Terra Hotline, crime simulator

It succeeded in piercing the gap in Richard's hood, but not the latter's skull.

When he realized that the feel of the other end of the sword was wrong, it was already too late. Richard used the sharpened club to pierce his chin from top to bottom, and the tip penetrated his cheek. out.

Wallach staggered a few times before falling to his knees, blood soaking the carpet in the club.

[Execute him!Richard! ]

Richard kicked him to the ground, and then pulled out the antlers on his head. This must have been very painful. Richard had never known that a man could make such a scream.

Finally, he stabbed Wallach through the neck with bloody antlers.

[Well done, Richard. It's getting late. Pack up and get ready to go home. Lavinia is still waiting for you at home. Stop by the pizza shop and buy some boxes of pizza for her.]

Chapter 29 The Innocent Man

"All the pizzas are discounted today, you want to ask why? There are not so many reasons, so many people died, just take it, man."

The owner of the pizza shop was a man with a big brown beard and glasses. There was no one in the shop. He showed a very friendly attitude towards the arrival of Richard, the only customer.

"Two eight-inch boxes of bacon pizza, and one ten-foot box of yellow peach and pineapple pizza."

Richard found a seat and sat down casually. He put his hands still stained with antlers into his sleeves, lowered his head and remained silent.

"You are really far-sighted, man. Let me tell you, this is the only one in Volsini that makes pizza. Just wait, it will be ready soon."

The boss beat his chest loudly, then hummed a little tune and walked into the kitchen.

“I have to say that since Colombians started to get involved in the art scene in Syracuse, a lot of things have changed, even the pizza has changed a lot.”

A man wearing a dark brown coat and a bowler hat sat opposite Richard. He looked depressed but at the same time tacky in life.

"Hello, sir, do you suggest I sit here?"

"You are.....?"

Richard raised his head and glanced at the other person casually, and then recognized the guy in front of him.

"My name is Vincenzios, you can call me Vin, a suicide."

"Yeah, but you look like you're enjoying your life."

Richard said.

"Because I think I am harmful, both my existence and my thinking are unintentional. I have always looked at all this from an overly sober perspective."

The two attitudes of low-key and aloofness are reflected in Wen at the same time, but Mr. Wen himself does not care about this at all.

"Are you awake? If that were the case, you wouldn't have come to me."

"I'm not here to find you, I just happened to be passing by and wanted to try some different flavors of pizza."

Mr. Wen paused and continued:

"By the way, my sobriety is based on civilization and life. I have cut myself off from civilization but am still free from civilization. I am neither willing to cheer for the struggling people nor to wave the flag for the evil people. So is life."

"......Can't understand."

Richard shook his head.

"To give a very simple example, I like to sit in a pizza shop and drink red wine. I don't belong to either red wine or pizza, and I even have a mocking attitude towards them."

"So Mr. Wen, what do you want to express?"

Richard asked.

"I don't know. I have been seeking this answer from this civilization, 'What exactly am I looking for?'"

Wen took off his hat and put it on the table, staring at Richard, as if he wanted to see something from him.

"I am currently looking for a person who is not guilty."

Wen finally said this.

"...Oh? There are still people on this earth who are innocent."

Richard looked deliberately surprised.

"Crime is born from law, law is born from order, order is born from civilization, and innocent people are born outside civilization."

"Are you talking about yourself?"

Richard asked rhetorically.

"Do not."

Vin shook his head and denied this.

"Crime is accompanied by punishment. The essential difference between him and me is this. The innocent person will not be punished in any way, but I have been waiting for civilization to deny myself. I am waiting for life to defeat myself."

"There will be no punishment...?"

Richard asked.

"The punishment here is not the imprisonment and death penalty brought by society, but the pain in his heart caused by the crime, which means he will not feel guilty."

Crime needs to be punished, which is the result of long-term brainwashing by civilization.

Take killing, for example. From the perspective of beasts, killing only kills a beast, and it is most common for one beast to kill another beast.

This pain comes from two aspects, one is the feeling that one has sinned, and the other is the fear of being punished. "

Wen waited patiently for Richard's answer.

"So you think so-called sinless people come from the wilderness like wild beasts?"

Richard became interested, and he understood who the innocent man Wen was talking about was talking about.

"He is not a beast. After all, beasts have always followed instincts. He is not. Sometimes he will give high-sounding excuses for his crimes, but more often he is confused. He even has love."

"......yes?"

"Well, it's time for me to go, Mr. Richard. Maybe we'll meet again next time."

When Richard came to his senses again, Vincentios had long disappeared. He had a premonition that he would see this "suicide" again in the future.

"Sir, your pizza is ready, do you need any sauce?"

"Thanks, some ketchup."

..........

Returning to the apartment and finding that Lavinia was not waiting for him, Richard found a note on the table.

"There's a nasty murder on Northeast Street. It's urgent. I'll go over there first and have a look. Don't forget to have dinner."

Richard had no choice but to put the pizza in the refrigerator and wait for Lavinia to come back to eat together.

Sitting on the sofa, emptying his mind and recalling the conversation with Wen, he suddenly felt a sore throat and coughed up a large amount of blood. Richard looked at the thick blood in his hand and found that it was mixed with a small amount of black particles.

...........

"Texas, have you seen the Ming killer with your own eyes? Can you tell me what kind of person he is? You can actually survive from his hands?!"

At Saluzzo's house, Lapland excitedly showed Texas the feathered beast mask of Richard's model that he had entrusted to the tailor shop to set a value.

"Did he wear this hood at the time?"

"No...that guy was wearing the mask of Zarakmon at that time, but it should be the same type of mask."

Texas, who was sitting on Lapland's bed, wanted to smoke, but thought that this was not his room, so he stuffed the cigarette into the cigarette box, but then he thought that the other person was Lapland, so he lit it again cigarettes.

"At that time...that guy gave me a very strange feeling. He had no intention of killing me. He and I just looked at each other for a few seconds."

Texas said blowing out a smoke ring.

"...That's a pity. Do you think you can beat him?"

"I can't beat him. I know what you want to write. Neither of us combined is a match for that guy."

"Tsk, I still want to touch him."

"By the way, where's the mole beast you raised?"

"I don't know. I'll ask that old guy later."

Chapter 30 Everything is fine

[Obtained stage simulation reward: Phil (fish)'s mask. ]

[Ability: Anyone who sees your mask will only speak poor machine-translated French for the next hour. ]

.........

[Since killing Wallach, you haven’t answered the phone for a while. I have to say that that period was really the most relaxing time for you]

[Get up with Lavinia during the day, enjoy breakfast with her, wipe each other's tails together during the rainy season, study the boring laws with her under the light at night, feel each other's body temperature under the quilt, and The other person grooms their hair. ]

[To be honest sometimes, this damn city should really build a statue for you. Thanks to your several massacres, those family gangs have restrained themselves a lot. They don’t even dare to have large-scale gatherings. Every day When talking about the masked killer, everyone had a look of fear on their faces. ]

[It’s really interesting that the city’s crime level is declining because of a serial killer, isn’t it? ]

[They're afraid of you, Richard. ]

.........

Until this weekend morning, when Richard was washing up, he coughed up a large amount of blood. He felt that his lungs were like an old accordion.

The violent cough even woke up Lavinia, who had wanted to sleep in. She came to Richard with a worried look, but the latter had already washed away the blood he coughed up.

"

Richard, your face is frighteningly white. You'd better go to the hospital immediately. "

Feeling Lavinia's tough attitude, Richard showed an enticing smile:

"Would you believe me if I said my gums were bleeding? Maybe I just didn't sleep well last night, or maybe it's just that the damn rainy season is about to end. After all, it's almost July."

"Yes, yes, you did not sleep well last night. You closed your eyes tightly and showed an expression of chest pain. When you held me in your arms, I listened to the hissing sound in your chest... ....”

Having said this, Lavinia touched Richard's face mournfully. His once piercing bright blue eyes had now become sunken and dull, and his vibrant and shiny skin had long since become pale and withered.

As the person who knew Richard best, Lavinia was observing his changes all the time.

"You're hiding something from me, Richard, and you don't think you can hide it from me, you're like..."

No longer asking for life, but all the way to death.

Seeing the pained expression on his beloved's face, Richard could only shrink back.

"Okay, I'm going to the hospital today. I'm going now."

........

In fact, there was no need to look. Richard didn't want to be an ostrich anymore. He should have guessed what it was.

Ore sickness, the most tragic source of disaster in all of Terra, when did he contract that damn thing?Thinking about it carefully, it seems that during the massacre in the hotel, the Exterminator's crossbow arrow hurt him.

His crossbow arrows have Originium components on them.

Richard didn't know much about ore disease. As mentioned before, the reason why he played Arknights was purely for the Beast Ear Girl. He didn't know much about ore disease, natural disasters, the Great Crisis of the Sea Successor, or some pre-civilization. I don’t understand this kind of setting at all.

Based on his physical condition, he deduced that ore disease seemed to be eroding him from the inside out.

Richard felt like he was walking on the edge of hell now, and he would fall if he wasn't careful.

Just walking aimlessly on the streets of Volsini, I accidentally found myself at the Miranda Theater.

Going to see a play?It’s no longer necessary. I don’t like to watch dramas. Lavinia will take her here when she has time. In fact, the two of them don’t like this form of art. They just want to experience an amazing experience like other normal lovers. An unforgettable date.

When this kind of city once again fell into the curtain of darkness and drizzle, Richard took up the umbrella Lavinia gave him and unknowingly came to the depths of the shade park. .

Under the dim street light, Richard was sitting on a bench, silently experiencing some inner emotion, when the black suffocating shadow condensed behind him:

"You dying mad wolf, how have you considered my opinion? As long as you promise me, I will give it to you..."

"roll....."

Just one word left Zaro speechless. Richard just felt a little tired now. He was almost so weak that he couldn't even open his eyes.

"Think about that woman and I will give you two more chances."

Since the last time he met Richard, Zaro understood that he was not afraid of the young man, but the phone call to him.

Zarro left silently. Richard lit up a cigarette, puffed away the smoke, and took a long puff. Through the lingering smoke, his thoughts drifted into the distance.

Would Lavinia worry about herself now?The answer is yes, but everyone is an adult again, and she still has her own things to do today.

It seems that a worker working for his family's factory accidentally cut his hand while operating a machine, but the factory owner refused to pay compensation because of improper operation.