Misty Ridge
"What's the matter? I see you're doing a good job." Ye Jing'an helped him carry the bag.
"As I just told you on the phone, the director has been scolding me for a month. He got really angry yesterday because of the human flesh incident and told me to get out and not come back until I finish investigating the Misty Ridge incident." Lu Yu's mouth drooped.
"What's this?" Ye Jing'an pointed at his luggage.
"Oh, I was kicked out by my family and have nowhere to go. I'll live with you for a while." Lu Yu said a little embarrassedly.
"Your case is not solved, what does it have to do with your family? Why would they kick you out?" Qiu Zimu felt a little sympathetic towards him. After all, he was also kicked out by his father.
"The director is my biological father!" Lu Yu looked like he was about to cry, and it was obvious that he was tormented enough by his father, the director.
"..." The three of them began to sympathize with him. He was indeed miserable.
Lu Yu put down his luggage and took a big sip of water. With the same bitter face as before, he pleaded with the others, "You must help me, otherwise I will not be able to survive."
"Is this matter so serious?" Ye Jing'an asked curiously.
"Really? My dad gave me two weeks. If the case is not solved by the time the deadline comes, or if the new investigation team he sends solves the case first, he will send me back to the police academy to repeat my studies!" When he mentioned the police academy, he looked like he was about to die.
Ye Jing'an didn't understand why Officer Lu was afraid to go back to study. He felt that studying was easy. He could just sit there and do his own things during class, and go out to play after class or on vacation. At most, taking an exam was a little annoying, but once he sat in the exam room and answered the questions seriously, more than two hours would pass quickly, so he wouldn't be bored at all.
Getting first place in the exam and getting paid is fantastic! It's much better than catching ghosts now. It's a pity that his family wants more experience, otherwise he would be enjoying college life now.
"No, my instructor in the police academy practices Sanda, and he was beaten badly when he was a student. All of his students are elites. If I were sent back and ruined his reputation, I would definitely be beaten to death." Lu Yu felt pained when he thought about being beaten half to death.
"What are you afraid of? Isn't your father the director? How can he be beaten?" Ye Jing laughed. Officer Lu probably rarely gets beaten because of his condition, unlike him who has been beaten since he was a child and has become immune to it.
"My dad and he are close friends. If he doesn't hit me, my dad will ask him to hit me. I have been beaten since I was a child, and I was beaten to go to police school." Lu Yu sat on the edge of the bed, looking as weak as a dead sapling.
"I understand you!" Ye Jing'an sat next to him, "I was also beaten when I was young, and I was forced into this line of work by my ancestors!"
Liu Muze glared at Ye Jingan, thinking: Who forced him? He hadn't learned anything yet and he had the nerve to say that the Grandmaster forced him.
"Good brother!" Lu Yu hugged Ye Jing'an's shoulders and said, "Help me. If you can find human flesh, it must be no ordinary person."
Ye Jingan glanced at Liu Muze and his heart skipped a beat. What was that look, Brother Liu?
"Help, I will!" Ye Jing'an hurriedly pushed Lu Yu's hand away, "Show us the information you have collected."
"Okay." Lu Yu took out a blue folder and handed it to them, saying, "This contains some information about the visit."
Ye Jingan and the other two watched while Lu Yu talked about the history of Misty Ridge.
During the previous war, a small number of people fled to Misty Ridge. They found that the place was remote and sparsely populated, and there was frequent fog, blocking out the sun. There were also many wild animals and plants on the mountain, and there was enough food source. It was very suitable for refugee life, so they stayed here.
Later, for unknown reasons, all the refugees died. Misty Ridge was isolated from the outside world, and no one knew what had happened there. It was only later that a geological survey team arrived and discovered that this desolate forest had once been inhabited. However, by then, they had all been reduced to bones. Without any clues, the Misty Ridge case was left unresolved.
People from other nearby villages claimed to know what happened in Misty Ridge, but they all had different opinions about why the people who were lost in the fog disappeared overnight. Some experts also gave explanations. Lu Yu collected all these possibilities in a folder.
"What are these things?" Ye Jing'an and Qiu Zimu were stunned.
Some people say that the Misty Ridge is where the gods live, and the local refugees live here to absorb the fairy air and become gods.
"Is it so easy to become a god these days?" Qiu Zimu sneered.
"Who said this? Officer Lu, arrest him and let him absorb some immortal energy!" There were many things related to immortals in the document, but Ye Jingan skipped them directly.
After talking about the gods, they inevitably talked about ghosts. Some said that Misty Ridge was the gate of hell, and the refugees had mistakenly entered the ghost world and could not get out. Some also said that this was a passage opened by the evil spirits of hell, and they were dragged by the evil spirits to the eighteen levels of hell to suffer.
Even more outrageous are claims that aliens took people to other planets in spaceships for research. Dementors took away souls, leaving only their bodies. There's also talk of time travel...
There are all sorts of bizarre versions, but there are also more plausible ones. For example, the refugees here have been eating plants in the mountains for years, and they offended the walking, man-eating tree spirits deep in the Misty Ridge, who ate them all.
Although others might still find it unreliable, they have actually seen trees that can walk. Ye Jingan asked, "Brother Liu, this is very similar to the situation with the tree spirit. Could it be a tree spirit?"
"Do you think tree spirits are cabbages?" Liu Muzhe snorted and laughed.
Ye Jing'an thought about it and it made sense. It was indeed rare for plants to become immortals. It took thousands or even tens of thousands of years for a tree to become a tree spirit and protect the people.
However, the document also contains a more scientific explanation, saying that the fog in Misty Ridge contains toxic substances, and long-term inhalation can lead to chronic death. It may also be death from poisoning by eating toxic food, etc.
However, this information didn't seem to have much to do with the disappearance of the four university students and the search and rescue workers. Besides, even if it did, with this whole book full of information, which one could possibly be the cause of their disappearance?
"Officer Lu, is there any other information?" Ye Jing'an asked.
"No, two teams are missing. The magnetic field in Misty Ridge is special. Electronic equipment will malfunction once it enters. There is no other useful information. All the communication methods used by the search and rescue team to prevent getting lost are useless. Even the ropes tied to their bodies are inexplicably cut." Lu Yu frowned.
"Uh, Officer Lu, are these rumors the reason you suspect this case is related to ghosts?" Ye Jing'an asked doubtfully.
"No, I went to Misty Ridge on a solo visit not long ago, and saw a man in a black robe staring at me from a distance. I thought he was a suspect and wanted to take him back to the police station for questioning, but he ran away. I shot him in the thigh, but when I ran over, I didn't see him and there was no blood. The bullet bounced off another tree, so I don't think he is a normal person." Lu Yu said.
"Could it be that you missed?" Ye Jing'an asked.
"Impossible. I'm not very good at fighting, but my marksmanship is the best in the school. I can hit whatever I'm told to hit, and I've never failed in carrying out a mission." Lu Yu was quite confident in his marksmanship.
"What happened next?" Qiu Zimu asked.
"I later told the chief about this, and he sent people to search again, but they couldn't find even a trace of anything." Lu Yu looked somewhat helpless. "The chief scolded me again, saying I was blaming the lack of clues on supernatural powers, and warned me that if I dared to engage in feudal superstitions again, I would be kicked out of the police uniform for the rest of my life."
"That's right, you policemen can't believe in ghosts, otherwise you can just attribute the unsolved cases to ghosts." Ye Jing'an found that being a policeman was not easy. After all, they couldn't engage in feudal superstitions.
"Are there any other characteristics?" Liu Muzhe asked.
Lu Yu thought for a moment and said, "He ran very fast, in the blink of an eye."
"Pack up and let's go to Misty Ridge." Liu Muzhe said.
"Thank you, finally someone believes what I say." Lu Yu's tone was very excited. He had been there several times and was quite familiar with Misty Ridge. He was responsible for preparing all the equipment needed to go there. "I have made a list of items. I can't use the police resources now, so I have to go buy them. It may be a bit too much. Can one of you come with me?"
Liu Muze said to Ye Jingan and Qiu Zimu: "You two can go together, I won't go."
"Okay." The three of them drove to the mall. Ye Jing'an took the list and looked at it. It was basically all the equipment needed for outdoor camping. "Do you want a tent too?"
Lu Yu said that Misty Ridge has a strong magnetic field interference, and compasses and navigation systems are useless there. It is especially easy to get lost when the fog comes in the afternoon. If you don't get out at night, you can set up a tent to sleep.
Ye Jing'an didn't ask too many questions. It was better to be fully prepared. He was even looking forward to sleeping in a tent. He had never experienced what it was like to camp in the wild.
While shopping, Ye Jing'an found Lu Yu quite funny without his police uniform. He was quite different from the serious and formal Officer Lu they had met before. His personality was quite similar to his and Qiu Zimu's, so they could play together without any problems. Ye Jing'an joked, "Officer Lu, you've let yourself go without your uniform. You don't look like a police officer at all."
Lu Yu was also very outgoing. After a few interactions, he completely relaxed. "Oh, I didn't want to be a police officer in the first place. I was forced into this. Now that I'm wearing a police uniform, I have to be responsible for my job and the uniform, so I have to be serious."
Ye Jingan felt a little sympathy for him after thinking about it. It was already difficult enough for him to become a policeman because of his father, the chief. He also had to pretend to be serious and reliable every day. It was really tiring.
In less than an hour, all the necessary items were purchased. Ye Jingan sighed that the efficiency of going out with the police was very high. Back at the hotel, the few of them discussed the departure time.
"Let's do it now. After all, there are still several missing people waiting to be rescued." Lu Yu frowned. He wished he could fly over directly and get to the bottom of this matter.
Miwuling is located at the junction of Anhuai City and Minnan City, and it takes more than two hours to drive there.
"We have to hike now that we've reached this point." Lu Yu got out of the car to get his equipment.
"This place is called Misty Ridge? There's no fog." Ye Jing'an looked around curiously.
Lu Yu explained that this place is not yet Misty Ridge, and there is not fog all the time. He has only encountered fog twice in the few times he came here before.
After walking along a fairly wide gravel road, there are two dirt paths, one going up the mountain and the other going down the mountain.
Lu Yu told them that the road below leads to the Misty Village, where the refugees lived before. The missing person search and rescue team took this road, and he saw the man in black when he walked up the mountain on this road.
"Let's go downstairs." Liu Muzhe said.
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