US police: outlaws

Chapter 76 Blazing Fire Burns Everything

Chapter 77 Fiery Incineration of Everything

During the daytime, the three police officers at the station discovered that their superior was hiding in his office looking at his computer, which was unlike Lee Esen's usual behavior.

Mason Miles knocked on the door and came in to ask.

"Station manager, what's the schedule for today?"

"Same as usual, Brandon will take over the night shift. By the way, Mason, what are we going to do about the evil spirit?"

"ha?"

Mason, who was in his fifties, was dumbfounded. He had no idea what evil spirits were. He had heard and seen ghost stories and movies all his life, but he had never encountered a real one.

"Perhaps we could go to church?"

"Will it work?"

"I have no idea."

"Alright, you can leave now."

Mason Myers suspects his cheap boss is either haunted or being pranked.

Lee Ethan went ahead and actually went to Lancaster Cathedral to buy some so-called "blessed sacred objects." He didn't know if they would be useful, but it was better to be safe than sorry.

He also found out who the dirty thing in the house was: Amy Rose, who had been dead for 140 years.

Just like the scenes seen through Shining, she was abused by her husband, even insulted for being unfaithful. In the end, she killed her husband and children and committed suicide, hanging herself from a tree.

Over the past 140 years, at least a dozen people have been indirectly killed in this house, likely suffering the same fate as the Jenkins family.

After affecting the victim's mind for many days, it ultimately turned into a tragedy.

That evening, Lee Ethan declined Malena's invitation.

Now that the two FBI agents have been transferred, he can act more directly without too much concern.

It was almost 1 a.m. when Li Yisen left his house carrying a box. He didn't drive and just disappeared into the desert.

At 1:30 p.m., Ethan Lee made a long detour and returned to Jenkins' house. Wearing a hat and mask, he was difficult to recognize.

Looking at the locust tree, he didn't see his target at first glance. But when he blinked, a hideous ghostly figure suddenly appeared in front of Li Yisen, killing him face to face.

Without a second thought, Li Yisen poured the holy water he had bought over.

The imagined screams of the filthy creature did not occur. Instead, the ghostly figure vanished and reappeared hanging from the locust tree, its malevolent eyes fixed on the cursed person.

Seeing this, Li Yisen went to the locust tree and sprinkled holy water, threw crucifixes, and even used silverware at the swaying ghostly figure, but to no avail. He didn't know if these things were useless or if the so-called church was just a facade.

"Hey, Amy Rose, what are you so afraid of?"

The ghost didn't answer, but broke free of the ropes and lunged at Li Yisen. Even Li Yisen was a little scared of this face-to-face interaction.

"flutter"

The ghostly figure passed right through him, but Li Yisen was unharmed; only his system stats changed.

[Spirit 25—1]

Li Yisen was stunned for a moment.

"this one?"

Reducing his mental strength is indeed a powerful attack. Now that we're certain the opponent can't kill him, we can focus on our work.

Lee Ethan opened the gas tank cap and carried the tank around the house, splashing gasoline inside and out. The noise clearly startled Amy and Ross.

Suddenly all the doors and windows of the house were locked, and several figures crawled out of the house. They were the four members of the Jenkins family who had been brutally murdered. Each of them was still in the gruesome state before their deaths. It would be disgusting for an ordinary person to see, but Ethan Lee, who had killed countless people, didn't find it that scary.

He sprinkled holy water on the ghostly figure again, touched it with a crucifix and silverware, but still nothing worked. Frustrated, Li Yisen resorted to punching it, but the punch passed right through the ghostly figure.

"I'm in so much pain."

"Come down and keep me company."

Despite being surrounded by four ghostly figures, Li Yisen didn't feel any discomfort. It could be said that neither side could do anything to the other, so they could only carry the fuel tank and continue to spray gasoline with the four ghostly figures.

"Bang"

A closed door can be forcibly opened.

First, the master bedroom, the daughter's room, the son's room, the storage room, the kitchen, the bathroom—basically the entire house was covered in gasoline.

"Bang bang bang"

After three impacts, the already crumbling gate finally met its end.

Li Yisen carried the gasoline toward his final destination: the century-old locust tree.

"ah...."

Screams erupted as Amy Rose's ghostly figure lunged at Ethan Lee again and again, passing right through him each time. By the time Ethan Lee had finished spewing gasoline, his mental state had dropped by a full 4 points, leaving him with only 21 points of danger.

Lee Ethan took out a lighter and looked at the ghostly figure of Amy Rose facing him.

"Are there no other ways to influence reality besides closing the door?"

"

"

"Fine, I won't waste my breath on you. Judging from your reaction, this should be helpful."

Li Yisen threw the lighter onto the locust tree, and in an instant, the entire century-old tree was ignited, with flames spreading into the house along with the gasoline.

In just a few dozen seconds, the entire Jenkins residence was engulfed in flames, and he heard the answer he wanted: Amy Rose's screams.

The longer the locust tree burns, the louder its screams become, and even its rotting bark begins to burn and carbonize.

"die."

Amy Rose lunged at Ethan Lee again, and once again she passed right through him.

[Spirit - 1]

【Spirit 20】

As Li Yisen watched the ghostly figure struggle and disappear, he couldn't help but sigh.

"I didn't expect it to be based on a similar principle to earthbound spirits; you can just burn the object that possesses it."

Lee Ethan took out his notebook to record the details of what had just happened, such as how the ghostly figure also looked like it was on fire, but it couldn't burn people to death.

As the house began to collapse, the neighbors noticed the fire and not only called 911 but also brought buckets of water to help.

Unfortunately, the town didn't have a professional fire brigade, and it was 1 a.m.

When Li Yisen arrived at the scene under a different identity along with the volunteer firefighters, the entire house was almost completely burned down, and the locust tree was reduced to charcoal.

Because they are not government departments, community self-service fire stations must also be under the command of police stations.

"Gentlemen, can the fire be put out?"

The two volunteers shook their heads.

"We could tell from the smell that it was gasoline burning. If the fire hydrants had water when it rained a few days ago, it would have been fine, but unfortunately there's no water now, so we can only create a firebreak."

Li Yisen said with a regretful expression.

"The golf course uses 5000 cubic meters of water every day, more than our entire town uses, yet we don't even have water to fight the fire."

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The two volunteers also wanted to complain, but their children worked at that resort and lived off the golf course, so they had no right to criticize the other party.

This house should have been reclaimed by the local government and become a public resource, but now even that's been skipped.

Suddenly, a system notification appeared.

[Ding! A 140-year-old serial murder case has been solved, earning a 4-star reward.]

[Ding! Extracting a 4-star reward from the killer's body, obtaining the 4-star Mind-Body Type skill, Illusion]

[Illusion: Consumes 10 Spirit points to create an illusion of yourself, controlled by your consciousness. It can only move within a 100-meter radius of the creation point. Except for being unable to touch physical objects, it is lifelike and can be captured by a camera. Lasts for 1 hour. Spirit +4]

[Note: Heart-shaped enhancements can share all 1-star rewards.]

【Strength: 30】

[Endurance: 28]

[Agility: 25]

【Spirit: 29】

Lee Yisen was stunned. What the hell?

Idealistic skills, illusions?

Isn't this the same skill that Ghost just used? And the enhancement materials can be shared.

Now that Li Yisen is the station chief, he can earn at least two 1-star rewards a day, and sometimes as many as five. Over 10 days, that's a total of 37.

Each.

Physical fitness (1 star): 11; Skills (1 star): 8; Desires (1 star): 39; Knowledge (1 star): 21.

Physique and skills are urgently needed but cannot be used, but Desire and Knowledge are 60, which means you can level up in a few days.