There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game-Chapter 751 - 642: Themis Is Here_2

Chapter 751: Chapter 642: Themis Is Here_2

The long-absent Hong Rao finally took the initiative to contact him.

Since the last frenzied gaming session, Xu Shuo, with no scripts to play, had enjoyed several days of leisure.

Because Hong Rao had calculated his performance values so precisely, the few Second Level Scripts she left behind before her departure were just enough for him to reach the pinnacle required for the third-level assessment.

So if he entered into a script next time, it would be the third-level assessment directly.

Or perhaps the fourth-level assessment?

Apart from Hong Rao’s message, Themis, who had also been missing for a long while, sent him a message too—the timing of these two suddenly becoming available was quite synchronized.

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Hong Rao: [I have finished dealing with my matters here. See when you have time to come to the Script Space. I want to talk to you about the third-level assessment script.]

Hong Rao: [By the looks of it, you must be impatient, too. I rushed back as soon as I finished there.]

Hong Rao: [Let me know when you get this message. I’m free for the time being.]

Themis: [Sorry, I’ve been busy with something outside.]

Themis: [I’m on my way over now.]

…

One is asking him to come over when he’s free, the other is indicating they’re coming over right now.

It didn’t take long for the scales in Xu Shuo’s mind to tip, almost instantly favoring the latter, and he quickly replied to Themis’s message.

Then the next moment.

Golden light shimmered around him, and the figure of Themis appeared directly in the office, sitting upright on the sofa.

Xu Shuo hadn’t expected this person to be so decisive…

So when the light flickered, he instinctively glanced outside the studio, mainly checking the status of Los in the new department.

As expected, Los, who had been hunched over typing, suddenly looked up, then directed his gaze toward Xu Shuo’s location.

As their eyes met, Los reflexively averted his gaze, but then, as if realizing something, he turned his head to look over again.

Although the office was one-way glass, Los’s gaze seemed unhindered, directly falling upon the corner of golden light.

Glancing at Themis and then back at Xu Shuo, who wasn’t surprised, Los lowered his head again.

——Why did Judgement come?

For some reason, Xu Shuo inexplicably read a sulky resentment from his back, and in a daze, he felt as if he was sneakily cheating behind someone’s back? It was too weird…

Xu Shuo brushed off these bizarre feelings and looked toward Themis, who appeared on the sofa.

Themis looked as if he had just emerged from some medieval world, not opting for modern casual wear as he had before to blend in.

Instead, he was clad in a pale golden robe, his still radiant golden hair not cut shorter, interwoven with a silver laurel wreath, dressed as they were when they first met at the Giant Fortress.

If his expression hadn’t been so solemn and majestic, he might have been mistaken for an Elf prince who had strayed into the mortal world.

So with a touch more dignity, he was the embodiment of an austere and upright Judge of Order, exuding an air of holiness.

“Themis,” Xu Shuo greeted.

“Xu Shuo.”

Upon seeing Xu Shuo, the somewhat inorganic cold aura around Shi dissipated, as if he had fallen from the clouds above the Holy Tall Tower.

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Then he tilted his head and asked with curiosity, “What was that about the Abyss Demon you mentioned before? I didn’t sense any Abyss Demon appearing in this world.”

Assured by the naivety on Shi’s face, Xu Shuo nodded in relief.

He smiled and said, “That was a whiff of energy leaking from the Abyss Rift. The Abyss Demon didn’t really come to the real world; it was just that the darkness of the Abyss was so dense it caused me to have hallucinations.”

“Oh!”

Shi nodded in sudden understanding: “The rift that can accommodate an Abyss Demon is typically fourth-level or higher. You’re only a second-level player, so it’s not strange for the Abyss to affect you. But you weren’t eroded by the fourth-level Abyss?”

Xu Shuo: Why do you make me sound so weak?

He pulled at the corner of his mouth: “Los from the Sixth Palace saved me. Besides, there might be some changes in the defense line. Do you want to check it out?”

Shi hesitated for a moment, then his eyes seemed to flow with golden light as though gazing into the void.

Knowing that this Judge tended to act directly, Xu Shuo quickly interjected as he noticed signs of Shi’s figure shifting: “May I ask, can you take me to the defense line too?”

Just as Shi, ready to check out the “defense line,” paused his light, then turned to look at him, and after a moment of contemplation, he nodded: “It’s not a problem.”

That thing itself didn’t have much to hide, anyhow.

Moreover, ordinary players couldn’t damage the defense line nor could they see the Order System inside it. To them, that place was just an expanse of blank void.

Although Shi didn’t know why he had agreed so readily.

He had never really taken anyone into the defense line before.

As the two figures disappeared from the office, Los, who had been covertly paying attention, turned to look at the office immediately and precisely captured where Xu Shuo’s Qi was.

With Judgement in the defense line…

That one is really pushing his luck.

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…

The exterior of the “defense line” was a Tall Tower.

But the interior was an empty void with nothing in it.

They floated in the luminous mist of space, seeing no boundaries in any direction, and although there were the faint outlines of buildings, they were vague and unfocused, without solid form.

——Is this the mysterious defense line?

Xu Shuo’s brows furrowed slightly, feeling some inexplicable discomfort in his thoughts.

But he couldn’t pin down the nature of this unease.