Zhang Heng moved the utility knife in his hand down, cut Zhang Jingli's thumb, and saw the flesh and blood below, in the static world, living creatures do not follow the rules that take effect when touched, so the blood in the blood vessels will not flow, but after cutting, you can still clearly see the color of the blood inside.

Different from the black blood on Zhang Jingli's calf, the blood vessels in his hands are flowing with the same red blood as ordinary people, for the sake of prudence, Zhang Heng scraped the blood scab on his calf again, and found that only the upper layer was black, so far Zhang Heng could already determine that Zhang Jingli was not the thing he met before, just an ordinary child in the welfare home, but he should have a certain relationship with that thing, otherwise he would not voluntarily top the tank, hide gauze on the bed, and even insert arrows into his calf, Even adults may not have this ruthlessness.

It's just that he obviously doesn't know what the price of doing this is, if Zhang Heng hadn't realized the abnormality of the staff in the welfare home, as long as the utility knife was pressed a little more just now, it would be difficult for Zhang Jingli to live anymore.

Zhang Heng put away the utility knife in his hand, his target tonight was that monster, not a cynical imp in the children's welfare home, but if Zhang Jingli was not the one who attacked them tonight, then where was the person who attacked them tonight?

More than twenty hours have passed since he entered the still world, and in about two hours, the starfish's hour hand will turn in a full circle, if the time to go back is also calculated, there should only be about an hour and a half left for his activities, and Zhang Heng has almost searched the main building of the children's welfare home at this moment, and he has not found any suspicious targets except for Zhang Jingli.

If the other party just bandages in the welfare home and leaves, it is undoubtedly the worst situation for Zhang Heng, because it is difficult to conduct the previous large-scale search in the remaining time, but Zhang Heng does not think that the other party's choice of the welfare home is just accidental, children like Zhang Jingli who live in the children's welfare home usually have little contact with the outside world, and many of them do not trust people outside for various reasons.

However, the current situation in the children's welfare institution is not like the loss of a child just happened, so there is only one possibility left.

Zhang Heng returned to the archive room not far from the B ultrasound room, found the adoption records of the recent period, and turned out the files of the children who had been adopted in the recent period according to the names on them.

Zhang Heng originally thought that it would take a while, but when he saw the photos on one of the files, he was stunned because he actually knew the person above.

- Zhao Xiaotian, this name is a new name from the welfare institute, but the person in the photo, Zhang Heng, is not a stranger, it is the child he saved when he first met the monster that could melt the wall, when he was passing by the remote alley, he tried to save the old woman who was scavenging, but he was unsuccessful, and finally only had time to take away her little grandson who was standing aside.

He later went to the police station to report the case, leaving the child there, and according to the regulations, if the police station could not find the child's other relatives, he would be sent to the welfare home, so Zhao Xiaotian entered the welfare home about a month ago.

Coincidentally, just a few days later, on Christmas Eve, Zhang Heng saw Zhao Xiaotian again in the corner of the amusement park, but he only saw the other party's back in the crowd, and he didn't associate that back with Zhao Xiaotian at that time.

But now looking back, Zhao Xiaotian actually has a lot of suspicions, in the preconceived situation, whether it is Zhang Heng or the female policeman in charge of recording the confession at the police station, they all think that Zhao Xiaotian is the grandson of the murdered scavenger, and he played the role of a victim in the previous incident, but in fact, there is no evidence to prove that there is a blood relationship between the two.

Especially when the pool of black liquid devoured the old man, Zhao Xiaotian just stood aside and watched quietly, not crying or making trouble, Zhang Heng thought he was scared silly, but in fact, his performance can also be interpreted as a hunter appreciating his masterpiece.

Shen Xixi once said that the targets of that thing are all scavengers on the edge of the city, so what is easier than being one of them to approach them and let them relax their vigilance, coupled with Zhao Xiaotian's age, most scavengers will not have any wariness of him, he is like a vicious wolf mixed in the flock with his tail between his legs, no one has found out his true identity, and he can also choose his own dinner without hurrying.

So now there is only one last question left, that is, where is Zhao Xiaotian?

Zhang Heng saw that on the file, Zhao Xiaotian was adopted by a middle-aged couple who were unable to have children two days ago, and the other party's address was in a mid-range community in the Fourth Ring Road.

But Zhang Heng didn't rush to leave, Zhao Xiaotian was the most cunning opponent he had ever encountered, and he was very good at disguising himself, so far he had made Zhang Heng misjudge three times.

In addition to Zhang Heng treating him as a victim when they first met, he also tried to use Li Shengyue to confuse Zhang Heng on the top floor of the library, but the preparation time left for him at that time was too short, Zhang Heng reversed the lock target of [Paris's Arrow] at a critical moment, and then it was this confrontation in the Children's Welfare Institute, Zhang Jingli, who was willing to cooperate with him, his layout this time was even more confusing.

Zhang Heng believes that Zhao Xiaotian's inducement to kill Zhang Jingli is definitely not the end, but the beginning of a counterattack, he should have follow-up arrangements, if Zhang Heng really steps into the trap, it is likely that he will be charged with a murderer because of this, Zhang Heng certainly has some game props with supernatural powers, and has rich life experience, but this is not the Nassau of the 18th century, personal strength is not able to compete with the state machine, even if he can avoid the follow-up investigation, he can only live in the dark for the rest of his life.

This is also in line with the consistent characteristics of that thing, he knows human society very well, not only has he been hunting carefully, avoiding the public eye and the attention of the authorities, but also will use the rules of human society to solve his own threats, the only thing he misses is that he doesn't know that Zhang Heng actually has an extra 24 hours a day.

And with Zhang Heng's understanding of that thing, when he made a hunting plan, he usually did not leave, but would hide on the spot, on the one hand, it was more conducive to him to control the direction of things, and on the other hand, he seemed to like to see the futile struggle and resistance of his prey.

This time, though, he apparently set himself on fire.

Zhang Heng took out the design drawings of the children's welfare home from the archives, held the design drawings and searched the welfare home again, this time he finally made a new discovery, the length of the corridor on the second floor is about 50cm shorter than indicated in the design drawing, and there is no window on the design drawing, in other words, the structure of this section of the wall has been changed.

"It's almost time to come out and breathe."

Zhang Heng left the children's welfare home and turned to the construction site next door, and when he came back ten minutes later, he had an extra hammer for demolishing the wall.