Siwei Group provides them with the treatment of these born and dead detectives is still good, usually live in a hotel-managed apartment, each person's apartment is 100 square meters, the condition is quite good, the decoration and facilities are like a successful white-collar home, hotel-style management, flowers and fruits all year round.

Lou Lanfeng had a good night's rest, packed a few clothes early the next morning, took daily necessities, and packed them out of the house.

It is more than 600 kilometers to Linmeng in Lushan Province, and it is expected that as soon as I get to work at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, I will be able to go to the local public security liaison work, and then go directly to the scene of the crime.

Lou Lanfeng still drives the Volkswagen Tiguan, he drives very steadily, and he does not dare to be distracted by the urban road conditions, Lou Lanfeng hates irresponsible drivers on the road.

After getting on the highway, he connected with Xia Xi, and although he had already read the file, Xia Xi still briefly introduced the case again. It has been four days since Laogu Village, Qishan Town, Linmeng City, reported missing people in a row, and there were originally three people before and after, one woman and two men, all of whom were not more than 40 years old. Local police and town government officials have been stationed to investigate the situation and stabilize public opinion, but the investigation has not progressed, but a male town government staff member has disappeared during the period.

Lou Lanfeng felt strange: "This kind of case is an ordinary public security or criminal case, what does it have to do with us?" Do you suspect that these people have been captured by ghosts? ”

Xia Xi: "Don't go to a haunted house and sleep for two nights and then talk about ghosts, the world is so big that there are no surprises, beyond your imagination, this case is our initiative to intervene, this old aunt village is closely related to one of our projects, you go this time is actually a preventive investigation." ”

"Is it a cult? I've heard that there have been a lot of problems in this area in recent years. Lou Lanfeng expressed his opinion intuitively.

Xia Xi's old god is here: "Don't guess by yourself, I will tell you what you should tell, listen to me, work in our place, the less you know, the better, it means that things are not so serious." As far as I know, there is a group of biology experts from Agriculture and Forestry University who are active in the area, and you should keep your distance from them at work. ”

Lou Lanfeng: "In addition, I don't understand one thing, we were originally dealing with cases that the public security is not suitable for, why do we have to contact the local public security this time?" ”

Xia Xi: "Didn't I just say that this Dagu Village is a point for us, the relationship is extraordinary, and the relationship between the public security comrades who cooperate with the work and Dagu Village is not ordinary, since we have taken over Dagu Village, there will be more contact in the future, don't be an ordinary investigation, the background behind this is very deep, you have to have a good relationship, it will be of great help to your work." ”

There was no word for a while, and everyone fell silent.

After a while, Xia Xi cautiously asked Lou Lanfeng: "In the future, we will work together for a long time, I heard a little about your situation, and the leader talked to me yesterday afternoon." You know what I mean, right? What I want to ask is do you have any taboo topics? It's better for everyone to make it clear first. ”

Lou Lanfeng had been prepared for this kind of question, and he replied very dryly: "No! Just don't think of me as a monster. ”

Since Xia Xi said a few days ago, "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves, Phoenix Yu Fei" Lou Lanfeng has been mentally prepared, the group hosted, Jiangchen Company's implementation of more than 30 years of flower and leaf plan and the Phoenix Nirvana plan will gradually become known to insiders sooner or later, he doesn't know if he is the only Phoenix person, anyway, he has no escape from this identity.

Xia Xi laughed: "That's good, I'm afraid that you don't want to talk about this, and you can't talk about that." If we go out on field missions together in the future, we need to trust each other absolutely, many times it is life and death, I am not as lucky as you, my life is only once, I don't want to entrust it to a stranger. ”

Lou Lanfeng also laughed: "Don't worry, I will be more reliable than anyone else, at least I can do it even if I die thousands of times, I can still return to you." ”

This was a bit ambiguous, not like harassment but flirting, Xia Xi paused, and then asked, "Can you tell me what work you did before you came to the company?" ”

Lou Lanfeng replied, "No problem. After I left Jiangchen, I received various skills training, and in the past two years, I have spent time in the special brigades of various branches of the military, and I have been tortured by all kinds of training to the point that life is worse than death! ”

Xia Xi interjected, "When did you know about it...... How do you say that, identity? Mission? ”

Lou Lanfeng was silent for a while: "Two years ago. Although I was born as part of the Mosaic Project, it was not born once and for all, and I had to go through a major treatment. The treatment two years ago was long and painful, but I knew the truth after I was cured. ”

Xia Xi asked cautiously, "Did you resist at that time?" ”

Lou Lanfeng smiled: "That was a great change in my life, I have resisted, dazed, excited and longed, and in the end I still have to face reality." So I have to give it my all, otherwise how can I prove myself worth and continue to exist? So I gave up my interests and the career I wanted to pursue and concentrate on learning everything related to my current job! ”

Xia Xi laughed: "Isn't it your career to work here?" It's all the same. ”

There was a hint of stubbornness in Lou Lanfeng's tone, and she looked green and cute in Xia Xi's eyes: "This is not my career, this is my fate!" I also want to ask you, this job may be sacrificed so much, are you not afraid to see that the Operations Division has been replaced one after another? Why do you have to do it? ”

Xia Xi replied briefly: "Because I like it!" ”

At noon he ate instant noodles at a rest stop and continued on his way. Along the way, Xia Xi didn't ask any more questions, the cooperation time in the future is very long, some are time to talk, trust and goodwill need to be accumulated slowly, and asking too many interrogation-like questions can easily cause disgust.

The pairing of field operators in the Ministry of the Dark World has actually formed some kind of unspoken rule, like the FBI in the United States, which is basically a mixed work of men and women. This is the most efficient and sustainable way to work together. But many of the combinations end up secretly developing into couple-like relationships. Management turns a blind eye to this relationship, and seems to be using it to stabilize the relationship with the executives, consciously or unconsciously, which is a gray area in management.

In fact, the relevant departments of the Ministry of the Dark World have their own clear discipline, and during the service in the Operations Division, they are not allowed to fall in love and get married, and the operators joke in private: We are police dogs, and once we open meat, we must retire.

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when he arrived at the Linmeng City Bureau, and the City Bureau sent a police officer named Zhou Yuxia to accompany him to Dagu Village.

Zhou Yuxia looks about twenty-five years old, with the rank of third-level superintendent on her shoulders, she is beautiful, and she is shrewd and heroic, worthy of being the flower of the police! A police uniform is close to her body, and I don't know if she was allowed to change it. It's just that people are sometimes enthusiastic and sometimes indifferent, which makes people scratch their heads and looks like they are spoiled.

She seems to like cars, and when she set off from the bureau, she rushed to drive: "I'm a local, of course I drive, and I know the road well!" Lou Lanfeng threw the key to her.

Zhou Yuxia has a hearty personality, she talked about everything along the way, she had little experience when it came to business trips, so she introduced all her trips around the world, and I don't know where she got so much leisure time as a front-line policeman. Time passed quickly, and after more than an hour, I passed by Qishan Town without stopping, and went directly to Dagu Village.

At this time, it is already sunset, the twilight is shrouded, the birds are in bursts, and the mountain roads are in disrepair, becoming more and more bumpy. As far as the eye can see, the mountains are not high, they belong to the continuous hills, passing by a farmhouse, Zhou Yuxia stopped the car and said: "Go to the toilet here, and there will be no place to go in a hurry." ”

The owner of the farmhouse was very enthusiastic, and a black dog followed him wherever he went, and he came over and handed over a cigarette, but Lou Lanfeng declined. The black dog smelled the Loulan wind, snorted and ran away.

After getting in the car and continuing to move forward, Lou Lanfeng asked Zhou Yuxia: "Big sister, how far is it from this aunt village?" ”

Zhou Yuxia came to her senses again and glanced at him: "If your mouth is not sweet enough, call me Officer Zhou, what a big girl!" This village is one of the most remote villages in our city, and I grew up here, and it will be about half an hour away. I contacted the inside and they waited for us to have dinner together. ”

Lou Lanfeng continued to ask: "Then you understand the situation, what do you think of this incident?" ”

Zhou Yuxia sneered a few times, with the posture of an old policeman: "If this happened thirty years ago, it would not be unusual at all, even now, one or two are very common." ”

Lou Lanfeng's inquiry was very sincere: "How do you say this?" ”

Zhou Yuxia glanced at Lou Lanfeng and said: "Our Dagu Village used to be a beggar village, and since ancient times, once there was a natural or man-made disaster, the whole village would go out to beg for food. After the liberation, the crooked trend was stopped for more than 20 years, but in the eighties and nineties, the atmosphere was even more finished, and I still couldn't eat enough to really ask for food, and then I went out to ask for money when I was full of food and drink! There are many people who have made a fortune by reaching out all over the world! ”

"So the personnel in this village have always been difficult to manage, and then the town cadres engaged in contracting, and they still couldn't keep an eye on people by pairing, and they ran out a few without paying attention, and after a while they were sent back, and then ran away again after a while, not to mention losing a handful of people, even if the whole village ran a small half of the people, it was not a thing."

Lou Lanfeng interjected: "The family who goes out to ask for money will know the situation, which is different from going missing." ”

Zhou Yuxia laughed a few more times, and then said: "People in the city have a common problem, that is, they underestimate the flowery intestines of rural people. The people in the city have a small three-day fight and endless trouble, and if the trouble is big, it is nothing more than a divorce. And if the eldest girl and little daughter-in-law of our aunt village cheat, there is a great possibility that she will run away with a man and never come back for the rest of her life, which is much happier than the people in the city! The people in our village have a bad foundation and a low sense of morality, what kind of good people can you say that your ancestors have been lazy for generations? Elopement used to be common, so there were fewer people in the family, and it was really uncertain whether they ran away or not. What is it called? This is called having no permanent property at home, and the three views are not correct! ”

Lou Lanfeng interjected again: "Is this too much, I heard that you have a lot to do with this village." ”

Zhou Yuxia was confident: "So what, you can't cherish yourself with a broom!" I'll tell you the truth! However, in recent years, the situation has changed a lot, and the cultivation of traditional Chinese medicine in our village has improved somewhat, and many people have their own businesses, and they have gradually reduced the amount of money they ask for. Even if there are still people who go out to ask for it, the situation has also changed, basically concentrated in the Spring Festival after the agricultural slack, and the people you see on the roadside in the city who wipe the car and ask for money are almost this kind of people, but now is the busy season after the autumn, and it stands to reason that it is not the time to go out to fish the world. ”

Zhou Yuxia shook her head to herself: "And what kind of combination is one woman and two men?" It's not enough points! ”

Lou Lanfeng added: "Later, a male staff member of the town government was added. ”

Zhou Yuxia glanced at him: "You mean they ran away together?" ”

"I didn't say that!"

The trees on the side of the road gradually got taller, and the road conditions were worse, sometimes there was a cliff on one side of the mountain wall, and the sky in the mountain seemed to be much darker than the plain, Zhou Yuxia took the initiative to turn on the headlights.

The car got higher and higher, turned a few peaks, and a little light lit up in the col in the distance in the middle of the mountain, Zhou Yuxia said excitedly: "That's our aunt village!" ”

When I entered the village, it was completely dark, and every house was brightly lit. There is a short street in the village, and there are basically no people on the road, and occasionally people are in a hurry. Shops and restaurants are already closing, but even when they do, they don't turn off their lights.

The strangest thing is that this village does not have the most common dogs in the countryside, not a single one.

The investigators were still concentrated in the village department, and they did not show any special excitement when they arrived. The village director, also surnamed Zhou, is a stocky man of about forty years old, with a black and red face, and he is full of anger when he speaks, and after shaking hands with Lou Lanfeng, he said, "Let's talk while eating." So the group of people came to a small restaurant that was still open on the edge of the village.

The restaurant was opened by a young couple, who seemed to be in a hurry, and the impatience was already written on their faces with the meaning that you had finally arrived.

Lou Lanfeng was the last to enter the door, standing at the door of the hotel and looking out, it was a while before and after, the family was closed, the street was completely empty, the public facilities in the village were relatively simple, there were two lights on a street, and they were lit up early, which looked a little desolate.