"Have you found any trace of the Huo family?" Lin Wu asked in surprise.

Bai Jing nodded, "There is a lake and waterfall downstream of that river, and that's where my people found a member of the Huo family. But he was already dead, and we didn't know who he was at first. We found out after we recovered the data from his cell phone and saw a few messages in it."

"We also learned that he had a few accomplices who went to that area to look for something, but they ran into danger after entering a certain place, and then they dispersed. He was seriously injured and was probably floated out along the water source. In other words, there is an underground river there. So Bo Ning and I got diving equipment and wanted to dive into the lake to see if what was underneath was what we thought."

"Is there really an underground river?" Lin Wu asked.

"..." Bai Jing said: "What I remember is that a few days ago, Bo Ning and I went diving and nothing happened, but we didn't give up and insisted on looking. A few nights later, when we dived again, we encountered an accident. Then we passed out."

"When we woke up again, we were by the lake. And that Bo Liu was lying next to us, covered in wounds and unconscious."

When saying this, Bai Jing's tone was very hesitant, with a sense of absurdity that he himself did not believe.

Lin Wu asked: "What happened in between?"

"We don't know." Bai Jing frowned over there.

Lin Wu: "...Are you telling me that you, like the two surviving members of the archaeological team, have inexplicably forgotten what happened that night?"

“…That’s right.”

"…Do you think I will believe it?"

"In fact, I don't believe it either, but the fact is... that's it."

Bai Kyoto over there seemed to have resigned himself to his fate.

Lin Wu fell into silence: "…………"

Bai Jing added: "After we woke up, we took Bo Liu back, thinking of asking him if he knew what happened. But he didn't wake up for a long time, and we sent people to the lake to investigate but found nothing. So I had to start with Bo Liu's identity, and then I found you."

“…”

Lin Wu thought this was ridiculous.

It's not enough that Bo Liu suddenly appeared in Lingnan, China from the underground of R Continent thousands of miles away. But there are so many people in Lingnan who have inexplicably lost their memories. This is too fucking...

Lin Wu closed his eyes for a while and asked another question: "I asked you to help me pay attention to something a few days ago. Have you got any results?"

"Are you talking about the young master of the black market stone shop, Zheng Mingxian?" Bai Jing asked.

Lin Wu nodded: "Yes, he is in Zhangjia Village. Did you meet him? Did you find any trace of him? What was he doing there?"

Bai Jingqi asked, "I haven't seen that person come to Zhangjia Village in the past few days. Did you check wrong?"

"Impossible. Don't you believe in my skills?" Lin Wu asked back.

Bai Jing frowned over there: "But I really didn't see that person's whereabouts nearby, so I didn't reply to you. Did he really come to Zhangjia Village? Could it be that someone else came for him, and he went somewhere else?"

Lin Wu was slightly startled.

...It's not impossible.

"Also," Bai Jing suddenly spoke again, "These past few days, Lingnan has not been very peaceful. My people have noticed that several groups of people have entered Lingnan one after another and then disappeared. And these groups of people seem to have come from abroad."

Lin Wu frowned.

One of them should be the Huo family members she had been monitoring. She didn't expect that their final destination was Lingnan. It seemed that Lingnan did have one of their lairs.

As for the other groups...

"I'll go to Lingnan to see you tomorrow afternoon," she said.

"Okay, it's good that you're here." Bai Jing said, "This place is a bit evil, too weird, I think there might be some of those things at work. You're a mystic, maybe you can find something that ordinary people can't see when you come here."

Bai Jing agreed.

Lin Wu also hung up the phone.

Thinking of Bo Liu, Lin Wu unconsciously closed Bo Yuting's chat page, but when she finished typing and was about to send it, she deleted it again for some unknown reason.

Forget it.

No one knew what the situation was like at Blackback Mountain. If he knew the news about Bo Liu at this time, it might affect him. Moreover, after he knew the situation in Lingnan, given his personality, he would probably come back to find her directly.

Thinking of this, Lin Wu put down his phone and hurried to finish the experiment at hand.

Lin Wu worked on this all night long. The next morning, he finally finished it. He compressed it into an electronic file and sent it to Chen Yue's email.

She went downstairs and met Zheng Yuan who came to bring her breakfast.

Zheng Yuan saw that Lin Wu looked sleepy and asked with concern: "Master, didn't you sleep all night?"

Lin Wu hummed dejectedly, yawned, and sat down.

Zheng Yuan went to the kitchen to get the dishes and chopsticks, and when he came back he glanced at Lin Wu and said, "Mr. Bo told you that you are not in good health if you stay up late. If you stay up late, he asked me to tell him."

Lin Wu took the spoon and said expressionlessly, "Who is your master?"

"Of course it's you. But Mr. Bo is doing this for your own good. Zheng Yuan can also treat him as his master." Zheng Yuan said very tactfully.

Lin Wu lowered his head to eat wontons and fried dumplings, not arguing with him about this, and said: "I need to catch up on some sleep in a while. Please contact Mr. Zheng of Shixing. I want to meet him at two o'clock in the afternoon. At four o'clock in the afternoon, arrange a flight to Lingnan, Zhangjia Village, Dayuling."

Zheng Yuan's face turned serious when he heard this. "Do you need to bring a few people with you?"

"No, just follow me." Lin Wu paused, and then said, "Arrange some people in the local area. They should be convenient to use and not attract attention. In addition, check the details of Zhangjia Village and who has entered Lingnan recently."

Zheng Yuan responded respectfully.

Lin Wu finished his meal in a hurry and went upstairs to catch up on his sleep. After a few steps, he stopped and looked back at Zheng Yuan.

"Don't tell Bo Yuting."

"……yes."

Zheng Yuan looked at Lin Wu helplessly.

Only then did Lin Wu go upstairs to catch up on his sleep.

After waking up at noon, Lin Wu took a shower, changed his clothes and went downstairs. Zheng Yuan was packing Lin Wu's luggage on the first floor, and lunch was already set on the dining table next to them.

When he saw Lin Wu, he reported, "Master, Mr. Zheng replied that he is busy and cannot see you. But it doesn't matter. I have heard that Mr. Zheng will meet someone in a private club later. It's an unimportant party."

Since Mr. Zheng refused to see her, they went straight to find someone.

Lin Wu nodded.

After dinner, Zheng Yuan packed his luggage, carried it out together, put the suitcase in the trunk, and drove away.

On the way, Zheng Yuan handed Lin Wu a document.

"These are the people that Mr. Zheng has been in contact with in the past few days. Since Mr. Zheng left that morning, Mr. Zheng has stayed at home for two whole days without going out. Coincidentally, the first person Mr. Zheng went out to meet was Deputy Sect Master Cheng. The person Mr. Zheng wants to meet now is also Deputy Sect Master Cheng."

(End of this chapter)