Worth the world

The main city is bustling even at night, and there are many brightly lit office buildings.

But there are also places where the neon lights cannot reach. With the brick factory below Xinhe District as the boundary, and further down, there are unfinished buildings, processing factories, and small bungalows that have not been able to be demolished because of unreasonable price negotiations.

A phantom is shuttling through the low buildings. He originally wanted to hide in the dry haystack, but changed his mind at the last moment, swaying around the haystack to leave a breath, and then jumped into the dirty and smelly sewer , drifting with the dirty water.

Almost at the moment when phantom jumped in, there was one more person under the night.

The visitor was dressed in a loose exercise suit, his figure was smaller than that of an ordinary adult male, and his sleeve robe was very wide, shaking with the night.

He first looked at the grass, and then walked to the sewer, the stench made him a little farther away.

"Although ants are small, their ability to escape is very strong." The man has a pair of strange eyes, pure and transparent, but very lifeless: "I was careless."

"Are you chasing me? Probably not, I'll go back to the latrine if I catch up!" In the sewer, Jin, who had long since lost his five senses, didn't care about the filth of the water, and just drifted along.

Determined that the other party did not keep up, he considered where to go next.

Special teams?

No, the instinct of the victim is to call the police, and the other party can also think of what he can think of.In case that person intercepts near the special team, he will definitely be out of his wits.

"Gamble!"

Jin chose to go to the mass grave, where the perennial yin energy made him feel much more comfortable.

In their line of business, they will leave a way out.Jin buried an object here in his early years. After seeing the corner of the wooden sign exposed under the big tree, he said "thank you", and floated over at the fastest speed, and the remnant soul was attached to the wooden sign.

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The spirited guy upstairs played games on mic in the middle of the night, and a few swear words came from time to time through the ceiling, making Lin Yunqi in a state of half-dream and half-awake.

Do you want to get up early for morning exercises?

He thought about this question in a daze, and felt a sense of heaviness on his body in a trance, as if the light and thin eiderdown quilt weighed a thousand catties.Not long after, Lin Yunqi was completely dragged into a dream.

The surrounding environment was very dark, and the messy branches blocked the moonlight, and he could barely see the graves in front of him.

"Lin Yunqi—"

Lin Yun frowned, who is it?

The calls kept coming to his ears, and the grave soil under his feet was very soft. When Lin Yunqi walked forward, he had the illusion that he was going to sink.

He only had lucid dreams, and this time was no exception.

Lin Yunqi began to think about the reason for this dream... Could it be that he was influenced by that weird wedding?

"It's me!" A magnified face suddenly extended from the tablet.

Jin was a foreigner before his death, and his skin was very fair. After death, the stiffness was even worse than that of ordinary corpses.

The cool wind moved between the graves, Lin Yunqi's ankle was sunk in the grave, unable to take a step forward.Facing this big face so close at hand, he almost couldn't hold back his curse.

Didn't find it annoying, Jin explained his own state: "My master gave me half a ten thousand year old tree earlier, with the help of its power, I can successfully give you a dream."

It seemed that Lin Yunqi saw suspicion in Lin Yunqi's eyes, and Jin couldn't help feeling a little anxious.

The ten-thousand-year ancient wood is too precious, and few people know about it, so it's normal if the other party doesn't believe it.

Just as he was trying to prove the truth of what he said, Lin Yunqi suddenly said, "Which writers from your own country do you know?"

Jin froze for a moment, but quickly said a series of names without repetition.

"Which university did you graduate from?"

Jin also reported an unknown pheasant university.

Every topic of Lin Yunqi jumps a lot: "Tell me the reason for your dream."

Jin said it almost in one breath: "A very powerful man is searching for my traces. He wants to refine my soul. As long as you are willing to cross out my name on the book of life and death, this ten thousand year old wood is yours! "

Life and death book?

Lin Yunqi first thought of the booklet that Nie Yan called a wordless book, subconsciously touched his pocket, and suddenly realized that it was a dream.

He chose to follow the topic of Jin and asked the key question: "We are not of the same nationality."

Jin: "Look carefully, I'm a mixed race."

"..."

King's death was not predicted for a number of reasons.Apart from the fact that he was a mixed race, it was more because the book of life and death entered a dormant period some time ago, and Lin Yunqi's sixth sense weakened accordingly.

Of course, he didn't know all this.

Jin kept bewitching: "For you, it's just a light stroke..."

Before he finished speaking, the dream collapsed directly.

When Lin Yunqi opened his eyes, there was a violent knock on the door outside. He looked through the cat's eyes, and there was no one at the door.

After locking the door, Lin Yunqi sat on the sofa for a few minutes, making sure that no one would knock on the door again, then got up and turned on the light, and made a cup of hot tea by the way.

The light from the light bulb penetrated through the crack of the door, and the skeleton dog hiding on the door frame landed lightly and ran back to the rental house on the third floor.

"He's awake." Skeleton Dog pressed his paws to his mouth and yawned: "However, it took about two or three minutes from falling asleep to waking up. What we hear and see is beyond our control."

It is difficult for non-participants to notice such things as dreaming in the first place.The skeleton dog didn't feel anything. According to its judgment, the starving ghost probably didn't know about it either. I don't know where the dog-licking owner found out.

downstairs.

Lin Yunqi began to use the tablet to search for the names he heard in the dream one by one.

"Hughes Milu, Noel..." He had never heard of these names before, but after checking now, they were all authors from the same country.

This is enough to prove that the names mentioned by Jin Dao in the dream all exist in reality, and the university mentioned by the other party also exists in reality.

At four o'clock in the morning, only one house had its lights on.

Lin Yunqi picked up the teacup silently, the heat kept rushing towards him, but he never took a sip.After a while, he suddenly walked towards the hanger with bare feet, and took out the pamphlet of pretending to be dead from his coat pocket.

As usual, every page is blank.

——"Do you know what that booklet is for?"

When Zheng Ning was in the interrogation room that day, the question he asked at the end resurfaced in his mind.

"Nie Yan deals with inconceivable incidents." Lin Yunqi tapped the book lightly with his fingers, and said to himself, "The reason for coming here to take this thing away may not be as simple as he said."

Is there something wrong with my mental state?Or is there really another unknown force in the world?

"It can't be considered unknown..."

The existence of Nie Yan and others shows that the officials have noticed it a long time ago, but they have not announced it to the public.

Lin Yunqi lowered his eyes, wanting to prove all this absurdity, the best starting point is the booklet in hand.

"Let's observe for a while longer." He sighed, turned off the light and went to bed.

The room became pitch black again, and the booklet heaved a sigh of relief after being put into the pocket.

...It's okay, it's okay, it hasn't been exposed yet.

Before he could finish his breath, the light flashed!

The dazzling brightness almost blinded its eyes, and it saw that the pocket of the coat was hooked by a finger, and Lin Yunqi, who was supposed to be lying on the bed, was looking into it expressionlessly.The light from his phone's flashlight stretched upward from his chin, leaving a third of his cheeks untouched.

"Ah..." Jiao Didi's scream had just reached his throat, Xiaobao's body tensed up, and he swallowed the scream.

Even so, there are still murmurs flowing out like mosquitoes and flies.

His heart was about to jump out of his throat, Xiaozhuo comforted himself nervously, it was okay, he couldn't hear such a small voice.

I don't know how long it has been self-hypnotized, but when it finally relaxed, Lin Yunqi was already lying on the bed with his back to the hanger.

Did you find out?In this entanglement, the booklet keeps its eyes open until dawn.

……

The next day turned cloudy to light rain.

Today's sky feels slightly yellowish, and every time the wind passes by, a few leaves on the trees will wither.

Lin Yunqi casually took a photo, which looked like an old photo.It's a pity that the perfect photo was ruined by a figure that suddenly broke in.

It's just that I haven't seen him for a day. The imposing groom at the wedding at that time can't bear to be scrutinized now.Not to mention the lack of energy, the excessively obvious bruises under the eye sockets can be compared to characters in horror movies.

Xu Zhutian rushed towards Lin Yunqi who held a broom in his left hand and a mobile phone in his right.

"Where is he?" Because of the loose skin, Xu Zhutian's facial features felt dislocated when he was running.

Lin Yunqi: "It's hard for you, you managed to find this place."

It is impossible to have a normal conversation with a crazy person. I saw that his pockets were bulging, and his outline was filled with dangerous knives.

Before the other party made any further outrageous moves, Lin Yunqi asked calmly, "Has the result of the physical examination come out?"

Xu Zhutian's complexion was ashen.

From this instant reaction, Lin Yunqi probably knew the result.

The result of the examination was really bad. Xu Zhutian was found to have organ failure all over his body. As for the reason, the hospital has no way to give an answer for the time being. It is suggested that he go to a big hospital for a re-examination.

From the moment he got the report, Xu Zhutian tried very hard to see every small word on it, but Bai Ci's face was still in his mind.

Compared with the desire to survive, he actually wanted to see each other more urgently.

"He moved, and he moved in the morning." Lin Yunqi pointed in a serious direction: "Go out and turn left, go straight ahead, the first intersection is on the right."

As soon as the words fell, Xu Zhutian couldn't wait to run out.

Watching his running figure, Lin Yunqi called the police: "Hello, there are dangerous people who are suspected of carrying knives and walking towards the police station."

It sounded like a joke.

But when Lin Yunqi said 'Baici suitor', it immediately aroused high vigilance on the other side.There is no one in this area who is ignorant of Bai Ci, because there are too many people who have accidents around him, and the police once conducted a secret investigation.

After solving Xu Zhutian's potential trouble, Lin Yunqi continued to sweep the building.

According to the original schedule, the afternoon is tutoring time.Worried that the little boy hadn't recovered from the wedding, Lin Yunqi specifically proposed to move back for a few days.

Having nothing to do, after returning to the house, he poured a glass of ice water and called Bai Ci: "I'm free today, do you want to continue swimming lessons?"

Bai Ci has no reason to refuse.

Just after I had a glass of ice water, there was a knock on the door.

"Here we come." Lin Yunqi thought it was Baici, and opened the door directly.

After the door opened, the two of them stared blankly at each other, and the policeman put on a straight face: "How can you just open the door for a stranger?"

"……sorry."

A leaflet was handed to him.

Lin Yunqi looked down: "Knowledge against fraud?"

Are you working so hard now?We have to go door-to-door to do publicity.

The police first conducted a normal interview and investigation, such as how many people in the family and what work they do, and then asked, "Do you have a partner?"

Lin Yunqi shook his head.

"Oh, then you have to beware of slaughtering pigs. Recently, several communities have been cheated, and some are still being rescued in the hospital."

Lin Yunqi: "So serious?"

"I was brainwashed, self-mutilated, and insisted on using my own blood to make lanterns." Probably felt that this incident was evil, and the policeman didn't say much: "You must be on guard, understand?"

The words 'prevention' were pronounced with extra emphasis, and it was obvious that the matter of Lin Yunqi opening the door casually hadn't come to an end in his mind.

Lin Yunqi nodded like a chicken pecking rice: "Understood."

It's a pity that the trouble in the world is not that if you don't open the door, it won't take the initiative to come to the door.

The next day Lin Yunqi was called again to take notes.

He rushed over cooperatively and found that Bai Ci was also there. He looked around and felt that there was a missing figure who was not used to it: "Where is Compass Seven?"

It was Nie Yan who answered him: "Go up the mountain to consecrate."

"..." Are young people so fragile now?

Nie Yan's speech was much more refined than Compass Seven's. After he sat down, he went straight to the point: "Xu Zhutian is dead. This morning the police station received a big red lantern with Xu Zhutian's name written in blood on it."

Lin Yunqi suddenly had a bad feeling.

Nie Yan made this premonition come true: "The person who received the lantern was an experienced old policeman, and he immediately sent it for identification. It is a human skin lantern."

Lin Yunqi immediately understood the reason why he was called here. He had only called the police yesterday.

"Surveillance showed that when he was about to reach the police station, he suddenly turned into an alley and disappeared."

Lin Yunqi: "So apart from the murderer, I was the last person to see him?"

Nie Yan nodded.

Bai Ci, who hadn't spoken much, said now: "There are pedestrians all the way, and there are many people who have seen him. You can't even rank in the top ten."

"..."

Nie Yan pressed the center of his brow lightly, he didn't bother to refute, and focused on Lin Yunqi: "When we met yesterday, did Xu Zhutian act weird?"

Lin Yunqi: "There is nothing normal in the whole process."

Nie Yan suddenly asked, "Where's your sixth sense? Did it tell you anything?"

Lin Yunqi's eyes flickered for a moment, but there was not much abnormality on his face: "As early as at the wedding banquet in the hotel, I felt that his life was not long."

When the other party went further, Lin Yun first asked a question: "Didn't Compass Seven also take a red lantern from the hotel?"

Nie Yan nodded: "One material is all human skin. The family of the foreigner who was involved in the accident is still going through the formalities, and the body has not been cremated. I sent someone to check it out. I don't know when the whole skin on the back was taken away. Picked it off."

"What about monitoring?"

"Blocked by birds."

It is not convenient for Nie Yan to disclose more information, but after asking Lin Yunqi and Xu Zhutian about the meeting process in detail, he said that he can leave.

Bai Ci stood up, ready to go out together.He didn't come here to take notes, but to inform the female ghost of the information left before she disappeared as agreed.

Before leaving, Nie Yan called him to stop: "A nagging guy at the headquarters has calculated that a disaster is about to strike Tianhai City. According to the clues we have so far, the source of this disaster is related to Gui Jiaoniang's party."

"what do you want to say?"

"The meaning of the headquarters is that if necessary, in order to find this person, you can not be so polite."

Bai Ci sneered: "Unscrupulous?"

"For the sake of the city's peace, we have no choice." Nie Yan: "I hope that in this process, even if we do not cooperate, we will not be hostile."

No one has the energy to engage in internal friction.

Bai Ci: "Cooperation is fine, as long as I don't show up, and I will not be responsible for the result."

Remote collaboration can be considered.

"..."

……

Lin Yunqi waited in the car for a long time before he saw Bai Ci come out.

"so long?"

Bai Ci fastened his seat belt: "Old people talk a lot of nonsense."

Lin Yunqi heard it funny: "Captain Nie is only in his early thirties."

After the car was on the road, there was a creaking sound.Bai Ci seriously suggested: "It's time to change the car."

"It's okay, just sit down."

At the traffic light, Lin Yunqi noticed that there were many flower sellers on the side of the road, raised his eyebrows and said, "Obviously the Qixi Festival has passed, and there are still several months until Valentine's Day."

Bai Ci is actually a bit more 'trend' than him: "Recently, there is a leaf chasing festival on the Internet."

Lin Yunqi has heard of the Shopping Festival, but what is the Leaf Chasing Festival?

"The slogan put out by the merchant is: Confess your love to your loved one before all the leaves wither."

Lin Yunqi seriously suspected that this was an outrageous promotion to deal with the stockpiled goods.

In any case, the gimmick of the Leaf Chasing Festival is still very effective. Under this influence, the recent large-scale blind date activities are in full swing, and there are several more blind date corners in the city.

Even in the park where there were no people in the past, now when Lin Yunqi goes for a walk at dusk, he can see many young people sitting on the benches talking to each other.Autumn, which is easy and melancholic, inexplicably comes alive.

The phone rang suddenly, which startled the kissing couple. Lin Yunqi smiled apologetically, and picked up the phone as he walked faster.

"Long time no see, old classmate."

Lin Yunqi was helpless: "It hasn't been long since you hired me to play a fake supernatural competition."

The other party laughed, first politely asked how he was doing, and then began to lament that his traffic had dropped sharply.

"Netizens don't like my recent video."

This old classmate's family is rich, but he likes the feeling of being followed. Losing fans is worse than life for him.

Lin Yunqi didn't answer the call, and waited quietly.

"Have you heard about the recent blind date blood lantern case?"

Lin Yunqi: "The police came to do publicity."

"There are a lot of people paying attention to this case now, and they all say it's a supernatural event. It's still the same price as last time. If you can find anything, I'll add another [-]."

Lin Yunqi: "You can do this kind of thing yourself."

"I went online, and then I was recognized as an Internet celebrity, saying that my purpose was not pure, and I was almost scolded to death."

Lin Yunqi had nothing to say.

"Do me a favor, my price is quite generous," the old classmate looked forward to the future, "With another 500 fans, my platform's fans can exceed [-] million!"

This job is essentially similar to the business of a private detective, and it fits Lin Yunqi's business scope. He didn't hesitate too much: "Okay."

"Refreshing! I have investigated some information in the early stage, and I will send you email back."

The weather was cool, Lin Yun ran around the park at first, took a shower at night, and then started to open the mailbox while eating supper.

According to the data, the first few victims started a period of online dating through a blind date group, and successively exhibited abnormal behaviors such as trance and self-harm. , just to make lanterns.

At present, two kinds of theories are relatively common. One is that the victim was drugged online and offline, and the other is that the suspect is a charming lunatic who constantly brainwashes the victims and persuades them to commit self-mutilation.

"It's just a pervert, but charming..." Lin Yunqi shook his head. After searching the Internet, he found that the scammer had a group of fans, and even created a series of withdrawn and gloomy artistic images based on this.

Instead, the relevant news was pushed to the back, and after browsing around, I couldn't find much useful news.

The victims were of different genders and ages, and their work and family environments were not similar. The only thing they had in common was that they kept their perpetrators tight-lipped.

"I love you, please, take me away!"

This is the reaction of a victim when he was interviewed by the media. Even with the addition of mosaics, one can still hear the unrepentant emotion from the excitement.

What a familiar scene.

Lin Yunqi thought of Xu Zhutian, to be exact, of those crazy suitors of Bai Ci, in terms of the degree of madness, the two groups could fight each other.

The information provided several dating group accounts, all of which were joined by the victim. Lin Yun first added an 'autumn promise'.

This is a large group of thousands of people on a blind date. As soon as he entered, someone came to strike up a conversation.There were five administrators in the senior group, and when Lin Yunqi saw one of them, his hand shook, and he almost spilled the supper.

The head portrait of a real person, a man holding a book in one hand, his delicate profile looks noble and indifferent, full of charm.

"Baici?"

Lin Yunqiu opened the big picture and double-checked that the avatar was indeed Baici.

He tried to send a private message: [The profile picture is so handsome, is it me? 】

The administrator's online name is Knocking Powerful Earth Dog, and he replied in seconds online: [Here, are you MM or GG? 】

Gender and age are all hidden items on Lin Yunqi's profile card, and it's impossible to tell the difference between a man and a woman with just a small and fresh profile picture.

He gathered thousands of words into one sentence: [Guess. 】

[The dog who knocks hard: don't use periods, use ellipses, you must know that our story has just begun. 】

It was so boring at night, Lin Yunqi glanced at the information, and slowly joined a blind date group of 'along with each other for life'.

Doing a good job of psychological construction, he went to look at the information of the group owner and administrator at the first time, and he was relieved to make sure that there was no such a 'hard knocking dog'.

This group is even more lively than the one just now. As far as he was reading the information, the news has already reached 99%.

Lin Yunqi climbed the stairs and found that it was mainly a netizen from 'Seven Fairies' chatting with 'Love of the Big Dipper'.

Seeing the head portrait of the 'Seven Fairies', Lin Yunqi fell into a lengthy silence again.

That's right, another rant.

However, this photo is different from the previous one, it is a headshot, the pixels are a bit blurry, it seems to be cut from somewhere, so that Lin Yunqi didn't notice it at first.

He sent another private message and asked the same question: [The profile picture is me? 】

The seven fairies didn't reply as fast as the earth dog, and it took 1 minute to reply: [Are you satisfied? 】

When Lin Yunqi chatted with him, it wasn't as greasy as a dog. The Seven Fairies seemed to like to bring the topic closer to religion intentionally or unintentionally.

Is this someone using Bai Ci's face to bluff?

Lin Yun frowned, ready to seek justice for Bai Ci.

He first checked the IP of the Seventh Fairy, but it was unsuccessful. Normal people generally would not do IP hiding, and the suspiciousness of the Seventh Fairy instantly soared.

Then Lin Yunqi looked up 'a hard-hitting earth dog'.

"It seems that he is not alone."

This is a fixed IP, Lin Yunqi's investigation went smoothly, but when he saw the result, his complexion changed slightly.

'The earth dog that knocks hard' is actually in the same community as me.

If you look into it more carefully, you will inevitably cross the border.Lin Yunqi thought about it, and contacted the other party again: 【Video, okay? 】

[The earth dog who knocks hard: I share a room with my roommate, and I don't want to wake him up. 】

Lin Yunqi pursed his lips and called Bai Ci.

……

Autumn nights are cool.

Bai Ci was lying on the bed, like a silent corpse, without a quilt, and the sheets under him were not wrinkled.

The characteristic of the old building is that even if it is an alarm, sometimes it can be heard upstairs and downstairs.Therefore, Bai Ci's phone will be specially set to vibrate at night to prevent Lin Yunqi from discovering the abnormality.

"Hello." Seeing that it was Lin Yunqi's call, he answered it without thinking.

"is it you?"

Bai Ci gave a slightly puzzled 'hmm'.

Lin Yunqi asked tentatively, "A dirt dog that knocks hard?"

"..."