This Actor Is Full Of Tricks

With the strange incident in the parking lot perfectly resolved, Xu Xiaoqi led Lin Jue and the others out, leaving all the cleanup work to Captain Wang.

“Be careful on your way back.”

Lin Jue waved to them, scanned a roadside shared bicycle, and pedaled home.

A dozen minutes later, he entered the apartment building and immediately sensed something was wrong as he went up the stairs.

There was a stench in the building!

Unlike the decaying smell of the supernatural, it was like the aquatic stench of a large number of sewer insects gathered together.

As he went up the stairs, the stench grew stronger, seemingly coming from the third floor.

“Third floor? Isn’t that where I live? Is someone raising bugs in their apartment?”

He frowned slightly. As he stepped onto the last flight of stairs, he heard a faint closing sound, the source of which was also the third floor.

“Someone came home? But I didn’t see anyone just now.” Lin Jue stood at the entrance of the corridor, looking down the hallway. There was no one in the corridor, so it was clearly not someone coming out.

“No one came home, and no one came out, so what are they doing opening and closing the door at this hour?”

Lin Jue glanced at the time on his phone. It was almost one in the morning. The most likely scenario was that someone had been observing something with the door open and closed it when they heard him coming upstairs.

All the doors of the rooms in the corridor were closed, so he couldn't tell which house had closed the door just now.

As he walked to his neighbor's door, he stopped again.

Through the gap between the door panel and the floor, bugs were constantly crawling out.

The bugs seemed to notice someone was there and quickly crawled back in through the crack.

“Is this guy piling up a bunch of garbage in his house?” Lin Jue looked at his neighbor's door and reached out to knock.

The door opened unexpectedly quickly. In less than three seconds, the door was opened a crack, and the middle-aged man poked his head out.

As soon as the door opened, a pungent stench wafted out.

When he saw it was Lin Jue, the man's somewhat expectant expression immediately collapsed: “What do you want?”

“He opened the door so quickly? Was this guy waiting behind the door the whole time? What was he expecting? It’s like he was waiting for someone to knock.”

Lin Jue wondered inwardly, crushed a crawling bug, and said with a smile: “Sir, you should pay attention to hygiene. So many bugs are crawling out of your house.”

As he spoke, he stretched his head over, peering inside through the crack in the door.

“Mind your own business!” the man said rudely, and was about to close the door.

“Hey, don’t be so angry.” Lin Jue quickly reached out and grabbed the door panel, his eyes fixed on the room behind the man: “As your neighbor, I’m just kindly reminding you.”

The man tried hard to close the door, but the door panel didn't move. He could only grit his teeth and say, word by word: “Let go! If you keep doing this, I'll call the police!”

Hearing this, Lin Jue let go, and the door slammed shut in the next moment.

Looking at the closed door, Lin Jue's eyes were deep. Although it was a short time, he still saw something.

Many insect specimens hung on the walls of the room's corridor. Some of the insects even had strange characteristics, such as spiders with red wings, and centipedes with two heads as big as palms.

“Could this guy be an entomologist who loves studying strange insects? Was I overthinking things before?”

Lin Jue crushed another bug that crawled out and returned to his room.

… …

The next day, as soon as Lin Jue arrived at the Regulatory Investigation Department, he heard loud cursing coming from the team leader's office next door.

There were all kinds of dirty words. He vaguely heard the team leader yelling something about firing someone if it happened again.

“Xiaoqi, what's going on?” He put his bag on the table, looking curious.

“It’s still about yesterday’s matter.” Xu Xiaoqi didn't even look up, looking at the photos on the table: “You're the only one who believed that guy's words. The Firefly Team leader felt embarrassed that they fled in a sorry state and we were there, so he started scolding Huang Yong early in the morning.”

“Hao-ge, can you help me go to the third filing cabinet in the clerical department, bottom row, and get me a file codenamed X?”

“Oh, okay, okay.” Lin Jue glanced at the photos on Xu Xiaoqi's table, all of which were photos of the strange corpses taken last night.

Crossing the corridor and arriving at the clerical department, Lin Jue was led to the archive room by someone.

A total of a dozen cabinets were lined up, but only the first three cabinets were packed full, and the remaining cabinets had only a few scattered file boxes.

“Third cabinet… last row.”

Lin Jue squatted down, his fingers brushing over the file boxes one by one. Each file box had a label on the side.

“Sanjiang Mingyuan Training School……”

“New World……”

“Codename X, found it.”

He pulled out the file box and looked around at the same time.

The entire archive room was empty. Now that he was an employee of the Regulatory Investigation Department, it should be okay to look at the files, right?

He took out the file box of [Sanjiang Mingyuan Training School], opened the lid, and there was only a thin document inside.

[Strange Incident: Sanjiang Mingyuan Training School]

[Originally an off-campus training institution for junior and senior high school students during winter and summer vacations, it disappeared a month ago on a foggy day. It is speculated that it should be inside the mist]

[Number of deaths: Unknown]

[Danger level: Unknown]

There are two more lines below.

[Chen Fu of the Night Phantom Team entered the mist to search seven days after the school disappeared, but failed]

[Zhuang Kai of the Zhenhai Team entered the mist to search ten days after the school disappeared, but failed]

The file ends here.

An entire school disappeared on a foggy day?

Lin Jue's eyes moved slightly, and he opened the file box named [New World].

[Mysterious Organization: New World]

[A special organization whose members are suspected to be people with severe pollution sequelae. Most of their personalities are characterized by irritability, bloodthirstiness, and madness. They have artificially created many strange incidents]

[Number of members unknown, currently three people have been arrested]

Severe pollution sequelae patients? That is to say, the so-called New World organization is full of people who have lit up the spiritual realm? It's just that they have all changed their temperaments and are full of negative energy?

Also, strange incidents can also be created artificially?

Lin Jue continued to flip through it. Behind it were several confessions, which should belong to the three members who were arrested.

[Confession 1: The world is turbid, dilapidated, and unsightly. The mist brings cleansing, and pollution is a beacon. One day the whole world will be as clean as a mirror...]

[Confession 2: The law of the jungle prevails, and the winner is king. The New World will have absolute fairness, provided you have the strength of a king...]

[Confession 3: The so-called flesh is just a carrier of the spirit. Evolution is unstoppable. Your Regulatory Investigation Department is just a stumbling block to the world's transformation. In the future, the mist will envelop the entire land, and the New World will come...]

These confessions sound crazy just by looking at them. From this we can see what the mental state of these people are like, and we can get a glimpse into the entire New World organization.

Not only do they not resist the mist, they even actively embrace it.