Knight Asylum

Chapter 50: The La Group Appears Again

In order to prevent Red and Qiao from going through a lot of security checks, the priest took Red to knock on doors everywhere near the church and communicated with everyone without reservation. Thanks to the priest's selfless help, Red and Qiao quickly collected the surveillance footage of all the monitoring points near the church within 48 hours.

The only regret is that we did not get any testimony from anyone who saw or heard any strange noises or people last night.

Back at the church, the priest promised to cooperate to the end and provided a computer with quite good configuration and four or five screens for Red and Qiao to check the surveillance. Qiao and Red also readily accepted the priest's "help" and jumped the surveillance to forty-eight hours ago to start playing.

"What time do the activities of the Peace Club usually start?" Red moved his fingers.

"Eh...I think it's between 4pm and 7pm...right?"

The priest's uncertain tone made Red's mouth twitch fiercely, and Qiao raised his hand and pressed heavily on the priest's shoulder, "Hey - you don't think this is funny."

"I'm sorry! I was a little lazy that day," the priest said, clasping his hands together and begging for mercy. "So, could you please not apply for the security check so quickly?"

Reid's expression was a little subtle.

In fact, he was just making up the safety inspection. He simply thought that since there was a fire inspection, as a human rescue organization, Selvi Turia should also have similar inspections. He didn't expect that there really was one. What he didn't expect was that mentioning it would be so effective.

"Ha—so what time did you find out about the accident?" Red pinched the bridge of his nose.

He could see that the priest was so frightened by the security check that he was almost talking nonsense. If he continued to ask, he would only get a bunch of useless and even misleading false information.

And now that they have obtained video footage from around the church, it is only a matter of time before they find the culprit who set off the supernatural fire that killed nine people.

"At ten o'clock in the evening, when I came back from being lazy, I found that the door was not locked. I discovered it when I was closing the door," the priest said honestly.

"That means the supernatural ignition had already occurred before 10 p.m."

Red moved the mouse to move all the surveillance videos to 10:30 p.m. and played them backwards at eight times the speed. Because of the slow pace of life in Kuixu District, there were not many people on the road around 10:30. Soon a person appeared in one of the surveillance cameras. Red quickly pressed the pause button and raised his finger with a subtle expression, pointing at the man on the screen who was wearing a black jacket, had a slicked back hair, and was holding a branch that looked like a staff and poking the air.

"This is... you?"

The priest's cheeks trembled, then he raised his hands to cover his face and hummed softly.

"Where's the branch?"

"Lost - ahahaha - I, I'm an adult! There's no way I would bring a weird-shaped branch back to my dormitory. It just looks like a staff."

"But you are a man."

The priest walked out with his head hung and a look of despair, and soon came back reluctantly holding a branch shaped like a staff.

Qiao was stunned, "Why did you bring a weird-shaped branch back to the dormitory!?"

"If it were me, I would do the same. Yeah, the shape is perfect." Red glanced at the branch in the priest's hand and nodded with some envy.

"Eh!?"

"At 10:03, you discovered the scene of a supernatural arson murder," Reid continued to play the video in reverse at eight times the speed.

The images played quickly, the leaves fluttered, the light of the street lamps shook wildly, and several people appeared before the priest, but they just passed by the church without even looking in the direction of the church.

Red held his chin with his left hand and pressed the mouse with his right hand, staring intently at the rapidly changing images on the screen. When he saw the burn marks, he felt they were very familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere, and this familiarity made him very uneasy.

Time went back to around six o'clock. There were more people passing by, but still no one appeared from the church. Qiao couldn't help but glance at the priest and said, "I say, could it be that the supernatural ignition didn't happen yesterday?"

"No, it won't! Today is the time for the peace meeting. I just don't know what time they will meet. I still know which day they will come," the priest wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Appeared--"

Reid narrowed his eyes, and Qiao immediately leaned over and stared at the screen. At 17:45, a tall and straight human figure who did not look like an ordinary person appeared on the two surveillance screens facing the church.

"Soldier...?" Qiao rubbed his eyes, looking surprised.

Red held his chin up with a frown on his face. The man in the surveillance video was at least two meters tall. His clothes looked very much like the German military uniform during World War II. He seemed to be around forty years old. The blurry picture quality could not hide the man's sharp eyes that were filled with murderous intent.

Continuing to play the video in reverse at eight times the speed, the picture gradually became brighter. The time was around 2 p.m., and people began to appear on the surveillance screen one after another. The man in military uniform also appeared on the screen, but the others lowered their heads, as if they were afraid to look people in the eye, while the man in military uniform always kept his head up and chest out, looking straight ahead.

"It looks like it's the man in military uniform," Qiao nodded. "Except for the man in military uniform, the remaining nine people did not appear again. There happened to be five scorch marks at the scene. Next, we just need to send the photos of these people to Selvi Turia, and our business will be over. Selvi Turia will be responsible for investigating the identity of the man in military uniform."

The priest breathed a sigh of relief.

But Red still frowned. Qiao was stunned when he noticed Red's expression and asked in a low voice, "What's the problem?"

"No...that's it. Did you see the process of him lighting the fire?" Reid paused the picture and raised his hand to point at the building on the screen.

Because it used to be a nursery, light transmittance was taken into consideration during the building design. The four not-so-small windows are evenly placed on the white walls so that as much sunlight as possible can illuminate the classroom. So, if there is a light source in the classroom, it should be visible from outside. However, from the time the man in military uniform entered the classroom to the time he left, he did not see any fire from the window.

"This..." Qiao tilted his head with his chin up, "Could it be because the burning speed was too fast? But looking at the situation at the scene, the people were burned to death, but the chair was fine."

"I thought so too, but this ignition ability is too outrageous. Haha - I'll go to the scene to take a look. If you'd like, please contact Enbei. This is not something we temporary workers can be responsible for."

Qiao didn't think it was troublesome, nodded, took out his cell phone, turned around and walked out.

"Uh...what about me?" The priest pointed at himself and chuckled.

"Try to contact all members of the Peace Society. There must be someone in the society who knows the man in military uniform." In order to prevent the priest from being lazy, Red decided to make the matter more serious. "The next Peace Society may have a similar situation. In the worst case, you may already be one of the targets. If you run around everywhere, you may be killed in advance."

When the priest heard that there was a possibility that he would be killed in advance and was thinking of running away under an assumed name, he nodded quickly like a chick pecking at rice.

Reid raised his hand and patted the stiff priest's shoulder, then returned to the crime scene. His eyes swept across the nine chairs with horrific burn marks on them, and finally stopped at the only chair where the murderer had sat, facing the door.

After hesitating for a moment, he covered the chair with the borrowed plastic bag and sat down.

This location is great, the sunlight just enough to cover the whole body through the window, and the other nine chairs are all within sight.

Red put his hands on his knees and looked straight ahead, and the nightmare reappeared before his eyes.

As far as the eye could see, the earth was burning and all life was instantly reduced to charred shadows.

The sunlight fell into Red's black eyes, and everything around him began to blur. In the sunlight, it seemed that a holy girl in white was walking towards him.

Red stood up subconsciously but before he could say anything, the holy white was tainted by the bright red, and a touch of darkness followed and seeped into Red's eyes. Red shuddered and suddenly lowered his body, staring at the woman standing in front of the door with an umbrella.

"Why are you here, Baluba."

Chapter 51: Qualified? Disqualified

"you do not like me?"

Baluba folded the parasol in her hand, with the tip of the umbrella touching the ground, and raised her left hand to tuck her hair behind her ears.

"Why do you think I would like someone who lets me kill more than a million people a year..." Red paused, then let out a long breath and said coldly, "Mad man."

"That's true," Baluba smiled. She was not disappointed by Red's rejection and was even a little happy. "How have you thought about what I said last time?"

"I'm not a Gurongi," Red sat back and crossed his arms.

"If I tell you who the murderer is this time, where is he now?"

"I, ... Selvi Tullia will find out," Red said without changing his expression.

"Ha... that's true, but unfortunately, we can only go so far as to find out his identity," Baluba smiled contemptuously, "Do you know why?"

Red was stunned and glanced at the surrounding situation. Combined with the appearance of Baluba, Red thought of a possibility and his face darkened.

"The one who killed someone is a qualified member of the Kuzu Group. Why? Isn't it said that non-game participants cannot kill people? Now is Gamego's game time."

"Qualified? Ah~ Come to think of it, you call them that, but we in the La Group call them that," Baluba put her finger in front of her mouth, "Disqualified."

"Disqualified...?"

"To put it simply... they have long lost the qualifications to participate in Kikiru, but due to their terrifying strength, in order to stabilize their symptoms, the La Group not only cannot deprive them of their qualifications, but must also arrange their schedule as usual," Baluba leaned against the door frame, looking into the distance with a bitter look in her eyes, as if she was reminiscing about something.

"symptom?"

Reid froze in his place.

In his understanding, as well as Selvi Turia's evasive attitude, the qualified ones are extremely powerful and are the true elites of Gurongi. After actually meeting Gamego, one of the qualified ones face to face, he felt more intuitively the extremely pure and tenacious souls of the qualified ones.

Although they have different ideas and may not work together, he can be sure that Gamego is a proud warrior.

But in Baluba's words, it became a disqualified person, and the symptoms were also mentioned.

"Why, are you curious?"

"Because I want to stop their semi-ultimate game. Of course, I will never use the method of millions of games," Reid emphasized again.

"Because we have modified the rules of Kijiru and added a points system, the Gurongis who participate in Kijiru will not receive a death penalty for failing the game. As long as they are still alive, they are eligible to participate and can be promoted. Even if they are demoted, they can be promoted back quickly. Therefore, most Gurongis strictly abide by the rules of Kijiru and will never kill other Gurongis when they are playing Kijiru games."

"At first, the Gurongs did not intend to accept such a rule, thinking that it was a blasphemy against Kikiru. Even the Ra Group could not stop all the Gurongs. What forced them to accept this rule was the object they wanted to challenge, whom you called Zero, the pinnacle of the Gurongi—"

Baluba paused, her eyes serious, and slowly said a name.

"N Daguba Jeba."

"Zero..." Red's breath hitched, "What did he do?"

The proud warrior cares more about his dignity than his life. He can feel that awareness from Gamego. Between life and his own dignity, Gamego will definitely choose his dignity and die standing.

"I don't think Gamego would be threatened and compromised by the person he challenges."

Baluba stared at Red for a while, then turned away and whispered, "That's just because you don't understand what the gap is. When the gap is so big that it's unimaginable... then there is no so-called threat, only kindness."

"Kindness?" Reid was stunned. He simply couldn't connect the word Zero with kindness.

"We don't know exactly what happened or what Daguba was thinking. We only know that Gudaba showed the Ge people the difference between them, and after that, the Ge people went... crazy."

"Crazy?" Reid felt his head swell. The information he received in the past few minutes had completely overturned his previous understanding. "Gamego doesn't look crazy at all."

"Because, they will only fully return to normal when they are playing their own games. Other than that, they will occasionally appear like this." Baluba raised her hand and pointed at Red, then at the other chairs with burnt shadows. "They were in a trance, and the little bit of power they leaked took the lives of several people."

"Anyway, they all killed people while other Gurongis were playing games, violating the rules of Kijiru, so they are disqualified from Kijiru. The Gurongi who killed these people is Ge Gadol Ba, the closest person to En in the Ge Group."

Red's eyes flickered, and after a long silence, he slowly spoke, "So? Why are you telling me all this? I said, I will never agree to a million-dollar game."

"We know why the Ges went "crazy". It was because of the gap. They couldn't accept that they had desecrated their own glory with their own hands, and couldn't stand the reality of living in such a Kikiru. However, they were still hanging on by the last hope given by Daguba's kindness. Only when they played the game could they be sure of who they were."

Baluba turned her face away, so Red couldn't see her expression, but Red could feel that Baluba was sad that the once glorious and proud warrior had become what she is now.

"I'm sorry..." Red was in a very complicated mood, "But I will never agree to your million-dollar game."

"Actually... you don't have to complete this million-dollar game. You just have to agree to it, that's enough," Baluba sighed softly, her beautiful eyes looking extremely fragile because of sadness. "This unprecedented semi-ultimate game that directly targets Daguba will make the disqualified people excited and they won't be in a trance anymore."

Just promise...

Red was instantly moved. As long as he agreed to Baluba's million-dollar game, there would be no more Gurongi killing games within a year, and there would be no more terrible deaths caused by trance among the qualified candidates.

"I...will not agree to it."

Red stood up and passed by Baluba.

"Why? You just need to pretend to agree."

Red paused, "This is not a question of whether to do it or not. Don't you think that they will become disqualified because you are trampling on their pride?"

"Do you know how many semi-ultimate games will be played next?" Baluba put away her moving sadness and said in a cold voice.

"I'm going to fight, no matter what it takes."

Reid exhaled and loosened his clenched fists.

Although the credit was taken away by Yamato Hidenari, he had already cracked Gamego's semi-ultimate game. Even if he couldn't defeat Gamego, he could minimize the damage. So there must be ways to crack other semi-ultimate games.

Baluba stared at Red with extremely cold eyes for a while, then she smiled, leaned on the umbrella with both hands and looked up at the sky.

"Really? Then I'll tell you some good news."

"Those who have lost their status all have one characteristic, that is..."

Red slowly raised his head and turned to look at Baluba, his pupils dilated.

"They have all modified the rules of their own semi-ultimate games, and Ge Gamego Ley modified the rules of his own semi-ultimate game nine years ago."

Chapter 52: Blocked Communications

"So that's what I mean! What happened here is not a small matter that does not meet the containment level!"

"Huh? I won't exaggerate the facts just for the sake of performance!"

The perfunctory attitude of the communicator angered Qiao. Just as Qiao was about to hang up the phone, she saw Red running over in a hurry. She immediately sensed something was wrong and asked, "What happened?"

"This is terrible! Is that Enbe?! I have something very urgent to report," Red reached out and grabbed Qiao's phone with an anxious look on his face and shouted into the phone.

Qiao was not angry because her phone was stolen. Instead, she moved closer to Red with a worried look on her face.

The operator on the other end of the line yawned, put his right index finger on the volume button to lower the volume, and replied perfunctorily.

"Staff Officer Enbei has something very important to do right now. You are just a temporary worker. Just tell me if you have anything to say."

"The person who caused the supernatural ignition incident in Kuisu District was Ge Gaduolu Ba!"

Upon hearing the name Ge Gaduolu Ba, the communicator was immediately startled, jumped up, and began to operate in a panic, "Are you serious? You are lying!"

Go. Gadouro. Ba, the most terrifying and horrible qualifier, was judged to be the most likely to defeat Zero's Gurongi. His semi-ultimate game only lasts for twenty-four hours, but these twenty-four hours are an incomparable nightmare for the human military, because Go. Gadouro. Ba's semi-ultimate game is to destroy the military forces in twenty-four hours.

"The relevant videos have been uploaded to Selvi Turi! There is something more important!"