Chapter 346 Reconstruction

Python?

"Rumors say that a group of soldiers came and shot with guns, but the giant python was unharmed. Later, the World Government sent experts - rumors also said that these experts were specially trained by the government and specialized in practicing Yin-Yang, Five Elements and Bagua. They are specially used to deal with ghosts and monsters. Each one has great abilities. The experts sent here subdued this giant python that had become a spirit and was about to turn into a dragon. Later, it was taken away for special study.

Some people say that this giant python was the patron saint of Blue Lake City during its lifetime. With its presence, Blue Lake City was free of goblins and ghosts. Now that it has been surrendered, Blue Lake City will not be able to survive in the future.

There are also rumors that the giant python knew that he could not escape capture, so before he was caught, he threw his essence into Blue Lake City. Whoever gets it can inherit the magic power of the giant python..."

He Wei looked a little weird as she told the story. After she finished speaking, Lu Qingliang touched his head and asked doubtfully: "The experts sent by the World Government mentioned here are not us, right?"

Of course, Lu Ming knew that there were no experts in the world who were specially trained by the so-called world government to practice the Five Elements and Bagua and specialize in suppressing demons and demons. But departments with similar functions do exist. That's the Operations Division of the Planetary Security Agency.

If you really want to calculate it, I am afraid that people like myself are the most consistent with the experts in the rumors.

"Looks like it's us."

He Wei spread her hands: "You can go find out if other teams have really caught giant pythons here."

"The level of this kind of thing cannot reach our operations department."

Zhang Dingshan directly denied this statement: "But this matter can be verified. The roads were built more than ten years ago, right? In the mountains south of Blue Lake City. Check which roads were built in those years and find the construction team , investigate whether there is really a giant python."

"yes."

"The third thing is related to the Zhou family archway on Nanlin Street, and also to Wang Quan himself.

More than ten years ago, when the Zhou Family Archway on Nanlin Street was not demolished, people passing by would often see a fool sitting by the archway, muttering to himself from time to time, as if he was talking to someone. Someone went up and asked the fool, and the fool said that there was a fairy living in the archway, and he was talking to the fairy.

The man asked the fool again what the fairy said. The fool said that the weather is bad this year and the price of coriander will increase.

The man didn't take it seriously and just left.

According to the investigation, this fool is Wang Quan. At that time, there were many people who were making fun of Wang Quan for fun. This Wang Quan might have said something, but no one took him seriously.

But there were some unusual changes in the weather that year, and the coriander harvest around Blue Lake City failed. As a result, the price of coriander increased significantly, by more than six times. It wasn't until coriander from surrounding areas was mobilized on a large scale that the price slowly dropped.

The man recalled the incident and told others, and the incident slowly spread. Another old man from Nanlin Street talked about the Zhou Family Archway and the construction of the Zhou Family Archway hundreds of years ago, and gradually there were rumors that the Zhou Family Archway had supernatural powers.

This also caused the local government to encounter opposition from some local residents when it demolished the Zhoujia Archway. In addition, there is a temporal relationship between the demolition of the Zhou family archway and Wang Quan's acquisition of this ability, and they are not far apart. From this, I think this matter is worth checking. "

Zhoujia Archway is indeed a noteworthy point. It can even be said that it was the beginning of this incident.

It was precisely because of the demolition of the Zhou family archway and Wu Biao's death that Zhou Mingsheng was invited to do Feng Shui.

Zhou Mingsheng left behind the method of placing Bagua mirrors to ward off evil spirits, and this became a custom. This custom was discovered by our own side, and subsequent investigations took place.

Lu Ming thought seriously.

He already had a rough idea of ​​the whole story of the Zhou Family Archway.

It was built hundreds of years ago by the Zhou family to suppress the ghosts of grievances, ward off evil spirits and pray for blessings. This is clearly recorded in folklore and historical materials. There are also rumors among the locals that once the Zhou family archway is demolished, evil spirits will come out to cause trouble.

Soon afterwards, Wang Quan mastered this ability.

Could it be... is there really any connection between these two things?

"We can investigate and verify it."

At this moment, the second operation team is not letting go of any clues. This method of casting a wide net for investigation is extremely resource- and time-consuming, but it is the only option that Operations Team Two can take at this moment.

After these three things are determined, the relevant verification work begins immediately.

Not long after, the verification results of the first and second matters were presented on the conference table, and were seen by the four members of the second operation team.

He Wei, who was responsible for verifying the first thing, said a little boringly: "The goddess is still alive. As soon as the security guard came to the door and asked, she told her everything. Yes, just like you guessed by Lu Ming.

This old woman's ideas are quite advanced and she knew how to create public opinion more than ten years ago. The only pity is that something went wrong and the fox was frightened and ran away. Otherwise, the old woman can be regarded as a character. "

Suspicion in this matter has been eliminated.

Zhang Dingshan, who was responsible for investigating the second incident, said solemnly: "The giant python incident has been investigated. During the construction of the GA1 highway, a giant python was indeed discovered while digging the tunnel. But the python was not that big at all, only five or six. It is about 20 centimeters long and about 20 centimeters thick.

Moreover, this giant python had already been killed when it was discovered. The superiors did send someone, but the person sent was from the Reptile Research Institute. Because of the climate and environment here, this type of python is rare, and it is even rarer to see one that grows to such a big size, so they are willing to come here.

They took the python's body away and made it into a specimen. "

Zhang Dingshan showed a photo. In the photo, there are white python bones.

"According to the investigation, most of the construction team at that time were locals from Blue Lake City. After the completion of the project, the construction team was disbanded. These people returned to Blue Lake and brought back the python incident. The subsequent rumors should have been processed again. And the assumptions of the communicators, it became what it is now.”

Although these two things had long been thought to be unreliable, now that the truth had been found out, Lu Ming still had to lament how outrageous the rumors were.

"How is your investigation going with the Zhou family archway incident?"

The three of them looked at Lu Ming at the same time.

After those two incidents were ruled out, the Zhou Family Archway incident became the only direction of investigation at present.

Lu Ming said seriously: "The first is the coriander incident. It has been found that there was indeed a period more than ten years ago when abnormal rain and snow weather led to poor harvests of coriander in the surrounding areas. There was a shortage of coriander supply in Blue Lake City and a skyrocketing price. Since then, On the one hand, Wang Quan's 'prophecy' did come true.

However, a search of meteorological data showed that the abnormal weather that year had a reasonable scientific explanation. I don’t know the specific reasons, but it’s probably related to the special climate of Blue Lake and the southern mountains.

Also, in this incident, the coriander harvest failure was actually not that serious, and it would not have pushed the price so high in the first place. It was caused by someone using this reason to settle in the village and accumulate wizards. "

He Wei interjected: "At the beginning, those suicide cases were considered normal."

Lu Ming nodded: "There is indeed a possibility that it seems normal but is actually abnormal. However, I also found out that Wang Quan made more than just this prediction in those years.

As the surrounding residents generally enjoyed teasing and teasing Wang Quan, Wang Quan once made a large number of prophecies. After the coriander incident, there were people who specifically tried to tease Wang Quan into making new predictions, but none of these predictions came true.

The coriander incident only came true once. From this, I think, this is just a coincidence. "

If this is the case, it can only be considered a coincidence. All three Zhang Dingshan agreed with this.

Lu Ming changed the subject: "However, there are indeed a lot of rumors about the Zhou Family Archway. Some people claimed that when they passed by the Zhou Family Archway at night, they heard the faint cry of a woman, but when they listened carefully, it was gone. Some people claimed that in Zhou Family Archway, they heard the faint cry. A child in old-fashioned clothes was seen at Zhoujia Archway, and he disappeared in the blink of an eye. There are also people who claim to have seen a woman in old-fashioned clothes at Zhoujia Archway, etc., there are many. But these... should have no investigative value. .”

The original intention of building the Zhou Family Archway was for the Zhou family to suppress the spirits of grievances. And it has a certain history, and can barely be said to be an ancient relic.

Generally speaking, this kind of thing is usually accompanied by rumors. This is not surprising.

If you choose any city and any building of a certain age in this city, there will definitely be a lot of rumors. In fact, there are so many schools in the world, including primary schools, junior high schools, high schools and universities, probably hundreds of thousands or even millions of them.

Which school doesn't have rumors?

"Later, I turned to investigate whether any unusual events occurred during and after the demolition of the archway. The conclusion was that there were none.

The person responsible for the demolition project of the archway was a construction team that undertook the project from the government. I found the person in charge of this team - he told me everything about the gift-giving, and he didn't even realize what strange things happened at that time. I found his testimony credible.

And after the archway was demolished.

After the archway was demolished, no strange things happened except for those people who were cursed to death by Wang Quan. In fact, after the archway was demolished, even the previous rumors gradually disappeared and no one mentioned it again. "

This is in line with the rules of rumor spreading.

With the physical presence of the archway, people will mention and tell those rumors more frequently, and these rumors will spread faster. As they spread faster, the probability of being reprocessed will also increase.

Now that the memorial arch is gone, people will gradually forget about it. The probability of thinking of it and mentioning it in daily life will become lower and lower, and eventually no one will mention it at all.

Judging from Lu Ming's investigation results, it seems that the suspicion of Zhoujia Archway can also be ruled out.

Wang Quan's acquisition of this ability should have nothing to do with it.

After spending a lot of manpower and material resources, the three suspected incidents were finally screened out and all suspects have been eliminated.

Zhang Dingshan frowned slightly.

The investigation direction of this case has once again been lost.

He Wei thought about it seriously and said: "I feel that the suspicion of Zhou Family Archway cannot be ruled out. In any case, it has had a lot of interaction with Wang Quan, and there is too much difference between the demolition of the archway and Wang Quan's acquisition of this ability. The timing of the close proximity. I think it’s necessary to investigate it in more detail.”

Lu Ming said: "How to check?"

"Dig it out again!"

He Wei said fiercely: "Blue Lake City usually disposes construction waste through landfill. The ruins after the demolition of the Zhoujia Archway should also be transported away and landfilled. Just check which garbage dump it is and dig it out." "

Lu Ming thought for a while and agreed to the proposal.

There is really no direction for investigation at this stage, so it would be a good idea to dig deeper along this clue.

It is not difficult to find out where the remains of the Zhou Family Archway are buried. We have a clear time for demolition. We can use this time to check the designated landfill site for construction waste in Blue Lake City, and we can find out immediately.

The next day, the three of them arrived at a wasteland on the outskirts of Blue Lake City.

The wasteland is full of weeds, the courtyard walls have collapsed, and the few houses have long been abandoned and become the residence of wild animals.

Several government workers were flipping through records, measuring and calculating on site. Then I drew a range.

"Based on time, the landfill site of Zhoujia Archway is right here. If you dig no more than twenty meters down, you can definitely find it."

"Then start digging."

Several excavators immediately started working. After digging out the soil, many messy gravels, broken bricks, etc. were exposed.

Several ancient architectural experts specially invited were there to distinguish them carefully.

The excavation of the abandoned landfill lasted two days and two nights. By this time, it had become a big pit. The excavated soil and garbage piled up into a hill next to it.

While inspecting a pile of newly excavated rubbish, an expert on ancient architecture reached out and gestured. Immediately, his colleagues and Zhang Dingshan all walked over.

He held a gray-white irregular stone in his hand and gestured to everyone.

"This should be one of the remains of the Zhou family archway. It is carved from stone. Look at the carving technique, it is obviously hand-carved, and the carving tools are not hard enough and the smelting conditions are not up to standard. Its technical level is not the same as Zhou's. The age when the home archway was built coincides with it.”

"Thank you for your hard work. Please find all the wreckage and restore it to its previous appearance."

"good."

Several ancient architecture experts worked together to find all the stones belonging to the Zhou family archway from the garbage pile. Then try to put them together according to the pattern, shape and other information.

Finally, in the courtyard of the military restricted area where Wang Quan was imprisoned, it was more than 13 meters high and 10 meters wide. It was composed of four pillars in total. The large pillar was more than 1 meter in diameter, and the small pillar was half a meter in diameter. It was deep The Zhou family archway, which had been buried underground for more than ten years, reappeared in front of people at this moment.

Looking at this archway, Lu Ming seemed to have seen the scene when it stood at the intersection of Nanlin Street and Wang Quan lingering around it all day long.