"Brother, have you made a mistake? How could I be a devil? Have you ever seen a devil who can read stories by himself at the age of six?"
Su Ge thought for a while, said nothing, and still stared at Naia.
"If you think that I am a devil because of some sayings and coincidences, this kind of logic cannot solve the problem. Why don't you think about it the other way around, have I done anything dangerous to you? Someone is obviously out there trying to catch you.
And I secretly rescued you and gave you food, is this a danger to you?"
Su Ge thought for a while, and it was indeed as Naiya said, from the beginning of the whole thing to now, except for some strange coincidences, Naiya has not done anything detrimental to himself.
But he just felt that something was wrong, and from Naiya's body, he felt a kind of danger, the kind of silent danger that would reveal its sharp claws and devour him at the critical moment.
Bang bang bang, bang bang bang.
Suddenly there was a rapid knock on the door, interrupting the stalemate between the two.
The brass bell hanging on the porch was not shaken. The visitor seemed to be very anxious and knocked directly over the doorbell. This was a very rude and disrespectful move for people who lived in the upper block.
But now Su Ge couldn't care about this at all. When the door was knocked for the second time, he stood up suddenly and looked around at a very fast speed, preparing to find a way to escape.
Too careless... Su Ge felt anxious.
I thought that all the police manpower was now concentrated in the lower block, and the upper block had also been inspected several times. It was now a blind spot for searches, which was why he returned, but he did not expect that someone would come to search.
Bang bang bang.
There was another knock on the door. The person who came seemed to have little patience and was very impatient.
"Open the door, York Police."
Su Ge pricked up his ears and listened carefully. There were chaotic footsteps outside, and there seemed to be many people.
In this case, it would be impossible to use the time difference between the main entrance and the side entrance to leave... He was thinking about it in his mind, while frantically thinking about ways to leave.
Just when he was anxious, Naiya shouted at the door, "No one is home."
Then Naiya quietly came to Su Ge and whispered, "Go to the left-hand side of the second floor, the room at the end, you know what to do."
"What do you mean there is no one? I heard your voice, open the door quickly." Someone outside shouted.
Su Ge still didn't move. He knew that he should do what Naiya said, and Naiya was also his only savior now, but he could always feel an inexplicable fear from Naiya. It was this fear that made him
He has always been wary of Naiya.
At this time, he saw Naia suddenly holding his hand, walking to the stairs and pointing at it, then walking straight to the door, holding the door handle with one hand, turning to look at him, with a smile on his lips.
If you don't want to be caught, just do as I say... Su Ge understood Naiya's meaning, gritted his teeth, and quickly went up to the second floor. According to Naiya's instructions, he immediately walked to the left and went to the room at the end.
He ducked in and closed the door gently.
As soon as the door was closed, the room suddenly became dark. The only window seemed to be sealed by something, and only a ray of light could be cast from the crack of the door.
Su Ge's throat slowly moved, and he controlled his breathing to be steady. He squinted his eyes and looked at the blur in the darkness, and suddenly found that he was surrounded by people.
His pupils shrank, his heart began to beat rapidly, and within a moment, his back was covered in cold sweat.
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As soon as the door opened, Neo strode in, looked around, and looked down at Naia, "Are you Naia?"
"Who are you? It's very rude to break into other people's homes like this." Naia frowned and did not talk to Neo.
Neo curled his lips, disdainful of being acquainted with a little girl, and took out his ID and handed it to Naia, "Did you show up at the city gate last night? Have you seen the man named Su Ge? Tell me his whereabouts."
Naia took Neo's ID in his hand and looked at it repeatedly. After confirming that it was genuine, he gave it back to Neo and said angrily: "You are not as polite as the people who came before, so I won't talk to you."
Neo was furious and was about to explode when he was stopped by Speru beside him.
"Why are you stopping me?"
"Sir, we don't have a search warrant. If we don't have the other party
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If it is allowed, if we go in and search now, we will be trespassing. When the time comes...if the other party sues us, it will be on us."
Neo was stunned when he heard this, "How come there's no search warrant? Don't the people down the block have one?"
"But our team was made up temporarily..."
"That's not..." Neo showed a hint of embarrassment, his aura weakened by half, "Then what should we do now? I came here to investigate others, why did I have to investigate myself instead?"
"My subordinates can think of ways."
Neo looked at the soldier who was seconded from elsewhere with confusion, and suddenly found that he couldn't remember the other person's name, "Um, that person, just give it a try. As long as you successfully find the person, your reward will be inevitable."
With his eyes shining, Speru came to Naiya who was sitting on the sofa pouting angrily.
"Hello, my name is Speru. Do you know the whereabouts of the Su Ge who was at the city gate last night?"
Naiya looked up and suddenly smiled, "You are very polite and very suitable for use as material."
Naiya then jumped down from the sofa and clapped her hands, "I don't know, I've been staying in this room since last night. If you don't believe it, you can go see it by yourself, but it can only be the two of you.
"
Before Speru understood what the little girl meant by "very suitable for use as material", Neo walked over directly behind him and snorted, "Now you have permission, right?"
After that, he ignored Naiya and started searching the house.
The house was large, but there were not many places to hide a young man. The first floor was quickly searched, and then Neo set his sights on the stairs leading to the second floor.
"Can I go up?" Speru felt the need to ask.
"Of course, there are only experimental materials stored there. They are very important things to me. If possible, I hope you will not touch them."
Neo and Speru didn't listen carefully to the second half of the sentence and went straight to the second floor, followed by Naia.
"This is the storybook. My uncle and brother who came before have already checked it. Do you want to check it again?" Naiya said, pointing to the book on the table.
Speru took a few steps forward, and after getting Neo's acquiescence, he quickly turned the pages of the book.
"So this is Su Ge's name?" Speru asked.
He had not experienced what happened at the city gate. After being transferred here, he only learned fragments of the whole thing from Neo's mouth, but he had still seen the wanted lists all over the city.
"Probably so," Naia agreed casually, "But uncle, you just asked me if I knew his whereabouts at first, but now you are searching my home. Do you think I am with that person?"
"Uh, how could this happen?" Neo pretended not to know, "We are just checking again. After all, you exposed Sugar's plan at the gate of the city. We are afraid that you will be retaliated, so we are here to protect you.
of."
"So that's it." Naiya showed an innocent look.
While he was talking, Speru had already inspected the second floor of the house, including a living room, a bathroom, a study room and a spare bedroom. There was nothing unusual about it.
"What is that room used for?" Neo asked, pointing to the end of the corridor.
"That's where the experiment is. You can go in at any time," Naia shrugged nonchalantly, "as long as you are ready."
"Made it mysterious."
Neo muttered, stretched out his hand to hold the door handle, and suddenly felt a gust of cold wind coming from somewhere, and couldn't help but shiver.
"Don't open the curtains, otherwise they will be unhappy." Naiya warned.
Neo snorted, pushed open the door, and found that the room was dark, and many hanging things could be vaguely seen.
With the light coming in from the door, after Neo saw clearly what was in the room, he was so frightened that he took a half step back. His left hand holding the doorknob trembled slightly and his face turned pale.
"Don't speak loudly, you will scare them." Naiya whispered.
Speru saw Neo blocking the door, holding on to the door frame and handle, refusing to go into the room, so he looked over Neo's shoulder into the room.
There are rows of dolls as tall as adults, some placed against the wall, some hanging from the roof, and some randomly placed on the ground in the form of stumps, heads, or internal organs.
Speru bent down from
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Neo slipped under his arm and stood in the middle of the room. The window was sealed. The dim light made the dolls look a little blurry, which made him feel even scarier because he couldn't see clearly.
His back felt hairy, and he could vaguely see the empty gazes of the dolls, and felt as if the dolls would open their mouths and say something at any time.
"It's a very good doll. If it weren't for the lack of breathing sound, I would almost think it was a real person." Speru remembered Naia's instructions and said softly, "Did your parents make it for you?"
Naia shook her head, "No, these are mom and dad."
She walked into the room, picked up an arm from the floor, and walked to a doll without a left arm. "Dad's arm is not good, so I took it off and repaired it."
Speru was stunned for a moment, then forced a smile and said, "It's good to play house."
The extreme depression and unknown fear in the room made him want to leave quickly, so he took a casual glance and walked out of the room.
Neo, who was completely afraid to go in, was still standing at the door. When he saw Speru coming out, he went back to the first floor without saying anything. Only when the sunlight through the long window shone on him did he feel that he was still alive.
"Children should stop playing with those things if they have nothing to do."
"So much time was wasted, but no clues were found." The disappointed Neo directly opened the door and walked away.
Speru repeatedly told Naia to take care of the doors and windows, and then left with the mumbling Neo.
When he stepped outside and closed the door, he suddenly had a strange illusion. He didn't know whether the dark room just now was real or the world illuminated by the setting sun was real.
He wanted to look back, but he had a hunch that once he looked back, he would be sucked into that room.
Finally, under extreme fear, he suppressed his curiosity, hurriedly caught up with Neo's carriage, and left No. 7 Kinggallon Street without looking back.
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Night fell again, and a full day had passed since the coincidental incident at the city gate.
Eleven o'clock in the evening, No. 7, Kinggallon Street.
The gas light was not turned on in the room, and the moonlight filled the corner through the long window, but it was not dark either.
"Brother, do you want to leave?"
"Yes, let's go out and give it a try at night."
"I have a question for you."
"I probably won't come back." Su Ge replied and started to pack his few things.
"That's not it," Naiya said. "Didn't you feel scared when you were hiding in that room before?"
Su Ge recalled the darkness and depression in that house, as well as those realistic dolls and parts, and unknowingly got goosebumps all over his body.
But what was even more terrifying was that he always felt that those dolls seemed to be alive, pretending to be human dolls, secretly spying on his every move in the suffocating silence.
He pretended not to care and replied: "I had you with me at the beginning, but after I found out that it was a doll, the strange feeling disappeared. Although it is very realistic, in the end, it is just a fake item."
Naiya didn't say much and sent Su Ge to the side door, "May the goddess in red bless you."
"The goddess in red? Shouldn't it be the goddess of space?"
He was very surprised. When he heard other people praying before, all they said was the goddess of space. This was the first time he heard of this goddess in red.
Naia didn't answer him, but just laughed, imitating the puppet in the room, making a dull and stiff smile.
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In the gaps between the double- or multi-story houses, in the shadows that were not illuminated by the dim gas street lights, Su Ge hid behind a broken wooden box, thinking about his next move.
The dark streets were deserted at this time.
Su Ge was observing the situation on the street intently. Suddenly, his vision went dark. From head to toe, his whole body was covered by something unknown. Then there was tight pressure from everywhere on his body, making him unable to move.
As he struggled, a huge force pressed on his neck.
He found that he could not make a sound, and soon his consciousness began to blur. At this moment, he suddenly remembered the conversation he overheard outside Naiya's house during the day.
Will you really come to save me...
The moment before he lost consciousness, he used all the remaining strength to put his wrist to his mouth and bit it down hard.