Chapter 039: Eating Watermelon at the Ladder Apartment (5)
The image of the apartment on fire did not last long before it stopped and the light in the room returned to daytime brightness.
Liu Tang closed his eyes to rest them for a while. The dazzling firelight in the darkness seemed to still remain on his retina.
Ji Zehan was still like a ruthless marking machine, marking on the railings of the platform outside the main gate.
Name this room "Fire Room 0".
Mo Qianhe pulled Liu Tang, who had his eyes closed, towards the door on the left side of the room.
He explained to the others, "Let's take a look at what happened before. Maybe we can find some clues."
Ji Zehan finally entered the room on the left.
After closing the door, the light in the room dimmed again.
Everyone saw that the apartment not far away was still safe and sound.
After a while, a big fire broke out on the first floor. The flames spread all the way up and quickly engulfed the entire apartment.
The video ended and the lights in the room came on.
Zhou Songyang said, "It seems the fire started on the first floor."
Feng Xiansu rolled her eyes: "Do I need you to tell me that?"
Zhou Songyang: "..."
Liu Tang suddenly realized: "Yes, the fire started on the first floor."
Feng Xiansu turned to look at the Boss of the Mirror Hell with a look of disdain: "Are you a repeater?"
Liu Tang was not upset by this, instead he said happily, "Does that mean that if we find the room where the fire started, we can get to the first floor?!"
Mo Qianhe nodded: "It's very likely."
Feng Xiansu's face froze: "...Is that so..."
Zhou Songyang's face lit up with excitement. "So, what we need to do now is to find out the cause of the fire and identify the culprit, right?"
Liu Tang nodded, but still had some doubts: "I just don't know how this fire is related to the little rabbit's drowning."
Ji Zehan discussed with others and decided that the rooms to the right of Room 0 would be named "1, 2, and 3" in sequence. In order to make it easier to distinguish, the room to the left would be named "Fire Room -1".
From the prairie outside the apartment, you can't see what's happening inside the apartment.
Mo Qianhe suggested walking up and down the stairs outside to see if they could find the rooms of other apartment residents.
Du Qiuyun helped her grandmother walk out. She found that her grandmother seemed to have been silent since she witnessed the little rabbit drowning. Her steps also became slower, as if she had been greatly affected.
After witnessing the fire, grandma's steps seemed even more unsteady.
The girl asked the old woman with some concern: "Grandma, are you okay?"
Grandma Du patted her granddaughter's hand and said comfortingly, "It's okay. I just remembered some vague old memories."
Liu Tang listened to the conversation between the grandparents and grandchildren, followed them out, looked up and saw the scenery behind the main gate, and stopped.
Since entering Room 0 where the fire broke out, they had been keeping their eyes on the direction of the windows, and what they saw was the sixth-floor apartment building in the distance.
As he walked out, he noticed that in the direction of the main gate, there was not only endless grassland, but also a huge reservoir.
"You can see the reservoir from here!" he reminded others.
"Really?" Zhou Songyang shouted in support.
Ji Zehan didn't care and went to mark the door first.
He had actually noticed the reservoir a long time ago, but he felt that the information was not very useful, so he did not mention it.
Mo Qianhe understood Liu Tang's intention and asked, "Do you want to look through the footage from earlier in this room to see what happened after the little rabbit drowned and was rescued?"
Liu Tang nodded, then shook his head. "Although I'd like to, I think it's a bit unfeasible. After all, we don't know how long it took for the little rabbit to drown and the fire to start. Going back room by room, who knows how long it would take."
Zhou Songyang didn't want to go up the stairs outside, so he raised his hand actively: "I agree to go and take a look!"
Feng Xiansu retorted, "If you want to go, go by yourself. I'm too lazy to look through each room slowly."
Zhou Songyang stopped his activities.
Before entering the base, he promised several elders to take good care of his sister. Even though her attitude is so bad now, he still has to keep his promise and stay by her side.
Du Qiuyun suggested: "Why don't we check other rooms? Maybe we can find information about the time difference. Once we determine the time, we can go back and look for the drowning image."
They thought that this was the only way, so they went out to meet Ji Zehan who was waiting outside.
Ji Zehan suggested to everyone: "Why don't we divide up and search the room? This will improve efficiency. Does anyone have a communication tool?"
Liu Tang looked at Mo Qianhe and said, "It should be among the ninety or so props I gave you, right?"
Mo Qianhe took out a sound transmission wall from his backpack and was about to use it when Liu Tang snatched it away.
Liu Tang clicked on it and said to Mo Qianke, "Use my times. Save yours for the crucial moment."
Mo Qianhe gave the person in front of him a warm smile and agreed happily.
Feng Xiansu looked disgusted: "It's really unbearable to watch."
The sound walls are a pair, so the group of seven players decided to split into two groups.
Du Qiuyun and grandma must be in the same group, and Zhou Songyang also asked to be in the same group with his sister.
Mo Qianhe also asked to be in the same group with Liu Tang without any question.
Ji Zehan glanced at Mo Qianhe and said, "We two should be the most experienced players here, so it would be best if each of us leads a team."
Mo Qianke nodded.
As long as Pavilion Master Ji doesn't propose to separate himself and Liu Tang, everything else will be fine.
After Ji Zehan glanced at Zhou Songyang and Feng Xiansu, he said to Mo Qianhe, "You and your benefactor will take the brothers and sisters, and I will be in a group with the Du family's grandparents."
Mo Qianhe did not nod immediately.
Zhou Songyang noticed the exchange of glances between the two and said to his sister, "Why do I feel like they really dislike us?"
Feng Xiansu rolled her eyes: "Mainly because I dislike you."
Zhou Songyang couldn't stand it any longer, and didn't need to endure it anymore: "You think you're a crazy woman who's very popular, right?"
Feng Xiansu quickly counterattacked: "That's better than you, a loser who has to walk down the stairs with your butt!"
Liu Tang watched the two people quarreling with relish, took out a bag of caramel croutons from his pocket, tore it open and shared it with the people around him.
[Okay, okay, I'll be in the same group with them so I can watch the fun.]
Mo Qianhe listened to Liu Tang's thoughts, ate a crispy bread cube, and reluctantly agreed to Pavilion Master Ji's request to divide the groups.
Pavilion Master Ji gave a portion of the "Infinite Marking Stickers" in his hand to Liu Tang.
Liu Tang asked curiously, "Can I use this too?"
Ji Zehan nodded: "It won't deduct your item usage times, but the mark will only be synchronized to my system notes."
Liu Tang nodded to show that he understood, and solemnly handed the sound transmission wall to Ji Zehan: "Be sure to keep the communication open, don't delay me from eating the melons over there."
Ji Zehan had a question mark on his forehead.
He is alone with the Du family's grandparents and grandchildren, what kind of gossip could there be?
Maybe it refers to the gossip between NPCs in the dungeon?
He didn't know that Liu Tang was thinking in his heart at this moment:
[Ji Zehan followed Grandma Du's melon, but he didn't know when he would be able to eat it.]
Mo Qianhe looked at Pavilion Master Ji with some sympathy, thinking: You thought you had escaped the poison of the noisy brother and sister, but in fact you are on the road of providing new melons for the little salted fish.
Room No. 1, where the fire occurred, is closer to the ground than Room No. 0, and is only more than twenty floors above the first floor.
The two teams separated and went up and down the spiral staircase to the upper and lower floors of Room B1 where the fire occurred.
Liu Tang, Mo Qianhe and Zhou Songyang walked up together.
Zhou Songyang said in surprise: "Hey, I found that if I walk up and don't look down, I won't be so scared."
Feng Xiansu, who was walking in the front, turned around to look at her brother who was lagging behind and started to complain, "If your legs weren't shaking more than Grandma Du's, I would have believed your lies."
Liu Tang put a piece of bread into his mouth and chewed it with a crunching sound.
Feng Xiansu strode upstairs and opened the door, and found that there was finally a room inside.
The decoration style is a bit more old-fashioned than Rabbit Mom's house, and the overall color tone is darker, but there are occasionally some bright red and green objects, which seem very abrupt.
In addition to ordinary furniture and ornaments, the room is also filled with various old waste.
It seems that the owner of the room is a person who is reluctant to throw away things after using them.
After the other three, especially Zhou Songyang who was walking last, arrived, Feng Xiansu impatiently pushed her brother away and slammed the door shut.
A fierce quarrel broke out in the room.
An old fox with a hunched back was yelling at Mother Rabbit in the voice of an old woman: "Get out of here! You're a disaster! Not only did you kill my son, you killed my grandson too! I never want to see you again in my life!"
The fox wearing a beret was standing next to the old fox. On the surface, he seemed to be supporting the old fox, but in fact he was trying hard to stop the old fox from hitting the rabbit mother with something.
Mother Rabbit did not refute the old fox's words. She just drooped her ears and cried silently.
It was obvious that she looked much more haggard.
It seems this happened after the little rabbit drowned.
The young fox wearing a beret tried to dissuade the old fox: "Mom, how can you say that about your sister-in-law? She has been raising the children and taking care of you all by herself for so many years. It's so hard."
The old fox pushed the young fox away and yelled at him, "If you hadn't been wandering around all year pursuing your photography art, would I be left alone?! How could an outsider like her take care of me?!"
The young fox didn't give in: "Mom, this is my life. What's wrong with me having my own things to pursue?"
The old fox was so angry that he turned around and walked towards the right door: "You unfilial son, I will smash your broken camera today to see what you are still pursuing!"
The young fox quickly rushed into the right door to stop it.
The image ends here.
Liu Tang was enlightened after reading it: "I understand. These animals are not real animals, but represent people. Finally, I don't have to worry about whether rabbits and foxes can give birth to baby rabbits."
Mo Qiangan: "..."
When Liu Tang went out, he made a mark on the railing, marking it as "Room 0 of the Fox House".
Zhou Songyang walked towards the right door and said to Mo Qianhe, "I can confirm that the apartment is still in good condition and there is no fire. Brother Mo, how about we go and see what happened next?"
Mo Qianke nodded.
Feng Xiansu followed suit, not forgetting to retort to her brother, "You keep calling me 'Brother Mo' and 'Brother Mo' all the time, without even considering whether I care about you or not."
Zhou Songyang didn't care. He just wanted to curry favor with someone. Even if the other person didn't want to pay attention to him, he would still take the initiative to get close to him.
In order to get through the dungeon safely, you still have to maintain this attitude.
They went into the room on the right and closed the door.
In the video, the old fox brought in a stack of yellow paper and some gold ingots made of paper from the left door.
Beret Fox was walking out with a camera. Seeing the old fox coming back with these things, he said, "Mom, are you going to burn paper money again?"
The old fox said, "The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon. Come with me and burn some for your brother and nephew."
The young fox stopped him, saying, "Please don't do that. You almost burned the lawn outside last year. Do you dare to do that again this year?"
After saying that, he went out.
The old fox kept muttering to himself: "If you don't allow us to burn it outside, why not just burn it at home?"
After the video ended, Zhou Songyang spoke first: "She was going to burn paper money at home. Could the fire have originated in this room?!"
When Feng Xiansu heard this, she hurried to open the main door, stood at the railing and looked down, and found that it was very far from the ground, definitely more than half the height of the apartment.
She turned back to the others with some disappointment and shook her head: "It has nothing to do with the first floor."
Mo Qianhe guessed: "Perhaps, the room where the fire broke out was on the first floor."
Just as Liu Tang was about to agree, he heard Ji Zehan's voice coming from the sound transmission wall: "Benefactor, are you also at the old fox's house?"
Liu Tang asked, "Yes, what's wrong?"
Pavilion Master Ji's voice came from the other end: "We are also at her house. On our side, the old fox's second son, the fox wearing a beret, is also dead."
"Huh?" Feng Xiansu was a little confused when she heard the news.
Pavilion Master Ji was still talking: "He must have been murdered."
Mo Qianhe and Liu Tang both frowned.
The mysteries of this copy are increasing.
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