False evidence

Chapter 487 Within Five Meters
Wang Ben casually placed the paper and pen aside and gestured: Follow me.

He was dressed the same as before, except he had put on the sleeves of the gray Zhongshan suit he was wearing, and he was only wearing boxer shorts on the bottom. Crucially, he was also wearing socks and a pair of lace-up leather shoes.

At this point, I couldn't just be confused; I was completely unable to think straight. I subconsciously followed him outside.

When I got outside, I found that the rain had actually stopped. Not only had the rain stopped... the ground was so dry, it was as if it hadn't rained at all!

"Who exactly are you?" I began to doubt Wang Ben's identity again.

He stopped in his tracks, without turning around or making any movement, and surprisingly said, "I already said, my name is Wang Ben, I'm a programmer, and my personal interests are writing and telling stories."

"Impossible!" I exclaimed. He had no tongue at all, and his throat had been chemically damaged, making it impossible for him to speak.

I quickly caught up with Wang Ben and grabbed his shoulder. He obediently turned his head and opened his mouth at the same time.

It has a tongue!
He grinned and said, "At this point, I wasn't mute yet."

At this time? When?
Before I could ask, he opened the courtyard gate and walked out.

I instinctively followed her out the door and just then saw a young woman riding a mountain bike past me.

"Brother Wang!" The young woman stopped, put one foot on the ground, and without even looking at me, lowered her voice and said to Wang Ben, "The website you gave me last time has been shut down. Do you have a new one?"

Wang Ben spoke like a normal person, but he gave her a sickly grin: "Your mom looks really good today, that little skirt, it's so short..."

The young woman's face turned cold. She glared at him and rode away.

I stood there, stunned, watching the woman's retreating figure.

This woman looks exactly like the wife of Zhang Heizi, the driver in courtyard number 21!

However, the two appear to be at least twenty years apart in age.

Wang Ben watched the woman's figure disappear at the end of the alley, then turned back, licked his lips, and muttered, "I knew it. Growing up in that kind of environment, she'll definitely end up like her mother."

"What the heck is going on?" My mind was completely in a mess.

Wang Ben seemed like a normal person at this moment, and said calmly, "It's good that you're back. Now that you're back, I can finally put my mind at ease."

I couldn't understand what he meant at all. I gritted my teeth and thought to myself that I would just consider him crazy. No matter what crazy things he said, I would only pursue my original purpose.

Just kidding, including Yan Fengwei and Cao Xinyun, in less than three days, six people I know have gone missing.

The others were fine, but Cao Xinyun vanished into thin air in the blink of an eye.

This matter is so bizarre that it makes no difference whether I have a brain or not; there's absolutely no way I could come up with an answer out of thin air.

Wang Ben's face suddenly turned cold, his expression twisted, and he gritted his teeth as he said to me, "Do you mean what you said?"

"Stop giving me that nonsense!" I snapped. "Take me to number 23!"

“No. 23, Tanjiaqiao Lane!” I added.

If you can't use your brain to think, then take action. Right now, I need to find someone, find Li Meizhi, or more specifically, find No. 23, Tanjiaqiao Lane.

Of the six people who "disappeared," I found at least one, which answered many of my seemingly unsolvable questions.

I paid special attention to Wang Ben's mouth. His tongue had indeed grown out, just like a normal person's. Moreover, his teeth were barely straight, but they were a very yellowish-brown, the kind of yellowish-brown that comes from smoking and burning.

Compared to before, he looks more like a normal person... Except for his clothes, I still can't stand his outfit of wearing a Zhongshan suit on the top, shorts on the bottom, long socks, and black leather shoes.

Someone else passed by. This time it was a man, about twenty years old, riding an electric scooter.

He also stopped in front of me and Wang Ben, but stared at Wang Ben with a cold face.

I watched as his eyes gradually reddened, and then he asked Wang Ben, "What you said in the teahouse last time, was it true?"

Wang Ben nodded, his expression somewhat perfunctory. "No need to guess, you're the 'Green Knight'!"

"Fuck your mother..." the man cursed, then turned the handlebars and drove off.

"Don't greet my mom like that again!" Wang Ben shouted at his retreating figure.

When Wang Ben turned around, I was still in a daze.

That's because I felt strangely familiar with this person he called the 'Green Knight'.

No, I should say I only saw this person within an hour.

However, the last time I saw him, he had gone bald and turned into a middle-aged man, playing mahjong with his cousins ​​and best friends, and an old lady.

He's that bald driver!

My gaze followed the driver to the end of the alley, and I suddenly felt that something was wrong. I squinted and looked more closely, and finally realized what was wrong.

When I came before, it was dark and raining, but I could still see a large building at the end of the alley. Tanjiaqiao Alley is one of the few remaining old alleyways in the city, so it's not unusual for it to be next to newly built buildings. What's strange is that now, looking around, the tallest buildings are only two stories high, and there are no other tall buildings in sight!

Wang Ben raised his left hand and glanced at it in the light of the door lamp. I noticed that he was wearing a cool-looking but obviously cheap digital watch on his wrist.

"It's not time yet. I'm hungry. Let's go to the restaurant at the intersection and get something to eat." Wang Ben said as he closed the door and skipped towards the intersection.

I glanced at the house number instinctively, and my eyelids twitched again. The house number did indeed say Tanjiaqiao Lane, but it was number 21.

I quickly walked forward to look at the house number next door. The house number was continuous, but it was number 19.

I was about to walk back to check the other side when Wang Ben suddenly stopped, turned to me and said, "You'd better not leave more than five meters away from me, otherwise no matter how capable you are, you might not be able to leave here alive."

I hesitated for a moment, then gritted my teeth and followed him. The alleyways seemed the same as before, yet somehow different as well.

Wang Ben took me to a night market stall at the entrance of the alley and ordered four stir-fried dishes and two bottles of beer.

The owner brought the dishes over. Wang Ben first took a sip of beer, then picked up a piece of food with his chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth. After chewing a few times, he exaggeratedly closed his eyes and said with great relish, "Yes, this is the taste!"

He suddenly opened his eyes, stared straight at me, and said, "Do you know that the taste of food is different when you have a tongue and when you don't?"

I was speechless. The strange things that happened tonight were ten times more bizarre than those last night.

Could it be that I've been hypnotized again, and the bald, promiscuous woman I saw not long ago is now 'making a cameo' of herself, looking almost twenty years younger?
Wang Ben chuckled and said, "Why aren't you eating any vegetables?"

"Not hungry."

"Heh, I still recommend you try it. After you eat it, you'll find that the food here is much better than what you get in a five-star hotel."

He suddenly revealed a strange smile, "I'm serious, because the owner of this food stall used to be the head chef of a five-star hotel."

"Oh." I still didn't want to, and didn't dare to, touch my chopsticks.

Wang Ben ignored me and ate and drank for a while. After finishing a bottle of beer, he pointed back at the boss who was sitting on the side smoking and said to me in a low voice, "He really is the head chef of a five-star hotel restaurant. The reason he quit is because he saw a ghost at his old workplace!"

(End of this chapter)