abnormal sea area

"...You killed someone?" Bian Han was so startled that he immediately let go of Zhou You.

Zhou You took a puff of cigarette slowly and suddenly laughed out loud.He couldn't stop laughing and even coughed.

"It's not the first time." He said, "I've killed people and buried them before, believe it or not?"

Seeing Bian Han in a daze, Zhou You laughed out loud.

Enough of laughing, he raised a pair of wet eyes, as if mixed with a bit of sincerity: "Bian Han, I really like you. Usually I don't do the following things, even if I do, I won't be so strong. But you are different, this is my bonus, thank you for opening the 'sea' to me, thank you for giving me a chance...do you really not consider me?"

Bian Han only felt that he was scary, so he could not help but take two steps back: "What are you thinking about?"

"Be my partner." Zhou You thought for a while, then added, "Also, be my partner."

"Dream!" Bian Han replied immediately.

"...Do you have someone to choose?" Zhou You asked with a smile, "Who? Do I know him?"

Bian Han said nothing.

Zhou You suddenly realized and nodded: "I see." He raised his finger and pointed out the window, "Is it that? The little guide who played football with you? Your relationship is really not normal."

Bian Han immediately became nervous: "Don't touch him."

"I can't touch him." Zhou You's face turned cold, "It's so fucking annoying. He is not interested in everything I say, and the breakwater is too strong, without invitation and permission, and there is no way to trespass. Loopholes, even I can't enter anyone's 'sea' at will. You don't have to be so nervous."

Bian Han breathed a sigh of relief, but still stared at Zhou You angrily.

"What are you angry about?" Zhou You shook the ash, which landed on Bian Han's backpack, "You promised to let me enter the 'Sea Territory', it hurts, but it's really cool. Don't turn your back on it." recognize people."

"There won't be another time."

"Why? Are you afraid?" Zhou You looked up and asked, "Your little guide won't let me get along with you? Are you afraid that I will eat you?"

He was both surprised and amused: "You don't have to listen to him like that. The person you love is Meng Yu, that little dancing boy."

Bian Han replied bluntly: "I'm not. I just go to the Children's Palace to practice, sometimes just to see it."

His repeated denials finally changed Zhou You's mood.Complete indifference and cruelty flashed across the young man's handsome face, and the smiles that only floated on the surface disappeared without a trace like a layer of water under the scorching sun.

"So stubborn." He stood up, patted the cigarette ash on his pants, pressed the unfinished cigarette on the table, and extinguished it.

Just before leaving, Zhou You suddenly grabbed Bian Han's shoulder, quickly moved over, and bit his lips hard. "You will fall in love with Meng Yu." He smiled coldly, "You will also let me enter the 'sea' again."

Bian Han punched him, but his field of vision suddenly tilted sharply, and all the colors were mixed together, gradually turning into pure black.

The moment Qin Ge opened his eyes, Qin Ge couldn't tell where he was.He saw the moon hanging in the dark sky, and a goshawk with outstretched wings flew overhead.

It wasn't until he heard Xie Zijing's voice calling him that the sensations in every part of his body came back one by one.

His hands and feet were cold, his heart was beating wildly, his ears were buzzing, his blood vessels were pulsating, and a swollen ball was buried in his temple, which made his cervical spine stiff from the pain.

"Qing Ge?"

Xie Zijing's hands were warm, but Qin Ge felt that they could not warm him up at all.

The huge Morpho butterfly flapped its wings beside him, covering his body with phosphorous powder with a faint scent of grass. Qin Ge took several deep breaths before he calmed down.

"What's wrong with you?" Xie Zijing asked.

"It's okay." Qin Ge slowly got up from his arms.He was cruising the "sea area" this time, and he did not experience the severe physical discomfort he had before.Qin Ge knew that the more serious discomfort had remained in his memory forever and could not be taken away.His legs were still a little weak, so he simply climbed to the edge of the roof and looked down.

The unconscious Bian Han frowned and was carried onto the stretcher.Lei Chi realized the gaze above his head and looked up at Qin Ge: "How is it?"

Qin Ge: "...you come up, I want to talk to you alone."

Xie Zijing stroked his hair, but said nothing.Qin Ge knew he was nervous, but now he couldn't find any space to comfort Xie Zijing.While waiting for Lei Chi to come up, he kept recalling in his heart everything he saw in Bian Han's "sea area". There was a lot of important information in it, and he couldn't miss a single bit.

After Lei Chi came up, Qin Ge asked Xie Zijing to leave temporarily and not to eavesdrop.Xie Zijing refused at first, but Qin Ge asked repeatedly, and he reluctantly walked away.But even if he walked away, he didn't go downstairs like others, but sat on the other side of the diagonal, watching Qin Ge and Lei Chi from afar.

Lei Chi: "What did you see?"

Qin Ge: "You told me that you found a man named Zhou You when you were investigating the semi-zombified human relative killing incident?"

Lei Chi: "Yes."

He told Qin Ge about Zhou You again.A guide in his 30s, whose age matches the last missing little guide in Cai Mingyue's infanticide case, has the same surname, and is currently making high-end white noise headphones for sentries.Because there is no obvious connection with the semi-zombie Wang Zheng's murder case, Lei Chi's investigation of Zhou You was forced to suspend, and he did not find any information related to Zhou You.

He even described Zhou You's appearance to Qin Ge.

Zhou You has a handsome appearance, but there are no particularly obvious features on his face, and there is indeed a certain gap between his age in his teens and his age in his 30s.But Qin Ge felt that the guide in Bian Han's memory was Zhou You whom Lei Chi had seen.

"What I have never let go of is what kind of person the little guide in Cai Mingyue's case became. His mother died, and then his father Zhou Xuefeng also died. He left the village and disappeared. I don't know if he died or Still alive. But a special human...a guide, he has no identity, how can he gain a foothold in this society. The entire social system supervises special human beings very strictly, unless...he does not go to school, does not work, does not marry, never He has never been sick and never been to the hospital." Lei Chi said, "As long as the blood test is done in the hospital, his identity as a guide will be found out immediately, and it is impossible to hide for so long."

Qin Ge: "So...he has occupied someone else's household registration and identity, and has lived until now."

worthy.Qin Ge thought to himself that when he learned that his wife was a special human being in the hospital, Zhou Xuefeng was no longer willing to accept the newborn baby.After Cai Mingyue failed to kill the child, Zhou Xuefeng left the hospital alone.Then his wife and child were discharged from the hospital, and the three left the home they had been living in and returned to the mountain village.According to Lei Chi's previous investigation, Zhou Xuefeng had always called the child "Hey" and "freak". The mother was completely controlled by Zhou Xuefeng, unable to protect him or educate him. This child had no name.

He only knows his surname Zhou, but he has not been given a name by his father.Zhou Xuefeng did not admit that this was his child.

In the long period of indifference and irresistible violence, he resented his mother who could not protect him, and was full of fear and reverence, murderous intent and love for his violent father.

So he will not give up the surname "Zhou".He might have named himself to go with "Zhou".And this must have started after he left the mountain village—his father died, he was no longer under control, and finally got the right amount of freedom.The first thing he did was to name himself.No one gave him an identity, he gave himself an identity.This is his mark, his symbol.

After listening to Qin Ge's words, Lei Chi couldn't recover for a while.He never thought that he could dig out such a secret from Bian Han's memory.

He used the walkie-talkie to ask the werewolf Xia Chun: "Is there a man named 'Zhou You' in Wangdu District?"

Xia Chun was taken aback: "What happened to him?"

Lei Chi: "...do you know anything about him?"

Xia Chun: "Bianhan is the clearest."

Lei Chi: "No, you speak first."

Xia Chun was silent for a moment, and only said one sentence: "Zhou You is dead."

Lei Chi was about to continue asking, when among the underground men and semi-zombies guarding Meng Yu on the roof, a middle-aged man with a stoop stood up.

His wrinkled skin was tightly attached to his bones, and he wore a long-sleeved shirt and trousers, but his expression was stern and sharp. "Sorry, I didn't intend to eavesdrop, but I know Zhou You."

The half-zombie man raised his hand and pointed to somewhere in the capital area: "His home is there."

Lei Chi and Qin Ge looked at each other, "Do you really know Zhou You?"

"Of course, we are friends." The half-zombie replied calmly, "I'm talking about the dead Zhou You, not the one who is still alive."

In the gap of less than three meters between the rooms of the two buildings, there is a dilapidated small house squeezed together.The house is divided into two floors, occupying this narrow headless alley.Zhou You and his father used to live here.

"I am an abandoned baby, but Zhou You is not." The half-zombie brought them here, "I was born in Wangdu District, and Zhou You was born in the No. [-] Hospital. When he was born, he had two legs I can't move, and I can't walk when I grow up. Probably when I was six years old, Zhou You's father brought Zhou You to Wangdu District. He said that they came to see a doctor and borrowed a lot of money from a far away place. But it doesn’t look good, so I stayed here in Wangdu District, earning money slowly, and then continue to find a doctor.”

Zhou You was born in a bad condition.Because the mother died of dystocia and left behind a disabled child, Zhou You's grandparents once thought about not wanting him.They heard that the hospital has such a channel, as long as a certain doctor is given a little money, she can help the child.

But Zhou You's father refused.He traveled around and went to many places to seek medical treatment and let him study, and finally the two came to settle in Wangdu District.

Zhou You is a taciturn guide. His father is also a guide. He is as taciturn as his own child and doesn't like to get involved in things.At that time, the capital area was very chaotic, the black army had not yet been formally established, and the special human beings of each camp did not interact with each other, but in the world at the bottom, all the "special" disappeared, just like any other place in the world , People communicate with each other normally and take care of each other.That's when the half-zombie met Zhou You.

"I just had a fight with the child of the underground people, and I was beaten badly, and I was sitting at the door crying." The half-zombie man looked at the house, "Zhou You asked me from the second floor, do you want to come into his house and sit down for a while?" sit."

The two became friends, and the half-zombie knew that although Zhou You was a child who didn't go out, he had learned a lot through his father and the Internet.

"He is very interested in white noise." The half-zombie said, "I don't know the significance of white noise to sentries and guides, but Zhou You said that using white noise can not only quietly affect people's temperament, but even change their personality. He's great, he's good at these things that I've never heard of."

Both Lei Chi and Qin Ge listened very carefully.

Colleagues from the criminal investigation department pried open the door of the house.

"Later, their family had a new guest." The half-zombie man said, "That man was just like me, not too old. He was only eleven or twelve years old when he arrived at Zhou You's house. He said he was a vagrant. , came here from Hubei all the way, and suffered a lot. It's strange... Zhou You's father didn't know why he took him in like this."

The half-zombie looked back at Qin Ge and Lei Chi.

"He made the boy call him daddy too," he said. "Because that kid is also named Zhou, so they are a family."

A chill rushed into Qin Ge's brain from behind, and he was frightened by the facts he was about to hear.

"After a few years, Zhou You suddenly disappeared." The half-zombie man said, "The little tramp started calling himself Zhou You, and Zhou You's father also started calling him Zhou You."

He never saw his friend again.

"Not long after, Zhou You's father suddenly went crazy. He wandered the streets every day, saying that he was looking for his son." The half-zombie man said in a low voice, "When he saw someone of Zhou You's age, he stood far away, Don't get close, just stand, just cry like that."

Lei Chi turned to look at Qin Ge: "You just said, stove?"

Qin Ge nodded: "Stovetop."

Xiao Liu immediately took people and tools, entered the dilapidated house, and went straight to the stove in the narrow kitchen.

"Where's that waif who claims to be wandering around?" Lei Chi asked.

"After Uncle Zhou went crazy, he also disappeared." The half-zombie man looked at Lei Chi, "Many people know that the previous Zhou You disappeared, and a new Zhou You appeared. But no one said anything. The leader of the zombies, he went to the leader of the sentinel guide, but they didn't believe me. And at that time, people disappeared every day in the capital area, people died every day, children, old people, too many. It was originally in the capital There is no difference between the garbage gathered in the district, one more and one less. I... I gave up later. "

When it was daylight, the stove was taken apart.

The seemingly sealed stove is hollow inside.A body that has been turned into white bones is curled up in the stove, and the legs are obviously different from the other bones of the body due to stunted growth.

"There are marks on the head from a blow." Xiao Liu said, "That is a fatal wound."

Lei Chi asked the half-zombie man, "Where's Zhou You's father? Is he still alive?"

The half-zombie hesitated for a moment, then said in a low voice: "I saw him two years ago. He thought that Zhou You was hidden by the underground people, so he couldn't find him on the ground. He always wanted to enter the settlement of the underground people. I haven't seen him in the last two years."

Qin Ge reminded: "Try to find Zhou You's father. He is a guide, and I can cruise his 'sea' to find out what happened back then."

Lei Chi: "I know. You go to rest first, don't be busy."

Qin Ge staggered out and saw Xie Zijing standing on the side of the road waiting for him.He fell into Xie Zijing's arms almost immediately, and finally felt truly relieved.

Xie Zijing hugged him tightly, Qin Ge heard his heartbeat, very anxious and chaotic.

He wanted to look up at Xie Zijing, but Xie Zijing pressed his head, tightly trapped him in his arms, and let out a long sigh.

The two stood silently hugging each other in the corner for a while before Xie Zijing said, "Aunt Qin called just now, but you didn't answer, she called my cell phone. The teacher Zhang Xiao you have been looking for is back, and he After knowing from my aunt that we are all in the Wangdu District, we are rushing to the Wangdu District now."

Qin Ge was both surprised and delighted: "Really?!"

Xie Zijing looked down at him, and asked cautiously: "This time it's difficult, isn't it?"

Qin Ge: "Yes."

Xie Zijing: "It has something to do with me... I heard Bian Han said that he also has romantic fantasies."

Qin Ge: "It's related, but it's different."

Sensing Xie Zijing's uneasiness, he said again: "Don't worry, Mr. Zhang Xiao is an authority on sea area studies. If he comes, your 'sea area' will definitely return to normal."

"Qin Ge, I'm a little scared." As if afraid of being heard, Xie Zijing's voice was very low, "I always feel that everything we are doing now is useless...or even if it works, it will Let's get farther and farther apart."

"No." Qin Ge looked at him seriously, "You will recover, and I will be with you. Trust me, okay?"

Xie Zijing nodded, and the strength in his hand tightened again.He was still uneasy, but he didn't know how to convey this uneasiness to Qin Ge.

Bian Han, who had fantasies about love, went crazy.What about yourself?