Zhang Wei glanced at Wang Siyan and said to himself that this girl is really cunning and can use her tricks to sow discord. If he doesn't let her grill Zhou Ming now, then maybe he won't be able to grill Zhou Ming next time.

Gotta enjoy it.

"Forget it, but please give me priority and don't forget your responsibilities!" Zhang Wei emphasized.

"Okay, okay, boss, please use it. I'll give you a meal and a drink today, so you can come home happily! But please don't forget to talk about business while you're eating. The new task has been determined, right?" Wang Siyan suddenly changed the subject.

Get serious.

"Currently, I have chosen two tasks. It is up to you to choose these two places.

The first is Sanyang Village, and the second is Longya County. There are specific rumors in the former. The content of the rumors is similar to the rumors in Qipan Village. They are slanderous remarks against the government. Coupled with the geographical environment there, they themselves have no confidence in the government.

It's very unfriendly.

To get there, you have to pass through a Gobi Desert and stone hills. The stone hills are haunted by sand ghosts, and there are some weird rumors. Of course, those rumors have turned into reality. The route through the stone hills is very dangerous.

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As for Longya County, although there has been a rise in anti-government rhetoric recently, the rumors are not directly related to the weirdness to be dealt with, so they are not necessarily related to what you want to investigate.

Of course, Longya County is a bit more dangerous than Sanyang Village, but the route there is very safe.

I think the comprehensive risk index of these two places is about the same, it’s up to you to decide which place you want to go to.”

Zhang Wei said as he pushed the two printed papers in front of Zhou Ming and Wang Siyan.

Zhou Ming picked up the information and read it carefully. After a few minutes, he made a decision.

"Let's go to Sanyang Village. Although the route in Sanyang Village is dangerous, the chance of obtaining new clues is higher. Its rumors are also a bit similar to those in Qipan Village. Even the background is that the country is conducting experiments and treating ordinary people as guinea pigs."

The rumors about Buqipan Village and Sanyang Village were spread by the same person."

"But that stone hill is difficult to walk on. There are always a lot of dead people. I heard that only one of the three convoys came back." Wang Siyan said.

Zhang Weiduo glanced at Wang Siyan and said with a smile: "How do you know? You are very familiar with Shiqiu."

"I heard about it when I was working." Wang Siyan looked carelessly and changed the subject, looking at Zhou Ming, "But you can go, but you have to find an experienced guide and take a convoy."

"I can help you with this. I know a reliable person who can help you arrange it." Zhang Wei said.

Wang Siyan nodded: "That'll be fine."

"By the way, there is something else I want to tell you." Zhang Wei looked at Zhou Ming, "Qipan Village is gone."

Zhou Ming suddenly raised his head and looked at Zhang Wei, his stiff face full of shock.

"What do you mean?" Zhou Ming asked.

"It's Chengkong Village. The whole village is gone, only the place to live is left."

"Why not?"

"I don't know, it disappeared all of a sudden. It's normal for villages and towns outside the wall to disappear anytime, but not just it, many other villages and towns had anti-government rumors before they disappeared. There were quite a lot of them."

Zhou Ming frowned, thinking that he was still a step too late.

He originally wanted to go back to Qipan Village to confirm whether the monk they mentioned was wearing a mask. If he was wearing a mask, he could basically be sure that it was the same person who gave Song Zongming the kitchen knife in Semima Town.

Unexpectedly, Qipan Village disappeared, and now we will never get a definite answer.

"There may be a connection between them," Zhou Ming said.

"There may be a connection, but there is no way to know the cause. Something of this level cannot be determined at all, and it has no influence at all. The relevant departments cannot handle weird incidents, and will not care about such matters whose characterization is unclear.

Moreover, the sudden disappearance of a village does not mean that there must be something strange behind it. There are many more serious incidents, and this kind of thing can also be characterized as a coincidence."

Zhou Ming nodded, mentally accepting this explanation.

This era is so cruel. There are almost two worlds outside the wall and inside the wall. The inside is a civilized society with dedicated people to maintain public order, while the outside is a chaotic world where human lives are like grass and everyone is fighting against each other to survive.

In such an environment, the disappearance of one or two villages and towns is indeed not worth mentioning.

"In addition, the kitchen knife you confiscated is indeed a rumored forbidden object. Rumors about this kitchen knife once appeared in a town. Some people were missing in that town, but after the hermit arrived, the abnormal phenomenon disappeared.

Well, the hermit who performed the mission confiscated all the kitchen utensils in the town, but found no unusual objects, so the investigation at that time ended without any success."

"The forbidden objects from that incident were not discovered by the Hermit, but instead appeared in my mission?

And Song Zongming said that the kitchen knife was given to him by a person dressed as a monk, which means... the banned object that the relevant departments failed to find at that time later fell into the hands of the monk?"

Zhou Ming organized his thoughts and found that there were more problems.

Why did the monk give the kitchen knife to Song Zongming, and how did he get the kitchen knife before the relevant departments?

Is it just a coincidence?

Zhang Wei glanced at Zhou Ming and said: "Don't think about it. You can't come up with the answer when there are not enough clues. The rumors in Sanyang Village this time are somewhat similar to the ones in Qipan Village. There may be a connection, so focus on

Let’s get on with this mission.”

"Eat quickly, there's a mountain of meat on the plate." Wang Siyan said.

Zhang Wei: "Why isn't there a mountain of meat on my plate?"

"Because you've been eating, I'm not biased! You have twice as much meat as Zhou Ming! It's you who eats it faster."

…

An hour later, the three of them ended their usual dinner party. After eating, they went home and agreed to meet outside the wall tomorrow.

After leaving the hot pot restaurant, Zhou Ming walked around the street and saw many buildings blocked by cordons around them. Those were places where strange phenomena occurred and were temporarily isolated to wait for the relevant departments to deal with them.

There are many places where strange phenomena like this occur. Sometimes there are even two or three places on a street. Most of the buildings are harmless, but some strange phenomena occur, such as strange noises and some weird phantoms.

These phenomena are definitely weird, but almost harmless.

The reason why relevant departments have to deal with these weird things is because their existence greatly affects the mental state of the residents.

It is strange to say that the currently accepted mainstream theory is that the sources of weirdness are desire and fear, and the way of distorting reality is human cognition.

The distortion caused by cognition requires a certain number of people and emotional intensity. If only twenty or thirty people know about ordinary rumors, there will be no weirdness.

If there are many people who know the rumor, but the people who hear the rumor do not have qualified emotions, then weirdness will not occur.

These theories are the conclusions reached by governments of various countries through risky experiments.
Chapter completed!