Chapter 164
Lu Jiamu didn't pay attention to it immediately. He silently stood up the diaries and arranged the other items into different categories.
The diary seemed to be just a polite greeting and was not in a hurry to get a response. The line of small words slowly disappeared on its own.
The two people outside didn't notice this small change and continued talking.
The man in black sneered and told Coleman: "That man is indeed very troublesome, but let him be more careful in the future. If you often walk by the river, you will encounter water ghosts sooner or later. Remember this."
Coleman heard a general account of their recent experiences from Lu Jiamu and roughly understood what the man in black was talking about.
Now there are signs of a handshake and reconciliation between them, and the other party's words and deeds seem to be extending an olive branch. This is a good thing. Coleman immediately smiled and said that he would go back and look after Yu Leng.
After getting the promise, the man in black stopped talking about this and turned to Wei Xiaoyan: "Since you guys have the credit for discovering the abnormality in advance, I can stop asking. But I think you are still very interested in her story."
"How is she doing now?" Coleman's eyes lit up. "When I went to see her before, I didn't quite understand the specific situation."
The man in black glanced at Lu Jiamu. "After she was kept in captivity by the anomaly, she lived in a very bad environment because the anomaly itself did not need to eat and it was difficult to obtain fresh food. There was no fire in the anomaly range, so she lacked hygienic food and drinking water. She could only eat spoiled and inedible plants and insects raw for a long time. This caused her body to repeatedly become inflamed, she suffered from long-term food poisoning and severe malnutrition, her body showed signs of edema and ulceration, and she also suffered small-scale burns during the rescue. Her survival is a miracle."
"We have actively treated her and her life is no longer in danger. After the quarantine is over and it is confirmed that she is not at risk of abnormal infection, we will transfer her to a designated hospital with better conditions for follow-up treatment. However, it seems that some of her injuries can be cured after a period of recuperation, but some injuries are irreversible."
"For example, tooth loss caused by long-term malnutrition. But if she needs it, we will help her make up for it in the future."
Kouman had already prepared for the worst, and now he was relieved to hear that Wei Xiaoyan's condition was stable.
"Now let's talk about the anomaly." The man in black said, "Wei Xiaoyan used to have a cousin who lived in her house when he was a child, and the two grew up together. When her cousin grew up, he went out to sea as a seaman. Then one day he suddenly disappeared on the ship. Although the relevant parties immediately launched a search, the man's whereabouts were still unknown, so he was classified as dead and compensation was paid to his family. Because this kind of thing happens from time to time and there is nothing special about it, it did not attract our attention, so in the previous investigation, we did not specifically investigate this person. But this time, through the interaction between Wei Xiaoyan and the anomaly, we believe that the anomaly is the mutation of this cousin."
"We now suspect that he was not actually dead at the time, but had mysteriously returned after disappearing for a while. However, when he returned, he had been infected and mutated for some unknown reason. His family may not have disclosed this matter to the public because of the compensation. Later, this person's mutation became more and more serious, and he gradually lost his mind and imprisoned his entire family. He was strong and healthy because he had been out at sea for many years, but his family were all old, weak, women and children, and they could not defeat him at all."
"Later, Wei Xiaoyan's teacher found that he could not contact her, so he came to visit her. Unfortunately, he was killed and thrown into the reservoir. At the same time, because he died directly at the hands of the abnormality, this close contact caused him to mutate after his death and became the second abnormality. Perhaps he realized that something was wrong with him, or perhaps he was worried that someone would disturb them again. Wei Xiaoyan's mutated cousin used his last remaining consciousness to take his entire family into the mountains and isolated themselves from the world. He never came out again, and his entire family was also considered missing and dead."
"After entering the woods, it mutated more and more and gradually evolved into what it is now. During this period, it devoured its stepparents for some reason, but because it had always been as close to Wei Xiaoyan as a real sister in its lifetime and treated its sister as a little princess, even though it mutated into a monster and lost its mind, it was still affected by some of its remaining consciousness in its lifetime and was unwilling to hurt Wei Xiaoyan. Instead, it provided for her. However, because it mutated too badly and had lost all normal cognition, this provision soon turned into torture. It also placed the bodies of her parents together with hers and took good care of them. This is roughly what happened, but it is just our speculation based on the current situation."
After hearing this, Coleman felt a little sad about the difference in their identities this time.
The three of them had normal identities when they came to this world, but they didn't expect Wei Xiaoyan to have such a hellish start. They didn't know how desperate she must have felt when she was alone and weak facing the monster.
"Many things are like this. If any abnormality is not discovered in time, it may cause a series of serious chain reactions." The man in black took a deep breath. "However, after investigating this far, the cause and effect of this matter have been connected. No serious impact has been caused, and the survivors have been saved. It can be considered a happy ending for everyone."
Coleman thought for a moment and asked, "What about the abnormality that teacher turned into?"
"We are still searching for the last part of the anomaly, don't worry." The man in black said to her, "Also, we have already found an excuse for your strange disappearance these days. If you want, you can go back and continue your original work and life."
Coleman didn't expect the other party to be so thoughtful. He thanked him sincerely.
"If you really want to thank me, then you should behave yourself and stop causing trouble."
The man in black looked back and forth at their faces for a few times, and when he felt that he had made everything he wanted to say clear, he left again.
After he left, Lu Jiamu said to Kou Man, "Sister Man, if you have anything to do, go back to Yu Leng first."
Coleman shook his head and sat back on the ground. "I don't have anything to do. I'll stay with you for a while. If you need anything, I can help you in time."
She picked up the book beside her and began to read quietly again.
Lu Jiamu lowered his head and looked at the diary.
Another line of small words appeared on the cover: [Who is this guy? Why is he so arrogant?]
Lu Jiamu first opened the diary and checked it.
After not seeing each other for such a long time, and he had experienced so many adventures, but only a few messy lines in the diary were updated into understandable text. What was updated were some of Fang Gu's own experiences, interspersed in a sea of garbled text.
These mainly include some information about the composition of organizations that deal with abnormal things that he has seen, his past interactions with them, some research results he has seen, and his feelings about some ghosts changing their minds after death. Most of them are interspersed in the ghost paintings and are incoherent, and no particularly useful information has been updated.
Lu Jiamu treated the scribbles and messy lines and words equally, and patiently appreciated each page.
Soon the diary couldn't stand the loneliness anymore, and started to play tricks again, and began to slowly appear on the page he was reading: [Hey, pay attention to me.]
Lu Jiamu had no inclination. He flipped through the entire diary at almost the same speed, then took out a pen from his personal belongings and wrote on the diary: [Guess how I've been doing recently.]
[How would I know?] As soon as someone paid attention to him, he couldn't wait to write in his diary, [But seeing that you were locked up in such a small room and others spoke to you so arrogantly, I guess you are not doing well.]
[What about you?] Lu Jiamu asked back, [I thought that after you were taken away, you would soon be found to be abnormal and then destroyed.]
[How is that possible?] The diary paused for a moment, and some unfriendly hand gesture sketches began to appear on it, [I was afraid of being noticed, so I stayed in the cardboard box every day and pretended to be dead without moving. I was almost suffocated.]
Lu Jiamu wrote in an ambiguous tone: [I am so nervous that I am almost scared to death.]
The diary paused longer this time before slowly typing out: [? ]
[Do I look that timid?] The diary began to change the subject, [From what that arrogant person said, it seems that you have experienced a lot of things while I was away. Can you tell me about it?]
[Secret.] Lu Jiamu gave a fake smile and slowly flipped the papers, [Guess what I saw.]
The diary seemed to be thinking carefully about something. After a while, the notes reappeared: [You can see whatever you want. I will ignore you.]
After writing, the handwriting quickly faded, and then just as it said, it completely stopped and started playing dead, and no sound could be heard no matter how hard you called.
Lu Jiamu had nothing to do, so he began to read it carefully over and over again. But even so, he didn't force himself to write a single word through embarrassment.
Although the diary is just a notebook, without a face and expression, the speed at which the words appear still reveals some of its thoughts. Through these small details, Lu Jiamu still tasted some flavor.
He was just testing it out, but unexpectedly he discovered some clues.
He turns the pages slowly when reading his diary because the diary knows everything about him but does not know what others can see.
Reading slowly page by page will confuse his vision and hearing, making it difficult to guess how much he can understand based on his reading speed and the position of his eyes.
He asked it if it was so nervous that it was scared to death. There was no specified time in this sentence, which means that it could be asking whether it was scared when it was in the box before, or it could be asking whether it was scared now.
Of course, those who have nothing to hide would think it was the first case without thinking, but the diary was slow to write, and it was obvious that it was also thinking about whether Lu Jiamu was just arguing or was hinting at something.
Something in this sentence struck it, and it tried to guess his attitude.
It has something to hide.
It was obvious that the special circumstances of their long separation had caused the diary to worry that it was out of its expectations. It was eager to know what he had experienced.
But when Lu Jiamu blew it up and asked it to guess what he saw, it sorted out its logic again.
As a close friend during his lifetime, the diary knows him better.
If he really could see everything, he wouldn't talk so much.
Just because there is so little content to see, I want to test its attitude in advance.
But what did its attitude matter? What mattered was that he had not finished reading the diary, and he would not do anything to it.
So after making a few jokes, the diary started to act badly, and then fell to the ground and pretended to be dead with confidence.
As he tested it, it tested him.
They all controlled each other to a certain extent.
Kou Man stayed at the temporary site for a whole day, went back and forth to check on Wei Xiaoyan several times. Seeing that her vital signs were stable and there was nothing he could do to help, Kou Man left in the evening with Yu Leng's personal belongings.
When she came out, the forest fire was getting more and more intense, with no sign of stopping. It was estimated that the abnormal person would definitely not survive.
The man in black said that he had asked for leave to keep her job, and she planned to go home to make preparations and start working again tomorrow. It was not for the sake of livelihood, but because the last part of the generator ghosts were still missing, she had to go back quickly to be alert.
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