After checking in and signing in at the entrance of the editorial department, Yi Annie sat in the cubicle of the mysterious version, still feeling a strange strangeness, after all, this was her first day in this position.

Glancing at the next few seats, the sports version was still not there.

The first thing Anne did was get into the internal system of the press center and start searching for what happened three years ago.

First, I used a filter to lock the scope to the 2017 mystery report, and then searched by the name of "Olivia", Noah's girlfriend's cousin, but I didn't find any results. I think in the news report, the person's name is probably a pseudonym.

But fortunately, there are only about 52 weeks a year, plus a few weeks of ticket jumps, there are actually less than 40 entries that need to be read, and Yi Annie began to read them one by one.

The cryptic version of the report is much more cliché than Anne imagined, most of them are in the category of "haunted houses", and the final conclusion is that most of the foreign houses are wooden structures, and the houses themselves are old, so they will make strange noises. These strange sounds have come from a variety of sources, such as the wind blowing through the house and making a "whine" sound, which may be caused by the exterior of the house, or the roof leaking, or the wind entering the air outlet and making a sound in other parts of the house.

In addition, there are aging pipes that make a dripping sound in winter due to thermal expansion and contraction, a strange sound from the resonance of nearby metal parts when the boiler is boiling hot water, and another sound in the room when the exterior decoration is knocked on the exterior wall and conducted...... All take up a lot of space.

In addition to haunted houses, there are also many strange things that happen around children, such as the "Invisible Friends" series, babies making strange noises, and children crying into empty corners. According to the conclusions of the report, in fact, these behaviors of children are basically explained by psychology and medicine.

One of them caught Anne's attention.

A mother named "Ollie" used to find her child in two different places in the house at the same time, such as when she had just put her child to bed here, and when she went downstairs, she found the child playing with toys in the living room. Steven eventually concludes that a single mother is too tired to take care of her child, resulting in confusion and hallucinations, which is resolved after Ollie's parents come to help take care of the child.

This is probably Olivia's horror experience.

If this incident is a mysterious event, Yi Annie thought about some similar types of ghost movies she had watched before, and she couldn't help but feel a chill in her neck. However, Noah's girlfriend said that the matter has been resolved, does that mean that Steven is an exorcist?

After thinking about it, Yi Annie first went to the divination version of Catherine at the other end of the editorial office, and in any case, Yi Annie's current position is Catherine's editorial assistant.

"Hi Catherine, it's morning." Yi Annie took out a small tin box with exquisite packaging and handed it over, "This is the tea I brought from Huaguo, I hope you like it." ”

"Morning, Anne, thank you. Is everything alright? Catherine took the tea leaves handed by Yi Annie, opened the package and smelled it, "This tea is good, do you want to do a tea divination?" ”

"Huh? Can tea really be used for divination? Anne was intrigued by the topic. She knew that in the Harry Potter novels, there was a tea divination project, but she always thought it was just a novel.

"You still have a lot to learn in divination." As she spoke, Catherine took out a beige English teacup from the drawer, put a dozen pieces of tea leaves brought by Yi Annie into it, and poured boiling water into the teacup from the thermos pot.

Yi Anne took the teacup, only to find that there were some Western occult symbols painted on the inside of the teacup, which made the feeling of tea divination more ritualistic.

It was then that Anne remembered that she had come to Catherine to ask questions.

Just as she was about to speak, Catherine stretched out her hand and made a gesture of stopping: "I know you have a question for me, you finish this cup of tea first, and then I will answer it for you." ”

Yi Anne was stunned, as the successor who grew up under the red flag, although she likes to watch horror movies, Yi Anne actually doesn't have much interest in divination, and she doesn't even know much about the order of the zodiac. But in front of Catherine's boss, she always felt that it was better to accept it, so she began to stare quietly at the teacup in her hand.

In the steam and aroma of tea, Yi Annie's thoughts began to diverge.

The interesting thing about tea is that when a fresh tea bud is plucked from the tea tree, it goes through a series of processes before it becomes a tea leaf waiting to be brewed, which is a process that contains thousands of years of Chinese history. When the tea leaves meet Catherine, Yi Annie, teacups with occult symbols, and water in thermos cups in a foreign country after a series of transportations, and then are brewed, is this an accident or a predestination?

In this process, when the tea carrying the information of Oriental culture enters the West, it is also using the Eastern culture to make its influence in the process of being "domesticated" by the soil and traditions of Western culture. A variety of ideas and behaviors are fully stretched and extended through the medium of tea, and finally a new balance is born—using oriental tea to do Western-style divination.

"Now, start thinking about the question you want to ask me and drink the tea."

While Iannie was indulging in the thought of tea, Catherine's voice seemed to come from afar.

Anne blew on the slightly cooled tea and began to drink it. At the same time, I began to think: What should I ask? Does Catherine know the truth about Steven and the Mystery Edition? What is the truth about the strange events that Noah experienced? What does the weird commissioner Infils who met yesterday know? ……

"Now, when your tea is almost finished, take the cup in your left hand, quickly turn it three times in a clockwise direction, turn the teacup sideways so that the tea leaves flow to the rim, and then turn the cup upside down on the coaster, count silently in your mind for 7 seconds, and then hand me the teacup."

Under Catherine's guidance, Iannie strictly followed the rules of "left hand", "clockwise", "three circles" and so on, which were full of mysteries, and then handed the upside-down teacup to Catherine along with the coaster.

Catherine lifted the teacup, set aside the coaster with a few tea leaves, and then turned the teacup mouth up with the handle facing Anne and began to study the shape of the tea leaves.

Catherine explained a little: "The handle part of the cup represents the present, and the other side away from the handle is the future above and the past below, and the shape of the tea leaves left at the bottom of the cup is your bad luck." ”