Chen Miao didn't speak, just looked at the old man in front of him who looked quite kind with an expressionless face, and paused for a moment before saying word by word: "The mayor is dead, is it you, the deputy mayor, who is in charge?" ”

"I don't know."

The old man shook his head: "I know what you think in your heart, but it has nothing to do with me, in fact, I have always been the mayor's person, and every time I have a meeting to discuss, I will put forward proposals that are completely opposite to the mayor, which I have agreed with the mayor." ”

"So that the people who are working against the mayor will gather around me."

"Their power will be used for me, and thus manipulated by the mayor."

"It's better to be clearly divided than to know which side some people are on and it's much easier to manage, I have no reason or means to kill a mayor who is in an absolutely safe shelter three thousand meters underground."

"He did commit suicide."

"The relevant personnel of Beijing-Kowloon City have gone to investigate, a mayor-level figure died suddenly, this is not a trivial matter, Beijing-Kowloon City will definitely find out, before the matter is not landed, it is impossible for me to be on the throne, I went to see the scene for the first time, I can confirm that the mayor committed suicide."

"But"

The old man paused for a moment before he hesitated, "Have you ever seen someone who committed suicide?" Regardless of the reason for committing suicide, most of the time they will struggle with suicide, leaving traces in many places, such as the circle of friends, such as diaries, and so on. ”

"And there will be a lot of abnormalities, such as cigarette intake before suicide is much more than usual, drinking alcohol, tear stains on the face, and so on."

"But based on my observations of the scene, the mayor did not leave any traces before committing suicide, there is no difference between the ashtray on the table and the usual cigarette intake, and even before the mayor committed suicide, he was watching the movie, the movie was paused halfway, under what circumstances would the movie be suspended?"

"Is it right to go to the bathroom?"

"That's right."

"The mayor is like this, halfway through watching the movie, he suddenly paused the movie, and then crawled to the bathroom and found a rope to hang himself in the living room, the whole process is full of weirdness, it doesn't look like the mayor's subjective intention at all, it's like being possessed by a ghost."

The old man said this sentence with a somewhat ugly face: "The incident bureau went to test it at that time, and there were no magnetic field fluctuations left after the incident at the scene, and there were no taboos. ”

"So. So far, we have absolutely no idea why the mayor committed suicide. ”

"I only know that the last order he gave before committing suicide was for me to go to Broken Jar City to find a psychiatrist named Zhang Liu, and then come to Zhenba City to do psychological counseling for Ling."

Chen Miao was keenly aware of the loophole in the old man's words: "I entered the hell bus in Fengtian City, and you are sure that the mayor's order is for you to come to Zhenba City to give me psychological counseling." ”

"Yes, that's the exact word, I've been waiting in Zhenba City for a long time."

"Hmm."

He nodded and didn't speak again, although the mayor didn't talk to him in advance of the deputy mayor, but the words of the old man in front of him don't seem to be fake, if this person is an old fox who can completely hide his emotions, then the mayor may really commit suicide?

But

Why did the mayor commit suicide inexplicably?

Could it be that he thinks that he will fail, the world is doomed, and instead of dying in the end of the world, it is better to end his life with dignity first?

No way.

Although he doesn't have much contact with the mayor, he probably understands what kind of person the mayor is, and what kind of person the mayor is, even if the end of the world really comes, he has to live until the last moment to see with his own eyes what kind of person the end of the world is.

It is impossible for such a person to commit suicide!

He glanced at the chat box with the mayor, there was no valid information, and the last few messages the mayor sent him were all speculations about the big event of "the sea of suffering in the world" before he entered the dream world.

It's all some normal communication.

And so on –

Chen Miao's eyes suddenly narrowed slightly, he seemed to have noticed something strange.

"That's all I know, the Federation has never experienced the 'sea of human suffering', everything is unknown."

"The occurrence of the fixed event of the 'Sea of Suffering in the World' is being explored by everyone in the Federation, but what is certain is that the 'Sea of Suffering in the World' event is not really over, and the hundreds of thousands of people who died are not the end, it should only be the beginning."

"Now that a lot of Hellbus fixation events have been discovered, the Federation hasn't seen a few Hellbuses in decades, and today is enough of it."

"They are now sending people to Zhenba City, you must remember not to let Meow Ye turn into a resentful spirit, otherwise the consequences will be unpredictable."

"Got it?"

This was the last conversation between him and the mayor, he was sitting on the hell bus at the time, and Meow Ye had not yet gotten on the bus, but under his intentional observation just now, he found that there was an obvious hidden word after these paragraphs.

The first word of each sentence is "I found him."

Is this a coincidence, or is it a message that the mayor wants to send?

I found him. Who did you find?

If there really is such important information that must be passed on, why not to someone else, but to him? He thinks he doesn't have that much power, and even he doesn't know what this sentence means, and he doesn't know what it is for.

But the mayor's abrupt and bizarre suicide may be because he found something that should not have been discovered and was forced to die?

This way of death, in fact, is quite familiar to him.

Some time ago, when I was in the Eternal Cemetery, more than a dozen people committed suicide with a dagger at the same time, and those people looked like the deputy mayor said, and they suddenly began to commit suicide for no reason, and they started to commit suicide very neatly.

But the deputy mayor said that there were no taboos at the scene.

“.”

Chen Miao shook his head, he didn't plan to think about this matter anymore, and when he went back, he would see if he could apply to go to the shelter site to have a look, maybe he could find something.

And at this time-

The mayor of Fengtian City is sitting in a space with white walls on all sides, and the walls are covered with all kinds of monitoring screens, each screen is a real-time picture of a corner of the Blue Star Federation, including the picture of Vice Mayor Chen Miao and others standing next to the barbecue stall chatting.

“.”

The mayor looked down at his hands a little dazedly, and then looked up at Chen Miao's figure on one of the screens.

At this moment, a hoarse mechanical sound was heard in my ears.

"You're really powerful, let you monitor this planet, you play consciousness awakening for Lao Tzu, right?"

"All pay deductions, you're fired."

The mayor's throat rolled slightly, a trace of helplessness flashed in his eyes, and he didn't know what to say for a while, and the memories in his mind had all recovered, the same as he guessed on the blue star.

(End of chapter)