Chapter 58 The Fourth Person

Lin Qiushi rushed downstairs, and the pale arm sticking out from the hat upstairs followed directly. When he saw this scene, he didn't dare to stay in the house for a while, and rushed out of the house.

The owner of the grocery store saw Lin Qiushi rushed out in a panic, with a little doubt on his face: "Why are you running in such a hurry, what happened?"

Lin Qiushi gasped heavily and pointed inside with his fingers.

The boss looked puzzled and wanted to go over to take a look. Lin Qiushi took out his mobile phone and typed a few words: Is your son really your son?

The boss was stunned when he saw these words: "What do you mean by that?"

Lin Qiushi decided to tell the truth: his head fell off.

When the boss saw it, he immediately turned around and was about to enter the house, but Lin Qiushi wanted to stop him. But when the boss opened the door, Lin Qiushi actually saw the child whose head fell to the ground just now, and was sitting on the sofa playing with toys at this time - this was exactly the same as when he first entered the house.

"What happened?" The boss saw that his son was safe and sound, and looked back at Lin Qiushi, even more puzzled.

Lin Qiushi looked at the child, looked at the boss again, shook his head, and finally turned away without saying anything. don't know if it was his delusion or his nerves were too sensitive. He always felt that the child's eyes were almost on his back, and he watched him leave unwillingly.

After leaving the grocery store, Lin Qiushi went to several other places in town with children.

During the period, met other teammates. They seemed to have no good feelings for the dumb girl Lin Qiushi, and they didn't even say hello. There was only one girl who seemed to have a milder personality and talked to Lin Qiushi for a while.

"We didn't see the children, they were all hidden." The girl's name seemed to be Dong Tianwei, "Don't go, it's useless."

Lin Qiushi is a little strange: what does it mean to hide?

Dong Tianwei said: "It's just hiding. People in this town are very closed. If the child is gone, the whole family will be over, and there seems to be a rule in the town that you can't divorce, you can only live with guilt for the rest of your life."

Lin Qiushi was stunned for a moment when he heard this. What did he think of: Can't get a divorce?

Dong Tianwei: "Yes." She said, "What about the person with you? Why doesn't he accompany you, you are so weak, what if something happens to you."

Lin Qiushi ignored Dong Tianwei's question: Are there any exceptions?

Dong Tianwei thought about it for a while: "No? Anyway, the two houses I went to were so arguing that they didn't leave."

Lin Qiushi nodded and thanked Dong Tianwei, then turned and left.

Dong Tianwei looked at his back and hesitated to speak, but the male companion beside him said strangely: "What are you talking about with her?"

Dong Tianwei sighed: "Isn't it bad to have one more person alive?"

The male partner did not answer.

Lin Qiushi's goal this time went straight to the Lauren's house he had visited before.

He arrived at the house, knocked on the door, and saw Lauren's father, a middle-aged man with a bad temper and smell of alcohol all over his body.

"Is something wrong?" Lauren's father asked, with a very bad attitude.

Lin Qiushi: I would like to ask, when did your daughter disappear?

Father didn't answer, and was a little irritable: "Isn't the missing person notice hanging in the square? You won't go to see it, you want to ask me?"

Lin Qiushi: I just want to get more clues from you.

After he finished typing this, he suddenly remembered that he seemed to be wearing women's clothes, so he imitated Ruan Nanzhu to deliberately make a pitiful appearance, wondering if it would be useful.

Who knew that this expression actually worked, Lauren's father looked a little more relaxed: "It seems like two days ago..."

Lin Qiushi: Where did she disappear?

Lauren's father said, "Home."

Lin Qiushi heard the uncertainty in his tone: Are you sure you are at home?

Lauren's father thought for a while: "Not sure, I only found out after she disappeared for a long time, who knows when she disappeared."

Lin Qiushi: Can you take the liberty to ask, when will your wife come back?

Who knew that when the word "Mrs." was mentioned, Lauren's father immediately showed a fierce expression. Not only did he not answer Lin Qiushi's question, he also slammed the door slamming.

Lin Qiushi looked at the closed door and fell into contemplation. At this time, he had a very terrifying guess.

After walking in the town for a day, the sky was getting darker, and Lin Qiushi planned to go back to the hotel before making plans.

On the way back to the hotel, Lin Qiushi passed the small square where he had just arrived. This square is really not big, the surrounding shops are all closed, leaving nothing but the signboard with the missing person notice in the center of the square that stands out.

Lin Qiushi walked to the sign and carefully looked at the missing person notice on it.

There are a total of four missing persons notices, three of which are from the past, and one was posted yesterday.

Lin Qiushi didn't know what he was thinking. He suddenly stretched out his hand and took off the earliest missing person notice from the sign.

The missing person notice was not glued too tightly, and it was easily removed. Lin Qiushi looked down at the missing person notice in his hand, and suddenly made a new discovery... He found that the missing person notice was actually double-layered. of.

That's right, the missing person notice was actually two pieces of paper stuck together.

Fortunately, the two pieces of paper were sticking a bit firmly. Lin Qiushi tried to separate the two pieces of paper, but only failed to tear off one corner. He was a little distressed, and after thinking for a while, the evil grew out of his guts. He simply tore off all the missing persons notices, stuffed them into his pockets, and walked away as if nothing had happened.

Of course, when he tore it down, he took a cursory look and found that all the missing persons notices were double-layered.

Quickly returning to the hotel, Lin Qiushi saw Ruan Nanzhu sitting on the sofa at the reception on the first floor as soon as he entered, looking like he was thinking about something.

Lin Qiushi walked in front of him and patted his shoulder.

Ruan Nanzhu looked up: "Are you back?"

Lin Qiushi nodded and pointed upstairs.

Ruan Nanzhu smiled: "Sleepy? Well, let's go back to sleep together."

The person sitting next to them cast a strange look at them.

Lin Qiushi communicated with Ruan Nanzhu with his eyes: Can you stop saying such misleading words.

Ruan Nanzhu shamelessly pretended not to see it.

The two returned to their rooms on the second floor. After closing the doors and windows, Lin Qiushi was finally able to speak. He couldn't wait to say, "I tore down the tracing notices on the square and checked them, and found that these tracing notices are on two floors. See if you can find a way to peel off the other piece of paper." Then he took out the paper in his trouser pocket.

Ruan Nanzhu took it over and took a look, thinking: "This one should be able to be separated by soaking in water, but I don't know if the handwriting will be blurred."

Lin Qiushi: "Try one separately first."

So the two went to the toilet, and after receiving some hot water, they soaked the paper in it and waited for it to soften before separating. Taking advantage of this time, Lin Qiushi asked Ruan Nanzhu if he had found anything else in the cannery.

Ruan Nanzhu looked at the water basin in front of him, was silent for a while, and said, "I almost picked up that top hat."

Lin Qiushi was startled: "Huh?"

Ruan Nanzhu said: "I was checking at the time, and the top hat suddenly fell from the top of the tree. I don't know what magic it has. I put my hands on it, and finally I managed to hold it back."

Lin Qiushi breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, you didn't pick it up."

Ruan Nanzhu nodded: "It's the sixth door."

Later, Ruan Nanzhu described the traces he found in the cannery, saying that Lin Qiushi was lucky not to eat canned fish. He now suspects that the missing children were all canned. Because he found fresh flesh in the canning machine. On another dead tree, saw the body of a hanged child.

Of course, Ruan Nanzhu didn't dare to touch the corpse, just pretended he didn't see it.

"What about you, what did you find?" Ruan Nanzhu said.

"I think we're heading in the wrong direction." Lin Qiushi told Ruan Nanzhu what he encountered when he went to the grocery store, "What do you think the child is?"

"It's definitely not a person." Ruan Nanzhu said, "The paper has melted." He stretched out his hand and fished out the paper in the basin.

The glue between the sheets was melted by the hot water, and the two sheets were easily separated.

Lin Qiushi was stunned when he saw the piece of paper at the back. He saw that the piece of paper at the back was also a missing person notice. , a picture of the missing man in a top hat.

And the remaining three tracing notices have also been separated one by one. They are currently missing three people, and the photos of the three people are pasted on them. The only difference is the tracing notice of sister Lauren. The paper behind is a piece of paper. white paper.

Ruan Nanzhu frowned at the three pieces of paper.

Lin Qiushi said, "Speaking of which... we haven't seen a child since we arrived in this town."

Ruan Nanzhu looked back at him.

Lin Qiushi expressed his guess based on his investigation results: "The only two I have seen are Lauren's sister and the son of the grocery store I saw today. I think both of them have problems."

Ruan Nanzhu: "There is something wrong with that Lauren's sister." He said, "She has a strange sense of disobedience."

Lin Qiushi: "And today, someone in the team told me that this town is very closed and there is almost no divorce. Do you remember Lauren's life experience..."

Ruan Nanzhu said: "Well, his mother is a second marriage."

"This is very strange." Lin Qiushi sat on the sofa and looked at the three missing notices, "You said, could there be no such thing in this town..."

Ruan Nanzhu took Lin Qiushi's words: "There are no children at all."

The eyes of the two met, and they both saw similar expressions in each other's eyes.

"Actually, there are." Ruan Nanzhu put the tracing notices posted on the back on the table and spread out his hands, "Aren't we taking the role of children?"

Lin Qiushi: "..." A group of children with more than 100 pounds.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Who is not the little princess yet?"

Lin Qiushi: "Well, now that we know that we are actually poor, weak and helpless children, what does this mean next? Where is the key?"

Ruan Nanzhu pointed his finger on the table: "If the children in the town are referring to us, are those fake children referring to something else?"

Lin Qiushi: "For example?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "Noodle man."

Lin Qiushi immediately thought of the grocery store owner's brainless son who was still happy, and was silent for a moment: "It's possible."

Ruan Nanzhu: "But there are still some things that don't make sense. If those children are noodle people, what happened to their corpses? Forget it, it's dark, go to sleep first."

Lin Qiushi looked at the dark night outside and agreed with Ruan Nanzhu's proposal.

Staying up late in the world outside the door is called cultivating immortals. Staying up all night in the world inside the door may become an immortal directly the next day. There is no need to cultivate at all.

Lin Qiushi hopes that he can fall asleep safely and have no dreams all night.

But some things can't be done just by thinking. Although very reluctant, Lin Qiushi still woke up in the middle of the night.

He heard the cry of the child.

His voice whining, resentful and complaining, floated out of the window to Lin Qiushi's ear. He sat up from the bed and saw that Ruan Nanzhu was still sleeping. Inexplicably, there is a sense of resentment from an insomniac wife who wakes up at night when she sees her husband sleeping in a mess. Of course, this feeling was also fleeting, because Lin Qiushi poked Ruan Nanzhu.

Ruan Nanzhu opened his eyes in a daze: "Huh?"

Lin Qiushi: "I can't sleep."

Ruan Nanzhu stretched out his hand, wrapped his arms around Lin Qiushi's neck, and pulled him into his arms: "Good, come here."

Ruan Nanzhu's arms are very broad and warm, and there is a faint aroma on his body, which is very helpful for sleep.

But the cry was getting closer and closer, and Lin Qiushi finally couldn't hold back and glanced at the window.

This glance almost didn't frighten him to sit up from the bed, only to see a child lying on his window. The child defied gravity and stuck to the glass like a gecko. His hands and feet began to stretch slowly, as if he wanted to find the gap in the window to climb in from the outside - seeing this scene, Lin Qiushi couldn't help but secretly rejoice that he and Ruan Nanzhu had the good habit of closing the window every night.

Lin Qiushi was watching intently, but he felt that Ruan Nanzhu gently held his back, and then rubbed it a bit: "Don't look at it."

Lin Qiushi: "Well..."

Ruan Nanzhu stretched out his hand to break his face back, and his tone was a little unhappy: "Look at me if you can't sleep."

Lin Qiushi raised his eyes.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Is there anything more beautiful than me?"

Lin Qiushi stopped talking.

Ruan Nanzhu naturally placed his chin on the top of Lin Qiushi's head, then rubbed slowly, muttering: "Sleep."

Lin Qiushi was almost enveloped by Ruan Nanzhu, who was like a male beast who had seen a cub, full of desire to protect him. Lin Qiushi felt an inexplicable sense of security. He tried to close his eyes, ignoring the disturbing cry, and finally fell into a sweet dream.

When they woke up the next day, the two were almost hugging each other.

When Lin Qiushi opened his eyes, he saw Ruan Nanzhu's sleeping face with his eyes closed. He had to admit that Ruan Nanzhu was really good looking, both inside and outside the door. At this moment, his long eyelashes were rising and falling slightly with his breathing, just like a black swallowtail butterfly about to spread its wings.

Lin Qiushi stared at it for a while, but couldn't help but stretch out his hand to touch it. Who knew that just as he stretched out his hand, Ruan Nanzhu opened his eyes. There was no sleepiness in his eyes, but a faint smile: "Morning."

Lin Qiushi quickly stopped, pretending that nothing had happened: "Morning."

Ruan Nanzhu let go of Lin Qiushi's hand, yawned, and got up slowly: "How did you sleep last night?"

Lin Qiushi: "It's good." He got up from the bed and walked to the window. Unsurprisingly, he found a lot of children's palm prints on the glass. It seems that yesterday's crying and pictures were not his imagination.

After the two washed up, they went to the restaurant and found that there was one less person in the team.

This time, the few people they are familiar with are Wang Tianxin's female companion, the girl he hooked up with.

When Lin Qiushi found out that the girl was gone, Wang Tianxin was still eating breakfast leisurely, and he typed on his mobile phone: Wang Tianxin's female companion is gone.

Ruan Nanzhu saw the font on Lin Qiushi's mobile phone, and stood up directly and walked in front of Wang Tianxin.

Wang Tianxin was taken aback by Ruan Nanzhu. He had been beaten by Ruan Nanzhu before, and he had no power to fight back. Although he pretended to be calm at this time, his trembling tone and glanced eyes were exposed. His fragile heart: "you, what are you going to do."

Ruan Nanzhu looked at him condescendingly and said indifferently, "Where's your girlfriend?"

Wang Tian swallowed his saliva heavily, gave Ruan Nanzhu a weak look, and whispered, "Isn't one of him enough?" Can such a terrifying bigwig in women's clothing not satisfy you?

Lin Qiushi heard it next to him, and his expression distorted for a moment... God **** him is not enough.

Ruan Nanzhu: "You ask me or I ask you?"

Wang Tianxin said quickly, "I don't know, she didn't come back yesterday."

Ruan Nanzhu: "You didn't say anything when you didn't come back?"

Wang Tianxin: "It's useless to say it... This, this is obviously gone." He seemed a little dissatisfied, and muttered in a low voice, "I told her to stop going to the cannery, she won't listen."

Cannery? Hearing this keyword, Ruan Nanzhu frowned: "She went to the cannery yesterday? When did she go?"

Wang Tianxin said, "I went there in the morning and never came back."

Ruan Nanzhu: "I'm also in the cannery, why didn't I see her."

Wang Tianxin laughed dryly: "How do I know this... Maybe it's a different way?" This is pure nonsense. The town is so big, and there is basically only one way to go anywhere. Besides, the cannery wasn't so big that two people couldn't touch it, unless something happened to her on her way to the cannery.

Ruan Nanzhu asked him if he had seen anything unusual. Wang Tianxin thought about it carefully and said that when she slept the night before, she had been looking out the window and said that there seemed to be children crying outside.

Lin Qiushi thought of the child lying on their window.

"But I didn't hear it." Wang Tianxin said, "My hearing is very good, but I didn't hear anything. She must be just too nervous to hear it wrong..."

Lin Qiushi didn't think she heard it wrong.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Is there anything else?"

Wang Tianxin shook his head, "No more."

Lin Qiushi stood up and walked to Wang Tianxin's side. Wang Tianxin was even more scared when he saw him, and he smiled reluctantly as if he was about to cry.

Lin Qiushi typing: She only went to the cannery yesterday during the day?

"It seems that he only went to the cannery." As soon as Wang Tianxin finished speaking, Dong Tianwei next to him stood up, pointed at Wang Tianxin and said, "He lied, Liu Ya didn't go to the cannery at all yesterday!"

Liu Ya is the name of Wang Tianxin's female companion.

Wang Tianxin immediately defended after being accused: "I didn't lie, she did tell me to go to the cannery!"

"Damn, when we went to check on other children in the town yesterday, we clearly saw Liu Ya, and she brought a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl with her!" Dong Tianwei said, "the two hold hands, it seems that they are on good terms! Don't Tell me you don't know!"

Wang Tianxin said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about, I didn't know - I was just repeating what she told me, she clearly said she was going to the cannery, how do I know where she ended up going!"

The two quarreled fiercely, and it can be seen from their determined attitude that neither of them should have lied.

Liu Ya's destination was indeed a cannery, but on the way there, she encountered something else...for example, a strange girl.

Lin Qiushi shivered when he thought of the mindless son of the grocery store owner.

So who does that little girl belong to? Lin Qiushi asked by typing on his mobile phone.

"I don't know, I'm not very sensitive to the appearance of Westerners..." Dong Tianwei was a little embarrassed, "but I remember her hairstyle, she seems to be wearing a ponytail and wearing a pink skirt, she looks quite cute. "

Lin Qiushi suddenly thought of something. He took out a few missing persons notices from his pocket, and he found what he wanted on them-a picture of the fourth lost child, Lauren's sister.

As soon as Dong Tianwei saw the photo, she was stunned: "Yes, that's her." She saw the four words on the missing person notice, "She, she is one of the missing children? Then why did she appear again... Still holding Liu Ya... Where is she going to take Liu Ya..."

Who knows, children who shouldn't exist are holding people in this world, and what they want to bring is not a pleasant place.

Everyone looked at the photo and fell silent.

"We now suspect that there are no children in this town." Ruan Nanzhu said some information, "so you better be careful when you see children."

There was a noisy discussion in the crowd.

"Also, don't bring anything back." Ruan Nanzhu said, "That thing may be a reminder."

When he spoke, Lin Qiushi looked out the window and immediately stood up from the chair. saw a tall and thin figure standing in a sparse jungle not far from the restaurant. The figure was hidden in the thick fog and could not be seen clearly, but it could be vaguely seen that it belonged to a slender ghost. contour.

It stood there quietly, like staring, like watching.

Obviously this thing has no eyes, but Lin Qiushi just gave birth to an illusion of being observed.

He reached out and pulled Ruan Nanzhu's sleeve, motioning him to look outside, but when Ruan Nanzhu turned his head, the thing was gone.

"What?" Ruan Nanzhu asked Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi typed: That thing just stood outside watching us.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Just now?"

Lin Qiushi nodded.

Ruan Nanzhu: "Oh, let's see, anyway, this thing can't enter the house under normal circumstances." He said lightly, as if this was just a trivial matter, "If he can really get in, it is considered that he has ability."

Lin Qiushi glanced at Ruan Nanzhu and said nothing.

The others were not as calm as Lin Qiushi and Ruan Nanzhu. They looked out the window, and there was a strong fear in the eyes of most of them.

No one knows when they will get out of this horrible hell.

The author has something to say:

I almost got bitten when I was dancing with my cat yesterday... I almost couldn't update it on time today (the vicissitudes of lighting a cigarette