Death Game: Starting as a Trickster, Pretending to Be a God
Chapter 591: Running Into Someone Familiar
After finishing his exchange with Shen Bingmiao, Lin Yu didn't immediately engage with Li Nian. Instead, he played with his phone for a while.
More than ten minutes passed, and Good Night replied with a file titled "Jiangcheng 'Player' Archive Data Record."
Lin Yu clicked to receive the file, then nodded in satisfaction.
"This is probably the normal file retrieval speed..."
Once the file finished downloading, Lin Yu discovered it was a spreadsheet—containing only ID, 'Class', and affiliated organization.
Obviously, without a proper reason, it was impossible for Lin Yu to use 'Order's methods to pull up the players' real identity information.
Fortunately, he had Shen Bingmiao.
So, Lin Yu started to reconnect with Li Nian, who was still at the scene.
"So, any findings?"
Li Nian shrugged helplessly. "Not really. Clearly, even if these two are 'Players', they aren't the kind of idiots who'd leave obvious clues or slip-ups in their daily workplace."
Lin Yu nodded. "But I have some on my side."
Li Nian's eyes lit up. "Good sister, you really do?"
"Why would I lie to you?" Lin Yu said, reciting the information he got from Shen Bingmiao. "Lin Ruizhe is not a player. Cheng Mingwen is from 'Jiang'an Hall', 'First-Tier'."
"Additionally, there should be two more players active near your school. One code name 'He Jing', one code name 'Arctic Shrimp'."
Lin Yu spoke unhurriedly.
He didn't reveal all the information Shen Bingmiao gave him.
After all, besides going through the process and confirming the timing, Lin Yu asked Good Night to help investigate to also gauge what "level" of intelligence he could safely disclose.
As expected, these vague pieces of information were just right. Li Nian didn't become suspicious and was very grateful to Lin Yu.
"A huge help, Sister Zhu Ming," Li Nian said with a grin. "Knowing the 'code names', investigating won't be hard."
She also took out her own phone and fiddled with it for a moment.
"Then Teacher Cheng's suspicion isn't that high anymore. 'First-Tier' from 'Jiang'an Hall'... If he could really get in touch with 'Dolantine', it'd be no different from the director of a Jiangcheng South District street office calling the Pentagon. I can only say unless they're somewhat related, I can't think of any other possibility."
"So we need to look into the identities of 'Arctic Shrimp' and 'He Jing'... Hmm, found it."
"'He Jing' is also 'First-Tier'? But she hasn't joined any organization, and seems to be a quite famous 'bounty hunter'. I see her 'Hunters' Association' homepage has a lot of positive reviews... I can only say she's slightly more suspicious than Teacher Cheng."
"'Arctic Shrimp' is 'Second Tier', and an old-school 'Second Tier' at that... That's a bit suspicious—wait, he's from 'Order', huh? Then that doesn't seem right."
Li Nian slightly furrowed her brows. "'Order' people definitely wouldn't get involved with 'Psychological Society' people—unless 'Dolantine' came to kill him."
"But 'Arctic Shrimp' is still alive, which means Dolantine definitely didn't make a move on him. Otherwise, I can't imagine how he survived."
As Li Nian spoke, Lin Yu softly interrupted her.
"Not necessarily."
Hearing Lin Yu's words, Li Nian looked up at him.
"'Not necessarily' meaning you think 'Arctic Shrimp' could withstand it?"
"No, meaning it's not impossible for 'Order' people to get involved with 'Psychological Society' people."
Lin Yu said calmly.
"'May May' and I are the best examples."
Li Nian blinked. "Wow... You actually make a good point."
"However, your situation with 'May May' is relatively special, right?"
Lin Yu, of course, also knew the situation with 'Zhu Ming' and 'May May' was special.
But he had other grounds for this inference.
Li Hua, that East China person in charge, the Haicheng Game Master, had said that 'Order' internally wasn't completely trustworthy anymore.
So, the phenomenon of 'Order' members privately contacting 'Psychological Society' members wasn't impossible.
Therefore...
"'Arctic Shrimp' isn't necessarily 'not in a special situation' either."
As he spoke, Li Nian thought for a moment, then caught on.
"I get what you mean... I'll investigate it."
"Anyway, thanks, Sister Zhu Ming."
"Let's go—to the cafeteria."
Hearing Li Nian's words, Lin Yu spoke, somewhat surprised. "Didn't you bring your own lunch?"
"Treating you. It's mealtime anyway, and you don't look like you've eaten," Li Nian said with a smile. "You helped me, I should at least treat you to a meal, right?"
Lin Yu looked at Li Nian and spoke playfully. "This isn't you complaining about me coming to your school?"
"Well, that's one thing, this is another. You didn't do it on purpose anyway," Li Nian said, waving her hand. "Let's go. Our school cafeteria is still a cafeteria, but the food is passable."
She led Lin Yu as they carefully left the infirmary again and locked the door from the outside.
Just as the two stepped out of the infirmary, they heard a series of footsteps coming from the stairwell.
At this time, there shouldn't be anyone coming to the activity building, so Li Nian and Lin Yu couldn't help but tense up.
"Could it be those doctors coming back? Shouldn't be that fast, right?"
Li Nian muttered quietly.
However, tense as they were, neither of them paid it too much mind.
After all, they'd already confirmed the only player here was just a 'First-Tier' 'Doctor', without any extraordinary strength.
Even if they were really exposed, there were all sorts of ways to easily handle it.
The two slowly walked near the corner of the stairs. Li Nian stole a glance without changing her expression.
Then, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Just two junior high students!"
She saw two girls wearing junior high uniforms walking up. One of them, teary-eyed, had rolled up her pant leg, revealing a bleeding knee.
Probably scraped it and needed to come to the infirmary for treatment.
The other girl was supporting her, clearly a friend or something.
Seeing their faces clearly, Li Nian even proactively struck up a conversation.
"Hey, are you going to the infirmary?"
"The teachers all went to eat. You might have to wait a bit—if it's urgent, you can call the number on the wall."
The injured girl nodded upon hearing this. "Thank you, senior... We'll just wait a bit."
The girl supporting her instead frowned. "Are you sure you don't need to call?"
"It's okay, Class President, just a scrape..."
The two girls slowly shuffled toward the direction of the infirmary.
After watching them walk away, Li Nian walked onto the stairs and let out a small sigh.
"Are you still there, Sister Zhu Ming?"
She had noticed earlier... the moment those two girls appeared, Lin Yu beside her had immediately vanished.
Lin Yu emerged from the shadows.
"Yeah, I'm here."
Li Nian looked at him with interest. "What were you hiding from?"
"Just got a bit startled..."
Lin Yu explained casually.
Li Nian nodded, turning as if to go downstairs.
But just as she stepped onto the first step, she suddenly stopped.
"Ah, wait..."
"Sister Zhu Ming, that girl who was supporting the other one just now... she looked exactly like you, didn't she?"