Chapter 35 Additional Task?

"There's a side quest?" Feng Wang, the two of them, almost simultaneously pulled up the game menu.

The words [Assist Tumei in Solving the No-Body Murder Case] were emblazoned in the quest log.

[Two days later, outskirts.] Two seconds later, the instant transition occurred again.

Blue sky, white clouds, green meadows, verdant distant mountains.

The surrounding scenery adhered to an elementary school-level art style, and Feng Bujue and Wang Tanzhi were also integrated into this style as anthropomorphic cat and falcon characters respectively...

[On a bright sunny afternoon]

[Tumei, Xiongji, Meowmei, Maosaburo, and Hayabusa Taro, these five little friends...]

[Agreed to have a picnic together in the countryside.]

[However, waiting for them was...]

This side quest... actually had a corresponding description.

"What's going on now?" Xiao Tan turned his head and asked Brother Jue beside him.

"Sigh...didn't the system prompt explain it very clearly..." Feng Bujue sighed and replied, "Because we disrupted the investigation three times, we triggered a side quest."

"Could it be...after this, every three times we help Xiongji get off the hook, there will be a side quest?" Xiao Tan continued.

"Who knows..." Feng Bujue said, "Maybe the side quest will only come once, or perhaps...from the third disruption of the investigation onwards, every time we solve an incident, it will trigger a side quest. It's also possible that, as you said...every three disruptions of the investigation, a side quest will be triggered." He shrugged, "Anyway...at least we have to wait until the second time we trigger a side quest before we can initially determine the pattern, right?"

"Hmm..." Xiao Tan nodded, "Speaking of...Brother Jue." He seemed to have thought of something again, and said in a prompting tone, "Since it's a 'side quest,' according to the game settings...even if we don't complete it, it won't affect the completion of the game, right?"

"That's right." Feng Bujue replied, "This is a basic principle, so...we can just be bystanders in this mission." He paused for half a second, and then said, "Of course, it's best to do it, so there will be an extra reward after clearing the game."

"Hmm..." Xiao Tan heard this, and was already thinking with his head down, "Based on the information we currently know, what we can tentatively deduce is...the 'murderer' in this mission is definitely not Xiongji."

"Oh?" Feng Bujue showed an appreciative look and smiled, "Heh...tell me, how did you deduce it?"

Xiao Tan replied as he thought, "Since both are missions given by the system, the two cannot be contradictory. Since one of our main quests is [Limit the Number of Xiongji's Arrests to Within Ten Times], the real murderer of [Assist Tumei in Solving the No-Body Murder Case] must not be Xiongji, otherwise, it would violate this principle."

"Correct reasoning." Feng Bujue said, "The key is...the speed of reaching the conclusion is also very fast, it seems that you have indeed been training recently."

"Hehe..." Xiao Tan smiled sheepishly, "You flatter me."

"From childhood to adulthood, I have patiently and earnestly taught you, but you are still like an idiot." Feng Bujue's next sentence suddenly changed the subject and turned on the taunt mode, "And Gu Xiaoling...only abused you for a few months, and you have learned to answer quickly." He paused, "It seems...you're just cheap."

"Hey...why wasn't what you said blocked by the system..." Xiao Tan said with squinted eyes.

"I guess the system also thinks what I said makes sense." Feng Bujue replied.

"The system also thinks I'm cheap!" Xiao Tan didn't know why, but while complaining, he also looked up at the sky.

After the two of them stood there chatting for a few minutes, they saw two familiar figures walking from afar.

"Maosaburo! Hayabusa Taro!" Meowmei waved to them from more than ten meters away.

Tumei followed beside her, walking shoulder to shoulder with her.

Although they were out playing, their clothes were no different from when they were going to school, even the schoolbags on their shoulders were the common red backpacks.

Today, Meowmei was still wearing a light green dress, with a red bow on her right ear. And Tumei also wore the same green shirt and pink skirt, the only change was the text on her clothes (the text on the front of Tumei's shirt often changes, and each time she appears, it is printed with slot-filled and inexplicably meaningful content such as 'Beast,' 'Carnivore,' 'Soil,' 'Ankle').

"Sorry to keep you waiting." After they got closer, Tumei opened her mouth and said to Brother Jue and Xiao Tan.

After saying that, she turned her head and looked around: "Eh? Xiongji-kun hasn't come yet?"

"Uh...didn't see him." Feng Bujue replied, and then said to Xiao Tan, "Hayabusa Taro, use your eagle eye vision to take a look."

"What eagle eye vision... Assassin's Creed... Isn't it just normal for me to see things..." While muttering, Xiao Tan still tiptoed and looked around.

He was just looking casually, but unexpectedly, he really saw it...

"Ah, I saw him, he's about a kilometer away from here." Xiao Tan said, looking in one direction.

"Oh." Tumei responded, "Then let's start first."

"Eh? Aren't we going to wait for Xiongji? Tumei-chan." Meowmei asked.

"He's just a pervert, it's better if he doesn't come." Tumei replied.

"Then why did you ask where he was as soon as you came..." Feng Bujue continued.

"Ok! Go!" Tumei ignored Brother Jue's complaints and took Meowmei's hand, striding forward.

...

Fifteen minutes later.

"Haa...haa..." Xiongji, panting, finally caught up with the four of them, "That's too much! Everyone! We clearly agreed to start together! Luckily this is a plain, I just happened to see you. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known you had already left!"

Di Di Di—

Before Xiongji could finish speaking, the sound of the phone's buttons had already sounded, this was the sound of Tumei calling the police.

In silence, four different gazes looked at Xiongji.

These four kinds of eyes... sharp, awkward, painful, or like a dead fish...

"Hey! Why are you calling the police again!" Xiongji, naked from the waist up and wearing a pink bra, looked at Tumei with a confused face and asked, "What did I do?"

"Miscalculated..." Feng Bujue shook his head and muttered, "I almost forgot...during the process of carrying out the side quest, the main quest will not stop..."

"That is to say...in the process of completing this 'no-body murder case' mission, we still have to guard against Xiongji's various perverted behaviors?" Xiao Tan continued.

"Sigh...so be it..." Feng Bujue sighed, "Think of the bright side, in this incident, we still have a chance to stop Xiongji before he commits a crime..."