Recuperate

Huo Yan was woken up by the heat, the person behind hugged him tightly, breathing in his ears.Fortunately, it is a double bed, so it will not be too crowded.Huo Yan moved his arm, and Lin Jiu let go, only to realize that Lin Jiu was not asleep at all.Huo Yan looked at Shanglin Jiu, and read a little composure from his eyes, mixed with obvious anxiety.

This is too abnormal for Lin Jiu. Lin Jiu has a big heart like a colander, and he usually doesn't care about anything.Huo Yan once thought that unless the sky fell, Lin Jiu would not be able to see panic.

It took him a long time to pry the first sentence out of Lin Jiu's mouth, and Lin Jiu had an intermittent and rambling conversation with him.

Huo Yan was a little dizzy, and Lin Jiu was stumbling when he spoke. It took him a while to figure out what he wanted to say.

For ordinary people, when they hear what Lin Jiu said, their first impression should be that it is false.

This incident was unbelievable, but his intuition told Huo Yan that perhaps it was inextricably related to what he experienced last night.Although no one was killed in what happened at the China World Trade Center yesterday, some people were injured.He saw it happen with his own eyes, and it was unexpected and reasonable, and many coincidences made it inevitable.

But he didn't believe it was just such a coincidence, such an idea.

"Let's go to the place you mentioned again, and I'll accompany you there." Huo Yan said.

Lin Jiu nodded, seemingly relieved.

Lin Jiu packed up the garbage bags in the kitchen, tied a knot, and tied them tightly.

Huo Yan waited at the door, and saw the water glass on the corner of the table at a glance. The liquid inside was dangling, and it was about to fall.At this time, Lin Jiu walked towards the door with the garbage bag in his hand, scraping the corner of the table.

"Be careful with the water glass." Huo Yan said.

The liquid in the cup has spilled out and is tilted to pour down.If it did fall on the floor and shatter, the shards would be scattered all over the place.Huo Yan was somewhat familiar with this scene. It happened that someone stepped on a broken cup last night before bumping into the unattended trolley.

The crumbling cup was picked up with one hand and placed safely in the center of the table.Lin Jiu's reaction speed was so fast that he himself was a little surprised.

"It's dangerous." Lin Jiu said, "It almost broke."

Fortunately that didn't happen.

It must be two people together, so things won't be bad.

Lin Jiu thought about it, put on his shoes, and walked down the stairs with the garbage bag in his hand.

Before Huo Yan closed the door, he casually glanced at it, and the hand that closed the door paused.Under the table against the wall are aging sockets and a stack of newspapers.If the water did spill, he wasn't sure if the two of them would be safe now.

He had just experienced a night of near misses, and now Lin Jiu said that he saw a monster, which made him even more uneasy.Although he did not believe that Lin Jiu had really seen an alien creature, but something unusual was enough to arouse his suspicion.

Although they are all coincidences, there seems to be some inevitability under this.It's like what happens in your mind if you don't want it to happen.

To make an inappropriate analogy, someone outside the picture frame has already set the scene, just waiting to put people in, step on the trap, and finally cater to the other party's wishes.

Or stop thinking about it.

Huo Yan frowned, then was shivered by the cold wind.Only then did he come to his senses, and then he realized that it was already late autumn.

There are tall poplar trees on both sides of the road, and thick fallen leaves cover the grass. People around are playing chess on stone benches, and children are playing on swings.

All are normal.

Really, stop thinking about it.

But this is just the beginning.

They went all the way to the intersection where the incident happened, and then went to the boss's studio at Lin Jiu's request.

The outside of the glass door is still locked, and it looks a little gray. Looking through the door to see the interior of the studio, it is still the same as in the morning. The boss has not come back, and he does not know when he will come back.

There was still no reply to the text messages Lin Jiu sent to the boss before, and when Lin Jiu had a problem, the boss would almost always reply.He was wondering if the other party had an accident and needed help.However, it was useless to think about it, he could not contact the other party, and he could not make a useful judgment.

Huo Yan observed Lin Jiu quietly. Apart from some panic and anxiety, Lin Jiu was normal.As usual, his clothes were neatly tucked up, with a loose coat on, and he poked his fingers at the phone screen, sending messages.

Huo Yan didn't smell the fishy smell that Lin Jiu said, he didn't smell anything.At that intersection, apart from seeing a pool of dark marks that were not easy to notice, he didn't find anything that would make him more concerned.

And Lin Jiu made it clear that he smelled that smell. He crossed the road with Huo Yan blindfolded, and when he walked near the bloodstain, he also smelled it.The two walked back and forth at the intersection many times, until the uncle who set up a stall selling cigarettes couldn't stand it anymore and asked them what they wanted to do.Huo Yan replied, don't do anything, the school plays a play, blindfolded, and practice.The uncle said that the intersection is dangerous, and there was an accident just yesterday.Lin Jiu answered first, okay, let's go now.

Lin Jiu looked very puzzled.

He wasn't lying.Huo Yan thought to himself.

Then they went to the studio.

Perhaps only Lin Jiu could feel it, and no one else could.This matter is very strange, why is it that only Lin Jiu can find out the abnormality?Perhaps if we continue to pursue it, we can find some breakthroughs.

Sometimes, what feels unbelievable is the truth.Huo Yan thought for a while, and put the option "alien creature" first from the alternative options.

If it is an alien creature, what does it want to do?Since everyone around it can regard it as a human being, it must be able to confuse most human beings and make them hallucinate.At the same time, it is likely to have a good level of intelligence and communicate with humans.Has it been lurking in humans for some time?Why does it hide in the form of a human, and what is its purpose?Why did it die, was it an accident or premeditated killing?

Lin Jiu didn't receive a reply from the boss's text messages or WeChat messages. He was thinking about the vicious faces of yesterday's riots, and was sweating for the boss's safety.He went to several shops next door to ask one by one, and they all said that he didn't see the boss coming back today, and he didn't see anyone after the door was locked yesterday.

Lin Jiu sighed, and he called Huo Yan, "Let's go straight away, our boss probably won't come back."

"Then your business..." Huo Yan said, implying that you are not going to think about that monster anymore?

Lin Jiu shrugged, "Just like that..." Before he finished speaking, he received a call request.

At the same moment, Huo Yan's cell phone rang.

Lin Jiu leaned over to take a look, and found that the number looked familiar.He answered his phone casually, it was from the boss.

"Boss, are you okay?" Lin Jiu said.

"It's okay, don't worry about me." The boss's voice sounded a little tired.

Huo Yan turned on the speakerphone directly, and a voice came from the opposite side at the same time, "Huo Yan? Do you have time to get together?"

"Brother Li?" Huo Yan asked suspiciously, "Your new number?"

This voice attracted Lin Jiu's attention, he looked over suspiciously, and fixedly looked at the number displayed on the phone.

It belongs to the boss.

But the boss is obviously talking to himself.

"...Boss?" Lin Jiu asked cautiously while holding his mobile phone.

The other party gave him an answer.

"Are you talking to anyone other than me?" Lin Jiu said.

"No, just you." The boss said, "What's wrong?"

Lin Jiu moved the phone away from his ear, held it up to Huo Yan, and pointed to the number on the screen.

Huo Yan was stunned.

They received a call from the same number at the same time, the problem is, different responses with the same voice on the other side of the phone.

This kind of thing shouldn't exist.

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The flashback in the next chapter will be shaken and set by the way, it should be easy to understand.