Fruit Man [Unlimited]

There was already a guest in the detention room. When Lai Ge came in, the man was sleeping on the bench against the wall.

"Officer An Ting! How long will I be locked up?" Lai Ge called policewoman An Ting.

An Ting turned around, her face was not sharp, on the contrary, she was still a little tired, "You stay here first, after we have checked the surveillance, if we are sure that it has nothing to do with you, we will naturally let you out."

Lai Ge: "Is there anything to eat? I didn't eat at noon. I just wanted to go to the supermarket to buy some food. When I saw everyone gathering, I came too. Later, I saw the mayor was shot. I thought I had learned a little nursing Knowledge, I rushed out subconsciously. I didn't expect... Sigh."

An Ting didn't seem to think that Lai Ge was the murderer in her heart. At that time, Lai Ge was indeed empty-handed, but he was unlucky. Who made him the closest to the mayor and the short-haired girl?

"You wait." An Ting came over after a while, and threw a nutrient solution to Lai Ge, "This tube is full, I will give it to you."

Lai Ge: "Thank you. You don't look very good. The person who shot the gun is too abominable. Does he have a personal grudge against the mayor? Or is he using this to disturb the town? Who do you think might attack the mayor?"

"Don't meddle in your own business! Don't ask questions." An Ting glared at Lai Ge and left.

The bench was occupied by the first guest, and Lai Ge sat down by the wall.

Looking at the nutrient solution, he thought that if the food here has developed enough to be replaced by nutrient solution, it would not be difficult to store enough food for the townspeople for half a year in advance.

However, there are supermarkets, shops and farms here, and the townspeople still cannot get away from normal food if they want to come.

In the future, people in the town should eat the nutrient solution mixed with normal food until the isolation is over.Lai Ge guessed.

Lai Ge still has some problems to figure out. The reincarnation once every 19 years is not particularly long. It is normal for townspeople with long lifespans to go through two or three reincarnations.

Then why are the townspeople here still unwilling to leave the town?Although the actual population is less than 17.00% of the registered population, there are still more than 4000 people.

Normally, it is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. If this kind of thing happened on the earth, the people living here would have run away long ago, and the government would help to evacuate.

Unless there is some kind of greater benefit here, this benefit makes some people prefer to stay at the risk of being blocked for half a year or even disappearing.

"It's messed up outside." The voice was low and hoarse, but unexpectedly pleasant, like smoke.

Lai Ge looked at the first comer who turned over, "Yes, the mayor was shot, and the murderer has not been found yet. A girl wanted to save the mayor, but someone chopped off her head."

"Really, that's really unlucky." The man didn't seem to be surprised at all. He changed from lying down to sitting up, and even brushed the hair that covered his eyes. This man looked about to be in his early 30s, with red hair and brown eyes, and a slender figure. , thin: "Aaron, a resident of this town, works as a reporter outside, and just came back recently."

Lai Ge: "Lai Ge, passenger, I just arrived in your town this morning. First, I was tricked into a mine by an uncle in his 50s who opened a micro card. Soon there was a miner riot. The owner of the mine, George, disappeared, and the police chief appeared. After negotiation, the sheriff agreed to send us kidnapped and imprisoned people away, but soon we found that the roads at both ends of the town were cut off. After entering the town, before I had a good stroll in the town, I met the town The mayor was shot because I was brought in because I was closest to the girl by the mayor."

Aaron laughed when he heard the words, "You are really unlucky."

Lai Ge shrugged, "What about you? Why were you locked in again?"

"Because I asked too many questions and touched the biggest secret of this town."

"What secret?"

"This is my scoop."

"I'm not a news runner, and I'm not interested in snatching other people's news. And the town can't go out. I heard people say that this place has to be isolated from the world for at least half a year, and this is not the first time. It seems that every 19 years It will be reincarnated once. After half a year, the ban will be lifted, with so many people, what secrets can we keep?"

Aaron raised his head abruptly, the smile on his face disappeared, "It seems that you have inquired about a lot of things."

Lai Ge relaxed and said: "There are a lot of people in the tavern. If you buy someone a drink, you can hear a lot of things."

Aaron pouted, "Forget it, they won't tell you the real secret."

"You mean the disappearance case?" Lai Ge said lightly.

Now Aaron really looked at Lai Ge squarely, "Who did you ask so much from?"

Lai Ge smiled and pointed to his ears: "My hearing is very good, very good. For example, I am sitting here, but I can hear the whispers of the policemen in the police station outside."

Aaron squinted his eyes and didn't believe it, but when he thought of the magic of this town, he was skeptical again: "What else do you know?"

Lai Ge raised his finger and shook, "My friend, we can only talk if we come and go."

Aaron snorted softly, folded his knees and curled up on the bench.

Lai Ge didn't urge him either.

"Are you really a passenger?" Aaron couldn't help but spoke first.

Lai Ge laughed, "Do I not look like a tourist?"

"What do you do?" Aaron asked.

Lai Ge half-truthfully said: "My family owns an orchard, and I am in the fruit business."

"Wow! It's amazing. You can actually open an orchard on our abandoned mine planet. Your family must have a strong background. Where you can still open an orchard... Do you live in the basin of life in the eastern hemisphere?" Aaron was genuinely surprised real meaning.

Lai Ge just smiled and said nothing, let him guess freely.

Aaron's expression suddenly became more enthusiastic, "No wonder you are so calm. Do you think someone will come to rescue you?"

Lai Ge nodded, "I didn't go out alone, I had two friends, but when I entered the town, something strange happened, and I got separated from them. I'm looking for them, and they should be looking for me too."

"If they also enter the town, you will meet them sooner or later. Not necessarily, if they meet..., but if they are still outside the town, you can only wait for half a year." Aaron was a little gloating, but very It's about to converge.

"I will find them, and they will definitely find me." Lai Ge said with certainty.

Aaron pouted, "If you really want to find your friend, then you will need me very much."

Lai Ge raised his eyebrows and asked directly: "What do you want from me?"

Aaron looked at the young man again and again, seeing that his expression was indeed not as flustered as ordinary people's, and he even had the confidence that he would definitely break the game. After pondering for a second, he decided to take a gamble.

"I just want a promise. If I can help you, I hope you can help me once in the future. For example, when I can't live here, you can take me to the basin of life and give me official occupancy permit."

Lai Ge shook his finger again, "You're mistaken, friend, I don't need your help, on the contrary, you need my help. It's not easy to fight alone, especially when you're investigating a secret that the locals are trying to hide .And this secret...is not the reason for being quarantined once in 19 years, but the reason why the townspeople refuse to move out."

Aaron's face changed, "You are by no means an ordinary passenger, are you someone sent by the higher authorities to investigate the secrets here? Or..."

"You think too much. As I said, I'm just an occasional traveler who just happened to come across it, and I'm a very curious person. When I encounter such a miraculous thing, I naturally have to inquire about it."

"Then you know too much..." Aaron muttered, scratching his eyebrows, as if he had made some kind of decision, got up from the bench, walked to sit opposite Lai Ge.

"Okay, friend, I think we can cooperate. Cough, I was like other townspeople from the beginning, thinking that everyone's reluctance to move out was because of the tax exemption policy here, and the homeland is hard to leave, and the life outside is not enough. How beautiful the world is, many elderly people are unwilling to move away, and the miners and their families who rely on the mines for food can only find jobs, eat and wear clothes here, and they can only know that there is a reincarnation blockade here every 19 years, and still Stay here. It's a secret that everyone in town over 30 knows."

"Actually, this is just a superficial reason." Lai Ge said.

"Yes." Aaron organized the language, "19 years ago, I was not in the town. When I was very young, my mother took me out of the town. My father was a miner here, and my parents were born and raised in the stone forest. I am from a small town. I also have an older brother. When my parents divorced, my older brother voluntarily stayed with his father. I have never seen my older brother since then.”

"I remember this month 19 years ago, my mother looked very anxious, she often gnawed her nails until they bled, and kept saying my brother's name. I was only 12 years old at the time, and I couldn't bear my mother's pain. I proposed to go back to the town to visit my elder brother and father. My mother thought it over and agreed, but she waited for half a year. After half a year, she took me back to the town, but when I arrived in the town, I found..."

Aaron sighed a long time, "My brother disappeared, he became one of the missing persons. My mother and my father had a violent argument, and the two quarreled so badly that my mother didn't even stay one night, and took me that night. He left the town, and told me not to come back to this damn town no matter what happens to me in the future."

Aaron scratched his eyebrows, "This incident left a deep impression on me, and it also made me full of curiosity about the town. When I was young, I didn't understand why my mother refused to stay with my father to find the missing elder brother. Probably influenced by this incident, I became a reporter after graduating from university. In the past ten years, I have been to the town many times, and I have also investigated some things that the town never said to the outside world. I have also encountered danger several times , I can only rely on my father's face to escape."

"Is your father still alive?" Lai Ge speculated through Aaron's tone.

Aaron shook his head, showing a trace of sadness, "I came back this time to attend his funeral, and my mother was notified of the funeral, but she has been unwilling to forgive my father because of my brother's disappearance. Come back together."

"What did you find?" Lai Ge was keenly aware.

Aaron put away his sadness, and his eyes became serious: "I came back this time, and I found that besides me, there were many young people who were called back. They were called back for various reasons. Inheritance, some houses collapsed, and excuses such as class reunions. In short, in the past few days, all young people under the age of 40 who were born in the town but lived outside have been notified, but some of them have returned. I ignored it. But there are more than 100 people who came back.”

"Who sent you the notice? Besides your father, are there other relatives in your family?" Lai Ge asked.

Aaron smiled bitterly: "People in our town are more or less related by blood, but they are not close. In addition to my father, I have grandparents in my family, but I am not close to them. They sent me the funeral notice My grandparents are long gone. My mother has a younger sister who is married in the town. She is a nice person. When I came back this time, she asked me to leave early. Only then did I realize that she was doing it for my own good. Unfortunately, I woke up too late!"

Aaron paused: "Most of the other people's notices were sent to them by their relatives. If it wasn't like this, they wouldn't be fooled back."

"Fucked?"

"Well, I investigated, and some people were called back for real reasons, but some excuses are really perfunctory. For example, inheritance of property, damage to the house, and that shitty classmate reunion!" Aaron sneered, "I I found that someone was deliberately delaying us and not letting us leave. The reporter's intuition told me that something happened, and it was likely to have a lot to do with my brother's disappearance, so I started to investigate secretly. Just as I followed the clues to find On the other side of the farm, I was arrested by the town police who arrived on the grounds that I illegally trespassed on private land without permission."

When Lai Ge heard this, he frowned slightly: "What you said is not of much value. If you are not sincere, then cooperate..."

"Wait!" Aaron smiled wryly, "Don't worry, I'm not going to tell you...don't look at me like that, okay, I said. Over the years, I have traveled to the town many times, and I discovered something very Strange thing, have you noticed that there are no old people in our town."

Lai Ge clasped his knees with his fingers, "I just came today, and I didn't see many people." Secretly asked Little Potato Fries to check the ages of the townspeople.

Little Potato Fries quickly told Lai Ge: "There are old people, and there are many. Wow, I don't know if I don't check, dear master, this is actually a longevity town, and there are many long-lived people. There are 150 people over 400 years old and under 150 years old. There are about 900 people between the ages of 70 and 1000. There are also more than [-] to [-] people between the ages of [-] and [-]. These old people actually account for more than half of the actual population.”

Lai Ge was shocked, "Do people on this planet live so long?"

"People in the Big Dipper Alliance generally have a very long lifespan. It is because their genes have been improved several times, and the upper limit of lifespan has been broken. But the technological level of this planet is still a long way from the Big Dipper Alliance. I can't connect to the planetary network. , but according to the information in the library software, this planet is a mine star, due to the unfavorable environment, the average lifespan is only around 130 or [-] years old, and the upper limit of lifespan is around [-] years old."

Lai Ge asked Little French Fries to send him the population numbers of other age groups as well.

Aaron confided a little more here: "When I say there are no old people, I don't mean age, but appearance. The townspeople you see outside, you think they are only 60, [-] years old, and they don't look very old. In fact, they're probably all over a hundred years old."

Lai Ge tapped his fingers on his knees: "So, the biggest reason why the townspeople of Shilin Town refuse to leave this town is that it can make them live longer and stay young?"

Aaron nodded grimly.

At the same time, Duan Li found the oldest townsman in this town, the farmer Masefield.

When Duan Li was in the library, he found out that there was a problem with the age of the townspeople in this town earlier than Lai Ge. Under the imprint of the representative tree, he left a sentence for Lai Ge, telling him to pay attention to the age of the townspeople. age, also mentioned about the "tree" speculation.

When Duan Li left his mark, he still expected Lai Ge to be in the same time stream as him, but as he got to know more about this town, the more he realized that Lai Ge might be close to him, but 19 years apart time.

This made Duan Li have some guesses about the mastermind of the game, but this can be put aside for now, his main purpose now is to find Lai Ge.

As for Brother Dao?If you can find it, you will find it, if you can't find it, you will pull it down.

How to find Lai Ge without completing the main task is his current difficulty.This made him turn his attention from searching for the secret of the "tree" to the missing persons in the town.

Is the reason for the longevity of the townspeople in Shilin Town related to robbing others of life and time?

Have those who disappeared become sacrifices to keep others young and prolong their lives?

If these speculations are true, how did the townspeople do it?

Duan Li now hopes that these missing people have crossed time, even if not all, only one or two are fine, as long as he can prove that the missing people can travel through time and find the key to time travel, then he can definitely do it.