Chapter 347 Key Figures

At this moment, the structure of this restored archway is not entirely composed of the original materials.

During the demolition and landfilling more than ten years ago, a considerable amount of materials have been lost, and it is impossible to retrieve them again. It's pretty good to find some big chunks of structure.

Ancient architecture experts filled in the missing part with a black-red material. So, at this moment, the archway in front of us was filled with black and red colors.

After the repair of the archway is completed, various inspections of it begin immediately.

The first is the material science aspect.

Lu Qingliang called in several well-known material testing teams to conduct detailed measurements on the rock structure, radiation residue, trace element content, weathering and oxidation degree, etc.

On the other hand, around the archway, several other teams mobilized by Lu Qingliang began to conduct environmental measurements to detect the impact of the emergence of this archway on the current environment.

For example, after the emergence of this archway, there will be disturbances in the air flow, whether there are unexplained air flow phenomena, whether there will be any effects on the propagation of sound, temperature, light, etc.

In order to make a comparison, in another part of the military base, the second operation team also found someone to recreate the archway one-to-one.

A full five or six days have passed since the inspections, experiments, and investigations were completed. The final test report was finally placed in front of the three members of the second operation team.

"Nothing out of the ordinary. Nothing out of the ordinary anywhere."

Lu Ming flipped through the test reports in front of him - there was a thick stack of fifty or sixty reports, and the categories covered any test direction he could think of.

But all tests ultimately showed the same result.

All normal.

"Okay. There is a suspicion of something unusual in the Zhou Family Archway. It seems that it can be ruled out."

He Wei was a little listless.

Originally she had high hopes for this clue. But now it seems that this is also a dead end.

Wang Quan's ability to obtain the "information" caused by the curse to cause people or objects to disappear seems to have nothing to do with the Zhou Family Archway.

Up to this point, all clues have been eliminated.

Lu Ming thought for a while and then came up with another idea.

"Maybe we can check it out from the consequences of this archway."

"as a result of?"

He Wei was a little confused: "Lu Ming, do you still think there is something abnormal about this archway?"

Lu Ming sighed: "There is really no other way to investigate. I can only try to dig more from here."

"What consequences do you want to investigate?"

"The purpose of the Zhou family building this archway was because too many accidents happened to their family and the family was on the decline. The purpose of building this archway was to pray for blessings and change the family's fortune. So, how has the Zhou family's family fortune changed? Is it done?"

Zhang Dingshan was thoughtful.

Lu Ming's words hinted at a possibility. This possibility is that there is actually some kind of abnormality in this archway, but we can't detect it with our current detection methods?

However, it doesn’t matter if it can’t be detected. As long as we can find evidence to prove that it really worked - for example, it really changed the fortunes of the Zhou family that had begun to decline, it can also be proven that there is something abnormal about it.

Just like a glass of water, no toxicity can be found no matter where it is tested, but if a person drinks this glass of water and is poisoned to death, it can only prove that this glass of water still has undetected toxicity.

The plan proposed by Lu Ming can be considered a feasible path.

only……

Zhang Dingshan said in a deep voice: "It is rumored that after the Zhou family built this archway, there were indeed no more serious accidents within the family. But, does this prove that the archway is effective?"

I'm afraid this can't be done.

"I feel like we should collect the information first and take a look. Maybe we can find something out of it."

Lu Ming's proposal was finally recognized by Zhang Dingshan. As a result, information about the Zhou family from hundreds of years ago was once again quickly collected.

The first people that Action Team 2 came into contact with were naturally the descendants of the Zhou family.

After hundreds of years of reproduction, the Zhou family has become a veritable big family. In today's era, there are hundreds of adults and hundreds of minors who are directly related to the Zhou family.

They are scattered all over the world, and many of them have long since lost contact with each other, and are not even aware of each other's existence.

In modern society, this is a normal thing.

Any modern person has countless relatives who have left the fifth server, and there are even fewer who keep in touch. What's more, even if they haven't released the fifth server, they already don't know each other.

But none of this can escape the investigation of Action Team Two. After finding out where these descendants are, the local security bureau will come to collect documents such as family trees and family letters, and ask the elderly members of the family about their childhood memories and the relevant information they heard from their elders. A few words from the family.

Near Nanlin Street, where the Zhou family is located, visits to the old residents also began again to collect as much information as possible about the original Zhou family.

Lu Ming once again began to search for historical materials, searching for information from ancient books such as local chronicles and family records, and corroborating it with the information collected from the previous two operations.

Ultimately, millions of words were searched for text messages alone. These written materials were handed over to the data analysts of the Operations Division of the Planetary Security Bureau, and they were asked to sort and summarize them. When the final results were presented to the four members of the second operation team, they immediately noticed the anomaly.

If you just rely on the sentence "Before the archway was built, accidents occurred frequently in the Zhou family, but after the archway was built, no more accidents happened", it would be a bit arbitrary and far-fetched to conclude that there is an abnormality in the archway and that the archway had some special effect.

But at this moment, combined with detailed and highly credible information, the four people had to have doubts in their hearts.

In fact, the difference between before the archway was built and after the archway was built is too clear. Even an ordinary person can easily detect the difference between these two time periods.

According to statistics, before the archway was built, there were an average of 6 to 8 major accidents that occurred in the Zhou family every year. This situation started when the second son of the Zhou family forced the peasant girl to death and dumped her body in a big pit, and ended when the memorial arch was built. It lasted for four years.

The first thing was of course the death of the Zhou family's second son. Since his death, the harvest has been poor, his youngest daughter has eloped with a servant, his eldest son's official career has not gone smoothly, his grandson's leg has been broken, Zhuangzi has been robbed by lake bandits, his timber business has been misappropriated by county officials, and so on, so bad luck. One thing after another.

The huge Zhou family lost half of its wealth due to this series of bad luck.

When the archway was completed, the effect was almost immediate, and there were no new bad things happening immediately afterwards.

Of course, there are also ordinary unlucky things, but after analysis, these unlucky events are just the subsequent effects of previous unlucky events and are an extension of the previous events. There were no new bad things happening.

Looking at these data, all four of them fell silent.

At this moment, there is no point in denying this matter. Because the reality is already here.

"Is this memorial arch... really useful?"

Lu Ming touched his head: "If this memorial arch is really useful, then the previously rumored revenge of wronged souls may also have a certain degree of authenticity..."

Everyone noticed that things were going smoothly for the Zhou family before the second son of the Zhou family forced the peasant girl to death and dumped her body in a pit.

Could it be that the female ghost took revenge on the Zhou family and caused the Zhou family's misfortune? The master built an archway to suppress it, and the Zhou family's luck immediately returned to normal?

Isn't it too evil?

Lu Ming instinctively didn't want to believe it. But at this moment, besides this explanation, what other explanation can there be?

In particular, Wang Quan is also vaguely involved with this archway. What is the relationship between Wang Quan's curse ability and this archway?

Curse, curse...curse?

Lu Ming suddenly felt excited and suddenly remembered something.

He did not speak, but directly pulled over the computer and began to search carefully in the case information database. Zhang Dingshan and He Wei looked at each other, and their expressions became solemn at the same time.

Lu Ming seemed to have some new discovery or idea. He seemed to be looking for support for his thoughts.

Lu Ming searched and looked at the database for a long time. During this process, Zhang Dingshan and He Wei even went out to get some fresh air and have a meal because they had waited too long. When it was almost dark, they returned to the conference room and waited for a while before seeing Lu Ming let out a long breath.

Lu Ming's search is over.

"I was almost frightened by these weird claims."

Lu Ming murmured, raised his head, glanced past the window, and was shocked to find that the sky had darkened.

"Is it getting dark?"

He Wei stretched out: "What do you think? It's been five or six hours... Tell me what you found."

Lu Ming smiled sheepishly: "I did make some discoveries, but I don't know if they are useful. Well, I discovered that the root cause of all the bad luck the Zhou family encountered in those years was because someone died. "

"Someone...died?"

"right."

Lu Ming's expression became more serious: "Just like the lake bandits plundering Zhoujiazhuangzi. This incident is indeed an unlucky thing, causing heavy losses to the Zhou family. It is evidence of the Zhou family's repeated bad luck. But why in the past years? , the lake bandits won’t come to plunder?”

He Wei's expression condensed, and she vaguely noticed something unusual about this matter.

"I searched for some information and found out that the Zhou family once took in a foreigner. The foreigner was strong and strong, but he was very weak because he had been hungry for too long. Later, this person stayed with the Zhou family and recovered well. After that, he helped the Zhou family form a village protection team and trained it single-handedly.

Under the leadership of this foreigner, this village protection team has a very strong combat effectiveness. Whether it was fighting against the lake bandits or urging rent and food, they all played a great role and were the guarantee of the Zhou family's use of force to oppress the countryside.

However, this stranger, according to records, died after being 'drunk and fell into the water'. It was his death that caused the village protection team's combat effectiveness to drop significantly, and that led to the incident of lake bandits plundering Zhoujiazhuangzi. "

Zhang Dingshan thought thoughtfully: "The death of this foreigner is the root cause of the lake bandits' robbery incident."

"That's right. There is another thing. The eldest son of the Zhou family worked as an official in another place, but later his official career began to go wrong and he was almost dismissed from office. I searched for information for a long time before I found out the real reason why he was almost dismissed from office.

The root cause is that the brothers of the chief official of his state capital had close contacts with the eldest son of the Zhou family when they came to do business in the area under the jurisdiction of the eldest son of the Zhou family. But one night after the banquet, the clan brother of the chief official of the state was pushed down from upstairs and fell to his death.

The superior's brother was in your jurisdiction and he was pushed downstairs and fell to his death after drinking with you. Can you get away with it?

Because of this, the eldest son of the Zhou family was almost dismissed from office. Although he kept his position through activities, his official career has not been smooth since then.

The root cause of this misfortune is also the death of a person.

There was another piece of bad luck. The youngest daughter of the Zhou family eloped with a servant.

Records show that the Zhou family’s internal management was quite strict. The aunt's sister of the housewife of the Zhou family is the housekeeper of the Zhou family's inner house. This woman is still very capable and manages everything very well. The servants are trembling and do not dare to go beyond the rules.

The treatment of servants in the Zhou family's house is pretty good, at least much better than being a tenant. Therefore, local villagers are willing to join the Zhou family as servants. But because my aunt's sister is the housekeeper, some people with bad styles cannot enter the Zhou family at all.

But one day, this aunt's sister died inexplicably. The cause of death was not specified, but he was dead. After her death, she got a new housekeeper. This housekeeper was corrupt and bribery, and he hired everyone into the family. However, he was able to make the old man and the old lady of the Zhou family happy.

The servant who eloped with the youngest daughter of the Zhou family was a second-rate man before he joined the Zhou family. He was only recruited after giving money to the housekeeper. The youngest daughter of the Zhou family is considered a lady and never steps out of the door. How can she withstand the temptation of such a second-rate man, so it is not strange to run away with him.

The source of this misfortune is also the death of a person.

There are more than 20 bad luck incidents in total. I checked and found that 16 of them can be clearly attributed to the death of a key person. Although there is no clear evidence that the remaining incidents occurred because someone died, there is also no evidence to disprove them.

From this, I feel that we have reason to make this judgment: the Zhou family's misfortune was caused by the death of some people in key positions.

And, another judgment can be made: the disappearance of the Zhou family's misfortune is due to the fact that those in key positions no longer die.

So, is this Zhou Family Archway... really useful? Is it really the completion of it that caused deaths to no longer occur and the Zhou family's misfortune to disappear?

Or... were the deaths of those key figures to the Zhou family abnormal to begin with? "

He Wei was shocked, suddenly remembered something, and lost her voice: "That master!"