The Only Player in 'Child of Stardust'-Chapter 64 - 55 Identity
Chapter 64: Chapter 55 Identity
Chapter 64 -55 Identity
Name: Fang Qing
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: August 17, 081.
Date of Disappearance: May 22, 104.
Occupation: Investigative Journalist.
Workplace: Qiming Newspaper Agency.
Home Address…
After seeing the photo on the file, Zhou Yuan was certain that this person was the Fierce Ghost of the blood sea.
“Fang Qing, huh…”
Zhou Yuan murmured softly and continued reading.
The information in the file was very detailed, down to even recording the roles Fang Qing held in her class during school. From elementary school to university and then to work, from the first news story she published as an investigative journalist to the last one, this file almost completely depicted the trajectory of a person’s life.
Based on this information, Zhou Yuan pieced together a rough image of Fang Qing in his mind.
Excellent academic performance, outstanding writing skills, proactive and optimistic personality, upright and honest, who resolutely chose to become an investigative journalist after graduation, having a strong sense of responsibility and mission, willing to speak out for the public interest…
People like this usually did not end well.
The file mentioned that before her disappearance, Fang Qing exposed a case of engineering fraud, and on the night the news was released, her rented apartment was broken into and vandalized.
Fortunately, she was not in the house at the time, narrowly escaping harm.
Unfortunately, a few days later bad luck caught up with her.
Fang Qing disappeared.
Her colleagues were the first to report to the police, who screened a large number of suspicious persons, but in the end came up empty-handed. A living person just vanished off the face of the earth, never to be heard from again.
The file also included information about Fang Qing’s family members, and to Zhou Yuan’s surprise, both of Fang Qing’s parents died in accidents shortly after her disappearance.
Considering Fang Qing’s career as an investigative journalist, it was not hard to see the unspeakable secrets hidden behind this.
At this moment, a system prompt sounded in Zhou Yuan’s ear.
Mission trigger conditions met
Mission Name: “The Buried Truth”
Stage One Mission Objective: Determine Fang Qing’s cause of death
Mission Reward 1: Experience Points *300
Mission Reward 2: Star Coins *300
“Hm?”
Zhou Yuan raised an eyebrow, “It’s a multi-stage mission…”
The stage one mission required him to find out Fang Qing’s cause of death, which was actually not difficult; the existing information was enough to make some reasonable inferences.
Back in the days when he worked on the assembly line in the factory and later as a security guard, Zhou Yuan often heard colleagues from all over brag about ghost stories on construction sites. When discussing construction, the most mentioned topics were hauntings, human pillar sacrifices, murder, and burials—the ubiquitous massage parlors and bathhouses only came in second.
After all, such incidents did indeed happen and were not uncommon. Every few years, news would break out about bodies being dug up from under construction sites, and upon investigation, it would turn out to be someone who had a conflict with the contractors many years ago and was buried there after being murdered.
Investigative journalist, exposing engineering fraud, construction company, disappearance… These keywords linked together inevitably pointed in a certain direction.
Most likely, Fang Qing’s disappearance was a retaliation by the contractors. Coupled with the title of the mission “The Buried Truth,” it was not difficult to speculate that Fang Qing was probably buried under some building.
The file included the news article Fang Qing wrote before she disappeared, in which a construction company named “Blueprint Group” was mentioned.
As long as he could find out the construction projects completed by this company in recent years and visit those places, he could probably use the Eyes of Identification to find clues and complete the stage one mission.
After sorting through his thoughts, Zhou Yuan closed the document and transferred the remaining 700,000 as agreed. He couldn’t help but lament how profitable the information broker was, earning a million in just a few minutes.
Ant: “Please give me a five-star rating after the transaction~”
Zhou Yuan gave a five-star rating and after a brief thought, typed, “I want information on the construction projects Blueprint Group undertook in Xinhu in recent years. How much will that cost?”
Ant: “That’s easy to find, just 100,000, including blueprints.”
Zhou Yuan: “Deal.”
Ant immediately sent over a document.
“That fast… He must have prepared it in advance,” Zhou Yuan thought, opened the document, and noted a few locations mentioned in it, planning to visit them after returning to Xinhu.
Ant: “I also offer a revenge package, Boss. Care to consider? Only 2 million for the full service, quite reasonable.”
Zhou Yuan: “I’ll contact you if I need it.”
Ant: “Sure, Boss. Have a great day~”
Quick work, and so pleasant to deal with, no wonder the reviews were stellar.
Zhou Yuan put away his phone and instinctively turned to look out the window, suddenly stunned.
The 106 bus route had actually plunged undersea!
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The bus lights illuminated the dark water around thirty or forty meters, revealing schools of fish swimming among vibrant coral reefs, shells and starfish lying quietly, translucent jellyfish glowing faintly, drifting alongside seaweed with the current.
“Driver, where are we going?”
“Dragon Palace.”
“Huh?”
“More accurately, the Dragon Palace tourist area,” the driver added.
“A tourist area?” Zhou Yuan couldn’t believe it. “Is it the Dragon Palace I think it is?”
“Of course not. This Dragon Palace was built by a White Dragon named Bai Lang. Besides being a tourist attraction, it also specializes in producing various seafood. A few years ago, they nearly had a confrontation with the Yingzhou Control Bureau because of nuclear waste discharge from Yingzhou,” the driver explained.
Zhou Yuan quickly searched forums and found relevant information.
Bai Lang, a white dragon, one of the few remaining True Dragons in the world, who claimed to be a descendant of the Third Prince of Jade Dragon.
“The Third Prince of Jade Dragon…”
Zhou Yuan found the name familiar and looked it up, discovering it was actually the White Dragon Horse from “Journey to the West.”
“This world is mad.”
“Did you search for his information?”
The driver chuckled, “It’s all fake, made up to scare people. Actually, he’s similar to a Golden Dragon named Aurelia, both anomalous creatures that walked out of storybooks.
While some ancient myths contain truths, those gods and mythical creatures couldn’t survive to the modern age. Not even slumbering helps; once the Transcendent tide recedes, they’d all die.”
Zhou Yuan thought for a moment and asked, “Then what’s the deal with angels and demons? Reports say that when Heaven and Hell manifested, they were numerous, seemingly unaffected by the Transcendent tide recession.”
“That’s something you wouldn’t understand,”
the driver said, “The Control Bureau investigated later and found that Heaven and Hell have special abilities. As long as the Transcendent tide reaches a certain level, they’d start automatically creating these anomalous beings.”
“I see…”
Zhou Yuan paused briefly, then asked, “When the Transcendent tide recedes, even gods will die?”
“True gods won’t die, but whether those so-called ‘gods’ are genuine is debatable,”
The driver laughed, “Ancient records tend to exaggerate. If I existed back then, I’d probably become a deity, but in modern times, I can only be a bus driver.”
Just as he spoke, the bus stopped.
Due to the low visibility underwater, Zhou Yuan couldn’t see far, only the solitary bus stop sign.
No passengers boarded at this stop.
As the bus started again, a system prompt sounded in Zhou Yuan’s ear.
Current visited station count: 10/10
Mission “106 Bus Route” completed
Mission Rating: S (Experience Points and Star Coins rewards increased to 150%)
Comments: You have witnessed a broader Extraordinary World, made some connections, gained a few enemies, and earned a slight amount of insignificant fame.
You are gradually making your mark.
Mission Reward 1: Experience Points *1050
Mission Reward 2: Star Coins *4500
Mission Reward 3: Rare Quality Item Pack *1
LV15 → LV16!
Experience Points: 420/850
Star Coins: 4500
Distributable Attribute Points: 1
