fictionpage Chapter 109 Did he enter the cabin?
Chapter 109 Did he enter the cabin?
Chapter 109 Did he enter the cabin?
No one expected that Uncle Erbing's body would explode!
This wasn't because he was carrying explosives that went undetected; the explosion occurred from the inside out, bursting directly from his body.
The shockwave blew the tables, chairs, and interrogators out of the interrogation room, splattering blood, gore, and bits of flesh everywhere. For a moment, the interrogation room resembled a living hell.
Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo were both thrown to the ground, covered in blood and bits of flesh.
After regaining their senses, the two of them stood up, leaning against the corner of the wall.
The others were terrified. Some were checking the spot where Uncle Erbing had been sitting, suspecting that the table and chairs had been tampered with, while others rushed out of the interrogation room to call for backup.
"It really happened!" Li Jiuhe thought to himself.
He just told Luo Shuo that he wanted to stay here because he was worried that something might happen.
It now seems that this guess was indeed correct.
I checked the time; it was 5:30 a.m.
Li Jiuhe stopped thinking about it and initiated the mission reset.
In an instant, the mission returned to the moment when they had just locked Uncle Erbing in the interrogation room and begun the interrogation.
Li Jiuhe sat quietly in the corner of the interrogation room, listening intently.
Meanwhile, Luo Shuo was still at the rented house, but after hearing that the suspect had been caught, he would soon come to the police station to see Li Jiuhe.
Before the mission was reset, the interrogation lasted about 40 minutes from the start to Uncle Erbing's sudden self-destruction.
Li Jiuhe quickly got up and left the interrogation room, taking out his phone to call Luo Shuo.
Before anyone could speak after the call connected, Li Jiuhe asked, "Has the cursed object been found?"
"Found it! Guess what it is?" Luo Shuo asked, both excited and puzzled.
"That little pink cloth bag."
"Huh? How did you know?"
Li Jiuhe did not answer Luo Shuo: "Call Tong Cheng up right now, and come to the police station's interrogation room with me. Be quick."
"Boss Tong is still sleeping, I—I dare not—" Luo Shuo said hesitantly.
"Tell him that the mask you put on me is useless; I'm still being watched!" Li Jiuhe said this and then hung up the phone.
He believed that upon hearing this, Tong Cheng would immediately get up and follow Luo Shuo to the police station.
This is indeed very strange. Based on his understanding of Tong Cheng's abilities, the abilities of opera singers are terrifying. It should be effortless to isolate his information using facial masks.
But what we now know is that someone instructed Uncle Erbing to curse them.
They even took out a pink cloth bag as a curse, wishing that Yu Minmin would hunt them down.
Whether Yu Minmin could actually kill them is another matter, but at least this incident shows that the person knew Li Jiuhe's whereabouts, and the mask failed to play its role.
After hanging up the phone, Li Jiuhe didn't go into the interrogation room; he looked at the sky.
It was almost dawn. After all, the timeline of the world outside the mission was still moving, which had nothing to do with how many times he had reset the mission.
However, his mission timeline forcibly postponed the curse that Uncle Erbing suffered.
According to the normal timeline of the world, Uncle Erbing would have his curse take effect and self-destruct around 5:30.
However, due to the forced reversal caused by the mission reset, Uncle Erbing's self-destruction time was returned to 40 minutes earlier in the entire mission timeline.
Upon closer reflection, it's a very eerie feeling.
Because the guy who cursed Uncle Erbing to self-destruct, in his mind, the target had already self-destructed at this moment, but in fact, he did not, but was delayed by 40 minutes.
That person would only assume that the curse had malfunctioned for some unknown reason, causing the time to be delayed.
Of course, if Li Jiuhe keeps resetting the mission, Uncle Erbing's self-destruction will continue to be delayed, and according to the world timeline, it could even be delayed by more than half a day.
As long as there are enough task reset points.
However, the self-destruction of the curse was inevitable, regardless of how long it took to reset. This was because the curse might have already taken effect; what Li Jiuhe and the others were seeing now was merely the result of its activation.
Just as Li Jiuhe had predicted, ten minutes after hanging up the phone, Tong Cheng and Luo Shuo rushed to the police station.
It seems that Tong Cheng has rested well and his energy has basically recovered.
"Luo Shuo told me that the mask was useless?"
Li Jiuhe nodded and pointed to the small pink cloth bag that Luo Shuo was holding: "Brother Tong, you may not have seen this cloth bag before. This was something Yu Minmin asked me to buy for her when she was impersonating my daughter. Now it has become a cursed object, and the curse effect is that we will be hunted down to death by Yu Minmin."
"What?"
Tong Cheng and Luo Shuo were both surprised.
"Did the guy you just caught who knocked on the door in the middle of the night say this?" Tong Cheng asked.
"Yes, he is a cursed person. But whether he is telling the truth or not, you, Brother Tong, will have to interrogate him yourself," Li Jiuhe said.
Without saying a word, Tong Cheng pushed open the door and walked into the interrogation room.
At this point, Director Mu had already determined that Uncle Erbing was a newly awakened Sequencer, which was no longer under the jurisdiction of the police. Therefore, he was handing the case over to Huang Guozhong so that their investigators could conduct the interrogation themselves.
After Tong Cheng went inside, he waved to the others and said, "You guys go out first."
Upon seeing that it was Tong Cheng who had arrived, these people immediately got up and left the interrogation room, and even Huang Guozhong left.
Only Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo remain.
Tong Cheng squinted at Uncle Erbing, who was handcuffed to the interrogation chair, seemingly pondering something, or perhaps seeing something different about him.
Uncle Erbing kept his head down. Ever since Tong Cheng came in, he had felt a pressure descending upon him, which frightened him so much that he dared not look up or meet Tong Cheng's gaze.
No one spoke, and the interrogation room was completely silent.
After a moment, Tong Cheng stopped thinking and turned to look at Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo.
"You all go out too."
Luo Shuo immediately agreed and turned to leave, while Li Jiuhe stood there, looking surprised.
Tong Cheng then asked, "By the way, Jiu He, did you use your abilities here?"
"Yes." Li Jiuhe nodded.
He didn't know whether the other person had guessed or sensed it.
If one is aware of their own ability to define tasks, then Tong Cheng's strength is indeed quite terrifying.
"Remove your ability," Tong Cheng said. "Otherwise, it might have an impact when I use my ability."
Li Jiuhe hesitated and said, "If we remove it—it might not be safe, given He Erbing—"
Tong Cheng seemed to know what he was going to say and interrupted, "I know he's cursed. I'll finish the interrogation as soon as possible; you can all leave now."
He didn't shy away from these words; he said them in front of Uncle Erbing.
Uncle Erbing's face was pale and his expression was terrified. He subconsciously looked around, as if trying to find out what had cursed him.
Li Jiuhe said no more and canceled the current task definition. He felt that Tong Cheng could perceive that his ability was in operation.
Just as he reached the door of the interrogation room, Tong Cheng suddenly called out to him, "Wait, Jiuhe."
Li Jiuhe turned to look at him.
Tong Cheng said, "There's nothing wrong with the mask I gave you. Do you remember the person I told you about who came into my theater to watch me perform?"
Li Jiuhe nodded.
"This guy—is stronger than me," Tong Cheng said solemnly. "We can talk about other things later. You can go out now."
Li Jiuhe closed the door after leaving the interrogation room.
He checked the time; there were less than twenty minutes left before Uncle Erbing would self-destruct. Now that he had removed his mission definition ability, he wondered if Tong Cheng could finish interrogating him in such a short time.
Of course, if Tong Cheng were to immediately stage a trial scene, the outcome should be decided in no time.
Everyone waited outside in the corridor, and time ticked by.
Li Jiuhe kept an eye on the time, pacing back and forth in the corridor.
Not long after, there were only ten minutes left before Uncle Erbing's cursed self-destruction.
However, they couldn't hear a sound from the interrogation room from the corridor, and Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo were both quite certain that Tong Cheng wasn't performing inside.
Because if the stage were set up, Tong Cheng would definitely sing loudly, but they didn't hear a sound at all.
"I feel like Boss Tong is acting a bit strange," Luo Shuo whispered to Li Jiuhe.
Li Jiuhe frowned but did not answer. Instead, he stood outside the interrogation room.
He still couldn't hear anything here, and when he checked the time, he saw that there were only four minutes left before Uncle Erbing was about to self-destruct.
He couldn't help but feel anxious.
Just as they were about to knock on the door, they heard Uncle Erbing's voice from inside: "You—you can—come in."
The voice conveyed a sense of weakness and powerlessness.
Li Jiuhe immediately pushed the door open and entered, Luo Shuo quickly followed, while Huang Guozhong stood outside the door, not daring to enter the house without permission.
Director Mu and the others followed Li Jiuhe's instructions and stayed at the other end of the corridor, not approaching.
The moment Li Jiuhe stepped back into the interrogation room, he froze.
They found that only Uncle Erbing was sitting in the room; the seat Tong Cheng had been sitting in was empty, and he had disappeared.
The interrogation room had no other exit, and the windows were fitted with reinforced iron bars that had not been damaged.
"Where is Boss Tong?"
Luo Shuo looked at Uncle Erbing in surprise, "Tell me, where is my boss?"
At this moment, He Erbing was ashen-faced and struggling to breathe, like a terminally ill person clinging to life with only one breath, on the verge of death.
He sat in the interrogation chair, listlessly raising his head to look at the two men: "He—should—should have gone into—that cabin."
"What?" Li Jiuhe was suddenly shocked.
He Erbing's gaze shifted to the spot in front of where Tong Cheng had been sitting. On the table there was a stack of statement sheets and several pens for taking notes.
At this moment, the outermost sheet of paper is covered with a large amount of text.
"He left you—written words," Uncle Erbing said. "I've done my best. Before I die—at least I've done one last thing. I'm sorry—I cursed you—"
It seems that Tong Cheng has already told He Erbing that he is cursed and that the curse is irreversible.
He Erbing's expression also told Li Jiuhe and the others that he knew he was about to die.
However, just before he died, at Tong Cheng's request, he did one last thing for him.
"Time is almost up." Li Jiuhe glanced at the time, knowing that Uncle Erbing was about to self-destruct.
He immediately grabbed the note paper, and without even looking at it carefully, he pulled Luo Shuo around and headed for the door.
As he reached the door, he turned to Uncle Erbing and asked, "Is there anything else you want to say?"
"You guys—leave Nanfeng right now, or you'll really be hunted down!" Uncle Erbing said weakly.
The interrogation room door was closed.
About twenty seconds later, a loud bang was heard, and the window of the interrogation room facing the corridor, which had already been closed with blinds, was instantly stained red with flying blood and flesh.
Li Jiuhe could clearly sense that this time, Uncle Erbing's self-destruction was much less powerful than the terrifying self-destruction just now.
The explosion just now caused a tremendous shockwave; the entire first floor of the police station was shaking, and all the tables, chairs, and benches inside were smashed.
The noise inside is now significantly less.
Luo Shuo then realized what was happening and hurriedly asked Li Jiuhe, "Who is this suspect—?"
"He was cursed and self-destructed," Li Jiuhe replied, looking down at the transcript in his hand.
At this moment, a large number of people gathered outside the interrogation room of the police station.
Li Jiuhe said to Huang Guozhong and Director Mu, "Investigator Tong had to leave early. As for the suspect, he was cursed and his body just exploded."
Director Mu was greatly surprised and hurriedly asked, "Now—now inside—"
"There's no danger anymore, you can go in," Li Jiuhe said.
He then took the note paper, walked to the side, spread it out, and quickly looked at it.
The text was indeed left by Tong Cheng, and it looks like it was written in a hurry, as if he was talking to He Erbing while writing it down.
【Jiuhe, the moment I saw this cursed one, I remembered what you said about the special state that allows one to enter an abandoned wooden house.】
If I am cursed, would that be considered a special condition?
If the content of this curse is also closely related to the abandoned wooden house, will it allow me to find it directly?
I apologize for not stating this earlier. The dangers of such an attempt are unpredictable, and you, except for me, would be completely unable to handle them if you encountered them.
So I had the curser place a curse on me, making me trapped in this deserted wooden hut forever.
I don't know if it will succeed, since this curse doesn't have any summoning items.
But if I do get into the cabin and see your daughter, I will take good care of her and try to get you more information.
The text ends here, suggesting that Tong Cheng hadn't finished writing, and the curse He Erbing placed on him had already taken effect, after which he disappeared from the spot.
It seems the curse has truly succeeded; Tongcheng has been transported to the abandoned wooden house and is cursed to never emerge again.
Luo Shuo stood behind Li Jiuhe and read every single word of the text.
His surprise was no less than Li Jiuhe's.
"Why must we never be able to leave?" Li Jiuhe didn't understand.
Luo Shuo said, "This is the mechanism of the curse; the curse and the punishment are linked. If only the leader of the cursed children enters the wooden house, it's not a punishment, so it will most likely fail. Only when the curse and the punishment are matched, or even more severe, will the curse be more likely to be effective."
He had encountered cursed individuals among the Sequencers in his early years, so he knew more about this than Li Jiuhe.
People coming and going were busy dealing with the body of He Erbing, who had exploded in the interrogation room. The scene was in complete chaos, but these scenes seemed to have nothing to do with the two of them anymore.
Li Jiuhe seemed to remember something and asked Luo Shuo, "If I were to find a curser now and have him curse me into an abandoned wooden hut, I wonder if that would be possible?"
Luo Shuo quickly waved his hands: "No, don't try that! Who is Boss Tong? One of the seven top-level investigators in the country. Where can you find someone with that kind of ability? He might be able to get out if he goes in, but if you go in, forget about saving your daughter, you might end up losing your life too! Don't do that!"
Li Jiuhe fell silent.
After a moment, he asked again, "Luo Shuo, tell me, what other cursed ones are there among the Sequencers?"
Although he had seen information about the Cursed Ones in the Bureau of Investigation's files, he certainly didn't know as much as Luo Shuo, who had seen many storms and dealt with many Sequencers in person.
Luo Shuo suspected that Li Jiuhe might really be taking a risk. He hesitated for a moment, but still said, "Cursers, like you, are pure ability users. Powerful curse users can make their words come true without needing a spell to guide them. It is said that above high-level curse users, there are also sequence users called Curse Masters, whose abilities are even more terrifying."
"Could the person who cursed He Erbing be a sorcerer?" Li Jiuhe speculated.
Luo Shuo shook his head: "I can't tell, but perhaps Boss Tong has already figured it out, which is why he sent us away and tried to enter the deserted wooden house by curse alone."
Li Jiuhe nodded, thinking to himself, "No wonder the power of He Erbing's second self-destruction was significantly reduced!"
If Tong Cheng could see that there was another, even more powerful curse on him, he might be able to draw upon this power to enhance He Erbing's final curse.
This may explain why He Erbing was able to bring the Tongcheng curse into the abandoned wooden house without any incantation.
Moreover, because some of the power of this curse was diverted, the power of He Erbing's self-destruction was much smaller than before the mission was reset.
But the curse may have already occurred, but the consequences are only now being revealed, so He Erbing's fate cannot be changed.
Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo came out of the police station, while Huang Guozhong stayed behind to handle the aftermath.
After the two returned to the rented room, Ma Li, who had been hiding inside, immediately came to greet them. She seemed to have lost weight.
That chubby, white face has become much thinner, and looks more like a human face now.
Since entering human society, Mali has realized that her form is not yet fully anthropomorphic. She has been comparing herself to the humans around her and gradually changing her body.
Now that she looks a little more human, she can go out once she puts on clothes and a mask. As long as she doesn't have close contact with people, no one will notice anything unusual about her.
Seeing that only Li Jiuhe and Li Jiuhe had returned, she asked in surprise, "Huh, where's that expert, the cold-faced man?"
Luo Shuo said, "He went into the deserted wooden hut."
"What? He found the cabin?" Malice exclaimed in surprise. "How did he find it? Where is the cabin now?"
As she spoke, she licked her anthropomorphic lips, indicating that she had not given up her obsession with eating the wooden house.
After all, she had previously tried to steal a chicken but ended up losing the rice instead; the wooden house had once devoured her descendants.
"Boss Tong had someone curse him so he could enter the wooden house," Luo Shuo said.
Ma Li's eyes lit up: "This—it feels so feasible! This is also a very special state, a cursed state!"
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Li Jiuhe's feelings were complicated at this moment. He really wanted to know whether Tong Cheng had entered the wooden house or not.
If he went inside, what's the situation there now? Has he seen his daughter?
Is there anything wrong with my daughter in the cabin?
The thought of these things made him feel extremely confused.
Luo Shuo was actually a little anxious, but he was worried about his own safety.
After all, he wasn't sure if the mask on his face would still work if Tong Cheng wasn't around.
If it fails, he will have to be very careful and won't dare to show his face in public like he is now.
Otherwise, once the people on the Investigation Bureau's wanted list find out that Luo Shuo has reformed, they will immediately hunt him down.
About an hour later, Huang Guozhong, having finished cleaning up the scene, arrived at the rented house.
He told Li Jiuhe and the others that Chuangtian would be able to handle the follow-up matters regarding the midnight knocking case here, and he was preparing to return to Mingzhu City the next day.
Suddenly remembering something, Li Jiuhe asked him, "Are there any registered Sequencers who are Cursed in your Pearl City?"
Huang Guozhong thought about it carefully and nodded: "Okay, Siyou. If you want to know, I'll call and ask for you now."
After saying that, he took out his phone and made a call.
Luo Shuo said with concern, "Brother Li, are you really going to do this? Even if you manage to get in, with your abilities, you might never get out."
Li Jiuhe remained silent and did not answer.
A moment later, Huang Guozhong hung up the phone and said to him, "My colleague just told me that there is a registered cursed person in Mingzhu City."