doll city

Huo Longlong walked into the screen, and the movie ended.

The rest of the people sat in the seats of the movie like a cloud, and the experience just now seemed like an illusion.

When the lights in the auditorium came on, they knew the game was over for the night.

"Hunting ground, is it over?"

The fellow C-level team members stood up with some fear and looked around. The entire cinema no longer had the unique cold feeling when the hunting ground started.

"Then he, he... that child, is he dead?"

Yan Ge sat on the seat and stared at the screen that had been extinguished, with a hint of melancholy in his eyes, until he heard Yi Ziang clapping his palms beside him, and then said——

"How about it?"

"I got it." Yi Ziang's eyes brightened, "Everyone survived the hunting ground, and next week I can start a 'Two Weeks'."

Yan Ge confirmed: "So, Huo Longlong...he returned to 'reality' alive?"

Yi Ziang nodded, then realized the meaning of his words, and stood up all of a sudden.

"Yes, yes! This is the most important message, we 'can' return to reality!"

The rookies present still looked confused. Only the C-level team knew what they meant, and they all lifted their spirits after hearing the words.

"Really? Can we... can we get out of this damn place?!"

Yi Ziang nodded and said: "Although I don't know when, but the child is alive, which is the best proof."

After he finished speaking, he suddenly felt annoyed: "I didn't think of it at first, but if I think about it, I can explain to Huo Longlong that many of us are trapped in this ghost place, maybe he can ask the real world for help..."

Yan Ge: "Don't worry."

Yan Ge: "I found out that the direction of this hunting ground was wrong, I wrote a note with a little hope and stuffed it in Huo Longlong's pocket."

Sister-in-law, God forever.

Yi Ziang opened his mouth, and sighed again: "The time here is running backwards, and today is Sunday. Even if the real world knows and believes it, it is difficult to take effective measures in such a short period of time. measures..."

Yan Ge didn't speak, the message he left for Huo Longlong contained Father Yan's emergency phone number and a paragraph.

【Yan Xuechao, last Monday your son pried away the first floor tile in Ciling's hometown, and last Monday, he pried away the first floor tile. 】

Ordinary people may not understand it and think it is a prank, but he believes his father will think about it.

"Abnormal things can only be handed over to abnormal people..."

Yan Ge looked at his watch and said to Yi Ziang, "It's eleven o'clock, go home and go to sleep."

……

Sunday, 11:30.

Huo Longlong arranged the cheongsam figure and got into the quilt.

Mom was sulking outside, as if she was expecting him to come out and apologize to her. It was like this in every quarrel in the past, but today Huo Longlong just wanted to sleep.

Not long after he lay down, his memory began to blur, and he finally realized that he had experienced a very strange thing tonight.

Hunting grounds... live dolls...

What is this all about?

Huo Longlong sat up abruptly, and found that the memory began to dissipate at an accelerated rate. He panickedly wanted to find the student phone to record the "spiritual event" tonight. He touched his pocket, but found that a piece of paper was stuffed inside it at some point.

He opened it to look, and there was a phone number with an area code he had never seen before, and a few lines of words were written impatiently below, without a word of nonsense.

[I am the one who saved you tonight, follow my instructions, make this call, say the words in brackets below, and then hang up. 】

Huo Longlong's hands trembled with excitement, seeing that the student phone was running out of battery, he hurriedly dialed the phone number.

The ringing sound was also very strange. It was different from the "beep, beep" sound of the normal landline, but like some kind of electronic sound with a sense of technology. It rang for about 20 seconds and the call was connected.

A magnetic sound came from inside.

"Hey?"

Huo Longlong looked at the note, swallowed, and read according to the handwriting on the note: "Yan Xuechao, your son smashed the Dingyao cat's rice bowl in Ciling's hometown. The rescue time is 'last Monday to Sunday before 0 o'clock. '."

After finishing speaking, Huo Longlong pressed the hang-up button and lay back on the bed. At this time, his memory about the "supernatural event" was completely mottled, and his eyelids became heavier and heavier. He murmured——

"...Big brother, come on, live on..."

……

Beining, a research institute.

Under the foggy blue light, a man in a white coat and rimless glasses frowned slightly as he looked at the communicator on the hook next to his ear. Various complex data lights and shadows danced on the lens, covering his pensive eyes .

After only a few seconds, Yan Xuechao dialed another number on the communicator.

After 30 seconds, after connecting, a sleepy voice came from inside: "Dad? It's so late, what's the matter?"

"It's nothing, I just got jet lagged, and I forgot that it's midnight." Yan Xuechao made up a reason without changing her expression, and asked, "Did you go back to grandma's house last week?"

"Last week?" Yan Ge on the phone made a confused voice, "I have been preparing for the exam at school this month, and I will return to Ciling in January, what's wrong?"

"...That's okay, you go to sleep."

"what?"

Yan Xuechao ignored his son's confusion, hung up the phone, got up and left the office.From the elevator down to a test site on the third basement floor, after entering the door, he made a gesture to stop the politeness of the researcher who stood up and said hello.

"Open a test machine T4, the data point time track is compressed to last Monday, I will send a data."

After he finished speaking, he sat in front of the data screen and typed out lines of code with dazzling hand speed.

The researchers are also very confused why they want to start the time retrospective experiment at this point on the weekend. Their machine can only do the simplest information transmission of 0 and 1, but since the boss of the research institute has spoken, they can only execute it unconditionally .

"Quicker, send one before 0 o'clock and one after 0 o'clock."

"Good, good."

11:57:50, the data was sent successfully.

……

00:01:32, the data was sent successfully.

After another ten minutes, the researcher brought the report, and he looked like he was reading a ghost story: "Professor, there is a problem with our machine. The messages were obviously sent to last Monday, and one of the records shows that the received It was last Monday."

"Heh." Yan Xuechao smiled.

The researchers who had never seen the leader smile suddenly felt their scalps go numb: "Professor Yan, what's the matter?"

Yan Xuechao looked at the report, pushed his glasses, and said something besides the topic calmly: "My son may have been kidnapped."

"Ah?!" The researchers hurriedly got up, "Then why don't you let the guards deal with it?"

"It's not the current son, it may be the son at a parallel time point in the future."

When hearing that passage, Yan Xuechao had already extracted several information from it.

1. No matter how familiar people are, it is unlikely that they have heard that there is a cat rice bowl in Ciling Gu’s house, which is an antique imitating Ding Kiln, so this information is expressed by Yan Ge himself;

2. Yan Ge fell into a time vicious circle with "one week" as the unit;

3. Yan Ge was trapped in Ciling;

4. Yan Ge needs him to cooperate with the experiment to see if he smashed the cat's rice bowl last week in "that dilemma" and whether it can affect the future.

The researchers seemed to read the heavenly book, only Yan Xuechao was typing on the keyboard, with a hint of interest appearing on his dull face.

"This new topic is a bit interesting—is the end of truth scientific or supernatural."

……

Monday morning.

This week, everyone in "Broken Chapter" received ordinary red wax invitations, and several people were not together. After deciding to find a Wednesday or Thursday to go to the hunting ground to deal with it, Yan Ge freed up to drive. On the edge of Ciling City.

"Hey, let me tell you, this car won't be enough soon." Xiao Yi in the back row yawned, "On the way back, turn to the 'depot' and replace it with a seven-seater one?"

Li Ya flipped through a tourist map of Ciling in the co-pilot, and said, "I don't like to drive a seven-seater car."

"Your driver's license has been revoked, shut up." Yi Ziang was not polite to his brother, and circled the map of Ciling City on his lap with a red pen, "Don't change the topic, according to the current intelligence comparison, the whole The scope of Ciling City is expanding. Originally, the piers in the northeast and the amusement park in the west were covered by fog at our time, but now those areas are gradually opening up, and there are more and more people..."

This is what Yan Ge cares about.

He wanted to confirm if there was any clue of "going out" from where he came from.

Last night...no, it should be said that in the hunting ground next Sunday, Yi Ziang finally won the "Second Week", deduced that the whole group survived, and then learned that Huo Longlong returned to the real world and survived, which shows that they All the current efforts are hopeful, not what the "Anjia faction" headed by Xianggu preached - this is a sealed Garden of Eden.

Yan Ge remembered that he had unknowingly entered this ghostly place on the way home with Gu Lili.

If his guess is correct, his car should have been hit by a live doll at the time, so when he got out of the car to check, he didn't see any wreckage, only the dent on the front cover.

The closer they got to the edge of the city, the thicker the fog became. Soon, they smelled the icy wind from the river and the bridge across the river that appeared in front of them.

"The Ciling Nanting Bridge is 3.5 kilometers long and is very close to the provincial capital, because the cardiology department of the Provincial First Hospital there is top-notch, and Lili's grandma and I are temporarily placed there."

Yan Ge parked the car next to the sentry box, his gaze seemed to be piercing through the thick fog covering the bridge across the river.

"Has it changed since you came here?"

"……Have."

Yan Ge remembered very clearly that he ran down the bridge at that time, and he was sure that the fog wall was still near the bridge at that time, but now it has expanded to the second half of the cross-river bridge.

Xiao Yi squinted her eyes and said, "Look, is there someone behind the green belt on the other side of the bridge?"

Yi Ziang took a closer look and said, "What day is it today? Is there a team doing experiments here?"

Yan Ge brought a car of strong men, of course he was not afraid of any team, when he saw someone, he honked the car horn to attract their attention.

Soon, after hearing the sound of the car horn, a black Deer Fox came out and drove directly in front of them. After the people in the car got out of the car, they said "hi" and found out that they were acquaintances.

"It's you." The person who came was none other than M82's liaison officer, Lao Qiu.

He still took his wooden parrot with him, and he looked much younger in spirit, and leaned over with a smile: "What? Come out to watch 'Exile' too?"

"Exile?" Yan Ge got out of the car and leaned against the door. At this moment, a car with a speed of 15 km/h drove in through the thick fog. The car slowly got off the bridge. Stop it, and after a while, a bewildered person floated out from the seat of the car.

"Liucheng?"

Yan Ge still remembered this person. He was the vice-captain of a certain team in "Elephant Valley". His second-level skill was "Bartender". He once sealed Diana, but now he didn't know why he appeared here.

Old Qiu went back to look excitedly, and after 5 minutes, he came back with a complicated expression.

Yan Ge asked Lao Qiu: "You put him in the car and sent him out of the fog?"

"He has done a lot of bad things, and he is not innocent." Lao Qiu glanced at him and knew that they were all involved, and said happily, "We will not hide it from you, as far as President Diana's uncle Leon, according to her words, Leon probably It is equivalent to the advanced stage of brain cancer, and we are called to start making two-handed preparations."

"Which two hands?"

"One is to influence him, to untie some ghost knot... We don't understand. The other is to ask us to put Liucheng in the car and put it outside the fog wall to see if it is as it is in the legend, and people will return to their original state. Come back, but the ability is gone."

Yan Ge asked curiously, "The result?"

Lao Qiu clapped his hands, and said: "We sent away a second-tier Liucheng, and returned an ordinary wage earner bartender Liucheng, and he doesn't remember anything about this place at all, as if he just came in."

How is this going?

Li Ya, who was circling a lovers' sanctuary cafe on the map, waved his pen tip and said casually: "It is impossible for a person to step into the same river twice. If you want to send Leon out in the same way, you can indeed return to an ordinary Lyon, but , now this Leon has been killed by you in a sense."

Lao Qiu opened his mouth slightly. The next moment, Yan Ge felt the roof of the car sink. He looked back and saw Diana bent over and knocked on the car window.

"Hey, I'm about to ask you to borrow someone. I heard that the little painter is at the second level?"

Li Ya sighed rarely, glanced at Xiao Yi in the rearview mirror, who was facing an enemy, and said: "She doesn't have enough mental strength to face Leon, she will fail."

Diana smiled and propped her face on the car window: "You can practice if you don't have enough mental strength. This Friday, you can practice for free at the public hunting ground, appointment?"

Xiao Yi's scalp has been numb since Diana appeared, but her "painter" skill is not good at fighting, it is an auxiliary skill, and she can't use it as freely as Li Ya, so after thinking about it, she still needs to strengthen it.

Especially after meeting her ex-fiancé Liang Xing, her desire to become stronger was stronger than ever.

Xiao Yi: "Tell me, if it's not difficult..."

"It's not difficult, it's not difficult. If you gather a lot of second-orders in the public hunting grounds, you won't attract any orphans." Diana followed the temptation, "Just play and pass."

"Go ahead." Yi Ziang said, "Since someone has already tried Fog Wall for us, there is no need to waste time. I also need to temper my mental strength as soon as possible. It's not a problem, is it?"

Everyone nodded, all looking blind and rampant.

Xiao Yi thought about it for a while, and said: "It's the second level, and we have experienced everything we need to experience. There is nothing that can bring us down, so let's go."

"Okay, then it's decided. This Friday at five o'clock in the afternoon, meet at the South Bus Station of Tingxi Amusement Park."

Yan Ge was surprised: "Amusement park? Isn't that place a gathering place for live puppets?"

Diana: "We don't go to the amusement park. We go to a public hunting ground near the South Station of the amusement park. It's easier."

Yan Ge didn't feel very good: "What kind of hunting ground is that?"

"It's nothing, it's just a haunted house."

The air was suddenly quiet, Diana looked at Xiao Yi and Yi Ziang who were pale, and showed a smirk.

"It's just an abandoned mental hospital turned into a haunted house. It's all for bluffing people, but it can exercise your mental strength."

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Yan Ge's father is a calm research fanatic

Yan Ge often imitates his father's way of thinking, but he is actually a little afraid of his father