abnormal sea area

After nightfall, the busiest street in Wangdu District is Bar Street.

Overlooked from a high altitude, the Bar Street is like a thick river, which continuously forks and grows small streams that spread to both sides, deep into the belly of the Wangdu District.The lights filled with gold and red are like strange blood, flowing in the bar street.

Artis Bar, which had been closed for a while, reopened tonight, and it was already crowded with people before reaching the door.

Regular customers of the bar brought candles, wine, flowers and all kinds of small gifts, and the ground at the door was almost full.A half-zombie man in a hat and long-sleeved shirt sat on the side of the road, playing a sad song with a guitar.

Jiang Xiaochuan stood at the door, very at a loss: "What happened?"

"You don't know?" Xie Zijing was surprised, "Don't you read the news?"

He told Jiang Xiaochuan what happened in the bar.

It was already last week that Jiang Xiaochuan got his grades, and he just filled out his high school application today.After confirming his choice, he immediately made a request to Qin Ge: take him to Artis Bar to watch Meng Yu's performance again.

He didn't know what happened to Artis, but he just heard from his friends that there was an event in the bar tonight, so he dragged Qin Ge over begging for nothing.

Qin Ge picked up Xie Zijing, and Bai Xiaoyuan, who had been eye-opening in Wangdu District before. The four of them stood at the door of Artis, not daring to walk in for a while.

"I remember that boss." Jiang Xiaochuan said in a daze, "the day I was kicked out of the bar, he scolded me a few words."

He bought three small daisies by the roadside, walked among the crowd, and placed the flowers on the already piled high flower hill.

The door of the bar opened, some people remained outside, while some people lowered their heads and slowly entered the bar.Qin Ge thought that Meng Yu would not perform tonight.Before entering the bar, he suddenly saw Tang Cuo's sister Tang Xing among the crowd on the side of the road.

Next to Tang Xing was a tall and handsome man with his head down, listening to what Tang Xing was saying.The two held hands and stood under a lonely street lamp.

Most of the drinkers who entered Artis Bar were familiar drinkers, some brought their own drinks, and some ordered drinks directly at the bar.There was no music playing in the bar, only the muffled hum of voices.Everyone is talking about Ling Siyuan, about the new and old friends they met in Artis.The bartender was wiping wine glasses at the bar, wearing a small white velvet flower on his black vest.

Qin Ge, Xie Zijing and Bai Xiaoyuan all ordered a glass of wine, and the bartender brought Jiang Xiaochuan a glass of boiled water.The four of them finished their drinks quietly and left the bar.

The safe passage has been blocked.Xie Zijing saw the staff of the crisis office on duty. The two had known each other during the team building last time, and they immediately nodded to each other. "I'll go chat for a while." Xie Zijing said and ran away.

Qin Ge took Jiang Xiaochuan for a walk on the bar street. After leaving Artis Bar for a while, the street gradually became lively.Among the cheering and singing people here, there are almost no half-zombies, all of them are underground people, werewolves, and sentinel guides.

Human joys and sorrows are not the same, and I just find them noisy.When passing through these bustling crowds, Qin Ge suddenly remembered this sentence.Among the cheering people, there must be underground people who regard half-zombies as their mortal enemies.Young people no longer know why they are hostile to each other, but the hostility can be inherited and spread from generation to generation.

He and Jiang Xiaochuan walked in front, and Bai Xiaoyuan followed behind them, and suddenly felt that someone slapped his buttocks.

Bai Xiaoyuan didn't say a word, and immediately turned around and raised his leg, kicking the person behind him who was making a deep laugh.

She moved quickly and ruthlessly, but the man reacted very quickly and had great strength. After dodging, he grabbed Bai Xiaoyuan's calf.

"What a beautiful girl."

Bai Xiaoyuan was suddenly nauseated.The man's arms were covered with black hair, and his beard grew all the way to his neck. One eye was injured and was wrapped in gauze. The wound gave off a faint stench.

When he opened his mouth to speak, Bai Xiaoyuan could clearly see the jagged fangs in his mouth.

a werewolf.Bai Xiaoyuan thought to himself, Lei Chi, why does your brother from the same clan look like this.

"It's still so strong." The werewolf touched Bai Xiaoyuan's leg and smelled it, and said with a smile, "It smells so good..."

Before he could finish his sentence, there was a sudden severe pain on his face, as if his paw had been scratched by something invisible.The pain made him let go of Bai Xiaoyuan's leg.

The moment he let go, Bai Xiaoyuan kicked vigorously to take advantage of the momentum, and kicked the werewolf's ear hard with his uncontrolled right leg.

The severe pain and ringing in the ears made the werewolf scream, dizzy, and fell heavily to the ground.

"Xiaoyuan!" Qin Ge had already run over, followed by Jiang Xiaochuan.

"It's okay." Bai Xiaoyuan said, "A little trash."

She stepped on the ground with one foot, and the neck of the werewolf with the other. The werewolf couldn't turn his head, and the little thing that couldn't see its whereabouts scratched his face twice.Painful and angry, he yelled loudly: "Sentry or guide? I haven't seen you before! Bian Han and I are good brothers... Who the hell are you!"

"It's your grandma!" Bai Xiaoyuan raised her foot and stomped heavily on his nose.

Lei Chi and Xiao Liu, who were patrolling the semi-zombie-inhabited area in Wangdu District, looked up at the same time.

"I seem to have heard Bai Xiaoyuan's voice." Lei Chi said.

A little stray cat ran past the two of them and gave a charming "meow".

Xiao Liu: "...I only heard screams."

Lei Chi grabbed the walkie-talkie: "What's going on? What happened just now?"

After a while, someone replied: "There was a werewolf on the bar street who touched the little girl's buttocks, and her nose was trampled off."

"The little girl's nose was broken?" Lei Chi recognized Xia Chun's voice, and couldn't help being surprised.

"A strange werewolf's nose was broken by a little girl." Xia Chun said, "It's a little girl I've never seen before. Both of them are strangers. It seems they came in from outside."

"Since you are a werewolf, you should teach me a lesson and fold your hands." Lei Chi said, "Atis is open today. Are the underground people celebrating?"

Xia Chun sneered and said, "Siyuan is dead, and the underground people are very happy. Now they are even dissatisfied with Meng Yu's attitude and plan to change their leader."

Lei Chi wasn't very interested in these things, he just listened to Xia Chun's words.

It was Lei Chi and Xia Chun who made it possible for the Crisis Office and the Black Soldiers to work together.People in the capital area hated the forces outside the capital area very much, but the existence of the mysterious murderer made the semi-zombified human beings uneasy. This part of the people's approval was extremely strong, and finally even the werewolves voted for it.Personnel from the Crisis Office were able to enter Wangdu District for investigation and patrol.

At this moment, there are a certain number of black soldiers and a certain number of crisis management personnel distributed in various areas of Wangdu District.Xia Chun took her werewolves to patrol the bar street, and happened to see a nose bridge accident that just happened.

Lei Chi didn't have a day off during this time.He tried his best to arrange vacations in rotation, and finally allowed Xiao Liu and others to get half-day vacations in batches.But seeing that he was too busy and tired, all the people under him were not allowed to take vacations, and they still insisted on working with him.

"We have basically completed the investigation of all the guests in the bar who were captured by surveillance cameras that day." Seeing Lei Chi put down the walkie-talkie, Xiao Liu continued to report, "There is no suspicious person, including those who entered the safe passage from the bar. Almost all suspects have been ruled out."

"Nothing was found at the scene." Lei Chi said, "I am very concerned about the relationship between the leaders of the black soldiers."

"The damage at the scene was great." Xiao Liu said in a low voice, "The basement where Ling Siyuan's body was buried is well protected, but there are people coming and going in the safe passage, and there are no worthwhile clues. The leaders of the black soldiers all know about it." How to enter the bar from the outside through the safe passage, except for Meng Yu, Xia Chun and Bian Han did not have a reliable alibi that night."

"It's complicated." Lei Chi said in a low voice, "And there's that strange incident more than ten years ago. Why do you Sentinels and guides go crazy together?"

Xiao Liu: "...I've never been crazy, I don't know. But it's very difficult. Being crazy is the abnormality of the 'sea area', and the 'sea area' of so many people is abnormal at the same time, I have never heard of such a thing, even the most bizarre Novels don’t dare to write like that.”

Lei Chi: "Why?"

Xiao Liu: "If you don't come back, it will be unfinished, and you will be scolded by readers."

Lei Chi: "Do you like to read books? By the way, what books does your girlfriend like to read recently? I want to know the reading preferences of girls now."

Knowing his purpose, Xiao Liu suppressed a smile and said, "You're not interested."

Lei Chi: "You speak first."

Xiao Liu: "The most popular set of books recently is "The Endless 400 Years". It is the top three books on Amazon's bestseller list. A set of three books has been published for three years, and it is finally finished this year."

Lei Chi hadn't heard of it. He usually read scientific books like "Illustrated Book of Corpse Changes" in his spare time.

"What did you say?" Lei Chi thought to himself, he had to find out when he went back, maybe Bai Xiaoyuan would like it too.

"Vampires and werewolves have been entangled for 400 years in a beautiful love." Xiao Liu said in a non-fluctuating tone of reciting the text, "This is written in the waist of the book. There is also a sentence, 'The most passionate male spark, the most passionate collision of desire'. "

Lei Chi felt faintly uneasy: "Huh?"

Xiao Liu: "The vampire and werewolf are both men."

Lei Chi: "...Okay, I see."

Xiao Liu: "Do you really want to watch it, Lei Zu?"

Lei Chi said concisely: "Look."

But making this decision was indeed difficult.He raised his head and let out a long sigh, and suddenly saw the bell tower not far away, dimly shrouded in a layer of silver-white light.

A rather large spiritual body is lying on the top of the bell tower, wagging its tail leisurely.

Now even Xiao Liu saw it.

"—Barbary Lion?!" He yelled, "Xie Zijing from the Dispensation Department?!"

The Barbary lion is lying on the bell tower. On a starless and moonless night, only the lights on the street illuminate the sky.It wags its tail and looks at ease and happy.

Xie Zijing stood on the roof beside him and looked around.The people from the criminal investigation department told him that it doesn't matter to let his spirit body run around tonight, the roof is full of crisis offices and werewolves, and there will be no other suspicious people.But the range of running is also limited to the roof.

Xie Zijing wasn't sure if Qin Ge would agree to his messing around, but when he thought of running around, he couldn't help but follow what his colleagues said, and found a way to climb to the top of the building.

Neither he nor his mental body had run freely for too long.

Barbary lions are not domestic animals.Xie Zijing often watched it yawn, but at first he didn't know why it was sleepy.But after howling in the Wangdu District last time, the Barbary lion has never shown any sleepiness during the many days when he returned home. Instead, he jumped up and down energetically every day to catch rabbits and play.

Thinking of this, Xie Zijing felt a little pity for his mental body.

The Barbary Lion apparently had a particular fondness for the Clock Tower.

It stands at the highest point, overlooking the lights and darkness of the entire Wangdu District.

After a while, it jumped down from the bell tower and landed beside Xie Zijing. "Go and run," Xie Zijing said, "but remember, don't bark."

The giant lion shook its ears, raised its hooves and jumped to the roof next to it.

On this vast building, there are many people standing far or near.The werewolves who couldn't see the spirit body only felt that there was a strange wind passing over their bodies, and the sentries and guides of the crisis office all recognized Xie Zijing's Barbary lion.Someone blew a whistle to summon the Barbary Lion, releasing his spirit body to run with it.

The Barbary Lion is very fast, and every jump and landing is extremely precise, and soon leaves the spirit bodies following him far behind.It is used to long-distance running, and when it was working with Xie Zijing in the western office, Xie Zijing would often drive, and it would run wildly on the Gobi and snow fields following the vehicle.

It goes farther and farther.The spirit body can't get too far away from the sentinel guide, it's just an embodiment of the spirit world, not a real animal.The Barbary lion stopped and paced slowly at the edge of its range of motion.The spirit bodies following him have disappeared one after another: they are different from it, unable to persist such a long distance away from the host.

It is actually close to the edge of Wangdu District.

There are few lights and few people here.The lion can hear all kinds of humming sounds on the ground and on the ground. It is humans talking and machines working.It started to turn around to return to Xie Zijing's side, but stopped after taking a few steps.

It stands on the edge of the top of an abandoned building, less than two meters away from the next landing point, and it can cross the narrow alley in front of it with a single jump and continue moving forward.

But it lowered its head, staring at the bottom of the alley.

The alley is two meters wide and not long. It is a broken alley with no end, hidden between two buildings, and full of sundries.The alley is very dark, and the street lamps can only illuminate a small area at the entrance. The depths seem to hide a very high concentration of black matter, like an abyss.

The Barbary Lion was getting restless.It walked around the edge, staring at the darkness.

A moment later, a snake crawled out of the chaotic debris at the bottom of the alley.

The giant lion stood still, its golden eyes fixed on the snake.

It was a king cobra.

The king cobra apparently also spotted the Barbary lion.It stood up half a snake body, and also stared round its golden pupils, staring silently at the Barbary lion.As it got closer and closer to the light, the Barbary lion couldn't help but gradually became surprised: the back of the king cobra was covered with weird spike-like bones, as if they had grown out of the snake's body from the inside.

No one attacked the other party, they just put up all their strength to be on guard.The Barbary lion didn't act because the terrain here was unfamiliar, and Xie Zijing told it not to mess around.It was the first time for King Cobra to see such a big lion in Wangdu District. Obviously, he was not sure about the identity of the opponent, so he slid slowly to the entrance of the alley in the confrontation.

Barbary Shi Yi Lin: It heard the voice of people talking.

Someone is calling for this king cobra.

The lion immediately ran to the corner of the roof and looked down.The snake swam into the darkness of the buildings.It jumped off the roof and landed firmly on the ground.

After the dark alley comes out, there is a deserted street, with three or two street lights, and the whole place is desolate.The shops on both sides are all tightly closed, and no one is lit.

The moment the Barbary Lion landed, the man who called the King Cobra suddenly disappeared into the buildings.The giant lion couldn't get any closer - the king cobra disappeared.It turned into a cloud of white mist, gradually dissipating in the dim light.

It was the spirit body of a Sentinel.

"What happened to your lion?" Bai Xiaoyuan asked Xie Zijing strangely.

Xie Zijing returned to the ground, just in time to meet Bai Xiaoyuan and others who had dealt with the bridge of the nose incident.Barbary Lion followed Xie Zijing, walking around restlessly.

Xie Zijing: "I don't know. I can't communicate with it."

As soon as this remark came out, both Bai Xiaoyuan and Jiang Xiaochuan were a little surprised: "You can't communicate with your own spiritual body?"

Xie Zijing: "Can you all do it?"

The two looked at each other: "Every sentinel and guide is fine."

Xie Zijing was stunned for a while, then said, "I just can't do it sometimes."

Bai Xiaoyuan saw that Xie Zijing's expression had changed, and added: "Of course you can't talk to each other, but it is the embodiment of your spiritual world, and you should be able to know the source of its emotions and tension. You can tell why it is anxious. felt it."

Xie Zijing glanced at Qin Ge.Qin Ge covered it up for him: "Maybe the lion is too excited tonight. It's okay, I'll help Xie Zijing talk it out later."

Barbary Lion stared at Xie Zijing closely, then turned to look at Qin Ge after a while.Qin Ge looked at it and read some strange emotions from the lion's golden pupils.

It is impossible for Xie Zijing's "sea area" problem to have no effect on the mental body.Qin Ge thought to himself that he didn't know what the specific impact was, but now he understood: the destroyed "sea area" made the communication between the sentinel and his spiritual body wrong, and Xie Zijing couldn't understand it accurately. Information conveyed by the spiritual body.

Qin Ge was a professional, and his explanation was immediately accepted by everyone.

Xie Zijing simply put away the restless lion that had been running around, and walked back with Qin Ge and others.They planned to leave Wangdu District and go home. The Wangdu District and Artis Bar tonight were not very interesting.Jiang Xiaochuan was still very regretful, not only did he fail to see Meng Yu dancing, he even failed to see Meng Yu.

The four of them walked to the door of Artis Bar. Qin Ge subconsciously looked at where Tang Xing was just now, and found that she had left.The handsome young man who was holding hands with her was standing at the door of Artis Bar, playing and singing with a half-zombie guitar.Many people gathered around the young man to listen to his performance. His voice was deep and his singing was gentle, which meant a farewell dirge.

The young man had short hair, and Qin Ge saw the dry, wrinkled skin behind his ears.This is an underground man.

Jiang Xiaochuan listened carefully, and waited for the young man to finish playing a piece before trotting to keep up with the others: "His voice is very similar to Meng Yu."

Bai Xiaoyuan: "Who is Meng Yu?"

Xie Zijing: "Student Jiang Xiaochuan's goddess of desire."

Jiang Xiaochuan's face immediately flushed red: "No!"

But Bai Xiaoyuan and Xie Zijing looked at each other and started to smile badly.

Everyone walked around the corner and saw Lei Chi and Xiao Liu facing each other.Xiao Liu greeted everyone first, and Lei Chi followed behind him, holding the phone and tapping his thumb lightly.

"Buy it." Lei Chi raised his head and said, just in time to see Bai Xiaoyuan standing in front of him, he couldn't help being startled, "Why are you here?"

But he quickly returned to his usual unshakable calm face, and while Xiao Liu, Qin Ge and others were chatting, he quietly approached Bai Xiaoyuan: "I just bought a book."

Bai Xiaoyuan was looking down at the Weibo feed, Qingmeizi's live broadcast was interrupted in the middle, because the system was maxed out due to too many fans.

"What book?" Bai Xiaoyuan thought for a while, then said with a smile, "Illustrated Book of Corpse Changes again? Have you finished reading it? It's up to you to hold it when the team is formed."

Lei Chi showed her the order screen, which was a set of three volumes of "The Endless 300 Years".

Bai Xiaoyuan: "...you bought this?!"

Lei Chi: "Do you like watching it?"

Bai Xiaoyuan: "It's poorly written, and it's the worst book I've read this year."

Lei Chi: "..."

He thought to himself, to deduct Xiao Liu's vacation first when he goes back.But he quickly changed his mind: at least he and Bai Xiaoyuan found a new topic because of this book.

At this moment, Bai Xiaoyuan rubbed his chin, the shock on his face did not fade, and there was a smile in his eyes: "So you like to watch this, Team Leader Lei."

Lei Chi: "I have a wide range of reading interests, and I read everything."

Bai Xiaoyuan: "Let me tell you, this original book is not good, but the fan works are amazing! It's very exciting! It's very meaty... meaty... soft emotional description."

Lei Chi: "What is a fan?"

Actually he understands.But now he thinks he should pretend not to understand.He and Xiao Liu have changed guards, and now they are preparing to go home. On the way back, they can have a good chat with Bai Xiaoyuan.

On the road, there were still many people coming from outside to the Wangdu District to have a carnival or to participate in the mourning ceremony at the Artis Bar. Xiao Liu and Lei Chi had been on duty for several days and were already familiar with the roads of the Wangdu District, so they took them along a small path.

Not long after walking forward, Lei Chi and Xie Zijing's expressions suddenly changed.

The werewolf was the first to react, strode away from Bai Xiaoyuan, and walked in front of the crowd.He and Xie Zijing looked at each other, then turned around and said, "Wait."

Qin Ge: "What's wrong?"

Xie Zijing: "It smells like blood."

This is an alley, but because it is close to the exit of Wangdu District, the road surface is very bright.On the contrary, the bright road highlights the darkness of the shops with closed doors and windows.

The fresh smell of blood came from a closed convenience store.Convenience store signage is gone, walls are covered in graffiti and windows have been broken.Xie Zijing signaled Lei Chi to be on guard, while he carefully slipped in through the broken window.

Someone fell among the cluttered shelves.is a woman.

Xie Zijing sniffled, his Barbary lion jumped out of his body, landed lightly, and immediately started to be on guard.

He approached the woman on the ground carefully.The woman is still twitching.There was blood all over her thigh.

Xie Zijing suddenly recognized the young girl.He had a relationship with her once.

"Tang Xing?!" He approached carefully, and first pressed the wound on Tang Xing's thigh.However, when he got closer, he realized that the clothes around Tang Xing's waist had also been torn.A dying parrot was lying on the wound in her waist, and it was it that protected her from the attack that went straight to the soft part of her waist.

Tang Xing's eyes were distracted, and when he realized that someone was approaching, he grabbed Xie Zijing's clothes with his fingers.

She couldn't recognize who Xie Zijing was, she just wanted to speak instinctively.

"Snakes... there are... snakes..."

Tang Xing passed out completely, but the wound on her leg was still bleeding, warm and sticky blood dripped from Xie Zijing's fingers to the ground.

The author has something to say: a small theater outside the plot

Xiao Liu: What is a fan?

Girlfriend: ...do you want to hear it? !

Xiao Liu: Lei Group is currently studying 400-year-old fans, and I also want to know more about them.

That night, Xiao Liu stayed up all night.At work the next day, Lei Chi: Why is Xiao Liu so depressed today?

Xiao Liu: Team leader... colleagues are so scary... women are so scary... (crying)