“Eh?”

Chai Chai froze for a moment, “Eh?!!”

“It’s fake, right? That was clearly a soft, cute girl's voice…”

“It’s real.”

Li Ang rubbed his temples in annoyance, “Ah, so annoying…

You didn’t say anything weird to her, did you?”

“No!”

Chai Chai shuddered and said reflexively, “I only said some cheesy pick-up lines. I didn’t say anything I shouldn’t have.”

Li Ang frowned and asked again, “Did anyone knock on the door, call, or send a text message?”

Chai Chai shook his head like a rattle drum, “No.”

“Okay.”

Li Ang sighed heavily and walked towards the bedroom with heavy steps, looking preoccupied.

Chai Chai watched Li Ang's back, feeling worried and scared, but also a little confused.

What kind of deity is this landlord that even this man wants to avoid?

————

“Is this the new base?”

In the Game Plaza, Wei Linglan, wearing a Special Affairs Bureau uniform suit, looked up at the ten-story building on the street and murmured, “I wonder how much money this cost…”

“It’s definitely not cheap…”

Chu Yin, standing next to her, looked a little listless, with heavy dark circles under her eyes that made her look particularly haggard, “I really want to sleep… Where’s Captain Xing… I just want to sign the contract and go home to sleep…”

The place where Wei Linglan and Chu Yin were standing was the property purchased by the Special Affairs Bureau in the Game Plaza.

The Special Affairs Bureau, like ordinary players, received system notifications at the same time, but their reaction speed and coordination abilities were faster and stronger.

In eight hours, the think tank weighed the pros and cons and formulated dozens of plans for different situations in the Game Plaza.

While ordinary players were still thinking about whether buying up land at this stage was a scam,

The Special Affairs Bureau had already built a guild, bought property, and started to replicate the real-world office building in the Game Plaza—the system was the best construction worker; demolition and construction were very simple.

The basic skeleton of this new building was directly generated by spending money.

As for the decorations and furniture inside,

Some were bought from the system, and some were brought in by Special Affairs Bureau players themselves, piece by piece.

Wei Linglan and Chu Yin were temporarily pulled in as laborers.

Their backpack slots were filled with tables and chairs. They came to work as porters and to sign guild contracts.

The guild in the Killing Game can provide some good buffs to its members. It's also easier for guild members to team up. In the future, there may be tasks that require the strength of an entire guild, or even several guilds working together.

It is very necessary to sign up.

Of course, you can't put all your eggs in one basket.

The Special Affairs Bureau has currently built three small guilds of fifty people each, just for experimental purposes.

There are still a large number of agents who are still waiting and watching.

They will wait until the think tank analyzes the advantages and disadvantages based on further evidence before following up.

“Yo, it’s you two.”

A deep male voice sounded from the side. Wei Linglan and Chu Yin turned their heads and saw Xing Hechou, also wearing a suit, walking over.

His figure was too burly. The black suit didn’t add to his elegance but instead gave him the air of a “dynamic social group leader.”

Xing Hechou, as an excellent front-line agent of the Yin City Mobile Task Force, was also appointed as one of the presidents of the three experimental guilds.

According to the Alien Research Society's suggestion, the three guilds were named “Bi Fang”, “Chong Ming”, and “Gou Chen” respectively. Xing Hechou was in charge of Gou Chen.

“Good day, Captain.”

Wei Linglan and Chu Yin greeted Xing Hechou. The latter stepped forward and said with a smile, “Are you here to sign the guild contract?”

“Yes.”

Wei Linglan nodded, “Because we were teleported relatively far away, we arrived a bit late.”

“I feel like I’m about to die…”

Chu Yin took out her phone wearily and glanced at it (the plaza and the real world cannot communicate unless you use a friend's call; a phone without a signal can only be used to tell the time), and said sadly, “It’s already four in the morning… Captain, when can we sign the contract?”

“Let’s sign it now.”

Xing Hechou took out two long contracts from the void, along with a quill, and handed them over.

Chu Yin yawned incessantly and scribbled a few strokes. Wei Linglan took the contract, glanced at it, and signed her name without any problems.

The moment she finished signing and lifted the tip of the pen, the contract turned into ashes, and the system prompt that she had successfully joined the guild sounded in their ears.

“Okay, you have to check the enhancements provided by the guild yourself. You have to open them in the player panel.”

Xing Hechou looked at the listless Chu Yin and couldn't help but ask, "Why are you so sleepy? Are you still investigating that case?"

The case he was talking about was the strange disappearance of the human trafficker Qi Lianxiang.

After discovering Qi Lianxiang’s disappearance, Wei Linglan immediately reported the situation, notified other colleagues in the department, and mobilized the surveillance footage of the area, trying to find clues.

As a result, nothing.

The man who took Qi Lianxiang away was very cunning and had a high degree of counter-surveillance awareness. He never exposed himself directly under surveillance.

Moreover, the man had clearly controlled Qi Lianxiang, allowing the latter to follow him and gradually leave the city, coming to the monitoring blind spot in the suburbs, and finally disappearing.

After the incident, the dozens of missing and accidental death cases originally brought up by Qi Lianxiang were re-examined.

As more and more doubts surfaced, it was finally possible to determine that there was a mastermind behind these events.

Although Qi Lianxiang was a heinous human trafficker, and the victims in a series of missing and accidental death cases had more or less had criminal records,

In any case, before being judged, they were all innocent—the Special Affairs Bureau was particularly sensitive to cases involving players, and in any case, they could not allow extraordinary people to bully the weak.

Even a侠 (xia, knight-errant) violates bans with martial arts, let alone players who can fly into the sky, move mountains, and fill seas?

“Yes, still investigating.”

Wei Linglan nodded, “Ordinary murder cases can be solved and the real culprit caught by using divination or summoning spirits.

It’s just that these cases span a long period of time and have few clues.

The past and present of all the dead and missing have been covered up by transcendent beings using divine power.

I can’t see clearly with divination.”

As one of the management of the Mobile Task Force, Xing Hechou had only heard about this case. He frowned and asked, “Divine power cover-up… I remember there are comrades in the bureau who hold divine abilities, right?”

“Yes.”

Wei Linglan nodded and said, “However, divine power has a first-mover advantage.

If a god takes the lead and uses divine power to cover up the cause and effect of an event,

Then the later gods must spend a huge amount of divine power to eliminate the influence of the former.

It’s like an oil painting that is a masterpiece by a master.

Destroying it only requires pouring a pot of ink on it,

But to save it, it takes thousands of times more energy to restore it to its original state.”

“Oh.”

Xing Hechou suddenly understood and nodded, “Then you are now…”

“Chu Yin and I, as representatives of the Special Affairs Bureau, are assisting colleagues from other departments to investigate this case using normal criminal investigation methods.”

Speaking of this, Wei Linglan's expression was a little dim, "We went through past files and investigated relevant personnel on that industrial chain.

Without exception, everyone was either dead or missing. In the end, there was only Qi Lianxiang.

She is likely to be the last person on the list of murderers.

If the murderer disappears after letting her disappear, it may be difficult for us to catch him again.

Unless…”

“Unless what?” Xing Hechou asked subconsciously.

“Unless the colleague in the bureau who possesses the qualifications of a god can take the lead in completing his promotion and become a higher-level deity,”

Wei Linglan said solemnly, "In that case, we can clear the fog and directly lock onto the murderer,

Making him have nowhere to hide."