seemed that even in a parallel world, "finding someone" was being turned into the most unpopular activity for players.

The captain, scolded by Gu Fei, showed the qualities of an NPC, not getting angry, patiently sitting at the table, taking a piece of paper and writing something on it, then handing it to Gu Fei, "Go to the archive room on the first floor, find Caiqin in the population census, she will give you help."

Gu Fei approached the paper and saw that it was a note with a leader's approval, making him feel depressed. But what could he say to an NPC? He could only do as he was told, taking the note to find the archive room on the first floor.

Guards guarded the archive room. Gu Fei showed the note before being allowed in. Caiqin, Gu Fei searched for the NPC with this name. It sounded like it would be a beautiful girl, but finding her made Gu Fei's jaw drop. An old lady with a strange face and a pair of strange glasses. After looking at the note Gu Fei was holding, she threw five thick, large parchment books at Gu Fei.

"Just give me the ones for Cloudtop City," Gu Fei said.

"Did you think I would have ones that aren't for Cloudtop City?" Aunt Caiqin was not polite at all.

Gu Fei shuddered. How could Cloudtop City have so many NPCs? He didn't understand. Could it be that players were also included in the statistics? Trembling, he flipped through a page and saw that the parchment book actually included players, with their gender, class, and level noted. Gu Fei thought of the Assassin Alliance's intelligence agency. It was just that they needed players to collect information, while here, they had the system god protecting them, so they didn't have to work hard to get it. But it seemed that if he didn't have the captain's note, even he, a member of the Guard Corps, couldn't just check here at will. He wondered if there was an archive room or something similar in the opposing faction…

While Gu Fei was daydreaming, he flipped through a few pages at random. He quickly discovered that the names were arranged alphabetically, which made him feel relieved. Muttering Courtney's name, Gu Fei flipped to the K index, but after searching for a few NPC names, he discovered. NPCs weren't like players, who came up with all sorts of bizarre codenames. NPCs' real names all had first and last names, and some were even unbelievably long, and this alphabetical arrangement was based on surnames.

Courtney was undoubtedly not a surname. It was hard to imagine two close lovers addressing each other by their surnames. Gu Fei was frantic, which meant that the alphabetical arrangement was of no help to him. He could only flip through page by page. Five books… Gu Fei's eyes grew dimmer and dimmer. Suddenly, he thought of Drifting and his buddies. With three more people, the speed would increase three times! Gu Fei quickly sent a message to Drifting, telling him to quickly come to the archive room on the first floor. Gu Fei wanted to call more people, but then he thought again that other than him and his buddies, no one else could enter the Hall of Government.

"What's the matter?" Drifting asked in the message.

"Help me with a favor," Gu Fei said.

"Quest?"

"Of course."

Drifting and his two buddies arrived excitedly. Gu Fei was wondering if he needed to team up with the three of them and share the note, but then he saw the three of them entering without any obstruction.

"How can you enter at will?" Gu Fei asked in surprise.

"How else would we enter?" Drifting said.

Gu Fei showed him his note. Drifting said "Oh" and nodded, "So the archive room is open to our faction at will! We really didn't know. It should be a faction issue. We are the Wanderers Association, traveling the world. The establishment and improvement of archives are due to our efforts."

"Causing trouble is due to your efforts, right? Randomly changing household registrations, causing so much trouble for the population census auntie," Gu Fei said.

"Tch." Drifting didn't care, "What needs to be done?"

Gu Fei pointed to the five parchment books on the table, "Find someone, someone named Courtney."

"Damn it!" Drifting was indeed someone who often visited the archive room, understanding the horror of searching for NPC information in the population census.

"What's even more painful is that Courtney is a given name, not a surname," Gu Fei said.

Drifting scorned, "That's a lucky thing. If it was a surname, it would be tragic. Imagine if you were asked to find a player with the surname Li, what would that be like?"

Gu Fei thought about it, and it was true. The repetition rate of surnames was ultimately higher than that of given names. Knowing the given name also had its advantages. Thinking this way, he felt slightly comforted, waved his hand, and told his buddies to get to work.

Since the three of them had already come, they didn't hesitate, each grabbing a book and starting to flip through it. Drifting was careful, taking a pen and writing on the book while asking Gu Fei, "Is it Courtney, or Cortney?"

"Courtney." Gu Fei pointed to it for him, and finally asked, "Can you write on the book at will?"

"The system will repair it itself." Drifting's experience was indeed rich, but Gu Fei saw a painful expression on his face, believing that there must be some tragic lesson. For example, when looking up information, he made some notes or something with the pen tip, planning to use them later, but they were repaired by the system.

The four of them started flipping through the books together. It wasn't too slow, after all, players' IDs and normal names had clear differences, so they could scan through them quickly. The NPCs' names were interspersed among them, which was also eye-catching.

"If a new person is suddenly born, doesn't this information need to be updated at any time? Will it mess up our page numbers?" Gu Fei asked.

"Look carefully, all players with information have levels above ten, so they won't be counted as soon as they are born," Drifting said with his rich experience.

"Then it's the same even if they are counted at level ten. It's not like it takes a blink of an eye to reach level ten," Gu Fei said.

"The problem is that you are looking for an NPC, not a player. Do you think it will have an impact?" Drifting said.

"Will players also come up with such names?" Gu Fei asked.

Drifting moved his book over and pointed at one, asking Gu Fei, "Do you think any player would name themselves Ryan Francis Bryant?"

Gu Fei looked at the long string of names and said, "Hard to say…"

@#$%……&

Drifting silently retreated, burying his head in finding Courtney, no longer talking to Gu Fei.

Only the sound of flipping books could be heard in the archive room. Finally, There is Love on the Left had some movement, "I found one."

"Oh?" Gu Fei quickly went over. The name was Courtney Green, but the information showed that this Courtney was only 13 years old and was a flower girl in Central Square.

"So that little girl has a name," Drifting came over and nodded, he had seen such a flower girl in Central Square.

"The one I'm looking for is not this one," Gu Fei said.

"Then who is it?"

"A student in land engineering," Gu Fei said, thinking, "At least old enough to be in love."

Drifting looked at the flower girl's information, "Student, love… where does this not fit? Selling flowers may be to help with her studies."

"13 years old!" Gu Fei emphasized.

"It's precisely the age when love is budding," Drifting said with emotion.

Gu Fei spat out a mouthful of blood, "First write down this page number, and continue searching!"

The three of them were helpless and continued to search. As expected, there was more than one person named Courtney. In the end, there were a total of four people, and Courtney, who was clearly marked as a student of the civil engineering master Giljino, was among them. She was the last to be discovered, because her full name was Courtney Zola, the Z section, at the very end.

"Okay, this is the one." Gu Fei took it and read the information carefully. Courtney Zola, 28 years old, one of the civil engineering master Giljino's students. In her student days, her lover died in a major engineering accident in Cloudtop City. In grief, she ended her civil engineering career and became a forester near Cloudlake.

"This is the one? A female forester?" Drifting asked.

"This is her. Cloudlake? I don't seem to have encountered her," Gu Fei said in confusion.

"Oh? Do you often go there?" Although Drifting was from out of town, he had lived in Cloudtop City and knew what Cloudlake was like.

"I'm going to continue the quest, you continue to be busy, thank you!" Gu Fei said, preparing to leave, when he suddenly remembered something, quickly turned back, almost colliding with the three people behind him.

"What's wrong again?" the three people asked quickly.

"Here it mentions some engineering project, can you find it in this archive room?" Gu Fei said.

"Should be able to." Drifting nodded, and as someone familiar with the layout of the archive room, he led Gu Fei to the category specifically for construction projects. Gu Fei asked the NPC to view it, but was refused.

"Let me do it!" Drifting stepped forward, with the same lines as Gu Fei, but the NPC gave the information to Drifting without hesitation. Gu Fei leaned forward to look on the side, and the NPC ignored him. System ah system…

"Damn it, this Giljino has supervised a lot of projects, which one is it?" Drifting wondered.

"The one at Cloudlake," Gu Fei said.

"Then it's this one." Drifting pointed, "Cloudlake Bottom Water Storage and Drainage Project."

Gu Fei quickly browsed the content again, but didn't find anything special. The description of the project was just a general explanation and boasting, praising this project for perfectly solving the drinking water and sewage discharge problems of Cloudtop City, and being the project with the highest public support and satisfaction in Cloudtop City. In the process of boasting, there was no mention of any casualties in this project.

"Is there more?" Gu Fei asked.

Drifting flipped through it again, after all, the number of projects was not as large as the number of people, so he quickly flipped through it all, shook his head and said, "There are no more for Cloudlake."

"Then it seems like this is the one," Gu Fei said.

"Probably."

Gu Fei nodded. This search opened his mind. He really wanted to go to the population census to find information about Giljino and Angus. But he knew that if he brought this up again, Drifting and his buddies would definitely fight him. Thinking that the two dead people probably wouldn't have any clues either. Gu Fei decided not to waste time here and left quickly.

While leaving the city, he quickly contacted the three of them, describing the information he had found in his investigation.

"The project referred to in the quest is undoubtedly the Cloudlake Bottom Water Storage and Drainage Project, but there is no information about casualties in the data. But in Courtney's information, it is clearly pointed out that her lover died in an engineering project. This person should be referring to Angus, but in fact, Angus didn't die, did he?" Gu Fei analyzed.

"We must find Courtney. The information says she is now a forester near Cloudlake, but I don't seem to have seen her," Gu Fei said.

"Forester, maybe it's an active NPC. Don't you often go to Cloudlake? It's not surprising that you haven't seen her," Xi Xiaotian said.

"Uh, who often runs over there?" Gu Fei thought, and after thinking about it, he spoke in the guild, asking who was familiar with Cloudlake.

No one answered. Only people who often engage in the sport of love are familiar with Cloudlake. This matter was too private, and no one wanted to admit it.

"What do you want to do?" July asked Gu Fei privately.

"There's an NPC over there, I want to confirm if anyone knows about it," Gu Fei said, "Are there any girls in the guild who are in love?"

"Let me ask for you!" July said, it was obvious that there were such girls in the guild, but Gu Fei asked publicly, and people didn't want to be too exposed.

Gu Fei only wanted to know the result, and didn't care about these things, only urging July to hurry up. And their group of four had already detoured towards Cloudlake.

"Asked, there is often a forester active in the mountains and forests near Cloudlake, sometimes she also walks by the lake, she is a female NPC. Is that the one you are looking for?" July did indeed find out.

"That's her! Thank you so much!" Gu Fei said with great emotion, the power of the masses was indeed infinite.

"Intelligence confirmed, there is indeed a female forester at Cloudlake, I believe it is Courtney, now we will go and contact her, but we must act secretly, we have reason to believe that the Cloudlake area is already full of traps," Gu Fei said.

"Let's not take the main road to Cloudlake, but take the back mountain path, first observe from a high position," Xi Xiaotian said.

"I should have borrowed Mang Mang's telescope earlier, how did I not think of that!" Gu Fei said depressed.

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