The outer city of the Ninth Ring Block is surrounded by city walls, and in some places, the city walls were damaged because of the demolition and relocation office that year. The www.biquge.info through the low and ruined walls can see the hellish scene inside the city. The whole neighborhood seemed to be shrouded in a gray miasma, and the ruins of the broken walls could not be seen in the misty gray, and the view was blocked, and there was no end in sight. In the misty sky, there seems to be a terrifying monster that devours life.

"Are we really going in?" Ah Shen unconsciously took two steps back, "Should I bring a gas mask?" ”

"It's not as scary as you think, the air is mostly smog, but there are more fine dust particles, plus the river water has been discharged with chemicals, and one side of the block has become a garbage dump, so of course the environment is a little worse." Lao Jiang Le explained hehehe.

"Thanks to your explanation, I'm afraid rats won't stay in this place. My mother, they all say that if you don't make friends, you will live a short life, and that's really true......" Ah Shen's tone of voice completely revealed his crying expression under the mask.

Poker Face had slowly walked away, and in the thick fog, only his silhouette could be faintly recognized. Lao Jiang pushed him and said, "Don't rub it any longer, let's go." ”

"You say, I used to live here?" Ah Shen looked left and right, and the more he looked, the more frightened he felt. Through the mask, you can smell a pungent rancid odor, messy garbage and unattended dilapidated everywhere, "There won't be zombies in here, right?" That's probably the scene in "Resident Evil," Shen asked with a trembling voice.

Lao Jiang didn't care about this, continued to walk forward, and explained to Ah Shen easily, "When I was young, I remember that this was the house of Mrs. Wang, who bought tofu, and she had a very beautiful daughter, and people in the neighborhood were willing to come to her house to buy tofu, no matter how far away. Lao Jiang pointed to another shop and said, "This shop is the most famous dim sum shop in the neighborhood, a century-old shop with handicrafts that have been inherited from the Qing Dynasty." It's a shame......"

"You really look like you've returned home, and I don't know if I'll lose a few years of life if I go out from here." Ah Shen held his breath hard, he couldn't hold it anymore, covered his mouth and said impatiently, "I said, when will we find Duanmulong's hometown?" ”

"Who said we came to Duanmulong's hometown? Duanmu Long has already moved away, even if he finds his hometown, what can he do? Lao Jiang Yao looked at the poker face walking in front of him, and saw the poker face look here and there. From time to time, he approached a house and quickly came out of it.

"So what are we going to do? This place where birds don't poop. Ah Shen cleared his throat, the dissatisfaction in his heart had accumulated to the critical point of outburst.

Lao Jiang's eyes narrowed into a slit, his hand hooked Ah Shen's shoulder, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, as the saying goes, go home and take a look." You can't stop coming back just because your hometown has become a garbage dump. I don't know what I can think of. When Lao Jiang said the last sentence, his tone suddenly became extremely serious, which shocked Ah Shen, and hurriedly put aside Lao Jiang's hand, "Big man, hook shoulders and backs, it is easy to be misunderstood......" After speaking, he looked ahead, only to see that the front was empty, and the words he just said were diluted by layers of fog, and quickly quieted down. "Huh, where's Poker Face?"

Lao Jiang looked at the terrain, and under his serious expression, his eyes emitted a bright light, and he looked at the house in front of him motionlessly. "Here we are."

In front of Lao Jiang and Ah Shen to the right is a single-family house, which is made of reinforced concrete, supplemented by the appearance of a wooden structure, which looks antique. "Where is this?"

"You're not impressed?" Lao Jiang teased.

Ah Shen frowned slightly and closed his eyes. For a long time, he frowned slightly, "a little familiar......

Lao Jiang smiled disdainfully, "Let's go in." ”

Ah Shen stood still, and he suddenly said, "There is a stone well in this courtyard. I remember, when I was a child, I almost fell into it. Therefore, the family repaired the edge of the well...... My room, in ...... Upstairs to the northwest. ”

Lao Jiang's footsteps moving forward suddenly stopped. He couldn't believe that Ah Shen, who he thought was a fake, actually said the memory that it should be poker face. He was stunned for a moment, then suddenly turned back to Ah Shen and said, "You wait here first." After saying that, he ran directly into the house.

Poker Face was looking for something in his own room, and suddenly, Lao Jiang appeared behind him, took out a knife from his pocket, and pressed it against Pokerface's waist, "Say, who are you?" ”

Pokerface sighed, "Didn't you recognize me a long time ago?" ”

Lao Jiang poked the dagger forward, "You know that once I identify you, I won't ask you for evidence, but Ah Shen has a single personality, but anyone who has seen him can have a correct understanding of his character." If you do a certain amount of investigation, you can basically grasp all of Ah Shen. It's too simple to imitate him. What's more, your appearance is not at all like Ah Shen, and you have no record of plastic surgery. Say, who the hell are you? ”

Poker Face was stunned, "When I was eight years old, my parents died. Professor Yu took me in. After I finished my studies, I engaged in the archaeology industry and got engaged to Yu Yue...... These are all things that can be investigated. As he spoke, the poker face slowly turned around and looked at Lao Jiang calmly, "You and I have known each other since childhood, and the two families are world friends." Your mother was mentally stimulated on the night of my parents' death and is still in a nursing home, and only a few people know about it. Let's talk about something that only the two of us know, "That merman corpse transformation is not for nothing. It's because of you, I once plucked a piece of its scales......"

Lao Jiang's knife gradually loosened, and fell to the ground with a clatter. "How do you know?"

"Remember when you showed me your necklace? Even though it was in amber, I could tell at a glance that it was fish scales. At that time, I noticed something strange in your expression, so I checked the type of fish scales to which it belonged, but I couldn't find it. It wasn't until you talked about the mermaids that I understood. After Ah Shen finished speaking, he turned around and looked for something.

Lao Jiang was stunned at the moment, "You said, it was because I plucked its fish scales that it was transformed?" Isn't it because I brought it from the bottom of the sea to the shore? ”

"If it's because you brought it ashore, it's going to be dead when you bring it back, not years later. Think about it, is it because you pulled out its reverse scales that so many bad things happened one after another. Poker Face crouched down on the edge of the bed and leaned under the bed. As if there was something under the bed.

Legend has it that the reverse scale is a white crescent-shaped scale on the dragon's neck, and if touched, it will anger the dragon. "When I saw it at the time, I just thought that the scale was very special, but I didn't expect that the merman also had reverse scales." Lao Jiang recalled the scene at that time. On that day, it was the day to worship the ancestors. Every year's ancestor worship is done by himself. On that day, he returned to the ancestral hall as usual, and with him were the two bodyguards he had been standing with. He opened the door of the ancestral hall and asked the bodyguards to stay at the door, and he entered the ancestral hall alone with incense, candles, and paper money. After completing the ancestor worship according to the procedure, he suddenly thought of the dried corpse of the merman. So I also wanted to take the opportunity to worship the merman, after all, it has been too smooth in the past few years, so that Lao Jiang is secretly grateful to the merman. There were no electric lights in the ancestral hall, and by the light of a few candles, Lao Jiang came to the glass jar containing the merman, and he quietly looked at the merman in the glass jar. Although the merman had been dead for many years, and the corpse had turned into a dried corpse, when Lao Jiang looked at it at that time, the dried corpse seemed to have life, and looked at Lao Jiang. Lao Jiang trembled and involuntarily knelt in front of it. When Lao Jiang came back to his senses, he had been kneeling for a while, and the dried corpse of the merman remained in the bathtub unchanged, just a dried corpse. Lao Jiang touched the cold sweat on his forehead, and just wanted to get up, he suddenly saw a faint white light flash in front of him. He looked intently and saw a small white object on the back of the merman's dried corpse. Lao Jiang was curious, and held the candlestick and put his head on the fish tank. By the flickering candlelight, Lao Jiang could see clearly that it was a white scale, even if the merman had become a dried corpse, the scale was still as if the merman was alive, shining with a white light.

Lao Jiang has been engaged in the antique industry for so many years, and he has never seen such a clear and smooth thing. The light that flashed from the white scales was softer than the pearl of the night, and more lusterly than any light. In this dim ancestral hall, like a small crescent moon, it exudes a bright light. Lao Jiang's heart moved, and he slowly stretched out his hand.

"I didn't know that at that time, the whole person was out of control...... If you had known earlier. Old Jiang thumped his head and said remorsefully. When I pulled it off, there was nothing unusual at all. ”

"If I had known that you would have forgotten that I was still outside the door, I wouldn't have let you in first." Ah Shen's voice sounded at the door.

Poker Face had already come out from under the bed, and said lightly, "Probably, the reason why that dried corpse is not corrupted is because of the existence of reverse scales." ”

"Hehe, this time it's cheap, what happened after the cheap? The corpse has changed? ”

"It's more than that. The two bodyguards who accompanied me to worship my ancestors that day were killed by mistake when they went on a mission. Later, other brothers in the gang also had accidents. In just one month, more than a dozen people died. That day, I always thought it was strange, until I went to the ancient mansion with Pokerface that day, and I didn't know that the merman's corpse had changed. ”

"Whatever the cause, what we need to do now is to find a way to submit this thing." With that, Poker Face pulled out a large box from the corner next to the desk.

"What are those?" Ah Shen asked. "This was originally my home, why don't I remember these things......" Ah Shen said and took a step back, his words choked, "Who the hell are you?" ”