【2009-12-13，9:12】

Night, it's an early winter night.

The cold air from the north has plunged the entire Hangzhou into a cold package, coupled with the whining northwest wind, such a winter night really makes people just want to hide in a warm room.

The lights outside are brilliant, the street lights on Lakeside Road are flickering, and the advertising lights of several nearby stores release colorful arcs.

In winter, there are fewer pedestrians by the West Lake at night.

In the past, only three or five couples can be seen, wearing down jackets, snuggling up to each other, enjoying a romantic and cold lakeside walk.

Zhu Lingyi, as always, sat on the second floor of the "Lost Flowing Clouds" coffee bar, on a hanging chair in the corner against a floor-to-ceiling window.

It's his coffee bar, at least nominally.

On the table in front of him was a laptop and a cup of steaming coffee.

From the outside, he is just an ordinary person, just like you and me, not very handsome, standing in the crowd, maybe you can't tell him apart from others.

At this time, he sat there quietly, his head turned sideways, and his eyes glazed to look out of the window.

At this moment, it was as if there were invisible shackles that isolated him from the other guests on the second floor of the coffee bar.

Zhu Lingyi didn't actually look at anything, the surroundings of the West Lake were calm, and nothing attracted his attention, he just was in a daze over there, letting his thoughts drift in the night sky.

On the laptop computer in front of him opened a web page, which contained an article titled "About the Soul - One of the Conjectures of Life Series".

Obviously, this is a boring guy's self-conjecture about the composition of life, which roughly says that all living things are composed of a shell (that is, a carrier that can produce energy), plus a soul (life in the true sense), and the two are indispensable, and once the soul loses its body carrier, it is afraid that it will dissipate in the world.

The content of the article is very superficial, maybe ordinary people just laugh when they read it, but Zhu Lingyi thought about it for a long time.

He wasn't attracted to the article, but he was associated with many other things.

Zhu Lingyi has an identity that is different from ordinary people, so his understanding of life is also different from ordinary people, maybe some of the concepts conjectured in this article are not bad, but the soul can actually exist in another way under special conditions when it leaves the body, which is commonly known as a ghost.

Zhu Lingyi has seen many things that would never have been possible to tell the public in positive reports.

Light and darkness, ordinary people can usually only see the light exposed to the sun, but they don't know that there is also darkness under the night.

Who knows what is happening at this very moment, in the unknown darkness outside?

"Didi, Didi, you have a new email!"

An electronic synthesis voice sounded, and it finally woke up Zhu Lingyi, who was wandering in the world.

Zhu Lingyi turned his head blankly, and an email had already popped out of the fourteen-inch screen of the laptop.

This is an encrypted email, which requires special software to view, and now you can only see a portrait of the ghost hunter Zhong Kui on the cover of the email.

Zhong Kui is the name of an ugly scholar in the legendary Tang Dynasty, and then somehow, he was deified into a ghost-hunting god.

This portrait is Zhong Kui painted by Wu Daozi.

In the portrait, Zhong Kui is dressed in a blue shirt, with one foot and one eye, a waist, a scarf and unkempt hair, catching ghosts with his left hand and picking his ghost eyes with his right hand.

Naturally, people in the world can't verify whether there really is such a ghost-hunting god.

But in Zhu Lingyi's heart, he can be sure that this legendary Zhong Kui is the real being, of course, it may be an exaggeration to say that he is a god.

The legendary Zhong Kui in the Tang Dynasty may still be Zhu Lingyi's predecessor, who was also chosen by fate, controlled Zhong Kui's order, and walked on the rivers and lakes in the name of Zhong Kui.

Fortunately, Zhu Lingyi's luck is good, the ugly appearance of Zhong Kui in the legend is not part of the inheritance.

Maybe it was Tang Shi, the name of that ugly Zhong Kui was too loud.

Seeing the email popping up on the laptop screen, Zhu Lingyi first raised his hand to pick up the coffee on the table, took a sip, and then put his right hand on the photoelectric mouse on the side.

With the swipe and click of the mouse, Zhu Lingyi pulled the email into a software that looked like a small game, and with the processing of the decoder, the email was officially opened, forming a text on Zhu Lingyi's computer screen.

"Little brother Zhong Kui, seeing that the letter is good, my sister will directly say the task.

At 4:23 p.m. on November 15, 2009, a villager from Xiapo Village ran to the town to report that a terrorist incident had occurred in the village, and that more than 500 households in a village had died mysteriously.

At that time, the people in the town did not fully believe it, so they sent six people and the villagers who reported the crime to Xiapo Village to investigate.

On the evening of the same day, the villagers and six town staff members who went to investigate all disappeared and did not return, including the driver, the director of the town police station, the director of the town civil affairs office, and three police officers.

At 10:46 a.m. on November 17, 2009, after the town of Karon was unable to contact the six people, it sent 20 people to Xiapo Village again to investigate.

The villagers who reported to the town have confirmed that they died in an accident in the mountains on the morning of November 15 and are now buried in their homes.

The investigation of the second investigators showed that the six town staff members who were dispatched and a Jinbei car were indeed missing, and then the village organized people to conduct a large-scale search in the surrounding mountains, but nothing was found.

On November 19, 2009, the county of Tongguò, Karon Township, reported the incident to the higher autonomous prefecture, and the local association liaison registered the unusual incident and reported it to the headquarters.

On 21 November 2009, two D investigators sent by the local association also lost contact with the local association two days later (23 November), and the final report sent by the investigators indicated that the incident should be classified as category G.

On 30 November 2009, three C-level executives arrived on a mission to provide assistance, but they lost news on the same day and were unable to send any information back.

So the point of growth is coming to you, Zhong Kui.

Your task is to investigate the cause and solve the incident according to the situation, the cost of this mission is 30,000, the ticket should have been delivered, and the specific information is attached to the ticket, and the plane will be around eight o'clock tomorrow morning.

Good luck!

PS: My sister privately warned you that this operation is very dangerous, be careful, although this incident belongs to category G, you are an expert in this area, but my sister still hopes that you will be careful.

My sister doesn't want to lose an obedient little brother, if she finds that she can't complete the task, she can retreat in time, and the association will use the ultimate plan to deal with it.

In addition, my sister has specially selected three companions for you, and the information is attached to the text sent to Jiàn.

Sister butterfly word

13 December 2009"

After reading the email, Zhu Lingyi couldn't help but show a helpless smile on his face, it seems that this time it is another task that cannot be shirked......