48 Hours a Day

Zhang Heng moved the knife down in his hand, cut Zhang Jingli's thumb, and saw the flesh below. In a stationary world, the creature does not follow the rules of touch-effect, so the blood in the blood vessels does not flow, but the color of the blood inside can still be clearly seen after the cut.

Unlike the black blood on Zhang Jingli's calf, the blood flow in his hands is the same red blood as ordinary people. As a precaution, Zhang Heng scraped the blood scab off his calf again, and found that only the upper layer was black. By now, Zhang Heng could be sure that Zhang Jingli was not the thing he had met before, he was just an ordinary child in the welfare home, but he should have some relationship with that thing, otherwise he would not voluntarily top the cylinder, hide the gauze on the bed, or even try to stick the arrow in his calf, even adults may not have this harsh.

However, he obviously did not know what the cost of doing this was. Zhang Heng, if he did not realize the abnormality of the welfare staff, just a little more pressure on the cutlery knife, Zhang Jingli would hardly survive.

Zhang Heng put away the knife in his hand, his goal tonight is the monster, not the cynical kid in the children's welfare home, but if Zhang Jingli is not the one who attacked them tonight, where are the people who attacked them tonight?

More than twenty hours have passed since he entered the stationary world. Almost two hours from now, Starfish's clock will turn full circle. If the return time is counted, there should be only about an hour and a half left for his activities. Zhang Heng has searched the main building of the Child Welfare Home almost once at this time, and he has found no questionable targets other than Zhang Jingli.

If the other party leaves just a bandage in the welfare home, it is undoubtedly the worst situation for Zhang Heng, because the time left is difficult to carry out the previous extensive search, but Zhang Heng does not believe that the other party chose the welfare home just by chance. Children living in the children's welfare home like Zhang Jingli usually have little contact with the outside world, and many of them do not trust the outside world for a variety of reasons.

But it is true that the situation in child welfare institutions is not the same as in the case of children who have just lost their lives, so there is only one possibility left.

Zhang Heng returned to the archives not far from Suite B and found the most recent adoption records, turning over the files of the most recently adopted children according to the above names.

Zhang Heng had thought it would take a while, but when he saw one of the pictures in the file, he stunned there because he knew the person above.

--Zhao Xiaotian, the name is new to the welfare home, but the person in the photograph Zhang Heng is not new. It was the child he saved when he first met the monster that could melt the wall. He tried to save the old woman when he passed the remote alley, but it didn't succeed, and eventually he had to take her away with him.

He later went to the police station to report the case and left the child there as well. According to regulations, if the police station could not find the other relatives of the child, he would be sent to the welfare home, so Zhao Xiaotian entered the welfare home about a month ago.

Coincidentally, just a few days later, on Christmas Eve, Zhang Heng had seen Zhao Xiaotian again in the corner of the amusement park, but he only saw the other side's back in the crowd. At that time, he did not associate that back with Zhao Xiaotian. Plus, Early Se FeiBird and the boy chasing her came out of the haunted house to make a break, Zhang Heng didn't take the matter to heart.

But now looking back, Zhao Xiaotian's body actually has a lot of doubts. Under the preconceived circumstances, whether Zhang Heng or the female civilian police responsible for recording confessions, both think Zhao Xiaotian is the grandson of the murdered elderly man, playing the role of victim in the previous events, but there is actually no evidence to prove that there is a blood relationship between the two people. In this lower stray group, in order to dispatch loneliness, to cross the difficult relationship together, many people who would not have had much relationship with each other will also be together.

Especially when that black liquid was eating up the old man, Zhao Xiaotian just stood by and watched quietly. Zhang Heng thought he was scared, but his performance could also be interpreted as a hunter appreciating his masterpiece.

Shen Xixi once said that the target of that thing was the waste-pickers on the edge of the city. What could be easier to get to them and relax their guard than becoming one of them? Plus Zhao Xiaotian's age, the vast majority of waste-pickers would not be wary of him. He was like a bad wolf clutching his tail in a herd of sheep. No one found his true identity, and he could not rush to pick his own dinner.

So now there's only one last question left, where is Zhao Xiaotian?

Zhang Heng saw on the file that Zhao Xiaotian was adopted two days ago by a couple of middle-aged couples who could not have children. The other party's address was in a middle-aged neighborhood in Sihuan.

But Zhang Heng was not in a hurry. Zhao Xiaotian was the most sly opponent he had encountered and was very good at disguising himself. So far, he has let Zhang Heng misjudge him three times.

In addition to Zhang Heng treating him as a victim when he first met him, on the top floor of the library he also tried to confuse Zhang Heng with Li Shengxiang, but the preparation time left to him was too short. Zhang Heng turned the target of [Arrow of Paris] at a critical moment, then this confrontation of the Child Welfare Home, willing to cooperate with his Zhang Jingli, his layout was even more confusing.

Zhang Heng believed that Zhao Xiaotian induced himself to kill Zhang Jingli was definitely not the end, but the beginning of the counterattack. He should have subsequent arrangements. If Zhang Heng really stepped into the trap, he would probably carry the murderer's charges for it. Zhang Heng, while possessing some game props with supernatural powers, also had a rich life experience, but this is not Nassau in the 18th century. Personal power is not capable of countering the state machine. Even if he can avoid the subsequent investigation, he can only live in the dark for the second half of his life.

This is also consistent with the usual characteristics of that thing. He knows human society well. Not only has he been careful about hunting, avoiding public sight and the attention of the authorities, but he will also use the rules of human society to solve his own threats. The only thing he misses is not knowing that Zhang Hengcheng has an extra 24 hours a day.

With Zhang Heng's knowledge of the thing, when he has a hunting plan, he usually does not leave, but hides in the field. On the one hand, it is more beneficial for him to control the direction of things, and on the other hand, he seems to like to see the futile struggle and resistance of the prey.

But this time, he apparently burned himself.

Zhang Heng removed the child welfare center blueprint from the archive room and again searched the welfare center with the blueprint. This time he finally made a new discovery. The corridor on the second floor was about 50cm shorter than indicated on the blueprint, and there were no windows on the blueprint, in other words, the structure of this section of the wall was changed.

“It's almost time to get some air. ”

Zhang Heng left the children's welfare home and abducted to the building site next door. When he returned ten minutes later, he had an extra hammer for the wall demolition.