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Because of the thunderstorm, the entire residential building was cut off. Although it was noon, it seemed like it was night.

Some people said they were going to find Ge Qiuping, because he knew the circuit best among these people.

The old miner sat back heavily on the chair, pinching the cigarette butt with rough fingers, looking a little restless.

Fang Li hesitated between going upstairs to have a look and going up to talk to the old miner, Xie Baiyuan pulled him and said he wanted to go upstairs to have a look.

"If you talk to him now, he won't tell you anything. Why don't we go upstairs to find clues?"

After thinking about it, Fang Li felt that what he said made sense, so he nodded in agreement.

He was very concerned about the seeming cry for help just now, although he silently prayed in his heart that it was just his own illusion, but his intuition told him that something must have happened.

I have to say that although Xie Baiyuan was a little cold and merciless, he still did his best to promise good things.

He didn't care about the others, he only called Guo Xiangming and his female companion before going upstairs.

Guo Xiangming pulled his female companion and followed him, he asked, "Where are we going? Are we looking for clues?"

There are thousands of questions in his mind, "Have you discovered anything so far?"

Xie Baiyuan replied concisely with two words: "Go upstairs."

Guo Xiangming: "..." To be clear, you will be exhausted, okay?

Seeing Guo Xiangming's deflated look, Fang Li wanted to laugh.

Guo Xiangming's female companion is Ke Ling, and she looks gentle and quiet by Guo Xiangming's side, making it impossible to imagine that she was originally a slut.

The corridor was very dark, but fortunately Xie Baiyuan carried a small flashlight with him.

They went straight to the door of 207, but found that the door of 207 was ajar.

Xie Baiyuan shone a flashlight on Guo Xiangming's face, the meaning was obvious: you go and open the door.

Guo Xiangming pointed at himself and stared at him: Me?

Xie Baiyuan raised his eyebrows: Who are you?

Guo Xiangming: "..." Where is my knife? ?

He took a deep breath, stepped forward and opened the door cautiously, scolding Xie Baiyuan in his heart as a cruel, black-hearted and unscrupulous profiteer.

The door was pushed open with a creak, and the room was pitch black.Just at this moment, a thunderbolt flashed across the sky.

With the light of thunder and lightning, the four people at the door could clearly see the terrifying scene inside the house.

Ge Qiuping was lying on the ground, and there was a dark mass beside him, which seemed to be facing away from them, and he couldn't tell what it was for a while, but it gave people a very bad feeling.

After the thing noticed the movement at the door, it slowly turned its head, and an extremely pale and terrifying face appeared in front of everyone.

Fang Li felt bad all of a sudden, because the scariest thing was not the face, but the way the ghost looked at them.

Resentful and cold, as if he was about to pounce on him and tear everyone apart in the next second.

However, the ghost did not rush at them, but decisively chose to escape through the window.

"Follow it!" Xie Baiyuan threw the flashlight to Guo Xiangming, and immediately chased him out.

Fang Li ran out after him. The ghost moved very fast, passed through the corridor, and ran down the stairs into a small room on the first floor.

Fang Li chased a man and a ghost into here, Xie Baiyuan stopped in front of him, and the ghost had disappeared.

"There's no need to chase," Xie Baiyuan looked at the dark woods, "It's a female ghost."

Panting for breath, Fang Li turned his head to look around, only then did he realize that this was actually the back kitchen.

There is not much space in the back kitchen. There are three doors, one leading to the corridor and the other leading to the cafeteria. From here, the conversations of the coal miners behind can be heard.

The other one was the back door, through which the ghost should have slipped out and hid in the woods to the east of the residential building.

There are dense clouds and thunder and lightning outside, it is obviously not a wise move for them to chase into the woods now.

Looking at the gray sky, Fang Li said regretfully, "This is the weather."

"The storm is coming!" A hoarse female voice suddenly sounded behind him, startling Fang Li.

It was an old woman with gray hair, dressed as a cook, and her voice was like a rotten organ, hoarse and ugly.

She has been sitting in the corner, but her sense of existence is extremely low.The old woman turned a blind eye to the two young men who broke into the back kitchen. She just looked up at the sky and said in a daze, "The storm is coming, just like that day."

Fang Li remembered the miners' chat in the cafeteria just now. It seems that the old woman is also an NPC who has clues.

He and Xie Baiyuan looked at each other, Xie Baiyuan walked straight up, and asked straight to the point: "Old man, what day is that day?"

The old woman looked at him with cloudy eyes, her lips pursed.

Fang Li got closer to hear what she said: "Five years ago..."

Xie Baiyuan waited quietly for the next sentence, but who knew that the old lady only said these three words, and no matter how patiently the two of them asked, she refused to speak any more.

Unable to get more information, the two had no choice but to return to the second floor.

Guo Xiangming was guarding the door of 207, talking to Ke Ling, when he saw the two people going upstairs, he immediately stepped forward and asked, "How is it?"

Fang Li said, "I lost my track."

Guo Xiangming clicked his tongue, stepped aside, pointed into the room and said, "Ge Qiuping is dead."

Ge Qiuping still maintained the posture of lying on the ground, his eyes were fixed on the front, and his lifeless face was full of horror.

His stomach was not cut open, but his two little fingers also disappeared. It seemed that he was frightened to death.

The field of vision suddenly brightened, Fang Li raised his head and found that the electricity had already been delivered.

The four of them formed a circle and looked at Ge Qiuping's body. Guo Xiangming commented: "I'd be scared to death if I saw a ghost. This man is too timid."

Fang Li glanced at him disapprovingly. He could understand Ge Qiuping. If it was him, he would be scared to death when he met a ghost all by himself.

Xie Baiyuan said softly, "Maybe he saw something scarier than a ghost..."

Fang Li was taken aback: "Worse than ghosts?" Is there anything more terrifying than ghosts?

Xie Baiyuan's eyes fell on Ge Qiuping's missing little finger, and he said meaningfully: "Don't do anything wrong, and don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door."

Full of doubts, Fang Li and Xie Baiyuan went to another residential building in the south with an umbrella in the afternoon.

The decoration of this building is much better than theirs, at least it looks new.

They have asked other miners about it. In order to respond to the country's call to improve the knowledge level of coal miners, this building has specially set up a room as a reading room.

There should be something like newspapers in the reading room. If you can flip through the old newspapers, you can at least understand what happened five years ago.

The uncle guarding the reading room left his post at some point, and the small desk was empty, except for an empty enamel cup and a notebook with a pen in it.

Fang Li thought that Xie Baiyuan was going to open the door violently again, and was about to persuade him to be quiet, when he saw Xie Baiyuan pry open the window familiarly and went in.

Fang Li: "..." You are too skilled.

Xie Baiyuan was still standing in front of the window and opened his arms to him: "Come in, I'll follow you."

"Get up." Fang Li rolled up his sleeves, kicked off the wall and climbed up to the window, and was about to jump down when Xie Baiyuan held his buttocks with one hand and his waist with the other.

"..."

Fang Li properly expressed his dissatisfaction with his posture like holding a child, but as expected, Xie Baiyuan ignored him with a smile.

Fang Li sighed helplessly in his heart, Xie Baiyuan was always childish in front of him.

In order not to attract attention, the two did not turn on the light, but searched among the bookshelves with the help of the light of the flashlight.

Soon, they found a bookshelf for newspapers.There are a total of two newspapers stored here, one is the People's Daily, and the other is the local tabloid in Qiujing.

It's a pity that there are only newspapers from the past six months here, and there are no more newspapers in the past. Maybe you have to look for them in the warehouse.

"Who?" Fang Li stood up vigilantly, and shone the flashlight out of the window, "Who's there?"

There was no one outside the window.

Xie Baiyuan asked: "What's wrong?"

Fang Li shook his head: "It's nothing, I just saw a man standing outside the window."

Xie Baiyuan: "A man?"

"Well," Fang Li said, "I feel quite tall, but maybe my eyes are dazzled."

Having said that, he still kept an eye on it, and when the two of them turned out the window again, Fang Li looked around to make sure that there was no trace of the third person before reluctantly letting go.

... This may be the reason why people who do bad things are suspicious.

Although the newspaper from five years ago was not found, Xie Baiyuan took the notebook of the keeper of the reading room without any psychological burden before leaving.

Fang Li was almost numb watching the movement of him tucking the notebook into his belt.

I don't know if it was his illusion, but when he was having dinner, he always felt that the old miner looked at him a little strangely, and the staring eyes made him a little bit unable to swallow.

He told this idea to Xie Baiyuan who was sitting across from him. Xie Baiyuan didn't speak, but turned to look at the old miner.

The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and the old miner silently looked away.

Xie Baiyuan looked back: "Okay, let's eat."

Fang Li was a little startled, secretly thinking what kind of way this is.

Guo Xiangming, who was sitting next to them, concluded: "Treat him in the same way as others. He just stares at you and you stare back. His small eyes can stare at you more than you can?"

Xie Baiyuan gave him a very rare look of approval, and Ke Ling was obviously used to the thick-skinned attributes of his partner.

Fang Li: "...then you are all awesome." I always feel that following these people, I have learned a lot of incredible skills.

In the evening, Fang Li couldn't wait to go back to the room, and began to read the notebook he brought back with Xie Baiyuan.

Unexpectedly, the notebook that Xie Baiyuan brought back unexpectedly contained a lot of harvest.

This notebook is more like a handbook, with a lot of newspaper cutouts pasted inside, and the dates are very old, and even old news from ten years ago appeared.

Fang Li turned over a certain page and saw a string of dates on that page: September 2009, 9.

He paused for a moment, and immediately went to flip through the calendar on the wall, showing that the copy they are currently in is 2014.

The time is right.

Fang Li and Xie Baiyuan looked at each other, their Adam's apple twitched, and then looked down.

2009年9月12日凌晨0时17分，秋景一私营煤矿发生透水事故，初步核实15名矿工被困井下。目前救援人员正在排水救援被困矿工。

The following is a more detailed report on the incident and a real-time update of the rescue progress.

Turning to the next page, two newspaper cutouts appeared.

第一张是人民日报：2009年9月16日上午9时23分，经过救援队四天四夜的抢救，秋景煤矿被困于井下的15名矿工已经全部升井。

The second clip was from the local tabloid on the day of Qiujing, but the records on the incident were quite different from the People's Daily.

——2009年9月16日下午7时17分，经过救援队没日没夜的抢救，秋景煤矿的被困人员已有11名成功升井……

Xie Baiyuan's voice was cool, and he read the following half of the report according to the content of the newspaper: "But there are still four miners trapped underground. It has been four days and four nights since the accident happened. The four miners who were trapped underground There is little hope of the miners surviving."