Lin Sanjiu said in a low voice, her peripheral vision focused on the crooked entrance of the reception room. "...That old lady is indeed an ordinary person who has not evolved, right?"
Bohemia nodded: "Definitely, I am particularly sensitive to this."
After all, in the Twelve Realms, if she could even admit her mistake, she wouldn't be alive today.
Although it is not ruled out that there are special items or abilities that can allow evolved people to disguise themselves as ordinary people; the chance that this will happen to them in a random house while hiding from the rain is really low.
Lin Sanjiu raised her chin toward the door, "Go to the door and see where the old lady is. I want to turn on the TV to take a look."
"What are you looking at?" Bohemia asked softly, approaching the door silently.
"I thought that image just now was a bit strange."
Lin Sanjiu turned on the TV again. This time he didn't forget to find the volume button first and turned it to the lowest setting. Sure enough, the screen still showed the urgent news that a mental patient had disturbed the house and was now on the run. If from
After the evolution policemen left, they started to count. It has been playing on a loop for at least twenty minutes.
She stared at the screen and slowly frowned.
...These are not two frontal portraits, but a 360° imaging shot using surround technology. She turned off the TV too quickly just now, and when she turned it on again, she realized that she and Bohemia looked like two different people.
Like an actor who was photographed from head to toe, they were slowly spinning around in the news. The background was the small entrance hall - everyone who watched the news could know what the hair on their heads looked like.
But, how is this possible?
The bright light of lightning penetrated the dark room from time to time, reflecting the faces of the two people on the screen white again and again. The rain outside the window seemed to be getting heavier and heavier, and the rustling sound drowned out the noise in the reception room; when a voice came from
When the sound of metal banging in the corridor reached Lin Sanjiu's ears, she immediately raised her head.
"what sound?"
Bohemia, who was standing at the door, first stretched out her hand to push up a soft and flexible door frame. After taking a look, she replied in a low voice: "At the end of the corridor is the kitchen... She seemed to be looking into the pot.
Is the food ready?"
Lin Sanjiu's heart moved, and Bohemia happened to cast her gaze at this moment. In the dark and gloomy reception room, her face and facial features were almost invisible, only her big eyes were shining slightly: "
...'Edible truth'! Does it have anything to do with this?"
"……I have no idea."
"There must be." Bohemia was immediately full of confidence and looked out again with interest: "Let's wait for her to come back and see what she brings this time."
"Come here," Lin Sanjiu looked at the screen and suddenly greeted her. Bohemia was waiting to verify her theory, and was reluctant to move after hearing this; like an untrained dog, she kept saying
After being greeted two or three times, she finally approached the TV.
"what?"
As soon as she asked this question, Lin Sanjiu was startled - the latter suddenly squatted down, picked up the hem of her skirt, held her ankle and looked at it carefully for a few times, and then took it again.
The skirt corners were put back.
Bohemia's face turned red and she stammered, "Is there something wrong with you?"
"Sure enough, you have a silver bell tied to your right ankle." Lin Sanjiu said thoughtfully.
"You really don't have a brain in the left side of your head. What do you want to explain?"
"Look," Lin Sanjiu was not angry and clicked on the TV screen, "The reason why I know about the bell on your ankle is because of this."
In the news images, the bohemian who keeps spinning slowly in circles does indeed have an identical silver bell tied to her feet - the length of the skirt is deliberately shortened a little shorter than in real life, just enough to expose it.
"I've been with you for so long, I didn't even notice it." When Lin Sanjiu said this, he caught a little noise in the kitchen at the end of the corridor from the rumbling rain. It sounded like the old lady was about to die.
came out; she hurriedly turned off the TV, pulled Bohemia to sit down again, and whispered: "...We only stayed in the entrance and exit for less than ten minutes, how could even such details be recorded by the camera?
?”
Bohemia thought for a while. The unhurried footsteps in the corridor were indeed walking towards the reception room, accompanied from time to time by the sound of pot lids clashing. She suddenly came closer and said in a somewhat hesitant voice: "
……Camera?"
She doesn’t know? Oh, by the way, the Twelve Realms seem to have other names for many things——
Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but shudder as soon as this idea came to her mind. She suddenly understood what made her feel strange. Just when she was about to think more deeply about this idea, the old lady's shadow happened to slow down at this moment.
Tenteng threw it into the reception room, immediately putting both of them on guard.
The old lady held a faded old book under her arm, held a small serving pot in both hands, and placed it on the coffee table. She moved quickly and quickly removed all the refreshments, and then
Some snacks and tableware were placed; seeing that their refreshments were almost untouched, she said nothing.
"Come on, look for the address in the booklet, and I'll give you some stew."
Lin Sanjiu took the thick book, and sure enough she couldn't understand a single word. In such a heavy rainstorm, the old reception room was filled with moisture, and the furniture had a smell that had been soaked with various smells over the years.
The stale smell, thick and sticky, combined with the aroma of stewed meat, makes people want to cover their noses.
The old lady seemed to only care about eating to make herself happy, and didn't care about the food in their hands. While she was eating, she fell into the memories evoked by the food: "When I invited him to my house for dinner for the first time,
My mother made a pot of stew like this... He used to laugh at me, saying that mushrooms and meat taste exactly the same, and he refused to change the side dishes. But in fact, he ate a lot every time."
"Today's young people are still willing to honestly find a partner, get married and start a family, almost none... We used to regard having children as one of the most important things, and young people don't care about it anymore. After all, everything is easier now.
It's simple and easy to get. Can't you find the garbage dump? Let me show you when I finish eating... Oh, I also baked a lasagna, it will be ready in a minute."
In this small living room, enveloped by the sound of rumbling rain, it became increasingly dark and gloomy without a trace of light. The old lady was very familiar with the position of every piece of furniture here, and she could eat with gusto in the dark room without turning on the lights;
The two of them sat quietly on the sofa, looking at the rustling figure opposite them without saying a word.
"He doesn't like eating this, but I like it very much." The old lady was completely immersed in food and memories. Almost every piece of food was connected to a part of her past; even in the dimness, she could be noticed floating up.
A smile. When thunder and lightning struck, the smile on her face that flickered between lights and dims looked a bit dazed - as if it didn't matter whether the two people opposite her existed or not.
"When I was a child, my mother often gave me fried white strips to eat. I don't know what it is actually called, and she doesn't know either; because when she was a child, my grandmother fried it for her, and my grandmother learned it from her great-grandmother.
The recipe for this little snack has been passed down from generation to generation, but it stopped being passed down to me. I often think that if my children had not died on the battlefield, they would probably have fried white strips for my grandchildren.
."
The old lady's tone became dull, she put the invisible piece of food in her hand back on the plate, stared blankly at the door, and started to be stunned. The reception room fell into silence, with only the endless sound of rain and the faint sound outside the window.
Rolling thunder.
This old lady is an ordinary person. She has no ability to catch or hurt them, and she has no way of notifying the police now - of course, she doesn't seem to want to notify the police.
So what is she going to do?
"She doesn't have Alzheimer's disease, does she?" Bohemia asked in an angry voice.
Lin Sanjiu looked at the figure opposite and thought quietly for a while; when she spoke again, she mentioned something that had nothing to do with the old lady in front of her: "...at the bottom of the building at the entrance and exit, there are at least two
Thirty narrow gates, right?"
"yes."
"That would be interesting."
The old lady had poor hearing due to old age, so she did not hear their conversation through the continuous and loud sound of rain. She was still stuck in memories and could not extricate herself. Bohemia glanced at her, turned around and asked softly
Said - "What's so interesting? Don't talk halfway."
"You reminded me of this...the camera I'm talking about is what you call the 'recording eye'." Lin Sanjiu paused, endured waves of trembling, and leaned close to her ear. "...
Now think about it, including the entrance and exit, where are the damn cameras? There aren’t any.”
Twenty or thirty narrow doors are lined up side by side. If the situation at each door is to be monitored, there must be at least the same number of cameras. But even without calling up the images stored in her subconscious, she can still remember them clearly.
, there was nothing near the door - not even a hole, a scratch, or a notice.
What about after entering the small hall?
The entire ceiling is for lighting. If a camera is hung anywhere, it will suddenly become dark. Even in the corner, where the ceiling and the wall join, she cannot recall having seen any surveillance facilities - the most important thing
What's more, what surveillance equipment can preserve their 360° images in detail from all angles?
The reason is very simple: as long as there are no surveillance facilities flying around you, any installed camera can only "see" the side it can "see", which also creates the term "dead spot"; but in the obvious situation
Where there is no camera, what is recording the situation?
"Yes, there is no recording room in that entrance and exit." Bohemia murmured, "Actually, even if we don't wear hoods, they shouldn't know what we look like afterwards..."
They took off their pillowcases after the evolved policemen came and the hostages ran away in order not to arouse suspicion - and if those evolved policemen remembered their appearance, how could they continue to do so?
Hidden in the tent, it is clear what kind of bell is worn on the ankle?
A strange place emerged, but it also aroused more doubts. When Lin Sanjiu bit her lip and fell into her thoughts blankly, she heard the old lady opposite suddenly let out a long sigh.
In one breath, I took action again.
"I am a person who has always loved delicious food and trying new things in my life." Her voice was a little hoarse, as if she was tired from the surging emotions. The old lady wiped the corners of her eyes and put away the dishes in front of her.
"... Now that I am getting older and facing the situation of leaving soon, I can't help but want to recall the things I had with him in the past... People have many old words and have kept you waiting for a long time."
What have you been waiting for?
Both of them were filled with doubts and wariness at the same time - but the old lady was not anxious at all and took the leftovers and dishes back to the kitchen. When she walked back to the door of the reception room, she suddenly let out a "Gah!"
There was a sound, as if the air was stuck in the chest and could not flow; then, the old lady's body twitched and fell heavily to the ground. She saw that her hands and feet were trembling, and she was breathing more out than in. She was about to die.
