The temperature in the building plummeted, and in the face of the fear of the unknown, these rookie investigators were not too frightened.

In strict accordance with the internal rules of the Investigation Bureau, they assembled the various equipment in the backpack as quickly as possible.

The devices have their numbers on them, and the Bureau of Investigation is constantly trying to deal with anomalous events by various means, and the equipment that the newcomers bring in is their "weapon".

"Does this thing work?" Gao Ming asked with some curiosity.

"Ninety-nine percent useless, but as long as there is one percent hope, we will continue to try until we can experiment with something that can have an impact on the unknown." The strong man clenched his fists: "People become human because they can use tools." ”

"Communication was interrupted when we opened the door to Room 405, where the kid and his mom and dad used to live." Bai Qiao picked up his flashlight and walked towards room 405.

With no weapons capable of dealing with terror, and no effective protective measures, Shirabashi walked towards room 405 knowing the danger.

"I'll do it anyway." Gao Ming took the first step over: "You are the core of the team, just leave the matter of pathfinding to me." ”

Tiny chains, stimulated by the shadows, resembled moving tattoos, appeared on Takamei's wrist, and he reached out his left hand and gently pushed open the door to room 405.

There was a strange smell wafting from the 90-square-meter rental house, and there were five huge black plastic bags piled up next to the living room door, which contained some yellowed bedding and children's clothes.

"Be careful." Bai Qiao raised the flashlight to light the way for Gao Ming.

There seemed to have been a fight in the living room, with the dining table overturned, chairs lying on the floor, and solidified rice crumbs and broken porcelain bowl fragments on the concrete floor.

"It's not one-sided domestic violence, both sides of the fight have lost their minds." Gao Ming saw a small piece of scalp with short hair in the corner, which was supposed to belong to a certain man: "It's worse than I thought. ”

His fingers ran over the wall, and Gao Ming touched the mold on the wall, and he looked around, even if the doors and windows were closed, the room was still very damp, and the wardrobe, under the sofa, and behind the TV, were all covered with large patches of mold.

"If I had rented a house like this, I would have felt bad." The strong driver divided the newcomers into three teams, one team followed Gao Ming into the house, one team guarded the door, and the other team was responsible for receiving support.

"It's normal to feel bad, but it's not right to hurt someone close to you to vent your anger." Takamei walked to the other side of the living room, which was not a home at all, dirty, messy, and filled with the smell of decay.

The home, like all the pieces of furniture in the house that had been destroyed, had broken down.

"Mom and Dad are violent, they quarrel and fight, they are like two monsters attacking each other hysterically." Gao Ming picked up the broken vase on the ground, and there was still a trace of blood and a few strands of long hair on the edge of the shard: "Did they become like this because of the impact of the anomalous event, or was it originally like this in their hearts?" ”

"According to the old man in the building, they often got into fights before the abnormal event arrived." Bai Qiao didn't interfere with Gao Ming, and she also wanted to see what this ordinary person who had solved the third-level abnormal event was capable of.

"Even if there are no anomalous events, tragedy can happen......" Takamei wants to figure out the relationship between the game and reality: "So, it's not the anomalous events that find them, it's their family that attracts the anomalous events." ”

Walking through the living room, Takamei came to the only room that was still clean, which seemed to be a child's bedroom.

The small room has a desk, a wardrobe, and a single bed, and interestingly, it's not yet autumn, but the bed is covered with thick winter quilts and blankets.

The bedding was wrapped around the bed, like a wall in a child's mind.

The wardrobe was opened, and several children's clothes hung on it, and the lower level of the wardrobe was covered with newspapers, and a flashlight and crayon box were placed.

"The space under the wardrobe can almost hide a child, and a 405 child may choose to hide in the closet and draw when he is scared." Gao Ming squatted down: "The closed environment can make the child feel safe, as if he is back in the mother's belly. ”

Grabbing the crayon box, Gao Ming had just moved it when an arm made of cloth suddenly pressed against the crayon box.

Shirahashi and the other newcomer next to him both became nervous, but Takamei didn't react, he pulled the crayon box out along with the arm.

"What an ugly puppet."

Hidden deep in the wardrobe was a handmade puppet that could barely make out the shape of a human being, and its body was covered in patchwork and stained with various paints.

"The neighbors didn't see the couple taking the child away, and the police didn't find the child on the 4th floor, do you think the child will become this puppet?" Takamei locks the puppet around the neck and ties his hands together.

"This is not the time to tell ghost stories." Bai Qiao frowned slightly, Gao Ming had not received internal training from the Investigation Bureau, and did not follow the code at all.

His fingers pressed over every inch of the puppet's skin, and Gao Ming didn't feel that there was something strange hidden in the puppet, and he opened the crayon box again, and a sentence was written on the lid of the box - I wanted to hide in a place where no one would find out.

"It seems that anomalous events have helped the kid get his wish." Gao Ming thought of his birthday wishes, and he suddenly felt that the abnormal event seemed to be very enthusiastic, and he grabbed the hole in people's hearts and tried his best to fill it, but the way he filled it was a little bloody and terrifying.

After the 405 basic exploration was completed, the newcomers who followed Gao Ming took out the equipment to collect the items in the house, and even the mold on the walls they would bring back for inspection.

"Be careful, we may not be involved in a Level 1 anomalous event this time." After Gao Ming whispered advice, he sat on the child's bed and pondered silently.

He did a game to find a lost child, that game is called "hide and seek", seven ghosts and a child are playing a game, as long as the real child is found, it is considered to be cleared. But that game doesn't correspond to this anomalous event, and it's not the ghost that shadows the child in this anomalous event, but his parents.

"Parents often clash, fight, and sometimes take their anger out on their children. Living in such a family, children are bound to have various psychological problems. ”

Gao Ming encountered it when he was doing psychological counseling in a prison for serious offenders, and some of the felons were often treated harshly by their parents as children.

"In this kind of family atmosphere, the child's personality will go to two extremes, or he will be very inferior and cowardly; Or it's unusually irritable and excessive. Judging from the scene, the child of 405 should belong to the former. ”

Everyone likes obedient children, but there are also different types of children who are obedient, and if he has been forced to behave well-behaved, then his heart will gradually fall into a kind of distortion.

The most direct manifestation is timidity, fear of making mistakes in everything, and want to hide yourself because of the fear of angering others.

Looking at the "quilt wall" around the edge of the bed, Takamei curled up and tried to lie on the child's bed.

"When parents are smashing things in the living room, beating each other, and their mouths are full of foul language, children are not only unable to be protected by either parent, but they must always be careful to become a tool for them to vent."

"In this case, the most common emotion is – fear."

Gao Ming thought of the graffiti on the wall of the corridor, and when the little people representing father and mother started to quarrel, many red little people would crawl out of them, and those little people would disassemble their body parts and run to the children.

"Maybe those little red people are a way for children to express their fears." Another game gradually came to Gao Ming's mind, and that omen-level game was called "Phobia".

There's no specific ghosts in it, and there's no bloody scenes, but the game is even more destructive and threatening than the average weird story!

The content of the game is simple, one day "Phobia" suddenly erupts, spreading throughout the city, and everyone is in fear.