Chapter 40: The Basement

The rain never stopped.

Walking through the streets and alleys with a black umbrella, it was already early in the morning when Li Su returned to the house he rented with a fake identity.

Take off the equipment on your body and carefully maintain it according to the instructions provided by the equipment department. Stuff the clothes into the washing machine and set the program, take out the change of clothes and put them at the head of the bed, go to the shower, and wash. After tossing, I looked at my phone again, it was already five o'clock, and I could already see the faint white of fish belly on the horizon. With a big yawn, Li Su closed the curtains, rolled over to bed like a dead pig, and began to catch up on sleep.

It's a pity that this sleep was not successful, and I always felt that I was woken up by the ringtone when I just lay down and was groggy. Resisting the urge to slam the phone on the wall, Li Su stretched out a hand from the quilt and touched the phone on the bedside table, and pressed the answer button in a semi-confused state: "もしもし,どれ?" ”

"It's me." On the other end of the line was Caesar's voice.

It seemed that something was wrong, Li Su turned over and sat up, his brain cleared up: "What's wrong?" ”

"Tell me about the situation here, something happened." The sound of many cars driving by could be heard in the earpiece, and I took off my phone and looked at the number, which seemed to be a public phone.

"You say, I'm listening." Li Su sat on the edge of the bed and stepped barefoot on the wooden floor. The cold touch traveled up his calf, and he shivered subconsciously. This made him completely sober.

"The first thing is that we have successfully separated from Genji Heavy Industries, and Lu Mingfei is fine. The second thing is more important, Lu Mingfei abducted the head of the Shangshan family and is now taking care of her. We suspect she is...... God. Caesar took a deep breath and slowly uttered the cold sweat of his speculation.

"It's not God, but it has a lot to do with God." Li Su said directly, "I am also investigating and collecting some information. ”

"Oh, good." Caesar did not argue much on this, and seemed to agree with Li Su. "The third thing is that the Oni have come into contact with us, and the one who meets us is the Dragon King of the Oni Clan, who has been operating as Ruri Kazama, and his real name is ...... Yuan Zhinu, the younger brother of Yuan Zhisheng. We expect to have a detailed meeting with him tomorrow evening. ”

Li Su thought for a while and replied to him: "I guessed that it was not far from ten, but I have no evidence." I'm not going to talk. Anything else? ”

"It's gone."

"Then I'll tell you about my side of the situation." Li Su leaned against the wall and recalled. "I've met with the principal, but his instructions are still on stand, and many things are not ready. Many of the other speculations have no evidence yet, and I will go to you as soon as I have the evidence. ”

"Okay, that's it." Caesar hurriedly hung up the phone after speaking, and it seemed that this call was not easy.

After continuing to lean against the wall for two minutes, Li Su asked directly: "EVA, what time is it?" ”

"Eight-forty-three." EVA answered him quickly. "You can go back to sleep."

"Forget it." Li Su walked to the window and opened the curtains, and the dazzling sunlight came in, making people unable to open their eyes. After stretching well, Li Su walked to the sink to wash.

Suddenly EVA's voice came from the mobile phone next to the sink: "It is true that we have collected some information about the fierce ghosts in the Elysium Hall, but it is too little and too scattered, how did you deduce the identity of the Dragon King?" ”

"So I'm smart, you're stupid." Li Su spit out the foam in his mouth, unceremoniously.

EVA was choked by him, so angry that he didn't know how to answer, and was about to lose two sentences when Li Su suddenly spoke.

"List...... Got it all collected? ”

Knowing what Li Su was referring to, EVA quieted down and replied softly, "It's all collected." ”

"Then contact them." After washing his face and hanging up the towel, Li Su took out the clothes that had been dried in the washing machine and folded them and put them in the wardrobe. "I hid it and informed them of myself, and if their parents already knew, inform their parents first, and if you can, don't go and uncover the scars."

"Okay." After a few moments, EVA replied, "Notification completed." ”

Get your gear on and put on your headphones. Li Su took a deep breath, pushed open the door, and stepped into the dazzling sunlight: "Then let's go." ”

Drive to familiar places. Li Su got out of the car and looked up at the "human" shaped roof of the small building, and the whispered broken mouths of the housewives around him came into his ears. It is to the effect that the Aso family has not seen anyone for a few days, and it should not be that the old man died in it or something.

Ignoring the eyes of the housewives around him, Li Su used the key left by Aso Shin to open the outer door of the small courtyard, and walked directly to the storage room, and the moment he opened the door, the stench inside made him frown. As he picked up Kanno, the ground engulfed the excrement that had accumulated over the past few days and began to decompose.

After untying the rope, he threw Kanno into the bathtub, unscrewed the shower and put water inside. "Wash yourself."

Sugano, who was drenched in cold water, shrank and began to wash himself slowly. Although the food Li Su has eaten for him in the past few days is only enough to barely survive and make him lose a lot of weight, these things can still be done.

After washing, Li Su threw over a set of clothes. Kanno was a little surprised to see the style of his clothes, it seemed to be his own clothes, and it seemed that he had already been to his own house. Clothes should be prepared so that I am not so embarrassed, that is...... Your mother paid the ransom and will be able to return home soon?

Thinking of this, Kanno couldn't help but feel a little excited, he quickly got dressed, sat on the ground and waited for the man in front of him to command.

"Eat." Li Su threw him some bread and milk, and sat on the sofa silently watching him gobble up his food. Maybe he was hungry for too long, and after eating, Kanno licked his fingers unfinished, which was unimaginable for him before.

"Let's go." Li Su beckoned to him, and Kanno obediently followed him into the car. The car started and drove along the rugged mountain road towards the mountain forest.

Li Su...... Mr? Are you going to send me back? Kanno, who was shrunk in the passenger seat, glanced at Li Su, who was expressionless, and asked cautiously.

"I'll send you back, but I'll have to meet some people first." Li Su turned the steering wheel. The mountain road had a big bend, and he had to put more effort into driving than usual.

"Okay." Kanno chicks nodded like rice pecks.

The road is getting more and more deviant, the last section of the road is not even concrete, and the bumpy mountain road is a big test for a car designed for ordinary roads, but fortunately Li Su overcame it with his excellent driving skills, and finally Toyota stopped in front of a dilapidated school. The plaque with the name of the school engraved on it has long been crawling with vines, and it is impossible to read the words on it, even if it is abandoned, you can see that the scale of this school is very small.

"This is ......" Kanno felt numb in the back of his head and lost consciousness before he could pronounce a complete sentence.

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He was awakened by the cold.

When he wakes up, he finds himself in a pitch-black room that looks like a basement. The faint light in the corner of the basement couldn't illuminate the whole basement at all, and he could only vaguely distinguish some vaults and cushions, which seemed to be the storage room of school sports goods? He remembered that he seemed to be at a school before he fell unconscious.

Trying to move his limbs, he found himself firmly anchored to the wall in the shape of a cross, completely unable to move his limbs, and could only smell the faint smell of iron in the air......

Kanno fell into fear. He's killed people and knows what it tastes like, it's blood. The brown stains on the upholstery on the floor undoubtedly confirmed this suspicion.

How long has it been abandoned? What happened in the first place that the smell of blood has not gone away? All sorts of speculations exploded in his mind.

At that moment, the only iron door in the basement creaked open.