Looking at the electronic file sent by Lu Xiang, Song Lan was also in trouble.
In the past few decades, there have been dozens of missing people who have left town unaccounted for after suddenly being possessed by evil spirits, not to mention other urban ghost stories, but because District 17 has always been... It is an area with a high incidence of missing persons, and Lu Xiang's former head of the law enforcement department never paid attention to these cases, so the whereabouts of these missing persons have become an eternal mystery.
Last night, he subconsciously thought that this was another conspiracy of the company, guessing that they had done something to the village chief of Yangcun in order to investigate Void through him. However, judging from the many files sent by Lu Xiang, it seemed that things were not that simple. .
No matter how powerful the company is, it is impossible to predict that this small town will one day become a base of void after just a few decades.
Song Lan never expected that her leisure trip to cultivate a farm would suddenly be related to strange stories in the town and dozens of missing persons.
He re-read the files, and found that the identities of the missing persons were diverse, and he could not find any common ground in terms of social status. The only clue was that they all seemed to have left the town in a state of sleepwalking, and headed to the city along the same road.
In fact, the village chief of Yangcun also suffered from the same situation as the missing people, except that he was blocked by a "hunter" on the way. Although this left him covered with injuries, from another perspective, he also Therefore, a life was saved, otherwise he would most likely become one of the many missing people now.
In order to answer the doubts in his heart, Song Lan told the three of them to stay in the hotel room today and not to move around. He also sent the infected security robot to the third floor to guard them. Then he transferred a robot from the farm under construction next door. A transport truck carried him and the wind chime slowly along the road towards the city.
He was a loyal viewer of "Access to Science" in 2020. He has always believed that behind those bizarre events, there are often reasons that can be explained by science, but he did not expect that one day he would personally participate in this program.
Now he has to figure out the decades-long mystery of missing people in this small town, otherwise this strange thing will always haunt his mind and make him unable to sleep well at night.
To this end, he had to overdraw his psychic energy again, spread it out, and observe the surrounding movements in detail. If those missing people had not encountered aliens and suddenly disappeared along the way, then more or less they might have been left behind along the way. Some clues to come.
When the car drove several kilometers and came to a steeper mountain road, the spiritual energy spread out finally found traces of the missing person under the cliff.
They parked the car on the side of the road, with the guardian spirit leading the way. They went all the way down, and finally found dozens of weathered bones all over the mountain.
The farther ones walked through most of the mountain road, while the closer ones fell off the cliff and died as soon as they climbed the mountain road.
"Someone killed them and dumped their bodies here?"
Feng Ling asked curiously after checking the body with Song Lan. She knew that the people scattered here were most likely the missing people in the town's ghost stories.
"It doesn't look like it." Song Lan shook his head. He and Lu Xiang had lived together for so long, and he had learned some knowledge of criminal investigation. "If someone killed them and deliberately dumped their bodies, the bodies wouldn't be scattered like they are now. It’s everywhere.”
Yesterday, when they were exploring the location of the farm, they discovered that as long as they left the town and headed east, they would encounter a wasteland. Even if the murderer really wanted to dump the body, they should be tempted to go east. There are occasionally vehicles on this road. However, it is easy to expose their behavior.
Therefore, Song Lan made a bold guess.
After sleepwalking here on foot, these people accidentally fell off the cliff and died because the terrain was too steep, and the passing vehicles would not have covered half of the mountain with psychic energy like him, searching for clues left by the missing people, plus Most of the missing people left the town at night, so no one would have thought that all the missing people in the small town for many years would be buried here.
The two of them dug while searching, and erected simple unmarked graves for these unknown missing persons.
"This also just explains the strange story about the night shift bus driver encountering ghosts on the mountain road. In fact, what he saw was a sleepwalking missing person, but
Because of the dim light and their erratic walking, they were mistaken for ghosts. "
With such an explanation, Song Lan suddenly felt much more at ease.
Although it is not yet known why these people sleepwalk, he at least ruled out mysterious forces such as aliens.
From a scientific perspective, these people accidentally fell off a cliff and died while sleepwalking on a steep mountain road.
At this time, he thought about the only survivor who reported the news. The biggest difference between her and the other missing persons was that she took a car to the city and booked a hotel after arriving in the city. Room, sleep until you wake up.
This may be because she happened to meet an acquaintance who was driving to the city while walking that day, and was suddenly called into the car, which also saved her from falling off a cliff and dying.
According to Lu Xiang's investigation, this incident occurred more than 20 years ago. The lady returned to the town and has not encountered a similar situation since then. She can be considered to have spent her remaining years in the town.
"Maybe the purpose of sleepwalking is not to kill people, but to get them to leave the town and go to the city."
After returning to the car, Song Lan came up with a hypothesis.
Feng Chime was full of doubts, "Why did they do this?"
She felt increasingly that the outside world was too difficult to understand.
There is no danger in returning from the small town to the city, and taking a bus only takes a few watts, but dozens of people have lost their lives.
"Maybe it's to avoid being chased."
"But didn't you say there is no murderer in this case?"
"I mean the murderer didn't appear in the real world. The vendor said that the missing person he saw looked panicked when he left the town, as if he was avoiding someone's pursuit. But he didn't find any suspicious people chasing the missing person that day. Sheep The village chief dreamed that he appeared in a prison-like place, and he still remembered someone urging him to run away."
"Someone gave them the same dream."
Wind Chime muses, possibly a psychic, who may still be in the town.
"There is no one else in the town but us."
Before setting off, Song Lan had already searched the entire town, and there was no one else in the town except them.
They have only solved one of the doubts now. As for why these missing people have the same dreams, it is the next mystery that their "Approaching Science" insect group needs to solve.
Don't go away, it will be more exciting after the commercials.
The familiar advertising slogan even came to Song Lan's mind.
Later, he told Lu Xiang what he found under the cliff, and the criminal investigation expert from District 17 once again highly praised him.
He used science to answer the whereabouts of the missing people in the town for decades and the reasons for their deaths.
"It's a shame you're not a detective."
Lu Xiang sighed on the phone again. You must know that these strange stories are one of the most bizarre cases even in the law enforcement department. Many law enforcement officers will feel chilled when talking about this matter in the middle of the night. "You He already possesses the most important qualities to become a detective.”
"You mean a clever mind?"
As a wise general, Song Lan decided to accept Lu Xiang's praise happily.
"No, a clever mind is common. What you have is a more special talent."
"What talent?"
"Wherever you go, the gift of life will appear."
Lu Xiang said seriously.
Throughout the ages, there have been many smart and talented people, but just like a broom star, a business trip can involve a physique that has been missing for many years. Looking at history, there are probably only a few.
"Is this a compliment?"
The corners of Song Lan's mouth twitched, he would rather he didn't have this kind of talent.
"certainly."
Lu Xiang changed the subject and suddenly said, "Do you remember Captain Kate?"
"Remember."
He had heard about Captain Kate's deeds from Zhuang Chi more than once. Zhuang Chi
She is said to be a good, hands-on captain who not only saves her from danger and recommends her to join the law enforcement department, but also does everything herself when encountering problems, and is always active on the front line of fighting crime.
Unfortunately, in District 17, it is a standard ending for good people not to be rewarded. Captain Kate did not catch up with the good times. Before Lu Xiang was transferred to District 17, she disappeared while investigating a case.
"I just found out another interesting thing. Before Captain Kate disappeared, she seemed to be investigating disappearances in the town. The last time she was seen was when she was driving to the town alone."
Captain Kate has not been heard from since.
No one can be seen in life, no corpse in death.
