Expert Zhou thought carefully after hearing what Lin Mo said and shook his head. "No way. It hasn't been that long since they were captured, and they haven't had any contact with people outside. From the perspective of time and possibility, there won't be any pre-set traps. It doesn't make sense logically, and there's no time to prepare."

In fact, expert Zhou’s inference is not wrong, it is even correct.

If it were normal, Lin Mo might think so too.

But Lin Mo always remembered the prophecy he got from the clown fortune-telling machine in the Death Chamber game.

That prophecy indicated that his journey to Swallow Whale City would definitely not be easy, and it also made it clear that danger often arrives when one least expects it.

Therefore, since arriving in Tunjing City, Lin Mo has been extremely cautious in his actions, and once he finds something wrong, he will take action immediately.

This is the reason why he used his power to target Fu Chong.

No matter what, bring the other party down first.

If the other party does something bad in secret later, the destructive power will be extremely strong.

It's always better to strike first.

This time, when interrogating the five dummies, Lin Mo used a routine, and the five dummies seemed to have taken the bait.

And one of them even confessed.

If it were a normal situation, even if Lin Mo had some doubts, he would first go to the place the fake man said to test its authenticity.

However, based on that prophecy, and in line with the principle of being cautious and not taking action, Lin Mo had a preconceived idea that this was a trap set by the other party.

Because the other party fell into the trap so smoothly, so smoothly that it seemed like it had been rehearsed in advance.

Of course Lin Mo became suspicious.

"First, investigate the address the dummy mentioned, and then take the five dummies there separately. Oh, by the way, I looked through the list of experts from the Tunjing City Security Bureau and found that there is a candidate expert whose ability is very suitable for this mission. Take that person with you as well."

Expert Zhou asked which one?

"It seems his last name is Lu. He is the one who can control other people's actions for a short period of time."

As soon as Lin Mo explained, Expert Zhou understood.

"You're talking about Lu Xian. That guy is indeed quite special, but the branch's evaluation of him is 'in danger of losing control at any time', so he is still only a reserve expert and is rarely allowed to perform tasks. Team Leader Lin, are you sure you want to take him with you?"

"I'm sure. And don't worry, with me here, he won't be able to lose control."

Soon, Lin Mo met the backup expert he was going to take with him to carry out the mission.

This is an uncle-level character.

With his untidy beard and messy hair, he looks to be almost 40 years old.

But Lin Mo had looked at the other party's information and found that he was only 28 years old.

"You look so anxious." Lin Mo couldn't help but say.

"Team Leader Lin, you're joking. I'm just too lazy to cut my hair and shave my beard. If I tidy up, I'll look quite young." Lu Xian was not stage-frightened and it was obvious that he had a good personality.

On the other hand, Expert Zhou also arranged five teams, each escorting five dummies to the address.

Lin Mo specifically instructed that the five dummies should think that they were brought there individually.

Because in most cases it is easier to defeat them one by one than to deal with enemies that are in a group.

In the car, Lin Mo got the investigation results about that address.

"It's an old city area that didn't benefit from development in the past. The surrounding areas were demolished, leaving only this piece of land. I heard that a developer had taken a fancy to this area a few years ago and wanted to demolish it to build a commercial center, but the night before, a demolition worker died inexplicably inside."

"You see, if someone dies, it's unlucky to open the door, especially for business people, who value this the most, so the developer withdrew directly."

"Later, some people said that the old city was filled with negative energy, and the feng shui of the place was not good. In addition, people had died there, so no one was interested in it. So you see, there are tall buildings all around, but this area is still a dilapidated street."

Expert Zhou next to him pointed to the front and explained to Lin Mo.

With the information in his hand, Lin Mo also had a preliminary understanding of this place.

It is daytime now. During the day, people will come out of the safe zone to work or have fun. There are also people living in this old building.

But because there was an action to be taken, Lin Mo asked Expert Zhou to evacuate all the residents in this area in advance.

What’s interesting is that the old building with the specific address and house number mentioned by the fake person is actually uninhabited.

The reason is that I am too old.

It has become a dangerous building, so no one has lived there for a long time.

But it is often in places like this that all kinds of horrific urban legends are born.

And after the nightmare strikes, a corresponding nightmare will be born in the horror urban legend, and this nightmare is extremely powerful.

Lin Mo had encountered similar situations before.

Isn't Zhou Li, the murderer we met in Migrant Bird City, a living example? He is a terrible perverted murderer. Because he has committed many crimes, many people are afraid of him. And he always leaves one or two "survivors" in the process of committing extremely cruel crimes.

This is not him being kind.

Instead, he planned to let these survivors spread terror to him.

The more fear there is of him, the more powerful the nightmare he will become in the nightmare world after his death.

This has been confirmed.

Vehicles have already entered this old neighborhood from the intersection ahead.

Lin Mo looked at the road sign on the side of the road.

Shenjiang Road! At this moment, Lin Mo said stop the car.

The driver immediately stopped the car on the side of the road.

"Team Leader Li, what's wrong?" Expert Zhou was puzzled. Lu Xian, who was sitting in front, was also confused, because this place was still some distance away from the dilapidated old building.

"Wait for me."

After saying this, Lin Mo opened the car door and walked out.

Then he walked into a small shop on the roadside.

There are old buildings here, each of which looks very old, and some of the ground floors facing the street have also been converted into shops.

But you can see that few people come here on weekdays and it is very deserted.

After the nightmare era came, this kind of real economy became even more difficult to do. Nine out of ten businesses around were closed, or there were signs saying "Shop for Sale".

Lin Mojin's shop did not have a transfer sign.

Of course, this shop is quite special. It is not a tobacco and alcohol shop, not a clothing store, and not a convenience store.

It's a 'model shop'.

The storefront is small, with a sign on the glass door saying "Open for Business" and some ready-made action figures.

Men like this kind of shop.

Even if you don't go in, you will take a few more glances when you pass by.

The reason why Lin Mo came in was because he saw a model.

This model is placed in a small display window. It is almost one meter tall, wearing two-dimensional clothing, holding a sword in one hand and a shield in the other.

It should be a character from a game or anime.

When Lin Mo looked at the model, he actually felt that it looked like a wooden mannequin, so he got out of the car and came in to take a look.

The store is not big. Because it is filled with various models and figurines, it seems crowded and cramped. You may have to walk carefully, otherwise it is easy to knock something over.

Behind the front counter, a man was repairing a model figurine with his head down, very seriously. Of course, because there was a sensor at the entrance, when someone came in, an electronic sound of "Welcome" would be emitted, so the other party also knew that a customer had come in.

"You can look at whatever you like. They are not expensive."

The man who looked like the boss didn't even raise his head, still concentrating on his own work.

Lin Mo looked around and saw that there were too many action figures here. They were almost everywhere on the floor, cabinets, and walls. Some of the healing action figures were okay, and the funny ones were not bad either. But the horror and weird ones were a bit unpleasant.

Various zombies, dead bodies, vampires, and C-type monsters are hung on the wall.

There's even ambient lighting on. Fortunately it's daytime. If I had seen it at night, I would have been scared.

Lin Mo walked around and finally pointed at the model that looked somewhat like a wooden mannequin and asked, "How much is this?"

The boss looked up, then lowered his head and continued working.

"That one is not for sale. Look at something else."

Not selling?

Lin Mo wasn't interested in the others either.

And he still had a mission to complete, so he didn't look at it again and turned and walked out.

The sun was shining brightly outside and I could feel a hint of warmth. It was much colder in the shop just now than outside.

In the car, Expert Zhou smiled and said, "Team Leader Lin also likes these two-dimensional things?"

Lu Xian looked at Lin Mo with shining eyes: "Team Leader Lin, I like him too. When can we talk about it?"

Lin Mo waved his hand.

He got off the car just now just to take a look at the model that looked like a wooden dummy, but there was no need to explain the matter so clearly.

The car drove to an intersection ahead and stopped.

"It's that old building with the locked outer door and a sign saying 'dangerous building'." Expert Zhou pointed.

After that, he asked again: "Should we arrange for the action team to go in and take a look?"

Lin Mo pondered for a moment.

Nodded.

Expert Zhou immediately made arrangements, and after a while, another car drove over and stopped in front. Four members of the action team got out of the car, quickly cut the lock on the outside with pliers, and pushed the door open and walked in.

The old building was not big, with three floors plus a basement, and it was explored completely in a short while.

Nothing was found.

This is normal, because the dummy confessed that the bronze door was in the nightmare world, so it is not surprising that it was not found in the real world.

At this moment, with the old building as the center and extending outward, all residents within a radius of 100 meters are already in their cars and have begun to be isolated with isolation belts.

Lin Mo thought about it and decided to try it out in a dream.

Among the people who entered the dream were members of the action team, Expert Zhou, Lu Xian, and of course Lin Mo himself.

In the nightmare world, the old building also looked eerie and scary. This time, Lin Mo did not let the action team members go in.

Instead, have someone bring the dummy over.

He wanted Lu Xian to control one of the dummies to go in and investigate.

Because this place has been determined by Lin Mo to be a trap. Since it is a trap, he definitely cannot let his own people in. It is most appropriate to control the dummy to enter.

Take a look at the dummy's reaction as well.

The five dummies had actually been feeling a little uneasy since a while ago.

They obviously knew this place.

Lin Mo brought the confession dummy in front of Lu Xian.

The dummy wanted to struggle and run, but in Lin Mo's hands, it didn't have any chance at all.

Lu Xian came over at this time.

A nightmare was merging on Lu Xian's back.

That nightmare was special.

It has a body of flesh and blood, but its ten fingers are extremely long, like bamboo poles, and there is a silk thread hanging in front of each finger.

It's like a puppeteer who grafts the object that manipulates the wood onto his fingers.

In addition, the head of this nightmare is actually a mirror.

An oval mirror about the size of your head.

At the beginning, a human face was reflected in the mirror. Lu Xian told Lin Mo that the other person looked like this, but if other targets were controlled, the scene seen by the controlled target could be reflected.

I don’t know about others, but Lin Mo was surprised when he saw this.

There is actually such a nightmare?

What's the difference between this and a remote-controlled robot? The dummy seemed to have seen something and struggled hard, but to no avail. It didn't say anything when Lin Mo asked it, so he let the "puppet master" on Lu Xian's back control it.

In fact, it was the thin strings on the puppeteer's fingers that suddenly fell and entangled the dummy's neck and limbs.

All of a sudden, the dummy's body began to shake, and then the puppeteer moved his fingers, and the dummy took strange steps forward.

"Team Leader Lin, the puppeteer's control time cannot exceed three minutes, otherwise, I might die." Lu Xian showed a painful expression at this time.

Apparently, using the Nightmare power on his back was torture for him.

Three minutes? That's enough.

The controlled dummy showed a terrified expression, but still walked into the old building without hesitation. Lin Mo looked at the puppeteer's mirror head. From this mirror, he could see what the dummy was seeing at the moment.

The old building was pitch black.

I can't see anything clearly.

So most of the mirror is dark.

Lin Mo looked at the time and saw that one and a half minutes had passed.

Lu Xian's face was pale, his legs were shaking, and he was in more pain than before. Expert Zhou saw this and hurried over to support him, otherwise he might fall to the ground.

The opponent's ability is very strong, but relatively speaking, it is also subject to more restrictions.

Hopefully I can find something in the remaining minute.

In the mirror, a door appeared in front of me.

Lin Mo asked Lu Xian to control the dummy to open the door.

But at this moment, something in the mirror shook and flashed by.

The mirror immediately adjusted its angle, and the next moment, in the dark corridor, they saw a huge, fat shadow.

"What is this?" Lin Mo said to himself.

Just as he finished speaking, the fat black shadow in the mirror suddenly rushed over.

Then, the shadow exploded.

It really exploded.

The scene in the mirror disappeared instantly, and the mirror seemed to have been impacted, with several cracks appearing on it.

Almost at the same time, a loud bang came from the old building in the distance.

The remaining glass on top was completely shattered, and even the walls and door frames were blown away. The scene was like a bomb explosion.

Lin Mo reacted quickly and immediately pulled Expert Zhou and Lu Xian to hide in an alley.

They were a hundred meters away, but they could still feel the vibration over there, and a lot of debris was flying over there.

It is conceivable that if they were in the old building at the time, or even just at the door, they would have been affected by the explosion.

Death is certain.

When the vibration died down, Lin Mo leaned over to take a look.

"It's a trap indeed!"

He was glad that he was cautious this time.

Thanks to the clown's divination and the prediction, the danger came unexpectedly. According to Lin Mo's previous habits, even if he knew it was a trap, he would not pay much attention to it.

In his mind, a trap was to ambush the enemy in advance, or some kind of sneak attack.

Who would have thought that this time they would create a bomber for you.

It's an exaggeration.

Needless to say, the dummy that was controlled by Lu Xian to walk in just now triggered some kind of attack mechanism, which means that as long as someone in the nightmare world enters this old building, the bomber will rush out and self-destruct.

Lin Mo had never seen such a nightmare that could self-destruct.

It was a mess outside. Some members of the operation team were lying on the ground, injured, but fortunately the distance was far and no one died.

This is a blessing in disguise.

On the other side, some action team members ran over.

These are the people who are on guard and watching over the other four dummies at the perimeter.

"Report, when the explosion happened just now, the four dummies really tried to escape. Following Team Leader Lin's instructions, we shot and killed three of them and let one escape."

A member of the action team said at this moment.

Expert Zhou was stunned.

There is also this matter, how come I don’t know about it? He looked at Lin Mo.

Lin Mo smiled apologetically: "It was a temporary arrangement. I didn't expect there would be an explosion, but I estimated that if this was a trap, they would definitely try to escape if something went wrong, so I made some arrangements in advance. I was also afraid that I might make a mistake in my estimation, so I didn't tell you."

Expert Zhou thought to himself, I don’t believe it, you are just trying to keep it a secret.

But he wouldn't say that.

Although I felt a little uncomfortable, I admired Lin Mo's way of doing things.

Only this kind of person can solve the fake person crisis.

The reason why the General Administration entrusted him with such an important task was definitely not because of luck, but because of his strength.

"Team Leader Lin, have you arranged for a tracking expert from the action team to follow them?" Expert Zhou asked.

This is also normal.

Letting one go on purpose is to play the long game and catch a bigger fish.

As a result, Lin Mo shook his head.

"Don't underestimate those dummies. If you follow them, the chances of being discovered are too high."

"So what do you mean?"

"I didn't send anyone to follow you!" Lin Mo said bluntly and confidently.

Expert Zhou was completely stunned.

He felt like Lin Mo was joking and went over the whole process in his mind.

From the moment they captured these five dummies, they deliberately set a trap and locked the five of them together. At the same time, surveillance cameras were set up in the cell, and enough guards were arranged in the nightmare world of that cell.

Therefore, the five dummies could only discuss secretly in the real world.

But this kind of discussion was actually just a pretense by the five dummies.

After that, they interrogated them separately and used the strategy of sowing discord, seemingly forcing a fake person to betray, but in fact the other party also took advantage of the situation and gave out an address.

This is the key.

This address had obviously been tampered with. If Lin Mo really believed what the other party said and brought people in, the only outcome would be death.

Of course, Expert Zhou didn’t know that even if Lin Mo went in and endured the explosion, he would not die.

Because Lin Mo has the curse of the undead.

But expert Zhou doesn’t know about this, and the dummies probably don’t know either.

Let’s talk about this trick again. The trap was detonated and the surviving dummies escaped. Lin Mo arranged for people to kill three and let one go. At this point, he already had an absolute advantage.

As long as you follow this running dummy, you will definitely gain a lot.

But Lin Mo actually said that he did not send anyone to follow.

After reviewing this, Expert Zhou began to look at Lin Mo with suspicion.

Lin Mo smiled, he knew what Expert Zhou was thinking.

"Don't let your imagination run wild. I'm not a fake person's accomplice!"

Lin Mo said this, then took out a paper crane from his arms.

Expert Zhou blushed when his thoughts were guessed, and his attention was quickly drawn to the paper crane in Lin Mo's hand.

"What's this?"

"Paper crane!"

"I know. I mean, what can this paper crane do?"

"I didn't send anyone to follow the family member who escaped because there was no need. With this paper crane, we can find it no matter where it is."

After saying that, Lin Mo wrote a name on the paper crane.

It says the name of the person that the dummy copied from the living person.

The dummies have extremely strong copying abilities, and can even fool paper cranes. Lin Mo has done experiments on this, so he is so confident about it.

After writing the name, Lin Mo tore a few holes in the wings of the paper crane.

Expert Zhou, like the curious baby, asked why this was the case.

"If I don't tear it apart, we won't be able to catch up with it."

After saying that, he blew at the paper crane.

"Go ahead!"

The paper crane flapped its wings and flew forward.

It was the first time for Expert Zhou to see such a thing and he was stunned. The others almost hid as well. Lu Xian also wanted to follow, but Lin Mo told him to take a good rest.

Because he had used his control ability before, Lu Xian’s face turned frighteningly pale.

"This time, it's just me and Expert Zhou who will go. Everyone else should stay where they are and be on guard."

After Lin Mo finished speaking, he followed the paper crane.

Expert Zhou followed hurriedly.

The paper crane didn't fly fast, but it was flying after all, so the two of them had to jog to keep up with it.

Lin Mo thought he had to walk a long way, but he didn't expect that the paper crane just turned two corners and flew towards a shop in front.

Lin Mo was stunned when he saw the shop.

Expert Zhou standing nearby also widened his eyes.

"Hey, Team Leader Lin, isn't this the model shop you got off the car to visit earlier?"

(End of this chapter)