My very cool daughter-in-law

"Where's her boyfriend?" Sheng Xun asked, and the information book in his hand had turned to the last page of Feng Qiang's self-report.

The girl's personal memories are eloquent and read like a short thriller story, full of details and emotions.

Sheng Xun carefully read the relevant parts of Feng Qiang, and found the information gap——Feng Qiang was taken away, and Lin Lang was separated from Feng Qiang on the first night of staying in the mountain village. never appeared again.

In the end, it was Feng Qiang who was found in the official notification, and Lin Lang who has been reported missing so far.

But he left his girlfriend a coat.

The only clue of Lin Lang's whereabouts that the girl gave to the outside world is that "he is still trapped in a deserted village".

Where did Lin Lang go after that night?

Regardless of whether it is the official report or Feng Qiang's self-report, this young man seems to have gone directly from being separated to being confirmed missing. "Stuck in a deserted village"... None of these questions can be answered, and the relevant information is all blank.

"The news that Lin Lang is still trapped in the deserted village was only given by Feng Qiang." After taking a sip of tea, Chu Shang said, "Later, the search and rescue team and the case investigators went to the mountains to search again. search and rescue dogs, and turned that mountain upside down."

But let alone Lin Lang, even the people who have worked hard for several days did not see where the so-called deserted village is.

The police from the local police station carefully checked the household registration system and determined that there had never been a village on that mountain.

"But what's more bizarre." Chu Shang motioned Sheng Xun to continue to turn the pages of the information book in his hand, "There is indeed an ancient village on another mountain that is separated from that mountain. It's just that the village has been abandoned. For many years, the last resident registered in the local system died 19 years ago, and it was an uninhabited village.”

An uninhabited village can naturally be called a barren village.

Sheng Xun turned back the information booklet, and on the next page was a panoramic view of the deserted village that the staff deliberately took with a drone.

The actual location of this "deserted village" is too far away from what Feng Qiang said, and the mountain roads are winding and winding. A single mountain top means half a day's drive, or nearly a day's journey for an ordinary person.

The police found the car rental records of Feng Qiang and Lin Lang, and also found the hotel check-in records of the two people the night before the incident. In the early morning of the incident, the surveillance video of the lobby of the previous hotel was enough to prove that the young couple really Departed from the hotel and drove to the next destination.

They also found the car that broke down on the mountain road. It had the fingerprints of Feng Qiang and Lin Lang on it. The nearby land was still wet and soft when Feng Qianglinlang went up the mountain, and their footprints were printed at that time.

The sun was shining again in the back, and it was sunny for several days, and a few footprints that were stepped on a little deeper were preserved. The investigators dug down those footprints, which matched the shoes and sizes of the two people.

All kinds of evidence show that Feng Qiang and Lin Lang went to this mountain without a village that day, and they lost contact accidentally on the mountain.

They are an ordinary young couple, they shouldn't have crossed the mountain overnight and ran to another mountain just across the mountain.

The case is so confusing.

Feng Qiang was suspected of lying, but the girl's overall mental condition was extremely bad. The questions raised by Sheng Xun were also raised by the investigators at the time.

However, as long as you ask questions such as "where did the coat come from" and "how did Lin Lang meet you again after that", Feng Qiang will fall into hysteria, her mood is extremely unstable, and she can't give any effective information at all.

A specially dispatched psychiatrist made a psychological assessment for Feng Qiang, who believed that the girl suffered from severe traumatic stress reactions, and suggested primary prevention of mental trauma.

"This is the level of prevention of mental illness." Sheng Xun shook his head lightly when he saw the assessment report, "For patients with mental illness with clear etiology, such as Feng Qiang's mental illness that has been judged to be induced by psychological trauma, it will be classified as As primary prevention is required, mental health work will be arranged for her to alleviate the disease."

Hearing this, Chu Shang glanced at Sheng Xun in surprise: "You know more than I imagined."

Chu Shang's words undoubtedly admitted that he also underestimated Sheng Xun's ability at the beginning.

Chu Shi quietly tugged at his brother beside him.

That "quiet" movement was actually very quiet in Sheng Xun's view. He could easily see the small movements and expressions of the people around him, but he didn't care what Chu Shang thought of him before.

His attention was falling more on the information booklet in his hand.

Continue to turn back, there is still a lot of remaining content in the thick stack of information books, Sheng Xun found out that a certain page at the back seemed to be extra thick, he turned over first, and found that the page was a folded page.

The folding page was folded at least four or five times, and when it was unfolded, it was a wide-open hard paper, on which were hand-cut and pasted many official circulars with different official seals.

Sheng Xun paused: "This is... the sorting out of missing persons cases on the nearby mountain roads over the years?"

"Yes." Chu Shang said.

Although Feng Qiang insisted that she was not lying and that everything in her memories was true, the doctor assessed that her mental state was unstable, and the psychological report made it difficult for her personal statement to be used as valid testimony. part of her imagination.

She was taken home to receive psychological treatment and family care, while Lin Lang's whereabouts are unknown and reported as a routine missing person case.

However, one of the investigators was better at divergent thinking, and had a particularly strong sixth sense.

That person always felt that something was wrong, so he simply integrated the missing persons information in recent years, and screened out key words such as "mountain", "self-guided travel", "completely unknown signs" and so on.

As a result, I was shocked to find that there were many cases of this nature!

Centering on the mountain where Feng Qiang and Lin Lang had an accident, there were a total of nine missing persons cases in that generation. If Lin Lang is included, there should be a total of ten cases.

But the timing of their occurrence is not close, and the locations of the crimes are not uniform. It is necessary to aggregate the missing persons reports that meet several key conditions and list them into a network map, so that the investigators can see——

In the area where Lin Lang disappeared, and in the entire mountain forest area centered on it, in the past 20 years, there has been a case of missing persons almost every two years on average.

And there is no news of the missing persons without exception. So far, neither the body nor any belongings have been left behind.

It was as if there was a big mouth that opened every two years in this mountain forest, and would randomly select an unlucky passer-by, swallow him in one bite, and prevent him from making a sound to the world.

"This place was a barren hill in the early years, and the distance between the top and the back of the hill was long before people lived there, and it took nearly ten years to manage it formally." Chu Shang said, "Most of the people who disappeared in the early years were local residents, but the mountain was steep and steep. They are counted as ordinary situations such as falling down the mountain, or encountering wild animals on the way."

In the past ten years, roads have been built on the mountain, and tourism development has been carried out in the connecting areas. The flow of people on the mountain road has increased, and there is no problem of wild animals.

Most of the missing cases in the past ten years were foreign tourists.

And because most of them are self-guided tours, there are also donkey friends who are trying to climb the mountain on foot, so the disappearance of a few tourists did not immediately make people aware of the connection. Safety promotion, calling on tourists to try not to hike over the mountain.

——Until this time, the random choice of fate fell on Feng Qiang and Lin Lang.

Lin Lang disappeared, but Feng Qiang returned to everyone with a strange experience and a very bad mental state.

The unsolved disappearance case, which lasted up to 20 years, was quietly drawn into a corner. Those who are interested will follow the vines and find out that there is such a relationship hidden in the disappearances of previous years, which is shocking.

"So there is this commission to send to Chu's family." Sheng Xun was thoughtful, and finally turned to the end of the information booklet in his hand.

Chu Shang had changed two or three courses of tea on the opposite side, and ordered two more snacks for his younger brother on the way.

Because Chi Huaiming had no one listening to him and no one was watching him for a long time, no matter how much he put on airs to take on Joe, someone had to watch him, or he would feel stupid even if he deliberately put on a show for the air.

So he finally stopped, at least he didn't interrupt Sheng Xun.

At this moment, seeing that Sheng Xun had finally finished flipping through the information booklet, and Chu Shang hadn't spoken yet, Chi Huaiming snorted inexplicably.

Chu Shang simply ignored it, and only affirmed to Sheng Xun: "Yes, you are right. After finding out that there is a connection between the disappearance cases over the years, they synthesized Feng Qiang's self-report, previous files, and re-worked on that generation. On-the-spot investigation, but the investigation has reached a deadlock, the existing data and technology cannot explain why people disappear so thoroughly, and there is no way to deduce what happened to those people before they disappeared, so the commission was handed over to us."

There is one thing that Sheng Xun didn't realize until now - when the elementary school students gave him the marriage talisman, they seriously emphasized the rule of law society, saying that they must abide by laws and regulations in their industry.

That was not Xiao Chu's nonsense after drinking too much.

They are all true.

Since the development of mystic masters, as a hidden profession with industry norms, they have long since ceased to have an "independent" relationship with the official.

Contemporary mystic masters, those who are more famous are officially recognized by the government, not to mention the masters of mystic arts like the Chu family.

"When something happens that cannot be explained by scientific common sense but will endanger the public, a family like ours will accept the entrustment application submitted by the government and serve as an official external agency to assist in handling 'unconventional cases'." Chu Shang explained to Sheng Xun, and also showed a certificate book that was very similar to a police certificate.

Sheng Xun glanced over the words "Unconventional Office" and "Special Aid" on the certificate book, and took note of the official seal that looked like a variation of Tai Chi gossip.

Chi Huaiming let out another "hehe" from the side, with an extremely mocking tone.

Chu Shang couldn't bear to look at him, and he seamlessly picked up that superior air again, and commented contemptuously: "In collusion with the officials, after the Chu family is separated, it really ruined the family tradition, and the price has dropped terribly. .”

Chu Shang suddenly felt that he was mentally ill for giving this man his eyes.

He quickly withdrew his gaze, and told Sheng Xun in a stiff tone: "—Of course, after all, our business has been developing for a long time, and not everyone in the industry can keep up with the pace of the times. Therefore, we must always tolerate some people who are out of the times, and understand that they may be completely eliminated by the times someday."

Chi Huaiming suddenly changed color: "You!"

Sheng Xun did a good job of neglecting Chi Huaiming, and still ignored the clamor of young master Chi, and only nodded to Chu Shang.

At the same time, he still put a label on the Chi family in his heart:

Oh, illegal feudal backward organization.

No matter how angry Chi Huaiming was, Sheng Xun and Chu Shang and Chu Shi ignored him anyway.

Sheng Xun had already understood the most important details of the commission and the background of the case. Then, Chu Shang mentioned to him why this was a multi-person commission, and expressed his hope that he could participate.

"The 20-year-long disappearance case, including Lin Lang, is a total of ten cases. If the cause of all these is evil spirits, then there should be a self-contained 'resentment pool' formed in that place, and there are more than one resentment ghosts in it. The resentment of the victims will continue to accumulate over the years, and it takes the cooperation of many people to clean up the place thoroughly, send away the wronged souls, and sweep away the filth."

This is what Chu Shang said to Sheng Xun. He has roughly grasped Sheng Xun's attention to the information book through Sheng Xun, and guessed that Sheng Xun probably would not refuse to participate in the commission.

Sheng Xun did not refuse.

In Chu Shang's opinion, Sheng Xun's comprehensive ability is better than he expected. Through this day's observation, he thinks that the other party's mentality and personality have basically passed the test, but how is this young man's specific ability in exorcising ghosts and evil spirits? It's not really as good as what Chu Shi said, all of this is still open to discussion.

It doesn't matter if you can't discuss it temporarily, just go to the entrustment and try it out.

"Is he going too?" This was the last question Sheng Xun asked before the end of the meeting, and it was Chi Huaiming.

Young Master Chi was ignored for a long time, and it was only when the show was over that Sheng Xun finally gave him a serious look.

A strong reluctance appeared on Chu Shang's face for a moment, making him look very unstable.

He nodded to Sheng Xun as if he had a toothache, which was affirmation of Chi Huaiming's participation.

Sheng Xun looked at this Chu Shi's brother, and felt that the other party was completely two words at the moment--disgusting.

Chu Shang's disapproval of Chi Huaiming was so obvious that he didn't even bother to hide it, and Sheng Xun didn't ask why.

I also know that if a Chu family can't welcome a Chi family so much, but they have to hold their noses to form a team, it is probably because the family has an order, and the older generation forcibly assigned the order "must be together" to the younger generation .

"Pond of Resentment?"

Back home, Sheng Xun and Xiao Qiu briefly talked about the details of the meeting and commission. Xiao Qiu was opening the special refreshments he brought back from the teahouse, but stopped when he heard this word.

Xiao Qiu singled out this noun and repeated it again: "The other party said, maybe there has become a 'resentment pond'?"

Sheng Xun took the half-opened packaging bag from Xiao Qiu's hand, opened the half-opened bag, and handed back the dim sum inside to the ghost: "That's what Chu Shang said."

Xiaoqiu still wanted to talk, but snacks are important, so he first took the taro quicksand cake from Sheng Xun's hand and ate it, before saying, "I'll go with you."

Sheng Xun almost refused without thinking.

Many people entrusted the team, and there may be a shortage of everything in the team, that is, there is no shortage of mystic masters who can see and suppress ghosts, and with the participation of the Chi family, it is impossible for Xiao Qiu to accompany him.

"No." Sheng Xun said firmly.

Xiaoqiu frowned, trying to reason with others.

"The Pond of Resentment is a place where grievances and resentments are gathered. It is very dangerous, and it will continuously provide power to nearby ghosts, and get energy from resentment ghosts to replenish, and finally make that area a place of great evil." Xiaoqiu said, "If There really is a pool of resentment there, but it has only been discovered until now, it has been quietly operating there for nearly 20 years, there must be a big ghost sitting in it, even if there are many people going there, it is very dangerous, I am not at ease."

It is rare for a ghost to say so many words in one breath, and his rare long speeches are all directed at Sheng Xun.

Sheng Xun knew that what Xiao Qiu said must be reasonable, and he would never doubt Xiao Qiu's judgment in this regard, but in front of Chi's family and a whole team of mystic masters, he was more worried about Xiao Qiu than himself.

So he said, "No."

"It's too dangerous for you to go together." Sheng Xun returned exactly the same worry to Xiao Qiu, he looked down at the ghost, and said seriously, "I'm not at ease either."

One person and one ghost who were worried about each other fell into a rare see-saw.

They all thought that there might be a certain risk in going there, but that risk was not enough to constitute a major risk affecting safety.

On the contrary, if the other party goes, or if only the other party goes by himself, then even if the risk in front of the other party is only [-]%, in their eyes, it will automatically increase to [-]%.

No one is worried about anyone, and they are desperately worried about each other.

"me and you together."

"No."

"go together."

"No."

"go."

"Do not."

In the next few days, the chatter-like dialogue resounded repeatedly in Sheng Xun's house.

Whether Sheng Xun and Xiao Qiu said they were bored is unknown for the time being, but it seems that they have not.

But for Andy and Little Bear, who were forced to listen in, the ghosts and ghosts were already getting tired of listening before the people and ghosts were bothered.

"Why don't you just listen to him once, and stay at home with us during the long vacation, don't follow along." Andy took the lead, and he stood in Sheng Xun's persuasion team, and in the car Sheng Xun helped Sheng Xun when the words rang out again.

The date of departure is set for a short holiday in the near future. Entrusting multiple people is no better than a single person, and sufficient time is needed to prepare for departure.

Xiaoqiu didn't seem to expect that the baby would stand by Sheng Xun's side, so she was taken aback by Andy's support.

He slowly looked down at the doll.

During Xiaoqiu's pause, Xiaoxiong also expressed his attitude and stood on the other side of Sheng Xun.

"Yes." Little Bear said, "It's really not safe for you to go, so let's listen to Sheng Xun this time."

"..."

Before the dolls joined the persuasion, Xiaoqiu and Sheng Xun were originally in a "1:1" tie. Suddenly, all the dolls stood on Sheng Xun's side, and the vote became an overwhelming "1:3" ".

Xiao Qiu was voted down by the other three votes with a pitiful vote, and was speechless for a long time, and finally changed his mind obediently, telling Sheng Xun that he would not go, and only asked Sheng Xun to pay attention to safety.

In the next few days, Xiao Qiu personally made a list for Sheng Xun, asking him to write down everything he thought he should bring, and asked Sheng Xun to prepare it.

On the eve of departure, Xiaoqiu seemed to be still not at ease with Sheng Xun, always suspecting that humans would take away things, so he dragged Sheng Xun's black sports backpack over again, saying that he was coming to give Sheng Xun the last Check and help him sort things out.

In fact, Sheng Xun had already packed the bag two hours ago, and when Xiao Qiu was packing the bag before him, she had been watching the whole process and helped him check it.

But he didn't stop Xiao Qiu's insistence on checking again.

Knowing that Xiao Qiu must still be unable to suppress his emotions, Sheng Xun generously gave up all the storage of his backpack to Xiao Qiu, and checked his luggage as many times as he wanted before he went out.

As long as Xiaoqiu is willing to stay at home, it will be fine if he is obedient.

As he thought about it, he raised his hand and stroked the hair of the ghost who was looking at the bag.

Before leaving the next day, the ghost stood at the door and waved goodbye to people.

Sheng Xun really felt that Xiao Qiu was a bit obedient, and the other party waved like a child watching his parents go on a business trip.

After saying goodbye to him at the door, Xiao Qiu would run to the window glass of the balcony again. If Sheng Xun went downstairs to the unit and looked up, he would see Xiao Qiu waving at him again on the balcony.

How could there be such a cute ghost in this world?Sheng Xun set off with such thoughts, and met the people brought by Chu Shang and Chi Huaiming, who was still not a good face.

This idea of ​​"Xiaoqiu is so good" probably lasted until I got on the bus to the mountain.

Sheng Xun closed his eyes slightly in his seat, wanting to close his eyes and rest for a while on the road, and think about some problems left in the entrusted materials by the way.

...The result was very sudden, he felt a chilly paw on his lower back.

Sheng Xun: "..."

It was a hand that was so familiar that it was outrageous, and it was surprisingly flexible.

It quietly got out of Sheng Xun's backpack on the empty seat next to it, unzipped the side zipper of the backpack from the inside, and reached out to touch Sheng Xun.

Sheng Xun froze, and that hand quickly retracted into the bag, leaving only a little pale fingertips on the zipper, and continued to poke him with the fingertips as if playing.

This whole hand seemed to be saying: Didn't expect that?

Sheng Xun: "..."

I really didn't expect it.

... Obedient ass!

The author has something to say: Summary of Sheng Xun's life today: Don't let the ghost collect the bag for you easily, otherwise you don't know what the hell he will put in it.