"What hide-and-seek?"

Lao Jiu paused, wanting to turn around and ask.

"He's saying the name of the game!"

I grabbed Lao Jiu and shook my head at him, Lin Feng's mental state was obviously wrong, and it was not easy to say so much.

In particular, every time Lin Feng answered our questions, it was as if he was asking another person we couldn't see.

Therefore, no matter how much he asked, Lin Feng did not have the right to be autonomous.

Coming out of the teaching building, Lao Jiu and I didn't leave, waiting for Lin Feng outside the school.

The situation in the school is unknown, I want to ask questions, and wait for Lin Feng to come out.

Lin Feng didn't let our brothers wait too long, and after waiting for less than ten minutes, Lin Feng also walked out of the half-collapsed teaching building.

When he walked to the school gate, Lin Feng turned around and waved his hand at the teaching building.

I took the opportunity to look towards the teaching building, and at the window on the second floor of the teaching building, I don't know when, a figure appeared.

A moment later, Lin Feng turned around, and the figure disappeared.

Seeing me and Lao Jiu, Lin Feng lowered his head, as if he didn't see it, and hurriedly walked past us.

"Hey!"

Lao Jiu caught up, snapped, and patted Lin Feng on the shoulder.

Lin Feng buried his head lower, shrunk his shoulders, and walked faster and faster.

"Hey, Lin Feng!"

Lao Jiu caught up with him in two steps, slapped it again, and stopped in front of Lin Feng.

Lin Feng didn't raise his head, bypassed Lao Jiu, and continued to walk forward.

"Yo-he!"

Lao Jiu laughed angrily and reached out to grab Lin Feng's arm.

"Lao Jiu!"

I stopped Lao Jiu, Lao Jiu was stunned, and handed over a look, I shook my head at him, looked at Lin Feng, who had taken advantage of this opportunity to take small steps and had walked out of five or six meters, pointed to his head, and said: "Lin Feng has a problem here, don't force him!" ”

"Who knows if it's pretended?" Lao Jiu muttered.

"I'll ask Zhao Feng!" I took out my phone and called Zhao Feng.

After connecting, I said directly: "Brother, I am in the second child, I just met the brother of a missing student here, his name is Lin Feng, you can help me check the situation of this Lin Feng!" ”

"Okay, I'll check it out, and I'll go back to you if I have a letter!"

Zhao Feng replied and hung up the phone.

Five minutes later, Zhao Feng called over and told him about Lin Feng's situation.

Lin Feng is twenty-four this year, he had a fever when he was a child, which burned out his brain, and his intelligence is equivalent to that of a child about eight years old, and he can barely take care of himself.

Now I live at home, and my parents work outside the home.

Five years ago, Lin Feng's parents had another child, and now they take care of them with them, and Lin Feng mainly lives on subsistence allowance.

"Intelligence is really abnormal!"

After listening to Zhao Feng's introduction, Lao Jiu muttered.

"Let's go, come back in the evening!"

I patted Lao Jiu on the shoulder, Lin Feng had a problem with his intelligence, and looking at his situation, it was difficult to ask too many things from his mouth.

Fortunately, the other party put down the road, asked me to meet at 10 o'clock, and said the name of the game.

Hide and seek is a game that I played twice when I was a child, and then because the children in the same village bullied Lao Jiu, I had a fight with those kids, and since then, they don't play with me and Lao Jiu.

The rules of the game of hide and seek are very simple, first select a range, after everyone guesses the boxing or certain rules, select a person to first blindfold or count on everyone's back, which can be long or short, and others must find a place to hide during this time, after the time is up, that person will find someone else, and the first person to find is the person who is looking for the next round.

Those who are not found, and who finally return to the starting point and are not found by the seeker, will not participate in the second round of guessing and will directly become a hiding.

I'm a little curious as to why they asked me to play this game.

After returning to the store, Zhao Feng sent another document, which was more detailed than the previous one, which contained the detailed family status of the dozen or so children on record.

In this document, the two families who are still in the city are the most detailed.

After reading this document, Lao Jiu and I decided to meet the two parents.

The two parents, one is named Zhao Tao, and his child is named Zhao Liang, who was twelve when he disappeared and was in the fifth grade of primary school.

One is named Wu Feng, and his child's name is Wu Tian, who was thirteen when he disappeared, and was in the sixth grade of school.

Zhao Tao is currently working in Dongyang City and is a security guard.

Wu Feng worked as a laborer on the construction site.

After so many years, these two have never given up, always thinking that their children are in Dongyang City, and they are looking for people while working.

For more than ten years, I have searched almost all the streets and alleys of Dongyang City.

In contrast, although other parents are also looking for it, most of them are in a state of semi-abandonment, and some have another one, such as Lin Feng's parents.

Lao Jiu and I studied the documents and decided to meet Zhao Tao first.

When Zhao Liang disappeared, Zhao Tao was thirty-two, and it was when he was in the prime of life, and after Zhao Liang disappeared, Zhao Tao went crazy looking for people.

At the age of thirty-six, Zhao Tao divorced his daughter-in-law and continued to look for someone.

Zhao Tao is currently working as a security guard in the Hongxiang community, and when I saw him, I could hardly believe my eyes, Zhao Tao was in his early forties this year, but he looked like he was in his sixties.

His hair was half white, his back was a little hunched, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were heavy.

"Who are you?"

Looking at me and Lao Jiu, a trace of doubt flashed in Zhao Tao's eyes.

"My name is Chen Xing, and I am currently investigating your son's disappearance, and I want to find out something about you!" I handed over the business card, and I didn't engage in those vain things, and directly explained the intention.

The business card was made by Zhao Feng for me, and it was specially marked as a distinguished expert.

"Okay, well, whatever you want to know, I'll tell you!" Zhao Tao's eyes instantly turned red.

"Don't worry, stabilize your emotions first, let's talk slowly!" I persuaded.

"Hmm!"

Zhao Tao eased up, his mood improved a lot, and asked, "Comrade, do you have any clues?" ”

"There are no clues for the time being, I just took over this case this morning!" I didn't answer truthfully, if I let Zhao Tao know, his son may still be the second child, and in his state, he may not be able to do anything!

"Oh!"

A trace of disappointment flashed in Zhao Tao's eyes, and he said: "Comrade, what do you want to ask, just ask!" ”

"Master Zhao, what is your judgment based on, your son is still in Dongyang City?" I asked.

As the only parent who stayed in Dongyang City, Zhao Tao would not have stayed in Dongyang City to find it if he had no evidence at all.

Zhao Tao hesitated for a moment and said: "Comrade, you may not believe what I said, I dreamed of my son, in the dream, Xiaoliang asked me to save him, I asked him where he was, he didn't say, I asked him if he was still in Dongyang City, he nodded, and disappeared!" Since then, I've been looking for Xiaoliang in Dongyang City! ”

"Is it just this dream?" I asked.

"I dreamed of Xiaoliang more than once, every time I asked him where he was, he didn't say, I only knew that he was in Dongyang City!" Zhao Tao hurriedly said.

I noticed that when Zhao Tao said this, a trace of fear seemed to flash on his face, what was he afraid of?

"Master Zhao, is there anything else you haven't told us?" I asked.

Zhao Tao began to hesitate again, and after thinking for a long time, he gritted his teeth and said: "Comrade Chen, it's not that I don't say it, but I don't know how to say it, and I don't know if you believe it or not!" ”

"Lao Zhao, it's all this time, what else can't be said!" Lao Jiu grabbed a sentence.

Zhao Tao gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, then I'll say it, when I dreamed of Xiaoliang, someone covered his mouth and didn't let him speak!" ”

"Covering his mouth?" I was immediately interested.

"Hmm!"

Zhao Tao nodded and said: "Xiao Liang has a lot of small hands covering his mouth, not letting him speak, even the action of nodding, he has a lot of effort to succeed!" ”

"Comrade Chen, over the past ten years, I have dreamed of Xiao Liang more than 30 times, and the content is the same each time, in fact, I know that Xiao Liang is already more auspicious, only the dead will dream, what I want is actually very simple, I just want to see Xiao Liang again, even if it is a corpse!"

In the end, Zhao Tao was already in tears.

When I left the Hongxiang community, I can't tell you what it was like.

Zhao Tao is a person who understands, as he said, only the dead will dream, and Zhao Liang is probably dead.

"Brother, why don't you let Zhao Liang speak?"

On the way to find Wu Feng, Lao Jiu asked with a frown.

"I don't know!" I shook my head.

The second child's affairs are weird, not to mention anything else, how did Zhao Liang support his dream?

and Zhao Tao, he has been looking for ten years, why didn't he stir up any waves?

It's as if there is a force secretly blocking everything, allowing the second child to hide in it.

When I met Wu Feng, he had just come down from the elevated highway, and there had always been contact between him and Zhao Tao, and after more than ten years of searching, the two were difficult brothers.

Unlike Zhao Tao, Wu Feng did not receive Wu Tian's dream, he was looking for his son completely with the breath in his heart.

As for why he believed that Wu Tian was still in Dongyang City, he couldn't say clearly, he said it was intuition.

Our brothers chatted with Wu Feng for half an hour, and compared to Zhao Tao, Wu Feng was much stronger.

Saying goodbye to Wu Feng and returning to the store, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.

"Brother, my boss has replied to the message, there is news about the second child, and she doesn't know much!"

After a break, Lao Jiu picked up his mobile phone and compared, and Wen Xinyue sent him a message.

"Hmm!"

I clicked on the table for a while, still thinking about the evening game.

I can't figure out why they would play such a game with me.

"Brother, how do we play the game at night?" Lao Jiu leaned over and asked.

"It's not us, it's me!" I correct Lao Jiu's statement.

"Brother, you're not authentic, and you don't take me?" Lao Jiu suddenly raised his voice.

I glanced at Lao Jiu and said: "Hide and seek this game, according to the rules, you can only be a ghost alone, I don't want to be a ghost, it's better to say, our brothers can still be together, if I am a ghost, do you want to hide from me with those things?" ”

"That's right, I can still give you some points!" Lao Jiu said with a stiff neck.

"Okay, don't talk about those who don't, you go with me, but the game can only be played by me, you let the wind outside, I don't have the extra experience to take care of you!"

I said angrily.

Lao Jiu has indeed experienced a lot with me during this time, and he also has a lot of protective things on his hands, but in general, he still has too little experience.

is really going to encounter an emergency, with Lao Jiu's character, most of them have to bite the tip of the tongue and spray the blood on the tip of the tongue to harden.

This time is different from the past, first of all, in addition to the missing children who have been recorded, how many people are still missing, and it is not possible to deal with these missing children.

Secondly, we don't know who is the ghost.

Again, the reason why they asked me to play the game is not clear.

Combining these points, it is best not to enter the second elementary school.

"It's the same as going to Sixty-Eight, you're waiting for me outside!" I say without a doubt.

"Wait, wait!" Lao Jiu muttered a word, but didn't say anything more!

At nine o'clock in the evening, Lao Jiu and I set off in advance, and Qiqi also followed this time, but like Lao Jiu, he did not enter the second elementary school, but was on guard at the school gate, and once he found an abnormality, he would support him at any time.

At nine twenty-eight, the second child arrived.

"Lao Jiu, Qiqi, you are waiting for me outside, and if you find something wrong, you will light this three-corpse incense!" I gave the three corpse incense to Lao Jiu, and instructed again.

Before we came, we had agreed on a strategy.

The attraction of the three corpse incense to the ghost is self-evident, once something is wrong in me, Lao Jiu will light the three corpse incense to attract the ghost's attention.

"I know, brother, don't worry!" Lao Jiu patted his chest and promised.

Qiqi also handed over a reassuring look.

"Okay, then I'm in!"

I took a deep breath and walked into the second child.

The playground was empty at this time, and the school building was shrouded in darkness, without a trace of popularity.

I came to the middle of the playground, sat down cross-legged, took out my mobile phone, and waited while looking at the documents sent by Zhao Feng.

Time passed little by little, and when it came to 9:50, a person walked in from the gate and slowly came to me, it was Lin Feng.

"Why are you here?"

When I saw Lin Feng, I was a little surprised.

"I'm also in the game!" Lin Feng said in a strange tone.

I stared at him for a long time and asked, "How many games have you played?" ”

Lin Feng looked at me blankly, his eyes were the same as in the morning, empty.

After nearly a minute, Lin Feng raised his hand and counted it with his fingers, "1, 2, 3, 4......"

Seeing him counting on his fingers, I couldn't laugh or cry, but my heart also lifted.

Lin Feng's appearance shows that he has participated in the game many times.

So the question is, since he has participated in the game many times, why is he not in trouble?

“8、9……”

Counting to 9, Lin Feng was obviously stunned for a moment, and then continued to count, "1, 2......"

"Stop!"

I stopped Lin Feng as soon as I could, and the document given by Zhao Feng said that Lin Feng's intelligence was equivalent to that of an eight-year-old child, but just looking at the way he counted, he might not be as good as an eight-year-old child.

"Lin Feng, you don't have to count, you just need to tell me if you have participated in more games than nine!" I stared at Lin Feng's eyes and said.

"Yes!"

Lin Feng slowly rolled his neck, those empty eyes stared at me, and after looking at me for a while, he nodded: "I have participated in many games, many times more than nine!" ”

Having said that, it is basically certain that there are many more people missing than I imagined.

I don't think you can get away with playing games with ghosts.

"Are there any living people besides you who are playing the game?" I asked tentatively.

"Living?"

Lin Feng stared at me for a long time and said, "What is a living person?" ”

I rubbed my eyebrows, this is fucked, he doesn't even know what a living person is.

"Here, brother, they're here!"

I was about to explain to him what a living person is, when Lin Feng suddenly stretched out his finger and pointed behind me.

I stiffened, turned around slowly, looked behind me, just a glance, I was shocked, right behind me, I don't know when there were ten children standing.

The 10 children, all thirteen or fourteen years old, were all dressed in blue and white uniforms, standing quietly behind me.

"Dude, he's going to play a game with us!" Lin Feng grinned and pointed at me and said.

"Oh!"

A child who was five or six points similar to Lin Feng nodded, looked at me, and said, "Do you want to be a ghost or a human?" ”

"What do you say when you are a ghost, and what do you say when you are a human?" I asked, staring at him.

"When you are a ghost, you have your back to us, count sixty numbers, count, as long as you can find us all within half an hour, you will win, you can leave, otherwise, you will always be a ghost and play games with us!"

"When you are a person, you have to hide it, don't be found by us, once we find it, you have to stay and play a game with us for a lifetime!"

Lin Nan grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, raised his hand, and raised a finger as he spoke.

"Then I'll be a ghost!"

I looked at him for a while, smiled and said, "I'm used to being a ghost looking for someone, not used to hiding!" ”

"Okay, you're going to come to us!"

Lin Nan nodded and said with a smile: "Remember, sixty numbers, you can only come to us after counting sixty numbers!" ”

"Good!"

I turned to face the school gate and said; "I'm going to start counting!"

"Timer starts!" Lin Feng's hollow eyes flashed with a hint of brightness, and he shouted.

“1、2、3……”

As my voice rang out, there was a rustle of footsteps behind me.

“59、60！”

"Ghosts are starting to catch people!"

After counting sixty, Lin Feng's voice sounded again.

I turned around and started to catch people.

To be honest, there isn't much to hide from the second child.

The mailroom at the entrance of the school counts as one, but I'm facing the gate, which means it's unlikely that someone will be hiding in front of me.

The ten children wanted to hide, and there were only two places, one for the school building and the other for the toilet.

I don't have much time, half an hour, and fortunately there aren't many places where I can hide.

They don't know how many times they played this game, but what is certain is that many times before the game, the people who played with them, were all kept.

What I can't understand is Lin Feng, why would they let him go?

It's not scientific!

Unless, in so many games, Lin Feng has been acting as a referee, only in this way can he have a reason to survive.

However, in my memory, the game of hide and seek does not need a referee, and there is definitely a secret in this Lin Feng.