Trying to pretend to be human today

Chapter 378 The Future I See

Special departments far away in the city are busy every day.

The troubles of the white fog area still exist, but the impact has gradually stabilized as time goes by, stopping at a level that will attract people's attention without being overly concerned.

I am concerned because the white fog area is too conspicuous. In such a large city, the area shrouded in white fog seems to have become a landmark landscape. No matter which angle you take photos of the city, you can more or less capture the white fog area. A corner was filmed as a background scene.

The reason for not paying attention is that people do not enter the white fog area, or are not close to the white fog area. This has close to no impact on ordinary people's lives.

At first, people would protest because they did not believe what the so-called experts said. Over time, people who had not seen any incidents happened became accustomed to it.

Except for a few stubborn ones who protest regularly, they also regard this matter as a check-in project.

The sudden decrease in the attention of ordinary people does not mean that special departments can relax.

In the already busy work, a special group was set up to monitor the white fog area every day, and a team of people had to be arranged to check in from time to time.

People who go in early will more or less get lost or get slightly injured, but it's not a big deal. After walking more times, they will naturally become familiar with it.

Now, the white fog area is covered with various network cables laid by special departments, just for positioning and convenient exploration.

The buildings in the White Mist Area remain intact, not corroded or weathered, but there are no signs of human activity.

The temporary stronghold outside Baiwu District has long been converted into a permanent one, and the special department simply booked the entire small hotel at an extremely low price.

Anyway, no one lives around here anymore, so it’s worth saving whatever you can.

Xia Chengyin was walking in the corridor. There were piles of papers in his hands, and he quickly started flipping through them one by one from the top, and then clipped the flipped papers to the end.

Halfway through the page, I suddenly discovered something wrong, and then I took the report paper from the end to the front, and flipped it over several times. In the end, all the short-haired police officers were rolled into a ball, and they even used unconventional force. .

It's all nonsense.

The short-haired police officer took a deep breath and swallowed back all his complaints.

--no progress.

It would be an understatement to say that their exploration of the White Mist Area has made no progress.

The exploration went smoothly, but it was too smooth and people couldn't help but wonder. Where did the monsters reported by the team members in the white fog area go?

The white mist area is very clean. This is reflected in the fact that apart from the white mist itself, there is no supernatural presence at all.

Clean, completely eaten.

Human beings don't know how the supernatural things disappeared. They only know that according to past records, there were more or less supernatural activities in this area, but now they have all disappeared without a trace.

Xia Chengyin scratched his head. His hair had accumulated due to neglect in his recent busy schedule.

I have to find time to get a haircut... Why is it so cumbersome even though I haven't gone hunting for supernatural beings?

The short-haired police officer continued to walk forward. He planned to take a look outside the foggy area. However, after walking a few steps, Xia Chengyin met Qi Zhuyue walking back and forth in front of a door in the corridor.

She was not wearing work clothes today, but was wearing her own clothes, holding the shawl on her shoulders with both hands, looking a little nervous.

He was so nervous that he didn't notice anyone approaching. If Xia Chengyin hadn't stepped out of the way, the two of them would have bumped into each other by now.

"Ah, I'm sorry." Qi Zhuyue realized later and reacted slowly, "I was thinking about something just now and was a little distracted... I'm sorry, Senior Xia!"

Xia Chengyin didn't mean to blame him. He glanced at the door on the side and asked, "What's inside?"

"My teacher..." Qi Zhuyue let out a long sigh, "The bureau called me this morning and said that the teacher refused to go back and insisted on staying outside the white fog area. What can I say... I can see interesting scenes."

Xia Chengyin nodded after hearing it, and he also heard a little bit.

The teacher about Qi Zhuyue is also a highly inspired person.

The other person is older and has seen more things. In his own words, there are many pictures crowded in front of his eyes. He often cannot distinguish between reality and illusion.

Qi Zhuyue's future is likely to be the same. She still sees very little and is able to maintain her own sanity.

Xia Chengyin took a short errand, and Qi Zhuyue knocked on the door again.

"Teacher? Teacher, are you in there!" She shouted while knocking on the door, "Teacher, it's time for you to go back. Can I drive you back?"

After Qi Zhuyue finished shouting, there was a faint movement inside the door.

There was a rustling sound, as if there was friction between fabrics.

The sound went from far to near, from soft to loud, and finally stopped at the door of the room.

The door was unlocked with a click, and then opened a crack inward under the gaze of the two people outside the door. From the crack in the door, you could see that it was pitch black inside, and the lights were not turned on. Then a turbid The white eyes appear from there.

Why is it white?Because the black pupils are covered with some light-colored impurities, almost blending into the surrounding whites of the eyes.

The person inside the door poked his head out again, and now the two people outside the door could see some elderly people wearing white sheets. They looked at them for a few seconds and refused: "No. go back."

"Teacher...you are really already here...wait! Don't close the door!"

Qi Zhuyue was about to say a few more words of advice, but the person inside the door no longer wanted to listen and closed the door inwards. If Qi Zhuyue hadn't retracted her hand quickly, her hand would have been pressed by the door panel.

Her teacher, it seemed, treated everyone equally.

No matter whether it was Qi Zhuyue who came to persuade him or someone else came to persuade him, no one in the family was moved.

Xia Chengyin watched the whole scene from the side and asked if he needed help.

Qi Zhuyue: "Help? How to help?"

Xia Chengyin: "Help remove the door panel, and then you go inside and take the person away?"

Qi Zhuyue: "...There's no need for that."

Qi Zhuyue sighed and said that the bureau just wanted her to come over and work hard. It didn't matter whether she succeeded or not, so there was no need to force her.

Xia Chengyin was more curious about what the person inside the door saw.

"Uh... the teacher didn't tell me in detail." Qi Zhuyue held her chin in thought, thinking back, "The more general ones are some descriptions of colors, such as large areas of white and a little bit of black. …The rest is nondescript.”

Sometimes they are narrative words, like telling stories, and sometimes they describe several rather grand scenes, making the listeners dizzy and wishing they could pierce their eardrums, if only they couldn't hear.

Only Qi Zhuyue could resonate with her, and was praised by her teacher for being a teachable child.

The former smiled awkwardly twice. If possible, she would also like to become mediocre.

Since she couldn't bring anyone back, Qi Zhuyue naturally had no reason to stay here anymore. She sent a message back to the bureau and planned to go back to continue recuperating.Xia Chengyin dropped by Qi Zhuyue and chatted for a few words as they left.

Xia Chengyin asked Qi Zhuyue how she was recuperating recently, and the latter replied that it was not developing in the direction of her teacher, and it was still within control.

"Haha... If I become like the teacher, I will probably..." Qi Zhuyue was silent. To be honest, she didn't know what she would become when she got to that point.

At best, she was as crazy as her teacher but still able to communicate, at worst... her colleagues would have to attend her memorial service from now on!

Seeing that this topic was difficult to discuss, Xia Chengyin changed it to something else.

The two chatted back and forth, and they still talked about the recent trends in the bureau.

As I said before, they have divided a group of people here in Baiwu District, but other work has not stopped, and even new ones have been added.

"Sister Chen and Bai Su went on a mission together..." After saying this, Qi Zhuyue paused and didn't know what she thought of. But when she said the words again, she changed, "By the way, Senior Xia, you guys said before The escaped cultist you were tracking?”

"Run away." Xia Chengyin said concisely. "When I chased him, I only saw chicken feathers on the ground... Literally speaking, who knows what kind of small ceremony they performed in killing living animals."

The blood of small animals smeared the entire room, so smokey that people who entered had to cover their noses. An unknown magic circle was drawn in the center of the room.

Xia Chengyin also talked about the appearance of the cultist who ran away like that. This time, the surveillance on the roadside was much clearer, and he could roughly see the appearance of the person.

Foreigners, or mixed-race people.

I searched domestically for people with similar looks, and sure enough, no such person could be found.

This is an expected result. If they can be found easily, the cult will not be so difficult to eradicate.

"Speaking of which, Chen Zi and the others went to... the mental hospital that the young leader told them about, right?"

"Ah, yes." After avoiding the topic for a long time, she returned to the previous topic. Qi Zhuyue began to look at the ground in front of her toes, "Originally, she wanted to find me, but then she changed to Sister Chen."

"But -" Xia Chengyin drawled his tone as he approached the door, "It seems that things are not going well."

What didn't go well was the team next door who entered the mental hospital early. Since contact was lost, the bureau became nervous. It wasn't until Chen Zi's contact came back that they temporarily stopped the idea of ​​sending more people.

"That mental hospital... sounds like a wolf's den." Qi Zhuyue commented, "But if Bai Su is here, it should be fine, right?"

The pace of the people around him suddenly stopped. Qi Zhuyue thought she had said something wrong, but when she looked carefully, the door was coming.

The short-haired police officer stood in the building and watched Qi Zhuyue step out.

Xia Chengyin lit a cigarette at the door. The red fire that flickered on and off flickered in the shadows. Then he said, "You seem...to trust that guy."

Qi Zhuyue's steps also stagnated, and then some pictures began to flash in her mind.

There are those in the temple in Kangtai Mountain at the beginning, and later in the mountains and forests of Wenjia Village... Various pictures are intertwined together, and finally merged into one sentence.

"Because...he is 'Baisu'?"

There was a hint of a wry smile in Qi Zhuyue's words.

She had some uncertain assumptions.

But precisely because of this uncertainty and inexplicable uneasiness, humans didn't say anything in the end.

Qi Zhuyue had no choice but to explain Bai Su's reputation in the bureau. Although not everyone knew Bai Su, when Bai Su's name was mentioned, they would know that his abilities were very useful.

Xia Chengyin cannot deny this.

The small talk seemed to have come to an end. Qi Zhuyue considered whether there was a colleague's car that could take her back, or whether she should walk some distance and find a car by herself.

After all, no car dares to approach the white fog area now - cough.

Suddenly, an external force rushed forward, and with a shocking cry of "Xiao Qi", Qi Zhuyue moved backwards reflexively, feeling that she touched a ball of fabric and a little weight.

"It's Qi, not Qi... Wait, teacher, why are you down here?" Qi Zhuyue turned around and couldn't see her teacher, but she could see Xia Chengyin looking at her position in surprise.

The person Qi Zhuyue was dragging was not very tall, and the whole person was balled up and still very light.

The sheet was tightly covered over his head, leaving only a pair of cloudy eyes peeking out from the gaps in the fabric.

"I saw it...I saw it!" a deep voice shouted, and a hand tucking the sheets was raised, "He is sleeping...sleeping, sleeping!"

Qi Zhuyue was shaken so much that she staggered several times, and finally managed to steady herself by holding on to the telephone pole on the side of the road.

"Okay, okay, I'm asleep, I'm asleep... Teacher, do you want to say anything else?"

It was the same thing last time. Qi Zhuyue's teacher came to the Baiwu District. He didn't know what he saw and locked himself in the room alone for a long time. When he came out, he was mumbling and asked the people from the special department to go underground.

The person's word order is confusing, and it takes a while to figure out what he is talking about.

After figuring it out, the people from the special department discovered that the person was repeating a string of characters, which coincidentally corresponded to a number in the underground holding facility - "Listen to the Elderly".

The special department had recently discovered that the supernatural ability contained in this shelter was more than what they thought. They were conducting tests when they suddenly saw the "Listening Old Man" turning to the camera with his neck creaking.

It was very sudden, without any warning.

Then, another old man's body appeared in the room, and [Listening Old Man] slowly said to his other self: "Go and see the future."

future?What future do you see?
Someone behind the camera realized something, and quickly went to find a person in their special department who had an extremely rare ability - someone who could glimpse the future in a dream.

The ability user took a nap as required, but when he woke up, he looked very confused.

This is a very foul ability, and each use requires a long period of preparation.

However, this time was different from before. The esper... basically couldn't remember anything. The dream didn't seem to leave the slightest impression on his memory.

...No, there are still some.

The man was surrounded by a few people in a daze and slowly said one sentence: Bai Su cannot be allowed to die.

Why?I don’t remember, this is the only message left for him in the future.

Qi Zhuyue knew this because she learned about it through her teacher's relationship. Now that her teacher was yelling again, she couldn't help but plan to write something down.

"Teacher, besides falling asleep, what else is there?"

"Dream, sweet dream... sweet dream!" The man waved his hand, and finally pointed at the white mist, "Shhh - don't wake him up."

(End of this chapter)