Chapter 66: The Village of the Unheard

Jane Eyre had been standing for nearly an hour in the newspaper reading room on the third floor of the library, her legs not feeling sore. The rows of iron shelves filled with books, newspapers, and periodicals looked as solid as a cliff, and she always felt psychologically reliable.

No, no, no! At most, it was reported in this county. Jane Ai's heart was anxious, her face did not change, she gently put down another clip of newspaper, and turned her face to look out of the window. The smog that lasted for three days in northern China temporarily subsided today, and the sparse sunlight pierced the clouds, lighting up the city's winding and uneven skeleton. Beyond this set of artificial skeletons, the mountain peaks are visible in the sky, and if everything goes according to plan, Xingtian and Zhuo Wu should have already dived into the mountains. Tomorrow night, before the first coded contact was launched, she would theoretically have enough time to gather more information to support the two colleagues' tight schedule, but the reality was not so rosy - the nature of her duties in the group made it difficult for her to be called a "good woman", and now she was faced with a real meal without rice.

Jane Eyre put the newspaper back on the shelf, and like the previous copies, she had searched this one repeatedly, but still found nothing useful. She didn't immediately go and get a new one, afraid to get it again in vain. This isn't the school library!she thought. In fact, her predicament had nothing to do with the size of the library's collection, and she lamented this because she had to look through the newspapers and publications that were left in the reading room to make sure that nothing was missing. Not only does this national library have a wide variety of newspapers and periodicals, but they can be dated back years, and it would take her an entire day to completely flip through them. But in the end, this is nothing, anyway, she went outside the school today to "visit the old generation of alumni and sort out the materials of the new alumni directory". What she is really worried about is that what she has done and what she will do in a day is inevitably useless.

She went outside the reading room to take a bag of water in a small disposable paper bag, and wondered in her heart: How could Yugong think of looking for this Dayangtun Village? Indeed, last night's Internet search results and the current black-and-white records show that there are probably no historical anecdotes in this village, and there have been no outstanding achievements worthy of recognition since the reform and opening up, and there have been no sensational and sensitive events in the 21st century. But even so, if there are plans for engineering construction, such as road construction, power line renovation, and infrastructure upgrades, which include their villages, they can at least find explicit notices. Unless...... Unless the village is in a state of isolation, there is no such change, and it is not enough to attract attention. Such an obscure mountain village seems to have never appeared in today's flood of public opinion, and it is not even available on the website of the county government of the county to which the village belongs. Could it be that the boy said that it was really a "forbidden land"? Then why was the foolish guild interested in it, and those people were active in the city?

Thinking of Dante's "gang of people", Jane caressed her head, their information was as scarce as that of Dayangtun Village. There are only some high-sounding displays in the public news, and the county government website does not see a brief introduction of the old guy who served as the secretary of the village party committee in his early years. Yesterday, I searched for their blogs, Weibo, etc., but a few people opened the portal, but they only saw a message "Welcome to settle down in XX blog" or "Congratulations on opening XX Weibo", no other updates, and no photo was posted. Is it really the kind of people that Dante speculated? Jane Eyre thought to herself, or maybe the obscurity of this village had something to do with the mystery of "those people"?

Forget it, step by step, let's dig the bottom of Dayangtun Village first. Jane Eyre's brow furrowed from the previous hour's nothingness, and I hope it doesn't have to be left with the meaning of being a place name for an administrative division. Thinking of this, she shook her head.

About forty minutes before Jane Eyre entered the library, Xingtian and Zhuo Wu, who were lying on the mound, saw three men guarding the barricade stop an off-road jeep with a Beijing license plate. The jeep was full of people, a child under ten years old, mineral water in the trunk was stacked quite high, and the roof rack was strapped to a field tent, apparently they were there for tourism. The driver got out of the car to negotiate with the three people, and at first he looked very kind, but when he saw that it didn't work, he straightened his face, and it was estimated that his words became rude. The three men refused to eat, one only managed to deal with the hippie smiley face, and the other two came up, staring at the driver and the jeep with their arms crossed and not speaking. After five minutes, the driver returned to the car helplessly, and Zhuo Wu used the binoculars to see that he was timid, but still seemed to spit out a dirty word. Soon, the jeep whined and turned around and drove back.

"They're quite sideways, and if it's our car, it's really not easy to do. Zhuo Wu whispered. Xingtian did not respond to him, but calculated the date provided by Dante, and deduced that the barricade should not have been set up for a long time, and that if the person who ordered it to be set up was clever enough, it was impossible for him to risk being reported and investigated by someone to lay the log in the middle of the road for too long. Xingtian made a gesture to Zhuo Wu, and the two of them turned over and retreated to the back of the hill. "Okay, you, I thought you wouldn't be able to stand it for five minutes. Xing Tian stretched his arm and said to Zhuo Wu, who was also relaxing his limbs, "Look at this posture, there will be someone guarding this piece of wood until dark." We can't afford to waste a day. "What are we going to do?"

Xing Tian pondered for a moment and said, "One of the purposes of setting up private roadblocks is to buy some money from passing tourists. According to the map mark, this is the only road that can enter Dayangtuner Village from the southeast. But if you look at the appearance of these people, it doesn't look like they are trying to extort money. They recklessly wanted to drive the foreign vehicles back, making it clear that they did not want outsiders to enter the village. "Then the three of them may be just mercenaries, and the person who has the ability to set up this roadblock and hire them to guard it......" "This person may not be a thief who steals chickens and dogs." Xingtian interrupted Zhuo Wu, "If it is really like Dante's prediction, then there is indeed a big drama to be performed in this big Yangtuner Village." Didn't you ask what we should do? We'll go into the village later, and don't miss any important parts. ”

Zhuo Wu suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Do you say that the roadblocks are against 'those people'?" "It's not good, we don't know each other well, and all inferences are groundless." Xing Tian waved his hand, he didn't think it was a matter that needed to be investigated urgently. "Then after we go in, what method will we use to find out the situation here?" "The most direct way is to find Yugong." He knows it for sure. ”