‘The man who had just spoken glanced at Shang Jianyao. “We took on a Hunter mission. Back then, I found it strange why we had to carry these bones to Swamp Ruin 1 and bury them in this baffling place. He also gave us a route and a way to bypass the guards; furthermore, the payment was too much.”
For some reason, Jiang Baimian suddenly recalled Shang Jianyao’s random idea: “Deliberately make a ‘Dajiang City’s Elite Middle School’ sign and randomly hang it outside a school to mislead people who come to explore.”
Could it be that someone is really trying to create a replica in an attempt to mislead subsequent excavators? Jiang Baimian gazed at the three men and asked in a deep voice, “What does the person who hired you look like?”
The three men assumed a posture of recalling something. Their expressions then tured pained.
“I don’t remember.”
“L forgot.”
“He looked very ordinary; I don’t have any impression of him. In any case, we’ve already received one-third of the payment, and the rest is escrowed in the guild. We just need to take a few photos and bring them back to receive payment.”
The tallest man patted his backpack; there was a digital camera there. This was lent to them by the Hunter’s Guild.
“There’s indeed something fishy.” Shang Jianyao was very happy.
Jiang Baimian thought for a moment and picked up the walkie-talkie to get Long Yuehong and Bai Chen to come over. She then said to the three men, “Take photos now. Dig out the items for us to see later.”
“That’s right. You came here, dug a hole, buried the item, and took a photo. This is equivalent to completing the mission. Any subsequent developments have nothing to do with the mission.” Shang Jianyao guided them patiently.
He made sense, and the three men agreed one after another.
After taking the photo, they swung their shovels and removed the concrete blocks again.
By the time Long Yuehong and Bai Chen arrived, the three of them had already picked up the bones and placed them outside the hole.
‘Without needing to observe carefully, Jiang Baimian could tell at a glance that this wasn’t a complete corpse.
Ignoring everything else, the skull wasn’t here.
After seriously distinguishing for a while, Bai Chen said, “An adult. Only half a corpse.”
The three men replied in unison, “It’s none of our business!”
“That’s all the bones we had when they were given to us.”
“That’s all we got!”
An incomplete corpse… Why did they bury an incomplete corpse in Swamp Ruin 1’s laboratory ruins? As Jiang Baimian thought, Shang Jianyao suddenly pointed at a certain spot in the crater and asked, “What’s that?”
Under a pile of concrete was a palm-sized, black, rectangular object.
‘The tallest Ruin Hunter glanced at it and said, “It was given by the employer. He told us to bury it with the pile of bones. We forgot to pick it up.”
Shang Jianyao quickly looked at Long Yuehong and said with abnormal anticipation, “Go get it.”
Will it be different if I get it? Long Yuehong criticized inwardly.
This was business, so he didn’t refuse. He jumped into the hole and bent down to pick up the item.
Under the dim starlight, he realized that it was a name tag made of soft plastic.
He then flipped over the name tag and looked at its front.
Under the transparent plastic film was a yellow identification document. On the identification surface was a name: “Du Shaochong.”