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[Today is March 8, 202x. Young detective Xie Xingyin received an invitation from Wangchuan Detective Agency to investigate the human-faced dog incident...]

The darkness in front of him receded like a tide. When Xie Xingyin opened his eyes again, he found that he was standing on an unfamiliar street.

To his left, there was a dilapidated bus stop sign with crooked writing on it.

"Wangchuan Road Station".

The shops facing the street were all closed, and the red lanterns with black characters hanging on the outer walls were swaying in the north wind, creating an unusually mysterious atmosphere.

There were very few people on the street at this moment, except for a tall young man walking alone on the sidewalk.

As far as the eye can see, at the end of the street is an all-devouring darkness, thick and terrifying.

The parts at both ends of the street seemed to have been blurred, and the rest was deliberately erased, leaving only a section.

At this moment, not a single living person could be seen on the street, and the north wind was blowing coldly.

Xie Xingyin tightened his collar.

A detective certificate was hung out of thin air around his neck, which contained his name, age, ID, photo and other information.

Xie Xingyin put the detective certificate in his pocket and put it away. When he looked up towards the end of the road, a small moving black dot in the distance suddenly hit his field of vision.

——The black spot gradually enlarged from far to near. It turned out to be a person running in a hurry. His figure looked like the young man I had seen under the tower.

Xie Xingyin hurriedly greeted him.

He walked about two to three hundred meters forward, but the oncoming person seemed not to notice him, walked straight into a dark door on the side of the road, and disappeared.

Xie Xingyin slowed down and stood where the man disappeared.

He looked up at the dusty door number.

No. 11 Wangchuan Road, the tips for the tickets are here.

There is a sign on the facade of No. 11 Wangchuan Road, surrounded by grocery stores, with the words "Wangchuan Detective Agency" written in large letters.

The office door was ajar and still shaking slightly, indicating that the person just entered.

From the outside, the office looks like an ordinary two-story building.

Xie Xingyin's eyes darkened slightly, he stepped onto the steps in front of the door and pulled the door handle.

As he opened the door, Xie Xingyin was surprised in his heart.

The interior of the lobby of this humble detective agency is unusually open. It is many times larger than it appears from the outside, giving it a strange sense of folding space.

There were many people gathered in the lobby on the first floor, either standing or sitting.

When Xie Xingyin pushed the door open, those people looked back at him, didn't care much, and continued talking to themselves.

"...Wangchuan Road, what the hell is it called!" A girl who looked like a high school student crossed her arms and complained to her two friends, "Is this the Wangchuan River or Huangquan Road?"

"Bah, bah, don't talk nonsense." Her companion was frightened.

Xie Xingyin closed the door with his backhand, looked around the hall, and noticed that about ten people had gathered in the hall.

Xie Xingyin knew that these were all players who were climbing the tower. There seemed to be many novices like him among them, who were acting a bit rude.

Sure enough, the black-haired boy he met while queuing was already sitting on the couch, silent, still playing with the Rubik's Cube.

It seemed that he was on the right track. Xie Xingyin breathed a sigh of relief and was about to walk over to talk to the child when his clothes suddenly got caught.

When he turned around, an enlarged face appeared in front of him.

Xie Xingyin subconsciously tilted his head back and realized that the person holding him was a young girl.

The girl was so panicked that when she saw him, she hugged Xie Xingyin's arm as if she had seen a life-saving straw.

"Handsome guy, do you know what is going on! This is the world of the tower? This is too... too scary!"

The girl's voice sounded like she was crying, as if she was a little broken.

Everyone in the hall was in anxiety, and no one had the patience to comfort her. Seeing Xie Xingyin push the door open and come in, she seemed to be sure that this guy was the most like a good person, and she hugged his arm when she came up and didn't let go.

Xie Xingyin didn't know where she appeared, but seeing her looking like she was about to cry, he was too embarrassed to push her away directly.

"Sorry, I'm a newbie too."

Xie Xingyin told the truth. As he spoke, he calmly took out his hand.

"...I, my name is Li Wei, this is my first time entering the tower."

Li Wei seemed to have made up her mind to stick to him. "Brother, what's your name?"

Xie Xingyin was helpless: "...Xie Xingyin."

"So, Brother Xie, is this really your first time climbing the tower?" Li Wei was still testing him cautiously.

She didn't seem to believe Xie Xingyin's words, because compared to others, Xie Xingyin acted a little too calm.

"Yeah." Xie Xingyin is indeed a novice.

Li Wei seemed a little frustrated. She walked to the couch and sat down, pouring herself a glass of lemonade. "How on earth can I get out? I don't like this place at all."

Seeing tears in the girl's eyes as if she was about to cry, Xie Xingyin took out a tissue and handed it to her like a gentleman. "You can go out after completing the task."

"Thank you." Li Wei woke up and her nose was filled with runny nose, and the tip of her nose was red.

"...Why haven't you started yet?" The bald man wearing a gold necklace yawned and couldn't help but look at the time, "It's almost half an hour, right?"

"Wait a moment, no one has arrived yet," said an elite man in a suit and metal frames.

Two minutes later, a middle-aged man and woman hurriedly opened the door and came in. "Excuse me, is this-"

Before they could finish speaking, the door slammed shut.

"We are all here now." The elite man looked at the blank expressions of the people around him and smiled, "It seems that there are quite a few newbies in this instance."

The hall on the first floor fell into a brief silence. Xie Xingyin's eyes quickly scanned the room, wondering what would happen next.

After a short wait, a wooden door in the inner corner suddenly moved, making a heartbreaking "squeaking" sound.

"Coming."

Suddenly everyone's expressions became alert.

With a breathless friction sound, the wooden door was pushed open with force. The dust accumulated over the years flew up all over the floor with a loud "bang".

Everyone followed the sound and saw that the wooden door in the corner was slowly pushed open, and a pair of eyes appeared from the crack of the door——

A pair of cloudy gray eyes, like a zombie just dug out of the ground.

"Is everyone here?"

The pair of gray eyes moved slightly, and its owner took a step forward, and the face that was originally hidden in the darkness was exposed to the light.

"If everyone is here, the mission will begin."

It was an old face, like dry and peeling birch bark.

Xie Xingyin noticed that the golden chain brother took a step back, while the black-haired boy was concentrating on disrupting the Rubik's Cube and trying it again, without even raising his head.

When he saw the man through the crack in the door, his eyes only reached the door handle. Xie Xingyin thought he was very short, but when the door was fully opened, he discovered that he was an old man sitting in a wheelchair.

The old man was wearing a wide-brimmed hat, his two thin legs were hanging weakly, and his whole body was full of the decadent air of dying.

He held the pipe in one hand and maneuvered the wheelchair with the other hand and came among them. The others subconsciously took a few steps back to make a semi-fan space, trying to stay as far away from this strange guy as possible.

But the old man didn't look at them. He stared in the direction of the door and muttered: "One, two, three..."

He didn't read slowly, but his tone made people breathless as if they were drowning.

"...Eleven, twelve, thirteen..."

"Okay." The old man coughed, raised his eyelids and looked at Xie Xingyin with strange eyes through his gray pupils.

"We're all here, let's start looking at the case information."

Xie Xingyin looked at him calmly and noticed that the name tag of "Wangchuan Detective Agency" was hanging on the old man's chest. He was probably the old detective who worked here.

Just when he wanted to take a closer look, the old detective suddenly twisted the wheelchair and pressed some button on the back of the chair with his old hands.

In the blink of an eye, the lights in the hall dimmed suddenly, and the wall behind everyone suddenly lit up, and the white wall projected the picture like a curtain.

A news video was shown on the screen, the announcer's mouth opened and closed mechanically, and a "rustling" noise came from the old black stereo on the ground.

This is the case the old man talks about.

"On April 1, journalist Keiko, who lives in Wangchuan Apartment, published an article in Wangchuan Daily, claiming that she witnessed a human-faced dog near the apartment..."

"Since the newspaper suspected of being an April Fool's Day joke was published, more and more residents of Wangchuan Apartment claimed to have witnessed human-faced dogs, causing quite a stir..."

"Ms. Keiko couldn't resist the pressure and admitted personally that the news was fabricated. The ridiculous rumors were self-defeating..."

"However, the strange thing is that other witnesses still insist that they saw the human-faced dog, and new witnesses continue to appear..."

"Rumors gradually fermented, and people living on Wangchuan Road even organized a parade to call for the attention of all walks of life. Do human-faced dogs really exist?"

"On April 15, reporter Miss Keiko was found to have left a suicide note at home and tried to commit suicide. Blood stains stained the floor and seeped out of the cracks in the door. She was discovered by a neighbor..."

The announcer recited the contents of the manuscript expressionlessly. When he finished reading the last word, the news picture behind him stopped at the bloody scene and stopped abruptly.

The whole place was silent.

Everyone looked at the screen in silence. Xie Xingyin heard someone behind him take a breath.

"What...what do you mean?"

Li Wei's face next to her was not pretty, and her voice was trembling with fear. She looked up helplessly at Xie Xingyin.
Chapter completed!