Chen Nan was woken up by being splashed with a bucket of ice water.
As soon as he woke up, he met Shen Shi'an's dark and quiet eyes.
Shen Shi'an breathed a sigh of relief, and put down the bucket in his hand: "If you can't wake up again, I'm going to consider stabbing the soles of your feet a few times with needles."
you? Can't wake up
It was only then that Chen Nan realized that he was lying on the carpet in the living room, and when he turned his head, he saw Tao Yuan lying on the sofa, who was also drenched and apparently just woke up.
Before he could figure out what happened, Shen Shi'an's next words woke him up like a bolt from the blue:
"The Ark is missing."
"What?!!" Chen Nan and Tao Yuan sat up in shock at the same time.
Tao Yuan glanced around for a week and quickly realized: "We are unconscious? Is it because there is something wrong with the food?"
"It's not food." Shen Shi'an shook his head. Shen Xun has confirmed that the food is edible, and all of them eat the same thing, if the problem lies in the food, he and Shen Xun are the only ones who are fine. In the same way, it couldn't be something like poisonous gas. Gou Zijing had already smelled it everywhere, and there was no suspicious gas left in the air. "I suspect it's a supernatural power. Someone in the base can use supernatural powers to put people into a deep sleep." It happened that he and the child entered the space, so they escaped.
Chen Nan and the two immediately broke out in a cold sweat: If there is such a superpower, doesn't it mean that they are completely exposed to each other's control and have no ability to resist at all
"Wait a minute," Chen Nan said, "Then why are we all fine and only Fang Zhou is missing? Is it related to his ability? Could it be that the other party has a supernatural power who has evolved a supernatural power such as 'Thousand Miles' and heard us? dialogue between them, so the Ark was chosen as a specific target?"
Tao Yuan thought for a while and shook his head: "I don't think the probability is high. If the other party really has a 'Thousand Miles', they should know that we are not a loose zero-hour group. If one person disappears, it will definitely cause follow-up troubles. Anyway, we are all dizzy." In the past, wouldn’t it be easier to catch someone directly? Besides, Ark’s ability can only be considered as a support at most, which is very useful for those of us who want to go to the capital through mountains and rivers. For such a A base that is almost self-sufficient may not be the case, if you can really hear our conversations, knowing that we have no intention of making an enemy of the base and are leaving tomorrow, why bother ourselves?"
Shen Shi'an agrees with Tao Yuan's point of view, "Don't scare yourself first, no matter what abilities the other party has, they will always find a way to solve it. The most important thing right now is to find out how Fang Zhou disappeared and where it is now." Ten minutes ago, the anxiety of finding out that one member was missing and two members were drowsy has disappeared. At this time, the young man is calm and calm, his dark eyes are bottomless: "Can you two recall when you fell asleep? , What is the last thing you remember before falling asleep, is there anything unusual, and when was the last time you saw Ark?"
Tao Yuan frowned: "After taking a shower, I lay on the sofa and thought about some things. I don't remember the exact time when I fell asleep, but it should be around eleven o'clock. I didn't find anything suspicious, and finally The first time we saw Fang Zhou was when we finished talking and he and Chen Nan entered the bedroom."
Chen Nan immediately continued: "After entering the bedroom, Fang Zhou took a shower first, and then came to me, and nothing happened. After I took a shower, I chatted with Fang Zhou for a while. It didn't take long before we said good night to each other and went to bed around ten o'clock. For safety's sake, even the lights are always on."
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Shen Shi'an calculated in his mind: He and Shen Xun entered the space around 10:30, and stayed in the space for more than five hours. It was less than three hours outside. Seven minutes past one.
In other words, Liu Fangzhou disappeared within two hours from eleven o'clock last night to one o'clock this morning.
"Ark's shoes are missing," Shen Shi'an said after searching around in the bedroom, "This means that he should be awake when he disappeared." Kidnapping a comatose person will not put his shoes on first.
"Did he be dragged away abruptly?" Chen Nan's heart immediately twitched, and he instantly recalled the image of the boy desperately calling for help but no one answered. How scared I must have been then.
"Not necessarily. I'm sure he didn't cry out for help, and there was no sign of struggling in the room." After merging the exercise book, even in the portable space, Shen Shi'an can still perceive the outside world, but because of the space Changes in the five senses will be limited, usually from the bathroom into the space can only accurately perceive what is happening in the bathroom, but if there is a heated argument and shouting outside the bathroom, it is impossible not to notice at all.
Chen Nan was taken aback: "What do you mean? He wouldn't be the one who left on his own initiative, would he?"
Shen Shi'an didn't speak, and walked along the line from the bed where Liu Fangzhou slept to the door of the suite, stopped at the entrance, and picked up a crystal vase from the side of the wooden cabinet: it looked like it was accidentally knocked down , because the carpet was thick and not broken, all the water inside spilled out, soaking a large area of the carpet.
He remembered very clearly that the vase was still fine when everyone entered the room last night.
Sweeping his gaze over the door, he answered Chen Nan's question: "Impossible, the door is still locked." Even the hair stuck in the crack of the door was still there.
Tao Yuan checked other places: "The windows are also locked."
The dog who had been following Shen Shi'an shrugged his nose and provided another clue: "There is no other person's smell in the room, no one has come in."
Now Chen Nan was completely stunned: the doors and windows were all locked, no one else came in, so what about the Ark people? ?
Definitely couldn't find it in the suite. Shen Shi'an picked up the child and said to the two, "Change your clothes, let's go out and look for them."
They lived in 8001. After walking a few steps along the corridor, they came to the door of 8005, which was where the tall, short and fat trio lived.
Shen Shi'an stopped suddenly, and Tao Yuan noticed something wrong with his expression: "What's wrong?"
"I remember that all three of them brought their female companions back to the room?"
"Yes." The laughter was very loud, and the sound insulation effect of the door was not particularly good, so it was hard to ignore it.
Shen Shi'an let out a sigh of relief: "There is no one in the room, not a single person."
No heartbeat, no breathing, just dead silence.
Chen Nan broke out in cold sweat in his hands: "...are you missing too?"
Tao Yuan walked to the door, and for some reason, he unscrewed the door with a "click" sound, walked in quietly, and came out soon after, with a solemn expression: "No one, and there is no sign of struggle."
It is impossible to check out in the middle of the night.
The sudden increase in the number of missing people undoubtedly made several people feel more and more heavy. The only good news is that not all the rooms on this floor are empty, most of the customers in the rooms are sleeping. Shen Shi'an estimated that he would have to pour a bucket of ice water to wake up.
"Let's go." He patted Shen Xun's head twice: "The rest is up to you."
Gou Zijing tried his best to shake his nose. According to his guidance, Shen Shi'an and others took the elevator, went down to the first floor of the hotel, walked out of the hotel gate and walked along a street.
Shen Shi'an sighed halfway through the walk: "There's no need to go anymore."
Tao Yuan and Chen Nan turned their heads: "???"
"The front is the entrance of the city gate where we came in. Unless Fang Zhou chooses to return the same way in the middle of the night, otherwise the smell he smells is left by him in the evening."
It was almost two o'clock in the morning, and there was no one in the dark on the road. Just because the darkness was too deep, the things that had been concealed carefully during the day and failed to be discovered finally revealed their whereabouts at this time: on the neatly trimmed camphor trees on both sides of the street, dozens of red spots faintly glowed among the branches and leaves, like a pair of Eyes that peep quietly in the night.
Chen Nan felt a few chills along the spine: "These are cameras?"
Tao Yuan whispered: "Yes."
Shen Shi'an asked the child: "Is there any other place where I can smell the Ark?"
Shen Xun shook his head: "Only this street and the hotel, the smell is stronger in the hotel."
Shen Shi'an turned around: "Let's go back." Liu Fangzhou was still in the hotel.
As soon as everyone returned to the hotel entrance, Yang Xueqiu, the lobby manager, greeted them. He also came with the cool air conditioner in the hotel, which was supposed to be a cool weapon, but at this moment, Chen Nan, who was covered in sweat, shivered from head to toe.
Gritting his teeth, he rushed straight over: "Where's the Ark!"
Yang Xueqiu was very surprised: "What?"
The surprise on his face was so real that Shen Shi'an felt that he was not pretending, but it was unknown whether the surprise was because of Chen Nan's problem, but because they were not unconscious.
"One of our companions disappeared in your hotel." Shen Shi'an looked into Yang Xueqiu's eyes: "I wonder if Manager Yang can give an explanation?"
Yang Xueqiu seemed to be even more surprised: "Missing? Why did you disappear? I remember that the gentlemen only booked one suite, so they should share the bedroom with each other? Didn't the people in the same bedroom notice that the other party left? ? Or did the gentleman leave without leaving any message?"
Chen Nan was out of breath, and wanted to say something more, but Tao Yuan grabbed his arm: "According to what Manager Yang said, is it our own fault that someone disappeared in the hotel?"
"The hotel only provides accommodation services, and cannot track or control the actions of guests." Yang Xueqiu said politely: "But since people are missing in the hotel, the hotel will definitely assume our responsibility. Gentlemen, don't be too Worry, maybe that guest just went out for a walk because he was bored. The ark is so big, and the city gate is closed at night, so people can’t get out. Look at this, it’s too late now, and the staff have already rested Besides, some corners are not powered on and it is not convenient to search. I will mobilize the residents of the ark to help find the trace of the guest tomorrow morning, and I believe that I will definitely find it. Can the gentlemen accept such a plan?"
Shen Shi'an stared into his eyes for a while, then nodded: "Of course. Thank you, Manager Yang."
Because there was a camera in the elevator, it wasn't until Chen Nan walked back to the door of the suite that he finally said in a choked voice, "Brother Shen, do we just believe the nonsense of that lobby manager? Fang Zhou's disappearance must have something to do with them!"
"Of course I don't believe it." Shen Shi'an swiped the door open with his room card, and motioned for the two of them to go in first: "There are cameras everywhere here, and it is easy to reveal where there are too many people. You two look in the room for any clues. Xun Xun and I Look for it elsewhere in the hotel. That manager Yang is right, "
The young man looked at the city wall in the distance through the window of the corridor, and there was a look of hostility in his eyes: "This place is only so big, it can only dig three feet into the ground at most."