When Derek got up the next morning, he found that Benny, who was still worried yesterday, suddenly became in a good mood.

He even hummed out-of-tune while shaving his beard, and he smiled.

This gave Derek a sigh of relief.

Even if he has not experienced the travel life of the father and son, he has read it in books and heard it from his classmates in school.

At least the travel he imagined should not be preoccupied.

Although various unexpected troubles continued a few days ago, Derek was still very satisfied.

You see, Benny tells him bedtime stories every night.

Although he was already past the age of listening to bedtime stories.

...

After figuring it out, Benny was always in a good mood. He didn't even set off immediately after breakfast, but took Derek to the mall.

For the first time in an unprecedented way, I bought a lot of clothes for Derek. Both are very happy.

Well, at least Benny is happy. I should be happy to come to Derek too.

After having lunch outside at noon and returning to the hotel to rest for a while, Benny drove Derek to the playground.

Perhaps because the city is not prosperous, the playground facilities look a bit old, although it is still in the winter vacation, there are not many people in the playground.

Benny bought two tickets and dragged Derek into the playground.

Roller coasters, pirate ships, bumper cars, ferris wheels...

The two almost played the playground project.

Derek also gradually changed from the fake smile that he didn't want to disappoint Benny to his true smile.

The entire playground seemed to gradually come alive in Derek's laughter.

Until the sun sets, the playground is about to close, and two people get off the roller coaster.

"wait for me a while."

Benny placed Derek at the door, turned and walked into the toilet.

As soon as he entered the door, a strong smelly smelt hit his face, and Benny almost smashed his head.

Holding his breath, Benny walked quickly to the urinal, finished filling the water, turned and left.

When I came outside, the smell faded a lot, and Benny panted and came to the sink to wash his hands.

Kang Dang——

Benny stopped and turned to look in the direction of the sound source.

That is a storage room.

Usually there will be some cleaning debris.

Clang--

There was another noise in the storage room.

Benny turned off the faucet and walked gently to the storage room.

Looking around, no name appeared in the horizon.

This also means that there is no one inside.

Benny breathed a sigh of relief and shook the water stain on his hand.

He has been a little nervous lately, and he starts to be suspicious as soon as he encounters a little turmoil.

Thinking of self-deprecating, Benny turned and prepared to leave.

Just as he stepped out of the toilet with one foot, there was a loud noise in the storage room, and then the door of the storage room fell straight to the ground.

A large group of mice squeaked and rushed out of it.

The mouse was very flustered, and immediately ran away as soon as it rushed out.

The messy toilet was quiet again.

Benny retracted his feet, walked back gently, and came to the storage room.

The space in the storage room is very narrow, and the entire storage room is only as wide as the door panel, about the depth of one person sideways.

There are no windows inside, so it is very dim.

In the gloom, a pool of ground meat mixed with a viscous liquid slowly flowed out.

Benny drew a few sheets of paper from the side, squatted down, dipped the paper with liquid, and the liquid pulled out transparent silk threads in the air.

Throwing away the paper, Benny glanced at the minced meat and liquid still flowing out.

This is the wreckage left by the vampire.

But why does a vampire lock himself in the storage room of the toilet?

The storage room is opaque, how did he die?

Besides, even if the storage room is transparent, the sun outside has already set, and he can't be killed at all.

If he was killed early, the wreckage on the ground would not be so fresh.

And the group of mice.

Although vampires look no different from ordinary people, in fact they are already a corpse. Their ability to move depends entirely on the power of blood.

It is impossible for a vampire to attract a rat to eat.

What happened to such a large group of mice just now?

How do they get in?

Why did it suddenly come out?

Benny couldn't understand.

But these have nothing to do with him.

Thinking about this, Benny left the toilet.

"Derek, let's go, eat tonight—"

Benny's smile disappeared after turning the corner of the wall.

There was no shadow of Derek in front of him.

Benny frowned and went to the ticket office. The gate of the ticket office opened and closed in the cold wind, but the woman who was still here urging them to leave just disappeared.

Benny turned and looked around.

He just went to the toilet, why did the playground where there were people just now turned into a ghost land?

The sparse tourists and staff all disappeared. Only the old facilities and the painted clown statue stood creaking in the cold wind.

What is going on here?

Benny went around the amusement park, but he still couldn't find him alone.

The people in the entire playground seemed to have suddenly evaporated.

This makes Benny even a little skeptical of life.

The sun faded the last afterglow, and the night gradually enveloped the earth.

The sky was getting dark.

Benny stood in the open space in front of the playground with a blank face.

He tried to call Derek's name, his voice wafting back and forth in the playground, forming a burst of echoes, but no one answered.

Just as Benny was about to take out the phone and call the police, a woman appeared in front of him.

This woman Benny was very familiar with, and he recognized it at a glance. This was the woman who was standing in the small room of the ticket office selling tickets.

The woman walked towards Benny with a serious face and stood three meters in front of him.

Benny put away the phone, frowning and staring at the woman.

"I don't want to mix up your bad things, return that kid to me, and I will assume that nothing has happened."

Although Hawkins Town is very harmonious, although he has not encountered it before, Benny knows the chaos in the US.

Traffickers, turf fights, pimps, car stealers, murderers, rapists, and all kinds of evil crimes will all show up after nightfall.

Among them, there is a very inconspicuous group-population trading.

They are usually well-organized, have a clear division of labor, and act quickly.

They often observe the target for several months, then make a plan, take the target away, and then disappear.

Maybe a few months later, a homeless man will dig out the dead body of the missing person from the trash can while rummaging for food. The dead body usually lacks some organs and then becomes an unsolved case.

Maybe this person will disappear completely, as if the world has evaporated, people will no longer find him, and slowly, apart from his family, no one will remember that there is such a person in the world.

Case files like this in various police stations in the U.S. are all placed in the corners.

It's not that the police station didn't do anything, but that there was really no way to find it.

Even if it takes great effort to find, the end result is often nothing.

Benny believes that Derek should have been abducted by such a human trafficking organization.

He wasn't worried about Derek's safety, he was just a little angry.

"Benny Hammond."

The woman stood in front of Benny, with a long string of red names, slightly raised her chin and asked Benny

Seeing that Benny didn’t speak, the woman continued

"Come with me, someone wants to see you."

With that, the woman glanced at Benny contemptuously, turned and walked outside on her own.

Benny shook his head and waved his right hand. A stout lightning bolt fell on the ground in front of the woman, exploding a big hole.

"Madam, send that child back and I will assume that nothing has happened.

Believe me, this is the best result. "

Benny is still restrained, but his right hand can no longer be restrained.

For the right hand, three things are the untouchable bottom line: Thalia, Derek and himself.

If it hadn’t been for Benny’s body to move to the side just now, the lightning would strike the woman, blasting her directly into scum.

The woman's body trembled a little, she swallowed a mouthful of saliva, raised her chin proudly, and yelled at Benny visibly.

"Don't come here!"

"Don't come here!"

With a fireball in his left hand, Benny turned a deaf ear to the woman's warning, and kept approaching the woman step by step.

The woman let out a scream, shivered and took out a handful of hair from her arms, and took out a lighter with her other hand.

"Don't come here!"

"Stop!"

"I tell you to stop!"

"If you go further, I will burn it!"

Speaking of this, the woman seemed to have some confidence and calm down a little.

"If you burn it, that child will be burned to death too!"

"If you dare to go forward, I will burn him to death!"

Benny paused at his feet, stepped out in front of the woman, raised his right hand, and the dense white light enveloped the strands of hair, slowly dissipating.

The woman felt the heat from the fireball close at hand, screamed and trembled and pressed the lighter with her hands, trying to burn her hair.

However, the more anxious she was, the more unable to ignite the lighter.

"I'll help you."

Benny grabbed the woman's hair with one hand, causing the woman to raise her head, looking up at the fireball he raised high.

"do not want!"

The woman was so frightened that she let out a scent of urine.

She cried and begged

"Don't kill me!"

"I'll take you to find!"

"do not want!"

Benny ignored the woman's pleading, holding the fireball in his left hand slowly but firmly, and approaching the woman's face little by little.

The scorching temperature from the fireball made her hair curl, giving off a burnt smell.

The fire light illuminates the woman's skin and immediately evaporates the tears on her face, leaving traces of marks.

The fireball got closer and closer, and the fireball reflected in the woman's pupils got bigger and bigger.

"Antonia!"

"help me!"

The woman stared at the expanding fireball with wide eyes, and shouted anxiously.

"enough."

An old sigh came from behind.

"Stop it, you scared her."

Benny sneered without stopping, shaking his left hand and slapped the woman's face with a slap.

"what------"

Benny let go, and the woman screamed and slapped her face, rolling back and forth on the ground.

Several familiar women hurried out from the side to help put out the fire.

The smell of grilled meat immediately diffused in the air.