Along one side of the bar, a clad of sconces stands on the wall, which, like the atmosphere of the entire tavern, are not bright enough to barely illuminate less than half a meter around.

Riko Aikawa walks slowly along the course of the sconces, as if admiring the precious objects on display in the museum.

While searching for secret doors on the walls, she also observed the other guests in the tavern.

In the dimly lit corner, they sat next to each other, the wine in their glasses swaying, but they didn't seem to be drinking, but just enjoying the solitude of the hustle and bustle of the world.

As the bartender said, the guests in the tavern have all kinds of occupations.

Most of them are uniformed and easy to identify, such as a lawyer in a suit and leather shoes, a doctor's lab coat, a professional skirt for a working woman, a chef, a flight attendant, and even a girl in a high school uniform sitting alone at a table.

Riko Aikawa felt more and more that something was wrong, how could there be so many people drinking together in uniforms at a tavern, it looked like they were attending some kind of masquerade ball, it couldn't be that they came to this remote tavern directly after work, right?

When she was wondering, she noticed that on the wall next to her, every other station of the wall lamp, there was a photograph hanging.

The photographs are framed in a quaint frame, giving the impression of an artistic portrait.

Because the brightness of the light is really dim, Riko Aikawa needs to walk up to him and get close to see what is on it.

The first photo is simple, with the small stage in the tavern in the background.

The bartender sat on the chair of the stage, the lights were coming down from above, half of his features were hidden in the darkness, and he had an eerie smile on his face, and his expression looked a little ...... Stiff.

"How could such a picture be hung in a tavern?"

Riko Aikawa was puzzled.

She then moved on to the second photo, which, like the first, was still set on a small stage in the center of the tavern, except for the characters, in addition to the bartender, plus the security guard that Riko Aikawa had just met when she entered the tavern.

"These photos ......"

Somehow, a little fear appeared in her heart.

She went on to see a third one, and in the same scene, there was one more person, this time the curly-haired young woman who had smashed her monocle.

Fourth, fifth, sixth......

Lawyers, doctors, high school students, and all of these figures appear one by one, all dressed in striking uniforms with stiff and eerie expressions.

Until the tenth piece, Riko Aikawa couldn't help but widen her eyes and her heart was pounding.

The character above turned out to be ......

"Sister, am I good-looking?"

The immature homophony sounded behind him, and Riko Aikawa immediately turned around and put on a vigilant posture.

Behind her was the girl with two ponytails on her bicycle.

The latter tilted his head and giggled at her.

Riko Aikawa's heart was shocked, and a bone-chilling chill rushed from her spine to her mind.

In the tenth photo just now, the new character is this little girl!

"Is it ......?"

Riko Aikawa pulls out an amnestic spray and sprays it at the little girl.

"Huh? Sister, why do you want to spray me with water? ”

The little girl's face remained unchanged, and she still looked like she was smiling.

But Riko Aikawa's face changed drastically.

How could amnestic spray not work for her?

Unless.

On the wall, the corpses of guests, landlords and tenants in various uniforms......

A terrible thought gradually became clear in her mind.

This little girl is not human!

But, how is that possible?

Ariko Aikawa glanced down at her watch, where the hands pointed to seven or twelve p.m.

It was also seven o'clock when she entered the tavern!

For such a long time, the watch scale did not move at all.

"Oops."

Riko Aikawa took two steps back, reached out and took out a one-meter-long, pitch-black iron drill from her trench coat, and pointed it at the little girl.

"Where is Liu Huai!"

The little girl blinked, and suddenly showed an evil smile: "Big sister, are you bullying me?" ”

As soon as these words were uttered, the soothing piano music came to an abrupt end, and all the guests got up, even the bartender and the security guard at the door came over, silently looking in the direction of this side, and the whole tavern could be heard pins falling.

Only one person did not stand up.

The crisp sound of ice clashing like ripples on the surface of a lake was evident in the quiet tavern.

A short and fat figure appeared on the seat in front of the bar at some point, holding the cup of gin and tonic ordered by Riko Aikawa in his hand, and drinking it slowly.

"Liu Huai!"

Riko Aikawa recognized each other at a glance.

Liu Huai turned his head and said in a somewhat gloomy tone: "This lady, do you recognize me?" ”

He then said to himself, "Originally, I didn't have much interest recently, but you want to send it to the door."

But it just so happens that in my tavern, it would be nice to add a detective character. ”

"You say...... Increasing the role? ”

Hearing this, a sense of absurdity suddenly arose in Aikawa Riko's heart.

She looked at the other guests in the tavern.

Doctors, lawyers, office workers, flight attendants, bartenders, students, security guards, young women, cooks, and, this little girl.

Ten paintings, ten people, ten ...... Role.

The information about Liu Huai that I had seen before appeared in front of Eikawa Riko's eyes.

Liu Huai used to be obsessed with figurines, but two years ago, as if he had suddenly lost interest, he never bought anything like it again.

Ikawa Riko originally thought that he had to give up this hobby because of his father's illness and the family's financial constraints, but now it seems that this is far from the case.

Liu Huai was no longer satisfied with the stiff figure, he looked at the ...... beside him Living human beings!

I should have realized one step earlier that the photographer of those photos on the wall was Liu Huai himself!

And the eleventh chair in the center of the stage, I'm afraid, was for himself.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey......"

Liu Huai reached out and pulled the young woman next to him, lifted the hem of her skirt, and reached into the bottom of her skirt.

The woman groaned and leaned limply against him.

Riko Aikawa frowned, and a wave of nausea ran through her stomach.

She had never seen such an ugly person.

"Well, my figurines are real enough, did you think they were all real?"

Liu Huai bared his mouth full of jagged teeth and laughed a little maniacally.

"Do you know how long it took me to build them to such perfection? Those people all called me disgusting and dirty, but they didn't know that they were the most vulgar, living like soulless dolls. ”

Liu Huai looked around the tavern and said proudly: "Where do they understand my taste." It's just a bunch of walking garbage, and sooner or later I'm going to have to make them all into more valuable toys. ”

This is a madman.

Huichuan Lizi put his hand in his pocket, touched his mobile phone, and was about to contact the local logistics department when Liu Huai suddenly snapped his fingers.

"Hold her. Be careful not to rip my baby up, it's hard to find someone who fits into a detective suit. ”

Liu Huai raised his head, drank the wine down, and then slapped the wine glass on the bar, looking at Riko Huichuan's eyes fiery.

"It's a fun time, it must be, it's a different taste."