Text-savvy, explore the copy

Chapter 158 Intelligence Gathering

early morning.

The orphanage rang with the mutterings of the children. It was difficult to get up early on this winter morning, especially for these children.

Zhuang Cai and the other two people in the orphanage were already sitting at the door, and children were running out from upstairs and from various rooms one after another.

Sister Meili's voice echoed from behind.

"You naughty guys, be careful. Little Meisha, put on your clothes."

All that echoed was the sound of these children playing.

Then Zhuang Cai and his two men, who were standing downstairs, saw a little girl limping down with a wooden crutch.

After jumping down, he quickly jumped onto Rainbow Tong's body and threw himself directly into her arms.

Rainbow Eyes smiled, rubbed her cheek against Alice, and whispered in her ear: "Happy birthday!"

When Alice heard this, her eyes narrowed completely with laughter, and her face turned red.

Take these children to the restaurant for dinner.

Until the dean came to take the children to the first class, Zhuang Cai and the two were still parked in the courtyard.

"What did you detect yesterday?" Rainbow Eyes asked.

In terms of intelligence, they can be said to perform their own duties.

From time to time during the day, Zhuang Cai would take free time to pray at the church of the Jinghe Order, establish a good relationship with the pastor there, and learn about the situation in the entire church.

Yang Rongrong used Granny Sonas to get to know the rich and wealthy in the city. After all, Granny Sonas's tailor shop was in the high-end category.

Nan Su Bei naturally stayed in the tavern. He only needed to stay in the tavern to naturally harvest the low-level information.

For the city they live in, there are too few entertainment options. After a tiring day, gathering in a tavern to brag and chat is the biggest form of entertainment for these low-class people.

Rainbow Tong has been staying in the orphanage, and will go with Aunt Mei Li to receive children who want to adopt orphans, as well as families who will donate to the orphanage.

These are also ways of collecting information.

Although the orphanage does not restrict many things for those who want to adopt children, it will still conduct some simple background checks.

This is legitimate information gathering.

Of course, this is only the information they will naturally collect after normal actions during the day. At night, it is the time when sin is most likely to appear.

It was left to Zhuang Cai and Nan Su Bei to collect intelligence. Of course, they did not wander around the entire city at night, but learned some information through intelligence collection during the day.

Just like what happened last night, it was Zhuang Cai who heard some small conversations in the church with his keen hearing and let him know the situation.

After just a few days of tracking, I finally found an important node.

Zhuang Cai nodded and softly told the situation they encountered last night.

Zhuang Cai then took out a few charms from his belt and handed them to Rainbow Tong: "Put away the charms that can temporarily cure mental effects.

I wonder if there are any new spells that can replace the healing effect with resistance. "

Last night's actions let him know that the mental attack was not strong, but the main reason was that few people had similar defense methods.

As long as there is mental resistance, it is easier to resist.

After all, you have to be injured to heal, but you don't even need to be injured to resist.

Then he added: "Nan Subei and Yang Rongrong will come here in a while, and we will have a brief meeting to summarize the intelligence collected during this period."

Rainbow Eyes nodded.

Because they have to integrate into this city and have a normal identity, they are divided into various places in this city, although this city is not big.

But even so, their time together was brief or even non-existent.

Because their time is difficult to overlap.

For Nansu and Bei, afternoon to evening is a good time for him to collect intelligence.

For both Zhuang Cai and Zhuang Cai, morning to noon are relatively busy times.

For Yang Rongrong, she is busy all day long, and sometimes she is even taken to some wealthy families by Granny Sonas for some customization.

After the two chatted for a while, they began to teach these children in turn.

But after all, this is an orphanage, and you can't expect these children to get a good education.

Only family-style basic education can be provided.

So basically every morning is the time to study.

The rest of the time is basically free range.

After finishing her morning study, Rainbow Eyes took Alice in her arms.

"Alice really likes you, it makes me jealous." Sister Meili covered her mouth and said with a smile.

These words made Alice a little shy, but she hugged Rainbow Eyes and had no intention of letting go.

Iridescent Eyes just smiled and touched her hair, stroking the bright burgundy short hair.

"Teacher Zhuang, are you okay?"

Peter, who has always been the most naughty but also the most reassuring among these children, looked at Zhuang Cai and suddenly asked.

Zhuang Cai felt a little strange when he heard this, and Rainbow Eyes turned his head to look curiously.

"Why do you say that?" Zhuang Cai was a little curious.

Although he had only known this little boy in the past few days, he had also briefly known the child and knew his character. He would not make such a joke.

So he doesn't think it's Pete's nonsense.

Hearing Zhuang Cai's question, Peter scratched his head in embarrassment, making his already messy yellow hair look like a chicken coop.

"I... don't know, I just think you don't look good."

The sensible Peter knew that his words sounded like lies, which made him feel a little uncomfortable, but he couldn't explain why.

Seeing Peter who was a little uncomfortable, Zhuang Cai walked over and patted him on the shoulder, smiling and said: "It's okay, thank you for your concern. Don't worry, I'm fine."

He said and winked at Peter.

Seeing Zhuang Cai like this, Peter couldn't help but smile, nodded, and rushed out with the group of children behind him to start their daily play activities.

Watching their leaving figures, Zhuang Cai pushed Rainbow Tong and walked outside.

"Do you think he saw something?" Rainbow Eyes asked.

Zhuang Cai nodded: "Maybe it was last night. After all, it is the power system of the same world. He may have noticed the influence of the cult ritual that remains on me."

Zhuang Cai could only think like this, because he definitely couldn't feel anything wrong with him, but the only problem was his actions last night.

As for coincidence or Peter's prank, he didn't think about it at all.

Pete has talent, and it's an amazing talent.

It is normal for gifted children to behave differently from others.

Judging from the information that Zhuang Cai saw in the laboratory in the 1990 copy, he already felt that Peter might have awakened his own spiritual skills.

It's just that maybe he didn't want to show his weirdness, so he simply hid it and didn't use it openly.

As for why he said this, it was because Zhuang Cai could clearly feel the energy reaction on Peter when he was close to him.

This reaction has been clearly felt from the first day he came to this orphanage.

The two of them walked slowly, and before they had gone far, Peter ran over. "Teacher, someone is looking for you at the door."

Hearing this, Zhuang Cai nodded.

"They should be coming from Southern Jiangsu and Northern Jiangsu."

As he said this, he pushed Rainbow Tong to the door. From a distance, he could already see Nan Subei and Yang Rongrong waiting at the door.

At this time, the two people standing at the door couldn't help but froze when they saw Zhuang Cai and his two people walking towards them.

He was talking quickly in an almost mosquito-like voice.

"You saw it."

"Ah."

"Does it feel very impactful?"

"I have some regrets. I should have spent some money on a camera that could take pictures among the copies. I should have filmed this scene."

Yang Rongrong's voice was really full of regret, and she really regretted it now.

Except for those who need to collect intelligence in the copy and transfer the pictures. Almost no one would buy this kind of expensive equipment that would be almost useless when standing in a dungeon.

Because such equipment is also not portable.

At this time, the two of them were standing at the door, and the figures of Zhuang Cai and the two walking towards them were so obvious.

Zhuang Cai was pushing a wheelchair, with Rainbow Tong sitting on the wheelchair.

This scene is nothing.

But the problem was that Rainbow Tong was holding a girl in her arms, and the three of them walked over and were laughing and joking, as if they were talking about something.

You can also see Zhuang Cai teasing the little girl in Rainbow Tong's arms.

If it weren't for the fact that the hair colors of the three people were really different, it would be hard not to make people think wildly.

Seeing the two people approaching, Nan Subei's mouth couldn't help but open automatically.

"Are the children this old?"

After the words fell, the scene became quiet.

There is no need for Zhuang Cai to do anything.

The sharp eyes of the iridescent eyes were fixed on Nan Subei until Nan Subei began to feel uncomfortable.

"Ahem, okay, let's get down to business."

He abruptly changed the topic.

A few people gathered together, walked a little inside the orphanage, and then stood in the middle and started talking.

Their conversations were quiet enough, and the place was spacious enough that anyone who wanted to get close had no place to hide, and there was no need to worry about being heard.

"Let's talk about what we discovered last night first. Nan, Su and Bei followed those people for three nights, and only last night we finally found the destination of their movements every night.

Nan Jiangsu and Northern Jiangsu should have told you about what we saw last night, right? Zhuang Cai looked at Yang Rongrong and asked.

Yang Rongrong nodded: "Nan Subei already told me this when he came to see me."

“That’s good, based on my observations and the information we know now, we can deduce it.

Such a ceremony should be a link in a large ceremony, or an important node.

It is conservatively estimated that there are at least three such nodes. After all, we lost track of them twice in the previous two nights due to lack of information.

There was reason to suspect that they were doing this kind of thing every night, but now it was feared that their ritual had been going on for a long time.

I don’t know at what stage of the ceremony we are barging in. "

Zhuang Cai described their findings and some possibilities.

As he finished speaking, Nan Subei also spoke: "I told Old Tom my discovery, and his judgment was that it would definitely not take long for this ritual to start.

Not even half a month. "

Looking at the eyes of several people, Nan Subei said: "Do you still remember the reason why Old Tom came to us? Yes, he discovered a failed cult ritual.

Based on his narrative, I can basically judge that the ritual he discovered was most likely the original cult ritual. It may be that some experiments were still going on at that time, and the ceremony was not completed yet. "

After all, Nan Subei hid his body last night and watched almost the entire ceremony. Among the three of them, he said that he was the clearest about the process of the ceremony.

Then he fumbled around in his arms for a long time and pulled out a piece of paper that was a little too torn.

The paper is unfolded to the size of a newspaper but what is depicted on it is the topographic map of the city, although some sketches can be clearly seen to be homemade.

But this map has basically drawn the general outline of the city.

Holding the map, Nan Subei said: "The location we discovered yesterday is here."

He pointed to the entire city, to the lower left corner of the south.

Only the old city is drawn here, not the new city. After all, the new city was slowly built up in recent years.

And the people living there are basically outsiders.

The entrance to the entire city is from the south, where refugees gather, and the connection to the new city is from the west where there is a connecting bridge.

As for the northern direction of the city, it is naturally where they are now in the south and north of Jiangsu. The direction where the orphanage is located is backed by some barren mountains.

The east direction is also connected to the outside, but the road here is a bit poor. Generally, residents in the city will look for the main road or only the southern one.

Then Nansu Bei made two more gestures on the map, but these two gestures were in different directions in the city.

“Although we didn’t find the exact location two nights ago, we were able to know the directions, which were these two sides.

In other words, they may indeed be conducting a large-scale ceremony, but in different directions. "

After finishing speaking, looking at the three people staring at the map, he continued to add: "Old Tom said that such a ceremony must have started not long ago, and that this ceremony must be a very hidden type.

The more covert a ritual is, the less likely it is to fully reveal its effects, especially for the owners of these power systems. "

Having said this, Nan Subei thought about the language and said: "To put it simply, the extraordinary power of this copy is radiated outward based on spiritual attributes. Therefore, once the ceremony reaches the middle, it will definitely have an impact on the surroundings, even if Very subtle.

But although there are few extraordinary people in the city, they are not without them. They will definitely find the problem, because this is something that cannot be covered up. "

The implication is that Old Tom will definitely be able to detect something wrong.

"Everything has exceptions, and the atmosphere of this city itself is very problematic." Rainbow Eyes added.

All three of them nodded to this, because it was indeed true. Since they are here, it means that this ceremony will definitely not be the same as before.

"So I am more inclined to think that this ritual must have been hidden by some means, just like what we saw last night. The ritual was clearly in front of us, but we couldn't find it at all." Nansu Bei made his own summary .

"But the ceremony has only started not long ago, so I might agree with this, otherwise wouldn't this copy be meaningless?" Yang Rongrong said with a smile.

This is the most advantageous argument for them.

Since they are still here, it means that this ceremony has definitely not reached the irreversible stage.

"We will definitely continue to see if we can track more confident intelligence tonight. Do you have any ideas about this?"

Zhuang Cai looked at several people and said.

Those people have been taking action every night these past few nights, and it is impossible not to take action tonight, so now they can no longer sleep well every night.

And they must obtain more important information tonight, otherwise they will always fall behind.

(End of this chapter)