When Lei Chan arrived at the celebration venue, it was already approaching evening.

At this time, the entire corn festival hall has already been occupied by people from all over the place, but it is very lively.

As if also infected by this lively scene, the 'Olivia' on Lei Chan's shoulder floated to Lei Chan's head and sat down, looking at the crowd of vendors on both sides with great interest.

But Lei Chan was not at all interested in the lively scene of people coming and going, because he had already fallen into those food stalls.

He didn't know what was going on with him, but after returning from the freeze world, he had become unusually able to eat. Not... In other words, it should be said that it is extremely gluttonous. No matter what kind of food it is, he can eat it without being a picky eater.

Lei Chan exaggeratedly grabbed three corn cobs, and carried a bag of corn tortillas in his left hand while walking, not caring at all about the surprised eyes of passers-by. Throwing the last of the gnawed corn cobs into the trash, he looked around with unfinished eyes.

The main venue of the celebration was built in the town square, and in the middle of what was supposed to be a corn sculpture was hidden by a white cloth with a blue sign underneath. Lei Chan walked over to take a look, only to know that there had been an accident two days before the start of the celebration, and the corn sculpture was damaged. In order for the celebration to continue as usual, this sculpture was concealed.

Lei Chan stared at the white cloth curiously, but the cloth was not transparent, and he had no way of knowing what was hidden inside. There are too many people around, and it is inconvenient for me to go in and check, so I can only ask for help from 'Olivia' on my shoulder.

Although 'Olivia' was also impatient, she eventually drifted away from Razen's head and burrowed into the white cloth. Just as Lei Chan escaped the tortilla and stuffed it into his mouth, he heard a man next to him looking at the white cloth in a daze.

With Lei Chan's rich experience in seeing people's faces, coupled with the confidence that gushes out of nowhere, he concluded that this man definitely had a story. After swallowing the tortilla, he walked up and talked to the man.

As it turned out, Lei Chan's beast-like intuition was still working.

The man's name was Tommy, and he was one of the workers on the construction team at the celebration venue. He told Lei Chan the news that before the corn festival began, that is, when the venue was being set up, there was an accident in this place, and one unlucky person died, and several people fell into the smashed hole and were frightened.

Something so big had happened that the celebration should have stopped. But the mayor was so stubborn that after such a terrible thing happened, he insisted on holding the celebration. The rest of the construction team was unhappy with the sudden accident, so the surrounding area of the sculpture had to be sealed up and investigated after the celebration was over.

All in all, Lei Chan was dumbfounded. Human lives have already happened, and what kind of celebration can be held in a grand manner, is it really greater than human life?

According to Tommy, there were some horrific scenes under the hole in the ground that had been smashed open by the corn sculpture, but there were so many police officers at the time that the scene was immediately cordoned off. And after the ambulance had taken some people away, it covered the area with a white cloth, and even Tommy didn't see what it was.

Lei Chan asked again: "In addition to the workers, are there some people wearing plaid shirts and vests among those rescued?" ”

Seeing Tommy nodded, Lei Chan's heart already had a faint rudimentary shape of what happened in this place.

As 'Olivia' floated out of the white cloth and told Lei Chan everything she saw inside, he was more sure in his heart.

Saying goodbye to Tommy, Raizen began to wander around the venue, and even 'Olivia' realized his purpose, he seemed to be looking for something: "Raizen, what are you looking for?" ”

(The final key figure, Alice!) ）

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Alice walks into the mayor's office, but there is no one in this ghost place. There was still steaming coffee on the table, documents spread out, and the lights that hadn't been turned off yet. Everything in front of me speaks volumes about the fact that just a few minutes ago, this place was still occupied.

She cautiously raised her revolver and aimed around, always feeling that in the next second, some monster would come out of the darkness and attack her. It's a pity that Alice still thinks too much.

From the time she searched the entire building, to the end, the whole building was still silent, no one and no sound. Until finally she found the county chronicle mentioned by Lei Chan in the mayor's office, and she didn't find any figures or ghosts.

Of course, if she knew that Lei Chan hadn't actually been here, she wouldn't have wasted her time here.

Alice has been looking forward to the county records since recent years, but unfortunately the county records are all ordinary records, and there is nothing special at all. Just as Alice was about to turn to the top of the third county chronicle, her hand stopped.

"It's finally rewarding!" Alice finally gave her a lift, because it was recorded on this page that an orphanage had been established in the suburbs that year, but it seemed that an accident had occurred just while it was being prepared, and then it was gone.

Speaking of... The address of this orphanage is the abandoned house in the suburbs.

After finding useful information, Alice was happy at first, but then she was a little depressed when she thought that she had been caught in the realm of some resentful spirit. After regaining her strength, she planned to go back to the motel, where she might find a way out of the realm, or maybe Rezen might be there.

As soon as she walked out of the building, she realized that when she was rummaging through the county records, it was completely dark. Although the entire festival hall was empty, it seemed that the other machines in the hall were still working as usual.

Unknown tunes echoed through the loudspeakers, and all the decorative lights illuminated the venue. Some of the machines on the vendors were also running on the bones, but unfortunately there was no one in the scene that should have been lively, adding to the terrible emptiness.

Alice was reminded of the strange scene in front of her, and carefully guarded every dark corner around her that could escape from the monster. When she passed by the large corn sculpture in the center, she suddenly felt a trance, as if the blood stains on the corn sculpture had spread a little upward.

(Is it a delusion?) Alice thought so, and glanced at the large corn sculpture again, vaguely feeling as if she had seen it there, but she couldn't remember it.

At that moment, a hand was placed on Alice's shoulder!

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