Lin Ran asked for a handful of Atai's hair, wrapped it carefully in yellow paper, and left the hospital after not staying long, she didn't have much idea about this matter, Ruan Xing was similar, he stayed here for a few more days, if he had a clue, he would have acted a long time ago.

"Little sister, do you still want to summon spirits?" For such a thing as taking hair, Ruan Xing's first thought was to summon spirits.

Lin Ran shook her head, "The conjuring is useless for the time being, I have other uses for this hair, but now we have to go to the police station." ”

"What are you doing at the police station?"

"Those few cases of the disappearance of children, maybe there are any eyebrows, this kind of thing, the local police station should have a case record, right?"

Ruan Xing shrugged, "I've looked at those case files before, and I didn't see anything special. ”

"Then look at it again."

“……”

Ruan Xing sighed and followed Lin Ran to the police station.

Once born and twice matured, Ruan Xing has already established a good relationship with the local police station, Lin Ran found that although this person is usually a little out of tune, he is sleek and exquisite, and he has already called others a brother in just a few days.

Ruan Xing accompanied Lin Ran through the case file again.

The village is called Yutou Village, mainly relying on fish farming and fishing for a living, in recent years slowly developed tourism, but this sea view is not good, not many people come to travel, and the village is a little backward, the situation of staying behind is more serious, most of the younger generation have gone out to work, leaving behind are some old people, children and women.

According to records, there have been a total of five cases of missing people in the past two years, all of which are children in their teens or even younger, three of which are parents who found that their children were not in the room when they got up early in the morning, and the doors were locked well, and the children did not know where they had gone, and they couldn't find them, just like Atai's mother said, and two were lost when the children ran out to play after dinner, and never came back.

There aren't many sections of the village where surveillance is installed, and the kids all seem to have walked through the same place in the end.

Lin Ran found a police officer and asked, "Is this monitoring location near the sea?" ”

"Yes, there is a small fish shop in this area, and the fish caught by the fishermen will be transported to the fish shop first, and this is the monitoring installed there."

Lin Ran and Ruan Xing glanced at each other, their eyes heavy.

After leaving the police station, Ruan Xing grabbed a handful of grass casually, muttered something in his mouth, and shook his head with a frown and a face full of embarrassment.

Lin Ran crossed his arms and looked at it for a while, and when he saw that he threw the grass away, he took a moment to ask, "Are you a miscellaneous?" ”

Hexagram arithmetic is actually a kind of prediction technique, there are a variety of divination methods, the more common oracle bone divination, easy to occupy, elephant divination, astrology, formula, and a kind of miscellaneous arithmetic that circulates among the people, there is no system theory, even the classic records are very few, relying on word of mouth from generation to generation, passed on between master and apprentice.

Miscellaneous occupation can occupy anything, and most of the results have their own conventional standards, and Ruan Xing now uses the grass divination in miscellaneous occupation.

Ruan Xing clapped his hands and smiled: "I know a little bit of all kinds of divination, but the best thing is astrology, but now I can't see the stars in broad daylight, so I can only use other ......."

As he spoke, he came over, his eyes lit up: "Little sister, I heard that you can also do divination?" ”

"I'm not proficient in this way, so I can probably measure good fortune and bad luck." Lin Ran said lightly: "Let's get down to business, those cases of missing children seem to have something to do with the sea, if you connect the matter of Atai, those children may have received some kind of 'calling' and ran to the beach when no one was around." ”

Ruan Xing nodded in agreement with this conjecture, "But what is there in the sea that can manipulate humans like a dementor?" I've heard of a siren singing a song in Western mythology to bewitch passing fishing boats, but that's just a legend, and in this day and age, many things don't hold true. ”

Lin Ran was noncommittal, "There are more magical things about the sea, but there are things we haven't discovered yet." ”

She looked at the extraordinary on her wrist, and after eating and drinking, the extraordinary began to doze off, and she was already sleeping soundly on her feet.

Before seeing the extraordinary, she also thought that there were no more Jiao in this world, but it turned out that they were just multiplying in a way that humans did not know.

And some supernatural phenomena cannot be explained clearly by modern science.

Ruan Xing shook his head, "Okay, let's go to Yutou Village first, Atai's matter needs to be resolved, but I haven't caught the water ghost yet, and we will rent a boat tomorrow to catch the water ghost." ”

Lin Ran didn't have any opinions.

There is only one road from the town to Yutou Village, Lin Ran originally wanted to take a taxi directly, but Ruan Xing looked at the shape of a willow tree next to him, pinched his fingers, and said: "Little sister, the hexagram shows that we are suitable for taking the bus." ”

Lin Ran: "......"

So she doesn't like divination for herself, so it's really too troublesome to do a hexagram before doing anything.

However, since Ruan Xing insisted, Lin Ran didn't care, and followed the bus.

The terminal of this bus is Yutou Village, and there is no one at Lin Ran's pick-up point, so I casually found a window position and looked out the window boredly.

There was a school in the middle, and it was just when school was out, and a group of middle school students came up, and the whole carriage instantly became crowded and cluttered.

"Qingqing, come here, don't stand next to Cui Shi, my mother said, he's dirty, and you'll get sick if you play with him!"

A girl with a double ponytail pulled another girl named Qingqing, and her voice was not lowered at all, and everyone nearby could hear it.

The two girls squeezed to the other end of the carriage, and the other children spontaneously stood to the side, isolating a skinny boy to the side.

The boy was wearing an old school uniform and carrying an old school bag, his clothes were a little dirty, his hair was oily as if he hadn't been washed for a few days, the whole person was a little sloppy, and there was a bit of a strange smell on his body.

Lin Ran couldn't help but look at him a few more times, not that she didn't think that this boy was rough, but that she found that this boy actually had a little yin on his body.

Several children were chattering and discussing various things on the side, as if there were endless topics, laughter and laughter, the boy named Cui Shi looked in their direction, probably knowing that he couldn't blend in, so he silently looked away, pulled the armrest and lowered his head.

His forehead hair was a little long, covering his eyes and not being able to see the real gaze, and he stood quietly to the side, as if immersed in his own world.

The bus drove farther and farther, and there were fewer and fewer people in the car, and when they arrived at the last stop in Yutou Village, there were only Lin Ran Ruan Xing and a few middle school students left in the bus, including Cui Shi.

As soon as the car door opened, several children got out of the car in a hurry, Cui Shi was a few steps behind and walked slowly, Lin Ran and Ruan Xing were at the back.

The children were apparently from Yutou Village, but they went to school in the town.

"Little sister, why do you keep staring at Cui Shi?" Ruan Xing helped her drag the suitcase, and when he was in the car, he found that Lin Ran's eyes fell on Cui Shi from time to time, and he couldn't help but ask when he got out of the car.

"Didn't you notice a little yin in him?"

Ruan Xing blinked, looking natural, "Yes, yes, but their family is in the funeral paper business, so it's not surprising." ”

Lin Ran was slightly stunned, and Ruan Xing explained to her: "After Atai's accident, I asked a few children who had a good time with him, and those students were all from the village, this village is so big, they all know each other, and they can find out if they ask about anything." ”

"The child's name is Cui Shi, his father died early, his mother makes a living by tying paper, there is someone in the village who has died, the wreath paper man or something is Cui Shi's mother, Cui's mother usually doesn't care much about this child, Cui Shi doesn't pay attention to appearance, the whole person is a little sloppy, many people in the village are more taboo about this kind of funeral thing, even the parents and elders with other children are taught not to play with Cui Shi, it will be contaminated with bad luck, so the child is isolated, and his personality has become a little melancholy, and he doesn't like to communicate with people."

Ruan Xing shook his head and sighed, the village is more traditional and superstitious, and this environment has contributed to Cui Shi's character, and no one can reason.

Lin Ran fell silent, and the children walked very fast, widening the distance between them and them, and the two of them did not go with the group of children, but just walked to the B&B next to them.

The salty and wet sea breeze blew on the face, bringing a faint fishy smell, and the sun was about to set, and the whole sky was dyed orange.

Lin Ran saw a spear-shaped thing standing tall on the beach in the distance, and couldn't help asking, "What is that?" ”

Ruan Xing followed her line of sight and laughed, "Well, it's going to start almost ten years ago." ”

As soon as he got up, Lin Ran knew that he was going to have another long article next, and just wanted him to be concise, but Ruan Xing couldn't stop as soon as he spoke.

"Ten years ago, Yutou Village was mainly fishing and raising fish, and there were more young people in the village than now, but there was a strong typhoon in one year, and the typhoon prevention measures at that time were not as good as now, Yutou Village was close to the sea, and every household could only lock the doors and windows and hide in the house, after most of the day, the wind and waves were small, and the typhoon seemed to be transiting, and all the young men in Yutou Village went to the beach to clean up the fishing rafts together, which was a valuable thing, and it was a little bit to be rescued, and guess what?"

Ruan Xing stopped suddenly, just waiting for her to ask.

Lin Ran looked at him silently, and the system shook the antenna accordingly.

[I should have played with you, but I turned a blind eye~]

“……”

Unable to wait for the following, Ruan Xing suddenly felt bored, so he simply stopped selling Guanzi, "As a result, the typhoon just left for half an hour, and then turned around and came back, everyone was caught off guard, the fishing rafts on the beach were all blown off, and those young men were also swept into the sea, and almost all the young men in the village died......"

The power of nature is so great, and at that time, human beings seem extraordinarily small in front of nature.

Lin Ran's eyes moved slightly, "So many people died at once, I'm afraid it's haunted." ”

"Eh, young lady is right!" Ruan Xing shook his head and said: "The destructive power of the typhoon is too great, the road to the village is blocked, and it took two days to be opened, and only then did the police come to help retrieve the corpses, and the corpses were piled up on the beach." In the summer, the corpse was soaked in the sea, all smelly, and at night people were sent to guard the sea, but the next day they were found dead in the sea, and it was like this for several days in a row, and everyone was afraid to come. ”

This kind of thing, in Lin Ran's view, is actually that the person who died in the sea has become a water ghost, looking for a replacement ghost, but if such a person dies at one time, the entire village will be more or less affected, and it will not recover in the short term.

"So, this spear is for demon suppression."

Ruan Xing nodded, "Yes, the local Feng Shui gentleman was invited to set up a special location to set up this spear, and the ghost spirit here was suppressed, and the village gradually returned to normal, but what happened back then had a great impact, and almost all the young men in a village were gone, leaving only the old people, women and children, and it is only today that they are slowly recovering." ”

Survival by the sea, relying on the sea to make a living has been risky since ancient times, and from time to time they have to deal with various harsh natural conditions, so before going out to sea, fishermen often have to burn incense and worship the gods, pray for the safety of the sea, and also bless the ability to catch big fish.

While talking, Ruan Xing took her to the B&B and opened a room, this time Lin Ran refused Ruan Xing's dinner invitation and planned to feed Extraordinary in the room.

The most common food on the seaside is seafood, and Extraordinary has shown an extraordinary passion for seafood, and in the blink of an eye, a few fish have been swallowed.

The system hurriedly made a small report: [Host host, you see that it is so edible, sooner or later it will eat you poor, or the system is easy to feed, you don't have to worry about eating or wearing~O(∩_∩)O]

The corners of Lin Ran's mouth twitched, and she squinted her eyes, "Your energy bottle wasn't filled by Dad?" You loser, how much money did Dad charge you, you have passed the hundred levels now, you can't see for yourself! Dad can clear the level even with his eyes closed! ”

[……]

The system turned silently.

After dinner, Lin Ran decided to walk around the village and go to the beach by the way.

At this time, it was the time for every family to have dinner, Lin Ran didn't know the way, just walked along the village, and suddenly a little fat man rushed over in a panic and almost hit her.

Lin Ran gave him a slight hand, stabilized him, and recognized the little fat man as one of the several middle school students who had been on the bus before.

"Why are you in a panic, is someone chasing you from behind?"

The little fat man was still a little frightened, and when he saw that it was a good-looking sister, he shook his head and whispered, "No, it's nothing, I'm playing with others." ”

After saying that, he quickly ran away, Lin Ran looked at it, didn't pay much attention, put his hands in his pockets and went to the beach.

The sea has receded, and there are still a lot of sand crabs on the beach, and the water here is relatively muddy, leaving a layer of white foam on the beach.

Extraordinary jumped off her wrist and swam happily towards the sea, Lin Ran thought about it, anyway, Jiao, a creature like Jiao, is born to understand water, and with extraordinary ability, things in the sea generally can't help it.