Chapter 673: Chapter 673: The Author from the Otherworld?
The video of the snake swarm attacking the villa shot straight to hot searches that same day.
Most netizens and the firefighters on site had the same thought.
[This family must have committed some big sins.]
[This grudge must be from generations of snake hunting, right?!]
[For someone with trypophobia, I just can’t look at this…]
[Oh, I feel like I’ve seen this case (sister) before.]
This last message was too precious and was directly drowned out among the many comments.
For the next two days, Scarlett Jennings slowly helped repair the soul fetus of the snake egg, ignoring the clamor online.
Unexpectedly, this day, Lucas Jennings dashed over to her, insisting on recommending a novel to her.
“Sis, this author’s works have just been dug up by netizens these past few days. Look, she has written about several cases that actually happened.
That incident you handled before, the one with the snake swarm attacking the villa, it’s written there too.”
Scarlett Jennings was never interested in novels and such.
After finally dealing with those two serpent demons, she now just wanted to relax and take a break.
“Aren’t works based on real cases quite common?”
The snake swarm attack on the villa occurred just three days ago, and related novel content had already appeared online. This at most just followed current affairs.
Scarlett Jennings didn’t find it surprising.
Just then, Lucas Jennings had a serious look on his face, “It’s different!”
As he spoke, he opened that novel to the chapter and showed it to her,
“Sis, look, the time this case was written was earlier than the news three days ago! It was written last week!
After netizens dug it up these two days, someone even compared the timelines with her earlier content.
The serial murder case she wrote about was the one where you first caught a murderer during a live stream, and it was penned earlier than your streaming time!”
As he spoke, Lucas Jennings’s gaze at Scarlett Jennings even carried a bit of excitement,
“If it’s just one coincidence, that’s fine, but how can it be so coincidental every time? Sis, do you think this novel’s author might be someone who can foresee the future?”
One sentence from Lucas Jennings successfully stirred Scarlett Jennings’s heart.
She abruptly took Lucas Jennings’s phone, quickly scanning through the scene about the snake swarm attack.
Upon seeing that it wrote about a small floral snake leading the attack on the villa, along with the earlier killing of the snake egg and floral serpent, a strange light flashed in her eyes.
“Maybe it’s not someone who can foresee the future.”
But someone who has experienced and knows the future in advance.
Like when a warning was sent to the Capital Metropolitan police, saying some evil person would indiscriminately kill at the school gates.
That was something from a time-space earlier than their world.
So, those people would know when something would happen.
She just didn’t know if this author was the person she was looking for.
Of course, even if it wasn’t the same person, it didn’t matter.
What she wanted to find was indeed an otherworldly soul.
Such an existence, more would be better from her perspective.
Scarlett Jennings immediately sent the novel’s link to her own phone, then thought and also sent it to Uncle Ming. She wanted Uncle Ming to help investigate the author’s information.
It wasn’t a big deal, so Scarlett Jennings didn’t bother Luca Jennings specifically.
Uncle Ming, as the Jennings Family’s steward, naturally wouldn’t be troubled by such a task.
He confidently accepted the task given by the young lady of his family, and then the next day, he found Scarlett Jennings a bit guilty, saying,
“Miss Scarlett, I’m sorry, the information about the author I found turned out to be fabricated after verification, and the commonly used IP address of the other party is also fake, so I can’t find any specific information about this author.”
Uncle Ming truly felt ashamed.
It was rare for Miss Scarlett to give him a task, yet he hadn’t been able to complete it.
He didn’t suspect his capability because after realizing something was amiss, he especially asked Old Sir Jiang’s assistant for help, and the result found was the same as his.
Scarlett Jennings wasn’t too surprised by this.
After all, even the Capital Metropolitan police couldn’t track the exact location of the informant back then.
All they knew was the person was likely in Sea City.
Seeing Uncle Ming’s expression of guilt, Scarlett Jennings simply comforted him,
“It’s okay, Uncle Ming, it’s not your problem, the other party is… too cunning.”
If you couldn’t find them by normal means, then you might as well try unconventional approaches.
Thinking this, Scarlett Jennings directly called for the little baby spirit.
Since that time allowing it to follow Sophie Harper into the cyber domain to find someone, the little baby spirit seemed to have developed a new skill, navigating through the cyber domain effortlessly.
For a job like tracking someone via network lines, it was most suited to handle it.
These past two days, because Scarlett Jennings was repairing the fetal soul of the snake egg, the little baby spirit often communicated and interacted with the snake treasure’s fetal soul across the eggshell.
After all, it too was once a fetal soul transformed into a baby spirit, resonating well with the snake treasure’s fetal soul.
Though communicating with a “same-age soul” was amusing, upon hearing Scarlett Jennings’s call, it still floated over to her side immediately, delighted at the new task, twirling in circles in the air before floating up close to Scarlett Jennings, snuggling.
“Scarlett, leave it to me, I’m great!”
Since secretly bidding “farewell” to its mother, the little baby spirit finally learned to speak.
Scarlett Jennings let it snuggle and then carefully explained the task’s content.
The main objective was to locate the ghostwriter behind it.
The little baby spirit patted its chest and quickly drilled into Scarlett Jennings’s phone.
Its soul body slipped through the cyberspace to the website where the novel was published, but the author and the website’s cyber connection was broken, making it impossible to follow it over the net domain.
The little baby spirit quickly returned to report this matter.
This situation generally happens because the other side is offline; to accurately trace them via the online path, you’d have to wait till they’re connected.
Scarlett Jennings then looked at the author’s daily update time, which was scheduled twice daily, mostly around midnight.
Determining the author’s updating pattern, Scarlett Jennings had the little baby spirit wait in advance.
Sure enough, at midnight.
The website posted the latest updated chapters right away, and simultaneously, the author’s net domain connection was successfully established.
The little baby spirit dove in without hesitation, tracking through the net domain, it smoothly arrived at the author’s cyber domain.
Perhaps it was too excited, the little baby spirit failed to brake in time, and half of its head directly emerged from the other party’s computer screen.
…
At night, everything was silent.
In the dark rental apartment, only the glow of the computer screen flickered in a corner.
Abigail Bryant was sitting at the computer, vigorously typing on the keyboard, when suddenly, the computer screen flashed.
Immediately, a small, humanoid creature resembling a ginseng doll unexpectedly emerged from the screen, locking eyes with her.
Face to face, Abigail Bryant was initially taken aback, and the next second, a loud, piercing scream erupted from her throat,
“Ahhh! A ghost!”
She screamed shrilly while stretching her hand to grab, and actually caught hold of the little baby spirit’s head, yanking it completely out of the computer screen.
Little Baby Spirit: ???
Before it realized what was happening, it was hurled out.
Simultaneously, the little baby spirit noticed her body also floating, shouting continuously, and, as if startled, drifting all around the room…