Episode 15 The Man Who Didn't Exist
In the noisy sound of the machine, Lu Chen saw that on the simple conveyor belt located in the center of the factory, pieces of things about the size of a palm were lined up in a neat and orderly manner, and there were several people at the other end of the conveyor belt, and a few boxes were placed around him, so he couldn't see the emptiness.
There was a faint smell in the air of the factory, the kind that had been piled up with cheap chemicals. Lu Chen sniffled, searching hard in his memory for the memory of this taste.
"It's pancreas that are produced here." Coldly, Qian Duoduo leaned over to Lu Chen's side and whispered. "It's the same taste as the pancreas in my house."
No wonder I feel so familiar. Lu Chen looked around again, there was something worth investigating, and there was no point in staying here any longer.
Patting the two of them on the shoulder, Lu Chen gestured and retreated lightly towards the door, the machine was still roaring in the factory, and the personnel were busy. No one cared at all when they found out that an outsider had broken in.
"Yikes!"
Lu Chen, who had already retreated to the door, suddenly heard a small exclamation behind him, and looked back in a panic to see Liu Qiang shaking his body and trying to stabilize his balance.
Won't be discovered?! Step forward to support Liu Qiang, Lu Chen put his hand to his lips and motioned to the other party not to make a sound and quietly listen to the sound in the factory.
Fortunately, the little panic just now didn't seem to be discovered by the people inside. I heard the sound of busy work in my ears, and there was no footsteps towards me.
Relieved, he lowered his head to look at the thing that Liu Qiang had almost fallen down just now, ten dark yellow pancreas, carved with an eagle flying high.
This must have been accidentally dropped by a worker while carrying goods. A few people trotted to the truck in front of another factory and crouched down to look around.
"I was scared to death, I thought I was going to be exposed." Liu Qiang stroked his chest with an exaggerated expression for the rest of his life.
"Be careful next time."
With a word of advice, he got up and touched the iron door of the factory, the door of this factory was tightly closed, Lu Chen stretched out his hand and tried to push it, but it was not pushed open, I don't know if it was locked from the inside or something was holding it up. Leaning against the door and looking in through the crack in the door, the light inside was dim, and I could only see some people with their backs to the door and I didn't know what they were busy with, trying to look closely but couldn't see clearly.
There was no choice but to give up here, and the next factory half of the door was wide open, and he rubbed his nose and sneezed before he got close to Liu Qiang.
Fortunately, the sound of this sneeze was not loud, and after looking around and no one noticed him, Liu Qiang walked a few steps quickly to catch up with Lu Chen, and there was nothing worth seeing in this factory. The entire spacious room was covered with a thin layer of snow, and the air was also filled with snow-white particles.
Liu Qiang has been rubbing his nose since he walked here, these tiny particles seem to be conscious, and he will be forced to inhale a lot every time he breathes, which is dry and itchy, so that people can't help but want to sneeze all the time.
Lu Chen's appearance was not much better, he had only been in it for a minute or two, and a thin veil was covered on his head. Covering his mouth and nose tightly, Lu Chen squatted down and reached out to twist some of the "white snow" on the ground. Rub your fingers vigorously and put them under the tip of your tongue and lick them.
"Phew", it turned out to be white noodles. It seems that this is the place where the instilled white flour is produced, no wonder there is such a large amount of dust. There's not much to look into here. Too lazy to complain about how much food the workers here wasted, Lu Chen and a few people escaped.
"Looks like it's normal here." Hiding in a remote place, the two of them slapped and cleaned up the flour that fell on their bodies. "Maybe we're wrong."
"Do you know all the people who do the work?" Lu Chen asked.
"Hmm..." Liu Qiang's eyes wandered, he thought seriously for a long time, and shook his head. No. They are all tightly wrapped, and they are so far away that they can't tell if they know each other. ”
"I said, should we go to the base and see what's there?" Liu Qiang's excited proposal, talking about the surrounding situation, the excitement of the unknown has far exceeded the purpose of coming here.
There is still something wrong, Lu Chen thought in his heart, it is not about the workers here. I should have found out just now, but I seemed to have been ignored by myself, what is the problem?
When he hesitated to catch up with Liu Qiang and plan to go to the base to check it out, Lu Chen suddenly found that his expedition team was missing a member - Qian Duoduo was gone!
Just now, when Lu Chen and the two of them entered the flour workshop to check, Qian Duoduo inadvertently saw someone in the distance turn around the open space and disappear behind a brick house.
That person, Qian Duoduo vaguely felt that the back was very familiar, very much like someone he knew.
Brother Cen?!
chased until the corner of the factory, and Qian Duoduo caught up with the people who were running quickly in front. The person in front should dare to pick up someone behind, his pace is getting faster and faster but he doesn't run, so he leads Qian Duoduo to hit the edge of the factory not far away.
"Brother Cen?!"
Looking at the back that had been forced into a corner and refused to stop, Qian Duoduo couldn't take care of it, and shouted out with a suppressed voice.
The man in front of him paused, but did not turn around, and stood there like a sculpture.
Seeing that the other party didn't turn around, Qian Duoduo didn't dare to rashly step forward to check, after all, this is a forbidden place, and I don't know if the other party will suddenly attack him.
"You're Brother Cen, right?!" Qian Duoduo asked uncertainly.
The person with his back to him slowly turned around, Qian Duoduo saw the familiar face again, the years seemed to have cast a spell on the other party, obviously it had disappeared for four years, but the other party's appearance was still the same as the young man at the beginning, and it had never changed.
"Brother Cen!!"
But when all the shouts came out, Qian Duoduo jumped up and down with joy and pounced on the man, wanting to tell the other party that he missed him very much, and wanted to tell the other party that he had a bad time in the past four years.
However, the person in front of him deftly dodged Qian Duoduo's rushing body, and raised his index finger to his mouth to warn the other party to be quieter.
“?” Qian Duoduo looked at the other party incomprehensibly, and suddenly felt that this person... and Brother Cen, who he knows, is not at all like him except for his appearance.
"One less."
The man slowly bent down and leaned into Qian Duoduo's ear, whispering in a strange voice.
"Toto!"
Lu Chen came out of nowhere, eagerly ran to Qian Duoduo's side, and violently pushed away the stranger and blocked Duoduo behind him.
"Who are you?" Lu Chen asked with a wary expression.
"Huh." The man didn't answer, didn't look at him, just chuckled and his eyes wandered.
"He is..."Qian Duoduo behind him poked his head out and just wanted to explain to Lu Chen, but there was a cry of surprise behind him.
"Aren't you dead?"
Looking back, Liu Qiang was standing not far behind the two of them, looking at the stranger with a stunned expression.
Do they all know that person? Lu Chen thought in his heart, and suddenly heard the friction of blades of grass behind him, and the sound of Duoduo's shouting. Hurriedly looked back, the other party was running towards the corner like a rabbit running for his life.
The corner of the wall was crawling with dense creepers, alive in the sun.
But it was a dead end, did he want to follow the creeper? Can't wait to guess any more, Lu Chen saw that the person rushed directly into the curtain formed by the creeper and disappeared.
Gone?! Several people stared at the creeper with wide eyes and a look of surprise, and the creeper never appeared again, and disappeared out of thin air.
The one who wanted to react the most was Lu Chen, who ran in a few steps to the creeper and lifted Teng Man. It turned out that there was a vacancy behind the dense Teng Man.
Someone must have smashed the wall open, there were many broken bricks scattered on the ground, and there was an empty space outside the wall, and not far away was the foggy forest that everyone in the town heard of.
There was no one to be seen outside, and the man must have run into the woods deep in the mist.
"What should I do?"
The other two followed, and Liu Qiang looked into the depths of the forest and swallowed, unsure if he wanted to chase the man.
Looking at Qian Duoduo again, the other party's face was lost and reluctant, and an inexplicable unpleasant feeling poured out from the bottom of his heart. Lu Chen drilled back to the factory area and walked in the direction of the previously determined base.
"Who's that guy?" Looking at Qian Duoduo who was distracted, Lu Chen felt that he couldn't ask anything, so he turned his head to look at Liu Qiang. Who knew that the other party also looked preoccupied, and Lu Chen asked twice before he reacted.
"Huh? What are you asking? That guy?! Ah, he's from the town too. ”
"Did anything happen to him before? Why do you say how he is still alive? ”
"Ah, he..." Liu Qiang was vague and reluctant to say more with Lu Chen, and then he shut up and stopped talking.
What the hell is going on with them? What exactly happened to that person? Why are they so silent when it comes to that person?
"I... I want to go to him. ”
Qian Duoduo, who was advancing, suddenly stopped and looked back behind him reluctantly.
"He's dead." Liu Qiang said coldly.
"No, Brother Cen is not dead, we saw him just now." This was the first time Lu Chen saw Qian Duoduo refute others, and he stared straight at Liu Qiang, his face without the previous cowardice and obedience.
"Hey, are you two okay?! This is not the place for fights. Lu Chen looked at the two of them irritably, but what happened next was completely beyond Lu Chen's expectations.
I saw that Liu Qiang, who had been in a stalemate, suddenly raised his hand and slapped Qian Duoduo vigorously, and the force made Duoduo stumble in two steps and almost fall, and then Liu Qiang pounced on the other party, picked up his fist and went down.
"Cen Yin died four years ago!"
"Nope! Brother Cen is not dead! Although he was beaten and unable to resist, Qian Duoduo still kept retorting.
It's like thinking that these people are not messy enough, and they have to pour another pot of oil on the fire. Suddenly, a rapid alarm bell rang in the factory yard, and then from not far away came the noisy and panicked sound of a crowd, which sounded like a lot of people had run into the yard.
Oops! A chill rushed across Lu Chen's back. Lu Chen hurriedly pulled the two apart, and fled outside half-pushing and half-pulling.
Hiding behind a factory not far from the door, several people looked towards the door. There was a crowd of people hula la, and I don't know what was going on.
"Hurry up and let my husband out!!"
A high-pitched cry of a woman hysterical suddenly came from the crowded crowd at the door.....