Chapter 35: Clues

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"The system elf is gone too!" Lin Lan shouted,

"Cousin...Cousin brother! Is this...a ghost hitting the wall!!"

Chu Feng looked around lightly. The system had been silently protecting him from behind just now. he. But now there is no shadow in the whole room.

There was a thick wall at the door, and he and Lin Lan were still blocked here.

Chu Feng closed the door calmly and comforted his frightened cousin:

"There is no ghost. It may be the space folding caused by abnormal data."

Lin Lan: "?? Cousin, can you tell me something I can understand?"

Chu Feng slightly Jia explained, in simple terms, the building of Room 404 in Dream City reads the memory in his brain. But he came to Xie Shiyu's house more than once when he was a child.

Every time I come, the state of the interior of the room must be slightly different. The things placed in the house in summer and the house in winter are different. In reality, there is only one Room 404 where Xiao Yu lives, but in Chu Feng's memory, there are actually several Room 404 in different states.

A normal dream city will automatically select the cleanest house from memory, import it into the city as a building, and allow players to redecorate and transform this house.

Now affected by the virus, not only the original decoration is gone, Dream City has also superimposed all the spaces of Room 404 that he read in his memory.

"I understand!" Lin Lan got up from the ground, her fear weakened a bit, "So, did God X go to Room 404 in another state?" "Should." Chu

Feng

walked along the wall of the living room, Constantly groping. The data here has become abnormal. If all the rooms in the previous memory are revealed, there must be a place where the space superposition state can pass through, otherwise X will not disappear in vain.

Walking on the solid wall with his fingertips, Chu Feng has been observing the changes on the wall. This building is infected, and there must be an abnormality in the data sequence somewhere. He walked all the way to the window, opened the curtains, and touched the curtains. The wall at the back, suddenly-

the air in front of his eyes was filled with transparent fluctuations, and they were pushed away in front of Chu Feng like ripples. When his hand touched the wall, the whole wall suddenly became soft like water, and half of his hand directly touched the wall. penetrated the past. Lin Lan was stunned. In the next second, he saw his cousin... passing

through the wall very calmly ?

!

It was pitch black.

Chu Feng came over and heard some rustling noises.

Swipe-

a curtain in front of my eyes was pulled open.

X stood in front of Chu Feng.

X has been searching in the living room, and naturally he also focused on observing behind the curtains. After checking, he found that there seemed to be no sound in the whole house, and there was no smell of living people... X turned back from the living room and opened Xiao Yu's room, which was empty

. . He turned back to the living room and found that Chu Feng, who was nowhere to be found, suddenly appeared under the curtains.

The air in front of him fluctuated, and soon, another person appeared on the wall behind the curtain.

Lin Lan breathed a sigh of relief when she saw God X. It seems that her cousin's deduction of space folding is correct. The atmosphere in this building is too terrifying. Seeing the highest supervisor, Lin Lan felt much more relieved. He was about to explain to God X what was going on--X raised his eyebrows lightly: "The space is folded?" Chu

Feng

:

" Hmm."

Lin Lan:? ?

Are these two brain circuits connected?

Chu Feng: "What gains?"

He and X entered two rooms 404 in different states, so they should be able to find different things.

X took out a black plastic bag.

Chu Feng frowned. He had seen this black plastic bag before. Xiao Yu brought it from the uncle in the commissary in Room 304 and told him it was some snacks.

Little Chu Feng didn't ask much back then, and he didn't pay attention to what was inside.

"And this." X put the black plastic bag aside, pushed it lightly with one hand, and the broken sofa in the living room immediately moved away, revealing the things underneath-"Damn it! So many bags!" Lin Lan was

surprised .

There are a lot of bags hidden under the dilapidated sofa in Xiao Yu's house. Chu Feng recognized some brands, many of them were even Dior and Chanel. Lin Lan squatted down, and casually opened a small designer bag. There was a wallet in it, which had been emptied of cash.

X said: "His mother, maybe..."

- maybe a pickpocket. Frequent theft and bag snatching.

Chu Feng's dark pupils blinked twice. Indeed, if there is no money, what would Xie Shiyu's father use to take drugs.

Chu Feng really didn't notice this all the time, thinking that Xie Shiyu's father was not an ordinary person, and his mother died of stomach cancer when he was in high school. Chu Feng met her a few times, and she was very gentle towards others. Xiao Yu was also closer to her mother, but her mother always had injuries. She has also been working very hard to move, to get rid of this environment, and to create slightly better conditions for Xiao Yu.

But several divorces were unsuccessful, no matter where they moved, they would definitely be found by Xie Shiyu's father. Because Xie Shiyu's mother had a way to provide money, Xie Shiyu's father was like a vampire and would never let him go.

The black plastic bag made a rustling sound. X opened it:

the bag was full of cash, full of dozens of red banknotes.

"So..." Lin Lan figured out something, "Cousin, you have seen brother Xie take out the black bag from the uncle in room 304. Could it be that the uncle in the commissary actually has some channel behind him that can help brother Xie's mother?" Sell ​​the stolen goods? Then his father will use the money to take drugs. If he doesn't give the money, will he beat her?"

Although Brother Xie's mother is very pitiful, Lin Lan thought, but legally speaking, his father is a drug addict, his mother is a pickpocket, and he can control the neighbors. None of them are good people. It is hard for Lin Lan to imagine how a child can grow up in such an environment.

Chu Feng thought that Xie Shiyu's father did not take drugs at the beginning, and the family still had some money in business in the early years, which would allow Xie Shiyu to enter a good kindergarten.

Then the business plummeted and he went bankrupt, and his father became addicted to drugs. Because Xiaoyu couldn't pay the kindergarten sponsorship fee, he was forced to drop out of the kindergarten, and his family moved to a messy place like this.

"This uncle from the commissary is very suspicious!" Lin Lan said, "Is there any power behind him? For example, a large-scale salesman, is there any criminal gang?"

X: "...Digital."

Lin Lan: ?

Chu Feng understood what X meant. They searched here and there, and found many clues, but they were all too fragmented. It's been 22 years, so it's really hard to say what happened. The most important thing for them is to crack the password security question of 7-year-old Xie.

Back to the topic, the topic is very intuitive. Ask about a murder case, find out the deceased and the murderer, and it may be related to the sale of stolen goods and theft, but these may not be the main clues. Redundant clues can be explored a bit, but don't get distracted by the real message.

"The handle."

Chu Feng said suddenly.

Lin Lan:? ? ?

His cousin and Master X, one or two popped out a few words suddenly, and there was no system elf, so he couldn't keep up with what they were thinking.

Chu Feng stared at the bag of stolen money in X's hand, and suddenly had bad guesses in his heart. 304's uncle helped Xie Shiyu's mother sell the stolen goods, which meant that he held onto Xie Shiyu's mother.

Will Uncle 304 force Xiao Yu to do something? According to the topic, the uncle in Room 304 once peeped at Xiao Yu's house from outside the cat's eyes, and Chu Feng suddenly had a very bad guess, which made his hair stand on end.

"Can I get out from here?"

Chu Feng wanted to quit the game immediately and go back to reality to check.

Now it is impossible to go back the same way, and the system has disappeared. In the chaotic space superposition state, they can't go back by themselves.

Lin Lan: "I can flip back with the key of Dream City."

X: "The supervisor has a special passage."

Chu Feng: ...

he is the only one left here who can't go back.

Lin Lan just wanted to say that he can go back to reality and help his cousin stop the game headset, just press the [Force Exit] button. Cousin can wake up from reality.

The disadvantage of this is that the next time they come back to the game, the three of them will still appear in this chaotic superposition space.

Just as Lin Lan was about to speak out about her witty method, X suddenly gave her an inexplicable look.

Lin Lan fell silent.

X said: "The supervisor's channel, maybe you can take someone with you."

"Okay." Chu Feng didn't ask how to bring it carefully, but turned to Lin Lan and said, "Use the key to pop it out first."

Lin Lan still hesitated to ask Don't talk about his method, and was taken a cold look by Master X again.

"Uh, my cousin, I will withdraw first, see you later in reality!"

Beep--

Lin Lan turned into a piece of blue data fragments, floating in the air.

"Let's go." Chu Feng said to X.

He didn't think much about it, he just thought that X had supervisor authority, and could open a passage in the air to return to reality.

X didn't move, he stood where he was, and stretched out his hand to unbutton his windbreaker.

Chu Feng: "...?"

X: "Sorry, the supervision channel has specific identification. We need to let the channel system think that we are one person."

Chu Feng: "So?"

X opened his windbreaker and smiled at him :

"So you are welcome to come in."

,

Chu Feng was wrapped in the windbreaker by X.

His back was hugged by X, and his whole body was leaning against X's chest, tightly attached to him, perfectly fitting.

This hug is too warm.

The warm Chu Feng felt a little uncomfortable. Xie Shiyu would hold him tightly like this before, feeling very secure. With his height of 1.8 meters, it is difficult for anyone to really hold him completely in his arms.

If he felt very uncomfortable and hot when being hugged by X, in fact Chu Feng would not feel uncomfortable in his heart, but he didn't feel any resistance in his body when he was hugged tightly by someone he didn't know very well. This state made Chu Feng feel uncomfortable.

Chu Feng moved, wanting to stay away from X's temperature...

X instantly hugged him tightly.

Beep--!

A sharp cry flashed in the dazzling passage.

"Don't stay too far away from me."

X pressed Chu Feng back into his arms tightly, and held it down.

Chu Feng was buried in his warm embrace, unable to see anything. After a while, the alarm sound in the ear gradually disappeared. They stick tight enough. The channel system sees them as one again.

Splendid brilliance swirls around the passage.

Chu Feng felt that everything around him was fading away at the speed of light. In the end, his field of vision was a piece of white light...

,

beep--

Dream City game headgear has been disconnected.

Chu Feng woke up from the bed.

He got up and walked to the living room, just in time to see Lin Lan coming out of the guest room.

Lin Lan tacitly did not ask Chu Feng how God X brought him out. Lin Lan turned to the main topic:

"Cousin, do you have any clues? Since it's a murder case, why don't you go and find out what crimes have been recorded in this building. I happen to know a few students from the criminal police department. "

Chu Feng: "Okay, you can ask for me."

Lin Lan dug out the WeChat list and sat on the sofa to send a message. Chu Feng turned back to his room, thought for a while, turned on the phone, dialed a number, and pressed it off again.

--His grandfather was the director of the Municipal Finance Bureau back then, and there should have been some interactions with the police.

Chu Feng squeezed the space between his eyebrows. If Grandpa questioned him, why should he investigate? Chu Feng was speechless. I can't say that I'm addicted to games...

"Cousin! There's news!!"

The senior of Lin Lan's criminal police department happened to have a friend who was now the archives manager in the section of the building where Xie Shiyu used to be. When Lin Lan was looking for a relationship, she deliberately brought out her cousin's grandfather: the Director of the Finance Bureau, emphatically emphasizing that Grandpa Chu Feng also had a lot of friendship with the old director of the Public Security Bureau.

"Hello."

Chu Feng returned to the bedroom, took out a pen and paper, and called the number Lin Lan provided.

What he wanted to check was not too important information: whether there had been any crimes in the old building at No. 158 West Street in the old city.

"The case has not been found, but you said it was 22 years ago. I'm afraid it's too difficult to find out. They were all paper records back then. Even if something happened, the records may have been lost long ago. And the old city is in a mess. .But..."

Chu Feng clenched the pen in his hand.

"But I found a record of the prisoner. He lived there all the time before he was arrested."

Chu Feng raised his heart. He wanted to verify his guess, but he desperately didn't want his guess to come true. The palm of the hand holding the pen was sweating slightly, and Chu Feng 's voice was a little hoarse:

"Did... what crime did you commit?

"

Hole.

The name of the prisoner is Sun XX. 25 years ago, he was arrested for molesting a child and sentenced to 5 years in prison. He was released from prison 22 years ago and lived in the building where Xie Shiyu's family lived at No. 158, West Street, Old Town. building.

Chu Feng's heart seemed to be immersed in an ice cave.

"Five years ago, this man committed another crime. This time he molested a child in a public place. It was a second offense. He was sentenced to eight years and is still in prison. When he was arrested, he was still living in that building. .Hello...Hello?? Can you hear me?"

On the snow-white paper, the black ink of the pen was blurred.

"Listen... get it."

Chu Feng clenched the tip of the pen tightly, and wrote down all the information stroke by stroke like a knife:

"Where does this person live?"

Little

policeman: "Uh, Room 104.

"

The nib paused.

Chu Feng held the phone: "...Room 104? Are you sure?"

Little police officer: "...Yes, is there... a problem?"

Chu Feng: "Is it possible that it is... Room 304, I remember wrongly?

" Said it might be wrong. This person was arrested for committing a second crime 5 years ago. Computers have long been popularized, and they are all electronic input. It is impossible to make mistakes. There were reports in the news at that time!" Chu Feng: "Or

... After so many years, he changed his house number?"

"This should be...not, when he was arrested, the neighbors said that he has lived in Room 104 for more than ten years, and he said every year that he would move out. , but they never moved."

"..."

Chu Feng crossed out all the information he had recorded.

Room 104 is someone else beyond the title. The people in the title are mainly on the 3rd, 4th and 5th floors.

The uncle in the commissary in room 304 was not what he imagined.

Chu Feng felt a little relieved, at least not like that. But... who is in room 304? Is it possible...in case it is someone more terrifying. Chu Feng thought of the bloodstains on the third floor, the evidence that Xiao Yu hid in the red scarf, and the people peeping through the cat's eyes.

What the hell happened 22 years ago?

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