The people from Rufus Real Estate did not expect Yin He to be so fast. Almost as soon as they settled Lu Ning on the front foot, the nursing home was surrounded by people on the back foot.
"Hurry up and call the person in charge!" The captain of this team knew that his skills and status were not at the level of the person in charge, so he quickly contacted Parker, the person in charge of Rufus Real Estate, and also ordered his subordinates to hide him. a little.
When he took action, the door was roughly pushed open by two security guards. Yin He took a step and walked in. Her expression was stern, and she seemed to be a little emotional.
"Mr. Yin! Mr. Yin! This is where Rufus Real Estate manages..."
"Take it."
The captain and several others who came out to stop people were directly held down by the security guards brought by Yin He before they had a chance to speak. She glanced at these people: "I will verify your identities, but someone must bear the responsibility for kidnapping the guests we jointly invited in the film and television base."
"Kidnapping? Mr. Yin! How can we kidnap? We are just doing routine inspections. How can we kidnap anyone..."
Yin He completely ignored the captain's words, leaving a few people to control the situation, and took the remaining people into the sanatorium.
She held the tablet in her hand, ran her fingers over a list of shot numbers, quickly settled on a few numbers, and started playing back the footage. Lu Ning's trajectory was recorded intermittently within the shooting range of each camera.
Although Chenfeng Group controls the surveillance network, it is limited to agreements with other investors and cannot be densely deployed in all buildings. It is only available in some public places and corridor spaces. But with Yin He's ability to summarize, a few clips were enough to draw a route. She turned two turns and walked to a relatively remote corridor. She made a gesture, and the security guards rushed over to guard the corridor. Every door on.
As the person in charge, everyone has a master key card for the film and television base. Yin He walked through the corridor and opened every door here with the door card, but there was no one in the room behind each door.
"The transfer was quite fast?" Yin He was a little surprised.
"Not very fast."
The wall at the end of the corridor suddenly opened. Lu Ning rubbed her eyes and stood behind the door. Behind her lay two sleeping men, not far from the secret passage.
Sleep injections are just a means to get out of danger. The dosage is only enough to make people sleep for about an hour, which may vary slightly depending on the physical condition. Lu Ning, who was too alert, couldn't sleep for that long and woke up during the transfer process. Out of the instinct of self-protection, she knocked down the two men first, then fumbled around to find the switch that opened the secret passage, and answered Yin He's question when she heard it.
"Um?"
"What's so surprising? You must know my whereabouts... No, even your coming here might be Yin Xiu's instruction, right? But thank you anyway. Anyone would be a little unhappy to be called out to do something so late."
"Within responsibility."
Yin He answered calmly, but it could be heard that the slightest bit of unhappiness when he entered the door was no longer there.
"Who are these people?" Lu Ning looked around,
"I'm sorry, this is our internal matter. I will ensure that similar situations will not happen in the future." Yin He was very strict about this aspect. She asked the people next to her to lift the two sleeping people out. , then studied the secret passage again, and then took Lu Ning back to the hotel.
At this moment, it was already early in the morning, and the surroundings fell into silence.
"Tomorrow... I still have work, ha--" Lu Ning yawned before the sleepiness of just waking up passed.
"There is an event tomorrow. You need to go to the designated location for the event. You don't have to do the filming of the TV series. This can be considered a small break. Everyone can enjoy it."
"Activity? What activity?"
"The official statement is that it is a press conference to make a general announcement about our current affairs. But overall it should be a celebration, and it is also to divert public attention."
"You say this so directly?"
"I don't think you can't tell." Yin He looked at Lu Ning, "Besides your job, you have shown a lot of special qualities. Even the chairman has paid special attention to you, and I will definitely change my view of you. .”
Yin Xiu is quite a person.
However, since he has become an ally, and this is the crisis that Lu Ning resolves, if he can't even show this, Lu Ning will simply give up on alliance with such people.
After returning to the hotel, Lu Ning did not see Qu Yi in the room. She was silent for a moment and did not send a message to the other party. After the second phase of the mission was announced, everyone probably had their own concerns. As a figure related to the Xunyou Sisterhood who was specifically listed in the mission, Qu Yi is now afraid He must also be in a very difficult situation.
But if the other party doesn't come to request, Lu Ning doesn't plan to provide any help.
This scene was more chaotic than any before. Lu Ning now barely had the ability to protect herself, and it was just self-protection. She didn't even understand what the most powerful threat in the world was. At the same time, the real fatal factor behind the fatal shooting has not yet shown its fangs - a thing emphasized by the distribution center in the scene naming cannot be just a background board.
She fell asleep again, but her sleep today was not particularly restful.
In a frozen village, a candle as tall as a first-floor building was burning quietly. In the strong wind, the dead villagers were lying around the candles, forming a strange scene of worship. However, Lu Ning was not looking down from a bird's eye view. She saw that she was really standing here.
"Ha...are you finally willing to open your mouth?" Lu Ning felt the coldness around her and quickly understood what was going on here.
【——hiss——his——】
There was a whistle in the cold wind, and the wind from a distant place swirled in the sky, gradually forming a dark black pupil.
Lu Ning didn't raise her head, she just continued to stand where she was. No matter how cruel Dong is, he still has to rely on her to develop his power in the real world, and to find him, these mantras probably don't have many believers.
[Your consciousness is damaged. 】
The candlelight flickered, and a very gentle voice sounded in Lu Ning's ears.
"That's funny, I thought you couldn't hold a conversation in a human way."
[Parsing language is not too difficult. Changing the way is more difficult. We are here because of you, and we don’t want to disappear. 】
The candlelight flickered. Although the voice was gentle, the way of speaking was indeed like a crude imitation by someone who has not yet mastered the art of language. However, Lu Ning had no trust in the mantras from the beginning, no matter what voice they used.
"Impaired consciousness?"
[The injured usually don’t realize it, but we don’t want us to be equally hurt for this reason. You are the means to keep us awake, not the time to separate. 】
This was probably the price she paid when she came out of Wu End Theater. Lu Ning had been prepared for this and was not surprised. She thought for a while and asked: "What do you want me to do? Let's go straight to the main topic?"
[You are too close to danger. We think you will not survive. 】
Lu Ning decided not to care about the other party's strange way of speaking.
"You know, I won't listen to you. I have my own purpose in going to the Endless Theater this time. I will never..."
[We remind you, you choose to accept it or not. The mantra is different from people, but the mantra still seeks to survive. We dare not because of fear. 】
"You don't dare?" Lu Ning was slightly surprised, "What are you afraid of? You are the truth. From your knowledge, there is no concept of fear..."
[This word comes from you, can understand, and can be described. We live and die, but desires remain. We devour our own kind in order to grow ourselves. Before the oceans came to land, we were not the masters of this world. 】
"You really want to dominate this world." Lu Ning said.
[Doubtful, aren’t you also dominating the world? How is your tribe different from ours? 】
"It's obvious, isn't it? If we are the masters now, then you who want to replace us are the enemies. Since you can understand fear, you should also understand the concept of enemies, right?"
[Understood, but this has nothing to do with now. After a long process, even longer than your life, you are still relevant to us today. This dream is a reminder that there will be no next time, and the things we fear are looking for us. Note that if you are discovered, you will also be killed by the enemy and all your efforts will be wasted. 】
Lu Ning frowned, but before she could ask any more questions, the wind in the sky suddenly became violent, and then after the candlelight flickered, Lu Ning had already left this dreamland.
No... was it really just a dream? She remembered that she seemed to have dreamed about the destruction of that village...
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When she woke up in the morning, Lu Ning felt that she was extremely energetic.
She didn't know what the hell those mantras were doing, but since she was in good spirits, she didn't think about the side effects for the time being.
Qu Yi was not in the room. She did not come back when Lu Ning fell asleep yesterday, and she was still not there when she got up today. There were no signs of use on the quilt at all. Lu Ning just glanced at it and began to organize the things for today's departure.
From any angle, today was not going to be a peaceful day.
When she was about to go out, she received another text message from Yin Xiu, telling her that she, Qin Zhilan and Wei Jia had successfully left Wu Ending Theater, and reminded her that she must go to the reception today.
In other words, there is indeed something wrong with this reception?
The reception was located in the largest auditorium in Area 1. Lu Ning just got closer and saw a large number of people gathered there. Although they were all blocked outside the auditorium, the enthusiasm of this group of people remained undiminished. There were several large screens outside that were broadcasting the situation inside the auditorium in real time.
The reporters who were invited were already taking their seats, while the staff on the stage were still busy setting up the arrangements. Lu Ning walked up the steps and was stopped by security, but she was allowed to pass after showing her ID.
Walking inside, Lu Ning discovered that except for the reception area where the photo was taken, other places were actually quite winding. Except for the large auditorium area in the middle, this building was surrounded by three floors of corridors, and these three floors of corridors were made of There are some small meeting rooms in the corridors on each floor in a stepped downward manner from the outside to the inside. Not all people who came in went directly into the inner auditorium. Many people took advantage of the early hour to take pictures in the corridor outside.
Some of these people have press credentials, some do not.
Soon, she saw Ke Daolin and Mei Yu in the crowd. The two people were not in a hurry to go in. They were walking in the outermost corridor and taking pictures. Lu Ning walked over and was discovered by Ke Daolin.
"Morning."
"Morning, did you guys act together yesterday?"
"Mei Yu and I have been together, but no one else has seen it. We are currently collecting relevant information. The sooner we complete the task, the sooner we can save worry."
"Did you find any results? I also went to investigate yesterday."
"We found two or three possible locations, such as the Sight Convenience Store we had seen and the location of the Cockroach Supermarket, but we didn't dare to go in. In addition, we also tried to find other locations. To be honest, it's harder to find than you think." Ke Daolin replied.
"Have you seen Qu Yi?"
"We separated after we left the set." Mei Yu whispered, "I think she has been a little distracted recently."
"Any situation is possible in the scene." Ke Daolin stopped Mei Yu from continuing, "There must be something special happening in today's press conference, right?"
"I think there must be. This kind of node-type event is always inseparable from a turn of events. Well, it's not clear whether it's a turn of events or a change for the worse." Lu Ning shrugged.
"It officially starts at ten o'clock. We are going to look here to see if there is any place similar to the previous one." Ke Daolin gave a "you know" look, "Do you want to look for it with us?"
"No, thank you. I have some other ideas that I want to verify. If they succeed, I will tell you." Lu Ning declined Ke Daolin's invitation. Then, she bid farewell to the two of them and walked into the corridor on the second floor.
In contrast, there are much fewer people in the second-floor corridor. After all, except for the difference in terrain, there is actually no difference between the two corridors. You will get tired of seeing them too much. Lu Ning only walked around for a while, and left after seeing that there was no mantra-like ritual arrangement here. However, when checking the corridor on the third floor, Lu Ning finally discovered some clues.
Although it is not a ritual trace of the mantra, there seems to be some other imprints. Some shallow patterns were carved into the solid, brand-new floor with very inconspicuous scratches.
Lu Ning couldn't identify what these patterns were, but she tried it with a fine needle. These seemingly shallow patterns had actually penetrated deep into the bottom of the floor tiles, and she didn't know what was arranged underneath.
She thought for a while and called Yin Xiu directly. If she had connections, it wouldn't be in vain.
But the news of Yin Xiu's return was even more worrying - in the Chenfeng Group's surveillance network, no one was seen tampering with the floor.
