Chapter 2: Curses
Qu Shen expressionlessly sorted out the small earphones hidden in his ears, "Solved." β
"Roger!"
On the other end of the headphones, a deep voice came from the end.
In less than half a minute, with the sound of air pressure, the double door of the carriage opened.
After Qu Ember walked out, four people in chemical protective suits rushed in.
Two of them, too, carried a rectangular white box, which was the freezer where the bodies were kept.
Outside the carriage, Qu Shen stood in front of a somewhat burly middle-aged man in a suit.
The other party looks fierce, and there is a flesh scar in the middle of his forehead.
Qu Ember took out the headphones and handed them to him, "Complete the task of killing the level 1 mutant alone, and give me 10,000 yuan to put in the account." β
The middle-aged man took the headphones with a smile, "The new finance last time was an intern, and the salary was wrong for you, don't worry, it won't be this time." β
"Hmm." Qu Ember nodded, and then left in the direction of the escalator.
"Clean up the carriages, otherwise the people of the city guard will talk again, and they will have a headache to listen to."
Behind him, the voice of a middle-aged man came urging.
Coming out of the station, Qu Ember walked on the sidewalk and looked up to see a bright full moon in the sky.
A white box car with a rhinoceros on the compartment was parked on the side of the street. This is the Rhino company's information mobile vehicle, which can collect various data and intelligence on the field of anomalies.
And Qu Ember is a regular employee of this company.
The Rhino Company's business is to search for mutations in the city, kill them and collect corpses.
Companies like Rhinoceros have more than a dozen large and small companies in the entire Moonlight City.
In addition to these companies, the City Guard is also responsible for the usual extermination work.
The difference is that one is a private enterprise and the other is a state-owned enterprise.
Qu Ember is a special person with "ability", who is the target of the city guard and the private extermination company.
And the reason why he joined Rhino is because this company gives too much, and he just needs money.
The world doesn't know when it became like this, but if you think about it, it seems that Qu Ember has always been like this since he could remember.
Human life goes on every day, but the difference is that the rhetoric of claiming to be at the top of the food chain is no longer there.
The emergence of mutations has brought great changes to all mankind.
Change is generally good and bad.
But the mutation makes the originally good people seem to be better. People who were originally bad seem to be even worse.
After walking for a while, Qu Ember stopped a taxi, got on it and reported the address to the driver.
In the back seat, he glanced out the window at the tall buildings, then closed his eyes.
In front of the "eyes" that should have been pitch black, some words emerged.
γCurse Systemγ
[Lie Value: 197/200]
[Curse type obtained: Death Curse, Magic Spell]
[Current Energy Value: 457]
It's his system, it's called Curse.
The system will release tasks from time to time for him to complete and get various rewards.
In addition, as long as he succeeds in lying to others and reaches the required value of the system, he can also get different curses.
At present, there are only two curses in Qu Ash, one is the death curse and the other is the magic sound curse.
To activate these curses, he needs to consume 100 energy each time.
And the origin of the energy value is to kill the mutation.
Each time the curse is activated, it costs 100 energy, but for each mutant killed, he often gets 100+ energy.
"I'm looking up...... ...... above the moon"
At this time, the taxi driver's phone rang.
Qu Ember opened his eyes, looked through the rearview mirror, and saw that the other party was an aunt who looked to be in her forties and did not smile.
The other person has a toothpick in his mouth, and when he uses his tongue to clean the residue between his teeth, the toothpick rotates.
The smell of barbecue and gastric juice blended between the breath permeated the entire carriage.
Looks like I just had a good meal with my friends.
At this time, she answered the phone, "Crooked! Daughter! β
"Well, Mom is at work and just went to a colleague's birthday party."
"You just need to study hard at school, Mom is very good. Is the living expenses enough, my mother will transfer 200 yuan in a while. β
"It's okay, Mom can usually use a few dollars alone, you just have to study hard."
But then she frowned, "How much?" β
"Two thousand five...... Tell your teacher about the end of this month, there are still a few days, and Mom will turn you around then. β
"You don't have to work part-time, tell you that you study first."
"Okay, I won't tell you yet, Mom is driving now."
With that, she hung up.
Then he dialed another number, and said in a gentle tone: "Lao Yang, it seems that no one runs your car after twelve o'clock in the morning, right, I'll run." β
"It's just a day and an all-nighter, it's a little bit."
"Okay, okay, thank you Lao Yang."
This time, after hanging up the phone, she concentrated on driving.
Fifteen minutes passed, and the taxi arrived at its destination.
"Here we are, little brother." The driver's aunt looked at him from the rearview mirror and spoke.
Qu Shen pulled out a hundred-dollar bill and handed it to her, then got out of the car and went outside the cab.
The price list showed 21, and the driver's aunt looked for him 79.
But when she handed the money out of the window, Qu Yan didn't take it, but said, "Auntie, don't look for it, the rest should be for your daughter's living expenses, so that she can study hard." β
The driver's aunt was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "How can this be done, how old are you, take it quickly." β
Qu Ember pushed over, "I work in the inner city. If you can't give more, you should be careful. β
Working in the inner city is generally a large company with a high salary.
The driver's aunt looked at him, and at this time, a trace of tears of emotion appeared in her eyes.
At the same time, Qu Ember heard the system's prompt: [Lie Value +4]
This brings his lie value to 201/200.
He doesn't work for a big company in the inner city, that's a lie.
However, in order to get the lie value, there is also a certain requirement, that is, the other party must be convinced of his lies. And after the other party believes, it will also cause a certain follow-up impact, or the butterfly effect.
The greater the subsequent impact, the more lie points he gains.
For example, the driver's aunt accepted the extra money he gave and used it for her daughter's living expenses, which allowed her daughter to eat several meals at school.
Or she charged 79 yuan more, and she could work two or three hours less tonight.
These after-effects are not small, so Qu Ember gains four lying points.
On the contrary, if his lies have little or no effect on the driver's aunt or her daughter, then Qu Ember will get a low or no value for lies.
Qu Ember nodded to the other party, then turned to leave.
At the same time, a systematic prompt came to his mind.
[System Prompt: Your Lie Value has reached 201/200, and you can get a new curse: Gu Curse, Disease Transfer Curse, choose one of the two.] γ
Qu Yan didn't expect to meet the right opportunity today, and he met the standard of the lie.
"Gu Spell...... Disease Metastasis Spell ......"
As he walked, he muttered, then went through the system, looking to see what the two curses were.
His existing death curse is the one he used to deal with mutations before, and the word "death" can make the other party die. But there is a certain distance limit, the closer the better, too far has no effect.
The magic spell is a curse that uses words to emotionally fan and bewitch others.
As for the Gu spell, see the introduction that can control all insects within a radius of 100 meters.
Sounds pretty ordinary.
In particular, there are not many insects in the city. The species are limited to mosquitoes, flies, cockroaches, etc., and have no lethal power.
The second type of disease transfer curse is a curse that can condense diseases in one organism and transfer them to another.
Although this one is more interesting, it seems that it is not as good as that Gu spell for Qu Ember to deal with the mutation.
After thinking about it, he chose the Gu spell.
[Reminder: You have obtained the Gu Spell.] γ
With the sound of the system prompt, Qu Ember saw the curse on his system, one more.
In addition, the lie value has also become 201/350, which is more than a hundred points away from him getting the next one.
Qu Ember didn't care, but was thinking about how powerful that Gu spell was, and he only hoped not to disappoint him.
At this time, he also came to the outside of an elevator apartment, where his home was.
Moonlight City is divided into the inner city and the outer city, and the community in front of you is in the outer city, and the geographical location belongs to the second and third ring roads.
Inside the second ring road is the inner city, and outside the third ring road is a chaotic area, most of which are homeless.
The house is his own, but the community is old, the environment is poor, and the security is not good.
The doorman invited by the garbage property usually comes to take a nap, just to monitor whether it is operating normally.
However, today, when Qu Shen passed by the guard hall, the doorman rarely did not sleep, but sent him into the community with presbyopia.
Qu Ember nodded, and said hello.
As he walked around a flower bed, he suddenly felt like he was being watched.
He looked in the direction he was looking at, and he was facing a pair of eyes.
But, it's really just a pair of eyes.
Two bloody eyeballs, placed on the flower stand, were staring at him, and his appearance was still reflected in the pupils.