Chapter 30: The Vanishing Residents
Early the next morning, Zhou Yan went to the mission hall and received an investigation mission, and the mission area was a small town within the jurisdiction of Qinglong City, the four main cities of the Northern Regions.
After the specific situation of the task arrives in Qinglong City, the connector will inform you, but the contribution value reward of this task is very rich, and the reward is 5,000 task contribution points, which is also the reason why Zhou Yan took this task.
There are several small towns at the foot of the main peak of Qixia, and the towns are protected by the Qingfeng Gate, and most of the handymen in the Qingfeng Gate are residents of these towns.
Zhou Yan came to the town at the foot of the mountain to borrow a horse, and it was a hundred kilometers away from Qinglong City, and it took about two hours to reach it by hurrying with all his might.
Two hours later, Zhou Yan had already arrived outside the gate of Qinglong City.
Qinglong City is one of the four largest cities in the Northern Regions, and it is several times larger than a small city like Shu City.
At the gate of the city, there is a law enforcement team of Qinglong City collecting entry fees, and disciples of Qingfeng Gate like Zhou Yan do not need to queue up to enter the city, nor do they need to pay entry fees.
The city is also very lively, the city is full of people, people come and go!
The streets and alleys are full of hawkers, and the shops on both sides of the street are full of customers.
Qingfengmen's connector in Qinglong City opened a restaurant called Piaoxiangyuan in the city, Zhou Yan casually asked a passerby, and soon found the location of Piaoxiangyuan.
Piaoxiangyuan is located in Qinglong Street, the most prosperous Qinglong Street in Qinglong City, and there are two sturdy men outside the door who act as gatekeepers.
Zhou Yan handed over the Qingfeng Gate waist card and told him that he was here to find Aunt Feng.
A thug hurriedly went in with a waist card to inform, and after a while, a middle-aged woman dressed very tacky and full of dust followed the thug towards Zhou Yan.
"This son will go to the middle and high apprentices of Qingfeng Gate, welcome, welcome, please come in, the one who takes care of the son's horse!" Aunt Feng saw Zhou Yan and immediately greeted him warmly, and threw a wink at Zhou Yan after speaking.
Zhou Yan felt a chill all over his body: "You are Aunt Feng, the connector in Qinglong City?"
"Yes, that's me! In addition to the connector, I am also the shopkeeper of Piaoxiang Courtyard!Part-time senior bustard!" Aunt Feng waved the fan in her hand and said with a smile on her face.
"I can see it, do I need to give you a prize?" Zhou Yan was a little speechless, why could the old bustard's profession still be so proud.
Qingfengmen gives me so much salary every year, and I have to do a part-time job, and I am ready to ...... next year."
Just when Aunt Feng was about to make a tirade, Zhou Yan hurriedly stopped her: "Stop, I am the one who knows the details of the mission this time!"
"Okay, Childe hasn't had lunch yet, let's go upstairs and eat while talking, I'll treat you personally!" Aunt Feng said and pulled Zhou Yan upstairs.
In an Accord, the table is full of delicacies, and although the chef of Piaoxiangyuan has good skills, under the limited seasonings, the taste of the food can only be said to be average.
"Childe, I'll toast you!" Aunt Feng took the wine glass and drank it all.
Zhou Yan also took the wine glass and drank it all, and after drinking it all, he asked, "Aunt Feng, this time the door asked me to investigate the reason why people keep disappearing in Shizhen, how much information do you know here?" ”
As an ordinary person, although Aunt Feng is not very capable, with the excellent geisha cultivated in her hands, she can always get a lot of news and information in the hands of many dignitaries and monks, which is also the biggest reason why Qingfengmen chose her as the connector.
"A few days ago, I had a girl who received a guest who said this after drinking, a month ago, the villagers of Shizhen would disappear inexplicably, and the mayor of Shizhen came to the main city of Qinglong to report this matter, but the big people of the city lord would care about the life and death of these Shengdou people, and after sending them back, they casually sent a law enforcement team to two people to investigate, and the two stayed for a few days and couldn't find out why, after going back to restore their lives, the city lord's mansion never took care of this matter again. After the two of them returned, the villagers began to disappear again, and even some curious monks went to investigate, and the strongest of them was a monk of the Qi Dan Realm Triple Heaven! I probably know so much!" Aunt Feng told all the information she knew.
"That's really interesting!" Zhou Yan drank a glass of wine, thinking in his heart, disappearing or something, he didn't believe it, how could a big living person disappear out of thin air. Someone in Stone Town must be doing something.
After being full of wine and food, Zhou Yan was ready to leave for Shizhen immediately, but Aunt Feng insisted on keeping Zhou Yan for one night, and said that she would let the Oiran of Piaoxiang Courtyard warm Zhou Yan's bed, which frightened Zhou Yan to quickly stay away from this place of right and wrong.
Shizhen is in the west of Qinglong City, twenty-five kilometers away from Qinglong City.
The scale of Shizhen is not large, there are about hundreds of families in the whole town, and when Zhou Yan came to Shizhen, the entire Shizhen was full of eerie silence.
It's noon, there is no one on the streets of the town, people are constantly missing, and the main city is not managed, causing the residents of the town to panic and dare not go out!
Zhou Yan knocked on the door of a family in the town and said, "Is anyone there?"
The family didn't open the door, but opened a small crack through the window and asked, "Who?"
"I'm a monk from out of town! I heard that people in this town always disappear, and I was curious, so I came to investigate!" Zhou Yan replied truthfully.
"Outsider, I advise you where you came from and where you are going!
"Where does your mayor live!" Zhou Yan was going to ask the mayor about the situation.
"The largest annex in the center of town, but outsiders still advise you to leave early!" replied from the house, and there was no more sound.
Zhou Yan came to the center of the town and knocked on the door of the largest annex.
"Who?" said an old man's voice in the courtyard.
"I'm a monk from outside, and I've heard that people in the town are always disappearing, so I've come to investigate!" Zhou Yan repeated what he had just said.
After a moment of silence in the courtyard, there was a sound of footsteps, the door opened, and a white-haired old man appeared in front of Zhou Yan, thinking that it was the mayor of Shizhen.
"This lord, please talk about it in the house!" the mayor invited Zhou Yan into the house.
Entering the living room of the courtyard, the mayor poured Zhou Yan a cup of tea. Zhou Yan began to inquire about the specific situation.
The specific situation is similar to what Aunt Feng said, someone disappeared in the town a month ago, and at first the town didn't care, but as more and more people disappeared, they began to attract the attention of the town.
But no matter how much the people in the town searched, those people seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and there was no trace of them. Even a few monks who came with curiosity disappeared, and then the news of the town's demons spread, which made the townspeople panic and did not dare to go out for half a day and night.
Even the mayor of the town persuaded Zhou Yan to leave quickly, but where would Zhou Yan leave, he now really wanted to figure out what was going on.
Zhou Yan asked the mayor to arrange a place for him to live, and the mayor originally intended to let Zhou Yan live in his house, but Zhou Yan said that he wanted to live in a remote location in the town.
The mayor of the town can only arrange for him to live in the house of the king blacksmith at the end of the town, the king blacksmith is one of the first few people to disappear in the town, a lonely family, no wife and no queen, since his disappearance, the house has been uninhabited, just suitable for Zhou Yan to live.