Trying to pretend to be human today

Chapter 319 The disappearing signal

"……what is this?"

The human looked over in confusion, staring at the transparent disc in Bai Su's palm.

Bai Su simply turned over the disc and showed humans a lens with undulating arcs. What exactly is this?Convex and concave... forget it, it's not very important.

All they need to know is that it was a lens that fell off a camera lens.

Bai Su also cooperated by holding up the camera he was wearing that had been spared by the villagers. Comparing the two, it became even more obvious.

"You mean, that's the TV station's car?" Xia Chengyin raised an eyebrow, "But everyone from the TV station should have gone back at that time."

This is what the TV station recorded.

But it was early in the year, so if something unexpected happened, it wouldn't be difficult to get over it.

Furthermore, it might not be the official TV station they found.
"Indeed...there is a possibility."

The human seemed to be thinking about the situation mentioned later, while Bai Su put the lens on his fingernail, gently tossed it upwards, and after a few flips, he clasped it on the back of his hand.

It's a pity that this is not a coin, and it cannot be flipped head or tail.

Bai Su played with it for a few times before holding the lens on his fingertips again. He then asked casually: "So, how are those people from the TV station doing now?"

The human suddenly stopped after hearing this.

This is a good question.

The relevant special departments must have reviewed the relevant information before coming here, that is, to what extent they have reviewed it, and how much the person who looked at the information has remembered it.

There are some things that people just pass by when they read them. If they don’t mention them or point them out deliberately, they won’t pay close attention to the details behind them.

When Bai Su mentioned it now, the human frowned.

After a while, Tang Nuo finished recalling and said, "They are all dead."

As soon as these words came out, the humans in the room were a little stunned.

No one doubted the accuracy of Tang Nuo's memory. The bespectacled young man who was good at paperwork could still remember the information he had read recently.

The TV crew members who returned from Wenjia Village all died due to various reasons within a year or two.

Because the causes of death are quite normal, including birth, old age, illness, death, natural and man-made disasters, and the TV station had some personnel changes at that time, those who stayed at the TV station and those who resigned and changed jobs were separated, making it even less conspicuous.

At most, there were some weird rumors circulating on the TV station, and they couldn't be explained openly. People from the special department naturally missed it when they were collecting information.

"So..." Bai Su raised the lens in front of his eyes, "No one from the TV station is here?"

Coincidence is possible, but the probability is too small.

This is more like being influenced by external factors and causing its own destiny to change.

Tang Nuo nodded.

In addition, Bai Su had just heard that the people from the "corner" TV station were used as sacrifices by Wenjia Village, and they also said the same.

Sacrifice... probably refers to the area on the mountain.

The only minor present woke up and learned a lot of news all at once, and his head was dizzy from the huge amount of information.

He may have to transform into a fish, and Qi Zhuyue will be kidnapped and will soon face the danger of a doppelgänger. The two thoughts go back and forth, and finally he breaks free.

The young man drank another glass of water and asked, "So, what should we do now?"

Gao Tianyi was just about to discuss this issue before he woke up, but was interrupted.

Humans quickly made choices about their next steps.

It's impossible to stay, and it's not like they can't escape.

As mentioned before, even if they bring a drag oil bottle, they can run faster and have higher combat effectiveness than the villagers, not to mention that the drag oil bottle himself has woken up.

"I'm not a dragster!" the young man protested. He murmured while drinking water, "I'm just...Gulu, my need for water may be a little greater now."

Tang Nuo glanced at Gao Tianyi worriedly.

There is a huge demand here, all we have to do is connect a water pipe.

But the minor Taoist priest said it didn't matter. He felt that he was about to figure out the rules of replenishing water. He had just been short of water for too long and drank a little too much at one time.

"Now..." The human boy dropped the cup and stood up, "Are we leaving now?"

"Where should we go first after we go out? Should we go back to get things first or find Sister Qi?"

Where to look is also a problem. The disappearance of the female companion was too sudden, just after an enemy attack, she disappeared.

But it doesn't matter, the special department is prepared to recruit later.

Before digging out the courtyard that couldn't contain them at all, Xia Chengyin took out his mobile phone from his pocket.

Bai Su stretched his head with interest, standing behind the crowd and watching the short-haired police officer play with a certain software on his phone a few times, and then an offline map was rolled out.

The human clicked on the map, and a row of light spots immediately appeared on it.

The light spot was similar to a series of action tracks. It started to circle around the village, stopping and walking, then went to the edge of the village and turned back. Finally, it went all the way into the distance, moved to the mountains, and stopped. .

Bai Su asked curiously: "You're not moving, are you?"

Tang Nuo answered: "If the signal is interrupted, it will stop flashing. If it stays still, it will flash."

Bai Su nodded as if he understood: "Then where is this signal installed?"

Xia Chengyin shook the mobile phone in his hand: "It was issued by the ministry and it is already installed. If you signed the notice in advance, don't tell me that you don't know."

The black-haired young man subtly looked away.

Ahem, he really didn't look carefully.

Anyway - no matter what, Qi Zhuyue's whereabouts seems to be known.

Her signal positioning finally disappeared into the mountains, which was consistent with Xia Chengyin and others' guess about Wen Rongxuan's behavior.

The person who had a quarrel with the entire village would obviously not come back, and there were no other settlements in this mountain.

The way down the mountain was blocked, and although Wen Rongxuan definitely had a way to get over it, when he had other goals, he only had one destination to go to - the mountains.

Bai Su looked at the location where the red dot stayed on the map, raised his head and compared it with the direction of the environment in reality.

Isn't this... isn't this the direction where Wen Rongxuan's eyes were trembling crazily when he looked over that night?
……

She... where is she?
Qi Zhuyue felt that she had slept for a long, long time, sleeping very deeply.

Without dreaming, she was just immersed in darkness. She could not move or get out, and was wrapped in mud.

Finally, she woke up from the darkness.

She raised her eyelids that were stuck together and opened her eyes. The light entering her eyes was extremely dim. The dim vision made it difficult for her to identify where she was.

It should... be in a shady place, at least there was no sunlight coming in, and there was no wind. All she could feel was the moisture she could smell from the tip of her nose.

The smell of moisture is everywhere in this village and the mountain, but it is especially strong here, as if it has penetrated deep into the hinterland.

Is there anyone around her?It seemed to be there, the breathing was so shallow that it was almost unrecognizable, but it was still there.

After confirming that her condition was okay, Qi Zhuyue began to observe the surrounding environment.As her eyes slowly got used to being in the dark for a long time, Qi Zhuyue was gradually able to distinguish the outlines of some objects.

She first sensed her own situation.

She was sitting on a chair, her hands tied behind her back with a rope.

The tying technique is not very professional, but the advantage is that there are some unexplainable things wrapped around the hemp rope. In addition to the rough texture, there is also some slippery stickiness.

Qi Zhuyue tried to move her fingers, and the liquid immediately stuck to it, entangled between her fingers, and wiped it twice without any sense of boundaries.

...seems to be alive.

Such thoughts suddenly appeared in Qi Zhuyue's mind.

The chair was not fixed to the ground, but her legs were bound in the same way. If she tried to break free, she would definitely attract the attention of those slippery beings.

Her mouth is not blocked and she can speak normally. Is she going to--

"You're awake." A voice suddenly came from very close to him, "Wen Tao."

There was only a harsh friction sound between the chair legs and the ground. Qi Zhuyue was startled and subconsciously stepped aside.

The reason she didn't fall was because someone was holding the chair, the person standing very close to her.

With his vision still blocked, Qi Zhuyue looked in the direction of the sound, except for the darkness and what seemed to be the outline of a human face.

Why use likeness?Because the outline is not round or elliptical as imagined, but sharp-edged and angular, with some ever-changing fluctuations.

Is he still human?Qi Zhuyue thought, is Wen Rongxuan still a human being?
After discovering that the person woke up and said hello, the young man realized that the current environment was not enough for people to see everything in front of him clearly, so he "walked" away and lit the "light".

The flame lit by the lighter lit the candle. This is a cave formed naturally and with some traces of acquired excavation. The environment is extremely simple, and naturally there is no better lighting equipment.

Even the ground where Qi Zhuyue is sitting now should have been uneven, but now it has been covered with a layer of black liquid, which has been smoothed out.

Qi Zhuyue's feet had been tied up before, so she didn't notice until her eyes could see clearly.

Looking at Wen Rongxuan again... the young man, half of whom was almost covered in black sludge, looked straight at her, his eyes filled with dark emotions.

In fact, Wen Rongxuan was not looking at her, but at Wen Tao.

But in this situation, how do you ask her to explain that she is not the real Wen Tao!
Qi Zhuyue had a confused and frightened expression on his face, and was screaming in his heart.

She is just a support staff.

He is not that capable of fighting himself, and he is even less able to resist when he is alone.

The woman's mental and emotional changes were changing all the time, and the woman whose low ponytail had become loose and about to fall off her rubber band just lowered her head and made a sound that sounded like sobbing.

When she looked up again, she was speechless.He expressed his fear and confusion again and again.

"Why are you arresting me? I...did you make a mistake? I didn't...no, what are these?"

Now he was talking about himself, and now he was talking about the surrounding environment. His words were full of anxiety, and he kept asking Wen Rongxuan if he had made a mistake.

Halfway through the words, the woman suddenly met the young man's eyes. The moment they met, the woman shrank and tightened her pupils.

Not good...very bad.

Qi Zhuyue saw another scene that ordinary people could not see in the remaining eye of the young man with a dark shadow floating on his face.

Her seniors have always told her that high inspiration is both her talent and her weakness. This is a double-edged sword.

The woman whose mouth was still moving suddenly had her pupils dilated. She lowered her head heavily, her chin almost buried in her chest, and she didn't take a breath.

The constant tightening of her throat did not allow her to absorb any oxygen, but instead caused her eyes to turn black due to lack of oxygen.

When her eyes turned dark again, she felt Wen Rongxuan's ocean-like sadness and pain.

The strangeness of the villagers, his incomprehension, and the "goodwill" of outsiders.

The failure of the spell, the death of a loved one, the rejection from the village.

The decadent days and nights, the unbelievable outcome, the desperate attempt.

Thus, the "double" was born.

Qi Zhuyue couldn't repeat the doppelganger's real name. When the string of syllables appeared in her mind, she felt a great sense of nausea, as if she wanted to vomit out her internal organs.

Young people's emotions don't last long. Most of the clips are flashes. Only the closer to the present time, the clearer and crazier the picture becomes.

——Wen Tao... Wen Tao, Wen Tao, Wen Tao, Wen Tao!
Someone kept shouting this name in her ears, so much so that Qi Zhuyue almost thought she was Wen Tao herself.

There are men's voices and women's voices.

They called Wen Tao's name and talked to Wen Tao.

Wen Rongxuan disappeared from the world in front of her, replaced by two middle-aged men and women whose faces could not be seen clearly, and the scene no longer seemed to be a lonely hut.

...a somewhat familiar house.

The man and woman, whose faces could not be seen clearly, were holding her arms and talking to her.

The voices of the two were not only separated by a layer of gauze, but also seemed to be separated by layers of barriers. They also seemed to be soaked in thick water, making it difficult for the voices to be transmitted.

——Don’t... leave... there are... in the village...

——She...shouldn't give it...shouldn't give it!

- Wrong...everything is wrong.

The vague voices revealed regret, but Qi Zhuyue couldn't understand what the two wanted to express.

She felt like she was taking a dictation test, and the man and woman speaking were the kind of old broadcasting equipment that was lagging and had poor signal, the kind that students would complain about after taking the test.

They seemed to be expressing a regret. They felt that they had done something wrong and given the wrong thing, which led to a bad ending.

Qi Zhuyue went to ask as Wen Tao, but unexpectedly, a man and a woman pushed her outside the house, and then outside the village stone monument.

She dragged her suitcase and heard their last words - don't come back.

Wen Tao didn't come back, but Qi Zhuyue came back as "Wen Tao".

Ah... this is really...

Qi Zhuyue blinked, and the luggage in her hands suddenly disappeared. She was still sitting there with her hands behind her back, her head hung low.

She sucked in the moist air with big mouthfuls, and then, a pool of shadows spread in front of her eyes.

It was Wen Rongxuan who stood in front of her, and the surging black shadow always gave her an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

She seemed to have seen it somewhere, but not with Wen Rongxuan.

Before Qi Zhuyue could recover and come up with a reason, her chin was pinched and lifted. The young man looked at her intently and asked, "What did your parents do back then?"

parents?

Qi Zhuyue blinked her sour eyes, and she seemed to understand something.

The man and woman whose faces were unclear were Wen Tao's parents.

(End of this chapter)