Volume 5: Qingming Chapter 36 Inculcation
After hanging up the phone, Jiang You turned sideways and tried to squeeze into the iron gate. Just as it was about to get stuck, the iron gate quietly opened a little further outwards.
Lin Yu noticed it.
He followed Jiang You in silently.
The ground was cracked and sunken in places. A few sparrows pecked at the rainwater in the puddles, and when they noticed someone coming, they flapped their wings and flew into the sky.
"This used to be a plastic factory. Because it was close to the school, it moved away more than ten years ago." Jiang You turned his head and glanced at Lin Yu. "It has been abandoned ever since. That's what Baidu said."
"They use this as a place to steal...love?"
"Maybe." Jiang You pushed his glasses down and asked, "What do you see here?"
Lin Yu looked around the place carefully. In the front was an office building, four stories high, with mottled walls and a tightly closed door.
To the west, there are two rows of fine-leaved banyan trees planted between the workshop and the warehouse. Because no one takes care of them, their branches and leaves have grown together...
Lin Yu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "I didn't find anything unusual."
"Let's take a look."
Lin Yu followed Jiang You's line of sight and asked, "Is there something wrong with these trees?"
"Now, the hardware has been upgraded, but the software has not yet been upgraded."
"What?"
Jiang You held Jiang Mo in his arms and walked to the middle of the two rows of banyan trees, and stopped in front of the banyan tree with the thickest trunk.
The branches and leaves blocked out the sunlight.
“You can see a lot of things, just information that your brain doesn’t know what to do with.”
"See, a ghost?" Lin Yu asked.
"That's about right," Jiang You held Jiang Mo in his left hand, took out a black bead from his bag with his right hand, and held it in front of Lin Yu, "Here, take it."
Lin Yu picked up the bead and said, "Is it heating up?"
"yes."
The next moment, Lin Yu felt dizzy, as if a layer of translucent jelly blocked his vision, and everything around him became bizarre...
He felt his stomach churning...
Suddenly, the vision returned to normal.
A gust of wind blew, shaking the branches and leaves, bringing some coolness.
Lin Yu stood up straight and exhaled. He turned around and saw Jiang You holding a black bead in his hand. He subconsciously looked down at his hand and saw nothing in it...
"What happened to me just now?" Lin Yu asked.
"It is said that this is a magic weapon of the mountain spirit. It has some special effects. It will upgrade your software system."
"The magic weapon of the mountain spirit? How did Duan Rui get it?"
"I want to know, too." Jiang You put Jiang Mo on the ground. He rubbed his shoulders and said, "I think my luck is too bad."
"What's wrong?"
"I just feel that, generally speaking, if the bugs floating outside the rules want to come in, they must first have a name, and a human must give it a name," Jiang You gently scratched the trunk of the banyan tree with his right index finger, "so some people with bugs in the software and hardware systems, like me, I seem to have clairvoyance. When the little bugs find such people, they will bewitch them and hint to them. These people are often the first followers."
"Then what?"
"Then one begets two, two begets three..." Jiang You glanced at Lin Yu, "It has a name, a symbol that represents it, a specific ritual, and a sacrifice. Once these four things are met, it can truly come here to eat and drink to its heart's content."
"So how do we get rid of these bugs?"
“Why do we need to eliminate it?”
Lin Yu immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing, and he said, "I'm not..."
"There are good and bad ones. Some don't want to come in. According to human standards, humans can create gods themselves. They create a name, and some small insects attach themselves to this name and gradually become spirits of faith. My faith is the Dream Garden."
"Um, mobile games?"
"Yes, I invested a lot of time, money, and energy, and recommended a lot of people to play it," Jiang You took out his phone and opened the app. He turned the screen to Lin Yu, "Look, I have reached more than 4,000 levels."
"Level 4235..." Lin Yu glanced at Jiang You, "Amazing."
"Some are born from mountains and rivers over time, such as mountain spirits and river spirits. But once these are known to people and go astray, they will also start to overeat..."
The phone vibrated, Jiang You turned his hand over, Tang Butian asked him for the exact address, and Jiang You sent the location.
Five or six minutes later, Lin Yu saw a girl wearing a blue off-shoulder dress, carrying a light brown bucket bag and holding a wooden machete in her hand walking into the factory.
Jiang You waved at her, "Here, Section Chief!"
Tang Butian walked towards them quickly.
She walked over to Jiang You and asked, "Is this the place?"
"It's reacting and it's generating heat," Jiang You raised the bead towards Tang Butian, "Where did you come from? Where's Sun Yu?"
"He's going to speak for me tomorrow and write a speech in the hotel. I originally..." Tang Butian glanced at Lin Yu and asked, "What information did you find out?"
"There are quite a lot. Let me summarize them for you," Jiang You organized his words. "This bead is a magical tool of the Jiujin Mountain spirit. It reacts to the fluctuations of spiritual energy here. It was once in Duan Rui's hands. There used to be a monster inside it. This monster once occupied Lin Yu's body. At the same time, during the occupation, it behaved like an ordinary person."
"What's the conclusion?"
"No conclusion yet. Do you have a law enforcement camera? Scan the spiritual energy fluctuations here."
Tang Butian took out the law enforcement recorder from her bag and started scanning.
"Lin Yu, take my son for a walk around No. 1 Middle School," Jiang You and Lin Yu said, "Let him feel the atmosphere of a key high school and be influenced by it so that he can become a top student when he goes to school."
Lin Yu knew that Jiang You was trying to get him out of the way, so he said, "Then I'll go over first."
When he bent down to hug Jiang Mo, he saw Jiang Mo take a step forward.
"Let him go by himself, you just watch him." Jiang You said.
"OK."
After Lin Yu and Jiang Mo left, Jiang You told Tang Butian how he found this place. After that, Tang Butian asked, "Is there any connection with Zheng Yuantai's case? "
"I'm also guessing," Jiang You took a few steps forward, "After that, we can compare the spiritual power fluctuations here with the analysis there, and then we can determine whether there is a connection. If there is, we will have a direction. Who is the person in charge of this matter in Chucheng?"
"Chang Lizhang, from the Religious Affairs Bureau. After Su Wangshu went to Yanjing, there was no one to take over, so he took over."
"That sounds okay. Have you found out where Zheng Yuantai disappeared?" Jiang You asked.
"His sword was found by a tourist on Jiujin Mountain, which may be where he disappeared."
"I want to see that sword."
"good."
