In order to effectively deal with different anomalies, these task force members also wear tactical vests with ordinary weapons equipped by the sheriff. These weapons can basically cause physical damage to most low-level anomalies.
Sometimes simple and effective physical damage will buy the special operator a certain amount of buffer time. Although it cannot kill the anomaly, it can also be regarded as a delaying measure to buy time for the successful capture of the anomaly.
Along the way, Shen Xing asked about all the special weapons he was interested in. Xie Zongyu, who was sitting in the same car, always acted as the commentator.
After a while, this special vehicle, which looked like a commercial vehicle but actually looked more like an armed transport vehicle on the inside, drove into the city center. It was followed by two similar vehicles, with Yang Tian and Zhang Zhi and a group of heavily armed men on board. Task Force.
Ping An's city center is actually not as prosperous as Shen Xing imagined.
In fact, the development of Ping'an City is extremely uneven. The main industry is the manufacturing and export of various puppets. On the contrary, the service industry is relatively weak. This is a similar city adjacent to Stone City, and there is only one large shopping mall in the city center.
And according to Xie Zongyu, this mall usually does not have many tourists, so the goods are not very rich.
Even sometimes, if people in this city want to go shopping, they will take the opportunity to go to nearby cities such as Shicheng to visit and buy.
The office building of the special task force is located next to the Sheriff's Department, but it is not in the same courtyard, but separated by a wall.
After Shen Xing arrived, he found that although the office of the special task force was separated from the Public Security Department, the space here was very large, with undulating green plants, red and green, ponds, walking pavilions, and small squares. The air was very good.
"This is the advantage of being close to Jingzhou!" He couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
The Special Case Investigation Command Center in Jingzhou is the special command headquarters of all states and has great power. This also leads to the richest supply of resources and equipment in this place. Naturally, places such as Shicheng and Ping'an City are on a first-come, first-served basis. .
Behind the office building, separated by an antique garden, is the residence of these special operators and task force personnel.
This is not an ordinary accommodation, but an apartment with high-end decoration.
In addition to Xie Zongyu, Zhang Zhi, and Yang Tian who are working in the field, the official members of the Ping An City Special Investigation Team also have four logistics personnel, including one operator, two data clerks, and one equipment support worker.
In fact, there were five field staff, and one of the two was transferred to Linshi to help, and the other went to the Jingzhou Command Center headquarters to participate in training.
Arriving at Xie Zongyu's office on the third floor, Shen Xing looked at the place carefully.
This office was more than a bit more luxurious than Guo Tianzhi's office in Yungu City. He remembered that Guo Tianzhi's office was previously used by the dead Zheng Ruijun.
The office is near the end of the corridor. It's only about twenty square meters. There are two desks, a sofa and a filing cabinet in it. You basically have to turn sideways to walk through it.
And the office of Xie Zongyu in front of me is probably almost 40 square meters. Not only are the desks and chairs luxurious, but there are two pots of money trees placed in the room.
Shen Xing didn't know what it meant to be a special agent who caught anomalies. He arranged some fortune trees and put them in the office. Could it be that he had the same plan as Zheng Ruijun? He secretly cooperated with the Ye Yin organization to make more money?
Sitting in front of the sofa? Xie Zongyu opened an exquisite tea-making table on the coffee table. The smoke quickly hit his face, and the drinking water in the bucket was sucked into the teapot on the tea table by electric suction.
Xie Zongyu moved skillfully, operating the process of making tea. This leisurely scene made Shen Xing a little stunned. His eyes were fixed on the water outlet where a small stream of water was flowing out.
I saw four words written above that place: Water comes out of the mountain.
"God, there's water under the mountain!" Shen Xing couldn't help but secretly complain.
After a while, a cup of steaming yellow soup was brewed. The tea was rich in aroma and quiet at the end. However, after Shen Xing took a sip and had his tongue burned, he never touched it again.
At this time, Xie Zongyu poured a cup of tea for Yang Tian, who entered his office together. Then he went back to his desk, opened the drawer, and took out a photo.
After walking up to Shen Xing, he handed the photo to him: "Here, this is the well. The photo is blurry, but there's nothing we can do about it. No matter what you use to photograph the well, it will become blurry in the end, even if you use technical means. There is no way to recover.”
"oh?"
Shen Xing was curious. He took the photo in his hand and looked at it carefully.
The paper in this photo feels relatively new, and it must have been printed recently. The general scenery in the photo should be in a deserted courtyard.
It can be vaguely seen that the courtyard wall has been built for at least several decades. The courtyard wall is in decay, with a large amount of paint peeling off, exposing some red bricks, and even some places have collapsed.
The courtyard wall is covered with green vines from the outside. These vines grow well and reproduce well, indicating that the outside of the courtyard should be a place where dense green plants grow, not like in the city, but mostly in the suburbs.
There used to be stone tables and benches placed in this courtyard, but only the lower half of the stone table was left, and the upper half was missing. Only two of the four stone benches were still there, and one was crooked on the ground and covered with crawlers. Although the other one was still in place, one corner was missing, and the surface was also covered with blackened moss.
Not far from the lower left corner of the stone table and stone bench, there is a blurry shadow. At first glance, it seems that someone has deliberately blurred it.
Shen Xing looked carefully and saw that the middle part of the blurry scene was a circle with a darker color. It should be the entrance of an abandoned dry well. The surrounding area of the hole was almost completely blurred and nothing could be seen clearly.
"This is right here." At this time, Xie Zongyu stretched out his index finger and pointed at the blurry place, "This is where the dry well is."
"No matter whether you are taking photos or recording, you can't clearly capture the appearance of the well?" Shen Xing asked.
"Yes." Yang Tian coughed twice and nodded in reply: "We used two cameras and three cameras at the same time to shoot together, but the effect displayed is almost the same as the one you see now. .”
"Is there any signal interference from electronic radiation around this well?" Shen Xing asked.
Xie Zongyu shook his head: "We used special instruments to measure it, but there was nothing. In fact, that place has been abandoned for many years. If someone hadn't gone missing and reported the case, we wouldn't have known that something was abnormal in that place."
Yang Tian continued: "Behind the yard in the photo is an old house. The house is completely dilapidated and the doors and windows are rotten. No one has lived in it for a long time, so it is not included in the photo."
"Have you searched for it?" Shen Xing asked.
"I searched and used virtual wireless detection, but found nothing." Yang Tian said.
"Then was this dry well detected using virtual wireless?" Shen Xing continued to ask.
"Of course I did, but I don't know how deep the well is, and I can't see any abnormal reflections." Yang Tian shook his head.
Shen Xing turned to look at Xie Zongyu, who was drinking tea with a slightly intoxicated expression and his tongue making soft noises in his mouth.
Seeing Shen Xing looking over, Xie Zongyu reminded: "Drink tea."
Shen Xing touched his lips with his tongue, just in time to touch the spot that had been burned, and then shook his head.
"You just said someone disappeared in that place. What happened?"
Xie Zongyu put down the tea cup in his hand and said: "This is what I just said. This thing is very bizarre to say. It is completely different from other anomalies I have encountered before, so I specially invited you to come over and tell you slowly. .”
"Please tell me." Shen Xing didn't talk nonsense and stared straight into Xie Zongyu's eyes.
Xie Zongyu cleared his throat and immediately began to tell.
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This dry well is located in an abandoned house called "Duanzhai", located in the southern suburbs of Ping'an City, almost 30 kilometers from the city center.
Originally this place was called Duanjia Village. Later, the area was expropriated due to the development and construction of an urban park.
Unexpectedly, during the construction of the project, the top leader of the city hall who was leading the project at that time was investigated and punished for accepting bribes. The entire project was implicated and audited. The result was that it was not audited. An audit found that the project was not involved in the start-up procedures, land acquisition, demolition, and compensation. It is riddled with holes and problems everywhere.
The entire project was immediately halted.
About ten years later, instead of restarting the project, it was directly abolished. Since then, descendants of Duanjiacun have moved back to the area one after another.
Of course, there are also people who have moved from other places.
The neighborhood gradually gained popularity, and some small farmhouses were developed, becoming a place for city dwellers to relax on weekends and holidays.
Later, someone took a fancy to the Duan family's old house, which had not been demolished at that time. As for the Duan family, they no longer lived in Ping'an City after receiving the demolition funds. It was said that they had moved to other states long ago and could no longer be contacted.
At that time, the owner of the farmhouse planned to renovate this part of the house and use the oldness of the house to create a retro feeling, so as to attract the attention of city people.
While applying for reconstruction procedures, he asked someone to check the condition of the building to see if it needed extensive repairs, or if it needed to be torn down and a yard rebuilt according to the original style.
The person in charge of the construction quality survey at that time was Liu Depei, a retired engineer from the Municipal Design and Inspection Institute. He had nothing to do after retirement, and he was a relative of the man who was planning to open a farmhouse, so he stopped by to help.
Also present was Liu Depei's 12-year-old grandson Liu Xiaokai.
During the process of Liu Depei inspecting the construction quality of Duanzhai, Liu Xiaokai was told by the old man not to enter the old house in case something inside collapsed. This place was not safe.
Liu Xiaokai came here with his schoolbag on his back. He put his schoolbag on the clean stone bench, played in the yard, and was quickly attracted to the dry well.
At this time, grandpa was taking samples inside the house with testing tools. Although Liu Xiaokai did not dare to run around after listening to grandpa's words, he was bored, so he grabbed the stones on the ground and threw them into the dry well.
At that time, there was a thin layer of stone slabs covering the dry well. Due to long-term exposure to wind and sun, the stone slabs had been broken, but not completely broken.
There were many large gaps exposed between the stone slabs and the edge of the dry well. Liu Xiaokai kept throwing stones into them through these gaps.
After throwing the pebbles in, he found that it would take a long time before he could hear the impact of the pebbles falling to the ground. This meant that the dry well must be very deep.
Soon after throwing away the small stones at hand, Liu Xiaokai turned around and went to other places, preparing to find some bigger stones. As long as he stuffed them through the gap, he wanted to try how deep it was.
But just when Liu Xiaokai turned around, he suddenly heard a popping sound.
I immediately turned around and saw that the sound was coming from the wellhead covered with a thin stone slab. It was very clear, as if a stone had hit the stone slab or hit the rock wall of the wellhead.
Liu Xiaokai was a little surprised. He walked to the well and did not dare to get too close. He listened carefully for a moment, then found a stone and stuffed it in through the gap in the stone slab again.
After a while, the sound of stones falling to the ground was heard.
Liu Xiaokai took a step back and stared at the stone slab at the mouth of the well without blinking.
About five or six seconds later, there was a pop and the sound of a stone hitting the stone slab.
This time Liu Xiaokai heard clearly that the stones should have bounced from the inside of the well, from the inside out, and hit the stone slab covering the wellhead, making the sound just now.
"Is there something in there?!"
He took a step forward in surprise, stopped hesitantly, and did not dare to get completely close to the wellhead. Instead, he stretched his neck as much as he could and shouted at the wellhead with a gap in the stone slab: "Is there anyone? Is there anyone inside?"
After waiting for a while, there was no response.
Liu Xiaokai worriedly picked up another stone and threw it in through the gap.
This time it only took about three seconds. With a pop, the stone bounced up, hit the stone slab, and fell out of the gap by coincidence.
Liu Xiaokai was so excited that he immediately lay down on the edge of the wellhead and shouted again: "Is there anyone there?"
There was still no reaction inside.
He thought that maybe the bottom of the well was too deep from the ground, so the sound could not be transmitted. He immediately turned around and took out the things from the handicraft class in his schoolbag. They were a bunch of solid nylon ropes, a pair of scissors, and also took out Paper and pen.
After writing the words "Hello, is anyone there?" on the paper, find a slightly larger stone, tie the paper and stone together with a nylon rope, and then hang one end of the pen cap on the nylon rope , after arriving at the entrance of the hole, he slowly put this end into the well mouth.
This slender nylon rope was about fifteen meters long. Liu Xiaokai thought that if the rope could not reach the bottom, he would call his grandfather and find a longer rope.
Unexpectedly, the rope hit the bottom only about ten meters deep into the well.
Feeling the bottoming feedback from below, Liu Xiaokai was a little surprised.
He didn't move for the time being, just holding one end of the nylon rope and waiting quietly for a moment.
About a minute later, there was a pulling feeling from below, and then the rope became loose.
Liu Xiaokai suddenly became energetic and quickly pulled up the rope.
Shaking, he quickly carefully lifted the end of the tied stone out of the well, and saw that the paper and pen were still tied to it.
But on the other side of the paper where the words were written, there are already two more crooked words - I am here.
Liu Xiaokai was so excited that he shouted loudly to the old house twice, "Grandpa". He immediately tore off another piece of white paper and quickly wrote on it: "How did you fall in? I'll find someone to rescue you right away."
Lifting the rope into the well again, Liu Xiaokai looked up and found that his grandfather had not come out. It seemed that he had not heard his shout just now.
Not long after, the rope that touched the bottom of the well began to pull again. He immediately pulled the rope up quickly, turned over the other side of the note and looked at it, and was stunned.
The man below did not answer the question he just asked. This time, he still wrote two words crookedly - I am hungry.
