The Gods of the Second World (LitRPG The Weirdest Noob Book 3) by Arthur Stone

Author:Arthur Stone
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Published: 2017-11-29T05:00:00+00:00

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The man that lately bore the name of John Shelby and the moniker "Octopus" has been on many assignments—some of them easy, and others, less so. And this was the first time he ran into a mystery he couldn't solve. He, on the other hand, was the author of many such mysteries, so that no one would find out the truth about certain events that had to remain secret.

Suffice to remember the case of Professor Barbarossa. They were still searching him, and there were even rumors that someone had seen him with the pretty young woman that disappeared at the same time. The general public was certain they'd been having the time of their life on some tropical beach for the last five months.

But people were stupid and prone to falling for simple explanations or even completely ridiculous fabrications. Octopus was one of those few who knew how the rumor got started. It was but a minute detail of what had turned out to be a very uncomplicated cover-up op.

Barbarossa's disappearance was no ordinary thing. He was gone so thoroughly he'd never be found under any circumstances. There was simply nothing left to look for. A special set of reagents turned his body into jelly, and then into a liquid. Nothing remained—no bones, cartilage, hair, fat, or even tooth enamel. The very same thing happened to the body of the woman designated for the role of the professor's romantic interest that he had been supposed to have eloped with.

Not even any identifiable DNA molecule fragments could have remained. All of it was flushed down the drain, and soon dissolved in the enormous sewers of a large city. Their bodies joined the great natural cycle of matter some five months ago.

This Rostovtsev character was a real mystery. An oddity. And Octopus had to make sense of it. The first time, he got the pointers to his likely location from the management. The second time, he found all the necessary data on his own. But he didn't get lucky the second time, either, just like back then, at the hospital in San Francisco. The strange customer gave him the slip again.

But nothing ever truly vanishes without a trace. You just need to know where to look. After the hospital episode, Octopus was helped by some of the staff overly fond of money and completely allergic to pain as well as physical and psychological discomfort in general. Then he'd had to deal with certain logistics agencies' employees in the same way to find out how and why they'd managed to send his target along such a convoluted itinerary.

However, Octopus managed to solve this puzzle. He found out about the warehouse where the container he'd been searching for was stored.

It was made of steel sheets and contained a life support system with a supply of all the necessary nutrients and medicines, as well as the very object he'd been searching for all this time, going to such unbelievable lengths—the body of the elusive Mr.

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