Chapter 483 Above the Posing (18) (1st update + 2nd update) [VIP]
The sky gradually darkened, neon lights flickered on the commercial street, and people who pushed open the restaurant doors in groups of three or four could not have imagined that just now, they might have passed by a dying visitor from another world.
"Hurry, this way, this way," the hidden investigation team members who had been to the pharmacy ran in front to lead the way. After leaving the crowd, they immediately ran very fast, "This way, here, this store!"
The door of the pharmacy was flung open.
"You are..." William Chang looked up, startled, "Do you have an appointment?"
"This is our captain, he was stabbed several times!" The team member carrying Huai Jiamu walked into the pharmacy carefully, "Is there a doctor? If Chinese medicine is not good at dealing with this, just give us some medical supplies!"
"Yes, put the person down first. Who is injured..." Chang William looked at the person on the ground and was surprised to find that he was an acquaintance. "Isn't this the captain from yesterday?"
He originally wanted to say last night, but this morning in order to explain Zhao Yinglai's disappearance, he and Skao told the owner that it was Zhao Yinglai who was on guard. Of course, he couldn't blurt out last night, so he had to urgently change it to yesterday.
"Let me see..." The old man behind the counter came out, "All of you get out, don't block the way here."
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By the time Bai Jinshu walked to the door of the pharmacy, the usually deserted entrance was already full of people squatting there.
Chang William was sitting on the cliff beside the road. When he saw him coming, he stood up and shouted, "Hey, Kao, are you back? The captain was injured last night. I don't know who stabbed him. He is in there now..."
"I know," Bai Jinshu walked quickly to the door and put his hand on the door handle, "Can I come in?"
"Uh... you'd better not." The ease in William Chang's tone disappeared after he saw the expression on Scarao's face under the street light. "Old man... Doctor Fan, let us all come out."
He subconsciously used a more formal title.
Skao looked angry.
His eyes swept over the Abnormal Investigation Bureau members standing at the door of the pharmacy, and it looked like he could eat all of them alive in the next second.
Chang William took a deep breath in his heart, thinking that he should say something to liven up the atmosphere... at least stop him from staring at these players like that: "Why don't you... come over and sit down and take a rest?"
He stood up, revealing the road cliff behind him that had just been wiped clean.
Skao could eat everyone alive and threw his eyes over: "No need."
Chang William shrank his neck and chose to be as quiet as a chicken.
What's going on?
He looked behind him at the place where he had just sat, and then looked at Skao, whose whole body showed "very angry". For the first time, he felt so suffocated. For a moment, he didn't know whether to sit back or continue standing there.
Fortunately, someone came to rescue him quickly.
Zhao Yinglai and Xu Kechi arrived at the door of the pharmacy a step later.
"Where are the people? Are they inside?" Zhao Yinglai looked at the group of people outside and asked immediately.
"Inside. The doctor just told us to all go out." Someone answered.
"I'll go and help," Zhao Yinglai decisively pushed open the door, "I know some simple medical skills."
Although the shadow puppet Jiang Jie did not study surgery originally and switched to studying traditional Chinese medicine halfway through, he is at least half a doctor and can still help.
The door of the pharmacy was opened and closed again. Through the crack in the door, Bai Jinshu finally saw Huai Jiamu's current appearance.
He was placed on the large table where he usually weighed and dispensed medicines. Only a pale jawline could be seen. Dr. Fan, the usually kind-looking owner of the pharmacy, now looked embarrassed, and on the table in front of him, the blood had even formed a small stream, dripping down the edge of the table bit by bit.
The Chinese medicine store naturally does not have the sterile conditions of a hospital. The clothes under Huai Jiamu's body seemed to be the coat he wore when he came in. In order to prevent passers-by from noticing anything, the black windbreaker that had been covering his back was thrown aside. The brown lining vaguely revealed a dark red color that was soaked with blood under the dim light.
A dim light flashed and the door was closed again.
All the team members who were craning their necks to look inside retracted their gazes.
"Deputy Captain..." Someone called out to Xu Ke in a low voice, "Is the captain okay?"
Anyone with eyes could see that the amount of bleeding on Huai Jiamu's body was abnormally high.
In order to save time, these team members almost used their strength to carry him all the way here. Now there is more or less blood on everyone's back. As night falls, the evening breeze blows, bringing with it an unsettling bloody smell.
Such a large amount of bleeding has exceeded the normal bleeding that can be caused by being stabbed a few times. Even if the patient is immediately sent to the emergency department of the hospital, he may not survive.
The team of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau has been dealing with some non-materialistic events for many years, so they naturally know that there are too many things in the world that can cause this situation. There are many ways to cause this situation, but the effects achieved are surprisingly consistent...
die.
There was an eerie silence outside the pharmacy.
"He will be fine." After a few seconds, Bai Jinshu finally said the third sentence here.
Skao's luck would not allow anything to happen to Huaijiamu.
If a little luck isn't enough, use more luck.
【40%】
The synchronization rate slowly moved up a level.
Bo Jiren, who rushed over after hearing the news, turned the last corner and saw Skao standing alone under the street light.
Under the yellow light, his shadow was stretched extremely long. As the last bit of afterglow of the setting sun disappeared into the horizon, the edge of the shadow slowly sank into the shadow outside the edge of the street lamp.
【50%】
Bai Jinshu turned his head and glanced at the members of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau behind him, then fixed his gaze on the tightly closed door again: "He will wake up tomorrow morning at the latest."
He said this to everyone present and also to himself.
One of the rules for using the fixed attribute [Character in the Play] is that the more he "believes", the more he will "become".
【60%】
Enough synchronization, enough trust, and the most important thing, enough luck.
Skao's fixed attributes have enough room for maneuver.
【70%】
Chang William suddenly felt that the dangerous aura from Scaro, which could stab anyone at any time, had disappeared.
In an instant, Scario turned back into the gentle, long-haired young man...or rather, he became even gentler.
Gentler, more kind, more... unpredictable.
He raised his head in surprise and met Xu Ke's eyes, who was also looking over.
【80%】
Bai Jinshu smiled.
"Excuse me," he looked up as the shadow ate away at his reflection, "Who was the first to arrive at the scene when your captain got into trouble?"
A team member stood up from the crowd: "...Me."
"Excuse me," he glanced at his watch and said in a gentle tone, "There are still ten hours until dawn. We still have time to figure out what happened and take appropriate measures before he wakes up, right?"
Chang William swallowed his saliva and felt that he might have seen a ghost in the unknown space of the Foundation.
How did Scaro manage to change his expression from wanting to eat everyone present alive to his current relaxed look in just a few minutes?
Xu Ke was probably the same person who was puzzled as him.
He couldn't help but take a step in Skao's direction.
Disappeared.
The inexplicable aura that made him feel extremely dangerous disappeared from Scaro's body.
He is not stupid, and the feeling he just had was definitely not an illusion.
"Xu Ke," Skao looked over, "Is it convenient?"
"...convenient," Xu Ke paused, "but please wait a moment."
"Don't stay here at the door." He looked at the team members around him. "If we gather here, the bloody smell is too obvious."
It was not yet late at night, and passers-by were passing by on the street from time to time. A group of people, emitting the bloody smell, were all standing at the door of a pharmacy. Anyone could tell that something had happened inside the pharmacy.
Xu Ke spoke bluntly, and everyone reacted and scattered.
At the entrance of the pharmacy where a bunch of people had gathered just now, suddenly only Bai Jinshu, Xu Ke, and the first team member who arrived at the scene were left.
Bai Jinshu leaned against the lamppost, and the yellow light made his eyelashes look very long.
After a while, when all the team members around him had left, he raised his watch and looked at the time: "There are still four hours until twelve o'clock. Let's start with your actions this afternoon."
[Hiss... I finally dare to breathe. ]
[Aoshen was so scary just now. 】
[When Aoshen gets angry, it's so scary... I'm scared even through the screen. 】
[Don't tell me, don't tell me... When the camera just scanned from the front, the look in Ao Shen's eyes made me feel like he would raise his gun and shoot everyone in the next second.]
【Where did the gun come from? 】
[It doesn’t matter whether you have a gun or not, it’s the feeling! Do you understand the feeling? ]
[Speaking of which, where did that captain come from? Why did Aoshen get so angry when he heard that he was stabbed? ]
[It's not because of that captain. I think Aoshen was probably angry because Alian and Yuan had played a trick on him before, and then Xiao Guo used these two as an excuse to seriously injure a helper in exploring this place. That's why he was so angry. You see, he's normal now that he's calmed down.]
[So what's the situation with Xiao Guo? Is he teaming up with A-Lian and A-Yuan? ]
"Yesterday afternoon, Xiao Guo and several other members of the team were looking for jobs as couriers. They planned to look for traces of fugitives who might have escaped to this world while delivering packages," Xu Ke squatted on the street corner and sighed deeply. "Then at noon today, he suddenly came to tell us that he found two people who looked like murderers not far from here, and wanted us to go check it out together."
According to Xiao Guo, he met two extremely dangerous serial killers who had received special training and had committed many cases. So he did not dare to chase them directly. Instead, he quietly found the hiding place of the two people and quickly came back to tell everyone.
Although Xiao Guo was stuffed into the team to disgust Huai Jiamu, he had behaved like a good person for so long, so no one was suspicious of what he said and quickly rushed to the location he gave.
When they arrived at the location, everyone found that the two murderers were hiding in a busy warehouse area. In order not to disturb the surrounding indigenous people, everyone had to be cautious and find opportunities to enter the warehouse little by little.
The warehouse was piled with dusty goods, looking as if no one had been there for at least several years.
The information Xiao Guo told them was wrong.
As the captain, Huai Jiamu quickly realized that something was wrong and suspected that Xiao Guo might want to destroy their way out of here, so he quickly rushed towards the place where they entered this world.
The team members who still thought that Xiao Guo was one of them didn't react and were about to leave with Huai Jiamu when they happened to meet two people who also looked like wanted criminals.
At the same time, the two men also discovered them and started running in another direction.
So most of the team members turned to chase the two men, and the team members who were preparing to follow Huai Jiamu were a step slower.
"Stop for a moment," Bai Jinshu interrupted Xu Ke's narration, "Who are the two wanted criminals you met later?"
"Cai Hong and Fang Sha," Xu Ke answered decisively, "It's definitely these two people. They are exactly the same as those on the statistical list."
"A man and a woman?" Bai Jinshu confirmed.
"Yes, a man and a woman. Among them, Cai Hong was sentenced for a theft case in his early years and was released from prison for several years. Fang Sha was also sentenced to one year for fraud. Both of them have criminal records and have clear photos. Later, several murders for money occurred in succession. All the belongings on the murderers and in their homes were looted. The police confirmed through various criminal investigation methods that it was these two people who did it. As a result, these two people suddenly disappeared at this time." The team members next to him were obviously very clear about the files of these suspects who disappeared mysteriously.
"Would you mind describing the appearance of these two people?"
"Let me think about it. Cai Hong has dark skin, medium height, thin body, triangular eyes, high nose bridge, thick lips, and receding chin... Fang Sha has very fair skin, oval face, almond eyes, and high nose bridge..."
"Okay, I get it." Bai Jinshu nodded and interrupted.
Most of the people they met were "Alian" and "Ayuan".
These two men do have a murder on their hands.
However, the timing of their appearance was too coincidental, and Bai Jinshu suspected that they were also connected with Xiao Guo.
"You followed your captain, right?" He tilted his head to look at the team member, "So what did you see when you went there?"
"When I got there, Xiao Guo had already destroyed most of the people's puppets... Uh, should I explain what a puppet is?"
"How did you get here?" Bai Jinshu guessed.
"Yes... We entered here through a game of hide-and-seek," Xu Ke explained quickly, "Let me give you a rough idea. It's to find a doll of any shape, wrap red thread and hair around it, and then tell it that we are going to play hide-and-seek. Then, turn your back and count to fifteen, then turn around and say to it, "I found you, now it's your turn to find me."
After saying this, the player needs to hide in a closed space with a door, such as a room, closet, or basement. If everything goes well, after counting to fifteen numbers, there is a chance that he will hear someone knocking on the door.
After the knocking stops, the player hiding behind the door shouts to the outside world, "You found me, now it's my turn to find you," and then pushes the door open.
At this time, the doll that is rotated to the "hiding position" for the second time will hide in another world, and the person who pushes open the door can also follow it to another world.
In this game, the way to come back is very simple. Just repeat the process with the doll that went to another world with you, push open the door again, and you can return the same way.
"We chose this game because there is a loophole we can exploit," Xu Ke added, "The rules of the game don't say that the puppet must knock on the door, so we can ask someone else to knock on the door."
This is also what makes hide-and-seek different from other games. Its probabilistic event is not "entering another world" but "hearing someone knocking on the door". So as long as there is a knock on the door and the person behind the door pushes it, they will definitely enter another world. This perfectly gives the members of the Abnormal Management Bureau who are trying to enter another world room to exploit loopholes.
"If the door and the doll are destroyed together, there will be no way to go back this way, which means you will be trapped here, right?" Bai Jinshu raised his eyes.
"Yes," Xu Ke nodded, "The captain... must have noticed this and stepped forward to stop it, but he didn't expect Xiao Guo to attack him."
"We didn't see the specific situation clearly. When we arrived, the surroundings were already on fire. The captain had been seriously injured by Xiao Guo. When he saw us, he said..." A trace of complicated anger appeared on the teammate's face, "He said he didn't want to be like this. He was forced. Before he came in, someone threatened him with his parents and asked him to destroy the captain's way back and let the captain be trapped in this world forever."
The sea of fire temporarily isolated the captain, Xiao Guo and Huai Jiamu who arrived later. Xiao Guo kept saying sorry. He didn't want this to happen, but time was tight and he didn't have time to make detailed plans. If he only killed the captain, the rest of the people would definitely not let him go when they returned, so he could only choose to destroy everyone's dolls and doors, trapping them here together.
After Xiao Guo said these words, he naturally saw the angry eyes of his teammates on the opposite side, so he immediately put down Huai Jiamu who was already seriously injured, and entered the half-burned door alone.
When the team members who had crossed the sea of fire kicked open the locked wooden door again, there was no one behind the door, and Xiao Guo returned to their world.
The wooden door was also completely destroyed at the same time.
In fact, there are deeper reasons as to why Xiao Guo suddenly used such a lame trick this afternoon to ruin everyone's way back, instead of slowly nibbling away at the enemy step by step.
"Last night... the captain found Wen Qi," Xu Ke squatted on the ground, his cigarette holder chewed until it was bumpy, "We came here because we wanted to find Wen Qi. Although the captain said that he would not take Wen Qi back immediately, but would continue to track down the fugitives here, but..."
But after all, Wen Qi has been found, and they can leave at any time. Xiao Guo is worried that if time goes on for too long, something unexpected will arise, so he cuts the Gordian knot, leads everyone away, and destroys the "door" for them to leave.
"So..." Bai Jinshu twitched his lips slightly, "From the beginning, from arranging Xiao Guo to join the Abnormal Investigation Bureau to you receiving the mission to enter this world, all of this was done to kill your captain?"
"I'm very curious," he raised his eyes, "How did your captain offend someone so that someone wanted to get rid of him directly?"
Is it necessary to go to this extent to simply offend someone?
"This... I'm not very clear either," Xu Ke lowered his voice, "It was probably an investigation a few years ago. I wasn't there during that investigation because I was busy with other cases. I don't know the results of the investigation, but I know that a big shot was involved. The captain has always refused to tell us who it was, but he must have discovered some fatal secrets during the investigation, so he offended the other party. He held the secret in his hand, and the big shot didn't dare to do anything to him, so he only dared to target him secretly. Xiao Guo was sent in at that time."
At the beginning, everyone in the team stood on Huai Jiamu's side and excluded Xiao Guo. Later, Xiao Guo used time to prove that he was really a good person. Only then did everyone gradually accept this team member and really regard him as a member of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau.
Xiao Guo, who was ostracized by his original unit, was stuffed into the Abnormal Investigation Bureau for several years. After everyone believed that he was just an unlucky good guy who was ostracized, suddenly a big hand came to them.
"But Xiao Guo probably didn't want to kill the captain at first," Xu Ke added with a complicated expression, "He... was indeed ostracized by his original unit. He was probably put into the team just to monitor the captain and prevent him from telling the fatal secret. It was because someone threatened him..."
"Does this matter now?" Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows.
"...It really doesn't matter anymore," Xu Ke sighed, "Forget it, just pretend I didn't say anything."
"Our most urgent task now is to find a way out," he rubbed his hair irritably, "as for settling accounts with Xiao Guo, or with the people that the captain offended... we have to wait until we leave here."
"If I had known..." He sighed, looked at the still closed door of the pharmacy, and lowered his voice, "If I had known I wouldn't have brought Wen Qi back last night."
[If I hadn't brought Wen Qi back last night, would this not have happened? ]
[You're overthinking it. Xiao Guo's parents were being controlled and threatened by others. He would take this step sooner or later. "It was because Wen Qi was found too quickly that he took this extreme approach" is just an excuse. He just used this to eliminate his guilt.]
[From this perspective, Xiao Guo was actually forced to do this for the sake of his family…]
[It is also harmful to harm others even if you have no other choice. When he burned the door, why didn't he think that others also have relatives. 】
[Compared to other people’s relatives, your own relatives are definitely more important. ]
[Then don't pretend to feel guilty. He has done it anyway. The essence is that he chose to kill others for the sake of his family's lives.]
[Stop arguing, stop arguing. If you two want to fight, go to the dance studio. ]
The barrage of comments was in chaos.
At this moment, Bai Jinshu raised his head and looked around: "Where's Wen Qi?"
"She... went to school alone this afternoon, right?" Xu Ke was not used to his sudden change of subject. "But it's a bit late for her to come back yet."
When they brought Huai Jiamu back, Wen Qi was not in the pharmacy, probably because she was out.
"I'm not asking about Wen Qi," the long-haired young man slowly closed his eyes under the street light and locked his gaze with Xu Ke again, "What I'm asking is, among all the things you said, where is Wen Qi?"
"Wen Qi? What's the relationship with her?" Xu Ke was at a loss.
"The two people who bullied Wen Qi in school," Bai Jinshu picked up an inconspicuous thread from countless clues, "I remember she once said that the father of one of them was going to be promoted this year?"
Xu Ke didn't understand.
"Your captain holds a big secret in his hands. This secret is big enough for him and this 'big shot' to check and balance each other for three or four years. During this period, he only dared to send in a little Guo who knew nothing to annoy people. Apart from that, he dared not do anything else." Bai Jinshu chuckled. "That's strange. You received the report in the morning and were immediately assigned the task of finding someone, right? How did this big shot get the news so quickly?"
Only a few hours passed from the time Wen Qi disappeared to the time they were appointed.
This is too fast, it's not normal.
Xu Ke raised his head slightly.
"There is only one possibility," the long-haired young man in front of him leaned forward, his eyes filled with a sly smile, "He is the person who reported the case."
Wen Qi was just a cover, an excuse to send someone in.
But this excuse is not so easy to find. How is it possible that the person disappeared the night before and in less than a few hours, he skipped the normal procedure of searching for missing persons and went directly to the stage of dispatching the Anomalous Investigation Bureau team?
Even if the captain had offended a big shot before, and the big shot wanted to deal with him, there would have to be a process of getting the news - investigating the situation - making a decision, right?
Killing the captain who knew his secret was no small matter and required careful planning. How could this "big shot" make the decision so quickly?
There is only one possibility, he is the person who reported the case.
He is one of the parents of the two classmates named Zhang mentioned by Wen Qi.
Otherwise, he would not have been able to quickly clarify the situation and make a decision in a short period of time, and threaten Xiao Guo by the way.
"Hiss..." Xu Ke was frightened, "Don't do anything rash! This secret is fatal! You can't compete with those people at all, look at Wen Qi!"
"When did I say I was going to mess around?" Bai Jinshu tilted his head and looked at him.
How could he be the one messing around?
The wording is so inaccurate.
It was Wen Qi who wanted to mess around.
Look, isn’t it Wen Qi who has a grudge against him?
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