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Chapter 126 Entering the Mountain (4033 words in total)

"Do you remember what that old man looked like?"

The child shook his head, "I don't remember. But I am sure that he is not from the village, and his clothes are different from ours."

"Why is it different? Is there anything special?" Lin Yi continued to ask.

The child thought for a while and replied: "That person's clothes are very beautiful. They are the most beautiful I have ever seen."

"Good-looking?" Lin Yi confirmed to the child in confusion.

The child nodded affirmatively, "Yes, it looks good. It's even prettier than Lan Lan's new skirt, and it's also prettier than daddy's precious black coat."

"Okay, I understand. Thank you for telling me."

Lin Yi smiled and rubbed the heads of the two children, took out two cutely packaged toffees from his pocket and stuffed them into their hands, "If you hear any news later, remember to tell me quietly."

"Okay." The two children agreed obediently and carefully put the toffee into their trouser pockets like babies.

One of the children had a more active mind and directly grabbed Lin Yi's sleeve and asked: "Brother, if you still want to know about the bride of Uncle Lao Jiu's family, I can help you ask Lan Lan."

Where Flying Squirrel lives, there is a river nearby, and there is a lot of loess in the water that can be used as paint.

One story caught his attention.

"Tianchi Mountain?" Lin Yi stared at the name and thought for a long time. There is also a big mountain behind Yunlai Village, but the name is Chifeng Mountain.

Will the two be related?

"No problem, big brother." The child let go of Lin Yi's sleeves, pulled the other child beside him and said seriously: "My brother, I, and Lan Lan won't tell it, it's a secret."

Lin Yi looked at the work record and tried to find some information in it.

"Lan Lan?" Lin Yi guessed that he was a very close friend of the child. He crouched down and looked at the child and continued: "Then when I come back in the afternoon, can I treat you to some biscuits?"

There is a beast living in the mountains. It looks like a rabbit, with a head like a mouse and feathers on its back.

The first five pages are filled with unsubstantiated rumors and stories.

Lin Yi chuckled softly, "Yes, they are still fruit-flavored biscuits."

"Including your parents, relatives and friends, you can't tell me."

"Okay, it's settled." Lin Yi touched the child's head again, "This is a little secret between us. I hope you can keep it secret and don't tell others what I asked you."

The content inside is much simpler than that pile of information.

The work record stops here.

Legend has it that there is a mountain two hundred miles northeast called Tianchi Mountain.

"May 5, 18: p.m. Everything is normal on the mountain, there are no traces of flying squirrels. But there seem to be other traces of life, I don't know what they are yet."

They are all work records of some instructors.

"May 5, two o'clock in the afternoon. Do the animals in the pictures really exist?"

"May 5, three o'clock in the afternoon. Although they did not find the location in the picture, Ryan and Lu Yanghe discovered some valuable plants. Among them was a kind of flower that looked gorgeous, with petals like blood and a faint fragrance that made People feel happy all of a sudden, it’s amazing.”

"Little cookies!" The child's eyes showed a hint of surprise when he heard this.

After reading all the information, Lin Yi picked up his notepad.

It's just a strange rune, but there is still no progress at all, and there are no clues related to it.

"Brother, don't worry. I will definitely bring Lan Lan with me to ensure that the task is completed!" The child excitedly grabbed Lin Yi's sleeves, his eyes full of desire for cookies.

"On May 5th, at five o'clock in the evening. The villagers helped search together and found no place that was the same as the picture. There were no strange traces or footprints."

There is also a river.

After the goal was achieved, Lin helped the village cadre who fell asleep drunk back to his room.

"May 5th, seven o'clock in the evening. Tomorrow I will go to the mountains to take a look. If I still don't find it, I have to give up."

The first thing I looked at was the instructor’s compilation of some information and materials about Flying Squirrel.

He pulled out the pictures on his phone and took a closer look at the animals in them. Compared with the description in this short story, they were indeed very close.

I just don’t know if there is paint-like loess in the river.

"May 5, one o'clock in the afternoon. We reached an agreement with the village and tried to find the location in the picture near the village."

"May 5, nine o'clock in the morning. There is no change in the progress of the investigation. We expanded the scope to nearby mountains and forests, but still nothing."

He himself went back to his room and flipped through the information in his hand.

It can fly using the feathers on its back, so the people who discovered it called it flying squirrels.

"May 5th, nine o'clock in the morning. I found a story in the information, which is very similar to Yunlai Village. Maybe I should confirm it."

"At ten o'clock in the morning on May 5th, Hans suddenly told me that he saw a black shadow going up the mountain, which seemed to be the animal in the picture."

There is no vegetation growing on the mountain, but there are many stones with various patterns.

The instructor took some people up the mountain on the 20th, but there is no news yet.

Even the instructor's information doesn't have any information related to it.

"Lan Lan's house is next door to Uncle Lao Jiu, and she passes by his door every day."

The records from May 5th to 15th are thought-provoking.

It was obvious that the instructor had confirmed it in some way and began to doubt whether the animal in the picture existed.

Just when he was about to give up, someone saw him.

"Professor Hans." Lin stared at the name and remembered what the student said that morning.

There are three senior professors in this inspection group.

Mentors: Jin Kongji, Professor Lane and Professor Hans.

In terms of qualifications, Professor Hans has the highest qualifications, rigorous logic, and emphasis on theory.

In terms of popularity, Professor Lane is the most popular because of his leaping thinking and emphasis on practice.

In terms of honors, his mentor Jin Kongji has the most awards, active thinking, flexible perspective, and emphasis on combining theory with practice.

The three professors are all experts in biology, but they focus on different research directions.

Professor Lane focuses more on plant research, while his mentors Jin Kongji and Professor Hans are more inclined to animal research.

Originally, the three professors were going into the mountains together, but when they set out on the morning of the 20th, Professor Hans had an accident. His hand was accidentally injured while sleeping the night before.

The mountain road is rugged and difficult to walk in the first place.

Not to mention his hand was injured.

In the end, Hans and three students were put on standby at the accommodation point, responsible for receiving signals in the mountains to facilitate communication.

The village arranged for two young villagers who were familiar with the terrain and environment of the mountain to take their mentor Jin Kongji and his party up the mountain.

According to the journey, you need to stay in the mountain for at least one night, and you should be able to come down from the mountain smoothly at noon on the third day at most.

The signal was stable on the first day on the mountain, and news came from the mountain.

But at noon the next day, there was a sizzling sound of electricity in the signal, which seemed to be interfered by something and became unstable.

But within an hour it returned to normal, and signal contact from the people on the mountain was received.

Just an hour later than usual.

But Professor Hans didn't pay attention to this small problem.

After all, people who do research can easily lose track of time once they become obsessed.

In addition, they were in the mountains and there was no time reminder, so it was normal for them to be delayed. At night, there was a buzzing sound of electricity in the signal again, and it became unstable again.

This time it lasted longer than the last time, and it didn't calm down for a full two hours.

The student on duty immediately contacted Professor Hans, but a check of the equipment revealed that everything was normal.

They speculated that this situation may occur because of the weak signal due to the mountain environment.

According to the original plan and the footsteps of the people on the mountain, people should have reached the top of the mountain at this time.

The sizzling sound of electricity lasted for most of the night and only stopped when the light appeared.

At this point they didn't feel anything was wrong.

It wasn't until noon when Hans asked about the situation on the mountain that he realized something was wrong.

Since there was a problem with the signal last night, we have not received any more contact from the mountain.

Professor Hans quickly sent a signal to try to contact the other side of the mountain. The signal was normal, but there was no response from the other party.

Immediately afterwards, someone from the village came over and informed that the people who entered the mountain had not come back yet.

problem occurs.

Everyone who entered the mountain lost their traces.

The village chief arranged for people to enter the mountain several times one after another, but no one was found.

Just before Lin Yi's inspection team arrived, the signal continued to be unstable several times, and then completely disappeared.

"When was the last signal?" Lin Yi asked the student on duty that day.

The other party replied uncertainly: "It seems to be around eight or nine o'clock in the morning on the 25th."

"What does it mean?" Lin Yi was very dissatisfied with this answer. People who do research are always sensitive to numbers. Otherwise, if they misremember a number, the research will have to be started all over again.

The student felt the unkind aura emanating from Lin Yi, pursed his lips and lowered his head, not talking.

Lin Yi frowned tightly and was about to say something else when he was interrupted by the person behind him.

The visitor was none other than Professor Hans, who had stayed behind.

In his fifties, his hair is gray and slightly sparse.

Wearing a brown woolen coat and gray velvet pants.

His coat was buttoned one by one, nothing loose. The collar of the coat stood neatly without any wrinkles.

The buttons on the cuffs are also buttoned carefully.

There was a sharp light shining in the eyes with gold-rimmed glasses.

But when he saw Lin Yi, the light was hidden and his expression became gentle.

"Xiao Lin, I know you are anxious. Kong Ji is missing, and I am also worried."

Hans came over and patted the student on the shoulder, indicating with his eyes that the other student should go first. Then he looked at Lin Yi and continued: "But if you ask Guiwen, don't scare other students."

"They were already frightened by this incident. They had to take turns watching the signal every day, and they couldn't sleep well."

"With great mental pressure, memory will inevitably become confused."

"If you want to ask anything, you can come to me directly."

Lin Yi calmed down his emotions, apologized to Professor Hans, and then asked: "I heard that you saw Flying Squirrel, and I would like to know where it was."

"I can't remember the specific location, it seems to be a mountain forest." Hans thought for a moment and replied.

"Can't remember? Didn't you see it running up the mountain?" Lin Yi asked again.

Hans touched his sparse hair in distress, "I was so excited at the time, and all I could think about was how quickly I wanted to tell Kong Ji the good news."

"I didn't pay much attention to where it was."

"That's it." Lin nodded, seeming to believe Professor Hans' explanation.

In fact, I had deeper doubts about his words.

Professor Hans has always been a rigorous person who has his own plans for doing things and is a very rational person.

Being so excited that you forget to observe is obviously unlikely to happen to the other person.

Lin Yi had reason to suspect that the other party was lying and might even be hiding something.

Especially when he took a look at Professor Hans's outfit, he became even more sure that there was something wrong with him.

After this incident, the mood and spirit of the remaining members of the inspection team were affected.

The three students he had met before all showed a sense of exhaustion and trance in their expressions and clothes.

But this is not the case with Professor Hans.

His clothes were still neat and his hair was carefully taken care of.

It shows that the disappearance of a group of people on the mountain has no impact on Professor Hans.

Why is this happening?

Don't you care?

The missing ones are all his colleagues and students.

Professor Hans saw that Lin Yi had not spoken and asked with some confusion, "What's wrong?"

"I'm just surprised that no one can be found on the mountain. Where will that person go?" Lin Yi asked seemingly unintentionally, but his eyes were observing the other person's expression.

Professor Hans's expression did not change much and he shook his head, "I don't know what happened on the mountain."

"If they were safe, why didn't they come back?"

"Yeah, why don't you come back." Lin Yi repeated, but still didn't find any clues about the other party.

This sentence reminded him.

If you want to know the answer, or even trace the whereabouts of your mentor Jin Kongji, you must go into the mountains and take a look.

Perhaps more clues can be found there.

"When will you go into the mountains next?" Lin Yi asked.

Professor Hans was silent for a moment and replied: "Four days later."

"Can't it be done in advance?"

"No."

Professor Hans explained in a deep voice: "The village chief said that the village has been busy hosting wedding banquets recently and there is not enough manpower."

Since the disappearance occurred, the village chief has arranged for people to block all intersections going up the mountain and arrange for villagers to guard them every day.

No one is allowed to go up the mountain without the permission of the village chief.

The first few teams that went up the mountain to look for people were all released with approval slips from the village chief.

The entire Chifeng Mountain was searched back and forth several times, but the missing person was never found.

Many people in the village feel that they will never be found again.

Continuing to search is just a futile effort.

But due to the village chief's order, they couldn't say much, so they could only follow them one after another, and then come back in vain.

I heard that one of the villagers went to the village chief's house several times to make trouble because their son was missing on the mountain.

(End of this chapter)