What Bai Su said about not going far means that he himself didn't go very far.
After all, there were fish-like villagers walking in the rain, so he had no plans to act strangely.
It's not that he can't beat him, but if there are a few people missing inexplicably in the village, it will cause a commotion.
He could avoid them, but there were too many "red monsters" scattered in the village. If he avoided them all, he would have no choice but to float in the air or walk on the rooftops of human habitations.
The black-haired young man who had not gone far was bathed in the rain. He squatted on the roof of an unknown house, listening to the sound of raindrops and brick tiles.
Excluding the wandering fish-eyed villagers and the subtle smell wafting in the wind and rain, the white noise brought by this rainy day is actually quite suitable for sleeping.
The black-haired young man squeezed some water from the end of his hair, wiped his face casually, hooked his feet on the corner of the eaves, and moved his whole body upside down towards the window.
There is no road facing the outside where he hangs. If he doesn't make some noise, the patrolling fish-eyed villagers will not approach.
The windows of modern humans are not made of the kind of material that can be broken by one poke in ancient times, but for Bai Su, cutting glass is just a matter of moving his fingers.
However, he did not choose to make an opening as big as a bowl for the window.
He didn't want the village to be noisy tomorrow because someone was missing, but instead to be targeted by the villagers because of a non-existent thief, the most suspicious outsider.
He's okay, but if humans are tied up, won't there be no one to solve the mystery for him?
The black-haired young man who didn't want to violently take a shortcut to lift the ground touched the window frame.
He put his fingertips there, and after a few seconds, he grabbed the window and opened it with force, letting hot air pour out from inside.
A corner of the curtain was lifted, and an eyeball peeked in from behind.
The white line behind the eyeballs was extremely stretched, as if patrolling the territory, and the eyeballs looked around the room from a high place.
There were two people sleeping in the room, an adult woman and a five or six-year-old male child. They must have a mother-child relationship.
The two of them were covered with thick quilts, and the electrical appliances in the corner of the room were slowly blowing out warm air. It was actually a bit early to turn on the air conditioner at this time of year, but some people were afraid of the cold and wanted to enjoy it in advance.
But this is not the reason why Bai Su stopped in this room.
He stayed because of the smell.
Among the stench of rainwater pouring down, there were a few sweet and edible smells. Bai Su chose the nearest place and leaned over.
The senses of Bai Su, a boy and a girl in the room, are similar to those of Gao Tianyi's round-faced classmate, specifically the individual found in the hospital building.
If you can eat it, you are no longer considered a human being.
Sniffing the delicious smell on the tip of his nose, the black-haired young man hung upside down without looking back. He opened his palms back and let the black shadow emerging from the tree crown hit his palm.
Then the hand squeezed and pinched the ball, and the black mud was caught like this. After a futile struggle, its final destination was Bai Su's mouth.
The black-haired young man looked away, helped the human to close the window, and sat back on the top of the eaves.
He licked the tips of his teeth that still had the taste of food after eating, his eyes darting back and forth from left to right.
On the left are dense woods that look extremely deep at night. The place where the inhuman mother and son live is on the edge of the village.
To the right is the village path, and the flickering flashlight light is slowly moving from the door.
Where to go next? The black-haired young man thought with some distress.
Just like when he was thinking about whether to go out in the human yard before, he sat on the roof and soaked in the rain for a while, then jumped down.
The direction of the jump was toward the woods, and he landed on the ground as lightly as a cat. The figure of an adult who was less than 1.8 meters tall was as light as weightless.
The black-haired young man stepped on the ground and could be said to be floating there.
Not a single footprint was left on the muddy ground, and the man just disappeared into the woods.
When Bai Su appeared again, he was standing by the roadside.
The bright skylight shone on his body, taking away the little moisture, but his hair was still wet, and his clothes would be dry after a while in the sun.
There are bits of grass clippings and mud on the shoes and trouser legs. If you don't look carefully, you can't tell the difference.
He pretended to be an early riser and chatted with the passing villagers before returning to where he lived.
All the above itineraries were summarized in just a few sentences in Bai Su's mouth. He didn't go far, he just walked around the place where he lived.
"The rain was too heavy," the black-haired young man said, "I walked for a while in the rain, and I could see many lights in the village looming and moving."
It was not difficult to deduce that those were villagers with flashlights, so Bai Su followed suit. Because the lights in the village were too dense, he stepped back.
After that, I stayed under the shade of the trees near the yard, hoping to see if the next villager would come over. Unexpectedly, not only were there no villagers, but even the black mud was gone.
——There are people patrolling the village at night.
Humanity immediately came to this conclusion.
As for other parts of Baisu's theory, humans have reservations, such as the point of only staying near the village.
If they were really all standing under the tree, how could their clothes be so wet?
Humidity... Speaking of which... the young man wearing glasses thought of something and made a gesture to his companion.
Bai Su's sitting posture, which was lazily holding his head, straightened slightly, and he felt a little uncomfortable.
The next second, with an unpleasant premonition, the short-haired police officer received the instruction from his companion, moved his wrist twice, and hooked his hand towards Bai Su.
"You must be cold after being in the rain for so long." The human male showed a kind smile, "Come on, come on, I will help you boil water, go take a hot bath."
This house is nice to live in everywhere, but there is something wrong with the water heater.
Bai Su always felt that humans didn't care about this, but he still followed the other person's words and stood up.
Xia Chengyin, who said he wanted to boil water for him, just tinkered with the water heater quietly, not knowing where to press it. It seemed that he had learned the craft from Master Zhang, and the water heater was quickly fiddled with.
"Okay, go in. Remember to close the doors and windows. Don't be like Qi Zhuyue yesterday."
The short-haired police officer watched the black-haired young man walk in, making sure he could hear the sound of water. After seeing the white mist rising from the glass window, the human turned around and left.
Returning to the previous room, Xia Chengyin and Tang Nuo had a quick exchange.
"Do you believe it?"
"It's trustworthy. I'm not lying."
"That's right...but I feel a little strange."
The short-haired police officer was lost in thoughts and memories. He rummaged through his memory and asked his companion as if seeking confirmation: "Has Bai Su... never been judged as a liar by you?"
Tang Nuo followed Xia Chengyin's wishes and found out that this was what happened.
He has been working as a polygraph detector since the first time he met Bai Su. Later, he also worked as a polygraph detector several times due to supernatural events. After Bai Su entered the special department part-time, he was still working as a polygraph detector on a daily basis. Liar.
People tell white lies sometimes.
During work, Tang Nuo would receive feedback from colleagues about harmless little lies from time to time. The feedback often stung him, and over time he got used to it.
Now that Xia Chengyin pointed it out, he opened up the feedback on his abilities that were usually ignored.
The past cannot be traced, because it is too long ago, and the most convenient comparison is the present.
Even though he was a fool like Xia Chengyin, he lied when chatting with the people in the village after entering the village, not to mention that they came in with false identities.
Their journey was littered with lies.
The young man wearing glasses was silent for a moment and then said, "Since Bai Su entered the village..." Is what he said necessarily a lie?
The word "collecting style" is very ambiguous. Maybe Bai Su really thinks so in his heart?
Regarding everything about the whole fish feast last night... Human beings think that based on their little understanding of Bai Su, they may be speaking from their hearts.
He really felt that yesterday's meal was delicious.
After thinking about it for a while, Bai Su's only story about traveling at night in the rain was suspicious, but they were in their sleep and could not verify those things.
After much thought, the answer is that there is no conclusion.
"Then -" Gao Tianyi, who was listening to the exchange between the two, interjected, "I think for the time being, everything he said is true. Anyway, the video must be true."
The technical requirements for counterfeiting are too high and meaningless.
The young man raised his hand: "Is it time to discuss our dreams next?"
He had so much to say that he was choked to death.
…
The black-haired young man exhaled melancholy under the hot water.
Human beings are really difficult to deal with.
The monster didn't take off his clothes. He just squatted in the bathroom, hugging his knees and thinking. He really didn't say a few truths about humans.
I had expected that Tang Nuo's polygraph-like ability would arouse human suspicion, but I didn't expect that it would be exposed as soon as he entered the village.
Who knew humans were so... weak.
The black-haired young man sighed again. The temperature of the water pouring down from his head gradually became cooler. It seemed that the water heater outside was malfunctioning again.
I didn’t call humans to come over and fix it, the monster wouldn’t catch a cold anyway.
Whether you are exposed to rain or soaked in hot water, at most the outer skin will change a little.
Even if it's soaking in magma - well, this possibility is relatively small.
Bai Su brushed the hair that covered his eyes twice. After brushing it away, he stood up and decided to pay more attention to his communication with humans in the future.
Truth and lies, as long as they are not proven.
The naked skin was exposed to the cold water, and the completely soaked clothes were taken off and thrown aside. According to the humans, they wanted to study whether the rainwater was contaminated.
But after soaking in ordinary water... the black-haired young man blinked, pretending that nothing happened, and buttoned up the clothes basket.
The water connected to the left and right villages is not ordinary tap water, but it is not as sudden as rain.
After turning off the faucet, he casually wiped his body with the towel placed on the counter. During this process, he also pressed down a few of his naughty exposed eyeballs.
In any case, the human body in the mirror with eyeballs crawling in inappropriate areas is a harmful scene, but fortunately no one in the bathroom saw it.
Perhaps because the drying efficiency was too slow, the human appearance used by the black-haired young man melted like water, and the whole person transformed into a white mold-like body.
The blank body trembled slightly, and honeycomb-shaped holes were about to bulge out, and the appearance of "White Su" was covering it in the next moment.
The black-haired young man who reappeared blinked at the mirror, opened his mouth again, and looked at the distribution of his teeth to make sure that none of them were crooked.
Finally, Bai Su put on a change of clothes and went to find the humans in a refreshing look.
When he walked into the room, he happened to see Gao Tianyi patting the table and stepping on it.
This position was a bit uncomfortable for the young man's height, so he first jumped onto the chair and then stepped on the table.
"So - we must go to that lake to see it!" Gao Tianyi said loudly, "That lake must be the key clue."
"Lake, what lake?" Bai Su later didn't hear the first half of the story.
"That's it..." Qi Zhuyue's expression recovered a lot, "We had a dream last night."
Qi Zhuyue, Tang Nuo and Gao Tianyi were all in the same dream.
Bai Su nodded. He had heard about this when he first came back, but then humans started watching the videos he had taken, so the topic of dreams was temporarily put aside.
Now the topic is reopening. Qi Zhuyue and Tang Nuo couldn't get out of the courtyard gate in their dreams, so they explored the house and found a huge fish tank in the room where the sundries were placed.
Humanity has just confirmed it. Although the actual utility room does not have the glass plate of the fish tank, there are indeed signs of disassembly on the door frame.
And Gao Tianyi - who used the identity of young Wen Tao in the dream - talked about his experience after going out with Wen Tao's friends in the dream.
From the path leading into the woods from the village to the lake, the marks on the trees should have been difficult to identify after nearly twenty years of time difference.
But it doesn't matter. Gao Tianyi claimed that he had memorized the route from the village. As long as the structure of the village did not change much, he could -
"There must have been changes." Xia Chengyin interrupted Gao Tianyi, put away the food on the table in front of them, and spread out a map, "According to your last description, the village must have experienced a war that nearly destroyed the village. flash flood."
In addition to the map, the two cut-out newspapers were also placed aside.
Calculating the age of Wen Tao's friend in the dream, the time seems to be right.
"As for what you glimpsed in the lake... maybe it's what we need to find."
Gao Tianyi nodded in agreement. As expected, he followed him wearing a skirt in his dream, and even dived into the lake that was so heavy that it could drown people, and finally obtained useful information.
The other three people also began to discuss, and Xia Chengyin, the only one who was not dreaming, was also thinking that when it gets brighter and everyone in the village gets up and moving, they can find a way.
Find the way to the lake.
"I said." Bai Su, who was studying the map with his head down, pointed at a place and suddenly interrupted the human discussion and attracted their attention, "There is no lake in the mountains."
"ha?"
"Can't you see it?" Bai Su asked strangely. He once again wondered what exactly humans saw from a human perspective.
They had read the map many times on the way here, and even used the latest online map to mark out different places.
Now, the black-haired young man picked up a pen and drew a circle around the village, then tapped inside the circle with the tip of his pen: "There is no lake at all in such a large area."
"At least not on this map."
"Do you think... there is a lake here?"
(End of chapter)
