Reunion
The golden ribbon on the horizon is the morning light, dispelling the gray haze that has lasted for three consecutive days.
The morning light brings the spring breeze, sprinkling the gloomy earth.
Ghost story investigators who have no missions do morning exercises indoors with the soldiers.
The indoor radio suddenly broadcast an emergency announcement.
"Emergency notice! All members of the Ghost Story Investigation Department's Fluorescent Green Team, please return to the fourth floor of the Administration Building immediately!"
Everyone was used to the occurrence of emergencies. Some groups continued to train their fighting skills, while others continued to complete their long-distance running tasks on the treadmill...
Lu Miao, wearing fluorescent green earrings, turned off the treadmill.
Sweat beads hung on her toned arms, which she wiped with a towel. The black sports vest highlighted her toned figure, and her exposed back muscles outlined the curve of her shoulder blades.
"There must be a mission." On the treadmill next to her, the beautiful woman with a ponytail, the captain of the blue team, jogged and teased. "I look forward to you getting additional supplies."
"Has it become your target again?"
"Of course, without ideals, what's the difference between you and salted fish?"
Lu Miao smiled, waved goodbye to her, and led the team members out of the training room.
When they arrived at the fourth floor of the administration department, the three of them had already changed into their black and fluorescent green jackets. Wang Keke had even applied some sunblock.
They knocked on Lu Xingyang's office door.
Lu Xingyang was doing squats with his hands on his head.
Wang Keke & He Pingan: "..."
The section chief always does unexpected things.
"Called us to watch you do squats?" Lu Miao said in a cold voice.
"I'm trying to relieve tension and stress." He took a deep breath and stood up to adjust his gym suit. "If you knew where the next mission was, I guarantee you'd want to do some squats, too."
The three of them listened to him intently.
"At about 2 a.m. today, a patrol officer reported that the Botanical Garden had become a ghost story area, and the military and police forces that entered earlier had not yet come out."
"Nanjiang Botanical Garden in this city?" Wang Keke's mouth twitched.
"Yes, it is the 318-hectare Nanjiang Botanical Garden."
The three finally understood why he was doing squats.
This is an open-ended area of weird stories, located in a public place with a high flow of people.
"The broadcast only notified us to come back, and only our Fluorescent Green Team went in?"
Lu Xingyang forced a smile and said, "You guessed it right. It was Tu Ying who proposed this to Boss Han. She said that since the Fluorescent Green Team received an extra reward, they must be able to crack the open-ended weird talk field."
For revenge.
Lu Miao understood it clearly.
The Fluorescent Green Team is short of numbers and has always only been involved in cracking closed ghost story areas.
It seems that Tu Ying wishes they would be completely wiped out.
"No matter what that witch says, if you need another team to support you, I will arrange it immediately."
She made a prompt decision: "No need. The police and the military have already gone in. Having more investigation teams involved may not improve the efficiency of cracking the case, but may only disrupt the situation."
Lu Xingyang felt sorry. "Hey, you should think about the department once in a while."
Lu Miao was unmoved. "If there is nothing else, let's go to the botanical garden now."
"Yes! I will go to the scene this time too. I will drive there and you guys will take the helicopter."
"???"
Military helicopters were flying over the city, and the clear sky provided a clear view from the air.
The three people in the helicopter wore noise-canceling headphones and overlooked the Nanjiang Botanical Garden below.
A faint red light surrounded the botanical garden, and some of the red light broke away from the outer wall and slowly extended to the nearby roads and buildings.
"Some open-ended ghost story areas will expand due to the spread of internal pollution. The red light you see breaking away from the outer wall is the mark of the expansion location." The accompanying lieutenant explained to them.
He occasionally glanced at Wang Keke who was putting on makeup in the mirror.
From the moment she boarded the helicopter, she kept applying makeup in front of the mirror. In less than ten minutes, she had completed a simple smoky eye and applied purple lip gloss.
He had long heard that all the members of the Green Team of the Ghost Story Investigation Department were a little abnormal, and today he was truly enlightened and saw it.
The lieutenant came back to his senses. "There are many ways to spread pollution, but fortunately, there is no airborne transmission. The time limit for cracking the open ghost story area is 48 hours, but according to the expansion range, it must be cracked within 36 hours, otherwise I will apply to mark it as a dead zone."
The helicopter landed at the football field next to the gymnasium, and Lu Xingyang drove to pick them up and take them to the botanical garden.
Police cars and military jeeps were parked outside the Nanjiang Botanical Garden. Citizens watching were whispering, and the brave ones chose to enter the botanical garden to get fresh supplies.
Lu Miao walked through the crowd of onlookers and spotted a man who stood out from the crowd at first sight.
He was wearing a blue and white sports windbreaker with a stand-up collar, and his side-parted black hair was pinned behind his ears. He sat quietly on a bench outside the ticket office, sitting upright, detached from the noisy world, as if he was staring at the onlookers, or as if he was just letting his mind wander.
As I approached him, my heart calmed down.
"Mr. Si?"
Si Lan turned his head upon hearing the voice, and the figure reflected in him was stained by the bright sunlight, lighting up his silent dark eyes and bringing back his spirit. He smiled slightly, and the corners of his lips curled up beautifully.
"Ms. Lu?"
Lu Miao didn't expect to meet him again. "The botanical garden has become a strange story area. What are you doing sitting outside the strange story area?"
Wang Keke, He Pingan and Lu Xingyang stopped behind and eavesdropped, quietly sizing up the stunning man and speculating on his relationship with Lu Miao.
"Today our department came to the botanical garden for team building, but we found that this place has become a place for weird stories, so we terminated the team building activities. Some colleagues went home, and some ran inside." Si Lan's voice was gentle and his speech was neither fast nor slow.
"Why don't you go home?"
He blinked thoughtfully. "Maybe I'll wait until they come out."
Lu Miao was speechless.
“But I think I’ll lose those colleagues.”
Lu Miao: "...your thoughts and actions are contradictory."
He didn't comment. "Miss Lu, do you want to go in?"
"Well, that's my job."
He smiled, looking even more charming. "I'll wait for you to come out. I won't feel empty when someone I know comes out."
"Whatever you want."
After she finished speaking, she turned around and tried to leave, but unexpectedly she ran into three people who were staring at each other.
She said coldly, "Are you free? Why don't you check the gate and the surroundings?"
Lu Xingyang coughed awkwardly. "I'll wait for you to come out too, take care."
He Pingan changed the subject: "It seems that the rules are posted at the gate. Let's go over and take a look."
"Yes, yes, we were just about to ask you to go and see." Wang Keke smiled awkwardly.
Watching the three people approach the gate of the botanical garden, Lu Xingyang kicked two small stones and sat down next to Si Lan.
The copper plaque next to the gate has the grooves engraved with red paint with gold glitter filled in.
This time, the font becomes a thin circle with rounded corners, which is a bit cute.
Nanjiang Botanical Garden Admission Notice:
Dear visitors, welcome to Nanjiang Botanical Garden, which has the richest ecological environment and the freshest air in the city! In order to promote ecological balance and create a healthy ecological environment, the garden is temporarily free of admission. When sightseeing, please abide by the following rules to ensure your own safety, otherwise you will be at your own risk.
1. A large number of plants are planted in this garden. It is prohibited to bring flammable items, fire sources, knives and dangerous items into the garden, and it is prohibited to use open flames in the garden.
2. Please wear long shirts and long pants when entering the park to prevent mosquito bites.
3. Please go to the bottom of this notice to get the park map and enter the park.
4. People with high allergies, pregnant women, and the disabled are prohibited from entering the park to prevent accidents.
5. Please visit the exhibition areas marked on the map and follow the route on the map.
6. The water is dangerously deep, please do not play near the lake or the pools along the way.
I wish you good health and happy sightseeing!
"The font of the rules has changed again this time?" He Ping'an wondered if it had anything to do with the difficulty of cracking the rules.
“I hope there won’t really be carved fonts in the future…” Wang Keke laughed in silence.
Lu Miao hit the nail on the head. "Don't worry about the fonts for now. Mosquitoes are the key to spreading pollution. Get the map."
Not long after, Lu Xingyang watched them walk into the gate of Nanjiang Botanical Garden and sighed with disappointment.
Si Lan, who was standing next to him, pushed the pebbles on the ground with the tip of his shoe and put them in a neat row again.
A small smile of amusement played on his lips.
The door behind the three people turned into a blocked wall.
"Captain, who is that handsome guy outside?" Wang Keke was so curious that she couldn't hold it back.
"Blind date."
The two were shocked as if they had heard great news.
"Wow! The captain is so lucky!"
"Failed." She changed the subject and checked the map in her hand.
There are three major exhibition areas in the park.
Temperate plant area, tropical plant area and bird exhibition area.
There is a lake in the middle of the map, called the Central Lake.
There are two exits, called the West Gate and the East Gate.
"Ah?" Wang Keke was indignant. "Handsome guys are not reliable. Captain, don't mind it. He just has no vision."
Lu Miao closed the map. "I rejected him."
"ah?"
He Pingan uttered dryly, "...The captain has high standards."
"Did you notice anything wrong?"
He Pingan and Wang Keke looked around.
The flowerbed opposite the gate is full of flowers and looks thriving.
The grass around was lush and green, and the tree-lined path was temporarily empty.
"It's just a little quiet. There are no other discoveries."
Just as he finished speaking, the sound of messy footsteps came from behind him.
Six citizens broke into the botanical garden together and quickly approached the three people.
It was so quiet that the three of them could hear their whispers.
"They have guns. Are they police or military personnel?"
"I guess so."
"It's clear from one look that they are very experienced. It's safer to follow them."
In the crowd, a man wearing glasses secretly looked at three people wearing the same style of jackets.
Lu Miao didn't like to hang out with the citizens, so he led his team members forward quickly.
Not far from them, next to the osmanthus flowerbed, there were road signs and copper signs, and everyone had to gather together to look.
The harmless small round font weakens the eerie atmosphere.
The roadside pointed in different directions:
Central Lake↑
←Chrysanthemum Garden
← Carnivorous Plant Museum
Lavender Fields →
Parrot House →
Things to note when visiting Nanjiang Botanical Garden:
1. The facilities of our park are absolutely solid and the quality of safety measures meets national standards.
2. Due to the maintenance of the bird exhibition hall in the park, the bird exhibition hall is temporarily closed to the public. The exhibition hall is very well enclosed and there is no possibility of birds appearing. If you encounter birds during the sightseeing, please move to the building immediately. The same applies to flying insects.
3. Please keep the map safe. If someone asks you about the map, please ignore them and stay away from them.
4. If you unfortunately lose the map you received before entering the park, please refer to the map inside the park for sightseeing. But do not believe in rumors or spread them. Please remember that there is no aquatic plant pavilion in the park. If someone mentions the aquatic plant pavilion to you, please stay away from them immediately. If necessary, you can ask the staff in Tsing Yi for help.
5. Please remember that there is only one exit from this park.
“There’s only one exit? But there are two exits marked on the map?” The middle-aged woman in flowery clothes trembled as she held the map.
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