Chapter 18 Investigators
I’m back, back to this strange “boundary city”.
Not long ago, this place was just a huge, strange, and disturbing city to him. However, when he saw those familiar street lights and buildings, and the streets and sky in the dim morning light, Yu Sheng felt a feeling of "nostalgia" in his heart that he could hardly believe.
The experience of being trapped in that night valley made him feel like going home even when he returned to "Jiecheng".
But the next second, the trance brought by the passing of life interrupted Yu Sheng's inner sigh. He lowered his head a little dully and saw the bright red blood slowly spreading under his body.
His body was pierced, and the horrific wound was enough to kill him in a short time. Even though this body now had strong recovery ability and vitality, he knew that he was about to die again - he was now very skilled in using the word "again" in this matter.
The culprit that caused this terrible wound was right next to him. The scaly "tail" cut from the monster fell out of the gate with Yu Sheng. It seemed to still have some life left and even "thoughts". It was slowly crawling in the pool of blood and trying to crawl away from this place.
Yu Sheng even felt that this thing was moving away from him... this piece of meat was afraid of him.
Yu Sheng frowned and got up from the ground with difficulty. He glanced at the door of his home not far away, then picked up the scaly broken tail that was slowly wriggling beside him and struggled to move forward.
As he walked, he was still muttering: "Didn't they say that everything would be fine once the protagonist escaped from the desperate situation... What kind of crappy setting is it that the injuries are still retained after the map has been calculated... It hurts so much..."
The continuous blood loss gradually blurred his consciousness, and the loss of physical strength made every step he took stagger and difficult, as if he would fall down in the next second. In the last few steps, Yu Sheng moved forward almost instinctively. He didn't know why he had to go home - maybe to say hello to Irene? Maybe to avoid being discovered by people who went out in the morning? Everything in front of him gradually fell into darkness, and the morning light was stained with a layer of dark red. Yu Sheng's mind emerged with Hu Li's golden red eyes - in the end, those eyes were filled with hungry blood, but there was also a last trace of humanity, struggling to maintain the depth of blood.
I don’t know what happened to that fox. She said she wouldn’t die, but I don’t know if it’s true…
Many thoughts emerged in Yu Sheng's mind, and he finally struggled to the door of his house. The door was not locked, so he pulled the door handle, pushed the door open, and then stepped in.
He saw the dining room diagonally opposite the entrance door, and the oil painting still placed against the wall. Irene was looking up from the painting, looking at the door in surprise, and then slowly opened her eyes wide.
Yu Sheng gave the other person a last-minute smile: "Eileen, I'm back."
He knew that he was seriously injured. If it weren't for his body's amazing recovery ability and strength, he would probably have died outside the house.
As soon as this thought popped up in his mind, Yu Sheng felt his vision shift, and the whole person slid down against the door frame. The familiar dark pressure came from all directions - along with it, there was Irene's terrified scream.
Now he is dead in the house.
…
With a slight brake sound, two electric vehicles stopped deep in Wutong Road. Two figures got out of the vehicles and looked at the old and quiet streets in front of them.
One of them was a middle-aged man who looked calm and reliable. He was wearing a brown long coat, was tall and strong, had a slightly dark complexion, and had short black hair. An irregular scar near his neck made his temperament more formidable, but the tired expression and dark circles under his eyes were inconsistent with his strong and tall physique and the hideous scar - that face looked like he had been working overtime for three consecutive months without a day off.
The other man was a young man who looked to be in his early twenties. He had the same short black hair, but was much thinner than the middle-aged man next to him. He had an ordinary appearance, the kind that you would be hard to find if you threw him into any crowd. He was wearing a black and blue jacket and trousers, and his expression seemed a little tense, with the nervousness of someone who had just started working for a few days and was asked by his boss to go out on a field trip.
The two rode their bikes to this quiet old town area and observed the seemingly ordinary buildings around them. Occasionally, residents living here passed by the intersection from a distance, but very few people cast their eyes in their direction.
"This place doesn't look strange..." the black-haired young man muttered, "Captain Song, are you sure it's here?"
"There was a border alarm just now, and the coordinates are definitely here," the middle-aged man called Captain Song nodded, "Although the signal disappeared in an instant, it can be confirmed that it was a foreign reaction."
"We two couldn't catch up no matter how hard we tried," the young man looked at the electric car next to him and said hesitantly, "Should we drive here..."
Captain Song glanced at him and said, "All the cars in the bureau are out on field missions. The only one left is Xu Jiali's old, second-hand car. Are you going to drive it? Even if you step on the accelerator to the bottom, it may not be as fast as your electric bike."
The young man laughed dryly and changed the subject awkwardly: "Well, that person before... was codenamed 'Little Red Riding Hood', right? The one from the Fairy Tale Organization, she didn't seem to find anything here either?"
"Well, we didn't find anything, so we are even more certain that there is something wrong with this place," Captain Song nodded slowly. "'Little Red Riding Hood' has done a lot of work for the Secret Service. I know her abilities. Her wolf can sniff out even the faintest and smallest 'strange' scent in the surrounding environment, but she searched this place all night and found nothing."
The young man blinked and seemed to be unable to react for a moment.
"I didn't find anything. Didn't you understand?" Captain Song reminded again, "It's too 'clean', too 'normal'. There's no such clean land at the border! Little Red Riding Hood's wolf can smell something strange everywhere in this city, even if the smell is very weak, but only here... From the perspective of mysticism, this whole street is as 'clean' as a vacuum!"
After hearing this, the young man finally came to his senses - what he had been trained in school finally matched up with the real situation.
"Either this place is really that clean, and there really is a 'pure land' in the border area that is deeply parallel to the 'outside world' - this is not impossible, after all, this is the border area, and all places in the world may be connected to this place," Captain Song waved his hand and said a little tiredly, "Or, this place hides a... 'big thing', and that thing is constantly changing the environment of the entire land, and Little Red Riding Hood's wolf pack encountered a border vacuum here."
The already tense expression on the young man's face became visibly tenser.
"I won't approve your transfer to the logistics department," Captain Song raised his eyelids and looked at him, "or to another team either."
"I didn't say I wanted to run away!" The young man waved his hand quickly, "I was ready when I joined the team. I will definitely be loyal to my duties and be dedicated to my work and fulfill my responsibilities conscientiously..."
The sudden ringing of a cell phone interrupted the conversation between the two. It was a burst of pleasant music - a classic tune from a popular new anime.
The young man was stunned when he heard this, and looked at his leader with a strange look in his eyes: "...You are looking at that too?"
The middle-aged man called Captain Song twitched visibly on his face. He took out his phone from his pocket reluctantly while muttering, "My daughter must have secretly changed it for me. She's been watching this recently..."
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The young man's expression changed subtly, and after a long while he didn't say "Isn't it a bad idea for middle school students to watch a group of lesbians in a band?"
Captain Song answered the phone, put it to his ear and listened for a few words before speaking: "Yes, Li Lin and I have already arrived at the scene. It's the same as what Little Red Riding Hood investigated before. This place is a little weirdly 'clean'. You can make some arrangements. We may have to set up a fixed monitoring point here. I will decide on the specific personnel when I get back. Also contact 'Fairy Tale' to see if they can send another person over. This may be a long-term mission..."
After hanging up the phone, Captain Song let out a long breath and turned around to see the young man named Li Lin still looking at him.
He was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but say: "It was really my daughter who changed it for me. I don't usually watch cartoons."
Li Lin quickly coughed twice: "Uh, cough, I believe it, I believe it."
The two of them looked at each other awkwardly for a while, and then tacitly chose to skip the topic.
And at this moment, Li Lin seemed to have suddenly discovered something.
He frowned slightly and walked quickly towards a corner not far away.
"Captain Song, come and take a look at this!" He lowered his head to check it, then immediately looked up and greeted.
Captain Song walked over and looked in the direction Li Lin pointed.
A dark red mark appeared in the corner of the wall. It looked like dried blood. It was very small and could be easily overlooked from a distance. It was also shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It didn't seep into the cement, but disappeared rapidly into thin air.
"Blood?" Captain Song frowned immediately, then quickly reacted and took out a plastic tube and a portable scraper from the pocket of his long coat, "No, it's not blood, take a sample!"
"Okay." Li Lin agreed, took the sampling tool and prepared to scrape the dark red "bloodstains" remaining on the wall. However, just before the scraper in his hand touched the wall, the last small piece of red suddenly made a hissing sound, and then disappeared completely.
(End of this chapter)
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