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He used to disappear occasionally for a few days without seeing anyone, but this was the first time he didn't show up for so long.

However, with Xiao asking for directions, his absence will not affect the normal operation of the "Forget Words" grocery store. Xiao Wenlu commutes to work normally every day, buys goods, takes care of the store, and after returning home at night, he eats and watches TV with Yang Qianqian and Xiao Lili, and his life has never been so stable.

However, when the day was about to end, the sunglasses owner finally reappeared. He was still dressed in the same costume, and walked into the store with a blank face, and when Xiao asked for directions, he walked straight in front of him, sat down on a chair in the corner, and said nothing.

Xiao Wenlu looked at him and wondered in his heart. He'd known the sunglasses owner for so long, and he'd never seen him like this. Since the day I met him, the owner of the sunglasses shop has always been an iceberg-like cold image, quiet in everything, and it is impossible to guess his inner thoughts. But since he came back last time, Xiao Wenlu faintly felt that there were some changes in his body, but he couldn't say what the difference was. And tonight's performance deepened Xiao's feeling of asking for directions. Although the feeling was vague, if he had to say it, Xiao Wenlu felt that the owner of the sunglasses seemed to become more haggard and anxious.

Xiao Wenlu was thinking about whether to come forward and care, but he didn't expect the owner of the sunglasses to speak first: "That little policeman will come to you in a while." ”

"What little cop?" Xiao asked for directions, but he didn't react at once.

"The one with the surname Xie."

Xiao asked "oh", and then frowned: "How do you know?" ”

The owner of the sunglasses shop ignored his problem as usual, and said to himself: "If he asks you for help, you have to help him." ”

Xiao didn't have to think about it to know what Xie Rui was asking him to help him with, but he didn't plan to help him from the beginning, because he was full of indescribable resistance to Xie Rui, maybe because the experience of being a suspect last time brought him a lot of shadows.

"Why should I help him?" Xiao asked rhetorically.

"He who helps others always helps himself." The owner of the sunglasses shop said something half-literate, which made Xiao Wenlu can't help but roll his eyes.

"Boss, are there any free cigarettes to give away today?"

Xiao Wenlu was about to speak, when suddenly a familiar voice sounded behind him. The owner of the sunglasses shopkeeper raised his chin at him, looking quite proud, as if to say: How is it, he really came, right?

Xiao Wenlu cursed in his heart and turned around slowly. The young man in front of him was dressed in civilian clothes and still couldn't hide the heroic spirit on his body, who else could it be if it wasn't Xie Rui?

"I'm sorry, but our store is closed, so why don't you come back tomorrow and ask if there are any free cigarettes?"

Xie Rui didn't move his eyebrows: "It's just right to close, please come with me and have a supper." ”

Xiao Wenlu was immediately amused by him: Is this an invitation to dinner, or is it a detention to be sent to trial?

So Xiao Wenlu resolutely rejected him: "I'm sorry, I have an appointment tonight, let's do it another day." ”

Behind him, the cough of the owner of the sunglasses shopkeeper's room sounded. Xiao asked Lu Lu and thought: Why does Lao Tzu listen to you?

But Xie Rui's next sentence immediately shook him: "I need your help." ”

Xiao Wenlu is the softest-hearted and never refuses others, coupled with the always arrogant Xie Rui's tone at this moment, there is a pleading meaning, Xiao Wenlu doesn't know what to do.

At the end, Xiao Wenlu sighed, grabbed his coat, and said as he walked out, "Let's go!" There is a nice kebab shop nearby. ”

Xiao Wenlu took Xie Rui to the kebab shop, the two picked a table and sat down, ordered the food, until the skewers and beer were served, Xie Rui always looked preoccupied, and didn't say a word, which made Xiao Wenlu a little embarrassed.

"Come on, let's go first!" Xiao Wenlu picked up the wine glass and said to Xie Rui.

Xie Rui seemed to have just woken up from a dream, and hurriedly picked up the wine glass. The glasses collided with each other and made a crisp "ding" sound, and the two men drank it all proudly.

Xie Rui put down his wine glass, stared straight at Xiao Wenlu with his eyes, and didn't speak, staring at Xiao Wenlu's heart to make his heart furious.

"Didn't you just say you had an appointment tonight?" Unexpectedly, the first thing Xie Rui said was this, which made Xiao Wenlu angry.

"Didn't you have something to ask me for help?" Xiao Wenlu said with a smile.

Xie Rui gently shook the empty wine glass in his hand, was silent for a while, and said, "Do you know why I asked you for help instead of someone else?" ”

"I don't know." Xiao replied.

Xie Rui raised his eyes, and his eyes were like two sharp arrows shooting straight towards Xiao Wenlu: "Who are you?" ”

Xiao Wenlu was so unhappy that he was stared at by his suspicious eyes, so his tone became cold: "It turned out that I didn't come to eat, but I still came to judge me." ”

"I didn't mean that." Xie Rui immediately answered. He lowered his head, as if he was brewing something, as if to cheer himself up, and then, he looked up, and the spikes in his eyes disappeared completely, replaced by deep confusion and confusion.

"I've seen it all." Xie Rui only said these five words.

"What do you see?" Xiao asked suspiciously.

"That day under the Standing Ring Bridge, I saw you, and everything your son did!"

Xiao Wenlu felt as if a thunder had exploded above his head, which shocked him dumbfounded. He never dreamed that he had been witnessed in the process of overtaking the little ghost under the Standing Ring Bridge that day and erasing the memories of the workers present! However, he clearly remembered that there was no one else around that day!

Although this matter was not trivial, it only took a few seconds for Xiao Wenlu to regain his composure. The first thing he has to do is make sure that the other party is not playing tricks on him.

"I'm sorry, I forgot what I did under the ring bridge."

Xie Rui said word by word: "I saw light emanating from you, and I also found the body of a child." In the end, it even erased other people's memories! ”

At this time, Xiao Wenlu even had the last hope of luck, it turned out that he had really been witnessed using the trick that day. However, Xiao asked for directions and had to figure out one more thing.

"Only you saw it?" He asked.

Xie Rui nodded: "I followed you to the Lihuan Bridge that day. You went down to the riverbed, and I hid on the bank. I assure you, I was the only one following you that day. ”

It doesn't seem that the situation is too bad. Xiao asked for directions and thought. But even so, he didn't intend to tell Xie Rui and tell everything truthfully. He knew all too well the dangers of doing so. Moreover, he has experienced so many unbelievable and bizarre events, who can believe it when he says it?

"What you witnessed that day has anything to do with the fact that you asked me for help?" Xiao Wenlu lightly avoided discussing the topic head-on.

"Of course it does!" Xie Rui said affirmatively. "These cases need to be assisted and involved by superpowers like you!"

Xiao asked for directions and squirted Xie Rui with a sip of beer.

"Cough, cough," Xiao Wenlu was choked and coughed, and his face turned red. "Superpowers?"

Xie Rui tested the beer on his body with a paper towel, and looked at Xiao very seriously and sincerely and asked for directions: "That's right!" Aren't you a superpower? ”

Xiao Wenlu really didn't know how to answer, so he could only look at him with a crying and laughing face.

Seeing Xiao's expression of asking for directions, Xie Rui knew that he had guessed wrong, and quickly said apologetically: "I'm sorry, you're a Taoist priest, right?" ”

"You've watched too many old Hong Kong movies, right?" Xiao Wenlu smiled bitterly.

"Isn't it even a Taoist priest?" This stumped Xie Rui. The concepts of "superpower" and "Taoist" are already all in his mind, and even if he kills him, it is impossible for him to come up with other possibilities.

You might as well call me Harry Potter. Xiao asked for directions and thought.

"It doesn't matter what I am," Xiao asked Lu anxious to quickly divert the topic. "Tell me about the case you just mentioned? Is there anything special about it that makes it difficult for you police to be like this? ”

As soon as the case was mentioned, Xie Rui's attention was immediately diverted. He said with a straight face: "You should have heard of the series of disappearances in this city that I mentioned to you last time, right?" ”

Xiao Wenlu nodded: "Well, I've watched TV news reports." Oh, congratulations, you're still on TV! You're photogenic! ”

Xie Rui automatically ignored Xiao Wenlu's last sentence, and then said solemnly: "I suspect that these cases are all involved in unnatural forces!" ”

"How so?" Xiao Wenlu raised an eyebrow on one side with interest.

"I went to the home of a missing person that day. Originally, we identified the first missing person as our comrade-in-arms, but later it was discovered that the missing person disappeared earlier than our comrade-in-arms, and he may have been the first to go missing. ”

Xiao Wenlu didn't speak, just listened intently.

Xie Rui recounted the case and gushed endlessly: "After I went to his home to investigate, I always felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't tell what was wrong. Eventually, I finally found something wrong! ”

Xiao Wenlu listened attentively, and couldn't help urging: "Tell me quickly, what's wrong?" ”

"Number one, his house is so clean and everything is in order. It was nothing, but I deliberately touched the furniture in his house, and there was not a trace of dust on it! I specially retrieved the surveillance video of that building, and no one has been in his house for more than three months! ”

"What else?" Xiao asked with a deep groan.

"Second, it's about the cause of his wife's death. The reason why we noticed this missing person was because someone accidentally found the body of his wife. According to our forensic examination, his wife had several wounds on her pelvic bones, and the cause of death was probably due to excessive blood loss caused by an attack by some kind of beast. However, there is no beast in the city that could have caused such a scar! ”

"Could it be a forensic mistake?" Xiao Wenlu couldn't help but interrupt him. "Maybe it's a scar from some kind of sharp weapon."

Xie Rui shook his head: "Impossible." I also raised this question at the beginning, but the results of this examination were the result of all the forensic doctors, who unanimously agreed that it was the scratch of some kind of beast, and that their judgment could not all be wrong. ”

Xiao Wenlu nodded, motioning for Xie Rui to continue.

"Thirdly, it's about surveillance footage. I checked all the surveillance footage of the neighborhood where the missing man's house was located, and found that only the surveillance of the gate of the community and the building where his house was located was not normal, and from time to time the picture became blank or snowflakes. Through investigation, we ruled out the possibility of damage to the surveillance camera or tampering of the surveillance footage. ”

"When was the first time there was a problem with the surveillance footage?" Xiao Wenlu suddenly interjected and asked.

Xie Rui glanced at Xiao Wenzhi, his eyes as if he had found a confidant. He took out a thick notebook from his backpack, flipped to one of the pages, and handed it to Xiao Wenzhi: "I recorded all the times when there was a problem with the surveillance video, and you can see from it when the first problem occurred in the surveillance video." ”

Xiao Wenlu took the notebook, only to see that it was densely filled with words, the font was pale and powerful, and it looked like a man's handwriting. I saw that the first line of the page reads: "First time: August 19, 11:50 p.m." Duration: half an hour. ”

Xiao Wenlu stared at the line of words and pondered for a long time, then suddenly his eyebrows jumped, and he blurted out: "Halloween?!" ”

Xie Rui didn't hear what he said clearly, and asked, "What?" ”

"It's nothing," Xiao asked for directions, deliberately relaxing the expression on his face. "Can you show me these records?"

"No problem!" Unexpectedly, Xie Rui agreed very happily. "I still have a backup there. Actually, this is for you. ”

Oh, so I came prepared. Xiao Wenlu raised his eyes and glanced at Xie Rui.

"Are there any other anomalies?" Xiao asked.

"And one last point." Xie Rui said. "That's why I identify these apparently unrelated disappearances as the work of the same person: all the missing people, after being reported missing by their families, are seen somewhere in the city within a few days, and then disappear completely, never to be seen again. What's even more bizarre is that despite all the eyewitnesses, none of them have been able to catch up with or keep these missing people! ”

After saying so many things that gave him a headache in one breath, Xie Rui looked a little bored, and raised his wine glass: "Dry!" ”

The two of them drank it all again.

Before they knew it, the two of them had drunk more than a dozen bottles of beer. Although both of them drank well, they were both a little drunk at this time.

"You'll help me, won't you?" Xie Rui raised his wine glass, squinted at Xiao and asked for directions, and asked with a swaying upper body.

"What do you think?" Xiao asked rhetorically with a red face.

"I think you will." Xie Rui said with certainty.

"Why?" Xiao asked a little unhappily.

"Because you've just taken away my notes recording the expiration time of the surveillance footage!"

"Then I'll give it back to you!" As he spoke, Xiao Wenlu threw the black notebook on Xie Rui's body, got up and staggered away.

"Eh, don't go!" Xie Rui was in a hurry and was about to chase after him, but Xiao Wenlu turned his back to him, raising his right hand and waving it as he walked forward. In his right hand, he held the black notebook!

"See you tomorrow!" The sound of Xiao asking for directions came from afar, and in the blink of an eye, he walked far, far away.

Xie Rui looked at the notebook that had just been thrown back to him with a confused expression, and somehow appeared in Xiao Wenlu's hand again, and only smiled for a while.

"See you tomorrow!" He shouted loudly to the distant back. To be continued.