Chapter 157 The Pine God in the Village
Sitting in Jiang Weidong's car, Lin Qianren was playing games while listening to Jiang Weidong's start telling the whole story.
"About a week ago, there was a disappearance of people in Xujia Village. This incident was classified as a special incident after investigation. It was taken over by our four teams yesterday. At the beginning, our people did not find anything, so I thought it was an affair, so I brought people back."
"But just this morning, someone disappeared in the village. Someone informed me, so I called two free team members to check the situation. Who knew that they had no news as soon as they left. Now no one can contact anyone there. But at this time, Jiang Cheng and Lu Mu were both outside and had not come back yet to perform their missions, and the rest may not have enough strength."
"You have the strength and free time in the law enforcement team to help you, so I will trouble you later."
Lin Qianren heard this and said politely: "What's wrong? If we have any situations, do you have to ask Captain Jiang to help you? This is all about each other, you don't have to care too much."
The car moved forward quickly and left the city soon after. At this time, Jiang Weidong turned the car and headed towards the increasingly biased path.
Lin Qianren looked up and glanced out of the car window. The place where the vehicle was driving was actually a road paved with soil and gravel. If it weren't for the sunny day, the car might not have been able to drive.
"Captain Jiang, where is that Xujia Village? Why are you going to enter the mountain?" Lin Qianren said in confusion.
Jiang Weidong replied: "Xujia Village is a village in the mountains. The urban planning has been too fast in recent years. Many of these old villages have been left behind. Since most young people will not come back after entering the city, the mountains are all young and young and women. They have no skills and can only crouch in the mountains to farm and feed livestock and barely live. Although the policies have already found ways to support it, the Xuanguo border is so large and the national power is limited, so they cannot help them all."
While talking, Jiang Weidong couldn't help but sigh.
After the vehicle was moving forward for a while.
There was a lot of fog around their car, which made their visible distance extremely short. It started to blur when they looked two meters away. Jiang Weidong frowned: "There is a bit too much fog in the morning in this mountain. I have to drive slowly. If you pay a little attention, I am afraid that there may be monsters or something."
When Lin Qianren heard this, he moved some of his attention away from the game and began to look at the surrounding situation.
After looking for a while, Lin Qianren said to Jiang Weidong: "Captain Jiang, how far is Xujia Village from us?"
Jiang Weidong said: "It should be coming soon, I remember right in front."
When Lin Qianren heard this, he picked up his mobile phone from his briefcase and took a look. He didn't know if the signal was originally full because of entering the mountain. At this time, there was no signal at all.
Frowning slightly, Lin Qianren took out the shooting ball, but found that the signal on the shooting ball was also zero. Lin Qianren's eyes narrowed. The shooting ball could be directly connected to the satellite, and even in a remote place, there should be a signal.
After discovering this situation, Lin Qianren quickly stopped Jiang Weidong: "Captain Jiang, there is something wrong with the fog, please stop first."
Hearing this, Jiang Weidong stepped on the brakes and then looked at Lin Qianren and said, "Lin Qianren, have you discovered something?"
Lin Qianren asked, "Captain Jiang, see if your phone still has any signal?"
Jiang Weidong took out his cell phone, and the zero-grid signal on it made him pause. Immediately, Jiang Weidong opened the toolbox beside the car and took out the satellite phone inside. There was no signal on the phone. He frowned and made two calls in a row, but found that they could not be reached.
Lin Qianren sighed when he saw this and said, "Captain Jiang, I tried it with a shooting ball. There is no signal. Don't mess around. I'll get out of the car and see the situation."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Weidong put down the satellite phone and opened the car door, "I'll go down too."
Lin Qianren nodded, then got out of the car with his briefcase, and Jiang Weidong also got out of the car with his things and walked to Lin Qianren.
"This fog blocks the signal. I'm afraid this is why Captain Jiang, your man is out of contact." Lin Qianren said at this time, and reached out to explore the fog that was spreading around.
His water control ability did not have any effect, that is to say, these mists are probably not real water mists, and the blowing runes released by his controller bones did not blow the mist, which means that this thing may not even have quality.
Looking back, Lin Qianren looked at Jiang Weidong, "Captain Jiang, do you still know the way?"
Jiang Weidong nodded and said, "Go to know, go, go back to the car and set off."
Lin Qianren stopped Jiang Weidong and said, "If you don't drive, let's go."
"Why?" Jiang Weidong was puzzled.
"Look at the ground." Lin Qianren pointed to the ground in the distance.
Jiang Weidong looked along Lin Qianren's finger and saw the tire marks somewhere. Depending on the situation, it seemed that they were just driving.
"What's going on? It's obvious that I haven't passed there." Jiang Weidong was surprised.
Lin Qianren said: "I'm afraid this fog covers your perception, causing us to have been wandering around here before, but in fact we didn't follow the road at all."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Weidong took out his phone and switched to the function of the compass. As a result, the pointer on it was rotating wildly and could not be aimed at one direction at all.
Seeing this scene, Jiang Weidong said: "The magnetic field may also be affected."
"Try to walk a distance first to see if you can get out of this area." Lin Qianren suggested.
"That's all." Jiang Weidong nodded, then walked in front of Lin Qianren and began to lead the way.
In order to avoid getting separated, the two were only half a step away. At this distance, Lin Qianren could hold Jiang Weidong at any time no matter what happened.
After about five minutes of leaving, a white vehicle appeared in front of Lin Qianren and Jiang Weidong.
It was the car they were riding in.
Jiang Weidong quickly stepped forward and checked, and couldn't help but swear: "Damn! I didn't even look at the road, can I walk back like this?"
Lin Qianren looked at Jiang Weidong and said, "Captain Jiang, let me lead the way. Tell me the general route."
Jiang Weidong was a little puzzled, but he still spoke about the route: "The place we are in now should be in the valley, where there is a road for villagers to go up the mountain and a road leading to Xujia Village."
After listening to Jiang Weidong's story, Lin Qianren nodded to show his understanding. Then he took off his coat, tied one end of his sleeve to his hand, and handed the other end to Jiang Weidong and said, "Captain Jiang, tie it to his hand to prevent us from getting lost. I suspect the fog inside will be thicker."
Jiang Weidong nodded, then quickly wrapped his sleeves in his hand and tied a dead knot.
Seeing this, Lin Qianren directly used the Qi-Sighting Technique to detect the surrounding situation.
A purple mist air appeared in Lin Qianren's eyes. The thick fog around him was instantly seen clearly, and the road under his feet became extremely clear. After Lin Qianren confirmed the route, he withdrew from the state of looking for the air and began to pull Jiang Weidong forward.
His strength is limited, and he cannot use the Qi-seeking technique for too long, so he can only use it intermittently to confirm the direction. This is also the reason why he chose to walk instead of driving. After all, if he makes a mistake, he may drive the car to both sides of the mountain road.
The two of them did not walk very quickly. Lin Qianren would use the Qi-seeking technique to confirm the direction every ten seconds to avoid taking the wrong path.
Under such circumstances, the two of them were really out of the range they had been spinning before.
As we went deeper, the fog around us became thicker and thicker as Lin Qianren expected. Before, he could see two meters away, but now he was more than one meter away, so he could not see anything clearly.
While walking, Lin Qianren kept talking to Jiang Weidong to avoid accidents.
Soon, the two finally arrived at the entrance of Xujia Village.
After entering the village, the fog shrouded around completely disappeared, and the two worlds inside and outside the village were almost the same.
Jiang Weidong untied the sleeves on his hand, looked at Lin Qianren and said curiously: "How did you find a way out?"
Lin Qianren did not answer, but said to Jiang Weidong: "Let's go to the village to see the situation."
Jiang Weidong nodded, walked to a house made of mud and tiles and knocked on the door.
“Is anyone at home?”
Jiang Weidong shouted several times in succession, but no answer.
Lin Qianren saw all this and was not surprised.
When he used the Qi-Looking Technique to look here, he did not see any human Qi here. Obviously, all the people in the village disappeared.
Lin Qianren felt the dizziness coming from his head, gritted his teeth, and used the Qi-seeking technique again.
The Qi-Looking Technique penetrated the fog and reflected the scenery around the village in Lin Qianren's eyes. Countless qi rose up, but just like this, Lin Qianren could not see anything. He thought about it and the Qi-Looking Technique entered a deep Qi-Looking state.
At this time, a different green aura appeared extremely prominent among these auras.
The owner of this qi was a huge pine tree. From the qi on its body, Lin Qianren could feel a powerful vitality emitting, covering the entire village and blocking all the fog here outside the village.
After exiting the state of looking out of the air, Lin Qianren rubbed his head and said to Jiang Weidong who was about to enter the house to check: "Captain Jiang, I found a special place, let's go and take a look together."
Jiang Weidong glanced at Lin Qianren, without asking any more questions, and said directly: "Then let's go."
Lin Qianren endured the drowsiness in his head, walked ahead first, and led the way to the village.
After walking for a while, the two of them came to a higher terrain. Here, there was a huge pine tree that was more than twenty meters high and three people hugged each other. Some red cloth strips were wrapped around the pine tree, and there were traces of incense and candles that had been worshipped on the ground.
"Isn't this the Song God worshipped by their Xujia Village?" Jiang Weidong suddenly said at this time.
"Captain Jiang, do you know this?" Lin Qianren asked.
Jiang Weidong nodded and said, "I know, I have investigated the situation here when I came before. This pine tree is the Feng Shui tree in their village. It has lived for more than 500 years. Before that, it has been worshipped as a god, but it seems that it has not been spiritual, so we didn't care much before."
Lin Qianren looked at the old pine quietly and vaguely felt that a large amount of faith had gathered on it.
After five hundred years of worship, this pine tree seemed to become extraordinary after the revival of spiritual energy. The only problem now is whether it has anything to do with the disappearance of the villagers.
Thinking of this, Lin Qianren slowly stretched out his right hand and touched the pine tree.
Chapter completed!