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Night falls.

In front of the gate of Fuwan Community.

"Hmm. It should be right here."

Zhuang Xie lowered his head and looked at his phone. The bad navigation on it showed that he had arrived at his destination.

"Is this really where it is?"

Hu Yan looked at the slightly old community in front of him and seemed to be hesitant.

"What, is there something wrong?"

Zhuang Xie turned back to look at her.

Hu Yan shook her head. The dilapidated community in front of her inexplicably reminded her of the day she followed Zhang Guangbei.

She once felt that the nightmarish experience that night was the source of so many strange things that she experienced in the future, including her near-death experience.

But after Hu Yan communicated and analyzed with Zhuang Xie from two different dimensions in the past few days, he gradually realized that he had already been on the blacklist of this game.

Even if she didn't follow Zhang Guangbei on a whim that day, there would most likely be various invisible forces that pushed her to this point.

If you think about it carefully, the seven people in the chat group, including the dead Zhang Guangbei and Zhu Chaoyang, were all involved in the same whirlpool by that invisible force.

At first I thought they were people from different tribes, but now it seems that they have many inexplicable relationships.

This gave Hu Yan a strong sense of being manipulated.

"Don't be in a daze, pick up your spirits."

Zhuang Xie frowned. Although he didn't know what Hu Yan was thinking at this time, he could clearly see that she seemed a little unfocused.

"The other party was seriously injured, but from what we saw in the surveillance video, Dahlia's self-healing ability is only slightly stronger than yours.

In an ordinary person, even if he did not die on the spot, he would lose his combat effectiveness instantly due to injuries, but he still maintained complete mobility and strong combat effectiveness.

Now after a day of recovery, he may not be as easy to deal with as we thought."

As he spoke, Zhuang Xie raised his head, looked at the stairwell of an old building in front of him, and walked up first.

The makeup girl said that the address provided was not accurate, after all, it was more than a week ago.

She just gave the address and floor based on her impression. As for the house number, she couldn't remember it clearly.

But with this information, it’s not too difficult to find.

First, exclude the residents on the left side of the stairs. The little makeup girl vaguely remembered that the room where Hua Ling worked was on the right side of the stairs.

Secondly, we excluded the two households on the right near the stairwell. When he was downstairs, Zhuang Xie looked up and noticed that the balcony of 305 was lit with lights, and two children were playing on the balcony. The other household, 306, was

There was a middle-aged woman collecting clothes that had been hung out during the day, instead of turning around to talk to the people in the room.

Then only 307 and 308 are possible.

Zhuang Xie raised his head and observed the camera in the corridor. The shadow under his feet quietly separated from an invisible mist and slowly climbed to the position of the camera.

Then he looked back at Hu Yan and nodded, indicating that it was done.

Hu Yan took two steps back and hid behind Zhuang Xie.

Zhuang Xie walked in front of door 307 and pressed the doorbell.

After a while, the door opened.

"Who are you?"

A young man with a chicken coop on his head.

Zhuang Xie was smiling, his nose slightly open, trying to catch any unusual smell in the air.

Now Zhuang Xie and Hu Yan already know that the strange abilities they have acquired will more or less emit a weird rotten smell that only each other can smell when they are activated.

Hu Yan's body was the most inaudible, Zhuang Xie only became particularly strong when he summoned the toad, while Hu Yan, who had faced Dahlia Hualing twice, was very determined, and the other party's smell was extremely obvious.

No taste.

He touched Hu Yan, who was hiding behind him, with his heel. Hu Yan gently pulled the hem of his clothes behind him, indicating that there was nothing unusual about the other person's feelings.

"Sir, have you heard of Amway?"

Zhuang Xie showed a bright smile with eight teeth.

"Bang!"

The firmly closed door represents the other party's answer.

Zhuang Xie turned and looked at Hu Yan, then looked at the last remaining room, 308.

Hu Yan had a solemn look on her face and made a mouth gesture to Zhuang Xie.

【Are you sure?】

Zhuang Xie didn't respond and walked directly to door 308. Seeing this, Hu Yan continued to follow.

Press the doorbell.

For a long time, no one responded.

Zhuang Xie looked at Hu Yan, stretched out his right hand, clenched his fist and moved forward, indicating that he would break the goal.

Hu Yan reached out and pulled out the prepared electric shock rod, placing his thumb on the switch.

The shadow at Zhuang Xie's feet stretched out an extremely slender tentacle and slowly stretched it into the keyhole of the door.

"Click."

The sound of the door spring popping open.

At the moment, Hu Yan didn't have the time to express his feelings about Zhuang Xie's almost universal ability, and kept his eyes fixed on the door that Zhuang Xie slowly pushed open.

Zhuang Xie stepped in gently, and the sensor lights in the originally dark entrance immediately turned on.

Hu Yan, who was following Zhuang Xie, clenched her fists tightly.

"Quack!"

In the bright entrance hall, a strange toad with the height of an average adult stood up in Zhuang Xie's shadow and placed it in front of Zhuang Xie and Hu Yan.

Then the two of them discovered that there was no one in the room.

Zhuang Xie frowned slightly and walked in quickly, followed closely by Hu Yan, who searched every corner of the room, including the kitchen, bedroom, living room, and toilet, but no one was found there.

"What! What's going on? Did we guess wrong? Hua Lingqian never came back here at all?"

Hu Yan said helplessly.

Zhuang Xie's heart moved and he quickly walked to the kitchen where Hu Yan had searched just now.

"There's no one there, I've seen it!"

Zhuang Xie ignored Hu Yan's words and rummaged through the kitchen trash can.

His move reminded Hu Yan, and she quickly walked to the bedroom that she had ignored after checking that no one was there.

"There are two bedrooms, and the beds in both rooms have signs of use. Could it be that Hua Lingqian has an accomplice?"

Zhuang Xie also found the information he wanted from the trash can.

"There is a takeout box for two people, so we don't rule out the possibility that Hua Ling has a huge amount of food, but considering the situation of the bedroom you mentioned, there is a high probability that there are two people living in this house."

"As for whether he is an accomplice, it is not clear yet." Zhuang Xie touched the crumpled sheets on the bed in one of the bedrooms, and his eyes were fixed on a blood stain that seemed to have dried and turned black on the wall behind the bed.

Hu Yan put her hand into the quilt to explore. She was stunned and looked up at Zhuang Xie.

"There is still warmth, and you haven't gone far yet!"

When Zhuang Xie heard Hu Yan's words, he immediately rushed out of the door and ran downstairs.

"Hey! Wait for me!"

When Hu Yan caught up with him, he found that Zhuang Xie had run into the monitoring room of the community, and the security guard had already fallen asleep leaning on the back of the chair.

Zhuang Xie was quickly browsing the surveillance video playback in front of him. Looking through the camera in the corridor on the third floor, he clearly saw a tall and thin young man dragging a huge black suitcase out of the door. The time was right. Fifteen minutes before Zhuang Xie and the others arrived.

The most important thing is that this completely unfamiliar young man dragged his suitcase and passed by the gate of the community. Suddenly he turned around, stared in the direction of the camera, and then pointed in a direction, revealing his beard. Yan's familiar smile was extremely exaggerated.

...

After dealing with all the traces of the investigation just now, the two people left the community.

As expected from the beginning, this community became a battlefield for three people, and it was easier to deal with than imagined.

Even the security guard probably just thought he was sleepy.

At this time, Zhuang Xie and Hu Yan were standing in front of a wall. This was the location they found following the direction Hua Lingqian pointed out in the surveillance video.

There are many psoriasis advertisements posted on the wall, and a few lines of large characters are written in red paint on the top layer.

XX Auto Repair Station is for sale. Below is the address and contact number.

This is a provocation and invitation to fight from Hua Lingqian.

"What do you think?" Hu Yan frowned and looked at Zhuang Xie.

She thought about thousands of possibilities, and even imagined the worst possibility of two of her own coming to outflank her, but being defeated by the other party. However, she never thought that the other party would withdraw in advance ten minutes before the two of her came. When he came out, the two of them missed it.

The most important thing is that the other party seemed to know that the two of them were coming, and even went so far as to arrogantly leave their address to provoke them.

"Remember what I said before, the gear that came half a month later reminded me before I was about to die, so I was able to avoid the inevitable outcome and then came to find you.

Do you think it was one of Huang Mao or Xing Mang who reminded Hua Lingqian this time?"

Zhuang Xie stared at the address in front of him and remained silent. After a long time, he spoke, "I don't rule out this possibility. But according to your statement, you fled the hospital in a hurry half an hour before the incident happened. The reason why In a hurry, that's because you just woke up from the coma at that time, and before that, Gear had already contacted you more than once, right?"

"Yes, Gear sent me nearly a hundred messages at that time."

"That's strange. If it was Xing Mang or Huang Mao who was in the future who gave Hua Lingqian a hint to avoid us in advance, then why did she leave even more hurriedly than you did? You know, as long as she continues In ten minutes at night, we might be blocked at the gate."

Hu Yan was slightly startled when he heard this, "Does this...does it mean that the other party is not as close as us and the gear? They...have their own suspicions?"

"This is one of the possibilities, and the other possibility is not so complicated. We learned Hua Lingqian's address from the makeup girl..."

"The makeup girl and Hua Lingqian knew each other! So it's possible that the makeup girl informed him in advance! After all, in her opinion, there is nothing wrong with calling or sending a message to the other party in advance to tell him that a school teacher is coming to see him. Oh! If that's the case, it's really a big deal! If I had known earlier, I would have given that makeup girl to..."

Hu Yan slapped her head hard with an annoyed look on her face.

"What do you want?"

Zhuang Xie looked at each other with a somewhat strange look.

"Knock him out first and tie him up! This way we won't be delayed!"

"There is no need to worry about this now. What is certain is that Hua Lingqian is an extremely neurotic person. The reason why he avoided the fight and then followed up with provocation shows that he was not worried about his own injury. He was talking to other people in the room. If a person is relevant, that person should be in that giant suitcase."

"Tell me...could there be something in that box..."

Hu Yan suddenly became a little hesitant.

"It can't be Najung. Do you still remember that particularly messy bedroom? There were dried blood stains on the wall near the head of the bed. The marks seemed to be caused by head friction. It should be a restricted person struggling. It was caused at that time. According to the height from the bed board, only a person with a height of at least 1.8 meters can reach it. Najing is only 1.6 meters tall."

"Then why are you hesitating? Fuck him!"

"good."

...

The suburban area of ​​Tianxi Cave, during the period of large-scale development, was a gathering place for heavy industry and workers, forming a relatively closed-loop settlement.

Later, they started to pollute first and then treat them, and they began to advocate sustainable development. In addition, they gradually began to transform into high-tech development zones around Huaqing University. As a result, these heavily polluting factories gradually moved to more remote areas, and these old factories became It gradually became deserted, and the workers dispersed, so the area gradually became desolate.

That auto repair shop probably couldn't continue to operate anymore. It was transferred to various places, but no one was willing to take over.

Even beggars and homeless people don't want to go there. It's far from the center of the city and they have to travel a long way to "go to work" every day.

At night it was still deserted and eerie and scary.

"Do you have any handy weapons? A katana or a baseball bat, anything will do!"

Hu Yan looked at the dark factory door in front of her and suddenly grabbed the hem of Zhuang Xie's clothes in front of her.

Zhuang Xie hesitated for a moment, then bent down and dug in the shadow, took out a stick-like object and handed it to Hu Yan.

"Uh! This..."

Hu Yan looked at the flashlight in his hand, and then at Zhuang Xie holding a dog-leg knife in his hand.

She no longer even had the desire to use foul language, she was already used to it.

"Clang!"

A crisp sound caused the two of them to stop and stare at the source of the sound. A steel rod fell from the scrap metal pile and rolled over.

A thin black wild cat suddenly jumped out!

Then he ran towards the back door of another place.

Zhuang Xie hurriedly looked at Hu Yan, who stared closely at the black cat's raised tail.

"no."

She shook her head gently.

move on.

Hu Yan looked at the dark factory door in front of her and suddenly grabbed the hem of Zhuang Xie's clothes in front of her.

Zhuang Xie hesitated for a moment, then bent down and dug in the shadow, took out a stick-like object and handed it to Hu Yan.

"Uh! This..."

Hu Yan looked at the flashlight in his hand, and then at Zhuang Xie holding a dog-leg knife in his hand.

She no longer even had the desire to use foul language, she was already used to it.

"Clang!"

A crisp sound made the two of them stop and stare at the source of the sound. A steel rod fell from the scrap metal pile and rolled over.

A thin black wild cat suddenly jumped out!

Then he ran towards the back door of another place.

Zhuang Xie hurriedly looked at Hu Yan, who stared closely at the black cat's raised tail.

"no."

She shook her head gently.

move on.