Synthesis of Terror: On the One Thousand and One Ways of Death of the Protagonist

The wind chimes hanging outside the convenience store jingled, and Ryan, who was busy with accounts, said habitually: "Welcome..."

Looking up, seeing Qin Yue, the expression on Rui En's face did not change, he still greeted warmly: "Hi, may I ask what you need?"

He looked like he didn't know who Qin Yue was at all.

Qin Yue has been busy with the start of school recently, so she hasn't come to the convenience store. Boss Rui En sees many customers on weekdays, so it's normal that she doesn't remember her.

Qin Yue had no expression on her face. Looking at Boss Ryan's chubby face, she asked, "I'm Jack's girlfriend. I'm here because I want to ask you something."

Ryan narrowed his eyes, as if remembering something.

At this time, Scott also came in from the outside and stood behind Qin Yue.

The 16-year-old boy jumped up very fast, and now he is about 1.8 meters tall, and his figure is no different from that of an adult man.

Ryan lowered his head, put away the money he had just received, and then looked up at Qin Yue, with a touch of appropriate sadness on his face: "Jack's girlfriend, has Jack found it? I often hear him mention you, The last time I saw you seemed to be a month ago, why haven't you come to him recently?"

Compared with the last time Qin Yue saw him, Rui En's body seemed to be a little fatter. Standing behind the narrow cash register, he filled up the small space.

Qin Yue was not in the mood to play around with Ryan, asking him about the day Jack disappeared.

Ryan rubbed his forehead, and the expression on his face became even more sad: "Jack is a good boy, how could this happen to him? I remember that I got off work at nine o'clock that day, but the store was not busy. At seven o'clock I Let him go back first."

What happened three days ago, Ryan remembered very clearly, he even remembered what kind of clothes Jack was wearing that day.

Hearing Ryan's description of Jack's attire, Qin Yue felt a little strange. She glanced at Ryan and sized him up carefully.

The eyes of the little girl in front of him were too sharp, not like the eyes of a 12-year-old girl at all. Ryan felt his scalp numb from her eyes, and felt that the air conditioner in the store seemed to be broken. Already broke out in a cold sweat.

Qin Yue looked back and asked if there was anything wrong with Jack that day, Ryan answered one by one, pointed to the direction Jack left, and told Qin Yue where Ryan left, and Qin Yue told Ryan what Ryan said Keeping everything in mind, I walked around the convenience store again, looked around, and then left with Scott.

Seeing the back of the two leaving, Ryan's eyes were dim and unclear. He rubbed his hands and sighed, as if he was pitying what happened to Jack. After a while, he continued to work again.

Coming out of the air-conditioned store, the heat wave hit her face, and the alternation of hot and cold made Qin Yue feel extremely uncomfortable. She shivered, rubbed the goose bumps on her arms, and folded her arms towards the The road that Jack walked that night moved slowly forward.

Scott didn't know what Qin Yue was going to do, he just followed Qin Yue silently, followed her footsteps, and watched what she was going to do.

The block where Qin Yue and the others are located is not very good, it is already considered a fringe area of ​​the city, but fortunately, the environment here is not bad, the law and order is very good, even theft rarely occurs on weekdays, the police in this block The most cases I receive on weekdays are trivial matters such as helping people open doors and finding cats.

It was the first time in more than a decade that an Amber Alert had been sounded in search of a 13-year-old.

But the boy was not found

The more she thought about it, the more ugly Qin Yue's face became. She didn't dare to think about what happened to Jack. She forced herself to calm down and search for the details to deduce where Jack disappeared and who took him away.

However, Qin Yue walked that road back and forth countless times, from day to night, but did not find any clues.

The strong sense of frustration almost overwhelmed Qin Yue. She thought she was strong enough to handle everything. However, the reality threw her countless big mouths and told Qin Yue with bloody reality how much she had. It's useless.

In so many worlds in the past, she relied on her own abilities and those who treated her well, and she never really relied on her own abilities to solve things once.

This time, when those abilities became tasteless and useless, she could only act like a waste, unable to help.

Jack, Jack, Jack...

Qin Yue was caught in her own thoughts and couldn't get out. She had completely lost the ability to think, and just walked over and over again to the last place Jack passed before he disappeared.

Her bewildered appearance frightened Scott. Scott kept persuading Qin Yue, but she didn't seem to listen at all. In the end, Scott had no choice but to faint. Qin Yue.

Qin Yue's body fell limply, and was hugged by Scott in his arms. Seeing his sister's bloodless face, Scott felt extremely distressed.

When Scott brought the unconscious Qin Yue home, both Cole and Jesse were terrified.

"Scott, what happened to Alice?"

Jessie looked at her unconscious daughter, tears rolled down her eyes immediately.

Scott wiped his face, his eyes were very red, and he told the whole story of what Qin Yue did today.

When hearing Qin Yue walking back and forth in the place where Jack disappeared, Cole didn't know what she was thinking.

Touching his daughter's sweat-drenched hair, Cole seemed to have aged a teenager in an instant, with a deep tired look on his face.

Now, Jack is just missing. If death is confirmed, can Alice accept such a result?

The relationship between her and Jack was so deep, if Jack died... Cole didn't continue to think about it.

Qin Yue's body was not well at first, and after another seven or eight hours in the sun, she became even more ill, and her whole body was burnt so badly that it was almost impossible to save her.

It has been a week since Qin Yue recovered from her illness, and ten days have passed since Jack disappeared.

Jack is still in a state where no one is alive but no one is dead. Cole has been comforting Qin Yue. It is the best situation that the body cannot be found. Maybe Jack is still alive.

Qin Yue is not a child, she knows very well that what Cole said was just to comfort her.

Jack is afraid that he will never come back.

After a serious illness, Qin Yue lost weight quickly, as if her whole body could be blown away by a gust of wind, and her chubby cheeks quickly lost the baby fat, revealing her pointed chin.

Qin Yue originally wanted to look for Jack, but the school had already started, and she had missed her studies for a few days because of illness, but now that she recovered, it was time to go to school.

Qin Yue is not a child, she didn't cry, she went to school obediently, but after school, she started to walk back and forth over and over again, following the path that Jack walked last.

Ten days was not enough for Jack's parents to believe that their son was dead. They stubbornly searched for Jack, and the scope expanded from this city to other cities. The couple took out all their property and issued a reward, promising that if Someone who can provide useful clues must be rewarded heavily.

For money, many people will do many things against their conscience. Witnesses who did not exist flocked to provide clues to Jack.

Some of them are true, while others are completely nonsense. There are people who say what they say, and everyone has plausible words, and they swear that they saw Jack before he disappeared.

People in the whole city seem to have seen Jack before he disappeared, and Jack seems to have appeared in every street in the southeast, northwest, and south.

Hope fell into despair again and again, and Jack's parents slowly fell into the abyss of despair.

The police are also in a stalemate.

There is no surveillance, no witnesses, no crime scene, no people, and no dead bodies.

They have contacted other police stations and requested a coordinated investigation, but they still have no clue.

That boy seemed to have disappeared into this world out of thin air, without a trace of him.

The police have basically determined Jack's death, and what they are doing now is to find Jack's body and find out whether it was a homicide or an accident.

As the last person who had contact with him, Ryan was interrogated countless times by the police, and Ryan's answer was the same every time.

Ryan seemed to be fine. When Jack disappeared, he was busy in the convenience store, and he didn't close the door until twelve o'clock.

The monitoring in the store confirmed this, not to mention there were other customers, which proved that Ryan was in the store during that time.

Ryan has basically been ruled out of suspicion of committing the crime.

Because of Jack's affairs, Cole has been very busy recently.

However, the deadlocked case made Cole feel uncomfortable.

Cole has been a policeman for so many years, and he has been living a very ordinary life. He has never encountered any major cases. Unexpectedly, the first case he encountered was that the victim was someone close to him.

It's a bad feeling.

Cole felt incompetent, he couldn't find Jack, and he didn't know how to face Jack's desperate parents.

Thinking of his little daughter who was getting thinner day by day, Cole's heart tightened. He sighed and entered Jack into the missing children information.

Cole looked at the missing children on the missing children database, and the expression on his face became more and more ugly.

Those photos represent fresh and immature lives. They lost their traces in their best years and could never be found again.

Live without people, dead without corpses.

Cole's mood became more and more heavy. Those children on the computer screen were looking at him, and he didn't even dare to look carefully at the faces of those children.

When he was about to exit the page, Cole glanced at a piece of gold out of the corner of his eye. He was slightly taken aback, and turned his head to look at those pages that he didn't dare to read just now.

The mouse slid silently, and the photos on the page also scrolled. Cole's eyes suddenly widened, and he clicked on the very similar photos.

Below each photo is information about the missing child, including age, height, and date of disappearance.

Cole carefully looked through the information of the past ten years, and then found something that made people feel chills all over his body.

In ten years, there were more than 200 missing children in this small town, including 150 boys and [-] girls.

The missing girls range in age from seven to 15 years old.

The missing boys range in age from two to 17 years old.

However, among these missing boys, the most are thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys.

Kerr put together photos of the teenagers.

The 56 teenagers all have brilliant blond hair and delicate faces. When these photos are put together, at first glance, they look like the same person.

Cole was the only one in the office, and the surroundings were eerily quiet. The fan above his head was buzzing, and Cole felt like a huge wave was rising in his heart. He forced himself to calm down, and looked carefully at the 56 teenagers. data of.

The first boy, named Allen, disappeared ten years ago. He had a quarrel with his parents that day and ran out of the house in a rage. After that, he never came back.

The second boy, named Chris, disappeared in June of the same year. He was suitable for his classmates to go out to play football. At night, when his classmates went back, he disappeared.

From 1993 to the present, five or six blond teenagers disappeared every year. Up to now, including Jack, there have been a total of 56.

These are all reported cases. Many children have no father or mother and are fostered in relatives' homes. Even if they disappear, relatives may not care.

There may be more missing children than 56.

Cole didn't dare to think about it any further. He promised all the photos of those children, and pasted them on the map on the wall according to the address where they lived.

The dense red lines outlined a huge pattern. Cole looked at the area surrounded by red lines on the map, and his heart sank to the bottom of the valley in an instant.

This may not be a simple missing child case.

Age, appearance, hair, so many similar teenagers all have the same fate.

Live without people, dead without corpses.

Where are these boys?

After discovering such clues, if these missing cases are related to each other, it is no longer something that the police station in their small neighborhood can manage.

Cole embraced his discovery.

56 teenagers, 56 fresh lives, enough to attract the attention of the higher authorities.

He took out a cigarette from his pocket, put it in his mouth, lit the cigarette, Cole took a deep breath, the acrid smoke rushed into his lungs along the trachea, Cole coughed violently, tears All flowed out.

He threw the cigarette in his hand on the ground, covered his face and cried silently.

***

After a day of torment at school, it was finally time for school to end. As soon as the bell rang, Qin Yue picked up her schoolbag and walked out in silence.

Jenny, who was seated next to her, grabbed Qin Yue's arm and asked, "Alice, what's the matter with you recently? You ran out after school. Tomorrow is Sunday. You don't need to do your homework tonight. Why don't we hang out together?"

Qin Yue turned her head, looked at Jenny, and pulled her arm out of her hand: "I still have something to do, so I won't go."

After Qin Yue finished speaking, she left without looking back.

Looking at her back, Jenny felt a little strange. She always felt that after a summer vacation, Alice seemed to have become very strange, as if she was more silent than before.

Claire on the other side came over, and she said mysteriously, "Do you know what happened to Alice?"

Jenny shook her head, if only she knew.

Claire lives near Qin Yue's house, so she naturally knows what happened to Qin Yue.

After telling everything she knew in detail, Jenny covered her mouth and suppressed her screams forcefully: "You mean, Alice..."

Jenny looked at the direction Qin Yue was leaving with a look of sympathy on her face.

How could such a thing happen?No wonder she became like this.

The 12-year-old girl couldn't hold many things in her heart. After feeling overwhelmed, she threw it aside and chatted about what to do next in the city.

Qin Yue didn't take the school bus, she walked slowly towards home with her schoolbag on her back.

The young man on the bicycle walked past her chatting and laughing. Qin Yue looked up and saw the blond hair of the young man in the middle blowing in the wind, his eyes were a little blurred.

Qin Yue sniffed, blinked her eyes, and suppressed the tears vividly.

Tears are the most useless.

Walking all the way back to the block where Qinyue's house is located, Qinyue stopped in her tracks, instead of going home, she went around to the convenience store where Jack used to work.

The business of the convenience store is good, and Ryan has found another helpful helper.

It was a 14-year-old girl who was extremely beautiful. The 14-year-old girl had already developed extremely well, and even the large uniform of the convenience store couldn't cover her beautiful curves.

Qin Yue stood at the door of the convenience store for a long time, looking at the two people inside the convenience store.

Boss Ryan seemed to be the same as before, even if the girl did something wrong, he just asked her to pay more attention with a good temper.

Qin Yue stood outside the door for a long time, until it was getting dark, Qin Yue turned around and walked forward along the path that Jack walked last.

After Qin Yue left, Ryan turned his head and looked outside the convenience store.

The street lights outside had already been turned on, and the dim light illuminated the small area across the road. Thinking of the girl standing there just now, Ryan frowned slightly, feeling that the child was too stubborn.

No matter how she waited, the person she wanted to wait for would not come back.

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