Chapter Seventy-Nine: Crossing the River

"Lao Chen: Thank you Mr. Revelation for your reminder, it's really like a slap in the face."

After finishing the exchange with the investigator of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau, Jing Chen looked at the exchange records.

It stands to reason that the Bureau of Anomalies should have considered this possibility a long time ago, especially when all the information and physical probes point to the same result.

Conversely, it is normal to be suspicious of the initial information.

But the investigators of the Bureau of Anomalies seem to have been affected by some subtle influence, and firmly believe in a direction that is less likely.

Jing Chen's suggestion to Lao Chen is only speculation and inference, but at least it can provide a new possibility for the deadlocked Abnormal Tone Bureau and others.

After a pause, Jing Chen didn't think about the investigation of this matter by the Investigation Bureau and others.

It's just a matter of thinking about the vanishing village mentioned by the Bureau.

Could it be that in the future picture, similar to the strange world he glimpsed, under the action of the mother of life?

How many more similar villages have disappeared without actually noticing.

In the future picture, Jing Chen peeked into the terrifying world under the calm and tranquility of Wang'an City,

Does it also exist in such a place that everyone has overlooked?

I have been thinking about what the future picture is, and not a conceptual region, if the grand and strange world created by the Mother of Life and lies and deception together exists in the future picture.

So where is it?

This time, this disappearing mountain village gave Jing Chen a little inspiration.

Could it be that the influence of 'lies and deception' is already working?

The neglected, vanished area actually exists now, but no one notices it.

"Heyang, Shangshui, Lindu, Anhe."

This is the most prosperous urban area in Wang'an City, in addition to that,

"Suburb, new district......"

Jing Chen whispered the names of the regions in the entire Wang'an City.

He seems to have some results.

Heyang and other four urban districts have been there for the past two days, and he has been to control the puppets.

The new district is next to Lindu District, and in the past in Lindu District, it originally belonged to the suburbs.

But these days, Jing Chen doesn't seem to have reached this place.

"New District ......"

Jing Chen repeated this domain name again.

The full name of the new district of Wang'an City is 'Science and Technology and Industrial Development New Zone', and there are not many residents in the community in the area, and there are few business fronts.

Most of them are industrial parks, warehouse factories.

Although it is deserted now, it is also a key development area in Wang'an City.

However, when I first went to the official file to check the information, the other four regions all counted the movement of residents.

But I didn't see the data for the new area...... At that time, he seemed to subconsciously ignore it.

He's also affected?

Then he shouldn't be able to remember the existence of the new district.

Thinking of the future picture that I pepted into before,

The population of the inhabitants continued to decline sharply, and even the people around them and their relatives began to disappear.

The person who went through all this is still unaware.

Jing Chen couldn't help but feel tight in his heart again.

The horror of the Lord of 'lies and deceptions' is not the bloody and intuitive horror of the 'Lord of Flesh',

But when you think about it, every bit is creepy.

In terms of weirdness, it is estimated that 'fate' can be on par with her.

With this kind of existence, it's better not to let her come to this world.

Thinking about it, Jing Chen paused, and looked at the blood eagle next to him who had just finished eating a bun,

He took out another one from the bag in front of him and threw it towards the blood eagle.

Then, after withdrawing his hand and wiping it, Jing Chen took out his mobile phone and opened the map on his phone.

Zooming in on the map to the entire territory of Wang'an City, Jing Chen took a screenshot of this map of Wang'an City.

In the photo album of the phone, I clicked on the brush tool in the editing function.

"...... of Ha Duong-gu"

I'm afraid that there will be mistakes just by sight and memory,

Jing Chen thought about an area in Wang'an City, so he took the red line and circled the corresponding area on the map of Wang'an City.

"Shangyang District ......"

The four districts were drawn in turn,

Then there are the county seats outside the urban area, and several county towns have all been drawn.

The map that Jing Chen saw was already full, and it was circled with red circles drawn by him.

The red circles bordered each other, leaving no gaps, and every area of the entire Wang'an City was circled by him.

But

There is one area left uncircled on the map.

"New District ......"

Just as he had noticed,

He hadn't circled the location of the new district on the map, but there was no gap on the map of Wang'an City.

There is also no place for the existence of the new district.

And what about the new district?

Jing Chen held his mobile phone and looked at the map of Wang'an City that was circled by red circles.

After pausing again, I couldn't help but feel a little chill in my heart.

Just such a large area disappeared out of thin air, just from this map, this map is complete, Jing Chen doesn't know where to put the new area that should exist in his memory.

A little irritable, Jing Chen raised his head, raised his hand and grabbed the blood eagle next to him who had just finished eating another bun,

He rubbed heavily on the feathers of the blood eagle.

"Tweet ......"

The Blood Eagle let out a long roar, but didn't dare to move.

……

“…… Please, please, save my sister. ”

"My sister is in San'in Village, she is eight years older than me......"

Lintian City, the area where the incident occurred is not far away.

In the makeshift tent, the old man, who first sensed that something was wrong, was reluctant to leave and go home.

He was temporarily placed here, accompanied by an official officer.

At this moment, it was already late at night, and this old man was already the last person who clearly remembered the existence of San'in Village.

He didn't want to sleep, and the whole person seemed to fall into a kind of obsession, and his mouth was repeatedly muttering, like babbling.

He may have felt something, afraid to stop, afraid to fall asleep, and forget about it.

"My sister's name is ...... She's right there......"

"I'm not lying...... Please, save her......"

As the old man whispered, the tent was opened, and a figure re-entered.

Seeing this, the official who accompanied him exited the room.

"Big brother, take a drink and take a break."

Naturally, it was Lao Chen who walked in, and Lao Chen took a cup of warm water and handed it to the old man.

The old man was in a daze, raised his head and looked at Lao Chen, as if he remembered that Lao Chen was the person in charge of this matter.

He still didn't dare to stop in his mouth, with pleading in his eyes, and muddy tears in his eyes,

"My sister is in San'in Village...... My name is Yan Chengping, and her name is Yan Chengxu...... She's my sister and she's eight years older than me......"

"I beg you to ......"

Lao Chen looked at the old man, was silent, and stuffed the warm water cup into his hand and let him hold it.

"Big brother, are you mistaken, when you went to your sister's house, you took the wrong way."

"No, no...... I've been on this path for decades, and I can't go wrong...... I walked from the morning, followed the sun, followed the road, and walked from the morning to three o'clock in the afternoon...... My sister always wanted to stay with me for a day, I was in a hurry to leave, I came back in a hurry, gave things, said a few words and went back...... My sister boiled poached eggs for me......"

"Big brother, the road you said earlier is only a few kilometers away from where you live, and it may only take two hours to walk the mountain road, why does it take so long?"

Lao Chen said again.

The old man opened his mouth slightly, stopped his voice, raised his head and looked at Lao Chen, his eyes showed deep confusion,

What he believed in was faltering.

Is he really a lake, does he have a sister?

When the lies are exposed, the flaws begin to be revealed.

"Big brother, you really should have a sister...... There is also a village that is missing, but it is not here. ”

If the old man didn't have this sister, where did he come from so much.

"Right...... My sister's name is Yan Chengxu...... She was eight years older than me, and she got married when she was twenty-eight years old, and she married into that village......"

"I ...... This year, bacon was dried at home, and I brought it to her, and I brought it to her......"

As he spoke, the old man trembled and lifted up the hanging bacon that he had been carrying in his hand.

Looking at Lao Chen expectantly and pleadingly.

Lao Chen looked at the old man and sighed slightly,

From the beginning of this old man to the present, he is extremely convinced of all the information repeated in his mouth.

This conviction is even to the point of obsession.

And this kind of conviction also made Lao Chen feel chills in his heart.

"Big brother, let's rest first...... We'll help you find that village. ”

"Thank you...... Thank you. ”

After Lao Chen paused, he walked out of the tent again.

Outside the tent, an investigator walked over.

"Investigator Tatsu, we found information about that place."

"Although it seems that there is no place in the stalls on the map now, we still found traces of the existence of a village in this place in a county chronicle from decades ago."

"It's just not called San'in Village, it's called Cross-River Village."

"According to the data, many households lived across the river. If decades of change hadn't abandoned this place, there should indeed be a village in your area. ”

The investigator spoke, handing over the information.

Lao Chen took it and looked at it, nodded, then raised his head and said,

"Let's go over."

"Alright, Investigator Tatsu."

After Jing Chen's first drink, the investigators of the Heterogeneous Investigation Bureau were no longer confined to this small area.

Rather, it spreads the searched area to a large area.

Eventually, the operation continued from late evening into late night, and thanks to the efforts of a group of investigators, some information was captured.

It's just that the area where special situations are found is really far away from this area.

Although they are all at the foot of the Longnan Mountains, they are now in this area on the west side of the suburbs of Lintian City.

However, the investigators found a special clue, but it was close to the southern part of the city, near the remote area of the Longnan Mountains.

If you rely on walking over the mountains, an ordinary person may have to walk for seven or eight hours to get there.

And according to this inference, the truth of some things is also clearly exposed.

It is true that there is a vanished village, but it is not in the vicinity of Xiaohe Village and Tai'an Village.

The old man did have a relative who married into that village, otherwise the unknown existence whose identity was now uncertain would not have affected the old man in this move.

The lack of understanding of the other residents of Xiaohe and Tai'an about the distant village is actually a lie.

On weekdays, these two villages have basically no contact with the disappeared village, and the residents of the village naturally cannot have any impression.

The fading impression of 'San'in Village' among the inhabitants of those villages is not so much the influence of the unknown existence that is fading.

As Mr. Revelation said.

When all the evidence points to another outcome, it is normal to suspect the direction in the first place.

The unknown being that made the village disappear did not do much.

In addition to making the village disappear, he only briefly affected a small number of the residents of Xiaohe Village and Tai'an Village.

This part of the impact was short-lived.

And the continuous influence on the old man has only stolen a small part of the old man's cognition.

Perhaps the being did something more, such as some other lie, such as the influence of information on some data.

But by no means as much as they thought at first.

……

Soon, Lao Chen arrived at the place.

Yinhu and Maotu are already there, and a group of investigators are also on standby, each busy.

This is a mountain col, a path full of wild grass stretches outward,

The road is potholed and narrow, and you can't pass cars, you can only pass people.

You have to walk about a kilometer along the road to see a road where you can pass the car.

And at this moment, in front of Yinhu, Lao Chen and others, it is the end of this narrow mountain road.

In the dark night, there is also a thick mountain fog, so that people can't see anything clearly.

"Lao Chen...... Tatsu Investigator. ”

In fact, when the investigators of the Bureau of Anomalies first touched it, there was nothing here.

There was no fog, no long and bumpy dirt roads, not even this valley.

The investigators of the investigation walked directly from the other side of the valley to the other end.

But I have always groped here, and under the perception and sensitivity of the investigator beyond ordinary people,

Still caught some anomalies.

And then...... As the investigators of the Bureau of Anomalies knew, the more they knew.

It's like puncturing a lie and revealing the truth.

The valley emerged, and the dirt road leading to it emerged.

Even now, I saw the thick fog that enveloped the entire village.

The fog was like a lie, hanging over the whole village, but now the village was exposed with scales,

It is foreseeable that when the truth is revealed, the lie that this village has disappeared will also be exposed.

"Do you want to go in?"

As the group learned about this place, the dirt road in front of them had extended a lot into the village.

However, the village under the dense fog is still very quiet, and you can't hear the roosters and dogs barking in the village, or even the insects and birds.

"Investigator Yinhu and I went in, and Investigator Mao and the other investigators stayed outside for the time being to control the situation."

Lao Chen turned his head and looked at the rabbit,

Speaking of which, the main abilities that the rabbit mainly has are similar to those of 'lies and deception' believers.

"Okay."

Mao Rabbit and Yin Hu didn't say much, and responded one after another.

Lao Chen paused, turned around, and walked towards the village under the thick fog with Yinhu.

Yinhu kept his guard on guard, narrowing his eyes and watching his surroundings vigilantly.

Lao Chen also paid attention to the environment under the fog.

As investigators, it is their job to investigate.

After a few steps forward,

Yinhu and Lao Chen walked through the thick fog from the outside,

The dense fog is just a shroud outside the village, and there is no fog in the whole village.

You can only see the diffuse darkness under the night sky.

Entering the village, what Lao Chen and Yinhu directly felt was dead silence.

There should have been dozens of families in the village, but there was no sound of movement at the moment.

In a normal village, there is no dog barking when someone passes by, and it seems that no one in the whole village has lights on.

"It's too quiet......"

Yin Hu said aloud, and the small voice seemed abrupt in the dead silence here.

The two paused, and then, after a long period of tacit understanding, they both walked towards a house on the side of the road.

It is a three-room tiled house with moss on the tiles.

It was late at night, but the door to the house was not locked, but a gap was left and it was just hidden.

"Squeak......

After getting ready, Yinhu pushed the way away,

The old voice of the door is particularly harsh,

But when the cacophony stopped, the room fell silent again.

There was no one in the room, and there was no figure in sight, in fact, before the door was opened, the two of them had already shown this result with their keen perception.

Yin Hu stepped forward, looked around the bedrooms, and returned to the hall.

In the hall, Lao Chen walked to the dining table,

Looking at the moldy food on the table, two small dishes were served on the plate and placed in the middle of the table.

There was also a rice bowl next to the table, and the bowl was already dry, and the same moldy porridge was put on the bowl.

And next to the table, there was a broken bowl, and the original porridge grains in the bowl were spilled on the ground.

Two tableside benches, one upside down and one diagonally at the moment, are a little messy.

Apparently, something happened to the owner of the meal.

So I didn't come back to enjoy it, I don't know if it was dinner or breakfast.