Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 62

While various thoughts were churning in his mind, Lu Ming felt that the drowsiness had completely gone away from him.

He simply sat up again, went to the bathroom to wash his face, put on a piece of clothing, and went outside.

Under the full moon, the sand dunes undulate.He sat down at a random place and began to think about the most core question again.

Hag.1 gene, what does it mean?
Originally thought that the answer to this question would appear after the destruction of the X organization.But the development of the matter is that the X organization has been destroyed, and the answer still has not appeared.

Not even the core members of Organization X know.

The answer to this question still needs to be found by oneself.

So... where to look for it?
Lu Ming thought of Huang Weimin again.

At this moment, with the destruction of the X organization, Huang Weimin has lifted the restrictions, and the tasks related to him have also ended.Now he has brought the remuneration he earned during this period—for an ordinary person, this is a large amount of money—and he has returned home to reunite with his parents, wife and children.

Thinking about it, with this money in hand, his family relationship will ease a lot.

But Lu Ming discovered that the answer to this most core question may still be found in those ancient books.

After all, the ancestor who first possessed the Hag.1 gene lived in ancient times.

After a sleepless night, the sky gradually dawned.Lu Ming waited patiently for a while again, and after making sure that the call at this moment would not affect Huang Weimin's sleep through the routine of living with Huang Weimin in the past, he made the call.

"Xiao Lu, what do you want me for? Is your mission over?"

"Old Huang, my mission is over now, but I still have a personal matter that I want to trouble you with. Well... here in Woye County, during the period from Emperor Zhengtong of Ming Dynasty to Emperor Wanli, what is so strange? Did something happen? Find it out for me, and I'll treat you to a drink."

Huang Weimin doesn't drink much, but he drinks very well.A bottle of Erguotou can give him a long aftertaste.

Gritting his teeth, Lu Ming added again: "Moutai."

Hearing the word Moutai, Huang Weimin, who seemed to be a little sleepy at first, became sober in his voice.

"Moutai? This is good wine, tsk tsk..."

But after a while, he seemed to be in trouble again.

"Xiao Lu, this matter is not easy to deal with. It's not that I'm evading it, but, how should I put it, there are too many weird things. Those essays in ancient times, the knowledge written by the squire, etc. The main content of the records is this kind of strange things, and they don’t bother to remember things that are not weird. There are many ancient books that record such things throughout, how do you find them?”

Lu Ming patted his head, remembering this.After pondering for a moment, he added: "Then look for things like strange powers and chaos."

This is still a large range, but it has narrowed down a lot compared to before.

For Moutai's sake, Huang Weimin reluctantly agreed.

"Well, let me tidy it up and take pictures with my mobile phone and send them to you."

Huang Weimin is very efficient.Perhaps it was because of the money in hand, the improved family status, and finally being able to immerse in the ancient books without distraction, before night, one after another mobile phone pictures were sent over.As of the evening, a total of more than 100 sheets have been sent.

Among them are the original ancient books, Huang Weimin's notes, transcripts, computer materials, and so on.

Moreover, Huang Weimin said, this is only a small part of it, and he will continue to do it the next day.

Lu Ming transferred them all to the computer, and after zooming in, he immediately started reading and searching.

For this job, computers and programs may not be able to help, so he can only rely on him to search manually.The reason is simple. To distinguish whether these ancient records are related to the Hag.1 gene is a highly abstract task that requires strong analysis, induction, and imagination.No matter how intelligent the program is, it cannot replace the human brain.

The first record is a story of a village woman who went into the mountains to run into an evil spirit.It is said that a village woman fell ill shortly after returning from entering the mountain. She babbled nonsense during her illness. Sometimes she said that she was a great fairy, and sometimes she was a fox. Finally died of illness.The Taoist said that it was the village women's mother-in-law who took revenge because the village women were not filial.

This obviously has nothing to do with what you want to find.

The second record is the story of a man known as Li Bold.He said that this person did not believe in evil, and he heard that the mass grave was haunted by ghosts, so he decided to go to the mass grave to sleep. In the middle of the night, he saw a beautiful young woman sitting on the grave and weeping. Ghost young woman.As a result, the young ghost woman screamed and disappeared. In order to vent his anger, Li Boldly urinated on the grave and continued to sleep.After that, there are no more haunted legends about this mass grave.Some gods heard about this incident, and they said that Li Daudao was full of yang, "defecating and destroying evil spirits", and in the end "ghosts and gods reversed the changes" and so on.Then there were haunted people in the surrounding villages begging Li Boldly to "defecate", and it was rumored for a while.

This obviously doesn't matter.

The third record is the same, saying that a person recruited a fox, and the fox made trouble at home, killing chickens and ducks, throwing stones to shame people, destroying utensils and so on.It is useless to invite gods and witches to burn incense and worship Buddha.One day, blood was written on the wall, saying that the family's children would be taken away as revenge.As a last resort, the family moved to another place overnight, and the matter subsided.

It doesn't matter.

As a materialist, Lu Ming is more used to interpreting these ancient folk tales from a materialist perspective.

For example, in his opinion, the first story is nothing more than a village woman who fell ill and finally died of illness, which is unremarkable.What the Taoist said about mother-in-law revenge was nothing more than talking about some mysterious things to cover up his incompetence and maintain his mysterious image.After all, if the mother-in-law retaliates to death because of "unfilial piety", then the death of the village woman will have a taste of "heavenly law cycle". , cannot be saved."

The second story is even simpler.In Lu Ming's view, this is the story of a village ruffian and a godly man uniting to harvest the IQ tax of the remaining ignorant villagers.

First, make up a story about how bold and bold Li is, his yang energy is so high that even defecation has the effect of exorcising evil spirits, and then this stuff can be sold at a high price, and in the end the money is shared with the gods, and everyone is happy.

From Lu Ming's point of view, the third story is more like a story about someone taking the family property under the guise of "Naohu".After all, being forced to relocate, the family's house and land must be dealt with.And because it has something to do with Naohu, the price must be cheaper.

Lu Ming has already cultivated the ability to probe into the core of the story through the strange and weird appearance of the story, to explore the truth as much as possible, so as to search for the information he needs.

In this case, the first night passed quietly.

That night, Lu Ming did not find any valuable information.

The next day, Lu Ming went to catch up on sleep. Thousands of kilometers away, Huang Weimin continued to sort out the information at home and sent it to Lu Ming.

At night, Lu Ming continued to search all night.

So, until the fourth night.

During this period of time, Lu Ming has been made dizzy by words such as gods, ghosts, foxes, gods, witches, monks and priests, exorcising evil spirits, and so on. He has thoroughly seen what the spiritual life of the ancient mountain people was like.

I thought the night would be the same.But Huang Weimin compiled another batch of stories, and the first one made Lu Ming subconsciously lift up his spirits.

This is a story about a "foreigner".

This story says that in a certain month of a certain year, when the weather was fine, suddenly there was a thunderbolt from the blue sky, and the sound shook the whole field.The villagers were very frightened, and they invited monks and priests—and monks and priests again—to burn incense and worship Buddha.

The monk and the Taoist priest said that this is because there was a monster in the mountain who was cultivated and formed, and then he was struck to death by lightning, so don't panic.

This matter temporarily subsided.But two days later, a foreigner came to the village.

According to ancient records, this foreigner has a big head and a small body, is very weak, has pale skin, "thick and black hair", and thick and black hair.

This immediately caught Lu Ming's attention.

At this moment, as long as Lu Ming sees words related to the image of the mountain god, such as "big head and small body", "thick hair", Lu Ming's spirit will immediately tense up subconsciously.

The villagers asked him where he came from and where he was going. The man said that he was a foreigner who was doing business in a certain place. Injured, he had no choice but to come to this village and wait for his companions to rescue him, hoping that the villagers could help him.

The kind-hearted villagers helped this strange stranger, tidying up a dilapidated house for him to live in, collecting some food for him, and picking herbs from the mountains to heal his injuries.

According to ancient records, after this foreigner came to the village, he was "reclusive" and didn't like to communicate with others very much.Someone asked him what he was watching, and the person said that he was missing his hometown.

As a result, "the villagers are different, they think it is elegant, and they become more respectful."

Looking at the moon and homesickness seems to be the patent of literati in ancient times.A group of villagers living in poverty, seeing this stranger's elegant hobbies, thought he was a scholar and became more respectful to him.

Later, some people asked him to name the children, and some people asked him to help read documents and letters.As a result, the villagers increasingly believed that he was educated.

The villagers saw that he was not good at farming, so the village elders hired him as a village school teacher to teach children to read, and the villagers gave him food.

So, this slightly weird outsider stayed in this small mountain village like this.

(End of this chapter)