"It's also possible that this is not the scene of the crime." Xiao Yan interjected, "The five were ...... elsewhere Blood and other things were drawn and spilled in this villa. ”

"Well, that can't be ruled out." Officer Liu nodded, "We have retrieved all the surveillance videos in and around this villa area. Xiao Yan, Lin Ke, you also participate in video retrieval and analysis, all video materials must be double-checked, and traces will definitely be found. ”

……

Judging from the existing indications, there is no doubt that the disappearance of the five college students is related to the dimensional world and some kind of transcendent power, and Xiao Yan's participation in it seems to be a potentially beneficial thing at present.

1 Intelligence is not easy to obtain.

Feel like it's so earning!

Then it's decided, I'm going to check this case carefully! It turns out that this thing on the wall is called the old seal......

Xiao Yan's interest was aroused, and after carefully copying the old seals on the wall, Xiao Yan spent a lot of time on the video with other policemen, but in the end they found nothing.

"Is it true that these surveillance videos have not been tampered with?" Lao Liu's face was pale, how could he explain these to his family and superiors.

Whether it is the property surveillance in the villa area, or the police and traffic surveillance on the street, there are no suspicious people and vehicles.

The five college students entered the villa unambiguously and vanished into thin air, leaving nothing but a scrap of flesh and blood behind.

Everyone was puzzled, and they spent a while at the scene.

"Do you have any clues?" Lao Liu asked.

"Does this villa have a basement?"

"Not really."

"Then dig up, dig up all the ground!" Officer Liu shouted, "I don't believe that 5 big living people have evaporated like this!" ”

Rigs and shovels were immediately called in, digging down from several possible positions. Digging from day to night, a group of policemen had nothing to gain except to dig a few large holes.

Lao Liu, who was at a loss, finally had to stay behind the guards to guard the scene, and take the others to return to the headquarters for a research report. Higher authorities and the families of the five missing persons are awaiting their responses.

Xiao Yan got off the bus halfway, said goodbye to everyone and went straight to his school's library.

The university's library has the second largest collection of books in the magic capital, and it is one of the best in the country in terms of the variety of books in the collection.

By the time I got back to college, the library was closed and the students were heading back to their dormitories. Xiao Yan, who was itching and unbearable, waited for the next day, opened the back door of the library with a few wires at midnight and went straight to the occult stacks.

In the age of science, occult books retained only their literary and artistic value, similar to waste paper from a tool point of view. It is already a very commendable act that the university has set up a special library for the collection of books in this field.

Xiao Yan turned on the flashlight on his mobile phone, groped his way through the dark aisle, quietly walked into the occult library, and then looked for it by the light of the flashlight. The occult stacks are in the deepest part of the library, barely noticeable from the outside when the curtains are closed.

"As an unpopular subject~" Xiao Yan looked at the bookshelves that couldn't be seen at a glance and sighed, "This is too much." ”

"In the center of the pentagram, paint a burning eye."

With this clue alone, it is impossible to find clues in so many books!

But Xiao Yan is not completely clueless.

Xiao Yan came to the borrowing management office on this floor, opened the manager's computer to check the borrowing records, and quickly locked Liu Ming's information.

That's a lot...... Xiao Yan glanced at it, there were more than 40 records, except for some professional books, almost all of them were occult-related content.

Xiao Yan hurriedly recorded the title and number of the book, and then closed the computer. The screen-lit library sank into the gloom.

As the light disappeared, there seemed to be a shadow flashing from the corner of Xiao Yan's vision.

Xiao Yan suddenly became alert and stared at the darkness.

As his eyes gradually adjusted to the change of light, Xiao Yan found that there was a mop standing upside down in the corner, and the strip of cloth hanging down looked like human hair, as if someone was staring at him in the dark.

Xiao Yan shrugged his shoulders and returned to the occult library with a note containing the borrowing record.

More than 30 books were taken out of the shelves one by one, and Xiao Yan put them on the long oak table in the middle, while sighing that Senior Liu Ming really loves the occult...... Wouldn't it be good to have a hobby to apply directly for archaeology and history, why do you want to go to a high-energy physics major?

The investigation file I saw during the day showed that one of the classmates who disappeared with Liu Ming was a girl named Ran Min, who majored in history, and it is said that she had a very close relationship with Liu Ming, perhaps because this relationship brought Liu Ming a hobby of occultism.

Xiao Yan flipped through the occult books while thinking back to the contents of the investigation he had learned during the day.

These books are mainly mythological and archaeological records, mostly records of explorers' explorations in jungles, deserts, and ruins, mixed with a large number of ancient myths and songs.

Liu Ming's name can be seen on the library card of each book, and the time is almost concentrated in the last three months, and the date of borrowing is gradually approaching.

"I'm really invested in my sister!" Xiao Yan quickly flipped through a book and put the finished book aside, he felt that he was getting closer and closer to the truth, and there must be clues to Liu Ming and them before their disappearance in these books.

The silence of the library in the middle of the night is frightening, and the sound of footsteps can scare people half to death. Xiao Yan flipped through the book while looking around from time to time.

He sat at a long wooden table, a few meters behind him with a bookshelf, a feeling that made him feel a little uneasy.

"What are you afraid of, I'm MT, if there's any ghosts, I'll do it until she calls her daddy! Well. Xiao Yan patted his face and continued to read.

There was a slight sound on the bookshelf not far away, as if something was passing through.

Xiao Yan just thought it was a mouse and didn't care, and after a while, the sound became more dense.

It's like countless little snakes gathering from all directions, trying to hide their tracks, but from time to time they rub against books and bookshelves and make noises.

Xiao Yan stood up and walked to the wall to turn on the chandelier overhead, but the switch had failed. He looked around with his flashlight, and something small flickered by the edge of the darkness, making it impossible to tell if it was his hallucination or reality.

There was no warning of his own perception, but he could indeed feel that something was hiding in the darkness not far away, observing him from all directions.

It's two o'clock in the evening, and there's one last book left. Xiao Yan decided to read it later.

On the title page of the book, Liu Ming's name is written on the borrowing record, and it was returned a week ago.

Turning the pages, this book chronicles the customs and rituals of distant mountain tribes.

The tribe lives in a place called Takona, which means gate to the abyss in the local language. Not far from the village there is a bottomless diamond pit. Colonists from Europe brought machinery and supplies to dig up the treasure, exchanging it for various household items, and hiring locals to dig up tons of diamonds, rubies, and sapphires from the ground.

The greedy mine owner dug deeper and deeper into the mine, until one day the mine opened a huge underground cavern, and hundreds of workers and their machinery fell into the dark abyss and never returned.

No one knows how deep this cave is, and the village elders say it connects the earth and hell.

The pits are no longer available for large-scale mining, but diamonds can still be dug up from the rock walls from time to time. The mine owners continued to hire locals, who tied them to ropes and hung them down to dig into the rock face.

Every 3,000 times, someone never returns.

It is said that the depths of the earth dwells the master of another world, and the weak-willed will succumb to his will and leap from the mouth of the well to sacrifice his own flesh and blood.

Mining on the rock face has been going on intermittently for decades, and in addition to bringing a large number of gems to the mine owners, the miners have brought back many strange frescoes and specimens.

The locals did not dare to destroy the patterns and carefully brought them back to the surface.

Xiao Yan flipped through the pages of the book and saw photos of two of the murals on the back.

A huge ring, in the middle of which are tentacle-like lines that intertwine with each other.

Another photo shows a burning eye in the center of the pentagram.

Xiao Yan's heart was shocked, this is the pattern left on the wall of the villa. At the same time, he found that there was a small note in the page, and hurriedly clamped it carefully with the tweezers he had prepared, and read the words written in ink on it:

"The units of measurement have been converted to standard scales.

Draw a regular ring in a wide square chamber with a radius of not less than 3 meters, outline the pattern of the Holy Limb with 60 kilograms of bone meal, then pour no less than 100 liters of blood and spread it evenly within the ring......"

"The faithful stand in the center of the circle, not less than 1 meter apart. Then you can recite Your Majesty's name and pray to Your Majesty. ”

"The pentagram and the burning eye, if something happens, it will be the one to protect us and our souls."

Xiao Yan looked at it several times, and then sealed the note in a small bag.

Liu Ming, these five people actually performed some kind of ritual in that villa, did they want to establish contact with some kind of existence? Then these 5 people played off, and the rest of the total was less than half a pot.

If Xiao Yan hadn't experienced the adventures of the dimensional world, he would definitely laugh at this as a college student's absurd fantasy. But now he would not ignore this information, not to mention that the simple act of observing the old seal in the villa had increased his intelligence a little, and he had also gained strange occult knowledge, which could not be taken lightly.

Is there something strange in this world?

Later in the book, a ritual called divination is described.

"The ritual comes from the shamans of the Abyssal Gate tribe and is said to be the ability to seek guidance through inspiration. After trying it myself, it didn't work, maybe it was due to my low inspiration. The author writes this in the book.

Low on inspiration? Are you talking about perceptual attributes? Is this man a contractor? Xiao Yan looked at the cover curiously, David Stockholm's "Gate to the Abyss", a famous explorer and filmmaker who disappeared during a cave exploration ten years ago.

Xiao Yanqiang resisted the idea of practicing divination on the spot, read the rest of the content, and then recorded the divination in his notebook.

From time to time, he and Wang Xijun would meet in the real world, and when the time came, they could try the effect of this divination. With Wang Xijun's high perceptual attributes, it shouldn't be a problem to try this divination ritual.

Of course, you have to be careful not to play away like Professor Hancock in the fourth world before.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yan couldn't help but stretch his waist. After reading a table of books in one night, he still had a small sense of accomplishment.

The sky outside the window was already faintly bright, and the silence was so cold that it made people feel a little cold.

"Alright, let's go back to sleep first." Probably because of staying up all night, Xiao Yan felt strange whispers lingering in his ears.

He put away his books, table and chairs, and groped his way outside in the faint light.

"Smack!"

There was a sound behind me, like the sound of a book toppling over. Xiao Yan turned his head to look at the bookshelf, and something seemed to be flowing in the shadows.

"Just walk away, right?"

"Why don't you go over and have a look?"

"Forget it, no matter." Xiao Yan rubbed his groggy head and left the library, "This can be shown to Wang Xijun, she has a high perception and is interested in all kinds of gadgets."

(End of chapter)