The man who received him stood at the door of the exhibition hall in some surprise, and quickly said, "What happened just now?" Why are the lights in the exhibition hall also going out? ”

Shen Xing pointed to the motionless old woman's puppet: "You ask her to go." ”

He waved his hand, just looking for this opportunity and pretending to be frightened and shook his head: "Let's talk about cooperation later, I was scared just now, and now my heart is beating hard!" ”

The man who received the reception looked at the old woman's puppet in surprise, and explained: "You also know that our puppet is almost no different from the real person, I deliberately pretended to be a dummy outside the door just now, and I will scare you after entering the exhibition hall......"

"No, no, no, I'll talk about cooperation another day, I'll go back first." Shen Xing still waved his hand, "I was creepy just now, I may not be able to sleep tonight, who knows if these puppets of yours are real or fake?" ”

As he spoke, he walked quickly out the door.

After leaving the workshop, he didn't even enter the room of the handicraft workshop inside, and Shen Xing's goal was achieved and left directly.

Glancing back, the man who received him was standing at the door of the exhibition hall, a little stunned, and probably wanted to explain, but when the words came to his mouth, he remembered his behavior just now, and there was also the idea of scaring the other party according to the usual practice, and it seemed that he couldn't explain it clearly.

After Shen Xing's figure disappeared, the man returned to the exhibition hall and looked at the motionless puppets, especially the old woman wearing a burgundy cotton jacket and sparse white hair.

He quickly turned and left the exhibition hall and closed the door.

The purpose of coming over this time was achieved, and Shen Xing quickly left this old street.

It is now clear that the puppets in question seem to be related to the work of Motu, a master carver.

Including the old woman puppet in the exhibition hall just now, there has also undergone strange changes, but this change is staged or triggered.

Shen Xing thinks that there is no need to investigate whether the dummy received by Xia Hongyu is controlled by her ex-husband Guan Zhixiong, and it is better to investigate the procedural information here, it is better to go directly to Mo Tu, as long as he meets Mo Tu, basically any information can be controlled.

Back at the hotel, around noon, the private detective Lao Liang never called, and Shen Xing waited until the afternoon.

When he was about to eat, he couldn't sit still, if Lao Liang couldn't determine whether the place where Mo Tu was resting tonight was in the high-end private residence in Taoyuanwu or the luxury studio in Botian Building, then he could only act in person, run to see on both sides, and try his luck to see where he could meet Mo Tu himself.

But it's going to be a waste of time.

After thinking about it, he still decided to call Lao Liang directly to ask what the situation was now.

The phone rang four or five times before it was connected, and Lao Liang's familiar old voice came from there.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Lao Liang, what's the situation now? Did you find out the specific address for tonight? Shen Xing asked.

The other end of the phone suddenly fell silent, and he didn't speak for a long time.

Shen Xing was a little confused, and continued to speak: "Can't you find out?" If I can't find out, then I'll check it myself tonight. ”

"Who are you?" Lao Liang suddenly spoke up and asked a question that made Shen Xing completely stunned.

In the next second, Shen Xing immediately turned to look at himself in the mirror in the hotel room, touched his cheek, and suddenly realized.

At this moment, I am still in a state of changing my face, not only my face has changed, but even my identity information has changed. This replacement is all-encompassing, not just appearance.

So Lao Liang directly forgot about himself, or the relevant information in his memory was blocked, and he asked who he was.

The effect of this face swap will last for a maximum of eight hours, and during this time, Shen Xing has no way to make the other party remember him.

"!" He didn't say anything more and hung up the phone.

I can't explain it at all now, no matter how I explain and explain it, with the blessing of my face-changing skills, Lao Liang won't recognize him.

This guy hasn't called, so he doesn't remember himself. And perhaps he had already found out where Motu was tonight.

Wait a little longer.

Shen Xing moved a chair and sat down in front of the mirror in the room, staring at his other strange self in the mirror in a daze.

Let's see when the time for changing faces will end, my skill was activated around nine o'clock in the morning, and it should be restored after five o'clock in the afternoon at most, and now it's almost five o'clock, and wait......

He sat in front of the mirror and didn't leave.

Sure enough, when the time came to 5:06, his face in the mirror began to change, and the change was very fast, almost in the blink of an eye, the previous appearance returned, and the unfamiliar face disappeared without a trace.

Shen Xing stood up and walked to the mirror, touched his cheek and looked at it carefully, confirming that the face change had been restored.

He took out his mobile phone and dialed Lao Liang's number again.

This time there were two rings, and the voice of Lao Liang came from there: "Hey? ”

"Hey, Old Liang." Shen Xing didn't say anything else, just shouted.

Lao Liang's tone was very ordinary, and he said: "It has been found out, Mo Tu is not in Taoyuanwu tonight, nor is he in Botian Building, but will go to Mo's handicraft workshop at No. 208, Ping'an Seventeenth Lane." ”

When the words fell, Lao Liang's tone paused: "Well, I should just stay there for one night and won't leave." ”

After turning around, I returned to the alley of the old street, which was a bit unexpected.

Shen Xing nodded: "Okay, I'll take care of the rest." By the way, has there been any news of Xia Hongyu's ex-husband Guan Zhixiong? ”

"Nope." Lao Liang replied very simply.

"Then I'll get back in touch tomorrow." Shen Xing turned off the phone.

He sighed a little, this skill of changing faces and identities is too awesome, which directly makes private detectives like Lao Liang isolate themselves from their memories.

When he thought of this, Shen Xing suddenly had a thrill, and he remembered it.

Before his face-changing skills disappeared, he also returned home, but Fei Fei still remembered herself, although she was separated by the door, she still talked to herself, and let herself remember to take cold medicine.

What's going on here?

Could it be that this skill will lose some of its utility to some extent when facing Fei Fei?

This skill has an effect in front of everyone else, so there's no reason why it won't work with Fei Fei.

Shen Xing recalled carefully, it was indeed the case, although the side effects of his face swap did not disappear at the beginning, Fei Fei still knew himself and remembered that he was still in the house.

That is, in front of Fei Fei, her identity information has not been blocked or disappeared.

After thinking for a while, Shen Xing couldn't understand it, but at present, it seems that Fei Fei also has secrets that she can't know, and changing her face is only one of them.

Perhaps, this is the reason why he secretly wants to adopt her.

After thinking for a while, he ordered a takeout and ate it in the room, Shen Xing and Fei Fei called again, although it was already night, it was still early, he sorted out his backpack again, and he was not ready to go out until eleven o'clock.

I deliberately changed into black clothes, so that it was easier to move at night.

And this time, he is not going to activate the face swapping skill again, so as not to be a little inconvenient due to side effects after the thing is done.

Putting a black mask in the pocket of his jacket, Shen Xing left the hotel.

He didn't immediately go to the alleys of the old street, but walked around the nearby streets.

At this time, there are still people on the streets, and there are many night stalls in some places, but because the weather is getting colder, there are fewer people eating supper.

Moreover, these night stalls are fenced with cloth, which is the reason why there are no more windy and fewer customers.

Shen Xing didn't eat anything, and after shopping for about half an hour, he went to the old streets and alleys he had been to during the day.

At this time, there were not many people on the whole old street, and the shops on the side of the road were basically closed.

The roadsides on both sides of the old street were lit with bright street lamps, but it was not very dark around, and Shen Xing's footsteps echoed around.

Although he could meet pedestrians along the way, it was very rare, and by the time he reached the fork, there was no one in sight.

Soon I walked two hundred meters to the right and came to the alley that led to Moh's handicraft workshop, which I had visited during the day.

There was even more dead silence here, not to mention people around, not even a cat walking at night.

Shen Xing didn't stay at the entrance of the alley for long, so as not to be seen and arouse suspicion, he immediately walked in lightly.

After a few steps inside, I could hear the sound of dripping water coming from somewhere, but I couldn't find the direction, and it seemed to be caused by water seepage from the walls on both sides.

Soon came to the door where there was a dummy during the day.

At this time, the dummy had been retracted from the room, and the door was locked, which was the kind of antique door lock, but at this moment, through the crack in the door, you could see that there was still light inside.

So Shen Xing didn't make any other moves, but quietly lurked down, squatting in the darkness beside the door.

He believed that if Namotu had come here tonight, he would have been inside.

After all, this is one of his handicraft workshops, and there are all kinds of tools and facilities in it, and it is possible that Master Mo chose to come here tonight to complete his puppet works.

If he wants to do design, he may choose to go to the luxury studio in the Potian Tower.

And if you want to rest, you will choose to go to Taoyuanwu.

Shen Xing squatted outside for a while, his hands and feet were slightly numb, he slowly stood up, and saw that the light in the crack in the door had been extinguished.

There must be more than one entrance and exit in this workshop, Shen Xing doesn't know what the layout inside is, but since there is a small exhibition hall set up not far from the entrance, it should be larger.

He took out a short, round key, which was densely covered with pores, but all the pores were now in a state of convergence. Not only that, but in the place of the key handle, there is also a button that is not easy to detect.

This is the master key that I applied for from Li Naijing since I became a special officer of the special investigation team.

Unless it is a smart lock that cannot be keyed, this master key can be opened.

Slowly inserted the key into the lock hole, and after he could no longer enter, Shen Xing pressed the button, and a large number of metal strips stretched out from those dense holes, which resisted the perforations in the lock, and these thin strips had memory ability, and soon formed a fixed caliper, just like a brand new key.

After feeling the same, Shen Xing twisted slightly, and the keyhole rotated, indicating that it had been fitted.

He held his breath until he twisted the key completely, made a slight click, and with a push of his hand, the door opened inside.

Quickly flashed in, and immediately closed the door again.

At this moment, there was no one in this passage, including the entrance of the small exhibition hall in front, and the surroundings were quiet.

Shen Xing then moved forward in a faint light, and did not turn on the small flashlight with him, and when he came to the corner of the passage, he turned sideways to look inside the corner, and the remaining half of the passage led to a courtyard, and the right side where he was standing at this moment was the exhibition hall that he had entered during the day.

At this moment, the door of the exhibition hall is not closed, but open, and nothing can be seen in the black inside, and I don't know if the various puppets on display during the day have been put away.

However, Shen Xing had an intuition, there was an inexplicable coolness in the exhibition hall on the side, as if the air conditioner was turned on, he knew that most of the puppets in it were there, but they were all standing in the dark at the moment.

And the old woman puppet in the burgundy cotton jacket seems to be facing this direction with her cheeks.

Regardless of whether the other party was resurrected or not, Shen Xing still subconsciously moved a step forward and avoided the entrance of the exhibition hall.

He stuck his backpack against the wall, looked up, found no surveillance cameras, and then moved along the wall, and soon reached the entrance of the yard.

When I looked into the courtyard, I found that there was a garden in the middle of the courtyard, but there was a large number of cloisters, and at the corners of the cloisters in the courtyard there were faint lights on the ground, so that the other surrounding scenery could not be seen too clearly.

He found that there was no one here, but Shen Xing could hear some rhythmic sounds not far away, as if there was still work in the workshop.

He had put on his black mask at this time, still looked above and off the hallway, and saw no surveillance cameras, and then quickly walked into the cloister, and soon approached a small door.

Leaning on the door and listening, there was no sound inside, the rhythmic sound came from the next room, as if some machine was repeating the same action over and over again.

Shen Xing didn't go over for the time being, but tried to gently push the small door in front of him, and the door opened at the right time, and then he saw a woman in a skirt standing at the door staring at him.

Seeing this scene, Shen Xing's hair stood on end, but he quickly reacted, he subconsciously avoided the woman's gaze, and saw that her gaze did not follow.

In this puppet shop, from now on, you have to be on guard against opening the door to kill, that is, suddenly seeing a dummy that looks like a real person, you must not make a noise because of this, so as to expose yourself.

Shen Xing turned around and immediately closed the door, the room fell into darkness, and he turned on the spotlight flashlight, just shining on the ground.

It was found that there was a small workshop in this room, and in addition to the woman in the skirt standing at the door, there were four or five complete puppets placed in the four corners of the workshop.

In the middle of the workshop are a large number of hand-made tools, which are basically the same as their own carving tools, but almost all of them are several sizes larger on the ruler, so that it may be convenient for the polishing and finishing of the puppets.

In addition, there are scattered half-body puppets on the table, some with bald heads or half faces, or only one arm.

In this workshop, Shen Xing found that there was a small door directly on the other side, which could directly enter the workshop next door.

And at this moment, it was the rhythmic sound coming from next door.

He hesitated slightly, not going to enter from the outside after going out, but directly opening the door here to look next door.

Since he wants to find clues from Mo Tu's body, he can't avoid contact with this person, as long as he sees this guy, Shen Xing believes that he will definitely be able to get some useful clues from him.

It is even possible that this Motu is behind the scenes.

After looking around the workshop and seeing nothing suspicious, Shen Xing came to the small door next door, and when he was about to open the door with the master spoon, he seemed to realize something.

Slightly stunned, he took out his phone and opened a photo, which showed a bust of a man.

Glancing at the man's appearance, he immediately turned around and looked at a certain corner of the workshop, and in that corner, at this moment, a male puppet was standing.

The appearance of this man in the dark is seven or eight points similar to the man in this photo in the mobile phone!

In addition to the different clothes on his body, the facial features and appearance are more and more the same.

Shen Xing withdrew his gaze from the puppet and redirected it to the photo on his phone. The person in this photo is none other than Xia Hongyu's ex-husband, Guan Zhixiong.

After confirming what he had just discovered, Shen Xing suddenly felt something similar beside him at this time, and he immediately turned his head to look in the direction of the door of this workshop.

In the next second, Shen Xinghuo Ran stood up, on high alert.

In his eyes, the female puppet in the white dress who was originally at the entrance of the workshop just now was already standing less than half a meter on his right side, and the pair of plexiglass eyeballs seemed to be watching him.