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Chapter 168 The Octopus That Loves to Shave

The steaming sweet potato was wrapped in newspaper, the little girl gnawed it down, and then spit it out subconsciously because it was too hot, looking at the water-stained sweet potato on the ground, she flattened her mouth and bent over to pick it up , the neckline at the back of the neck was grabbed by one hand.

"No more, eat clean."

Zhu Jue held the mobile phone, looked at the tattoo photo just taken on it, and turned his gaze to the leader in front of him,
"Who tattooed this pattern for you?"

"I saw it on a sampan by the sea. I thought it was very powerful at the time, so I asked someone to get a tattoo that looks like it."

The naked leader knelt on the ground and said tremblingly while suffering from the cold.

Even though nothing scary happened, the situation wasn't much better for him at the moment.

"Sampan. Can you still find out where it is?"

"It should still be found."

"Well, I'll give you an hour. Go and find me the sampan, and find a boat by the way. I might need it."

Pass the photos to the group in the studio, and ask He Ye to help search the Internet, Zhu Jue said without raising his head.

"I'll help you find it right away!"

As soon as he heard that the other party was willing to let him go, the leader immediately wanted to get up.

"Let you go?"

thump!
Zhu Jue let out a low drink, and the boss knelt down again.

"I told you to look for it, but let your subordinates look for it. Do you understand? Tell them, I only give them an hour. If you can't see the boat and sampan, let them prepare some wreaths and paper money for you." Or something like that, maybe you guys don’t do this, or you still get a cross?”

As long as you grab their boss, the younger brother will naturally be obedient. After Zhu Jue left a fist mark on the wall next to him in a circle in front of him, this guy didn't say anything, ran back two steps and kicked Kicked on his little brother, because he didn't stand still and fell, and when he got up, he turned around and bowed to Zhu Jue to express his apology.

"Children, go home, young ones, don't wander around outside."

He pinched the little girl's nose with a fierce face, but with the other hand he stuffed the sweet potatoes he bought into her arms.

Two roasted sweet potatoes, that's all Zhu Jue gave her. It's not that he has no money. In fact, as long as he wants to, he can go to the nearby ATM to withdraw a box of money to the little girl, but this is not helping her. , but to harm her.

In this kind of place, for an underage little girl who has a lot of money and has no ability to protect herself, waiting for her ending is definitely much more terrifying than being taken advantage of by those gangsters just now.

Everyone has their own life, Zhu Jue doesn't think he is a kind person who is willing to escort a strange girl for a lifetime.

But if you see it, if you give it a hand, it will always be no problem.

Turning his head, he looked at the mottled metal door panel, with reddish-brown rust on the corners, obvious signs of looseness between the bottom frame and the corridor, and a few semi-wet mud marks on the door frame.

I don't know if it was slow because of the weather, or if someone just came in and out not long ago.

"Did you get in touch?"

Naturally, Zhu Jue had already knocked on the door, but no one came out to answer the door, and no one even answered, so Chen Li had to contact Jeffrey Talos' daughter.

"She said...her father should be at home."

Looking at the message on TALK, Chen Li turned the screen around and put it in front of Zhu Jue.

"at home?"

They have not revealed their identities now. If there are people in the room, there is no reason not to say hello.

Bow down to confirm the mud print on the door frame again, with your toes facing forward, which means that this is the mud print left when you went out.

"Back off."

He waved his hand and asked the two people next to him to back away. Zhu Jue didn't intend to wait any longer. He held the doorknob with his left hand. It looked like this kind of inferior door lock in the old city, which could be easily opened by pure brute force.

With a strong arm, the door frame became looser after a sudden shock, and the door was pushed forward tentatively, and the door opened back with a creaking sound.

Bang!
Before Chen Li and the leader of the hooligans could see what was going on inside, the door was closed again by Zhu Jue.

"You two, turn around, don't turn around before I speak,"

After pausing at the door for a while, Zhu Jue put the backpack containing the wind chime on the wooden frame outside the house, patted the forehead of the wind chime that was about to climb out to signal it to retract, and the weapon box that had just been cleaned with a rag stood on the ground, and turned on the mechanism , the clear evil ghost's long knife was out of its sheath, and the two people behind hurriedly turned their heads after hearing the clang.

After confirming that they both turned around, Zhu Jue opened the door again, stepped in and quickly closed the door.

hum~
There was a buzzing sound in his mind, a familiar feeling, Zhu Jue had never thought that there was a source of mental pollution in this room before, so he closed the door immediately after opening the door.

The light in the room was dim, Zhu Jue tried to touch the switch on the wall next to it, and it clicked back and forth a few times, but there was no light as expected, and from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a half white candle on the shoe rack by the entrance.

Fortunately, it is not yet night. Although the sky is dark, the general appearance of the house can still be seen, and the light penetrates into the house from the old iron bars and windows.

Zhu Jue looked around with the light.

The old house has cracks everywhere, and the moisture appears here as dampness visible to the naked eye, but this room is not sloppy because of its own poverty. On the contrary, many places are very clean, such as the desk in front, and Like the bowls and chopsticks on the folding table in the middle of the room.

After walking a few steps forward, Zhu Jue could smell some bloody smell sensitively, which made him frown slightly, and looked down at his feet. There were a few pools of blood stains extending to a room on the inside.

Pursing his lips, he walked forward and communicated with the studio: "Have you brought the spirit protection device?"

In Yecheng Weird Studio, the real-time images of the surroundings captured by Zhu Jue's camera, even through a single screen, the three people's attention has been highly concentrated. Wu Tong and Li Qinglian have already put on mental protection because of their experience. instrument, Olivia started it in a hurry, Li Qinglian turned around to confirm before responding.

tick tock~tick tock~
Standing at the door of the room, Zhu Jue could hear the dripping of the faucet inside.

Taking a deep breath, he kicked open the door, holding the blue-winged pistol in his left hand, and the long knife in his right hand, to prevent monsters from rushing forward.

There was no monster of spiritual pollution as imagined, but the scene in the room did not make Zhu Jue relax his guard but became more vigilant.

The smell of blood mixed with the smell of the sea constantly stimulates the sense of smell. An old-fashioned razor is placed on the edge of the white porcelain sink. The blood on the blade is not yet dry. There are more than a dozen dark brown octopus tentacles scattered around.
"Give an octopus a 'pedicure' with a razor? This family is a bit laid back."

Cursing his lips, Zhu Jue said a witty word, pierced an octopus leg with the tip of the knife and put it in front of him, looked at it silently for a while, and then threw it away.

"Wu Tong. No, Olivia, remember, remember to give a close-up of this place when editing the short film, understand?"

Zhu Jue was able to confirm that these self-"octopus tentacles" in front of him should be the product of monsters that are sources of mental pollution. He subconsciously wanted to call Wu Tong's name to make him highlight this part, and suddenly thought that there was an extra guy working for nothing in the studio. Changed his words.

"I will remember."

Olivia on the other side froze for a while before replying.

After walking around the house, I also went up to the second floor to check. After confirming that there was no one there, Zhu Jue went outside again. Chen Li and the leader of the gangsters were waiting outside.

"Tell your friend to come back quickly, her father is gone."

Standing under the eaves, Zhu Jue needs to confirm the whereabouts of Jeffrey Talos.

About half an hour later, Anna ran from the other side of the street and rushed into the house to check without saying a word. Zhu Jue didn't stop her either. Those few octopus tentacles alone wouldn't cause much damage to people's spirits. .

After the girl came out of the house, she was obviously flustered, and she looked at the two strangers beside Chen Li with some doubts in her eyes.

"Hello, I'm a reporter from Yecheng, and I'm here to investigate the problems on the overseas islands where you originally lived. It is said that your father once caught a fish with human hands. I would like to do an interview in person, of course. , The interview is paid, but I just don’t know where your father went?”

The devil's long knife and the blue-wing pistol were put into the weapon box early, Zhu Jue pretended not to realize what happened in the house and asked Anna.

"Xiaodao. Xiaodao! He must have gone back to the island. He has been talking nonsense all this time, and he wants to go back to the island all day long to get something."

"But you told me before that luckily your family didn't have a boat, so you didn't go back to the island."

"If you want to go to the island, you don't have to have your own boat, don't you think?"

Zhu Jue raised his eyebrows, and asked the gang leader next to him in a strange tone.

"Yes! I think your dad might try to snatch it. He has already agreed with others to go to the island together, just like the one who disappeared before."

"I thought maybe we could look around where we might get a boat?"

Zhu Jue "followed the trend" to put forward his own suggestion, and Anna was obviously flustered because of her father's disappearance, and hurriedly agreed.

A group of people found a taxi in the old city, and went all the way to the nearest small pier according to the location provided by Anna.

Sure enough, as soon as she got there, Anna learned from the watchman at the pier that a man who looked a lot like her father had snatched a speedboat and gone to sea.

"Chen Li, help me take it to the previous seafood restaurant and let Wood take care of it. It doesn't eat cat food, you can feed it seafood. I will come back to pick it up later, and I will give you a care fee. "

Zhu Jue, who was watching the development of the matter, handed the wind chime to Chen Li, glanced at the leader of the gangster, and the latter took him to the boat and sampan found by his men knowingly.

Holding an umbrella, with a photo of her father that she got from Anna stored in her cell phone, Zhu Jue refused Anna's request to go with her, and had someone adjust the system on the speedboat to automatically navigate to the island.

"It seems that this island really has to go."

Zhu Jue whispered to himself.

Ahead is the endless gloomy sea.

(End of this chapter)