Fog Formula-Warning Book of Fog City Search Chief's Strange Talk

"There are no people in this resort..."

The location of the hotel is at the edge of the food street of the resort. After leaving the hotel, I saw Shenxiu and the two came to the street quickly.

Just looking at the empty shops and the slightly overgrown streets in front of him, Markesias looked a little shocked. He rubbed his eyes, and tried his best to observe the surroundings with those eyes that were cowering in the shadow of the hood. After a while, a little disappointment appeared in his eyes, and he turned his head and turned his suspicious gaze to Jian Shenxiu.

"I thought such a famous place would be more lively."

"Famous place? I heard it from Xi Wei, right?" Seeing Shenxiu looking around, he just replied casually.

"It's quite famous. Before the eternal night came, this was the place where Xuejianze accommodated tourists. At that time, the Xuejianze City Hall even chose to entertain foreign guests here. There was a very prosperous time here."

He looked around, the road was flat and wide, and it could accommodate dozens of people in parallel without being crowded. The streets on both sides are very long, but each shop is repaired very small. All kinds of facades are crowded on the long street, and it is still showing to the world how expensive the pavements here were once.

However, most of the stores have closed down at this moment, and only a few stores are still operating with difficulty. The shop windows on both sides of the road were covered with dust, and the closed shops stood silently, only the silhouettes of the prosperity of the past could be vaguely glimpsed in the various billboards.

"Xuejianze is an island city. I read in the materials that before the eternal night, tourism used to be one of the pillars of this city."

Seeing that Shenxiu looked at the scene in front of him, he also seemed to be a little emotional. He bent down and squatted down, pulled out a weed from the gap between the floor tiles, and rubbed it with his fingertips to study it.

"Tourism, commerce, seaports, these things brought a lot of wealth to Xue Jianze at that time, making it prosperous and full of tourists. However, after the eternal night came, it was these original pillar industries that were affected. The biggest shock. A large number of businesses went bankrupt, and a large number of people lost their jobs. The sudden collapse of these pillars caused Xue Jianze to fall into unprecedented chaos. Coupled with the fog that permeated the city for nine months... …no one knows what happened, and everyone is filled with fear for the future."

"That's it."

Markshas nodded slowly. This hooded boy had lost his memory and had no memory of what happened before Yongye. At this moment, he was standing next to Jian Shenxiu and listening to him tell these stories, with a slightly curious expression on his face.

In fact, in Markesias' impression, Jian Shenxiu didn't like to talk about what happened before Yong Ye. Hearing him talk about these things suddenly surprised the young man.

"Sir, have you ever experienced this?"

But since it was rare to talk about these stories, the hooded boy took advantage of the opportunity to ask. It is hard for people not to be curious about the experiences of the people around them, especially those who are full of secrets like Shenxiu. Even those who are as close as Markesias know little about the past of seeing Shenxiu.

"Experienced?"

However, for some reason, seeing Shenxiu's expression when he heard these words seemed a bit strange, it seemed both sentimental and mocking. Markesias couldn't figure out why he saw Shenxiu's expression, and could only wait for his explanation.

"...Maybe I have experienced it myself."

Seeing that Shenxiu threw away the weeds, he patted the dust off his gloves and stood up, raised his head and squinted his eyes to look at the sun in the sky, then suddenly shook his head, stretched out his hand and rubbed the head of the boy beside him.

"Those things, I don't remember very clearly myself."

"Huh?" Markesias was stunned, looking at Shenxiu in surprise. "Mr. Xiu, you..."

"I only have a very vague memory of what happened before Yongye. The first thing I remember was in a hospital. Someone told me that I tried to commit suicide, but it didn't work. It's just that... my brain suffered some damage."

Seeing that Shenxiu said casually, he pointed to his head while speaking.

"So, I can't remember many things in the past very clearly. I tried my best to recall, but I can barely recall [who I am]. Fortunately, I can still find my previous photos and materials. Compared with the materials , and probably feel what kind of person I used to be.”

"That feeling is very strange." He said, and glanced at the teenager beside him.

"Can you imagine? Knowing the past [myself] by comparing photos, words, and influences, and looking at the records of the past, there will be a sense of strangeness spontaneously, like watching the life of a stranger."

When this young and powerful investigator said these words, he didn't have any special expression. Although not long ago, the contents of a certain confidential document he obtained by special means flashed uncontrollably in his mind at this moment, but he still controlled his expression, with lowered eyebrows and eyes, calm as if Telling other people's stories.

No one knew what Jian Shenxiu was thinking when he said these words, and Markesias couldn't guess it either. The hooded boy was a little scared for a moment, because Jian Shenxiu looked calm at the moment, but it gave him a strange sense of alienation. In the past five years, they had gone through life and death together, and it was the first time he felt that the person in front of him was so strange.

"Xiasi." At this moment, Jian Shenxiu suddenly called out his name.

"If one day..." the Chief Inspector suddenly said something strange, but in the middle of speaking, he hesitated to speak again. After hesitating for a second, he finally shook his head and sighed:

"Forget it, nothing."

"Why?"

The hooded boy was taken aback, not understanding what happened.

"Don't mention these."

Seeing that Shen Xiu seemed to be bored with this topic suddenly, he directly shifted his words to other issues. He turned his head to look at the quiet and cold street in front of him, and began to stride forward.

"This resort is not as simple as it looks. We have other things to do here. Let's get down to business first."

"yes!"

Markesias was such a simple child, although he still had doubts in his heart, when he mentioned "business", his spirit immediately tensed up, he trotted behind Jian Shenxiu, and quickly entered the state.

"Last time, Miss Xi Wei mentioned that she had an impression of this resort. Is there really something wrong with this resort?"

"If you want to talk about a big problem, it's not a big deal." Jian Shenxiu looked around, glanced at the only remaining storefronts on the street, and said to the young man beside him.

"However, NAVI received a report two months ago, saying that the monitoring system showed that there was an abnormal temperature response in the resort every night. It seemed that a large number of people gathered. At first we thought it was something inexplicable Church gatherings and the like—you know, after Eternal Night, such things are not uncommon."

"Yeah." Markesias nodded, "However, this kind of crowd gathering is usually handled by the Metropolitan Police Department, right?"

"It's the same this time, so after receiving the news, the Metropolitan Police Department first sent police to the resort to investigate, and soon they discovered the abnormality."

Seeing Shenxiu talking while walking, he looked at the shops on the street from a distance while talking, and didn't approach them, just squinted his eyes and observed.

"It's obviously not the peak season, but every store has a lot of goods in stock, and they are still buying. There is no one on the street at night, but the thermal reactor always shows that there is an inexplicable heat source on the street. During the day, there are no people here, and at night But there are always weird noises..."

"So they thought it was a freak event."

Marchesias understood why such a document was submitted to the search bureau's desk. Looking at the surrounding eyes also began to become vigilant.

"So the case was turned over to us."

"Yes." Jian Shenxiu nodded approvingly, motioning him to continue.

"Then since this incident has become a file lying on the file shelf, and Mr. just said that it was two months ago that NAVI noticed the abnormal heat."

Seeing Jian Shenxiu's encouraging gaze, Markesias mustered up his courage and continued,

"It means that we also sent people over after that, and they also returned without success. So they wrote a report and included it in the system to be observed."

"Exactly." Jian Shenxiu smiled.

"The biggest weirdness of this matter is that there are so many things that are wrong, but the local residents don't feel anything abnormal, and they don't respond to it. They just live their own lives as usual. Even when we The investigators sent out told them these things, and when they asked them about related matters, they resisted, and they yelled and drove our investigators away. This led to the failure of the first investigation.”

"That's right..."

Markesias suddenly realized, looked down at himself and Jian Shenxiu's plain clothes, and then said excitedly:

"No wonder Mr. went to the hotel first, and came out to investigate after changing clothes."

"Hush. Remember, we are tourists." Jian Shenxiu frowned slightly when he heard the words, shook his head at the boy, and made a booing gesture,

"He's here for vacation."

"Ah..." Markesias suddenly realized the problem, and subconsciously raised his hand to cover his mouth.

"This is a resort. The residents who have lived there for a long time are naturally not only the store owners, but also... the people in the hotel."

Seeing that the young man stopped talking, seeing Shenxiu continued, at this point, he turned his head and squinted his eyes, looking in the direction the two came from, with a cold look in his eyes.

"If the local [residents] are the problem, then [the hotel] as the place with the most traffic..."

"Naturally, it is also the most suspicious place."