Liu Xing raised his eyebrows, looked at Alice with some surprise and said: "This branch has special tasks? This shouldn't be the case. After all, this branch is located in a school, and this school is not under the control of the Deep Diving Society.
, so what special tasks can this branch have?"
Alice nodded and said, "Yes, I think so too. Anyway, I don't know what special tasks this branch will have, because I haven't found any relevant information about this branch."
It seems that the difficulty of the module in the Hounds of Tindalos area has indeed been raised to a higher level, and it has actually reduced the difficulty of obtaining information so much.
In the previous module in the Shoggoth area, Liu Xing and his team were able to collect a lot of information from the very beginning. But in this module, Liu Xing and his team can now say that they have no information at all.
Not collected.
After all, the information about the occult society was revealed by KP Bamboo Rat.
It seems that this time I have to find the information from scratch.
"Okay, I'll take the first step now. After all, the diving club will soon know that I have returned to the island country, so I can't stay here for a long time. I will contact you after I confirm where to open a bar." Ai Li.
Si stood up and said.
Liu Xing nodded and said: "Yeah, let's contact you by phone then. But then again, doesn't the Deep Diving Club know your true identity, Alice? After all, the Corpse Cult has already discovered it when we were in England.
It’s up to you.”
Alice chuckled and said confidently: "That's true, but when we were in England, we also discovered that there is a face-to-face discord between the Corpse Cult and the Deep Diving Society, and the Corpse Cult has never allowed the Deep Diving Society to do so.
The divers were operating in England and did not provide our information to the Deep Diving Society. Therefore, before I came back, I contacted an undercover agent who had become a middle-level cadre in the Deep Diving Society. He told me that the Deep Diving Society did not know yet.
My situation is why I dare to return to the island country now."
After saying that, Alice left.
It seems that the secret churches seem to be in harmony with each other.
But this is normal. After all, everyone's goal is to rule the world, so how can they really cooperate.
This is a good thing.
After breakfast, Liu Xing and others decided to go to Tokyo University to take a look around and see if they could find an opportunity to get some information.
Because the semester will start in two days, Tokyo University is already full of people coming and going, and many freshmen are bringing large bags and small bags to prepare to move into the dormitory in advance.
Because Alice asked someone to find connections, Liu Xing and others who were supposed to live in the dormitory became day students. They did not need to go to the dormitory to live with a group of strangers, which made Liu Xing and others' movements much more convenient.
According to the freshman handbook issued during previous registration, Tokyo University can basically be divided into two areas. The East Campus is the study area, and the West Campus is the living area. The main goal of Liu Xing and others, which is the club activity area, is
It is located on the East Campus.
Therefore, Liu Xing and others came directly to the East Campus.
There are a total of three teaching buildings and one laboratory building in the East Campus.
One of the teaching buildings is somewhat old, so it has been arranged by the school to be used exclusively for club activities, so clubs that conduct indoor activities are arranged in this old teaching building.
When they arrived at the old teaching building, Liu Xing and others saw that various clubs had put up recruitment posters.
Liu Xing took a general look around and found no posters of the occult society.
But this is normal. After all, occultism is not a popular major in the first place. To be precise, even in this parallel world with the Cthulhu mythology as the background, there are very few universities that specialize in occultology (in the real world
Among them, it seems that only Harvard University has opened a special major in mysticism, and other universities have at most opened majors in religion, philosophy, etc.), the most famous of which is of course Miskatonic University.
Therefore, although the specific situation of the Occult Society is still uncertain, Liu Xing can be sure that the Occult Society of Tokyo University is just a small club. In addition to the people of the Deep Diving Society, it can only absorb a few ordinary students at most.
It's just a cover.
Because the club building has not officially opened yet, Liu Xing and others can only go to other places.
But before taking a few steps, Liu Xing and others came to a man-made lake.
This man-made lake is estimated to be the size of more than ten standard football fields, and there is also a lake pavilion. Moreover, this lake pavilion is not like an ordinary lake pavilion with only one-way street, but directly connects the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest.
direction.
"The design of this Huxin Pavilion is somewhat interesting." Liu Xing couldn't help but say.
Zhang Jingxu on the side nodded and said: "But this can be regarded as convenient for pedestrians, so that people don't have to take long detours, but the lake seems to be quite deep."
At this time, Rei Ishikawa, who was holding the freshman handbook, said: "This lake should be Cross Lake. Before Tokyo University was established, Cross Lake was originally flat land. At that time, someone was planning to build a department store here at Cross Lake. As a result,
Just after laying the foundation and repairing the underground parking lot, we encountered a typhoon. After the typhoon passed, the cross lake appeared, and the steel and timber on the construction site were floating on the cross lake. The most important thing is that a cross was placed.
This can be regarded as the origin of Cross Lake."
"But of course the developer at the time chose to drain the Cross Lake water and continue the construction work of the department store, but the pumping work lasted all day and night. Logically speaking, the pumped water could fill two Cross Lakes, but
The water level of Cross Lake still has no downward trend, so some people think that the bottom of Cross Lake may have been connected to the underground river after the typhoon. Therefore, the skyrocketing groundwater after the typhoon has been replenishing Cross Lake, so the water pumping work has made no progress.
"
"So the developer had to decide to temporarily suspend the construction of the Cross Lake and prepare to wait for the water level of the underground river to drop before dealing with the Cross Lake. So after a few days, it stands to reason that after the underground river can no longer replenish the Cross Lake, the business will be opened.
So we started pumping water again, and this time the developer prepared more water pumps. As a result, another day and night passed, and the water level of Cross Lake remained unchanged."
"This was obviously abnormal, so the developer hired divers to investigate the situation. They found that the water in Cross Lake was extremely turbid and it was impossible to detect the underwater situation, so they had to return without success. At this time, a nearby temple
The director of the project found the developer and told the developer that there is likely to be an eye of the sea under the Cross Lake, which is directly connected to the sea, so the water in Cross Lake will never be drained."
"Of course the developer does not believe in evil, or he is reluctant to part with the Cross Lake land. After all, buying the land, laying the foundation, building the underground parking lot, and paying the workers during this period add up to a huge sum of money, so
How could we give up in vain, so the developers waited another half a month and then started to carry out larger-scale water pumping work, but the result is as we see now, it has no effect at all."
"So the developer had no choice but to give up. After that, Tokyo University decided to build a new campus here, and then they built this lake center pavilion using the underground parking lot in Cross Lake as the foundation, and officially named it
Cross Lake, and the lowest depth of Cross Lake is about three meters, and the deepest point may be more than ten meters, so although there are no guardrails installed around Cross Lake, students are prohibited from walking around Cross Lake, and violators will be directly expelled from school."
Liu Xing raised his eyebrows and said with some confusion: "This rule is too subtle and strange. Since students are worried about accidents when walking next to the Cross Lake, the school can install guardrails around the Cross Lake. It doesn't cost much.
money."
Ishikawa Ling shrugged, took the freshman handbook and continued: "According to the freshman handbook, the reason why the school has not installed guardrails around Cross Lake is because the school has installed guardrails around Cross Lake many times, and they still use them.
Various materials were used for installation, but something strange happened. No matter what material the guardrail was made of, problems would occur within a month. Basically, the inside of the guardrail was severely corroded, and damage would occur with just the slightest touch.
Even if the guardrail is made of stainless steel, the school has not found a solution to the specific problem."
"Because of this, the school can only give up the plan to continue installing guardrails. After all, if there is no guardrail, students will be more cautious and the possibility of accidentally falling into the water will be much lower. And if the students are in front of a guardrail that may cause accidents at any time, then
Students are likely to be careless, lean on or lie down on the guardrail unprepared, and then fall into the water because the guardrail is damaged, and this has happened many times before."
"So it should be a water problem. Hasn't Tokyo University studied the water in Cross Lake?" Zhang Wenbing said, touching his chin.
Ishikawa Ling shook his head and said seriously: "According to Tokyo University, they contacted many experts to study the situation of Cross Lake, but they still found no problems with the water quality of Cross Lake. It can even be said that Cross Lake
The water quality is better than the water quality of many international brands of mineral water sources. Therefore, Tokyo General University ruled out the water quality problem and turned to study the geological conditions around Cross Lake. The results were fruitless, so in the end Tokyo General University had no choice but to make this decision.
.”
Liu Xing nodded and said: "It seems that the reason why the Deep Diving Society established a branch within Tokyo University is probably because of this Cross Lake. As for the so-called secret mission of this branch, it should be to investigate this Cross Lake."
All the doubts have been raised, and as long as we stay at Cross Lake, we should be able to find the people from the deep diving club."
"Then should we go to the Huxin Pavilion now?" Zhang Jingxu suggested.
"Of course."
Everyone said in unison.
After a while, Liu Xing and others arrived at the Huxin Pavilion.
Because there were not many people active in Tokyo University today, and it was already eleven o'clock at noon, Liu Xing and others could be considered to have "occupied" the Huxin Pavilion.
However, the scenery of this lake pavilion is just like that. After all, strictly speaking, Cross Lake is a man-made lake, and the environment is naturally not as good as a natural lake... To put it simply, it has no aura.
So, after Liu Xing and others looked around and found nothing, they returned directly to the original route.
Because it was already noon, and Liu Xing and others did not really come to Tokyo General University to study, Liu Xing and his group, who were not interested in their future study environment, left Tokyo General University directly and found a random place nearby.
Place to eat.
Because Liu Xing and his party are all Chinese (although Liu Xing and Ishikawa Ling are now only Chinese in spirit), Liu Xing and his party chose a restaurant known as the authentic Sichuan restaurant.
After entering the restaurant, Zhang Wenbing, as the oldest person in the group, naturally shouldered the heavy responsibility of ordering food.
In order to verify whether this restaurant is authentic or not, Zhang Wenbing deliberately said to the waiter in Chinese: "We first want a mapo tofu, boiled fish, twice-cooked pork, and Kung Pao chicken."
The waiter looked at Zhang Wenbing with some surprise, and said in Chinese: "Looking at your accent, you should be from Shanghai, fellow countryman."
Zhang Wenbing nodded and said with a smile: "It seems that your Shu restaurant is not very authentic. After all, we people in Modu are not very good at eating spicy food."
The waiter smiled and shook his head and said: "No, no, no, I am a student at Tokyo University, and I just work part-time in this store. The owner of this store is an authentic Shu native, and he has a lot of materials.
The owner’s son brought them all by air from China, so I can guarantee that the Shu cuisine in this store is very authentic.”
Zhang Jingxu on the side nodded and said with a smile: "In that case, you are our senior. We are all freshmen at Tokyo University this year. Senior, you must take good care of us in the future."
"No problem, my name is Zhang Fifteen, and I am a junior majoring in management at Tokyo University. If you have any questions in the future, just come to me. We are in a foreign country now, and we must help each other.
." Zhang Shiwu said, patting his chest.
Obviously, this Zhang Shiwu is the NPC in this module who provides basic information to his group.
Therefore, after Zhang Jingxu waited for Zhang Shishi to submit his order to the kitchen, he took Zhang Shishi to sit down and chat.
Soon, Zhang Jingxu naturally turned the topic to the societies of Tokyo University.
"Because Tokyo University is a comprehensive university, it can be said that there are all kinds of clubs and clubs. However, in the last semester, because there were so many clubs, many clubs had conflicts due to various reasons, so there were
Many societies have been disbanded." Zhang Shiwu said after taking a sip of water.