I, the only extraordinary in this world

Chapter 104 What a coincidence

Back in Taiping City not far from Qinling Mountains, Li Heng first went to a photo studio.

Give the boss a very old roll of film and let him see if he can get the contents out.

"Boss, you are really old fashioned."

Unexpectedly, Li Heng could bring out such a super old thing, and the shopkeeper was shocked.

"It must be able to be washed out. The film is the same, but your maintenance is not very good. It is estimated that there are not many images that can be washed out."

Li Heng nodded, he naturally knew how well the things that had been buried in the ground for seven or eighty years could be preserved.

After getting an affirmative answer, Li Heng asked him to wash as much as he could to get as much information as possible.

After all, he was really curious why such a legendary folk explorer, Ale Jones, would travel thousands of miles to the hinterland of China, risking his life to go deep into the Qinling Mountains, and finally died in it.

Combined with the rumor that "a big event that will shock all human beings" was released before his last expedition, it is hard to say that he did not decide to do so because he witnessed something unbelievable.

The explorer from more than 80 years ago, the forbidden area of ​​the White Lotus Sect, the wonders in the underground space, the mysterious Ksitigarbha spirit and the landform that looks like a human brain, the missing [Pressing Dragon Sword], the persistent immortal seeker who does not know whether he is really immortal...

Although everything was settled and completely buried in the landslide, Li Heng knew that it was not over yet, and it only depended on how much he could explore.

After several hours passed, the store tossed for a long time, changed various cleaning methods, and consulted some veteran colleagues who had already retired, and finally cleaned the film that Li Heng gave him.

"Boss, I'm sorry, you are really too old, and there are only a few pictures that can be washed out in the end, just take a look."

There are a total of three or four photos that can be developed into visible images, and they are all not so clear black and white photos. The store doesn't think such photos are useful.

But it was enough for Li Heng.

After scanning these photos into relatively clear electronic files, Li Heng took them to a fast hotel and took out the laptop he had stored before. After many days, he lived again in a hotel with internet Life.

In these few blurry black and white photos, at first glance, they are all insignificant and insignificant things, nothing more than mountains and forests, or stones, and some buildings that look like pagodas.

But it came out of Ale Jones' camera, so there must be some special meaning in it.

When Li Heng pretended to be a student of various colleges and universities and various researchers on the Internet, he had also come into contact with many relatively advanced new gadgets, including image restoration and omnipotent search software with the help of AI.

Li Heng also kept some backdoor links, and he could log in to "steal" those powerful AI functions.

After performing AI restoration and color filling on the electronic files of those photos, Li Heng obtained relatively clear and complete color photos, and then he logged into another AI system responsible for all-round search, and transferred one of the photos into it.

This is a photo of an old and mottled pagoda. Li Heng doesn't know how tall the pagoda is because there is no reference. It can only be said that it is definitely not short in terms of pure vision.

But what really caught Li Heng's heart was a special structure in the center of the pagoda - a diamond-shaped groove!

This groove is very similar to what he saw on the rock wall next to the "poisonous dragon" crack in the underground of Qinling Mountains. It is the groove where [Pressing Dragon Jian] was once placed!

Although the rhombus is a common and common symbol in all kinds of civilizations, the shape and side length ratio of this rhombus are almost the same as those in the underground Qinling Mountains. It is hard for Li Heng to think that this is a coincidence.

In addition, Ale Jones also came here for this, otherwise he would not have specifically marked those three characters in Chinese in the notebook.

All kinds of clues can almost conclude that this pagoda must be related to the missing [Pressing Dragon Sword] underground in Qinling Mountains.

So the first thing he searched for was this pagoda.

However, unexpectedly, even though the AI ​​ran for more than ten minutes, it still failed to find a matching target building from the huge global gallery.

This surprised Li Heng, how could it be possible?
Could it be that this pagoda is fake?

But Ale Jones didn’t even have PS in that era, so how could there be any forged photos, or is it that this pagoda was destroyed before it was preserved by the world?
Or... until today, this pagoda has not been discovered by anyone except Alai Jones?
In any case, Li Heng will definitely not get the desired result for a while, which makes him a little disappointed. The most promising clue in these photos is this pagoda, after all, it is very iconic .

Of the remaining three photos, one of them is the outline of a mountain, which looks very ordinary and seems to be everywhere on the earth. The remaining two photos are even more useless, like portraits of people taken along the way.

With the mentality of giving it a try, Li Heng sent the photo of the mountain to the AI ​​big data for searching, and there really came out a lot of matching mountains.

It's just that there are all over the world, it's hard to tell which mountain it is.

At this time, Li Heng's eyes lit up, and he also restored the two portraits just now, looking for details from them.

"This kind of clothing seems to be the characteristic clothing of a certain ethnic group in Southeast Asia... It looks like the Ta people of Laos, or the Shan people of Shan Pyu country..."

Through this round of analysis, the scope can be further narrowed, directly shrinking from Southeast Asia to the border between Laos and Shan Pyu, the virgin forest stretching nearly a thousand kilometers on the national border.

After adding the limited search conditions, the AI ​​big data quickly gave the only result - the ancient land of Champa, the mountain of savages!

"It turned out to be one of these mountains..."

This is the junction of Shan Pyu, Laos and Borneo. It is the top three mountain ranges in Southeast Asia, and it is a barren land that has not yet been developed. It is covered by huge tropical jungles and is perennially foggy. Running rampant is basically a place to bid farewell to human civilization.

Therefore, it is said that there is a group of savages in that mountain forest, so it got its name.

Ale Jones was able to enter such a poor place alone and return intact. It can be seen that his title of legendary explorer was not in vain, but he died under the Qinling Mountains in the end, which is embarrassing.

"It really makes sense in this way. If it is that kind of place, it is very likely that no one has discovered it until now, and the Shanyu Kingdom is also known as the country of a thousand pagodas, and there are countless pagodas and temples in the territory."

Li Heng nodded, this information at least provided him with a direction.

Otherwise, if you want to pursue this secret, you may have to travel across the ocean to the island country of the East Ocean to find the missing [Pressing Dragon Sword], but in that case there are fewer clues. After all, after the end of the World War, East Ocean experienced too many changes. , where that thing ended up is hard to say.

Now that there are some results, Li Heng has a bottom line in his heart, he closes these AI tools, and he opens his mailbox.

In this short period of time, there has been a backlog of many emails, most of which are sent by his "netizens".

However, Li Heng didn't want to read these now. He ignored the hundreds of unread emails, and directly found an email from an account with no notes and no personal information in his inbox.

This is the account Yang Lin used to communicate with him.

When he saw this email, Li Heng, who has always been calm and composed, couldn't help taking a deep breath slowly, as if the content in it was also extremely important to him.

Click to open, the first sentence that comes up is - "Li Heng, your guess is correct"

At the same time as he saw this sentence, Li Heng's face slowly froze, and an invisible chill gradually spread out from him.

"The results of the investigation you asked me to help have come out"

"The death of your parents ten years ago was not a simple accident. It involved a key person—Ma Hongtu"

Immediately below is a portrait photo, a middle-aged man with a fat and slightly bald face, looking quite simple and honest.

Li Heng also has some impressions of this photo. One night when he was still in high school more than ten years ago, a middle-aged man was a guest at home. At that time, his father asked him to call him uncle. Not long after that, Li Heng's parents met Said that he would go out to work to earn money and save him for future college tuition.

That's the person in this photo.

"Ma Hongtu is a job intermediary, introducing jobs to migrant workers from all over the world, including but not limited to construction sites, mines, chemical plants, farms, etc...but most of them are not very formal work sites"

"This person left China about ten years ago on the grounds of doing business in Southeast Asia, and has never returned to China since then."

"Originally, this is not a big deal. There are many people who went abroad in the early years and did not return, and some of them settled abroad directly, especially in some countries that are not strict about nationality and residency. However, I found an abnormality in the sorting out of cases in recent years. Through interviews and investigations, it was found that the casualty rate of migrant workers introduced by Ma Hongtu was very high!"

"Although there are reasons why most of the labor companies he introduced are not safe and formal, the proportion is still too abnormal. In addition, the policy protection for migrant workers working illegally in the early years was not comprehensive, which made this phenomenon disappear. in a large amount of data”

"It wasn't until the release of some bankrupt companies' summary information recently, and after the release of many of the once-secret economic lawsuits, that there was a big problem!"

"Because those disputes over compensation after labor accidents were negotiated with enterprises through Ma Hongtu, the intermediary. Responsible"

Seeing this, Li Heng was already able to deduce the following conclusions by himself, but he still had to read it word by word.

"There is a dark truth hidden under this abnormal situation. This year, a thief was arrested in Liao Province. Coincidentally, he was once one of the intermediary gang in Ma Hongtu. After interrogating him, we learned that those accidents were largely None of them were pure accidents, but they were man-made!"

"After they caused fatal accidents in secret, they immediately negotiated with construction sites, mines and other labor companies as employee representatives, trying to deal with the accident in a private way, and then fraudulently obtained high compensation. Many times their own non-compliance dare not resort to the law, and they will basically accept it privately.”

"The group led by Ma Hongtu used this method to blackmail 20 construction or mining companies across the country, causing at least 38 casualties, 12 people were killed, 700 people were seriously injured and paralyzed, and the amount of fraud was as high as More than [-] million, and this person was very vigilant, and when he was not tracked down, he fled the country ten years ago with this money and went abroad."

"Now it is very likely that he has changed his face and settled down in a Southeast Asian country with another identity."

"This is part of the information that the domestic side currently has..."

The following are some compressed packages that need to be viewed in detail.

boom--

The glass that had been pinched in Li Heng's hand finally couldn't bear it and shattered into a crystal firework.

He finally understood why it was so difficult for Uncle Lu to go to other provinces to help him deal with his parents' affairs and ask for compensation. Apart from the embarrassment of the company and Uncle Lu's low level of education, the bigger reason was that this was a terrible conspiracy!

A ghost in human skin is using the lives of others to make money for himself.

"Can you help me arrange the exit procedure?"

Li Heng replied an email.

Soon, the email with the receipt arrived within 2 minutes, and there was only a simple sentence in it: everything is ready.

Not even a single word of pleasantries, not even a word to express that he should be more careful on the road.

But a rare smile appeared on Li Heng's cold face, and he immediately replied, "Thank you."

Nothing too expressive, this is how two men who identify with each other communicate.

"What a coincidence..."

Gently uttering these words, Li Heng stood up and turned towards the world map hanging in the room, and picked up a dart in a Frisbee.

laugh!
There was a sharp sound of piercing through the air, and the dart was accurately and deeply pierced on the map between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

(End of this chapter)