Enforcer's Handbook

Early the next morning, the head of Yangcun woke up.

If his sleepwalking time is included, he slept for more than ten hours.

When he found himself shirtless, lying on the bed with a quilt covering him, his pupils suddenly shrank, he quickly lifted the quilt and checked his pants.

His pants had also been changed, and the soreness all over his body gave him unknown thoughts. This feeling of fatigue was like the aftereffects of a fight with someone.

But this was his room, and the floor was covered with beer cans left over from yesterday's drink. The smell of alcohol that hadn't dissipated seemed to be mixed with some other smells.

This is never a good sign.

In an educational film, the protagonist Ah Wei encountered misfortune after drinking.

"You finally woke up. Do you remember what happened last night?"

The big carrot head who came out of the toilet yawning made his eyes wide open. He glared angrily and asked, "What have you done?"

"It doesn't matter what we did, what matters is what you did."

After heaving a sigh of relief, Big Carrot Head cursed, "Damn, I thought you wouldn't wake up! Look what you did."

He pointed to the hotel floor.

The head of Yangcun looked in the direction of his finger and saw blood-soaked clothes piled in the corner of the room. The strange smell in the room came from the clothes.

It was what he had worn, and now it was so tattered that it was obviously no longer possible to wear it.

"Where's the spicy chicken?"

"Go and sleep next door."

In order to prevent the head of Yangcun from sleepwalking again in the middle of the night and running outside the hotel and being killed by monsters, he and Laziji made a plan and decided to stay by the head of Yangcun. Laziji spent the first half of the night and him the rest of the night, but the entire night of Yangcun Village Everyone slept very soundly, and no one went outside again.

Through Big Carrot Head's narration, the head of Yangcun Village finally learned about his thrilling experience yesterday. He checked himself more than once and found that all the wounds had healed, but it gave him an unreal feeling, but the blood-stained wound in the corner Clothing is ironclad evidence.

"You really don't remember?"

After that, the big carrot head asked again without giving up.

He didn't sleep well in the first half of the night. He always dreamed that he woke up and sleepwalked alone to an unknown area. Monsters swarmed him and tore him into pieces. Then he woke up from the dream. In just half a night, he had a total of He woke up four times, which made him want to buy a cuddle bug from the mysterious merchant tonight for his own use.

Only then did he realize that if he wanted to live in the void for a long time, he needed something to ensure the quality of his sleep.

"I don't remember, and I've never had the habit of sleepwalking before."

The head of Yangcun said it very definitely.

The attack was a fact, but he had no memory of who actually attacked him. If Big Carrot Head hadn't reminded him, he wouldn't have even realized that he had been so seriously injured.

"Then have you dreamed? Have you dreamed of anything weird?"

Big Carrot Head felt more and more creepy in his heart. The head of Yangcun Village was convinced that he did not have the habit of sleepwalking, which meant that this strange symptom appeared after coming to the town.

That is to say, maybe he and La Ziji were also affected, sleepwalking out of the hotel without consciousness, and they might both die inexplicably in the end.

You must know that even the two adventurers guarding the first floor did not notice how the head of Yangcun left.

"When you said that, I remembered that I once dreamed of a corridor. There were cages at both ends of the corridor. There were crazy people locked up inside, and there were people whose faces could not be seen clearly guarding them."

"Then what?"

"Then I heard someone telling me to run, and I ran."

After that, he couldn't remember anything. He just vaguely remembered running. As for where he ran and who he met, he couldn't remember a single thing now.

Dreams are inherently illusory, and it is unrealistic to remember all the details of a dream.

The two discussed to no avail, so they hurriedly went to the website and checked all the entries for void creatures. There was no mention of any monsters that controlled them through dreams. They persisted in sending a private message to Father Bruno, but the other party set it up. I refused permission to send private messages and posted help in the forum, but I didn't get any useful information.

In the end, the two could only tell Song Lan and Feng Ling about these findings.

They suspected that someone was controlling the behavior of the Yangcun village chief through dreams, but they only received the reply "believe in science."

But they feel...

The existence of this small town on the border between the void and reality is not scientific in itself, and they can't figure out why an adventurer who has been exploring the void all year round would say "believe in science".

In fact, after returning yesterday, Song Lan had many speculations, such as that the coalition government injected mechanical worms into the body of Yangcun Village Chief, or that he was possessed by some kind of illusion similar to that performed by the Lunar Eclipse Cult, but After checking it step by step, all the guesses were overturned.

Devourer even conducted an on-site investigation while the Yangcun Village Chief was sleeping, making sure that he did not have any parasites in his body. Dr. Bai Zhu also checked the virus for him from beginning to end, and also did not find any suspicious virus programs.

Since neither biology nor science can explain this strange phenomenon, could it be that someone with psychic abilities is controlling him?

In the end, Song Lan had no choice but to resort to off-site assistance and turned to Comrade Lu Xiang, the most famous psychology and criminal investigation expert in the 17th district. This immediately attracted the expert's attention, and the next morning he reported the investigated cases to The message was sent.

Song Lan originally went to ask the other party for advice with the idea of ​​getting closer to science. However, the results of the investigation made the atmosphere of this town become more bizarre and terrifying.

Lu Xiang quickly investigated and found out that the head of Yangcun was not the first to show such symptoms.

In the past few decades, this bizarre phenomenon has never stopped. For example, a small town resident once reported a crime to the law enforcement officers in the 17th District. She slept at home in the morning and woke up. Suddenly, she found herself in a hotel room in the city, which frightened her half to death, and she suspected that she had been kidnapped by criminals.

However, after subsequent investigation by law enforcement officers, it was discovered that the reporter had not been kidnapped by anyone at all. Surveillance footage showed that she left her home by herself, took a car to the city alone, booked a room, and moved in. .

Since then, a steady stream of urban legends have emerged in the town, but the protagonists in the urban legends are not as lucky as the lady who reported the crime. Some people witnessed them leaving the town in an abnormal manner, and then returned to the town again. No one has seen them either.

A hawker once narrated a disappearance he witnessed. The missing person was a regular customer of his stall. That day, he saw the other person walking in a hurry. He called the other person several times but ignored him. He thought the other person was in an emergency. I didn't take it seriously, but a few days later, I unexpectedly saw a missing person notice in a small town.

According to the vendor's later recollection, the last time he saw the missing person, he was walking very fast, as if something was chasing him behind him.

After looking at the dozens of missing cases sent by Lu Xiang, Song Lan finally understood why the residents of this small town had moved away in droves some time ago.

That was not out of fear of the void itself, but because they mistakenly attributed the strange phenomena that had happened in the small town over the years to the void.

This made Song Lan feel even heavier.

He has always adhered to the principle that the innocent and the debtor have their owners. Although the long-term disappearance cases in the town are indeed full of the characteristics of the void, according to their external "publicity", those who mistakenly entered the void are indeed unknown. Bai became a missing person in District 17.

However, he was convinced that the disappearances over the past few decades had nothing to do with them.

Void said they cannot be responsible for these missing people.