According to the information provided by Luo Zhen, this monster basically moves along the urban villages in the city, and the time is at night, which means that his lair should be in one of the urban villages.

The structure of our city is very special, the old and new urban areas are mixed, and there are many independent areas in the city, which are all self-built houses of the aborigines, waiting to be demolished, called urban villages. But even this is too large, and it is difficult for me to fully explore it alone, so I can only search along these trajectory points one by one, hoping to find out the time and space laws of this monster's activities.

I went out alone for more than three weeks and found nothing. It can only be deduced that this monster likes to haunt narrow alleys and remote bridges late at night, and attack lonely people. During this period, disappearances have also been occurring. But the human skin did not reappear. Just when I was clueless, I received a call from Luo Zhen again, and he told me that Deng Ying had appeared and was alive.

"Deng Ying has an underground boyfriend, whom he met in a bar, and even his parents hid it, and other colleagues didn't know. Her boyfriend's name is Li Yun, and he came to report the case this morning, saying that Deng Ying contacted him. Luo Zhen said to me while driving.

"When he called him and said he wanted to see him, he asked her where she was and she wouldn't say, and she wouldn't come back when she asked her to go home. This Li Yun is also a bit of a brain, he first agreed to Deng Ying's request to meet, and then came to report the case. They met tonight, at 10 p.m., and Deng Ying said she would tell him half an hour in advance. It's still early, I'll take you over to meet Li Yun first. If there's anything you want to ask, just ask! ”

I sat in the passenger seat, excited and puzzled. According to the inference, this Deng Ying should be dead, why did she come back to life again? Am all my thoughts wrong?

……

The meeting place was in a parking lot near Li Yun's house. When he arrived, Li Yun was already waiting there. It was a young man who looked to be less than thirty years old, dressed very fashionably, with a not very good complexion, tall and thin.

After greeting each other, I asked him, "Are you sure it's Deng Ying himself?" ”

Li Yun nodded: "It's her voice that's right, but I'm not sure if I haven't seen it." You're going to protect me, right? ”

"Your girlfriend, what are you afraid of?" Luo Zhen asked.

"She ran away from someone, and she suddenly appeared after being missing for so long, maybe she came to blackmail me, who knows if there will be anyone else?" Li Yun replied.

"When you go to the appointment, I'll follow you in the car. You want to procrastinate as much as possible. "I said to Li Yun.

"Don't worry, the other officers have already told me, I can see that you are not all the way with them, right? Anyway, as long as it's for me, I'll be smart. Li Yun said with a smile.

……

At half past nine, Luo Zhen sent me a message.

"Location: Paradise Bar"

I had already parked my car on the side of the main road in an urban village closest to Li Yun's house, and as soon as I received the information, I set off. Sure enough, Paradise Bar is located on the northern edge of my urban village. There is a street there, which belongs to the red light district.

I should have been the fastest to get there, not even the police station yet. Because it's still early, there aren't many people at the bar. It's a bit old-fashioned, but it's a bit famous because it opened earlier. I parked the car and walked straight in, I had seen pictures of Deng Ying, and if she was there, I would have recognized her.

Walking around the bar, I didn't miss a corner, but I didn't see a woman who looked like Deng Ying. Hasn't she arrived yet? Just when I was puzzled, a woman's cappella suddenly came from the stage:

"I have a flower

Planted in my heart

The bud is waiting to be released

Morning and twilight

I waited eagerly

People with hearts come to dream"

I turned around, and in the neon colors, a skinny woman stood in the center of the stage, singing into the microphone. Her small face was pale and indifferent, her eyes were hollow, and although her singing voice was very moving, she gave people a cold and unforgiving feeling. To my eyes, she looked like a marionette, without a soul.

She is wearing a Deng Ying's face.

I immediately rushed to the stage, grabbed her hand as thin as a bamboo pole in front of everyone, and said excitedly: "Where did you hide your strength?" ”

Her hands were soft. It's too soft, it's boneless, that's what it feels like, right? No, what's going on? I was so excited and overused that I pinched her hand and folded it into a very weird right angle.

I was so frightened that I immediately let go, and Deng Ying slipped away like a fish. A strange smile appeared on her face, and I immediately chased after her. She slipped towards the back door, and I couldn't catch up with her because of the bar staff, and she was shuttling through the cracks like a loach, and looking back at me from time to time, and when she looked back, I really thought it was a twisted angle that ordinary people can't do.

"Deng Ying, don't run!" I yelled, hoping to get the attention of the police station who was supposed to have arrived at the bar.

She had reached the back door, where it wasn't closed, but a heavy black curtain had been drawn. She lifted the curtain, her body was already out, but her head was back and looking at me. It was a very strange picture.

I threw myself on it, trying to grab her shoulder. But after groping for a long time, she only touched the empty door curtain, as if her whole body had melted, and only a head remained.

"Next time," Deng Ying suddenly said, "I will come for you." ”

I didn't understand what she meant for a while, and I was afraid that she would run away, so I had to grab her head in a hurry.

I got it! But it didn't feel as hard as I imagined, but like grabbing a rag, rough and soft. I let go of my hand in fright, and the rags immediately fell to the ground. The human skin, to be exact.

Deng Ying's skin fell behind the curtain.

I gasped for breath, cold sweat dripping down. It was very hot in the bar, but I felt like I was in an ice cellar. I jerked open the curtain, only to find that there was another curtain outside. The human skin on the ground was bright red and stenched. I lifted the second curtain and found it leading to the back alley.

I don't know who lifted the first layer of curtain and walked over, stepped on the human skin on the ground, and the man covered his nose and squatted down to see clearly, and let out a piercing scream. I was about to speak, but Luo Zhen ran in from the back alley, he heard the scream, his hand was already on his waist, and when he saw me, he immediately said, "What's the matter?" ”

And before I could answer, another person rushed in, it was a criminal investigator, and I knew him. He was a little surprised to see me, but immediately said to Luo Zhen: "Someone saw Lu Dali just now!" It's over there, but I didn't catch it! ”

I stared at him blankly, unable to say a word.

……

"Next time, I'll be here for you!"

This sentence was like a curse that wrapped around my nerves. I'm too familiar with that voice, it's not Deng Ying's voice, it's a strong voice.

Li Yun didn't see Deng Ying, of course, he saw Deng Ying's human skin. Although he covered his eyes and resolutely refused to look at it, I was very sure that it was Deng Ying, a human skin that had rotted for twenty-eight days, a woman who had been dead for a long time.

My explanation for why I was at the bar was that I was just bored to pass the time, and I just happened to bump into it. But because Dali also appeared at the bar for some reason, I became a suspect again, and everyone thought that I must have something to do with Dali, maybe I was his accomplice.

……

Seven more days passed, and that evening, as if I had a hunch, I went to the dissection room.

The keys had been handed in, and I was supposed to not be able to get in. But I know, I can definitely open it.

With a slight push, the door opened. At the same time, the lights came on. I went to the locker room, and sure enough, there were vigorous clothes there. I changed my clothes and opened the door to the dissection room.

Two dissecting tables, one of which holds a corpse. I didn't see Dali, so I walked straight to the corpse and found that it was the same suturing technique that Dali was used to.

The door slammed shut. I heard a noise and was about to turn around, but I felt a hand on my head, and a familiar voice came from me

"You're here?"

I know he's vigorous, he's coming for me.

"Are you a human, or a monster, or a ghost? Why are you killing so many people? Why strip their skins? I asked, not looking back.

"I'm looking for my heart." Slowly, I heard a strange voice. I know, he's peeling.

"Your heart? What does it have to do with me? "My voice trembled, and I couldn't move.

"Perhaps, you should ask him." An unfamiliar voice came, and in the afterglow I saw the vigorous skin fall at my feet.

"Damn, I miscalculated, I didn't even find out that he was a dead!" I cried.

But it was too late, and I felt a rubber-like object behind me wrap around my body, and it began to slowly devour me. Soon, I will also become the innermost layer of its skin, and it will continue to molt, keep devouring, and keep looking for the so-called heart.