"Got in touch with them?"

"Well, by the way, I briefly talked about the development of the plot, let them go to the police station to collect intelligence, and let's meet there"

Putting down the phone, An Yizhi refocused his gaze on the place where Hazuki had disappeared. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

It's been a week.

Of course, the system won't keep the player in the dungeon for a week, which would starve the player to death.

Ye Yue was taken away by an unknown creature before, and after An Yizhi and Lin Linglin returned home, time was like being pressed to fast forward, their eyes were black and open, and a week had passed.

Now it seems that the sleep mode is in place to explain this, as long as the player is asleep, the system can adjust the dungeon time as long as the player is asleep.

However, this kind of thing is a trivial matter, and there is no need to pay too much attention to it. What made An Yizhi frown even more was the scene of Ye Yue's disappearance.

Since the system has already prompted that a week has passed, the time in the dungeon has really passed a week, but the clues of Hazuki are still as clear as new.

Not to mention the slap print of a person as big as a person on the telephone pole, that thing is deep and there is no way to deal with it, but the puddle of water stains on the ground still exists, which is very weird in itself.

It's summer, and even if it's cloudy and sunless all week, there's no water stain left, right? Not even a sign of shrinkage, it smelled rancid.

At present, the two of them have learned that Hazuki has been abducted by supernatural creatures, but there is no danger at the moment, at least for now.

Because the side quest goal has not been updated, it is still written to retrieve Hazuki.

But because there was no clue to her whereabouts, she disappeared out of thin air, just like Keita Ishizawa.

Since it is impossible to follow the clue of his whereabouts, An Yizhi has no choice but to change his thinking.

- Why Hazuki was taken captive.

From the outside, she is just an ordinary middle school student, and there is nothing special about her. So the abduction of her can only be thought of from the context in which she lives.

His father, Toshiyuki Tosungyuki, was the chief engineer of the Central Tower, and if the other party did not want the Central Tower to be completed, then his goal was achieved. The two learned from Hazuki's mother that their father had been hit by his daughter's disappearance, and now he had been sent to the hospital to be bedridden, and the work related to the Central Tower had to be suspended.

In addition, the old style ring that Hazuki brought with her was also the reason for her abduction, and maybe that ring was some kind of remarkable item.

But there is an unavoidable loophole in the above two inferences, that is, Hazuki is still alive.

If the mastermind behind the scenes or the supernatural creatures controlled by the mastermind behind the scenes have the above two purposes, then there is no need to let Hazuki continue to live, anyway, he can kidnap people without knowing it, so it is not so difficult to find a place to throw the corpse after killing Hazuki. What is the purpose of keeping Hazuki alive?

Or why is Hazuki still alive after a week?

An Yizhi knew in his heart, and he felt that as long as he understood this, the whole truth would be revealed.

Lin Linglin used a pencil and drawing board to sketch the handprints on the telephone pole, trying to find the true body of the attacker, while An Yizhi crouched near the water stain, thinking of a way.

In fact, An Yizhi didn't know much about the Cthulhu Mythos, he had only read a few novels and played TRPG running in Tu Hongyu's place, what kind of creature could cause such traces, which was blind.

However, of course, the system will not make an unsolvable situation, and there must be a glimmer of life in the clue.

He twisted the cap of the bottle and poured the mineral water down, and the water and mineral water merged into one and flowed down the sewer along the curve of the pavement. After a little waiting, he saw that the edges of the water-watered 'water stain' were starting to dry up.

What does this mean? Soluble in water?

He didn't dare to touch the puddle of water with his hands and empty the bottle, so he took some samples with the cap and put them away, hoping that modern technology could help him test the composition of the liquid.

This is also the reason why the two of them were allowed to go to the police station to meet.

- He wants to borrow the power of the Police Forensic Identification Bureau.

The only ones who can do it are the two who are criminal policemen.

"I'm done, but ...... Looks weird."

Lin Linglin handed An a finger to the sketch, which was painted with a huge palm imprint that had left marks on the telephone pole. But......

"It's really weird......"

If you want to say that it is like a palm, it is a little different, its hand has only three fingers, the top finger is the smallest, the middle one is longer, and the bottom one is the longest.

The palm was also strange, too short for the length of its finger, which was almost as wide as the shortest finger.

From a biological point of view, such a palm is not suitable for grasping, and it is difficult to imagine that it is the product of natural evolution.

(You can try it with the palm of your own hand, only the first half and three fingers to grasp things)

He pointed the sketch to the sunlight, and a shadow appeared on it.

"Wait, Lingling, you just draw a mirror image according to the shape of this palm and outline it."

Lin Linglin didn't say a word, and as a result, she sketched a few strokes.

Then they saw that what was once thought to be a palm was actually a human form.......

Strictly speaking, it was half of the human being, evenly and accurately separated from the forehead to the thighs, and this half was the giant hand.

An Yizhi shuddered, what kind of monster is this, although there are some pedestrians passing by, it doesn't give him any sense of security, he always feels that those pedestrians are secretly observing themselves, and everyone wants to hide behind the scenes.

"Anyway, let's go to the library next"

Take a deep breath and try to relax. It doesn't do any good, it affects thinking.

"To the library? Why? ”

"It's a little bit of something I want to look up, it's not bad on the computer, it's really an inconvenient world, and as long as you contact the Akashic record to retrieve the data, such a problem is as easy as a hand."

Although she didn't know what the hell he was talking about the Akashic record, Lin Linglin knew that An Yizhi was talking serious nonsense, so she complained:

"Do you have a little yellow book in your Akashic record?"

“……”

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Moments later, the two arrived at the municipal library.

Originally, he didn't go to the library in Ann's investigation plan, but after carefully recalling everything that had happened, he decided to come to the library temporarily.

On the night of Ye Yue's disappearance, when Tosei and his wife came to ask An Yizhi and the two to help them find him, they said something like this:

"The police didn't accept it, and they were very patient at first, but after hearing that we lived in 7-chome, they changed their attitude and said that it would be handled as a runaway, it was so irresponsible! Besides, that's our most important daughter."

At first, he didn't pay attention to it, but then he thought about it, and the phrase "I changed my attitude after hearing that we lived in 7-chome" attracted Yasu's attention.

Why did the police change their attitude when they heard that the missing person lived in 7-chome? In addition, there are many cases of missing people reported in the news, and it seems that they also happened in 7-chome.

It is by no means unintentional for the system to place Yasuchiji's residence in 7-chome, and on the whole, the name of the place is very problematic in itself.

Although we have entered the Internet age, almost all materials can be found on the Internet, but the information on the history of urban development can only be found in the local library, and the Internet is not comprehensive.

When he approached the librarian and asked him about the historical materials of the place, the administrator was a little surprised, because they recorded a part of the history of the city, otherwise they would have been abandoned and few people would have borrowed them.

The administrator operated on the computer for a while, and then found the book An Yizhi wanted, which shows how unpopular that book is.

"What do you think is wrong with the seven-chome?"

"No, I think there's a problem with the whole city"

A modern city that looks ordinary, but players have already experienced 4 weird supernatural events here, and it would be unscientific to say that there is no problem with such a dense burst rate of events.

There are two books that record the development history of the city, and in order to improve efficiency, An Yizhi and Lin Linglin found a secluded place to read one by one.

In ancient times, it was not a city, but a number of villages. Nearby farmers rely on spring water from a place called Tengu Town.

Because the surrounding land is fertile and abundant, the villages have grown over time.

Later, during the Edo period (1603-1867), there was a major flood in the area, but miraculously the local villagers were not affected by the flood.

In the modern era, the mayor of Tengu Town, Ijinji, who took office in the 1990s, was very bold enough to merge the surrounding villages and fill in the swamps near the springs to form the city we see today.

Ten years later, the former mayor, the original mayor of Tengu Town, was defeated due to arbitrariness and scandals, and the new mayor felt that the previous mayor's planning was problematic, so the original 8-chome and 7-chome were merged.

One of the most suspicious is that the former mayor Ishimi lost contact shortly after leaving office, and the police searched for a long time to find him, and finally determined that he was dead. Since then, the disappearances of 7-chome have become more frequent.

Of course, the second half is not written in the book, but is deduced from the news reports that An Yizhi found on the computer in chronological order.

What did Ishen do before she disappeared? Where is he now? What does the disappearance have to do with him?

In addition, the 8-chome merged with the 7-chome is also suspicious.

He rummaged around the history books and found a map from the year 2000 that said that the 8-chome did not exist on the map today, and compared it with an earlier map, he found that the 8-chome was originally the location of Tengu Town.

"Huh? Lingling, do you have the map with you? ”

"Bring"

Yasuchichi put the modern map on the table at the same time as the map from the 2000s, and he marked many things on the modern map, such as the location of his own house, the location of Takae Hizaki, the location of Keita Ishizawa's disappearance, and the place where Hazuki was abducted.

"The place of the abduction, in the swamp?"

That's right, the place where Hazuki was taken away was the center of the swamp that had been filled in by the mayor.

Coincidental? Or is there something wrong with that filled-in swamp?

Although the clues were finally found as expected, the mystery became more and more ......