Manual of the Monster in City

61 The World Evaporates

Senior sister Zhuang Yan... disappeared?

    Although he was reluctant to admit it, such a big living person just disappeared from their sight, as if...

    As if she suddenly evaporated from the world.

    ————

    It happened half an hour ago.

    Jia Qingming and the four people from the Monster Incident Investigation Agency squatted at the snack stall closest to the school gate, the bell rang at the end of the evening self-study, the lights in the classrooms in the teaching building were turned off, and the noise of high school students was in the cool playground at night. The upper clamor rushed towards the school gate.

    The few squatting guards all opened their eyes, for fear that they would miss the figure of Senior Sister Zhuang Yan in the crowd of people pouring out of the school gate. Jia Qingming also watched hard, but he didn't know which one was Zhuang Yan before that. Sister, after all, he has only been to school for more than a month and doesn't know much about it.

    It is also thanks to Xiao Shanshan, otherwise, he would never know this kind of school celebrity. After all, these students are people living in Shenting County. Jia Qingming, a foreign student, is not very close to them no matter what. Easy to get along with.

    The crowd condensed at the gate of the school, poured out from the gate, and then rushed in all directions along the street.

    Xiao Shanshan immediately ordered the cancellation of the concealment plan, and everyone rushed directly to the school gate. Although this stall is very close to the school gate, there are more and more people, and students who are after evening classes will enter the snack street, which affects their sight.

    In short, if you wait and see in order to stay hidden, you will definitely find no one.

    A few people squeezed to the gate of the school, like a rock in a rushing current. Various faces passed by them, carrying a big schoolbag like a tortoiseshell.

    Jia Qingming felt that he would definitely not be able to find Senior Sister Zhuang Yan. He hadn't seen it before, let alone what it looked like, so he had to be a dead horse doctor. He planned to look for it from a spiritual perspective.

    The innumerable spirits, the condensed spirits in his heart, converged into sounds and flowed into his ears.

    --"very hungry……"

    --"so tired……"

    ——"I want to die..."

    ——"It seems to have wasted another night of self-study. What should I do next time for the mock exam... What should I do for the college entrance examination? I got pills."

    These are all such voices, obviously, a syndrome that occurred just after the unified test scores came out.

    Amidst such mixed sounds, to recognize the painful heartfelt feeling of Senior Sister Zhuang Yan falling from the big list, it is really like letting a grain of sand fall on the beach.

    Finally, the crowd dispersed. Only Jia Qingming and the others stood alone at the school gate.

    Everyone looked at each other and then shook their heads.

    "I didn't find Senior Sister Zhuang Yan..."

    The battle failed.

    Several people went back to their seats just now to rest, panting, and being in the crowd just now was almost breathless.

    "Maybe you missed it." Xiao Shanshan said.

    "If there are so many people, you will definitely miss a lot of people," Edogawa said.

    Jia Qingming looked at the teaching building in the distance. The lights of the last classroom were turned off slowly, and the teaching building finally took the outline of the huge giant into the darkness.

    Xiao Shanshan looked very depressed. She, who used to have a lively smile on her face, is now sitting on the bench with a bitter face.

    Jia Qingming felt that she should comfort her. Although she always seemed unreliable, she still wanted to do something good for the students in the school. Think about it this way, including pulling him into the student union, and proactively approaching him to get acquainted with the campus at first, all in order to avoid the tragedies that happened to some transfer students...

    But Xiao Shanshan's next words made Jia Qingming feel that there is no need for comfort:

    "Oh, my things have also been taken away. What a profiteer! I wanted to come back and continue to eat!" Xiao Shanshan said frustratedly.

    It turned out to be sad for the snack that I was taken away.

    "Wait..." Jia Qingming suddenly said, he looked at the last girl who walked out of the school.

    Now, most students have left the school, and the sliding doors used to drive cars in the school have been closed, leaving only the small door next to the guard room for one person to enter and exit.

    The elder sister who left the school last had long hair but was simply tied up for convenience. She was the last to leave the school. Her face was still a little pale against the warm light outside the guard, and the whole person seemed to be shrouded in a kind of In the decadent breath. No, that's not decadence.

    That was... some kind of hesitation.

    Her heart is twisted, and Jia Qingming can see those fleeting spirits, which shows that there are many strong voices in her heart, but no one can form a real spirit that can last for a short time. It means that none of them can be formed. Persuaded her, and finally condensed into a strong voice.

    "That girl, is she Senior Sister Zhuang Yan?" Jia Qingming asked Xiao Shanshan, asking her to help confirm.

    "Eh? Really...really!" Xiao Shanshan finished speaking, covering her mouth with a loud surprise for herself, and then took a closer look. Fortunately, the distance between them is relatively long, it seems that there is no be found.

    "It's great. It's really another village." Edogawa was also overjoyed.

    "Anyway, follow up first." Yuan Mutou said.

    "Yeah..." Li Guisheng said in an unassuming voice.

    The crowd followed Sister Zhuang Yan quietly, watching her turn from the many intersections on this side of the school into the streets on the other side. Because it was an avenue, it was not easy to escape, so several people were also scattered.

    Edogawa and Xiao Shanshan, two weirdly dressed guys, followed the other side of the road, so as not to be regarded as bad guys. It would be more than a loss to scare the sister.

    Yuan Mu-mutou wittily took a bunch of chicken skewers in his hand, which looked like an ordinary passerby. Jia Qingming followed him and Li Guisheng behind Senior Sister Zhuang Yan, who walked unhurriedly for a while, with a thoughtful mind. Suddenly, it seemed that his eyes lit up and the pace under his feet accelerated.

    It does seem to have finally made up his mind... to find something.

    She turned left on the street in front, Jia Qingming and the others quickly followed, because Xiao Shanshan was on the right side across the road. It was difficult to follow her on time. If we continue to maintain such a two-way tracking situation, so They must not be lost.

    When turning this corner, Jia Qingming glanced at the street signs.

    Shell Road.

    Senior sister Zhuang Yan disappeared here.

    ————

    Shell Road is one of the oldest roads in Shenting County. The name was given because some strange shells were found in the soil at the beginning of the village.

    Shenting County does not face the sea. It is also some distance away from the nearest coastal area—Wanghai County. However, shell fossils were strangely found here.

    Of course, this kind of thing is not strange now, because this kind of situation has happened in many places.

    The explanation given by the experts is that the earth's crust has changed. There used to be a blue ocean here, and then the earth's crust has changed to become land.

    As for no shellfish fossils found in the soil of surrounding counties and villages, the related explanation is that the existence of mountains on the west side blocked the expansion of the ocean. Although this explanation is considered far-fetched, it is not Without a more reasonable explanation, it can only be determined by waiting for more archaeological discoveries.

    But strange things are on such a strange historical street.

    A second ago, Senior Sister Zhuang Yan's back and her tied up hair were still not far in front of them, but suddenly, it was just a corner...

    Senior Sister Zhuang Yan disappeared.

    "What's the situation?" Xiao Shanshan asked, feeling incredible.

    "I'm lost. I don't know the situation..." Jia Qingming said.

    "Suddenly...it disappeared all of a sudden." Li Guisheng also said.

    Although Xiao Shanshan on the other side of the road had a wider view because of the distance, a truck passed by at the corner. After the truck passed, they saw the same thing as them.

    "Disappear? Such a thing is impossible, right?"

    "What do you see?" Yuan Mu-mutou asked Jia Qingming, obviously asking about the unseen levels.

    Jia Qingming shook his head.

    He really didn't see anything unusual about Senior Sister Zhuang Yan, and he didn't even have a sense of "spirit". Even when the yin spirit is possessed by the human body, his yin qi will blend with the original yang. It will not be so obvious, but it will also produce a certain kind of...

    Strange feeling.

    After Ms. Bai Ling's teaching, coupled with her own intentional feelings, Jia Qingming can now clearly feel the so-called discomfort and can recognize the signal of the "spiritual".

    But Senior Sister Zhuang Yan did not have such a signal.

    "Then let's look in the shops around." Edogawa pushed the big sunglasses and said, "Judging from the speed of her walking before and after she disappeared, it is likely that she was transferred into a nearby store. That is the street. The first or the second."

    "Yes, we all went to look for it, and we split up."

    "Three-way is better." Yuan Mu-mutou said. "I watched outside, and if I find Senior Sister Zhuang Yan appears elsewhere, I will call you to inform you."

    "Ah, you Yuan Mu-mutou are quite smart!" Jia Qingming said.

    "Okay, act."

    Xiao Shanshan and Edogawa immediately chose the first store, while Jia Qingming and Li Guisheng went to check the second store.

    Jia Qingming actually wanted to know what a sour experience the owner of the first store saw two people wearing dark brown detective trench coats and deerstalkers breaking into the store. He felt that after he went back, he could find out. Almost ask.

    Thinking about this, he also entered the second store, and walked around the store pretending to look at the goods, and came out.

    There was only one owner who was about to close the door and go home, and no one saw Senior Sister Zhuang Yan.

    When they walked out of the store, Xiao Shanshan also walked out of the store very quickly, followed by the owner’s nervous cry: "Go, go! I am a legitimate business here!"

    They shook their heads at Jia Qingming in despair.

    A few people searched the street again and saw almost every shop, but found nothing. So tonight at least half of the merchants on Shell Road in Shenting County saw two strangely dressed, detective windbreakers and deerstalkers. A man and a woman visited the store at a very late incident to inquire about the whereabouts of a girl.

    It made the whole street panic.

    But until the end, there was no whereabouts of Senior Sister Zhuang Yan. Yuan Mu-mutou stayed on the street and did not see her coming out of a certain shop.

    It seemed that she had disappeared in Shell Road strangely.

    "Mission failed..." Xiao Shanshan said, "but we are very close to the truth! Next time... we will definitely find out!" She tried to say something to boost morale.

    So everyone finally separated here and went back to their own houses. Jia Qingming walked on the shell road into the night and walked towards where he stayed tonight.

    Ding--

    It seemed that something suddenly brightened in the memory.

    In fact, there is another shop on Shell Road——

    221 Shell Road.

Stealing the Heaven Pavilion.