Scarlet Falls

"Hey, I'm Uncle Gun, and I've arrived at the designated location."

"Xiao Lin, arrive at the designated location."

"Lucky, here we are."

"Report to the captain, I am Wei Wei, I have arrived at the designated location!"

"..."

Reports from the team members came from the headphones from time to time, and Wei Wei also participated enthusiastically.

Before it got dark, they had arrived at two intersections outside the pedestrian street in the fifth block of Scrap Iron City. They found an empty space under the no parking sign and stopped, looking at the bustling crowds and shops around them. , I smelled a strong scent of life in my mouth and nose. I followed the scent and saw a small cart selling fried noodles at the corner of the street in the distance. The business was booming.

But thinking that I was at work, I couldn't resist this damn temptation for the time being.

"receive."

The captain's reply sounded in the communicator: "Pay attention to Feifei's position and make sure at least two pairs of eyes are looking at her at the same time."

"yes."

"clear."

"knew."

"Copy that, Captain!"

"..."

"Xiao Wei, don't be so loud. We are in a small place. Please relax."

Captain Ouyang said: "Feifei should be in place now, let's see what she is doing."

"Report to the captain, she is eating popsicles..."

Uncle Gun replied loudly: "Little girls don't care about their figure at all. This is my third dick."

Captain Ouyang: "Alas..."

…

…

"well……"

Ye Feifei was in an extremely bad mood, holding the popsicle and sighing.

I arrived at the base early in the morning and saw everyone in the team leaving in a hurry. It looked like they had a mission, but they didn't mean to call me out at all. I felt somewhat aggrieved. After waiting for a while, I wanted to wait. Another intern came over to discuss it with him. Unexpectedly, Wei Wei never came to the team. When he thought about it, he must have been called directly to the scene.

Feeling aggrieved, I stopped patrolling the streets, so I bought a popsicle and sat on the street in a daze, watching the passers-by in a daze.

Unexpectedly, when his mood was gloomy, Uncle Gun made a serious phone call.

He said he had a task assigned to him.

At that time, I was immediately ecstatic. Ignoring the looks of passers-by, I immediately stood up and replied: "I promise to complete the task."

Then she was sent to the fifth district to continue patrolling the streets.

Picture what?

He made such a solemn phone call to himself, but he just changed places to patrol the streets?

The key is, after coming here for so long, I haven't even seen their shadows.

What is this for?

He went to solve a big case secretly, but he was transferred here and there to exercise?

Didn't answer the phone again.

Seeing that it was getting dark, the more I thought about it, the angrier I became. Even if I was asked to patrol the streets, I actually had to work overtime on patrol today...

When I was angry, I bought a few more popsicles, which were expensive.

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"Is there anything wrong with Feifei?"

"No."

"Is there anything unusual?"

"No."

"..."

On the communicator, a routine question and answer rang out every five minutes.

Wei Wei was sitting in the jeep with his legs on the steering wheel, smoking lazily and occasionally rushing to answer.

Next to the rearview mirror, a plush head pendant hangs.

But this thing is in a dormant state, with its eyes and mouth tightly closed, and it is shaken by the wind from time to time.

Wei Wei waited patiently and scanned the crowds on the roadside lazily. In the distance, he saw more and more people going out to consume at night, squeezing the fried noodle stall on the street to three floors inside and three floors outside. , the smell of slightly burnt scrambled eggs and fried sausage floated from far away like the whispers of a devil, got into his nostrils, and made his stomach feel angry, making him feel a little restless.

Hold it back, this is work, no, it's more serious than work, performing tasks.

Wei Wei warned himself in his heart and tried his best not to look at the little goblin.

At the same time, Captain Ouyang had walked into the shampoo room on the edge of the road, with a serious look on his face:

"How to wash it?"

"regular?"

"Really, what am I doing here?"

"This is right..."

"..."

Xiao Lin strolled leisurely in the night market, attracting the attention of countless men.

Sister Lucky sat on the front of the dark blue sports car, already holding a cocktail with a small paper umbrella in her hand.

"Boss, here are ten more muttons..."

Uncle Gun sat in front of the food stall, the master greeted him, and he had already drank three bottles.

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At the beginning of the lanterns, the popularity reached its peak, and the atmosphere of human beings was everywhere.

Then the night gets darker and the crowds gradually thin out.

The lively atmosphere has not only faded away, but also made the streets that were accustomed to being empty feel more lonely. Even the street lights that were always on seemed to be dimmed a little, and the scattered garbage bags, stealing Whispering ones rolled through the streets.

Wei Wei ate three boxes of fried noodles, then reluctantly watched the stall put away, and the old couple pushed and helped them leave.

There were no people on the street at this time, only stray dogs looking for food and drunken men.

Everyone in the team has also passed the initial excitement of the mission and has begun to enter a period of depression and doubt. They have been here for seven hours, but they have never encountered anything unusual, just like the date. The delay in arriving not only made people suspicious, but also meant that they were destined to stay all night tonight and would not be able to meet that thing?

According to Xiaolin's analysis, that thing will still appear tonight, and there will be more than a hundred victims.

But if Ye Feifei can't catch it, he can only watch more than a hundred people suffer?

Not only did Wei Wei have this question in his mind, he could feel that the captain's routine inquiries in the communicator had become slower and a little breathless. During the long and uncertain wait, the enthusiasm in his heart was wearing away little by little. .

The light became increasingly dim, as if it had lost all its strength, and even began to flicker on and off.

On the empty streets, a thin mist arose from unknown time, flowing uncertainly at the old street intersections. I don’t know if it’s too quiet around me, but there are always some inexplicable sounds in my ears. The night wind was much colder, blowing in from outside the car window and raising a layer of hair on the skin. In the distance, a stray dog ​​suddenly whined and whined, spinning in circles and biting its own tail.

Wei Wei was awakened by the chilly cold wind, and was suddenly startled when he saw a sneaky figure through the rearview mirror.

He staggered, his steps skewed, like a puppet on strings.

Wei Wei lay still on the driver's seat, watching the figure get closer to him, then wandering forward.

I felt a little regretful, it turned out to be a drunken man.

Helplessly letting go of the handle of the gun, Wei Wei breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly heard a crisp voice ringing in his ears:

"Brother, can I ask you for directions?"

"..."

Wei Wei held back his breath for a moment and slowly turned his head.

The fog seemed to disperse before his eyes, and he saw a little girl holding a jack-o-lantern looking at him next to the car.

I don’t know when she appeared. Maybe she came to the car when her attention was attracted by the drunk man. She looked very young, only seven or eight years old. She was wearing a dark red windbreaker and her face was unusually pale. , with two small braids on his head, which were unusually long. He looked timid, as if he was shivering in the cold night wind, and looked at himself with dull eyes.

Wei Wei also looked at her quietly, and slowly, a gentle smile suddenly appeared on his face:

"Hello, little sister..."

The little girl looked at Wei Wei intently, grinning at the pumpkin lantern in her hand: "Brother, can I ask you for directions?"

Wei Wei smiled even more kindly: "How old are you?"

The little girl waited for a while and then said: "Brother, I can ask you..."

"What are you doing out so late?"

Wei Wei interrupted her and said with a smile: "Where are your parents?"

The little girl fell silent. After a while, she suddenly turned around and walked forward slowly, holding a small jack-o'-lantern.

"Crack..."

But just when she turned around, the sound of bullets being loaded suddenly sounded behind her.

Wei Wei stuck his head out of the car and pointed the gun at her face. There was a hint of danger in his gentle smile:

"Did I tell you to leave?"

"..."

The little jack-o-lantern girl suddenly froze.

Wei Wei, on the other hand, looked at the little girl with satisfaction. He didn't know why Ye Feifei, who was guarded in the middle, didn't encounter anything unusual. Instead, he had such a strange little girl here first, but he was still in a good mood. He picked up the communicator thrown on the steering wheel, put it into his ear, pressed the button, and said with a smile: "Captain, I found something abnormal here."

I'm still in a good mood.

Ye Feifei, with his calamitous physique, didn't encounter anything weird first, but he encountered it first.

Sure enough, lucky enough.

"rustle……"

But he didn't expect that after he finished speaking, the sizzling sound of electricity sounded from the communicator, which seemed to be a bit confusing.

Then, Uncle Gun's low voice also sounded: "I also met a little girl here asking for directions."

"I met him too, carrying a jack-o'-lantern."

It's Xiao Lin.

Sister Lucky's excited and curious voice sounded: "What's going on? Where is it?"

"Done."

Immediately afterwards, Captain Ouyang's voice sounded a little low: "I met them too, three."

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…

"What the hell?"

Wei Wei was stunned for a moment, feeling like he had fallen out of favor.

Co-author You're not the first one to come to me?

Dissatisfaction suddenly appeared on his face, and the hand holding the gun was hooked on the trigger.

"Bang!"