Law Enforcer's Handbook

Chapter 413 Don't Pick Up Things You Haven't Seen Before

Guided by the head of Yangcun Village, they returned to the first floor and took out an aluminum box from one of the drawers at the hotel counter. Song Lan opened the box and found that the boxes contained the same items. "brooches", only they all have a different serial number on the back.

"I found this box when I was searching the hotel. I thought the decorations inside were quite special, so I took one with me."

The village head of Yangcun said truthfully.

He also didn't expect that such an inconspicuous brooch would almost cost him his life, "I originally planned to give it to others as a souvenir."

Song Lan glanced at the box, the hotel owner put it here, probably intending to use these "brooches" as gifts.

In front of several people, he opened a brooch again and took out the chip inside.

Such a technological design does not look like a religious prop used to curse or complete some kind of evil ritual. He explained to several people, "The reason why you have symptoms of sleepwalking is because you are affected by the chip. Influenced, the virus in it will invade your prosthetic body, thereby controlling your behavior in sleep."

"...Hackers attacked us?"

"You can think that the solution is very simple, as long as you don't carry this thing with you, you won't have sleepwalking symptoms anymore."

The encounter of the three of them once again proved a philosophy of life - don't pick up things you haven't seen before.

Not only could it be the nameplate of the victims left over from the previous era, but it could also be cobalt 60. Song Lan remembered that in a medical drama he had watched before, someone picked up the radiation out of curiosity and used it as a talisman every day Wear it on your body.

Perhaps this is a true portrayal of art originating from reality, but what happened in the small town is even more frightening to think about.

Whether those victims who lost their footing and fell off the cliff during their sleepwalking also suffered misfortune because they got this souvenir, all this is unknown.

But on the other hand, he still has to thank the three for their deadly actions. If they hadn't found these "brooches" through rummaging through boxes and chests, they don't know when they would have noticed what happened in this hotel.

After accepting the baptism of science and going upstairs with a sudden understanding, Feng Ling curiously picked up a "brooch" and asked, "Is there really a virus installed by hackers?"

If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would never have believed that the decades-long man-made disappearances in the town were caused by these humble decorations.

"do not know."

"what?"

"I just made it up."

Feng Ling was stunned by Song Lan's upright tone and demeanor. Even a few minutes ago, this man had been praising the three of them with a sanctimonious look, but it turned out that his plausible content was all made up?
"This thing will undoubtedly cause sleepwalking, but I haven't figured out the specific mechanism yet."

For a while, he couldn't figure out why the will from decades ago was attached to these items, but these items that seemed to be the victim's identity plate brought him a new direction.

Perhaps Captain Kate also followed these objects that carried the consciousness of the people of the previous era, and found the den of the dream stealer she mentioned at the end of the post-it note step by step.

If you want to get closer to science, you need to step out of scientific thinking and return to the town ghost story itself.

And this retrogression has been several decades.

That goes back decades, when the hotel was just remodeled, Song Lan found a strange story about the hotel from the collection of strange stories about the town that Lu Xiang found.

After the hotel opened, there were frequent hauntings in the hotel. Some residents claimed that they heard terrible voices in their sleep. Some people found themselves under the bed when they woke up. Some people claimed that someone had entered their room in the middle of the night.

Rumors of the hotel being haunted were rampant, causing panic in the small town for a while. They thought that the hotel had provoked something unclean.

In desperation, the hotel owner spent a lot of money to invite an expert.

The expert, who did not want to be named, drove everyone out of the hotel, and he lived alone in the hotel for three days and three nights. After that, the haunting incident subsided, and the hotel has been able to operate until now.

Even the boss didn't know what kind of magic the expert had cast, but someone could vaguely hear the sound of knocking and knocking from the basement of the hotel every night.

In the countless science programs Song Lan has seen, or in the bizarre incidents, there will always be one or a few unknown experts, but he did not expect that in the 22nd century, this industry is still not extinct.

He came to the basement of the hotel according to the prompt of the strange talk. There were discarded furniture and old electrical appliances piled up here. After a long while, I finally found a sealed entrance under the prompt of the Devourer.

In his opinion, the wall here is no different from the surrounding ones. If it wasn't for the reminder from the Devourer, he might not be able to find this place in another night.

Breaking through the blocked entrance and going down, Song Lan thought he would see some bloody and terrifying scenes, but he didn't expect that under the entrance, there was a space similar to a storage room, where various daily necessities were thrown on the ground. There are also some "brooches" falling on the ground.

The place looked deserted for a long time, the floor was covered with dust, the musty smell in the air was so choking, it seemed that no one had been in it for many years.

He went all the way, and finally found several rooms deep in the storage room.

One of them looks like an abandoned monitoring room, which stores equipment that has been eliminated decades ago, and next to it is a room similar to an interrogation room.

As soon as he opened the door, a stench got into his nose.

A dry skeleton lay across the door. The clothes on his body were too damaged to see clearly, but the pistol next to the skeleton reminded Song Lan of the identity of the corpse immediately.

In his mind, it even immediately appeared that Captain Kate had found this place all the way, raised his gun, and walked into this room vigilantly.

Her body was lying on the ground. Judging from the orientation, it seemed that she had been attacked from behind.

But since her body was only bones, Song Lan couldn't tell whether she had been shot or hit with a sap.

Just when he was about to take a closer look at the corpse, a deep voice came from inside the door.

"You came."

Song Lan's heart tightened, is there anyone else hiding inside?
But before entering, neither he nor the Devourer sensed any signs of life in the lower layers.

The voice seemed to regard him as someone else, and continued to ask, "How is the matter I asked you to do?"

(End of this chapter)