The reception man stood at the entrance of the exhibition hall a little surprised, and quickly said: "What happened just now? Why did the lights in the exhibition hall go out?"
Shen Xing pointed to the motionless old woman puppet: "You ask her to go."
When the words fell, he waved his hand, just looking for this opportunity to pretend to be horrified and shook his head: "Let's talk about cooperation later. I was scared just now. Now my heart is beating!"
The reception man looked at the motionless old woman puppet in surprise, and explained: "You also know that our puppets are almost indistinguishable from real people. I just pretended to be a dummy outside the door. There is no need to enter the exhibition hall. Scare you..."
"No, no, I'll talk about the cooperation another day, I'll go back first." Shen Xing still waved his hands, "I just made my creeps, and I may not sleep tonight. Who knows if your puppets are true or not?"
While talking, he quickly walked outside the door.
After leaving the workshop, he didn't even enter the room of the workshop inside, and Shen Xing had reached a goal and left directly.
Looking back, the man who received him stood at the entrance of the exhibition hall. He was a little surprised and might want to explain, but he remembered his behavior just now. According to the usual practice, he also had the idea of frightening the other party. It seemed that he didn't explain clearly. Up.
After Shen Xing's figure disappeared, the man returned to the exhibition hall and looked at the motionless puppets, especially the old woman with sparse white hair wearing a burgundy padded jacket. For the first time in history, he felt a trace of restraint in his heart. The sense of horror to live.
He turned quickly and left the exhibition hall, closing the door of the exhibition hall.
This time, the purpose of coming here was achieved, and Shen Xing quickly left this old street.
It seems clear now that the puppets in question seem to be related to the works of the master carving master Motu.
Including the old woman puppet in the exhibition hall just now, strange changes have also taken place, but this change is phased or triggered.
Shen Xing believes that it is no longer necessary to investigate whether the dummy received by Xia Hongyu was controlled by her ex-husband Guan Zhixiong. Investigating the program information here, it is better to find Motu directly. As long as you meet with Motu, you will get the basic information. Can be controlled.
Back at the hotel, around noon, private detective Lao Liang never called, and Shen Xing waited until the afternoon.
He couldn’t sit still when he was about to eat. If Lao Liang is not sure whether Motu’s resting place tonight is in the high-end private residence of Taoyuanwu or the luxurious studio of Botian Building, then he can do it himself. The only thing to do is to act in person, run both sides to see, and luckily see where I can meet Motu himself.
But this will undoubtedly waste some time.
After thinking about it, he decided to call Lao Liang directly to ask what the situation is now.
The phone was connected after rang four or five times? Lao Liang's familiar old voice came over there.
"Hey?"
"Hello? Lao Liang, what's the situation now? Have you found out the specific address tonight?" Shen Xing asked.
Suddenly fell silent on the other end of the phone? Did not speak for a long time.
Shen Xing is a little confused? Continue to speak: "Can't it be found? If it can't be found, then I will check it myself tonight.
"Who are you?" Lao Liang suddenly uttered? He asked a question that made Shen Xing completely stunned.
In the next second, Shen Xing immediately turned to look at himself in the mirror of the hotel room? Touched his cheek? It suddenly dawned on him.
At this moment, I was still in a state of changing faces, not only changed his face, but also changed his identity information. This replacement is all-round? Not just appearance.
Therefore, Lao Liang simply forgot about himself? Or the relevant information in his memory was blocked, and he asked who he was.
This face-changing effect will last for up to eight hours, and during this time, Shen Xing has no way to make the other party remember him.
"Fuck!" He stopped talking, and hung up the phone.
Can't explain at all now? No matter how I explain and explain, with the blessing of face changing skills? Lao Liang will not recognize himself.
Difficulty This guy hasn't called, so he doesn't remember having himself. And maybe he has already found out where Motu's residence is tonight.
Wait a while.
Shen Xing moved a chair? Just sat down in front of the mirror in the room, staring at another strange self in the mirror.
See when the time for the face change will end? I started the skill around nine o'clock in the morning? Should it be restored after five o'clock in the afternoon at most? And now it's almost five o'clock, wait...
At this time, he has been sitting in front of the mirror without leaving.
Sure enough, when the time came to 5:06, my face in the mirror began to change, and it changed very quickly, almost in the blink of an eye, the previous appearance came back, and the strange face disappeared without a trace. .
Shen Xing stood up and walked to the mirror, touched his cheek and looked at it carefully, confirming that the face change had recovered.
He took out his cell phone and called Lao Liang again.
This time it rang twice, and Lao Liang's old voice came over there: "Hello?"
"Hey, Lao Liang." Shen Xing didn't say anything else, just shouted.
Lao Liang's tone was very ordinary, and he said: "It has been found out that Motu will not be in Taoyuanwu or Botian Building tonight, but will go to the Mo's Handicraft Workshop at No. 208, Ping An 17th Lane."
When the words were over, Lao Liang's tone paused: "Well, I should stay there for one night and won't leave."
After turning around, he returned to the alley of the old street, which was a little unexpected.
Shen Xing nodded: "Okay, leave the next thing to me. By the way, have you found any news about Xia Hongyu's ex-husband, Guan Zhixiong?"
"No." Lao Liang answered simply.
"Then contact me tomorrow." Shen Xing turned off the phone.
He sighed a bit, the skill of changing faces and identities was too awesome, and directly caused private detectives like Lao Liang to isolate himself from memory.
When he thought of this, Shen Xing suddenly felt excited, he remembered.
Before her face-changing skills disappeared, she also returned home, but Feifei still remembered herself. Although she was separated by the door, she still talked to herself and made herself remember to take cold medicine.
What's the matter
Does this skill lose some effectiveness to some extent when facing Feifei
This skill is effective in front of other people, and there is no reason why it will fail in Feifei.
Shen Xing recalled carefully, and it was indeed the case. Although the side effects of her face change did not disappear at the beginning, Feifei still knew herself and remembered that she was still in the house.
That is, in front of Feifei, her identity information has not been blocked or disappeared.
After thinking for a moment, Shen Xing couldn't understand it, but at present it seemed that Feifei also had secrets that she could not know, and changing her face was only one of them.
Perhaps this is the reason why I want to adopt her in the dark.
After a while, he ordered a takeaway and ate it in the room. Shen Xing and Feifei had a phone call again. Although it was night but it was still early, he tidyed up his backpack again and was not ready to go out until eleven o'clock.
He changed into a black suit specifically to make it easier to move at night.
And this time, he was not going to activate the face-changing skills again, so as not to be a little inconvenient due to side effects after things were done.
Putting a black mask in the pocket of his jacket, Shen Xing left the hotel.
He did not immediately go to the old streets and alleys, but strolled around in the nearby streets.
There are still people on the streets at this time, and there are many night stalls in some places, but because the weather is getting colder, fewer people eat supper.
Moreover, these night stalls are all surrounded by cloth, which is the reason why there is less wind and tourists.
Shen Xing didn't eat anything. After shopping for about half an hour, he then headed to the old streets and alleys that he had visited during the day.
At this time, few people were seen on the entire old street, and the shops on the roadside were basically closed. Occasionally, I encountered one that was unclosed because it was being cleaned and was closing.
There were dazzling street lights on both sides of the old street, and the surrounding area was not very dark, and the sound of Shen Xing's footsteps echoed all around.
Although pedestrians could be encountered along the way, they were already very rare, until he reached the three forks, no one could be seen.
Soon after walking two hundred meters to the right, I came to the alley leading to Mo's handicraft workshop that I had visited during the day.
There is even more dead silence here, not to mention people around, not even a cat walking at night.
Shen Xing didn't stop at the alley to avoid being seen and arousing suspicion. He immediately walked in lightly.
A few steps in, I could hear the dripping sound coming from somewhere, but I couldn't find the direction. It seemed that it was caused by water seepage on the walls on both sides.
Soon I came to the door where a dummy was placed during the day.
At this time the dummy has been taken back into the house, and the door is locked. This is the kind of antique door lock, but at this moment, there is still light coming out through the crack of the door.
Therefore, Shen Xing did not take any other actions, but quietly lurked down, squatting in the darkness beside the door.
He believed that if Na Motu had come here tonight, he would have already entered.
After all, this is one of his handicraft workshops, and the tools and facilities inside are all available. It is possible that Master Mo chose here tonight to complete his puppet work.
If he wants to engage in design, he may choose to go to the luxurious studio in the Botian Building.
If you want to rest, you will choose to go to Taoyuanwu.
Shen Xing squatted outside for a while, his hands and feet were slightly numb, he stood up slowly, and the light in the crack of the door had been extinguished.
There must be more than one entrance and exit for this workshop. Shen Xing doesn't know what the layout is like, but since there is a small exhibition hall not far from the entrance, it should have a larger area.
He took out a short and round key. The key was densely lined with pores, but at the moment the pores were all in a closed state. Not only that, there is also a button that is not easily noticeable at the position of the key handle.
This is the omnipotent key that I have applied for from Li Naijing since I became a special-employed member of the special deployment team.
Unless it is a smart lock that cannot be inserted into the key, this universal key can be opened.
Slowly insert the key into the keyhole. After he could no longer enter, Shen Xing pressed the button. A large number of thin metal strips protruded from the densely packed pores, resisting the perforations in the lock, and these thin strips have memory capacity. A fixed caliper is soon formed, just like a brand new key.
After feeling almost the same, Shen Xing twisted slightly, and the keyhole turned, indicating that it had been fitted.
He held his breath, slowly until he twisted the key completely, making a slight click, and then reached out and pushed the door open.
Quickly flashed in, and immediately closed the door again.
At this moment, no one was seen in this passage, including the entrance of the small exhibition hall in front, and the surroundings were quiet.
Shen Xing then moved forward with the faint light, and did not turn on the portable flashlight. When he came to the corner of the passage, he turned sideways and looked inside. The remaining half of the passage led to a courtyard, and he was standing at the moment. On the right is the exhibition hall where I went in during the day.
The door of the exhibition hall was not closed at this moment, but was open, and there was nothing to see in the dark inside. I don't know if the various puppets on display during the day have been put away.
However, Shen Xing had an instinct. There was an inexplicable coolness in the side exhibition hall, as if the air conditioner was turned on. He knew that most of the puppets were there, but they were all standing in the dark at the moment.
And the old woman puppet wearing a wine-red cotton-padded jacket seemed to have her cheeks facing this direction.
Regardless of whether the other party was resurrected or not, Shen Xing still subconsciously moved a step forward, avoiding the entrance of the exhibition hall.
He stuck his backpack on the wall, looked up, and found no surveillance camera, then moved forward along the wall and quickly reached the entrance of the yard.
The probe looked into the yard and found that there was a garden in the middle of the yard, but there were mostly cloisters. The ground at the corner of the yard cloister was lit with faint lights, so that other surrounding scenery could not be seen too clearly.
I found that there was no one here, but Shen Xing could hear some rhythmic noises not far away, it seemed that the workshop was still working.
He had put on the black mask at this time, and still looked at the upper part of the corridor and in the distance. He did not see the surveillance camera, and then quickly walked into the corridor and quickly approached a small door.
When I lay on the door and listened, there was no sound inside. The rhythmic noise came from the next room. It seemed that some machine was constantly repeating the same action.
Shen Xing did not go over for the time being, but tried to gently push the small door in front of him. The door opened, and immediately saw a woman in a skirt standing at the door staring at him.
Seeing this scene, Shen Xing's hair was standing upside down, but he quickly reacted. He subconsciously avoided the woman's gaze, seeing that her gaze did not follow it.
In this puppet shop, from now on, I have to always guard against opening the door to kill, that is, I suddenly see a dummy that looks like a real person, and I must not make a noise because of this, thereby exposing myself.
Shen Xing turned around and closed the door immediately, and the room plunged into darkness. He turned on the small condensing flashlight, just shining on the ground.
I found that this room happened to be a small workshop. In addition to the woman in the skirt standing at the door, there were four or five complete puppets placed in the four corners of the workshop.
There are a large number of hand-made tools in the workshop, which are basically the same as your own carving tools, but they are almost larger on the scale, which may facilitate the polishing and finishing of the puppets.
In addition, there are scattered half-length puppets on the table, some of which are bald or half face, or have only one arm.
In this workshop, Shen Xing discovered that there was a small door directly on the other side, allowing direct access to the workshop next door.
At this moment, it was the rhythmic sound coming from the next door.
He hesitated for a moment, not planning to enter from outside after going out, but directly opened the door here and looked at the next door.
Since he wanted to find clues from Motu, he couldn't avoid contact with this person. As long as he saw this guy, Shen Xing believed that he would be able to draw some useful clues from him.
It is even possible that this Motu is behind the scenes.
After looking around at the workshop and seeing nothing suspicious, Shen Xing came to the small door next to it, and when he was about to open the door with the universal wisdom key, he seemed to realize something.
Wei Wei was taken aback, took out the phone and opened a photo. In this photo, it was a bust of a man.
Taking a look at the man's appearance, he immediately turned around and looked at a corner of the workshop, and in that corner, at this moment, a man puppet stood.
The appearance of this man in the dark is actually seven to eight points similar to the man in the photo on the phone!
Except for the different clothes on the body, the facial features became more and more the same.
Shen Xing retracted his gaze from the puppet and turned to the photo on the phone again. The person in this photo is not someone else, but Xia Hongyu's ex-husband, Guan Zhixiong.
After confirming the discovery just now, at this moment, Shen Xing suddenly felt something alike beside him, he immediately turned his head and looked towards the door of this workshop.
In the next second, Shen Xing stood up suddenly, highly alert.
In his eyes, the white-dressed woman puppet who was at the entrance of the workshop just now stood at a place less than half a meter to his right. Those plexiglass eyeballs seemed to be watching him. (End of this chapter)