บท 23: Thred
"Understood."
Shigure Kira said helplessly.
She put down the schoolbags on her body and walked to the wall, clenched her fist, and gathered her strength. Honkai energy converged on her right hand. Blue and white light dots adhered to the back of her hand, forming a phantom armor.
After a sharp, piercing sound, there was the sound of the wall collapsing and crumbling.
When an S-rank Valkyrie landed a punch, let alone a wall, she would be able to create a huge hole in concrete.
Li Mo didn't hesitate and walked in, carefully observing the environment inside the broadcasting room.
Ekri's second male corpse wasn't there...
"Did it get possessed by other heads?" Li Mo had this thought.
"There are some snack wrappers here. They haven't been eaten completely. The food inside hasn't grown any maggots... Someone has been here."
It was very obvious that last night, a ghost had lured survivors to this broadcasting room, but something had happened, and the ghost had let them go...
Perhaps those who came out were not themselves, but rather, them.
"Have you found anything?" Shigure Kira came over and asked.
Li Mo didn't play any guessing games and replied directly, "It's very bad. Someone was here last night. Only a ghost would lead people to this broadcasting room."
"The ghost knows that the auditorium is safe, so it wants to trap people to death in the broadcasting room."
"But something happened, and the ghost let these people go. No, there are probably very few living people in the group. The ghost let them go because it has other plans."
"If I'm not wrong, as the number of people they possess increases, the intelligence of the head-eating ghosts will become higher and higher. Now, they have already thought of a way to enter the auditorium safely."
Shigure Kira clenched her fists. She immediately understood the meaning behind Li Mo's words.
If Li Mo hadn't told everyone to keep a distance from the new survivors and to stay away from the black coffin before they had left,
then at that moment, it would have been impossible to distinguish who was human and who was a ghost in the auditorium, and the layout of the auditorium, the grave incense, the black coffin, and the spirit tablet would have all undergone unpredictable changes.
If they were to be delayed until 7 PM at night, when the anomalies revived, there would be no chance of survival anymore.
"What do we do?"
"It's too early to go back now. We need to prepare for everything before going back. I need to stay here to find some clues. It's very important."
Both of them knew that now was definitely not the time to go back.
As long as those in the auditorium strictly followed Li Mo's orders, everything could be resolved.
But the problem was the possibility of a detour...
In a supernatural event, it was not opponents like the ghosts that they feared, but rather, teammates that were as useful as a pig.
That was why Li Mo believed that in the face of ghosts, numbers were never an advantage, and sometimes too many people could actually be the cause of death.
Li Mo slowly walked in front of the broadcasting equipment. Ekri's ID was on the ground.
Li Mo picked it up and carefully examined it. There were bloody handprints on it, and a corner was missing at the top, as if it had been torn open with teeth.
There was also a calloused male thumb. There were also bite marks on it. Li Mo recalled that this finger should have been from the male body Ekri was in in the broadcasting room.
Head-eating ghosts only attacked the head and would not bite off fingers, so the finger was a clue that Ekri had left behind for Li Mo when he was resisting.
But what did he want to say?
Did he discover something that led Ekri to bite off his thumb while enduring severe pain?
After all, in the physiological structure of the human body, the thumb was the most important finger.
"The finger is on the ground, which means that Ekri no longer had the ability to stand. There are bite marks on the finger. It must be that he used his mouth to adjust the direction, and the direction the finger is pointing to is..."
Li Mo looked in the direction that the finger was pointing to, which was, as expected, the wall that Shigure Kira had punched and destroyed.
But Ekri couldn't have known that Shigure Kira would come and punch the wall, so he must have seen the ghost's plans in its memories.
So this finger wasn't pointing at the wall, but rather, at the place the ghost was planning to go.
Li Mo looked in the direction that the finger was directly pointing toward. As expected, it was the location of the auditorium.
The situation he had anticipated had appeared. An intelligent ghost had mixed in with the crowd, planning to destroy the auditorium from the inside.
"Did you discover anything?" Shigure Kira, seeing Li Mo's solemn expression, walked over and asked.
Li Mo asked in return, "Shigure Kira, do you remember what I said earlier? If you can't do it, I'll do it."
Shigure Kira immediately understood what Li Mo meant, but she was also hesitant because what they had to do next was in conflict with a Valkyrie's duties.
This was a fundamental conflict of beliefs.
The Valkyrie's duty was to protect the people, while Li Mo's mission was to solve anomalies.
Now, in order to solve the anomalies, the best way was to kill the so-called survivors who had entered the auditorium, leaving no one alive.
No one could bear the price of a ghost mixing in with the crowd.
But if they were to kill innocent people for a potential risk... then wouldn't they be no different from the ghosts who were killing people, no matter what grand reason they had. The nature of the act couldn't be changed, even if their starting point was different.
Silence fell in the broadcasting room. There was no conversation for a long time.
"I will drive them out," Shigure Kira chose a compromise.
Li Mo didn't continue to discuss this topic and walked to the controller of the broadcasting equipment.
Ekri had said that he would destroy this to prevent the ghost from luring more people.
But the controller was still intact. Whether it was the microphone or the wires, there wasn't any damage.
And someone had been here last night, which meant that Ekri was still self-aware at that time, but his memories and perceptions had been affected by the ghost, causing him to lure more people to the broadcasting room.
It was also possible that the head-eating ghost had tampered with Ekri's memories, causing him to ignore destroying the broadcasting equipment.
But if that was really the case, then why were there obvious blood stains on the wiring, microphone, and other infrastructure?
This clearly proved that Ekri still remembered and had agreed with Li Mo to destroy the broadcasting equipment.
What had happened to make him change his mind and leave behind an inexplicable clue?
Did he know that he would be back? Or was he just simply leaving it for the next person to break the situation?
Or maybe... this was a clue left behind by the ghost to confuse him and waste his time.
"Hmm? What's this..."
Li Mo noticed five distorted English letters above the controller: Thred.
"..."
He didn't recognize it.
Li Mo was stunned. His foreign language proficiency was definitely not low, but he had never seen this word before.
"Shigure Kira, come over and see what this word means."
Li Mo no longer had the concept of being embarrassed and directly called Shigure Kira over.
A full name huh... Shigure Kira paused before walking over.
"I thought you knew everything. Let me see what this word means."
"..."
Shigure Kira looked around and found it strange. Her knowledge didn't contain this word either.
"Uh, I've never seen it. A word written in blood... what's going on?"
Shigure Kira asked in confusion as she turned her head.
After carefully observing, Li Mo could only come to two conclusions.
Ekri had indeed been affected by the ghost after he left, but he still retained some self-awareness and knew that he had to destroy the broadcasting equipment. That was why he had left behind marks.
But what had happened to make him change his mind and leave behind an inexplicable clue?
Did he know that he would return? Or was he simply leaving it for the next person to break the situation?
Or maybe... this was a clue left behind by the ghost to confuse him and waste his time.
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