Get in? Or not?

Yue Shaoyi stood in front of the bookshelf and hesitated. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

[Usually in such a situation, normal people will think that there will be some kind of secret headquarters inside, and the walls are covered with all kinds of weapons and guns.] If you're lucky, you might even have a bulletproof car or flying steel armor......]

[But what if that man actually has some perverted hobby secretly?] Who knows if I'll see something strange when I go in, like SM props or something...... Or is he actually a home? It's full of all kinds of shoujo manga and expensive limited edition figures? In that case, I can show off to the Nightmaro......]

He thought about it a lot, and finally turned sideways and got in. The bookshelf spun back behind him.

Yue Shaoyi burrowed into a dimly lit room. He closed his eyes and waited for a while, and when he opened them, he probably adapted to the dim environment by the faint light.

The room was not too big. The windows were nailed with a few planks, with only a few rays of light shining in through the gaps. Yue Shaoyi tried to press the switch of the light, but it didn't turn on.

[It's too small for a secret dark room......] Yue Shaoyi carefully looked at the entire room through the faint light. There was only a dusty desk in the room with a computer on it. There was a pile of file bags on the ground.

[Huh?] There is another door......] He turned his head to see a room on his right.

He grabbed the handle, opened the door, and slowly walked inside.

"Ahem! Cough! A large amount of dust was inhaled by Yue Shaoyi to the point of coughing. He hurriedly covered his mouth and nose with his shirt.

The dusty room was much larger than the one I had just entered. The windows of the balcony that used to be spacious are still nailed.

Yue Shaoyi suddenly understood something. The secret door was not connected to a dark room at all, but next door to his house.

[This should be next door to another unit...... The man...... Bought two floors next to each other? ]

He looked at the nailed window.

[If it weren't for the fact that this is the top floor, such a window would look suspicious from the outside.] ]

The building where Yue Shaoyi's home is located has 20 floors, and the top floor, the 20th floor, has a spacious loft and small open-air balcony. Yue Shaoyi's sister lives in the spacious attic.

Yue Shaoyi looked at this room carefully, the house type was different from his, but it did have a staircase leading to the attic. And the room where he is now standing is the living room.

The spacious living room was empty, just a few gym machines. He walked under a horizontal bar and looked at a wall obscured by a curtain.

He hesitated and reached out to pull away. Countless clouds of dust fell, and he hurriedly turned his head.

When all the dust fell, Yue Shaoyi looked at the wall.

[This is...... A map of the whole city of Uncheon?! Yue Shaoyi looked at the huge map that included the mountains around Yunchuan.

Not only are important place names and streets marked, but even the spheres of influence of each neighborhood are demarcated with red markers and their names are marked in small print. Especially the part of Night Paradise is densely written with various shady forces and shops.

The headquarters and branches of various gangs, the shops of intelligence dealers, arms dealers, smugglers, etc., the main gathering place for prostitutes, the underground headquarters of cults...... Where are killers to hire, where to buy drugs, where to sell bright weapons...... It's all marked on this map.

[My father, he...... What are you doing? Wouldn't it be okay to put these things at the police station? Why did you get it back? Still secretly hiding in another room to study? Yue Shaoyi frowned, he already had some guesses.

He walked to the other rooms...... Slowly push the door open.

[Ay-Caramba！ Yue Shaoyi looked at the scene in front of him in shock.

The only thing in the room is a small shabby table in the center...... However, he looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't get into the house at all.

The four walls of this room are densely covered with sticky notes and photographs written on them, some of which are newspaper clippings and black-and-white pictures that are fastened to the wall with snaps...... The room was covered with red lines from one wall to the other, and the red lines were also covered with notes and some photographs.

The sheer number of red lines, crisscrossed and criss-crossed, looking jumbled, made it almost impossible for him to enter.

Yue Shaoyi bent down to dodge the red lines on several of his heads, while trying his best to raise his legs to avoid the two lower lines. He struggled to walk through the room on crutches.

He looked carefully at the papers and photographs on the wall. There are secretly taken photos of someone getting out of the car, and there are also frontal photos of some people. There are people in suits and leather shoes, and there are people with tattoos and fierce faces. He looked closely and found that all the photos posted on them were marked in small print: guilty.

[These people...... I guess he committed a crime but was not punished......] He thought to himself.

Yue Shaoyi saw some photos that had been crossed out with a red marker. He looked at them closely, and soon recognized that they all seemed to be dead sooner or later...... Killed.

[Hell, it can't be ......] He seemed to understand something.

Yue Shaoyi turned around and looked at the small table in the center of the room. There is a picture frame upside down. He reached for it.

Above is a photo of two people. Yue Shaoyi's father and mother...... The photo seems to be from many years ago. The mother in the photo looks to be only in her 20s, with long brown and slightly curly hair naturally scattered on her chest, and an innocent smile on her delicate and beautiful face. She hugged her father, who was also young at the time. Yue Shaoyi was surprised to see that his father, who had always been serious, would smile so happily.

"Mom......" Yue Shaoyi whispered to himself.

"Wow! It's so beautiful! A voice suddenly rang in his ears.

Yue Shaoyi pursed his lips.

"Why do you have to be surprised? Quiet? He looked disapprovingly at Jing behind him.

"Why didn't it scare you...... Really, normal people would be shocked, right?! ”

Yue Shaoyi shook his head and put the photo back. Leaving this room with difficulty.

"It's so handsome here, it looks like a scene from a movie." Xiao Jing looked around and said to Yue Shaoyi.

"Well, yes, I don't know what the hell that man did here......"

"Huh? What is that? He walked out of the room plastered with paper and photographs, and looked in amazement at the floor in the opposite room.

Yue Shaoyi walked over slowly.

On the ground is a silver pendant. The round pendant resembles a pocket watch, but when it opens, it is a small photograph.

He picked it up. [Isn't that what I wore on my father all the time?] When I saw his body, I wondered why the pendant was missing. ]

Yue Shaoyi hesitated for a moment and hung it around his neck.

"What's in there?" Jing asked curiously.

"Oh, it's just a family portrait of our family." Yue Shaoyi whispered.

He looked at the ground where the pendant had just been placed, and then at the wall.

Maybe there was once a man leaning here alone looking at the picture inside the pendant. Yue Shaoyi stood silently.

[First he lost his wife, then his son.] The only remaining daughter hasn't been taken care of properly......] He thought a little meanly, then turned and left the empty room.

"I just looked upstairs, and there's nothing but a double bed." Jing Piao came to him and said to him. "I picked this up the stairs though." Jing handed over a black mask.

Yue Shaoyi reached out and took it suspiciously. It was found that it was not a mask, but a face shield that resembled a hood. He looked closely, and saw that the mouth part of the mask was printed with a very familiar pattern, which was the mouth of a skeleton...... [Ghost！ Call of Duty's Ghost! ]

[…… Is it possible that my father likes cosplay? ]

[etc......] He suddenly remembered the legend that had been passed down in Yunchuan. It seems that many people have been rescued by a man in black wearing a skull mask. There are also rumors that many people who committed crimes but escaped punishment were assassinated by a masked man. Many people in Yunchuan believe that there is a vigilante in the dark of night who violently enforces the law without registering with the police station. The citizens of Uncheon say that he is a knight who walks in the dark and a hero who is the complete opposite of my father as the chief of police. And the police department seems to have been wanted by the man in black.

But now it seems...... Yue Shaoyi looked at the mask in his hand.

[Maybe it's a person...... He...... Have you always been alone? ]

"Hey, quiet. You go through the wall to see if my sister has come back? I don't want her to discover this house. ”

"Oh, okay!" Jing obediently walked through the wall for the first time.

[tsk...... It's really no different from a ghost...... Spirit is a life ......]

"Didn't come back, your sister wasn't there."

"That's good." Yue Shaoyi looked back at the dimly lit room, and finally pressed the button on the wall and left the room where he came.

He left with the mask.

"Okay, Jing, this time you have a place to live, you can sleep in the attic next door. It's still a big bed. Yue Shaoyi walked out of the study on crutches.

"No, that room is so dark and full of dust." Jing said reluctantly.

"Wouldn't it be nice to clean up. Ay? Then again, why are you able to lie in bed? Aren't you floating? A question suddenly occurred to him, and he asked suspiciously.

"Because the spirit can be materialized on its own."

"Huh? What materialization? ”

"That is, there are two states of normal spirits, one is etherealization, in which actual objects cannot be touched, and they are not affected by gravity. In this state, only another spirit and a soul purifier can touch it. The second state is materialization, in which the spirit cannot float and can only stand on the ground. However, it is possible to touch objects in the outside world. ”

"Ordinary people still can't perceive you?"

"That's right, ordinary people can't sense me anyway." Jing nodded.

"Ah, then, you can take transportation......"

"Of course! It was only because it took time for me to switch between the two states that I was left behind by the taxi. Jing said dissatisfied. Hmph, I flew back by myself. ”

"By the way, stupid big man, when are you going to report to the Soul Purifier's headquarters with me? It's a lot of fun there, and you might even have a chance to go to Sky City! Jing looked at Yue Shaoyi with bright eyes.

"How am I going to be like this?" He pointed to his right leg.

"It's okay, it'll be fine soon. The healing power of the Soul Purifier is quite perverted. Jing said.

"And this?"

"Yes, if you have a minor injury, the Soul Purifier will heal on its own in almost an hour or two. A fracture like yours will heal in about a week. Jing nodded again.

"That's great! I can't stand it at home. ”

"Do you remember what Tang Xinyan said when we escaped that day?" Jing suddenly looked at Yue Shaoyi mysteriously.

"What's wrong? I remember. Doesn't that there is a problem with the cafeteria? Yue Shaoyi asked inexplicably.

"Well, when your leg is completely healed, we'll go and check the whole three canteens. I want to say another thing. Jing said solemnly.

"What?"

"You remember I told you that there were still people when we fought that spirit in the school building, right?"

"Well, yes. Why, do you know who it is? Yue Shaoyi nodded.

"I don't know. Or rather...... Up in the air. ”

"What do you mean?" He frowned.

"I'm just guessing...... Just guessing...... It seems to be a small yellow hair, forehead, Tang Danqiu. Jing looked at him.

"What? How is that possible?! "[Just that kid......] Yue Shaoyi waved his hand, smiled and looked at Jing, and then suddenly stopped.

"You...... You're not kidding, are you? He looked at Xiao Jing, who was surprisingly serious.

"Wait...... Why do you think there's something wrong with the little yellow hair? Did his sister suspect him too? Yue Shaoyi asked in disbelief.

"No, just I guessed."

"But...... I don't understand, how do you ......"

"Because time ...... You passed out so you don't know. Tang Xinyan said at the time that we could get rid of that spirit very quickly, and it seemed that it only took 20 minutes. But in fact, it took us almost 40 minutes. ”

"Huh? Just because of this? That's, isn't it? Maybe she's wrong. You said it, too, but I just feel it. Yue Shaoyi raised his eyebrows and retorted loudly.

"No, Tang Xinyan once told me that she has been extremely sensitive to time since she was a child, as if she had a clock in her head. Her estimation of time has never deviated more than a minute. For example, when you go to save her brother, she still silently counts the time. ”

"But ......"

"She was completely accurate. 43 minutes. ”

"......" Yue Shaoyi hugged his head in confusion. …… That is to say, on the basis of a complete belief in Tang Xinyan's time estimate...... So...... She was in a state of unconsciousness for 20 minutes. The little yellow hair, he ......, "It's really hard for him to accept this speculation."

[Friends anyway...... Why ......]

"He doesn't have to, why is he ......?"

"Whatever the reason, he's suspicious right now. His sister lost consciousness for 20 minutes without realizing it, which means that Xiao Huang Mao probably followed us to the second floor of the teaching building during these 20 minutes. Jing continued.

"And don't forget, he's also a Soul Purifier. He told you that he had only recently awakened, would you believe it? ”

Yue Shaoyi looked out the window in silence.