The system didn't expect Ye He to wake up in the middle of the night, and couldn't help but sigh: [Mother and son are connected.]
Before Ye He had time to reply to the system, he went to the first floor to check the situation, but still saw no trace of the black cat.
Although he knew that some cats would go out to play and come back when the time came, during the days when Ye He raised Xiao Hei, he had always stayed by his side and never went out alone.
So now seeing Xiao Hei missing, Ye He suddenly broke into a cold sweat.
Although the windows and doors in the house were closed, after searching around the house but not finding Xiao Hei, Ye He decided to go outside to look for Xiao Hei.
These days of getting along have made him regard Xiao Hei as a member of his family, not just a pet. Ye He even thought that if Bob agreed, he would ask the system to allow him to take Xiao Hei out and keep him in the dormitory with Feng Zheng. After all, the other party also liked cats and dogs.
After all, Xiao Hei is just a little kitten. He doesn't know what he will encounter if he wanders outside for a night. And I heard from Bob that there seems to be a pervert who abuses cats recently...
Thinking of this, Ye He became more and more anxious, put on his clothes, opened the door and walked out.
The street lights on the street were still on, so Ye He could see his surroundings clearly without using a flashlight. In order not to disturb the surrounding neighbors, he could only whisper Xiao Hei's name while speaking to the system in his mind. : "If I really find it outside, I will give it a severe verbal lesson to stop it from running around."
The black cat seems to have forgotten its original name these days. There is no reaction when Bob calls it "Love", but when Ye He calls it Xiao Hei, the black cat will appear.
But this time, Ye He failed to see Xiao Hei running towards him.
The night wind was a bit cold, blowing towards his face. Ye He subconsciously gathered his clothes and moved the tip of his nose: "Did you smell anything?"
... ....Why did he smell a faint smell like something was burnt
System: [It smells a bit like barbecue.]
After being reminded by the system, Ye He felt that the smell was indeed similar, and that the smell seemed to come from around the corner.
Soon Ye He's attention returned to the street. His eyes roamed around the intersection, trying to see if Xiao Hei was hiding in any corner.
Just as he was about to turn the corner, a familiar figure suddenly appeared in front of Ye He's eyes. It was the Xiao Hei he was looking for.
Ye He bent down, a recovered smile appeared on his lips: "Xiao Hei!"
The black cat didn't make a sound, but jumped directly into Ye He's arms and rubbed his neck, as if silently comforting him.
Seeing Ye He's excitement when he hugged Xiao Hei, the system felt that the other party had long forgotten what he said when he left the house that he would give him a good lesson.
After finding Xiao Hei, Ye He felt that his heart was relieved. A feeling of sleepiness came over him, making him want to close his eyes and go back to rest for a while.
He hugged Xiao Hei and turned around to walk towards his house. Xiao Hei huddled in Ye He's arms, with coldness flowing in his green eyes.
Because he got up in the middle of the night to look for the cat, this time the alarm clock rang three times, and Ye He couldn't get up.
It wasn't until noisy sounds came from outside the window, even accompanied by screams, that Ye He was pulled out of his dream.
He sat up from the bed angrily, opened the window and looked outside. Being blown by the wind in front of him, Ye He suddenly became more awake and saw clearly that the direction of the noise was coming from the street in front. A group of people were surrounding the corner where he found Xiao Hei last night. He didn't know what they were discussing. There were some screams from time to time.
Ye He wanted to see clearly what was going on, but people blocked the corner, so he had to go downstairs to check the situation.
Xiao Hei didn't know when he got up, jumped out of bed and followed him. Ye He hugged Xiao Hei in his arms and walked out of the house.
Bob was also outside, still carrying his schoolbag, standing on tiptoe trying to look inside. It seemed that he wanted to go to school, but was blocked by the crowd of onlookers.
Ye He walked up directly and patted Bob on the shoulder: "What happened?"
Bob's body trembled slightly, and then he turned his head. At this time, his appearance was also very strange. He covered his eyes with both hands, but his fingers were open, and he looked at people with the eyes exposed between his fingers.
After seeing it was Ye He, he put down his hand: "Brother Revel."
Ye He went straight to the point: "What happened?"
Bob's expression changed: "Someone was burned to death last night."
Before Ye He could speak, his body shook involuntarily: "I heard that the corpse was quite scary, but I didn't dare to look at it. Someone who carried someone ran out just now and vomited directly."
... ... No wonder the look just now was made because he wanted to watch the fun but didn't dare to look at the corpse.
As if in response to Bob's words, the people who had been huddled together dispersed in an instant, and there was a piercing scream. It turned out that someone was carrying the body out.
Ye He was also able to glimpse the appearance of the corpse through the gaps in the crowd. Although he was not very afraid of corpses, he still had to admit that the corpse in front of him was indeed disgusting.
After seeing the appearance of the corpse clearly, he subconsciously covered the eyes of the black cat in his arms.
Black Cat obviously did not expect that Ye He would do this action, and his body froze. However, Ye He did not notice the sudden abnormality of Black Cat. His attention was focused on the corpse in front of him.
The outer skin of the corpse had been charred, and although the eyes were open, the eyeballs seemed to have been burned away, leaving only two empty holes. When blown by the wind, the scorched outer skin began to fall off piece by piece, like an ancient wall covering, revealing the soft flesh and bones inside, as well as the smell of burnt meat.
And several young people carrying the stretcher couldn't help but bend down and retching after putting down the body.
This taste...
Ye He instantly thought of the smell he smelled when he was looking for the cat last night.
Thinking that the smell last night might be the burnt human flesh in front of him, Ye He's scalp went numb and he felt that he must have had no appetite for meat this year.
Bob had already covered his eyes the moment the body was brought out, turned his head and said tremblingly into the air behind him: "Brother Revel, is the body scary?"
Ye He: "...I am standing on your left now."
The corpse was indeed a bit scary. Ye He asked Bob to cover his eyes, and then turned his attention to the corpse not far away.
He always felt that this corpse... looked inexplicably familiar.
Discussions came from the crowd: "Who is this? Your face is so hot that you can't even tell."
"It must be George who found it from George's private detective agency."
Although he didn't know who George was, he still recognized him from the size of the corpse and the hand bent at an abnormal angle as the middle-aged man who came to cause trouble last night.
Ye He still remembered that the other party was taken away by Andersel, but he didn't expect that he would look like this after just one night.
Someone glanced away unbearably and turned to ask one of the young men carrying the stretcher: "Did George commit suicide or homicide?"
As soon as he heard George's name, the young man who had finally finished retching suddenly turned pale and said with difficulty: "It was suicide. There was no trace of the second person in the house."
The person who asked the question answered: "It's strange that he is so afraid of fire that he would actively choose to be burned to death..."
Another young man continued: "Yes, when I smoked in front of him before, he was afraid of the sparks and asked me to put them out because he was very angry. I heard he was burned when he was a child."
"And the fire was strange. There was nothing wrong with the house, but the people were missing, and it's not clear what he used to light the fire."
George was from the town himself, so they both knew each other well.
Ye He also felt very strange after hearing the words of several young people. Bob was not very courageous. After hearing these words, he closed his eyes and covered his ears instead.
Ye He suddenly heard an inaudible sigh: "This month has just begun, why did three people die all at once?"
Hearing what the other party said, Ye He was stunned. Apart from Goddess Bob's uncle George, someone else died this month
In any case, it is indeed strange that three people died just at the beginning of a month. Moreover, Ye He came to this dungeon at the beginning of the month. Except for George's death, the deaths of the other two people were silent.
Just when Ye He felt a little strange, someone next to him respectfully called out "Mayor" first, and then everyone else turned their eyes and looked over, calling "Mayor" one after another.
Ye He looked curiously. This was the first time he had seen the mayor in so many days in the town.
The mayor was older than Ye He thought. He looked to be in his fifties or sixties, with gray hair, but his back was not stooped. He was still upright. He walked over expressionlessly, looking a bit serious.
Robert looked like his son at first glance. Both his eyebrows and nose looked like the mayor who was decades younger.
With the arrival of the mayor, the crowd that was lively just now fell silent instantly, and they were obviously a little afraid of him.
The mayor looked at the people gathered together and couldn't help but frowned: "What are you doing here? Are you afraid that others won't notice? Disperse."
Before the people who had gathered together had time to react, the mayor walked directly through the crowd and walked to George's body.
Ye He noticed that the mayor's face changed significantly when he saw the corpse, mixed with fear and anxiety.
However, the abnormal look on the mayor's face only appeared for a moment, and he soon changed to an expressionless look: "Hurry up and find a place to bury him."
Ye He frowned, feeling that the matter was not simple: "This mayor is weird."
Even if the mayor already knew that George committed suicide before he came, the reaction of opening his mouth to bury the body at this time was not quite right.
The system immediately became alert: [Prohibited reasoning.]
Experience tells it that Ye He's reasoning only pushes the truth further.
After hearing the system's words, Ye He knew that the other party was unwilling to share his reasoning process with him, so he could only sigh with regret.
The mayor over there was instructing them to find a place to bury George quickly, when out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of the figure he least expected to appear.
I don’t know when, Andersel and his party came over.
Ye He also noticed Andersel's approach, and even noticed that most of the girls in the crowd had their eyes fixed on Anderser.
Ye He's mood was a little complicated: "... Did anyone think of me that way at that time?"
The system comforted: [Yes.]
But most of them are men.
Ye He got some comfort.
After seeing the press badges and camera equipment on several people, some people had already dispersed, and Bob quickly pulled Ye He aside.
Although some girls were not willing to leave, they could only reluctantly leave first when they noticed the mayor's piercing gaze falling on them.
Even if Ye He wanted to stay, seeing that there were not many people here anymore, it would be very abrupt if he chose to stay, so he had to reluctantly give up the gossip here and returned to the detective agency first.
Windsor and Lillian also noticed the looks cast by those girls, and their moods were very calm. After all, Anderse did have an indescribable charm for women, and they could not resist each other.
When the mayor saw Andersel and his group, his expression fluctuated a bit, but he quickly returned to normal the moment he saw a few people approaching. He stood in front of the corpse and looked at the leader, Andersel: "There is some blood here. , there is a girl behind you, it’s best not to get too close yet.”
Although Andersel in front of him was much younger than him, because he was employed by the city agency that manages the town, the mayor had to use "you" even if he didn't want to.
Andersel said warmly: "It's okay, we are just curious about what happened."
The mayor explained: "A resident of the town committed suicide. He had no other relatives, so I came to help him arrange his funeral..."
Because several people were in front of him, the mayor knew that it would be useless to cover up the death of George, but would arouse their suspicion, so he could only tell the truth to get rid of the few people in front of him.
Before he finished speaking, several people behind Andersel had already passed the mayor and looked inside.
Several people were players. Except for one of the novice players and the uncle carrying the camera who vomited when they saw the corpse, the other people had more or less experienced the dungeon, so their reaction when they saw the corpse was not that big. .
The mayor's gaze paused on the uncle for a few seconds, but when he saw the man hunched over and retching, he withdrew his gaze again.
Windsor clicked his tongue and said, "Another person died? I heard that this is the second or third death in this town this month? Did the other two also commit suicide?"
The mayor said expressionlessly: "Who did you hear this rumor from? I have never left this town, and I never knew that other people died in this town this month."
Seeing the mayor's confident expression, Windsor suddenly showed a bit of embarrassment and remained silent.
Seeing that Windsor was really speechless, Andersel stood up and said, "We heard this by chance on the roadside before. It's far away, so it's possible we heard it wrong."
Hearing Andersel's words, Windsor quickly nodded in agreement, and the embarrassment just now dissipated a bit: "That's right."
Even so, the mayor's eyes were still looking at several people silently, but he said: "So that's it. I have never heard such words before, so when I heard Miss Windsor suddenly It feels a little strange when I say it.”
"I'm sorry if my attitude just now scared Miss Windsor. But please understand, after all, any mayor will be unhappy when he hears someone saying that there are other unreasonable murders in his town."
Andersel nodded, then suddenly changed the topic and proposed his purpose: "We want to take a look at the scene of the accident."
The mayor's expression suddenly changed, and he almost subconsciously wanted to say "no", but Andersel said first: "Don't worry, we won't record it on the camera, we just want to take a look at the place where the accident occurred."
"After all, our mission is to shoot a promotional video for the town. We need to know where the accident is so that we can avoid it when filming later."
Mayor: "This..."
Andersel tilted his head slightly, and a strand of hair fell on his forehead, casting a mottled shadow. His amber eyes were a little more probing: "Or, do you have something unspeakable, so I don't want to Let us check?”
The mayor was naturally aware of Andersel's sight, and the other party had blocked his way back. He knew that if he didn't agree, it would make Andersel and his party more suspicious.
After a long silence, the mayor said: "Okay, I'll let someone take you there. I... I still have some things to deal with, so I won't follow."
Although the mayor tried hard to hide it, Andersel still heard the tremor in the other person's voice.
The mayor is afraid of something.
Because Bob had to go to school, Ye He soon separated from him.
Not long after returning to the detective agency, a familiar figure appeared in his sight.
It turned out to be Judith.
Because of the previous experience, Ye He was no longer so scared when he saw the other party struggling to put his head on the table, but showed a kind smile: "Judith, are you the only one here? ?”
Thinking that Judith was mentally ill, for the sake of the other party's safety, he was ready to leave Judith here until her mother came to pick her up.
After a few seconds, Judith shook her head and said slowly: "No...it's not."
"Someone come with me, she's right here."
Although Judith spoke slowly, her enunciation was very clear.
The smile on Ye He's face froze, and he couldn't help hugging the black cat tightly in his arms: "... System, did you see anyone else in the room besides Judith?"
He even stood up and looked at the door, but apart from him and Judith, there was no third person in the room.
The system was also a little confused: [No, but isn't Judith mentally ill? She is probably talking about her imaginary friend.]
After hearing what the system said, Ye He also thought of Judith's strange painting, and asked tentatively: "Did your friend come with you? Has your friend been found?"
This time Judith responded quickly, nodding immediately and even smiling on her face.
Ye He was completely relieved. He understood that it was probably just like Judith's mother said, the other party had hallucinations again.
Not long after Judith nodded, she suddenly turned to look at the door as if she realized something, and said blankly: "Hey, where is my friend?"
She seemed to have just realized that there were only two people in the room, herself and Ye He. She lowered her head a little lonely: "She left me and ran away again. She hasn't been willing to show up these days."
Seeing what Judith said was true, Ye He felt a bit of pity in his heart. He vaguely remembered that Judith's mother said that no children were willing to play with her because of her illness. Judith must have been lonely because of her illness. Dis would fantasize about the reasons why a friend would accompany her.
Ye He thought of an important question: "Does your mother know that you ran away?"
Although Judith responded slowly, she could understand these words: "No, I went out with my friend to find her father. Mom... Mom didn't allow me to play with her, and she would scold me, Sometimes he even beats me..."
Hearing Judith's words, Ye He's face suddenly became serious: "She still beats you?"
Judith didn't seem to care about this problem, but looked at Ye He expectantly: "Can you help me find my friend's father? Her father is tall and big, and he still has this thing on his shoulder... ..."
Judith took out another piece of paper from her pocket. Ye He put the cat on the table, opened it, and found something like a leaf drawn on it. He was a little confused for a moment: "This is... "
The system recognized what was on it: [This looks like the police badge of this world.]
Ye He was stunned: "Isn't there no police in this town? Where did Judith see the police badge?"
The system was also a little confused.
Ye He had no choice but to look at Judith, pointed to the picture above and asked, "The painting is really beautiful, but it looks a bit familiar. Did you draw it based on something?"
Hearing Ye He praising herself, Judith showed a smile on her face, paused for a few seconds and said excitedly: "It's... my friend pointed me to the painting, and she also said that my painting is very beautiful. ."
Ye He understood that it was impossible for him to get the answer, and sighed in his heart: "From ancient times to the present, the "I Have a Friend" series has been an unsolved case... "
system:[... ...]
Although it didn't understand what Ye He meant, it didn't expect that this was a problem that had troubled mankind for a long time.
Judith looked at the painting she had drawn, her eyes suddenly turned red, she started wiping tears, and she had a tendency to burst into tears.
This was the first time Ye He saw a child crying, and he was at a loss for a moment: "What's wrong?"
Why did Judith suddenly start crying? !
Judith sobbed and said, "You...can you find her father? She is my best friend and I want to help her."
Ye He just wanted to tell Judith not to cry first, so he nodded repeatedly without hearing the other party's words clearly, and handed over the tissue in his hand: "Of course, please stop crying first."
As soon as he finished speaking, a systematic voice sounded in his ears: [Congratulations to the host for triggering the random mission: completing Judith's commission and finding her friend's father (unfinished).]
Ye He: "......"
Wait, what did he just hear
After the system repeated the task again, he realized that he had heard it correctly.
Wasn't Judith's friend a figment of her imagination? Where is he going to find a father for him
The author has something to say: The network at home was sometimes good or bad today, so after thinking about it I decided to post it first (scratching my head)