Text Game: It All Began when a Cat-eared Girl Took Me In-Chapter 154 - 139: Will be beaten by mother-in-law for having intimate interaction with Aina (6k to let the past go with the wind added by big brother)_1
Reality.
It was already 1:30 in the morning.
The weather in October was still very hot, with many people wandering around at midnight, living an eventful nightlife.
Underneath a stone bench in a park lay a young man, sound asleep, snoring loudly.
Occasionally, passersby would check on him out of concern, but upon seeing that he was still alive, they didn’t feel the need to interfere further.
"Is this guy a homeless person?"
"He looks quite clean and doesn’t smell of alcohol, not really like a homeless person. Maybe he was dumped by his girlfriend and is so heartbroken that he ran out here to sleep?"
"Should we wake him up?"
"In today’s society, it’s better not to meddle in other people’s business. Be careful, or you might get blamed and end up in trouble."
Meanwhile, outside the old house Luo Xi was renting.
Thump! Thump!—
A middle-aged man in his forties or fifties and a young man in his twenties were gently knocking on the door downstairs, trying not to disturb the neighboring residents.
They were both employees of the Dreamland Travel Bureau.
Since the first beta test of "Dawn" a while ago, they had intended to maintain a peaceful approach, not intervening too much in the players’ affairs. However, under the guidance of some unknown forces, player hunters, a class of thugs who prey on other players, soon emerged.
Playing the game to improve oneself couldn’t compare to the speed of killing and setting fires, stealing other people’s stuff.
A power crystal, even the most rubbish white one, as long as it had positive effects, could fetch millions on the black market or deep web, all in green bills.
The Dreamland Travel Bureau had intended to announce this gang of thugs at the conference during the day and planned to protect the first batch of Xia Country’s citizen players. But these hunters had been too rampant lately, causing nearly a hundred casualties in the past two days, forcing the bureau to act swiftly.
After all, there were just over twenty thousand players in Xia Country for this beta test of "Dawn."
Some player hunters had already been captured, but some were still moving around within Xia Country, relying on their power crystals. But in modern society, no matter how good your evasion skills are or how powerful the acquired abilities, once you interact with society, it’s only a matter of time before you’re discovered.
The two had come because they learned that a player hunter had fled to the area. Moreover, according to bureau’s data, there was a university student here who had recently confirmed their Traveler identity. Since they couldn’t reach him by phone, they decided to come and check.
"Hello, is there anyone inside?"
The young man stopped knocking and turned to the middle-aged man, "Brother Zhang, there’s no response even with all this knocking. Could something have happened already?"
The middle-aged man frowned, his nose twitched, and his expression changed, "Damn, there’s a strong smell of blood inside! Xiao Mu, smash the door open!"
Upon hearing this, the young man quickly used his elbow to ram the door.
Bang!—
The door of the old house, already frail, shattered along with the frame under the forceful impact.
The two then entered the house.
The middle-aged man looked up, "The blood scent is coming from upstairs!"
Hearing this, the young man dashed upstairs and pushed open the room door.
The sight of a blood-smeared room entered his vision.
There was also the headless corpse on the floor, and the head lying in the corner, both evidencing the horrific incident that had occurred there not long ago.
The middle-aged man followed upstairs and upon seeing the ghastly scene in the room, he raised an eyebrow but said nothing and went to examine the face of the head.
The young man beside him expressed his regret, "Brother Zhang, we’re too late. Such a shame, he was so young. Those damn thugs! They must be brought to justice!"
The middle-aged man carefully observed the facial features of the head.
It had a fierce, unpeaceful expression with a scarred face, looking to be in his thirties.
The middle-aged man spoke gravely, "The person who died is not the university student; this is one of the wanted player hunters, the criminal known as Iron Fist!"
"What?"
The young man came over and realized that indeed this could not be a university student.
He said puzzled, "Then, where did that player go?"
The middle-aged man checked his phone, and after a moment, with a strange look said, "There’s been an update just now. The university student is still alive. Not long ago, he threw a homeless man into the river outside, nearly drowning him. Now, he’s lying in a park, fast asleep. Our staff have already gone to find him."
The young man: "..."
The middle-aged man looked around the room, "From the traces left in this old house, it seems there were at least three people attacking him at the time. To have counter-killed one, his abilities must not be as ordinary as the records suggest."
"Perhaps it was his first time doing something like this, so it’s understandable that he might have had a mental breakdown?"
The young man agreed with this guess.
The first time he was forced to kill someone, he too spent several dazed days before regaining his composure.
"We’ll check again to see if there are any traces of player hunters left behind," the middle-aged man said.
The two of them searched the blood-strewn room.
There were many random items scattered about.
"Do these seem to be things taken out from the Dream World?"
The young man realized in astonishment, "He didn’t rob a regular household of all their belongings, did he?"
The middle-aged man shook his head, "It’s unclear; we’ll find out when we see him. Anyway, they’re just ordinary items."
