Xu Jianguo spent more than ten minutes looking through all the photos that Fu Bo brought back, and finally understood the whole story.
Langge Village is a small village deep in the mountains of Dianzhou Province. There are more than a dozen households in the village with a total population of more than one hundred.
Due to its remote location, there are usually few outsiders coming in and out of the village except the postman.
Even people from the local commune rarely go to this village.
The cause of this incident started with a postman.
About a month ago, the postman who was responsible for delivering letters to Lange Village came to the village after traveling through mountains and rivers as usual.
But as soon as he entered the village, he noticed something was wrong.
Although Lange Village is not big, it has a large population. When the villagers have nothing to do, they like to gather under a big tree at the entrance of the village to chat.
Every time the postman came, the villagers would greet him with a smile and chat about some family matters.
But this time, when the postman entered the village, he did not see any villagers under the big tree at the entrance of the village, not even a single villager.
Not only that, the entire small mountain village was quiet, without even the sound of insects or birds chirping.
You have to know that this is in the mountains of Dianzhou Province, how could it be so quiet?
At first the postman didn't think much of it, thinking that something might have happened in the village and everyone might have gathered together.
But soon, he discovered that something was wrong.
Langge Village was originally built on the mountain and its area is not very large.
The postman quickly went around the entire village. There was no one in the houses where he was delivering letters, and there was dust on the stoves. It didn't look like the family members had just left.
In addition, it was already past one in the afternoon. Normally, it should have been not long after lunch. How could there be such a thick layer of dust on the stove?
Even though the postman was a former soldier, he couldn't help but feel a little creepy at this moment. Moreover, it was a cloudy day, and he suddenly felt that this small mountain village that usually looked very lively had become a little weird.
So the postman didn't dare to stay any longer. After all, they were in the mountains now. If he couldn't get out of the mountains as soon as possible, it would be very dangerous if he waited until dark.
Fortunately, the postman returned to the post office safely the next day. He had spent the night before in another small mountain village dozens of miles away from Lange Village.
When the postman returned to the post office, he felt something was wrong, so he took the opportunity to report the matter to the director while recording that no one had received the letter.
When the director of the post office heard this, he also felt that there was something wrong with this matter. There were more than a hundred people in the village, how could they all disappear without a trace in such a short period of time? Moreover, according to what the postman said, the commonly used items in the villagers' homes were all there, which made it even more unreasonable.
You have to know that for the villagers who are not well off, even if they are leaving, they still have to take some commonly used items with them. But from the postman's description, the situation at home gave him the feeling that the owner had just left not long ago.
After thinking about it, the director of the post office picked up the phone on the table and reported the situation to the town’s public security office.
After receiving the call, the Public Security Bureau also found it very strange, so they sent four police officers to Lange Village before dawn the next day to investigate the situation. However, the results of the investigation were exactly the same as what the postman described.
It seemed as if all the people in the small village disappeared without a trace overnight.
When the director of the public security station heard this, he felt a chill down his spine. This was a large-scale group disappearance incident, which was not something that he, the director of a town's public security station, could handle. So he reported it to the county without saying a word.
Then the county reported it to the city, and the city reported it to the province...
In short, after being reported step by step, the matter was finally handed over to the 749th Bureau. At this time, nearly half a month had passed since the postman first discovered that the villagers were missing.
After receiving the report of this case, Bureau 749 immediately held a meeting to study the matter and finally decided to send four investigators and a guard squad from the bureau to Dianzhou to conduct an investigation in Langge Village. In order to ensure that the investigation could proceed smoothly, the bureau also sent telegrams to the local armed forces and garrisons, requesting their unconditional cooperation.
In this way, an investigation team consisting of more than a dozen people left Jingzhou and headed straight for Dianzhou.
Originally, the top brass of Bureau 749 did not take this matter too seriously. You know, Dianzhou is a large border province, and Langge Village is located closer to the border. It only takes a few mountains to enter the territory of another country.
Local authorities often receive reports that some people are secretly crossing the border to other countries to do business and make money.
But this is the first time I have encountered such a large scale.
In the blink of an eye, five days had passed. Apart from receiving a report from the investigation team two days ago, which said that they were still more than ten miles away from Lange Village and were about to enter the village, Bureau 749 had not received any further reports.
Accompanying the investigation team were two police officers from the town's security station.
It was not until then that Bureau 749 realized the seriousness of the problem and immediately asked the staff to use the radio to call the investigation team.
Due to the long distance, Bureau 749 can only learn about the situation through radio wave relay and transmission.
On the tenth day after the investigation team set out, Bureau 749 held another meeting, confirmed that the team was out of contact, and decided to send a second team to Lange Village to continue the investigation and make sure to find all the missing persons.
The old Taoist priest Xuanjue was a member of the second investigation team.
When he received the order, he didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that his mission this time would be extremely dangerous.
So, after getting up early the next morning, the old Taoist priest cast a fortune for himself. The fortune he got was a sign of great misfortune, but there was also good fortune in the misfortune, and there was a glimmer of hope if a noble person helped him.
Therefore, the first thing the old Taoist thought of after reading the hexagram was Xu Jianguo. Somehow, he felt that Xu Jianguo was his benefactor.
So after the old Taoist priest finished telling the divination, he went directly to Yuye Temple and found Yuye Zhenren. He asked him to do one thing, which was that if he had not returned within a month after leaving, he should go to the research institute to find Xu Jianguo and tell him what had happened to him.
This is how the previous scene happened.
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