Chapter 57
The scene in front of me seemed familiar, and I couldn't help but stop, and at the same time, the fat man, Liang Tianyu and Senior Chen also stopped.
I turned my head to look over and saw that all three of them were dumbfounded.
"Fatty, what do you see?"
"That'...... The man's head is gone!"
"Oh, that's right. This place is haunted again!"
I complained helplessly, and as I spoke, the scene in front of me in the ranks of the Red Guards was re-enacted as it had been when we had arrived three days earlier.
The four of us were not spared, and were entangled by a group of ghosts that appeared inexplicably.
Thankfully, the four of us are not ordinary people, and these imps don't have any impact on our lives.
After tossing and turning in the middle of the night, the four of us returned to the safest street building in Ye County. When the sky turned white in the early morning, I stood on the roof of the small building, looking at the empty market, and suddenly felt that the past three days were like a reincarnation, and everything was back to square one.
What should I do next?
Do you want to go back to the house at the end of the street, plug the dog hole, and wait for the little kid to show up?
I can almost predict that even if we catch the little kid again, we won't be able to get any useful information, and we will eventually be driven back by a large number of rats summoned by the little kid's sister, the female ghost Huang Wanru.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but glance in the direction of the end of the street, who knew that this glance swept over, and an active figure appeared in the field of vision.
It's that little brat!
I was thinking about getting him. I didn't expect him to run out by himself, who gave him such a big guts, do you really think we don't dare to clean him up anymore!
I subconsciously took two steps forward, looked closely, thought about where he was going, and then called out to the fat man and they went to catch him again.
But what I saw next was completely beyond my expectations.
I saw that the little kid moved his slightly chubby body, climbed up to the cage drawer in front of a bun shop, struggled to open the cage drawer, reached out and took out two buns from it and stuffed them into the small cloth bag he was carrying on his back. Then jump off the platform. Swaggered into a nearby fruit shop again.
Belch...... Steamed bun shop, fruit shop?
How is this rhythm so familiar?
The first time I saw that little kid, didn't he do that!
Hey, wait, I just saw him take two buns. That's not right. Didn't we eat all the buns?
It's almost a split second. Countless questions popped up in my mind. Hurriedly turned his head and went downstairs, shouting at the fat man who was lying bored in the house: "Don't be idle, hurry up and follow me." That little kid is out again!"
As soon as I shouted like this, the fat people suddenly became excited, and rushed out after me.
Running to the market as fast as I could, I didn't rush to the fruit shop to catch the little kids, but stopped in front of the bun shop now, and reached out to open the big stack of cage drawers.
"Hey, why are there buns here again?"
When I lifted the lid of the cage drawer, the fat man was the first to come up and take a look, and then he asked this question.
He pays attention to the extra food, while Liang Tianyu pays more attention to things.
"No, didn't the stack of cage drawers before be overturned by that little kid to the ground, and who put it away? This bun is still hot, someone made buns here last night?"
None of us can answer Liang Tianyu's question, the only thing we can do is to follow the route that the little kid left.
Entering the fruit store, Liang Tianyu rushed into the backyard first, reaching out to open the fruit basket in the corner.
"Look, apples! we ate all the apples that day, and now we have them here!"
He pointed to a few red apples in the fruit basket, his face was full of shock, and at the same time, Senior Chen on the other side also shouted: "You guys come and see this ladder, didn't I break it that day, and now it's okay!"
Hearing this, I hurriedly turned my head to look over, and I was very sure that when I caught the little kid that day, this wooden ladder was broken by Senior Chen from the middle. But today the ladder is erected intact by the wall, really intact, and not repaired by anyone.
We continued on with all sorts of questions, and came to the dyeing shop next door, where the situation was even more bizarre.
The last time I caught that little kid, the other party knocked down a dye vat on the second floor, and the dye in the dye vat splashed not only on Liang Tianyu's body, but also everywhere.
But now, Liang Tianyu can still vaguely see some dye on his clothes, but the inside of this dyeing workshop is clean, and he can't even see a red mark.
Well, even if something unknown had cleaned the place, he wouldn't have put everything back in place, and even the overturned dye vat had been re-erected and filled with red dye.
I vaguely remembered the big hole outside the window that made the fat man come out that day, but at this moment, when I looked at it, the rain shield was intact.
Following the path of memory, following the traces left by the little boy, the food that we had swept away reappeared, and the things that we had inadvertently destroyed were repaired automatically.
When we finally got to the backyard of the house at the end of the street, we saw a clean dog hole in the wall, not at all the dirty mess that we had blocked and then been dug by a large group of rats.
Seeing this, my mind was completely confused, and I could only pin my hope for solving all the strange phenomena in front of me on Senior Chen. After all, Senior Chen is a senior, and he must know much more than the three of us.
The fat man and Liang Tianyu also had the same idea as me, the three of us stared at Senior Chen, and Senior Chen squatted at the root of the wall and looked at the other side of the dog cave for a long time, and finally only said one word.
"Let's go, let's go inside, we're still living here today. ”
Early in the morning, Senior Chen actually set the tone for our night's accommodation. It's a bit of a surprise.
But he didn't explain anything more to us, turned back into the house, and stood at the window staring at the dog hole in the back wall.
The day passed in this silent atmosphere, and as night fell, several of us couldn't help but find a place to sleep.
I didn't feel like I had slept for long, when someone gently pushed me a few times, and I opened my eyes suddenly, only to find that it was getting bright outside, and it was already the next morning.
"Senior Chen, what's wrong?"
"Shh......h Come with me and have a look!" Senior Chen led me quietly to the window. Raise your hand and point out. "That little kid is out again, let's follow him quietly in a moment, and see what he's up to. ”
I listened to Senior Chen's words in my ears and looked out the window.
Sure enough, as he said. The little boy crawled out of the dog hole with a cloth bag on his back.
The child staggered out of the house at the end of the street. The two of us quietly followed. found out that he went directly to the steamed bun shop.
Just like yesterday, the child took two buns out of the cage drawer and turned them into the cloth bag he was carrying. I turned around and went to a fruit shop not far away.
Along the way, I found that the little kid took a fixed route, entered a fixed shop, found different food in a fixed place, and then crawled back down the dog hole back to where he came from.
When the little kid disappeared completely, Senior Chen patted me on the shoulder and asked, "Yan is right or wrong, have you found any rules?"
"What pattern?"
"Everywhere the boy went, there was food, and he took two portions at a time and left. The route he takes is also fixed, and he does not stop at any other place at all. It felt as if he had done this kind of thing dozens or even hundreds of times, and it had become a habit. You say, right?"
"Well, it seems like that's the case. ”
"If yes, then the problem arises. Look at the cage drawer in front of the bun shop, and the apples in the fruit shop next door, the little kid took two portions of each one today, and there are still two portions left in it, enough for him to pick up tomorrow. But the day after tomorrow, where will he go to get food the day after tomorrow?"
"Well, maybe there's food somewhere else, right?"
"Maybe, Yan is wrong, didn't you go through the whole city with Shi Dalong yesterday, did you find it?"
"Nope. ”
"That's right, according to the current situation, there must be food only in the places where this child passes. And all the actions he makes to find food are habitual actions that he has done hundreds or thousands of times, so doesn't that prove that the day after tomorrow, when we think that there will be nothing in these places, he will still come back here to find food. ”
"Yes. Hey, no, I won't have anything to eat the day after tomorrow. ”
"We thought it was gone, but the kid thought it was, otherwise it wouldn't have been the last time he didn't find anything to eat here, and then he cried. ”
"He thinks there is?"
"It's not that he thinks there is, but there will be something, so he comes back habitually.
Four days ago, you saw the kid for the first time, and then you followed him, and found something to eat, and the three of you ate it all.
Three days ago, I led you to wait for the rabbit, and found that the little kid came out of the dog hole and came directly to look for the bun. Later, we caught him, and we didn't ask why for the whole day, so we locked him up. In the evening, a large group of rats rushed out, drove us away, and rescued the little boy.
Two days ago, we came back here to arrest the little boy, and we didn't catch anyone until midnight, but we heard a Red Guard knocking on the door outside.
When we left here, we saw the Red Guards haunted by the ghosts, and they died, and we went back to the two-story building on the street.
Until yesterday morning, you saw the little boy take the initiative to show up again, and the steamed buns that had been eaten before came out again, and the store furnishings that had been messed up before returned to their original places.
After three days, everything changed back to the way it was.
And the food here is exactly what I have prepared for two people for three days.
If it weren't for our existence, would everything that happened in this Yexian Market be a three-day cycle, just forever?"
In the end, Senior Chen stared at me and asked such a question, but I didn't react for a while.
At this moment, Liang Tianyu's shout came from behind him.
"That's right, it's a three-day cycle, and I've already discovered this problem. As he spoke, Liang Tianyu stepped forward, pointed to the big-character posters posted on the outer wall of the shop next to him and said: "It's those Red Guards, every three days, in the middle of the night, they will appear in the middle of the night, every time they will walk around the whole street, and after walking, they can meet ghosts, and they will die cleanly one by one." I've been here for so long, and I've met five or six waves of Red Guards, and you said that if things were normal, how could there be a steady stream of people coming, and every time people came they didn't care where the previous ones went.
Therefore, there is only one explanation for this situation, that is, the entire Ye County, or the entire dream world, is a three-day reincarnation, no matter how we toss here, everything will return to its original place on the morning of the third day. ”
Liang Tianyu defined all kinds of strange phenomena we encountered in a few words.
Without experimentation, everything that has happened so far is enough to prove that he is completely right.
But even if we know that Ye County in this dream has such a special setting, it still can't help us achieve our goals.
We are here to save Zhang Haiyang, but we are not here to study how the dream world of the female ghost Huang Wanru is set up.
I shook my head helplessly and said what I thought in my heart, but Liang Tianyu and Senior Chen were not as pessimistic as me, and the two said in unison, it is still useful to find this kind of law, at least, we can calculate when the little kid will appear again, and then catch him without limit. In addition, we can also destroy the laws of this dream world and force the female ghost Huang Wanru to appear and have a head-to-head confrontation with her.
How to do it, it's even simpler.
Tomorrow morning, I'm going to plug that dog hole again and catch the little kid first!
The four of us got together and worked out a detailed plan of action.
The first step of the plan was to plug the dog hole and catch him early the next morning, when the little kid crawled out again to find food.
The step went well, and after easily tying up the bear child, we turned around and walked straight back to the small building on the street.
Haha, I want to see what other strange tricks the female ghost Huang Wanru can use this time.
We were hiding in a small street building, with a black cat on the roof, and the wild rats she summoned would definitely not be of use.
We are full of confidence, and at the same time, through a little means, we have determined that the bear child we just caught is the classmate Zhang Haiyang we want to save.
Then there is only one word left, and that is "wait"!
(To be continued.) )