Chapter 59: Conjecture confirmed

"Hey? Everyone, please be patient. This isn't a one-sided thing. I'm happy to accept Chang Shunan, and Chang Shunan is also willing to be with me. Isn't this the best of both worlds?"

"Ahem, from now on, you are not allowed to call him crazy kid. Just call him Chang Shunan. Chang Shunan will be my apprentice from now on."

Qi Xu didn't care what others thought. She stood up, took Chang Shunan's hand and gently raised it up, then told everyone loudly.

Some people in the crowd came just to watch the fun, but they didn't expect the farce to end like this. They shook their heads and felt that they were just sitting there watching the show in vain, and unknowingly most of them left.

Gradually, the crowd all left and started shopping as usual.

"Chang Shunan, let's go home."

The more Qi Xu looked at her, the more he felt that the little girl looked slovenly dressed like that, so he took her directly back to the family compound.

When she changed back into her own clothes halfway, Chang Shunan pointed at her and asked, "You, you, are you a woman?"

"How is it? Didn't expect it? Your master can perform magic~"

Qi Xu turned around on the spot, and there was a hint of envy in Chang Shunan's eyes.

"Don't worry, I will teach you in the future."

After she brought Chang Shunan home, Qi Hong strolled around the yard. "This? You picked up another... kid?"

"Hey, Grandpa, she's very well behaved."

Qi Xu put on a smile and tried to get away with it.

Then he pushed Chang Shunan into his room, hurriedly gave her a bath, changed her clothes, and made her look refreshed.

A gust of wind blew by, and the leaves on the old locust tree were still shaking firmly.

"Captain Jiang, we've found out that people have been dying in this dormitory building since it was built, but there's no regular pattern. Almost every death is due to suffocation."

"Didn't the previous battalion commander take care of this matter?"

Jiang Hongyi's brows furrowed as he listened to the report from the young comrade next to him.

"Well……"

"Captain Jiang, the previous battalion commander was in charge of this matter, but during the investigation, he was nowhere to be found..."

After the young comrade finished speaking, he refused to say another word.

The air froze for a moment.

This is a subtle reminder to him that this matter doesn't necessarily have to be investigated.

Jiang Hongyi understood what the young comrade meant, but he felt guilty that if he didn't find out the truth, so many comrades would die.

"I know. Go and do your thing."

After he sent the young comrade away, he began to look at the old locust tree carefully.

Before he opened his Yin-Yang eyes, he really couldn't see the black and red mist floating all over the tree.

Now that he saw it with his own eyes, he finally understood where Qi Xu's confident look came from.

You can vaguely see the black and red mist spreading upward from the roots of the soil.

Jiang Hongyi seemed to have suddenly thought of something. He picked up a branch nearby and started digging in the soil at the roots of the old locust tree.

The more I dug, the more something seemed wrong. The surface layer of the soil was normal, with particles that could be crushed by hand. But the deeper I dug, the darker and more eerie the color of the soil seemed.

The soil particles were becoming harder and harder, and some of them could not even be crushed.

He noticed something was wrong, so he went back to the office and asked people to form a team to dig the soil under the old locust tree. Everyone's shovels went deeper and deeper, and the black and red soil clods were piled aside bit by bit.

"Captain Jiang! There is indeed something!"

Suddenly, one of the little soldiers' shovel seemed to hit something hard and couldn't move at all.

"With your hands!"

The two words were so decisive that a group of young soldiers immediately knelt on the ground and began to dig the soil with their hands.

"Chiang...Chiang...Captain Jiang..."

"It's... it's bones..."

Bones!!!

Jiang Hongyi was shocked and hurried over to take a closer look. He picked up the bone and touched it.

"It's human bones! Keep digging!"

It seems that someone is using comrades in the army to do something sinister.

As soon as he gave the order, all the young soldiers began to dig with all their strength.

The pit was about two meters deep, and everyone cleaned out all the bones.

Jiang Hongyi also invited a forensic doctor.

“This…this…this…”

"This skeleton looks like it's the height of Battalion Commander Chang."

"Captain Chang!"

After the forensic doctor expressed his speculation, the expressions on the faces of the young soldiers changed from fear to awe.

"Take it to the laboratory to confirm it first."

Looking at the pile of bones in front of him, he inexplicably had a bad feeling.

"By the way, let's take this soil for testing as well."

Jiang Hongyi tried hard to remain calm. After giving his instructions, the young soldier and the forensic doctor slowly packed up the bones and took them to the examination room.

He stood there, looking up at the top of the old locust tree. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but the black and red mist around the old locust tree seemed to have faded a little.

"Hey! Chang Shunan, you look pretty good."

After cleaning Chang Shunan, Qi Xu stretched out his finger and poked her little face.

Even though Chang Shunan was malnourished, her facial features were originally very regular.

She looked a little skinny, and the clothes she bought on the way back looked a little empty on Chang Shunan.

After that, she asked Chang Shunan to lie on the bed and took out a hemp rope with pine cones hanging on it.

"Come, look here, look at our pine cones."

Qi Xu took out his trump card, and within five minutes Chang Shunan was hypnotized.

She hadn't used deep hypnosis for a long time and was afraid that she would fail, but she didn't expect that she didn't regress at all.

Because Chang Shunan is relatively young, the best way now is to use deep hypnosis to guide her to express things.

As Qi Xu questioned him step by step, he learned that the reason Chang Shunan became like this was because his parents had a big fight over divorce, smashed their so-called home to pieces, and almost hurt Chang Shunan.

Chang Shunan, who was younger at the time, was shocked and didn't want to face reality, so he shut himself off.

In the terms of the 21st century, this is what is called subconscious locked-in syndrome.

There is still a chance of recovery from this mental illness, but it requires a lot of patience.

However, when Qi Xu measured her bone age, Chang Shunan should not have been eight or nine years old, but at least fifteen years old.

Although she was a little confused, she thought Chang Shunan was really cute.

"Qi Xu!"

She sat by the bed, staring at Chang Shunan and thinking about how to arrange the follow-up treatment, when she heard Jiang Hongyi calling her.

"I'm in the house."

She instinctively felt that Jiang Hongyi had called her because of something urgent, so she quickly lifted the door curtain and walked out, "What happened?"

"There are human bones buried under the old locust tree."

This sentence confirmed Qi Xu's previous guess.

"It's about the same as I expected. I guess there's one under the other old locust tree."

"Well, I asked someone to dig it myself."

Jiang Hongyi nodded. He was now basically on the same page as Qi Xu.

"Woo woo woo~"

Suddenly, a child's groaning sound was heard from the inner room.

"Where did the child come from?"