Unlimited Cycles of Death: 3. Iris (3)

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The man in glasses claims to be "Qiu Zijia", he is 28, a graduate of a science and engineering university, computer engineering, he said he is a code writer. Because he squatted in front of the computer all the year round, his body was not well, his eyes were short-sighted, and his temperament was gloomy.

Mu Qin felt that he was a little bit funny when he introduced himself, and he didn't talk to Xu Fu as tit-for-tat.

Such Qiu Zijia left a good impression in front of the female teachers in a short time. The teachers seemed to like such good students, and immediately raised their lips and laughed: "Graduating from a bachelor's degree, not bad!"

After that, the female teacher introduced herself again. The female teacher’s name was "Han Li". She was 39 years old and a high-achieving student from a certain normal university. After graduation, she was first introduced by her relatives to become a kindergarten teacher. At that time, the salary of kindergarten teachers was very high, but after five or six years of doing it, I went to a certain junior high school to become a junior high school teacher somehow.

As for the reason, Han Li did not say it herself.

Cheng Guoxu was silent next to him, so Mu Qin stood up and introduced himself: "My name is Mu Qin."

Muqin is an orphan and seems to be abandoned. As a baby, he was thrown in a trash can under an overpass, and was later found and sent to a nearby orphanage.

However, Mu Qin didn’t stay in the orphanage for a long time. He was adopted at the age of about three or four. He was adopted by an old couple who had lost their children. The couple originally had a son. They died in an accidental fire, and the couple was so distraught that they ran to the orphanage and took Muqin away.

It's just that when Mu Qin was adopted, the couple were very old. They were in their fifties. When Mu Qin was adopted, he died one after another when he was about twelve years old, leaving Mu Qin with a considerable fortune.

The old couple has only one relative, a bad-behavior uncle, who is also a lot of age. He took Muqin away as a guardian, and then squandered the property that should belong to Muqin, except for giving it to Muqin. Qin didn't care about tuition and a little bit of living expenses every month. Later, after Mu Qin finished high school and was admitted to university, the old uncle said that he ran out of money, and Mu Qin had to give up university and join the army.

Because I heard that there is no charge for being a soldier, and there are allowances to get it, and there is also a retirement fee after retirement.

Mu Qin served for five years and started looking for a job after he came out. In the beginning, he did everything. Because most of the reasons for the service were security and other tasks, but he felt that his salary was not high, so he learned to run sales.

Mu Qin's life is quite ordinary, he himself thinks so, but Qiu Zijia and the female teacher both look at him differently, saying: "You have been a soldier, you should be good at it?"

Mu Qin laughed: "This is divided into arms. I was in the army for logistics. Because the vegetables were cooked so deliciously, I stayed a little longer and I didn't have much skill."

Just now, Qiu Zijia and Han Li, who looked differently, were disappointed a lot. Finally, they looked at Cheng Guoxu. After hearing that they were ordinary factory workers, they instantly lost interest.

Mu Qin followed Qiu Zijia and others to search for this so-called "game map."

This seems to be a very large orphanage, with a courtyard, a church, an apartment area where the children live, and an adjacent office area.

At the beginning, there were many old folders in the office where five people gathered together. According to the information inside, this orphanage was called "Iris Orphanage."

The Iris Orphanage was sponsored by several Western companies around 1982. Therefore, in the early stage of the construction of the orphanage, its buildings were also biased towards Western styles. Therefore, a small church was built in the courtyard, and there were even a few nuns in the courtyard. Serving here.

In the beginning, it did accommodate many orphans. This was supposed to be a great charity organization that benefited society. It was just that it was very backward in that era, the downturn in various industries and the immature domestic adoption process led to the sponsorship of this orphanage. It was a burden for a few Western companies. In the following ten years, they withdrew their sponsorships to the orphanage one by one. In the end, the Iris Orphanage was abandoned and became what it is now.

The children living in the orphanage were also sent away one after another in the time after that, to other welfare institutions and social shelter institutions.

On the surface, there seems to be nothing unusual about this incident. Most non-profit organizations will face a compelling decline due to a shortage of funds. However, Muqin discovered that there is a strange truth behind this incident.

Because Muqin also got a lot of newspapers from the bookshelf in the office. From the 1980s to the 1990s, all kinds of newspapers recorded intermittent negative/face reports about the Iris Orphanage. .

For example, the staff of the orphanage are suspected of abusing children. For example, the director of an orphanage is suspected of embezzling sponsorship funds.

These negative/face reports formed public opinion against the Iris Orphanage at the time, and Muqin estimated that this might also be one of the reasons why the orphanage was eventually abandoned.

However, it is no longer important why this orphanage was abandoned. The main purpose of Muqin and others is to find a way to leave the orphanage.

"Isn’t it okay to get out over the wall?" The female teacher in the team was still a little uncomfortable with this so-called killing game. She opened the door and looked into the courtyard for a few moments, "Find a ladder to climb over. The wall is just fine, but what kind of door key do I need to find."

Mu Qin said: "There are spikes and barbed wire on the wall, and the wall is four to five meters high visually. If you are careless, you will not climb out but die."

The female teacher rolled her eyes when she heard the words and said: "It's not easy. Find a pair of iron tongs to cut off the barbed wire. As for the spikes, use a wooden board to hold down the spikes and turn them over... We have it in the junior high school. Students have done this."

Qiu Zijia said: "This is a good way, but where can I find the ladder irons and planks? This place is so desolate, and a lot of equipment is either abandoned or moved away. It takes time and effort to find these things. It's better to look for the gate directly. The keys came happily."

Mu Qin also agreed: "And there is another murderer who doesn't know if it is a real murderer who is chasing us. He doesn't have time to do such a risky move as climbing a wall. It's almost like he is seeking his own death."

Seeing that her opinion was rejected, the female teacher looked unhappy, and snorted coldly: "You are smart, then you guys think of a way!"

Qiu Zijia seemed to feel that this woman named Han Li couldn’t get along with him, so she couldn’t help but got closer to Mu Qin. He said to Mu Qin, “Brother, even if you are a logistics player in the army, the basics There should still be some training, if you really fight with some killer, are you sure?"

Mu Qin touched his chin and replied: "I have retired for many years, and my physical fitness is not as good as before. Therefore, it depends on the situation, the opponent's physical reaction and explosive power. Assuming the opponent has a weapon... Think of a way, if it’s a gun..."

This situation makes Qiu Zijia not very optimistic, and he regrets it: "I shouldn't have let the guy named Xu Fu go just now."

Mu Qin felt the same way: "It really shouldn't. He seems to know a lot of information. We must at least dig out more things from his mouth."

"Also, I have a question that I haven't had time to ask him." Muqin said, taking out the Fool's Tarot card from his pocket, "Do you have this thing in your hand?"

Qiu Zijia, Han Li, and Cheng Guoxu heard the words, looked at Mu Qin's hands, and replied: "Yes!"

After that, the three people each took out their own tarot cards from their pockets, and the interesting thing is that the four of them are all Fool’s cards. The four Fool’s cards are gathered together to make a few Unidentified individuals looked at each other.

"What the **** does this card mean?" Han Li looked at it over and over while holding the Tarot card.

Qiu Zijia is worthy of being a veteran computer player. He speculated: "I think this may be an item in the game. Have you played card games before? Maybe it's similar to that."

"Card game?" Han Li probably hasn't played it before, with a little disdain on her face, "You young people only know how to play games all day long."

Qiu Zijia can’t stand Han Li anymore, trying to ignore her and saying: “I think this tarot card is just like the prop card in the game. Each card has a different prop effect. The back of the Fool’s card we hold It says that it can increase our luck, which is probably the effect of this prop card."

"Wait a minute!" When Qiu Zijia said this, Han Li next to her suddenly screamed. Her voice was very sharp when it was raised. Qiu Zijia and Mu Qin were both shivering. Guoxu had no reaction at all.

"What's the matter?" Qiu Zijia rubbed her ears and looked at Han Li, only to find that Han Li was holding her tarot card with a horrified and contorted face.

"You just said that this card is to increase luck?" Han Li held her tarot card to Qiu Zijia.

Qiu Zijia glanced at her tarot card without knowing it, and said casually: "Yes, isn't it written on the back of the card..."

In the middle of the story, Qiu Zijia suddenly got stuck. He looked at the tarot card held in Han Li's hand with a strange look, and said in a puzzled way: "Strange, the image on your tarot card is upside down."

When Mu Qin heard this, he suddenly went around in front of Qiu Zijia and said to Han Li, "Will you show me your cards?"

Although he asked so politely, Mu Qin was not polite. He reached out and took Han Li's tarot card directly. He looked down and found that the image on the tarot card was indeed upside-down... …

The characters marking the Fool and the pattern of the tarot card border are upright, just like the cards in the hands of Mu Qin, Qiu Zijia, and Cheng Guoxu, but the image of the Fool in the center of the card is upside down.

Mu Qin looked at the inverted fool for a moment and turned the card around to look at the back of the card. He found that the lines on the back were also upside down, so Mu Qin turned the card upside down to make the writing stand upright. Look at these few lines, but you see it reads like this:

The journey of adventure is over, you are in the abyss that is everywhere.

Are you ready for despair and pain?

ps: Curse card, this card will lower your luck.