Chapter 93: Qingying Case
"Okay, let's go back." Xu Lai patted his butt and prepared to go home.
Then I heard Tang Tang say: "Let's sit for a while. It feels like we haven't sat together like this for a long time. The scenery here is so beautiful."
"Is there?" Xu looked around. The wetland was damp and humid on a summer night , and there were many mosquitoes. It was hard to tell where the scenery was good. But he still sat back down.
"Let me see your phone." Tang Tang came over and said.
"What for?" Xu Lai handed it to her.
"You finally changed to a smartphone, that's good. Hey, why can't it turn on?" Tang Tang fiddled with the phone, but couldn't turn on the screen.
"It's bad." Xu Lai roughly recounted what happened in Wenlan's underground.
"It's several thousand. You must feel sad, right?" Tang Tang smiled.
"Yeah, it hurts so much." Xu Lai agreed.
Tang Tang fiddled with the phone over and over again for a while, then said regretfully, "It's really broken."
Hand it back to Xu Lai.
"I heard that you are now working with others to take odd jobs?" Tang Tang said with a smile.
Xu said yes, with two friends.
The so-called "taking wild jobs" is what the magicians call it, which means taking on some odd and odd jobs of exorcising evil spirits. Generally speaking, these jobs are not too high-end, at most they are small-scale jobs such as bumping into guests, losing souls, and evil diseases.
Unlike the regular sects in the art world, especially the top sects like the Tianshi Mansion, if they don't move, it's fine, but if they move, it's often a very serious event.
Moreover, this kind of thing is often not done by one or two people, but by a large group working together.
"Not bad, this suits you very well." Tang Tang said.
"Yes, it's quite comfortable." Xu said.
"You must have felt uncomfortable being cooped up in the Tianshi Mansion these years. I think you prefer to be on the front line rather than hiding behind the scenes to give orders." Tang Tang said with a smile.
"Oh, you seem to know quite a lot about it?" Xu Lai looked very surprised.
"Of course I will." Tang Tang was proud for a while, and then she came up with an idea, "Why don't I quit the Tianshi Mansion and go with you to take on the odd jobs, what do you think?"
"Stop messing around..." Xu Lai was speechless.
Tang Tang laughed for a while, looked up at the dark clouds in the sky, and said, "Why did you leave like that in the first place? There are still many people in the Tianshi Mansion who support you. If you don't agree, no one can do anything to you."
"What else can we do? Will the Tianshi Mansion really be torn apart by internal strife?" Xu Lai smiled bitterly.
Tang Tang was silent for a while, then said softly, "So you really don't plan to come back? I'm afraid that if Tianshi Mansion continues like this, something bad will happen sooner or later."
"Let's talk about it when the time comes. Maybe things will get better," Xu Lai said with a smile.
Tang Tang said nothing, staring at the puddle in front of her in a daze.
"Okay, okay, there's nothing to worry about. Tianshi Mansion has outstanding talents like you, so there's no need to worry about it going bankrupt." Xu Lai comforted.
"Stop messing around..." Tang Tang was speechless.
Xu Lai laughed and said, "You are not in Tianshi Mansion, why did you come to Jiangning?"
When talking about this, Tang Tang said, "I was originally going to Anyang, but when I was passing by Jiangning, a man named Bai stopped me."
"It's all because of dealing with a big monster like you that the guy named Bai was almost vomiting blood in anger." Tang Tang smiled.
"Really?" Xu Lai didn't seem to realize it at all.
Tang Tang laughed for a while and said, "After we get out, I will go with the Bai guys."
"The Anyang incident..." Xu Lai pondered for a moment and asked, "The Qingying case?"
"You know?" Tang Tang was surprised.
"I've heard of it before." Xu said.
The Anyang Qingying case first occurred in a small town called Lumen under Anyang, where several people disappeared in succession, all of them young people between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.
These people almost disappeared overnight, and their families could not find them. However, this incident did not cause much commotion at the time. After all, these people had hands and feet, and it was not impossible for them to run away from home because of a temper or for some other reason.
Later, several more incidents occurred in Anyang, but because they were geographically scattered, they did not attract much attention. However, those people were never found again.
Until February of this year, another incident happened.
At that time, there was a family named Zhou in Lumen Town. As their parents had died in an accident many years ago, there were only two siblings left in the family.
My older sister’s name is Zhou Tong. She went out to work and earn money right after graduating from high school. My younger brother’s name is Zhou Tong. He is still in middle school.
The two siblings depended on each other for survival, so they had a very good relationship. But one day, when Zhou Tong came home from get off work, she couldn't find Zhou Tong anywhere, whether in school or at other classmates' homes, but found nothing.
Zhou Tong called the police at that time, but in the end Zhou Tong was never found. Just like the previous cases of missing people, he disappeared without a trace.
The town of Lumen has always been peaceful, with harmonious neighbors, and no major murders have occurred in recent years. Many people comforted her, saying that it is possible that Zhou Tong ran away from home because he was upset about something.
After all, young people are capable of doing anything, and they will come back when they figure things out.
But Zhou Tong didn't believe it. Based on his understanding of his brother, this kid was definitely not someone who didn't explain himself. So Zhou Tong quit his job and went looking for him everywhere.
But in the end, she returned to Lumen with nothing.
Later one night, Zhou Tong was sleeping in the house and he actually dreamed of his younger brother Zhou Tong.
The child squatted in the corner with a pale face. Zhou Tong ran up the mountain to call him, but he said nothing and just squatted there.
Not long after, Zhou Tong suddenly stood up and ran out of the house.
Zhou Tong immediately chased after him while shouting.
But the child just kept running without saying a word, and Zhou Tong kept chasing him. He chased him all the way to the back mountain of the town, several miles away from their home, and the child suddenly disappeared into the woods.
Zhou Tong couldn't find him anywhere and was shouting loudly, then she woke up with a start.
Ever since having this dream, Zhou Tong has been like a possessed person, going into the back mountain every day, and his hands and feet are covered with scratches from thorns in the woods.
The neighbors felt sorry for her and advised her not to think too much, but Zhou Tong refused. After searching for a long time without finding any clues , she started digging in the mountains with a shovel.
Dig one place at a time.
In the eyes of others, this girl is really crazy because she misses her brother so much.
But in the end, Zhou Tong really dug up something.
It was in a very remote forest deep in the back mountain. Zhou Tong found that the land was a little unusual, so she dug down desperately. As she dug, she found a hole with many twists and turns. She dug down and actually dug out a person inside. His body had already begun to rot.
But this person was not her brother Zhou Tong.
She immediately ran out to find someone to help, and eventually identified the man as an 18-year-old boy, who was also from the town and had gone missing more than three months ago.
Later, a large number of people were dispatched to search the back mountain, but they were unable to find anyone else.
The final conclusion is that the young man dug out by Zhou Tong might have been killed by someone and buried in the back mountain. It was an individual case. As for Zhou Tong's younger brother, he might have run away from home and was no longer in Lumen Town.
But Zhou Tong never gave up and continued to go to the back mountain every day. Later, a few old people in the town couldn't stand it anymore and were afraid that she would become depressed, so they came to persuade her every now and then.
Zhou Tong told those old people that she thought what her brother did was weird and abnormal.
The elders looked at each other, wondering if the child had stayed up too long and was too obsessed with the subject. They advised her that it was just a dream and that it could not be taken seriously, and asked her not to think too much about it.
But Zhou Tong was very clear-headed and told them something.
According to Zhou Tong, she saw very strange things several times in a row a few days before her brother's accident.
Every time it's at night.
Zhou Tong was a very obedient child and would go to bed before nine o'clock every night. But that day it was already ten o'clock. Zhou Tong got up to go to the bathroom. When she passed by Zhou Tong's room, she found that the door was not closed.
She was just about to go in to see if her disciple had kicked off the quilt. Just as she was about to go in, she was suddenly stunned because she saw that the lights were not on in the room, but Zhou Tong was sitting at the desk in his pajamas.
This was already strange enough, but there was something even more bizarre. Zhou Tong saw several fireflies flying and circling above his head.
It's February now, where do the fireflies come from?
