Artifact Report

Chapter 110 Mai Minghe: The first day as a resident...?
"Really?"

Even in the dim light, the look of disbelief on the guide's face was clear. "In this day and age, there are people who don't know how to turn on a computer?"

Mai Minghe really didn't know what to say, so he could only purse his lips and nod.

She had just bent down and groped in the darkness, and indeed touched a metal-shelled, cold computer host; but she didn't know where to press her fingers in the darkness. No matter where she pressed, it was the same darkness and she couldn't see clearly.

I had to tell the truth, I didn't expect it to start off so badly, it's really annoying

"Do we still need to do a questionnaire?" The girl sneered and said, "Hasn't the resident's identity been exposed already? If she were an old lady, it would be fine, but how could a young person in her twenties not know how to use a computer? So she must be a resident."

"Even the residents grew out of humans, so they should have the same knowledge as humans."

The guide spoke as he walked around the computer area, motioning Mai Minghe to stand further away. Then he squatted down and pressed something. "How could a hunter who died in a den and lived in a modern metropolis like Blackmore City not even know how to turn on a computer? There really are all sorts of strange things in this world."

You can accept the existence of the nest, but you think it's strange that someone can't use a computer. How rude and ignorant!

Mai Minghe took a deep breath, trying to suppress his irritation.

She didn't know what was wrong with her eyesight, sometimes good and sometimes bad; Mai Minghe squinted her eyes and couldn't see clearly where the guide pressed the button - but in short, the screen on the desktop lit up.

“Opening a new cognitive experience”

A line of large characters floated on the almost dazzling royal blue wallpaper.

"From here on, you must be careful and follow my instructions." The guide's face was tense, shimmering blue under the screen's light. "It's okay for the residents, but if one of you hunters dies on the computer, I'll be in trouble..."

Can you still die? Are computers really that dangerous?

What a shame! The guide knew how to avoid danger, didn't he? He couldn't wait for the fisherman to reap the benefits...

"Listen carefully. Now, keep staring at the desktop and try to concentrate. After staring at it for a while, a folder will appear in the upper left corner..."

Should I stare at the desktop?
Mai Minghe lowered his head and stared at the dim table as instructed by the guide.

The screen's fluorescent light was like so many blue hands, overlapping and merging, reaching out from the screen into the darkness. Above the compartment that they could not reach for the time being, the darkness was still swaying and shaking as they pulled.

Ever since I discovered I was a resident, my vision had changed. The darkness kept swaying like waves. It turned out that this was how the residents saw, as if their eyeballs had gone insane. In the undulating darkness, a face would peek out from the edge of my peripheral vision.

The face opened its mouth.

"……what time is it?"

Mai Minghe shuddered and realized that it was that girl who had stuck her head over the cubicle and was speaking to her in a low, breathy voice.

I wasn't wearing a watch, so why didn't I ask the guide? It's really annoying, really annoying, really——

Mai Minghe suddenly remembered that there seemed to be a time display on the computer. Young people's computers have everything, and the time display is even more of a piece of cake.

This thought made her even more annoyed: "Since the time is displayed on the computer, why don't you go to check the computer? Why do you keep asking me? This girl is really rude. Wait, this is a good opportunity."
To draw the guide's attention to her strange behavior

"Why are you sticking your head over here?" Mai Minghe turned around and asked loudly, "Why don't you cooperate with the guide—"

Before she could finish her words, she was stunned.

There was no human face at the edge of the cubicle; the girl was standing one cubicle away from her and had just looked up from the screen when she heard the words.

"Are you hallucinating?" the girl said grumpily, "or has the inhabitant's true nature become uncontrollable?"

No, if it's the residents, stretching their necks across the entire cubicle shouldn't be impossible.
"Guide, she really just put her face next to me," Mai Minghe quickly said to the guide opposite, "Didn't you see it?"

"No, there's a partition between us." The young man looked miserable, as if he really didn't want to be involved in this matter. "You said her face reached over the partition and reached next to you?"

"it is true!"

"I see," the guide sighed deeply. "If this is a false accusation that she's a resident, it's a bit naive... Let's not talk about that for now. If you want to prove you're not a resident, the only way is to complete the 'roundabout truth questionnaire.'"

"I understand. Let's continue." The girl responded.

You're so considerate, you act like a good student to your teacher. What the hell, you're so good at pretending to be a human.

I have to find a way to get rid of her before the truth investigation is completed.
Mai Minghe was naturally not enthusiastic about starting the truth investigation questionnaire. She didn't think there was anything wrong with looking away from the table.

Instead, the girl kept asking her about the time, which made her a little confused. Shouldn't the time be on the computer? She could just take a look.

It took her more than ten seconds to find the small time display on the screen. Thur-Nov-19
00:20
……what?

Why is it still twelve twenty?
Well, maybe the computer is a few minutes slow. The watch needs to be adjusted from time to time. Maybe the computer is the same.

The last time they confirmed the time with the guide was probably a few minutes ago; a few minutes' error was indeed normal.

"Does the folder appear?" the guide asked. "That should be enough time."

Apart from the screen, there is only a keyboard and a mouse on the desk. There is no folder.

“No,” Mai Minghe also said with pretended positivity, “I will continue to stare at the table… I didn’t even dare to blink just now.”

Estimating that almost a minute had passed, she secretly glanced at the time on the screen again.

00:20
Huh? Did my sense of time change after I woke up as a resident? It's been less than a minute since I last checked, so it's still showing 00:20?

It's so strange, so strange, so strange. It's true that it should be after twelve o'clock now, but why doesn't time move forward?
Wait

When we left the restaurant, it wasn't dark yet, probably before five o'clock.
Walking on the road
I walked for four or five hours.

Hmm? Hmm? Hmm? Shouldn't it be after twelve now? So, ten o'clock... or at most eleven o'clock... is that right?
No, no, no, she had a strong feeling that it was after twelve o'clock, and there was absolutely no mistake.

She had seen the watch face with her own eyes, and the hands had already passed twelve o'clock. There was no mistake. From the time she left the restaurant until now, it should have been past twelve o'clock.

It's strange, but the total doesn't add up. What's going on?
"What the hell, isn't this happening?"

The guide's voice suddenly rang out, making Mai Minghe look up with a start. She saw him standing a few steps away, looking from the screen to her—his expression a mixture of wariness and suspicion. "The folder has appeared. Why did you say you didn't see it? Open it."

"what?"

Mai Minghe looked at it blankly, and then he realized that there was a small blue folder in the upper left corner of the blue light of the computer screen - they were all blue, and it was really hard to tell them apart at first.

So "folder" refers to something that appears on the computer?

Shouldn't the thing you're supposed to be staring at be the computer, not the desktop? Really, then why call it the desktop? It's so misleading.

It seems that she was staring at the time and accidentally took out the folder.

Mai Minghe had seen young people using computers before and roughly knew that if she moved the mouse, a light spot on the computer screen would move with it; she tried moving the mouse over and clicking it, and sure enough, a new interface opened.

It's quite amazing. I'll get myself a computer and a cell phone in the future. Oh, and I can't go back to Blackmore City anymore. She has discovered that she is a resident.

"Okay, you'll find several files in the folder."

The guide retreated step by step, looking at the Mai Ming River, as if he was very worried that the Mai Ming River would suddenly attack from behind - had he become suspicious? This was not good.

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"First, click on the resident registration form," the guide said nervously. "Be careful not to accidentally click elsewhere. The resident might be fine, but if you accidentally click on a different file, I can't save you."

"Why do I have to click on the resident information registration form?" the girl asked.

"Because we want to find which of you two is a resident, right?" the guide explained. "If you're a hunter, you won't be able to complete the resident registration form. On the other hand, a resident might be able to complete the 'non-resident registration form'... if that resident believes they're human."

The girl replied "I understand", then pulled out her chair, stood up, walked two steps towards Mai Minghe, and looked at her computer screen.

"The name...on the form."

"What?" Mai Minghe was stunned.

"What's the guide's name?" she asked again—and from her expression, it was unclear who she was asking.

However, she should have asked the guide; and the guide did answer.

“…*%&%.”

Mai Minghe nodded.

Sea Reed, the guide's name is Sea Reed, right? What's going on? He just kept calling him "guide, guide". As a resident, is his memory also intermittent? This is not good. Can he rely on digesting humans to -

Ok?
...Did she hear the guide's words clearly just now?

How did she know the guide's name was Sea Reed?
　The guide's name is Reed Hydes. There's no other reason, it's just because it's easier to remember after changing it to a Chinese name...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)