"Then I was transferred here." Secretary Liu continued, "Not only me, but also some people were transferred together at that time. The people who work here are Xiao Gao, who is in charge of driving, and some people who have become townspeople here. ”

"Is this eyeliner? What is their purpose? Lu Chen didn't quite understand, although this town is not simple, it can't be something in dire straits, hiding important places such as state secrets, as for this.

"Of course it's letting the people from the town run out." Secretary Liu replied.

"Prevent people from running out?" Lu Chen didn't understand it even more. "Aren't the people here themselves unable to get out? Still need to be watched? ”

"But didn't someone run out?" Secretary Liu's eyes turned to Qian Duoduo and said lightly. "Qian Duoduo, you often go to the woods, don't you?!"

"How do you know?"

"What can I not know, every move of the people of this town continues to be in our hands."

"......." Qian Duoduo was silent and no longer paid attention to the other party.

"In fact, the fog of this forest is not harmful to the people in the town. I'm not 100% sure, though. As he spoke, Secretary Liu added another sentence, negating his previous judgment.

"Then why don't you want the people here to leave town?" Lu Chen continued to ask.

"I don't know." Secretary Liu shook his head, "I'm just the bottom, yes, only the fans who accept the order, and I don't ask why." ”

"Your transfer was also arranged because of the incident where a large number of people fled in the town ten years ago, right?" Listening to the other party's little bit of narration, Lu Chen felt as if he understood some of the situation.

For some unknown reason, the town was surrounded by a secret organization, which kept the group of people in captivity like animals.

But what could that secret organization be? And why do you want to keep this group of people in captivity, and what is their purpose?

"Yes." Secretary Liu replied. "That incident seemed to have had a big impact at the beginning. Some of us have heard that we have been punished. ”

"Do you know what your organization does? Where did it come from? ”

"I don't know. We are very class-controlled, and people like me know almost nothing. My mission is to assist Mayor Wu in keeping an eye on you. ”

"......" Lu Chen was speechless.

"But I guess that organization should have something to do with some drug research institute. I've heard what drugs they've been working on. It seems that the few people who were lost ten years ago were taken for a drug test, only to run away halfway. ”

"Medicine...."Qian Duoduo, who had been listening quietly to the conversation between the two, suddenly opened his mouth, and the expression on his face seemed to know something.

"Duoduo, do you remember something?" Lu Chen felt that the other party should know something, walked over to the other party and sat down, and hugged Qian Duoduo's shoulder.

......." Qian Duoduo did not speak, hesitating to tell the other party the truth.

"Tell me if you know anything." Lu Chen slowly shook the other party's body, "Okay?" Lot? ”

"Hmm..."Qian Duoduo was still a little hesitant, "I... I overheard something at Mayor Wu's office before. ”

"What's that?" Secretary Liu was interested and hurriedly asked.

But what Lu Chen cared about was not this, "What did you eavesdrop?" How did I not know? ”

"That's when you were captured by the townspeople." Qian Duoduo thought in his heart about how to tell it, "I wanted to go to Mayor Wu to intercede, but I accidentally heard it." ”

"You...."Lu Chen's distressed hands pinched Qian Duoduo's cheeks hard, and said seriously, "You are really bold, don't do such a dangerous thing by yourself next time!" ”

"Okay, you two stop making a fuss, tell me what you heard?" Secretary Liu on the side couldn't wait any longer, and anxiously interrupted the two and asked.

"Mayor Wu talked to a man I didn't know, saying that the appearance of the "monster" in the town was actually caused by the loss of a drug. ”

"Sure enough." Secretary Liu sneered and continued to ask, "And then?" ”

"The person who spoke to Mayor Wu said that the drug was not developed successfully and was not 100% effective. Then he also threw the antidote in the town's water source. “

So that's how it was... Maybe the hallucinations I had at the beginning were because I accidentally touched the drug, and then drank the water containing the antidote, so I wouldn't be the same as Liu Qiang....

"That's pretty much all I know...."After Secretary Liu finished speaking, he patted his somewhat numb legs, "Actually, this town is not as mysterious as you think." There's no such thing as a ghostly hass, here... It's just a huge conspiracy. ”

"And what does that have to do with me leaving town?" Hearing that the other party had finished talking about everything, Lu Chen realized that the other party hadn't mentioned how to get out of here for the whole half a day.

"Are you stupid? Secretary Liu glanced at Lu Chen, "If you investigate all the secrets here, won't you be able to go out?" ”

"Investigate..."Lu Chen thought about it by himself, or the only way to go out by himself was like this.

"And what about your purpose?" Qian Duoduo, who had been nesting in Lu Chen's arms and listening to the two of them, opened his mouth again, and he looked at Secretary Liu's expression and became vigilant, "You won't just tell us such an important thing, right?!" ”

"Clever." Secretary Liu smiled, "My purpose is very simple, to leave this town with you. I don't want to stay here for a moment, and now it's like life is worse than death. ”

"Hmph. I think you're doing a good job in my house. Lu Chen snorted with disdain and walked into the courtyard.

The temperature outside is getting colder and colder, and yesterday I heard from my neighbor's aunt that winter will be in less than two months.

Tightening the coat on his body, Lu Chen put the cigarette he asked for from Secretary Liu into his mouth and took a few deep breaths. Immediately afterwards, he choked and bent over and coughed violently.

"Are you alright?" Qian Duoduo's voice suddenly sounded behind him, and when he looked back, the other party just ran out with a thick coat on his upper body.

"You go in quickly, or you can come out in thicker clothes." Lu Chen hurriedly hugged Qian Duoduo back to the room, but was deftly turned around by the other party to dodge.

"I'm fine, it's not too cold." Qian Duoduo said, looking up at the jujube tree that was already bare and only had branches left.

"When I was a child, I liked to eat dates the most, especially the ones that had just fallen from the tree. At that time, I also had a jujube tree at home, and whenever the dates were ripe, my mother would use a bamboo pole to beat the dates on the tree and the leaves to the ground, and then I and the children in the neighborhood rushed up to pick up the dates and wash them. Later, my mother gradually disliked serving flowers and plants, and she also disliked the jujube tree growing too densely, blocking the light of the house, so she cut down the tree, and I have never eaten jujube since then. ”

Lu Chen stood aside and listened quietly, although he didn't know what the other party wanted to express, "Duoduo, if you want to eat dates, wait for us to go out ....."

"What are you going to do?" Without waiting for Lu Chen to speak, Qian Duoduo turned his head and looked at Lu Chen and asked.

"I... I don't know. “

Although I know some secrets of the town, and I know that Mayor Wu is not a good person, I know....

But Lu Chen didn't have anything to do, he still had to go to work in the government as usual, and look at Mayor Wu's face to do things.

said that as long as he investigated the truth about this town, he could leave here, but how to investigate and start from there, he still didn't have a clue. Secretary Liu didn't either, Lu Chen thought that the other party had something to hide from him at first, but after thinking about it, he figured it out, if the other party had any important clues or something like that, he should have left here a long time ago, and he wouldn't have told himself these requirements to cooperate with him.

The days are still passing day by day, the weather is getting colder and colder, and the people around him are gradually changing into thick clothes, Lu Chen looked at the wardrobe and was a little worried, there were a few pieces of clothes scattered in it, which were all given to him when Mayor Wu helped him move, but it would be just autumn, and the weather was still hot. If it continues, it won't be long before it's going to be completely cold, and I really don't know what I'll do then.

Recently, Mayor Wu feels that he is not doing well, the missing Secretary Liu has not been found for so long, a few days ago, when he came home from work, he found that his house in the town had been turned upside down.

Don't think about it, this must be what that person called, fortunately he tidied up the room before, and brought all the important things and documents to the government building for safekeeping, and was not touched by the other party.

But he also faintly felt that he was not safe, as if he was exposed to the sun and naked, everything about himself was seen by the other party, but he couldn't find the other party.

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C-Cheng was approaching the outskirts of the city, and several middle-aged men in thin clothes were moving bricks and mixing plaster in the construction site. This is a construction site that has just begun. Just yesterday, the contractor of the construction site was anxious because several people in his team were in a hurry to go home, and ran home a few months in advance, and there were not enough people, but when he went to buy breakfast in the morning, he saw a few people sitting on the side of the road hungry and unable to walk on the road, holding signs and seeking work.

"What are you going to do?" When the foreman was about to cross the street to buy breakfast, he accidentally saw several middle-aged people sitting in a row, one of whom was holding a cardboard clip in his hand.

He walked over with some curiosity to look, only to see a few words written crookedly on the cardboard in the man's arms, "Just find a job to do, just give you food." ”

The contractor smiled, his eyes lit up, and his contractor team may not be short of manpower.

"We...."The men looked at each other and said embarrassedly, "We have the strength, do we count?" ”

"Will a cement mixer or something work?" The contractor asked.

"What's that?" Several people began to look at each other and shook their heads in embarrassment, "No." ”

"Hmm." After finding out the situation of several people, the foreman pondered for a while, "3,000 a month, including food and housing, do you do it?" ”

"Do it." When a few heard that they could have food and a place to live, no matter what kind of work they were going to do, they all nodded their heads like pounding garlic, for fear that the other party would change their minds and not use themselves.

"I said, Lao Wang, how is it, are you tired?" The man who had just transported a truckload of mixed cement to the destination patted the soil on his body and chatted with the people around him.

"Why aren't you tired!" The man called Lao Wang straightened up and moved, "Compared to now, I regret coming out a little." I thought that after coming out, we could find the government, and if we solved it, we could go back to live a good life. You will know that this place is not at all the same as we thought, who knows that not only did we not find anything, but also did not eat, drink, wear or live, and lost Xiao Cen. It's been a week, and the kid really doesn't know where he's gone, it's really nerve-wracking. ”