global pollution

"Come in directly."

Xia Ren rubbed his face, made his expression more natural, and said.

Liu Xiuxiu pushed open the door, saw the Shoggoth on the floor, said "Ah!", and took half a step back in fright, but then he reacted, patted his chest, and said, "Scared me to death!" Already" came over and rubbed the Shoggoth's head.

Xia Ren watched this scene from the side. Liu Xiuxiu didn't know whether it was out of trust in herself, or because she thought she couldn't leave, and then she started to give up on herself. Is Liu Xiuxiu so strong in accepting ability?He wasn't even afraid of monsters anymore. When he first came here, he was on guard against everything, and he had to carry that black box everywhere, but now he didn't carry it at home.

"Hey, be careful, it's very fierce."

Xia Ren felt that a D-level person should look like a D-level person. As a bottom-level investigator of the Foundation, he is also a class with the highest death rate. He should have enough awe for these weird things in order to survive. longer.

"Tuck Lily!"

The Shoggoth yelped cooperatively, indicating that the master was right.

Facing this curious ball, Liu Xiuxiu suddenly felt that she had gotten its cuteness.

"really obedient."

He rubbed Shoggoth's head again, and only then remembered his purpose of coming here.

"There is news about what you asked me to investigate. Just now, the logistics has sent the information of the residents upstairs to the mobile phone."

"let me see."

Xia Ren took the phone from Liu Xiuxiu.

On the screen are several files, as well as intercepted newspaper articles.

More than [-] years ago, there were three families living on the sixth and seventh floors of this building, two of them on the seventh floor and one on the sixth floor. The family on the sixth floor they were concerned about was originally a couple. Husband and wife, the two are young and promising, they bought the two apartments on the entire sixth floor, and took the man's parents here, living opposite them, so that they can take care of the children conveniently, and they can also take care of the elderly by the way.

Counting two old people and a newborn boy, there are five people in this family, and they have lived happily together for three years.

However, the good times didn’t last long. Three years later, the two old people passed away one after another. Then the woman’s parents also moved in and lived opposite the couple. In the same year, they gave birth to a baby girl. Although two old people died , but the members of this family have become six people.

Three years later, the boy was six years old and the girl was three years old. Their parents died in a car accident in February. In March, the woman's younger brother moved into the house of her sister and brother-in-law with her wife and three sons under the pretext of taking care of the elderly. , By the way, they inherited their inheritance, and the family became eight people.

Two years later in the spring, the five-year-old daughter of the original owner passed away. The cause of death was not stated in the file, leaving seven members of the family.

In summer, all the residents on the sixth and seventh floors disappeared overnight. The reason for the disappearance is unknown. Only the eight-year-old son of the original owner survived.There is only one family member left.

23 years ago, the media reported the case extensively, which caused quite a stir at the time, but in the end, because the investigation by the superintendent has not made any progress, it had to be left alone.

The only surviving boy was Zhou Yuan, who was later sent to an orphanage called Qidian in Dongpu City, the magic capital next to Luohua Dadu. This orphanage was demolished a few years later, and all the children inside were missing.

At this point, the clues are interrupted.

The file does not contain any emotion, it just records what happened from an objective point of view, and the details in it make people cannot help but imagine that they have witnessed the death of grandparents, parents, and young sister in childhood , the little boy went from being doted on to being parasitic in his uncle's house, what kind of twists and turns should his heart change journey be.

It is worth mentioning that Xia Ren's current website that serializes environmental pollution is also called Qidian, and the address of Qidian's headquarters is also in Dongpu City.

"Two floors, dozens of people missing, could this be related to pollution?"

"Besides, the surviving little boy was eight years old, eight plus 23, and he was about the same age as Huang Qiuyuan. Both of them also had the word "yuan" in their names. Could it be a coincidence?"

Xia Ren tried to connect the known clues, but no matter how you looked at it, it was too far-fetched.

But one thing is certain, the sixth floor is not normal in 23 years.

The little boy he and Liu Xiuxiu saw when they went there this morning was most likely the survivor of that year. There were seven small figures painted on the two doors, and a picture of a little boy holding a head in his hand. It is also the same number of family members as the night before the disappearance, which is seven.

"Could it be that the picture is a metaphor for the reason why everyone disappeared, that they were killed by a little boy?"

This idea was immediately rejected by Xia Ren.

Let's not talk about how an eight-year-old child killed so many people overnight, even if he did, how would the corpses be disposed of?

"Well, do you see anything?"

Liu Xiuxiu asked.

"No."

Xia Ren returned the phone to him: "Don't go to the room on the sixth floor alone until you figure it out. Also, if possible, continue to find out where the children in the orphanage went after it was demolished. "

"Ok."

Liu Xiuxiu put away her phone and agreed.

"Then I'll go out first. By the way, does this thing have a name?"

He pointed at the shoggoth.

"……not yet."

Xia Ren hasn't had time to think about this question yet, Shoggoth is just its racial name, why don't you call a dog a dog?

"Then can I take it to the living room to play?"

Liu Xiuxiu said expectantly.

"It's not dangerous, but it's okay, but, do you like this kind of curiosity?"

"It's a bit curious, but it's also cute."

Liu Xiuxiu led Shoggos out, and closed the study door by the way.

Xia Ren sat on the chair alone and began to think about the information he just saw.

"Liu Xiuxiu represents the foundation behind him, so is Huang Qiuyuan also sent by a certain organization like him? I have to ask Xiu'er to check him later."

"And I don't know if he has anything to do with the residents on the sixth floor. Maybe next time we meet, you can ask directly."

For this man who moved here suddenly and seemed to have a background as a police inspector, Xia Ren has always been very vigilant, especially when such a strange thing happened in the room on the sixth floor, he had to be vigilant.

With so many messy things piled up together, he couldn't calm down to code.

In the book review area, there are already a lot of readers discussing his two-day break. Some of them even speculate whether the author has been taken care of by that Jinmeng, so he stopped writing books. Looking at the readership, it has been a long time in the past few days. A lot of newcomers came here because of their reputation, but they are not like the book review section, they are all entangled in updating things, they are more pragmatic, and as soon as they come in, they are dazzled by the group photo album full of welfare pictures, under the leadership of the old driver , addicted to drag racing and unable to extricate himself.

Xia Ren looked at them with relish for a while, and had to admire their driving skills. It is estimated that the management was afraid of playing them into the detention center, so all kinds of color pictures were clicked.

Since there was no update, he didn't dare to show his face, so he randomly selected two lucky old drivers to silence him, and then quickly slipped away.

Time soon came to night, and before Xia Ren could look for him, Huang Qiuyuan took his thermos and knocked on the door naturally, wanting to grab a meal.

However, what surprised Xia Ren the most was the addition of a little girl in the room with long green wavy hair like seaweed.

"Why are you being so polite? You don't have to do so much. Two dishes are enough."