Chapter 12: Cat

Yun Mu was eventually invited into an interrogation room at the Guard Hall; do not misunderstand, it was simply that there was no other place in the Guard Hall suitable for asking questions besides the interrogation room.

It did not mean they were actually going to interrogate her.

However, some basic information still needed to be recorded.

"Name?"

A female Guard with a fair face sat before her and asked softly.

Besides the two of them, standing in order from left to right by the interrogation table were the aforementioned Guard Team Captain, his adjutant, and Lita, a member of the Supernatural Guard Reserve who had brought Yun Mu to the Guard Hall.

Yun Mu did not expect the other party to stump her with the very first question; after all, her predecessor had lived for so many years without ever having a name, and her own name from her previous life, when translated directly according to the meaning of the two characters, did not sound like a person's name.

And if she chose to transliterate it...

"Cat?"

The female Guard sitting opposite Yun Mu showed a trace of confusion on her face after hearing her name.

Under the influence of the God of History and Civilization, she could tell that Yun Mu's name was in another language she had never heard of.

But the pronunciation "Yun Mu" really sounded so much like "cat."

"Not 'cat,' it's Yun Mu!"

"It means clouds and getting along in a friendly way; I heard it from a merchant from across the sea a long time ago."

Yun Mu tried to fabricate a story and then force the other party to understand that her name was not "cat."

"But I don't know how to write those two characters you mentioned, and even if I did, the machine wouldn't be able to record it."

"If you don't want to use 'Cat,' you can think of a new name."

The female Guard looked at her with some helplessness and said.

"Then forget it, 'Cat' is actually quite good."

There was no other way; after hearing the female Guard's words, Yun Mu could only compromise.

She did not want to discard her original name to think of a new foreign name.

Anyway, most orphans in the city were like her; they had neither registered identity documents nor an officially certified name, and everyone usually called each other by nicknames.

Compared to those strange nicknames, the name "Cat" actually sounded quite good.

【You have received the gaze of the 【Mother of All Cats Eve lv??? (Myth)】; the other party's favorability +3.】

【【Cat】 points +5, Path of the Cat unlocked.】

"What is going on?"

Seeing the game prompt that suddenly appeared in her mind, Yun Mu was stunned.

"How can there be such a Path?"

Having such a Path was one thing, but how could just the transliteration of a name sounding like "cat" attract the gaze of this Mother of All Cats? Was the Supernatural Realm actually this common?

Or was she just lucky?

She did not understand, but she was deeply shocked.

While answering the female Guard's questions, such as how old she was this year and where she usually lived, Yun Mu quietly opened her Game Panel, wanting to see the effects of the new Path.

【Cat lv1: Dodge +5, Speed +1; when HP is below half, critical damage is doubled!】

【All your skills, attack range +1.】

"Feels like a Path that is very powerful in the late game, but it seems useless in the early game."

Dodge, speed, and attack range were all great, but the effect of doubling critical damage when HP was below half was of no use to her at the moment.

Hilarious, she had no critical hits at all, so what was the point of high critical damage?

Moreover, the Scarlet Path could permanently increase maximum HP after winning a battle; from the perspective of benefits, the Scarlet Path was still more useful for now.

Just as Yun Mu was pondering the effects of the Path, the female Guard sitting opposite her finally finished collecting the basic information.

After that, it was time to record the clues and testimony related to the Dried Corpse Murder Case!

At this moment, everyone in the room focused their attention.

Seeing this, Yun Mu stopped being distracted; she casually closed the Game Panel and slowly recounted the things she had encountered over the past few days.

However, she deliberately omitted some content.

In her description, she had witnessed the woman with scarlet eyes committing murder the night before last, but the other party had not discovered her at the time.

And after the murderer left, the corpse that had originally died suddenly "came to life" and tried to attack her.

Having no other choice, she had to cut off the corpse's neck, and afterward, feeling afraid, she hid in her home in the sewers.

It was not until this morning that she was found by the woman with scarlet eyes; after killing the Bloodline Living Corpse that was following the woman, Lita appeared during their standoff.

Although there were quite a few loopholes in her story, it did not matter; the Guard Hall did not care about those missing details anyway.

To them, the most important clues were that the dead corpse could be resurrected into a monster similar to an Undead, and the other was the appearance of the murderer under the hood.

Regarding this, Yun Mu did not hesitate.

"Can you give me paper and a pen?"

She looked at the female Guard in front of her who intended to draw the murderer's face based on her description.

"You know how to do Painting?" the Guard Team Captain could not help but interject at this moment.

He looked at the dirty girl in front of him and did not believe an orphan with no fixed abode would have the conditions to learn Painting.

And the time and financial costs of self-study were not something an orphan who had to struggle for a living every day would have.

"I know a little bit." Yun Mu had no intention of explaining; she just snatched the charcoal pencil and sketchbook from the female Guard's hand and began to draw rapidly on the paper.

Just kidding, in her previous life, she made a living drawing lewd art on the internet; wasn't drawing a portrait sketch something anyone could do?

Recalling the murderer's appearance in her mind for a moment, Yun Mu did not even need to draft; she just drew directly.

"This..." The Guard Team Captain initially wanted to stop her, but looking at the drawing, which was a bit unrefined but had decent lines once put to paper, he did not know what to say for a moment.

And the adjutant beside him could not help but click his tongue.

"With this skill, you could even go register as a member of the Painting Association."

"Painting Association? An association related to painting?" Yun Mu silently noted this name in her heart after hearing what the adjutant said, then continued to paint earnestly.

It took about thirty minutes or so, and a highly completed portrait drawing was finished.

"Good, good, good!" The Guard Team Captain looked at the portrait on the paper, his mood very excited, saying the word "good" three times in a row.

Damn it, this Dried Corpse Murder Case that had been tormenting him for over a month finally had progress; if he couldn't produce some results soon, he would be cursed by those unscrupulous media outlets as a salary thief who didn't do any work!

"Let's go!"

The middle-aged Guard Team Captain grabbed the Painting Paper on the table and strode out of the interrogation room with his adjutant.

They would have plenty to be busy with next; first was to produce a wanted poster based on the draft Yun Mu had painted, then mass-copy and distribute it throughout the city.

And to notify all media outlets regarding the Guard Hall's major breakthrough in clues for the Dried Corpse Murder Case.

Besides this, they also had to notify citizens to go out as little as possible at night, as well as the news that the corpses could come back to life.

Oh right, and the Church side, let's contact them too.

Under the circumstances where it had already been confirmed that Supernatural power was influencing this case, he could only seek a little help from the Church.

PS: According to the contents of the Church Act, when an incident related to Supernatural power occurs, the local Church must assist official personnel in resolving it.

Otherwise, their rights to proselytize will be subject to Deprivation.

Of course, this can be for a fee.

(End of chapter)