After escaping from the security room, Lin Mo's steps didn't stop for even a moment. He even used the power of the black shadow. His whole body turned into a black shadow and shuttled through the streets and alleys at an extremely fast speed.

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He didn't know how many turns he turned, and he didn't know how many blind corners he passed that were insurmountable for ordinary people. When Lin Mo finally stopped, he could no longer see the high-rise buildings in the garden community.

Lin Mo stopped, but did not break away from the black shadow. Instead, he still wrapped his whole body with the power of the black shadow, and hid in a dark corner.

With his heart beating wildly, Lin Mo suppressed his breathing and quickly calmed his breathing. Lin Mo looked warily in the direction he came from.

Silence, there was no sound in the whole street, the surroundings were quiet, and no one's footsteps were heard. In other words, no one followed Lin Mo here.

"Then the security guard didn't catch up?"

After waiting for almost half an hour, Lin Mo still didn't hear any sound, and then he carefully walked out of the corner where he was hiding.

Looking at the empty street, Lin Mo felt a little confused. Judging from the old man's behavior before, the ancient book should be something very important to him, but the other party didn't catch up, which made Lin Mo feel a little puzzled.

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"Did you go directly to the bookstore?"

Wei Wei is a little curious. If the old man is not an ordinary person and the security guard's job is just for the old man to hide his identity, then this old man probably has a car and can even call one. The other party knows the address of the bookstore and says

Maybe he rushed directly to the bookstore to wait for him.

After waiting for a while and finally confirming that the old man had not followed, Lin Mo felt relieved and walked slowly towards Fenglin Street.

Regardless of whether the old man had already rushed to the bookstore, or the old man didn't follow at all, it had nothing to do with Lin Mo at this time. After a night of depression, after snatching the old man's ancient book, his whole person

Suddenly it became very easy.

"If that uncle had arrived at the bookstore before me and hadn't seen me, he wouldn't have thought I was lying to him..."

"Forget it, forget it, there's no way to get a taxi at this time anyway, and there's nothing I can do."

Talking to himself, Lin Mo had no intention of speeding up at all. He glanced around. Lin Mo was basically familiar with Maple City. He had been in the security room for a long time. It was almost morning at this time.

It's about two o'clock.

During this time, the easiest place to get a taxi is outside the station, and there is no other place. However, the place where Lin Mo is located is too far from the station, and few vehicles pass by here.

Take a taxi?

Lin Mo never thought about it at all, let alone the boss

I didn't rush over. Even if he had rushed over, Lin Mo wouldn't rush back to the bookstore.

After finally gaining the upper hand, we still had to fidget a bit. Of course, the main reason was that we didn’t have a car.

Wandering on the empty streets, Lin Mo walked slowly towards Maplewood Street. According to his speed, it would take at least an hour to get back to the bookstore. Of course, Lin Mo was not in a hurry.

, and I just happened to be able to take this opportunity to think about some things.

When Lin Mo came to this garden community today, he gained a lot. In other words, today's gain was completely beyond Lin Mo's imagination.

I first decided to come to the Garden Community because I saw a firelight in the old lady's room the night before, and I was curious to see if I could find any connection or enmity between the old lady and Lucy.

But after arriving here, he met the old man and even reached a deal with the old lady who was pretending to be crazy.

But what he saw in the Huayuan Community this evening made Lin Mo feel that he had fallen into a deeper vortex. The Huayuan Community was not as simple as it seemed.

Those things that appear inexplicably in the community at midnight, whether they are humans or ghosts, two old people using black paper lanterns, and those residents of the community who stay up in the middle of the night and stand at the windows not knowing what they are looking at.

All of this crushed Lin Mo's initial doubts.

Then it slowly tore open, and underneath was an even larger vortex.

Lin Mo's investigation can be said to be a failure or a success. The failure was that he did not figure out how Lucy found him tonight, but it can be said to be a great success.

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Because he touched a bigger secret, a secret that he had never cared about.

I have been to the Huayuan Community more than once before, but I have no understanding of the situation in the Huayuan Community, and I have not noticed any difference between this community and other residential communities in the city.

And I discovered that it was more than just that. The deal with the old lady pretending to be crazy seemed very simple. In fact, Lin Mo was able to agree so quickly not just because of the black paper lantern.

According to the old man, she only realized someone was following her after she burned the paper. However, Lin Mo had been following the old man since he came downstairs. It was not from the community at all, as the old man said.

Outside, the old man was followed all the way into the community.

Even though it's just a small difference, the changes are huge.

The old man was holding a black paper lantern before, but she didn't notice Lin Mo following her. It was only after she burned the paper money that she changed like this.

And when the old man burns paper

During the process, Lin Mo did have some problems. He ran inexplicably from behind the old man to the street opposite the old man. Lin Mo still has no way to determine whether this is a change in the power of the shadow or whether the old man is burning paper.

What changes have occurred before and after?

And there is another thing that cannot be explained. According to the old man's words and actions, as well as the behavior of the old security guard, it indicates that something must have changed inside the community at the moment all the lights went out at the same time.

And then the sudden appearance of so many people confirmed this point.

But the problem is that when the community was completely plunged into darkness, Lin Mo was in the garden community. Even when the old lady went downstairs, Lin Mo slowly followed the old lady. At that time, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening.

It was one o'clock, but no strange figures appeared in the community.

However, after Lin Mo followed the old man and re-entered the Huayuan Community from the outside, the entire Huayuan Community changed into something else.

The time difference between before and after was only half an hour, but the scene Lin Mo saw and the situation he perceived had undergone earth-shaking changes. At that time, the old security guard's footsteps were so fast that there was no way to hide his vigilance.

Coupled with the exchange with the crazy old lady, Lin Mo was very sure that the moment the community became completely dark, those strange figures must have appeared in the community.

But why could he see and feel nothing before, but after following the old lady into the community again, he could see and feel such strange scenes?

This cannot be explained. The power of the black shadow still exists, and Lin Mo can also control it.

But the old man could clearly sense Lin Mo's presence after that. There must have been some changes that Lin Mo didn't know about.

At this time, Lin Mo guessed that this change might be related to the black paper lantern in the old man's hand, so the matter became more complicated.

When he went to Lucy's house before, Lin Mo sensed an old man lying on the bed in the closed room, and a black paper lantern placed in the corner of the room. The black paper lantern plus the crazy old lady

In his hand, as well as the black paper lantern in the old security guard's hand, there are now three black paper lanterns in total.

Lin Mo was not sure whether everyone in the community had this black paper lantern, or whether only a few people had black paper lanterns. If everyone had one, the reason why the old man could sense Lin Mo was also because of the black paper lantern.

As for paper lanterns...

Then Lin Mo's method of using the power of shadow to hide his figure became a joke.
Chapter completed!