At 4:00 in the morning, Shangfang City Qi Phase Bureau.
Anchor Su Huizhi drank a cup of coffee and frowned, unable to hide his disgust. A cell phone rang suddenly. He rubbed his brows, put on his gold-rimmed glasses again, and answered the phone, "Finally showed up?"
The person on the other end of the phone didn't know what he said, but there was a hint of amusement on his face, "Who can be as busy as you, Boss Li?"
The surname is Li, and the person on the other end of the phone is Li Zheng.
On the street in the early morning, Li Zheng was under the streetlight. He opened his coat with one hand and put it in his trouser pocket, while holding the phone in the other hand. On the ear that listens to the phone, the silver ear cuff is in the shape of a leaf.
"Say something quickly." He looked a little impatient.
"There is something strange in the city tonight, and the human factor is too obvious. I know you don't want to enter the Qi phase, you hate being restricted by rules, and I won't force you, but you were there that day when the patients from the third hospital absconded. Did you notice anything unusual? "
"No one has been caught yet?"
Su Huizhi's tone was slightly cold, "Yes, not yet."
Li Zheng glanced at the patrol cars passing by on the street and asked, "What's going on?"
Su Huizhi elaborated on the situation tonight, "...there are human traces in many places, the lines have been cut, the switches have been pulled, and everything else has happened. According to the current reports, several people are missing, I'm afraid they are Fell into the gap.”
Li Zheng keenly captured one of the familiar place names, "Puxiazi Lane?"
Su Huizhi: "You know?"
Li Zheng did not answer immediately. He looked at Que Ge who was squatting aside and playing with his mobile phone and asked, "Can I contact Yan Yueming?"
Que Ge raised his head in confusion, "I can contact them. I'm chatting with them in the group right now. The younger brother is also very good. He stayed at home alone and didn't run around."
Hearing this, Li Zheng didn't say anything more, but just stretched out his hand towards Que Ge. Que Ge honestly handed over his phone and saw Li Zheng flipping through the chat history.
She later realized that the group had not told Li Zheng at all. She and Wen Renjing even complained about him in the group, and she immediately became anxious. I want to take it back, but I don't dare. It's heart-breaking.
Li Zheng didn't care at all. After reading the chat history, he quickly switched to the dialog box and sent a message.
Queen: @百bianxiaoming, don’t forget what your senior asked you to bring tomorrow.
Variety Xiao Ming: Okay [flower.jpg]
Li Zheng: "Something happened to him."
Que Ge: "What?!"
Li Zheng: "I didn't let him bring anything at all. Also, his behavior was wrong before and after. He imitated very deliberately. He didn't look like the same person."
Que Ge wondered why she didn't see it, but now was not the time to think about this. How could something happen to her junior brother? How could something happen to a freshly minted junior like her?
"Then who is chatting with us now?" Que Ge suddenly felt a little creepy.
"A person who pretends to be a ghost." Li Zheng's eyes were cold, and he threw the phone back to Que Ge and said, "Let's go to Pu Xiazi."
On the other side, in House No. 9, Yan Yueming entered the only guest room.
The room is on the first floor. The reason why Yan Yueming was sure it was the guest room was because there were only three bedrooms in the whole house. There are two rooms on the second floor, one master bedroom, and another that is locked and cannot be opened. The only room left is the first floor. There are all the toiletries inside, and the bedding is neatly laid out, but there is no sign of use on everything, and it looks like it is prepared for guests.
However, Yan Yueming still had a head injury and could not lie down. He was also afraid of soiling the bed, or because it was difficult to run when the danger came, so he did not sleep on the bed, but huddled on the single sofa in the room. rest.
Tonight was really thrilling. He didn't go to bed until nearly ten o'clock, and was forcibly awakened at twelve o'clock. He has been tormenting him until now. He is frightened and even beaten. After enduring it until now, I am no longer in good spirits and my eyelids are drooping.
In this strange world, not sleeping well is not an option. If you don't sleep well, your energy will be bad. Your brain will be turned into a ball of mush. How can you resist the erosion of world consciousness?
So even though he knew this place was dangerous, Yan Yueming still had to sleep, wrapped in a knitted blanket, holding a monocular in his hand, forcing himself to sleep in a defensive posture.
He fell asleep in a daze, and his whole body seemed to be lying on the boat, swaying with the water waves. This feeling is very strange, a little dizzy, but I can't wake up, it feels like a dream but not a dream, and I feel like I am awake but not awake.
It was dark in the dream, and the water was also dark. The sky was like a big black blanket, weighing him down and making him breathless. In a daze, he saw flowers blooming on the water.
Such big and beautiful flowers are in clusters, like hydrangeas.
He reached out to pick it as if possessed, and grabbed the branch of the hydrangea under the water. But the branch was hard and not soft at all, so he lay down and looked over curiously, and found that it was actually a piece of white human bone. The next second, the human bones caught fire again, and the fire burned the entire flower to ashes.
Yan Yueming was frightened to death and broke into a cold sweat.
I looked at the time and saw it was 6:37 am.
He only slept for two and a half hours, but Yan Yueming didn't plan to sleep anymore, because he was afraid of going back to that dream. After taking a breath, he stood up and walked to the bathroom at the end of the corridor on the first floor, intending to wash his face with cold water to wake himself up.
The bathroom is not big, but wet and dry are separated. There is a red cup on the sink, which is so bright and eye-catching that people quickly look away when they see it, not to mention that there is a mirror above the sink, so they don't dare to look at it.
Yan Yueming lowered his head and wanted to retreat, but he had already stepped forward with one foot. He was in a dilemma. After pausing for two seconds, he took a deep breath, walked forward bravely, kept his head lowered, and leaned over to splash water on his face.
The water splashed without any technical skills, and some of it even splashed into his collar, but it was cold and biting, and it immediately cheered him up. He shivered, wiped his face, turned around, took a step, and closed the door all at once.
After completely waking up, the first thing Yan Yueming did was to take a telescope and observe the situation outside again. Well, it was still early morning, foggy, almost the same as before he fell asleep.
Everything here seems to be really still.
Then if a person is trapped here and cannot get out for a long time, wouldn't he go crazy?
He wanted to shout outside, "Is there anyone there?", but finally held back and walked to the stairwell toward the window at the back of the house to continue investigating.
Looking out of the window, there is a place similar to the garden behind the house. There is also a lawn. Extending from the lawn is a winding river. Beyond the river is a small forest. It is difficult to see clearly from a distance.
From a distance, Yan Yueming seemed to see a small bridge across the river in the north.
If there is a creek and a grove behind the house on the odd-numbered side, then what about the even-numbered side?
Where does the asphalt road outside the house lead to?
The senior said that the gap is connected. If he leaves from here, can he find an exit and return to the normal world? No, Yan Yueming shook his head and forced himself to get rid of this bold and risky idea.
The senior also said that if he encounters such a situation, just let him stay where he is.
He wants to listen to his seniors.
But who will come to save him?
"Gu." My stomach growled. Yan Yueming sat down against the corner, took out the compressed biscuits in his pocket, and ate them with tears in his eyes. It was really terrible here, he was the only one there, and there wasn't even a big cockroach that was a specialty of Shangfang City.
Perhaps God finally heard his call, and suddenly there was a rustling sound outside. Yan Yueming's face changed slightly, and he quickly stopped all his movements and remained silent.
Faint voices drifted from the window.
"Strange, I clearly heard a voice here... Did I hear it wrong? My head, my head... ah, there are little people dancing in my head, hey, hey, hey..."
The people outside the window were thinking silently, but Yan Yueming inside the window did not dare to move.
"...Why am I here? Ah, by the way, I can't let them find out, I can't let them find out, I have to hide, hush, I have to hide..."
The rustling sound came again, and the man seemed to have come under the wall, and footsteps could be heard along the wall. Yan Yueming was separated from him by a wall, and when he heard the ravings that sounded like a mental illness, he felt that it was not good.
Generally speaking, this happens for three reasons, poisoning, mental illness, and foul play.
The most likely one is the third one. Entering the gap itself was a foul act. Before being knocked unconscious, Yan Yueming already felt like he was being targeted by the world's consciousness. But being targeted is just the beginning. There is still a certain distance between cognitive errors, mental disorder and finally complete loss. If you talk nonsense like the man outside the wall, you must have been seriously affected.
Did he come in very early? Or did you break several rules before coming in?
Yan Yueming listened to the footsteps gradually disappearing, and couldn't help but poke his head out to take a look, only to find that it was an unkempt man. His age was hard to tell because of his back, but his clothes were ragged and his back was hunched over, making him look like a beggar.
He touched Building 11 next door. Building 11 had no lights and had that strange Ω sign.
Who is this person?
Who is he afraid of being discovered?
Who are they?
Is there a third person here?
Just at this moment, a whistle suddenly sounded from the asphalt road outside, which made Yan Yueming startled. He quickly ran back to the living room, quietly opened a corner of the curtain, and looked out with his binoculars.
I saw a red car driving past the asphalt road outside. Its speed was very slow, slower than walking speed. The driver was an adult man wearing a jacket, and in the back seat was a woman with long curly hair holding a five or six-year-old girl tightly.
A very typical family of three. Yan Yueming looked at the license plate number again.
【On E6X33T】
It's the license plate of Shangfangcheng.
Yan Yueming immediately remembered the fourth article in "Today's Weather":
[There is no Xiangshan North Road in the city, so turn around immediately when you see the sign. 】
So they also entered by mistake?
Yan Yueming leaned against the wall, forcing himself to calm down and analyze the situation. The senior said that the gap is connected. The family of three driving here most likely came from Xiangshan North Road. They had a car, so they did not stay where they were. After a while, they arrived at Yan Yueming.
But isn't something a little wrong with the situation tonight?
Yan Yueming thought again of the hand that lit the candle and the sap he had been knocked on when he was in Pu Xia Zi Nong. This is clearly someone who is deliberately causing trouble. World Consciousness will never do things like knocking sap off, it is still a bit forceful.
The past two years have been uneventful, but I haven't heard of so many people falling into the gap at the same time in one night?
Thinking of this, Yan Yueming continued to observe and saw the red car slowly stopping on the side of the road. Probably when he saw a house with lights on the roadside, the man got out of the car and went to explore the road.
Because the roadside was still some distance from the door, he probably didn't see the entry and exit instructions on the porch of No. 9, so he drove directly over and stopped at No. 5, which also had the lights on.
Yan Yueming hasn't visited No. 5, so she doesn't know what's going on. He could only watch from a distance and found that the man was cautious enough. Even the woman in the car had moved to the driver's seat and the little girl sat in the passenger seat. The car didn't turn off, and it was ready to escape at any time.
Everyone was very cautious, which made Yan Yueming feel reassured.
The man walked to door No. 5 and looked around carefully, but he didn't seem to find anything unusual. He went around to the window and took a look, wondering if he found anything.
After a while, he walked back to the door, took a deep breath, and decided to knock.
"Duk, duk, is anyone there?" Based on years of experience, three knocks, two long knocks and one short knock, or two short knocks and one long knock are more likely to cause trouble, so the man chose the normal two knocks.
He waited nervously for an answer. The people in the car were equally nervous as Yan Yueming. He was thinking hard about whether he should stop the men and team up with them if they were not ready to come in after getting no response.
These three people look normal. If they are good people, then Yan Yueming can also have a companion. But if your guess is wrong, then the consequences of being with a few strangers who suddenly appear...
Yan Yueming was unsure. He stared hard, trying to find any clues to support his decision. And at this moment, when the man got no answer and knocked on the door again——
"Tuk." There was a knock on the door, and a gunshot rang out, "Bang!"
A bullet came through the wind and instantly pierced the man's arm that was knocking on the door. Although Yan Yueming didn't know whether the bones were broken, he was using a telescope, and all the details were magnified and presented to his eyes.
The pierced flesh and flowing blood seemed to have crossed the limit of distance and hit his face.
In an instant, his face turned pale, and the man's scream finally came. Just like evil spirits killing people, cutting people's nerves with a dull knife in the dead silence.
The man covered his wound and ran away in a hurry. The woman in the car quickly opened the door for him. When the man got into the car, the door closed with a "bang!" and the red car drove away.
The whole process lasted for about ten seconds. When Yan Yueming looked around again, the car had already driven some distance.
Yan Yueming swallowed hard and looked at the trajectory in the mist. The fog is not flowing at all, but it is flowing extremely slowly, and it seems that there is almost no change.
The bullet's discharge brought wind, penetrated the mist, and left an obvious trajectory.
Based on this trajectory, Yan Yueming pushed back and found that the bullet was fired from the second-floor window of a house across the asphalt road. That house is located diagonally opposite No. 5, and its house number is 4. The shooting point on the second floor has a panoramic view of Gate 5.
But why?
Is this a rule killing?
Or do people kill people?
