Chapter 14: Missing
When the first rays of sunlight in the morning shone into the house, Lu Qing woke up from his nightmarish dream.
"It's dawn...... Well? Akai, why didn't you call me? "I rarely oversleep during tasks, and Lu Qing didn't expect that he would sleep directly until dawn when he lay down last night. It's just that he didn't sleep well that night, and when he woke up, his head was still dizzy.
In yesterday's dream, Lu Qing felt as if he had fallen into an abyss, his body was constantly sinking, and he was surrounded by cold and dark water...... He didn't know how long he had been sinking, and it was so long that Lu Qing was about to lose consciousness before he heard an ancient, low, chaotic murmur in his mind.
"Is it better? Drink saliva. Dai Shikai didn't sleep all night, but his face didn't show tiredness. He took out a bottle of drink from his bag and handed it to Lu Qing, who realized that his throat was a little uncomfortable, and his voice sounded hoarse like a rough saw. He took the water, took a few sips, and moistened his throat with some in his mouth, before he felt a lot more relaxed.
"Last night, nothing happened, did it?" Lu Qing asked.
Dai Shikai pointed to a thick pool of wax on the table and said: "Well, there is only one candle left for me to use when Brother Xu Zhen gave me, I remember what you said, so as soon as the candle was extinguished, I hurriedly renewed." ”
Lu Qing nodded, and Dai Shikai saw him looking thoughtful, and couldn't help asking, "What happened to you last night?" ”
"When I went upstairs, I suddenly had strange visions in my head." Lu Qing said: "But I found that except for me, you are fine. I don't know why, I just think...... There seemed to be something hidden in the darkness. But the moment the lightning lit up, the thing disappeared. So I thought, it might be safer to have light. Excuse me...... I was so uncomfortable last night. He sat up, rubbed his temples, and continued, "Do you remember the girl named Ni Ya in the second district? ”
When Dai Shikai heard this, he immediately remembered: "Oh! You mean...... When Ni Ya was in that room, she saw the same thing. ”
Lu Qing let out a "hmm", then seemed to remember something, and suddenly lifted the blanket: "Go and see the others!" Last night, he had a splitting headache, and he fell asleep after explaining to Dai Shikai in a daze. He forgot to remind his teammates that if someone went out the candle for the night, it would be terrible.
As soon as Lu Qing and Dai Shikai walked out of the room, they saw Betsy and Ni Ya.
"Good morning, Kiyoshi, are you feeling better?" Betsy yawned, looking a little tired. Because Ni Ya was not feeling well, she was kind and did not let the other party keep vigil, but chose to stick to it for one night.
"It's okay, thank you."
Lu Qing saw that the other party was unscathed, and his heart suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. He doesn't have a love for Becky, but because the other party enters the space, he has an inescapable responsibility, and Becky has saved himself twice, so he is always a lot friendlier to Becky than other women.
Ni Ya's complexion is also much better than yesterday, and after a night's rest, she finally returned to her previous state. When several people were communicating, Li Zeyan also pushed open the door and walked out of the house.
Lu Qing couldn't help but glance at the other party a few times, he was one of the few people who lived alone in a room, and generally in the late stage of the mission, being alone meant that the chance of encountering danger was much greater than that of others. Even so, the other party still dares to live alone, which has a lot to do with Li Zeyan's career in reality.
Accustomed to performing tasks alone, he has never been attached to others, no matter what the situation, Li Zeyan can maintain a high level of vigilance.
Several Dream Breakers, who lived on the third floor, went downstairs and met the rest of their companions on the second floor. The people in the first district had all left when it was dawn, and the second district counted the number of people and all arrived. Betsy and Shimizu also checked, and the other four teammates were all safe and sound.
Xu Zhen and Chen Shuo knocked on Dong Lin and Xie Long's bedrooms next door, but they didn't get a response for a long time.
"Something's wrong." As soon as Xu Zhen's words fell, Chen Shuo and Dai Shikai raised their feet almost at the same time and kicked towards the rotten gate.
The window of the room was open, and there were two bulging backpacks neatly placed next to the bed, and the candles on the table were only half burned and had long been extinguished, but Dong Lin and Xie Long were nowhere to be found.
Overnight, two dreambreakers disappeared without a trace.
Lu Qing walked into the room and looked around. He went to the window and quickly noticed a shallow palm print and a few scratches on the edge of the window. Lu Qing stretched out his hand and compared, the palm print was about the same size as himself, but it didn't exactly match the shape of an adult man's palm. He noticed the scratches left by the thing, which must have had extremely sharp nails if it had been something that had invaded the house.
I don't know if it was raining and the windows were open again, and there was a faint smell of mold in the air, vaguely mixed with a foul smell.
"That's not right." Xu Zhen looked stunned: "We were next door, but we didn't hear any movement last night." ”
Chen Shuo looked at the half candle on the table and said in a deep voice: "Judging from the burning of the candle, the time when these two people were killed should be four to five hours after returning to the house, around three o'clock in the morning. ”
Without much thought, the chances of Dong Lin and Xie Long surviving are basically zero. There was a storm raging outside last night, and they simply wouldn't leave the hotel without a reason.
The only explanation for such a silent disappearance is that they are dead.
"During that time, there were thunderstorms outside, perhaps the loud sound of thunder masked the two of them for help or fighting." Dai Shikai didn't have much feeling about their deaths, but it was a pity that these two people disappeared silently, and they didn't even leave a useful clue or prop.
He picked up the backpack on the ground and threw the other one to Chen Shuo: "Let's leave this hotel first, I always feel that something is wrong here." ”
After a night of storm, the town was devastated. The surrounding trees were crooked, branches and leaves scattered to the ground, and rusty billboards and broken planks were everywhere.
"Well, we've been delayed for a day. Now we have to hurry up and find clues to survive. Qing Shui said: "I suggest that everyone act separately, after all, the town is so large, it is a waste of time to get all together." ”
"Agreed." Xu Zhen thought for a moment and said to the others, "We want to investigate the church in the south. Like Lu Qing, yesterday he also noticed the strangeness of the church.
Li Zeyan took the people from the second district to the supermarket to collect supplies, and the three teams made an appointment to meet at the street park at noon to discuss and then distribute the next actions.
Before leaving, Lu Qing called out to Betsy and whispered a word to her.
"Qing, why do you say that?" Becky was a little stunned when she heard this.
Lu Qing pinched his eyebrows, and the circles under his eyes were blue and black, obviously not resting well. He looked at Betsy seriously and said, "It's just my conjecture, but I still hope you can trust me and stay safe." ”
"Okay, I'll remind them. And also...... Thank you. Hearing him say this, Becky's heart beat a little faster. When leaving, the girl's steps were a lot lighter, and she couldn't help but look back at Lu Qing a few times.
After saying goodbye to each other, Lu Qingcai returned to the team and went to the church with Xu Zhen and his party according to the plan.
"I didn't expect two people to die in one night, and it turned out to be all of our people." Dai Shikai was carrying two big bags, but his tone was very relaxed. For him, whether it is Dong Lin or Xie Long, he doesn't expect these two people to contribute much in the team.
Dong Lin is a person who is a little lazy and idle on weekdays, smiling on the surface, but there are a lot of ghost ideas behind the scenes. And Xie Long, before entering the space, was a swaggering and deceitful charlatan, relying on his mouth to fool many rich people and make countless money from them.
These two don't have much in themselves, and they are also the weakest in the team. In case of danger, with Xu Zhen here, maybe he will have to bother to rescue them. Therefore, Dai Shikai is in a good mood, and he thinks that it is not a bad thing for these two to die early.
Start the bento rhythm!