administrator
The day did not yet fully dawn.
The city was dressed in a gray and dirty suit.
Dirty clothes are made of toxic substances such as industrial exhaust and car exhaust, mixed with sand and dust.
These toxic particles dance around the world, taking lives.
In the corners of the city, strong outdoor lights dispel the darkness of the alleys and illuminate the faceless corpses on the ground.
The forensic doctor wearing a filtering mask and visual glasses worked diligently to perform a preliminary autopsy on the faceless corpse that appeared again.
Old Li, feeling bored, stood at the edge of the crime scene. He really wanted to take off his filter mask and get some fresh air.
The faceless body found this time was a female, and it also appeared in a large trash can. It was discovered by a sanitation worker who was carrying the trash can before sunrise.
When the garbage truck lifted the trash can and overturned it, the faceless body fell out, scaring the sanitation worker and the garbage truck driver so much that they called the police.
"This faceless corpse is also bloodless and has no corpse spots. The time of death is unknown. Judging from the degree of wear on the teeth, the deceased was between 40 and 50 years old." The forensic doctor gave a brief report.
Old Li looked deep and said nothing.
He was most worried that the corpse would cause spiritual pollution to the citizens.
"Why did this kind of body appear? Do you have any idea?" a colleague working on the case asked Chen Zhanqin.
Chen Zhanqin couldn't help yawning, his eyes were bloodshot behind his glasses. "I don't know, I just know that more than a dozen people are missing."
"Alas, I hope this strange talk won't affect other people."
"The number of faceless bodies should be more than the two we found." Old Li suddenly said. "The other party deliberately hid the bodies and didn't want us to find them too early, so there may be more faceless bodies in other corners of the city that have not been discovered yet."
"But we checked every garbage can location in the city yesterday and found no other faceless bodies."
Old Li smiled bitterly and shook his head. "There are so many places to hide corpses. If it's a corpse hidden in a ghost story, unfinished buildings, vacant factories, vacant rental houses, etc. are all perfect places to hide corpses, if you don't have to worry about how to move the corpse and how to get into the vacant rental house."
The power of ghost stories is totally unreasonable.
As he was speaking, Lao Li's cell phone rang, and the caller ID showed "Captain Lu".
As soon as he answered the phone, he cast a complicated look at Chen Zhanqin. "...Okay, I also think we should cooperate...Okay, we'll wait for you at the scene."
As soon as he hung up, he patted Chen Zhanqin's shoulder solemnly. "The honor of our police station depends on you."
“?” Chen Zhanqin was confused.
Ten minutes later, a dark motorcycle roared over.
The woman who took off her helmet had short, heroic hair, and her fluorescent green earrings lit up the dark and boring alley.
She wore transparent goggles and a black filter mask that covered half of her face, but everyone knew her identity by the color of her earrings.
After Lu Miao greeted Lao Li, he walked straight towards Chen Zhanqin. "Do you still remember the agreement we made in the botanical garden?"
"What agreement?" he thought to himself?
The police officer nearby pricked up his ears and eavesdropped.
Lu Miao let down his guard. "Passed, go upstairs."
Chen Zhanqin was confused.
"Come with me."
"Why?" He looked at Lao Li.
"No problem, I'll leave him to you." Lao Li was very straightforward. "We don't mind if you teach him how to get extra rewards."
"What? What did you do behind my back?" Chen Zhanqin crossed his arms to protect his chest. "First of all, I am an upright person. If you want me to do something else, you have to name a price."
Lao Li covered his face, not wanting to acknowledge him as his subordinate.
"Get on." Lu Miao pulled him to the motorcycle.
"Where are you going?"
"I'll borrow your brain for a minute."
"ha?"
Sitting on the beautiful woman's motorcycle, Chen Zhanqin was embarrassed and didn't know where to put his hands. He didn't dare to hold her waist, for fear that she would kick him off the motorcycle, so he had to sit with his back to her and hold the back of the motorcycle with both hands.
The speeding locomotive frightened him so much that he dared not move.
Finally, the locomotive stopped downstairs of a building.
The two came to an AI study room where there were already three people.
"It's you?" Chen Zhanqin was surprised.
The sturdy Zhang Lian and Feng Yan, and the ponytailed Song Zhen were also there.
Chen Zhanqin had some guesses.
"Sit down." Lu Miao locked the door of the study room, took off his visual goggles and filter mask, revealing a cold and elegant face. "I have tested him, and he passed."
Zhang Lian and others relaxed their expressions.
"I didn't expect that we could work together again so soon." Song Zhen smiled helplessly. "This is the first time I've encountered such a related field of ghost stories."
"Us too." Zhang Lian said in a deep voice.
"Are you also members of the group?" Chen Zhanqin looked at their eyes carefully. Except for Lu Miao, the others also had bloodshot eyes and looked haggard.
"Yes."
“Two nights without sleep.”
Chen Zhanqin was even more puzzled. "But Captain Lu is very energetic and has no dark circles under his eyes."
Her eyes were sharp and she seemed unaffected by the administrator's patrol.
She was indeed not affected much. After her physical condition improved, she could fall asleep easily and slept soundly. It was He Ping'an's call that became an alarm clock, reminding her to get up.
"Because I fell asleep."
The four of them couldn't believe it.
"No way, it's so noisy at midnight, either the sound of water or the sound of tables and chairs being moved. I'm so worried that the neighbors will complain." Song Zhen had a splitting headache. "It seems that I have to take a sleeping pill tonight."
Zhang Lian sighed. "Squad Leader Feng and I went to live alone in the guesthouse. Although no one complained about us, it was too noisy and I couldn't sleep."
Chen Zhanqin had a sad face: "Not only can I not sleep, but I received a report at around 5 o'clock in the morning, and I could only rush to the scene at sunrise. I worked non-stop!"
"[①Everything for you] is you?"
Chen Zhanqin was stunned by Lu Miao's sudden question, as if his tongue was tied. "How do you know? Is it so obvious?"
"You didn't show up during the whole day, and you only had time to chat in the group at night. When people asked you about your occupation, you changed the subject. It's obvious that you're not an ordinary office worker, but a very conspicuous occupation."
He gave in. "Sister, what's your nickname?"
"[Xiao Cao Fang Fang]."
He and Zhang Lian widened their eyes.
"You are really the sister, not the brother. Sister, every time you speak, it is really scary."
Zhang Lian also confessed his nickname. "I'm [Meng Tu Ye]."
"They're a good match." Chen Zhanqin couldn't help but say.
"I am [Sky City] and I have never appeared in the group." Feng Yan said.
Lu Miao understood. He had already formed a team with Zhang Lian, and all he needed was for Zhang Lian to pop up in the group chat.
The last one was Song Zhen. "I am [Hong Ye Shang]."
"Wow, you're the first person to tag the group leader!"
Song Zhen smiled and said, "Find a reason to test the group leader. Captain Lu, weren't your team members selected?"
Lu Miao shook his head.
"It's strange. Aren't the survivors who have been to Nanjiang Botanical Garden, or those whose relatives or friends have been to Nanjiang Botanical Garden, selected?" Zhang Lian frowned.
Song Zhen was also puzzled.
"Don't worry about it. I asked you out to discuss the relationship between the faceless corpse and the 'Night Owl House.'" Lu Miao suggested that Chen Zhanqin tell the details of the case.
Since Old Li acquiesced, he told him everything.
"In fact, from the second rule, we can see that there are multiple administrators who share the same 'Administrator' account and title. When administrators enter our homes, do they want to pollute our cognition or kill us?" Song Zhen changed the subject: "Could the faceless corpse be someone who stayed in the field of ghost stories in Nanjiang Botanical Garden?"
As soon as he finished speaking, an eerie chill blew through the study room, making everyone's hair stand on end.
"Are they administrators?" Feng Yan lowered his voice.
Zhang Lian rubbed the solar plexus. "What is the administrator's purpose?"
Lu Miao looked around at the worried people and confirmed that no one had knocked on their door during the administrator's inspection. "When the administrator was inspecting, I saw a post online."
Chen Zhanqin was stunned. "Sister, were you still in the mood to read the post?"
Just like the group members who dare to listen to music together in the group, they are so brave!
“The content of the post is relevant to our experiences.”
For a moment, they listened attentively.
"At midnight, there was a loud noise upstairs from the poster's floor, so the poster went upstairs to complain. Guess what the result was?"
Everyone waited for her to continue.
She stared at the four people intently, speaking in a low voice that was somewhat eerie. "When the poster knocked on the door, the people in the room also knocked on the door. When the poster cursed, the same voice as the poster appeared in the room, cursing exactly the same content."
“They’re imitating us.”
A single stone caused a thousand ripples, and the cool air was like icy snake scales, wiping their bare necks.
Lu Miao continued, "The reason I'm sure of this is that someone also knocked on my door at midnight, but it was not me who was knocking on the door in response to the person outside."
The air seemed to have turned into sea water and they were almost suffocating.
Song Zhen's voice trembled slightly. "So... the test when we met was to verify whether we were still ourselves?"
"That's right."
The decisive answer struck their trembling hearts.
"Wait..." Chen Zhanqin licked his dry lips nervously. "Based on the subject problem you mentioned last night, if the person doesn't live alone, wouldn't the administrator be able to imitate the group member's family members and trick them out of the bathroom?"
"Yes." Lu Miao thought of the song "Paper Money Girl".
It turns out that this song is a warning.
"Maybe I've found a group member who was replaced by an administrator."
"who?"
"[Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter]."
"What? Is that the guy who listened to music in the group on the first night?"
"I have chatted privately with [Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter]." Lu Miao said something shocking again.
"What did you say?" They dared not utter a word.
"The other party encouraged me to join the 'Sing Together' and make a sound."
“Want to pollute through song?”
"have no idea."
Chen Zhanqin scratched his head in annoyance. "Several group members joined 'Listen to Songs Together' at midnight. They must be out of luck. Oh, members who listen to songs together will leave records. We should beware of their nicknames."
Zhang Lian clenched his fists and took a deep breath. "Many of the remaining group members have been replaced by administrators. In other words, is the faceless corpse the administrator himself?"
"Where are the members who were kicked out of the group?" Chen Zhanqin scratched his head. "There were several missing persons yesterday, with the phone missing. If they were also members of the group, did they get into the phone?"
Lu Miao leaned back against the back of his chair. "We'll know when the countdown ends. I feel this strange story won't end here, there will be a sequel. There are 125 group members left now, and after tonight, the number may decrease again, plus the group members who have infiltrated the administrators to replace them, so we need to unite as soon as possible."
Song Zhen agreed. "Try to select the replaced group members as much as possible. They must not stay in reality."
Feng Yan, who had been silent the whole time, spoke up: "I heard that after the strange story field appeared in Nanjiang Botanical Garden, the aperture of the mark has been expanding. I wonder if the spread of pollution at that time has anything to do with the current 'Night Owl House'."
"Ah!" Chen Zhanqin slapped his forehead. "My colleagues were carrying radios and cell phones when they entered the wrong exit. Do you remember the radio voice that appeared in the sunflower field? They can also use human cell phones to cause trouble and establish a penguin group weird talk area."
"This can explain why people who are related to the field of ghost stories in Nanjiang Botanical Garden have become members of the 'Night Owl House'." As he spoke, Lu Miao thought of someone.
His colleague entered the field of Nanjiang Botanical Garden ghost stories.
Zhang Lian encouraged everyone: "We will work hard to get through the third midnight and wait until the countdown ends. If there are any subsequent rules after the countdown ends, we will discuss countermeasures."
Lu Miao nodded thoughtfully.
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