Secret Notes of a Mystery Investigator

Chapter 3 The Evil God's Tribute (3)
Ma Tianxing said: "Brother, the spirit of science is to doubt everything, but this statement is contradictory. The current environment is that you say there are ghosts, and the scientific community will definitely question your remarks. But if you talk about it with the spirit of science , should we also doubt the saying that there are no ghosts in the world, after all, ghosts are also unknown things, and all assumptions are valid in the unknown field."

I said: "Then have you seen these things? Head Chen said he has seen them."

Ma Tianxing laughed and said: "Let me tell you this, a person who has never seen supernatural phenomena, this department will not choose to let him in. You saw the water monster, and I just saw what you said, so Chen Tuan We were the ones who worked hard to dig.”

This sentence aroused my curiosity again, and said: "Brother Ma, tell me what you saw? Isn't this illegal?"

Ma Tianxing said with a smile: "Anyway, it's already broken the law, so I don't care about this one more time. It's my second sniper mission. A serial murderer was held in a private house. Because he had hostages, he was urgent Recruit us to carry out the task, and kill him directly if necessary. You should know that snipers occupy the commanding heights, and then closely monitor each other's every move, waiting for orders. Although it was morning, because it was raining and the weather was very cloudy, this climate It is not the best time to perform a sniper mission, and it will increase the difficulty, so I am very nervous and stare at the criminal's every move through the scope. After a while, I see a white silk thread floating behind the criminal. There should be only walls around the criminal's environment at that time, and there would be no such things as silk cloth. It was strange that I violated the order and deflected the scope a little. Just like that, I saw a snow-white man standing behind the criminal. The hair is all white. Judging from the posture, it is very strange, because I was in a state of high tension at the time, so I pulled the trigger involuntarily, of course, hitting the thing that should be a ghost now."

"The one who was beaten didn't move, but the criminal was red-eyed. Fortunately, the leader decisively issued the sniper order, and my comrades shot him in the forehead twice, so no bad consequences were caused. Then I looked at the room again. They are all gone. When I was investigated, I did not know what I saw at the time, but I was found to be making excuses to excuse my responsibility and was punished. Later, even if I performed the mission successfully, I would have no chance to be rewarded, let alone I was promoted. Later, Team Leader Chen found me according to the information, and it happened that I wanted to leave too, and I have been working here until now.”

I listened with gusto and said, "I didn't expect your experience to be quite legendary."

Ma Tianxing said: "I'm a fart. Captain Chen is the one who has experienced many battles. If you have time, let him tell you more stories. I promise to surprise you, and I will tell you a little more, but you I have to swear an oath not to reveal it, otherwise I will be really hard to be a human being."

I said: "That's how you are. You talk about it. For those comrades who don't believe you, you should keep it. And for comrades like me, you should be more frank. You can't tell your relatives and friends about these things. Don't tell them." Who else should I tell?"

Ma Tianxing said: "It's different, it's not my business, so you can't talk nonsense."

I said: "Don't worry, if you tell me about someone else, it will only rot in your stomach."

Ma Tianxing lowered his voice again and said, "I heard from Captain Chen that if there is one person in the team whose experience is more complicated than his, it must be He Zhuang."

I was taken aback and said: "How old is He Zhuang, can he experience more things than Captain Chen?"

Ma Tianxing said: "The real person doesn't show his face. Anyway, this person is very difficult to get in touch with. I have been with him for four years, and we haven't spoken ten words in total."

I said: "Indeed, he seems to be a little too introverted, is it autism?"

Ma Tianxing said: "I don't know, let's stop talking about people behind their backs, it's immoral, go to sleep."

5. Doubtful

I couldn't fall asleep for a long time that night, and I kept thinking about how many legends in this world were born out of reality?I don't know what time I fell asleep, anyway, I woke up the next morning feeling a little groggy. During breakfast, Captain Chen said: "Let's arrange today's tasks: Da Zhuang, Xiao Ma, you two are in charge of security. Work, Ronaldinho is in charge of field data collection, and I am in charge of the management of the three of you."

Of course, Commander Chen's last sentence was a joke. I am very lucky to always meet a good leader. Judging from the various incidents I have experienced in the future, Commander Chen is worthy of the title of a good leader. Whether it is for subordinates or the country, They all did their best and fulfilled their responsibilities.

After dinner, we got into the car, and the brigade brought us the things we took for safekeeping yesterday. After closing the car door, Commander Chen opened the bag. There were all sorts of weird things inside. The ones I knew were: talking machines, thick iron rods , small satellites, locators... all kinds of weird things, and finally there was a pot of feather arrows inside. I was curious and wanted to get it, and said: "Why do you even have this thing?"

Head Chen said: "Don't move, this is extremely poisonous and there is no antidote."

I said: "You still use this, is the accuracy high?"

Head Chen laughed and said, "It's not what I use, I can only use things with low technical content."

I immediately understood who the owner of the pot of arrows was, so I didn't ask any more questions.

When I saw the vast and boundless river again, a thrilling fear filled my chest again, yes, more than a week ago, my most beloved teacher died here, and the murderer was an unknown creature. I feel like a dream, very unreal.

After getting out of the car, Ma Tianxing opened the special iron box, and inside was a disassembled sniper rifle, but I don’t understand firearms, so I don’t know what model it is. Take out a knife from the hidden interlayer.

This knife is about [-] centimeters long, neither too long nor too short. There is nothing special about the blade, except that the copper handle seems to be engraved with some Tantric characters and some talisman patterns. He Zhuang covered the blade with a cloth. Wrapped and inserted into the buckskin pocket at the waist, it looks a bit like an ancient warrior at first glance.

After a while, Ma Tianxing's gun was also assembled. He looked into the distance with the scope, and then put his back on his body. Commander Chen tried the signal of the telephone, and said to me: "Do you have any questions?"

I shook my head and said, "Since you're here, there's no problem."

Head Chen patted me on the shoulder approvingly, and said, "Good job, I'll just say I saw you right."

He Zhuang pulled out a small trailer that was not too big from the car, put all the necessary items on the car, and we walked to the shore. At this time, the broken river surface became frozen again after a long period of freezing. The fertile fields thousands of miles away shone with a mysterious silver light under the reflection of the sun, and everything between the heaven and the earth was quiet and lifeless.

Head Chen took out the small square box, put it in the snow and fixed it, and then kept stepping on something similar to a pedal. The upper end of the small square box began to rise little by little. The stretched steel pipe was about ten meters long. Head Chen took down a small TV screen from the trailer. When he opened it, he saw a video projecting a large piece of ice. It turned out that the top of the steel pipe was a camera. , I don’t know what kind of dimming method the camera has adopted. Gradually, the ice surface began to show very obvious strings. The strings are arranged in a square. According to the calculation ratio on the monitor, one is about 8 square meters, which is very huge. It consists of 18 characters in total, and the leader Chen took out the satellite photo from the file folder. After careful comparison, the leader Chen said: "I don't think there is anything wrong with Ronaldinho?" After finishing speaking, he handed the picture to me.

I looked at it and it was exactly right, so I nodded. Captain Chen looked around and said, "I wanted you to record all the nearby terrain and landforms, but there is nothing here."

Indeed, this is an open plain. Based on our location, going west means going backwards, and going east means walking towards the river. The north and south directions are empty plains. There is really nothing to record. If you want to write, you can only write the word "plain".

Head Chen said: "Do you see any problems? Xiao Luo, you can talk about it first."

I took a closer look, but I didn't see any problems. After thinking for a while, I said, "Head, there doesn't seem to be any problem. The writing on the ice is weird, but that's all. Others are fine." What sums it up?"

Head Chen smiled and said: "You are the only one here so I don't blame you. Remember that the most important thing in our line of work is to discover all the details. If you don't have this, you are not a qualified investigator, because there are many factors to solve the case. It's already placed in front of you, but you can't see it, which is very troublesome. The fundamental difference between us and those professional explorers is that we focus on investigating and revealing secrets, so grasping the details is the most important thing matter."

I nodded and said, "Understood, but there are indeed no details here. The plain is empty, and I can't find it even if I try to find it."

Head Chen said to Ma Tianxing: "Little Ma, you give ideological education lessons to the newcomers."

Ma Tianxing held a cigarette in his mouth, and with a hooligan expression, he said to me: "Little comrade, are you not humble? Such a big accident happened in front of you, and you didn't notice it. How dare you deny the leader's words?" Proposal, you are quite courageous." After finishing speaking, he said to Head Chen with a playful smile, "Report to the leader, my political education is over."

Head Chen smiled and said, "Fuck you, don't fuck up, just talk about it."

Ma Tian walked up to me, brushed away the snow on the ground, revealed the slightly greenish surface and said, "You really can't see anything?"

I am most annoyed by his way of trying to whet your appetite before revealing the secret, and said loudly: "I really can't see--Ma-Old-Teacher."

Ma Tianxing stood up and said: "That's really terrible, you probably don't have talent in this area, Luo Zi, let me ask you, how is the product resource in Heilongjiang?"

I said: "It goes without saying that the fertile soil of the Greater and Lesser Xing'an Mountains, Heilongjiang, and the vast plains is a treasure house of our country."

Ma Tianxing said: "Okay, it would be best for you to have this understanding. It stands to reason that the closer to the waterway the soil should be more fertile, but have you noticed this? The soil here is basically all dead, I bet if you take it back Doing a test, this is a bunch of useless and nutrient-free dead soil, absolutely no crops can be grown on it, and all the land near the water monster area is like this, and it is less than two miles down the road. The farmland is gone, don't you feel that there is a problem here?"

I suddenly realized: "Indeed, it seems that I rarely see soil of this color."

Head Chen said: "It's not that you rarely see purple soil, but because of the landform of Heilongjiang, there is no purple soil at all. People say loess slopes and black soil. Has anyone seen green soil? Xiao Luo, this is Observation, you must learn this in your work in the future, observe any unusual factor, and then analyze it, it is very likely that the superposition of several factors is the ultimate truth, what is a clue? This is called Clues."

I said: "Understood, I thought we came here to catch monsters."

Everyone except He Zhuang laughed, and Captain Chen said: "Boy, it's my fault that I haven't explained to you what the functions of our department are. We are talking about the Military Research Institute, but we are actually mysterious investigators. All supernatural phenomena we need to do is to investigate them clearly. For example, this water monster, if it is purely for the purpose of catching, I think it should not be difficult. There are many large ships in the waters of Heilongjiang. As long as it is still there, we will definitely be able to catch it, but many truths about things in this world cannot be disclosed. First, it is easy to cause unnecessary panic, and second, it conflicts with current scientific research. Therefore, we must first find out the truth and give scientists They are a way to make excuses, let them gradually change what they have instilled in others. The so-called scientific thinking is actually a process of change and progress, so you should know why we have linked the word research? Because We are the vanguard of the scientific community, we are responsible for working hard, and they are responsible for summarizing."

Ma Tianxing said, "I've done the math, or is it more profitable to be a scientist?"

Head Chen said: "There is no one big or small to serve the people. We are actually half scientists."

We chatted and laughed, but He Zhuang never made a sound, his eyes were fixed on the TV screen. I think this also has an advantage, that is, the work of grinding tofu is not afraid of being done by others. At least He Zhuang can do it. There is no communication.Just thinking about it happily, suddenly He Zhuang took out a bow and arrow from his body at an unimaginable speed and pointed it at a snowdrift. We also became nervous. Head Chen and Ma Tianxing took out a pistol, and I also took out a dagger, hiding behind Ma Tianxing behind.

After a while there was a rustling, and then a piebald cat scrambled onto the snowdrift.

We immediately relaxed our tense nerves, and Ma Tianxing said: "Day, I was almost scared by a bastard."

Head Chen said: "Da Zhuang, go and catch this cat, I'm useful."

He Zhuang put all the cold weapons on his body on the ground, and walked towards the wild cat quietly. When he walked forward, I noticed that there were only very shallow imprints on the snow, which at least I couldn't do.From this moment on, I gradually understood that He Zhuang was not an ordinary person. He was not like me, an old horse, or even Captain Chen. From various details, it could be seen that this seemingly thin physique seemed to contain astonishing strength. energy.

The cat looked at He Zhuang very vigilantly at the beginning, but when it found that he was "approaching" constantly, it was probably too late to run away, and He Zhuang's reaction was also amazing, the cat bared its fur, and He Zhuang was as fast as lightning He jumped up like a cat, and only heard a few screams, He Zhuang had already walked to the head of Chen by pinching the nape of its neck.

I was dumbfounded, but Chen TuanZhang and Ma Tianxing seemed to have gotten used to it. Chen Tuan Zhang took out a long string from his bag, put it around the cat's neck, and said: "I'm going to do something immoral, you just have to watch it and say nothing." Ah, whoever talks too much, I will deduct the bonus." After finishing speaking, he put the cat on the snow and yelled, and the cat ran forward immediately to escape for its life.

But after running for two steps, he deviated from the direction. Head Chen had to pull it back and play it back. After tossing back and forth ten times, it was estimated that the cat was about to go into shock, but it stopped running on the ice. Head Chen Having no other choice, he said, "Well, I'll take the cat to the river to let it go, and you guys will watch the wind for me, and tell me if there is any trouble."

I immediately shuddered and said: "Commander, I don't agree with you doing this, that monster will go ashore, just in case..."

Head Chen said: "It's nothing ten thousand, just in case, we sometimes have to risk our lives in this business." After saying that, He Zhuang walked straight forward, He Zhuang immediately picked up the bow, arrow and long knife and followed the head of the group. The chief didn't stop him, and the two walked towards the river one after the other.

Ma Tianxing put away his hippie smiling expression and became serious. He raised his sniper rifle and said to the front: "Go and stare at the monitor, and notify us immediately if there is any abnormality."

When it reached the riverside, Captain Chen let go of the cat in his hand. Now it didn't have many choices, and ran forward quickly. Captain Chen and He Zhuang also retreated immediately, and saw the cat running on the ice for a long time. After a while, I felt that something was wrong, and immediately went to the left again. After making such a big circle, the vision did not appear at all.

We all felt strange, and the head of the delegation Chen said: "Could it be that it is no longer there, or did you just come across it that day?"

I said, "It's very likely so, otherwise there's no reason why the cat's movement frequency won't be discovered by it."

Ma Tianxing said: "Otherwise, the water monster buddies are fasting these few days, let's try it in a few days."

Head Chen said: "Don't talk useless, be serious." Ma Tianxing immediately put away his smiling face, but made a funny face at me again.

(End of this chapter)