The man who received the reception stood at the door of the exhibition hall with some surprise, and quickly said: "What happened just now? Why did the lights in the exhibition hall go out?"
Shen Xing pointed to the motionless old woman puppet: "Ask her."
After he finished speaking, he waved his hand and took this opportunity to pretend to be frightened and shook his head: "Let's talk about cooperation later. I was scared to death just now, and now my heart is beating so hard!"
The man at the reception looked at the motionless old woman puppet in surprise and explained: "You also know that our puppets are almost indistinguishable from real people. I just pretended to be a fake person outside the door just now. There is no need to pretend after entering the exhibition hall." Scared you..."
"No, no, we'll talk about cooperation another day. I'm going back first." Shen Xing still waved his hand, "It just made my skin stand on end. I might not be able to sleep tonight. Who knows whether these puppets of yours are real or fake?"
As he spoke, he quickly walked out the door.
After leaving the workshop, without even entering the room of the handicraft workshop, Shen Xing left directly after achieving his goal.
I looked back and saw that the receptionist was standing at the door of the exhibition hall. He was a little surprised. He might want to explain, but when he said the words, he remembered his behavior just now. As usual, he had the idea of scaring the other person. It seemed that he couldn't explain it clearly. .
After Shen Xing's figure disappeared, the man returned to the exhibition hall and looked at the motionless puppets, especially the old woman with sparse white hair wearing a burgundy cotton-padded jacket. Suddenly, for the first time in his history, he felt a little uncontrollable in his heart. Live a sense of horror.
He quickly turned around and left the exhibition hall, closing the door.
This time the purpose of coming here was achieved, and Shen Xing quickly left this old street.
It now seems clear that the puppets in question seem to be related to the works of Motu, the master carver.
Including the old woman puppet in the exhibition hall just now, strange changes have also occurred, but this change occurs in stages or triggers.
Shen Xing believed that it was no longer necessary to investigate whether the dummy Xia Hongyu received was controlled by her ex-husband Guan Zhixiong. To investigate the procedural information here, it would be better to go directly to Mo Tu. As soon as he met Mo Tu, he would get basic information. All can be controlled.
Back at the hotel, around noon, private detective Lao Liang never called, and Shen Xing waited until the afternoon.
When he was about to eat, he couldn't sit still. If Lao Liang couldn't determine whether Motu would rest tonight at a high-end private residence in Taoyuanwu or a luxurious studio in Botian Building, then he The only option is to take action in person, run to both sides, and try your luck to see where you can meet Motu himself.
But this will undoubtedly waste some time.
After thinking about it, he decided to call Lao Liang directly to ask what the situation was.
The phone was answered after four or five rings, and Lao Liang's familiar old voice came from over there.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Lao Liang, what's going on now? Have you found out the specific address tonight?" Shen Xing asked.
The other end of the phone suddenly fell silent and didn't speak for a long time.
Shen Xing was a little confused and continued: "Can't you find out? If you can't find out, then I will check it out myself tonight."
"Who are you?" Lao Liang suddenly spoke up and asked a question that completely stunned Shen Xing.
The next second, Shen Xing immediately turned around and looked at himself in the mirror in the hotel room, touched his cheek, and suddenly realized.
At this moment, I am still in the state of changing my face. Not only my face has been changed, but my identity information has also been changed. This replacement is all-encompassing, not just cosmetic.
As a result, Lao Liang directly forgot who he was, or the relevant information in his memory was blocked, and he asked himself who he was.
The face-changing effect will last for up to eight hours, and during this time, Shen Xing has no way to make the other party remember him.
"Fuck!" He said no more and hung up the phone.
There is no way to explain it now. No matter how he explains it, Lao Liang will not recognize him with the help of face-changing skills.
The problem is that this guy never called me. It turns out he doesn't remember him. And maybe he has already found out where Motu's residence is tonight.
Wait a little longer.
Shen Xing moved a chair and sat down in front of the mirror in the room, staring blankly at the other strange version of himself in the mirror.
Look at when the face-changing time will end. I activated the skill around nine in the morning, and it should be restored after five in the afternoon at most. But now it is almost five o'clock, wait...
During this time, he sat in front of the mirror and never left.
Sure enough, when the time came to 5:06, my face in the mirror began to change, and it changed very quickly. Almost in the blink of an eye, the previous appearance came back, and the unfamiliar face disappeared without a trace. .
Shen Xing stood up and walked to the mirror, touched his cheek and took a serious look to confirm that the face transplant had resumed.
He took out his cell phone and dialed Lao Liang's number again.
This time there were two rings, and Lao Liang's old voice came from the other side: "Hello?"
"Hey, Lao Liang." Shen Xing didn't say much else, just shouted.
Lao Liang's tone was very normal and he said: "It has been found out that Motu will not be in Taoyuanwu or Botian Building tonight, but will go to the Mo's Handicraft Workshop at No. 208, Ping'an 17th Lane."
After finishing his words, Lao Liang paused: "Well, I should stay there for one night and won't leave."
After walking around in a circle, I actually returned to the alley of the old street, which was a bit unexpected.
Shen Xing nodded: "Okay, leave the rest to me. By the way, have you found any news about Xia Hongyu's ex-husband Guan Zhixiong?"
"No." Lao Liang answered simply.
"Then we'll call you tomorrow." Shen Xing turned off the phone.
He lamented that this skill of changing faces and identities was so awesome that even private detectives like Lao Liang had cut themselves off from their memories.
When he thought of this, Shen Xing suddenly became excited and remembered.
Before her face-changing skills disappeared, she also returned home, but Feifei still remembered her. Although she was separated by the door, she still talked to her and asked her to remember to take cold medicine.
What's going on?
Will this skill lose its effectiveness to some extent when facing Feifei?
This skill is effective in front of other people, so there is no reason why it won't work with Feifei.
Shen Xing recalled it carefully, and it was indeed the case. Although the side effects of her face transplant had not disappeared, Feifei still knew about her and remembered that she was still in the room.
That is to say, in front of Feifei, her identity information has not been blocked or disappeared.
After thinking for a moment, Shen Xing couldn't understand it, but it seemed that Feifei also had secrets that she couldn't know, and it was just one of them that face-changing didn't work for her.
Perhaps, this was the reason why he secretly wanted to adopt her.
After thinking about it for a while, he ordered a takeaway and ate it in the room. Shen Xing and Feifei made another phone call. Although it was already night, it was still early. He packed his backpack again and was not ready to go out until eleven o'clock.
I deliberately changed into black clothes to make it easier to move around at night.
And this time, he was not going to activate the face-changing skill again, lest it be inconvenient due to side effects after the job was done.
Shen Xing put a black mask in his jacket pocket and left the hotel.
He did not go to the old streets and alleys immediately, but walked around the nearby streets.
There are still people on the streets at this time, and there are many night stalls set up in some places, but because the weather is getting colder, there are fewer people eating late-night snacks.
Moreover, these night stalls are surrounded by cloth to avoid strong winds and few customers.
Shen Xing didn't eat anything. After shopping for about half an hour, he went to the old streets and alleys he had visited during the day.
At this time, there were not many people seen on the entire old street, and most of the shops on the roadside were closed. Occasionally, I encountered one that was open because it was being cleaned and closed.
There were bright street lights on both sides of the old street, but the surroundings were not very dark. Shen Xing's footsteps echoed around.
Although he could meet pedestrians along the way, they were very rare. By the time he reached the three-way intersection, there was no one in sight.
Soon I walked two hundred meters to the right and came to the alley leading to Mo's handicraft workshop that I had visited during the day.
It was extremely quiet here, not to mention anyone around, not even a cat walking at night.
Shen Xing did not stay at the entrance of the alley for long, so as not to be seen and arouse suspicion, he immediately walked in with gentle steps.
After walking in a few steps, I could hear the sound of dripping water coming from somewhere, but I couldn't find the location. It seemed to be caused by water seepage from the walls on both sides.
Soon I came to the door where a dummy was placed during the day.
At this time, the dummy has been taken back into the house, and the door is locked. This is an antique door lock, but at this moment, there is still light coming through the crack in the door.
So Shen Xing made no other moves, but quietly lurked, squatting in the darkness beside the door.
He believed that if Namotu came here tonight, he would have already entered.
After all, this is one of his handicraft workshops, with all the tools and facilities inside. It is possible that Master Mo chose to come here tonight to complete his puppet work.
If he wanted to engage in design, he might choose to go to the luxurious studio in the Botian Building.
And if you want to rest, you will choose to go to Taoyuanwu.
Shen Xing squatted outside for a while, his hands and feet feeling slightly numb. He slowly stood up and saw that the light in the crack of the door had been extinguished.
There must be more than one entrance to this workshop. Shen Xing didn't know what the layout was like inside, but since there was a small exhibition hall not far from the entrance, it should be larger.
He took out a short and round key. The key was surrounded by dense pores, but at this moment, all the pores were closed. Not only that, there is an imperceptible button on the key handle.
This is the master key that I applied for from Li Naijing after I became a special member of the special task force.
Unless it is a smart lock that cannot be inserted into the key, this master smart key can open it.
Shen Xing slowly inserted the key into the keyhole. After he could no longer enter, Shen Xing pressed the button. A large number of thin metal strips protruded from the densely packed pores, resisting the perforations in the lock. Moreover, these thin strips had the ability to remember, and could easily A fixed caliper quickly formed, like a brand new key.
After feeling that it was almost the same, Shen Xing twisted it slightly and the keyhole rotated, indicating that it fit well.
He held his breath and slowly turned the key until it completely clicked. He reached out and pushed, and the door opened.
He quickly stepped in and immediately closed the door again.
At this moment, no one was seen in this passage, including the door of the small exhibition hall in front, and everything was quiet.
Shen Xing followed the weak light and moved forward without turning on the small flashlight. When he came to the corner of the passage, he turned sideways and looked inside after the turn. The remaining half of the passage led to a yard, and at this moment he stood On the right is the exhibition hall that I entered during the day.
The door of the exhibition hall was not closed at this moment, but open, and it was so dark that nothing could be seen inside. It was not known whether the various puppets on display during the day had been put away.
However, Shen Xing had an intuition. There was an inexplicable coolness in the exhibition hall on the side, as if the air conditioner was turned on. He knew that most of the puppets were there, but they were all standing in the darkness at this moment.
The old woman puppet wearing a burgundy cotton-padded jacket seems to have her cheek facing this direction.
Regardless of whether the other party was resurrected or not, Shen Xing still subconsciously moved a step forward to avoid the entrance of the exhibition hall.
He put his backpack against the wall, looked up and saw no surveillance camera, then moved forward along the wall and soon reached the entrance of the yard.
I looked into the yard and found that there was a garden in the middle of the yard, but there were mostly cloisters. There were weak lights on the ground at the corner of the yard's cloisters, so that other surrounding scenery could not be seen very clearly.
It was found that there was no one here, but Shen Xing could hear some rhythmic noises not far away, as if there was still work in the workshop.
He had already put on the black mask at this time, and still looked above and beyond the corridor. He did not see any surveillance cameras, and then quickly walked into the corridor and quickly approached a small door.
I leaned against the door and listened, but there was no sound inside. The rhythmic sound came from the room next door. It seemed like some machine was repeating the same action over and over again.
Shen Xing did not go there for the time being, but tried to push the small door in front of him gently. The door opened in response, and then he saw a woman in a skirt standing at the door staring at him.
Seeing this scene, Shen Xing's hair stood on end, but he quickly reacted. He subconsciously avoided the woman's gaze and saw that her gaze did not follow her.
In this puppet shop, from now on, I have to be wary of opening the door to kill someone, that is, if I suddenly see a dummy that looks very much like a real person, I must not make any noise because of this and expose myself.
Shen Xing turned around and immediately closed the door. The room fell into darkness. He turned on the small flashlight, which only illuminated the ground.
I found that this room happened to be a small workshop. In addition to the woman in a skirt standing at the door, there were four or five complete puppets placed in the four corners of the workshop.
In the middle of the workshop are a large number of hand-made tools, which are basically the same as our own carving tools, but almost all are a few sizes larger on the scale, which may make it easier to polish and refine the puppets.
In addition, there are some scattered half-body puppets on the table, some with bald heads or half faces, or only one arm.
In this workshop, Shen Xing discovered that there was a small direct door on the other side, which allowed him to directly enter the workshop next door.
At this moment, there was a rhythmic sound coming from next door.
He hesitated for a moment, and instead of going out and entering from the outside, he opened the door directly here and looked at the next door.
Since we were looking for clues from Motu, we couldn't avoid contact with this guy. As long as we saw this guy, Shen Xing believed that he would be able to get some useful clues from him.
It's even possible that this Motu is behind the scenes.
After looking around the workshop and seeing nothing suspicious, Shen Xing came to the small door connected to the next door. When he was about to open the door with the master key, he seemed to realize something.
After being slightly stunned, he took out his phone and opened a photo. The photo showed a bust of a man.
After taking one look at the man's appearance, he immediately turned around and looked at a certain corner of the workshop, and in that corner, stood a male puppet.
The way this man looked in the dark was actually very similar to the man in the photo on his cell phone!
Except for the different clothes they are wearing, their facial features look more and more the same.
Shen Xing withdrew his gaze from the puppet and returned to the photos on his phone. The person in this photo is none other than Xia Hongyu’s ex-husband, Guan Zhixiong.
After confirming what he had just discovered, Shen Xing suddenly felt something strange around him. He immediately turned his head and looked in the direction of the door of the workshop.
The next second, Shen Xing suddenly stood up, on high alert.
In his eyes, the female puppet in a white dress who was at the entrance of the workshop just now was standing less than half a meter to his right, and her pair of plexiglass eyeballs seemed to be staring at him.
