After staying in the altar for a long time, these people have become accustomed to doing things quickly in reality, because their free time is extremely limited.
So under Zhong Yirou's suggestion, they moved as soon as they said they wanted to, without hesitation.
"There are quite a few addresses on the list, so let's divide them into three groups."
As soon as Zhong Yirou finished speaking, Wu You said directly, "I want to be with Brother Wujiu."
Zhong Yirou hugged his shoulders with a smile, "Brother, you just follow the Taoist elder brother. You can see that he is very reliable. If you encounter any monsters and ghosts along the way, you will be the safest among us."
Wu You stared at Zhong Yirou with drooping eyes, as if saying "Do you really think I'm a child?".
Shen Ti directly pulled An Wujiu to his side, "Wujiu and I, a Taoist priest and a little devil, and a beautiful woman with a beautiful woman, it's perfect."
An Wujiu was very grateful in his heart, the matter of finding his sister was actually not an important matter to them, but now these people had to sacrifice their precious time to help him.
"Thank you." An Wujiu whispered.
"Thank you for what?" Zhong Yirou flipped her curly hair, "You thank us, then you have dragged us to this day, so we have to thank you every day. Don't think so much, we are all friends. "
Um.
An Wujiu responded in his heart.
He is very glad that he now has such a group of companions who are going through life and death. Without them and without vigilance, it seems that he would not be able to recover into a mentally sound person so quickly.
"Then let's go." Nanshan said, "Let's start early, maybe we can finish the search in one day."
An Wujiu suddenly thought of Noah, so he looked towards the bedroom, "Noah, let her rest at home, let's leave a message for her."
Everyone left the apartment, and An Wujiu mentioned to Zhong Yirou about Noah's cough and vomiting of blood.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Zhong Yirou was a little surprised, "I should have shown her, why did you vomit blood?"
"Let's talk about it when we come back." An Wujiu thought for a while, "She doesn't seem to want us to know, maybe there is something hard to hide."
Finding a girl you haven't seen for many years in such a huge area is not an easy task. Even these locations are just a record of the police a long time ago, which is not completely time-sensitive. Maybe someone will move in the middle of this, and there is no contact information. This primitive way of finding is like finding a needle in a haystack.
According to the addresses on the list, An Wujiu and Shen Ti searched from place to place. They first came to an underground flea market near the city center. The main products here were cheap prosthetic bodies or second-hand equipment. Poor, the only light source in the dark basement is various billboards, like a closed trash can stuffed with all kinds of glow sticks.
Once inside, their field of vision was filled with all kinds of vulgar advertisements, and the rest was pitch black, and they couldn't see the so-called house number at all. Shen Ti had no choice but to catch a man who opened his mouth to ask for directions.
"Oh." The man was wearing a strange exoskeleton, and he felt that the material would shatter whenever he touched it. He pointed to a corner not far away, "Turn there, yes, that's right there, and then You just have to go past ten more stores like mine, turn right, turn left at the next corner..."
Shen Ti's head ached when he heard it, "Why don't you take us there."
The man's tone changed immediately, "Then I can't just help you like this, I'll take you there, what about my shop..."
Shen Ti casually grabbed a piece of retail merchandise he put out, couldn't even see what it was, and said to him directly: "I'm not letting you lead the way for nothing." He then pointed casually, "I bought all of these."
The boss suddenly changed his face again, and enthusiastically packed all these boxes for him and put them in a bag. After Shen Ti finished the payment, he quickly came out and took the two of them to the house number.
An Wujiu asked him on the way, "Have there always been so few people here?"
The boss shook his head, under the extremely saturated blue light and red light, An Wujiu saw that the prosthetic eye on his right was blue, unlike the brown one on the left.
"Don't look at so many closed doors now, in fact, it was very lively before." The boss said to them, "You know, there is a demand for these things, and there are too many poor people now. It's just that something has happened recently. , so there are a lot fewer people.”
An Wujiu asked again: "What's the trouble?"
They turned a corridor, and the boss asked him mysteriously: "Did you see what happened in front of the municipal building today?"
Shen Ti smiled, "It's not a good habit to answer questions with questions."
The boss cleared his throat, "Okay, let me just say it straight, I don't know if you saw it, but today's wave of people who made trouble and marched like crazy, in fact, this is not the first time, it has appeared in our second-hand market Several times, someone came to make trouble, on the street and in the urban area, and then the police came and arrested a few people and went back to question them, but they didn’t seem to find out what happened, so let’s forget about it.”
"I didn't expect that there will be more and more cases like this. I heard..." He lowered his voice, "It seems that those people have been implanted with prosthetic bodies that can make people bewitched. There are all kinds of big and small ones. Listen It makes me worry, I'm afraid I'll get sick too." As he said, he covered his eyes in fear.
"And then?" An Wujiu asked, "The police are here again?"
"That's right. Later, a large number of people were arrested. At the beginning, it was said that they would suspend business to rectify the entire market, but you know how much power they can have. In the end, it was changed to suspend all businesses that sell second-hand prosthetic bodies. Sell it again, it’s okay, I’ll just sell some gadgets, otherwise I’ll be implicated.”
Shen Ti, who was silent, asked at this moment, "When was the first time such a thing happened?"
"You said that someone went crazy?" The boss thought for a while, "It's been a long time, at least three or four months ago, and it's not clear whether it was the first case here, maybe there was an accident with nanobots outside huh? Who knows who comes first."
An Wujiu and Shen Ti looked at each other.
It was only three months since they met at the altar, and such a thing had happened three months ago, perhaps earlier, and they could no longer trace back to the first one.
An Wujiu always has an ominous premonition. From the dormancy period to the current small outbreak period, it is like a virus infection, but the infection route has become prosthetic bodies, nano-robots and other technological products that can enter the human body. These contaminated Things like parasites, the implanted body can't resist at all, even voluntarily.
And those of them on the altar, desperate for their own life and death, completely unaware of the "infection" of the real world, they seem to be divided into two camps.
One group is the believers who are infected and controlled, and the other group is the sacrifices who are deeply trapped in the altar.
Such an illusion made An Wujiu feel cold all over himself.
"Here we are, here it is." The boss said to the two of them, "You are lucky, the one you are looking for is still open."
The boss greeted him and planned to leave, An Wujiu nodded his thanks to him, and turned to look at the shop.
The advertising lights and signs here are colorful and seem to be homemade, with some layers of veils, there is a kind of punk mystery. At first they didn't see where the shopkeeper was, until An Wujiu noticed a pair of feet, they found that the man was lying on the recliner in the corner, covered from head to toe by a black blanket, only a pair of feet wearing leather boots were exposed.
An Wujiu walked in, but he was too tall, accidentally bumped into the wind chime made by the other party out of various metal scraps, and it made a sound, An Wujiu immediately raised his hand to catch it, subconsciously looked back at Shen Ti.
Shen Ti smiled, "It's too low, I can't even get in."
The shopkeeper, who was lying down and sleeping, was startled awake. She poked her head out of the blanket and looked at the person. After she saw carefully that the person was two very rare handsome men, she immediately stood up and straightened her clothes.
Her hair was dyed purple, and her lip and nose studs gleamed in the dim light.
An Wujiu took a closer look at her appearance and found that she was the person they were looking for, but indeed, he was not like his sister.
"Do you two handsome guys need anything?" She stretched her arms, then clasped her hands awkwardly, "I'm here... I don't know if there is anything you want."
An Wujiu cut the long story short, "I'm sorry, we are actually looking for someone. May I ask how many people are there in your family? Do you have any brothers or sisters?"
This question was a bit strange, so the girl opposite was also taken aback, "Hmm..."
She leaned over in a little embarrassment, and whispered, "You are not the police, are you?"
Shen Ti laughed, "Yes, he is the policewoman."
An Wujiu turned his head, "Don't talk nonsense."
He turned his face and said to the girl: "I want to find someone who is very important to me, so I want to ask. You don't need to tell me too specific information, I just want to ask, there is no malice."
It may be that the handsome guy's face is too convincing, even if it is such a strange statement, the other party still accepts it.
"Okay." She said very frankly, "I have a younger sister and a younger brother in my family. I am the eldest. My father died of taking too many drugs, and my mother just..." She shrugged, "She was drinking heavily, and after drinking, she would call me a child. Me, I ran away, and now I don't know where she is, and I don't know if she is still alive."
An Wujiu was undeniably a little disappointed, but he also felt sorry for the girl's family in front of him, feeling that he had uncovered the scars of others, so he didn't know what to say for a while.
On the contrary, Shen Ti leaned forward, and because he tilted his head, he deliberately asked in a very smooth way: "You look so good-looking, this face must be the original one."
"Of course." The other party raised his chin proudly, "Don't you?"
"That's right, I'm not. I've processed it seventy-eight times. Have you seen my eyes?" Shen Ti moved closer. Under the light, his eyes were faint green, like the pupils of some kind of beast. .
"It's so beautiful, can it be fake?"
"Yes, it's precious." Shen Ti smiled, and said it as if it was true.
"I didn't expect that." The other party was a little surprised, "It's nice to have money."
Shen Ti asked again, "Are you born here?"
"Yeah." She replied casually, "I've lived in several blocks since I was born. It's like a mouse digging a hole, you know. But I haven't left City F for so many years."
Shen Ti's neck was sore, he simply tilted his head and leaned on An Wujiu's shoulder, looking at her, "I think you have a good memory."
"You're right, I remember clearly when I was one or two years old."
After asking this inadvertent question, An Wujiu's heart was basically clear, the other party was born in this city, has no older brother, is the eldest in the family, has not undergone plastic surgery, and does not conform in every way.
They didn't chat much, An Wujiu was kind enough to buy some things from her, and they left.
Coming out of the basement and returning to the ground, the cruel sunlight made him look like a deformed fish that lived in the deep sea all year round, and was caught ashore, glaring and sad.
The first goal ended in failure.
In a situation like this, the two met six times a day.
They found a waitress in a Chinese restaurant. She had a broken leg. She had never seen her biological parents since she was a child. It was very distressing. There was also a girl who eloped here for her lover. Brother, but he can only drink and beat people, and he is still in jail.
In addition, there are vagrants, cleaners and unemployed bar singers.
Most of them live in poverty, embarrassment and hardship, and cannot even live a good life. After asking one by one, An Wujiu's heart gradually turned cold. He felt that there was little hope, because if other people had a clue, they would not have no contact until now. Presumably, they, like himself, have not found any suspected objects. .
An Wujiu had actually expected it, he knew that finding his sister would not be so easy, and he could find it once he looked for it, but he still had a small hope that she would appear in this list.
When I came out of the residence of the last one, it was already late, and the night fell from the noisy light pollution, and the city became strange again, and restored the artificial vitality.
There were some raindrops in the sky, and the two of them didn't care at first, but then it rained harder and harder, mixed with the indelible smell of chemical raw materials.
"Let's find a place to stay." Shen Ti took An Wujiu's hand and led him to run through the rain to the eaves.
They randomly found a restaurant to fill their stomachs, and planned to continue looking for a while, but when they finished eating, there was already a torrential rain outside the glass, and the rain was like a polluted river, flowing across this glass plain.
The weather forecast was playing in the restaurant, and they knew it would rain all night.
"Don't go." An Wujiu looked at the rain outside the window and said to Shen Ti.
"Then go back?" Shen Ti asked.
An Wujiu turned his face away, the dizzying light fell on his face through the soft rain, making this face extraordinarily beautiful. There was disappointment and sadness in his eyes, but An Wujiu was a very strange person, the more he suffered, the more beautiful he looked.
"That's right." Shen Ti saw the two bags on the deck on his side, "Today we carried these two bags all the way, and we didn't have time to open them to see what we bought."
An Wujiu just remembered, he looked up.
Shen Ti said to him coquettishly: "Come and sit."
Seeing his expression, An Wujiu thought, he should not be the only one in the world who would like him, after all he is so good-looking.
An Wujiu sat over, and Shen Ti handed him the things he bought from the girl, and put his pile of boxes on his lap.
An Wujiu lowered his head, and opened the bag he brought from the girl. The things inside were actually some small handicrafts, which seemed to be thoughtful, even though the materials might all be recycled.
"It's quite cute." An Wujiu picked up a small electronic dog, turned to look at Shen Ti, "What did you buy?"
The second-hand market was too dark, and the two of them couldn't get used to it at all, so they bought it without seeing anything, and now they have the joy of unpacking the blind box.
The things in Shen Ti's bag were all wrapped in boxes, so it was not easy to see directly, so he had to unpack the things in the box one by one.
As soon as he took the first one apart, his face was as green as his eyes.
"What is this?" An Wujiu leaned over to look at it, only thought it was weird, it looked like...
Some kind of genitals look alike.
"What is he selling?" Shen Ti wanted to put the thing back, but he accidentally pressed a button that he didn't know where exactly, and the column in his hand moved.
Shen Ti subconsciously cursed out, trying to find the switch of this thing, An Wujiu was stunned, and immediately followed to find it after realizing it, the two were in a hurry. A male waiter passed by, his eyes widened a little, and the dining tray blocked the two of them.
After a lot of effort, the two of them stopped the thing, An Wujiu's forehead was sweating, and he saw Shen Ti's ears, they were red, very cute. So he couldn't help reaching out and touching his ear.
Shen Ti was startled, and turned to look at him like an animal.
"So it's for sale. No wonder his lamp is so strange." An Wujiu withdrew his hand and asked Shen Ti, "Are you still looking at it?"
"Do you still need to look at it?" Shen Ti put away the tool and threw the bag aside, "I don't have this knowledge anymore, and I don't need it."
An Wujiu, who hadn't laughed all day, laughed now, and the more he laughed, the happier he became.
Shen Ti, who rested his chin, glanced, looked at him, and thought that this is a good move, he never thought it would be so easy to coax him.
"Let's not go back tonight." An Wujiu smiled enough, pointed to the ceiling with his index finger, "There seems to be a hotel upstairs, I saw the billboard when I came in."
Shen Ti raised his eyebrows, his heart beating, and it took him a long time to say a word.
"You don't really want to use these..."
An Wujiu smiled, "I don't have this habit."
He reached out and grabbed Shen Ti's dangling earrings, "I just want to hug you, lie down and kiss you, and sleep in your arms."