The strange feeling seemed familiar. He had felt it before, but it had not emanated from the same item.
Ke Meng racked his brains and finally named it an "eerie feeling."
"Make way, everyone. We're going in to investigate," Captain Luo called out. The curious onlookers hardly dared refuse. The investigators all wore Special Operations Uniforms and looked so stern that it seemed they would detain anyone who held them up for another minute and remove them from the scene.
The onlookers moved aside. Someone recognized Ke Meng, the creator of educational videos online, and screamed.
But the child's parents quickly covered the child's mouth, afraid the noise would interfere with the investigators' work.
Ke Meng kept his gaze straight ahead, his attention entirely focused on the special field. He paid no mind to the child's scream.
He crossed the boundary of the special field's barrier at the entrance to the residential complex.
There were eight buildings in this complex. Chen Momo lived on the fourth floor of Building 4.
The address on the rental agreement they had signed previously also listed her residence as Apartment 401 in Building 4 of this complex, matching the Investigation Bureau's official records.
"All fours. Isn't that number a little unlucky?" Captain Luo asked.
"Maybe it's just psychological." Ke Meng sensed nothing unusual about the numbers, but the air here was indeed different from outside. It carried the oppressive atmosphere unique to a special field.
"Everyone inside has been transported out, right?" Ke Meng asked.
The Investigation Bureau now had many ways to transport things inside, as well as ways to bring people out. The principle was simply to use the outer casing of a Special Item to evade the barrier's detection.
Ke Meng had previously tested this with objects soaked in Honey Juice