Mysterious creature sightings

However, whether Ling Zhicheng was sick or not was not the main point of her coming to Yu's house. She came to "report" her whereabouts.

After a few brief chats, she said, "I have something to do these days and I have to go out with friends. I'm sorry, Brother Yu Zhang. When I went to the shooting gallery the day before yesterday, I originally said that I would go horse riding with you later."

Yu Zhang didn't care at all and still maintained the smile of a close brother: "Are you planning to go on a trip with your old friends?"

Apart from that, he couldn't think of any friends she could have, or anything else that would require her to be away for days.

Ling Jiangyue: "It's not like we were friends before. If we're traveling, then we are."

After saying that, she quickly glanced at Yu Zhang and whispered slowly, "I haven't told my family yet, but I think I need to tell you."

Yu Zhang frowned: "Oh? Why?"

"Because...because you are very important." He was still vague at the beginning, but at the end of the sentence, he looked into his eyes seriously and said every word very clearly.

Whether in friendship or love, people who play straight are always overwhelming.Yu Zhang didn't dare to look directly into her eyes for a moment. When he looked away, he could clearly hear his own heart skipping a beat.

The white shoulders they touched at the Song family banquet that day, the gazes that met each other in the fitting room of the shopping mall, the relying eyes that gave her complete trust, the cold fingertips that they touched just now at the Ling family... bits and pieces. The fragments together made up this almost imperceptible shot.

Yu Zhang felt that something was wrong, so he could only cover it up by drinking coffee.

After a while, he returned to normal and continued to say humorously: "It's my pleasure. But where are you going? If appropriate, I can book a hotel for you. Yu's hotel chain is all over the country. You can get a [-]% discount if you come to me."

Ling Jiangyue also laughed: "That depends on my friend, if necessary..."

"Just call me, don't be embarrassed, the most important thing is to live comfortably."

She arched her eyebrows and sweetly responded "Okay".

There are some things that can be judged by deeds but not by heart. I don’t know whether Yu Zhang was aware of what he was doing.

……

After making these preparations, Ling Jiangyue only informed Ling Jiangyu the next day and went to the Haicheng branch of the Special Operations Office according to the address sent by Lin Zheng.

It was an old residential alley. The former police station had been moved away and a luxurious new public security building was built. There were only some neglected departments left here.

The big rusty iron door downstairs can still hear the creaking sound when it is opened. In the dappled light leaking from the leaves, it really feels like you are slowly walking into a mysterious organization.

Entering was the lobby, which was laid out like an old hospital. Opposite the door was a spacious staircase with old-fashioned tiles. She walked up along the route with fresh pheromones and saw a person in the corridor on the second floor.

It's Lin Zheng.

He was rarely wearing a black jacket. Through the open jacket, you could see that his thin waist was covered by very close-fitting black pants, without a belt.

The cuffs were rolled up halfway, revealing a section of the arm with clear texture and smooth lines, and looming veins entwining up to the fingers holding the cigarette.

The smoke he exhaled blurred the profile of his face. After hearing the voice, he turned around. In the light and dark, his sexiness doubled.

"Here you come? Lin Jia bought breakfast. If you haven't eaten, you can share some." His voice was as cold as the smoke.

"Why are you smoking?" she asked curiously as she walked over.

"It's not smoke, it's a pheromone blocker mist specially made in the laboratory." It was used to suppress the cave ash worms that were suspected to be still alive in his body.Ling Jiangyue opened her mouth slightly and said "oh" softly, giving a half-understanding reaction.

No wonder he is so frigid from his voice to his attitude. It turns out he was suppressed by the medicine.

She entered the office, and Lin Zheng's peripheral vision glanced at her figure disappearing from the door. He continued to smoke at the scenery outside. He had no intention of welcoming the specially invited consultant, or in other words, putting aside his grudges and getting along with her savior in a friendly manner.

After Ling Jiangyue had eaten half of the corn, he came in with a chill.

"Have you told her the case information?"

Lin Jia: "As I said, I asked Jiang Yuxing to take her to understand the energy type of fungal spores first."

Ling Jiangyue was grinding corn kernels with her front teeth. When she heard this, she raised her hand and asked, "I have a question."

Everyone looked at her and said nothing. Lin Zheng was out of breath for ten seconds, but he still had to be responsible for answering her questions: "Tell me."

"Why do you think it must be fungi? I saw some snow-capped mountain butterflies in tomb-robbing movies that have similar effects? Or maybe it's magnetic fields, avalanche infrasound, or something like that."

"That place is in Guangyuan, where we haven't seen avalanches for a hundred years, so where do snow-capped mountain butterflies come from?" Jiang Yuxing said.

Ling Jiangyue: "I'm just giving an example. There are many ways for fungal spores to spread, usually in patches. If it is really caused by fungi, then after so many years, the mushrooms should have grown enough to surround the hills of Guangyuan. Why haven't they? What about more similar cases?"

They were stunned for a moment.

Lin Jia went to check the death cases in Guangyuan in the past 20 years. There were indeed very few similarities, and some were fabricated by Internet celebrities.

But how could she grasp this key point in just one sentence?It would be difficult for someone who has never studied biological habits and case investigation to raise such a question. She obviously said she didn't know much about living things during the last case.

Seeing them all staring at her, Ling Jiangyue didn't dare to nibble on the corn, and said cautiously, "I'm just asking. I've been studying biology at home these days and watched a lot of documentaries."

It makes sense.

Lin Zheng turned away his sharp eyes and answered her previous question: "Have you seen movies about similar incidents? For example, there is a horror movie in Hong Kong called "Two Eyes", which mentions an entomophilous fungus, this kind of microorganism The mixture with insects is not toxic to humans and may even be beneficial.”

"Because they stimulate the human body to produce high concentrations of serotonin and dopamine, which is equivalent to smoking a ton of... mescaline, which can relieve people's pain, be hallucinogenic, and can sense connections. The two brothers and sisters surnamed Xin believe that , those people who died unnaturally were poisoned by the second type - hallucinations."

"There is a death that is very similar in the movie and the information. The person who died in the fire was covered in burn blisters, but there was no fire at the scene. The only difference is that the person who died in the movie died of a real physical killing, while the person who died in the information died of real physical murder. Several people on the list probably died of hallucinatory suicide."

Lin Jia added a term: "Psychological suggestion-type self-killing, which is mostly used by religious fanatics."

Xu Jiayan added: "But these are actually speculations. There are currently no real cases found and studied in the known data, so we don't know whether it is true or not. If it is true, what kind of science will be used?" Theory to explain.”

Ling Jiangyue said oh and oh in a dull voice, and asked a beginner's question dryly: "So we focus on fungi as the target of investigation?"

Lin Zheng: "No, we are just preparing for the worst and investigating based on the high risk level of the fungus. Our focus is on a full-scale investigation in a specific environment."

"What specific environment?"

"grave."