Capítulo 1753: Chapter 1753: Enbo and Ember
Finding these people isn’t difficult; the Municipal Governnt has related records. Now that it’s confird that “Ember Girl” is “Xia Xi Duolaiti,” the gender and age of the victims in Ember Town are no longer important; everyone needs to be checked once.
There are quite a few bereaved families, but for Xia Xi Duolaiti’s missing case, the District Governnt has already helped with a thorough check. Back then, no family mbers of victims were taken away or completely disappeared, so this person must have so relationship with the victims, but on the surface, no one would suspect them.
At the sa ti, they need enough “operating ti,” for instance, to track the movents of the District Governnt and Duolaiti family mbers, and to find or create a suitable hiding place. This place must not be detectable by props and instrunts, and it must completely avoid the players’ sight…
Apart from underground, Xu Huo can’t think of a better place.
The mining area isn’t worth talking about. Whether it’s opening a path within the mountain or digging underground, it has to be deep and hidden, which requires a very long ti. If soone or so people disappear for a long ti, it would surely attract others’ attention, and it’s also hard to avoid others’ sight within the mining mountain. The best place is actually within the city.
Because it’s within the urban area without clear preparation ti, this person is ideally soone living alone and unnoticed. Large families find it challenging to avoid contact with the outside world. Even if family mbers don’t actively contact others, soone will visit, and the probability of accidents is higher.
Soone living alone and unnoticed successfully evaded the governnt players in the later missing persons investigation, which probably ans they’ve been actively overlooked by others. Surprisingly, there aren’t many such people, especially during those years when amber was valuable, everyone in Ember Town was working hard — for this not-too-large town with not-too-many people, excluding the elderly who couldn’t move well and playful children, not many were left.
“Enbo,” Xu Huo said the na.
There was a significant fluctuation in Enbo’s history. He didn’t give up hope due to his physical handicap, so why would he suddenly beco self-destructive after gaining fa and fortune?
Enbo grew up living off everyone, never making deep connections. Many on the list lived in the area he once lived in, and many families fed him. Perhaps he learned the truth about the mining disasters then, or maybe soone he cared about died in the mining disaster — there could be many reasons that outsiders may not discern even today, but this might have facilitated his connection with the Blind Old Lady.
The most frequent place Enbo was seen alive was at his own ho, and to hide people from props and instrunts, this underground tunnel would need to be at least a hundred ters deep.
The place where Enbo now resides has beco a square, bustling in broad daylight, so players can only explore with props or instrunts. Soone once donated money to reconstruct the square and dig underground, but they stopped after a hundred ters.
Beyond fifty ters, the difficulty is beyond what ordinary people can manage, and at that ti, Enbo’s financial situation didn’t allow him to buy professional robots, nor did he have the props to support him. Thus, the connection between “Enbo” and “Ember” may just be an unreliable rumor, and there are countless people and events more related to “Enbo” and “Ember Girl.” Be it players or fans, they can’t possibly dig everywhere. Besides, they have no reason to dig three feet into the ground.
Xu Huo now has this reason, but it’s not easy to take action.
“Shall we go to the next place?” After coming out of the small courtyard, the guide said to them, “The statents from a few remaining people are all more or less the sa, and I’ve heard them hundreds of tis. How about we go check out the place where Master Soran once visited?”
Xu Huo had no objections, and the other two exchanged a glance and nodded.
The car started again. Ember City is quite well-built now, and the scenery is nice. Xu Huo asked the guide to slow down the speed, and along the way, they tried so local delicacies and bought so local specialties.
The other two companions were broke, and the guide was stingy, so Xu Huo paid for the als. To express gratitude to him, the guide specifically introduced so economical shops for buying specialties.
“Amber Square is quite famous,” Xu Huo said.
“Not far from here!” The guide directly ignored the opinions of the other two and turned in that direction.
“Amber Square was where Enbo used to live, right?” the tall man said.
“Not just Enbo; a lot of people used to live at Amber Square,” the guide gave him a glance, “You’re not thinking of digging up the square, are you? I’d advise you not to. It’s expensive to construct, and there are many robots guarding it. Not to ntion you, even players couldn’t dig it up and take a look.”
“Besides, if you dig, it won’t help. The square was already dug up during renovations, and people from big cities dug more thoroughly than you would, using every instrunt and prop available to the advanced players. If it’s not there, it’s not there.”
After saying this, the guide paused and quickly added, “Don’t get discouraged; if you can’t find anything here, maybe it’s sowhere else. Keep trying, and one day you’ll find it!”
Ignoring the guide’s little thoughts, the group silently arrived at Amber Square. It was quite bustling here, with all sorts of luxury brands and so rare amber for sale.
Having co here, Xu Huo bought a few small, exquisite pieces of amber.
“You have a good eye, sir. There aren’t many natural pink ambers left. Many people buy them as collectibles, neither reselling nor displaying them, so such quality is hard to co by,” the saleswoman said with a beaming smile.
“Is it true?” Xu Huo tilted his head to ask the guide next to him.
“They have detector instrunts in the mall; give it a try,” the guide promptly went to request an instrunt. After a quick scan, it was confird to be genuine, and Xu Huo paid for it without hesitation.
“This piece of amber is really beautiful,” suddenly, a very beautiful woman approached and reached out to take the amber from Xu Huo’s hand. Yet before her fingers could touch it, the hand holding the amber shifted aside, avoiding her.
Seeing his movent, the woman leaned against the counter as if she had no bones, playing with her long hair, gazing at Xu Huo with sultry eyes and extending her hand toward him, “Shouldn’t beautiful things go with beautiful won? Handso, would you give the amber to ?”
Not only the few people around them, but even the saleswoman was left with weakened legs by this voice, looking at this enchantress with a blush, seemingly completely absorbed in her charm.
Of course, this was the effect the woman wanted, but unfortunately, her primary target did not fall into the enchantnt. Instead, he calmly looked at her and then slowly tucked that piece of pink amber into his pocket.
The atmosphere beca a little awkward, but the woman was very sensible. If the characteristic doesn’t work, it ans the other party has a good Defense Prop or has a strong will and isn’t easily tempted, anyhow, soone not to be trifled with. So, she turned and left.
However, at this mont, Xu Huo reached out and pressed her shoulder.
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