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"How is it?" Shen Tucheng asked anxiously.

Liu Xia turned the master key in his hand, sweating profusely and said, "It's still a little bit close."

They were standing at the door of Guo Kai's house at the moment, but no one answered the knock on the door, and no one answered the phone or mobile phone.

"Damn it." Liu Xia swung his sore arm and cursed, "There's another electronic lock!"

Gao Jie frowned and said, "Let's call the administrator."

"No." Lian Qiao also objected, "If the resentment persists, it is likely to affect him."

Shen Tucheng raked his hair irritably, his fingers tightly clasped the handrail of the stairs on one side.He felt something swimming in his body, and when he was anxious or agitated, those things would appear, clamoring for him to destroy them.They say, destroy, destroy... destroy everything, everything that excites you, disgusts you, disturbs you, destroys them all.They tempted him—thought the policeman was slow?Then, kill him.why not?It's his incompetence that makes you anxious. If he can be a little more agile, you don't have to be unhappy.

kill it... kill him...

Veins popped up on his hands, fine sawdust pierced his skin, Shentucheng tried his best to endure.

"Don't you think something is wrong?" Liu Xia held the key in his mouth, and moved his fingers quickly on the keyboard. "We have been in for so long, and we have not responded to the door at all."

"Don't be suspicious." Gao Jie gave him a nod, "It's working hours, it's normal that no one is here."

"So what about Guo Kai's parents? I mean, if Guo Kai really met something... wouldn't this...ordinary person yell or...at least make a sound?"

"He lives alone." Shen Tucheng suddenly said.There was depression in his tone, as if he was enduring great pain.

Liu Xia was taken aback, then turned around and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

At this moment, the sensor light in the corridor suddenly went out, Shen Tucheng's body tensed up suddenly, and a strong smell of blood wafted over.

Roar!

The beast in his body broke out of the cocoon, and Shen Tucheng could no longer suppress it.He lifted Liu Xia up, threw him aside, and slammed into the anti-theft door fiercely.

Liu Xia was thrown to pieces, and was about to speak, but was stopped by Lian Qiao: "Don't mess with him now."

"What kind of nerve is he getting out of?" Liu Xia gritted his teeth, and the words popped out from between his teeth.He found that Lian Qiao also looked at Shentucheng with emotions he couldn't understand, so he blurted out another question, "Do you like him?"

Lian Qiao was also taken aback by his question, and opened her mouth, only to hear a "bang" over there - the door was knocked open.

"This guy!" Liu Xia jumped, "I'm afraid that no one will know if there's such a big commotion!"

Gao Jie yelled, "Come and help me! What a long-winded fart!"

Under the impact of the three big men, the thick door panel was quickly knocked open.

……

Bloody, this is the first feeling of the four people after they stepped into this house.Not referring to the blood everywhere, in fact the living room was clean.For a boy who lives alone, there is no debris on the floor, no dirty clothes on the sofa, no cup noodles, no garbage, everything is in its place.But the air was full of stench, and the whole house was like a big closed steamer, steaming blood steamed buns inside.After a while, Shentucheng's forehead was covered with beads of sweat.

Liu Xia was a little out of breath, leaning on the wall and asked, "Look separately?"

"No." Lian Qiao also said, "Don't separate."

"Go up to the second floor." Shen Tucheng immediately walked towards the stairs.

The area on the second floor is much smaller than the first floor, with only one room and one toilet.Shen Tucheng thought for a while, and opened the bedroom door first——

There is no one inside.

A burst of hot air rushed towards his face, Liu Xia wiped the sweat from his brow, and said out of breath, "It's already March, and the heater is still on."

Gao Jie found the air-conditioning panel to turn off the heating, opened the window to let in the air, and then began to observe the whole bedroom.The most conspicuous place is the widescreen computer facing the bed.

"It's still working." Gao Jie touched the host, "It's very hot, it looks like it hasn't been turned off for a long time."

Liu Xia came over and sniffed it, and said doubtfully, "It's burned."

"how come!"

"Don't you smell the burnt smell?" Liu Xia said while dismantling the host, "Look, everything inside has been burned."

"That is to say..." It is impossible for the computer to continue running?The two looked at the monitor that was still working in tacit understanding.

Gao Jie straightened up, intending to see what happened.

"Don't move." Lian Qiao pressed his hand down.

Gao Jie raised his eyebrows, only to hear Lian Qiao say, "Don't you think a mouse looks like a plate?"

"Die?" Liu Xia observed it carefully and asked, "You mean... the Die that plays with Die Fairy?"

Lian Qiao also nodded: "That's right, you are not in the circle, don't go in easily."

The circle refers to the area where Die Xian kills people.It is not fixed, it can be expanded or reduced at any time - when someone touches a person or object in the circle designated by Die Xian, then he will also be drawn into his circle by Die Xian, so that Come on, the circle expands.And when people in the circle are killed by Die Xian, or kill each other, the circle shrinks.

To put it simply, this is the transmission of resentment. For example, if a person is drawn into a circle, he will resent. Why me?Why not someone else?So, he did everything possible to pull the people around him into the circle.People who were pulled into the circle thought again, why me?Why not him?So, he went to pull another person into the circle... This is an infinite cycle. Unless the people in the circle go out by themselves, the circle will never disappear one day.

Gao Jie understands this truth, but disagrees with the other party's point of view: "I have my responsibility."

"Your responsibility is to protect people outside the circle." Lian Qiao glanced at Shen Tucheng intentionally or unintentionally, and said, "Things in the circle can only be resolved by people in the circle."

As she spoke, she reached out to grab the mouse.However, there was a hand that was one step ahead of her——Shen Tucheng moved the mouse, carefully read the above content, then turned his head and smiled at Lian Qiao: "Now I am also in the circle."

Lian Qiao was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "You have been in the circle for a long time."

You, and I, have long been here.This feeling made the two feel good, as if what surrounded them was not a death curse, but a sweet bagel.

"There is movement!" Liu Xia shouted.

Click, click, click.

bathroom!

Several people rushed out at the same time.

"Ouch—" Even after many battles, Liu Xia couldn't help but feel nauseous seeing such a scene—a whole bathtub of corpses, animal corpses.Gao Jie's complexion was not much better, but he resisted and walked forward.

The first thing that came into view was a kitten, only the size of two palms, its fur was already soaked in blood, the thick blood made its fur into tufts, and its pink flesh was clearly visible.From the neck to the buttocks, it was slashed open, and the thin and long intestines flowed out of the stomach and drooped on the legs.

Not just cats, there are other animals in the tub - rabbits, chickens, ducks, miniature pigs...even mice.Without exception, they were cut open with a sharp weapon.

In this situation, no one imagined that the most calm person was actually Lian Qiaoye.She knelt down to observe carefully, then stretched out her slender fingers, and gently opened the cat's wound.As if to verify her idea, she checked the remaining animal carcasses one by one.

"So that's the case." She stood up, washed her hands slowly, and said, "These animals don't have hearts."

Several people retreated from the toilet, Liu Xia wiped his face fiercely, and cursed: "It's really disgusting."

Gao Jie thought for a while, and asked Lian Qiaoye: "Why did he do this?" Die Xian, shouldn't you only kill people in the circle?What about these animals?

Lian Qiaoye's answer surprised him: "It's not Die Xian."

"Who is that?"

Lian Qiao was also silent for a while, and said, "Let's go back to the room and have a look."

……

Guo Kai's QQ is offline, Lian Qiao also pointed to the gray icon, and said to Liu Xia, "Unlock the password."

"No need to solve it." Liu Xia's recovery speed is obviously not comparable to that of ordinary people. He frantically took out a small note from his pocket and said with a smile, "The password is here."

"Where did Pang Ding come by?" Based on Gao Jie's understanding of Liu Xia, he quickly explained the origin.

"As long as it works." Liu Xia answered while entering the password, and quickly logged into Guo Kai's QQ.

……

"How come..." Guo Kai's chat history was blank.

"What should we do now?"

Lian Qiao obviously didn't expect this, and lost his mind for a while.It was Shentucheng who said, "Look at the mailbox."

Liu Xia clicked on the mailbox according to his words, and there was indeed a letter in it, but it was not in the inbox, but in the outbox——

Sender: 764483495<[email protected]>

时间：2011年3月5日（星期六）凌晨03：29

Recipient: 382425072<[email protected]>

The content of the letter is only one address.

"open to take a look."

"Can't open it." Liu Xia clicked several times, "The address is wrong."

"Let's see who the recipient is." Lian Qiao also said.

Guo Kai has hundreds of friends, and none of them are grouped into groups. After searching for a while, Liu Xia finally stopped the mouse: "This."

Lu Zhonghui.