Qiao Zhenbang actually found me under that.org

You know, this is no longer "busy", but "burning eyebrows" and "urgency"!

At this critical juncture, Qiao Zhenbang actually sat across my desk calmly, talked to me about the commission, and even had the leisure to bargain with me, and only paid me a deposit of 10,000 yuan!

Qiao Zhenbang may have an extremely strong heart, or he may have a good heart, but this does not explain his motives.

Why do you want to pull me into the water? That's what I don't understand the most.

"Suddenly stopped talking, what did you think?" Shen Tangzhi waited on the phone for a while, and finally couldn't stand my silence anymore.

"That's ......"

I told Shen Tangzhi what I was thinking about just now, but when I was about to tell her the strange and strange things we encountered along the way, suddenly, a huge lightning bolt swept across the sky, and then thunder rolled in.

And the phone was suddenly cut off at this time!

"Hello? Feed! ”

I shouted a few times into the phone, but Shen Tangzhi didn't respond.

When I took the phone off my ear, the phone screen showed that there was no signal.

"Aji, hurry up!"

Ahead, the shouts of the old knife were heard.

I ran forward.

"Didn't you say a landslide?" The old knife shot a flashlight far ahead, illuminating a long stretch of winding road in front of him, and said in surprise, "Look, the collapsed section of the road is gone!" ”

"It's around here, yes. All of us saw it with our own eyes......"

I was also confused, looking left and right, it was indeed this section of the road that had a landslide, although the rainstorm was super heavy at that time, but the location was impossible to mistake.

"It's hilarious!" Lao Dao had a crying and laughing expression on his face, "What is this?" On a bus, it's a dead man's hearse...... I went to a village to take shelter from the rain, and it turned out that the whole village was fucking what kind of ghost was the dryad...... Well, now it's clear that this section of the road has collapsed in front of you, but now it's restored? ”

"It's not normal."

The old knife laughed and said, "Isn't this fucking nonsense, you kid?" ”

I didn't laugh: "What about your phone, take it out and see, is there no signal?" ”

The old knife was confused by my transfer, took out his mobile phone, looked at it, and nodded: "No signal." ”

"Mine doesn't have either. I bet all the phones on Cheng Cheng and their bodies have no signal. ”

The old knife heard something meaning, frowned, and said, "What do you mean?" Do you suspect that we are still in the illusion? In fact, we are still taking a nap in that Heishuiping Village, all of this is a dream we had? ”

"There is a possibility, but the probability is not large, so don't think about it." I shook my head, "Old knife, you should be aware of it too. Ever since we got off the highway and approached the town of Blackwater, things have been out of order. What we encounter along the way, what our eyes see, is not really the point. The point is, what is the reason behind all this? I haven't figured this out yet, and there's still too little information. ”

"What else is the reason for this? You said it yourself, isn't it that Blackwater Town! Didn't you put a magic stick in front of me and the stinky fish? In my opinion, your hunch is actually your intuition that Blackwater is very dangerous! You don't have to think about it, the closer we get to that damn Blackwater, the more weird things happen! The paper puppets we encountered at the beginning still needed to use a car accident to kill us, and in that deserted village, those ghosts could directly attack us - does this mean that the power of those ghosts is getting stronger and stronger? ”

I was stunned, although Lao Dao's analysis was very arbitrary, but there was a kind of refreshing ability to cut through the mess with a quick knife, I thought about it again, and I smiled first: "Yes, Lao Dao, you are right, it may be that I think it is too complicated." Sometimes it's not good to think too much, but now I want to go to that Blackwater Town immediately and see for myself whether that guy Qiao Zhenbang is hiding in the town, and what is so strange about that town! ”

"That's right!" The old knife stretched out a hand and slapped it on my shoulder with a "snap", "Do you still wait for Cheng Cheng and them to wake up?" If you don't wait, let's drive now, isn't it good to break the road anyway? ”

"Be careful, let's check it out first."

I was afraid that the intact road surface I saw in front of me was actually fake, but in fact, there was still a landslide in front of us, and if we drove directly into it, we would turn into the cliff on the side of the winding road.

Lao Dao and I walked hundreds of meters to make sure that the road was in good condition, and then we returned.

Along the way, I told him about the phone call with Shen Tangzhi.

The old knife said: "Strange, isn't there no signal?" How can Shen Tangzhi still talk to you? ”

At this time, there was another thunderclap.

"Hear the thunder, it was just after a flash of lightning that my phone struck." I looked up at the sky, the sky that was originally a little faintly bright, but now it seems to be dark again, "The violent electromagnetic activity in this place may be the culprit that causes the mobile phone to not receive the signal, but why does it cause this strong electromagnetic activity, there is another reason, this reason, when we arrive in Blackwater Town, we should be able to get the answer." ”

"Damn! If it weren't for the water stains along the way, I would have suspected that Lao Tzu had been drenched in a fake rainstorm. The old knife complained, and then said, "Hey, what do you think of Qiao Zhenbang's message to you?" ”

"What do I think? I don't care about him. We'll head off right away, heading straight to Blackwater. If they wake up on the way to Chengcheng and someone doesn't want to go, give him a car - are you sure you want to go? ”

"Nonsense, of course I'm going."

……

On the way to Blackwater Town, Cheng Cheng and the others finally woke up.

After some explanation and retelling, everyone said that they wanted to continue to Blackwater, and no one flinched, not only did they not flinch, but all of them seemed to be in a fighting mood.

Being captured by the strange tree in their sleep was indeed an insult to the four of them.

After all, Liu Haijun and Zhou Ou were the first to encounter this situation, and the two were still a little suspicious, but Li Yi made them look at each other and honestly shut their mouths with a word.

Li Yi said: "That bus, you two always experience and see it with your own eyes, right?" ”

Needless to say, Cheng Cheng's daughter was controlled by an unknown force in the [Chain of Crimes] incident, if I hadn't finally solved the incident and kept it secret for Cheng Cheng, even if Cheng Cheng's daughter survived in the end, it would be difficult to get real freedom for the rest of her life.

Therefore, Cheng Cheng has a firm affirmative attitude towards the existence of "mysterious phenomena that modern science has not been able to explain for the time being".

Cheng Cheng had deeply experienced the horror of that unknown force, but he was not afraid.

Personally, I think that Cheng Cheng blames himself very much for what happened to his daughter (including the death of his wife), which may have planted a seed similar to "revenge" in his heart, causing him to thoroughly investigate once he encounters similar mysterious events in the days that follow......

It's hard to say whether Cheng Cheng has some selfish motives.

After everyone woke up, except for a slightly vague memory, there were no sequelae, and Lao Dao and I were running for our lives, fighting and driving, and we were really tired after most of the night, so I changed Cheng Cheng and Li Yi to drive, and Lao Dao got down from the car in front of me and sat in my car.

Our configuration has also changed back to the beginning: Cheng Cheng, Zhou Ou, and Liu Haijun have a car, opening the road in front, and Lao Dao, Li Yi, and I have a car, behind the palace.

But I'm not in a hurry to rest, because it's only now that I'm finally free to check out the "Black Town" that I've been carrying with me with me, the important book I have always carried with me.

When I opened the page, sure enough, several new pages of text appeared in "Black Town":

[I'm Qiao Luo, and I'm on my way to Taiping Town.

It was really a very remote town, on a modern web map, it doesn't exist at all, and on Google satellite maps, the area is even a shielded black zone. I found an old map from more than 30 years ago, and only then did I know the exact location of Taiping Town.

One of the rather strange things is that when I was sorting out the clutter at home, I found a photo of me and my wife, and on the back of the photo was written a line of words: "July 21, 19XX, in Taiping Town." ”

Have I ever been to this town?

Or is my Taiping Town my hometown at all?

But I can't remember it at all...... I lost those memories – except for the car accident that caused my lover and son to leave me forever.

In the background of the photograph is a very European-style church, with a strong Baroque style, and the white walls are full of brown water stains...... If it weren't so dilapidated, it would have been a very tall and beautiful building.

What the church looks like in the photo...... How can I say it, it's very feeling...... Disturbed.

But in the photo, my wife and I are hugging each other, and the white doves are vibrating their white wings behind us, and we are smiling sweetly.

It's beautiful, but it's also weird.

Along the way, those strange dreams still torment me.

As soon as I closed my eyes, those dreams followed.

One of the dreams I've been having lately is like this—

At night, I sat alone on the single sofa in the living room with a talk show playing on the TV.

I heard a knock on the door, and I walked out of the porch.

The door was empty, and the lights in the hallway suddenly broke, and when I turned around, all the electrical appliances in the room stopped working, and only the red emergency lights were still on.

I couldn't knock on any of my neighbors' doors, and when I got to the bottom of the apartment building, the street was empty, but in the far side of the street there was a figure screaming for help, and I chased after it.

At the end of the road, there was a forest, and I followed the forest with the sound of a woman screaming.

The forest was very dark, and I had been to the pristine rainforest—this forest smelled of the same damp, fishy, rotting leaves.

When I spotted another human trail again, all of a sudden the wind was blowing loudly, as if I had been swept into a torrential rain, and the surroundings shook and the trees toppled with it.

I fled along the mountain road to the edge of a cliff with a waterfall below me and a lake where the water merged.

- Behind me, something terrible seemed to be chasing me.

There was a church in the distance, and according to the logic of the nightmare, I should have been safe there.

I saw a man standing in the door of the church, and the candlelight was leaking from behind the man.

The man was waving at me.

I struggled to jump off the cliff, but the endless darkness behind me chased after me, and I was swallowed by it in the last moment I fell into the lake below the waterfall......

I couldn't escape.

When I woke up the next day, I came across this picture by chance, and it was like lightning flashed through my head – because the church I had seen in my dream was exactly the same as the one in the picture.

Terrible coincidence, huh?

But something even more terrible is yet to come.

Actually, I'm on the run right now, driving in a car, running away in the endless night.

If I'm not mistaken, the damn night has been going on for at least twelve hours—and there's still not a hint of sunrise!

Maybe I accidentally drove the car to the Arctic Circle, or maybe I was completely insane?

Well, I'm starting to wonder now if I shouldn't have left that damn psychiatric hospital at all, because I now think I might be fucking completely broken!

Just a few hours ago, I saw a group of monsters with no long heads in a village, and they attacked me, just like in a zombie movie.

And when I finally escaped from the village, I couldn't believe it - I was blocked by a big tree with a big head!

Everything is crazy.

Thankfully, I had enough gas, and the strange tree couldn't move...... I think you've guessed what I did, yes, I set fire to that strange tree and the whole village.

The police? Whatever.

It's not normal here.

See what I'm saying?

Even if the road in front of me suddenly disappears and I am driving down the lava crater, I will not be surprised.

I perceive ...... I'm in hell, friend.

But I'm glad I'm heading to a place where you can't guess by common sense...... Tai ping...... I'm convinced that there must be secrets hidden in this town.

For the sake of my lover and children, I have nothing to fear. 】

At this point, I have read all the new words in "Black Town".

When Lao Dao heard half of it, he couldn't help but lean his head and watch it with me, while Li Yi exclaimed in surprise when he heard the last paragraph.

"Hey, headless ghosts, strange trees! Isn't that what you told me just now, Brother Ji? You and Brother Dao also set fire to a strange tree in a deserted village! Li Yi smacked his tongue.

The experience of the main character in the book, "Jolo", once again coincides with ours.

"Show me." The old knife took the copy of "Black Town" from my hand, and looked at it carefully, "It's really fucking evil, you say, why does this book automatically appear text?" Pretty much what we just experienced? ”

"I can't answer you—at least for now. It can only be said that this particular book shows some rules, and the content that appears in it is implicit, but we can't understand it yet. I said.

The boss looked at the book for a while and asked, "Which of you has had strange dreams lately?" ”

Li Yi shrugged his shoulders: "I slept pretty well—Brother Dao, why are you asking this?" ”

The old knife looked at me, and I raised my eyebrows: "No." ”

"I didn't dream either. But it shouldn't be...... One of us should have a strange dream. The old knife rubbed the corners of his eyes vigorously with his hand.

I came back to my senses: "Old knife, you mean that there should be one person among us who corresponds to the identity of 'Jolo' in the book?" ”

"Yes, that's what it means!" The old knife slapped his palm, "It's not us, it's one of Cheng Cheng." ”

Lao Dao immediately took the walkie-talkie and asked Cheng Cheng, but the answer over there was no - among the six of us, none of them had any strange dreams in the past few days.

"It doesn't make sense. Everything else has come true, what paper puppets, headless ghosts, strange trees, are all right? It's impossible that this can't be right, you see, there's a lot of space! ”

The old knife pointed out to me a large section of the dream description in "Black Town".

Indeed, this is a bit unreasonable, but I immediately thought of another point, and hurriedly said to Lao Dao: "Lao Dao, you have forgotten one thing. We were yesterday - now it should be the day before yesterday, we got this case the day before yesterday, right? ”

The old knife nodded blankly.

I continued, "But we were busy all night the night before, and then, no one slept last night. ”

The old knife's eyes widened suddenly: "That's right! They were all stunned, it was just me and you, and neither of us had slept until now! Is one of us the 'protagonist'? ”

"So what are you waiting for? Hurry up and go to bed! The two of us really need to rest urgently, and when we get to Blackwater, we probably won't have time to sleep. ”

"Yes, sleep, sleep!"

The old knife returned the copy of "Black Town" to me, then lowered the back of the seat, adjusted his posture, and the whole person sank into the seat, holding his hands in front of his chest, ready to sleep.

It's okay not to mention the word sleep, but when I mention it, my whole body instantly wells up with a deep sense of exhaustion and sleepiness.

Carefully put away "Black Town", I lay sideways on the back seat, and fell asleep after a while.

In a daze, he seemed to hear the old knife muttering:

"This protagonist...... No, it must be Lao Tzu......"