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Chapter 54 The Resentment of the Death Curse (4)

Stack Raiders took the folder, thanked the guard, and casually glanced at the mailing date on the folder, which happened to be three days ago.

Just as he was about to drive away, a long-haired girl sitting in the back seat who had not spoken much suddenly rolled down her window and asked the doorman: "Hello, I would like to ask what time do you usually get off work? If we had arrived here two hours later, would you still have given us this document?"

In this scene, these words are somewhat incomprehensible and impolite, as if they are questioning the other party's professional attitude.

The doorman showed an angry expression on his face and said loudly: "What do you mean? I have one hour to get off work. Even if I don't wait 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 several people walking to the TV station also fit in this time.

It was the Warehouse Warrior 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. This Jingzhe Xia Zhi didn't speak much since he entered the mission. He didn't speak formally until the car was about to drive away and there was no time.

It proves that she was deliberately hiding 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, prefecture, and 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."

"That said, it rains too frequently 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 didn't want to get into trouble, so they didn't 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 a coat made of aluminum foil outside his white shirt. The shape is particularly weird. It was the folklorist Kenichi Ishikawa.

"I am Ishikawa Kenichi. When you see this disc, I may be dead."

He was sitting in a study room. Through the open window of the study room, he could see the tall buildings outside the window.

Stack Raiders immediately clicked on the frame 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].”

"The so-called 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 a pen and paper and poked a hole in the paper with his 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 poison that has no concept of self, wisdom, or hatred. It will only instinctively attack anyone who comes close, and spread around the deceased, constantly spreading malice. Many famous names in history House massacres, mass disappearances, and serial murders are all due to the power of grudges.”

"Every curse has a connection point. This connection point can be a house, an appliance, or a pet that the deceased had during his lifetime. With the help of the connection point, it can gain power from places outside the real world and exist in the world. The real world. And when the connection is lost, the grudge weakens until it dissipates."

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 a 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 in the middle that was skipped. 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 1st, I lived in the fourth place of Sanchome, Suijing City. Suzuki and his wife, who were nearly 60 years old at the time, drowned in the kitchen sink and bathtub respectively in a house.

On May 7, the undertaker responsible for sorting out the remains of the Suzuki couple died in the funeral home. The cause of death was cardiac arrest. The next day, two of his friends disappeared.

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.

Either directly or indirectly, these people have been exposed to the resentment of the death curse. 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.

For these things, I have an unshirkable responsibility. 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 disc content is now played.

[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, quality depends on the clearance evaluation]

[Task Reward 4: Random Skill Scroll*1, the quality depends on the clearance evaluation]

[Task 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 there was a strong feeling in their hearts that they were being watched by something.

"You all feel it, the mission has officially begun."

Stack Raiders pressed the projector's rewind button and jumped back to Kenichi Ishikawa's talk about the lag of the Grudge Amplifier, but the result was that the picture was still torn.

He had no choice but to take out the CD and use his glasses to scan the contents of the CD, but still couldn't get the result. He turned to his teammates and asked, "Is there any way you can repair the CD?"

"I'll try." Li Sheng raised his hand.

"you?"

Stack Overlord was a little surprised. From his perspective, this Level 2 man 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 had questions all over their heads. 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 player? Don't mess with it, okay?"

"People's 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 made nonsense, took the disc off his finger, returned to normal and said: "I tried just now and couldn't put this disc into the backpack. There are generally two possibilities for this situation. First, the item itself has an owner. , and the ownership relationship is clear.

There is something unusual about the object itself. "

Stack Raiders reacted, "You mean"

Li Sheng nodded and said, "Yes, considering that Ishikawa Kenichi has already sent the CD and conceptually transferred the ownership of the item, I am more inclined to the second possibility. That is, there is something wrong with the CD itself, maybe it has become The medium of the curse mentioned in the video.”

The system has many invisible restrictions on the player's backpack, such as items that are too large, items that do not belong to you, living creatures, mission-critical props, etc.

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.

The CD has become a medium, which means that Ishikawa himself has been tainted with the curse. Hence the disappearance.

This mission requires us to protect four people within 24 hours. Except for the folklorist Kenichi Ishikawa who has been missing for three days, the remaining three people, judging from their names, should be relatives of the deceased Suzuki couple and Sakai couple. "

As Li Sheng spoke, he unplugged the power plug, put his finger into the projector, destroyed the machine with a flick, and broke off the metal piece of the plug. "My personal suggestion is that we seize the time and work separately to find these three first." Let’s talk about it personally.”

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 an official employee of the Japan Abnormalities Investigation Bureau, but she seems to be timid. 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. Split operations in horror movies might actually lead to splits. It will become 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, it would be unreasonable for these four people to die suddenly before we even started looking for people. Therefore, now is the best stage to find people and search for clues. "

He took out three mobile phones from the backpack column and distributed them to his three companions. "This is a standard basic item of Whale Song. It 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 is the only son of the deceased Suzuki couple. He lives in the south of the city as a company employee with his new wife Suzuki Yuko. Sakai Yoshimi is Sakaihara's younger sister, a high school girl who temporarily lives in the home of a classmate in the east of the city. I’ve sent you the specific address.”

The Stack Qi soldiers quickly said: "Dixing, you go find the two Suzukis, 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 protect them together.

I went 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 opened 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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The Shuijing City Police Station is not far from the TV station, and Stack Strangers walked 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 shoelaces through the sealing tape into the car, use a slip knot to cover the door switch, and finally hold the shoelaces with both hands, lift them 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 fender, connected the starting wire and the live wire, and successfully started the vehicle.

After doing all this, Jingzhe Xia Zhi's expression remained calm, and she changed to the passenger seat. While tying her shoelaces, she 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, and Jingzhe Xia Zhi, who had tied her shoelaces, browsed the known clues on her mobile phone, her eyes 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: "Um. Where did you learn the technique of stealing a car just now? It's not that this is bad, I just think the action is very simple and handsome."

"Online self-study."

Jingzhe Xia Zhi said casually: "In the 21st century, there are all kinds of teaching materials on the Internet. Torture, weapons assembly, hazardous chemical preparation, explosives production, armed helicopter driving, art forgery. Even making a homemade nuclear reactor in the garage.

As long as you know how to explore and have the perseverance to learn, anyone can become a multi-faceted talent. "

There was a calmness and calmness in her tone, as if she was saying something completely normal.

"Well"

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, a level 8 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 made Little Red Riding Hood stunned for a moment, "Of course, there is also the identity of player.

A hero does not care about his origin, and a rogue does not care about his age. Once you become a player, the possibilities are endless.

Wasn't that Level 7 Stack Raider originally an ordinary programmer?

As for the other beetle."

She paused and said no more.

"What's wrong with Mr. Fox?"

Little Red Riding Hood asked naturally, suddenly remembering something, "Oh, by the way, why are we two going to find Yoshimi Sakai alone, and Mr. Foxy wants to go to Suzuki Kazuya and his wife? Logically speaking, there shouldn't be two people. go?"

"Oh, that's because Stack Raiders have already seen that Wei Fei is not a player of this level, or that he does not have the consciousness and ability that a player of this level should have."

Already aware that this mission is dangerous, he no longer intends to hide his Jingzhe Xia Zhi, squinting his eyes and explaining: "Do you still 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 that the disc had become a curse medium, and speculated that folklorist Ishikawa had been infected, and immediately destroyed the projector.

Apparently 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, he must either be very smart and keen, or he has been exposed to supernatural events and knows the rules. Or maybe both. "