For the first time, Li Lin saw Captain Song, who was usually steady and reliable, with his brows furrowed as if facing a formidable enemy.
"So... the last dark angel in the form of an eyeball left the foreign land where it was parasitic without any trace, without trying to contaminate or control anyone, and without leaving behind any 'sub-bodies'?" Song Cheng finished listening to the two words in front of him.
A Secret Service agent reported after being silent for a long time before speaking, "During the whole process, you didn't hear anything like 'high-dimensional whispers' coming from your mind?"
"No," Xu Jiali shook her head, her voice low, "But that thing must have noticed us. For a moment, I could clearly feel that 'attention', and the focus of its sight had fallen on the place where we were hiding.
It’s like…”
Song Cheng frowned: "Just like?"
Xu Jiali recalled it and said uncertainly: "It's like she was looking for something."
Song Cheng tapped his fingers on the table with some irritability and did not speak for a while.
After another ten seconds, he took a long breath and turned to look at Li Lin: "When you were in contact with the person who called himself 'Yu Sheng', did you feel the 'alien' aura on his body?
? Judging from your intuition, do you think he looks more like a human being, or does he look like... something else?"
"It looks like a human being, at least in terms of speech, behavior and common sense of how to deal with others. If it is an entity pretending to be a human being, it can only be said that the disguise is too perfect - it is so perfect that it can be directly regarded as a human being.
"Li Lin said with certainty.
"But he has been 'living' for a long time in a 'No. 66 Wutong Road' that does not exist in the real world at all. It is a foreign land that has never appeared in any official records." Song Cheng sighed, "Only 'entities' are generated in foreign lands.
, will not generate...human beings."
Xu Jiali was silent for a while, and then she said: "There are indeed some 'entities' in this world that are rational and able to communicate. Some entities that are particularly friendly or have desires for the world can even cooperate with humans, such as
'Storyman' and 'Passenger 22', they even look like they have certain human characteristics..."
"But the 'Yu Sheng' I mentioned to you is still a completely two-level concept - in terms of 'personification'," Song Cheng shook his head and looked at Xu Jiali, "You can confirm that he is you in Aimee
Is that the ‘door opener’ I saw on IX?”
"It can be confirmed, but he didn't recognize me at all," Xu Jiali nodded, "I was equipped with a full set of power armor and mental shield. It seems that his perception ability cannot penetrate the above equipment."
"It has limited perceptual ability, has high personality traits, has the ability to open the 'door' at will, and can fight against hungry entities that are greatly strengthened by the influence of the 'Obscure Angel', but the specific killing process at that time is a mystery... It seems to be deliberately concealed
His own fighting style..." Song Cheng slowly summarized the information he had mastered so far, and said while thinking, "And there is one more thing..."
"Very friendly to humans." Li Lin said from the side.
"Yes, he is very friendly to humans, and is even willing to take the initiative to contact agents of the Secret Service." Song Cheng nodded slightly, as if he wanted to say something more, but a sound of footsteps suddenly came from the corridor outside the door, interrupting his next step.
words.
There was a knock on the door, and then a short girl with short hair opened the door and walked in, holding a folder in her hand: "Captain Song, the archives department has sent the information."
Song Cheng's eyes widened slightly in an instant: "...Is there really information about that 'Yu Sheng'!?"
"Yes, but if you search directly from the system, it will show that you have logged out. The logout time is the day when the current junction population file system was established. In other words, this person has been 'disappeared' from the beginning, even as early as his information
Before the date of birth on the screen, but after the logout time, the identity data of this person has been in the 'enabled' state.'Note
The word "pin'" is like an insignificant watermark in the system display." The short-haired girl put the folder on Song Cheng's desk with an incredible expression on her face, "You can even find some recent records under this ID card.
Shopping purchases, social check-ins and traffic records - all of these are carried out normally while the system shows that it is logged out."
Song Cheng raised his head in surprise as he picked up the folder: "For such a serious bug, the system has never reported it to the police?"
"No, the information center has already arranged overtime for tonight. When I passed by, I saw Director Wu making a sharp blast..."
"...Let him blast. Anyway, he has to blast a few times every month." Song Cheng shook his head and looked down at the information in his hand.
From beginning to end, it looks like just a very ordinary resident file, with very ordinary life consumption records, except for the red and dazzling "cancel" watermark on each page, and the "No. 66 Wutong Road" that should not appear at all.
The address in the file system.
Song Cheng turned around in his chair, turned on the computer on his desk, entered an internal application of the Secret Service and entered several keywords for No. 66 Wutong Road. After pressing Enter, an error message was displayed.
"A ghost... a ghost living in the borderland has cast an indelible shadow in our complex population management system. He didn't even appear recently. According to Yu Sheng himself, he
Having lived in this city for more than twenty years, this
It is also consistent with the records in the information," Song Cheng muttered softly, with a bad expression on his face - of course, this was mainly related to his recent frequent overtime work. "No one noticed it, not even the director's eyes saw him - until
Now he takes the initiative to contact us."
Li Lin and Xu Jiali looked at each other, and both saw a hint of solemnity in each other's eyes.
——Fortunately, this "ghost" has no interest in causing destruction, and even thinks that he is an "ordinary person".
At this moment, Song Cheng's eyes noticed another column in the information.
"...Writer?" He raised his eyebrows in surprise, "This ghost still has a job?"
"Freelance writer, contributes to some small magazines and media accounts, writes some thriller stories or third-rate scripts, but has no reputation, and has hardly written anything recently."
Song Cheng thought for a while: "...Is it a street rusher?"
The short-haired girl looked serious: "If you can support yourself, it doesn't count as a fight."
"...What does he write like?"
"There was a short story at the end of the file that I found in a magazine from last year - I thought you might be interested."
Song Cheng immediately turned to the end of the document and glanced at it quickly.
The short-haired girl looked at Captain Song with vague expectation: "How do you feel?"
Song Cheng was silent for a moment, with a troubled expression on his face: "I... don't quite understand the preferences of young people nowadays."
After saying that, he immediately coughed twice, closed the folder calmly, and said with a straight expression: "But no matter what, this is a line that deserves attention - arrange for people to collect the things written by this 'Yu Sheng'
Everything, doing psychological profiling and personality analysis, and also keeping an eye on his future... um, 'creative' situation."
Having said this, he paused and then added: "A 'suspicious entity' that considers itself to be a human being not only thinks like a human being, but can even create like a human being. His works will definitely reveal his inner truer nature."
Ways of thinking and emotions, this kind of thing has never happened before, you must take it seriously - but don't let him notice it."
"Roger, Captain Song."
The short-haired girl left the office with the information, and Song Cheng's eyes returned to Xu Jiali and Li Lin.
"Concerning the creation of a 'space rift' at the junction, have you asked each other what the situation is?"
When Li Lin heard this, he looked at Xu Jiali next to him with a little embarrassment. Seeing that the other party had no intention of speaking, he had to bite the bullet and said: "...I forgot to ask."
"Can you forget this?!"
"I was overly nervous at the time, probably due to the impact of witnessing the 'Dark Angel'," Xu Jiali, who was next to her, finally spoke. As soon as the veteran opened her mouth, she helped the newcomer Li Lin, "But although we didn't ask directly, we
I also heard some information while evacuating to the hiding spot with the two companions of 'Yu Sheng'."
"You mean the doll and the demon fox?"
"Yes, according to what they mentioned in their conversation, the so-called 'space rift' seems to be just... 'Yu Sheng' is trying to open a door in order to rescue the demon fox trapped in a foreign land."
Song Cheng stared: "...Is it just this?"
"That should be it."
"... Just to find a way, I opened and closed several doors, shaking the whole border area to a state of restlessness?!"
Xu Jiali tugged the muscles on her face: "Actually, it shocked the whole bureau..."
Noticing the expression on the captain's face, he immediately stopped talking.
Song Cheng sat behind his desk with his eyes wide open. After a while, he waved his hands exhausted, physically and mentally: "Okay, you two should withdraw first. This matter is a bit big. I have to discuss it with the higher ups.
"
Li and Lin looked at each other, and Xu Jiali hesitated to speak: "Then we will have formal contact with that 'Yu Sheng'... Do we still follow the procedures?"
"Don't worry about it yet. This matter will most likely have to go through the director," Song Cheng sighed, "If that Yu Sheng was really an 'ordinary person', I would have sent you two directly there, but now the situation is not that simple.
Chapter completed!