At this moment, the scale and depth of the investigation led by the second team of operations have undoubtedly increased a lot compared with the previous investigation of the special team.

Under this kind of investigation, Lu Ming soon found that the investigation at the network level was actually meaningless.

In the network, there is no overlap in the activity areas of the deceased.

Because a significant number of the deceased did not use the Internet at all.

Of the more than 500 people who died, more than 30 did not even know how to use a computer. The mobile phone is only an elderly machine, and it has no functions other than making and sending calls and text messages. How can such a person be active on the Internet?

Lu Ming had to give up the investigation in this regard, and together with Zhang Dingshan and He Wei, he joined in the investigation of the real activity area.

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In reality, the investigation is not difficult, but it is more cumbersome. They need to count the approximate area of each deceased, check every place he visited before committing suicide, and mark it on a map.

For example, Zeng Jian committed suicide. The activity route of the deceased Zeng Jian is more complicated, and it is necessary to call up a large amount of monitoring, combined with visits, to restore them one by one.

This is more recent. If it is a long time, it is not only tedious, but also difficult.

For example, nearly ten years ago, Zhang Lu, the first person who was found to have an abnormality, opened the prelude to the investigation of the entire eucalyptus case, as a white-collar worker, although Zhang Lu's daily range of activities is relatively fixed, it is nothing more than the rental community to the company's two points and one line, but usually, she also has more random travel events.

Go to a restaurant to eat, go shopping, go to a park, etc.

Lu Ming knew that it was impossible for him to completely restore the trajectory and scope of their activities. Trying to restore the existing information is already the limit.

A statistical map of the activity area of more than 500 deceased people was finally made and presented in the internal office, in front of Zhang Dingshan and the three of them.

Looking at the map, the three of them noticed a spot at the same time.

South Grove Street.

Lu Ming saw that among the more than 500 deceased, more than 300 people had been to Nanlin Street at least once within a year before committing suicide. Of the remaining 200 or so, most of them have a daily activity range not far from Nanlin Street.

Only a small number of people are located in another part of Blue Lake City, far from Nanlin Street.

Nanlin Street is a pedestrian street and a food street in Blue Lagoon City. There are hundreds of restaurants selling a wide variety of cuisines along this one-kilometer-long road.

And that's just for dine-in. There are also a lot of small stalls that only do takeaway.

It has a long history, and at least 20 years ago, it has been a trend of restaurants and restaurants, attracting a large number of diners.

People in Blue Lake City often come to Nanlin Street in their spare time, order a few crayfish, grilled skewers, hot pot, etc., and drink a few glasses beautifully.

Even tourists from other places often come here.

"306 people have been confirmed to have daily activities in the area including South Grove Street. Of the remaining 209 people, another 185 people are not far from Nanlin Street. We have reason to think that they have also been to Nanlin Street, but we have not counted it. ”

Such a place with many delicacies and good places for recreation and entertainment is close to oneself, and it is unlikely that ordinary people will not go to it once.

Even if the remaining 24 activity areas are far away from Nanlin Street, it is quite reasonable to visit Nanlin Street once in a while. After all, Nanlin Street is very famous throughout the city of Blue Lagoon.

Who in Blue Lake doesn't know that there is a lot of delicious food on South Forest Street?

"Except for Nanlin Street, there is no overlap in the rest of the activity areas for the time being."

He Wei said solemnly.

Lu Ming said: "Among these self-murderers, the proportion of high-end people is far lower than the proportion of ordinary people. This also seems to be a testament. ”

He Wei's eyes narrowed suddenly.

Indeed it is.

The food street is bound to be a popular and popular existence, which is more suitable for ordinary people to visit. It's not that high-end people won't come, but in their daily life, they may prefer some more high-end restaurants that are suitable for business banquets. In addition, the absolute number of high-end people is also far lower than that of the general population.

If the Nanlin Food Street is the source of the anomaly, then the phenomenon that the proportion of high-end people among suicides is lower than that of the general population can be explained.

"But...... The food court has a large flow of people and has a certain universality. This does not prove that this is the source of the anomaly. ”

The universality is that as a citizen of Blue Lake City, or a resident of Blue Lake City, whether you like Nanlin Street or not, you will always have the opportunity to come here once in your long daily life.

Although you don't like it or don't feel it, someone invites you to a friend's party, do you come? After all, it didn't get to the point of disgust.

From this point of view, it should be reasonable that most of the deceased who committed unreasonable suicide have been here.

I'm afraid that more than 90% of the 100 random people who were randomly selected from the street must have been here.

Lu Ming's brows furrowed slightly.

This is indeed a problem.

For example, a statistic on criminals shows that more than 99% of criminals are born in hospitals, does this mean that being born in hospitals increases the probability of people committing crimes?

This obviously can't. This is a glaring attribution error. Because the vast majority of ordinary people are also born from hospitals.

Lu Ming looked at the map carefully and thought silently.

For a moment, he shook his head: "No. He Wei, your statement is not right. Statistics show that the vast majority of the deceased's range of activities was not far from Nanlin Street. It can be deduced from this that the frequency of their visit to Nanlin Street should be relatively high. With Nanlin Street as the core, the farther away from Nanlin Street, the fewer the number of unreasonable suicide victims. ”

For the vast majority of ordinary people, places like Nanlin Street should meet the statistics of "the closer the distance, the more you go, and the farther away, the fewer times you go".

Combined with the statistics, it is clear to conclude that "the more people who go to Nanlin Street, the higher the probability of becoming an unreasonable suicide victim." The fewer times, the lower the probability. ”

He Wei thought about it and had to nod: "Yes." ”

"Let's go to Nanlin Street."

Lu Ming made a suggestion. Zhang Dingshan said solemnly: "Then go and have a look." ”

In any case, things have developed so far that it is necessary to conduct a field survey of Nanlin Street.

It's just that this matter is not in a hurry. It was getting late, so they decided to wait until the next day.

The meeting is not over at this moment. After determining that Nanlin Street had a certain suspicion, several people immediately called up the information about Nanlin Street, including the building structure of Nanlin Street, historical evolution, foot flow, business situation, number of permanent residents, reporting rate, incidence of criminal cases, and so on.

However, several individuals did not notice an anomaly from the data. All the data shows that Nanlin Street is a normal food street, just like the rest of the city.

The next day, in the morning, the three of them came to the entrance of Nanlin Street together.

There are already a lot of people on the streets in the morning, but it is much worse than noon and night.

At the moment, only a few breakfast bars are open, and the people who come to eat are in a hurry, and most of them just take a bite and leave.

A few people walked slowly forward from the end of Nanlin Street, constantly looking at the environment and buildings on both sides, as well as at the people who came and went in a hurry.

There was a tricycle parked in front of a restaurant, and the staff of the restaurant came out and carried baskets of vegetables, meat, seafood and other ingredients into it. On the left, a janitor slowly sweeps the street.

Further ahead, a young man is holding a bun in his hand, eating while walking, and looking at it with his mobile phone in the other hand. There is also a hot pot restaurant next to it, the door is open, and the waiter is mopping the floor with a mop.

Everything is just a common sight in everyday life.

The few of them went from beginning to end.

There are no anomalies. Not at all.

Lu Ming believes that the members of the original group must have also discovered the distribution pattern of the deceased who committed unreasonable suicides, and found that most of them were distributed around Nanlin Street, and with the expansion of the distance from Nanlin Street, the number of people also decreased.

They must have suspected it too. But it is clear that they did not find anything suspicious here. As a result, this was not reflected in the investigation report.

Now, the three of them have also set foot here.

After a casual look, several people turned around and walked back and forth. When passing by a restaurant with its doors open, Lu Ming stepped forward and stopped a hotel staff member who had just emptied the garbage into the trash can and turned around to leave.

After showing his ID, Lu Ming asked, "How long have you been working here?" ”

The hotel guy seemed a little nervous.

Lu Ming saw it in his eyes, but he didn't doubt it. It is normal for ordinary people to be suddenly interrogated by security officers, and to be a little nervous.

"Me? I've been here, two, no, three years. ”

"In the past three years, has anything strange happened here on Nanlin Street? Or, have you heard some bizarre rumors and legends? ”

"Strange? Which kind is strange? ”

"You can think it's weird."

The hotel guy thought about it, and finally shook his head: "No." It's all normal, huh...... Well? No, there's one, I remember. ”

His face was full of excitement.

"Oh? Let's talk about it. ”

"About three months ago, when it was still winter, at night, there was a beautiful woman, wow, so beautiful! The figure is also good. She was wearing a pair of underwear, underwear! In winter, there was still snow on the side of the road, so she ran past our store wearing only underwear, and shouted for help as she ran! Kill! Someone is going to kill me! Later, two vigilantes showed up, knocked her down, and took her away. ”

The hotel guy was vivid, his eyes were full of desire to learn: "Officer, do you know what's going on?" Is there really someone trying to kill her? But when I looked, there was no one chasing her behind her. ”

Lu Ming was a little speechless.

You don't have to look him up to know what's going on. Either he's drunk, he's smacking, or he's not normal. In short, the brain was certainly not clear at that time.

"The Sheriff's Bureau will take care of it."

Lu Ming didn't answer him, but said, "Is there anything else?" ”

"Something else...... Not anymore. ”

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything from the little brother, Lu Ming ended the question and continued to walk forward.

Along the way, I asked a few random people, but the answers I got were of little value.

Some people said they didn't know, some people said some abnormal events that obviously did not involve "supernatural powers", such as beautiful women running naked, and some people said some bizarre things, such as someone singing in a private room at three o'clock in the morning in a certain hotel, seeing someone walking on the street in the middle of the night, and disappearing in a blink of an eye, which restaurant has bad feng shui, and whoever takes over will lose everything in the end.

This kind of rumor basically belongs to any city, and there is no value for verification.

At noon, the three of them were a little hungry, so they solved it directly here on Nanlin Street.

Briefly discuss what to eat, Zhang Dingshan and Lu Ming don't care, as long as they can fill their stomachs. He Wei was carefully selected, and finally chose a noodle restaurant that was known as a century-old brand and authentic Blue Lake noodles, and the three of them walked in.

"There aren't many opportunities to taste the local food when it's time to do it."

He Wei was full of interest and chattered: "This noodle is very famous, I bought it from the Internet before, and it tastes good." Dine-in tastes better for sure. ”

Waiting for the three bowls of noodles to come up, with side dishes, Lu Ming tasted it and unexpectedly found that the taste was really good. He Wei became more and more proud: "Look, follow me, that's right." ”

While chatting casually, while eating the noodles, when Lu Ming went to check out, he saw a gossip mirror on the table in the cash register, and an incense burner in front of him, and a few burned incense sticks in it.

Lu Ming couldn't help but look at it a few more times, and asked casually: "Gossip mirror?" What are you doing here? Is it exquisite? ”

It's not a strange thing that there are local customs. Lu Ming just asked casually.

The cashier also replied casually: "Listen to the boss say that this can ward off evil spirits." ”

After that, the group left the noodle shop.

It's noon, and although it's still not the most crowded time, it's quite a lot of people at the moment. The restaurants are full of diners, and people call for friends and friends. The streets are full of people, full of life.

The three of them continued to walk forward. Passing by another restaurant with its doors wide open, Lu Ming took a look and saw that there was also a gossip mirror on the cash register table placed on the side of the door.

Lu Ming realized something and continued to walk forward.

The cashier counter of this restaurant in front of it, which specializes in crayfish, is inside. Lu Ming walked in, ignored the waiter's greeting, looked around and found the cash register, looked for it again, and sure enough, he saw a gossip mirror again.

Lu Ming began to observe intentionally, and looked at seven or eight in a row, and every one of them was like this.

He couldn't help but feel a little puzzled in his heart.

"Could it be that the custom here on Nanlin Street is that you must put up a gossip mirror to open a store?"