The final gentleman

【Yuyuan County Police Station】

Logically speaking, only a small number of police officers will be on duty at night.

But the police station here is brightly lit, and all the police officers are working hard, and no one is absent... It seems that they mostly rest during the day.

There is a large and eye-catching shrine in the lobby of the police station.

Various calls come in at night, and police officers will sift through them for 'valuable' information and report it to them.

One of the calls was from the collection station of "By the way Express". It was said that the express delivery was stolen during transportation, and the total value of the lost items was about 20,000.

This type of theft case, where the amount involved is not too high, is generally treated as a 'low-level case' and ordinary police officers take the time to make a record and handle it as much as possible.

However, because Express Express has a cooperative relationship with the Yuyuan County Police Station, all express delivery sent by the police station is free.

Taking this into consideration, the ordinary police officer who answered the phone still reported the matter and wrote the words 'by the way express delivery' in the remarks column. Anyway, it didn't matter if he chose not to deal with it.

Half an hour later.

Two police detectives wearing black windbreakers arrived at the collection station. It was the first time the staff saw the police officers in such clothes. They were shocked and were about to lead them to the stolen truck.

One of them seemed to smell something and was already standing behind one of the trucks.

Reach out and touch a little sticky substance from the surface of a package, put it against your nostrils and smell it carefully.

"It smells like fish...octopus? It's not from us here, wait a minute."

The police detective jumped into the car and closed the two iron doors again. After a while, he walked out and came to a conclusion.

"The suspects entered the train at 17:01 while the train was in motion. If my guess is correct, they should have stolen only clothing and communication equipment. The possibility of being a fugitive from other places is more than 90%.

It took a long time to escape to our county. If you don’t have an ID card, you may choose to live temporarily in an irregular hotel, or live directly in the bridge area.

There is also a possibility that they may choose to steal from a supermarket or steal money.

Let the bureau immediately follow up on our investigation results, raise the importance of this case to Level II, mobilize 30% of the police force and activate all authorities to conduct a comprehensive investigation.

Be sure to determine the location of the fugitives before 5:00 tomorrow, otherwise they are likely to leave us. "

Another police detective asked softly: "If you are a fugitive, do you need to check with the nearby detention agency for personnel verification?"

"No...if we let those guys know, they will not tell us the relevant information about the fugitives, but will also arrange for some troublesome guys to come to us. Later, they will not be caught, but they will bring a lot of trouble to the county. trouble."

…

Late at night, urban village, small hotel, self-renovated double suite.

Three hours have passed since the 'family of three' checked in.

Fangfang was positioning herself along the way, and since she had been in the hospital for more than a year, she seemed quite tired when she finally escaped, and even fell asleep on William's back.

The cubicle was completely given to Xiaofang so that she could have a good rest. Xiaofang's ability and special background would be of great help to their follow-up actions in William's opinion.

He and Catherine stayed in the main room. The wooden bed was large but a bit old. It creaked when you sat on it or turned over.

After taking a shower, Catherine was lying on the bed wearing only a loose sweatshirt, her eyes wide open, and she was quickly scratching the screen of her phone with her fingers.

When she first came into contact with things like 'mobile phones', she would grow an octopus tentacle from between her legs and feet to slap William and ask how to use it and what the software did. Now she is completely familiar with it.

After being recommended to download a video software called PollPoll, I was completely immersed in it.

Click~The guest room door is opened.

The person who came in was no one else, but William who was out shopping, carrying a large bag of necessary daily necessities in his hand.

He didn't steal it, he bought it with money.

As for money, it’s easy to collect.

Before going to the supermarket, William found a main road with a fairly good flow of people. Wearing a designer suit and fluent standard British English, he pretended to be a businessman from abroad who came to inspect a local project because his wallet was stolen and he wanted to get a taxi fare. Received support from many well-wishers.

I easily scraped together a few hundred yuan and bought a lot of useful things, mainly food.

In the hotel,

Two bowls of braised beef noodles with braised eggs were quickly cooked.

Catherine, who was watching the video, was immediately attracted by the fragrance that she had never smelled before. During this time, she had been trapped in the hospital and injected with nutrients, without eating for several days.

The scent of instant noodles continued to stimulate Catherine's salivary glands, and the sheets were soaked a lot.

"Although it's not as good as the circus delicacies, it still has a different flavor! It smells so good. This delicacy must be very expensive. William, did you just rob passers-by?"

"It's not a robbery. It's not a good thing to attract too much attention. I bought it through serious means. Let's eat quickly and get some sleep. We will leave this county directly tomorrow morning."

Catherine said casually while slurping the noodles: "Do you need to be so vigilant? Aren't you already far away from the hospital?"

"When I first went upstairs, I saw no one at the counter, so I quietly approached the boss's residence and took a peek through the slightly opened door. Guess what?

In the small room lit by red candles, the hotel owner and his whole family were kneeling before the shrine, their whole bodies twitching like convulsions.

One person must stay up tonight. Will you sleep or should I? "

"I'm not going to sleep~ I've already had enough sleep in that hospital. I finished eating this bowl of noodles and continued playing with my phone! It's so interesting. I want to bring this thing back to the old world and never do it again. It’ll be boring.”

"Okay, then I'll take a nap~Katherine, don't be too nervous, please wake me up if anything goes wrong."

"Sleep on you."

William slept sideways on the side of the wooden bed. He wanted to take the opportunity to recharge his batteries and improve his efficiency for tomorrow's operations, but as his eyelids closed, he couldn't fall asleep.

Too many questions are popping up in my mind,

There is a certain difference between the world William is currently experiencing and the world Yi Chen remembers. It is obviously much darker. Every household has a shrine and everyone has a dark side.

I don't know whether it was Yi Chen who had changed his memories of his life, or whether what he was experiencing was just a real nightmare.

Another very important point is, how can we go back? Back to the old world, back to the circus.

At present, the only way William can think of is to let Catherine regain her dream ability and use the same method to create a dream passage back to the old world.

But how to restore ability is a new problem.

"And the strangest thing is,

Since the death-related abilities could not be brought over, "Yi Chen"'s independent consciousness no longer existed. If I could find the statue of death that Yi Chen worshiped before he was alive, would it be possible to reawaken the power of death?

When you are completely familiar with the world here and are not being followed, try to go to the orphanage~ As long as you find the statue of death, you may be able to solve the mystery.

Of course, it would also be possible to find the same Death Statue without going to the orphanage. 』

William doesn't have much obsession with the 'orphanage'. His personality has been completely separated by Yi Chen.

Just when William was thinking about various problems quickly, wow!

A bolt of thunder and lightning flashed outside the window, and the patter of rain also hit the window.

The cool breeze mixed with a little rain fell on him. William opened his eyes and found that a window had been blown open, and the old lock could not be locked at all.

He stood up and walked to the window sill, and when he was about to reach out and pull back the window,

He looked downstairs,

In the passageway of the urban village where sewage flows and rats and insects swarm, two mysterious men wrapped in black leather trench coats are standing. Such attire seems very inappropriate here.

Maybe it's a lighting problem, and their faces can't be seen clearly.

The most eye-catching thing was the leather shoes worn by the two, which were at least size 55 or above, which was a bit exaggerated.

William did not pry more, nor did he continue to close the window. Instead, he stepped back and left the window sill area to avoid being noticed by the other party.

"Catherine, prepare to retreat! We seem to be being targeted."

As soon as he finished speaking,

Ta-ta-ta-ta~ The sound of heavy leather shoes sounded in the corridor, and soon stopped in front of the guest room door.