Alien Hotel

This was the first time that Li Lin saw Captain Song, who was usually steady and reliable, frowning as if facing a great enemy.

"So --- the last dark angel in the form of an eyeball left the foreign land where it parasitized silently, without trying to pollute or control anyone, and without leaving any 'sub-bodies'?" Song Cheng listened to the reports of the two Secret Service agents in front of him, and after a long silence, he spoke, "Did you hear anything like 'high-dimensional whispers' in your mind during the whole process?"

"No," Xu Jiali shook her head, her voice low, "but that thing must have noticed us. For a moment, I could clearly feel that 'gaze', and its sight focus fell on the place where we were hiding. It's like-"

Song Cheng frowned: "It's like?"

Xu Jiali recalled and said uncertainly: "It's like it's looking for something. "

Song Cheng tapped the table with his fingers in annoyance and did not speak for a while.

After more than ten seconds, he took a long breath and turned to look at Li Lin: "When you came into contact with the man who called himself "Yu Sheng", did you feel the "heterogeneous" breath on him? Judging from your intuition, do you think he is more like a human, or like---something else?"

"Like a human, at least in his speech, behavior and common sense of dealing with people. If it is an entity disguised as a human, it can only be said that this disguise is too perfect--it is so perfect that it can be directly regarded as a human." Li Lin said with certainty.

"But he has been "living" in a "No. 66 Wutong Road" that does not exist in the real world for a long time.

It is a foreign land that has never appeared in any official records," Song Cheng sighed, "only "entities" are generated in foreign lands, but not humans. "

Xu Jiali on the side was silent for a while, then said: "There are indeed some "entities" in this world that are capable of communication and have reason. Some particularly friendly or desirable entities can even cooperate with humans, such as "enemy" and "passenger 22". They even look like they have certain human characteristics-"

"But it is still a completely different concept from the 'Yu Sheng' you mentioned-in terms of 'anthropomorphism'," Song Cheng shook his head and looked at Xu Jiali, "Can you confirm that he is the 'door opener' you saw on Emine-IX?"

"It can be confirmed, but he didn't recognize me at all," Xu Jiali nodded, "I was wearing a full set of power armor and mental shields at the time, and it seems that his perception ability cannot penetrate the above equipment. "

"Limited perception, high personality traits, the ability to open the 'gate' at will,

can fight against the hungry entity that was greatly strengthened by the "Dark Angel", but the specific killing process at that time is a mystery - it seems to be deliberately concealing its fighting method. -."

Song Cheng slowly summarized the intelligence he had obtained so far, thinking and saying, "And there is one more thing -"

"Very friendly to humans." Li Lin said on the side.

"Yes, very friendly to humans, and even willing to take the initiative to contact the agents of the Secret Service." Song Cheng nodded slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but a burst of footsteps suddenly came from the corridor outside the door, interrupting his next words.

There was a knock on the door, and then a short girl with short hair pushed the door and walked in, holding a folder in her hand: "Captain Song, the archives department has sent the information. ”

Song Cheng’s eyes widened slightly in an instant: “..——Is there really information about that ‘Yu Sheng’!?”

“Yes, but if you search directly from the system, it will show that it has been cancelled. The cancellation time is the day when the current population archive system of the border area was established. In other words, this person has been ‘gone’ from the beginning, even before the date of birth on his information, but after the cancellation time, this person’s identity information has been in the ‘activated’ state. The word ‘cancelled’ is like an insignificant watermark in the system display.” The short-haired girl put the folder on Song Cheng’s desk with an incredible expression on her face. “You can even find some recent shopping consumption, social registration and traffic records under this ID card. All of these are carried out normally when the system shows that it has been cancelled.”

Song Cheng picked up the folder and looked up in another place: “Such a serious bug, the system has not reported it?”

“No, the information center has already arranged overtime tonight. When I passed by, I saw Director Wu making a sharp bang.”

“.——-Let him bang, anyway, he has to bang a few times a month. "Song Cheng shook his head and looked down at the information in his hand.

From beginning to end, it looked like just an ordinary resident file, and a very ordinary life consumption record, except for the glaring red "cancellation" watermark on each page, and the address "No. 66 Wutong Road" that should not appear in the file system at all.

Song Cheng turned his chair, turned on the computer on his desk, entered a few keywords of No. 66 Wutong Road into an internal application of the Secret Service, and directly displayed an error after pressing Enter.

"A ghost - a ghost living in the border area has cast an indelible shadow in our complex population management system. He didn't even appear recently. According to Yu Sheng's own words , he has lived in this city for more than 20 years , This is also consistent with the records in the information," Song Cheng muttered softly, with a bad expression on his face. Of course, this was mainly related to his recent frequent overtime work. "No one noticed, not even the director's clear eyes saw him. Until now, he has taken the initiative to contact us. "

Li Lin and Xu Jiali looked at each other, and both saw a hint of solemnity in each other's eyes.

Fortunately, this "ghost" has no interest in causing destruction, and even thinks that he is an "ordinary person".

At this moment, Song Cheng's Ziguang noticed another column in the information.

"----Writer?" He raised his eyebrows strangely, "This ghost still has a job?"

"Freelance writer, contributing to some small magazines and media accounts, writing some thriller stories or third-rate scripts, but he is not famous, and he has written almost nothing recently."

Song Cheng thought for a while: "...——Is it a street rusher?"

The short-haired girl looked serious: "If you can support yourself, it doesn't count as a fight."

"—What does he write like?"

"There's a short story at the end of the file that I found in a magazine from last year - I thought you might be interested."

Song Cheng immediately turned to the end of the document and glanced at it quickly.

The short-haired girl looked at Captain Song with vague expectation: "How do you feel?"

Song Cheng was silent for a moment, with a troubled expression on his face: "I---I don't quite understand the preferences of young people today."

After saying that, he immediately coughed twice, closed the folder calmly, and said with a straight expression: "But anyway, this is a line that deserves attention - arrange for people to collect the information written by this 'Yu Sheng' Everything, doing psychological profiling and personality analysis, and also keeping an eye on his future - uh, 'creative' situation."

After saying this, he paused and added: "A 'suspicious entity' that considers itself to be a human being not only thinks like a human being, but can even create like a human being. His works will definitely reveal his inner truer nature." Ways of thinking and emotions, this kind of thing has never happened before, it must be taken seriously but not noticed by him.”

"Copy that, Captain Song."

The short-haired girl left the office with the information, and Song Cheng's eyes returned to Xu Jiali and Li Lin.

"Concerning the creation of 'space rifts' at the junction, have you asked each other what the situation is?" "

When Li Lin heard this, he looked at Xu Jiali next to him with a little embarrassment. Seeing that the other party had no intention of speaking, he had to bite the bullet and said, "...--I forgot to ask."

"Can you forget this?!"

"I was overly nervous at the time, probably due to the impact of witnessing the 'Dark Angel'," Xu Jiali, who was next to her, finally spoke. As soon as the veteran opened her mouth, she helped the newcomer Li Lin, "But although we didn't ask directly, we I also heard some information while evacuating to the hiding spot with Yu Sheng's two companions."

"You mean that doll and that demon fox?"

"Yes, according to the situation mentioned in their conversation, the so-called 'space rift' seems to be just-: 'Yu Sheng' is trying to open a door in order to rescue the demon fox trapped in a foreign land."

Song Cheng stared at Qing Qing: ".——Is it just this?"

"That should be it."

---Just to find a way, open and close a few doors, shaking the entire border area to a state of restlessness? ! "

Xu Jiali tugged the muscles on her face: "Actually, it shocked the whole bureau——"

Noticing the expression on the captain's face, he immediately stopped talking.

Song Cheng stared at Qing Qing and sat behind his desk. After a while, he waved his hands exhausted: "Okay, you two should withdraw first. This matter is a bit big. I have to discuss it with the higher ups. "

Li and Lin looked at each other, and Xu Jiali said hesitantly: "Then we will have formal contact with that 'Yu Sheng'... Do we still follow the procedures?"

"Don't worry about it yet. This matter will most likely have to go through the director," Song Cheng sighed, "If that Yu Sheng was really an 'ordinary person', I would have sent the two of you there directly, but the situation is not that simple now." . Go back and rest first - ah, don't forget to go to the 'treatment room' first, complete the examination and fill out the form before leaving. I will give you three days off starting tomorrow. "