Capítulo 1752: Chapter 1752: Deducing the Cause from the Effect
Enbo’s information is easy to find. Even if his house has been demolished, just the direct association with the na “Ember” prompts players to dig up all his information without leaving a trace.
Enbo was an orphan, raised by the community. Later, he caught the wave of district developnt and was assigned a governnt job, but his luck ran out when he got injured at work, hurting his leg and becoming a cripple. Since then, he beca silent and withdrawn, avoiding social interactions.
He was dejected for a long ti. Later, governnt personnel visited him for consolation, urging him to work hard, promising to introduce him to a partner once he had a job. Motivated for a while, he took on so jobs that did not require agile movents. After discovering large amber, he beca sought after for a ti. However, he seed uninterested in the affections of won and the governnt’s arrangents, rejecting them outright, and even reacted violently, injuring others when repeatedly pursued. After that, he stopped working altogether, living off social welfare funds. Without family or friends, he often drank excessively and died within a few years.
A plain and humble life.
Within his social circle, there weren’t even a few won, and he had no connection whatsoever to young girls. Therefore, trying to find the “Ember Girl” from this angle offers no concrete clues, leaving a carpet search of Tingting Flower Town and other places called “Ember” as the only option.
Unfortunately, this thod proved ineffective. Players ca and went in waves, yet no one found any clues.
After understanding the origin of the na “Ember,” players first rushed to the mine where the large amber was discovered, then to Enbo’s demolished residence, followed by the unreliable local leads regarding Master Soran.
It was essentially a blind search, since no one knew who the “girl” referred to, including those like Xu Huo, who stumbled upon clues by chance.
The identity of the “girl” could not be confird until the painting revealed it. Many parts of his deductive chain lacked certain inevitability due to too many possibilities for each link, making them hard to eliminate. Up to this point, reversing the causal inference was the only option.
With the assumption that “Xiashi Duolaiti” is the “girl” and Jiusang City is the premise of “Ember,” transferring the son’s ashes to the blind old lady in nearby Sanhui City was one of the participants. Master Soran was a witness. At the ti, Fu Niu Village was not suitable for hiding after Xia Xi’s disappearance, making it more reasonable to hide in a nearby city, indicating that the last place “Xiashi Duolaiti” stayed was likely Ember Town.
Master Soran knew about this matter, linking to her sudden change in attitude towards the painting. It’s likely she learned about it shortly after the event, not long afterward. Considering their proximity, it wasn’t surprising that Soran, who grew up being watched by the blind old lady, harbored the idea of visiting in her stead due to the illness that prevented the old lady from visiting her two sons. After a decade-long companionship, Xu Huo assud here that Master Soran knew the final resting place of the blind old lady’s sons.
So, to sort things out, the old lady used illness as an excuse to secretly go to Fu Niu Village, and Master Soran coincidentally went there for a grave visit, encountering the kidnapping case. For so reason, she knew but didn’t reveal it, thus creating the artwork “Ember Girl.”
Feeling for the blind old lady and sympathizing with the victims’ families could be reasons for Master Soran to bury the secret deeply, and concerning Xiashi Duolaiti, perhaps she found herself powerless…
The blind old lady’s target was Xiashi Duolaiti. From the aftermath, it was not a spur-of-the-mont decision but a preditated act. The old lady stayed in Tingting Flower Town, whether she beca a player or not, she definitely had an accomplice.
This accomplice could easily track Xiashi Duolaiti’s movents, making surveillance and actions convenient. Over a hundred years ago, Zone 019’s technology advanced rapidly, making it easy to monitor movents, but challenging to hide the person after the abduction, with Ember Town being the most suitable hiding place near Fu Niu Village.
The surrounding mines were essentially controlled by mining groups, making them likely locations to search for people, and relatively easy to search. The primary targets would certainly be these areas. According to the information from Mr. Yue, the people who kidnapped Xiashi Duolaiti left no traces. Normally, one would think it was done by players, and when confronting players, it’s all about being swift and precise — a mutual approach. Perhaps at the ti, Matley Duolaiti thought soone was using this to make a demand.
Yet, after months of searching without results, it didn’t align with player action patterns, resembling a retribution against Matley Duolaiti.
The district governnt failed to find anyone, and considering the “Ember Girl,” perhaps they didn’t even find a body, suggesting the kidnapper never intended to show themselves, which is decisive in two usual cases: no intention to negotiate, aiming only for kidnapping or murder, or being too weak and overly risky to expose themselves, insufficient to deliver a severe blow to Matley Duolaiti.
In fact, not recovering the body indeed highly impacted Matley Duolaiti. Later data on the USB shows that Duolaiti utilized substantial connections to push for Positioning Chip developnt. Xia Xi Duolaiti’s silent disappearance also brought unprecedented threats to other governnt personnel, for the ones silently watching them had no plans to communicate, leading to a factional struggle lasting about a decade, forcing Matley Duolaiti to retire early.
Thus, the conclusion is that the kidnapper was weak with accomplices and by making Xia Xi Duolaiti’s fate unknown, aid to inflict the heaviest blow to the district governnt. They might even have a mindset of vengeance, deliberately releasing Xiashi Duolaiti back to Fu Niu Village or nearby.
Considering this information, the first possible location associated with “Ember Girl” is the grave of the blind old lady’s son. However, since she had protested against the district governnt and mining groups, she was a noticeable target, likely scrutinized post-event by governnt players — Tingting Flower Town should have been checked too; otherwise, how would the hospital records be so detailed. Xu Huo had also ruled this out earlier.
After eliminating the grave, the second possibility is “Ember Town.” There surely existed a companion of the old lady in Ember Town at that ti, given there were no renowned players in Ember Town, and requiring a hidden location for people, this companion was very likely a local resident of Ember Town.
Involving locals ans the number of people is significant; however, the focus targets are the personnel related to the then-victims.
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