The man with glasses called himself "Qiu Zijia", aged 28, a graduate of a science and engineering university, computer engineering, he said he was a coder. Because of squatting in front of the computer all year round, his health is not good, his eyes are short-sighted, and his temperament is gloomy. He is commonly known as an otaku.
Mu Qin felt that when he introduced himself, he became a little more humorous, and he was not as tit-for-tat when he was talking to Xu Fu.
This kind of Qiu Zijia made a good impression in front of the female teacher in no time. The teacher seemed to like such a good student, and immediately raised the corners of his mouth and smiled: "A graduate with a bachelor's degree, not bad!"
After that, the female teacher introduced herself again. The female teacher's name is "Han Li", she is 39 years old, and she is also a high-achieving student who graduated from a normal university. The teacher's salary is very high, but after five or six years, he went to a certain junior high school to become a middle school teacher for no reason.
As for the reason, Han Li didn't say anything.
Cheng Guoxu was silent beside him, so Mu Qin stood up and introduced himself: "My name is Mu Qin."
Muqin was an orphan, apparently abandoned, as a baby dumped in a trash can under an overpass before being found and taken to a nearby orphanage.
However, Mu Qin didn't stay in the orphanage for a long time. He was adopted when he was about three or four years old. He was adopted by an old and bereaved couple. The couple originally had a son who died in an accidental fire. Death, the couple were distraught, so they ran to the orphanage and took Mu Qin away.
It's just that the couple were very old when they adopted Mu Qin, in their fifties. When they adopted Mu Qin when he was about 12 years old, they died of illness one after another, leaving Mu Qin with a considerable fortune.
The old couple had only one relative, a bad-behaved uncle who was also very old. He took Mu Qin away as a guardian, and then squandered the property that should have belonged to Mu Qin. He didn't care about a little living expenses every month. After Mu Qin finished high school and was admitted to university, the old uncle said that he had run out of money, so Mu Qin had to give up college and join the army.
Because I heard that there is no charge for being a soldier, and there is an allowance, and there is also a discharge fee after retiring from the army.
Mu Qin served in the military for five years. After he came out, he started looking for a job. At the beginning, he did everything. Because most of the reasons for his military service were security jobs, but he felt that the salary was not high, so he learned to run sales.
Mu Qin's life is quite ordinary, he thinks so, but both the technical geek Qiu Zijia and the female teacher think differently of him, saying: "You have been a soldier, you should be very skilled, right?"
Mu Qin just laughed: "This is divided into arms. I was in the army as a logistics worker. Because the dishes were delicious, I kept them for a long time. I don't have much skill."
Qiu Zijia and Han Li, who had looked at each other a little earlier, were instantly disappointed. Finally, they looked at Cheng Guoxu, and lost interest instantly after hearing that he was an ordinary factory worker.
Mu Qin then followed Qiu Zijia and others to search for this so-called "game map".
It appears to be a fairly large orphanage, with a courtyard, a chapel, an apartment area where the children live, and an attached office area.
In the office where five people gathered together at the beginning, there were many old folders stored. 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 initial stage of the construction of the orphanage, its buildings were also biased towards Western style, so a small church was built in the courtyard, and even several nuns served here.
In the beginning, it really took in many orphans. This was supposed to be a great public welfare organization that benefited the society, but it was very backward at that time. The downturn in various industries and the immature adoption process in China led to the sponsorship of this orphanage. It was a burden for the company, and they withdrew their sponsorship to the orphanage one by one in the next ten years, and finally caused the Iris Orphanage to be abandoned and become what it is now.
The children who lived in the orphanage were also sent away one after another in the time after that, and sent to other welfare institutions and social accommodation institutions.
On the surface, there seems to be nothing unusual about this incident. Most public welfare organizations will face the inevitable decline due to lack of funds. However, Mnuchin discovered that there is a strange truth hidden behind this incident.
Because Mu Qin also got a lot of newspapers from the bookshelf in the office, various newspapers from the 1980s to the 1990s, all of which intermittently recorded various negative reports about the Iris Orphanage.
For example, the staff of the orphanage is suspected of child abuse. For example, the director of the orphanage is suspected of embezzling sponsorship funds.
These negative reports formed public opinion against the Iris Orphanage at the time, and Mnuchin estimated that this may be one of the reasons why the orphanage was eventually abandoned.
However, now, the reason why this orphanage was abandoned is no longer so important. The main purpose of Mu Qin and others is to find a way to leave this orphanage.
"Wouldn't it be better to climb over the wall and get out?" The female teacher in the team still looked a little unconcerned about this so-called killing game, she opened the door and looked into the courtyard, "Just find a ladder and climb over the wall , why do we need to find a door key.”
Mu Qin said: "There are spikes and barbed wire on the wall, and the wall is four or five meters high by visual inspection. If you are not careful, you will die instead of climbing out."
The female teacher rolled her eyes and said, "It's not easy. Find an iron tongs to cut the barbed wire. As for the spikes, use a wooden board to hold down the spikes and turn them over... Some students in our junior high school have done this before. .”
Qiu Zijia said: "This method is very good, but where can I find ladders, iron tongs and wooden boards? This place is so desolate, and many equipments are either abandoned or moved away. It takes time and effort to find these things. It is better to find the door key directly. .”
Mu Qin also agreed: "And there is a real murderer who is chasing us. There is no time to do such a risky move as climbing the wall. It seems to be looking for a dead end."
Seeing that her opinion was dismissed, the female teacher seemed displeased, and said coldly, "You are smart, so you should think of a way!"
Qiu Zijia seemed to feel that this woman named Han Li couldn't get along with him, so he couldn't help getting closer to Mu Qin, and he said to Mu Qin: "Brother, even if you are a logistics worker in the army, the basic training should be There are still some, if you really face some killer, are you sure?"
Mu Qin stroked his chin and thought for a while, then replied: "I have retired for many years, and my physical fitness is not as good as before. So it depends on the situation, the opponent's physical reaction and explosive power, assuming the opponent has a weapon... the knife can think of a way, If it's a gun then..."
This situation made Qiu Zijia feel less optimistic, and he regretted: "I shouldn't have let that guy called Xu Fu go just now."
Mu Qin also felt the same way: "It really shouldn't be. He seems to know a lot of information. At least we have to dig out more things from him."
"Besides, I have a question that I haven't had time to ask him." Mu Qin said, and took out the Fool's Tarot card from his pocket, "Do you have this thing in your hand?"
Qiu Zijia, Han Li, and Cheng Guoxu all looked at Mu Qin's hands when they heard the words, and replied, "Yes!"
After finishing speaking, the three of them each took out their respective tarot cards from their pockets, and interestingly, the tarot cards held by the four of them were all Fool cards. They looked at each other inside.
"What's the meaning of this card?" Han Li looked at the Tarot cards over and over.
Qiu Zijia is worthy of being an experienced computer nerd. He speculated: "I think this may be an item in the game. Have you ever played card games? Maybe it's similar to that."
"Card game?" Han Li probably hadn't played it before, with a look of disdain on her face, "You young people only know how to play games all day long."
Qiu Zijia couldn't stand Han Li anymore, so he tried to ignore her and said, "I think these tarot cards are just like prop cards in the game, each card has different prop effects, and the back of the Fool card we are holding says can Increasing our luck value is probably the effect of this item card."
"Wait a minute!" When Qiu Zijia said this, Han Li next to her suddenly screamed. Her voice was very sharp and piercing when she heard it. There was no response.
"What's wrong?" Qiu Zijia rubbed his ears and looked at Han Li, only to find that Han Li was holding her Tarot cards with a distorted expression.
"You said just now that this card increases luck?" Han Li held up her tarot card in front of Qiu Zijia.
Qiu Zijia glanced at her Tarot cards without knowing it, and said casually: "That's right, isn't it written on the back of the cards..."
In the middle of speaking, Qiu Zijia suddenly got stuck. He looked at the tarot card Han Li held up in his hand with strange eyes, and said in puzzlement, "It's strange, the image on your tarot card is upside down."
Hearing this, Mu Qin suddenly walked around to Qiu Zijia and said to Han Li, "Can you show me your cards?"
Although he asked so politely, Mu Qin was not polite, and reached out to take 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 on the frame of the Tarot cards 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 upside-down fool for a while, then turned the card to look at the back, and found that the lines on the back were also upside down, so Mu Qin turned the card upside down so that the writing was upright, and then looked at these few lines. Lines, but see above it says:
The adventurous journey is over, and you are in the abyss that is everywhere.
Are you ready for despair and pain
ps: curse card, this card will reduce your luck.