At this moment, Gu Xinghe recalled the two strange thoughts he had heard from Sandy regarding the appearance of the arriving detective.
Blanco at the time clearly did not share the same sentiment.
Does this mean that even though the entire town is under the influence of the swarm, Sandy is clearly more affected than Blanco?
At this moment, Gu Xinghe suddenly thought of the metamorphosis process of the white maggots in the house into black beetles.
Gu Xinghe frowned as he looked at Sandy's unusually fair skin.
Therefore, Sandy, who was more deeply affected than Blanco, can also be considered a "larva" in another sense.
But then, after opening the door, he saw Gu Xinghe, Chu Liang, and Cheng Li standing in front of him.
Blanco's reaction seemed completely normal, as if only the three of them had arrived in the first place.
Just as he did not arrange for the four of them to live in two different houses.
After seeing the three of them in the same house, Blanco did not ask about Fang Jie's whereabouts, who was not present at the time.
He simply smiled and told Gu Xinghe that most of the people in the town, including himself, would be working in the fields today.
Moreover, Gu Xinghe and the others had already seen the strange pattern on the wheat field yesterday.
Today is also the perfect day for them to level that wheat field and then prepare to plant new crops.
After indicating that Gu Xinghe and the others could conduct their own investigations in the town today, Blanco and Sandy quickly left.
Upon hearing this, Gu Xinghe had an idea and took advantage of the fact that none of the town's residents were home.
The plan is to send the red jade spiders, which work 24/7, to investigate the condition of these people's houses.
Gu Xinghe and the others, who had rested all night, were heading to the town's library, which they hadn't visited the day before.
Despite being called a library, this place is actually more like a storage room of about 15 square meters.
Besides the various books that should be here, you can also see a lot of hoes and shoes leaning against the wall.
This is naturally a space where there are no administrators and people can come and go as they please.
However, judging from the fact that most of these books showed signs of being eaten by insects and their messy arrangement, they were quite different from the others.
This would reveal that the space was originally intended for a purpose that was rarely used.
The library doesn't have many books.
In a small town like this, it's likely that very few people would come to this public library to read.
That's why the library in front of us is in this state.
At this moment, Gu Xinghe, Chu Liang, and Cheng Li were scattered throughout this small library.
They were trying to find some useful clues or records of the town's history.
At this moment, among a pile of yellowed and fragile books, the pages riddled with wormholes.
Gu Xinghe discovered a stack of newspapers that had been pressed down beneath it.
These newspapers were smaller than the standard size of modern newspapers.
Like books, these newspapers also contain a number of wormholes.
Because newspapers are much thinner than books, some newspapers were so riddled with insect holes that almost the entire page was unreadable.
At that moment, the first thing Gu Xinghe saw was a newspaper from ten years ago.
Below it are many newspapers published by the same newspaper company.
But these newspapers, piled up haphazardly, clearly don't resemble a modern library.
The newspapers for each day are carefully sorted and arranged in chronological order.
Perhaps because Wheatfield Town is located in a remote area, the newspapers here must have been brought back by the town's residents after they went out to work.
It was like in the countryside, after the first household got a television.
A large number of people would gather at this family's home to see this "novel object".
For this somewhat backward town, it may have been the place where many young people left to work in "big cities" back then.
Upon their return, they brought back copies of the city's newspapers, as well as various other souvenirs from the city.
These newspapers, once brought back, were circulated among many people in the town.
It was placed in this public library for people to read.
Therefore, the newspapers in this library are obviously not complete.
Not only were there no daily newspapers, but the time intervals between newspapers were also quite large.
For example, these few newspapers that are neatly arranged in front of you right now.
Some are separated by a few days, while others are separated by several years.
Later, Gu Xinghe also discovered that the time span of these newspapers was getting longer and longer, and the number of newspapers appearing was getting smaller and smaller.
Looking at the dates on these newspapers, Gu Xinghe realized that it seemed to be about ten years ago at this point in time.
This is the time when newspapers appear most frequently.
But it was also the time when this small town began to have less and less contact with the outside world.
In other words, after achieving a state similar to "peaking from the start".
The town's contact with the outside world began to decrease ten years ago, until it is now almost completely isolated.
Therefore, very few people outside the town are actually aware of its existence.
In the earliest newspaper he found, dating back ten years, Gu Xinghe saw someone he recognized quite well—
This newspaper contains a description of a certain natural topography of the entire country.
There is a record of the 90th anniversary celebration held at the Golden Apple Theater.
There were even reports about a serial murder case.
But what Gu Xinghe felt most familiar with was a photograph of Teresa, the saint of the Thorn Cult, published there.
That was obviously not long after the town where Theresa lived was destroyed.
This photograph shows her during the period when she was brought back to the church by members of the sect and given the title of saint.
And the content reported in this newspaper.
It was also not much different from the much-embellished play that he and Teresa had seen at the Golden Apple Theatre.
The photo shows Teresa praying devoutly on the terrace.
Although she was wearing sacred clothing representing a saint.
Yet, she still couldn't hide the worry and fear in her eyes about her new life and her future.
At that time, she was clearly still willing to believe in gods.
A compassionate and devout young girl is undoubtedly the best candidate to be a saint.
But Gu Xinghe, upon seeing this news, felt a surge of surprise—
I accidentally discovered what the person I like and care about looked like when they were a child.
It was as if we were able to glimpse another side of Theresa.
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