After that, we asked some more questions, told the policemen to leave, and then went to Zhang Yihan, and when we found her, she was interrogating Li Xia.

We looked outside the window for a while, and found that it was Zhang Yihan who was talking all the time, and Li Xia just looked at Zhang Yihan expressionlessly, without saying a word.

We stood outside the window for about ten minutes before Zhang Yihan saw me and Zhao Mingzhu.

She was surprised to notice that we had suddenly appeared outside the interrogation room, and hurried out to meet us.

Looking at her and Li Xia's haggard looks, I knew that she should have never let Li Xia rest, and she definitely didn't rest herself.

Xiao Zhang, did Ge Lao and Xiaotian mention Lotus Village to you before they disappeared? As soon as Zhao Mingzhu saw Zhang Yihan, he asked in a deep voice. Jin Zhijian and the three of them had an accident after going to Lotus Village, of course he would guess if Ge Lao and Zhao Xiaotian would also go to Lotus Village? The son is missing, how can he not be in a hurry as a father.

Lotus Village? Zhang Yihan frowned: I mentioned this place, because the corpse that Jin Zhijian asked someone to salvage from the well before was from Lotus Village. Team Zhao, do you mean that it is possible that Ge Lao and Zhao Xiaotian went to Lotus Village?

As soon as Zhang Yihan's words fell, Li Xia, who had been silent inside, suddenly said: Hmph, Lotus Village, dare to go, look for death!

Why can't you go to Lotus Village? Zhang Yihan turned around and asked.

Li Xia looked at Zhang Yihan with a sneer, and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly: If you want to solve the case, you have to go to Lotus Village, where you will definitely find what you want, haha

After Li Xia finished speaking, she suddenly laughed nervously, laughing presumptuously. I really don't understand how she became like this all of a sudden, she was normal the day before yesterday.

After that, no matter how we asked, Li Xia didn't speak, and even Zhao Mingzhu used his interrogation expert skills to ask a lot of words, but she still didn't say a word. It seems that experts also fail sometimes.

We had no choice but to ask someone to take Li Xia down and detain her first, and then think of other ways.

According to our inference, since Ge Lao and Zhao Xiaotian had mentioned Lotus Village, it was very likely that they also went there. Counting Jin Zhijian and the three of them, so far, among the five people who have gone, two are missing, two are unconscious, and one is insane.

What did they encounter in Lotus Village? I believe that this question is the one that Zhao Mingzhu and Zhang Yihan and I think about the most at this time.

After that, Zhao Mingzhu took me and Zhang Yihan to hold a temporary brigade meeting, which Zhao Mingzhu presided over, and the only participants were me and Zhang Yihan.

Zhao Mingzhu said: This case has now exceeded the expectations of the leaders above, and after the meeting of the party committee of our unsolved case investigation group, it was decided that the five brigades must solve the case within half a month, otherwise not only will I be out of class, but you will all have to follow me to roll out of the unsolved case team.

I saw unprecedented solemnity on Zhao Mingzhu's face. Since learning that Ge Lao and Zhao Xiaotian were missing yesterday, Zhao Mingzhu's style of acting has suddenly changed a lot. In the past, Zhao Dazui in Zhang Yihan's mouth would shout as long as he was in a little hurry, but this time he was surprisingly calm. In fact, we all know that he is more anxious than anyone else now, and it is not his black yarn hat that is anxious, but Zhao Xiaotian.

After some discussion, we decided to immediately arraign the important suspect Li Dapeng.

However, what is a little disappointed is that Li Dapeng and Li Xia have surprisingly consistent attitudes and never speak. He is still covered in wounds, and we dare not torture him.

But when we asked him if he knew about Lotus Village, he finally spoke. Like Li Xia, he suddenly said with a sneer: Hmph, Lotus Village dares to go and look for death!

This was the only sentence Li Dapeng said from the time he was interrogated by us to the end.

After asking someone to send Li Dapeng away, Zhao Mingzhu immediately arranged for me to go to the relevant personnel of the Baiqu County Public Security Bureau to investigate the matter of Lianhua Village.

When I asked a few people, I found out that Lianhua Village had been erased from the administrative planning area of Baiqu County 30 years ago, and if you wanted to check the information of that village, you had to go to the county records.

So I had to go to the person in charge of the county chronicle office, who was an old man in his fifties surnamed Wang. As soon as I explained the origin to him, Lao Wang's face changed suddenly.

Why do you want to check the information of Lotus Village? Lao Wang looked at me suspiciously.

Uncle Wang, there is a serial murder case related to this village, we also have two colleagues missing, one comrade is crazy, and two are now unconscious, all related to this village. So I'd like to look up the information about this village. I replied truthfully.

There is no need to check, no one who went to Lotus Village can come back intact. I advise you not to go, it's not a place for people to go. I waved my hand and went on with his own business.

Uncle Wang, this matter is very important to us, you can help me see the county chronicles of Lianhua Village! This is the task that Zhao Mingzhu arranged for me, if I can't get such a thing right, I will definitely be scolded when I go back.

Hum Lao Wang smiled sympathetically: There is no record of Lotus Village in the county chronicles, you really want to know, it's all here. Lao Wang nodded his head with his finger.

Immediately afterwards, what Lao Wang said made me tremble when I heard it.

He said that the village of Lotus no longer existed 35 years ago, and that the village had been growing lotus roots for generations. Originally, that village used to be relatively wealthy, but 30 years ago, a drought suddenly occurred that lasted for several years, and the lotus root harvest in that village was lost for several years. After that, I don't know what happened, it caused a plague, and almost half of the people in one village died overnight, and within three days there were corpses all over the field, and more than 500 people, in just five days, died not a single one.

Hearing Lao Wang say that, I couldn't calm down for a long time. No wonder the county chronicles didn't dare to write it, it turned out that such a big thing had happened in this village.

Immediately afterwards, Lao Wang said: In the next 30 years, the people who entered that village were either crazy or dead, and your colleagues were the best examples, do you still want to go?

Uncle Wang, then why did I hear that there are still people living there in Lotus Village? I said.

The people you are talking about do not live in Lotus Village, but at the foot of the mountain on the outskirts of Lotus Village, and there are indeed a few families living there, because they are very close to Lotus Village, so some people call them Lotus Village people. Lao Wang explained.

After chatting with Lao Wang for a while, I hurried back to my life.

After I told Zhao Mingzhu and Zhang Yihan about Lotus Village that I heard about Lotus Village, they immediately decided to go to Lotus Village to find Ge Lao and Zhao Xiaotian, to see people alive and corpses to death.

I know they don't believe in evil, but I don't really believe either.

Because it was close to evening that day, it was not safe to enter the mountain at night, so Zhao Mingzhu decided to enter the mountain early the next morning.

After a night of preparation, the three of us drove towards Lotus Village in a police car early the next morning.

When we arrived at the foot of the mountain in Lianhua Village, we saw several families living in a col at the bottom of the mountain.

When we arrived in the village, one of the families was having a funeral. You don't have to look at me to know that the dead person is the female corpse that Jin Zhijian asked someone to fish out from the bottom of the well in Guojia Village a few days ago. After the autopsy, the body was taken back by the family, and of course the funeral was organized.

We walked around the houses and learned that an old man and a young man had indeed come to his house the morning before yesterday. After asking him a few things about Lotus Village, they headed into the mountains. Later, three more people came in the afternoon, and the next day they saw the leader biting pigs in the pigsty of a villager across from them.

Obviously, the old and young at the beginning are likely to be Ge Lao and Zhao Xiaotian. Knowing that they are indeed going to Lotus Village, we have to go even if we don't want to go.

After saying goodbye to the villager, we headed for the mountain. Along the way, some villagers saw that we wanted to go to Lotus Village, and they all persuaded us not to go, basically everyone's persuasion was the same, that is: I advise you not to go to the mountains, there are powerful ghosts there.

In the face of this superstition, several of us just looked at each other and smiled.

We were well prepared, even with chemical suits and gas masks, even if there was any miasma in it that lost the nerves of the brain, we were not afraid. As for ghosts and the like, not many people in our line of work believe that Xiao Li's Infernal Affairs is just an exception.

One of us carried a backpack and strode up the hill.

With the living examples of Ge Lao and Jin Zhijian in front of us, we didn't dare to be careless, and not long after entering the mountain, when we found that the fog in the mountain was relatively heavy, we immediately put on the gas mask.

When we climbed the first hill, we found that the origin of Lotus Village was not just because the people in the village planted lotus roots, but because the village was surrounded by seven hills, and it looked like a huge lotus flower from a distance, so it was called Lotus Village.

According to Lao Wang, the center of these seven hills used to be a natural lake a long time ago, but when it dried up, it became a large swamp.

When we stood on the top of one of the hills and looked down, we saw that the valley was covered in a thick layer of fog, and we couldn't see anything.

Zhao Mingzhu asked me to take out the air monitor and take a look, and found that all the indicators were normal, but the humidity was heavier.

According to Lao Wang, in the past, all the people in Lotus Village lived under the valley, and according to normal thinking, we believe that Ge Lao and Zhao Xiaotian will definitely go to the valley to have a look. So we walked straight down the valley from the ridge where we were standing.

As we got closer and closer to the valley, the fog inside became thicker and thicker, and by the time we were halfway down, the visibility was only two or three meters, and if we didn't keep our distance within two or three meters, we couldn't see anyone at all.

Of the three, I was the youngest and played the role of a trail blazer. I held a mountain opener in one hand to open the way in front of me, and an air detector in the other, always paying attention to the indicators in the air. As I walked, I suddenly felt that there was no movement behind me, and when I turned my head to look, I found that Zhang Yihan and Zhao Mingzhu were gone.