"Do you feel that the plot jumped dozens of episodes at once?"
Sitting in the rickety car, the dark-haired young man dragging his cheeks and thinking in the back seat asked other people in the same car.
The driver pushed up his glasses and concentrated on driving without making a sound; the co-pilot, who had been deprived of the right to drive, pulled a newspaper and clasped it on his face, as if he was asleep, but the other people in the car knew by listening to their breathing. Just ignore people.
The minor in the middle of the back row, who is shorter than the people on both sides, sleepily holds the schoolbag in his arms. He is really dozing off, while the woman on the far right has her head tied in a ponytail and her hands are neatly arranged. Putting it on his knees, he sat more like an elementary school student than the high school student next to him.
Sister Chen! Didn't I promise that my life would not be in danger?
There seems to be something wrong with the configuration on this car, especially--
Qi Zhuyue felt like crying but had no tears in her heart, but her face remained calm.
Thanks to her ability, she secretly adjusted her face so that her expression would not change. Her eyes... her eyes were just like that. As long as she didn't look at others, it shouldn't be noticeable.
Qi Zhuyue has many mental thoughts.
At one moment she felt that she shouldn't be in the car but at the bottom of the car. At the next moment she felt that she shouldn't believe her sister Chen's evil deeds and came to help her on the mission.
Sorry, she hasn't been feeling well recently. She felt a little uncomfortable in the abdomen after being punched in the ghost baby incident. In addition, her menstrual period was approaching, so she planned to go to the hospital for a check-up.
The mission of the bureau also required a woman in the team to coordinate the overly strong yang energy, so Chen Zi found Qi Zhuyue after a short period of consideration.
Chen Zi said that this was the candidate she came up with after thinking about it.
Absolutely, definitely not because Qi Zhuyue is one of the few women in the department whose name Bai Su remembers.
Qi Zhuyue: "...Sister Chen, you said it."
Chen Zi: "Huh? Did you say it? There's nothing you can do about it. I showed Bai Su a list of names and he just clicked on you."
Qi Zhuyue's eyes darkened after hearing this, and the image of the black-haired young man staring at her seemed to appear in front of her eyes, and then he said to her with a kind smile, "Have we met somewhere?"
The pony-tailed woman, who didn't want to think about it anymore, sat there and shook her arms. In silence, she mustered up the courage to say, "Yes... yes, I feel like I skipped a lot of episodes."
As soon as she finished speaking, except for the two people who were really sleeping and those who were pretending to be asleep, everyone in the driver's seat and on the far left looked towards her.
Tang Nuo, who was in the driver's seat, was looking in the rearview mirror. When he looked at her, he showed a little bit of relief for some reason.
Qi Zhuyue:......
Qi Zhuyue: Why are you so happy?
Tang Nuo was pleased that there was finally a Tucao servant among the people in Tongtong, so that he would not be alone.
Bai Su also looked over, with a smile that was somewhat familiar to Qi Zhuyue on his face.
Qi Zhuyue's vigilance was all of a sudden. A human woman was like a cat with exploded hair. With just one more push, she could jump up and down.
The black-haired young man who didn't actually say anything said innocently: "Ah, I just think everyone is very efficient."
Bai Su felt that humans were very efficient, at least much more efficient than finding his own way.
It's been... half a month since the last human meeting? It took about half a month, during which An Xiangwen was released from the hospital.
What was discussed at the meeting was actually the intelligence summary of the doppelgänger incident and the subsequent work arrangements. After listening to it, Bai Su knew that the clues collected by humans were still too few.
As a last resort, he made some small moves behind his back after the meeting.
The monster said that he has mastered speed and distance...probably.
Because Bai Su's appearance had to hide from surveillance cameras at all times, and Bai Su's perspective was too low, Bai Su finally chose to hide.
The dead monk walked around the world again with a bare head. It was not necessary to put on a peaked cap to avoid all surveillance. From time to time, he left a shadow, which was enough to attract human attention.
Sure enough, not long after, the monk easily got on the watch list of the special department. After a casual check, they discovered that this face was dead, and it was the name written on the death list of a supernatural incident in the past.
It's not that they didn't consider the possibility of a similar person, but they screened all the similar faces and all had alibi.
Therefore, it is more likely that it is a dead person.
While the special department was investigating the doppelgänger, two or three people fell behind the person with the face of the deceased monk.
After chasing after each other, the people from the special department discovered that the places where monks haunted were often the places where black sludge attacks occurred, in the past tense, ongoing tense, and future tense.
Over time, the special department came up with an idea: Could it be that the ghost of this monk was leading them to discover the truth about the doppelgänger incident?
White·Monk’s soul·Don’t want to use his brain·Good-hearted monster·Su: A sneeze.
Once again, he led the humans from the special department into a dark corner of the city. The retired "monk" stood on a high-rise roof that humans could not reach for a while, watching the people from the special department being killed by the humans lying underneath. Draws attention away.
Bai Su had heard a little bit that humans had been unable to achieve results because the sample was not large enough. The little bit of black sludge they captured was better than nothing. Do they really want to take people into the sewer?
Forget it, just take it with you.
After waiting for a few days, Baisu finally showed up again in the shell of a monk, and while being chased, he jumped into a manhole cover that was missing for some reason.
Of course, the people from the special department followed, but fortunately they went down quickly enough, and their faces were engulfed by the large black sludge hidden underground.
Just a little bit away, the first person to climb down will be attacked.
No one knows why there is such a huge mass of silt stuck to the top of the pipe underground in the city. Perhaps it is because it is too large to move, so the people from the special department used some means to block that sewer.
Human beings would like to contain the large group in front of them, but they can't do it in a short time.
Compared with what is visible in front of you, the disappearing "monk" seems not worth mentioning.
The containment method and candidates are still being planned, but the suspected source of the doppelgänger was discovered first.
Thanks to that large group of black sludge, with the support of sufficient volume and mass, certain tracking methods of the special department finally came in handy.
A few days later, the tracking results pointed to a direction. After several days of research and narrowing down the range, a point was finally confirmed on the map.
Where the dot points, there is a village.
So, they are now sitting in this car, driving to the remote village at the address.
Located in a mountain near the sea, the only way to contact the outside world is the winding road, or you can choose to jump off the cliff of the mountain and follow the mountain stream to the sea.
The premise is that you can still survive if you jump.
There is electricity and Internet in the village. Although it is not as fast and convenient as the city, it is enough for villagers to use it normally.
"The young people in the village will also go out to work and so on... It depends on whether they will come back when they are adults. If there are other characteristics of the village... it seems that there is an event recently?"
Qi Zhuyue read about the information collected. Most of them were asked by young people from the original village who had gone out to work. Some of them had completely settled in other cities, and the information they gave was just the village in their memories.
People who went to visit also asked the settlers why they did not go back. Most people avoided talking about it, and a few expressed their disgust for the ancient traditions in their words.
Another middle-aged man said vaguely: "After all, there are such weird customs..."
After thinking about asking more questions, the middle-aged man waved his hand, as if he didn't want to communicate anymore.
"Are you unwilling to communicate or unable to speak?" As the only three (four) sober people, Bai Su put forward his own opinion.
"Uh..." Qi Zhuyue, who was reading the manuscript, hesitated, "Not sure?"
She really didn't know that the person who was looking for him only met him once, and when she went there later, she found that the middle-aged man had gone on a business trip.
"So -" Bai Su raised the hand that was not supporting his chin, "What are the activities and customs?"
Qi Zhuyue was silent again. She flipped through the information and continued: "It seems to be a sacrificial ceremony or something...?"
The combination of these two words, mountain village and sacrifice, immediately made people think of many bad scripts.
"Not necessarily." The dozing minor made a confused voice, "It's normal to worship gods in rural areas."
"Kid, are we still going to normal places?"
"Brother Xia, I'm just stating a point."
"Who wants to listen to this kid at this moment? Why don't you use your common sense to help analyze the current situation in that village."
"There is too little information now, let's wait until we enter the village." The young man muttered with his head buried in his schoolbag, "But according to my understanding, most of the places with problems are very xenophobic. Have you thought about how to solve it? "
After hearing this question, Bai Su looked to the right.
His eyes circled around and landed on Qi Zhuyue, which made the human female who was about to transform stiffen.
Qi Zhuyue: Wait, I shouldn’t have been exposed, right?
Qi Zhuyue didn't dare to turn her head, just thinking that Bai Su was curious about her.
She quickly changed her face, which was a bit rounder than her own, with childish almond-shaped eyes and a few freckles on her cheeks.
Qi Zhuyue still used her original voice because she didn't wear a voice changer yet.
"The owner of this face is a member of the village, named Wen Tao. He left the village to work outside the village more than ten years ago when he was underage."
While talking, Qi Zhuyue spread out her ponytail and tied it around her neck and collarbone with a headband. She also turned on the voice changer and adjusted a few words to a softer female voice.
Because the weather is cold, there is no need to bring a gauze scarf, choker, etc. to cover it up. The thin turtleneck sweater successfully covers the small accessory.
Bai Su stared at Qi Zhuyue, and Gao Tianyi also turned his head and stared at him, until Qi Zhuyue pressed his back against the car door.
Qi Zhuyue: "...What, what's wrong?" Is there anything wrong with her dress? She didn't seem to have shown them what Wen Tao looked like, right?
Bai Su just looked at it a few times, but the young man pondered for a moment and said, "This hairstyle is a bit dangerous."
A question mark appeared on Qi Zhuyue's head: "What danger?"
Gao Tianyi gestured to the other person's braid that hung down on his chest due to his side-swept ponytail, and winked twice.
Qi Zhuyue, who had changed her face, didn't understand. Instead, Bai Su, who had studied popular internet memes, spoke thoughtfully: "The side-swept ponytail hairstyle is more dangerous, like the one of the protagonist in Attack of the People. Mother like that?"
Qi Zhuyue, who has watched some popular dramas: ...ah.
She touched her braids speechlessly and decided to ignore the topic of whether her hairstyle was dangerous.
No matter how dangerous it is, the place they are going to is not going to change. The seriousness of the situation will not change just because she changes her hairstyle. What is more important is the face she uses.
However, someone had already mentioned it, so Qi Zhuyue quietly made a move and simply braided a braid and tied it with a hair tie.
Then she took out a photo that looked like it had been taken recently and waved it around in the workshop.
The face in the photo looks exactly like Qi Zhuyue's, but the hairstyle and temperament are slightly different.
It doesn't matter if your hairstyle has changed, but as for your temperament, you can only continue to work hard.
Qi Zhuyue raised her lips and said that she would be very serious when working, just like last time - the words came out of her mouth, but stopped abruptly.
"Just like last time?" the black-haired young man repeated wordlessly, with a curious light in his eyes, "Which time was it last time?"
What else could it be, the time I went to Fuzhao Temple with you?
The human woman was complaining crazily in her heart, but she couldn't say it directly on her face. She casually gave a place name and a summary of the incident, which Bai Su had never heard of.
"Anyway, anyway." Qi Zhuyue said softly, "I will work hard."
As long as Bai Su doesn't always look at her with a very existential gaze, she will definitely be able to do it!
Bai Su didn't know why human women were so energetic all of a sudden. He rubbed the tip of his itchy nose and felt that it wasn't because of him.
As I said before, the words "village" and "sacrifice" looked very bad when put together. But if they now choose to enter as aboriginal villagers... Bai Su thought of another situation.
In order to make this long trip, he rushed to the live broadcast for several days.
Recently, Bai Quan's broadcasting has not been very easy and Bai Quan has his own things to do. Bai Su followed the fans' suggestions and played several recently released stand-alone games, including horror games, in addition to his daily eating and cooking and cooking dark dishes. .
Although he is usually criticized by fans for his calm expression, the focus of Bai Su's speech is not on the audience's reaction and how many gifts he has received for playing games.
What he wanted to mention was the themes of those horror games.
The black-haired young man thought for a moment and asked: "Miss Qi borrowed this identity...for what reason did she return to the village?"
Qi Zhuyue recalled her character for a second and said, "Let's save the bride."
Bai Su asked, "What about the details?"
There are many types of visits to relatives, including visiting parents or other elders.
"Uh... Wen Tao's parents are no longer here." Qi Zhuyue said, "It was to visit other elders in the village."
"She received a call from her hometown a while ago. Her memory vaguely mentioned that the ten-year sacrifice ceremony was about to be held. It happened that someone in the village was celebrating a birthday... It seems that someone was holding a wedding?"
After saying this, everyone here felt that something was wrong.
Have all the happy events in this village come together?
(End of chapter)
