Chapter 515: Chapter 515: Furnace (20)_1 Chapter 515: Chapter 515: Furnace (20)_1 The punishnt for failing the mission is actually exponentially increasing?
In the darkness, Fu Qian remained silent for several seconds after confirming the loss of his SAN Points.
It had to be said, the price for going against the grain this ti was indeed much greater than anticipated.
At the sa ti, in those few seconds, all the tasks he had undertaken along the way flashed rapidly through his mind, leading him to a possible conclusion.
Not counting the escape from Furnace, this was precisely the sixth task since his arrival.
And when he failed the first task, only 1 SAN Point was deducted.
Using the simplest algorithm to find a pattern, if the punishnt for failing each task doubled, then the sixth task would be exactly 32 points.
That’s not good news at all!
Fu Qian was filled with emotion.
Even worse, the punishnt wasn’t accumulating with failures, but increased exponentially regardless of success or failure.
If the punishnt indeed followed this pattern, then the punishnt for failing the next task would be 64.
[Current task updated: Evade Chief Stan’s pursuit until dawn]
Just as he thought of this, a new task prompt appeared in his mind at the right ti.
Chief Stan, is he the one leading the hunt against ?
Confronted with the new task prompt, Fu Qian was pensive.
Without a doubt, the content of the tasks also changed with the evolving situation.
If he had chosen to surrender earlier, the next task certainly wouldn’t be this one but more likely to clear his suspicions.
There was still a long ti till dawn, and thanks to abandoning his car and proceeding on foot earlier, he had bought himself so ti.
However, without a car, his range of movent was greatly reduced.
Chief Stan’s n would likely set up checkpoints around where the car was abandoned, then begin a grid by grid search.
Even so, Fu Qian was confident he could handle it.
Now he was concerned with another question—why?
Why was Chief Stan so urgently looking for him?
Such intense reaction must certainly have a special reason.
If the punishnt for task failure truly was rising exponentially, then as tasks progressed, the margin for error in his actions would beco narrower.
After the loss of those 32 SAN Points, he was now left with only 185 points, aning he could only fail one more ti, any further failures would directly result in idiocy.
He didn’t have much ti left!
So, simply completing the tasks wasn’t enough; he needed to find a way out of Furnace as soon as possible.
And as he had analyzed before, the probability of the police reacting this quickly just due to Joseph’s matter was very small.
Being targeted by Chief Stan must have other reasons.
Given his limited retained mories, after much thought, the only issue he could recall that might be problematic was the corpse behind the door in the storage room.
Did Chief Stan know about that body and has been silently keeping track?
Did he suspect Fu Qian and Daniel might have discovered the body behind the door, causing such an extre reaction?
Fu Qian silently pondered this possibility.
If it was true, it would only an the people from this place had plenty of secrets!
While he was reflecting, a police car approached not too far ahead and slowly stopped by the roadside.
Under the streetlight, a thin-faced middle-aged man got out of the back seat of the police car.
Even though his hair was sowhat graying, his gaze was extrely sharp and commanding.
Was this Chief Stan?
Fu Qian observed the uniform on the middle-aged man and concealed himself further into the darkness.
After the latter looked around and found nothing, he eventually ascended the stairs surrounded by others.
For dea, this was indeed a long night!
Watching the group’s movents, Fu Qian thought to himself.
The man here was obviously looking for dea, and there was a ninety-nine percent chance he was trying to find out his own whereabouts from her.
In fact, if he had followed the hints strictly, he should be upstairs waiting for him right now.
Pressing his foot down, Fu Qian confird that his wound was not too much of a hindrance and stealthily made his way out using the shadows.
He wasn’t worried about dea, as neither she nor Daniel knew much about him.
Moreover, due to the previous incident, dea would surely be desperately covering up and probably wouldn’t be too honest.
For him, the first thing to do at the mont was undoubtedly to get as far away from the area as possible before it was sealed off.
But that was far from enough, considering this might be his only margin for error, he must co up with a way to confirm more information.
In fact, Fu Qian already had an idea for that.
As the saying goes, it’s easiest to catch fish in murky waters, to expose more information, one naturally has to stir up the waters first.
After sneaking a distance in the darkness, Fu Qian flagged down a taxi and gave an address.
The taxi driver was a bald, muscular man who squinted at Fu Qian before finally signaling for him to get in.
“Right here is fine,”
After a while, Fu Qian signaled for the driver to stop at a secluded spot by the side of the road.
After paying the fare, he pulled out two banknotes and handed one to the driver.
“Wait for here, I’ll be out within fifteen minutes,”
“Only fifteen minutes,”
The driver took the banknote and looked up at the building by the roadside.
He clearly didn’t like Fu Qian’s tone, but the allure of the banknote was infinite.
“Good.”
Fu Qian didn’t say much and got out of the car directly.
Of course, he didn’t just pick a random place to flee; the building not far away was Daniel’s ho.
This was sothing Fu Qian had specifically confird while andering around after dinner.
At this mont, one could imagine that Daniel’s family was probably very busy.
So, after getting out of the cab, Fu Qian didn’t actually go to the door to disturb them; instead, he found a spot out of the driver’s line of sight and concealed himself.
Then, after about fifteen minutes, Fu Qian saw the headlights of the taxi he arrived in light up, and without hesitation, it drove away.
Clearly, considering that he hadn’t co out on ti, the driver wasn’t planning to wait any longer.
This should be about right,
Fu Qian nodded to himself, thinking.
Taking a taxi to escape was only a matter of ti before getting caught.
He never intended to fool the police with this move; in fact, he did it to make sure they found out.
Given the current situation, Chief Stan would almost certainly get feedback from the bald driver—
“Yes, I did drive such a person.”
“He arrived at his destination and asked to wait fifteen minutes for him, saying he would return quickly, but unfortunately, no one showed up even after the ti was up, so I drove off.”
And any normal person hearing such a description would have an obvious reaction—they were associated with Daniel’s family, visited in the dead of night, and then never ca out again.
And once Chief Stan accepted this scenario, it would be ti to test the strength of Daniel’s family.
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