dead dog

On the sidewalk across the street, several young girls were selling roses to passers-by. Behind them was a bulging backpack filled with packed roses. The backpack was erected on the outside wall of the shop. In the dim light, the backpack cast another shadow, and there was a person squatting in the corner shrouded in double shadows.

That was Song Youhai, and Song Youhai was much cleaner than when Ye Chuyang saw him for the first time, at least his clothes and face were clean, which caused Ye Chuyang to recognize him for a while before confirming that he was Song Youhai.But Song Youhai was still weird. He was wearing a fat autumn jacket, with one hand in his bosom, and his eyes were scanning the crowd on the street back and forth, looking very sneaky.

Jiang Ying looked at his watch and said, "It's [-]:[-], sister Liang Youyou left the training center at [-]:[-] on the day of the incident."

Facia and Bian Xiaocheng also surrounded Ye Chuyang, and they all noticed Song Youhai, the owner of the spiritual cabin squatting across the street.They were downstairs in the training center, where Song Youhai was staring at was their direction; Song Youhai was staring at the training center, they were staring at Song Youhai, and they were staring at each other from a distance.

Time gradually moved forward, Jiang Ying looked at his watch and said, "It's time."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Chuyang heard the laughter of a little girl behind him. He turned his head and saw two girls in dark green floral dresses coming out of the lobby of a commercial building. The two girls looked almost the same. They are exactly the same, indistinguishable from each other, and their clothes are also very similar, except that one wears a hairpin with white pink dots, and the other does not.

The girl wearing the hairpin is Liang Youyou, and the girl without the hairpin is Liang Youyou's twin sister, Liang Xinxin. The two little sisters are very similar in appearance, and they can only be distinguished by the expressions on their faces; Xinxin is gentler.The two sisters left the building and stood on the side of the road. Liang Youyou used the phone watch to call his father and asked when he would pick them up.

The result seemed unsatisfactory, Liang Youyou pursed her lips, and said a little loudly: "It's agreed to take me and Xinxin to go kart today, and it doesn't count! No, I don't want Aunt Zhang to take us there , she is not my mother!"

Liang Youyou angrily hung up the phone, led her sister forward, and said, "Don't wait for Dad, let's go play by ourselves."

Liang Xinxin followed her sister hesitantly: "But Dad asked us to wait for him."

Ye Chuyang didn't hear what the sisters said again, because the two girls quickly blended into the crowd, and their voices drifted away with the crowd.

Jiang Ying suddenly bent down to Ye Chuyang's ear, and whispered, "Song Youhai is here."

Ye Chuyang quickly looked to the opposite side and found that Song Youhai was crossing the road. He rushed forward recklessly and almost hit the front of a car. The driver stuck his head out of the window and scolded him.Song Youhai crossed the road in a panic, and chased after the little sister's back.

Song Youhai followed Sister Liang Youyou, Ye Chuyang and others followed Song Youhai, the crowd was dense, Ye Chuyang kept moving his position to ensure that Song Youhai remained in his sight.Jiang Ying walked beside him, helping him fend off pedestrians coming and going.

Turning around the intersection, it suddenly became more lively. A clown performance team composed of twenty or thirty clowns wearing clown costumes and clown makeup came towards them. They danced simple dance moves and were as lively as passersby. They were interacting, and around them were more than a dozen girls in uniform pink short-sleeved handing out leaflets. The words 'Jiajia Electrical Appliance City' were printed on the girls' short-sleeved sleeves.

"Huafeng Plaza Jiajia Electrical Appliance City opens a big bargain, and there is also a golden egg raffle!"

The girls shouted slogans every time they sent out a leaflet. A girl with short hair handed Ye Chuyang a leaflet. Ye Chuyang saw her face and recognized that she had sent it to him four days ago. The girl with flyers.

The clown performance team was really eye-catching. Most of the pedestrians on the sidewalk were full of footsteps. Some people simply stopped to watch the excitement. Ye Chuyang and Jiang Ying were also stopped in their tracks.

"Cousin, he's gone!"

Facia stepped on her feet and looked forward, but she couldn't find Song Youhai. She was in a hurry, so she pushed the couple in front of her away, relying on her petite stature and thin body, she swam through the sea of ​​people like a fish.

"Xiaoya wait for me!" Bian Xiaocheng worried about her, and pushed his way through the crowd and ran forward.

Ye Chuyang and Jiang Ying were blocked by the clown performance team. Ye Chuyang was very anxious, grabbed Jiang Ying's wrist and pushed forward. After two steps, he bumped into a clown; A girl with purple hair twisted a balloon, and when Ye Chuyang bumped into it, she said in a Northeast accent, "Look at the way, brother."

Ye Chuyang apologized to him, and was about to go forward again, when he suddenly heard the sharp screeching sound of brakes on the road, accompanied by the cry of a child.He was about to look at the road to see what happened, when Jiang Ying grabbed him and rushed forward: "Liang Youyou is ahead!"

The back of a dark green little girl flashed past in the crowd.

After finally rushing out of the clown performance team, although the road was still noisy, Ye Chuyang felt that the world became much quieter in an instant.He and Jiang Ying ran forward, and in front of them was the alley where the homicide occurred. Ye Chuyang suddenly stopped because he saw that the street lights were going out one by one, and the lights of the signboards were also going out one by one. Walking with the vehicle, it disappeared out of thin air, and the whole street was dark and empty in a blink of an eye, and the people were barren.The city has become a ghost town.

Jiang Ying immediately took out his mobile phone and turned on the flashlight, pulling Ye Chuyang and ran forward again: "Find Liang Youyou first."

Their purpose was very clear, that is, Song Youhai followed Sister Liang Youyou to that deep alley.

A little girl's scream came from the dark night, less than a hundred meters away from them.

Ye Chuyang kept up with Jiang Ying's speed with the strength that he was about to break his legs, and quickly ran to the entrance of the alley. Standing at the entrance of the alley and looking in, he saw a figure squatting on the ground with his back to them. Looking back, his whole body was integrated with the night, but a pair of dark eyes shone in the night—he was Song Youhai.

"stop!"

Jiang Ying ran after him, and Song Youhai ran away immediately, and ran out of the alley and into the back street of the hotel in a blink of an eye.

Ye Chuyang stayed alone in the dark alley, and vaguely saw a person lying in the alley, panting heavily, walking towards the inside of the alley, getting darker and darker, and the night like a monster in an instant Swallowing... He saw Liang Youyou's body, a small body that only showed a vague outline in the dark night. He knelt down, illuminated it with the dim light from the watch on his wrist, and saw Liang Youyou's beautiful and immature face, Liang Youyou's eyes are still open, but her breathing has stopped, blood is gushing from the back of her head, she is already dead.

"cousin!"

When Ye Chuyang heard Facia's voice, he immediately walked back and walked out of the alley. He saw a light coming from the front, and Bian Xiaocheng held a small flashlight the size of a finger and Facia ran to this side.These two people are not very strong, and when they stop, they are panting like cows. Bian Xiaocheng pointed to the direction they ran to just now, and said out of breath: "Ye, Dr. Ye, we, we found..."

Facia took a deep breath, and said in one go, "We found Song Youhai!"

Ye Chuyang glanced behind Facia. It was the opposite direction from him and Jiang Ying to track Song Youhai. He asked puzzledly, "Have you found Song Youhai?"

Facia pointed back: "Yeah, we ran with him all the way to the north, but he suddenly disappeared!"

Ye Chuyang was stunned.

Footsteps sounded in the dark alley, and Jiang Ying walked out quickly, saying, "Dr. Ye, I lost it."

Ye Chuyang asked a seemingly stupid question: "Who are you chasing?"

Jiang Ying frowned and said, "Song Youhai."

Bian Xiaocheng shouted, "That's not right, President Jiang, we followed Song Youhai to North Street just now!"

Jiang Ying said firmly: "Impossible, Dr. Ye and I saw Song Youhai killing people in the alley just now."

Facia said anxiously: "Really, we just came from North Street, and Song Youhai followed Liang Youyou to North Street, not South Street!"

From the front intersection as the boundary, the food street South Street is to the south, and the food street North Street is to the north.Facia and Bian Xiaocheng went to North Street, Ye Chuyang and Jiang Ying came to South Street, Liang Youyou died in the deep alley of South Street, but Facia said that Song Youhai followed Liang Youyou to North Street...

Ye Chuyang suddenly felt chills all over his body, and a gust of cold air seeped from his back. He held Jiang Ying's arm and asked, "Is the person you are chasing really Song Youhai?"

Jiang Ying said firmly: "I saw his face, he is indeed Song Youhai."

Ye Chuyang took a deep breath, and asked Facia: "Then who are you following?"

Facia: "I plug all my skirts and swear to you, he is really Song Youhai!"

Jiang Ying frowned: "What's going on? Are there two Song Youhais?"

At this time, a street light suddenly lit up at the crossroad ahead, and Lijing Street, West Street, which was connected to the intersection, was also lit up, and the noise of the crowd also followed.Like in a silent and dark theater, the curtain on the stage was drawn, and the actors and lights were already in place.

Back at the intersection, Ye Chuyang saw the disappearing traffic and crowds on Lijing Street returning, crowded and orderly, as if they had never disappeared.

Jiang Ying raised his wrist to look at his watch, his eyes were cold, and he said, "It's ten past nine, and the time has turned back 25 minutes."

Facia grabbed Bian Xiaocheng's arm, wishing to shrink behind Bian Xiaocheng, pointing to the front and tremblingly said: "Cousin, are they...are they us?"

On the sidewalk ahead, four people, Ye Chuyang, Jiang Ying, Facia, and Bian Xiaocheng, stood by the side of the road, all staring at the opposite side of the street, and there was also a pair of eyes on the other side of the street staring in their direction... Soon, Sister Liang Youyou came out of the building. Liang Youyou called her father with the phone watch, and took her sister away in a huff. Song Youhai recklessly crossed the road and followed them, and Song Youhai followed Ye Chuyang and his party , Immediately afterwards, a clown performance team walked towards them and surrounded them...

Ye Chuyang suddenly said: "I understand."

Jiang Ying: "What?"

The clowns are using the small props they carry to perform magic tricks on passers-by. A flower or a candy can make the passers-by smile. The man bumped into him, so he reminded the man to be careful in Northeast dialect...

Ye Chuyang looked at his other self, his heart was pounding, and he said in a trembling voice, "This is a cycle of death."

The Qixi Festival carnival night began, and clowns in costumes appeared on the stage. They danced and brought gifts, like night gods and devils.