Chapter 171 139. Investigation Progress
Li Ming squeezed the envelope in his hand and stared at the handwriting on it, as if he wanted to see some clues from each handwriting.
"Professor Shirai?"
Li Ming murmured to himself in a low voice. He seemed to have heard this name somewhere, but he couldn't remember it.
Li Ming took a deep breath and put the envelope in his arms. He knew that now was not the time to think about this and must act immediately. He straightened his clothes and quickly left his room. .
Shangying University is not far from Li Ming's residence. It can be reached by walking through a small forest and walking on a winding path. Li Ming was walking on the path, thinking about Professor Shirai.
"Who is this Professor Shirai, and why did he suddenly appear in my world?"
Li Ming was full of doubts. He vaguely felt that this matter was different from what was mentioned in those reports. related to the new world events.
After searching on his mobile phone, Li Ming found out that he was an excellent researcher who established various theories when he was still young. Recently, he seemed to be immersed in the existence of other worlds, or... This world is a world in a computer simulation program, a type of occult research.
Through the grove, Li Ming finally came to the door of Shangying University. This university is a well-known university in China. It is located in the center of the city with beautiful scenery and green trees.
Li Ming and the man who called himself Sato came to Professor Shirai's office. It was a quiet small room with sunlight shining through the windows, making it particularly warm.
"Hello, who are you looking for?" A young female assistant asked politely when she saw Li Ming standing at the door.
"I'm looking for Professor Shirai."
In the blink of an eye, like waking up from a dream, the scene in front of him turned into ashes.
The lights were on in Professor Shirai's room in front of him, and there was no response when he knocked on the door. The door was not locked and could be opened with a gentle pull...
As soon as he walked into the room, a strong, indescribable odor filled the young man's nostrils. Then he could see a man in a white coat lying on the floor in the center of the room. The man fell in a pool of blood, with the back of his head covered with blood. It was cut open and part of the skull was taken out.
Looking carefully, the brain that should have been inside was missing. The two of them seemed to have been greatly shocked.
According to the vague memory, this person seems to be Professor Shirai, but why did it become like this? It’s really an emotion that makes people feel uncontrollably afraid.
On the table at the back of the room is a laptop display screen with white text on a black background saying Welcome to the New World. There is also a wonderful cylindrical metal container placed next to the computer.
Then a mechanical synthesized voice came from the cylindrical metal container and spoke to the two of them.
"You are finally here. I don't know if you have ever thought about it. This world seems to be like a computer simulation program created by a higher dimension."
"They have the ability to make this world According to the power that operates according to their minds, we are completely powerless in front of them, but that existence has some kind of seed program. He wants to transcend the realm of dimensions and will The external world is also under my control. "
"What a wonderful thing. In this way, the laws of the world can be subverted and rewritten, which means that we will be able to control the world. Will become a god."
After saying so much, his voice began to become intermittent, and Li Ming noticed that Sato beside him didn't seem to hear these words at all.
Look carefully at the cylindrical container, and you can find red liquid inside, dripping from the lid.
Open the lid and you'll find human brains floating inside, which makes you sick.
The two people who found the body naturally went to notify the police. After a while, the police who were notified to check the scene arrived, and both of them were taken by the police to hear the details of the incident.
"By the way, tell me your name and address first. Can you also tell me about the state in which the body was found? Why did you two visit Professor Shirai?"
"Yes. A letter..." Li Meng hesitated, then immediately changed his words, "That's it, I I am a student of Professor Shirai. I haven’t been able to see my mentor for so many years, so I regretted coming to the school to visit him. But I didn’t expect that the final outcome would be like this, which is regrettable.”
"Really?" The young policeman in front of him had a playful attitude and his expression looked a little strange.
"Mr. Police Officer, this man just lost his memory this morning. Please don't embarrass him." Sato pursed his lips, and he finally spoke after he had been silent.
"Oh? Don't you have any memory? That was really hard work, so that means you don't remember what you did before yesterday, right?" The young policeman raised his eyebrows and looked up and down. He looked at the two of them.
This naked gaze made them feel uncomfortable.
"After forensic identification, Professor Shirai died after his brain was removed from the back, and we found what appeared to be his brain in a cylindrical container in the room."
The police deliberately Slow down your tone and speak softly.
"Besides, whether it was on his computer or on his desk, his research data seems to have been stolen. So do you have any clues?"
"Officer, you better not be weird. Well, this friend of mine and I really just went to visit Professor Shirai. As soon as we entered the office, we found such a scene. It was disgusting and at the same time we had to answer your unreasonable questions. This is how you police treat us. What is the attitude of the Japanese people?" Sato made a vomiting gesture.
“Don’t constrain me with these moral evaluations. I didn’t even say anything accusatory. If you are so anxious, does that mean you are under serious suspicion?”
Police The conversation changed and he nodded to himself.
"Actually, that's true. In fact, I don't think you are criminals, so...go to hell."
With a smile on his face, the policeman pulled out his pistol and shot directly at the two men without even a chance to argue. The two men were unable to dodge, and three bullets were shot into their abdomens in an instant.
Just as their consciousness faded away little by little, the two of them regained their senses, and the same room appeared in front of them.
——They no longer even have the memory of how to leave the police station.
"Go to bed early. What happened today is so weird and mysterious... You should be fine if you fall asleep?" Sato suggested. He patted Li Ming's shoulder and raised the hand in his hand. The key left the room.
Li Ming had not recovered from the pain just now. He looked around blankly, wanting to do something, but couldn't remember what to do. His sleepy instinct drove him to lie back down. Go to bed.
"When the God of Return came, he found himself in a room in an old mansion. He found in front of him an oil painting of a certain campus, and someone sitting on the painting The man on the chair in front of him, and Sato standing next to him."
"It was like the memory of the oil painting was covered with a layer of fog, and he couldn't clearly identify it."
< br>"When he gets close to the two of them, he will notice a strange thing The man sitting on the chair lowered his head, and the cold water drooped weakly. The red liquid dripped from his fingertips to his feet, forming a red pool."
"The blood is also obtained from Sato Sato, who was dripping from the knife he was holding, noticed Li Deng and slowly turned to him. Sato's face and clothes were stained red by the splattered blood, and then he showed a creepy smile and stared at the young man in front of him. "
Li Ming woke up from his dream, only to find that it was already six o'clock in the morning. Just as he was about to get up, the sound of picking the lock came from outside the door again.
You don’t need to look to know that Sato is back.
"How about it, how about a good night's rest?" Sato raised the plastic bag in his hand and put it on the table nearby, "I bought you breakfast. It's your favorite from the nearby ramen shop. Eat, get up and brush your teeth and then let’s go out together.”
“Where? Where?”
Li Ming narrowed his eyes and looked up at the strange man in front of him. He seemed to have only a vague impression of this man in his memory. After carefully recalling it, it seemed that it was a book with a black cover. Books, and the phrase "I used to be white, but now I'm about to turn black."
Li Ming didn't know what this sentence meant, but he believed that the man in front of him was definitely related to his past.
"Go investigate those New World events. You can't give up halfway, my dear Li Ming."
Sato laughed, and seeing that Li Ming had already brushed his teeth, he immediately started from He took out disposable chopsticks from the plastic bag, opened them kindly, and handed them to the young man in front of him.
"Right, right? I think these events are really interesting... You know, I like to read this kind of mystery novels the most, so I am very sensitive to this kind of subject matter."
"Really?" Li Dang asked with some doubt.
Sato lowered his head and said sadly and nervously: "Why, why can't you believe me?" Then in the next moment, with a "pop" sound, Li Dang felt a burning pain coming from his abdomen. Come.
My hand moved in that direction and touched something warm, followed by a sharp pain that made it difficult for Li Ming to stand.
With a crazy look on Sato's face, he looked down at the young man who fell on the ground. Looking at Sato like that, Li Ming gradually lost consciousness, and then as if he had been arranged, he recovered consciousness.
Blinking, he found that Sato still had a concerned expression in front of him. It seemed that more and more hallucinations had begun to sweep over him recently. What on earth was going on?
"Eat quickly, the noodles will not taste good if they fall off after a while, but I do have some opinions about the New World Incident." Sato crossed his hands and said thoughtfully, "I I feel that these events have a lot to do with those...the books on your bookshelf. We should be able to get a lot of information from them."
"Then you go find it. Anyway, this room was given to me by my parents, and you were entrusted by your parents to take care of me. You can move the furnishings here as you wish." Li Ming sucked the noodles vaguely and said.
Sato's complicated expression flashed across his face, then he showed a relieved smile and walked to the bookshelf to start tinkering.
Not long after, he made a sound of realization.
“I found clues about the events of these new worlds, which are the stories hidden in these books, all belonging to the complete works of Lovecraft.”
“Tell me about it? "Li Ming had finished eating the ramen at this moment, and then asked with interest.
"For the first incident, I got a clue from "Shadow over Innsmouth". This book is set in Innsmouth, Massachusetts. In the story, there are monsters with fish faces mixed with the blood of the ocean. Residents appear."
"The second incident. From "Dreams in the Witch's House", a student majoring in mathematics was corrupted by dreams about a witch driving a human-faced rat, and eventually lost his life."
"The third incident comes from "At the Mountains of Madness". , a species that has been immersed in Antarctica since ancient times. "The last one is Professor Shirai. This is the story that I think fits the most. There is an extraterrestrial life form named Migo." Technology that preserves human brains in metal cylinders."
< br>"So these stories are consistent with reality?" Li Yan noticed something was wrong with his words and squinted his eyes, "Or, no, I mean, reality is consistent with these stories? So? Is there any connection? ”
"The connection is easy to know, it's what you just said, but why would the suspects make these stories into reality? And... such a workload is huge, and it is impossible for one person to complete it. It may be a criminal gang What?”
“That’s it. That's right, but if we didn't go to the scene to investigate in person, we wouldn't know what the problem was, so let's go to the location of the first incident immediately." Li Ming threw the paper bowl in his hand into the trash can and wiped it. He wiped his mouth and tidied his clothes.
"I really didn't expect you to be so active. It's really a big improvement."
Sato also looked very happy on his face. He danced and shook the key in his hand, talking with The young man beside him walked out of the room together.
The first incident occurred at the intersection of a bustling street with busy traffic. Because people came and went very frequently, even if you asked pedestrians, you would not be able to get any effective information.
At this time, Li Dang discovered a homeless man sitting on corrugated paper at the corner of the road near the intersection. He seemed to have been there for a long time. Maybe he was a witness to the whole world?
"Hello...can you tell me about the incident that happened here before? Old man." Li Ming spoke to the homeless man in front of him in less than standard Japanese.
"Ah, you said that, that man's appearance is very ferocious, with bulging eyes and thick lips, yes, there must be something wrong with his head..."
< br>“ What is that guy shouting, stop, don’t let me think of it! By the way...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."
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