Chapter 1311 Half a mouthful
At seven o'clock in the evening, there is a wide staircase in the east building.
Lan Yu held a notebook with his left hand wearing a black leather glove, and held a pen in his right hand, taking notes while climbing up the stairs.
A strand of hair hit his rimless glasses. His eyes were clear and calm, and he walked calmly.
In that notebook, he wrote countless words densely, until finally he circled a line of words in it and wrote down his comments about the previous hour:
"Pull out the tongue."
The notebook was pinched shut by the left prosthetic limb. Lan Yu raised his head and looked at the quiet stairs, and glanced towards the corridor on the right with feeling.
That is the northwest part of the 6th floor, and the elevator is gradually running upward from there.
This small detail means that someone has arrived at the meeting point on the 9th floor, but it also means that the elevator stopped at the 6th floor before 7 p.m.
“Did someone leave the door early and stay on the 6th floor?”
Maybe Lan Yu is not the smartest deputy store manager of the first branch, but his information processing ability is definitely second to none among the top ten branches.
This ability can be called a talent, but what really brought him to the top was actually a ghost that specifically targeted "thinking logic" that affected him during a certain mission in the past.
It is better to say it is influence than transformation.
A method that was supposed to be able to influence the breadth and depth of human thinking doubled Lan Yu, a master who was already good at processing information.
Since then, Lan Yu has become a top person who processes information and performs real-time calculations.
With just one glance, he could process, analyze, and disintegrate many details in his mind, and eventually even deduce various possible subsequent developments.
"Two possibilities.
Either there is a less cautious clerk living on the 6th floor, who misjudged the situation and went out;
or there is a ghost who is targeting An investigation was conducted on the 6th floor, which shows that the 6th floor has some special attributes for this mission.”
It must be said that Lan Yu’s ability is really terrifying.
Because each of his two analyzes is extremely correct, and together they form the truth.
Perhaps this is why Tianhai said that Lan Yu's joining can reduce the difficulty of the task.
But there are more important things nowadays, and the human brain has its limits. He will not fully explore every piece of information.
As a resident of Shop 101, Lan Yu's experience in the previous hour can be said to be more weird and less scary. This is also the reason why his clothes and demeanor are quite relaxed.
In the identity given by Tianhai, Shop 101 was bought by him and will be transformed into a warehouse to store seafood.
The reason for coming here tonight was not clearly stated, but it was probably for inspection.
But those are nothing more than excuses. They just give the shop assistants a reasonable reason to enter Yu Lao Street. As for the follow-up, it all depends on personal performance.
As for Lan Yu, why he chose to stay, it was because he discovered a corpse when he was investigating whether 101 could be converted into a warehouse.
Strictly speaking, this is a decomposed corpse embedded in the inner wall of the 101 store.
Yu Lao Street has been in disrepair for a long time, and the shops have been abandoned for a long time. The walls peeled off and cracked, and a withered hand pouring on the solidified cement leaked out.
Since then, supernatural events have occurred.
The situation Lan Yu has to face in this 101 is an old ghost who has been dead for many years. He has a "request" for him - begging for his body.
Therefore, for this deputy store manager with special abilities, there are few crises and more decryption.
He wants to fulfill the request of an old ghost and help the other party recover the complete body.
In Shop 101, he got a right arm and the lower half of a human skull.
The key word for the word "tongue pulling out" is obtained from this half human skull.
This old ghost must have had cement poured into it while he was still alive, and it was done in the horrific cruel way of "filling his mouth with cement".
This resulted in the oral cavity in the lower half of the human skull of the old ghost's corpse. All parts were intact, including the solidified gums and flat teeth, but it was missing one thing - the tongue.
With Lan Yu's eyesight, he could recognize at a glance that the ghost's tongue had been forcibly pulled out.
"Cement filling the mouth" means to kill the mouth. He thought this might be a reminder that the next body parts might be found in various locations on Yu Lao Street.
So the seven o'clock party was also his process of searching for the whole body.
When Lan Yu arrived at the ninth floor from the bottom floor, before turning right to the elevator entrance, two people walked down from above.
One of the two was very familiar to him. She was standing by when he met Ji Li a month ago.
“The seventh branch, Chang Nian, is an extraordinary woman.”
Although the couple Chang Nian and Tongguan did not participate much in multi-store joint tasks, they were actually very famous among the top ten branches.
The grand scene in which the four major branches cooperated to rescue one person was precisely because of Tongguan.
Although it ended in failure, the matter also came to a perfect ending with Chang Nian's stunning appearance in the Nongyueke mission.
But after meeting Chang Nian this time, Lan Yu got some inside information.
Chang Nian and Tongguan were originally husband and wife, so the identity given by Tianhai should match them, but now she went downstairs alone.
Coupled with the look of the other party's face being slightly gloomy and his eyes lowered, it was almost clear that the couple's experience in the previous hour was not a smooth one.
"Chang Nian went downstairs because he wanted something..."
At the same time, Lan Yu also focused on another person coming downstairs, a woman he was not familiar with.
This woman was wearing a smart mid-length windbreaker, with the waist button fastened in the middle, and not a single strand of her hair was loose, indicating that she was a very sensible woman.
Similarly, she probably didn’t experience much danger in the previous hour.
The fact that the three people were able to walk out of their respective rooms alive meant that they all got some hints.
For example, Lan Yu found that none of them spoke after meeting, especially Chang Nian, who looked anxious.
A rule "no talking" that was originally uncertain made him more certain now.
“Tongue pulling is a general rule in Yulao Street.”
When the three people gathered at the elevator entrance of the northwest building on the ninth floor, they saw a blond man with one leg missing. He turned his back to them, hunched over and lowered his head.
The new store manager of Branch 9, Clyde.
Of course everyone knows this person, but Lan Yu frowned when he saw him first, looked at his watch, and his face became even darker.
At this moment, it is already 19:08, which is actually long past the agreed time.
He was late, Chang Nian, and the woman with the hair in a bun were also late, but in such a long time, including Clyde, he was only worthy of four people.
This does not mean that everyone must be present at the originally agreed meeting at 7pm. After all, everyone has different abilities and faces different situations, so it is difficult to meet everyone.
But at this time, there is definitely someone who should come but has not come, and Lan Yu believes that with his ability, there is no reason not to come.
This person is Ji Li who proposed to meet at seven o'clock in the evening.
While Lan Yu was thinking, Clyde, who was standing at the elevator entrance with his back to them, finally turned around slowly after hearing the footsteps.
But when he turned around, his current appearance really shocked everyone into a cold sweat.
I saw that Clyde's white face was now red on the left side and dark on the right side, as if it was covered with thick oil paint.
The most horrifying thing was that he didn't know what he had gone through, but his entire jaw was cracked and bleeding was still dripping down. The severe pain made the left side of his face redder and the right side darker.
He put his hands on his upper lip and pointed into his mouth with his index finger, whimpering in his mouth.
Looking through the dim light, only half of his tongue was left in half of his mouth, and some pieces of meat were stirring in the mouth, pushing out sticky blood.
Lan Yu's scalp felt numb when he saw it, and he couldn't help but think of the key word "tongue pulling" that he wrote down earlier.
Today's Clyde is even more "half yin and half yang, half mouth and half tongue".