Chapter 7171【Additional Update】The Rising Tide of the Blue Sea

You can only ask N about this.

N raised an eyebrow and said matter-of-factly, "That happened many years ago. If I hadn't gone there to see it myself, I wouldn't have been able to remember it."

Liu Maosheng, who was helping to count the goods, nodded and said, "Yes, we have been dead for many years. Hu Haisheng has become quite successful. He had a lot of real estate back then, too many to count."

Tu Lanxun suddenly thought of something: how long has N been dead?

He looked to be only about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, so he must have been quite young when he died, but it would have been twenty or thirty years since he died.

He can't be a middle-aged ghost!

No, no, no. Li Ao had asked Liu Maosheng before, and he said that his daughter had reported her missing six or seven years ago, so the year of N's death should be around the same.

N always looks to be in his twenties, but in fact, he has been in this world for more than thirty years?

Tu Lanxun couldn't help but sigh a little, thinking that most of his peers should have married and started families.

"Let's go over and take a look today," Tu Lanxun said. "Contact Officer Li on the way."

So the group set off, Tu Lanxun, N and Liu Maosheng formed a team, the computer female ghost stayed behind as usual, Bai Xiaoju insisted on going along to play, so Bai Chao had no choice but to get on the car as well.

Tu Lanxun seldom went to the eastern part of Lucheng, and was not familiar with the road, so he listened to Liu Maosheng's instructions all the way. Fortunately, he was a very gentle person and never interfered with other people's driving habits. He actually drove in the atmosphere of an outing.

If Lucheng is a big, shiny diamond, then the old industrial area in the east is the scar hidden under the brilliance.

As soon as you enter the old industrial area, you are hit by the endless darkness. The buildings here are quite tall, but there are many old red brick walls and gray tile buildings, and tall chimneys stand in the distance.

There are quite a few residents, but they seem sparse among the wreckage of this industrial monster. As soon as you enter, there is a vegetable market. There are quite a few people wearing faded dark blue work jackets, and they are weighing the vegetables with the vegetable vendors.

Cold, this is the first feeling of Tu Lanxun.

"These big-bar bicycles are rare now." Liu Maosheng looked out the window with nostalgia. "Back then, owning a bike like this was considered a well-off family, let alone a Santana."

Their destination was a red brick building near the Sports Park after passing through half of the old industrial area.

It is backed by tall vegetation at the edge of the dark green sports park, and has a spooky atmosphere. It is surrounded by a large cement-gray yard, which is as big as a school. It is overgrown with weeds and trees, and there is almost no place to stand.

"This place doesn't look like a residential area, it looks more like a factory office building or a dormitory," said Bai Chao.

Indeed, it wasn't. Tu Lanxun and the others parked the car behind a row of three intertwined trees. The gate was locked with an iron chain. They climbed over the wall strewn with broken glass, stepping through the grass with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

In front of the red brick building, there is a metal plaque with worn characters, and the words are faintly visible: Bi Hai Chao Sheng Precious Aquatic Products Viewing Center.

The rising tide in the blue sea should be in line with Hu Haisheng's name. Sure enough, Tu Lanxun saw a large glass fish tank with a metal frame placed askew in the hallway, but one side was broken, and glass shards and cement dust were scattered all over the floor.

"There's a strong smell of death." said N.

Liu Maosheng and Bai Chao, mother and daughter, also had solemn expressions on their faces; they could sense it, but Tu Lanxun could only feel the chill.

Bai Xiaoju stood in front of Tu Lanxun, tilting her round, no longer pale face upwards. She was so irritated by the building that her face was livid and her teeth were grimace. She looked like a ghost: "Sister, stand behind me."

A group of people pushed open the door and walked in. The Bi Hai Chao Sheng Rare Aquatic Products Viewing Center has five floors. There is a spacious hall as soon as you enter. Although there are piles of fish tanks, the water vapor has long dissipated, and only the smell of dust and a slight fishy smell remain.

The fish corpse came from the withered aquatic tank, its scales and skin were a gray and shriveled ball, as if it had been wrinkled by someone, with fish bones exposed between the ribs, and a pair of fish eyes that had long since turned into pale holes.

Perhaps it was because of the recent continuous autumn rains that the humidity in the air was slightly higher, which stimulated the fishy smell of these dried corpses from many years ago.

"There's something!" Bai Xiaoju said alertly. The child who turned into a ghost was extremely sensitive. She and N turned around at the same time and looked towards a dark corridor.

Tu Lanxun also felt something flash by.

They walked in more cautiously, and she asked, "Why is this place abandoned?"

Precious aquatic products, whether ornamental or edible, are always a very stable industry because there is no shortage of wealthy people everywhere.

Today, Hu Haisheng's power is only greater than it was six years ago, and he has no reason to give up this lucrative business.

"He's involved in import and export," N said calmly, his broken eyes reflecting a gray light. "He calls it import, but his main profit comes from smuggling. His master has private routes from every continent to here."

Tu Lanxun was not surprised. What surprised her was how well N knew Hu Haisheng.

What was his relationship with Hu Haisheng before? And what was his relationship with the Tianguo Group?

Tu Lanxun couldn't help but ask, "Since we have the mountains behind us, there's no reason to give up this place."

"Something happened here." Liu Maosheng smiled bitterly. "We don't know what it was. At that time, it was already..."

It was already the time when Liu Maosheng and N were both dead.

Tu Lanxun understood that the two of them should have been dealt with.

I didn't know who did it before, but now I probably know.

"How many ghosts are there in this building?" she glanced around. The first floor of the exhibition center was mainly an exhibition hall, divided into several large grids with signs like "Southern Continent," "Northern Continent," and "Carnivorous."

Her fingers were pinched, and when she looked down, she saw Bai Xiaoju, with a serious face, "Too many to count..."

Tu Lanxun suppressed the urge to run out. They quickly scanned the first floor. The second floor was slightly better, with a less open layout. Half was the breeding display area, and the other half was the office area. Their purpose was the other half.

"Hey, something passed by!" This time it was Tu Lanxun who shouted.

Just now, a dark shadow suddenly jumped out of the corner of her vision, so fast that she couldn't see its size clearly.

Liu Maosheng and Bai Chao rushed forward and chased for a while, but they caught nothing.

But it is conceivable that they have been discovered.

N walked beside Tu Lanxun, his cold shadow cast by the equally cold sunlight, like a vague connection. He said, "This place was abandoned because of the sins committed by Hu Haisheng back then."

Tu Lanxun: "How can you be sure?"

N sneered, "Why else would he shrink like a tortoise? He doesn't dare to keep it, he doesn't dare to sell it, he doesn't even dare to hire a demolition team to tear it down. Six years, he's let out all sorts of shit, but he just keeps his butt closed."

Tu Lanxun didn’t know what sin Hu Haisheng had committed, but she knew that N must be extremely annoyed with this man.

Hopefully, we can find some remaining evidence this time, or the ghost lingering here is knowledgeable and easy to talk to.

The second floor was the general office area, primarily for administration and finance. The computers and desks were covered in a thick layer of dust, and they wouldn't turn on. I contacted the computer ghost for technical support, and after a lot of trouble, I managed to get one computer to turn on, but there was nothing inside.

Tu Lanxun clicked on the financial statement and raised his eyebrows. "The last data entry was six years ago. Overall, there seems to be nothing wrong with it. It's normal." This shows that Hu Haisheng has superb financial skills and keeps the accounts very balanced.

No wonder they dared to leave the computer and case here. It turns out that everything was deleted, or the really important things were never here.

Even if he took the things here to court and exposed the matter in the newspaper, maybe Hu Haisheng could be named one of the top ten outstanding entrepreneurs in the city.

Tu Lanxun was very familiar with this stuff, so she went straight to the back of the chassis and found that the port jack usually used for the external hard drive of the confidentiality system was severely worn.

was taken away.

The computer ghost sent a message: The computer data cannot be recovered. The only thing in the entire building that can be checked is the storage in the security room's main camera control. However, there are only three surveillance cameras: at the courtyard gate, the main door, and the fifth-floor corridor.

In other words, you can only see who has been to the Blue Sea Tide Rising, but you will definitely not see what they did here.

The hope of finding any remaining material evidence has been half shattered, and Tu Lanxun can only wait for his companions to find the ghost.

"A ghost zone has formed here," N said. "Normally, it's invisible unless we piss off the ghosts inside and force them out for a life-or-death duel. Or, if they choose to show up on their own initiative."

He hasn't shown up yet, probably because he doesn't want to.

They were like tigers that had strayed into lion territory. They felt they couldn't be eaten in one bite, but they had no friendliness at all. They were just observing from the shadows.

N threw a cold, hard object to Tu Lanxun: "Take a look for yourself?"

It was the pocket watch. Tu Lanxun rolled the watch chain between her fingers. The hands automatically moved back counterclockwise and she closed her eyes.

Countless candles lit up in the darkness, some were very distant like stars, while others were relatively close, and they were all moving.

Since there was no information direction, the pocket watch showed all the detectable ghosts, and Tu Lanxun broke out in a cold sweat.

Because it was too bright around her.

Maybe it was because N, Bai Chao and others were nearby, many big and bright flames were jumping around, and Tu Lanxun seemed to be in a large mourning hall with a hundred candles lit, but she was not a guest paying homage, but the portrait of the deceased squeezed between the candles.

Wait… those big, bright flames around me… aren’t they a bit much?

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine...

Tu Lanxun's breathing stopped. There were four ghosts coming with her, so how could she count more than a dozen just from the front, back, left and right?

Who are they?

Suddenly, a flame from the side not far away approached rapidly and rushed straight towards Tu Lanxun's face. Her vision lit up like fire.

A shimmering, burning sensation nearly pounced upon her face. It felt like, no, it was a gaze. Her intuition told her that an eye was pressed against hers, its black and white pupil magnified infinitely on her retina.

What the hell!

Tu Lanxun suddenly opened his eyes, his pocket watch still dangling from the side of his thigh.

N, Bai Chao, and the others stood around her, none of them so close. There was nothing in front of Tu Lanxun.

"There's a ghost... close to my face..." She was still terrified. "I can't see it from here, but it's here, in its realm..."

Just then, there was a loud bang at the door.

Even though there was no wind, the door slammed shut as if it had been slammed shut, trapping everyone inside. A chilling wind blew.

The sound of a lock being locked was heard.

The lion in the field has observed and identified the tiger's fatal weakness. Now it is ready to hunt.