Pollution throughout the territory

A knock on the door interrupted his thoughts.

"Xia Ren?"

It was Liu Xiuxiu's voice.

"Just come in."

Xia Ren rubbed his face to make his expression more natural and said.

Liu Xiuxiu opened the door and saw the Shoggoth on the floor. She said "Ah!" and took half a step back in fright. But then, he reacted, patted his chest, and said, "Scared me to death." "He came over and rubbed Shoggoth's head.

Xia Ren watched this scene from the side. Liu Xiuxiu didn't know whether it was out of trust in herself, or because she started to give up on herself after thinking that she couldn't leave. Is she so receptive? He's not even afraid of monsters anymore. When he first came here, he was on guard against everything. He had to carry the black box wherever he went, but now he doesn't even carry it to his own home.

"Hey, be careful, it's very vicious."

Xia Ren feels that a D-class personnel should look like a D-class personnel. As a low-level investigator of the Foundation, and the class with the highest mortality rate, he should have enough awe for these weird things in order to survive. longer.

"Tuck Lily!"

The Shoggoth barked in cooperation, indicating that his master was right.

Facing this curious ball, Liu Xiuxiu suddenly felt that she had caught its cuteness.

"OK."

He rubbed Shoggoth's head again, and then he remembered the purpose of coming here.

"There is news about the matter you asked me to investigate. The logistics department has just sent the information of the residents upstairs to the mobile phone."

"show me."

Xia Ren took the phone from Liu Xiuxiu.

On the screen were several files and screenshots of newspaper articles.

More than 20 years ago, there were three families living on the sixth and seventh floors of this building, including two families on the seventh floor and one family on the sixth floor. The family on the sixth floor they were concerned about was originally a couple. The couple, two young and promising people, bought the two apartments on the entire sixth floor, and brought the husband's parents here to live across the street from them, making it easier to take care of their children and provide for his retirement.

Counting two elderly people and a newborn boy, this family has a total of five people who have lived happily together for three years.

However, the good times did not last long. Three years later, the two elderly people passed away one after another. Then the woman's parents also moved over and lived opposite the couple. In the same year, they gave birth to a baby girl. Although two elderly people died, , but the number of members in this family has become six.

Three more years later, the boy was six years old and the girl was three years old. Their parents died in a car accident in February. In March, the woman's brother, his wife and three sons moved into the house of his sister and brother-in-law on the pretext of taking care of the elderly. , incidentally inherited their inheritance, and the family became eight people.

Two years later in the spring, the original owner's five-year-old daughter died. The cause of death was not stated in the file, leaving seven family members.

In the summer, all the residents on the sixth and seventh floors disappeared overnight. The cause of the disappearance is unknown. Only the eight-year-old son of the original owner survived. However, he was suspected to have suffered a huge blow and suffered from aphasia and was unable to describe what happened. There is only one family member left.

Twenty-three years ago, the media widely reported this case, which caused quite a stir at the time. However, in the end, the investigation by the superintendent failed to make any progress and had to be left alone.

The only surviving boy was named Zhou Yuan. He was later sent to an orphanage in Dongpu City, the magical capital next to Luohua Capital. The orphanage was demolished a few years later, and the whereabouts of all the children in it were unknown.

At this point, all clues are interrupted.

The file does not contain any emotion, but records what happened from an objective perspective. The details in it make people unable to help but think about it. In childhood, I witnessed the death of my grandparents, parents, and young sister. , the little boy went from being pampered to living as a parasite in his uncle's house. What a tortuous journey his heart must go.

It is worth mentioning that the name of Xia Ren’s current website that serializes pollution all over the country is also called, and the address of its headquarters is also in Dongpu City.

"Two floors, dozens of people missing, could this be related to pollution?"

"And the surviving little boy was eight years old at the time, eight plus twenty-three, which is about the same age as Huang Qiuyuan. Both of their names also have the word "yuan" in their names. Is it a coincidence?"

Xia Ren tried to connect the known clues, but it was too far-fetched.

But one thing is certain, the sixth floor was not normal twenty-three years ago.

The little boy he and Liu Xiuxiu saw when they went there this morning was most likely a survivor of that year. There were seven little people painted on the two doors, and a picture of a little boy holding a head in his hand. The number of people It was also the same number of family members as the night before the disappearance, seven.

"Could the picture be a metaphor for the reason why everyone disappeared, that they were killed by a little boy?"

This idea was immediately rejected by Xia Ren.

Let’s not talk about how an eight-year-old child could kill so many people in one night. Even if he did kill, how would the bodies be disposed of?

"How's it going? Did you see anything?"

Liu Xiuxiu asked.

"No."

Xia Ren returned the phone to him: "Don't go alone to the room on the sixth floor until you understand it. Also, if possible, continue to check where the children in the orphanage went after it was demolished. "

"OK."

Liu Xiuxiu put away her phone and agreed.

"Then I'll go out first. By the way, does this thing have a name?"

He pointed at the shoggoth.

"……not yet."

Xia Ren hasn't had time to think about this problem. Shoggoth is just its racial name. You can't name a dog dog, right?

"Then can I take it to the living room and play?"

Liu Xiuxiu said with expectation.

"It's not dangerous, it's okay, but do you like this kind of curiosity?"

"It's a bit curious, but it's also very cute."

Liu Xiuxiu led Shogges out and closed the study door.

Xia Ren sat alone on a chair and began to think about the information he just saw.

"Liu Xiuxiu represents the foundation behind him, so is Huang Qiuyuan sent here by some organization like him? We have to ask Xiu'er to check him again later."

"And I don't know if he has anything to do with the residents on the sixth floor. Maybe we can ask him directly next time we meet."

Xia Ren had always been very wary of this man who suddenly moved here and seemed to have a background as a police inspector. Especially since such strange things happened in the room on the sixth floor, he had to be vigilant.

With so many messy things piled up together, he couldn't calm down to write.

In the book review area, there are already a lot of readers discussing about his two-day break. Some even speculated that the author was being kept by that golden cutie, so he stopped writing books. Looking at the readership, it has been Many new people came here because of the reputation. Unlike the book review section, they are all struggling with updates. They are more pragmatic. As soon as they came in, they were all dazzled by the welfare pictures in the group photo album. Under the leadership of the veteran driver Next, I was addicted to racing and couldn't extricate myself.

Xia Ren watched with relish for a while and had to admire their driving skills. It was probably because the management was afraid of putting them in detention, so they clicked on all the pornographic pictures.

Since there was no update, he didn't dare to show his face, so he randomly selected two lucky old drivers and banned them, and then hurried away.

Time soon came to night, and before Xia Ren could look for it, Huang Qiuyuan took his thermos cup and naturally knocked on the door and came in, hoping to get some food.

However, what surprised Xia Ren the most was the appearance of an extra little girl in the room, a little girl with long wavy seaweed-green hair.

"Why are my brothers and sisters so polite? There's no need to cook so much. Just frying two dishes is enough."

Huang Qiuyuan said to Qin Yun who was busy in the kitchen.

Can he see the infected?

Xia Ren frowned.

Liu Xiuxiu, who was also waiting for a meal, was not surprised.

"Tuck Lily!"

When the little girl saw Xia Ren coming out of the study, she ran with her short legs and hugged his knees.

"?" Xia Ren.

"Lily, don't pester your father and bring your uncle a glass of water." Qin Yun took the time to say.

"???" Xia Ren.