The aroma of charcoal and barbecue floated on the street, and at this time, some barbecue stalls were already open. Even though it's freezing cold, there are still many people sitting outside. It's really amazing how adaptable people are. Lu Ning passed by each stall. She didn't disappear directly because she wanted to inquire about various information. Liao Hongli was not a local. If an outsider lived here, he would always leave some traces.
For example, she herself, who is obviously a foreigner, will be immediately recognized by her foreign accent when she goes shopping.
"Are there many people from out of town coming recently? Are people like me obvious?" Lu Ning pretended to be casual and asked the boss who was packing bags.
"Not many. Who can run out in this cold weather? There are not many like you, girl. Isn't this the copycat crime that's been causing trouble recently? Everyone is watching, if there is anything particularly strange When outsiders come, they will know everything."
"It seems there is no more?"
"No, no." The boss waved his hand, "If it weren't for the fact that you are just a little girl, I guess everyone would be wary of you now."
"But there are no women among the copycats, right?"
The boss glanced at her and said a little funny: "What sizes are they? With your skinny arms and legs, you can't beat a boy."
Lu Ning laughed, took the snacks she bought, threw them into her mouth and left.
As expected, Liao Hongli left no trace on the surface. Now everyone is on guard against people who act similarly. The sudden appearance of an outsider will definitely attract attention.
He uses his powers to disguise himself. Lu Ning has seen Tang Ling's abilities used. In comparison, Liao Hongli's abilities may be inferior, but they definitely have their own uniqueness. Lu Ning thought for a moment and looked around. If he thought about it in the opposite direction...
"Boss, business is good?"
She said hello to a barbecue stall owner, then lowered her head and ordered a lot of skewers. The boss was quite happy to see such a big deal. He took out the skewers still covered in ice from the foam box and started to melt them in the stove.
"Wait a moment, little girl."
"It's okay, don't be in a hurry." Lu Ning smiled, "Looks like business is good, the skewers have to be replaced with frozen ones."
"Hey, where is it? It's all because of the weather. My string is absolutely fresh, but it's too cold."
"It's okay, just ensure the taste."
"rest assured!"
"How are the customers?" Lu Ning turned to look, "You still have to set up a stall in such a cold weather?"
"You have to make some money." The boss began to slowly unwrap the melted skewers and said with a wry smile, "You said the weather is really tough. Those who can come are all regular customers, and some of them are probably... I feel like it’s cold and I won’t come out at all.”
"Really?" Lu Ning said with a smile, "Will anyone still want to order takeout?"
"Yes, that is, we have no choice but to earn this hard-earned money. Those who are rich can eat delicious food and drink spicy food at home." The boss said helplessly. At this moment, a young boy ran out and stuffed more food into the boss's hand. Ordered an order.
"Look, it comes as it comes. Business has to be done." The boss smiled mockingly.
Lu Ning also smiled and sat on a chair next to her, waiting leisurely for her skewers to be served.
She didn't need to actually look for anyone, knowing the information was a start. The "Mountain and River Map" that Zhao Chenshuang gave her can record all the people she has met. This magic weapon is more effective than many abilities. She only walked a small distance on the street, and the map has naturally expanded to a large area. Range, those marked expand her field of vision, although they cannot be used to mark her again.
The sky quickly became dark, and the stalls everywhere began to light up. Lu Ning left quietly after settling his accounts. Generally speaking, there is only one of the most prosperous main roads in a block, and because of the gathering of people here, All restaurants are the places with the largest flow of people.
Lu Ning sat there for an hour. Everyone who dared to come out in this weather was basically included in her map.
Strictly speaking, the investigative techniques she learned were not detectives, just social investigation techniques. However, it is very useful in finding people in busy cities. Common methods, such as checking people's registrations, must have been tried by Emmy and others. The method she is now using is unconventional.
After finding a place where no one was around, Lu Ning opened the map of mountains and rivers and glanced at the moving ink dots on it.
People were moving in and out of houses and across the streets. Some houses have stagnant ink spots, which are those who have returned home to rest. Some of the people still running on the streets were store clerks who had to deliver food in this freezing cold weather.
The trajectory lines are very clear.
Lu Ning raised her head and walked towards a quiet street. A slightly old house was not conspicuous among the rows of broken houses on this street. Lu Ning glanced at the mailbox outside the house. It was already full. No one had taken the letters for at least a week.
There was someone in the room, and Lu Ning could see the anger in the room. But there is no dead air. If it were not for the investigation of the case, within [Requiem]'s field of vision, this house would be normal. At most, the owner is just a little lazy and doesn't want to come out to collect letters on a cold day.
But not now.
Lu Ning recalled the traces on the map. The direction of all the ink dots showed that in this house, some people passed through the door but did not enter the house.
She walked over, raised her arms, and knocked on the door twice.
After a while, the door of the house was opened. A timid girl looked out, but there was no one outside the door. She looked around, hesitated, and closed the door in fear.
Lu Ning, who had activated her invisibility, had already walked into the house. The interior of this house is actually very crowded, as if things accumulated over history have been stuffed into every corner. Old furniture that smells musty, a damp kitchen and toilet, yellowed and old newspapers and impurities, rusty tools and metal boxes. The timid girl walked back to a shabby low table. There was only a bowl of gruel and a plate of pickles on the table. The girl sat back on her seat, picked up the porridge bowl and sipped the porridge.
wrong.
Lu Ning glanced around and found no trace of the previous takeout delivery, and there wasn't even any smell left in the air.
When something goes wrong, there must be a monster.
Lu Ning walked around the room silently, touching the floor, walls, and any place where a room could be hidden. However, she did not find anything special after such inspection. She saw a wedding photo and some old photos on the bedside of the bedroom, including the girl outside and her parents. These photos looked old, and the most recent ones were from a year ago.
The bed...it seemed like no one had slept on it for a long time, but there was still a messy bedding on the small bed next to it. What about the child's parents?
Lu Ning became more and more confused. She walked back and saw that the girl had finished eating. She packed up the tableware on the table and took it to the kitchen to wash it.
"Um?"
Something is... not normal.
Lu Ning frowned and looked at the girl. She walked into the kitchen with clumsy steps holding a bowl, where she turned on the faucet, the sound of water gurgling, and she began to wash the dishes.
Lu Ning realized that the source of the abnormality was on the ground. Many boards on the old wooden floor had cracked. She originally thought that these cracks were due to the age, but looking at the new cracks on the floor, Lu Ning couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
"Activity" ability?
The most outrageous guess everyone had before was that Liao Hongli used the ability of active preservation to remove other people's organs or skin and cover it on his body. He even used this method to conceal his identity and replace his own blood, bones, and flesh... But now It seems that this ability may have been twisted into an even weirder state.
Lu Ning took out a short sword from under her clothes. The two daggers Zhao Chenshuang gave her were engraved with names as well as the records of sword cultivators, and their functions were not limited to killing. This dagger called "White Dew Turns to Frost" can rapidly drop the temperature within a certain range and put people who are suffering from hypothermia into a state of suspended animation.
The girl had just finished washing the dishes when she fainted and fell due to the sudden drop in temperature. She made a loud noise when she fell to the ground.
Lu Ning waited for a moment. The loud noise did not attract anyone, and the girl did faint.
"...It seems that he won't shed tears until he sees the coffin."
She walked over, squatted down, raised her hands and pulled the girl's tight clothes apart a little. There seems to be nothing wrong with the girl's torso at first glance, but if you look closely, you can see that it is covered with dense red blood marks, as if... it has been torn open and forcibly sewn together.
An unknown anger rose from Lu Ning's heart. She rarely gets angry now. After all, after seeing so many weird and bizarre things, she can ignore many cruel things. Even the desecration of corpses can be accepted by Lu Ning. But now it's more than just desecration of a corpse.
"You...come out!"
Lu Ning traced the blood trace with her finger, and fine lightning was transmitted into the girl's body along the trace. She could clearly feel that the abnormal density and thickness of flesh and blood had blocked the transmission of lightning. This was the thunder and lightning of the Day of Judgment. It usually took ten people to be killed before the thunder and lightning could be transformed. At this moment, it was actually unable to penetrate into the girl's body.
Fifteen teenagers killed someone?
How many people did Liao Hongli kill? It’s not this number a long time ago, right? No, he probably didn't actually kill anyone, he just took... a part of everyone.
Lu Ning increased the power of the lightning in her hand. She finally understood the difference in abilities between Liao Hongli and Tang Ling. Tang Ling only changed flesh and blood and freely changed its nature. Liao Hongli can make flesh and blood maintain its activity in any posture, allowing dead people to exist alive.
She couldn't even decide whether the girl in front of her was a living person or a corpse.
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In the dark room, Liao Hongli casually placed a piece of ribcage bone on the wall, then looked up at the thunder and lightning seeping out of the wall.
"oops……"
He forced an evil smile, left the operating table, walked to an escalator made of ribs nearby, stretched out his hand to grab it, and started to climb out. In the process, his body began to deform and twist, as if he was passing through a narrow passage, but soon, he slipped out like a snake.
In front of a small room with a crystal, Liao Hongli's deformed head poked here, and then smiled strangely.
"Finding this place at this time, they actually found me. It seems that those supernatural teams are not all just slackers... It's a pity."
Lu Ning suddenly felt her ankle being grabbed by something. She frowned. The girl's limbs were all within her sight. When she lowered her head, she discovered that a new line had "grown" along the bottom of the girl's ribs. The arm, this arm looks thicker and the skin is slightly rough, more like a man's arm.
She raised her hand and cut off the arm at the wrist with a sword.
His strength has not weakened. As expected, Liao Hongli can use his "activity" to do such a thing.
Even this kind of power also penetrated "Jing Ming's" defense, because Jing Ming would resist harmful attacks. However, Liao Hongli ensured the vitality of her flesh and blood, and her life characteristics were as normal as ever, which also bypassed "Jing Ming's" Judgment - The leg she was holding was tightened and made smaller. She could feel her flesh and bones being compressed and becoming dense, but other than that, everything was normal.
Her eyes widened, and the compressive force even began to spread up her legs. At the same time, the rest of the limbs and bones began to poke out of the girl's unconscious body.
I'm afraid that's how those people were kidnapped. Liao Hongli didn't have to show up at all. He could take people apart and put them back together, and even compress himself into a human body.
Lu Ning listened to her compressed voice and began to let the other party take action. She activated the alarm signal on her body, but she did not expect anyone to come over and solve Liao Hongli's problem. If she had not seen this ability with her own eyes, it would be unimaginable.
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Even if he can maintain the activity of flesh and blood and compress flesh and blood, what about an inanimate thing?
Lu Ning glanced at it, and her clothes were also compressed, but her two daggers were spiritual objects, and the roll of mountains and rivers map were left outside.
The moment Lu Ning was pulled into the girl's body from under her ribs, Lu Ning activated her "Quietness" active defense ability.
As a top-notch defensive equipment, if someone could find a loophole in the passive defense logic and break it, it would be too unworthy of its name.
The arm that was trying to twist Lu Ning into a ball and deprive him of his fighting power suddenly found that Lu Ning, who could be easily manipulated before, was now as hard as steel and could not be moved at all. Liao Hongli, who was in control, was just stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that he had fallen into a trap, and the other party just followed his ability to get in.
He immediately raised his hand to grab the rib cage bone stuck in the wall, but before he could touch the weapon, a bolt of lightning penetrated his chest.
“It’s easy to ask God but hard to send God away, don’t you know?”
