Chapter 2643: Exchanging Clues
"I have a piece of important information too," Xu Huo said.
Fei Jingyi and Fu Kuai had obviously made discoveries of their own, but their findings might not point to anything specific. They could only hope to make progress by connecting them with the other clues.
"I'll go first," Fei Jingyi said. "I got some information about the previous Chief Executive from a government official's family member. That Chief Executive may have been a Player. Someone once saw what looked like a Player number on his back."
"A Player?" He Liang asked in surprise. "As far as I know, the previous Chief Executive was practically useless. If he was a Player, how could he have failed to escape District 039?"
"Maybe he was afraid of dying in a Dungeon and just wanted to find somewhere to lie low," Xiao Mei said. "The Dungeon only asks us to find the Imperial Treasure. We don't necessarily have to find the Chief Executive. Maybe he settled in another Sub-district long ago."
"Either way, it's a clue," Wu Zishuang said. "Players have more ways of handling things than ordinary people do."
As he spoke, he unfolded the newspaper, revealing the contents of one of the pages. "There's a hidden figure in the upper-right corner of this candid Photo. Given the circumstances when it was taken, no one should have deliberately hidden behind a building. I infiltrated the government building and looked up the security records for the government Players and Player organizations present at the time. There was definitely no one assigned to that spot."
"Could someone have arranged for a Player to be there unofficially?" Xu Huo asked.
"That's possible, so I went to find someone who'd been standing near that spot at the time. As luck would have