The crack in the sky appeared three months ago, without any warning, and suddenly appeared in the sky.
Like an eye suddenly opening.
The ozone layer hole, the end of the world, alien invasion, everything was speculated at first, and people all over the world were panicking for a month, and then - nothing happened.
Those who frantically spent all their savings, those who took out loans to hoard food, and even those who formed a group to welcome the arrival of aliens, were all embarrassed for a while.
It's like your stomach churns, you skip class and run to the toilet, only to let out a series of long farts and then disappear.
Only the lingering stench lingered in the single room.
However, this doomsday carnival is still far away from Ana Shen. For the small people in Shengdou, as long as the sky has not really fallen, they still have to run for a day's life.
After a day's work, Ana Shen led a black dog through the garden on the westernmost side of the community and came to the temporary residence he rented.
The house that Ana Shen rented was on the first floor in the northwest corner of the community. Beyond it was an abandoned cemetery. The developer took over the land but had not had time to start construction.
It's a residence, but strictly speaking it's just an above-ground garage.
The old rolling shutter door had pieces of white spray paint peeled off, revealing the rusty iron sheet inside, like patches of yellowish-brown age spots.
Ana Shen inserted the key into the rolling shutter door, grabbed the plastic handle, and lifted it up hard.
"Excuse me, is this Doctor Shen Yanshen?"
Ana Shen pulled the door handle, bent down, and looked behind her following the sound.
Behind him were a man and a woman, police officers wearing dark blue police uniforms.
Ana Shen was stunned for a moment, then put down the half-open rolling shutter door, turned around, wiped his hands on his body twice, and squeezed out a shy smile: "It's...it's me, are you two police officers okay?"
The tall policewoman took out her ID card and waved it in front of Shen Yan: "We are from the Federal Police Station No. 18 in Zhongcheng District. This is my police officer ID card."
"Do you know Chen Gengnian?"
"Chen Gengnian..." Ana Shen thought for a while and said, "He is a patient I treated this afternoon. What happened?"
Li Lin raised her slender eyebrows and said seriously: "Chen Gengnian had a mental illness around 17:45 this afternoon and accidentally killed his son who had just finished school. By the time we received the report and arrived at the scene, the body had been cooked to death."
"I now suspect that you are related to Chen Gengnian's vicious injury incident. Please come with us."
Fat police officer Chen Feng was still worried that Li Lin's words would frighten Ana Shen, and comforted him: "Don't be nervous, we are just asking questions..."
Ana Shen took a deep breath and said, "Yes, I did it."
"Wha...what?"
We haven’t even started asking yet. Are you pleading guilty now?
Chen Feng asked Ana Shen in shock: "Do you know what you are talking about?"
Ana Shen was no longer as embarrassed as he was at the beginning, and answered calmly as if he was a different person: "Chen Gengnian's sudden illness was caused by me secretly."
Chen Feng clearly heard the suspect's confession, but Chen Feng couldn't believe it.
He confessed too quickly!
"You...how did you do it? What tricks did you use?"
"Hypnosis."
Chen Feng wanted to ask something else, but was interrupted by Li Lin: "In that case, Dr. Shen should come back to the station with us."
Li Lin always looked at Shen Yan coldly and said, "What do you want to ask us? We will ask you in detail when we get back to the bureau. It's not convenient here."
Chen Feng glanced at Li Lin and hesitated to speak.
But Ana Shen nodded as if nothing was wrong: "Okay, wait until I close the door and then follow you."
…
In the police car, Ana Shen was handcuffed and locked in the back row with iron bars. Chen Feng sat next to him as a guard.
The tall policewoman Li Lin was sitting in the passenger seat, always observing Ana Shen's movements through the rearview mirror.
Ana Shen was sitting in the back row, her hands were handcuffed, and she leaned quietly on the seat with her eyes closed to relax.
The sun had completely set, and the narrow crack in the sky shed a blue-purple light, which happened to cover the side of his face. Li Lin always felt a little uneasy looking at this face.
At this moment, Li Lin's bracelet vibrated. She opened it and saw a message from Chen Feng.
Chen Feng: "Captain Lin, you just interrupted me because you don't want me to reveal the case information? Do you also think there is something wrong with this doctor's sudden confession?"
Li Lin looked in the rearview mirror and happened to see Chen Feng covering his bracelet with one hand and looking at her with a searching look on his face.
Li Lin frowned, but still edited a message: "It's not yet certain whether he has any problems, but Chen Gengnian's illness is a bit strange."
Chen Feng: "What should I say? Hasn't he been mentally ill for many years?"
This time, Chen Feng waited for five minutes and received a message.
Li Lin: "Actually... Chen Gengnian's medical history is false. He has never suffered from any delusional disorder."
Not sick? !
Chen Feng almost screamed in surprise, but fortunately, his professionalism allowed him to grab his throat in time.
Chen Feng frantically edited the news: "People who didn't have the disease got sick after seeing a psychiatrist... Is it really hypnosis?"
"But his behavior is too normal...too abnormal, right?"
After editing the message, Chen Feng couldn't help but turn his head and look at Ana Shen beside him.
A gentle smile appeared on Ana Shen's pale face: "What's wrong, officer?"
"No...it's okay."
Chen Feng turned his head in embarrassment and blocked the bracelet with his body.
Shen Yan saw all the little moves between Chen Feng and Li Lin, and could even guess what they were talking about in the messages they exchanged, but he didn't care at all.
He just observed the two people quietly and saw translucent black tentacles growing from the back of their heads, spiraling to the top of their heads, gradually twisting into a monster that looked like a scale.
The monster hovered above them, its tentacles caressing their faces, but they remained unaware of it.
…
In a small room on a high building not far from the community, a woman in leather clothes was observing Ana Shen through a telescope.
"'Doctor' has contacted people from the Public Security Bureau and was taken away by them."
A rich, old male voice came from her headset: "Have anyone who came into contact with him noticed the 'reality'?"
"No, their spirits are currently stable."
"Keep in contact with the 'doctor'. If the operation fails, immediately use the plasma cannon to smooth out the 'realm' and never let it spread again."
The woman straightened her back: "I understand."
Through the binoculars, you can see that the police car has left the community and is driving on Dangyang Avenue. Going further, passing through an industrial park, you will reach the Public Security Bureau of City No. 18.
But at this time, the sky above the Public Security Bureau was shrouded in a thick layer of fog, like an isolated island in the sea, completely isolated from the outside world.
"Professor, if 'Doctor' completes his mission, do we... really have to agree to his conditions?"
The man in the earphone paused for a while and said in a hoarse voice: "Realms are appearing more and more frequently... It is difficult for us alone to maintain normal social order."
"If what he said is true...in a crazy world, only crazy people are better suited to survive."
