Boundless Darkness 27

The woman with long black curly hair is named Li Guanran. She has studied footprints and is a member of the second batch of beta testers.

“Is there any camouflage on their faces?” Song Tingshuang asked.

“Yes, they are very cautious.” Li Guanran said, “The male is about 1.85 meters tall, with a thin body, and wears a black sports suit. The female is about 1.75 meters tall, with a well-proportioned figure, and wears a dark blue hooded sweater… umm , It is indeed a girl.”

Song Tingshuang said: “Since there is a disguise on the face, how do you judge the age? Girl… the woman at the scene last night is not very old?”

“Walking posture, as well as movements, should be judged based on experience.” Li Guanran briefly mentioned, “Didn’t you take footprint studies as an elective during college?”

“My direction is investigative studies. I only know superficially about footprint studies, and I can be regarded as a layman…” Song Tingshuang had a subtle feeling of being asked by the teacher.

Li Wanran smiled, “I can tell, it’s very unfamiliar, and it still needs training.”

Although Song Tingshuang studied related majors, she did not engage in this field of work after graduation. Compared with Li Guanran, she was a little immature.

Of course, Li Wanran was transferred here for a reason. Her extraordinary ability is part of the reason, and her personal ability is also part of the reason. In terms of identity, she is Song Tingshuang’s superior, and she is the leader of this investigation, so she knows part of Song Tingshuang’s information.

It’s a pity that the mask covers your face, so you can’t read your lips. Li Guanran silently observed the illusory scene that only she could see.

She wore shoe covers and brought some tools to survey the scene. In order to avoid damaging the traces of the scene, not many people entered the factory, and only brought a few armed personnel to protect them.

Li Guanran’s “scene recall” is only an E-level ability, which she just awakened during her week in the second world. Use it all the time.

She squatted down with a flashlight and carefully observed the traces on the ground.

“There are some small spots of dust on the ground, and the spots are aggregated. When the man came in, it must have been raining heavily outside. The rain wet his clothes, and the water drippeddown, forming these traces on the ground. Li Guanran said to Song Tingshuang like a live teacher, “Thanks to the rain for leaving his footprints…”

Song Tingshuang took out his mobile phone to confirm the rain time last night: “It should be around twelve o’clock. From evening to eleven o’clock in the evening, the rain was light rain, and the rain stopped after half past twelve .Only during the period in the middle was it raining heavily.”

“They didn’t come to the tobacco factory at the same time.” Li Guanran judged, “Because the place where the girl was standing did not have such water marks. One was dry, and the other was covered with rain… The girl came to the tobacco factory earlier. factory.”

“It may also be that the girl has a way to avoid the rain.” Song Tingshuang said, “With so many special extraordinary abilities, maybe her ability is to control water.”

Li Guanran said: “It makes sense. We can no longer look at these traces with conventional thinking, nor can we judge based on experience.”

Li Wanran’s flashlight caught another footprint, but the footprint was very shallow.

The beam of her flashlight was kept parallel to the ground, and a whole row of footprints was revealed. Those footprints are hidden in tiny dust. No one has been here for a long time. There is a layer of dust on the ground. When human footprints fall on it, the dust will form an inconspicuous depression. This layer of depression is only less than one millimeter deep. I can’t find it at all.

This row of footprints leads all the way to the corridor on the first floor of the tobacco factory.

“A man’s footprint.” Song Tingshuang said, “The shoe size is large, and the stride distance is also large. I guess his weight is about 140 catties?”

“Almost.” Li Guanran’s eyes searched around.

Song Tingshuang carefully avoided the row of footprints, and asked suspiciously: “Where is the other person? That girl, there is only one row of footprints here…”

Li Wanran searched around for a while, and finally found a row of inconspicuous footprints on a corner of the wall. She followed the string of footprints that appeared and disappeared, and found that this string of footprints was always the same as that of the male player. The footprints are separated by a subtle distance, neither approaching nor far away.

She mused, “The girl and the man walked towards the same place. They seem to have the same goal, but the girl and the man are on guard…the distance between the two of their footprints is more than two meters. If they are acquaintances, Definitely not that far away from each other.”

“The two players met here by chance. After a brief conversation, they decided to go together to investigate this factory?” Song Tingshuang said, “From a logical point of view.”

“Yes.” Li Guanran stood up from the ground, “But I suspect that the male player is organized.”

Her “scene retrospective” can go back a limited time, and the pictures she sees are also limited.

From her point of view, after the two players met, the male player received a call, said a simple sentence, and then started talking to another player… After the conversation, the male player turned and left, while the female player waited in place. After a while, the male player left and returned… The scene backtracking ends here.

Was he on the phone when he went out? If yes, who is he on the phone with?

Who is he reporting to? Who do I ask for instructions?

Also, the female player’s reaction seemed a little unusual. She let the male player go out to make a phone call without even moving his body, just stood there and waited, which was too bold . She seems to have a certain amount of confidence, and also has a certain amount of trust in that male player… Maybe they formed an alliance online before, and this is their first meeting offline…

Thinking about it further, the male player has an organization and teammates, but the female player does not. Maybe the male player is here to recruit this female player? They bumped into each other and got connected, so they needed to report to those who weren’t there?

Such an inference seems to make sense.

After all, the two of them reached a consensus in a very short period of time to jointly search for this tobacco factory. Thinking about it in his own shoes, if the opponent is a completely unfamiliar player, Li Guanran cannot safely walk with the opponent no matter what.

“Everyone on the forum is starting to form a group.” Song Tingshuang said, “The players who can find here will not be alone. There must be a source of information behind them… such as the famous 233.”

“It’s not impossible.” Li Guanran said, “Let’s go and investigate.”

On the next floor, the situation changed.

They followed their footprints up a flight of stairs, and found a puddle of dried blood in the middle of the corridor.

There is no doubt that this is a key location, and it is worth Li Wanran to use a “scene backtracking”.

Li Guanran didn’t activate her extraordinary ability immediately. She took out professional tools from the bag she carried to collect the blood on the ground. After collecting the blood, she stood up and used “Scene Retrace”.

A vague shadow squatted down next to the bloodstain. Judging from his figure, it was the male player who just stood under the stairs.

He crouched on the ground and watched for a while, then raised his head to look to the right back – the girl stood in the dark and looked at him with her arms folded.

They said a few words.

The male player stood up and continued to walk forward… The girl also followed.

Two vague shadows disappeared in the depths of the dark corridor.

“The bloodstains existed before last night, and the two players were observing the bloodstains on the ground.” Li Guanran said, “Judging from the body movements, the female players are not very interested in the bloodstains on the ground, and they are not surprised… On the contrary, it is the male players …”

She said that she tried to continue to use “Scene Backtracking” to see a longer picture, butFailed – the same location, scene backtracking can only be used once.

After all, it was the E-level ability that had just been awakened for a week. This ability brought her convenience, but unfortunately, it was too flawed. Fortunately, extraordinary abilities usually have room for growth, and this ability will play a greater role and value in the future.

Li Wanran surveyed and recorded the surrounding area, and finally said: “Continue.”

She glanced at the time, it was 23:25…it was almost midnight.

“It will be midnight in thirty-five minutes.” Song Tingshuang also noticed the time, and she reminded in a low voice, “Do you want to evacuate? Or…”

“We are not sure how dangerous this place is.” Li Guanran said, “The time-space distortion phenomenon mentioned in the intelligence may occur. We must evacuate. Set up monitors before evacuating to confirm the situation.”

Their people have installed surveillance devices in many places in the old industrial area to facilitate monitoring of nearby movements.

Song Tingshuang nodded, and put down her backpack, which contained a high-definition camera. She adjusted the device to night shooting mode.

“Where is it more appropriate to install?” she asked.

Today is the first day of the blockade of the old industrial area. In order to protect the site and facilitate investigation, they did not install a large number of monitoring systems inside the building, and had to replace it with other camera tools.

“There’s still enough time, let’s go a little further.” Li Wanran said.

Subtle footsteps echoed in the corridor. The armed personnel were on guard. Li Guanran and Song Tingshuang also did not dare to be careless. They had to take care of the investigation while being on guard.

Soon, another pool of blood appeared.

This time the bloodstain was huge, covering the entire ground, and… the bloodstain was in the shape of a human being, and the general outline of the limbs and torso could be seen.

Song Tingshuang took a deep breath, her voice trembling: “Human!”

Her voice echoed in the empty factory building, appearing a little gloomy. She hastily lowered her voice and said excitedly, “The dead blood man…Fang Zhi! Could it be him? We found the place where Fang Zhi died?”

“Very likely.” Li Guanran winked at Song Tingshuang, and Song Tingshuang immediately set up a camera device in the corner and adjusted the camera angle.

Li Wanran glanced around and used “Scene Rewind”.

The blurry figure reappeared…

The male player was still squatting on the ground to observe the blood, then he stood up and started a conversation with the girl…Then the male player suddenly took out a knife from his pocket and cut his arm…The girl said something to him Saying so, the male player nodded…they left the tobacco factory…

No, there is too little useful information! We need to look further ahead.

Li Guanran didn’t stop using scene rewinding, she kept her ability active and moved the timeline forward…she couldn’t be an interferor of time, she could only be a bystander, watching what happened here.

It’s that girl again! She appeared again!

She walked up to the pool of blood, took out the items in her pocket, dipped the blood on the ground, and collected it. Then she took out a camera and taped it to the wall, checked the location of the camera, and finally left.

As time moved on, Li Wanran did not stop showing those images.

Then in the next moment, she opened her eyes wide, and saw the dazzling black shadows from the past scene, the twisted tentacles seemed to be dancing on the wall, and the dark “door” opened silently, those tentacles seemed to want to get out of the hole. Squeeze out…

The terrifying and messy scene disappeared in a flash, and the process took less than a second.

A drop of cold sweat fell on Li Wanran’s forehead. He was about to close the scene backtracking, but suddenly saw a dark blue vortex opened in front of him, and out of the vortex… that girl.

She looked around, pulled off the video camera that was glued to the wall and observed for a while, seemingly in deep thought…

The picture came to an abrupt end here.

Li Guanran’s body swayed and she almost lost her footing. Song Tingshuang hurriedly supported her, and said at the same time, “It’s already 11:45 in the evening, we have to evacuate.”

“Okay…” Li Guanran swallowed what he was about to say, and followed the crowd to leave the tobacco factory with a heavy face.

Li Guanran and Song Tingshuang were not too far away from the tobacco factory. They got into an armed vehicle, and there was a monitor in the armed vehicle.

“No, the distance must be farther.” Li Guanran became vigilant after seeing the scene backtracking, “Drive the car away, and leave now.”

The armed vehicle was moving forward, and she checked the time anxiously, checking her watch seven or eight times until zero o’clock came.

A translucent glass-like substance suddenly enveloped the tobacco factory. Song Tingshuang lowered the car window and looked over there, just in time to see this incredible scene.

At the same time, the picture on the monitor also changed.

A “door” opened.

The distorted black shadow struggled to come out, but what was different from the scene recalled by Li Wanran was that those monsters really struggled out of the door!



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