Netherworld Investigator

In the room designed as a black king chess seat, Wen Baifan lay peacefully in the silkworm chrysalis-like illusion cabin. Beside him, a spiral staircase extending to nowhere appeared impressively on the ground.Qiao Kejun broke in, his gaze lingered on his sleeping face for a few seconds as if from another world, and then he went down the stairs, until the drowsy stairs finally swallowed his figure.

At the end of the stairs, Qiao Kejun finally saw Wen Yue again after more than 20 years.

He looked like he was in a deep sleep, and the exposed part of his body was covered with hard and uniform scales with silver-green luster.

Wen Baifan's ID in the game is Xiao Hei.

Xiao Hei has been tossing and turning in the illusion for a long time, so long that he has almost forgotten his original identity.

Under the sky of floating clouds, he stood empty-handed by the edge of a river, quietly feeling the changes in the scenery in front of him.He had crossed this river before. At that time, the clear water and slight waves were just a land overgrown with weeds.

Xiao Hei felt that he was probably waiting for someone, but he didn't know who he was waiting for, and he didn't understand why that person didn't come.But he knew that that person was hiding in the dark sky, and only his arrival could dissolve the painful things in Xiao Hei's body.

But after waiting for too long, he was inevitably a little discouraged. Maybe if such a person really existed, it could only be himself.

Xiao Hei stood alone, staring down at the calm but turbulent river, imagining the amniotic fluid in the mother's womb that gave birth to life.He poked his head out slightly, laying out outlines and colors on the river surface.

A monster appeared in the water.

Xiao Hei is a monster. His six senses are as sharp as a knife, but his heart is as soft as water. When he is in a group, he will feel sad, but when he is alone, he will not feel happy.For example, at this moment, staring at the monster in the water, a familiar dull pain hit his heart, Xiao Hei's eyes were covered with tears, and he felt every tiny nerve in his body trembling with pain.

At this moment, he heard a voice in his heart: let this monster stay under the water, and give it all the pain.

Xiao Hei's heart beat suddenly, and there was even a momentary and dangerous pause.

Yeah, give it all.

Trembling all over, he threw himself on the ground, and the shadow covering a dahlia by the water instantly pulled away, turning the black petals into red instantly.

With the thought, countless strands of hair rustled from Xiao Hei's ears, all fell to the surface of the water, sank to the bottom of the river, and landed right on the head of the monster in the water.

Hair is a wonderful thing.It is also a part of the human body, and the amputee can clearly feel the pain of loss, while the lightly falling hair is a painless stripping.Perhaps this long and short hair carried too much sacredness and sin, and when he lost them, Xiao Hei only felt relieved.

His eyes became blurred, like a myopic patient who lost his lenses, the sound he heard became more distant, and his sense of smell and touch became dull.While unloading the heavy burden, Xiao Hei's previously exuberant strength also dissipated, replaced by endless emptiness and exhaustion.

So far, Xiao Hei has completely become a humble, trivial, weak and ordinary person,

Suddenly, an irresistible sinking force pulled Xiao Hei, and he fell into the water.Foams appeared on the surface of the water, and after a while, it returned to calm.

Across the river, Xiao Hei glanced at the sun hanging in the sky, it was bright red, but also chilly, like the moon.

It must not be a red moon.This was the last thought in Xiao Hei's mind before his consciousness completely disappeared.

I don't know what kind of era this is, but judging from people's clothing fashion, it seems that it was still ten or twenty years ago in the last century.

This street is like a river pond mixed with fish and dragons, and the voices of people are like hot black sand in a big iron pan frying chestnuts.The sky was fragmented by the messy antennas, and it was yellowed by the oily smoke rising from the low bungalows.

In early summer, the weather is gradually getting hotter. I don’t know if it’s because the old wiring in this neighborhood can’t handle the high-power air-conditioning, or because everyone feels sorry for the expensive electricity bill.After dinner, under a big banyan tree at the street corner, there are all kinds of small folding stools, long benches, and even small tables set up, and all you can see are people shaking big cattail fans and chatting in the shade .The sound of the TV came from a store not far away, and the air was filled with the smell of melons and fruits, soft drinks and burning mosquito coils.

Among these people enjoying the shade, there is a middle-aged couple in their 40s and a student couple in their early twenties.

The wife took out a towel to wipe off the sweat, then touched the fat on her arm, and complained with a smile: "I have gained weight recently, I don't know what to do, the more tired I am, the fatter I am. "

Her husband is not handsome, but he is considerate, and the big cattail fan moved a little closer to his wife.

"Hey, sister-in-law, you are so happy." The girl was not too hot, she cuddled up to her boyfriend intimately, probably still in the period of passionate love, the only temperature that can be felt is love itself.A beautiful atmosphere flows, transpires, and evaporates like sweat in the air.

"Afeng, is there any news?" The girl poked her boyfriend who was concentrating on fiddling with the communicator in his palm.

This boy named Afeng looks like a thin and gentle college student. His slightly bulky spectacle frames slipped down the bridge of his nose slightly with sweat, and his lips look a little pale because of lack of exercise.

"It's not very peaceful." Ah Feng sighed, "It was said on the forum that the criminal who assassinated Mr. Hong escaped from the prison the day before yesterday, and everyone was analyzing his possible escape route, speculating that this person might be hiding in our prison. It's near here. Xiaoru, you have to be careful when you go in and out recently."

"That person is really hateful, please don't let me meet him." The girl named Xiaoru said coquettishly, she waved her pink fist in the air a few times, she didn't seem to take the danger of the fugitive into her heart, but said plausibly Concentrate on the crusade, "Mr. Hong is such an amazing existence, without him, this city doesn't know what kind of chaos it would be."

"Mr. Hong?" The wife was taken aback for a moment.

"It's a crime hunter." Xiaoru explained to her happily, "It's just a..."

The woman smiled: "I've heard of it, it's the organization that punishes bad guys."

"Mr. Hong is a crime hunter, but Zhu Yanghui is an organization. Everyone spontaneously became his believer because of their respect for what he did." Zhu Yanghui and Mr. Hong had a strange brilliance in his eyes, and he said in a solemn tone, "This society cannot live without people who uphold justice, and we, Zhu Yanghui, are the ones who protect this person."

His communicator was still stuck on a certain page of the forum, and there was a huge scimitar-shaped red moon on the screen, which was their logo.There is also a fixed gesture in this organization, making a fist with the left hand, with the index finger and little finger raised, looking like a sheep's head when viewed from the side, because "sheep" and "yang" have the same pronunciation.

The middle-aged man shook his head and said with a sneer, "You young people..."

His wife agrees: "That's the way it should be done, the world is so bad, those hateful rich people..."

"Criminals who deliberately commit evil are a minority, but mediocre villains are in the majority." A Feng saw that someone was cheering him on, so he said a little more, and unconsciously brought some written statements into his words, "Turn a blind eye to evil deeds." , Listening and not listening, unrestricted and even indirect participation are mediocre evils. Such evils should also be stopped. In my opinion, just knocking down a few evil benchmarks may not be enough.”

The girl didn't seem to have heard his lengthy speech, and talked to the woman about various exciting deeds of the crime hunter, Mr. Hong, with a beaming look as if discussing a popular entertainment star.

"Hey, to hear what you said, since Mr. Hong is so great, why did that person assassinate him?"

"Darkness always opposes light." Xiao Ru complained, "I don't know if this is his personal behavior or someone behind the instructions. The people above are rotten, and Mr. Hong is the future of this country." Hopefully, the deeper his mass base is, the more panicked those people will be, probably because it hurts the interests of some people."

"Hey, these sister-in-laws you mentioned don't understand."

"It's okay, sister-in-law, if you find strange people popping up around you recently, you must tell me in time. Our forum has an information sharing platform. Once someone finds the suspect's whereabouts, they will upload it immediately."

"Weird people. Speaking of which, two families have recently moved in next door to us." The woman thought for a while, "One looks very ordinary, with some problems with his legs and feet, while the other is very gloomy, and doesn't care about it all day long." The one who makes a sound doesn't go out very much, and he shaved his head, so it looks a little strange..."

The middle-aged man flirted with his wife, stopped her words, and raised his voice again: "Xiao Hei, go out."

The young man who was suddenly stopped was stunned for a moment, then nodded.His movements are extraordinarily slow, like a video tape played in slow speed.

Staring at the sluggish figure, the woman whispered: "It's him, do you think he looks suspicious?"

Her husband disagreed: "Xiao Hei is an honest child, but his brain is a little slow, and he looks a little strange. I think that Ah Yi has sinister eyes, and he doesn't look like a good person. He was walking on the road last time. Hit me, and left without saying sorry. And his leg, he was not born lame, I saw that day, his leg was injured..."

A Feng looked at him thoughtfully.

This city is the floating life of many lonely people who wake up from endless dreams every day and plunge into another dream, a dream that is too real to be overwhelmed by mediocrity and fear.These countless people are like a dense colony of ants on a river embankment, vulnerable to the crush of emptiness.

Life is like a box placed on a slant, everyone must cling to it so as not to fall down.In such a situation, the existence of great power is grateful, the anxiety and tension brought about by discipline and domination are all sublimated into meaning, and people can fight against the impermanence of life by giving up control of their own minds with boredom.

It was another hot summer night, and the air seemed to grow thorns, which made people feel uncomfortable all over.

After a long time, Afeng and Xiaoru reappeared under the banyan tree at the intersection.The young couple seems to be a little busy recently, and they haven't appeared for a long time.They went home from different directions, saw each other's figure from a distance, raised a smile, walked eagerly towards each other, and finally stopped at a distance that could hug each other.

A Feng looked much more energetic, his cheeks glowed with joy and ruddy, and his eyes were full of vitality. He stared at Xiaoru affectionately, as if he recognized himself from the eyes of his lover for the first time. like.

Afeng and Xiaoru raised their left hands at the same time, making a sheep's head gesture, which was used to replace the kiss when they met.Despite the lack of skin-to-skin contact, the couple felt closer than ever.

At the same time, in the Shiduo store behind them, there was an overwhelming cheer from the TV. In the vivid screen, in the small auditorium that can accommodate hundreds of people, the "sin hunter" was covered with a white mask and a red mask. Yipao stood on the high platform, and what greeted him was the uniform sheep's head gestures from the audience.

"Xiao Ru, what's the happy event today? Look at you two, how happy you are." The kind woman greeted the young couple to eat watermelon together.

The girl bounced and walked over, thanked her sweetly, and picked up a piece of melon: "Sister-in-law, don't you know that the criminal who assassinated Mr. Hong has been arrested and brought to justice."

"No wonder, someone knocked on the door in the middle of the night last night. The sound was scary. I didn't get up. He opened the door." The woman pouted at her husband who was eating melons, "I heard those people asking , the man with the leg injury can't live here..."

"That Ah Yi was very tight-lipped, and he was interrogated all night without revealing a single word." A Feng bought four bottles of soda from a Shiduo store, came over and sat down, "When it was almost dawn, none of us paid attention, and let He succeeded in killing himself."

The middle-aged man suddenly raised his head, "Dead?"

"It's a pity." Ah Feng sighed, "Otherwise, we can follow the clues and find out the instigator behind the scenes..."

The man turned pale and murmured: "Dead..."

He recalled with a guilty conscience last night, those men with flaming goats on their clothes knocked on the door. The man knew that the person who came was not friendly, but when he saw the weapons in their hands, he suddenly felt embarrassed, and hurriedly said lame where righteousness resides.

After all, the man was a little uneasy, thinking that a living person lost his life because of his indirect participation, he felt a chill down his spine.But then he comforted himself: It's not my fault, even if I don't say it, those people will definitely be able to find out...

Furthermore, if Ah Yi did not do evil, retribution would not fall on him...

Xiaoru said: "Today's exchange meeting ended early. During the meeting, Mr. Lu from the law school broke in. He criticized our interrogation of Ayi for being too rough and sloppy."

"That man has always been a pedantic old man." A Feng snorted softly, "He is not as noble as he appears on the surface. It is said that he once defended a heinous rich man in court."

"Really? I really didn't expect that." Xiaoru couldn't help but gasped, "I took Mr. Lu's elective class before... Fortunately, I liked him a lot before, and I thought he was a fairy scholar."

She thought of this desolate old gentleman, he always had a gentle and elegant demeanor in class, but he was very silent after he stepped off the podium, he was not the type of eloquent tongue and long-sleeved dance.On weekdays, she often sees Teacher Lu walking alone on the school road with a few books in his hands.That bleak figure was in stark contrast to the way he was escorted away today—his neck was hung with a heavy iron chain, but his head did not hang down at all, and his piercing eyes revealed tragic strength.

"The general public is easily deceived. What kind of fairy spirit is just a devil's heart. It is not worthy of sympathy to publicly defend criminals." .

A few days ago, they made a new promotional video for Mr. Hong, and they wanted a classmate from a wealthy family to participate in the filming, and asked him to talk about his praise and understanding of the crime hunter and Zhu Yanghui in front of the camera, "I didn't expect him to He actually refused immediately, saying that he didn't have time, I think he was just reluctant... That inconsequential look is really annoying..."

"Which rich second generation?" Xiao Ru was stunned for a moment.

A Feng glanced at her sideways, and snorted softly in his nose.

Only then did Xiaoru come to her senses, for some reason, two red clouds flew onto her cheeks.

"I guessed who it was." She pursed her lips, and distinguished softly, "He...he's actually not bad, maybe he really doesn't have time...you shouldn't overcorrect it."

A Feng glanced at her in surprise, and then a burst of anger ignited in his heart for no reason.

Deep down in his heart, Afeng once felt inferior because of his poor background.The embarrassment he suffered, the lingering humbleness and cowardice, actually disappeared long after he became a key member of Zhu Yanghui.When he enters into a group, he is no longer alone.He was chosen and given a special mission to report those who did not abide by the rules of the organization - he considered himself a well-respected and accomplished figure.However, that rich man's child had an inherently superior fearlessness in his eyes.All it takes is a breezy glance to bring back A Feng's fragile self-esteem to its original shape.

What's more, Ah Feng has always known that Xiao Ru has been secretly in love with the rich second generation in the past, and she knows that she has no hope of being loved, so she finally agrees to her pursuit.

Looking at the shyness in his lover's eyes, Afeng secretly decided in his heart who would be the next person to be prosecuted...