Obligations of the elderly

It was Datou who first discovered what happened to Xiao Zhou - because he didn't pick up Bella.

Immediately afterwards, Gong Si knew.

"She doesn't come here every day to deliver juice, she should have gone back early?" Gong Si didn't think there was anything wrong at first, as he said, Bella didn't come here every day, if she really wanted to deliver juice every day, At the end of the month, her salary may be deducted.

The big head tilted its head, not sure if it accepted the statement, but with a flick of its tail, it swam out again.

It seems that he didn't accept it, the big head went to look for Bella again, Gong Si curled his lips, but didn't stop him.But after get off work, he still called Dean Xiao Zhou, the phone rang once and was picked up, and it was Xiao Zhou himself who answered the phone.

"Has the big head received Bella?" Before Gong Si could speak, Xiao Zhou spoke first.

"Huh? Not yet." The situation on the big head's side, now Gongsi can still feel it as long as he wants to feel it. He and the big head are now more like a pair of twins, independent individuals, but they have a good understanding.

"Probably... Maybe I went to repair Apu? When the child is not at home or at school, she is basically repairing Apu. After coming here, she has repaired all broken machines. She is a Enthusiastic child here..." Dean Xiao Zhou comforted Gong Si like this, but Gong Si felt that she was comforting herself rather than comforting him.

"Don't worry, it's just a little past the access control time. Just wait a little longer." Dean Xiao Zhou said, and hung up the phone.

However, Bella never came back that night.

"You don't have to worry too much. The child is not only active in this area. When her father was around, she took her to many places, and she may have gone to other places." Boss Delin comforted Dean Xiao Zhou: "Look at her part-time job today, go to school or something... She doesn't like going to school at first, but part-time work is different, she will not let go of the opportunity to make money."

Boss Gadrin obviously knew Bella quite well.

"Should we call the police first?" Gong Si had an idea.

Xiao Zhou shook her head, frowned, and said in a low voice: "If she doesn't show up when she's working, I'll call the police. The police will treat it as a missing persons case if she disappears for more than 24 hours, and... The children who were sent to the orphanage, especially Bella, had a record of escaping from the orphanage before. If they disappeared again, they would be suspected of having escaped from the orphanage for the second time. Going to an orphanage with very strict management, I don't think Bella is willing to do this..."

In the end, everyone didn't quite believe that something would happen to Bella. After all, this is Puzhou, and the law and order in Puzhou is quite good. Bella has lived outside for so many years without any accidents, including Boss Gadlin. , They all thought that Bella ran off to do something by herself.

After all, Bella is a person who likes to run around very much. Even when she lived with Malone and the others at Teacher Delin's house, Bella often didn't go home.

In this way, Dean Zhou waited in panic until five o'clock in the afternoon, when Bella was working, and when she found that Bella still did not show up on time, she resolutely called the police.

"Has it been missing for 24 hours? Don't worry, the child may have just run out to play by himself. The law and order in Puzhou is very good. Generally, there will be no accidents. There has been no real disappearance case for seven consecutive years. , The disappearance cases that came to the police basically found out later that they were just stuck in something and didn't go home, or there was an accident... Ah, did I scare you? There are very few accidents. The traffic in Puzhou Public security management is also very good." The policeman took notes patiently, and after comforting Dean Xiao Zhou, he got Bella's photo from her and handed it to his colleague. He then said: " Next, we will compare this photo with the data stored in various cameras in Puzhou in the past 24 hours. Under normal circumstances, the missing person can be found. Our Puzhou surveillance identification system is very developed. Even if they can escape the machine’s recognition, they cannot escape the device’s recognition.”

Seeing that Dean Xiao Zhou's complexion was a little better, he said again: "Of course, I will also send the photos to the major hospitals in Puzhou at the same time to see if there are any missing persons among the patients they received in the past 24 hours."

"There are so many surveillance videos, it will take about a day, but believe me, according to statistics, generally 20% of the missing persons can be found in about 3 hours, 50% need half a day, and in about 15 hours, basically 80% of disappearance cases can be closed.”

Mr. Police said so, however, as time went by, three hours passed, twelve hours passed, fifteen hours passed...

There was no sign of Bella in the surveillance camera at all!

"This... this is very strange. This is the first time this happened, how could there be no such person?" The policeman who had been persuading Dean Zhou to calm down couldn't help standing up.

"She...is very familiar with Puzhou's surveillance system. Because she was a black craftsman before, she is used to hiding from the surveillance cameras all the year round, and she can also change the content of the camera." Gong Si also came over after school. Just when he heard the police say this, he thought for a while, and finally told Bella about this habit.

"If she has the habit of changing the content of the camera casually, then...then this search method is completely useless to her!" Mr. Police's expression changed.

But they didn't find nothing. After layers of investigation, they determined that the last person to see Bella was a colleague from the juice shop who took over shifts with her. Starting from that time point, they manually searched all the surveillance videos in the vicinity. I didn't find anything at first, but I got an unexpected harvest in the ticket issued by an urban environment patrol robot!

It was in a remote alley not too far from the juice shop and the tavern. Because it is very remote, few people usually walk there. Only those who are very familiar with the terrain know that the alley is going to and from the juice shop. The road closest to the tavern.

As Bella, who has never left the Puzhou mainland or even been to the floating island since she was born, no one is more familiar with the terrain than her!

And the content of the ticket issued by the urban environmental patrol robot was "littering". Although the garbage had been cleaned up and no litterers were photographed, the conscientious patrol robot took pictures before cleaning up. A photo of the destruction of the ground environment. The content of the photo is three bottles of juice that have fallen on the ground. The logo of the juice bottle is very obvious. It is the logo of the juice shop where Bella works!The juice sprinkled all over the ground is bright red, it looks like...

"Tomato juice! Boss Gadrin likes to drink tomato juice recently." Gong Si said it all at once.

The policeman hurriedly looked at the results of the patrol robot's identification of the contents of the juice.

"It's really tomato juice! It's written in the report on the patrol robot!" he shouted.

In this way, they can basically confirm that the three bottles of juice are bought by Bella from the juice shop and are going to be sent to the tavern for Boss Gadlin and others to drink.

But under what circumstances would people accidentally spill the juice?

Leaving in a hurry?There has been an accident?Or met someone who kidnapped her...

The police quickly dropped the videos of various routes around this time period, but found nothing!But at this time, the police also realized that something must have happened——

Bella was not the only one missing. Within a day, the police all over the country received [-] reports of disappearances one after another. Among the missing persons were old people, middle-aged people, young people, young people, men and women. Girl, their identities have nothing in common!

However, these people are not like Bella who has the ability to modify the monitoring, so their figures can still be seen in the monitoring, but it is precisely because they have been photographed before, which makes people feel that their figures suddenly disappeared in the monitoring It's very suspicious, except for Bella, basically everyone disappeared suddenly!The police tried to draw a line of these people according to the order and location of their disappearance, and then they made an even more astonishing discovery: they disappeared along a route!

Although the alleys in Puzhou mainland extend in all directions, not all roads are connected, but these people disappeared on a road that can go straight forward, especially when they disappeared, where they disappeared, and the order in which they disappeared If you compare them, you will find that they are almost on the walking route of a person, and that person disappeared all of them while walking? !

Although it sounds unbelievable, the fact is that twelve people have been lost now!

No, it was thirteen. Early the next morning, when Boss Gadlin went to the hospital to visit his employee Archie, the people in the hospital said that he had gone home. Boss Gadlin went to his house to check, but found nothing. When contacted with the disappearance case he learned about from the police, he hardly hesitated and immediately called the police.

As a result, the number of missing people quickly soared to 13, and among them, Archie, who had never appeared on the surveillance camera after returning home, was determined to be the first missing person, and Bella was No.2.

The police immediately announced the missing case as a serial missing case, hoping that the public can provide clues and pay attention to travel.

The close-up of the perpetrator is described as male and female unknown, but at least two people, this strange way of disappearance, first, the other party needs to be proficient in anti-tracking skills; second, have the ability to modify surveillance video; third, have the ability to The ability to make people disappear in an instant.

The first two abilities can still be possessed by ordinary people, but the third one can basically be delimited within the scope of ability users, and ability users appear in pairs in most cases, so they delineate the perpetrators as at least two people.

The disappearance case and the possible characteristics of the perpetrators were announced to the outside world. Internally, the police quickly searched for those who might commit crimes on the mainland.

Basically, as long as a person is born, he or she has his or her own file on the continent where he or she was born, whether it is an ordinary person or a person with abilities, and both files will continue to accumulate according to time changes.The school is not set up in vain. Basically, most people will complete their own awakening before the age of 18. Among them, what is the level of ability and what is the ability... At this stage, it will basically be determined slowly, and these will be recorded Among their files, in this way, of course, no one will casually check other people's files, and no one is qualified to check other people's files. However, when the other party has the possibility of committing a crime, this kind of inquiry It is allowed. Of course, only specific people are allowed to check the relevant documents, and the files that are leisurely checked are not the files of ordinary people, but the files of people with criminal records.

There are countless such files in Puzhou alone. The Puzhou police decided to start with the most easily obtained files of this continent, and at the same time investigate the files of all people who have entered this continent from other continents in the recent period, regardless of the other party. Whether you have a criminal record or not, you will be added to the list to be searched!

Puzhou launched a comprehensive search plan in the shortest possible time. For a while, there were newly added patrol robots everywhere. The police also added manpower to each street to visit residents door to door. There are no other missing or unreported persons.

***

The woman stood at the door with a slight smile, and several policemen stood outside the door. After taking the woman's ID and checking it carefully and making records, the police told the woman to pay attention to personal safety today, and try not to go out alone at ordinary times. In case of any danger, please go to the crowd and ask other people for help in time.

"...Well, I see, well, it's okay, I'm honored to be able to cooperate with the police officer." Nodding, the woman smiled at the policemen after getting her ID back.

After saluting, the police left her door and knocked on the door of the next room.

As soon as the door was closed, the smile on the woman's face disappeared in an instant. She drooped her face, and the woman glanced at the soles of her feet. The shadows on the soles of her feet became darker and darker. In a blink of an eye, she fell from the carpeted hotel room into a dark room. s room.

"It's all your fault, why do you know so many people? If it wasn't for you, none of us would have been kidnapped." She was not surprised at this sudden weightlessness, she landed firmly on the ground, and complained as soon as she opened her mouth.

"That's right, that's great. We kidnapped twelve people at once, and it's all your fault, Archie." This time it was a man who was speaking, not tall, his face hidden in the darkness.

Blonde hair and blue eyes—Archie, who was sitting in the corner, smiled shyly.

"That's right! Someone will come to say hello to you later, someone will come to say hello to you later, how do you know so many people? Everyone knows you!" Holding a mobile phone in his hand, he said in a rough voice while playing games. The angry accuser was a woman wearing a hat and wearing a sportswear that showed her figure. After accusing Archie, she cursed bitterly: "Damn—he hung up again—"

"I can't help it. Who made me popular? You sent me here to explore the way. Since you want to come here to explore the way, you must make good friends with people. Besides, you didn't send me just because I like people." Come and sneak in?" Archie said innocently, tilting his head.

"Get out—I didn't send you here because you are likable, but you are the most useless." The woman who was dealing with the police at the door said coldly, and glanced at the others around: "This guy is useless. There are people he knows everywhere, so let him stay here with Johnny to watch the hostages."

"The rest of us go out, but be careful of the police, because of this guy, there are police everywhere outside now." She said to everyone.

"Understood." Either speak out, or nod, or just stand up as a sign of agreement, after she finished speaking, eight people stood up one after another in the dark room, and then, without knowing how, The figures of these eight people quickly disappeared in the room.

Bella looked in horror at what was happening in front of her eyes, looking at Archie who was still smiling and sitting next to the candle, the horror on her face was even worse——

However, she couldn't speak, and neither could the others around her, their mouths were all sealed with tape.After her, eleven more people were kidnapped one after another. This is a huge room made of shadows. I don't know how big it is, and the walls can't be touched. They seem to be suspended in the shadows!

She didn't understand why Archie, who had always been familiar with him, was with those people, but she already knew one thing very well, that is, something bad was about to happen!

"Don't worry, we won't do anything to you, it's just to prevent you from saying that you have seen me, ah... I just didn't expect so many people to come here at once..." Archie said, shrugging He shrugged: "I used to think that Puzhou is a warm place, and the people in Puzhou are super friendly. They will definitely say hello when they meet people. Now it seems that this habit is not necessarily good..."

Archie said, and smiled again: "It's okay, I'll let you go when we're done. Then, you might thank me, because..."

Tilting his head in a friendly manner, Archie didn't continue talking, and lowered his head, he continued to play with his mobile phone.