Chapter 221: The Invisible Man
"This kid can't help but be scared!" Zhou Mo shook his head helplessly, "But this is the first time I've seen his stealth ability." ”
"Did you hear him, he said that he had seen the murderer, and he was certainly not alone." Yiqing leaned closer to the man.
His face should be very young, no more than twelve or thirteen years old.
The young man has clear eyebrows, but he is a little timid.
Tut-tut, stealth!! It's a voyeuristic weapon...... Mu Ling touched his chin.
Zhou was awakened by licking, and a wet and rough tongue crossed his face, and he frowned and slowly opened his eyes.
I saw a white velvet beast leader with a big mouth looking at him intently.
There was no time to exclaim, he was about to faint.
"Don't, don't, don't faint!" Yuan Rong hurriedly pinched him.
Zhou Zheng opened his eyes and found that the rope on his body had been untied.
He was a little puzzled, didn't this group of people want to kill him, and they want to kill him alive...... Why is he so good now......
Aren't they bad guys?
"Don't look at it, you're fine with a single hair, let me ask you, who are you? Why is it here? Zhou Mo looked at him.
"My name is ...... Week...... Zhou Zheng, my home is from Dahe Village, I thought you were those bad guys......" Zhou Zheng replied honestly.
"Have you ever seen a murderer? What do you remember what it looks like? Yiqing asked.
Zhou Zheng scratched his head embarrassedly, "I...... I haven't seen it...... Forehead...... Wrong...... It's not like I've never seen it. ”
"Have you seen it or not?" His words made Zhou Mo a little dizzy.
"I've seen it from afar, but I haven't seen the face......" Zhou Zheng was even more embarrassed.
"Then how are you sure we're the bad guys?" Yiqing asked.
"Now the people of Dahe Village are panicking, and no one dares to come and go, and a few of you unfamiliar faces have appeared...... So I'm ...... I'll treat you as bad people......" Zhou Zheng smiled embarrassedly.
"We are the ones who are in charge of investigating this matter, you can tell us what happened" Yi Qing saw that his face was thin and yellow, and asked Yuan Rong to bring him a glass of water and some baked cakes.
Zhou Zheng looked at the food in front of him and swallowed his saliva, but he didn't eat it first, but told everyone what he heard and saw first.
It happened a month ago, there was a big family in the nearby West Town to hold a happy event, there was a three-day flowing water banquet, and there were a lot of people in those days, and people from nearby villages rushed to that banquet.
People came and went, so he thought crookedly, thinking to see if he could steal something valuable and exchange money for his brother's treatment, so he didn't care about eating, so he hid into the house.
As he passed through the backyard, he heard two people talking, and he didn't know exactly what the content was, but he remembered saying that something had been put in place and that the plan would be successful.
At that time, he didn't pay attention to it, secretly took a few pieces of jewelry and left.
Who knew that something would happen that night, and the village was filled with cries of pain and fright.
Zhou Zheng and his brother were the only ones left in their family, and in order not to make his younger brother afraid, he was by his side all night.
At dawn the next day, he saw many officers and soldiers in the village.
When I inquired, I found out that something had happened last night, and all the children in the village had become old men and old ladies overnight.
Not only Dahe Village, but also the next door Baijia Village and Lijia Village also experienced the same situation.
Of course, there are children who have escaped.
Zhou Zheng didn't think about those two people at the time, but that night, Zhou Zheng found someone sneaking around the village, and he immediately disappeared and followed.
He was afraid of being discovered, so he was not far away, so he listened to the two people in front of him who were going from house to house marking and recording something, which was the home of the dead child.
At this time, he immediately connected the two things, and Zhou Zheng, who discovered the secret, accidentally tripped and fell because he was afraid, and was almost discovered by the two of them.
After that, Zhou Zheng didn't dare to stay any longer and returned home before the invisibility failed.
Since then, Zhou Zheng has been keeping an eye on the situation in the village, but the two men have never appeared again.
Then, the arrival of Yiqing, Yuan Rong and Zhou Mo, coupled with their investigation of this matter, made Zhou Zheng mistakenly think that they were those people.
And so the next thing happened.
As for why he didn't report to the official, although Zhou Zheng hadn't read a book, he knew that everything had to be evidenced, and he didn't have any evidence, who would listen to him.
After Zhou Zheng finished speaking, he began to eat the baked cakes.
"Are those children who haven't had an accident just the ones who haven't eaten a running water mat?" Yiqing concluded.
Mu Ling nodded, I'm afraid that's it, but why are adults okay when they eat, only children will be like this?
"When you're done eating, you can leave, you can take this with you and give it to your brother...... You remember, don't tell anyone about today, so as not to get into trouble, you know? Yiqing asked Yuan Rong to fill him with some more baked cakes and two silver coins.
"I ......" Zhou Zheng looked at Yiqing gratefully, took the burden and solemnly bowed to everyone before leaving.
"How do you check this? I'm afraid those people have already left......" Zhou Mo sat on the stool.
"Let's go to the town first and see if there is any problem with the family, and in addition, go and see if there is any pattern in other villages, we can't be discouraged now......" Mu Ling thought for a moment and said, "Have you found a problem?" The distribution of these events ......"
As soon as she reminded everyone, Yuan Rong hurriedly took out the area map.
Zhou Mo hurriedly circled it with a pen.
Yiqing added, "Each of these incidents happened in one day, the first time was Dahe Village, the second time was Baijia Village, and the third time was Lijia Village, but those missing people were not from this village, but from the village on the other side of Xizhen...... The number of missing people is still increasing."
"So, these two events are separate, but the same wave of people did it," Zhou Mo said next.
"But why? Obviously, the people here in Dahe Village died overnight, what do they need those people to do? Mu Xue held her chin and asked puzzled.
"As Brother Zhou said, these two events are independent and related, is that understandable, the person behind the scenes also has senile disease, but he survived, in order to survive, he needs the hormones in the pituitary gland of a normal person, so he keeps grabbing people to take what he needs......" Yiqing said his guess.
"That means someone will go missing to save their lives!" Jun Qianzi came to the final conclusion.
Mu Ling looked at their reasoning, nodded, everyone gathered firewood and the flame was high, and they were already slowly approaching the truth with every word.
"As long as that person hasn't figured out a solution, he'll need to keep arresting people and experimenting!" Yiqing said heavily.
"Then what are we waiting for, hurry up and notify the government to strictly guard it," Zhou Mo said and was about to run out.
"Wait, there's another question we haven't solved." Mu Ling stopped him.
"What's the problem?" Mu Xue asked.
"How did that person know so precisely who had a child?" Mu Ling replied.
Mu Xue: "Maybe it's been investigated in advance."
"That's not right, I investigated in advance, but there were so many people attending the flowing water seat, and there were so many uncertainties, so he wouldn't know in advance who would come." Yi Qing paused.
"Zhou Mo, you go to the village to investigate and see if anything happened that day, the more detailed the better." Mu Ling didn't know the reason, so he could only investigate step by step.
"Mu Xue and Jun Qianzi, you two go to Xizhen to investigate that family and see if they have any problems.
Yiqing, you and Yuan Rong went to the government to ask if there was a case of missing people a month ago."
Everyone nodded and set off immediately.
"What about us? What do I need to do? Yun Fei watched everyone leave, leaving him and Mu Ling.
"Let's go to the village and maybe find something new." Mu Ling touched Dahua's head and said.
Their current location is a local post station, some distance from Dahe Village.
Mu Ling and Yun Fei came to Dahe Village, the village is very quiet now, and many people have white sails hanging on their doors, which is the situation when they have just finished doing white things.
Mu Ling walked on the street, and he could faintly hear a lot of cries coming from home.
Not long after the two arrived in the village, a middle-aged man came over.
Although the middle-aged man was dressed plainly, Mu Ling could see that his family was wealthy, and the fabric was not something that ordinary families could afford.
"Hello, I am Zhou Yuan, the village chief of Dahe Village, may I ask who the two sons are......" Zhou Yuan looked at Mu Ling and the two of them carefully.
"Hello Village Chief Zhou, my name is Cangyue, this is my brother Cangwu, my brother and I passed by here, I heard that something strange happened in the village recently, so I came to take a look...... Mu Ling glanced at Xiong Yuan and replied.
It turned out to be lively, and Zhou Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.
"In that case, let's go back quickly, now the village has become like this, and it is said that outsiders are not allowed to come in." Zhou Yuan began to issue an eviction order.
"In addition, we also want to find a child, he has done something for us before, something has fallen on me, and this time I came to send him something" Mu Ling made a reason.
"Kid?" There was vigilance in Zhou Yuan's eyes.
Mu Ling nodded, "Yes, his name is Zhou Zheng, there is a younger brother at home, I heard that he is sick, last time I saw him pitiful and found him a job to do, he didn't come for a few days, no, the salary has not been settled for him, it just happened that he passed by Dahe Village today to do something, so he sent it over." ”
Zhou Yuan stared at Mu Ling for a long time, "In that case, I'll take the two of them to his house."
"Then it's trouble!" Mu Ling nodded.
Yun Fei didn't speak, glanced at Zhou Yuan without a trace, and glanced at Mu Ling.
There's obviously something wrong with this village chief!
Before they came, they had already read the information given by the government to Dahe Village, and there were no very wealthy people in this village, but it was obvious that the village chief was not, and he thought that no one would find out what he was wearing, but he miscalculated......
"Village Chief, I see that the material of your clothes is very good, it should be very expensive."
The three of them were walking on the way to Zhou Zheng's house, and Mu Ling suddenly said.
Zhou Yuan walked in front of them, and was stunned when he heard this, but quickly reacted, "Oh, this dress, I don't know very well, this fabric was sent by a friend of mine, and I asked people to make clothes, is that material very expensive?" ”
Mu Ling nodded, his face did not change and said, "Our family is in the fabric business, this material is very good, it is very comfortable to wear into clothes, I have to say that your friend is very discerning, this material is very popular in our cloth village!" ”
"That's the case, I'm stained with my friend's bare," Zhou Yuan sorted out his robe.
The moment Zhou Yuan turned around, his complexion immediately changed.
"Two sons, the house in front of them is their home, Zhou Zheng's child is also pitiful, his parents died at a young age, leaving him and his younger brother alone, but his younger brother is not in good health, and it is very hard for him to take his younger brother alone." Zhou Yuan began to talk about Zhou Zheng's family situation for the two.
"It's pitiful, but the young man is good," Mu Ling nodded.
Soon, the three of them arrived at Zhou Zheng's house.
It is better to say that it is a thatched house, surrounded by a fence outside, and the yard is not dirty or messy, and it can be seen that Zhou Zheng is very diligent.
There was also a smell of medicine in the air, and Zhou Zheng happened to come out of the house with a medicine jar.
Seeing that Mu Ling and Yun Bei just wanted to speak, they were preempted by Mu Ling, "You kid hasn't heard from you for a few days, I thought something happened to you, you have been working with me for a few days, and you don't want any wages?" ”
Zhou Zheng's mind turned quickly, and he quickly reacted, crying with a sad face, "Shaodong, isn't this my brother sick again, I can't leave the house."
Then he hurriedly walked over, flattered, "Please come in quickly, please come in, I didn't expect the young owner to send it to me personally"
Zhou Yuan watched this scene from behind and didn't say a word, but in his heart he was relieved of the identities of Mu Ling and the others.
"Two, Zhou will leave first if he still has something to do, you better not stay for a long time"
After Zhou Yuan finished speaking, he left, not wanting to stay for a moment.