"What do you want to smoke?"
Dimly, Kou Dong couldn't hear Xiao Yu's answer clearly, maybe he answered, maybe he didn't - a moment later, the sound of being dragged was heard again, the door closed with a creak, and all the voices fell into silence.
The three people in the room did not speak either.
This outcome is actually not unexpected. After Xiao Yu threw off the singing dog during the day, they had guessed that this group of people would come to find Xiao Yu tonight.
If she could fall asleep, she might still be able to escape. However, Xiao Yu himself realized it.
Because she realized that her life might not be long, she panickedly wanted to find someone to back her up, and even wondered if she would stop smoking if she smoked the wooden doll tonight. So she secretly hid the copper coins, hoping to rely on this to keep herself safe for the night.
It's a pity that this plan was also thwarted by A Xue.
How could Xiao Yu fall asleep
She couldn't fall asleep even more, she opened her eyes and closed her eyes, it was the dog who just jumped up and bit her throat. When she opened her eyes once, she finally saw the singing dog again—the little fat man who once loved her dragged her down with his own hands, and she never climbed up again.
No one in the house seemed to notice that a child was missing, or maybe they were all used to it. No one asked half a word about it. It's just that when he was on the street again during the day, the big-headed doll in front of the circus was all smiles, and said to the townspeople who stopped in front of him: "Today, we have added a new member..."
Kou Dong already knew why their production speed was so fast. They are not human, so naturally they don't need to strictly follow the human production process.
In other words, it is a supernatural power that cannot be deduced by common sense.
People in the circus brought out a sheep covered in snow. The goat's hooves are thin and lonely, with a pair of horns growing on its head, unable to speak, it just lies on the corner and weeps silently. The big-headed baby brought a red drum and patted it again, then it lifted the goat's hoof and hit it on the drum.
The drums were beating, and the people around them applauded in unison, creating a harmonious atmosphere. Kou Dong and the three turned their heads and walked away from the crowd without anyone looking again.
"We can't wait any longer." Song Hong said, "The money raised can be shared equally, but there is no way to control who will fall asleep and who will wake up."
Even if they knocked people out, they couldn't guarantee that they would wake up at that moment. Once they were awake and found, they would be no different from the sheep in front of them.
A Xue said: "There must be other stories, about this group of kidnappers, and about the circus."
They walked forward along the small alleys of Shanhai Town. There were endless pedestrians passing by on the road, and everyone had smiles on their faces. It seemed that the world was in peace and prosperity.
Who can know what is hidden under this peaceful and prosperous world
Kou Dong suddenly asked, "Where do those kidnappers live?"
Song Hong and A Xue looked at each other and shook their heads. They go back in a carriage every day, and the car will deliberately make a few more laps in the town, and no one can remember the route.
He couldn't even find the small courtyard where he lived at night, let alone the houses of the kidnappers.
Kou Dong thought for a while, then simply squatted down in a corner, took a branch and gestured on the ground. They are all dressed up as beggars now, they are very ordinary, and they are in tattered clothes, squatting in the corner, it is not surprising at all. He drew long marks on the soil and gestured, "If this is where we take the car, we should go to the left for a while, then turn right..."
The two also thought hard to follow the memories, but there were no windows in the car, and they couldn't see the scenery outside. They were simply blind people sitting in the car, and they couldn't tell the direction at all.
After a long time, I only figured out the turning direction of the first half of the road. As for how long to walk along each road and when to turn, I have no idea.
Kou Dong wrote down the simple schematic diagram on the ground, and immediately rubbed it off with his foot, before saying, "Tonight, we have to memorize it well."
There are no clocks and watches in Shanhai Town. After finishing work in the teahouse, Kou Dong asked for a bunch of incense sticks and a small box of matches from the shopkeeper of the teahouse. There was still a string of copper plates in the bowl.
Song Hong glanced at the amount of his copper coins and asked, "Is there no need to ask for money at all?"
He shook the bowl in his hand.
"If our numbers are all zero, no one will be the least."
Kou Dong shook his head, and said in a low voice: "It's not that simple, and npcs are not fools. I'm afraid that apart from the explicit condition of minimum, there is another implicit condition, which must be more than one number. If it is less than this number, you still have to choose one." Draw a wooden man."
He didn't believe that this ghost system would not dig a hole for him.
After being tricked a few times, Kou Dong's intuition has been cultivated now, it is better to please more than less. Otherwise, if the hidden rules take effect, he will be dragged by those npcs to be a rabbit in the circus...
Although the big-headed doll who said that swears, he promises not to destroy him, but to add ears and tails to him. —But that's not going anywhere!
When he thought about that scene, he felt shuddering, like some kind of weird taste...
He still wants face, and doesn't want to experience this kind of bad taste.
Song Hong thought about this carefully, and felt a chill all over his body, "If it's true, it's really dangerous."
He didn't think about it.
"In this case, the more money the better."
With enough copper plates, the remaining difficulty is the small plug.
Whether this person is a human being now, they are not sure. Although the guess is that it is in the circus, there is no guarantee that the other party is not in the remaining two rooms that they have not entered.
After discussing, the three decided to disperse tonight and enter a room each. Song Hong had some doubts about this statement at first, but after Kou Dong took out the elderly phone from the luggage compartment and explained the function of the "universal address book" in it, he felt relieved. At least with this prop in hand, the three of them can still keep in touch.
Just how to use it
Kou Dong opened the address book, glanced at Song Hong, and silently created a new contact. The villain leaned against his chest, poked his head out to watch him save.
Contact 1: Worrying mom.
Set as shortcut key 1.
Song Hong: "..."
He touched his face in disbelief and thought, talking about him
Is he a worried mother? ?
Kou Dong also opened the second new building.
Contact 2: Little White Rabbit with Steel Teeth.
Set as shortcut key 2.
A Xue didn't blink her eyes, and she accepted the title "Little White Rabbit with Steel Teeth" well, and even thought it was a little cute.
Kou Dong held the elderly phone and decided to try it out. He tried to call his worried mother across the street, and after a few beeps, he heard Song Hong's numb voice: "Hello?"
Kou Dong: "Can you hear me? Is the signal stable?"
Song Hong was silent for a while, and then answered for a long time: "I can hear it..."
He avoided passers-by, and couldn't help but whispered: "It's just too weird. I have to grab something and put it to my ear to hear you... This voice seems to come directly into my head. Now I After grabbing a handful of dirt, people around me looked at me like a lunatic."
Kou Dong imagined that scene, and felt a little strange. But, "It works."
He hung up the phone and tried to contact A Xue again, but everything was normal.
After verifying the effects of the props, the three of them made up their minds and prepared to separate at night. Seeing that he was about to get to the boarding point, Song Hong's expression became more and more nervous, and he couldn't help grabbing Ah Xue and yelling: "Be careful, if you can't do it at night, just pretend to be asleep, don't open your eyes, if someone looks for trouble , don't fight with him, we will talk about it when we meet tomorrow... "
Before the words fell, he noticed that the eyes of these two people were very strange, "What's wrong?"
Kou Dong pointed to his inventory.
At this moment, the four big characters came into their hearts.
— Worrying mom.
Song Hong: "..."
He shut up and didn't say anything until he got in the car.
The three of them got into three cars respectively, and the incense in their hands was lit after the carriage moved. Kou Dong secretly counted the time in his heart, turned left for one stick of incense, went straight for three sticks of incense, and then turned...
He was a little confused when he remembered, Ye Yanzhi reminded him: "Go to the left."
Kou Dong took the incense and said quietly: "Boy, Dad is sorry."
Ye Yanzhi: "?"
He didn't understand, why did he say this suddenly
Kou Dong said sadly: "I just found out that I have a bad memory, what if I pass it on to you..."
Ye Yanzhi: "..."
Come again, Kou Dong is here again!
He originally thought that he could get rid of this father-son relationship for a few days, but obviously, Kou Dong's wife attributes have not disappeared at all, but he has been with the other two for the past two days, so he suppressed it...
Once he had the chance, he was that loving old father again.
Ye Yanzhi had to justify his name, "I have a good memory."
No problem at all.
Kou Dong sighed, feeling very disappointed, and said, "Oh, don't fool me."
"..."
Who fooled you
In order to prove that he has a good memory, Ye Yanzhi told Kou Dong the route along the way. Kou Dong memorized while lighting incense, and when he arrived at the house where he lived, the way he came here was basically sorted out.
This time, Kou Dong entered the second room.
When he took out the money and proposed to share it equally, most of the children had no objection. Only a skinny one said: "You say that, how do I know if you will hide it?"
He was born thinner than other children, but his cheekbones were high, and he always looked like a monkey cheek. Kou Dong glanced at him and said calmly, "Why should I keep it private?"
He shook the bowl in his hand, and the copper plates jingled in it.
"Even if there is no distinction, I will definitely not be the least. -Why should I keep it private?"
Not to mention the least, the copper coins in his hand are clearly the most in the room. Even if the children here lined up to pick the wooden doll, he would be the last one.
He really didn't need to share the life-saving money.
Want to understand this, most of the children automatically come up to put the copper plate. Only Skinny didn't move yet, standing on the spot and looking at him coldly, with a vigilant expression: "How do you know this trick works? Have you tried it?"
Kou Dong's patience was gradually exhausted, and he said coldly, "I tried it."
Skinny and aggressive: "Have you tried it? Where did you try it?"
"It's next door." Kou Dong said, "After you came back yesterday, did you hear the sound from the first courtyard?"
"..."
It didn't, and the screams didn't come from there until the early hours of the morning. This is enough to prove that the person in front of him is telling the truth. The skinny and bony choked, and finally fell silent. After a long time, with a gloomy face, he put the copper coins in his own bowl into Kou Dong's.
Kou Dong didn't move away, still staring at him. The skinny and bony stare made his scalp numb, and with a guilty conscience, he said sharply, "What else are you doing?"
Kou Dong asked, "Do you have anything else to hide?"
His skinny face suddenly turned purple, as if he had suffered a huge insult, "You are talking nonsense! Who will hide it? You..."
He stopped abruptly, realizing that the faces of those around him looking at him were not looking well. Skinny was a little panicked, and raised his voice: "You believe him? He is purely framing! Framed! Intentionally wronged!"
The more he spoke, the more excited he was, shaking his hands as if he had been greatly wronged. The children in the room didn't like him, someone had already put their hand on his pocket and fumbled around.
Skinny looked panicked, struggling desperately, but was finally held down by three or four beggars. The one in the middle searched for him, finally got hold of something, and held out his hand.
Those were a few copper plates,
Beggar sneered, took the copper plate in his hand, and asked him, "What is this?"
Skinny was speechless, his face changed again and again. He lowered his head and remained silent.
Beggar pushed him hard, pushed him to the corner, and then put those few copper plates into Kou Dong's bowl. Kou Dong counted and scored evenly, and the child in charge helped him distribute.
He looked calmer than ordinary children, and he was obviously the leader among the children in the same room, and he was also taller than them. Kou Dong looked at his height and asked, "How old are you?"
The child said, "It's eleven."
He smiled and looked at the people in the room, "I am the biggest."
Kou Dongxin said no, and me...
Not to mention the skinny one, who looks like a player, maybe in his fifties or sixties.
He whispered this to his son, and Ye Yanzhi asked, "How are you sure he's a player?"
"He must be," Kou Dong said firmly, "he doesn't love me."
Those who don't love me are all players!
Villain: "..."
It's really a simple and crude way of judging.
He sat down beside the leading child and said, "Then you've been here for a long time."
The child nodded and said, "Seven or eight years."
Kou Dong asked him in a low voice: "Then do you know Xiao Shuanzi?"
After saying this, Kou Dong obviously felt the whole body of the people around him stiffen. Immediately, the child turned his head and stared at him closely: "You know him?... I haven't seen you before."
His tone made Kou Dong happy, knowing that he had found an important NPC to guide the mission, "I've heard of him. Where is he now?"
The child didn't speak, and after a while, he said in a sleepy voice: "In the circus..."
He shivered slightly, curled up as if out of fear. Looking at him like this, the other party doesn't look like a human being, but rather a scourge that devours people. The flesh and blood that could tear him apart.
Kou Dong and Zai looked at each other, realizing that Xiao Shuanzi might be more unusual than they thought. After the child calmed down, he asked, "What does he look like?"
The child struggled to swallow his saliva, and reluctantly said: "He—"
The face that was almost buried in memory appeared in front of his eyes.
"he… "
What kind of person is he? Where are you from? In fact, I can't remember clearly. The child looked into the corner, and seemed to be able to see the child, holding a smaller child, gently patting the back and coaxing the person in his arms not to cry.
That dark silhouette has almost become the nightmare of all the children here for a long time.
"Don't get close to him." He trembled, and finally he could only say, "Don't get close to him..."
He looked at Kou Dong with another look.
"You look a lot like that man. He'll go crazy if he sees it."
Kou Dong asked who that person was, but the child just shook his head tremblingly and didn't say a word. He just shrank himself even more in a dark corner, thinking of something, buried his head and didn't say a word.
Kou Dong couldn't ask any more questions.
In the dead of night, when the other children were asleep, Kou Dong used the "universal address book" to contact the other two. Song Hong didn't get any useful news, but Ah Xue heard from the kidnapper in their house that someone once thought of running away.
"That's what he said," Ashe imitated, "Don't always think about running—it's not like you haven't seen what happens after running."
This sentence makes people feel cold.
"That's right," Song Hong said in a low voice, "Among the abducted children, there must be some who want to run away."
However, what made them unable to escape, and even dared not to conceive this idea
This is clearly more than simple deterrence. In terms of uniting with kidnappers, something that shocked everyone should have happened before this.
He thought again of the child's frightened eyes.
The phone hung up before the members of the circus arrived. Kou Dong lay on the cold ground, forcing himself to close his eyes and fall asleep.
Before the heavy darkness came, there was a dream that came one step ahead.
He heard a low, soft chants, and a small child's hand patted his back, and his nose brushed against the fabric.
The cloth is not soft, even quite rough, but it is warm with human body temperature on it.
"Sleep," the voice sang in a low voice, "sleep..."
"Sleep, my—"
"My treasure."
Kou Dong seemed to have stepped into such tenderness, and he couldn't help but sink into it. He struggled, and a thin layer of cold sweat broke out from his back, almost soaking through his clothes.
He vaguely felt that he couldn't fall asleep at this moment, so he desperately raised his eyelids. When he finally successfully fought against this force, he opened his eyes and met a pair of pure black pupils.
The pair of surprisingly large black eyes stared at him, and then pulled away a little distance—a little farther away, before Kou Dong realized that it was a big-headed doll.
He looked at Kou Dong with joy, like a hunter who has caught his prey. His thin hands tightly grasped Kou Dong's shoulders, which hurt so much.
The corners of his mouth opened, revealing a weird, discordant smile.
"You're awake," he hissed, "You're awake…"