Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 312 Vinyl Record Player

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

The friction sound that originally sounded very uncomfortable outside became even louder. It sounded like countless pieces of rusty iron sheets rubbing against each other, mixed with sounds similar to fingers scratching a blackboard and a knife scratching glass... These noises would make people feel extremely irritated after listening to them for a few seconds. If they were played in the ears in a loop for 24 hours, even people with the best patience would probably go crazy.

"These noises are so damn annoying..." Lilith frowned, "Next, next!"

The three of them quickly listened to the frequency bands from 111.1MHz to 999.9MHz, and even tried "more special" frequency bands such as 123.4MHz and 987.6MHz.

Unfortunately, there are only nine frequency bands from 111.1MHz to 999.9MHz 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".

The piece of classical music that keeps looping in this frequency band is Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor.

"Tsk, so classy?" Lilith couldn't help but complain, "It makes me feel like this tattered jacket I'm wearing is about to turn into a tuxedo."

"By the way, where do you think this song should be played?" Lilith suddenly stood up and waved her right hand. 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 weird creature?"

"It would be great if we could lure it here, so we don't have to go looking for it." Lilith said nonchalantly, "If we could lure it here this way, it would have been lured here long ago."

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

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

The music wasn't too loud, and as long as the room was well soundproofed, it could be completely blocked. But the noise Lilith had just made was different - the bucket hit the load-bearing beam in the workshop. This load-bearing beam, made of 65-centimeter-thick hollow steel pipes, connected the steel structure frame of the entire factory. Even in a soundproof room, one could hear some noise from such a huge collision.

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

Not even the slightest one.

"However, 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 at least a hundred times in Chunming City... The sound of this song does come from that kind of retro vinyl record player, not a CD or electronic recording... Damn, where can a vinyl record player come from in a factory that produces chemical products?"

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

"You know what I mean, just tell me." Lilith urged immediately.

"Before I came in, I took a look at the list of missing persons in the factory..." Jiang Yu said.

There are more than 105 missing people in Factory No. , from the factory director to the cleaning staff, plus the sheriff's team and soldiers stationed inside the factory. It is naturally impossible for Jiang Yu to read the detailed files of these people - in fact, she only read the files of the factory director, technical engineers and the garrison commander.

Fortunately, the answer they wanted seemed to be in these files.

"The director of Factory 105 is named Wu Zhiyuan... There is a sentence in his file," Jiang Yu said, "saying that he is a very enthusiastic classical music lover... But that's all. As for the vinyl record player and the like, there is no mention of it at all."

"That's enough!" Lilith snapped her fingers. "Those who like classical music will definitely buy a vinyl record player... Entry-level vinyl record players are only a few hundred yuan, and better ones are only a few thousand yuan... Unless it's a work of art or an 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 pace of Factory 105 is such that the factory director probably eats and lives in the factory for 31 out of the 25 days a month. It's 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 and works 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 would not seem out of place at all... Maybe that guy can even use the name of office supplies to issue an invoice for the money spent on the record player and get it reimbursed."

"The factory director's office and 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 that thing is doing."

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

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

"The door is too thick. I may not be able to open it by force..." Jiang Yu said embarrassedly.

"I didn't ask you to take action?" Just as Lilith finished her words, the three of them suddenly teleported in front of the gate. The next second, a bright flame ignited at Lilith's fingertips.

As if she was painting with her fingers dipped in paint, she used the flame to draw a glittering circle on the two-meter-thick special alloy door.

With a loud bang, the alloy inside the circle fell outwards and hit the ground.

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

"Controlling objects, teleporting, fire...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 as many abilities as Sun Hang are extremely rare. Especially the three abilities displayed by Lilith are completely unrelated, and it is hard to imagine that they appear in the same hunter.

"I've already said that my code name is the Red-haired Witch, so of course my ability is magic!" Seeing that Ling Xiao was interested in her ability, 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 creature, but a spontaneously infected person." Lilith said frankly.

Ling Xiao's pupils shrank slightly.

Spontaneously infected people...

He remembered clearly that the woman he once called mother was also a spontaneously infected person.

The so-called spontaneously infected people are special individuals who produce weird memes in their bodies without any source of infection.

"I wonder if you've ever heard of the joke that goes, 'If you remain a virgin until you're thirty, you'll become a magician and gain the ability to use magic.'"

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

"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, I really rubbed it 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 confirmed to be an infected person... You should have experienced the following process once."

"Wait a minute, wait a minute...you said you would stay a virgin until you are thirty..." Jiang Yu said with some stammering, "You are...a man?"

"It used to be." Lilith gave Jiang Yu a rather charming smile, "After I gained the ability, there was an additional message in my mind - 'Once you lose your virginity, your ability to use magic will disappear, but I won't become a normal person again'... At that time, I was wondering if I could find a bug so that I could enjoy the kind of... 'happiness' that normal people can enjoy without violating this rule."

"So...you're going to...have a sex change?" Jiang Yu looked at Lilith in astonishment.

"This is a 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 red face, "Did you do it?"

"Of course, I only lost my virginity, not my virginity as a man." Lilith shrugged. "After that, my ability to use magic was retained, and my life was no longer boring with only the Five Fingers girl to keep me company... Isn't that good?"

Jiang Yu suddenly thought... No wonder when she heard the classical music just now, Lilith said that her leather jacket would become a tuxedo, instead of the corresponding dress for women...

Who would have thought that the "Red-haired Witch"... was actually 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. Before I die, I will always look like this."

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

"The taste of 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 had been electrocuted, and shook his head repeatedly.

"What about brother Ling Xiao..."

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

The thickness of the door is two meters. To be more precise, this hole is more like a pipe. If you want to drill through it, you will inevitably touch the inner wall of the pipe... and with the current temperature, drilling directly in would be no different from roasting a living person.

"Yes, yes..."

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

"Sister, I'm a little curious. Is your cold personality natural... or are you pretending to be like that to attract me?" Lilith asked.

"If possible, please cool down the metal immediately." Ling Xiao said, "Even if the flow of time in the other world is very slow, we should not waste it casually."

"Okay, okay." Lilith said in a doting tone, and blew gently, and a stream of white gas instantly penetrated into the pipe.

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

When the white gas entered the pipe, the shiny red metals immediately dimmed. At the same time, some subtle crisp sounds came from inside the alloy door.

Ling Xiao walked forward, tested the temperature with his hand, and then went in.

Lilith and Jiang Yu followed immediately.

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

The setting sun is slowly sinking into the horizon - although the sky is already pitch dark, the afterglow of the setting sun is still releasing its last rays of light near the horizon.

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

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

“Tsk tsk tsk… I didn’t expect there is day and night in the other world. Interesting.” Lilith said with her hands on her hips, looking at the sunset in the distance.

"There is still no signal from the communication equipment, no drones were spotted in the sky, no troops or field operators were spotted outside the factory park, and no abnormal fluctuations in time and space were detected." Ling Xiao said like a robot, in an emotionless tone, "We are still in the inner world we were in just now."

(End of this chapter)