Chapter 13: Birds of a Feather

As for Yun Mu, after recording her statement and the clues, there was nothing left for her to do.

After all, to the Guard Hall, she could at most be considered a concerned citizen who reported a criminal.

Calling her a concerned citizen might even be a stretch, considering she didn't even have an Identity Card.

Therefore, whether it was the subsequent investigation, the arrest of the murderer, or what crime to charge them with after they were caught, those were all matters for the Guard Hall to consider.

However, it is worth mentioning that this case touched upon the Supernatural Realm, and the Dark Night Sect, which worships the Lady of the Dark Night, Dailianna, would also assist in the operation.

With official Supernatural forces taking action, surely it wouldn't be long before she could see the news of the murderer's capture in the newspaper, right?

Yun Mu felt a faint sense of unease in her heart, as she recalled the scene of that woman with Scarlet eyes leaving.

At that time, could the other party not have anticipated that she would go to the Guard Hall to report it?

If the other party had long expected such a thing to happen but chose not to stop her, did they have some confident trump card?

Or perhaps, was this part of what she had already anticipated?

"This is the bounty for the clues you provided. Take it."

Just as Yun Mu was feeling worried, Lita, who was standing beside her, suddenly took out a silver-gray slip of paper and handed it to her.

"There's a bounty too?"

Hearing Lita's words, Yun Mu felt a surge of joy, and even the things she had just been thinking about were temporarily cast aside.

Why think so much? It was purely making herself uncomfortable.

If she were really pushed to the edge, she would just take a Steam Train and leave this city; could the other party catch up to her then?

She took the paper from Lita's hand and discovered that the four pitch-black characters "Frost Bank" were written at the top; besides that, in the bottom right corner of the paper, a gray-iron eagle with its wings spread was printed.

Yun Mu recognized this emblem, or rather, everyone in the entire Frost Kingdom recognized this emblem.

This was the emblem of the Saerliya family, which had symbolized the royal nobility and had been passed down through generations in the Frost Kingdom since ancient times.

No one dared to forge this kind of emblem, which meant that the Frost Bank written on the paper in front of her was, in all likelihood, a royal enterprise.

"This is a check from the Frost Bank. If you take this check to the Frost Bank, you can exchange it for 15 Gold Frost Coins," Lita said after seeing Yun Mu take the check.

"How many?"

Hearing Lita's words, Yun Mu nearly dropped the check in her hand.

As far as she knew, the general currency of the Frost Kingdom was divided into three types: the Gold Frost Coin with the highest denomination, the Silver Frost Coin with a slightly smaller denomination, and the Frost Coin with the smallest denomination.

Among them, one Gold Frost Coin was equal to twenty Silver Frost Coins, which was equal to one thousand Frost Coins.

15 Gold Frost Coins was equivalent to fifteen thousand Frost Coins; all the money the predecessor had stolen in her life combined might not even add up to this number!

And a loaf of rye bread only cost 2 Frost Coins!

"I'm rich!"

Yun Mu carefully tucked the check into the lining of her coat.

Compared to the potential contingencies and trump cards that the woman with Scarlet eyes might have kept, and the revenge that might come at any time.

The Gold Frost Coins right in front of her seemed much more real.

At the very least, she could use this money to eat a good meal, change into a decent set of clothes, and then go take a look at that so-called Painting Association to see if there were any opportunities to make money.

"Don't be in such a hurry, there is one more thing," Lita said with a soft smile upon seeing the irrepressible joy on Yun Mu's face.

"There's more?"

"Mm." Lita nodded, then gave her a gesture to follow.

Seeing this, Yun Mu first looked at the female Guard who had asked her questions earlier, and after seeing her nod as well, she hurriedly got up and followed behind Lita.

The two left the interrogation room, walked through the corridor, and then followed the stairs to the main hall on the first floor of the Guard Hall.

Lita brought her to a counter and then spoke a few words to the female Guard at the front desk.

"Come over here, let's record some basic information first," Lita said, turning to Yun Mu.

"What basic information? Wasn't it already recorded before?" Yun Mu asked, feeling a bit strange.

"Oh, it's different. This time it's mainly for testing blood type, fingerprints, and things like that," Lita replied.

"Is this to help me register for an Identity Card?" Yun Mu guessed something and asked directly.

"That's right." Lita nodded and said, "These days, you can't do anything without an Identity Card. I saw that your painting skills were so impressive, yet you didn't go to the Painting Association to register as a painter; it must be because you didn't have an Identity Card."

"With this, at the very least, you won't have to wander the streets."

"Exactly, that's it!"

Yun Mu hesitated for a moment, then nodded decisively.

Since others had already thought of the excuse for her, what reason did she have to refuse?

Registering as an official citizen indeed had many benefits. To say nothing else, if the predecessor had this, she would definitely not have been reduced to the point of having to survive by Pickpocketing on the streets.

After all, it wasn't as if the predecessor hadn't looked for work, but those jobs that required an Identity Card wouldn't take her, and the bosses who did take a liking to her were mostly aiming for wages lower than those of normal people.

The predecessor had even encountered a pedophilic pervert; if she hadn't been quick-witted at the time, she might have already...

"Press your fingerprint."

Behind the counter, the female Guard's words pulled Yun Mu's thoughts back.

"Oh, okay."

Yun Mu nodded, then followed the instructions to record the fingerprints of her ten fingers one by one.

The machine for recording fingerprints was a square box; every time Yun Mu pressed her finger onto it, it would cause the gears inside the box to rotate.

She wondered what kind of Black Technology it was.

And after recording her fingerprints, she had a tube of blood drawn, and as for taking a photo...

"Come back next time."

"The photo on the Identity Card needs to at least be clear enough to see your features."

The female Guard said this while looking at Yun Mu, who was covered in dirt, her long-unkept hair almost matted together.

"Then let's make it tomorrow." Yun Mu thought about it and agreed, so she nodded.

In any case, she had originally intended to go to the bathhouse to take a bath, and then change into a new set of clothes afterward.

As for the rags the predecessor wore, they could all be thrown away; she only needed to keep the equipment that had been strengthened by the game.

However, that equipment also needed to be cleaned; having stayed in the sewer with her for an entire night, while it might not have been pickled in the stench, it was still nauseating.

Before transmigrating, Yun Mu never would have expected that there would come a day when she would be fumigated by the smell on her own body.

Those people at the Guard Hall really had it tough.

Recalling those Guards who had kept straight faces in front of her, showing not a single sign of disdain or disgust, Yun Mu couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration for them.

But what she didn't know was that Lita, as well as the Guard Team Captain and the adjutant, had already grown accustomed to the smell inside the sewers while searching them last night.

And those few female Guards had also temporarily gotten used to it after being fumigated by the other Guards in the Guard Hall all morning.

If one were to talk about the smell, Lita, who had come out of the sewer with her, had it on her too.

Everyone stank, so there was no need to look down on each other.

PS: Steam technology was originally created by the Gnomes of the Dixia Shijie and subsequently introduced to the Frost Kingdom.

As for the first-generation difference engines, which were huge in size and capable of performing large amounts of calculations in a short time, they were invented by humans.

Finally, the steam computers capable of storing Identity Cards, fingerprints, and other large amounts of text information were created by three Transcendental who had comprehended the Steam Domain.

And their races were, respectively, human, Gnome, and Dark Elf.

(End of this chapter)