Lin Sanjiu turned around hastily, and the dim and long city road came into view: the high and low canopy beds on the roadside, the heavy black shadows of several cabinets, and the outstretched arm of the sleeping person in the cubicle.
The open-air stove with staggered pots and pans and stacked cups and bowls... In the dim night, everything was no different from when she came just now.
It's a trap, they deliberately draw their attention away——
Thoughts came together, and at the same time when she turned her head, her body had been slightly illuminated by the [Protective Force Field] light, and all the muscles in her body were tense with the signal of fighting, but when she looked again, Lin Sanjiu was stunned again.
Batou De and the woman smoking by the window had no intention of taking action while they turned their heads. They were still staring behind her, but their guard just now was obviously relaxed; it was as if they had experienced a false alarm.
, Badou De exhaled slightly.
"What did you see?" Zhong Qing's reaction was almost exactly the same as Lin Sanjiu's. At this time, he turned his head and looked behind him a few times, bit his thin lips, and looked uncontrollably confused. "Or, do you think?
What did you see?"
"My eyesight is dazzled," Batou De scratched his chin and said persuadingly: "I thought someone was attacking me secretly. It's okay, it's okay. Let's go?"
This is unbelievable. It is excusable for one person to be dazzled, but can two people be dazzled together?
The two of them must have seen something in the city road, and they both thought it was something else, something that should not exist and was dangerous, so they became vigilant at the same time.
If that thing was a fallen species, Lin Sanjiu couldn't see anything in the city road that might make people mistake it for a fallen species.
Her combat power and acuity are much stronger than those of Batou De. She didn't catch the strange noise just now - now she is very familiar with the smell and noise of Fanjia City. Especially at night, it is easier to detect strange things that should not exist.
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"Explain it to them, and I won't get involved." The woman smoking by the window didn't want to get involved in their affairs, so she turned around and left. When she passed by Zhong Qing, she gave him a smile. "Next.
This time you come to play with your sister, I will take you to the restaurant in Fanjia City."
Zhong Qing had a calm face and said nothing.
Badou De said without embarrassment: "That's right, the area we patrol is indeed far away from the outer edge of the city, and it is not a place where degenerates would crawl in at the first time. But the reason why we patrol here is because there are four
Someone disappeared quietly from nearby. I hope to find out the reason during patrol... There are many rumors about Fanjia City, but you can't just believe them. Many of them are completely unfounded lies. I told them repeatedly
Don't spread these things, but they won't have much effect, and you don't know who is believing and spreading those rumors."
He got angry at the end.
This explanation is indeed reasonable; Zhong Qing frowned and thought for a moment, then asked: "Then what did you think you saw just now? We both noticed it, and you were on guard for a moment."
"Honestly, I don't know either." Batou De sighed and said, "If I knew what I was wary of, maybe I wouldn't be as neurotic as I am now."
"But you always have to guess-"
"I don't want to talk nonsense about things that I'm not sure about." Batou De stopped Zhong Qing from talking and said, "In my line of work, if there are no rules to restrain myself, do you know how much impact it will have?"
"Let's keep walking," Lin Sanjiu felt that she should help him out - unlike Zhong Qing, she didn't need a salary at all, and Badou De was her best hope of finding the gift bag and Yu Yuan. "No matter what makes people disappear.
Whatever the reason is, I am sure I can stop it."
Zhong Qing reluctantly nodded, and the three of them continued on their way. The next few hours were as calm as before. As the time got later and later, even the businesses that opened at night had pulled up their planks.
, it was closing time. The city road led the three of them forward in a curved way, as if they were gradually falling into the dark and quiet depths of the earth. Only when Lin Sanjiu occasionally looked up and saw the night sky exposed through the crack in the ceiling did he realize that he was on a high mountain.
There are people sleeping in small rooms, tents, canopy beds and blankets made of various materials on both sides of the road. Evolutionaries are used to patrols, and ordinary people cannot detect them, so few people will do it because of their
Wake up close.
By the time the group of them turned around the fifth area for the fifth time, even Lin Sanjiu could vaguely recognize the way: where was a luxurious little room that stood out from the crowd, where was a public toilet that was not very clean, and where was the public toilet that was not very clean?
It was the "dormitory" of a "school" - there were several children sleeping in rows on the canopy beds behind the tents - so when Batou De suddenly stopped, she looked around and understood.
There used to be a hammock with people sleeping in it, but it is now empty.
The cloth that had lost its weight shrank into a thin strip, hanging from the ceiling, still swaying slightly.
"When we walked past last time," Batou De shook the hammock violently, as if someone might fall from the gap, and even his voice was almost uncontrollable: "He was still sleeping here.
Right? Where are the others? Look for them, quickly!"
There were some boxes, tables and chairs squeezed around the hammock. On the wall on the side next to the hammock was a small window formed by taking out a few bricks. The moonlight streamed down from the window, illuminating the empty bed and the dust on the ground.
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Lin Sanjiu didn't believe in evil, and even pried open the cupboard door, but there was no sign of that man anywhere - she remembered that the man sleeping here was an unevolved man, and even if he was asleep, it would make people laugh:
He probably heard about the pre-apocalyptic world from somewhere. He wore a floral shirt, slept in a hammock, and had a picture of the ocean on the wall, making the slums look like Hawaii.
Now he is missing from the Hawaii he built.
"Did you get into someone else's tent?" Zhong Qing looked around and became a little nervous: "We have checked several times, but there is nothing..."
Their voices could not be controlled, and the people nearby were stirred up and woke up with a shudder. Someone opened the zipper of the tent, and someone shouted vaguely "Who is it" through the wall; Batou De
He grabbed the man who had just popped his head out of the tent, pointed at the hammock and asked, "Where is that man? Did you hear anything?"
As soon as the man was woken up from his sleep, he was surrounded by three evolutionists bent over. He couldn't help but be startled and said: "I, I was already asleep, how could I know? Is he going to the toilet?"
Gone?"
Talking about the toilet - Lin Sanjiu straightened up after hearing this and glanced back. She had passed a public toilet on the way here, and now she immediately turned back to look for it, she had enough time...
But she didn't move.
Badou De and Zhong Qing seemed to have been pressed on the pause button for a moment; for a few seconds, no one moved or spoke.
...It seems that everyone has seen it.
You probably saw it out of the corner of your eye.
The man who poked his head out of the tent looked up at the three evolvers who suddenly stiffened and said nothing, with confusion on his face. "How..."
Before he could finish his sentence, his eyes were suddenly drawn away by something else. He squinted in the night and breathed a sigh of relief. He pointed to the window on the wall next to the hammock and said, "Isn't that guy right there?"
Stand?"
Lin Sanjiu tensed her body and slowly turned her head towards the window.
The man in the tent was still chattering: "I was shocked. I thought someone was missing again. It turned out that he ran outside the wall. Okay, if nothing happens, I will continue to sleep..."
The man in the floral shirt was indeed standing outside the wall at some point; or to be more precise, a man's face had indeed appeared in the small window on the wall more than once - from his chin down, Lin's face was
Sanjiu can no longer be seen. I wonder if there is a floral shirt underneath.
"How did he..." Zhong Qing started softly but did not finish his words.
Lin Sanjiu knew what he meant. There were no breaks in the ceiling on this section of the road, and there were only small windows the size of a human head on the wall. To run out of the wall, Hua Shirt had to walk forward or back several tens of meters, and jump on the nearest
There is a break in the ceiling, and then climb outside along the wall.
But several evolvers never heard the sound of footsteps in the city road.
The face blocked the moonlight in the small window, facing the window darkly. Only the top of the head and cheekbones were brightened. But his eyes were clear in the dimness: those eyes were stained with stains.
There was a faint light, and he turned left and right a few times with his eyes.
"Hey," Batou De was the first to step forward and called him a few steps outside the window. The pleasant voice of an announcer was trembling a little at this time. "You are the person who was sleeping in this hammock just now.
What are you doing out there?"
Zhong Qing took two steps back.
In the window as big as a human head, the face is still silent.
"Speak," Batou De raised his voice and asked, "Don't you know me?"
As soon as he used strength in his voice, he suddenly broke the dream of Fanjia City with his eyes closed and trembling, causing many people to get up from their beds - including a few evolvers who seemed to have woken up a long time ago.
"What's going on?" Someone whispered, "Isn't that Apu? What is he doing?"
A female evolver took two steps closer, as if she was about to ask a question to the man named Apu, but when she opened her mouth, she made a sound of taking a breath of cold air.
"What's wrong?" Batou De immediately turned his head towards her.
"That's not right," the female evolutionist stared at the face in the window, not knowing who she was talking to. "Outside the wall is another city road, and across the wall from his hammock is another family. I see
Yes. He is standing outside right now. Where exactly is he standing? On someone else's mattress?"
If he stood on the mattress, the person on the mattress - Lin Sanjiu. Before Lin Sanjiu could finish his thoughts, he saw the person's face suddenly turned left and right a few times, tentatively reaching in through the window; one ear
It scraped against the window edge and was exposed to the air of the city road. My chin was stuck tightly on the window edge, and there was no room for my neck.
"He's coming in?" Another evolutionist shouted suddenly, "He's coming in, right? Don't let him come in, stop him!"
It was clear that Apu was an ordinary person, but he seemed to be afraid of him, even though there was no reason at all - besides, how could a person get in through a window as big as a head?
"There's something wrong with him," the female evolver also cried out in a low voice, panicking, "I know, I know what's going on with him..."
"What's going on?" Zhong Qing asked immediately.
It was at this moment that Lin Sanjiu suddenly understood what Batou De was wary of before, and why she didn't notice anything strange at all. What he was wary of was probably the most common and most common thing in Fanjia City.
How could she detect something was wrong with something normal?
"Ordinary people here are mutating!"
When the female evolver said this, Apu's head was still stuck in the window; but as a greasy sound suddenly sounded outside the wall, as if something was being pulled away from the flesh, all the evolvers felt
arrive.
I'm afraid now all that's left is a human head stuck in the window.