Chapter 16: Isn't it damned?
Trigger the Trials quest 'Burning Junkyard'
Objective: Find the arsonist and lure the stranded undead before the flames consume the northern suburbs of the garbage dump
Mission Duration: Before midnight
Warning: Trialists who fail the mission will remain in the burning junkyard until their souls burn to ashes.
A series of prompts flashed.
Damn, will this punishment be too harsh, if you don't let you go, you have to burn your soul to ashes.
Heavy Jiujin raised his right hand, the black dots on the dark green lifeline were spreading upward, and the countdown to the mission had begun.
The black dot already occupies a third of the lifeline at this time, and the mission time is calculated from the time she steps into the dungeon, and the boundary of the dungeon is likely to be the security booth at the entrance of the community.
That's why there is no signal, there is no Internet, and there is no one to see.
Weighing nine pounds, he walked up to the middle-aged man who was holding the newspaper and asked, "Can you lend me a look?" ”
The headline on the sixth page of the newspaper was huge: 'Bear child burns garbage dump'
The report is a detailed account of the fire at the garbage dump in the northern suburbs that occurred two months ago.
Weighing nine pounds, he quickly scanned the content of the report and roughly understood the background of this copy.
The nine-year-old boy threw a burning match into the closet of the neighbor's house because he wanted to take revenge on his neighbor, and the burning flames instantly engulfed the single-layer wooden shack and quickly spread to the surrounding area, causing the explosion of the mobile gas stove, killing and injuring hundreds of people overnight, and burning a large area of the shack to ashes.
The boy who set the arson suffered burns on his face but survived unexpectedly, because the minor was exempted from criminal responsibility, and the family's poverty made it impossible to pay civil compensation, and he was sent home soon after completing treatment from the hospital.
Such an outcome is obviously unacceptable to the relatives of the victims and the general public.
In this way, the arsonist is the nine-year-old boy, and once he is found, most of the mission is completed.
The people who suddenly appeared in front of them must be the stranded dead spirits.
Pinching her fingers, there is not a single living person in this copy, including her.
"Uncle, what about the kid who set the fire, is it really gone?" Seeing that these people did not doubt her identity, he came up with a look of righteous indignation and gossip curiosity.
Heavy nine pounds handed over a word, and then she didn't need to ask, neighbors, you said it one by one.
"Speaking of which, I haven't seen that little bastard in a while."
"I saw him three days ago, and he spat on him twice, and he still glared at me."
The people who weighed nine pounds and noticed the scolding in front of them stood in front of their respective doors and did not take a step from beginning to end, and the pedestrians on the road also kept standing still, and they themselves seemed to be unaware of this.
Weighing nine pounds, she wiped her sweat and continued to walk, twelve years ago she was only six years old, and she had no memory of the fire in the northern suburbs garbage dump.
She deliberately tried to see if she really couldn't leave, and kept walking in the direction of the exit, and after walking for more than ten minutes, she returned to the densely populated D area and saw the crooked street sign again.
I tried three times in a row, and each time I unconsciously returned to the dense housing complex.
Although he couldn't find a way out of the dungeon, he weighed nine pounds and made another important discovery.
Every time she tried to leave and returned to the neighborhood of the street sign in Section D, she met different residents, except for the old woman who kept going around in circles looking for her grandson.
Even the appearance and number of houses are nuanced, and the dense and dilapidated buildings here are likely to overlook those details if you don't pay attention to them.
This is the fourth time that the nine pounds have returned to Area D, and only the dilapidated street sign has not changed in the slightest.
The chatter of the residents was heard again.
"Have you heard, Li Xiangdong's wife is dead."
weighed nine pounds and stopped because he heard a familiar name, isn't Li Xiangdong the name of the truck driver?
"Dead, how come?"
"Suicide, self-immolation."
"It's also pitiful, his wife caused a fire when the stove was cooking at home last year, their daughter died of severe burns, and several neighbors next door were burned to death and burned several people, and it is normal to not be able to bear it and not think about it."
"Alas, Xiang Dong is also miserable, and he is about to get out, and something like this has happened at home."
"What's the life, such a person deserves to die, and she also caused the next-door neighbor to die, shouldn't she lose her life?"
"That's what I said, but after all, it wasn't intentional, everyone didn't want an accident, and after the accident, the two of them took on all the debts of the neighbor's family, and they worked day and night, they were all hard-working people."
"Hypothetical." The young man who spoke suddenly turned to weigh nine catties and looked at her directly, "What do you think, is such a person damned?" ”
Heavy nine pounds narrowed his eyes, here it is again, this problem again.
The fourth time, from the opening of the dungeon weighing nine pounds back and forth to hit the wall four times, each time I can hear residents talking about different fire accidents, each time there are different people, and the fire is also different, but every time there will be a resident asking the same question.
Once is ordinary, twice is a coincidence, three or four times the same line appears repeatedly, if you want to say that there is no cat, it is really a ghost, I don't believe it.
The first time, the weight of nine pounds was stunned by the time in the newspaper and didn't bother to answer, the second time the weight of nine pounds was in the confusion of finding that she had hit the wall, and the third time she had a question in her heart and hesitated to answer.
Until this moment her suspicions were confirmed.
The continuous silence weighing nine catties seemed to make the other party very irritable, staring at her with dark pupils, leaning forward, her steps did not move, but her body was strangely elongated and bent, and she asked, "Why don't you speak, is such a person damned?" ”
I don't know if it's an illusion, I feel that the temperature is getting higher and higher, and even my breath is scorching hot, and my skin is reddened and burning.
The breath of the necromancer is getting stronger and stronger, and it can't be concealed even if you hold your breath, and the power of the resentful spirit is getting stronger.
Weighing nine pounds, his hands grabbed the seams of his pants, pursed his lips, stared at the face approaching in front of him, and muttered in his heart Is this the arsonist, isn't it the nine-year-old bear child?
She glanced at the half-black lifeline in the palm of her right hand, no matter what, she had to give it a try, as long as it was a necromancer, she could be lured after all.
I made a decision in my heart to weigh nine pounds and stand still, just waiting for the other party to get close and start directly.
The feet still didn't move half a step at the door, but the body was getting closer and closer, weighing nine catties, and the eyeballs stuck to her, "Why don't you speak, do you say that such a person deserves to die?" ”
The face that was close to it gradually reddened in the scorching air, and the skin broke with a sizzling sound, until the flesh was blurred to charred, and the face was completely destroyed.
Weighing nine catties, he was taken aback by this sudden change, and the movement of raising his hand slowed down, and the face with blurred flesh and blood and no facial features almost hit her face: "Is such a person damned?" ”