Enforcer's Handbook

Under the guidance of the mayor of Yangcun, several people returned to the first floor and took out an aluminum box from one of the drawers at the hotel counter. When Song Lan opened the box, she found that the contents were all the same. "Broches", except that they all have different serial numbers on the back.

"I found this box when I was searching the hotel. I thought the decorations inside were quite special, so I took one with me."

The head of Yangcun said truthfully.

He also didn't expect that such an inconspicuous brooch would almost cost him his life. "I originally planned to give it to others as a souvenir."

Song Lan looked at the box. The owner of the hotel put it here, probably intending to use these "brooches" as gifts.

In front of several people, he opened a brooch again and took out the chip.

Such a technological design does not look like a religious prop used to curse or complete some evil ritual. He explained to several people, "The reason why you have symptoms of sleepwalking is because you are affected by the chip." The virus will invade your prosthetic body and control your behavior in your sleep."

"...Did hackers attack us?"

"You can think so. The solution is very simple. As long as you stop carrying this thing with you, you will no longer have the symptoms of sleepwalking."

The experiences of the three people once again proved a philosophy of life - don't pick up things you haven't seen before.

Not only could it be a victim nameplate left over from the previous era, it could also be cobalt 60. Song Lan remembered that in a medical drama she had watched before, someone was so curious that he picked up the radiation and used it as a talisman every day. Wear it on your body.

Perhaps this is a true portrayal of art coming from reality, but what happened in the small town is even more terrifying.

It is unknown whether the victims who lost their feet and fell off the cliff while sleepwalking also suffered misfortune because they obtained this souvenir.

But on the other hand, he had to thank the three people for their suicide attempts. If they hadn't found these "brooches" while rummaging through the boxes, they didn't know when they would have noticed what had happened in this hotel.

After receiving the baptism of science and going upstairs with a look of enlightenment, Feng Chime curiously picked up a "brooch" and asked, "Is there really a virus installed by hackers in this?"

If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would probably never believe that the culprit of the decades-long artificial disappearances in the town turned out to be these inconspicuous decorations.

"have no idea."

"ah?"

"I just made it all up."

Song Lan's confident tone and demeanor shocked Feng Ling. A few minutes ago, this man had been promoting science to the three of them in a sanctimonious manner, but it turned out that the content he plausibly stated was all made up?

"This thing will undoubtedly cause sleepwalking, but I haven't figured out the specific principle yet."

He couldn't figure out why the will from decades ago was attached to these items, but these items that seemed to be the victim's identity plates brought him a new direction.

Perhaps Captain Kate also followed these objects that carried the consciousness of people of the previous era, and then gradually found the dream stealer's lair she mentioned at the end of the post-it note.

If you want to get closer to science, you need to step out of scientific thinking and return to the small town ghost stories themselves.

And this setback lasted for several decades.

That goes back decades ago, when the hotel had just been renovated. Song Lan found a strange story about the hotel from the collection of town ghost stories that Lu Xiang had searched.

After the hotel opened, haunted incidents occurred frequently. Some residents claimed to hear scary noises in their sleep, some found themselves under the bed when they woke up, and some claimed that someone had entered their room in the middle of the night.

Rumors that the hotel was haunted spread widely, causing panic among the people in the town. They believed that something unclean had been provoked by the hotel.

In desperation, the hotel owner spent a lot of money to hire an expert.

The unnamed expert kicked everyone out of the hotel and stayed alone in the hotel for three days and nights. Since then, the hauntings have subsided and the hotel has been open to this day.

Even the boss didn't know what spell the master had cast, but someone vaguely heard the sound of knocking coming from the basement of the hotel every night late at night.

Song Lan had seen countless science-based programs or bizarre events, and there would always be one or a few unknown experts. But she didn't expect that in the 22nd century, this industry would still not be extinct.

Following the tips from the ghost story, he came to the basement of the hotel. There were piles of discarded furniture and old electrical appliances. It seemed that the boss had moved all the things that were difficult to deal with after the hotel was eliminated. He looked for them in the basement. After a long while, he finally discovered a sealed entrance at the Devourer's prompt.

In his opinion, the walls here were no different from those around him. If it hadn't been for Devourer's reminder, he might not have been able to find this place another night.

Breaking through the blocked entrance and heading down, Song Lan thought she would see some bloody and terrifying scenes, but she didn't expect that there was a space similar to a storage room below the entrance, where various daily necessities were casually thrown on the ground. There were also some "brooches" that fell to the ground.

The place looked abandoned for a long time, the ground was covered with a layer of dust, and the musty smell in the air was choking, as if no one had been in for several years.

He went deeper and finally found several rooms deep in the storage room.

One of them looks like an abandoned control room. The control room contains equipment that was obsolete decades ago. Next to it is a room similar to an interrogation room.

As soon as he opened the door, a foul smell penetrated his nose.

A dry skeleton lay lying at the door. The clothes on it were so damaged that it was difficult to see the original state. However, the pistol next to the skeleton reminded Song Lan of the identity of the corpse immediately.

He even immediately imagined Captain Kate finding his way here, raising his gun, and walking into the room vigilantly.

Her body was lying on the ground. Judging from the direction, it seemed that she had been attacked from behind.

But because only the bones were left on her body, Song Lan couldn't tell for a while whether she had been shot or received a sap.

Just when he wanted to take a closer look at the body, a deep voice came from the door.

"You came."

Song Lan's heart tightened. Is there anyone else hiding inside?

But before entering, neither he nor Devourer sensed any sign of life in the lower levels.

The voice seemed to think he was someone else and continued to ask, "How is the progress I asked you to do?"