50: 53, 4 chapters Death Curse (four)_2
50: 53, 4 chapters Death Curse (four)_2
May 7th, the Funeral Master in charge of arranging the Sakai couple’s visage died in the funeral home, the cause of death being sudden cardiac arrest.
The next day, two of his friends disappeared.
Four days earlier, on May 16th, Yoshikai Ryomi, a real estate salesman from Shuijing City’s Youzhu Trading Company, jumped from a building committing suicide.
Before his death, he had killed his wife at home with a knife.
These people, whether directly or indirectly, had all come into contact with Death Curse.
Tracing back to the root, the beginning of everything was the family annihilation that happened 25 years ago in the fourth house of Third District, and the series of subsequent deaths that it spawned.
For these incidents, I have an inescapable responsibility.
Thus, I must go and put an end to all this.”
Having said that, he stood up and walked towards the camera, turning it off.
The content of the disc ended here.
[Mission Objective: Find Suzuki Kazuya, Suzuki Youko, Yoshikai Ryomi, and Ishikawa Kenichi within Shuijing City.
Within 24 hours, ensure the survival of at least one person.
Do not leave Shuijing City during this period]
[Mission Reward 1: 300 Experience Points]
[Mission Reward 2: 500 Game Coin]
[Mission Reward 3: Random item*1, Quality depends on the clearing evaluation]
[Mission Reward 4: Random Skill Scroll*1, Quality depends on the clearing evaluation]
[Mission Time Limit: 24 hours]
[Mission Failure Penalty: Erasure]
The notification from killing field timely sounded, making the four people in the room feel an inexplicable chill creeping up their necks, accompanied by a strong sensation of being watched by something. Check latest chapters at novèlfire.net
“You all felt it, right?
The mission has officially begun.”
Stack Soldier pressed the rewind button on the player, jumping back to the paused content about the Curse Amplifier that Ishikawa Kenichi narrated, but the image remained torn.
With no other choice, he took out the disc and scanned its content with his glasses, yielding no results.
He turned to his teammates and asked, “Do you guys have any way to repair the disc?”
“I’ll give it a try,” Li Cheng volunteered.
Stack Soldier was somewhat surprised.
In his view, Li Cheng, who was only Level Lv2 and whose dress and behavior were all quite peculiar, was either mentally ill, feigning insanity, or a maniac from the Wild Laughter Troupe.
“Alright, just don’t break it.”
He handed the disc to Li Cheng, who took it, raised his right index finger through the center hole of the disc, lifted the disc over his head, and then with his left hand patted the edge of the disc, making it spin like playing with a bamboo-copter.
At the same time, he closed one eye, staring underneath the disc while making mechanical “zizzing” noises.
The other three were filled with question marks.
Stack Soldier was stunned for a moment and then snapped back to reality, his eyelids twitching, “Wait, are you pretending to be a DVD player here?
Can you not mess around, please?”
“Different people have different Constitutions.
Once when my home computer broke, in a state of extreme anger, I spent an entire night writing a new Windows operating system using 0s and 1s from a landline phone.”
Li Cheng made up the story on the fly, took down the disc from his finger, and returned to normal, saying, “I just tried, but I can’t put this disc into the Backpack.
There are generally two possibilities for this: one, the item itself has an owner, and the ownership is clear.
The item itself is exceptional.”
Stack Soldier caught on, “You’re saying…”
Li Cheng nodded, “Correct.
Considering that Ishikawa Kenichi has already sent out the disc, conceptually transferring the item’s ownership, I’m more inclined toward the second possibility.
That is, there’s something wrong with the disc itself, it might have become the medium of the curse mentioned in the video.”
The system has many invisible restrictions on the player’s Backpack, such as not being able to contain items that are too large, items that do not belong to oneself, living beings, or key items required for missions, among others.
This is easy to understand.
Suppose a player is locked in a cell and needs a key to get out.
Without these restrictions, a player could just put the cell door into the Backpack and walk out of the jail in a grand manner.
“Assuming the content in the video is credible, Ishikawa Kenichi once said that objects tainted by the Death Curse, as well as people killed by the curse, will become new mediums.
If the disc has become a medium, it means Ishikawa himself has been contaminated by the Death Curse.
Hence, he disappeared.
This mission requires us to protect four people within 24 hours.
Besides the folklorist Ishikawa Kenichi, who has already been missing for three days, the remaining three, judging from their names, should be relatives of the deceased Suzuki couple and the Sakai couple.”
As Li Cheng spoke, he unplugged the power cord, inserted his fingers into the player, and with a gentle flick, destroyed the machine, breaking off the metal piece of the plug, “I suggest that we act quickly and split up to find these three people first.”
Hearing Li Cheng’s words, Little Red Riding Hood became even more nervous, stammering, “Eh?!
But isn’t it very dangerous to split up in horror movies…”
Despite being an official from Japan’s Paranormal Investigation Bureau, this girl was as cowardly as could be.
Had it really come to the point where they were so short of people?
Or had they simply not received proper training?
Stack Soldier massaged his throbbing temples, lamenting internally about how unreliable his teammates were this time, while casually explaining, “Normally, you’re right.
Splitting up in a horror movie might indeed lead to literal splitting, as in splitting up from life.
However, with a 24-hour time limit on this mission, we’re bound to be given a few safe hours to search in the beginning.