Through Editor-in-Chief Liu, Mu Lan asked for the addresses and contact information of the four archaeological team members, and made a round of calls and found that all of them were unable to answer.

Since they can't be reached by phone, they can only visit their homes, and according to the police, they are also on vacation like Mu Lan, and the archaeological research institute has given them a long vacation, and they are required to stay at home so that they can be summoned at any time.

Fortunately, Yu Bin and Wang Chuan of the archaeological team both lived in the dormitory of the unit, and only Professor Liang and Professor Chen lived in their own home, and the three addresses were not too far apart.

Professor Chen Zhibin was the first target for Mu Lan's suggestion because of his proximity and hearing that he had a strong interest in the ancient Shu civilization, and after discovering the cave at the site, he applied to join the rescue excavation team led by Professor Liang.

Professor Chen's home is located in the old urban area, which is as solid as a rock, and everyone found that it was full of dilapidated buildings to be demolished and old-fashioned houses, which were very different from what Mu Lan imagined.

According to the address, he found a dilapidated residential building, and after going up to three floors, Shi Zhengyang knocked on the door of the professor's house, and waited for a long time but no one responded.

"Not at home?" Zhao Ziyu wondered.

"It stands to reason that they should all be at home, maybe they are out for a walk?" Lin Yiyi said.

"If something like this happens, I don't have the heart to go downstairs for a walk, and Professor Chen is not as heartless as you." Zhao Ziyu rolled his eyes.

Seeing that no one responded to the knock on the door, Mu Lan knocked on the resident next door, and after a while, the door slowly opened to reveal a gap, and the wrinkled old woman looked at Mu Lan with questions and inquiring eyes.

"Hello Auntie!" Mu Lan showed a polite and friendly expression, "May I ask, is Professor Chen next door at home recently?" ”

"Looking for someone with the surname Chen?" The old woman's expression changed immediately, and she looked extremely bored, and she was about to close the door.

Seeing this, Shi Zhengyang immediately grabbed the door, and his arm directly pressed against the crack in the door to prevent it from closing.

"What are you doing!"

The old woman showed a panicked expression, it should be that the four people who are as solid as a rock are a gang of burglaries, Mu Lan is also very helpless, but there is no way, she can only continue with an unnatural smile: "Don't be afraid, we are all colleagues in Professor Chen's unit, there is something I want to discuss with him, he doesn't seem to be at home, has he been back in the past few days?" ”

Seeing that the door really couldn't be closed, the old woman looked at everyone with an unkind face, Mu Lan touched Shi Zhengyang and motioned for him to take out his arm first.

Shi Zhengyang has actually retained his strength, with his current strengthened quality, he can open this door with one punch, but the consequences of that may not only be to face terrifying ghosts, but also to be chased and intercepted by the police in the whole city on the wanted warrant.

The old woman looked at Mu Lan and then at Lin Yiyi and Zhao Ziyu behind her, thinking that there was indeed no robber who looked like this, so she relaxed her guard a little, and then muttered: "That weird colleague......"

Kook? Mu Lan and Shi Zhengyang glanced at each other, and Mu Lan hurriedly asked, "Has Professor Chen behaved abnormally recently?" ”

"During these days, there have been strange screams of women in the family surnamed Chen, this person has never been married, I didn't expect life to be so disorderly."

A woman's strange scream? Mu Lan remembered this description and continued to ask, "In other words, Professor Chen has been at home these days?" ”

"yes, he went out to buy groceries this morning." The old woman said.

"Has he been behaving strangely lately?" Mu Lan asked.

"He's never been a good man, he's like a madman." The old woman immediately said, "You are his colleagues, I suggest you go to the doctor and show him quickly." ”

After chatting for a few more words, seeing that there was no useful information, Mu Lan smiled and nodded at the old woman: "Then I won't bother, thank you." ”

After the old woman closed the door, Lin Yiyi hesitated and said, "Then we're waiting here for him to come back?" ”

"No, you don't." Shi Zhengyang appeared with a pistol in his hand, added a silencer, and then aimed it at the door lock, saying, "We don't have time to waste." ”

The dull sound of gunfire rang out, and the sound of the silencer was also very loud, as if someone had stomped heavily in the corridor, and the smell of gunpowder was permeated, and Shi Zhengyang pushed hard, and the door was opened.

"It's still the captain who is decisive!" Zhao Ziyu slapped a little sycophant.

Professor Chen's home was lit with the lights off, and the living room was dim, and Mu Lan noticed an indescribable feeling as soon as she entered the room.

It was very cold in the room, and it was a completely different temperature experience from the corridor outside, Lin Yiyi shivered unconsciously and hugged her arms tightly.

"It's a little cold!"

Mu Lan felt that there was a yin aura in the house, she would not have felt this way before, but at this moment, she immediately remembered the strange events in the "home" and in the taxi, and that piercing sense of fear hit again.

The house is a standard apartment with two bedrooms and one living room, there are some rotten fruits and take-out boxes on the coffee table, and some domestic garbage is also thrown on the ground, walking into the bedroom, the curtains are tightened, there is no light in the room, Mu Lan turned on the switch on the wall, the light turned on, she found that Professor Chen had transformed the bedroom into a study, two rows of bookshelves were full of books, and there was a thick pile of manuscript paper on the table, densely filled with words.

Removing the reading glasses that pressed the paper, Mu Lan saw the title of the manuscript, "Blood Sacrifice, Cruel Ancient Civilization", and glanced at the content of the manuscript, the handwriting was very sloppy, but it could be distinguished that it was a study of the ancient Shu civilization.

There was a warm thermos cup on the desk, it seemed that Professor Chen had not been away for too long, Mu Lan swept the room again, and was immediately attracted by an object that looked like bronze.

This is a human head, with exaggerated facial features, the overall shape is very abstract, the most prominent is the eyes, almost all of them poke out of the eye sockets, in a cylindrical bulge, its expression seems to be laughing, I don't know if it is because of the weird atmosphere of the whole copy, Mu Lan feels that the human head portrait is very weird.

Mu Lan had the illusion that as soon as she entered Professor Chen's house, she felt that someone was peeping at her, and she couldn't help but look behind her, the room was very quiet, only the sound of teammates searching other rooms.

Continuing to look through the things in the room, it seems that Professor Chen has indeed been immersed in academics for a long time, and there are a large number of books on the bookshelf of the pre-Shang civilization.

When Mu Lan was immersed in reading, she didn't notice that something seemed to move in the darkness behind her, and then the shadow slowly approached her back.

The cold breath stuck to Mu Lan's neck, and at this moment, Mu Lan's hairs exploded, and she only felt goosebumps rise all over her body, and at this time, it felt like someone was blowing at her back.