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On the night of early July, the sun went down, the heat has not dissipated, the people who have worked all day follow the habit of sunrise and sunset to rest early, the streets of the countryside are free of noisy human voices, everything is quiet, only the faint sound of the wind in the ears and the intermittent sound of insects, the Yishui town in the southwest of the capital is bathed in this piece of silence. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The environment in the mountains is much better than that of the metropolis, not to mention the fresh air, the visibility is good, the stars in the sky appear so crystal clear, like a glowing diamond falling in the blue night sky, occasionally one or two meteors like fluorescent brushes across the sky, and disappear silently. Such a beautiful night view has remained unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, but this night in early July is destined to be extraordinary. Suddenly, there were more meteors, and they all seemed to be snowing, and then there was a buzzing sound in the distance, as if an airplane was flying, and the sound slowly became louder and closer, and it seemed that the sound of a train deliberately crushing the railroad tracks, and the earth began to tremble, as if something was about to come out of the ground. Suddenly, a dazzling white light streaked across the sky, and several oxen fell silently in a cattle pen in a small col outside the town, and the wilderness was silent again.

"Ah, Qixi Festival, you have one less night than Brazil......" Looking at the joke of spoofing Qixi on the Internet, Professor Zhou Zhengtian turned off the computer in frustration. It's another Tanabata Festival, it seems that tonight is going to be spent alone again, thinking about the grand goals set for himself at the beginning of the year, and then thinking about the current situation of getting nothing now, he shook his head with a wry smile. The lights are already bright outside the window, and the streets are still full of traffic, giving a sense of urgency that is unique to the city. What to do? I looked at the computer I had just turned off, stayed at home and surfed the Internet, or went out for a walk, hesitated repeatedly, and finally decided to go out to have a look, after all, there was a better chance of contact with people outside, so he took his mobile phone and keys and went out.

The road is bustling with pedestrians, including couples holding hands, office workers in a hurry, and flower sellers at various crossings. It seems that such a scene existed before, but today it is very real. Professor Zhou walked slowly along the periphery of the campus, sometimes he couldn't help but feel a sour feeling in his heart, he was about to be 30 years old, his family was not successful, his name was not established, and he was still alone, and even his feelings were blank. The youngest professor in the School of Physics, so what, it still can't make up for the lack of emotion, and Qixi has to be spent alone. The problem of science can be solved with more effort, but how can I not overcome that hurdle emotionally, what should I do?

Thinking about it, he unconsciously walked into the riverside park, at this time the park is very lively, the facilities are relatively perfect, the high-intensity artificial light source illuminates the small square in the center of the park as if it is day, a large group of aunts are dancing there square dance, there is an open-air bar at the edge of the square near the river, there are a lot of talkers sitting on the wooden chairs, there are also some single men and women, some drink alone, and some stand alone by the river in a daze. The material world has been very prosperous, the prosperous material life has given birth to a large number of leftover men and women, they have worked hard for the prosperity of the society, and also for their own happy life, but there is no corresponding humanistic quality to solve the confusion of their spiritual world, in this touching day can only go to the park alone to feel the breath of people.

Professor Zhou slowly swayed forward along the riverside road, the shadows cast by the trees on the side of the road regularly passing over his shoulders. Suddenly he stopped, and a familiar figure jumped into view, only to see a girl in a red dress on the seat by the river looking at the sky in a daze, this girl had delicate facial features, fair skin, and long hair flowing in the summer evening breeze. "Lan Xingyi? Why is she here, did she also come out for Tanabata? Professor Zhou thought to himself. This girl was a student he taught when she was an undergraduate, and he was still a teaching assistant at that time, and he was often responsible for the experimental tutoring and homework correction of undergraduates. Just took two steps, and stopped like an electric shock, and suddenly he realized that it was Tanabata tonight, and he was a teacher, and he was a male teacher, so it seemed a little inappropriate to go in this way, so he quickly stopped his pace and turned around, and the girl didn't notice it.

After bypassing the girl, Professor Zhou continued to walk forward, looking back from time to time, and became more and more confused. There is no moon tonight, and the weather is not bad, but it is not easy to see the stars in the city shrouded in haze, why is Lan Xingyi still looking at the sky so distractedly, she originally studied astronomy, and after graduating from the undergraduate degree, she was suddenly admitted to the graduate school of humanities, and the tutor is An Guangsha, the most famous professor of the college of humanities.

"Hey, Professor Zhou, come, come over for a drink!" Suddenly, a man's voice interrupted Professor Zhou's train of thought, and Professor Zhou listened to the familiar voice, and turned his head to see that his college classmate Wang Longqian was drinking with his wife sitting at a table in the bar.

"Ha, Director Wang, where are you drinking here?" Professor Zhou turned around and replied, walking to the table where Director Wang was drinking.

"Come, Professor Zhou, sit down and have a drink!" Director Wang greeted warmly.

"No, I'm still busy, I'll go back after a turn, why am I embarrassed to disturb your two-person world, haha!" Professor Zhou prevaricated.

"What's the matter with you at night? Come on, do it! Waiter, add a glass of wine! Director Wang skillfully instructed the waiter to pull over the bench for Professor Zhou to sit down, and Professor Zhou didn't have any better reason to refuse, so he had to sit on the bench slowly.

"How's it going?"

"It's okay." Professor Zhou's heart tightened and said perfunctorily.

"That ......" Director Wang was just about to continue to ask something, when suddenly the mobile phone rang rapidly, he took out his mobile phone and looked at it, he didn't dare to slack off, stood up and came to the side to answer the phone. Only the director's wife and Professor Zhou were left on the wine table, and the two of them didn't speak, just watched Director Wang talking on the phone. The call was brief, and Director Wang was back after a while.

"What's the matter?" The director's wife asked with concern.

"It's a bit of a hurry, we need to go back right away!" Director Wang spoke quickly.

"Oh, Lao Zhou, I'm really embarrassed, I wanted to have a drink with you, but I'm a little urgent, you see my chore, I need to be on call 24 hours a day, on call! I can't drink with you today, I have to go first, next time I'll invite you! ”

"Ah, it's okay, you can get busy first!" Professor Zhou felt suddenly relieved, and felt a little awkward when he heard the old word in Director Wang's mouth. At this time, the wine had already come up, and looking at the back of Director Wang leaving in a hurry, many past events came to mind. Wang Longqian and Professor Zhou are in the same class, and they are also in a dormitory, Wang Longqian is the class leader, and later went out to take the civil service examination after graduating from the bachelor's degree, and slowly climbed to the position of deputy director of the Central Bureau of Statistics and Investigation. He doesn't have a lot of relationships with this person, because he feels that this person has a very split personality, sometimes he has a little sense of justice, like an angry young man, and sometimes, he is the kind of person who sharpens his head and climbs up, and he will also say that he is righteous and awe-inspiring. After graduation, I didn't have much contact with him, and later I got in touch again because I had to work together on a special national project, and it was only a superficial friendship. He feels that this old classmate has a lot of control, people, maybe it's just different, hehe! Thinking about it, he unconsciously wanted to take a sip of wine, but when he lowered his head, he suddenly found that he was covered by a huge black shadow, he was very surprised, and looked up to see that Lan Xingyi, the female graduate student who was looking up at the sky just now, was smiling at her: "Oh, Professor Zhou, drinking here alone!" ”

"Well, yes, why are you here too!"

"Just like you!"

"Oh" Professor Zhou probably heard what she meant, and he didn't insist on picking it out, so he finally drank a little wine to escape from reality, and there was no need to delve into the current situation of those lost souls. So he changed the topic and asked, "Just now I saw you sitting alone on a bench looking at the sky in a daze, why are you still interested in astronomy?" ”

"Ah, yes!"

"Ha, but the smog is so bad, you can't see anything when you look at the sky!"

"How come, you see Vega is there!" Professor Zhou looked in the direction of Lan Xingyi's finger, and sure enough, he saw a star looming in the weak place of the haze in the middle sky.

"Yes, I haven't forgotten anything professional!"

"According to online reports, there are still meteor showers in the past two days!"

"Oh, yes" Professor Zhou also suddenly remembered that he had seen a report about a meteor shower in the morning, and the news also said that outer space seemed to be not very peaceful recently, and there were many astronomical phenomena. I just saw the report in the morning

, forget now, it seems that the pressure and life state have made my memory much worse than before, and I am engaged in science! Alas, the current state must be changed quickly, ah, why did you think of a topic of negative energy again, Professor Zhou immediately changed the topic: "When you graduated from the undergraduate program, your grades were quite good, why did you suddenly transfer from the Department of Astronomy to the School of Humanities to take the postgraduate examination?" ”

"I think the humanities are better problem-solving than the natural sciences!"

"No, you're saying that god-like religion is a better solution than scientists?"

"Yes, if you don't believe it, then you can use scientific methods to solve the current problem of leftover men and women, right?"

"Hahaha, that's a problem!" Professor Zhou smiled helplessly. "In that case, then use your humanities to solve the problem of leftover men and women!"

"Haha, yes! I think that the current leftover men and women are because their humanistic qualities are not enough to control the material society they face, which is also related to the current social environment. The world in the information age is more open and transparent, and the speed of material development is difficult to catch up with people's demand for material consumption.

"Desire is a thing that can make people aggressive, successful, and make the world develop like never before, and you can't deny its benefits with one vote!"

"Yes, this involves the question of life positioning!"

The two argued for a night without any result, so they had to go home separately. Professor Zhou didn't have anything to do when he returned home, he lay on the bed after washing, and before going to bed, he habitually picked up his mobile phone to briefly browse the news, and soon a message came into view: A cattle slaughter incident occurred in Yishui Town! This morning, when a farmer living in Yishui Town got up in the morning to graze cattle, he found that several cows had died tragically in the cattle pen, some of the cattle had their eyes gouged out, and some of the houses were gone. The message is supposed to be forwarded, not reported by a professional reporter, and there are several pictures under the message, as if taken with a mobile phone, which are not very clear, and only a few dead cows can be seen lying on the ground. Professor Zhou looked at it carefully, but he couldn't see anything unusual, so he had no choice but to save the message address and wait for more accurate official news the next day.

When Professor Zhou turned on his phone again the next morning, he didn't find any report on the news about the cattle slaughter, and when he looked at the message he had collected last night, he couldn't open it. I can't get any relevant news from searching on the Internet, it seems that Director Wang's work efficiency was quite high last night, so I can't go to class first. He had just finished sorting out the package and the phone rang, it was Director Wang's phone: "Hey, Professor Zhou?" Is there a class today? ”

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"I thought you saw the news on your phone yesterday that there was a cattle slaughter incident in Yishui Town, which caused panic among the villagers in the local area, and the superiors demanded that the matter be thoroughly investigated as soon as possible, so all the consultants in the bureau immediately went to the headquarters for a meeting!"

"Well, I saw the news, I'll go over right away!" After speaking, Professor Zhou hung up the phone, immediately called the teaching assistant again, and asked him to correct the mistakes in the students' homework this morning, and then drove to the headquarters of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics. By the time he arrived in the conference room, there were already several senior advisors there.

"Hi, Professor Zhou, here!" This was Mei Lin, a professor from the School of Life Sciences, her performance was a little out of harmony with the quiet atmosphere of the venue, and she didn't care, Professor Zhou smiled and nodded at her, and found a place to sit down. Most of the senior advisors present had met him before, and these people were all elites from major universities in the capital. An Guangsha, a professor in the Faculty of Humanities, is a stubborn old man, he is healthy, energetic, and speaks in a very loud voice, and he is an expert in the study of various ethnic cultures and religions. Mei Lin from the School of Life Sciences, in her thirties, is outgoing, lively, and even a little chattering, she is a fanatical alien life supporter, and she should be the most enthusiastic about the cattle slaughter incident in China this time. Feng Wenjing, a professor at the School of Psychology, is thirty-four or five years old, tall, fair-skinned, plump, wears glasses, and speaks softly. He was not particularly familiar with the other people, but he was familiar with them, Wang Tong, a professor in the School of Chemistry, was of medium height and dressed casually, as if he was an expert in materials science. Cheng Ke of the School of Information Sciences, a computer expert, has a relatively introverted personality, is a tall and thin man, and wears deep glasses. Li Zhen, a trace identification expert of the criminal police team, is an old man with gray hair and is in good health. There is also a woman in a police uniform, who is relatively small, named Zhong Shenxiu, and is a forensic doctor.

Not long after, Wei Dongbiao, director of the Office of the Bureau of Statistics, led Mo Shoucheng, director of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, and Wang Longqian, deputy director of the bureau, into the venue and sat on the rostrum. After the three of them sat down, Wang Longqian looked at Mo Shoucheng, and Director Mo nodded to indicate that he could start. Wang Long cleared his throat and said: "Experts and professors, I have already mentioned it to you when I called before, and here is a brief introduction, yesterday there was a legendary cattle slaughter incident in Yishui Town, southwest of the capital. According to the information sent by the local police, the specific situation is similar to those cattle slaughter incidents reported abroad, there is no bloodstain, only wounds, the blood in the dead cow's body has also been drained, some of the cow's tongue is gone, some of the houses are missing, and some are missing an eye. The local police had no way to give a reasonable explanation, and the murderer was even more difficult to find, and there was no way to solve the case, which caused extreme panic in the local area. Now some villagers even make their own guns to protect their livestock, which is a very big safety hazard for the society, and the higher authorities have ordered us to investigate the matter thoroughly. Without further ado, we must act now and organize people to go to the scene of the crime now. ”

After discussion, it was finally decided to send an expert investigation team to the scene to find out, led by Deputy Director Wang Longqian, Director Wei Dongbiao, trace identification expert Li Zhen, biology professor Mei Lin, physics professor Zhou Zhengtian, chemistry professor Wang Tong, and forensic doctor Zhong Shenxiu. After a little preparation, everyone headed towards Yishui Town.