"The sun never sets" on the first floor of the homestay, inside the owner's office of this homestay shop.
Shen Xing and Ren Guangming sat side by side, looking at Lele on the sofa.
There were still tears on Lele's face, but he did not cry anymore. Instead, he was looking at them with a firm expression. It seems that although he is young, he has a strong personality, and his decision does not seem to be moved so easily.
"Are you sure you want to follow us to catch the crying person?" Shen Xing asked.
His expression was serious, and he didn't look like he was joking.
Lele nodded fiercely: "Well, uncle sheriff, I want to catch him, he is a bad guy!"
I don't know where Lele heard that Shen Xing was also a sheriff, or he had this guess based on the attitude of other sheriffs toward Shen Xing.
"That person may be terrible." Shen Xing is not alarmist, he believes Lele must have seen or heard something on the spot, that's why he made this decision.
Lele nodded fiercely again: "I know, I... Mom and Dad were still in the house at first. Because I was scared, I hid in the quilt. I heard them talking, and then the man opened my quilt and he Tears fell on my face."
"When the quilt was uncovered, did you see your parents?" Ren Guangming asked.
"No, they are gone." Lele shook his head, then pursed her mouth, her teeth clenched tightly together, "Mom and Dad, he must have been eaten by him, he is a monster, he is a monster that can eat people. !"
"Can you describe to Uncle what this crying person looks like?" Shen Xing asked tentatively.
Lele lowered his head, as if trying to think back, but soon he shook his head, his expression a little uncomfortable.
"Don't think about it if you can't think of it. Uncle will find him." Shen Xing stopped him immediately.
It now appears that "who he is" cannot be described from the child's mouth, mostly because of its characteristics.
Ren Guangming pulled Shen Xing aside, lowered his voice and asked, "Really let this kid follow us?"
Shen Xing nodded: "The previous children were frightened and couldn't cooperate with us at all. Now I can see that Lele is very courageous and has a stubborn temper, plus he can see the crying person. If he decides to help us, The chance of finding that guy has increased by at least more than half."
"I'm afraid he will be in danger." Ren Guangming said.
"I will protect him, there will be no danger." Shen Xing shook his head.
When it's really dangerous, he can throw Lele directly into the black space and let him stay there for a while. "Who is he" is impossible to find.
"Then what do you plan to do now? How do we need to cooperate?" Ren Guangming asked.
Shen Xing said: "It's already three o'clock in the morning. We, including Lele, have to take a break and sleep. When I get up, I will bring Lele to a homestay and a homestay. The focus is on tourists with children under seven. Then there are local residents, and also families with children of the same age. You ask the sheriff to greet the guest house in advance. You do not need to be accompanied by an ordinary sheriff, but you must be on standby at any time.
"Okay, I'll make arrangements right away." Ren Guangming nodded and asked again: "Do I need to notify the superior to send more special dispatchers?"
Shen Xing shook his head: "This anomaly has a very high level. It is expensive and less expensive. If there are too many, it will not guarantee everyone's safety."
"Well, I got it."
It has to be said that Ren Guangming is a special dispatcher who will consider cooperating with his partner very much. After agreeing, Lele temporarily handed over to Shen Xing to take care of him, and he took the other sheriffs to prepare separately.
Shen Xing took Lele back to his room, because it was a double bed room, he asked the front desk to send an extra quilt, and soon the two fell asleep in a daze.
Early the next morning, when Shen Xing got up, he found tears on Lele's face again. He thought that after waking up, he might have cried secretly again.
He pretended not to notice, and asked Lele to go to the bathroom to wash his face, comb his hair, and tidy up his clothes and small backpack.
After asking yesterday, the sheriff has contacted Lele’s uncle and aunt, including other relatives who are on their way, but the sheriff has made arrangements. Even if they arrive early, they will have to wait until Shen Xing’s case is investigated. Let's talk about the progress.
The tourist area did not carry out emergency evacuation of all tourists, because according to past experience, after the disappearance of the population this time, it is not known how long it will take to wait for the second time.
There has never been a case of missing persons one after another in the past, and such cases are very long and random.
After the two of them were ready, Shen Xing squatted in front of Lele, staring into his eyes, and solemnly said: "From today, follow your uncle. Uncle will help you investigate the case of missing parents. I will let you do whatever you want. During this period, even if you see things that make you feel very scared and terrifying, don’t yell, don’t run around, let alone leave me. Understand?"
Lele listened attentively and nodded vigorously: "I remembered, I remembered everything."
"Lele is great! Very brave!" Shen Xing smiled and praised.
He immediately stood up and took Lele's hand, and started an investigation from the "sun never set" homestay where he lived.
His survey subjects are very simple, one is a family with children under seven years old, and the other is a person who has recently come to travel alone.
If this anomaly is lurking in humans, it is impossible for his friends and family to not know, so the possibility of this person living alone is higher.
Of course, it does not rule out the fact that there is really a family member who is abnormal and shields each other "who he is".
So Shen Xing decided to check every room.
Fortunately, this is only a small town. Although it is troublesome to look through all the rooms, it is not difficult to do. It just takes more time.
One young man and one young man started investigating from house to house.
Usually after arriving in a room in a homestay, Shen Xing will take Lele around the corners of the house, and Lele will focus on checking if there are any people hanging upside down and crying.
As for Shen Xing himself, he used different pupils and abnormal perceptions to sense and check.
The homestays in the town have been greeted by the sheriff, and they are very cooperative one by one. After Shen Xing and Lele arrived, someone followed them to open the doors one by one.
At the end of the day, there were more than 20 homestay shops on the street, including near the observatory. Shen Xing and Lele all walked through, and nothing was found. Then the two began to visit the local residents as planned.
These residents were also greeted in advance by the sheriff, including the community, and they all seemed very cooperative.
However, it was getting late, and the two of them were planning to end the day's inspection before they had left a few places, and waited for the next day to continue.
After walking down this day, Lele has been walking with him. Because of her weakness, her legs are already trembling when she is standing.
The two went in and sat down in a restaurant on the street. Shen Xing squeezed his leg, ordered a bowl of steaming small wontons, and ordered a bowl of rice bowl.
Just as soon as he ordered a good meal, Shen Xing heard someone calling at the next table with a familiar voice. When he turned his head, it was Shen Congwen.
Shen Congwen said to the phone: "When I come back, I will deal with it. I will deliver the goods first, and I will make up for them when I get back. You tell Boss Tian that he will definitely not be missed."
After hanging up the phone, Shen Congwen found that someone was looking at him. When he saw that it was Shen Xing, he laughed and said, "Why do I meet you during dinner?"
Seeing Lele sitting next to Shen Xing, she asked, "This is your relative? Why didn't you see it last time?"
"A friend's child." Shen Xing replied with a smile.
Shen Congwen sat down with a bowl of rice on top of the ocean. He had already eaten half of the meal and said, "Where did you go to play today? Thousand Bird Valley or Red Algae Lake? I tell you that the red algae is full in the past two days. Come out, the lake is very beautiful!"
"I haven't gone yet." Shen Xing shook his head, "By the way, today we went to your homestay and didn't see you."
"Oh, did you go to me on purpose?" Shen Congwen was a little surprised: "I went to Red Algae Lake today. This time I have visited twice and took a lot of photos."
While talking, he took out his phone and opened the gallery to show Shen Xing.
While Shen Xing watched, Shen Congwen was still introducing him.
When Shen Xing and Lele went to the B&B shop today, some tourists were not there, but they all registered in detail separately. They went for a walk a while later, and most of the tourists have returned.
"Kid, did you go to the Red Algae Lake to play?" Shen Congwen put away his phone and asked Lele with a smile.
Lele nodded and stuffed a small wonton into his mouth, just looking at Shen Congwen without any other expressions.
We ate and chatted with Shen Xing. After dinner, Shen Congwen enthusiastically prepared to take them to go shopping, but Shen Xing saw that Lele couldn't walk anymore, so she declined his invitation.
Shen Congwen didn't say much, but bought a hand-stitched puppet with local characteristics on the street and gave it to Lele.
After Lele took it, she stupidly didn't say a word. After Shen Xing reminded him, he bowed to Shen Congwen, but still didn't say thank you.
After the separation, on the way back to the old Buluo B&B, Shen Xing asked Lele: "I think you are usually very polite. Why didn't you just say anything or say thank you?"
Lele stopped suddenly, and Shen Xing held his hand at this time, and then stopped immediately, looking down at him.
Lele glanced to the rear. At this time, Shen Congwen was no longer visible. He whispered: "Uncle, the man just now is very similar to the one who was hanging upside down and crying."
"Huh?" Shen Xing looked at him suspiciously, seeing that Lele didn't look like she was lying.
"Like?"
Under normal circumstances, if Lele encounters the anomaly and recognizes it, yes, yes, no, it is impossible to say something similar
"Are you sure you didn't read it wrong?" Shen Xing asked.
Lele shook his head: "When I ate just now, I found him very similar, but it seems that some places are different."
"The uncle just now was very burly." Shen Xing reminded him.
"The crying person seems to be fatter than him." Lele recalled carefully.
But soon he shook his head again: "I can't remember, I can't remember his appearance."
"It's okay." Shen Xing shook his hand, "Or we don't rush back for the time being, just go back and have a look. If your legs are weak, I will hug you."
"I can still go." Lele said firmly.
Shen Xing saw that his legs were visibly trembling, and said, "I will hold you for a while, then you will go later."
Without telling the difference, he hugged Lele, turned and walked in the direction where Shen Congwen had left.
He still remembered that Shen Congwen said that the homestay he lived in was called "Sunny Sky and Sunset", and he quickly found this homestay. However, after arriving, the two found that Shen Congwen was standing at the door talking with someone. Disperse.
The two stopped at a distance and placed Lele on the ground. Shen Xing squatted aside and asked: "Look carefully again, if he looks like the crying person, make sure that you misread it just now."
Lele was hiding behind a stone pier at this moment, only revealing two eyes to make a serious identification. After a while, he looked up and said: "Uncle, I feel that he is still very similar, but some places are not the same."
At this moment, Shen Xing had directly activated anomalous sensing, and the coverage area completely covered the "clear sky and sunset" B&B, including Shen Congwen, without any abnormal reaction.
He frowned and carefully watched Shen Congwen, who was chatting with others at the moment.
Seeing that, this guy likes to socialize very much, and there is nothing weird about it at all.
He turned his gaze to Lele, who was squatting next to him. The child had seen the hanged man several times yesterday. It was impossible for him to start lying after meeting Shen Congwen. There was a situation of deliberately framed Shen Congwen.
Otherwise, there is only one fact, Shen Congwen collided with the hanged man in the face.
However, this level of face-to-face collision also indirectly shows that he is very likely to have something to do with the person hanging upside down.
Ren Guangming also said that similar disappearances do not happen very often. Normally, there may be once a year, or not once, but it may also happen twice a year.
When meeting Shen Congwen for the first time, the other party told Shen Xing that he would basically come to Sunset Mountain once a year, sometimes twice.
With such an association, Shen Xing stared at Shen Congwen's smiling face in the distance, and suddenly had an unreal feeling.
"Does this guy always pretend?"
However, Shen Xing believed that even though he was disguising, he could not escape the ability of Abnormal Perception.
Or in Shen Congwen's body, there is a relatively special way of hiding abnormalities that he doesn't understand.
He pondered for a moment, staring at Shen Congwen's figure, and muttered to himself: "Perhaps, I can test it."
When the words fell, the cause and effect isolation was directly initiated, and he said silently in his heart: "Shen Congwen may know that this anomaly has been following him, or he may not even know its existence, and after this anomaly has achieved its purpose as before, it will Because of happiness and contentment, he inadvertently reveals his whereabouts, such as yesterday’s satisfaction. It is only at this moment that the delay allows its characteristics to reveal a little bit that even this anomaly does not care about."
The mental power was quickly consumed, and Shen Xing was not sure whether the causal isolation or causal detour and grafting would be successful this time, after all, the other party was a super-level anomaly.
The causal isolation has been exerted, but Shen Congwen, who was standing at the door of the hotel and chatting with people, did not respond at all. He still chatted happily with the middle-aged man who was suspected to be the owner of the shop, and from time to time he reached out and patted the other's shoulder.
Shen Xing almost didn't blink his eyes, staring at Shen Congwen's every move at this moment, trying to find out a suspected abnormal shadow from his behavior.
But after five minutes passed, I still didn't find it.
He now suspects that Lele's confirmation was wrong, maybe it's just that Shen Congwen really looks a bit similar to the hanged man.
After all, Lele was very scared at the time, and the only memory may also be biased.
At this moment, Shen Congwen and the man standing at the gate finally ended their chat. The man seemed to be leaving, waved to Shen Congwen, said the polite words of getting together another day, and walked down the street.
Shen Congwen also smiled, waved and turned around to enter the door of the hotel.
But just after he turned around, Shen Xing shook suddenly, his pupils contracted, staring straight at Shen Congwen's back.
I saw that there was still another person at the position of his back!
This person has a complete cheek, appearing on the back of Shen Congwen’s head. It is indeed somewhat similar to Shen Congwen’s face, and he has complete limbs and the same complete torso, but almost all of them are embedded in Shen Congwen’s body, just in back.
When Shen Congwen walked into the store, this person was also shaking his arms, just walking backwards, looking extremely weird!
Most importantly, this person's expression at the moment-crying! (End of this chapter)