Nangong Wuyue frowned. "The water in other places is abnormal as well? Then, there must be a problem. "
Hao Ren did not understand what was going on. "Hmm? What did you find? "
"It started two or three days ago. People in our neighborhood said that the water was abnormal. There was even a family with three water pipes. One of them was cut off while the other two were working. Old Lee's family said that when they were washing vegetables, they saw the water flowing out of the water pipe suddenly stop flowing. It scared the hell out of his old lady." Nangong Wuyue was playing with Lil Pea on the sofa. She was a well-behaved and likable girl. Years of vagabond life had made her very approachable. She was already familiar with many people on the street. "But not every household is having problems. Plus, there are occasional problems with the pumping station in the suburbs. So, the rumors are not too far-fetched."
Hao Ren did not expect that there were so many anomalies in the matter. He thought for a while and felt that something was not right. "There's nothing wrong with the water in our house."
"Yeah, because I forcibly pumped the water." The siren waved her hand and created a small water ball in the air. Lil Pea immediately jumped into it and swam happily. "The water in our house has been cut off for two days. I was the one who forcibly pumped the water."
Hao Ren scratched his chin. "Seems like it's a supernatural phenomenon. Who wants to go to the pumping station with me?"
Lily had just come back from outside. She was lying on the sofa watching a dog biscuit advertisement. "Boring... I'm already the savior of the world. Why do I have to do this... I want to watch TV."
"I'll go with Mr. Landlord." Vivian came out of the kitchen, wiping her hands. She took off her apron and looked at Lily. "You have too little life experience. As an otherworldling, don't you know to be vigilant of all supernatural phenomena around your territory? Even if it's not a demon hunter, it could be another otherworldling. Canines, you're so territorial..."
As soon as Vivian said "territorial", Lily suddenly reacted. She jumped from the sofa to the floor. "I'll go with you! I didn't realize that this has something to do with territory! "
Hao Ren's mouth did not have a handle on it. "Can't you remember that this is your territory if you haven't peed before?"
Of course, Lily barked at him. Within a few minutes, his arm was full of bite marks. After many attempts, the dog maiden finally found the right amount to leave bite marks without triggering his Steel Membrane Shield.
Hao Ren escaped from Lily's mouth. No one came to help him. Even Vivian did not know whether to laugh or cry. "Mr. Landlord, how can you say that to a girl... Not even a female."
Nangong Wuyue stepped forward and patted Hao Ren on the shoulder. "Landlord, listen to me. That mouth of yours will only last two episodes in a TV series.
Hao Ren was speechless. "..."
Lily bared her fangs at Hao Ren for a long while before she came up to him and licked her teeth marks, indicating that the punishment was over. Hao Ren pushed the silly cat away and looked around. "So, who else wants to go to the pumping station with me?"
Nangong Wuyue pulled her brother up. "My brother and I will go with you. I'm familiar with the water. At least my brother has more investigative experience."
They left home and headed to the only pumping station in the Southern Suburbs. The pumping station was in the north of the city, but it was not too far from where they lived. It only took a ten-minute drive.
Do not forget, Hao Ren also had a car.
Speaking of the pumping station, Hao Ren was very familiar with it. As the Southern Suburbs was far from the city, the facilities were relatively backward. The pressure in the water supply network was a big problem. Ten years ago, the people complained a few times, and the water company set up a pumping station to pressurize the network. Hao Ren still remembered when he was in secondary school, he liked to sneak to the pumping station to play. He would lie by the window of the big red brick and cement machine room and watch the water pump rumble. He would then fight with the dogs in the yard. That was really a period of youth where white clothes were as white as snow and came and went like the wind. The young man who was destined to embark on a path of injustice in the future set up a great ambition under the whetting of the vicious dog. His biggest wish was to beat the dog in the yard once...
Now that only one of the dogs in the yard was left, he could no longer look forward to it.
The pumping station was surrounded by a brick wall. The big iron gate was half open. From the outside, they could occasionally hear the rumbling of the engine room inside. Hao Ren parked the car in the open space outside the yard. Just as he led the group to the gate, they heard the barking of dogs coming from the yard. A few chained German Backs rushed out from the side and tried to show off to the intruders. They looked exactly like their predecessors. Seeing this, Hao Ren laughed and said, "What a son of a b * tch. Even your fathers don't dare to bark like that when they see me!"
Lily heard this and barked at the leading German Back. Then, she turned her head to expose Hao Ren. "They said that when you were chased around the yard by their uncles, you once jumped into the old jujube tree in the yard and didn't come down for a long time."
Hao Ren said, "... F * ck, I forgot that there's someone here who knows foreign languages!"
At this time, an old black dog strolled out of the yard. After seeing Hao Ren, it symbolically barked a few times. It seemed that it still remembered the naughty kid who used to throw stones on the yard wall ten years ago. Hao Ren sighed. Finally, someone heard the noise and came out of the pumping station. It was a young man with a crew cut. He was probably in charge of the pumping station.
"Who are you looking for?" the young man asked, then turned his head and scolded the dogs. "Go back! Go back! What are you yelling for? "
"I'm from the street nearby. Why is there water these two days?" Hao Ren asked with a smile.
People in the city might not be used to the living habits of the remote suburbs, but the people in the Southern Suburbs were used to asking the "unit" directly. If the water supply was cut off, they would go to the pumping station. If the heater was not hot, they would go to the boiler room. If the power was cut off, they would go to the substation to ask the master. This was the unique "community ecology" of a backward suburb without any property management and all kinds of "branches".
Probably because there had been people coming to ask about this, the young man looked a little impatient and helpless. "The water pressure at the water tower is not normal. I can't do anything about it. The higher-ups have called the experts. You guys go home and wait. "
Hao Ren chatted with the young man at the pumping station for a while. In the middle, Nangong Wuyue pretended to be curious and walked a few steps into the yard, listening attentively to the sound inside. Seeing this, the young man quickly reminded her, "Don't go into the yard. There are dogs inside. The leash is very long."
He did not notice that after Lily also peeked into the yard, the few ferocious German Shepherds had already knelt on the ground respectfully as if they had seen their ancestor.
Suddenly, there was a squeaking sound from the machine room in the yard, and then someone was shouting. The young man quickly turned back and said, "The turbine is broken again. I'll go back and take a look. You guys go home and wait."
After the young man ran away, Hao Ren looked at Nangong Wuyue and asked, "How is it? What's wrong? "
"The water is not normal." The siren pointed to the corner of the outer wall of the yard. "The situation here is obviously supernatural."
Hao Ren looked in the direction where Nangong Wuyue was pointing and found a trickle of water flowing on the wet cement wall. Incredibly, the trickle was moving up the wall!
Lily sniffled and said, "I feel that there is something wrong with the air here... Some places are very dry, and some places are as wet as in front of a waterfall. There seems to be a lot of moisture in the air. "
"Is it your kind?" Hao Ren suddenly thought of the siren's ability to control water. He turned to look at Nangong Wuyue and asked, "Can sirens sense their kind?"
"Yes, but they have to be close enough. Ever since humans added bleach to the tap water, this talent doesn't work well in residential areas. I can only try my best." Nangong Wuyue frowned. She sensed the flow of the abnormal water elements in the air and found that all the abnormal water vapour was concentrated in a certain place.
She looked up and saw the water tower a hundred meters away.
Others could not see the abnormality of the water tower, but in Nangong Wuyue's eyes, the water tower was surrounded by thin lines, and countless water molecules that had defied the laws of nature were floating around.
It seemed that the young man at the pumping station had said that the most abnormal water pressure was in the water tower.
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