Trickster Hunter

Chapter 312 Vinyl Record Player

Lilith changed the listening channel to 444.4MHz and pressed the play button.

The friction sound that sounded very uncomfortable outside became even louder. This sound was like countless pieces of rusty iron rubbing against each other, mixed with sounds like fingers scratching a blackboard and a knife scratching glass... These noises will make people feel extremely irritated after listening to them for a few seconds. If they are played in a loop 24 hours a day, even people with good endurance will probably go crazy.

"These sounds are really fucking annoying..." Lilith frowned, "Next, next!"

The three of them quickly listened to the frequency bands from 111.1MHz to Hz, and even tried "more special" frequency bands such as 123.4MHz and Hz.

Unfortunately, there are only nine frequency bands from 111.1MHz to Hz that can search for audio.

After repeatedly comparing the sounds of these nine frequency bands, the three finally locked on the frequency band of 888.8MHz - compared with the sounds of other frequency bands, the sound of 888.8MHz may not be the most normal, but it is definitely the most "comfortable".

This frequency band has been looping a classical music - Mozart's "Symphony No. 40 in G Minor".

"Tsk, so high-class?" Lilith couldn't help but complained, "It seems that the tattered jacket I'm wearing is about to become a tuxedo."

"Speaking of which, where do you think this song should be played?" Lilith suddenly stood up, waved her right hand, and a metal bucket on the ground suddenly flew up and hit the top of the workshop heavily, making a loud noise.

"What are you doing?!" Jiang Yu suddenly became nervous, "What if we attract that strange creature?"

"It would be great if we could attract it, so we don't have to look for it." Lilith said indifferently, "If this could attract it, it would have been attracted long ago."

Jiang Yu noticed that there were still some heavy objects with obvious signs of being smashed scattered on the floor of the workshop. It was obvious that Lilith had made similar attempts before they found Lilith.

"The place where the music is played is not in this factory." Ling Xiao, who was listening with his headphones, shook his head.

The music was not too loud, as long as the sound insulation of the room was good enough, the music sound could be completely blocked. But the noise Lilith just made was different-the bucket hit the load-bearing beam of the workshop. This load-bearing beam made of 65 cm thick hollow steel pipes welded together connected the steel structure frame of the entire factory. Such a huge collision sound, even in a soundproof room, can be heard.

But in the song played at 888.8MHz, there was no corresponding sound.

No more subtle.

"But I heard some other sounds." Ling Xiao raised his head and said, "It seems to be a very subtle mechanical operation sound, and an equally slight friction sound... gears, shafts... and a slightly vibrating metal cavity..."

"Vinyl record player." Lilith interrupted him, "I have heard this thing no less than a hundred times in Chunming City... The sound of this song does come from that kind of retro vinyl record player, not a disc or electronic recording... Damn, where does a vinyl record player come from in a factory that produces chemical products?"

"I... I may know the reason." Jiang Yu said weakly.

"If you know it, then tell me." Lilith urged immediately.

"Before I came in, I glanced at the list of missing people in the factory..." Jiang Yu said.

From the factory director to the cleaning staff, plus the sheriff's squad and soldiers stationed inside the factory, there are more than 4,000 missing people in Factory 105. It is impossible for Jiang Yu to read the detailed files of these 4,000 people. In fact, she only read the files of the factory director, technical engineers and the garrison commander.

Fortunately, the answer they want seems to be in these files.

"The director of Factory 105 is named Wu Zhiyuan... There is a sentence in his file." Jiang Yu said, "He is a very enthusiastic classical music lover... But there is only this sentence, as for the vinyl record player, there is no mention at all."

"That's enough!" Lilith snapped her fingers, "Those who like classical music will definitely buy a vinyl record player... The entry-level vinyl record player is only a few hundred yuan, and the better ones are only a few thousand... Unless it is a kind of art or antique record player, most families can afford it. This guy won't be reported for corruption if he buys a record player... In addition, the work rhythm of Factory 105, the director probably eats and lives in the factory for 25 days out of 31 days a month. It is reasonable for him to put the vinyl record player in the factory!"

"Should...right?" Jiang Yu said uncertainly.

"Then the next question is where is this record player." Lilith took out a palm-sized PAD from the lining of her clothes. Although it could not be connected to the Internet, she had already downloaded things like the structural drawings of Factory No. 105 into the device before the mission began.

"I think there are two places with the highest probability. One is the factory director's office. This office has an area of ​​more than 80 square meters. The front is the office area, and the part behind the partition wall is the living area. Wu Zhiyuan lives in this space of more than 80 square meters, so the record player is likely to be here. In addition, the second most likely place is probably the factory's reception room... Putting a record player in the reception room will not seem out of place at all... Maybe that guy can even use the name of office supplies to issue an invoice for reimbursement of the money for buying the record player."

"The factory director's office and the reception room are both in Factory No. 5, separated by a corridor." Ling Xiao said.

"Then let's go. Instead of staying here and wasting time, why not go and see what the hell that thing is doing."

"Go out through the ventilation duct?" Jiang Yu asked.

"Of course, go through the main door!" Lilith kicked open the glass door of the dust-free workshop.

"The main door is too thick. I may not be able to open it violently..." Jiang Yu said a little embarrassedly.

"I didn't ask you to do anything, did I?" Lilith's voice fell, and the three of them suddenly teleported to the front of the gate. The next second, a bright flame ignited on Lilith's fingertips.

She used the flame to draw a glittering circle on the two-meter-thick special alloy gate, just like she was painting with her fingers dipped in paint.

With a loud bang, the alloy in the circle fell outward and hit the ground.

A circular hole with a diameter of more than one meter appeared on the gate.

"Controlling objects, teleportation, flames... What exactly are your abilities?" Ling Xiao asked Lilith.

He suddenly thought of Sun Hang.

Generally speaking, the abilities of hunters are linked to their memes, and hunters with a variety of abilities like Sun Hang are extremely rare. Especially the three abilities shown by Lilith are completely unrelated, and it is hard to imagine that they will appear on the same hunter.

"I said my code name is the Red-haired Witch, so my ability is of course magic!" Seeing that Ling Xiao was interested in her abilities, Lilith said happily.

"Magic?" Jiang Yu was slightly startled, "Then what is the weird thing that infected you?"

"I don't know either. It seems that I was not infected by a weird thing, but a spontaneous infection." Lilith said very frankly.

Ling Xiao's pupils shrank slightly.

Spontaneous infection...

He remembered very clearly that the woman he once called his mother was also a spontaneous infection.

The so-called spontaneous infection is a special individual who produces weird memes in his body without an infection source.

"I don't know if you have heard of a joke, that is, 'If you stay a virgin until the age of 30, you will change your job to become a magician and gain the ability to use magic'?"

"Ah?" Jiang Yu paused, obviously not understanding what Lilith meant by this.

"I thought it was just a joke at first, but on my 30th birthday, when I was about to light the candles on my birthday cake, I tried to imagine the flames coming out of my fingertips... and then, it really came out." Lilith seemed happy to share her story of becoming an infected person with others. "The next day, the local Abnormal Investigation Bureau came to my door, and I was also confirmed as an infected person... You should have experienced the following process once."

"Wait a minute... You said you would stay a virgin until you are 30 years old..." Jiang Yu said with some stammering, "Are you... a man?"

"I used to be." Lilith gave Jiang Yu a very charming smile, "After I gained the ability, there was an extra message in my mind-'Once the virginity is broken, the ability to use magic will disappear, but I will not become a normal person'... At that time, I was thinking, can I find a bug, without violating this rule, and still enjoy the kind of... 'happiness' that normal people can enjoy."

"So... you went... to change your sex?" Jiang Yu looked at Lilith in astonishment.

"The joint work of the former best sex reassignment surgeon in Siam and the former best plastic surgeon in South Silla... How about my current body, isn't it charming?" Lilith said coquettishly.

"... Then... Then you later..." Jiang Yu asked with a blushing face, "Did you do it?"

"Of course, I only lost my virginity, not my virginity as a man." Lilith shrugged, "After that, the ability to use magic was also retained, and the days were not boring and only had to accompany the five-fingered girl... Isn't this good?"

Jiang Yu suddenly thought... No wonder when she heard classical music just now, Lilith said that her leather jacket would become a tuxedo, not the corresponding female dress...

Who would have thought that the "red-haired witch"... turned out to be a man.

"Correction, I used to be a man." Lilith seemed to be able to guess what was in Jiang Yu's mind, and said directly, "Now, I am no different from a woman except that I am infertile... Oh, I have another advantage, that is, my face will never age, and I will always be the same as it is now before I die."

"Uh..." Jiang Yu didn't know what to say.

"The taste of the witch is very good." Lilith hooked Jiang Yu's chin with her slender index finger, "How about it, do you want to try it?"

"No, no need!" Jiang Yu jumped back a big step as if he was electrocuted, shaking his head repeatedly.

"What about brother Ling Xiao..."

Lilith turned to look at Ling Xiao, but Ling Xiao just stared at the highly heated metal at the edge of the hole and said, "Since you can use magic, there should be a way to lower the temperature of the metal, right?"

The door is two meters thick. To be precise, the hole should be closer to a pipe. If you want to drill through it, you will inevitably touch the inner wall of the pipe... And at this temperature, if you drill in directly, it will be difficult. It’s no different than roasting a living person.

"Yes, yes..."

"So you were wasting your time just now?" Ling Xiao turned back and stared at Lilith.

"Sister, I'm a little curious. Is this cold personality of yours innate...or is it deliberately pretending to attract your sister?" Lilith asked.

"If possible, please cool down the metal immediately." Ling Xiao said, "Even if the time in the other world flows very slowly, we should not waste it at will."

"Okay, okay." Lilith said in a doting tone. With a gentle blow, a stream of white gas instantly penetrated into the pipe.

The moment this white gas appeared, a layer of white frost condensed on the surrounding ground, and a biting chill made Jiang Yu shiver subconsciously.

As the white gas entered the pipe, the red and shiny metal immediately dimmed. At the same time, some subtle crisp sounds also came from the inside of the alloy door.

Ling Xiao stepped forward, tested the temperature with his hands, and then got in.

Lilith and Jiang Yu also followed immediately.

After passing through the pipe, the three of them finally arrived outside the factory. However, a ray of light that shouldn't have appeared escaped from one side. Jiang Yu turned around and couldn't help but froze on the spot.

A sunset is slowly sinking into the horizon - even though the sky is already pitch black, close to the horizon, the afterglow of the setting sun is still releasing its last rays of light.

In other places, this is a common sight...but in Shuzhou, the appearance of the sunset can definitely be regarded as breaking news.

If Jiang Yu had doubts about the other world's claims before, now her doubts have been completely dispelled.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk... I didn't expect that the other world actually has day and night. It's interesting." Lilith said with her hands on her hips, looking at the sunset in the distance.

"There is still no signal in the communication equipment, no trace of drones was found in the sky, no troops or field operators were found outside the factory park, and no abnormal time and space fluctuations were noticed." Ling Xiao was like a robot, using his voice without any emotion. The tone said, "We are still in the world just now."