Lu Li wanted to close the newspaper, but an invisible force stopped him.
"I haven't finished reading yet."
Anna, who was floating behind Lu Li and looking over her shoulder at the newspaper, said.
Lu Li stopped, and the chair made a grinding sound as it moved to make room.
Anna leaned forward and continued reading.
The simple room was lit with oil lamps, and something called silence flowed. Until Anna finished reading, she let out a long sigh: "Hey - Shadow Town -"
Realizing that the voice at this time was a bit loud, Anna covered her mouth, her clear eyes reflecting the candlelight widened and whispered: "The weirdness in Shadow Town is all fake...?"
"That's what the above said." Lu Li neither denied nor agreed.
Anna's tone was filled with worry: "Then the fruit in your food..."
Lu Li frowned slightly and replied, "I haven't noticed anything strange yet...but just in case, I may need you to stay on duty tonight, okay?"
"Leave it to me!"
Anna's strength may not be strong, but it is more than enough to deal with some small town residents.
"But shall we do nothing?"
"What are you doing?" Lu Li raised his eyes and looked at her quietly.
Anna rubbed the back of her head and said, "Well... I'm just causing trouble for the old woman."
"It makes no sense. If the article is true, there are residents of the entire town behind her. This is not a personal behavior." Lu Li shook his head gently. "And don't forget the purpose of our coming here."
Frankly speaking, Lu Li had no intention of interfering with the behavior of the residents of the town, even if he was also one of the victims. After all, this was just a scam and it did not cause much harm.
"Yeah..." Perhaps it was the illusion caused by Lu Li's woolen coat. Anna, who always thought they were a detective team, suddenly nodded, put away the newspaper and returned to the previous place, picking up the novel she had not finished yet: "The one next door
Where’s the guy?”
Ever since the mysterious man entered the room, he has never been seen coming out. Besides, except for the first sound, there was a dead silence and no sound came out, as if there was an empty room next door.
"Pretend he doesn't exist." Lu Li said concisely.
"Oh... Anyway, you can rest, I'll keep watch."
The alarm clock on the dining table pointed to less than eight o'clock, which was a bit early, but in a place with little leisure options, most people had already gotten into bed under the dim light of oil lamps.
Lu Li stood up and left the wooden chair, sitting on the edge of the single bed next to the dining table: "Good night then."
"Good night."
Anna watched Lu Li take off his windbreaker, unbutton the cuffs and the first button of the collar, then untie his black tie, and put it next to the pillow filled with wheat husks.
Lu Li lay down on his side and pulled up his woolen coat to cover his body, covering his lips and nose.
The psychic gun was strapped to his right waist, which forced Lu Li to lie on his left side, facing the dining table and Anna.
This was the first time Anna saw Lu Li sleeping in bed, and she felt a little... weird.
Although she often saw Lu Li resting, he always lay on the table. This was the first time she saw him resting on the bed.
The unfolded book that Xu held quietly covered his cheeks, leaving only a pair of clear eyes exposed, staring at the half-face that had closed his eyes without blinking.
Anna's unscrupulous peeping did not last long. After more than ten seconds, Lu Li's eyes suddenly opened and looked at each other, causing Anna to panic for a moment.
"..."
Lu Li blinked and silently pulled up his windbreaker to cover his black eyes and forehead.
"Well……"
Anna withdrew her gaze, sat down on the still warm wooden chair, and read a book absently.
Time flows quietly like a steady wick in an oil lamp, and the shadows of wooden chairs and floating books are projected on the scrubbed and faded wooden floor.
Maybe a few minutes passed, maybe a few hours. Half asleep and half awake, an illusory and hazy voice sounded in the distance and the source could not be identified.
"Did he go to sleep?"
"Already asleep."
The voices were that of a man and a woman. They were both familiar and unfamiliar. Suddenly, the images of the voices gradually emerged: the tavern owner and the mysterious man.
As consciousness gradually became clearer, the voices became more directed. It seemed to be whispers coming into the ears through the thin wooden walls.
The conversation is still going on, and the target of the conversation may be Lu Li.
"When do we act?"
"It will start later."
Lu Li's gradually awakening consciousness tried to control his body and open his eyes. But he soon discovered that his body seemed to be dead and there was no feedback.
He could hear conversations behind a certain wooden wall and floor, and could also hear the occasional sound of pages being turned, but his body was unresponsive and he couldn't even simply open his eyes.
If the woolen windbreaker hadn't covered his face, Anna might have noticed that Lu Li's eyes were moving rapidly under his closed eyelids.
Lu Li, who was fully aware of his situation, gradually became calmer and tried to open his eyes again and again.
The two whispers continued.
"Shh...he's about to wake up."
"He has already eaten the fruit, don't worry."
"Let's go and get ready."
Once, twice. Lu Li's consciousness hit his thin eyelids like a wave. Suddenly, his eyes suddenly opened. Everything around him seemed to have lost its obstruction, fresh air poured in, and the clear and true reality was exposed in front of him.
Turning her eyes, the oil lamp was placed on the dining table, and the dim yellow light barely illuminated the entire room. Anna sat in a wooden chair, holding a book and reading quietly.
"what time is it?"
Anna looked at the single bed. Lu Li had already sat up, and the windbreaker dropped his words from his right shoulder.
"It's not even 1 o'clock yet." Anna replied, looking at the alarm clock on the dining table.
"Did you just hear that?"
"What did you hear?"
"nothing."
Lu Li concentrated his attention and struggled to recall the strange conversation he heard earlier.
This was the reason why Lu Li had avoided lying in bed to rest since his arrival.
Although deep sleep can make people energetic, but during deep sleep, all perceptions of the outside world are reduced to a minimum. And if you wake up without a good rest, it will be difficult for him to think normally in such a hazy state.
The content of the conversation was gradually recalled, and Lu Li raised his eyes to look at the curtain. It was already hanging there, blocking the window.
"What happened?" he asked.
Anna put down the book with only a few dozen unread pages: "No, maybe the curtains are closed, or maybe we live on the second floor..."
"It doesn't matter which floor it is on," Lu Li said.
Anna didn't hear those conversations, so were they real, or were they subconscious hallucinations caused by the light effect...?
At this moment, Lu Li saw a strange, flat black shadow extending from the gap under the curtains.
It looked like an arm, but the palm part was slender and sharp, like a strange claw, stretching towards the bottom of the oil lamp on the dining table.
The dark claws were about to touch the oil lamp, and Lu Li suddenly stood up, but it was too late.
call--
A sound like blowing air sounded in Lu Li and Anna's ears, and the next moment, the candle in the oil lamp suddenly went out.
