It's time, it's time to switch to the cranial doctor

[Remarks: On the back of the door card, there is a line written crookedly with a black watercolor pen: Room 23, Unit 2, Building 404]

"Only the bloody level? It seems that not all special copies are difficult."

Zhou Zhuo, who had experienced the bloody level dungeon, didn't feel anything about it. He took out the key card from his backpack and held it in his hand, and a prompt box quickly appeared in front of him.

[Do you want to start a special task? (Reminder: After the mission is started, you cannot exit midway. The mission props will disappear regardless of success or failure. Please choose carefully.)】

"Yes."

[The dungeon "My Good Neighbor" has been opened, please wait for the No. 101 bus at the bus stop. 】

Zhou Zhuo discovered another feature. The special dungeon cannot be entered through the normal matching system. You must go downstairs from the elevator and enter the city by bus. Could this dark city shrouded in gray fog be hidden by the screaming feast? main mission?

After Zhou Zhuo briefly explained, Ma Lou followed him into the elevator room and descended to the first floor with the elevator.

When the elevator opened, there was the road outside. Since the two of them entered the game in the afternoon, the sky above their heads had not yet completely darkened. It looked gray, and the whole city had a negative impression. If you stay in this environment for too long, your mood will become gloomy.

Ma Lou couldn't wait to do anything, he got out of the elevator as soon as the door opened, Zhou Zhuo deliberately waited inside, and sure enough another invisible hand pushed him out, and the elevator door closed automatically.

He looked back, and vaguely saw a tall building rising straight from the ground in the cloud and mist, leading to the sky, which could not be seen at a glance, and soon disappeared.

All the players' activities are in the building, but no one knows what the building looks like. Zhou Zhuo decided to visit the official forum when he had time to see if other players had the same idea as him.

The two waited at the bus stop. This time it was not the car arranged by the bloody party, but it was similar to reality. They sat on the bench and waited for 10 minutes before the No. 101 bus arrived late.

Same as last time, there are other passengers in the car, but not many, just a few sitting here and there, but this time the passengers are much more normal, without the characteristics of butchers or wives (killed at the beginning) especially Obvious people.

Some of them are on the phone, complaining about the busy work and the boss, saying that they want to eat grilled ribs when they go back at night, some just look down and play with their mobile phones, some are covered in mud, their eyes are full of exhaustion, and some are looking at the scenery outside the window In a daze, he didn't seem to realize that this was a city wrapped in gray fog.

Zhou Zhuo didn't feel noisy, they added surging vitality to this gloomy city, making the colors no longer monotonous.

During the ride, he looked up at the route map. There were thirteen stations in total, and the Wangxiang community was at the fifth station. He didn't know what would happen if he got lost in the big world, but looking at the unchanging gray fog outside the window, Zhou Zhuo thinks that honestly taking the bus is the best choice.

At the fifth stop, Zhou Zhuo and Ma Lou got up at the same time, and a grandmother with a vegetable basket also got off at this stop.

Although it was a game, the two of them politely waited aside for the scene in front of them, and asked Grandma to get out of the car first.

Wangxiang Community is just in front of the platform, and you can see the Tongzilou from the outside. The buildings have a very old-fashioned shape, probably because the old buildings were refurbished and sold. There are old and new residents mixed together, and there are people of all ages.

Getting off the bus here, the grandma is indeed from the Wangxiang community. She seems to have forgotten to bring the access control card, and the security booth "coincidentally" was empty, so she stood at the door and waited for a long time, but Zhou Zhuo took the initiative to take out the access control card and swipe it. Open the electric retractable door.

Sure enough, a prompt box popped up in front of him.

[Live streaming is enabled, please pay attention to your personal behavior. 】

"...Why is the prompt different from last time?"

Although he knew the answer in his heart, Zhou Zhuo couldn't help but want to complain. This game is too wide-ranging. It is an R18G-oriented game. If you code the inappropriate users yourself, it's over?

But when you think about it carefully, the image of him beating people with a sledgehammer seems to be difficult to code. The dark red plasma full of mosaics splashes around the screen, and it feels very exciting to imagine.

How much do you understand the mood of the auditors?

"Thank you." Grandma turned around, nodded to Zhou Zhuo and the two to thank, "I'm old, and my legs and feet are barely good, but my brain is really not good."

"It's a good thing to be in good health. Come on, grandma, we'll help you with these."

Is there a plot dialogue that can be triggered?

Relying on his rich game experience, Zhou Zhuo quickly deduced that the other party was most likely the "grandmother" mentioned in the plot introduction, so he took the initiative to step forward to hold the arm of the grandmother, gave Ma Lou a wink, and asked him to help take the vegetable basket.

Grandma waved her hand and refused, smiling kindly: "No, no, the building I live in is relatively remote, you can go your own way."

"We live in unit 23, building 2. Where do you live, grandma? I'll pick it up for you on the way. It's fine." Zhou Zhuo said with a smile.

The smile on Grandma's face suddenly froze, and she hesitated, "I also live in Building 23, but I haven't seen you..."

Ma Lou was not good at talking, and he spoke like a mentally ill person. Generally, when communicating with others, everyone would not give him a chance to speak. Zhou Zhuo immediately took over the conversation.

"We are new residents of 405. We are interns in a nearby hospital. We have no money in our pockets, so we found an old house to live in. We thought it would be cheaper. We just moved here in the morning. Grandma, do you live there too? If you don't mind Let's go together, we just don't know the way."

"I……"

Grandma's lips moved, but she couldn't utter a complete sentence. She muttered for a while, and finally shook her head slowly. The previous kind expression was gone, and those sculpted wrinkles were crowded together, like a few wriggling worms.

Zhou Zhuo immediately switched to a caring tone: "Grandma, what's wrong with you, are you in good health?"

"It's fine, I'm fine."

Grandma still shook her head, but this time, she did not refuse the help of Zhou Zhuo and the others, and took the initiative to walk in front.

Chapter 28 Professionalism

Because there are old and new buildings mixed together, the area of ​​the community is very large. It may take some time to find a 23 building, but it is much more convenient now.

Observing details is an essential skill for all forensic doctors. Zhou Zhuo was not idle on the road, and kept observing.

He found that the occupancy rate of this community was very low, and most of the residents were not sociable. Just now, when passing by Building 13, he saw a young woman coming out with a garbage bag, and went back after seeing someone.

There must be a reason for the formation of this atmosphere, and it may even be the background story of this dungeon. Now there is a person next to him, and Zhou Zhuo is not idle at all.

"Grandma, has something happened in the community recently? I think the users in other buildings seem to be a little reluctant to meet people."

Grandma is a person who is not good at hiding her mood, and her expression has changed a little, which is very unnatural.

"It's nothing major, but it's just not peaceful recently. There was a robbery in the street outside the community. The police didn't catch anyone. Everyone suspected that the residents in the community did it."

"Isn't there surveillance outside the community?" Zhou Zhuo has a good memory. When he came, he found a camera outside the security guard looking towards the community.

"It's broken early. I don't know whose child hit it with a stone. The property doesn't want to repair it, so it just keeps lying there. The thief is wearing a hood. No one knows what he looks like, so he hasn't been caught. Everyone is very supportive." worried."

Grandma shook her head, but there was no dissatisfaction in her tone, as if she felt that this was a normal situation.

For older people, security issues really don't need to be too concerned, because life and death or wealth are no longer particularly important to them, and most criminals usually don't target these things. On the dying old man.

"What place did he rob, a mall? A small bank?"

Grandma replied reflexively: "There are only a few supermarkets that are not monitored, how can he have the guts to rob a bank?"

"That's right. There are surveillance cameras in the bank. Even with a mask on, many physical characteristics will be recorded." Zhou Zhuo nodded slightly, "Then he stole something, was it just money? Or did he snatch some supplies from the supermarket by the way? "

Grandma ignored him this time, Zhou Zhuo really talked too much, if it were someone else, he would probably have turned his back on him long ago, thinking of this, he still shut up honestly.

While talking, the three of them had arrived at the downstairs of Unit 23, Building 2. Zhou Zhuo habitually looked around. Anyway, the person he set for himself was a college student who had just graduated, and he found a new residence. Curiosity is very important. normal thing.

This building has five floors, that is to say, there are other residents on the fourth floor. Just now, Zhou Zhuo saw a black head sticking out of the window on the fifth floor, and quickly shrank back when he saw someone coming in.

Sensing a subtle atmosphere of disharmony, Zhou Zhuo asked again: "Then besides this, are there other strange things happening? For example... disputes between neighbors?"

The grandma in front was at most just a little embarrassed. After all, she had lived in the same place for a long time, and it was inevitable that she would not be used to suddenly meeting enthusiastic new neighbors. But when Zhou Zhuo said the word "neighborhood", her expression became a little annoyed.

"You have too many questions. If you want to live here, you only need to remember one thing, that is, don't ask questions and don't look around. It's better than anything else to live a peaceful life!"

As if she had been strongly stimulated, the grandmother changed her previous kind demeanor, and her tone and expression were full of impatience.

But after she finished speaking, she regretted a little, but she didn't know what to say, so she could only wave her hands helplessly, then shook off Zhou Zhuo's supporting arm, took the vegetable basket from Ma Lou, took out the key and opened the iron door on the first floor, hurriedly He walked ahead without even having time to close the door.

Anyway, the room number is known, and the monk can't run away from the temple if he can run. Zhou Zhuo didn't rush to catch up, so he stopped and closed the iron gate.

At this time, he found that the environment had changed a little. The road the three of them walked was swallowed up by gray fog, and only the outlines of the nearby buildings could be vaguely seen.

Other players would probably think that the system has divided the scope of the game for him to avoid wasting time on exploration, but Zhou Zhuo always felt that something was wrong. He thought that the gray fog could be entered, but he did not have the ability to enter it now. Gray Fog's ability, or courage.

Out of worry, Zhou Zhuo carefully checked to see if the iron door of Unit 2 was locked again. Who knew that it was just a tentative touch, and the bolt of the old-fashioned door lock was pulled out by him...

"..."

Ma Lou glanced at him, Zhou Zhuo also glanced at him, the two of them looked at each other in silence, then casually threw the bolt into the corner, pretending it wasn't him who did it.

"Zhuo, Brother Zhuo, what are you going to do next?"

Ma Lou asked about the key content, because Zhou Zhuo has always been in the lead since he came into contact with the important task NPC. He didn't know what to do at all. He followed the plan and was ready to freeze his hands at any time. He had a very clear self-awareness.

In fact, this is also Zhou Zhuo’s intention of bringing him to the duo, just like the investigator’s three artifacts, friends, crowbars, and old seals. You can use them, but you can’t. Bringing a fool will not increase the burden. It’s really a critical moment. Maybe I can save my life.

"Didn't the mission description say that there is an empty room next door but there will be noises in the middle of the night? We just live in it. I have the key here. Let's see what surprises those good neighbors will give us."

Zhou Zhuo took out the master key enshrined in the gambler's obsession, and waved it in front of Ma Lou.

"Live there, no, it won't be a problem, right?"

"You carry a gun, and I carry a hammer. I don't know who is at fault if I meet them."

This is an old building where the elevator is too noisy and may break down at any time, Zhou Zhuo patted his bulging backpack and took the initiative to step up the stairs.

"Let's go."

The grandma also took the stairs, but the speed seemed to be much faster than the two young people. She clearly just took a step first, but when the two went upstairs, they never saw her car taillights. Instead, they met a woman on the second floor. The uncle who opened the door to throw out the trash.

The other party just glanced at them, then put the garbage bag on the door, and slammed the door shut.

Is there cleaning?

Zhou Zhuo immediately stopped in his tracks and gestured to Ma Lou to silence, and the two of them walked slowly against the wall one after the other, and came to the blind corner under the window of Room 204.

"I'll see what's in the garbage bag, you help me look out." Zhou Zhuo lowered his voice.

Ma Lou nodded, stood up with the self-consciousness of a tool person, and looked around.

For ordinary people, garbage is the most useless thing, dirty and smelly, but for criminal police and forensic staff, it is a treasure.

A person's domestic garbage contains countless secrets, such as the owner's DNA information, his personality, his experience, and what happened in this house recently. If a garbage bag that has not been thrown away is found at the search site, then It must be disassembled and inspected.

While silently reciting the search rules taught to him by Wang Qiming, Zhou Zhuo opened the garbage bag with a pilgrimage, and saw a large white ball of paper on it.

At this time, Zhou Zhuo already had a little premonition in his heart, but he still opened the inspections one by one with a strong professionalism.

"The first charge, the first charge, or the first charge...I'm sloppy, and this amount is too much. At this age, I still shoot several times a day. Are you really afraid of death?"

Zhou Zhuo searched while cursing, but still found something useful at the bottom of the garbage bag.

A takeaway list, a delivery box, and a piece of... black lace underwear covered in cloudy white liquid.

Chapter 29 The Unoccupied Room

It can be seen from the ordering time and the amount of food on the takeaway list that this sloppy uncle is single, has no formal job, and spends most of his time at home.

It is probably because there is really nothing to do, and basically all energy is used to deal with desires. If there is any underwear theft case in the community, then the culprit is probably him.

From the beginning of the dungeon, the details of what is called "my good neighbor" are reflected, which makes Zhou Zhuo even more looking forward to what is going on in the room next to the client Xiaojiu.

At this time, there was a sound of cursing and cursing in the house, and they were found in the horse building watching the wind in the corridor. The two ran away without hesitation. It was too late.

The tacit understanding between people when they do bad things is self-evident. The two of them rushed straight to the fourth floor. They obviously didn't see the grandma before, but now they almost bumped into each other. She stood in the middle of the corridor, as if Waiting for two people.

Zhou Zhuo's thoughts were quick, and he could see that Grandma was doubting what he just said, so he took the initiative to put on a smiling face and spoke up.

"Grandma, just now we chatted with the uncle in 204 on the second floor. He seemed unfriendly and drove us away. I think there are some things in his room that don't belong to him. There are underwear in the apartment. A case of theft?"

Here is a very common trick. When you are suspected, explaining may not be the best choice, because people are subjective, and they look at it with colored glasses. No matter how reasonable the explanation sounds, it sounds like sophistry. Appropriate Diverting the other party's attention is the best policy.

After hearing about the theft of underwear, an event that all women will inevitably pay attention to, Grandma was taken aback for a moment, then shook her head: "No."

Grandma's expression was much more natural than when she was talking about the robbery. It didn't look like she was lying. It also proved that she had some information about the robbery that ordinary people didn't know. Could it be that she had actually seen the gangster's true face, but received Life-threatening dare not say?

It is understandable, after all, the turnover of people in the old community is low, and there are only a few residents in total. If the neighbors commit crimes, they may come to the door at any time, so as an old man with children at home, it is only natural that he dare not tell the truth.

When Ma Lou was still confused, Zhou Zhuo had gradually grasped the context of this dungeon, and made a specific investigation plan in his heart.

"Well, it feels like the neighbors are not very friendly, haha."

Zhou Zhuo laughed dryly, walked to 404 next to 405, took out the scorched black key in his pocket, blocked the lock with his body, regardless of whether the keyhole could fit, and just slammed on it.

He knew that Grandma stayed here to confirm the fact that they lived next door. It would be easy to make mistakes. Zhou Zhuo was not confident enough to fight with this old monster, so he stayed in that room first.

When the key came into contact with the keyhole, Zhou Zhuo felt some horrible images appearing in the depths of his brain. It was a scorched corpse crawling in the fire, making mournful wailing continuously. After a moment of trance, there was a click. The door was locked.

Zhou Zhuo saw that his sanity value dropped from 100 to 90, and a little blood began to spread in the background color of the attribute bar, like tired eyes.

"Not using the sustenance also consumes sanity. It seems that the real judgment condition is contact with supernatural power."

Zhou Zhuo muttered, calling Ma Lou to come in quickly, blocking his sight, and prevaricating grandma by the way: "We're going to tidy up the room first, the move is too urgent, the agent didn't have time to clean the room after handing over the room, and we'll come to visit when we're done. "

Before Grandma came back to her senses, the door slammed shut.

Zhou Zhuo glanced back, it was obviously a rough room with some furniture, it was indeed unoccupied as Xiao Jiu said, there were no obvious labeled personal items such as slippers or toiletries in the room.

But there are obvious footprints on the dirty ground, which means that Xiao Jiu heard correctly, and there was someone in the next room when the sound was made.

Zhou Zhuo knelt down, stretched out his index finger and gently wiped the shoe prints to confirm that the plaster had agglomerated, and picked out relatively complete shoe prints to infer the target's shoe size, step distance and walking habits.

Unfortunately, the chain of evidence is not complete. It can only be speculated that the owner of the house is alone. He seems to be suffering from some leg diseases, with a large change in step distance. He was walking in the living room wearing wet slippers when the incident happened.

"Damp... there's nothing to do in this room, and the footsteps don't extend to the door, which means the water was brought from the bathroom."