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Eric was awakened by a strange sound. As soon as he opened his eyes and sat up, he saw Yang Tao squatting beside him, cutting the air with that strange iron sword. A peculiar smell permeated the not-so-large space.
"Yang, what are you doing?"
Yang Tao came to his senses, wiped an invisible liquid from his face, and said with a smile, "Skinning. Sorry for waking you."
"Skinning?"
Eric got up and walked curiously to Yang Tao's side. Yang Tao stopped his movements, took out a shovel, and dug a 2x2 space from the ground beside them.
He took out two buckets and poured the water collected from Level 1 into them, and a simple infinite water source appeared in the space.
"Eric, are you hungry?"
Yang Tao put his hand into the water to wash it, then took out a bright red apple and a bottle of [Gray Almond Water] from his backpack.
"You eat something first."
Eric showed a grateful expression, reached out to take the food Yang Tao handed him, and said thankfully, "Thank you. If it weren't for you, I really don't know how I would survive in this strange place."
"Yang, if there's anything you need help with, please tell me."
"Of course. Hurry up and eat; I'll need you to record some things later."
Eric nodded, opened the bottle of Almond water, and gulped it down. Then he took a big bite of the apple, and the unique sweetness of the apple filled his mouth.
He swore he had never eaten such a delicious apple.
He finished the apple in a few bites, pulled out his notebook and pen from his pocket, and looked at Yang Tao with an attentive expression, saying, "I'm ready."
Yang Tao was very satisfied with Eric's professionalism. He nodded and said, "Very good. Record Entity No. 003, name Smiler."
Eric was a bit confused; to him, the two names Yang Tao mentioned meant the same thing. However, he still professionally recorded everything Yang Tao said.
"Likes to hide in dark places…"
"Its characteristics are a smiling face composed of glowing teeth and eyes. It possesses about eight times the strength of an ordinary person. Its weakness is that its movement speed is not fast, comparable to an ordinary person's running speed. Never actively attack without heavy weapons…"
At this point, Eric raised his hand like a primary school student, and Yang Tao motioned for him to speak.
"Human thermal weapons are greatly restricted in the Backrooms. Tests have shown that pistols, submachine guns, rifles, and even explosives are weakened to varying degrees in the Backrooms."
Yang Tao was not surprised by this. The reduced power of weapons, coupled with the Backrooms Entity's apparent resistance to thermal weapons, meant that the effectiveness of thermal weapons was greatly diminished.
However, having them was better than not having them.
"It's fine. Maybe scientists will develop weapons suitable for use in the Backrooms in the future."
Eric nodded, and Yang Tao continued:
"Its countermeasures are…"
"Also, it has a body, but currently there are too few samples to determine if their bodies are consistent. This is temporarily pending…"
"After the Smiler dies, its body remains invisible. It is currently unknown whether this effect will decay over time."
Eric recorded Yang Tao's words. Suddenly, he seemed to come to his senses, staring at Yang Tao with wide eyes and asking uncertainly, "Is… is there a Smiler corpse here?"
Recalling the strange movements he saw Yang Tao making when he first woke up, and adding the description of the Smiler, when he looked at the empty space behind Yang Tao again, he felt as if he saw a huge creature lying there.
"Yes, I encountered a Smile in Level 1 just now, right here!"
Yang Tao stretched out his hand and pointed to the Smiler corpse on the ground behind him. Suddenly, his brows furrowed slightly because the Smiler corpse's invisibility effect was decaying.
"Eric, record that the Smiler's invisibility ability gradually decays two hours after death…"
Only then did Eric realize that it wasn't his imagination; there really was an Entity here. He quickly copied it down in his notebook with his pen.
Yang Tao walked forward, took out the iron sword, plunged it into the Smiler's corpse, and vigorously cut the Smiler's skin. Soon, a piece of skin was cut off by him.
Yang Tao looked at his 'disappearing' palm, a Smile on his face, and said, "Eric, record that the Smiler's skin has invisibility ability, and its duration is pending."
This was not some optical camouflage or visual illusion, but actual invisibility. He could see the green grass block beneath the Smiler's skin.
The two of them cooperated to dismember the Smiler's Entity. To Yang Tao's surprise, the Smiler did not have so-called digestive organs; its entire body was like a blown-up balloon, filled with strange liquid.
He collected the fragmented corpse and directly exchanged it for energy value.
"Damaged Smiler Corpse"
"Value: 110 Energy Points"
"So dark. A complete one is 200 points. I just cut it open and studied it a bit, and you ripped me off 90 points?"
"Forget it, who told you to be the buyer!"
Eric, beside him, was a little excited. Regarding the research and recording of the Entity, the Smiler, he swore that the company definitely did not have such detailed information. However, he still had some doubts in his mind, pointing to the pattern he had drawn in his notebook and saying:
"Yang, where is the head of this Smiler? Why can't I distinguish it?"
"This!"
Yang Tao pointed to the dark mass above and said.
Eric recalled how that part looked just now and said, "This… isn't this just a mess of flesh?"
"Oh, I smashed its teeth and eyes off to keep as souvenirs."
At this moment, Yang Tao also suddenly realized where those 90 energy points had gone.
He took out the Smiler's teeth and eyes from his backpack. To be fair, both the Smiler's teeth and eyes were like jade, and even touching them gave one a feeling of not wanting to let go.
He pieced together the Smiler's appearance in the dark from the ground and said, "Under normal circumstances, in the dark, you would only see these…"
Eric looked down at the horrifying eyes and fangs of the Smiler on the ground, then looked up at the harmless-looking Yang Tao.
Soon, an inequality appeared in his mind.
Yang Tao > Smiler
"This Smiler has been dead for several hours, so I won't try to see if its meat is edible for now. We'll see next time we encounter one."
Saying that, Yang Tao washed his hands in the infinite water again, and said casually, "I'm going to the child's world from yesterday first. You organize your notes for now. If I get a chance, I'll buy you a camera and a camcorder."
The timeline in the Detective Conan World is extremely chaotic, but it can be confirmed that there were no smartphones in the early Detective Conan World.
Waving his hand, Yang Tao opened the wooden door leading to the Detective Conan World. His appearing location was precisely the Park where he had left last night.
"The location is fixed… Is it calculated based on the last door opening location?"
The air in the Park in the early morning was very refreshing. Facing the morning sun, Yang Tao strode towards Mouri Kogoro's detective agency.
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