CHAPTER 586: HIDDEN OBJECTIVE OF THE MAIN QUEST

Liu Xing nodded and said, "Then I’ll trouble Alice with this. But I still have one question I need Alice to investigate, and that is why the Deep Diving Society is at odds with the Thousand Face, and why the Thousand Face is now specifically coming to attack the branches of the Deep Diving Society."

"No problem, I’ll contact Ryuusei as soon as I have any news. But these days, Ryuusei, you all need to be careful inside Tokyo Comprehensive University, it’s best not to make any big moves, because the Deep Diving Society will definitely come to Tokyo Comprehensive University to confirm the situation, and if you’re discovered, it won’t be good." Alice said before hanging up the phone.

Liu Xing sighed, he didn’t expect this Thousand Face guy to suddenly come out and stir up trouble, directly disrupting the plan of his group, and now the situation has become blurred again.

Of course, what Liu Xing wants to know most now is how to completely eliminate the branch of the Deep Diving Society set up within Tokyo Comprehensive University, after all, Oyamaya and the others have all died, theoretically there is only Tanaka Fuji left in the hospital.

Does he have to go to the hospital and kill Tanaka Fuji?

Thinking about this, Liu Xing couldn’t help but ask KP Bamboo Rat, "KP, can I now do a Judgment to determine how to truly eliminate the branch of the Deep Diving Society set up within Tokyo Comprehensive University? Or KP, can you further refine the target of this module’s Main quest for us and tell us what we need to do next?"

After thinking for a moment, KP Bamboo Rat said, "How should I put it... The requirements you propose now, Liu Xing, I cannot accept, because no matter what Judgment is done, it cannot be used to determine the specific Main quest of this module, and I also cannot give you more Mission hints, after all, you should be able to feel that the difficulty of this module’s Mission is not very high, so the key point of this module is actually to determine what the Main quest of this module is."

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows, KP Bamboo Rat’s words seemed to make some sense, because from the current module process, this module’s difficulty is not too high, it can even be said to be very simple, after all, his group hasn’t done anything yet, and Oyamaya and the others have all died.

So what is the secret of this module’s Main quest?

After pondering for a while, Liu Xing suddenly remembered something, that is, in the Morimoto Academy module, his group found a ritual site of the Deep Sea Gospel Society in the office building of Morimoto Academy, which should be the main activity site of the Deep Sea Gospel Society’s branch in the Kyoto area.

And now the branch of the Deep Diving Society set up within Tokyo Comprehensive University was originally the branch of the Deep Sea Gospel Society in the Tokyo area, so there is a high probability that there is also a dedicated ritual site hidden within Tokyo Comprehensive University.

After all, a great man in China once said - "If you keep the land but lose the people, both land and people will be lost; if you keep the people but lose the land, both people and land will be retained."

And in this module, this saying may have to be reversed, because for these secret cults, believers like Oyamaya can be replaced as many as needed, and a few deaths won’t be a big deal, but those ritual sites are different, because the ritual sites used for these Ritual Ceremonies are not something that can be casually determined and put into use, as this is related to the gods’ view of themselves.

So as long as it’s a secret cult of a certain scale, from determining the location to starting the construction of a dedicated ritual site, it requires a lot of time and manpower, and a large amount of precious Materials must be found to lay the magic array and so on.

Of course, if it’s a one-time Ritual Ceremony, it wouldn’t be so troublesome.

However, for the branch of the Deep Diving Society set up within Tokyo Comprehensive University, although its purpose may be to capture or study the mythical creature in Cross Lake, it may also have set up a ritual site, in order to conveniently summon the Deep One through Ritual Ceremony when necessary, or to sacrifice the mythical creature in Cross Lake at the first time... Of course, using the ritual site as a gathering place is also not bad.

In addition to the ritual site, a branch of a secret cult may also set up specialized "training institutions", "recruitment departments" and other additional facilities, as the branch of a secret cult needs to undertake various Missions.

So if the branch of the Deep Diving Society set up within Tokyo Comprehensive University has also arranged some additional facilities, then the Main quest of this module still needs to go and destroy these "offices" of the Deep Diving Society, only then can it be truly considered to have eliminated the branch of the Deep Diving Society set up within Tokyo Comprehensive University, otherwise in a few days the Deep Diving Society will arrange a batch of believers to transfer to Tokyo Comprehensive University, and the branch of the Deep Diving Society set up within Tokyo Comprehensive University will start operating again.

Thinking about this, Liu Xing immediately shared his thoughts with Zhang Jingxu and others, "Oh, I just remembered something, that is, when we were at Morimoto Academy, didn’t we find a ritual site of the Deep Sea Gospel Society above the resource room? I suspect that there is also a similar ritual site within Tokyo Comprehensive University, because from the current situation, the ambitions of the Deep Diving Society within Tokyo Comprehensive University are so great that the Deep Diving Society will not simply arrange people like Oyamaya to collect information within Tokyo Comprehensive University."

Zhang Jingxu and the others naturally understood Liu Xing’s implied meaning and nodded in agreement.

However, the problem now is, what "departments" does the branch of the Deep Diving Society set up within Tokyo Comprehensive University have?

So far, Liu Xing and the others are still completely unaware.

But as long as the direction is clear, things will be easy.

After all, Tokyo Comprehensive University is not like Morimoto Academy, which is the private property of the Deep Sea Gospel Society, so the Deep Diving Society cannot randomly find a place within Tokyo Comprehensive University to use, so the places that can be "contracted" by the Deep Diving Society within Tokyo Comprehensive University are not many, and this place must also have a certain area for activities, and must be sufficiently secretive to avoid being discovered by others.

In summary, Liu Xing and the others have come to the same conclusion, that is, the cafeteria!

As is well known, the university cafeterias are basically all contracted out, and a comprehensive university like Tokyo Comprehensive University must have a lot of cafeterias, and most of the cafeterias are not small, at least a two-story building, and most importantly, the cafeterias usually have a small warehouse for storing a large amount of food.

Because the cafeterias are generally not open to the public, and during related inspections, the focus of the inspectors is on the kitchen and the hall, and they generally do not inspect the warehouse too much, so if the Deep Diving Society chooses to contract a cafeteria within Tokyo Comprehensive University as the base of its branch, then it is very easy to set up a magic array in the warehouse and hide it.

Moreover, people like Oyamaya can freely enter and exit the cafeteria under the pretext of "work-study", so as not to arouse the suspicion of others.

Therefore, Liu Xing arranged for HonekawaSuneo to investigate who has contracted the cafeterias within Tokyo Comprehensive University, and whether Oyamaya and the others have "work-studied" in or around the School.

Liu Xing had just finished talking to HonekawaSuneo on the phone, when a somewhat pale-faced Ming Hanxing came in through the door.

It seems that Ming Hanxing has lost sanity points again this time.

Ling Ishikawa thoughtfully brought a cup of hot water and asked, "Teacher Ming, how’s the situation over there?"

After taking a sip of water, Ming Hanxing sighed and said, "Oyamaya and the others, as well as the members of the former Urban Legends Club, have all been killed directly by the Thousand Face, and now the entire club activity room is full of blood. The School has already transferred this case to the Tokyo police, so I don’t know what will happen next."

It’s all within expectation.

Liu Xing shook his head and said helplessly, "Although Oyamaya and the others dying is quite beneficial to us, this has completely disrupted our plan, and even though I’ve told Alice the specific situation, even if Alice reports it verbatim to the Deep Diving Society’s higher-ups, the Deep Diving Society will still send people to investigate on-site, so it’s better for us not to go to the School for a few days, and wait until the situation calms down before making any plans."

As soon as Liu Xing finished speaking, his mobile phone rang again.

This time it was Oko Hayato.

Liu Xing raised an eyebrow and answered the call, "Hello, Officer Oko, your information seems quite timely, you already know that something has happened at Tokyo Comprehensive University? But by the way, Officer Oko, don’t you have no mobile phone signal over there?"

Oko Hayato sighed and said, "I’m on my way back to Tokyo right now, because my superior just received a message from the Tokyo police, saying that a very serious murder case has occurred at your Tokyo Comprehensive University, with dozens of students killed in an extremely cruel manner. And according to the scene report sent back by the Tokyo authorities, my superior can be sure that the perpetrator of this heinous murder case is the Thousand Face, because all the victims were cut into several segments in a short period of time, and the cuts are very neat and smooth, clearly the work of the Thousand Face using Kamafera’s body."

Liu Xing nodded and said seriously, "That’s right, this heinous murder case was indeed done by the Thousand Face, because my friend detected the Thousand Face’s scent at the crime scene."

"Then Ryuusei, do you know the real identities of the victims in this case? I mean, the true identities of those victims." Oko Hayato said hesitantly.

Liu Xing knew what Oko Hayato was hesitating about, because before this, Liu Xing and Oko Hayato had an implicit understanding that they would not discuss topics involving "personal privacy", as those topics would be quite awkward.

After all, Liu Xing is a "thief", while Oko Hayato is an "official", at least officially.

And Liu Xing was also certain that Oko Hayato had some understanding of his situation, and could guess why he was at Tokyo Comprehensive University, but for the sake of maintaining the delicate relationship between them, Oko Hayato had never directly said so.

Thinking about this, Liu Xing decided to tell the truth, "I think Officer Oko should know the true identities of those victims. Though on the surface they were just a group of ordinary college students, they were actually all believers of the Deep Diving Society. I’m sure Officer Oko knows what the Deep Diving Society is, right?"

The reason Liu Xing decided to tell the truth was that since Oko Hayato had already asked him this question, it meant that Oko Hayato had already guessed the general identity of people like Oyamaya, so he was now just coming to confirm this with him.

"I see, so it seems the Purple Dreamliner Cruise Ship incident back then was indeed caused by the Deep Diving Society." Oko Hayato sighed again, "We restarted the investigation into the Purple Dreamliner Cruise Ship incident recently, and found that there were more than a dozen believers of the Deep Sea Gospel Society on the Purple Dreamliner Cruise Ship back then, so the perpetrator of the Purple Dreamliner Cruise Ship incident was most likely the Deep Sea Gospel Society. And now, although the Deep Sea Gospel Society has been merged into the Deep Diving Society, the believers of the Deep Diving Society still active in the Island Nation are still believers of the Deep Sea Gospel Society, so it’s only natural that the Thousand Face would retaliate against the Deep Diving Society’s believers."

"I see, no wonder the Thousand Face specifically came to cause trouble for the Deep Diving Society, it was for this reason." Liu Xing pretended to be surprised.

After a moment of silence on Oko Hayato’s side, he spoke again, "Ryuusei, I know you are currently studying at Tokyo Comprehensive University, actually to deal with the Deep Diving Society. So I now have a special piece of information to provide you. Of course, I don’t know if this information means anything to you, but it is that among the discovered bodies, one body is in a very strange condition, because two talismans were found in the heart and brain of that body."

Liu Xing furrowed his brow and quickly asked, "Is it Oyamaya?"

"Yes, it’s Oyamaya. Although we haven’t cracked the specific effects of these two talismans yet, based on the current situation, one of them should have a controlling effect, while the other’s effect may be to maintain Oyamaya’s bodily functions, because the forensic experts found that Oyamaya’s internal organs had already stopped working when examining the body. But most importantly, the current Oyamaya is very likely not the real Oyamaya, because Oyamaya’s blood type has changed."

After hearing Oko Hayato’s words, Liu Xing realized that his previous guess might be correct, that the current "Oyamaya" has indeed been switched by the Deep Diving Society. It seems that Tanaka Fuji and Ooyama have been taken in by the Deep Diving Society.

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