Covered with water

"However..." Ouyang Ling did not know when he also learned this kind of cold joke, "I don't know what case you are investigating. If Feng Xianchun is a key person, I suggest you send someone to Come to the school to check. I will send you the recording of the conversation with Mr. Wu and the documents I got in a while. Say hello to Captain Xiao for me. If there is nothing else, I will hang up first. "

Ouyang Ling's words and deeds were as crisp and neat as before, and when he could sum it up in one sentence, there would not be one more punctuation mark.Qin Zhi smiled and said: "Okay, thank you this time, we will contact you again if there is something to do." Then he hung up the phone.

There is only such a big space in the car, and the only "driver" is very quiet. Xiao Yunhe's hearing is good, and he has listened to the conversation between the two, and he said that Ouyang Ling did not disappoint them. This potential is more than enough to be a scout.At the same time, he took out Qin Zhi's usual tablet from his schoolbag, and after waiting for about 5 minutes, there was a "ding dong" sound of new mail arriving.

Qin Zhi clicked on the attachment, and found that it contained a text file in PDF format and a recording of a conversation about five to ten minutes long.There is no lengthy explanation in the text, it seems that the cause and effect should be all in the audio.At this time, the journey was halfway through, and the husband and wife were not in a hurry to listen. Instead, they opened the document and browsed through it first.From the point of view of style and content, what Ouyang Ling sent to them should be the first draft of a thesis. The introduction lists some data on the loss of modern cultural relics, which is almost a part of the topic Qiao Yuan investigated.Xiao Yunhe took a general look. This article was undoubtedly written by Tsubaki. Leaving aside the stereotypes of the research background and research significance, Tsubaki Kojiro used the method of war loss as a starting point, and described a very unique in the article. sexual case.

The location of this case was simplified as X Village in Anyang County, Henan Province. The time was around [-]. A Japanese supply team occupied X Village and sealed off the whole village.At that time, the surrounding battles were tense, and the higher-level headquarters attached great importance to this, so they urgently contacted an infantry company that was about to enter Anyang County, and asked them to destroy the supply point as soon as possible, give the Japanese army a tactic, and then cooperate with the frontline troops to win the battle. Wipe out the entire Japanese army in one go.

The company commander who received the order felt that the matter was of great importance, and immediately notified the local militia captain after completing the concealment.The two discussed and observed for a few days, found out the Japanese army's shift change rules, and finally worked out a fairly thorough raid plan.But in the early morning of the day before they planned to carry out the operation, the team members in charge of the observation came back to report that there seemed to be some commotion in the X village when it was almost dawn. Burn it.

The company commander was afraid that the villagers would resist spontaneously, and the Japanese army began to kill the villagers in a rage to vent their anger. He immediately decided to advance the operation to this afternoon.But just as they were urgently adjusting the arrangement, the investigators came to report again, saying that the supply team seemed to be planning to evacuate the village immediately, and they were already packing up their things.

The company commander had question marks in his head at this time, because the terrain of X village was good, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it was a very suitable location as a supply point, and the unreasonable withdrawal of the Japanese army was undoubtedly a very abnormal signal.The captain of the militia was worried that there was a fraud, so he dragged the company commander to wait for a while. After about an hour, he saw a Japanese army team of less than ten people rushing away with a cart, and the sentry post at the entrance of the village disappeared.

On the one hand, the company commander sent someone to intercept the Japanese team, on the other hand, he continued to squat at the observation point.But until it was three o'clock in the sun and it was time for lunch, there was no cooking smoke coming out of the village. The company commander vaguely felt that something was wrong, so he made a decisive decision and led his team into the village, only to see broken corpses all over the ground and a The sudden extra pit.

But the strangest thing is that among the dead and injured are not only the villagers of X village, but also the Japanese army responsible for guarding the supplies.Their expressions were inexplicably horrified, as if they had seen something very frightening.Not long after, the platoon leader in charge of the pursuit also came back to report, saying that after the team circled into a mountain col, they all disappeared inexplicably.

The company commander didn't say much, and only arranged for his subordinates to give first aid to the wounded.The caliber of those rescued villagers was also unprecedentedly consistent, saying that they did not remember what happened at that time.In the end, this incident was characterized as a mutual injury after the villagers rose up to resist, and Village X became a dead village.

Of course, the above is just a more general official version.During the field investigation, there were two other theories passed on by word of mouth among the villagers, one was the "plague theory" and the other was the "evil spirit theory".

The "plague theory", as the name suggests, means that it was not the supply troops of the Japanese army that occupied X village, but the bacterial troops disguised as supply troops.They used the villagers of Village X to conduct human experiments, but in the end it caused uncontrollable consequences. Everyone died of bacteria within a few days.This statement seems to be more scientific than "both sides will suffer", because at that time, most of the people left in the village were old and weak women and children. No matter how powerful they were in combat, it would be difficult for them to defeat a hundred or so devils with bare hands. This is also a good explanation Why did the Japanese army burn the corpses, and why there was an extra deep pit.But there are doubts. For example, there was no record of plague epidemic in Anyang County during that time. With the sanitary conditions and medical level at that time, if the bacteria were really violent enough to wipe out a village in a few days, it would be impossible. It is simply unrealistic to have nothing documented without triggering other, more serious consequences.

And the other is the "evil spirit theory".According to the great-granddaughter of Laowangtou's second aunt's cousin's cousin in the village next door to X Village, she once heard the old man in the family mention that in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, in order to avoid the search and capture of Japanese soldiers, every household began to build During the process of hiding in the cellar, the villagers of X Village dug out a rusty ancient tripod from the ground. Because a goddess appeared when it was unearthed, it was enshrined as a divine artifact.However, this magical artifact did not seem to be able to bless the villagers of X Village. Soon, the family who discovered Gu Ding first encountered misfortune. Stupid, he stumbled and drowned by the well not long after.

The male host was naturally very sad, and worried whether his act of digging the cauldron offended the gods in the sky, and soon passed away unexpectedly because of a trance.Afterwards, there were some abnormal deaths in the village that are no longer testable. In short, it was spread from one story to another, and people from all over the world knew that Village X had become a cursed village.So the villagers made a collective decision and invited a Feng Shui master who was said to be very good from the county.

Mr. Feng Shui made a lot of noise, and finally determined that this "artifact" was an evil thing, and asked the villagers to bury it back in the ground as soon as possible.The villagers worked together to dig a big pit, and filled the bottom of the pit with the spells left by Mr. Feng Shui, but before the spells appeared, the Japanese came.The adult males in the village were afraid of being captured by the Japanese, so they either went out to serve as soldiers or fled everywhere. It didn't take long for the X village to be wiped out.It is said that after the company commander left, someone with good intentions went to X Village to see it. Except for the strange deep pit and the mess all over the ground, the legendary ancient cauldron had long since disappeared. This is how the "evil spirit theory" was born, and people speculated whether the female ghost imprisoned in the ancient tripod broke the seal and sucked everyone in the village into human beings.

The story almost ends here, followed by Tsubaki Kojiro's own analysis.He claimed that the legendary ancient tripod was real. According to the determination of the place where it was unearthed and the description of its shape and characteristics, Chun believed that this ancient tripod was likely to be a ritual vessel buried in the tomb of a Shang king, and eventually disappeared. It was because he was taken away from Henan by the advance Japanese army team—he seemed to want to use this inference to go back to the proposition of "war loss", but the article stopped abruptly at this point and could not continue.

Qin Zhi said: "If his paper is not banned, he will be a ghost."

Xiao Yunhe nodded: "Well, top-heavy, I don't know what to say." The policemen and academics actually have a lot in common, so you can't talk nonsense if there is no basis. The "Evil Spirit Theory" was born out of the X Village incident that year, whether it is true or not has yet to be verified, and it is reasonable for Tsubaki to use it as an argument so convincingly.

But aside from academic rigor, this case is really interesting, because judging from the clues they have now, this most absurd "evil spirit theory" is actually the closest to the truth back then.Henan, Anyang, and Yinxu ruins correspond exactly to the carbon 14 dating of Yunlei Wending.If Village X is really the origin of the cursed cauldron, many seemingly unrelated personnel and events can also be connected one by one through bold assumptions.

For example, Zheng Guo's parents are villagers of X Village, and Horikawa Kenji, who was an orderly soldier, just survived the total annihilation incident.

It's a pity that Xianzhi's file has not been lifted, and they can't get more information about this X village.But compared to looking for a needle in a haystack in the whole of China, being able to lock the scope in Anyang is already very gratifying.

Qin Zhidao: "I'm more curious about the origin of this celestial maiden." Now that the bronze tripod is known as the medium connecting the world and the underworld, could the "celestial maiden" that appeared back then be the origin of the curse?

"Anyway." Xiao Yunhe said, "We really want to thank Ouyang Ling this time."

Qin Zhi made a "hmm" sound, and at this time the car had already driven to the vicinity of Kanno's house.Since Tang Mingqing had no additional liaison tasks, he also left after sending off the people.Xiao Yunhe held the knife in his left hand and satchel on his right shoulder, and went back to the guest room to listen to the recording between Ouyang Ling and Mr. Wu.Qin Zhi then turned into the kitchen and carefully inspected the ingredients in the refrigerator.

Because of Yuko's illness, Yoshiki really couldn't go back home for a while, so when they visited the doctor in the morning, they had already agreed that during the period when the husband and wife lived temporarily, they were welcome to do whatever they wanted in terms of basic necessities of life.And Qin Zhi didn't want to eat the box lunch Tang Mingqing bought for them anymore, so he planned to cook with great interest tonight.

The ingredients in the refrigerator have been stored for two days, but they are actually a bit stale.Qin Zhi picked out two boxes of Yusheng that were about to expire, and pulled out a bag of pasta from the shelf next to it, preparing to make an improved version of seafood stewed noodles.