He couldn't hold on any longer, so this person asked her for help!
The female reporter's eyes were bright, and she felt as if she had found an opportunity to restrain this lunatic. Only by putting their identities on an equal scale could she get more information!
Xu Shuo looked in her direction with a half-smile and said, "You've already experienced what went wrong, haven't you? Many rules of SOA-09 have changed, so we have to re-investigate."
Upon hearing this, the female reporter was stunned: "Ah...so?"
"The investigation must not attract the attention of those children, otherwise the rules found in the investigation may be misleading. Otherwise, why do you think the investigator would hide his identity?" Xu Shuo said quietly.
"...Is this like this?" The expectant light in the female reporter's eyes extinguished.
She thought she had a chance to fight back.
But for the sake of information, the female reporter still worked up her energy: "In this case, I will help you investigate the new rules, will you have to pay something?"
Xu Shuo pretended to think: "What do you want?"
The female reporter immediately leaned closer to him and said with stern eyes: "I want to know how Qiming Orphanage disappeared in the first place. I mean, the truth about its disaster!"
When Xu Shuo heard this, he already thought about it a little - is this her mission?
Xu Shuo doesn't mind helping other players finish their missions quickly.
Because the task he received was a global task. In other words, as long as the game ends quickly enough, those naughty kids will have no time to escape!
Xu Shuo stood up from his seat, without using a guide stick, and with a pair of blank eyes, walked towards the last row of bookshelves in the archives room with a clear purpose.
The female reporter originally subconsciously wanted to help her, but when she saw the girl's unhurried steps, she just felt that the clown was herself.
[Special Skill "Clear Vision": Congratulations on having the excellent eyesight of a sniper. You can even see deeper things through it, such as those cunning pretenders. But it is still an active skill, so you don't accidentally see it.
Saw the darkness of the abyss (skills can be upgraded).]
It doesn’t matter if the blind girl is blind, it’s fine as long as I’m not blind!
In Xu Shuo's vision, the world was surrounded by a misty black fog, the bookshelf in front of him was burning with eternal flames, and the walls were in tatters.
Black mist filled every place, and sticky asphalt-like material seeped out from the cracks in the walls. Violent, evil, and terrifying monsters with distorted images were struggling and wailing in every corner, just waiting for an opportunity to break through the barriers and destroy the creatures here.
Shred!
What he sees now is the orphanage in the "real phenomenon".
Xu Shuo ignored the evil ghost crawling out from the gap in the bookshelf to scratch him, and stood on tiptoe to take down a folder from a high place. At this time, the evil ghost was picking out his eyeballs.
It's just that I didn't get anything.
Xu Shuo didn't even try to hide. He turned around and handed the folder to the female reporter who was walking towards him.
"There may be information you want in here."
The female reporter took it curiously.
What she didn't see was that a monster opened its bloody mouth, with countless worm-like tentacles sticking out of its mouth and licking her face.
How can I put it, this picture is indeed disgusting.
It is indeed better not to see some things. If you do see them, you have to challenge your mental endurance.
Xu Shuo shook his head slightly and turned his attention to other places in the orphanage.
The female reporter was immersed in obtaining information, and her expression became more solemn as she watched.
…
"Qiming Orphanage".
Qiming Orphanage was built in 2002 and was founded by Director Zheng when he was 70 years old.
The mission of the orphanage is "Every child is a shining star", hence the name of the orphanage "Qiming".
The morning star is the most dazzling and eye-catching star in the sky before dawn in the dark night. Its appearance means that the sun is about to rise.
It symbolizes light and hope!
The first-generation Dean Zheng firmly believed that every child should have a shining future, and they would all be the rising stars in the future.
Over the past ten years, the orphanage has adopted hundreds of children who were abandoned for various reasons or lost their parents without guardians, and has carefully cared for and taught them.
A few years later, Director Zheng passed away and his son inherited the Qiming Orphanage.
Because he was not as concerned as Director Zheng, the second-generation director only renovated the orphanage and took out the brand name of Qiming Orphanage.
But he was not as concerned as his father about the conditions of the children living there.
Until there was a scandal about child abuse by caregivers in the orphanage.
The incident even aroused widespread social attention, which resulted in the Zheng Group being suppressed by shopping malls. This made the second-generation director pay less attention to Qiming Orphanage.
So last year, Qiming Orphanage was officially incorporated and put under the direct management of the sub-district office.
Also starting from that year, the children entering the orphanage gradually became strange.
Children who make serious mistakes or even sins cannot be sentenced. If they are sent to other orphanages, most deans will avoid them like snakes and scorpions.
Then they can only be crammed into Qiming Orphanage.
Perhaps since the death of Director Zheng, the Qiming Orphanage that inspired "let every child shine like a morning star" no longer exists.
The little angels living here turned into a group of demons.
…
The female reporter was looking through the history of the hospital and suddenly found a piece of paper with fold marks and some yellowing stuck in the pages.
She pulled out the paper, and on it was a paragraph of regular script written with a strong pen.
[The morning star illuminates the darkness, and the Qiming Orphanage is not just a haven to escape the wind and rain, but a beacon that lights the way forward for them.]
[I believe that these children can get rid of those painful memories and welcome their new life and light.]
[August 15, 2010, to my lovely little angels.]
The female reporter looked at this paragraph and was a little stunned.
Being able to write such words and expectations must have been left by Dean Zheng during his lifetime.
The paper was loose-leaf paper, which should have been taken from other places and sandwiched inside. It was similar to the paper in the folder that recorded the child's admission information.
Suddenly, the female reporter noticed that there were some vague red marks under the pen words, so she curiously turned over the back of the paper.
As a result, I was immediately lifted up by Lei!
[Messy Scarlet Letters] I’m laughing so hard, these naughty kids have a damn bright future! Fuck them all!
Female reporter: "..."
Okay, maybe she already knows who took off the paper. It's probably that the lunatic just found a folder and put it in after reading it.
The female reporter looked at the blind girl next to her in a rather speechless manner, then put the paper back into the book and continued to read the information.
Then, it was just after the New Year of 2012.
The incorporated Qiming Orphanage caught fire.
The fire broke out in the middle of the night, and all the children and caregivers were asleep. By the time they noticed the fire, no one could run out.
Qiming Orphanage, no one survives!
After the information about the orphanage was recorded here, the loose leaves at the back of the folder were replaced with different papers, and everything was written by hand after that.
The writing is black.
[February 4, 2012.]
[At 3:30 in the morning, the fire broke out from the third floor and had multiple flashpoints.]
[My position did not appear outside the room. When I was about to run out of the office, I found that the door was locked.]
[The voice of a nurse asking for help came from next door. Judging from the movement, the next room seemed to be a detonating point as well.]
[The current situation is very bad. I cannot destroy the buildings here. Perhaps Qiming Orphanage was targeted by those things before the fire, and my power is limited.]
[I can only continue to measure in other ways.]
[The Archives Room is also a detonating point, as are the Nursing Room No. 309 and the Dean's Office. There are three detonating points in the corridor on the left, and then there are the right ones.]
[The nursery is also a detonating point, and there should be more in front of it, because I heard more than one explosion at that time, but I couldn't go past it.]
[The murderer prepared explosives in advance in a public area that can be accessed freely. The caregiver in room 309 may be an accomplice. The mastermind may be a few children living on the other side. The corridor on the right was more severely destroyed.]
[Qiming Orphanage has indeed been targeted by the abyss for a long time, and those monsters ran out together with the flames.]
[There’s something wrong with the kid named Yueshu.]
…
After that, there is no record.
This paper is very well preserved.
But from the above text, it seems that it was written by someone who had been to the disaster site. Could it be that a latecomer copied the other party's record again?
This folder is complete.
And she has not yet received a system prompt to complete the task. It seems that she needs to find the initiator of the arson.
It's strange. The recorder clearly said that the child named Yueshu was very strange.
But wasn’t the initiator the covenant book?
The female reporter frowned slightly, turned to the blind girl next to her and said, "I haven't found the information I want here yet, but what is the status of this appointment?"
Xu Shuo, who was peeping at other places, heard this, came back to his senses and said bluntly: "The book of covenant is soa-09."
The female reporter was stunned: "You mean, the orphanage became like this because of him?"
Xu Shuo nodded.
This directly confused the female reporter. She unfolded the handwritten paper, put it in front of the girl's blind eyes, and asked: "Are all the things recorded on it true?"
Xu Shuo took a look: "Yes."
"How did he record it?"
"SOA has more than one investigator. There is always that one person with extraordinary talent who returns to the scene of the crime in a dream."
"In this case, he finally said there was something wrong with the covenant."
"He's saying something is wrong with the appointment."
"Okay, something's wrong. And the orphanage became what it is now because of this promise. But in the end, he was not the...initiator of the disaster?"
Hearing this, Xu Shuo turned his head and stared at her with his empty black eyes.
It wasn't until the female reporter felt uncomfortable that Xu Shuo said quietly: "I asked you to wear the employee uniform of the orphanage, but who is the initiator who caused you to need to wear clothes? Answer me."
Female reporter: "...that cat?"
Xu Shuo: "No, it's your brain."
Female reporter: "..."
After swallowing the breath she was holding back, the female reporter pursed her lips, turned away from Xu Shuo, opened the information and continued to think.
The cause of the disaster at the orphanage was a fire.
After checking the situation in the corridor on the left, the investigator encountered resistance when he continued to the corridor on the right, and only inspected the nursery near the stairs.
Then, Joshu can first be ruled out as an arsonist.
Wait, arson?
Is this why open flames and things exceeding 400 degrees Celsius are not allowed on the third floor of the orphanage?
It seems like I got some useful and useless information.
The female reporter thought for a while and continued thinking.
Oh, wait a minute!
Since they entered the orphanage, the system has released two side missions that require them to actively violate the rules. Does this mean that she is basically required to go to the third floor to set a fire, and then lead out the instigator of the arson?!
Thinking of this, the female reporter's eyes glazed over, staring into space and feeling confused.
She had previously detonated marbles on the third floor.
After breaking the rules at that time, the voice that appeared seemed to be that of a girl.
The female reporter's expression was difficult to distinguish. She found the previous information folder from the bookshelf and looked through it. However, there were too many girls who had committed crimes recorded in it, so it was a bit difficult to sort through them.
Is it really just possible to break the rules?
She is still wearing an employee uniform, which means that she will be caught in two rules!
To do or not to do?
The female reporter couldn't help but hesitate. Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of the blind girl leaning against the wall, who was not sure whether she was in a daze or meditating.
"Ahem, that..."
Xu Shuo heard the sound and looked at her.
"Do you know the specific cause of the disaster in the orphanage?" the female reporter first asked expectantly.
"have no idea."
"You've been here for so long and you didn't even know?"
"Do you have any objections?" Xu Shuo narrowed his eyes.
"No, that's mainly because the task given to me by the newspaper is this, and this is the only purpose of my coming to the orphanage. If you can..." the female reporter hinted.
"Then what?"
Xu Shuo didn't take the hint.
The female reporter had no choice but to grit her teeth and said: "If you don't tell me, I will have to violate the rules on the third floor and take the initiative to print that thing! And if I accidentally die during the test, no one can
I’m hiding my identity for you!”
"Yo?" Xu Shuo raised his eyebrows: "So you are threatening me, right?"
"It's not a threat, it's a deal. I'll help you hide your identity and distract that so-and-so, and you'll help me complete the task. I think it's fair!" the female reporter said confidently.
"So the solution you found is to violate the fifteenth rule of the orphanage?" Xu Shuo asked noncommittally.
The female reporter opened the "Qiming Shantang Visiting Manual" she carried with her, and after confirming that the rule of not playing with fire was Article 15, she nodded solemnly towards him.
Xu Shuo raised his lips: "Okay, this deal is indeed fair. Go ahead."
The female reporter was suspicious: "Are you really going to help me?"
"Yes, let's go."
"Then I really triggered it?"
"Well, go ahead."
"Really, aren't you trying to trick me?"
"If you push harder, I'll burn you."
Xu Shuo raised a gentle smile.
The female reporter turned around and left the bookshelf.
Looking at her back as she cautiously opened the archives door, Xu Shuo sneered and took out his cane angrily.
Xu Shuo really didn't know who was the instigator of the disaster.
After all, he hasn't triggered the character card yet, and the information he has obtained so far is just from the investigator's notebook.
Perhaps knowing that his sanity was disappearing, the investigator wrote a diary to record his actions.
The black letters were written when he was thinking normally, and the red letters were written when he was confused. Even if he was abnormal, the investigator still had the sense to separate the two different colors of handwriting.
