The Evidence Was a Double-Edged Sword

"Arrest arrest arrest..."

Listening to the sirens blaring from the street, Feng Xue sat on a park bench, a copy of the Tasok Newspaper in hand, and a slight smile appeared on her lips. She couldn't help but sigh that the crime scene in South District was indeed different from other places. She had been in Victoria for almost two months, and none of her four accomplices had been caught. They were even intentionally developing a distinctive modus operandi.

The first one was keen on destroying religious sites. In less than two months, he bombed up almost every church in Bekeland, big and small. Now that there are no more churches to bomb, he has started bombing buildings with crosses. As a result, many hospitals in the surrounding area have secretly covered up their Red Crosses to avoid being accidentally injured by this "Antichrist".

The second character liked to attack prostitutes and female customers along the riverbank at night. Perhaps due to some overlap between his previous world and this one, his methods matched the legend of Jack the Ripper in many ways, including sending a kidney to the Xivilas Field. As a result, he was dubbed the Jack the Ripper of the 21st Century by the media. However, perhaps because he was illiterate, he didn't write a sarcastic letter as historically depicted. At least, the part published in the newspapers didn't.

The third one seems to intentionally create a cult-like sacrificial style, always drawing large and small magic circles and meaningless symbols around the corpse with the blood of the dead. As someone blessed with the Translation Konjac, Feng Xue is certain that the runes in those photos in the newspaper are meaningless.

Compared to the first three, the fourth one is far less newsworthy. This guy didn't deliberately create any kind of symbol; he simply followed the victim home and tortured her to death in front of her family, ignoring other witnesses. While this did maximize the accuracy of the victim's family's understanding, he was just an "ordinary" serial killer. If we're talking about the probability of the four of them being included in Supernatural Tale Entry, this one is definitely the lowest.

As for Feng Xue...

"It's definitely good to be cultured!" Feng Xue tossed the newspaper containing an article mocking the inaction of the Xivilas Field into the trash can and walked towards the nearby supermarket.

Compared to his four peers who were still relying on murder and plunder, Feng Xue had already gone a step further. The Weird Tale he was creating were not only spreading at a visible speed, but were also reaping the "residual value" of his four peers.

After all, in a city where Jack the Ripper, a psychopathic killer, a bloodthirsty cultist, and a church demolition expert all coexist, the existence of a devil who "works diligently" every day naturally leads people to believe that these things are "the devil's work."

However, Feng Xue wasn't worried about offending those colleagues, because they weren't entitled to that benefit anyway.

It's like a capitalist seeing a street stall making money, imitating the stall's idea, registering a trademark, attracting clients and financing, and eventually opening a nationwide chain. For the street stall owner, this doesn't harm his income; it might even help promote him. Unless someone specifically tells him (or the plagiarist falsely accuses him of infringement), he might never realize that the value he created has been stolen and exploited.

Ultimately, however, the value extracted from these exploited assets was a minor part. For Feng Xue, the real big deal was the Urban Legend that was gradually spreading among Housewife —the demon who would break into other people's homes in the afternoon and use their ingredients to prepare a delicious dinner.

After several attempts, nearly being mistaken for a pervert, Feng Xue suddenly realized something—a piece of knowledge he had long known but had consistently overlooked—

Old Li had actually told him how to become Weird Tale.

Feng Xue was always thinking about how to create a new Tag, but she forgot that when Old Li was explaining the meaning of Tag, he said that the essence of Tag is to anchor Real Worlder to nothingness.

Multiple Tag can be anchored to each other to accurately point to an object, and in Feng Xue's view today, this kind of anchoring is undoubtedly the Supernatural Tale Entry!

Therefore, unlike those who only play the role of obtaining Tag within the framework of the Infinite City, Feng Xue, who already has multiple Tag from the real world, doesn't actually need to consider how to add more Tag. Instead, she needs to connect the existing Tag to construct a "Weird Tale" that can recognize all Tag at the same time.

So, after a brief moment of reflection, he realized that the most suitable Tag for him wasn't the [Instructor] that Yan Kingdom had just provided, nor the [Money Printer] that could attract ATMs, nor the [Demon] with its strong fantasy Tag, but rather the one he had initially underestimated, the one that had been relegated to a corner gathering dust, with only one person providing a small amount of [Knowledge]—

[Chef].

Compared to other Tag, the [chef] Tag is very simple, so simple that it might be subconsciously overlooked. But it is precisely because of this simplicity that it has a great deal of room for expansion.

It is very difficult for a person to be perceived as a "devil," even if you do many bad things, the final perception may only be that of a bad person or a criminal.

It's equally difficult for someone to be perceived as a "Money Printer," because that requires you to provide a large amount of profit.

It's not easy for someone to be recognized as a "drill instructor," because you must at least be able to teach others what they are willing to learn; otherwise, it's just indoctrination rather than instruction.

However, it's very simple for someone to be recognized as a "chef": you just need to be able to make delicious food!

Even if you're not an expert, as long as you can make delicious food, strangers will associate you with the idea that "you must be a professional chef."

Based on the chef, in a country with a strong religious atmosphere, it is natural to create the element of "devil" through language and the display of extraordinary power. Furthermore, teaching through cooking can also enhance the instructor's Tag.

In fact, if Feng Xue wanted to, he could easily add the Tag of "Money Printer," for example, leaving a large sum of money under the guise of "food expenses" before leaving, which would easily generate the corresponding association.

However, after thinking it over, Feng Xue decided not to do so, because what he needed was an Urban Legend, a Weird Tale, and Weird Tale should minimize the involvement of "physical objects".

In this way, even if he stops making moves, people will still claim to have encountered a "Demon Chef," because there's no cost to lying. After all, the "Demon Chef" uses ingredients that the Housewife buys herself, and all she needs is a pretty enough photo of the dinner to serve as dubious "evidence."

The reason why Weird Tale are Weird Tale is because they cannot be verified or disproven. As long as you cook a delicious meal, anyone can claim to have seen a "Demon Chef," and no one can refute that you are lying.

However, leaving money or other "material" rewards would add a shackle to the spread of this legend, raising the bar for those "virtual experiencers" to falsely claim they have seen the "Demon Chef."

After all, the psychological burden of lying a lie that can never be exposed is completely different from that of lying a lie that can be easily exposed.

And this is also the first principle that Feng Xue discovered in creating Weird Tale—

Avoid leaving behind any physical evidence that could prove your existence.

The "Rich Person" Tag, like the "Assassin" label, was given by the Infinite City and is invalid in reality. Of course, the "Assassin" Tag, which she has held for a long time, still has the foundation for the role and the knowledge granted by the Tag. It's just that Feng Xue left as soon as she got the "Rich Person" Tag, so it has basically no influence.

The only Tag that now belong to Feng Xue are [Devil], [Chef], [Money Printer], and [Instructor].