A few kilometers away, on the other side of the town, 'sister-in-law' Lin Huiyin held Jingdong's hand and was looking for her family.

Ding Dong suddenly pointed to a roadside stall and said, "Sugar gourd!" ”

Lin Huiyin bought a sugar gourd for Ding Dong. He took his little hand and continued walking, and after a few steps, Jingle Bell said, "Ice cream!" ”

Lin Huiyin glanced at Ding Dong, "You haven't finished eating the sugar gourd yet." ”

"I just want what I want!" There is no reason for Clank.

If it had been put in the past, Lin Huiyin would not have bought it for her, but now, Lin Huiyin seemed to feel that she owed her something, and bought it without saying anything.

Tinker Bell took a sugar gourd in one hand and ice cream in the other, walked a few steps, and exclaimed, "I'm going to play that!" ”

I saw a group of children playing with slides and other things in the public children's playground.

Lin Huiyin knew that Ding Dong was deliberately making trouble, and sighed.

In the end, the two go to the place where Dingdong's former home is, inquire one by one, and find that almost no one remembers Dingdong's house.

Some of the elderly people who have lived in the area for the longest time also shook their heads. Not only do I not remember Dingdong's family, but I also don't know that there has been an abandonment of children in the community.

Lin Huiyin looked at Ding Dong and said, "Are you lying?" ”

Ding Dong opened his eyes innocently, "What is my sister-in-law talking about, it's not right to lie." ”

Lin Huiyin squatted down, looked at Ding Dong and said, "This is not your house at all, you said a fake address, right?" ”

Ding Dong squeaked and didn't want to get by, Lin Huiyin straightened her face and said, "Tell the truth! ”

Clank Bell finally couldn't hold it anymore.

threw the sugar gourd and ice cream to the ground, and pounced on Lin Huiyin at once,

"I don't want to be sent back, don't throw me away, I'll be obedient, don't throw me away, okay......"

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On the balcony of the soup house,

Li Xinyi drank tea with Lao Fang, discussed unusual things, and tried to analyze them.

Lao Fang said, "Let's sort it out from the beginning." The anomaly of the world began a few years ago. ”

Lao Fang said: "The world is already at the end of the 21st century. Science is prosperous and technology is developed.

However, as human civilization becomes more and more prosperous, it seems that the reverse undercurrent is also emerging.

"Eight years ago, the first case of a scientist's insanity occurred across the ocean in Tennessee. The designer of a completely new algorithm for the supercomputer 'Edge' has suddenly disappeared.

"A few days later, the whole supercomputing center stinks, and when you take it apart, you can see that the scientist is rotting in a pile of chips, and he is trying to integrate himself with the computer.

"This matter did not attract the attention of the top management at the time. But after that, the mental problems of people in the scientific community appeared one after another. Every two or three months, there will be a sensational case. ”

Lao Fang looked at Li Xinyi, "It is said that you were also involved at that time." ”

"I was very involved. At that time, the secret anomaly investigation team had not yet been formed. Li Xinyi said, "But I came into contact once when I went out on a mission, and it was a suspected anomalous event,"

Li Xinyi said, "The person who committed the case was an expert of China's large deep-space telescope 'Dayan'. I won't talk about the details. ”

Because of Li Xinyi's work, the projects he participated in were confidential. The old party didn't ask anymore and combed along the original line of thought.

"For several years, people didn't realize that these events were connected to each other. The reason for this is that the locations of the cases are very scattered, the first one may be in Guam and the next one may be on a small island in the Pacific Ocean......

"It's hard to believe that there is a dark thread between all events that lasts for years and can cover the whole world."

"Until a computer bug is generated."

"Four years ago, the computer system of the Pan-Asia-Pacific Collaborative Crime Agency issued a reminder that the computer AI believed that a series of cases had similarities with many unusual incidents scattered among the people," Li said.

This prompt was quickly removed. No records were left. But it was also deleted that caught the attention of a system maintainer. He thought it was a software bug and reported it. ”

Lao Fang couldn't help asking: "Who deleted this message?" ”

"Herein lies the problem, who deleted it?" "The answer is that you can't find the person who deleted it." ”

"In fact, this piece of information is not a high priority. Computer AI will automatically analyze and mine the massive number of cases around the world to find correlations that humans may ignore. This prompt is not a high priority, and if it is not deleted, there is a high probability that humans will simply ignore the message.

"And it was precisely because it was deleted that someone went to investigate. Next, the snowball became bigger and bigger, and small-scale anomalous events distributed in various countries and regions around the world were surprisingly similar.

"It's not just the community of scientists that have anomalies. This anomaly, in a more bizarre and irrational way, has existed among the people for several years. ”

Since then, the Anomaly Investigation Team has finally been established.

A new 'anomalous' database has been put together, containing a decade of cases from the scientific community, bizarre cases reported around the world, and a large number of folk rumors, many of which are bizarre and rumours on the Internet.

There are tens of thousands of people in total.

The vast majority of these incidents are unlikely to be formally investigated. Because there are a lot of keywords like 'vampire, werewolf, alien, ghost', and the keyword 'Cthulhu' appears a lot in it.

Lao Fang said: "I have read some relevant materials, of course vampire werewolves do not exist, these words affect our judgment of authenticity and seriousness." Due to the rumors of the folklore, strange manifestations are often associated with legends such as ghosts. ”

"Speaking of which, I have to mention that backward and closed areas, small places and places like mountain villages are hotbeds of such strange events, and there are many strange legends in this kind of place, so after several years, there is a serious lack of attention to such anomalies."

Speaking of this, Lao Fang sighed, "Including this Matian Town." ”

Yunjian County and Matian Town are small county towns in the fifth and sixth tiers. Due to the geographical environment, it is relatively closed and highly isolated from the outside world.

Don't look at the upheaval here, for the outside world and the world, no one may know about it at all.

Lao Fang said slowly, "There is one thing that no one has ever thought about.

"Why do anomalies attack scientists in large numbers? And why do you like to pick on backward areas? I didn't think it was relevant before. Until I myself came here,"

Lao Xiang looked out at the roofs, "I have a deep feeling that the anomalies in Matian Town and the world have one thing in common: 'atavism' and ignorance. ”

Scientists, atavists, ignorance? ……

Li Xinyi pondered these words.

"You're saying he wants to destroy science?"