Maoshan Taoist priests practice falsehood and become reality

Chapter 70 Dark Maze
  The summer night on Haitang Street is divided into two. Three hundred meters to the east is the prosperous city that never sleeps in the inner city, with skyscrapers, LED light signs, large electronic screens, beautiful cars, and music playing until dawn.

Three hundred meters to the west is the backward outer city, with a cold bright moon, towering trees, dormant low mountains, green field ridges, and rows of silent red brick houses.

As the dividing line between the inner and outer cities, Haitang Street is like a nondescript hybrid.

The residents here are exposed to the luxurious lifestyle of the city that never sleeps, but they live in dilapidated old buildings. He does dirty work with a monthly salary of 4,000 to 5,000 yuan, but he often works in restaurants with a per capita salary of 300 yuan.

Most people have no savings, and all their money is melted into gold water, which never solidifies, and they happily rush to the prosperous place they yearn for in their lives.

This is the blooming and withered Haitang Street, a gathering place for ordinary people, gangsters, dancers, vendors, and pawns. It is a place where dreams are born and die. It is known as the umbilical cord linking heaven and hell.

A writer once compared Haitang Street to a lengthy and illogical stitched novel, where endless tragedies and comedies take turns taking place all day long. Everyone is the protagonist, everyone is a supporting role, and every dark corner is full of mystery all the time. Stories big and small are happening.

Su Heng parked his motorcycle on the side of the road, took off his helmet, and stood on Haitang Street. He comes here to find a story called "The Missing".

"Did the signal finally disappear here?"

Su Heng looked around. There were street girls wearing cool leather jackets and smiling faces, homeless people with dull expressions who used the sky and the earth as their bed, sneaky businessmen hiding behind telephone poles, and even free-range roosters. , pacing arrogantly in the middle of the road where garbage is littered?
  The strong atmosphere of life buried all the clues, and Su Heng had no time to rummage through the trash.

"Have you seen these people?"

The street girl giggled and looked Su Heng up and down, her eyes becoming increasingly ambiguous: "It seems like I've seen him before, but also like I haven't seen him before. Why don't you come up with me and sit down, maybe I'll remember him."

The woman didn't seem to recognize the investigator's badge.

"no need."

Su Heng turned around and wanted to ask the powder seller hiding behind the telephone pole, but the person had disappeared. Helpless, he could only place his hope on the homeless people on the street.

"Have you seen these people?"

"what?"

There was a little light in the homeless man's empty eyes, and he pointed hard at the small sign that fell in front of him.

Su Heng picked up the sign, turned it over, and realized it was the payment code.

"Ding! Two hundred yuan has been credited!"

The reminder directly activated the homeless man. His eyes became brighter and brighter, and his mouth hidden in his beard began to open and close: "Ah, I've seen it before. I entered the tube building in front of me at dusk."

"What about these people?"

Su Heng took out photos of three other investigators who disappeared earlier.

The tramp's eyes were blurry again.

"Ding! Two hundred yuan has been credited!"

"Ah, I've seen it before. I entered the Tongzi Tower in front yesterday."

Su Heng now wondered whether whenever he was looking for someone, he always entered the Tongzi Tower.

The homeless man coughed twice: "You can't say that. Generally, people who come here to find someone or something will most likely enter the Tongzi Tower."

"Let me just trust you."

Su Heng stood in front of the Tongzi Tower and looked up.

"...21, 22, 23, a tube building can be built so high. How many people can live in it?"

The Tongzi Tower is a building dating back decades. It is characterized by a long corridor connecting many single rooms. Because the long corridor is ventilated at both ends and is shaped like a tube, it is named Tongzi Tower.

The Tongzi Tower that Su Heng saw consisted of four staircases, each with twenty-three floors, and each single room was more than ten square meters. I really don't know how many people it could accommodate in the past.

but,
  The past is the past and the present is the present. From the peeling eggshell-like walls, rusty and broken water pipes, and dim iron-clad lamps, it is easy to tell that not many people live here anymore.

Without popularity, the entire Tongzi Tower becomes a complex and huge dark maze. No wonder the homeless people say that most people looking for someone will go to the Tongzi Tower, which is a perfect place to hide dirt and evil.

The first investigators were tasked with finding out the truth behind the frequent disappearances of pet cats and dogs in the inner city.

Only Xiang Zibo would be happy to undertake such a boring task.

Yes, one of the missing investigators is the recently popular Xiang Zibo.

Due to his outstanding performance in the evil spirit incident, he was promoted to mid-level investigator during the testing process.

Investigate the missing pet case and find Haitang Street? Xiang Zibo once made relevant remarks on the Internet under the ID of "Freedom Wings", believing that the frequent cases of missing cats and dogs in the inner city were related to evil spirits. He submitted clues to seances many times and urged investigations, but was ignored. Now he became an investigator and immediately launched an investigation into this.

"Judging from the current situation, he really got it right."

There are no extraordinary people in Xiang Zibo's team. If they encounter a D-class evil spirit, they will probably get into a fierce battle and be unable to contact the headquarters. However, the subsequent team that went to support included D-class supernatural beings. The same disappearance showed that the two teams encountered probably C-class evil spirits.

If it was a C-class evil spirit, then all members of the first team would have died.

"But are there really C-class evil spirits here?"

When Su Heng entered the lobby of Tongzi Building, he saw the security guard on the night shift lying on a couch watching TV.

An advertisement endorsed by Bai Qingsong was playing on the TV:
  "What should I do if I have insomnia and fatigue? If I can't sleep, drink soothing black tea! What if it's hot and dry? If I get angry, drink soothing black tea! What should I do if my period comes? If I'm irritable, drink soothing black tea!"

When he saw the stranger, the security guard yawned, took off his reading glasses, and looked Su Heng up and down.

"Housing still?"

"Have you seen the three of them?"

Hearing that he was looking for someone, the uncle's face instantly dropped and he waved his hand: "I haven't seen him before."

"Are you sure you haven't seen it?"

"Why are you lying to me? I'm quite old and people come and go every day. How can I remember who they are? I need to find someone to figure it out myself."

"Is there surveillance here?"

"No."

"I'm an investigator."

Su Heng showed his ID.

"What kind of investigator is useless to anyone?"

When a person reaches a certain age, he truly has nothing to fear from heaven and earth.

"Get me a room."

"five hundred."

"A house like this costs five hundred?"

"Aren't you an investigator? The government will reimburse you anyway. What difference does fifteen hundred make? It's not like we won't issue an invoice."

The co-author knows the investigator!

"Will all housing here be invoiced?"

"Of course!"

"Open a room for me, and can you let me take a second look at the stub?"

"Eight hundred."

"Row."

"The elevator broke down a week ago and hasn't been repaired yet. Please give you a room on the third floor in Area A."

After paying the money, Su Heng took a thick stack of stubs and rummaged through it, and sure enough, he found Xiang Zibo's signature.

"Room 20 on the 2014th floor of Building C."

Isn't the elevator broken? Why did he deliberately open a room on the 20th floor?
  After taking the key, Su Heng asked garrulously: "Uncle, you are on duty here alone, aren't you afraid of encountering evil spirits?"

"Evil spirit? There is a seancer living in the building. What do we have to be afraid of?"

Is there a seancer living here?

Su Heng suddenly felt that things might not be as simple as imagined.

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