Qiandu Commercial Plaza in Houniao City.
This used to be one of the most prosperous shopping malls in Houniao City. It was always crowded with people and people had to queue up to enter the parking lot.
But now it's empty and eerily quiet.
There are still advertisements posted previously on the walls and windows, and cups of some of the customers at that time are still placed on the tables of the open-air cafe in the square.
However, the coffee inside had already dried up. Because it had rained before, the coffee cup was already dirty and had a layer of mold growing on it.
Lin Mo got off the car and stood in the once bustling square, looking around.
The surroundings were equally silent. Apart from the security personnel stationed here, there were no other living people here.
Shen He had been waiting at the door for a while.
He came to pick up Lin Mo.
Now Lin Mo, like him, is an official member of the expert group, and his rating is higher than his. Apart from qualifications, Shen He is no better than Lin Mo in any aspect.
"Expert Lin, nice to meet you again." Shen He stretched out his hand and shook hands with Lin Mo.
During this period, Shen He has been investigating in Qiandu Commercial Plaza.
At first, he was researching the hybrid of a Class A nightmare and a pollution source, the 'Girl Playing the Piano', but progress was very slow and results were few. Then a sudden pollution incident occurred, and Shen He was busy and exhausted, but now, he has not even found the latest pollution source.
So Shen He looked tired and a little lonely.
To put it bluntly, he no longer had the confidence that Lin Mo had the last time he met him.
"Expert Shen, what is going on here?"
Lin Mo still cares a lot.
After all, Migrant Bird City is his base camp and his home. How could he not care if something went wrong?
"Come, let's go inside and talk." Shen He invited Lin Mo to go in. The temporary office was inside the Qiandu Commercial Plaza. After all, there was a free and spacious place, so why not use it?
There are also several other official experts from the General Administration.
Obviously, they all came to assist Shen He in the investigation.
Among them was one person Lin Mo knew, Wu Dawei.
To be honest, when Lin Mo saw the other person, he didn't react at first. After all, he was more familiar with this guy wearing a cartoon bear costume.
"I almost didn't recognize you after you took off your clothes." Lin Mo walked up and patted the other person on the shoulder.
Wu Dawei gave Lin Mo a bear hug.
"Lin Mo, I feel relieved when you come."
It can be seen that Wu Dawei is very convinced of Lin Mo, but this attitude obviously makes the other experts unhappy.
One of them just glanced at Lin Mo, said nothing, and continued to busy himself.
Another one was scrolling through his phone with earphones on, and there was no response.
The last one was lying on a chair with his eyes closed, seemingly in a dream state.
Shen He introduced Lin Mo to the other two experts.
"Lin Mo, you know Wu Dawei. The other three are Yu Rong, Zhang Chao and Li Qiang. They arrived two days earlier than you..." After Shen He finished speaking, he looked at the time.
"Let's wake up Li Qiang. Let's have a meeting among the five of us."
Soon, Li Qiang was awakened from his dream. As soon as he woke up, he said, "Still nothing. It's strange. I searched the entire mall and still found nothing else."
I turned my head and saw Lin Mo.
"who is he?"
"Scout team, Lin Mo." Lin Mo took the initiative to greet.
Li Qiang reacted immediately: "You are Lin Mo? The discoverer of the girl playing the piano?... Hello, hello... I have heard of your name for a long time."
The two shook hands.
Obviously, Li Qiang is easier to deal with than the other two experts.
In the conference room, Shen He took out a file and handed it to Lin Mo.
"We have conducted many investigations on the contaminated area of Qiandu Commercial Plaza in the past few days. These are the known nightmare files. Those marked as dead have been cleared by us. In addition, regarding this mysterious pollution spread incident, we suspect that a new nightmare has been mixed in here, but after two days of searching, we have not found anything."
Lin Mo looked through it immediately.
Obviously Shen He and his team have done a solid job.
There are hundreds of nightmare files in the archives.
There are many things that Lin Mo has an impression of.
Of course, the first one is code-named "Girl Playing the Piano". The file is rated as A-level, which is also the nightmare with the highest confidentiality level.
Moreover, the girl playing the piano is a source of pollution herself. She is both a nightmare and a source of pollution, and she is also Class A. The threat level is indeed quite high. It is no wonder that Shen He has been guarding here for fear of problems.
As a result, something really went wrong here.
Lin Mo continued to look through.
Lin Mo had seen many nightmares here last time. For example, Lin Mo saw a nightmare code-named "Zhenzi", and its description was very similar to the female ghost he had seen before who could suddenly crawl out of a corpse.
The rating above is B+.
That’s true.
And the archives show that this nightmare cannot be eliminated.
There are actually many undead nightmares like this.
Keep searching.
Hey! Lin Mo was amused. He saw a nightmare file, codenamed "Crying Child" or "White Balloon Boy". From the description, this must be Xiao Hei.
The last time he left, Lin Mo couldn't take this nightmare with him. This time, Lin Mo is no longer the same person as before and is able to take it with him.
After all, Lin Mo had promised Xiao Hei that he would take him to play with Xiao Hongqun and the others.
Once words are spoken, they are spilled, and you can't take them back.
Xiao Hei is also fine and his rating is B.
But Lin Mo did not find the Scarecrow's file, but Lin Mo knew that the Scarecrow had always been here.
Before the Evolution Forum was destroyed, Lin Mo would often contact Scarecrow through forum text messages. Later, the forum was taken down by Lin Mo and Lin Nan together. Without the platform, the contact was also cut off.
But Lin Mo knew that the Scarecrow could not betray him. The other party had sworn a poisonous oath and signed a contract in Xiaoyu's diary, and the curse of the contract was still in the Scarecrow's body, so there was no way he could betray him.
Speaking of which, the scarecrow is quite powerful. He actually avoided the investigation of these experts. I believe we can learn something from the scarecrow.
Keep looking.
When Lin Mo finished reading it all, he was a little surprised.
The nightmare above, one less.
If it was a small nightmare, or an insignificant one, Lin Mo would certainly not care, but the problem is that the nightmare that lacked records was not a small character.
In Lin Mo's eyes, the strength of this nightmare is second only to the girl playing the piano.
Even in terms of aggressiveness, it is the most terrifying one in the entire Qiandu Commercial Plaza pollution area.
Shen He and the others had no reason not to record it.
Lin Mo immediately asked.
As a result, Shen He shook his head, indicating that he had never seen this nightmare. Li Qiang also shook his head. The other two experts thought that Lin Mo was making a fuss out of nothing.
"It's just one less nightmare to record. What's the big deal?"
"That's not an ordinary nightmare." Lin Mo immediately retorted: "Codename, takeaway boy, I give this nightmare a B+ rating. If we only talk about lethality, it is no different from an A-level nightmare."
One nightmare that was not recorded in the archives was the food delivery guy that Lin Mo had seen.
The way the other party killed the hypnotist at that time was simply amazing.
Logically speaking, this kind of nightmare is completely supported by obsession and has no thoughts. It is unlikely to leave this contaminated area. Shen He and his team have explored it so many times, it is impossible that they have not seen it.
"Anyway, we didn't see it during our investigation, and we don't know if you made it up." Yu Rong spoke rudely.
He was one of the arrogant ones in the expert group. He had been feeling a little dissatisfied after hearing Wu Dawei talk about Lin Mo these days. In addition, Shen He was more polite to Lin Mo than to him, so his mentality was unbalanced.
Naturally, Lin Mo would not tolerate such a person.
"It's also possible that you were lazy and didn't work hard, so you didn't encounter it."
"What did you say?" Yu Rong slammed the table.
At this moment, everyone suddenly heard a pleasant piano sound.
"Whose cell phone is ringing?" Wu Dawei asked.
"This...is not a cell phone ringtone." Lin Mo listened and said.
The third update is here! (End of this chapter)