"Strange, why can't you see anyone?" Sheriff Derek slowed down and stopped in front of the low wooden gate.

Usually there are people guarding the gate in the vicinity, sometimes half-grown children playing, sometimes adults sleeping on the railings, and occasionally people on horseback who come to patrol.

Private property, without a warrant and without permission, is not allowed to enter even the police at will, except in exceptional circumstances, which is valued by the Chandlers, and Derek has been in several times, during a routine inspection of the fire protection measures every year.

After getting out of the car, Derek took out a megaphone from under his seat, stood in front of the fence, and shouted inside, in a sparsely populated place, the megaphone was definitely an artifact.

A few buildings could be seen in the distance, but after shouting for a while, no one came out, and Derek tried to call again, but no one answered, and there seemed to be no one in the ranch.

This is a special situation, the pasture is not a house, there are cows and horses in it, and someone must always take care of it, even if the horses and cattle are sleeping, they have to guard against the wild beasts in the mountains.

"Go in and have a look." Derek checked his pistol, removed the fence that was used as a gate, returned to the car, and drove into the ranch.

There was no one in the pastures, in the barn, or in the stables, neither living nor dead, but the cows and horses were alive and well, and there was no blood on the ground, or any signs of fighting, as if the people here had evaporated or dissipated with the wind.

Both the horse and the cow were already hungry and irritable, and when they heard the sound of the engine, they all barked, as if in collective protest.

The exterior was all inspected, and there were still a few buildings left unchecked, and Derek parked his car in front of a row of houses. said to Gu Qi: "The movement of the livestock is too loud, if there are suspicious people approaching here, we can't hear it, so it's better to move some forage to feed them first." ”

"Good idea." Gu Qi nodded, pushed the door and got out of the car.

Derek took the lead and walked to the door of a hay barn. The door was opened.

There was no one in the hay barn, so the three of them, carrying a stack of hay, went to the barn, threw a stack in each compartment where there were livestock, and filled the bucket with water.

After a busy moment, the horses and cattle were quiet, and there was no need to do food distribution, walking, and cleaning, and it was important to find someone for now.

The ranch is not very large, and there are not many people in the Chandler family. In addition to the man surnamed Chandler, there were two or three helpers on the ranch, more than twenty men, women and children, and the houses were all built by themselves, in two rows, connected at right angles, the main building was two floors, and the rest were one-story bungalows.

Derek, Gu Qi, and Kenji Sakura went from room to room. All the houses were looked at, but no one was found. Instead, two cats and a dog were found.

There were no bodies, no blood, no furniture toppling over, everything was where it should be, not a trace of mess.

"Hmm...... It's not normal. Derek stood in front of the main building and said a word of nonsense.

Kenji Sakura glanced at Derek and said with a smile, "I guess." Today you see a lot of things that are not normal. ”

"What's that?" Derek asked, moving his fingers, his fingers a little stiff all the time he had been holding the gun.

"You'll know then, by the way, it's better to put away your gun. Lest you and I be ruined, if we really encounter danger here, it will not be a danger that a pistol can deal with. Kenji Sakura patted Derek on the shoulder.

Derek was confused and looked at Gu Qi.

"Indeed." Gu Qi nodded: "You have a gun, I still have to be distracted to Gu gun, it is recommended to close the insurance and put the holster back, it is better not to bring it and hide it." ”

Derek is an experienced policeman, and compared with Gu Qi, who he only met at noon, of course, he trusts his gun more, and it is impossible not to bring it, but his intuition tells him that Gu Qi and Kenji Sakura are both trustworthy and powerful people, so he pinned the pistol back into the holster and walked to the front of the main building.

knocked on the door, there was no reaction inside, and like in other rooms, Derek twisted the doorknob, habitually reached out to touch the gun, and when he touched the gun, he remembered the words of Kenji Sakura and Gu Qi, and withdrew his hand again.

Pushing open the door, the stench hits Derek's nose, and even smokes Derek back two steps, this time no longer the rancid stench of sewers and food, but the real stench of corpses.

Gu Qi motioned for Derek to follow and walked into the house first.

The room was bright, the furniture was old, the room was not clean, there were some handmade wooden toys on the floor, as well as candy wrappers, cartons and the like, except for the smell of corpses, everything in the foyer was as usual, full of life.

Gu Qi walked into the living room again, no one was found, there was no blood, the TV was still on, the lights were on, and there were beer and Coke on the coffee table, all of which were not finished, as if something had happened suddenly, and all the people in the living room were suddenly gone.

Walking further inside, the smell of corpses became even stronger, which could make people's eyes sour, Gu Qi asked Derek and Kenji Sakura to stay in the living room, and pushed open the front door.

Behind the door was a large room, a dining room, and a source of corpse stench, with a long table in the middle, and more than a dozen chairs beside the table, each chair sat a highly decomposed corpse, and it was no longer possible to identify the appearance of these people, but it could be seen from the posture of these corpses that they were eating "happily".

Someone was cutting food from a plate, someone was putting food in their mouths, someone was holding a wine glass, someone was reaching for food in the middle of the table, and someone was leaning over to pick it up with a fork falling to the ground.

The food on the table was also badly rotten, and most of it turned black.

The scene is so vivid that you can still hear the conversations of these people when you see it, imagining that everyone's movements are frozen at a certain moment, but time is still passing, so it dissolves and decays, moving the cheerful dinner scene to a horror movie.

"Uh-huh......" As soon as Derek saw the corpses, he immediately covered his mouth and turned back to the living room, which was afraid that the sight would give him nightmares for a week.

"This is the real 'corpse party', the person who created this scene is definitely a pervert! He was not lightly ill. Kenji Sakura walked around the corpses, shaking his head and said to Gu Qi.

"I don't know what's the point of doing this, disgusting people?" Gu Qi's palm let out the chain and walked into the kitchen inside.

There were also corpses in the kitchen, and six children sat around a small round table, also eating, also dead for a long time.

"This is beyond the scope of 'perversion', I don't know how to describe it." Miao Yi couldn't help but say.

Gu Qi nodded, closed the doors of the kitchen and dining room, and returned to the living room, Derek's face was ugly, standing in the corner of the living room, his body trembled slightly, and his eyes were very empty.

Lifting a chair for him to sit down, Kenji Sakura asked Gu Qi, "It should take a long time to rot to this extent, right?" Time-based abilities? ”

"It's possible, but there's no way to know for sure when these people died, the sheriff said they had a bad temper, and that very few people should come to this ranch, maybe they've been dead for more than a week." Gu Qi said and asked Derek: "Can you make a phone call and go back, and ask your two subordinates to ask the people in the town when they last saw the people from Chandler's house, and by the way, let the doctor come again to determine the time of death and the cause of death." ”

He knew a little bit about corpses, after all, he had studied biology and medicine a little, but he had never studied forensic science, and he was helpless against decomposing corpses.

Derek nodded and pulled out his phone, only to find that the battery had run out.

Gu Qi frowned, took out his mobile phone as well, and found that his mobile phone battery was also out of power, and the same was true for Kenji Sakura.

It's definitely not a coincidence that the phones of the three people are out of battery, and judging from the decomposing corpses, it is basically certain that someone has secretly used abilities such as time acceleration, and the three people and a cat are within the scope of their abilities.

"Get out of here now." Gu Qi stuffed the phone back into his pocket, picked up Derek, and walked to the door.

"Look!" As he passed by the window of the foyer, Kenji Sakura suddenly pointed outside and shouted.

Gu Qi turned around and saw that more than ten meters in front of the house, someone came at some point, sitting cross-legged on the ground, smiling and waving at them, and on the ground in front of him was a two-story house about twenty centimeters high, like a miniature model house, exactly the same as the house Gu Qi and they were in.

"Go open the door and try it." Looking at the model house, Gu Qi said to Kenji Sakura.

Kenji Sakura immediately walked behind the door and twisted the doorknob, but he couldn't open it anyway.

"No, I can't open it, but I glued the door shut, and no one can get in without slamming the door." Kenji Sakura returned to Gu Qi's side and punched the window glass again, with great force, but the window was unharmed.

"It seems that it is the ability of space, this house may have been projected onto the man's model house, to open the door or window, you can only open the toy house, from this house you can't open it." Gu Qi guessed the role of the model house.

"So we're all stuck here, what's next?" Kenji Sakura asked.

Gu Qi looked at the person sitting at the back of the model house, thought for a while, and said: "That person shouldn't be able to do anything to the model house, otherwise if we lift it up and shake it, we will all fall to our deaths here, which means that there is no danger to us at the moment, we have to find the person who can speed up time first, that person is the most dangerous for us." ”

Derek didn't understand, looked blankly at the window that couldn't be broken, and remembered what Kenji Sakura said just now: "Today you saw a lot of abnormal things. ”

He pulled out his pistol and pointed it at the window—

(To be continued......)

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