"Shadow Ghost has been spotted at Tokyou area 5-23, immediate backup needed from nearby team members!"
Mu You looked at the message received on his phone, opened map mode, and checked his location.
As he expected, the location where the Shadow Ghost appeared was on the eastern side of the Qian Valley district, exactly opposite to where he currently was.
Mu You naturally ignored this, those Shadow Ghosts were diversionary tactics. He left it to others to deal with, his current task was to find the location of the Space Fissure in the shortest time possible.
Mu You sent the sleeping little girl back into the Core Lock space, then left the building under the cover of night.
These Shadow People couldn’t exist too long in their pure shadow state, for most of the time, they could only exist in human form, needing to eat, drink, and sleep just like ordinary people.
If the person behind all this planned to pass through the Space Fissure to return to the Star Spirit World as soon as it opened, it was likely he would be hiding near the Space Fissure, waiting for it to open.
According to the conversation he heard in the Gu Venom Pool, the Space Fissure was close to the little girl’s home. However, how close ’close’ was, wasn’t mentioned by those two. For now, he would use a 500-meter radius from her home as his boundary.
Mu You drew a circle around Ye Rumeng’s home on a paper map.
Next, he prepared to conduct a carpet search within this circle, looking for anyone who wasn’t a player.
A radius of five hundred meters seemed quite large, but fortunately, the population within this area was not too dense. With the Omniscient Crystal, he only needed to take a close look at each person to confirm if they were a player or not.
This task took up an entire night. However, by the time the day dawned and all the residents started their normal work and school routines, he had not found any suspicious characters.
"Could I be wrong? That person isn’t lurking nearby?"
Mu You stood on the rooftop of a high-rise building, watching the dense crowd on the street below, mulling over his thoughts.
Last night, he had also searched the nearby suspicious areas and found no Space Fissure. It seemed that when not activated, it didn’t present any anomalies at all. Meaning, even if someone walked past it, they wouldn’t be able to recognize it as a Space Fissure.
To find the Space Fissure, he must first locate the person behind it. However, this person was hiding well and time was short, there wasn’t enough time to conduct a large-scale search. This was what caused the current deadlock.
In that case, he could only information first, letting the Japanese government send a large number of personnel to seal this area and then slowly search. Although it might scare off the person, it could at least prevent him from escaping tonight.
Just as Mu You was about to pull out his phone, contemplating whether to reveal his information, his gaze was drawn to a patch of yellow on the road below.
It was a group of elementary school students wearing yellow hats, crossing the road under a teacher’s guidance.
This scene gave Mu You a start and something occurred to him.
He had checked the game IDs of all the local residents last night, but not all of them had entered the game or applied for the activation code of ’Fool’, due to age restrictions.
Meaning, if that person disguised themselves as a child, he wouldn’t be able to detect them using the Omniscient Crystal.
However, he had also observed the children in this vicinity last night. There were no children living alone; all were living with their guardians. Their parents were normal people with no issues. If these kids had disappeared for over a month, their parents would surely report it...
Mu You suddenly remembered something.
A child who had disappeared before, but hadn’t been recorded by Japan - he knew of one such case.
A character mentioned in Louise’s diary, her name and clues seem to suggest that she was a child from Japan, but there were no records of her in the missing persons database.
No missing records meant that this person was still in Japan. A person who had been clearly captured by the Undead Society, but was still living normally locally. The only possibility was that she had become a Shadow Person!
With this realization, Mu You immediately contacted Lu Yao with his old-fashioned phone.
"I need you to look something up for me."
"What do you want me to look for?"
"A roster of all students from elementary schools in Tokyo, look for a student named ’Sayaka’."
A disbelieving voice came through the phone: "Bro, have you extended your reach even abroad now?"
"Never mind that, can you do it or not?"
"I can do it, but do you know how many elementary schools there are in Tokyo? You only gave me a single name, and it’s such a common one like ’Sayaka’, how am I supposed to search for it!" Lu Yao complained.
"No worries, it won’t be too hard to find. The girl is eight years old, and about a year ago, she would have been absent from school for a long period." Mu You provided information inferred from the diary.
"Oh, that’s doable..."
"How long will it take?"
"About a day," Lu Yao said.
"That’s too long. I have to have the results by this afternoon, any later is useless," Mu You said.
"By the afternoon... you think I’m a miracle worker?! I’m one person and there are hundreds of school servers!"
"It’s not about can or can’t. It’s simply impossible! Go ahead and ask anyone, if they can do it, I’ll call you my dad!" Lu Yao said with utter certainty.