Asura of Tomorrow's Ark

"It's not bad..." Adele scratched her cheek, "I'm just not used to talking to my friends in the class."

"They are very familiar with me, but I am very strange to them. I always feel a little weird..."

"Haha, fortunately, I don't have this kind of trouble. No one in the police station knows me."

Li Ang laughed very heartlessly, which made Adele punch him in the chest in anger.

After simulating the situation in his mind, Li Ang did feel very embarrassed. It seemed that Adele had a much harder day than him.

"My two friends were planning to invite me to the sushi restaurant where she worked, but luckily I refused in the end." Adele looked a little tired, lying on the table feeling weak.

"Go to the sushi restaurant? It doesn't seem impossible," Li Ang touched his chin, "How about we go there and have a look tomorrow?"

"Are you serious?" Adele raised her head slightly and glanced at Li Ang.

"Of course, didn't I say it before? This world is both illusory and real. To those two people, you are indeed their friend... By the way, what are the names of your two friends?"

"It's called Qiuye and Qianqing... Since you said so, let's go tomorrow..."

"OK, I'll pick you up after school tomorrow. As for now..."

"Go and have a rest. It's already very late. You have to get up early tomorrow morning. Leave the dishes to me."

"Well..." Adele rubbed her eyes and yawned lightly, "You should also go to bed early. Good night."

"Good night."

After the idea of ​​rest came up, sleepiness surged up unstoppably like a flood. Adele dragged her tired body and staggered back to her room.

Lying on the bed and covering herself with quilt, Adele took out her phone and took a look at it before closing her eyes.

During this period, Qiuye also sent her a message, complaining to her about how hard she was working today. In addition, Chiaki also sent her a somewhat unclear message, which contained only three characters. character.

"Tas?"

Adele replied with some confusion.

[I just saw the news, are you asleep? 】

After waiting for 2 minutes and receiving no response, Adele was ready to take a rest. If she had anything to do, she could wait until she got to school tomorrow to talk about it.

[Good night then, see you tomorrow. 】

However, what Adele didn't know was that she would never have the chance to receive messages from the two of them.

Chapter 44 Hungry

In the sushi restaurant where Akiha worked part-time, Akiha was busy entertaining guests, while Chiaki was sitting at a table in the corner playing with her mobile phone.

Their homes were very close, and they basically went to and from school together, so after dinner, Chiaki was not in a hurry to leave. She planned to leave together after Qiuye's part-time job was over.

However, as the time approached the evening, there were more and more customers in the sushi restaurant. Qiuye was busy entertaining the guests and had no time to spend with Qingjing. Qingjing could only hide in the corner and play with her mobile phone alone to avoid disturbing Qiu. Ye work.

As time passed little by little, after the peak dining period for office workers passed and there were fewer people in the store, Qiuye was finally able to spare some time to spend time with his friends.

"Thank you for your hard work. There shouldn't be many customers next. It's enough for me. You can go and accompany your friends." The owner of the sushi restaurant smiled kindly at Qiuye and said, "If you want to drink anything, just ask from the counter. Rina, you're welcome."

"Thank you very much, boss." Qiuye didn't refuse. She was indeed very tired.

After taking two bottles of juice from the counter, Qiuye walked over to Chiaki and sat down.

She collapsed on the chair all of a sudden and said feebly, "Huh... I'm really exhausted..."

"Are you always so busy?"

Qiuye saw all Qiuye's hard work today.

"Of course not. If I have to work so hard all the time, how can I have the energy to go to school..."

Qiuye complained, "The other chef didn't come today for some reason, and the boss couldn't contact him. There are only two of us in the store, so it's so busy..."

"Another cook? Is that the pretty boy you mentioned? He's not here today?"

"Yeah, otherwise the store is actually quite relaxing."

"I also want to see what he looks like." Qianjing looked a little disappointed.

"I just asked the boss and found out that he seemed to have dropped out of school and was homeless. The boss thought he was pitiful so he gave him a job. Although he came to work on time every day, the boss didn't know where he usually lived. Where."

"That's it...that's really a pity..."

With that said, Qianjing checked her phone twice more.

"What are you looking at?" Qiuye asked curiously, seeing Chiaki staring intently at the phone.

"I'm waiting for Adele's reply," Chiaki replied, "I just sent her a photo of the sushi, but there's no reply yet... It seems like she's really busy today..."

"Is that so? Then I'll try sending her one too."

Later, Qiuye also clicked a photo of the two of them and sent it to Adele.

After waiting for a while and not receiving a reply, Qiuye seemed to have thought of something and nodded thoughtfully, "Speaking of which, someone seemed to see Adele hugging a policeman in an alley when she was going to school in the morning. Well...I don’t know what their relationship is..."

"Tell me, the guest Adele mentioned is the policeman, right?"

"Eh? Is there such a thing? Tell me in detail." Upon hearing this, Qian Jing immediately became energetic.

Adolescent girls are full of restlessness, and this kind of topic always arouses their interest. The two of them are full of endless reveries about Adele's experience tonight.

After a heated discussion, the two of them decided that there must be some ulterior secret between them, and decided to go to the school tomorrow morning to investigate.

"That's great... I also want to have a boyfriend..." The two of them condemned Adele's behavior of running away.

"Well, there will always be."

At this time, the boss came out of the back kitchen and said to the two of them, "I'm leaving first. I've locked the front door. Remember to close the door when you leave through the back door."

"I will, see you tomorrow, boss~"

After the boss left, Qiuye said to Chiaki, "It's getting late, so let's leave too."

Unknowingly, the two of them had been chatting until the closing time of the sushi restaurant. By the time they packed up their belongings, it was already completely dark.

The two of them left the sushi restaurant through the back door of the kitchen. If they walked through the front door, they would have to take a long detour to reach their home.

There were no street lights installed in the alley connecting the back kitchen, so the two had to turn on the flashlight of their mobile phones to illuminate the road ahead.

They had just taken two steps when they heard an extremely strange sound coming from a dark corner, accompanied by the sound of rushing water. It seemed like some kind of mollusk was squirming there, and its limbs were constantly slapping the ground. A snapping sound.

"Who?"

Qiuye was startled by the sound and subconsciously pointed the flashlight of his phone in that direction.

She only felt a trance in front of her eyes, and there was one more person in the originally empty corner.

"It was you..."

When he saw the person clearly, Qiuye breathed a sigh of relief, "Why did you come just now? You've already got off work."

The person standing there was the other assistant chef at the sushi restaurant, the beautiful boy that Akiba had mentioned.

"Sorry...something happened today..."

The boy blocked the light of the phone with his arms. He seemed to have something in his mouth, and his voice was mumbled.

"You are the person Qiuye mentioned, I remember your name is Shuiyue...?"

Chiaki looked over curiously, but the boy's hands were in front of him, so he couldn't see his face.

Her eyes couldn't help but move down, and with her sharp eyes, she noticed that there was a big hole in the boy's clothes, and there was a lot of blood on it.

"Wait! Is that... blood on your body?"

"What? Are you hurt?"

At Chiaki's reminder, Qiuye also discovered the blood stains on Suigetsu's clothes, "Wait a minute, I'll call you a doctor right away!"

"I'm fine!!" The boy named Shuiyue shouted loudly, "Don't call an ambulance!"

While shouting, the boy put one hand in front of his face and reached out with the other hand to grab Qiuye's mobile phone.

After a struggle, the boy's clothes made a loud noise and were torn open with a large tear.

Qiuye and Chiaki looked there subconsciously and found that there was a hole the size of a baby's fist on the left side of the boy's abdomen. Through the hole, they could see some of the blackened walls of the alley.

However, what shocked the two of them the most was that the flesh and blood around the hole was squirming like a living thing, with strips of translucent granulation protruding from the edge of the wound and entangled together, as if trying to heal on its own.

Seeing this strange scene, both girls froze in place.

"You...you...what is this..." Qiuye trembled and took a step back.

At this time, the boy finally put down the hand covering his face.

The flash of the mobile phone illuminated the boy's somewhat seductive face, and the two of them finally realized why the boy kept covering their faces - there were still mottled blood stains on the corners of his mouth, and some tiny bits of blood could be seen between his teeth. Minced meat.

"It's really troublesome... Dolls have to have the consciousness of dolls."

The boy said quietly, "Why do you have to mind your own business? Why can't you pretend you didn't see it?"

The phone fell to the ground with a clatter, the lights flickered twice on the ground, and the alley fell into darkness again.

A moment later, the sound of chewing and swallowing came from the darkness, which made everyone feel chilled. Along with it, there was also a horrifying voice...

"These abominable empty shells... no matter how much you eat, you will never be full..."

"Hungry...so hungry..."

Chapter 45 Survey

During the long night, Li Ang had no idea of ​​sleeping.

Adele's thinking was still a little too shallow. Although she cleaned up all the blood stains in the alley next door, she ignored the clues outside the alley.

Li Ang worked all night avoiding surveillance before erasing all the clues leading here. He also deliberately forged some clues, which should be able to lead subsequent investigators in a completely wrong direction.

Regardless of whether it was the forces chasing the girl or the police who came to investigate after receiving the alarm, Li Ang did not want to cause unexpected trouble.

If possible, Li Ang actually wanted to get some surveillance equipment to see if he could take pictures of the latecomers. He also wanted to know who was chasing the girl.

Unfortunately, this kind of thing is generally difficult to obtain without special channels.

This world is somewhere between fantasy and reality. It is real enough but also has a touch of fantasy. The residents here are a bit like NPCs whose life trajectories have been arranged for a long time, living in this world without any awareness.

In Chekov's theory, a gun that appears in the first act will definitely go off in the third act. Under this premise, Leon can think that everything that appears around him is meaningful, as if there is a People who cannot meet him are trying to communicate with Li Ang in this way.

Although there is no evidence, Li Ang has such a hunch.

By the time Li Ang finished all this, the sun had almost risen from the horizon.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Li Ang turned on the radio and tuned it to the frequency of yesterday morning, preparing to listen to what the news in Sagazaki City was about today.

However, after a burst of familiar music, Li Ang discovered that the host of the show was not the man from yesterday, but a young woman.

Is it that this show has two hosts and another person happens to be hosting the show today, or... is it that Li Ang is the only one who heard that show? ?

Until the end of the morning news, Li Ang didn't hear any special news. Even the murder case that happened in the park yesterday was not mentioned. It seemed that the police had done a good job in keeping secrets.

At this time, Adele had also gotten up.

Originally, Li Ang wanted to drive Adele for a ride, but Adele sternly refused. She felt that being sent to school in a police car was a bit too ostentatious... Adele didn't want to be the target of the next round at school.

"I go first."

"Then please be careful on the road. I will pick you up when school is over in the evening."

After Adele left, Li Ang was also ready to report to the police station.

When Li Ang drove to the police station, he first inquired about the situation of the first search section.

The interrogation of members of the Search Section [-] is still in progress, so no one has assigned tasks to Li Ang today.

After signing in at the police station, Li Ang drove to the radio station company to investigate the broadcast he heard yesterday.

"Sagazaki City Radio and Television Station... it should be right here..."

After comparing the information he found on the Internet, Li Ang determined that this was the recording and broadcasting location of "Sagazaki City Morning News".

Although most of these programs are broadcast live, they will always encounter force majeure factors over time, and sometimes the next day's program will be recorded in advance.

Of course, all the programs broadcast here will be archived, and Li Ang's purpose this time is to archive these recorded recordings.

"Excuse me, I'm Leon from the Investigation Division [-]. Where is the program team of "Sagazaki City Morning News"? I have something I want them to cooperate with in the investigation."