The temperature inside the building plummeted, and in the face of the fear of the unknown, these newbie investigators were not too alarmed.
They strictly followed the internal code of the Bureau and assembled the various instruments in their backpacks as quickly as possible.
Those instruments all had corresponding numbers on them, and the Bureau was constantly trying to use various means to deal with unusual events, and the instruments brought in by the newcomers were their "weapons".
"Does this thing work?"High Life asked with some curiosity.
"Ninety-nine per cent of it doesn't work, but as long as there is a one per cent hope, we will continue to try until we test something that can have an effect on those unknowns."The burly driver clenched his fists, "People become human because they can use tools."
"The communication was interrupted when we opened the door to room 405, the kid and his mum and dad used to live in this room."Shirahashi picked up his torch and headed towards room 405.
Without a weapon capable of dealing with the terror or any effective protection, Shirahashi knew the danger and still walked towards room 405.
"It's better for me to do it."High Life snatched a step ahead of him, "You're the core of the team, just leave the pathfinding to me."
Tiny chains stimulated by the shadows, as if they were moving tattoos, appeared on Gao Life's wrist as he stretched out his left hand and gently pushed open the door to room 405.
A strange smell wafted from the rented house of about ninety square metres, and five huge black plastic bags were piled up by the living room door, containing some yellowed bedding and children's clothes.
"Be careful."Shirahashi raised his torch to light the way for High Life.
There seemed to have been a fight in the living room, the dining table had been overturned, the chairs were lying on the ground, and there were congealed rice crumbs and pieces of broken porcelain bowls on the concrete floor.
"It wasn't a one-sided domestic violence, both sides of the fight lost their minds."High Life saw a small piece of scalp stained with short hair in the corner, it should belong to a certain man, "The situation is worse than I thought."
Running his fingers across the wall, High Life touched the mould on the wall, he looked around, even though the doors and windows were tightly closed, the house was still very humid, in the wardrobe, under the sofa, behind the TV, all of them were covered with large patches of mould.
"If I rented a house like this, I would probably feel bad too."The burly driver divided the newcomers into three teams, one team followed High Life into the house, one team guarded the door, and one team was responsible for receiving support.
"Feeling bad is normal, but it's not right to hurt someone close to you in order to vent your anger."High Life walked to the other side of the living room, a room that could not be considered a home at all, dirty, cluttered, and filled with the smell of decay.
The family was as broken as the various pieces of furniture that had been dropped inside the house.
"Both dad and mum were violent, arguing and fighting, they were like two monsters attacking each other hysterically."Takamitsu picked up the broken vase on the ground, a trace of blood and a few strands of long hair remained on the edges of the shards, "Did they become like this because of the effects of the unusual events, or were they originally like this inside?"
"According to the old people in the building, they used to fight a lot even before the arrival of the abnormal event."Shirahashi didn't interfere with High Life, she was also curious to see what this ordinary person who had solved a Level 3 Abnormal Event was capable of.
"Even if no abnormal events appeared, tragedies could still happen ..." High Life wanted to figure out the relationship between the game and reality, "So it's not that the abnormal events sought them out, but rather, it's this family of theirs that's attracting the abnormalevents."
Walking through the living room, High Life came to the only room that was still clean, this seemed to be the child's bedroom.
The not-so-large room was furnished with a desk, wardrobe, and a single bed, and interestingly enough, it wasn't even autumn yet, but the bed was furnished with thick quilts and various blankets from the winter.
Those bedding surrounded the bed as if it were a wall in the child's mind.
When I opened the wardrobe, a few children's clothes were hanging on it, and the lower part of the wardrobe was covered with newspaper, with a torch and a box of crayons.
"The space underneath the wardrobe can almost hide a child, and 405 children may choose to hide in the wardrobe and draw when they feel scared."Gao Life squatted down his body, "An enclosed environment can give the child a sense of security, as if he is back in his mother's stomach."
Grabbing the crayon box, High Life had just moved it when an arm made of cloth suddenly pressed down on the crayon box.
Shirahashi and the other newcomer next to him became tense, but High Life didn't have any reaction as he yanked the crayon box and the arm out together.
"What an ugly muppet."
Tucked away in the depths of the wardrobe was a handmade ragdoll that barely made out the shape of a human, its body covered in stitches and stained with various paints.
"The neighbours didn't see the couple take the child away, and the police didn't find the kid on the 4th floor, do you think the kid could have turned into this muppet?"High Life locked the muppet's neck and tied his hands together.
"This is no time for ghost stories."Shirahashi frowned slightly; High Life had no internal training from the Bureau of Investigation and was not following the code at all.
Pressing his fingers over every inch of the muppet's skin, Takamitsu didn't feel anything strange hidden inside the muppet, and he opened the crayon box again, with a phrase written crookedly on the lid - so much so that he wanted to hide it in a place where it wouldn't be found.
"It looks like the unusual event helped the boy's wish come true."High Life associated it with his own birthday wish, and he suddenly felt that the abnormal events seemed to be very enthusiastic, grabbing the loopholes in people's hearts and desperately trying to fill them, only the way of filling them was a bit bloody and horrifying.
405 basically finished exploring, the newcomers who followed behind High Life, took out their equipment to collect the items in the house, even the mould on the walls they would bring back for examination.
"You guys be careful, what we've been caught up in this time might not be a level one anomaly."After whispering his instructions, High Life sat down on the boy's bed and meditated silently.
He had made a game to find a lost child, that game was called Hide and Seek
Seven ghosts are playing a game with a child, and if they find the real child, they will pass the game.But that game doesn't correspond to this anomaly, in which it's not the ghosts that bring the child shadows, but his parents.
"Parents often clash and fight with each other, and sometimes they take out their anger on their children.Living in such a family, the child is bound to develop various psychological problems."
When Gao did psychological counselling in a prison for felons, he encountered that some felons were often treated roughly by their parents in their childhood.
"In this kind of family atmosphere, the child's character will go to two extremes, either very low self-esteem, cowardly; or unusually irritable, overly aggressive.Judging from the scene, the 405 child should belong to the former."
Who all like obedient children, but the child obedient also divided into types, if he has been forced to show good behaviour, then he will gradually fall into a kind of distortion inside.
The most direct manifestation of this is timidity, the fear of making a mistake in everything he does, wanting to hide himself for fear of angering others.
Looking at the "quilt wall" surrounding the edge of the bed, High Life curled up and tried to lie down on the child's bed.
"With parents smashing things in the living room, beating each other up, and using foul language, the child is not only unprotected by either parent, but also has to be careful of becoming a tool for them to vent their anger."
"In such a situation, the most likely emotion to arise is - fear."
Takamitsu thought of the graffiti on the walls of the building, when the little people representing dad and mum started to argue, a lot of red little people would crawl out of them, and those little people disassembled their own body parts and all ran to the child's side.
"Perhaps those little red people are a way for the child to express his fear."Another game gradually surfaced in High Life's mind, that omen level game called Phobia.
There were no specific ghosts in it, and there were no scenes that were too bloody, but the destructive and threatening nature of this game was even much greater than that of a normal strange story!
The content of the game was very simple, one day "Phobia" suddenly broke out, spreading contagion throughout the city, everyone was plunged into fear.