Aoba Office

My heart skipped a beat, and my heart beat faster.

"Someone reported the crime again, and he was attacked in broad daylight. The other party claimed that the deceased was knocked down by a high-speed car and his head was crushed." Gu Mo said calmly, "The director is asking people to ask about the specific situation. Very soon We’ll soon know whether it was a car accident or the Nian Beast.”

"How many witnesses are there?" the fat man asked.

Gu Mo chuckled twice, "Dozens."

"It must have been a car accident." The fat man sighed.

I wasn't that relaxed. With Nian Beast's speed, it shouldn't be difficult to deceive ordinary people. But I hope the fat guy is right. I looked at the fat man. His face was ugly and he was not really relaxed. Obviously, as someone who has witnessed the speed of the Nian Beast, he also knows that if that thing is intentional, it is very likely to fake a traffic accident.

Gu Mo felt that it must have been done by Nian Beast, and continued to say to us: "The crime occurred in Pingcheng District."

"This is where we are?" I swallowed.

"It's three or four kilometers away from our place. There is a project under construction there. There is no holiday for the Chinese New Year, and we can't take away a large number of workers at the moment." Gu Mo continued, "The rumor is that the project boss has some connections in the government. . The matter of Nian Beast is currently only known to a few people. When the government issues a notice of suspension of work, people treat it as useless paper. Hey..."

Gu Mo laughed sinisterly again.

"If you haven't said anything, let's talk about it together." I couldn't bear it.

"The one who kills people with his car is the boss. He did a show-off job to express condolences to the workers, but ended up running over and killing the engineer he hired. Besides..." Gu Mo protracted again, "I don't believe in evil, and I'm wearing a suit."

I asked strangely: "How do you know so many things?"

"I heard it." Gu Mo confessed.

The corners of my mouth twitched.

What Gu Mo relayed should be what someone reported to Chen Yihan, and his relay must also have added content.

I somewhat understand Gu Mo's attitude. We try our best to lure the Nian beast to appear, even using ourselves as bait. Others are better, holding us back, not evacuating, and giving life to the Nian beast. This has to be said to be a flaw.

"Can't we force the surrounding area to be cleared? There are fewer people in the suburbs during the Chinese New Year, and the remaining people..." I said.

"Oh, now we have to force it. I just got the news that the boss also had his head bitten off." Gu Mo interrupted me.

I exhaled heavily.

The fat man also sighed.

"If we evacuate the people, will the thing come back?" I asked.

"We're not sure where it is yet." Gu Mo replied, "I secretly bit the boss's head and it ran away. Nangong is watching the surveillance."

"Found it." Nangong Yao's voice came from the other side.

"How is it?" I asked hurriedly.

There was no sound from the intercom.

Fatty and I looked at each other.

"This is not our direction." Gu Mo said in a deep voice.

I panicked, "Then it..."

"Damn it!" Gu Mo suddenly cursed, and after a while, he gasped and said, "It left. It just killed another person on Enterprise Road!"

I'm really not familiar with the roads in Pingcheng District, and neither does Fatty, but I can deduce from Gu Mo's tone that Enterprise Road is in the opposite direction to ours, and I'm afraid the Nian Beast is running away from here. .

After a while, Nangong Yao's voice sounded, "Is there a Miss Xue receiving treatment at Pingcheng Central Hospital?"

The fat man asked hurriedly: "What's wrong? Where is it headed?!"

"It's in that direction. That's also the population gathering area of ​​Pingcheng District, right?" Nangong Yao said.

The fat man held the steering wheel and started the police car.

"What are you doing?" Nangong Yao asked.

"What else can I do?" I also took my mobile phone and quickly called Guo Yujie.

No one answered Guo Yujie's phone. My heart dropped and I called Xue Jingyue again, but still no one answered. It reminds me of Fatty.

I put down my hand in a daze and looked at the fat man who drove the car out of the training ground.

"No one answered?" Fatty asked, his tone still calm, but his expression betrayed him.

"Yes, no one answered." I looked at my mobile phone, continued to call their mobile phones, and yelled into the intercom, "You guys try to contact the hospital! Where is Chen Yihan?"

"We are having a video conference. In this situation, they have to redeploy." Gu Mo said calmly, "I have said before that this kind of thing is inevitable due to natural disasters and man-made disasters."

"You still have the heart to make sarcastic remarks now?" I said dissatisfied.

Regardless of whether Chen Yihan used coercion or inducement, or what tricks he used to force Gu Mo and Nangong Yao to participate in this matter, his original intention was to solve the scourge of Nian Beast. Besides, now that the Nian beast is killing people, it would be ridiculous for us to have internal strife.

"This is not a sarcastic comment." Gu Mo said.

Nangong Yao explained for Gu Mo: "There is destiny in the dark. You can also regard this as a kind of natural law. For supernatural events, the law is to stay on the side of heaven as much as possible. People like us are According to God, we should die violently. The Nian beast is the thing that kills us, so it will naturally be blessed by God."

I couldn't accept Nangong Yao's statement. Fatty was also angry when he heard it. As soon as he refuted it, Nangong Yao's words continued to be heard over there.

"As for its murderous instinct, it can eat more than a dozen people over several decades. This is within the range of what God can tolerate. Even the people it eats are our family and friends, or people who have benefited from us."

The words stuck on my lips.

"However, the situation has changed now." Nangong Yao continued slowly, "As society develops, the laws will also change, but it will not be as fast as the development of human society. Before the Nian Beast changes again, we have already started Let go of old traditions and adapt to our own new needs.”

"You mean..." I suddenly realized.

"Ye Zi has been preparing since then. If there are no accidents, we should be able to kill the Nian beast this time. Because God will not be on its side this time." Gu Mo sneered, "But it's a pity that Ye Zi died first. ”

"What now? Can we...can we still kill it?" I asked.

"I don't know." Nangong Yao replied, "Ye Qing has not told us what his specific plan is. He is no longer able to continue to implement the original plan. Maybe this is God's will."

I don't understand.

"Let's see what the Nian beast is going to do. If it is smarter and only eats a dozen people and then gives up eating, it may escape. If it cannot restrain itself and kills too many people at once, it may escape. When we were on the highway, we were directly hit and killed by a heavy truck." Gu Mo said calmly.

This statement is really absurd.

"Compared with that possibility, it is more likely that it will be killed by you." Nangong Yao said, "You have already collided with it, and it is logical to have the opportunity to kill it."

Gu Mo laughed twice, "That's right, that's right. That lunatic likes things like us to kill each other best."

My mood became complicated.

Chen Yihan's voice came from the intercom. I was about to cheer up and listen to Chen Yihan's next plan, but I didn't expect that the intercom was turned off.

Fatty and I were a little shocked. I tentatively pressed the switch a few times, but there was no sound coming from the other side. Chen Yihan must have turned off the intercom.

Why turn off the intercom?

I became anxious and called Gu Mo and Chen Yihan, but no one answered, which made me even more uneasy.

After a while, my cell phone rang. It was a call from Gu Mo.

"What happened?" I asked hurriedly.

It was Nangong Yao's voice on the other end of the phone.