Zhang Heng moved the utility knife in his hand downwards, cut Zhang Jingli's thumb, and saw the flesh and blood underneath. In a static world, living creatures do not follow the rule of taking effect when touched, so the blood in the blood vessels does not flow. , but after cutting it open, you can still clearly see the color of the blood inside.
Different from the black blood on Zhang Jingli's calf, the blood vessels on his hands were flowing with the same red blood as ordinary people. To be cautious, Zhang Heng scraped away the blood scab on his calf and found that only the upper layer was black. , so far Zhang Heng has been able to confirm that Zhang Jingli is not the thing he met before, but an ordinary child in the orphanage. However, he should have a certain relationship with that thing, otherwise he would not voluntarily top the cylinder and hide the gauze on the bed. He even did not hesitate to insert the arrow into his calf. Even adults may not have such cruelty.
It's just that he obviously didn't know what the cost of doing this was. If Zhang Heng hadn't realized the abnormality of the welfare home staff, it would have been very difficult for Zhang Jinli to survive if the utility knife had just pressed down a little more.
Zhang Heng put away the utility knife in his hand. His target tonight was the monster, not the cynical kid in the children's welfare home. But if Zhang Jingli was not the one who attacked them tonight, then where was the person who attacked them tonight?
More than twenty hours have passed since he entered the still world. In almost two hours, the starfish's hour hand will make a full circle. If the time to go back is also included, there should be only one and a half hours left for him to move. About an hour later, Zhang Heng had already searched the main building of the Children's Welfare Home. Except for Zhang Jingli, he found no suspicious targets.
If the other party just bandaged up the orphanage and left, it would undoubtedly be the worst situation for Zhang Heng, because it would be difficult to carry out a large-scale search like before in the remaining time, but Zhang Heng did not think that the other party Choosing an orphanage was just a coincidence. Children like Zhang Jingli who live in children's orphanages rarely have contact with the outside world, and many of them do not trust outsiders for various reasons.
But the current situation in the children's welfare home is indeed not like a missing child, so there is only one possibility left.
Zhang Heng returned to the archives room not far from the B-ultrasound room, found the adoption records of the recent period, and dug out the files of the children who were adopted in the recent period according to the names above.
Zhang Heng originally thought it would take a while, but when he saw the photo on one of the files, he was stunned because he actually knew the person on it.
——Zhao Xiaotian, this name is new to the welfare home, but the person in the photo, Zhang Heng, is no stranger. It was the child he saved when he first encountered the monster that could melt the walls. When passing by that remote alley, I tried to save the old woman who was scavenging, but failed. In the end, I only had time to take away her little grandson who was standing beside her.
He later went to the police station to report the case and left the child there. According to regulations, if the police station could not find other relatives of the child, he would be sent to an orphanage. Therefore, Zhao Xiaotian entered this place about a month ago. From the welfare home.
Coincidentally, just a few days later on Christmas Eve, Zhang Heng saw Zhao Xiaotian again in the corner of the amusement park. However, he only saw the other person's back in the crowd and did not associate that back with Zhao Xiaotian at that time. Together, plus the fact that Hayase Asuka and the boy chasing her came out of the haunted house and got into trouble, Zhang Heng didn't take this matter to heart.
But looking back now, there are actually a lot of doubts about Zhao Xiaotian. Due to preconceptions, both Zhang Heng and the female police officer at the police station who was responsible for recording the confession thought that Zhao Xiaotian was the grandson of the murdered old man who scavenged. In the previous case, He played the role of the victim in the incident, but there is actually no evidence to prove that there is a blood relationship between the two people. Among this kind of low-level homeless people, many of them have no relationship in order to relieve their loneliness and get through the sadness together. People will also keep company with each other.
Especially when the pool of black liquid swallowed up the old man scavenging, Zhao Xiaotian just stood aside and watched quietly, neither crying nor making a fuss. Zhang Heng thought he was frightened, but in fact his performance was just as good. It is interpreted as the hunter admiring his handiwork.
Shen Xixi once said that the targets of that thing were all scavengers on the edge of the city. What could be easier than becoming one of them to get close to them and make them relax their vigilance? Coupled with Zhao Xiaotian's age, most scavengers No one would be wary of him. He was like a wolf with his tail between his legs among the sheep. No one discovered his true identity, and he could choose his dinner calmly.
So now there is only one last question left, which is where is Zhao Xiaotian?
Zhang Heng saw on the file that Zhao Xiaotian was adopted two days ago by a middle-aged couple who were infertile. Their address was in a mid-range community in the Fourth Ring Road.
But Zhang Heng was not in a hurry. Zhao Xiaotian was the most cunning opponent he had ever encountered, and he was very good at disguising himself. So far, he had caused Zhang Heng to misjudge three times.
In addition to Zhang Heng treating him as a victim when they first met, he also tried to use Li Shengyue to confuse Zhang Heng on the top floor of the library. However, the preparation time left for him was too short at that time, and Zhang Heng turned around at the critical moment [Pa Reese's Arrow] was targeted, and then came the confrontation at the children's welfare home. With Zhang Jingli willing to cooperate with him, his plan this time was even more confusing.
Zhang Heng believes that Zhao Xiaotian's inducing him to kill Zhang Jingli is definitely not the end, but the beginning of his counterattack. He should have follow-up arrangements. If Zhang Heng really steps into the trap, he will probably be charged as a murderer. Although Heng has some supernatural game props and rich life experiences, this is not Nassau in the 18th century. An individual's power cannot compete with the state machine. Even if he can avoid subsequent detection, he can only I lived in darkness for the rest of my life.
This is also in line with the consistent characteristics of that thing. He understands human society very well. Not only has he been hunting carefully to avoid the public eye and the attention of power agencies, but he will also use the rules of human society to solve his own threats. The only thing he has missed is What I didn't know was that Zhang Heng actually had an extra 24 hours every day.
Based on Zhang Heng's understanding of that thing, when he makes a hunting plan, he usually does not leave, but hides on the spot. On the one hand, it is more conducive to him to control the direction of things, and on the other hand, he seems to like it very much. Witness the futile struggle and resistance of prey with your own eyes.
But this time, he obviously played with fire and burned himself.
Zhang Heng took out the design drawing of the children's welfare home from the archives, held the design drawing and searched the welfare home again. This time he finally made a new discovery. The length of the corridor on the second floor was approximately shorter than indicated on the design drawing. 50cm, and there are no windows as shown in the design. In other words, the structure of this section of wall has been changed.
"It's time to come out and get some air."
Zhang Heng left the children's welfare home and turned to the construction site next door. When he came back ten minutes later, he had a hammer for demolishing the wall in his hand.
