About 40 minutes later, Jiang Mian successfully arrived at the gate of the abandoned park.

The night is getting deeper.

Under the reflection of a few dim street lamps on the side of the road, the park's patchwork paths are paved with mottled tree shadows, and together with the surrounding rusty facilities and equipment, they form a somewhat eerie hodgepodge picture.

Although the scenery in the park was a little unusually gloomy, Jiang Mian carefully avoided the weeds and dead branches and leaves everywhere, and then walked deeper into the park.

"Calm down...... I need to calm down...... If you pass out again, you will die......"

Jiang Mian couldn't suppress the involuntary twitching of his body, and the terrifying encounters he experienced in a row had made his heart rate and breathing extremely violent, and it seemed that he was about to reproduce the previous scene in the elevator at this time.

Despite constantly urging himself to calm down, Jiang Mian still felt fear constantly overflowing from his heart.

Because about ten minutes ago, he received a feedback call from the police.

The other party told him that a few minutes after receiving his call to report the crime, the police arranged for the police officer on duty to immediately set off from the nearest police station to inspect and investigate the apartment he rented.

However, with the exception of a long rope of clothing, sheets, and other items hanging from the outside of the apartment, nothing else has been found.

The two policemen in charge of the patrol also paid more attention, knocked on many rooms near the perimeter of room 802 one by one, and questioned them in detail after showing their documents, but there were still no clues.

Judging from the feedback from the neighbors around me.

There is no swarm sound.

There was no noise.

Nothing.

For this old apartment without surveillance, it seems that everything he said is impossible to find out.

Quiet Chinese New Year's Eve late at night.

All is well.

The strange and abnormal reality made Jiang Mian, who was holding the phone, completely stunned in place.

Even the voice of the other party repeatedly asking where he was at the moment on the phone could not be heard.

It's just that the memories in my mind keep flashing back in front of my eyes one by one.

He couldn't help but think back to the voice of the uncle next door he heard when he stood in front of the door.

Those things...... Presumably it has gone through the initial stage of stiffness and infirmity.

He is now able to mimic many of the behaviors of normal humans, and is fully integrated into the group.

This is undoubtedly very bad news for Jiang Mian.

In short, it means that he can no longer detect in the first place whether someone is a person or "those things" from what they say or do.

Thinking back to the present, Jiang Mian calmed down a little, and then found himself walking to a small square in the park.

The small square in front of him, though small, was flat and had a good view, and he decided to take a break here and reconsider what to do next.

Jiang Mian sat in a small corner at the edge of the square, the solid wall behind him made him feel a little relieved for the first time in a long time.

Turned on his phone, and then searched and browsed the relevant forums of the city section, he wanted to see if there were other people on the Internet who reported similar situations, such a strange encounter, maybe he was not the only one who bumped into it.

At the same time.

It is located on the street side of a night market in Fenshan City.

A police car with its red and blue warning lights turned off slowly drove by.

Late at night from the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve to the first day of the new year, this special period makes the night market, which should be extremely lively in the middle of the night, seem completely deserted, and only a few "lower shops and upper stores" are still open.

Two uniformed police officers sat in the police car.

"Lao Zheng, the smell of this haggis shop is really good, let me tell you that our shops that are not closed in the Chinese New Year's Eve generally have two brushes, do you want to stop and eat some first?"

The middle-aged police officer in the co-pilot said to his companion on the side.

"Okay."

The companion in the driver's seat glanced at the shop, then replied.

"I happened to be busy at dinner and didn't have time to eat, so I realized that I was a little hungry."

"Nacheng, I'll get out of the car first and get up, you park the car, don't stop at the door of other people's stores, it's not easy for the New Year."

After that, the police officer in the passenger seat opened the door after the car stopped, and then got out of the car and walked to the store.

Not long after, the two of them sat down in front of a fragrant haggis casserole, each holding a bowl of rice and feasting on it.

"Alas, Lao Li, you said that our shift until the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve is sad enough, but it turns out that we can't stop in the middle of the night."

One of them, the police officer named Lao Zheng, stuffed mutton into his mouth, and said to his companion sitting opposite, with a somewhat helpless tone:

"Don't you see how ugly the faces of those residents who were woken up by our knocking on the door in the middle of the night, if they hadn't shown their documents, I doubt we would have been blown out on the spot."

Lao Li, who was sitting opposite, immediately smiled when he heard this.

"Since nothing happened, then it couldn't be better, what we do in this line of work is to be worthy of our hearts and serve the people, understand."

Lao Zheng nodded, and then continued to pick up the rice in his mouth, but then he seemed to think of something again.

"It's a little strange to say."

"What's going on?"

"Although, everyone knows the level of the Spring Festival Gala in the past few decades, but we have just slept in the early hours of the morning when we knocked on five or six rooms in a row......"

"Hmm...... It does seem a bit like this, but it may also be that the sound insulation there is not good, and the neighbors have communicated well and won't stay up late? Lao Li continued to speculate thoughtfully:

"Is this what is the 'collective culture' that has been popular in recent years? No matter what, there will always be people who stay up late in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve. ”

"Forget it, it's good to confirm that it's okay anyway, now I have to wait for another arrangement from above, and then find the young man who called the police, and I can't find anyone outside at night, I'm worried about whether he has a problem like paranoia."

"It's possible, we have to look for it quickly, otherwise we will be sorry for his family if something happens." However, your reminder reminds me of a strange thing, when the police were out in the middle of the night, and I was busy asking questions and recording records and didn't pay attention to it. ”

"How?"

"You say, I usually like to wear nothing when I sleep in bed, but ......"

"Poof......

seems to have imagined the picture of the other party lying naked on the bed with his five big and three thick bodies, Lao Zheng couldn't help but interrupt the other party's words with a spray of rice.

"What the hell are you doing, have you thought of a few tricks?"

Lao Li looked at the other party with a serious face, and seemed to have some opinions about Lao Zheng, who was contemptuous of his life principles at the moment.

Lao Zheng hurriedly waved his hand, in terms of fist and foot kung fu, he was really not as good as the big man from the northeast opposite.

"No, no, sleeping naked, not many people will, I just suddenly remembered something happy."

Hearing this, Lao Li retracted his gaze suspiciously: "Don't tell me that your wife has a child, I won't take this stalk that is outdated when I was in elementary school, and it's been almost thirty years and I still take it out to play." ”

"Okay, don't interrupt, hurry up, you found something at that time."

Lao Li also seemed to find that the topic was too far away, so he continued to speak:

"Usually, I like to wear nothing when I sleep, a good man is free-spirited."

"So it's strange to see people sleeping in full pajamas, and wonder why they can tolerate the feeling of being restrained while sleeping."

"But, when I asked before, I found out that they were not all wearing pajamas."

Speaking of this, Lao Li raised his right hand and gently pointed at his head.

"Say, why do they all like to wear hats......"