Xia Yong looked down and thought to himself that this place was so remote and isolated from the world, not to mention driving, even if it was not easy to fly here by helicopter.

At the foot of the hill is a large valley with gentle terrain, and in the bright moonlight, there is a village in the valley.

In the night, a bird's-eye view of Baijia Village is very desolate, scattered with dozens of small wooden houses, lifeless, most of them are pitch black, only a few wooden houses flickering with faint firelight.

Comrade Liu looked at the tablet screen in his hand, and the four of them walked down the slope for about 40 minutes to the edge of Huangjia Village.

The entrance of Huangjia Village is a meadow, the four of them rode slowly forward, and suddenly rushed out of the village, these people were wearing tattered clothes, all holding torches, and holding wooden sticks in their hands, led by a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, he looked nervous at first, when he saw the two pillars on the horse, his face became surprised and excited, and shouted: "It's Brother Zhuzi!" He ran to the second pillar horse and said, "Brother Zhuzi, why did you come here at night?" ”

Erzhuzi said: "Little dog, what are you doing here?" ”

The boy, named Little Dog, said: "There have been accidents in the village these days, so I take a few people to patrol at night. He asked rhetorically: "Brother Zhuzi, why are you here?" He looked at Comrade Liu and the others again and said, "Who are they?" ”

Erzhu immediately said proudly: "Little dog, these three are amazing, they are inspectors from the city!" I made a special trip to your village to solve the case! He turned around and said, "Report, his name is Huang Ergou, and he is the nephew of the village chief." ”

Comrade Liu asked coldly: "What about the village chief?" ”

When the little dog saw that the experts in the city had arrived, he was also very excited and said, "My uncle is sleeping, and I will take you to find him!" After saying that, he hurried towards the village.

Comrade Liu dismounted and followed the little dog to a dilapidated wooden house, where the little dog knocked on the door and shouted: "Uncle! Uncle! Hurry up, you're coming! Here it comes! ”

As soon as the lights in the house were on, there was a sound of footsteps, the wooden door slowly opened, and a scrawny old man poked his head out, coughed a few times, and said weakly: "Little dog, what are you shouting, what are you coming?" ”

The little dog said, "Uncle, the experts in the city are here!" ”

The old man rubbed his eyes and said in surprise, "Huh? ”

Erzhuzi said: "Village chief, these three are experts from the city, who have come to investigate the missing people in your village. ”

The old man said, "Ah! Please come in, please come in! "Invite Comrade Liu and others into the house.

Xia Yong and Qiu Tian looked at the room, which was poor and white, and there was only an old wooden bed in it. Erzhu and the little dog both entered the house with torches, and the room was much brighter, and Comrade Liu looked at the tablet in his hand from time to time.

The old man was about sixty years of age, short and thin, with gray hair, dressed in tattered clothes, and had a very strong hunchback, and looked very old.

Comrade Liu had a gloomy face and asked, "You are the village chief of Huangjia Village?" ”

The old man said nervously: "Yes, yes, report expert, I am the village chief here, and my name is Huang Zhonghou." ”

Comrade Liu nodded, and took out a small and peculiar instrument from his backpack, which was silver-gray, similar to a video camera, small in size, with a clear screen in the back and a lens in the front. Comrade Liu put it on the wooden bed, adjusted the angle, and asked, "Village Chief Huang, how many people are missing now?" ”

When Erzhuzi and Little Dog saw Comrade Liu take out this novelty gadget, they were immediately full of admiration and admiration for the three commissioners.

Xia Yong knew that it should be a video device, which could record the investigation process and save it as data, but he didn't expect Comrade Liu to carry this with him.

Huang Zhonghou has lived in this village all his life, and the highest-ranking police officer he has ever seen is Huang Dafeng of Huang Changxiang, he has never seen people from outside the mountain, where has he seen this kind of scene, and stammered and replied: "...... Two...... More than 20 ......"

Comrade Liu glared and asked, "What?" You can't be sure of the exact number of people?! ”

Huang Zhonghou shuddered, and spoke even more nervously: "No...... No...... Report Expert ...... Just three days ago and yesterday, four more people entered the mountain and did not return...... I don't know if it's missing too. ”

Xia Yong saw that the old man was too nervous, and said with a smile: "Village Chief Huang, don't worry, speak slowly." Tell me about what's going on in this village these days? ”

Huang Zhonghou's mood was a little more stable, and he told the general situation of the strange disappearance of the villagers in Huangjia Village: a month ago, a villager named Huang Sanmao entered the mountain and did not come back for five or six days, and then Huang Fugui, the eldest son of Huang Lao's second family, went into the mountains to hunt and did not come back, and his younger brother Huang Fuxiong went into the mountains to find him three days later, but he also disappeared in the mountains. In this way, people began to disappear in Huangjia Village, and a total of seven people disappeared in the first half of the month.

Xia Yong asked: "Didn't your village organize the villagers to go into the mountains to look for it?" ”

Huang Zhonghou replied: "We organized people to search in the mountains several times, but there was no gain, so we sent people to Huang Changxiang to report the case, Captain Huang came with more than 20 people, plus people from our village, a total of more than 40 people, with a few dogs, went to many places, and searched in the mountains for three days, but no one was found. Later, Captain Huang took people back to his hometown, and our village people thought about waiting a few days to see the situation, maybe someone would come back by themselves, but I didn't expect that the people who went into the mountains would still be missing, and more and more people were missing, and more than ten people disappeared in the second half of the month, so we went to Huangchang Township to report the case.

Huang Zhonghou said one missing person after another, mentioning the names of many villagers, and everyone listened with bated breath. Xia Yong thought to himself that in such a remote village, it was a bit evil to have so many people disappeared inexplicably.

Comrade Liu said: "According to the worst-case scenario, twenty-four people have disappeared now? ”

Huang Zhonghou said nervously: "Yes, yes." ”

Xia Yong asked, "How many people are there in your village?" ”

Huang Zhonghou replied: "Report experts, there are a total of 97 people in our village. ”

Xia Yong said: "In the past month, in addition to the missing villagers, have other villagers also entered the mountains? ”

Huang Zhonghou nodded and said: "I have entered, our village is poor, the surrounding land is very barren, and we can't grow any crops, so we can hunt in the mountains on all sides, there are things to eat, people enter the mountains every day, and they will come back in half a day, and some will spend the night in the mountains." ”

Xia Yong said: "Are there any valuable products in the surrounding mountains? ”

Huang Zhonghou said: "There is nothing in this poor ravine. ”

Comrade Liu asked coldly: "Have any outsiders come here recently?" ”

Huang Zhonghou shook his head and said, "No, I haven't seen anyone from outside come for many years." ”

Xia Yong said: "Village Chief Huang, has something similar happened here before? Think about it, what can make these people go into the mountains and not return? ”

Huang Zhonghou said: "No. ”

Xia Yong became silent, touched his chin, and thought that this matter was very strange, and he couldn't find the reason for the disappearance of a villager. And now it is not even known what is going on with these missing people, are they still alive?

Comrade Liu suddenly said: "Village Chief Huang, where are the things you found when you went into the mountain?" ”

Huang Zhonghou said: "In ...... In this. Nervously, he pulled out a pile of things from under the wooden bed, a few tattered straw sandals, a few farm implements, and a broken basket. Comrade Liu, Xia Yong, and Qiu Tian immediately surrounded him, and Xia Yong took a torch and carefully observed these objects by the light of the fire, hoping to find clues from these physical evidence (but he never touched them).