Chapter 47 Chapter 534: The Resentment of the Death Curse (4)
Stack Warrior took the folder, thanked the doorman, and casually glanced at the sending date on the folder, which happened to be Three days ago.
Just as he was about to drive away, the long-haired girl sitting in the back seat who had not spoken much suddenly rolled down her window and asked the doorman: "Hello, I want to ask. What time do you usually get off work? If we arrived here two hours later, would you still hand us this document?"
This is a bit confusing and impolite in this situation. , as if questioning the other party’s professional attitude.
The doorman showed an angry expression on his face and said loudly: "What do you mean? I still have one hour to get off work. Even if I don't wait until today, I will find an opportunity to deliver the package to you tomorrow."
Amid the complaints from the doorman, the vehicle started moving forward. Little Red Riding Hood in the car looked confused and didn't understand what was going on. Li Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly and understood the intention of Jingzhe Xia Zhi's words.
The first stage of the mission gave a time limit of two hours. According to the original setting of the vehicle crashing into the river, the time for several people to walk to the TV station also met this time.
It was Stacker who used his special skills to digitize the vehicle and pull it back to the shore. Only then did everyone rush to the TV station in advance, get the CD, and start the next phase of the mission.
If several people come on foot and the doorman is off duty and no one hands them the CD, will the system still issue the same task?
Or maybe, being able to see the contents of the disc one day in advance is a reward from the system for arriving at the TV station in advance?
If you think about it, it's interesting - the killing field is hinting to them that the key to this mission is to seize the time.
Li Sheng looked at the rear seat through the rearview mirror. The Jingzhe Xia Zhi didn't speak much since entering the mission. He didn't speak formally until the car was about to drive away and there was no time.
It proved that she had deliberately hidden her analytical ability before.
The vehicle drove into the parking lot, and everyone got out of the car and headed to the third floor of the TV station.
Japan’s administrative divisions are divided into two levels: capital, prefecture, prefecture, and county, as well as city, town, and village. Cities are smaller than counties. Due to the developed economy of Shuijing City, the TV station in the city is also small and well-equipped.
It was evening, and many colleagues were standing in the corridor chatting, "It's so annoying, it's thundering outside again, and the clothes in the yard haven't been collected yet."
"Well, it's the rainy season after all."< br>
“Having said that, the rainy days have been too frequent this month. I heard it will rain heavily tomorrow”
“Hey, do you two want to go have a drink together after get off work?”
The four players did not want to cause trouble and did not stop chatting with their colleagues. They turned directly into the empty employee lounge, locked the door, took out the disc from the folder, and put it into the projector.
As the disc began to rotate, the old-style desktop TV screen lit up green, and after a period of delay, a normal picture appeared.
The picture shows a middle-aged man in his thirties. He looks tired. He is wearing a hat made of aluminum foil. He is also wearing an aluminum foil jacket outside his white shirt. , the shape is particularly weird, it is the folklorist Kenichi Ishikawa.
"I am Ishikawa Kenichi, and when you see this CD, I may be dead."
He was sitting in a study room, and through the open window of the study, You can see tall buildings outside the window.
Stack Raiders immediately pressed the rim of his glasses, took a photo of the tall building in the picture, compared it with the information on the Internet, and came to the conclusion that the video shooting location was the house where Ishikawa Kenichi lived.
"I am a folklorist. After many years of research and visits, I am sure that there are no gods and ghosts in this world. The so-called onmyoji, priests, and exorcists do not have supernatural powers. But there is one thing that really exists. That is [ Grudge]. "
"Grudge refers to the strong resentment and anger left in the hearts of people who died unjustly. Under extremely special circumstances, a hole has been eroded in the real world. ”
As if to explain better, he picked up the pen and paper and poked a hole in the paper with the pencil. Then he put the paper in front of his face and stared at the camera through the holes.
"Grudge is not a ghost that arises after death. It is like a toxin that has no concept of self, wisdom, or hatred. It will only instinctively attack anyone who is close to it, and it will spread around the deceased and continue to spread. Malice. Many famous cases of family extermination, mass disappearances, and serial killings in history are all due to the power of grudges."
"Every grudge has a connecting point, and this connecting point can be. A house, a piece of equipment, or a pet owned by the deceased. With the help of connection points, it can gain power from places outside the real world and exist in the real world. When the connection points are lost, the curse will weaken. Dissipate."
He reached out and smoothed the curled paper around the hole, covering it.
“In addition to the connection points, the curse also has two elements-the medium and the amplifier. Things contaminated by the curse, as well as people killed by the curse, will become new media. As for the amplifier, it is something that can amplify the power of the curse"
The screen suddenly started to freeze and blur. It took more than ten seconds to return to normal.
There seemed to be a section of content that was skipped in the middle. Ishikawa Kenichi did not continue talking about the topic of amplifiers, but took out a few newspapers and showed them in front of the camera, "On May 1, living in the water The Suzuki couple, who were nearly sixty years old, drowned in the kitchen sink and bathtub respectively in the fourth house in Sanchome, Joichi.
On May 7, the undertaker responsible for sorting out the remains of the Suzuki couple was there. Died in a funeral home, the cause of death being cardiac arrest. Two of his friends disappeared the next day.
Four days ago, on May 16, Sakaihara, a real estate salesman from Tomozumi Trading Co., Ltd. in Suijing City, committed suicide by jumping off a building. Before his death, he killed his wife with a knife at home.
These people have all been exposed to the resentment of the death curse, either directly or indirectly. Ultimately, the starting point of everything was the massacre that occurred in the fourth house of Sanchome 25 years ago. and a series of deaths derived from it.
I have an unshirkable responsibility for these things. So I'm going to go and end this. ”
After that, he stood up and walked towards the camera and turned off the camera.
The content of the disc has been played here.
[Mission goal: Find Suzuki Kazuya, Suzuki Yuko, Sakai Yoshimi, and Ishikawa Kenichi in Shuijing City, a total of four people. Within 24 hours, at least one person is guaranteed to survive. You are not allowed to leave Shuijing City during this period]
[Task reward 1: 300 experience points]
[Task reward 2: 500 game currency points]
[Task reward 3: Random item*1, the quality depends on the clearance evaluation]
[Task reward 4: Random skill scroll*1, the quality depends on the clearance evaluation]
[Mission time limit: 24 hours]
[Punishment for mission failure: obliteration]
The killing notice sounded at the right time, and the four people in the room felt an inexplicable chill running down their necks at the same time, and a strong feeling rose in their hearts. , the feeling of being spied on by something.
"You all feel it, the mission has officially begun."
Stack Raiders pressed the reverse button of the projector and jumped back to Ishikawa Kenichi's story about the Grudge Amplifier. The content is stuck, and the result is that the screen is still torn.
He had no choice but to take out the disc and use his glasses to scan the contents of the disc, but he also couldn't get the result. He turned to his teammates and asked: "Do you have any way to repair the disc?"
"I'll try." Li Sheng Take the initiative to raise your hand.
“You?”
Stack Wizard was a little surprised. From his perspective, this Level 2 birdfly was very weird from his dress to his words and deeds. Either he's mentally ill or he's pretending to be crazy. Either that or he's a lunatic from [The Carnival Troupe].
“Okay, don’t break it.”
He handed the disc to Li Sheng, who took it, put his right index finger up through the hole in the middle of the disc, raised the disc high above his head, and then patted the edge of the disc with his left hand, as if playing with a bamboo dragonfly, making the disc spin. .
At the same time, he closed one eye and stared at the bottom of the CD, making a mechanical "bah" sound from his mouth.
? ? ?
The other three people were full of questions. The Stack Raiders were stunned for a while before they came back to their senses. His eyelids jumped wildly and he said: "No, where are you leaving this cosplay video player? Don't mess with it, okay?"
"People and their physiques cannot be generalized. When my computer at home broke down and I was extremely angry, I rewrote a Windows operating system using the 0s and 1s on my landline phone one night." Li Sheng said nonsense. He took the disc off his finger, returned to normal and said: "I tried just now, but I couldn't put this disc into the backpack. There are generally two possibilities for this situation. One, the item itself has an owner, and the ownership relationship Clear.
The item itself has something unusual about it. "
Stack Raiders reacted, "You mean"
Li Sheng nodded and said, "Yes, considering that Ishikawa Kenichi has already sent the CD, the ownership of the item has been conceptually transferred. Yes, I prefer the second possibility. In other words, there is something wrong with the disc itself, and it may have become the medium for the curse mentioned in the video. ”
The system has many invisible restrictions on the player’s backpack column, such as items that are too large, items that do not belong to you, living creatures, and mission-critical props. Wait.
This is easy to understand, assuming that the player is locked in a cell and needs to find a key to get out. If there are no restrictions, this player can directly install the iron cell door into the backpack bar and walk out of the prison in a big way.
“Assuming that the content in the video is true and credible, Ishikawa Kenichi said that things contaminated by the curse and people killed by the curse will become new media.
< br>The disc has become a medium, which means that Ishikawa himself has been infected with the curse and therefore disappeared.
This mission requires us to protect four people within 24 hours, except for the folklorist who has been missing for three days. Apart from Ishikawa Kenichi, the remaining three people, judging from their names, should be relatives of the deceased Suzuki and Sakai couples."
As Li Sheng spoke, he unplugged the power plug and inserted his finger. In the projector, he lightly pushed to destroy the machine and broke off the metal piece of the plug. "My personal suggestion is that we seize the time and split up and find these three people first."
Hearing Li Sheng's words, Little Red Riding Hood seemed even more nervous and stammered: "Eh?! Split up, split up? But in horror movies, splitting up is very dangerous."
This girl is obviously a member of Japan's Abnormal Affairs The official staff of the Investigation Bureau are as timid as anything. Is there already such a shortage of people there? Or maybe there was no training done at all.
Stack Raiders rubbed his aching temples and lamented in his heart why his teammates were so unreliable this time. He explained casually: "Generally speaking, that's true. Maybe they split up in horror movies. They will really split up and turn into Operation Graveyard. However, this mission has a 24-hour time limit, which will definitely leave us with a safe search time in the first few hours.
Otherwise, we haven't even started yet. Looking for people, these four people suddenly hung up, which is unreasonable. So now is the best stage to find people and search for clues."
He took out three mobile phones from the backpack column and divided them among the three. A companion said, "This is Whale Song's standard basic prop, which can maintain communication in a complex electromagnetic environment. Everyone uses this to keep in touch."
During the scenario mission, players cannot add each other as friends, nor can they use the system's built-in friend communication function. You can only use walkie-talkies, telephones, etc.
"Suzuki Kazuya, the only son of the deceased Suzuki couple, lives in the south of the city as a company employee with his new wife Suzuki Yuko. Sakai Yoshimi is Sakaihara's sister, a female high school student, temporarily living in I’ve sent you the specific address.”
Stack Qibing quickly said: “Diao Xing, you go to Suzuki and I, Jingzhe, Xia Zhi and Little Red Riding Hood, go to Sakai Yoshimi and try to convince them. If you can't convince them, take them away with force and put them under centralized protection.
I will go to the Shuijing City Police Station to look for the murder information mentioned in the video - this part of the content is not available on the Internet. "
He pushed open the door to the room and walked out of the TV building at the lead.
Boom!
The thunder is dull, dark clouds cover the sky, and heavy rain is coming.
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Shuijing City Police Station is not far from the TV station, and Stack Soldier walks there. In addition, as the person with the highest level in the team, he took the initiative to take away the disc that might bring danger.
The van that the few people came in was handed over to Xiaoying to drive to the relatively far south of the city.
As for Jingzhe Summer Solstice, she monitored the blind spot in the parking lot, picked an inconspicuous locked vehicle, unplugged her shoelaces, tied a slip knot in the middle of the shoelaces, and then opened the corners of the car door to raise the corners.
Then slide the shoelace through the sealing strip into the car, use a slip knot to cover the door switch, and finally hold the shoelace with both hands, lift it up suddenly, pull the switch, and open the door.
After a smooth process of prying the car, she nimbly got into the car, disassembled the front seat bezel, connected the starting wire and the live wire, and successfully started the vehicle.
After doing all this, Jingzhe Xia Zhi's expression remained calm. He changed to the passenger seat, tied his shoelaces, and said to Little Red Riding Hood: "Get in the car. You drive."
" Oh oh.”
Little Red Riding Hood, who was stunned next to him, was stunned for a while before he realized what he was doing. He quickly got into the driver's seat, hurriedly opened the map of Shuijing City sent by Stack Strange Soldiers on his phone, and drove towards the east of the city.
Boom——
The thunder continued. Jingzhe Xia Zhi, who had tied her shoelaces, browsed the known clues on her mobile phone. Her eyes were slightly focused, and she didn’t know what she was thinking.
Perhaps feeling that the atmosphere in the car was too solemn, Little Red Riding Hood pursed her lips and took the initiative to chat: "Well. Where did you learn the technique of stealing a car just now? It's not that this is bad, I just think that the action Very simple and handsome”
“Online self-study”
Jingzhe Xia Zhi said casually: "It's the 21st century, and there are all kinds of teaching materials on the Internet. Torture, weapons assembly, dangerous chemical preparation, explosives production, armed helicopter driving, art forgery. Even making your own nuclear reactor in the garage." br>
As long as you know how to explore and have the perseverance to learn, anyone can become a multi-faceted talent. ”
Her tone was calm and calm, as if she was saying something normal. .
“Uh”
Little Red Riding Hood was greatly shocked and asked cautiously: “Can I ask, what do you do in the real world?”
"Me? Just a famous detective, a genius, an eighth-level fitter, a top chef, a barrister, a beauty blogger, a stock trading expert, and an Internet influencer."
Jingzhe Summer Solstice reported a long list of titles, which frightened Little Red Riding Hood. He was stunned for a moment, "Of course, there is also the identity of a player.
A hero does not care about his origin, and a rogue does not care about his age. Once you become a player, you have unlimited possibilities.
That Lv7 Wasn’t Stack Wizard originally an ordinary programmer?
As for the other Xiaoying.”
She paused and said no more.
"What's wrong with Mr. Benflies?"
Little Red Riding Hood asked naturally, suddenly remembering something, "Oh, by the way, why are we two looking for Sakai Yoshimi alone, and Mr. Benflies wants to Going to find Suzuki Kazuya and his wife? Logically speaking, shouldn’t we go together?”
“Oh, that’s because Stack Raiders have already seen that Wei Fei is not a player of this level, or It’s not like the consciousness and ability that a player of this level should have.”
Having realized that this mission is dangerous, he no longer intends to hide his Jingzhe Xiazhi, squinting his eyes and explaining: “Remember the rules of the curse. ?
Things contaminated by the curse, as well as people killed by the curse, will become new vectors.
Previously in the employee lounge, Weiying first tested and found out that the disc had become a curse medium. He speculated that folklorist Ishikawa had been infected and immediately destroyed the projector.
Obviously he thought that the power of the curse might enter the projector through the disc. If a TV station employee uses the projector, he may be killed by the power of the curse and become part of the resentment. Increase the difficulty of the task for us.
To have this awareness, either he is very smart and keen, or he has been exposed to supernatural events and knows the rules. Or maybe both. ”
(End of this chapter)