Chapter 1018: Searching for Kisaragi Station
After browsing his phone for a while, Zhang Tuohai had a basic understanding of this city. It was similar to the world , both were modern cities. However, the disappearance rate in this city seemed a bit high. People were always disappearing for no reason, various missing person notices could be seen almost everywhere, and related urban legends were countless.
"There seems to be something wrong with this city." Zhang Tuohai thought as he flipped through his phone.
However, this didn't seem to have anything to do with him. He was not a private detective helping them find missing persons.
"How far is this place from your home? Let me take you back." Zhang Tuohai turned and said to Mo Zi.
"This, this doesn't seem to be my world." Mo Zi said in a trembling voice.
"Isn't this your world?" Zhang Tuohai asked.
"Well, I searched the apps I often use, but couldn't find it. I felt something was wrong, so I tried to download maps and check the news. I found that the topography of this world is different from my original world. The countries and divisions are completely different, and the stars are different. Except for their language, which I can understand, and the technological level seems to be similar, other details are completely different from my world."
Mozi said.
At this moment, Zhang Tuohai heard a neutral broadcast voice.
"Reach Kisaragi Station before midnight. Those who fail to arrive will be hunted to death by the hunters."
Zhang Tuohai was startled and turned to look at Mo Zi.
Mo Zi also looked at Zhang Tuohai and nodded affirmatively, proving that she also heard the voice.
"It seems that we haven't escaped from the game area yet. This game has to continue."
Zhang Tuohai said.
He admitted that he underestimated the game developed by Barbara. He originally thought it was an alien matrix, then he thought it was a battle royale, and later he thought it was a biological crisis like the Alien. As a result, he now finds that Barbara is playing a much bigger game. It is not a low-cost game like Squidward, but it directly pulls all the players into a different world.
The place where they were before was just a very small area of the game, and it was very likely even a novice village. Now they have truly embarked on the journey of the game.
"There's no point in thinking about this now. First we need to find Kisaragi Station. Where is this station?"
Zhang Tuohai's first thought was to look for Ruyue Station on his mobile phone navigation. However, after changing several navigation apps, he still couldn't find the place. He even tried several homonyms and fuzzy searches, but to no avail.
There were even a few warning text messages popping up on his phone, reminding him not to take risks for the sake of curiosity and to cherish his life.
Zhang Tuohai: “???”
He felt more and more that the Ruyue Station was a little strange. The local public department must know some secret information, otherwise, he would not have received such an admonition text message when he inquired about the Ruyue Station.
Just as he was thinking about how to get some information from those public departments, Mo Zi suddenly said, "In the eastern suburbs."
"What?" Zhang Tuohai turned around and asked.
"That Ruyue Station is most likely in the eastern suburbs. That is, this area." Mo Zi enlarged the electronic map in her hand and drew a circle on it with her finger, circling a part of the area on the edge of the city.
"Why do you think so? Is there any evidence?"
Zhang Tuohai asked curiously.
"I searched for Yueru Station and found many related urban legends, so I wrote a crawler software to crawl the related urban legends, and then extracted the keywords. I found that the words "Eastern Suburbs", "Late Night", "Ruyue Station", "Last Train" and so on appeared the most. The threads of all the related stories are basically the same. They are all stories about some workers in the eastern suburbs who waited for the last train at Yueru Station and then disappeared. Whether it was one person or many people, it was basically the same. Of course, there were also some witnesses who did not catch the last train, that is, the narrators of the story."
"Then, I checked these narrators and found that these people actually existed. Although many of them used pseudonyms and censored pictures, they could still be matched one by one in the public police files. Therefore, these urban legends are likely to be true, and this Kisaragi Station is somewhere in the eastern suburbs."
"Really? That's great, you are actually a hacker?" Zhang Tuohai looked at Mo Zi in disbelief. He thought she was just an ordinary little girl, but he didn't expect that she even knew hacking skills.
"I'm not really a hacker. I can just write a few small programs. It's nothing." Mo Zi lowered her head embarrassedly.
"That's great. Since the Kisaragi Station really exists, and we can't find it on the electronic map, it must have been concealed by the authorities. We can go to the library to check the old maps. The location of the Kisaragi Station must be on them."
Zhang Tuohai said.
"Then let's go to the library now?" Mo Zi asked.
"No, let's eat first. We have to wait until night. Who knows what will happen in the meantime? Eat a full meal first so you can have the energy."
As Zhang Tuohai spoke, he heated up several cans of food and ate them all with Mozi. He also put the compressed biscuits and candies for easy storage into his pocket. He only carried a pistol for easy concealment and put the rest of the things in an anonymous storage area. Then he took a taxi with Mozi to the city library.
After entering the library, the two went straight to the map room and began to look through the old maps of the city. However, they found that all the maps marked with Ruzuki Station had already been taken away and sealed. Apparently, the authorities had anticipated this possibility and cut off the access in advance.
"What should we do? Should we ask passers-by?" Mo Zi asked.
"I tried. When I was throwing out the garbage, I asked two people about it, but they both seemed very secretive. One person even called the police on his cell phone when I left. It seemed that the police had issued a reward. Anyone who reported or inquired about the Kisaragi Station Store would receive a reward."
Zhang Tuohai said.
"What should I do?" Mo Zi frowned. The map was taken away and no one was allowed to ask about it. How could she find it?
"Let's check the local annals. If the station is under construction, it must be built along with the entire line. Road construction and opening to traffic is a big event for a city, so it will definitely be reflected in the local annals. Unless all the local annals are taken away, there will definitely be clues left behind."
Zhang Tuohai said.
"Really? That's great, let's hurry up." Mo Zi and Zhang Tuohai went straight to the local chronicles museum area.
