In addition to the wild boar eucalyptus, there are other eucalyptus that seem to be strange.

For example, this one, the abandoned factory hit the ghost.

It is said that there is a single man who picks up rags, and his family lives in a tin house, and he is so poor that he clangs. But he also likes to drink wine and eat meat. I usually pick up rags and sell them for money, and I'd rather skip meals than buy some loose wine to drink.

For a while, the surrounding residents suddenly discovered that this bachelor had begun to have money. Not only did he start buying roast duck and roast goose and pig's head, but he didn't even drink loose wine, and began to buy whole bottles of wine to drink. People became curious, and someone secretly followed him, only to find out that he had actually started to steal scrap iron in the abandoned factory in the suburbs to sell.

The factory was abandoned because of a fire that killed more than a dozen people. Nearby villagers all rumored that the abandoned factory was haunted, and many people said that when they passed by there at night, they could hear faint cries coming from inside, as well as cries for help.

Residents of the neighborhood are fine, and they will never go there. The children in the village were also told not to go there to play.

There is an old man who watches the gate during the day, and at night the old man does not stay there and is unguarded. But after all this time, the contents have never been lost.

No one dared to steal there.

Now this bachelor who picked up rags ate the bear-hearted leopard gall and dared to take the contents of it.

A kind-hearted neighbor persuaded him that the contents were unlucky, and that he should be careful of revenge against the demons if he took the contents there.

The bachelor was still anxious, and realized that he had not been there.

When the neighbors saw that he did not listen to him, they had no choice but to let it go.

Later, some time later, one morning, the old man who watched the gate suddenly crawled and fled back to the village crying and screaming. When I asked, I learned that the old man went to work today, and as soon as he opened the door, he saw the bachelor hanging there straight on the steel beam in front of him, and he had already lost his breath.

A group of villagers, armed with weapons in their hands, went to the factory together, and only then did they get the body of the bachelor down.

Later, the police were called, and the police officers still concluded that it was suicide.

The bachelor was hastily buried, and some people who had persuaded him before lamented that I had advised him not to take the contents of it, but he didn't listen, and now something really happened.

The rest of the villagers realized that this bachelor had been stealing the contents all this time, and then they suddenly realized.

The current situation, needless to say, must have been claimed by a ghost, so he ran there and hanged himself.

After that, the haunting of the abandoned factory spread all over the country, and even decades later, some people still remember it.

In Lu Ming's view, this is also an abnormal suicide, which is worth paying attention to.

Similar to the wild boar eucalyptus or the abandoned factory ghost eucalyptus, which is suspected of being involved in abnormal suicide, Lu Ming and Zhang Dingshan can distinguish a lot.

These eucalyptus trees span a wide range of ages, the oldest even 90 years ago, and the most recent one was found to be 14 years ago before Wang Quan mastered the ability to curse and kill.

A total of 189 eucalyptus samples were preliminarily screened. Of these 189, 101 are recorded by the Public Security Bureau. The rest were either lost because of the age, or the neighbors and relatives did not report it at all, or they were simply false, in short, there is no record.

The focus of the screening of the second team was the 101 cases recorded by the Public Security Bureau.

"If before Wang Quan, after the master who built the Zhou family's archway, there were also people with this ability during this time, then I think the distribution of the dead killed by him should be clustered."

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The victim must at least have some contact with the victim, or at least know about the existence of the victim.

A few decades ago, a business model like Nanlin Street was just getting started, and there was a lot less turnover than it is now. According to the law of eucalyptus, the area around the place where the eucalyptus worker is located should be the high incidence point of abnormal suicide.

In this way, as long as the area is identified as a high incidence of abnormal suicide eucalyptus, the approximate location of the eucalyptus worker can be determined.

Of course, there are some loopholes in this. For example, if the author of eucalyptus is a wanderer, then aggregation will not appear. Or if the worker does not have a fixed place at all, and wanders around, like a fellow trader, then there will be no clustering.

In short, let's see if there is aggregation first. If not, consider the rest of the possibilities.

According to the location of the 101 eucalyptus eucalyptus, Lu Ming took out the map of Blue Lake City and marked the eucalyptus locations on the map one by one.

This time, the two of them immediately discovered the clues.

Sure enough, there is aggregation. And the aggregation is quite obvious.

Of the 101 eucalyptus pieces that date back to 90 years ago, there are a total of 3 convergence points.

The first meeting point is Niuzhuang Village on the eastern outskirts of Blue Lake City. With it as the core, there are 21 eucalyptus pieces in a 5-kilometer perimeter, totaling about 70 square kilometers.

The second meeting point is located in the southwest of Blue Lagoon City.

The higher the population density in urban areas, the more obvious the agglomeration here.

With the intersection of Fenglin Street and Nanxing Road as the core, a total of 23 eucalyptus pieces occurred within a 1-kilometer area, a total of about 3 square kilometers.

The third convergence point is near the mountainous area south of Blue Lake City, with Sanli Village as the core, with a 4-kilometer perimeter, a total of about 50 square kilometers, and a total of 16 eucalyptus pieces.

The remaining 41 pieces of eucalyptus are scattered in various areas of Blue Lake City, and there is no obvious distribution pattern.

These three convergence points caught Lu Ming's attention.

After analyzing these pieces more carefully, Lu Ming found a new clue.

"These pieces...... There is a clustering not only geographically, but also temporally."

Zhang Dingshan looked at the eucalyptus time and immediately came to the same conclusion.

For example, the first meeting point, Niuzhuang Village. Of the 21 pieces here, 18 of them occurred between 70 and 50 years ago.

The time of the remaining three pieces is either uncertain or deviates significantly from this time period.

The second convergence point, the intersection of Fenglin Street and Nanxing Road, here 20 of the 23 pieces of eucalyptus gathered in the 16 years from 52 to 36 years ago.

The third gathering point, 14 of the 16 eucalyptus pieces around Sanli Village, occurred in the 18 years between 32 and 14 years ago.

"Huh?"

Zhang Dingshan's brows furrowed slightly, and his eyes sharpened.

"Not only is there a regional and temporal cluster, but there is also a clear succession between different time periods?"

In particular, the concentrated outbreak of these eucalyptus in the vicinity of Sanli Village was 32 to 14 years ago. And what happened 14 years ago?

14 years ago, the archway of the Zhou family was demolished. Wang Quan, a madman who lives on Nanlin Street, inexplicably has the ability to curse and cause death. That year, he made his first move and killed Wu Biao's entire family.

What this means, is already obvious.

"Perhaps...... Is there also an inheritance relationship between this ability? Must the previous person lose this ability before it can be inherited from the next person? If so, what is the relationship between these capable people? Bloodline? Master-apprentice relationship? What do these capable people have in common? What caused this ability to appear to them?"

This requires further detailed investigation to determine. But at least, at this moment, we have a relatively clear direction of investigation.

The focus of the investigation at this point is to identify those abilities that may have existed in the past

Find out.

"Recall He Wei first."

Zhang Dingshan made a decision.

Lu Ming called, and half an hour later, He Wei, who was slightly tired on her face, came to the conference room.

"The investigation didn't go well?"

He Wei nodded, seeming a little irritated: "I turned those eucalyptus over and over again, but I didn't find anything. At present, most eucalyptus species are neither confirmed to be abnormal, nor 100% normal."

"None of them have been confirmed to be anomalous?"

"Nope."

Zhang Dingshan nodded: "This can already show some information. Let's end the investigation in this direction."

He Wei was a little surprised.

Lu Ming explained, "I have made new progress with the captain."

He took out the map of Blue Lagoon and marked the location and time of the eucalyptus.

He Wei looked at it carefully for a while, and then she also saw the abnormality.

"Spatial agglomeration, temporal agglomeration, and there is a sequence between time......

She slapped the table and stood up abruptly, "Let's go."

Lu Ming originally wanted to make some more preparations, conduct some external investigations, data collection, and so on. But under He Wei's urging, she could only hurry up, and immediately took the security officers to the first gathering point of the eucalyptus, visited the elderly in the village, interviewed the descendants of those who committed suicide, and collected relevant information and records in the village.

Lu Ming, Zhang Dingshan and He Wei agreed that if there was someone other than Wang Quan, he would also be a madman or a fool, and it was relatively unlikely that he would not follow common sense when choosing to be the target.

Then, if you are a normal person, you will definitely have a reason when you choose to be the target.

Either this person has an enmity with himself, or this person has a conflict of interest with himself, or this person can bring some benefits to himself by dying, or he is simply unaccustomed to it, and he will kill people in the name of the doctrine of doing the right thing for heaven, and there will always be a reason.

In this case, when almost a dozen deceased people have been confirmed, by checking their social relations, interest relationships, etc., there is a great hope that the capable person will be locked, and there will not be a situation like Wang Quan, where nothing can be found by investigating social relations.

Normal people are sometimes easier to deal with than fools and madmen.

However, in this investigation, the three members of the second team and many vigilantes collected all the data they could collect, but they still failed to find clues from the aspect of social relations.

The deceased were not related to each other, did not live in the same village, and most of them did not know each other. Besides, it was a few decades ago, and there are very few people who still remember these events, and the information that can be provided is limited.

With the support of this limited information, the second team of operations has no way to make a judgment on the next step.

But......

"I noticed that the families of the deceased were generally wealthy. Not to mention the richest man in the village, the richest man in the township, etc., but at least in their respective villages, they all belong to the upper reaches. Either someone in the family is an official, or there is a business in the family."

"What does that mean?"

He Wei asked rhetorically, "You mean, the eyes of the eucalyptus are red? Jealous of them? Jealous of the rich?"

It is unlikely to be hatred. After all, these people are too scattered, and it is understandable that they have enmity with one family, how can they have enmity with so many families.

Conflicts of interest should and should not exist. Same reason as above.

Lu Ming pondered, "Is there such a possibility...... The composer adopted the same method as the master who built the archway of the Zhou family? It's just that the master still has integrity, a bottom line, and the one who made these pieces...... Just for the sake of wealth?"

He Wei's expression immediately became serious.

This is indeed possible.

To put it simply, it's the next set.

The capable person specially selects the wealthy people in the family and kills someone in the family by cursing, supplemented by rumors and legends, etc., to create a "bump into evil" and "provoke ghosts".

After that, he came forward as a "master" to settle these things for the family.

Families who have such a thing as "inexplicable suicide of a loved one" in the family will definitely be panicked. Under fear, there is a high probability that they will look for characters such as masters to see things, pray for disasters, exorcise spirits and hunt ghosts, and so on.

If the person with the ability is found, the person can collect money to do things, and then there will be no more strange things in the family, and in this way, they will gain fame and money.

If you find another master to see, this capable person may be able to continue to do things in secret, and when the time comes, when the family sees that strange things continue to appear, they will naturally think that the master they invited before is invalid, and they will find someone else instead. It wasn't until he found the capable person that he would take the money and give up.

Fame and money are there.

Lu Ming said, "I thought about it for a long time, if I had this ability, how would I realize it. I found that in addition to having a certain status in itself, such as competing with another person for a big business, etc., you can use this means to curse the other party to obtain huge benefits, it is not easy for an ordinary person to realize this ability."

Even if ordinary people can kill people without consequences, so what? If you kill someone, you should have no money. Even if a person dies, the money will not reach him.

I'm afraid that the only operational, simple and convenient way to monetize is to pretend to be a master to give people peace.

"So...... I think that if these pieces are really killed by the powerful person through curses, then his identity ...... Most likely, he is a master. And he is still a master with a certain reputation."