monster detection team

In a certain residence on the outskirts of the city, Jing Rong and a man were sitting face to face, silently confronting each other.

The living room was so quiet that the reverberation of breathing could be heard. The old butler came over with tea, as if he was used to such strangely quiet scenes, and smiled as he put the tray on the table between them.

The man waved his hand to signal him to back off.The butler exited the living room and closed the door.With a heavy sound, everything returned to calm again.

The man stretched out his hand to Jing Rong.Jing Rong picked up the teapot expressionlessly and filled two cups, put a cup in front of him, but didn't drink it.

The mobile phone vibrated suddenly, echoing in the empty living room, making it extremely noisy.Jing Rong looked down at his pocket, but didn't move, but the man raised his hand again, motioning for him to pick up the phone.

Jing Rong frowned, and took out the phone from his pocket.The word "Yi Ange" flashed quickly on the caller ID. Jing Rong got up, took a deep look at the man opposite, turned his back and walked to the window, and pressed the connect button.

"……it's me."

His voice was very deep, at first glance it was a little colder than usual, with a very obvious alienation.He didn't want to answer Yi Ange's call in front of this man, but unfortunately, Yi Ange on the other side of the phone was in a state of excitement and didn't notice the faint helplessness and resistance in his voice.

After listening to Yi Ange's analysis in silence, he said, "I see. You are waiting for me at the base."

"...No." His expression gradually became serious, he raised his voice slightly, and lowered it again after noticing the gaze of the man behind him, "You stay and stand by, this is an order."

Yi Ange on the phone was silent for a while, and said something quickly.

"...I know." Jing Rong found that apart from these three words, he really didn't seem to be able to explain too much on the phone.

The gaze of the man behind him seemed to be on fire, burning his spine.Yi Ange compromised quickly, but it didn't make Jing Rong much happier.Before he had a premonition that the other party was going to hang up, he wanted to say "wait for me" in a low voice, but he didn't say these two words until the busy tone came from the phone.

He turned his back to the living room and listened to the busy tone for more than ten seconds before putting away his phone and sitting back at the desk.At this time, he had returned to his usual indifferent and calm appearance.

The man on the opposite side touched his chin with a half-smile expression.

"This matter is related to you," Jing Rong said in a deep voice, "I need your cooperation."

He didn't like the man's confident look, but unfortunately the man always had that expression, with dark eyebrows and eyes, and said, "You forgot to say 'please'."

"That was when dealing with ordinary incidents." Jing Rong replied without showing any weakness, "Now, you are also one of the parties involved, and I can investigate you according to standard procedures."

The man was a little surprised that he would say this, smiled and took a sip of his tea, and said, "That's right, it's the 'Peak' right."

Jing Rong squinted his eyes in dissatisfaction, but didn't answer.To be honest, everything in this house made him uncomfortable, if it wasn't for Yi Ange, he wouldn't want to stay here for a second longer.

The man gestured to his pocket with the mobile phone with his eyes, and pointed out, "That's him?"

Jing Rong looked at him with a strong warning in his eyes.

The man smiled and raised his hand in surrender.

"Okay," he said, "but first I'll see what he's capable of."

Yi Ange returned to the alley where he lived before.This is the only place he has an impression of his grandfather, and everything left by his grandfather is here.

The detective agency has been closed for a while, and the doorknob is covered with a layer of dust.Apart from the furniture, there are some materials and an old computer in the room, which are of no value to ordinary people. Yi Ange searched carefully, but found no useful information.

He went around to the second floor and looked at the two rooms.There is a pile of debris, all his own things have been moved to the base, and the rest are some rags.The things left by my grandfather have long been sorted in a small box, which contains real estate certificates, a few old photos, and a map of the city.Yi Ange didn't know what was the use of these, his grandfather had always been so crazy, and he didn't think things organized at all.

Grandpa didn't leave many things behind, and the ones that could be tidied up have already been tidied up. When he came back this time, Yi Ange just wanted to feel at ease.He had an unrealistic fantasy, always thinking that he might be able to find something that he had overlooked before, but unfortunately, reality is reality, unless grandpa can convey some information through an old sofa, it is impossible for Yi Ange to find A tiny bit of clues.

He took the box and locked the door and went downstairs, feeling a little depressed.

As soon as I went downstairs, I ran into the owner of the ice cream shop next door.The other party was about to close, but seeing Yi Ange coming down with the box in his arms, he was stunned for a moment, and suddenly stopped him.

The boss is over 60 years old and was a close friend of Grandpa Yi Ange during his lifetime.The shop owner seldom comes here himself, most of the time he hires someone to watch, and he doesn't try to make money.The business in the alley was not good, Yi Ange felt that the boss kept this store, but in fact, he just wanted to keep it.

When it came to seniority, Yi Ange would call the boss Second Grandpa.The grandpa and grandson hadn't seen each other for a long time, and the other party invited him in to sit down, but Yi Ange couldn't refuse, so he followed him into the ice cream shop to sit down.

After chatting for a while, Yi Ange noticed that the boss's eyes were always on the box he was holding, so he realized it, put the box on the table, and said, "Second Grandpa, this is a relic left by my grandfather."

The boss nodded, staring at the box with a pair of slightly cloudy eyes, and sighed with emotion, "I know."

Yi Ange looked at him, a thought suddenly flashed in his mind, he carefully considered his words, and asked carefully, "Second Grandpa, you and my grandfather used to have a good relationship, do you know... 30 years ago, my grandfather was what for?"

He was not born 30 years ago, so this kind of question can only be asked to an old friend of grandpa.The only thing he needs to gamble now is whether the boss can remember what happened so long ago, but he didn't expect the boss to nod without hesitation and say, "He has been working as a detective since he graduated from college."

He looked at the next door with some nostalgia, "I used to joke with him, saying that if he couldn't continue to be a detective, he would come to work in my shop. So many years have passed in a flash."

Yi Ange smiled knowingly.He knew that his grandfather was the kind of person who didn't expect much in return for doing what he liked, so the reward he got at that time probably wouldn't be very impressive.But this put a big question mark on Zhou Mincai's photo.If grandpa has been working as a detective, why did he appear around people like Zhou Mincai and take pictures of them?

Unless Grandpa was investigating someone around Zhou Mincai at that time, and pretended to approach them.This was the only possibility Yi Ange could think of.

He asked the boss, "My grandfather, will he pretend to approach the suspect for a commission?"

The boss thought of something, he laughed, "That's his specialty."

He got up and walked to the counter, took out something from the bottom cabinet, and handed it to Yi Ange.

It was a thick notebook, the outer cover was somewhat damaged, but the inner pages were well preserved.Yi Ange turned two pages, and looked at the boss suspiciously.

The boss smiled and said, "This is your grandfather's notebook. It was left over from his previous work."

Yi Ange stood up in surprise, and when she looked at the book again, she felt that the contents inside suddenly became unfathomable.He didn't remember that grandpa still had the habit of taking notes.When he was in school, his grandfather seldom let him participate in the commission of the firm, and he almost never had the opportunity to see his grandfather working, but in his memory, there was no notebook like this at home, not even one.

The boss seemed to know why he was so surprised, sighed faintly, and said, "Mingguang gave me this book at that time, and said, I will give this to you when you ask about him one day. I always thought I can't wait for you to ask in my life, I didn't expect it to be now."

He didn't give Yi Ange a chance to ask any more questions, sent him out of the store, and said before leaving, "Now, my mission is complete."

"Second Grandpa..." Yi Ange hugged the box and notebook, feeling extremely heavy for a moment.He instinctively wanted to ask more, but the boss waved his hand to signal him not to ask.

"What you can say, your grandfather has recorded it in it." The boss said with a smile, "You have grown up too, and after so many years, some things in it will become different. You have to learn to choose."

He thought for a while, then said, "Also, take care of yourself."

He spoke like a kind old man, Yi Ange listened, his nose felt sore for some reason, his hands holding the things tightened, and he nodded, "Okay."

The boss rubbed his hair gently as he did when he was a child, and left with a smile.

Yi Ange came out to look for clues. He had a hunch that he might find something this time, but suddenly a book of clues appeared, and he was a little at a loss.

Back at the base, there was no news of Jing Rong.Now he didn't care about that much anymore, so he found an empty conference room, lined up all the clues, and analyzed them from the beginning.

The first was the crack in the city center, which caused Zhou Min to go crazy, and then there was the first accident, except for the people in the base, everyone else forgot about the crack.At this time, the crack was still on the ground in the city center, and it became an ordinary sight.

After the second accident happened, Zhou Min became a person who had died 30 years ago.

He and Xie Feng searched for files from 30 years ago, and found real information about Zhou Mincai's death, as well as a few weird photos, which contained the name of Grandpa Yi Ange, and a face that resembled Yi Ange.

Yi Ange put the notebook she got from the owner of the ice cream shop to the end, and looked at everything on the table with a frown.

It is known that there is a "he" who created the crack, so is this "he" the person who caused the next two accidents?

If he is, what is his purpose in making the accident?

The first accident is actually useless.The public accepts the statement that "bursts in underground pipes cause cracks," so making them forget or not doesn't fundamentally change.From a general point of view, Zhou Min has forgotten that he is a witness, and he is no different from everyone else.

The difference arises in the second accident.Zhou Min just died, and the whole world didn't seem to have any other changes.

So Zhou Mincai's death was the purpose of "him" to create the accident.

But is this the ultimate goal of "his"?

If the cracks were really as useful as Yi Ange guessed, then killing a person would be an easy task. "He" can kill Zhou Mincai, and then he can kill other people. What is terrible about this method is not the death itself, but the fact that people who were alive and kicking one second will be dead for decades the next. This kind of psychological gap is not comparable to ordinary cases.

The focus of everything lies in the meaning of the existence of cracks.And the crack depends on what Jing Rong said, "the past".

30 years ago is the past.Then things become very simple.There is a "he" who went back to the past and killed Zhou Mincai 30 years ago, and then killed him now.

What a convenient and complicated method.

Yi Ange didn't know how he operated it, but Jing Rong might know.

Thinking of Jing Rong, Yi Ange felt a little headache again.Recently, something is wrong with Jing Rong. He can clearly feel that after returning from the crack, Jing Rong doesn't seem to stay in the base very often. If he had to say it, Yi Ange felt that he was avoiding him.

Jing Rong didn't want to see him, so he went to find him, especially when the matter was related to him.Yi Ange is not particularly good at taking the initiative to attack, but she is absolutely unwilling to sit still.

There was something missing in the whole thing, and Yi Ange's intuition told him that Zhou Mincai was not actually the main body of the matter.

He picked up a photo he found in the archives.Besides Yi Mingguang, who was taken outside the camera, there were two other people in the photo.Yi Ange didn't know their names, but judging from their positions, they seemed to be a step above Zhou Mincai when he was young, and they were not very close to him.Especially the long-haired man on the far right. Yi Ange always felt that this man seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him.

30 years.Yi Ange picked up his grandfather's notebook and began to search for records from 30 years ago.

I don't know what brand of ink my grandfather used, but it hasn't faded until now.He found a record with the same time as the photo, but there was no entrustment or investigation, and the entire two pages of records were all about geographic location.

It is the geographical location of the whole city.Yi Ange took out the city map in the relic box, spread it on the table, and looked for the location.

After searching for a while, he realized that the things at hand seemed too coincidental.

But this is not important anymore, through the map, he noticed some details.

The map is from 30 years ago, and many of the plans on it are different from the current one, but Yi Ange still found the location of his grandfather's house and the square in the center of the city.He drew a horizontal bar at the corresponding position with his hand, representing the location of the crack, and suddenly noticed that there was a small triangle symbol drawn with an oil pen on the top of the map.

This symbol is very small, hidden in the map markers, it is impossible to find it without looking carefully.Yi Ange carefully identified the location and found that it was a residential area near the outskirts of the city.And obviously, the positions of this place and the base are symmetrical to each other according to the cracks.

This discovery shocked him, and he hurriedly studied the notes to see what the symbol represented.But after looking for a long time, I couldn't find an explanation, only one place wrote such a sentence——

"If you want to know the strangeness, explore it."

Yi Ange left immediately, and made two phone calls to Jing Rong on the way, but no one answered.He simply didn't care about it. At worst, he would take a look, and if there was any danger, he would just exit.

After 30 years, the residential area has not changed, but has become a high-end villa area.The taxi was parked two roads away, Yi Ange looked for it according to the map, but he didn't get lost.

The destination was one of the buildings, which looked no different from the surrounding buildings.There seemed to be someone living inside, and Yi Ange saw someone busy in the front yard, seeming to be mowing the lawn.As the evening approached, lights were lit in the house, and a figure flashed past the window.

He swallowed, walked over like a ghost, and rang the doorbell.

The doorbell is an old vibrating style, which is particularly noisy in the quiet evening.The people working in the yard looked up at him, then said nothing, bowed their heads and continued to do their work.

Yi Ange did not give up, and pressed the button a second time.

This time the door clicked open by itself.Yi Ange took a look. The people in the front yard were still mowing the lawn dutifully, as if they didn't mind at all whether he, an outsider, would trespass without authorization.

At this time, a strange feeling rose in Yi Ange's heart, as if there was a force pushing him from behind, forcing him to walk forward to the main entrance of the house.

The door still opened by itself, this time Yi Ange hesitated.He wasn't sure whether to go in or not.

He pushed the door open completely, and saw a person standing in the middle of the living room right in front of him.A middle-aged man with long hair.

The man in the photo.

Yi Ange broke out in cold sweat instantly. He immediately went to see the man who was mowing the lawn, only to find that the man was still working diligently and had no intention of rushing towards him.I went to look at the man in the living room again, and found that the man was smiling and observing himself with a slight look.

Jing Rong came out from one side and sighed not in surprise when he saw him.

"Come in." He said to Yi Ange, "It's safe here."

Yi Ange shook his head, pointed at the long-haired man, and was about to say something when Jing Rong said, "Don't worry, he won't harm you."

"He's my father."