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Chapter 476 The Initiator

I couldn't hold on, that's why this person asked her for help!
The female reporter's eyes lit up, and she felt as if she had found an opportunity to restrain this psychopath. Only by placing their identities on an equal balance could she obtain more information!
Xu Shuo looked in her direction with a half-smile, and said, "Didn't you already experience what went wrong? Many rules of SOA-09 have changed, so you have to re-investigate."

Hearing this, the female reporter was taken aback: "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 investigators have to hide their identities?" Xu Shuo Youyou said.

"...This, is this so?" The light of expectation in the female reporter's eyes was extinguished.

She thought that 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 assist you in investigating the new rules, so 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 burning eyes: "I want to know how Qiming Orphanage disappeared in the first place, I mean, the truth about its catastrophe!"

When Xu Shuo heard this, he had already thought about it—is this her mission?
Xu Shuo didn't mind helping other players finish the mission quickly.

Because the mission he received was a global mission, in other words, as long as the game ended quickly enough, those brats would have no time to escape!

Xu Shuo got up from his seat, without using a guide stick, and walked towards the last row of bookshelves in the archives with a clear goal, with a pair of empty eyes.

The female reporter originally wanted to help her subconsciously, but seeing the girl's unruffled steps, she only felt that the clown was herself.

[Special skill "Clear Vision": Congratulations, you have the excellent eyesight of a sniper, and you can even see deeper things through it, such as those cunning pretenders.But it is still an active skill, lest you accidentally see the darkness of the abyss (the skill can be upgraded). 】

It doesn't matter if the blind woman is blind, as long as I am not blind myself!
In Xu Shuo's field of vision, the world is surrounded by a misty black mist, the bookshelf in front of him is burning with perennial flames, and the walls are dilapidated.

Black mist fills every place, sticky asphalt seeps out of the cracks in the walls, violent, evil, distorted and terrifying monsters struggle and howl in every corner, just waiting for an opportunity to break through the barriers and kill the creatures here. Shred!
What he sees now is an orphanage in a "real phenomenon".

Xu Shuo ignored the evil spirit crawling out from the gap in the bookshelf to scratch him, and tiptoed to take down a folder from a high place. At this time, the evil spirit was picking out his eyeballs.

It's just that I didn't get anything.

Xu Shuo didn't even hide, 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 wide, and countless worm-like tentacles protruded from its mouth, licking her face.

How should I put it, this picture is really disgusting enough.

Some things are really better if you can’t see them. If you see them, you have to challenge your mental endurance.

Xu Shuo shook his head lightly, 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 looked at it.

……

"Qiming Orphanage".

Qiming Orphanage was established in 70 by Director Zheng when he was [-] years old.

The purpose of the orphanage is "every child is a shining morning star", so the orphanage was named "Qiming".

Venus is the brightest and most attractive star in the sky before the dawn of the night, and its appearance means that the sun is about to rise.

It symbolizes light and hope!
The first-generation Dean Zheng firmly believes that every child should have a shining future, and they will all be the rising stars in the future.

Over the past ten years, the orphanage has adopted hundreds of children who were abandoned due to various reasons, or lost their parents and no guardians, caring and teaching them carefully.

A few years later, Dean Zheng passed away, and his son inherited Qiming Orphanage.

Because he didn't care as much as Dean Zheng, the second-generation dean just renovated the orphanage and put out the signboard of Qiming Orphanage.

But he doesn't care as much as his own father about what happens to the children living there.

Until there was a scandal in the orphanage that the nurses abused the children.

This incident even aroused widespread concern in the society, which led to the suppression of Zheng's Group in the market, which made the second-generation director pay less attention to Qiming Orphanage.

So last year, the Qiming Orphanage was incorporated by the government and directly managed by the Sub-district Office.

It was also from that year that the children entering the orphanage gradually became strange.

Children who commit major mistakes or even crimes cannot be sentenced. If they are sent to other orphanages, most directors will avoid them like snakes and scorpions.

Then they can only be stuffed into the Qiming Orphanage.

Perhaps after the death of Dean Zheng, the Qiming Orphanage, which inspired "to make every child shine like a morning star", no longer exists.

The little angels living here have turned into a group of demons.

……

The female reporter flipped through the history of the hospital, and suddenly found a piece of paper with folding marks and some yellowing between the pages of the book.

She took out the paper, and on it was a paragraph of regular script written with a strong pen.

[The Venus star illuminates the darkness, and the Venus Orphanage is not just a haven for shelter from the wind and rain, but a beacon that lights up the way forward for them. ]
[I believe that these children can walk out of those painful memories and welcome their new life and light. ]
[2010, August 8th, to my lovely little angels. ]
The female reporter was a little taken aback when she read this passage.

Being able to write such words and expectations must have been left by President Zheng before his death.

The paper is loose-leaf paper, which should have been taken out from other places and clipped inside, but it is similar to the paper in the folder that recorded the child's admission information.

Suddenly, the female reporter noticed that there were still some vague red marks under the pen writing, so she curiously turned over the back of the paper.

As a result, Lei's spirit was directly lifted!
[Messy Scarlet Letters] I'm dying of laughter, these brats have a bright future!All to die!

Female reporter: "..."

Well, maybe she already knew who took the piece of paper down. It was estimated that the psychopath had just found a folder and put it in after reading it.

The female reporter glanced at the blind girl who was dazed beside her rather speechlessly, then clipped the paper back into the pages of the book, and continued to look through the materials.

After that, it was just after the New Year in [-].

The incorporated Qiming Orphanage caught fire.

It was midnight when the fire broke out, and all the children and caregivers were asleep. By the time they noticed the fire, no one could escape.

Qiming Orphanage, no one survived!

After the information about the orphanage was recorded here, the leaflets at the back of the folder were replaced with different papers, and after that they were all written by hand.

The writing is black.

[February 2012, 2. ]
[At 03:30 in the morning, the fire started from the third floor, with multiple detonation points. ]
[My location 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 the nurse calling for help came from the next door. Judging from the noise, it seems that the next room is also a tipping point. ]
[The current situation is very bad. I cannot destroy the buildings here. Perhaps before the fire, the Qiming Orphanage was targeted by those things, and my strength was limited. ]
[I can only continue to measure by other means. ]
[The archives room is also a tipping point. Nursing room No. 309 and the dean's office are both tipping points. There are three tipping points in the corridor on the left, and then there are three tipping points on the right. ]
[The nursery is also a tipping point, there should be more ahead, because I heard more than one explosion at the time, but I couldn't get past it. ]
[The murderer prepared explosives in advance in the public area where he could freely enter and exit. The nurse in room 309 may be an accomplice, and the mastermind should be a few children living on the other side. The corridor on the right was destroyed more severely. ]
[The Qiming Orphanage was indeed being targeted by the abyss long ago, and those monsters ran out together with the flames. ]
[There is something wrong with the kid named Yueshu. ]
……

After that, there is no record.

The paper is well preserved.

But judging from the text above, it seems that someone who visited the scene of the catastrophe wrote it down. Could it be that the latecomers copied the record of the other party again?

This folder is at the end.

And she has not been prompted by the system to complete the task, it seems that she needs to find out the instigator of the arson.

Strange, the recorder clearly said that the child named Yue Shu was very strange.

But wasn’t Yue Shu the one who started it?
The female reporter frowned slightly, then turned to the blind woman next to her and said, "I haven't found the news I want here yet, but what's the situation with this contract?"

Xu Shuo, who was spying on other places, heard the words, recovered his senses and said bluntly: "The book of appointment 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 and put it in front of the girl's blind eyes, asking, "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, and there is always a talented person who returns to the scene of the crime in his dream."

"In this case, he finally said that there was a problem with the book of appointment."

"He's saying something's wrong with Joshua."

"Well, something is wrong, and the orphanage became what it is now because of this agreement, but he was not the...instigator of that catastrophe?"

Hearing this, Xu Shuo turned his head and stared at her with those empty black pupils.

It wasn't until the female reporter felt uncomfortable that Xu Shuo quietly said, "I made you wear the uniform of the orphanage staff, but who is the one who caused you to wear clothes? Answer me."

Female reporter: "...that cat?"

Xu Shuo: "No, it's your brain."

Female reporter: "..."

After swallowing the pent-up anger in her heart, the female reporter pursed her lips, turned around with her back to Xu Shuo, and continued to think through the documents.

The cause of the catastrophe in the orphanage was a fire.

However, after checking the situation in the corridor on the left, the investigator encountered resistance when continuing to the corridor on the right, and only inspected the nursery near the stairway.

Then Joshua is the first to be ruled out as an arsonist.

Wait, arson?
Could this be the reason why open flames and things over [-] degrees Celsius are not allowed on the third floor of the orphanage?
It seems that some useful and useless information has been obtained.

The female reporter thought for a while and continued to think.

Hey wait!

Since they entered the orphanage, the system has successively issued two side missions that need to actively violate the rules. Does this mean that she is basically asked to set fire on the third floor, and then lead out the instigator who once set the fire? !

Thinking of this, the female reporter stared blankly at the void and fell into a daze.

She had previously detonated marbles on the third floor.

At that time, after breaking the rules, the voice that appeared seemed to be that of a girl.

The female reporter's expression was difficult to distinguish, and she found the previous data folder from the bookshelf and looked through it, but there were too many girls who committed crimes in it, and it was a bit difficult to filter through.

Could it really only be to break the rules?
She is still wearing a staff uniform, which means that she will fall into two rules by then!

To do, or not to do?

The female reporter couldn't help hesitating. Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of the blind woman leaning against the wall and didn't know whether she was in a daze or meditating.

"Cough, that..."

Xu Shuo looked at her upon hearing the sound.

"Do you know the specific reason for the catastrophe in the orphanage?" the female reporter first asked expectantly.

"do not know."

"You've been here for so long without knowing it?"

"Do you have an opinion?" Xu Shuo narrowed his eyes.

"No, that, the main reason is that the task given to me by the newspaper is this, and the only purpose of my coming to the orphanage is also this, if you can..." the female reporter hinted.

"and then?"

Xu Shuo did not accept the hint.

The female reporter had no choice but to grit her teeth and said, "If you don't tell me, I can only violate the rules of the third floor and take the initiative to lure that thing out! And if I accidentally die during the temptation, no one will be able to tell you." I will cover up your identity again!"

"Yo?" Xu Shuo raised his eyebrows, "So you're threatening me, right?"

"It's not a threat, it's a deal. I help you hide your identity and divert that person's attention, and you help me complete the task. I think it's fair!" the female reporter said confidently.

"So the solution you found was to violate the No.15 rule of the orphanage?" Xu Shuo asked noncommittally.

The female reporter opened the "Qiming Shantang Visiting Handbook" that she carried with her, and after confirming that the rule of not playing with fire was No. 15, she nodded solemnly at him.

Xu Shuo raised the corners of his lips: "Okay, this deal is indeed fair. You go."

However, when he agreed so resolutely, the female reporter became somewhat skeptical: "Are you really going to help me?"

"Yes, let's go."

"Then I really triggered it?"

"Well, let's go."

"Really, aren't you tricking me?"

"If you keep pushing, I'll burn you."

Xu Shuo raised a gentle smile.

The female reporter turned around and left the bookshelf.

Seeing the back of her cautiously opening the door of the file room, Xu Shuo sneered, and angrily took out his cane.

Xu Shuo really didn't know who the instigator of the catastrophe was.

After all, he has not yet triggered the character card, and the information he has obtained so far is only obtained from the investigator's notebook.

Perhaps knowing that his sanity was disappearing, the investigator specially 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, this investigator still had the sense to separate the two different colors of handwriting.

I suddenly want such a character card.

……

(End of this chapter)