The gray three-story building has two basement levels. The corridors and ceilings are very short and narrow. They become narrower and narrower as you walk, as if they are about to collapse and make you breathless. I heard from middle-aged people that this place was the one before Media Asia Group.
The temporary warehouse was piled with all kinds of used mechanical parts and equipment. It was not intended to be occupied at first, but when Chu Tianjiao said that there was no place to live, the boss of Media Asia Group simply had someone clean up a room for him to live in.
Down.
The hum of the air conditioner compressor spread from the other end of the corridor to this end, and there was dust everywhere. When people moved around, the wind blew up and made people shudder and frown. The middle-aged people seemed to be used to staying in this place for a long time.
He held his breath and shook out a large key from his sleeve while flipping through it and said, "This place has been around for a while. I used to come here often...ahem...but then Lao Chu disappeared.
Why did I come down here? Now that I think about it, he is quite capable. He has just... cough... he hasn't changed places in a few years. I told him about several cheap rental houses and he rejected them all, saying that he had to.
Save some money so that I can give my son a wedding gift later... Sigh, who knew a natural disaster would come so quickly. I asked the transportation bureau and they said they only found the body of the Maybach. As for the driver... he was even more stingy after the collision.
There is blood everywhere inside and outside the car."
"Has anyone claimed the body?" Lin Nian looked at the closed iron doors in the corridor. Each door had a number painted in white. Going back from 001, incandescent lamps were hung on the ceiling above.
It exudes warmth and light, illuminating their shadows in the corridor.
"It was said that it was too badly damaged and could not be claimed, so it was just cleaned up hastily, and there was no funeral... Lao Chu usually has a good relationship with us, but when it comes to funerals and funerals, which require money, there is no one.
I rushed to pick up Lei, but there wasn't even a decent funeral or a grave. I wanted to burn something but there was nowhere to go. I had to go back to the stall where we used to eat braised large intestine, order a dish, smoke and drink.
The beer is enough." The middle-aged man looked at this chaotic corridor, coughed twice and whispered, "The smell of kerosene may be worse as you go in, little brother, do you want me to go back and get you a mask?"
"No need." Lin Nian shook his head and asked as if he was remembering something, "Is the smell of kerosene always so strong here?"
“In the past, when the factory was working in the back, the smell was several times worse than it is now. It was so choking that people didn’t dare to come down... But Lao Chu is different. He is used to it, and no matter how strong the smell of kerosene is, he dares to get down there.”
Lin Nian nodded... Hybrids do have their own merits in some places. For normal people, it is an unbearable or even extreme environment. If Chu Tianjiao is really an 'S' level, then for them,
For many people, the smell of kerosene in the place where they live is just the difference between comfortable and uncomfortable. Not to mention the smell of kerosene, even in a fire scene where the air temperature can burn the respiratory tract, they can breathe freely and even fight with all their strength.
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"Lao Chu has had a very hard life... But I guess if his son hadn't been in an accident with him in the car that day, his ex-wife wouldn't have even known about his death in the car accident.
, but I feel that after more than ten or twenty years here, he still has no foundation. He died without a complete body, and he couldn't even be buried in the ground." The middle-aged man said with a sigh.
“As long as there are no dead people buried underground, you don’t belong here.” Lin Nian nodded.
"That's so good... Is this young man a top student? Are you looking for material from Lao Chu this time?" The middle-aged man also slowly pulled out of his memories.
"No, I know his son." Lin Nian said, "I read the sentence just now in a book, and I think it is very suitable to describe him."
“Then why is it not his son who came to see me?” The middle-aged man was a little surprised.
Lin Nian did not answer this question because Chu Zihang never believed that Chu Tianjiao died in a car accident. The scene of meeting the gods that night has been deeply engraved in Chu Zihang's mind. In this life, his goal will only be
He came to the god again and jumped up like a lion to ask Him to return the man.
But things seen from different angles are completely different. Lin Nian came into contact with Chu Tianjiao as an 'S' level specialist, so he would inevitably use a more rational starting point to analyze the matter. For Chu Zihang,
It is said that Chu Tianjiao was his biological father. He gave birth to him in this city and raised him until he was six years old. Then the family split and fell apart. It was not until later that the tragedy on the elevated road happened.
But in Lin Nian's eyes, Chu Tianjiao has never been a father, but a super hybrid who can make most people awe-inspiring. He came to this city just to rush to a certain mission, and he only met by chance.
The woman in the dance troupe fell in love, which was just an interlude on the way to completing his mission... He most likely came for Odin from the beginning, knowing that there was a Nibelung in this city,
However, that night he was able to get inside, but the only mistake was that he brought his child with him.
There must be some secret hidden in Chu Tianjiao's safe house. If this secret can be revealed, maybe Lin Nian will be able to understand Odin's true identity better, and most likely he will be able to solve the biggest doubt he has in his heart right now.
"This is Lao Chu's house. I haven't opened it for a long time, and I don't know how bad the situation inside is... It's always good to be mentally prepared." The middle-aged man coughed and stood at a painted door.
In front of room '062', I took out the key I had been looking for for a long time, opened the lock, and opened the door.
The fresher air from the dreary corridor blew into my face, and a smell of dust rose from the ground. The room was not as unsightly as the middle-aged man said. On the contrary, it was surprisingly tidy and there was not much air flow.
Because there is not much dust, there is a double bed, a bedside table, a writing desk against the wall, and counting the refrigerator in the corner, this is probably all the furniture in this room.
"...It would be nice if there were no mice, but Lao Chu doesn't like to bring food into the room. I guess mice don't like to come in." The middle-aged man seemed to be moved by the layout of the room, and there was a sense of sadness in his eyes.
, people always like to reminisce about the past when they reach their age. Some people say this is a sign of old age. Not only do people get old, but their hearts also get old together. Only then can they recall all the good things in the past.
“I’ll sit by myself for a while.” Lin Nian raised his hand as if to expel the guest...but he didn’t know that he was the guest.
"Okay, if you need anything, just call me. I'll wait for you on the first floor." The middle-aged man didn't care about priorities. He was just a person who was ordered to do things. Don't look at the boy in front of him who is older than him.
It's much smaller, but with just one word from the other party, you can probably lose your job...or find a good job again? The premise is that you don't make the other party uncomfortable.
The middle-aged man left, and Lin Nian walked into the room. Someone closed the door for him behind him, and there was a bang, bringing up some scattered dust.
The blond girl clapped her hands, walked in front of Lin Nian, and started wandering around the room first. Her little feet stepped on the thin dusty ground but did not leave any mark. When she thought about it, she seemed to be able to break through the void.
The boundaries of reality disturbed reality, and when she didn't want to, she turned back into that ghost and existed only in Lin Nian's sight.
"Why did you come out at this time? You have been very diligent during this time." Lin Nian walked to the double bed. There were several old copies of "Story Club" on the bedside table. He picked up one and flipped through it carefully.
When I read it again, the short stories above are still the same as before, full of weirdness and weirdness, but also particularly fascinating.
"Now times are advancing, and 3D movies are outdated. Just watching live broadcasts is boring. 5D holographic movies like this are the brand new future!" The blonde girl jumped on the bed and jumped twice, making the bed board bang.
, she pursed her lips somewhat unhappily, raised her hand and patted the bed twice hard, which was made of wooden boards.
"I thought you were worried that I might find something terrible, so you came out to stop me." Lin Nian put down the "Story Meeting" where he found no clues, and looked at the blond girl who was lying on the bed.
She opened a corner of the quilt and patted her, beckoning him to come in and sleep with her.
“Why are you talking so harshly today? Do you think I am the mastermind behind the scenes?” The blond girl lifted up the quilt with a smile on her face.
"It's nothing, I just thought of something." Lin Nian walked to the desk and picked up the family photo on it. The photo was taken in an amusement park. A relatively handsome man stood with his arms around a beautiful woman and a cute boy.
Together, the boy held an ice cream cone in his hand and licked it intently... Only then did he realize that it was not Chu Zihang who had a sudden change of temperament and became paralyzed after that night, but that he had been paralyzed since he was a child, and he ate better ice cream.
Even if you take a family photo, the faces all have no expression.
"To be able to make an 'S' class remain anonymous for so many years, doing the work of picking up plaster and moving boilers every day, even giving up his wife and children, and living in a basement with an excessive kerosene smell all day long until he dies... He must be
Why are you enduring such humiliation for such a terrible mission?" The blond girl sat on the hard bed, hugging her knees and looking at Lin Nian in front of the desk.
Lin Nian put down the family portrait and walked to the small refrigerator and opened the door. There was no moldy food as expected. It was empty. The only thing left was three cans of beer that he had not had time to drink. He took out one can and looked at it.
The production date indicates that it has been expired for four years. The liquor inside may have become turbid and precipitated, and the color when poured out will be darker than Coca-Cola.
“Chu Tianjiao is indeed an ‘S’ class, a genuine super hybrid, I can tell you this directly.” The blond girl said suddenly.
Lin Nian turned his head and glanced at her without saying anything. He had almost confirmed this news with the intelligence he had collected. Now that the blond girl mentioned it again, it was just an afterthought, not even the icing on the cake.
“Chu Tianjiao was intercepted by Odin on the elevated road because he was carrying something, not because of his bloodline itself.” The blonde girl added.
Lin Nian stopped, looked at the blond girl and frowned. Odin came to Chu Tianjiao because he was carrying something important? What could make the god work hard and swing his spear for it?
This is a huge piece of information, but when the Riddler suddenly announced the answer to the riddle, there was only one possibility that he was close to the answer. But where was the information left by Chu Tianjiao in this room where the information was cleaner than a blank piece of paper?
Suddenly, Lin Nian's eyes fell on the bed where the blond girl was sitting... It seemed that from the beginning, the blond girl had already given him a hint as soon as he entered the house.
He looked at the blond girl with a somewhat uncertain expression.
The blond girl couldn't help but chuckle when she looked at his thoughtful expression: "Isn't your real purpose just to use Chu Tianjiao's affairs to find out what I am? If you want to know, just tell me, and I will