In the afternoon, Nangong Xiaolu still went to school as usual. The man had given her a very secluded quarter, as if she had stepped out of a building, but no one would have seen her come out of a small broken bungalow full of broken flower pots in the corner of the building.

Recently, the traffickers have made a lot of noise about trafficking in children's organs, and the organization is very large, the police have arrested dozens of people so far, but they are just aquatic plants floating on the surface of the river, and they have not even touched a single hair of the real criminal organization, so the whole Shanghai people are panicking, especially the parents of primary school students, every afternoon before dark, they will be grounded with their children, and the car is sent to the school gate on the way to school, and when the children enter the school gate and walk to their own class, the adults can reach the long neck before they let go.

During this time, every time Nangong Xiaolu walked into the school, he felt that he had walked into the zoo, the security guards at the door were charging tickets, and the parents who were eager to rush in outside were tourists who wanted to grab coupons, and they put their heads in like crazy, as if it was not their own children who went in, but their arms and legs, for fear of falling and breaking.

She is now being held hostage by smugglers to hide her existence, and even if she is trafficked, her situation is just transferred from this den to that den of thieves, and nothing has changed.

Anyway, a child like her who has no roots, no bottom, no father and no mother, even if she buys the barren mountains and mountains to kill people and destroy them, it will not make any waves, God knows that you know and I know, and no third person knows.

"Smack!" The schoolbag smashed on the desk, scaring Bai Mingming, who was reading a comic, thinking that the teacher was sneaking over, grabbing a straight one, and looking up with a pale face, he saw his heinous peer looking at him unkindly.

"What, what's wrong?" he began to drum in his heart, this person who deceived the inside and was afraid of the outside, where did he provoke her if he didn't do anything?

Nangong Xiaolu smiled: "It's nothing, I just see that you are better than me, I am in a bad mood." ”

...... "My mother?"

If you're in a bad mood, you're going to hook up with me, why don't you go to heaven?

She pulled out her math textbook and opened the fourth chapter, Whole Numbers.

"One gets one, one two gets two, one three gets three, one four gets four......"

"Hey, we've all learned whole numbers, what multiplication formula table do you memorize?" Bai Mingming rolled his eyes.

Someone didn't listen to the lecture at all, and just now he opened the textbook in a hurry, took out the pen and looked directly at the blackboard, and after a while, he collapsed on the desk and couldn't raise his head again.

Sleeping like a dead pig, Hara Ziliu has a textbook.

Bai Ming moved to the left in disgust and couldn't move any longer, he thought to himself, how could there be such a girl who doesn't care about her image, such a heartless wonder......

Even the teacher didn't want to care about this strange thing, and let someone sleep in the dark, until the end of school, he suddenly raised his face full of marks like an alarm clock, and said: Ah, it's out of school. She packed her textbooks and put her school bag on her back.

And at this time, Bai Mingming's nightmare has just begun.

I saw someone dragging himself out of school, seeing Bai Mingming's father driving the car, he shook down the window, smiled and said to Nangong Xiaolu: "Xiaolu, it's time to get out of school, hurry up and go back to dinner!"

"Okay, uncle!" Nangong Xiaolu jumped into the car.

...... It's so shameless, how can you rub rice so naturally!Bai Mingming thought sadly.

The key is that my parents like Nangong Xiaolu very much, and they care for him like their own daughter, but he is like a pick-up.

The most hateful thing is that this guy is like a vicious dog in front of him, docile and well-behaved in front of his teachers and parents, and he is a simple and cute girl next door.

Sometimes he really doesn't understand why this person is so good to everyone, but he is vicious to himself, and lives like a dominatrix.

This dominatrix also robs his mom and dad every day.

"Xiaolu eats more fish and meat, and eats more vegetables. Mom took another chopstick of meat on the fish maw and put it in the bowl of Nangong Xiaolu.

"Mom, I'm going to eat fish belly too. Bai Mingming watched as the meat on the fish's stomach became less and less, and the meat in Nangong Xiaolu's bowl became more and more.

"You don't have long hands yourself. Mom gave herself a blank look.

Bai Mingming: "......"

He silently wept in his heart.

Suddenly seeing several more pieces of fish in his bowl, Bai Mingming was stunned for a moment.

"If you look at other people's paths, they are sensible, and they know that they love to eat fish and meat, and they are not willing to eat it, so they give it to you. Mom said instructively.

Bai Mingming turned his head and saw that the fish and meat in her bowl were gone, and this thing showed a smile to himself that had fascinated thousands of people:

"Brother Mingming, eat more. ”

The words "Brother Mingming" really made Bai Mingming tremble, so tired that his chopsticks almost fell off the table.

After dinner, this person always ran to the kitchen to clean up here and there, busy running around, and her mother always pushed her and said, "Go, go to the living room and do homework with Mingming." ”

"No, Auntie, I'll finish washing in a moment, you can go and rest. She slacked away the dishes and chopsticks, and her movements were skillful.

Then Bai Mingming heard his mother sigh softly.

"Alas...... What a poor baby. ”

By the time the two children finished their homework in the living room, it was almost nine o'clock, and their mother persuaded Nangong Xiaolu again: "It's too late, let's live here." ”

"No, Auntie, I have to pack up my things when I go back, I'll go first, see you tomorrow!" she said, one foot already out the door.

The mother stood at the door and watched Nangong Xiaolu gradually walk away, and suddenly regretted not keeping her, and was still muttering: "Why am I so confused, it's dark and let her go so far as a child......"

"Mom, don't worry about her, she can kill a bear by herself!" Mom's muttering made Bai Mingming hear, and he replied.

"Go, go back to your room!" said Mom unceremoniously.

Bai Mingming pouted, what, he knows that he is murderous. I'm not lying, I know exactly how strong this guy is......

He had never seen Nangong Xiaolu eat deflated on anyone's hands.

Bullying herself, she relies on a pair of fists, bullying others, she can block a group of people with one mouth.

Passing by his parents' room at night, he vaguely heard some "path", and couldn't help but pay attention to it for a while.

“...... The child on Xiaolu is also hard-working, he has no father and no mother, he lives in such a random place every day, and he is still so strong and hard to go to school...... Alas, it's not easy. "Mom's voice.

"At most, we can make up for a little material care, alas, but in any case, we can't replace real parents, and we can do that...... Don't be too uncomfortable. Dad continued.

"Fortunately, I have a good relationship with her, and I have a companion, so I won't be too lonely. I saw her laughing so much when she was playing with Mingming. Mom's voice was smiling.

She's very happy, she's happy to bully me. Bai Mingming thought.

However, if you say this, Nangong Xiaolu's life experience seems to be very miserable?

Bai Mingming was very curious. I can't see it, he thinks that orphans without fathers and mothers should be the hemp pole figure who looks lonely and has no friends and is always bullied in the movie, but she Nangong Xiaolu doesn't look like an orphan no matter how she looks at it.

The next day, he decided to secretly follow Nangong Xiaolu home after school at noon.

Following out of the school gate, and gradually moving away from the hustle and bustle of the street, Bai Mingming saw her turn into an alley, he hurriedly followed, and saw her turn into another narrower road, and turned around three times, Bai Mingming followed a little dizzy, why did she turn eighteen turns, and she hadn't arrived yet?

Finally, he saw that she had stopped turning and walked to the back of a building, and when he quietly followed behind the building, there was no one to be seen.

Strangely enough, he looked left and right, and there was an open space behind the building, the ground was full of slippery moss, and in the corner was a pile of broken flower pots, which leaned against a small, dilapidated and sloping bungalow, and the door was too low to fit a person...... Other than that, there is no room for people.

Just as he was puzzled, he was pushed on the back, and he almost fell down. Turning his head, he saw that his stalker was staring at him steadily.

"Who did I think it was, it turned out that you were following me. Nangong Xiaolu stared at him with interest, as if he was watching some new continent.

"I'm me, I'm not following you, I'm passing by!" Bai Mingming shouted confidently.

She touched her chin with one hand and squinted closer to him: "Really~?"

"Uh, uh, uh, what do you want to do?" Bai Mingming saw her approaching him like a poisonous snake, and hurriedly stepped back, her schoolbag against the wall.

When she was forced to a position where she couldn't force it anymore, she stopped and said, "Next time you want to go home from school with me, just say it, don't follow me secretly." ”

Bai Mingming saw her facial expression gloomy, and a feeling of being a thief rose up, and he weakly confessed: "I just want to see where you live......"

Nangong Xiaolu wondered: "Why are you curious about this?"

Bai Mingming won't say that I only wanted to know because I eavesdropped on my parents' conversation, he said: "I, I don't care about you, can't you!"

"It's not that no...... Okay, now that you see it, you can go back, right?" she said.

"Huh, where do you live?" Bai Ming looked at it, but couldn't find a place to live.

"Can't you see, such a big house is there!" Nangong Xiaolu pointed to the house that was piled up with flower pots and moss, and was a little collapsed.

...... That's where people live? Bai Ming was shocked.

"You're not going to tell me you live here, are you?"

"yes. She answered naturally.

Bai Mingming At this moment, all the resentment against him from Nangong Xiaolu's violence disappeared at once, and he suddenly could understand why this girl was so strange.

Because she lives in such an environment, she can live for so many years, and she can still be expected to be as squeamish and cute as ordinary girls?

"That, that. "Bai Ming wanted to say to her, why don't you come to our house for dinner.

Before she finished speaking, a person appeared behind Nangong Xiaolu and put his hand on her shoulder.

"Hi. The man saw Bai Mingming, "This is your classmate?"

"I don't know, I don't know where I'm from, I'm called Hanako, I have to follow me all the way. She said.

...... This lie, which little one is called Hanako who wears so decently and carries a brand schoolbag?

The man smiled helplessly and said to the two, "Shall I invite you to eat KFC?"

Nangong Xiaolu: "Don't go, you get out." ”

Bai Mingming didn't know the situation: "Xiaolu, this is your brother?"

As soon as he finished asking, he saw her look of wanting to kill herself, and he couldn't help but tremble.

The man laughed out loud and said to Bai Mingming: "My sister just likes to joke, and suddenly ran to a dilapidated place and said that it was her own home, in fact, she used to like to tease others." Let's go, brother will take you home. ”

Bai Mingming heard her parents say that she had no family last night, but she didn't expect to have an older brother...... Then why does my mother still say that she is not doing well, he thinks this brother is very kind.

Nangong Xiaolu was held by this person who called himself "brother" all the way, she had a mother for a while during this time, and an uncle for a while, and now the man who sent her to this small bungalow at that time suddenly became his "brother" again, if she hadn't seen more since she was a child, I am afraid she would have been really deceived by this kind person.

Walking to the street, Nangong Xiaolu said to Bai Mingming, who was following him: "Why don't you go home yet? It's almost lunch, and your mother is afraid that she will die in a hurry." ”

"My mom said they weren't home at noon and asked me to eat with you. "Bai Ming is stupid.

Nangong Xiaolu scolded. This dead man has to wade into this troubled water. Bai Mingming is different from her, he is a person with parents, and he has never encountered anything since he was a child, but he can't be implicated.

Fortunately, after eating KFC, the man didn't seem to want Bai Mingming to hear anything, so he found a reason to ask someone to take care of him in front of the counter, and he entered a private room with Nangong Xiaolu.

As soon as he entered, the man cautiously looked around before he sat down at the table and changed into a serious tone: "Listen, what I'm going to say to you next is very important, and you must remember it." ”

Nangong Xiaolu nodded clearly: "Okay policeman Shu Huang." ”

The man was stunned for a moment, a little incredulous: "...... How do you know?"

Nangong Xiaolu was a little proud when he saw his surprised appearance, and then waved his hand indifferently and said, " Oh, it's nothing, I used to follow some stray children to steal chickens and dogs in order to survive, and I accidentally became a frequent visitor in the bureau, you people talk in style, demeanor, I can't be more familiar, brother, you just sat down habitually and crossed your wrists, looking at me with scrutinizing eyes, just like Shu Huang who often taught us in the bureau, and I would like to advise you, if you are an undercover agent, it is better to change these things, otherwise, tsk......"

She shook her head as if she had foreseen a bad future.

The men were almost amused by her pretense.

"Okay, let's get down to business first, now I'm taking you over from the organization, and I've been secretly observing you before, on the one hand, you're using you to continue to help smuggle on behalf of the organization, and on the other hand, although I haven't reported it to the police, I've actually been keeping an eye on you. ”

Nangong Xiaolu felt that he hadn't finished speaking, and continued to wait for him to continue.

The man took a deep breath and continued, "Although I have been hiding in this smuggling gang for several years, I have another mission besides this mission...... At this point, can you understand?" The man is still a little worried that he is a child after all, and he accepts such a large amount of information at once, even if she is different from ordinary children, he is still afraid that she will not be able to accept it at once.

"Don't worry, there's a smuggler living diagonally across the door from where I used to live, I can understand it. Nangong Xiaolu said.

"Ahem. It seems that remembering what kind of environment this girl lives in, the man can't help but feel a little guilty, and what he is going to say next is even a little difficult to say.

“...... Since a few years ago, there were some unbelievable phenomena in Shanghai, at first, there were only some fantastic scenes in a small area, according to folk rumors, in the middle of the night, he saw a black shadow passing on the eaves, some people thought it was a thief, but when he took a closer look through the street lamp, he found that the black shadow was only half of the flesh and blood on his face, and the other half was ...... "Speaking of this, the man deliberately stopped to observe Nangong Xiaolu's expression, and saw that she listened attentively, without too much fear, before he continued," The other half of the face was fleshless and fleshless, like a black hole, with nothing. ”

Nangong Xiaolu frowned imperceptibly, and quickly relaxed.

“...... Then, another rumor spread, saying that a single woman who came home late from work was walking alone at night, and suddenly heard a rustling in the bushes next to her, and then she saw a tall man like a bear walking towards her with his head and neck broken, and when she was so frightened that she was taken to the hospital, she told others about it, but it was just like the first rumor, which everyone regarded as a strange story after dinner. ”

The man exhaled: "Naturally, our police will not listen to these unbelievable things, until a case of accident death ...... a few years ago"

Nangong Xiaolu listened to these words, and his heart pounded in his chest.

"When I think about it, I think it's incredible. He took a sip of water and looked at the cup.

"I was not in charge of the accident team back then, I was listening to my colleagues discuss, a telephone pole in a residential alley suddenly appeared in a circle with visible electric sparks, the old man who was reading the newspaper by the telephone pole was coke on the spot, and then the telephone pole broke from the middle, and the pole that was still sparking smashed to death an old lady with a row of vegetable stalls in the alley. ”

Nangong Xiaolu let out a deep breath.

But that's not the end of it, according to eyewitness accounts, three strange people appeared out of thin air in the alley, all of them had a hole in their chests, or their heads were cut in half and carried in their hands, or they were only half of their bodies, twisting and moving forward against their lumbar spine. ”

"I didn't believe it at the time, but after all, the seniors in the unit were talking about it, so I transferred to the monitoring back then, and it turned out that the eyewitnesses were true. ”

The man pressed his scalp as he spoke, his eyebrows furrowed.

"Since then, the police have re-established the task force, and I have joined it, and this is another task of mine. In order to calm the panic of the masses, the police and the government worked together to suppress the case, but the investigation is still being carried out in secret. ”

Nangong Xiaolu didn't blink his eyes, and he was fascinated by it.

"Later, in the course of the investigation, it was found that the current on the electrocuted corpse did not meet the load index of high-voltage electricity at all, and it was far exceeded. ”

"Ahh

Then all of us understood the fact that the enemy we were facing was probably not human. He bit down on the last few words.

He didn't notice that the girl's hand under the table, which was listening to these things, was trembling slightly.

He continued: "In the years that followed, I investigated whether there were similar cases around the world, and I actually found a few strange folk stories.

"Germany, Britain, Japan, these three countries, all have the same strange news as in Shanghai a few years ago, but the time of the incident was during World War II, the time is long, but the description is exactly the same, is there any connection between this?" he said as he forgot that there was a schoolboy next to him, and fell into thought to himself.

It took a long time for him to seem to come back to his senses and say to Nangong Xiaolu: "You are so smart, you should understand what I want to say, you can think about it for a few days, and then you come and live with me, and then decide whether to participate or not." ”

"What about ......," she asked, "will you keep me safe if I join?"

"Of course. ”

"But even if I join you, how can I help you?"

"We need a rootless child to investigate something, and sometimes children are less suspicious than adults. How about it? Do you want to solve a big case with the police?" The man felt like an abductor.

He could feel that this little guy actually wanted to join.

"Well, don't lie to me. Nangong Xiaolu said, "Then I joined, what benefits did you give me?"

"The good thing is that you don't have to live in a rental building anymore, I have a room in my house. ”

Nangong Xiaolu squinted: "Big brother, you really still want to do something embarrassing......"

“......”......

After school in the afternoon, Bai Mingming took the initiative to poke Nangong Xiaolu for the first time.

"You, if you don't mind, come home with me for dinner. The little broken boy made a face and invited awkwardly.

"No, my brother came to pick me up. The latter finished packing his things and waved his hand at Bai Mingming with his schoolbag on his back, "Gray Ash." ”

“...... Hey, your brother?" Bai Mingming didn't react, and then remembered for a long time that a kind big brother invited them to dinner at noon, could it be that it was really her brother?

Nangong Xiaolu was at the school gate, and sure enough, I saw a man wearing a sports sweatshirt and looking like a college student leaning in front of the car, the corners of her mouth bent, and she ran over.

"Brother~ Why did you come to pick up the people in person~" She shook the man's arm, and her voice was boundless.

The man thought to himself, this little goblin is quite good at acting.

When he arrived at the residence, Nangong Xiaolu followed him up to the fifth floor, and after opening the door, Nangong Xiaolu was not polite at all, he threw himself on the sofa and bounced and bounced, rolling around on the bed in the bedroom, jumping up and down, like a person who had never seen a bed in eight lifetimes.

"Brother~ This bed is so big and comfortable. ”

“...... You rolled off my clothes. ”

Nangong Xiaolu pouted: "It's so fierce~ Be careful that you can't find your wife in the future." ”

"Brother~ Are you going to cook?" After a while, she went to the kitchen again.

"Tell you to change your clothes, go take a shower first, clean clothes are in the bathroom. The man spoke helplessly.

"Brother~"

"Can you stop calling it that?"

"Hee-hee-hee, I've never called it that, I think it's quite fresh, okay, I'll stop calling it for a while. She said with a cheeky smile.

Alas...... After all, it's a child without parents. He suddenly relented again: "Forget it, let it be." ”

"Okay, brother~" Nangong Xiaolu found that as long as he screamed like this, the man had goosebumps on his face, and he screamed even more.

Playful.

"Brother~ I'll take off my clothes~ Oops, I can't take it off, you come and help me......"

Well, he felt that his compassion was superfluous for this man, who was like an inch, and that he was enjoying it.

Finally finished tossing, this thing finally finished taking a shower and stopped being a demon, wrapped in a bath towel and walked into the living room, he couldn't help but say, "Didn't you say that clean clothes were placed outside the bathroom?"

"Ah, yes. As she woke up, she raised her hands and the bath towel fell down with a clatter.

“...... You, you ......" he covered his eyes and could only point to the bathroom with trembling hands.

"Brother, why are you covering your eyes, what kind of ...... can a child's body have?" Before she could finish speaking, she was picked up and dragged to the bathroom, and then a pile of clothes fell on her.

...... This kid has been completely spoiled by the group of people in the rental building!

After a brief dinner, Nangong Xiaolu began to do his homework.

She had never seen such a large glass coffee table, lying on it with her hands paddling like water, and said as she rowed, "Wow, it's so cool, it's so icy." ”

All of this made her excited, before this, she couldn't imagine that she could live in such a big house, there was no woman who hid condoms in her house at every turn, there was no mmmmmmmm......mm

It's like a dream.

She never thought that there would be a police officer, and she didn't know when she would quietly watch her for a few months, and then find usable value in a person like herself.

Nangong Xiaolu wouldn't know that this person he saw a half-old child, who endured the filthiness/filth of the rental building every day, went to nightclubs with chickens, grabbed food from stray dogs, and occasionally was put in the bureau for petty theft, and in the end, this person finally took this opportunity to rescue her.

She also thought that it was to cover the smuggling, and in order to investigate the case, she temporarily arranged herself to be by her side to prevent mistakes, only when she thought about it did she feel reasonable. Otherwise, she thought, it couldn't be because she was pitiful and wanted to give her a home.

After a while, the door to his bedroom was pushed open a crack, and a pair of eyes peered through the slit.

"What's wrong? Come in. He walked over and opened the door.

Nangong Xiaolu put his hands behind his back and smiled sweetly: "Do you want to pretend to be my parent and sign it?"

He flipped through the dense homework that was written, good fellow, this thing must be the last in the class.

"You've got to make up for this math. He commented like a parent.

"I don't listen, I don't listen, Wang Ba recites the scriptures. Nangong Xiaolu shook his head.

"Alright, you come and sit down, it's time to talk about the case. He closed the bedroom door, pushed a chair over to the computer desk, and said to her, "Sit here." ”

He sat across from him and pulled out a stack of photos.

"This is what just happened above, a picture taken by our people. He said, "You keep a good eye on each of them, remember what they look like, and then tomorrow someone will take you to the police station to identify the prisoner." ”

The identification of a strange child is the most convincing, and at the moment, there are no other witnesses.

"It can't be that all the witnesses are dead, right?" asked Nangong Xiaolu.

This kid, why is he so clever, it's so hard to fool.

"Our people will keep you safe. ”

"Why did all the witnesses die before?" she asked again.

"It is those who told you at noon, missing arms and broken heads, broken bodies, recently began to appear again, all witnesses were killed before the report, the police yesterday finally found the target who fled with a human head, this morning arrested more than a dozen suspects who were similar to the characteristics of the witnesses, but in the half day that people came to identify, several witnesses died, a severed finger left at the scene, the study found that the severed finger is different from ordinary people, there is no cell tissue in the finger, it is hollow. ”

Nangong Xiaolu's heart shook suddenly: "...... say so"

"There is no other option but those weirdos. ”

"So, there are no more eyewitnesses, and if no one identifies him by this time tomorrow, the police station will have no right to detain people," he said. ”

“...... Can you tell me in detail about the results of the research on that severed finger?" Nangong Xiaolu grabbed the leather chair with his fingers, almost digging inside.

He was a little surprised: "I was afraid that you would be afraid, and I didn't plan to talk to you about this." ”

"Well, since I am involved in this case, I have the right to know some details. She said.

"Okay. He said, "The severed finger preliminarily concluded that it is a hollow object without cellularized tissue, which means that it is not a part of the living being, let's call it a finger first, this finger actually found a long string of codes from it after the second and third stages of research, isn't it magical? It is like a real object composed of data, it is incredible!" He said with some excitement, "This thing is impossible to make now, and the people in the research team had to invite computer experts, and not long ago, they came to a preliminary conclusion—— This is a new, unheard-of code anthropomorphism. ”

“......”

"What's wrong with you? He saw that the girl's face was a little pale.

"It's okay, it's probably too shocking, it's a little scary how things in science fiction movies suddenly appear in reality. Nangong Xiaolu rubbed his forehead.

"Look, I said it might scare you. He kind of regretted telling a little girl this.

"Go on, haven't you finished speaking. ”

“...... Can you still listen?" he looked at her as if she was a little frightened.

"It's okay, you say, don't talk halfway!" Nangong Xiaolu pouted dissatisfiedly.

"Good...... Since the code can be anthropomorphized, it must be re-dataized, and then the expert is going to make a crazy decision to crack the code and digitize it all, so that there will be no more weirdos. ”

"What's that code called?"

“rainlechen。 ”

"Hey, what's wrong with you? He hurriedly stretched out his hand and put it on her forehead, there was no fever, but he kept breaking out in a cold sweat...... This scared the child a lot.

The person who told her about the severed head and waist at noon didn't see her so afraid, how could she say that the severed finger was made of computer data, and she was scared like this.

"Okay, okay, it's okay. He finally felt the fear and helplessness of an eleven-year-old girl from her, and patted her head gently, "Go to the bathroom to wash and sleep, I really don't want to identify me tomorrow and think of another way." ”

"No, brother, I'll identify it tomorrow. She suddenly spoke, "And I want to be a part of the research." ”

"But brother. She added, "Do you think those weirdos are bad?"

"Huh?" he replied after a moment's thought, "If research confirms that these weirdos are indeed made of data code, then they can't be blamed, but the people behind them who operate them are to blame, and those are the ones who should be held responsible." ”

"Well, that's right. She really thought about it for a moment, nodded and said.

"It's not early, go to bed. He looked at her with a smile.

She smiled at him and walked out of the bedroom to close the door.

But this kid seems a little weird tonight......

Forget it, hasn't she always been weird, he scratched his hair.