The strength in the game is steadily improving, but in reality, Lin Ze is living a smooth life, in addition to reading books and surfing the Internet every day, he helps his grandfather do housework.

Time passed in peace, and soon came to the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Early in the morning, Lin Ze was sent out by his grandfather to purchase the ingredients to be used tonight.

When passing through the atrium downstairs, he unexpectedly saw the little girl named Xiao Ke sitting alone on the bench last time, watching a few children of the same age playing with leather balls not far away.

Under the soft sunlight, the girl's already slightly pale little face became more and more transparent, and people couldn't help but feel pity.

Lin Ze's footsteps paused slightly, then turned around and walked towards Xiao Ke and sat down on the bench.

Xiao Ke was startled, and his body instinctively shrank back, until he saw that it was Lin Ze, and then relaxed slightly.

"Why is it here alone?"

"Dad, Daddy went to work. "Xiao Ke weakly responded.

Then Lin Ze heard a loud fasting sound.

"Don't you eat cookies?" Lin Ze glanced at the animal biscuits that Xiao Ke was holding tightly in his right hand and asked softly.

Xiao Ke hesitated and shook his head slowly: "This is ...... Dinner ...... Toto"

"Who's Duoduo?"

“...... Dog. ”

Lin Ze nodded and patted her head: "Wait for me here." ”

With that, he got up and left, went to the convenience store not far away, bought some snacks such as bread and biscuits and candies, put them in bags, and then returned to the bench and gently put the things in Xiao Ke's hand.

"Happy New Year!"

Xiao Ke was a little stunned, looked at Lin Ze in a daze, and only grabbed the bag slightly after a while.

Seeing this, Lin Ze smiled slightly: "Go home, go eat with Duoduo." ”

"Hmm. Xiao Ke nodded, glanced up at Lin Ze again, and said in a low voice, "Thank you, brother." ”

Seeing Xiao Ke running into the door of the first floor in small steps, Lin Zecai sighed lightly and got up to leave.

There is a life supermarket more than 100 meters away from the community, with a complete range of ingredients, because of the Chinese New Year, there is a dense flow of people, Lin Ze spent a lot of time to buy the things that his grandfather wanted, and came to the back of the long queue in front of the cashier, and began to wait in a long queue.

He didn't waste any time, he waited while scrolling through forums and Weibo, trying to find out if there was any anomaly suspected of being a monster.

It's a pity that Lin Ze's hometown is only a third-tier city, calm and calm, and what can be searched on the Internet is basically trivial things, but half a month ago, a homicide occurred in a local high school, and a teacher on duty at night was found dead on the playground, and the murderer has not yet been found, which caused an uproar in the local area, and many people are still discussing it on the Internet.

"Is it a simple homicide, or is it the work of monsters?" Lin Ze pondered.

Just as he was thinking about it, a surprise voice suddenly came from his side.

"Lin Ze!"

Lin Ze looked up and followed the sound, and saw Ren Wanzheng looking at him with surprise on his face.

"What a coincidence!" Looking at the shopping bag in Lin Ze's hand, Ren Wan asked happily, "You also live around here?"

"Right in front of the complex. Lin Ze was also a little surprised, he didn't expect to meet Ren Wan again so soon, and sure enough, the world was very small.

"That's really a coincidence, so am I, I live in Building 7!" Ren Wan smiled happily, paused, turned his head and whispered a few words to his friend next to him, who glanced at the two of them with a slightly ambiguous look, and then walked away with a smile, while Ren Wan stood in place and chatted with Lin Ze.

"I didn't expect us to live in the same community!" Ren Wan said with a smile, her heart was extremely happy, it was really a fateful encounter.

"Did you just move here recently?" Lin Ze asked, he has lived in the community since he was 8 years old, and basically the whole community is familiar to everyone, but he has never seen Ren Wan.

Ren Wan smiled: "Yes, our family just moved to this community at the beginning of the year. ”

During the small talk between the two, Lin Ze quickly settled the account and left the supermarket with the bag.

Ren Wan left her friend very unrighteous and returned to the community with Lin Ze.

When passing by the smart express cabinet in the community, Ren Wan specially stopped to pick up a courier, the express box is not small, obviously very heavy, Ren Wan is very difficult to hold with both hands.

"Let me do it. Lin Ze took the carton with one hand and clamped it in his arm.

"You have so much strength. Ren Wan glanced at Lin Ze's arm in surprise, only to find that the muscle outline on it was very obvious, "Do you often exercise?"

"There is a lot of running. Lin Ze replied casually and walked into Building 7, "Which floor do you live on?"

“305！”

The two chatted, took the elevator to the third floor, and as soon as they stepped out of the elevator door, Lin Ze felt a strange aura in the air.

It's a monster's unique aura!

His face remained unchanged, his footsteps returned to normal after a slight pause, and he followed behind Ren Wan with his things and walked towards 305.

The aura of the monsters that permeated the corridor was very weak, but when he passed through the staircase, Lin Ze clearly felt that the aura was suddenly much thicker, escaping from the stairs leading to the upper floor.

305 happened to be near the staircase, Ren Wan took out the key and opened the door, and then turned back to Lin Zeyan and smiled: "It's good to get here, I can come by myself for the rest, thank you today!"

"You're welcome. Lin Ze shook his head and pretended to be inadvertent, "I didn't expect you to live here, there are that kind of people upstairs, you must be very troubled on weekdays, right?"

He remembered that his grandfather said that the 405 rooms upstairs were Xiao Ke's home.

"Yes, it's noisy!" Ren Wan said angrily, "That man is just a scumbag, drinking outside, even if he doesn't take good care of his daughter, he often beats her on weekdays, Xiao Ke is such a cute child can do it, it's really inhumane!"

"The police should be more restrained after mediation, right?"

"It's a little more restrained, but in the last few days, at 12 o'clock in the evening, there was a muffled sound from above, which lasted for about ten minutes before stopping, I suspect that the man is beating Xiao Ke again, but when I see Xiao Ke during the day, there are no new scars on her body, and she doesn't answer when asked what is going on, which is really confusing. Ren Wan wondered.

"That's right. Lin Ze nodded thoughtfully, then raised his head and smiled, "Okay, you go in, I still have to take the things to my grandfather, go back first." ”

Ren Wan took the box and said with a smile: "Okay, let's make an appointment again when we have time!"

"Good. ”

After saying goodbye to Ren Wan, Lin Ze walked straight to the elevator entrance, until he heard a loud sound of the door closing behind him, and then turned his steps and stepped on the stairs leading to the 4th floor.

As you go up the stairs, the aura of the monsters in the air grows stronger and stronger, and finally reaches its peak in front of the door of 405.

"Monster ......"

Lin Ze muttered softly, just now he was still thinking about how to find the monster, but he found out in a blink of an eye, is it his luck that is too good, or is there more and more monsters in reality?

And I didn't expect the monster to be in Xiao Ke's house.

"Could it have something to do with Xiao Ke's domestic violence?"

While he was pondering, he suddenly heard the sound of the door opening from the house next to him, so he stopped lingering, looked deeply at the door of 405, and then turned around and quickly left the fourth floor.

When he returned to the atrium, Lin Ze found that there was no one on the bench, and Xiao Ke didn't know whether to go home or run somewhere else.

Standing in place and thinking for a few seconds, Lin Ze walked to the bench, squatted down and carefully examined it, but found no residual monster breath, and couldn't help but show a deep groan on his face.