Secret Notes of a Mystery Investigator

Chapter 7 The Evil God's Tribute (7)
That's what I said, but no one is willing to help us, we can't just look at the water of the Yellow River, right? The four of us wandered aimlessly from one place to another on the river bank, walking back and forth.Head Chen said: "I think there is indeed something strange here. There must be a reason for them to reject outsiders so much. What do you think?"

Ma Tianxing said: "I think it's the same. Otherwise, let's go to the township government of this village and ask them to come forward to cooperate with us."

Head Chen thought for a while and said, "Absolutely not. I think the actions of the villagers may have something to do with the strange things in the river. If things get serious and they keep silent and refuse to admit it, you can't help it. How about If they haven't noticed that we are investigating secretly, it will be more sure."

As soon as he said this, He Zhuang looked to the left vigilantly and said, "There are people here."

On the left is a dense bamboo forest, but because it is very deep, the sunlight cannot penetrate, so it is very dim, and the situation inside cannot be seen clearly, but there is no one in the surrounding open space.

Head Chen said: "This is a place where people live, and it's normal. Don't make it so messy."

Just when we were all suspicious, the little girl came towards us again with a big dog on a leash. Head Chen took out a pack of compressed biscuits from his bag, handed it to her and said, "Here, try something from Uncle, okay?" tasty."

The little girl took it with a giggle and said, "Thank you uncle."

Head Chen patted her head and said, "Why are you going to herd cattle again?"

The little girl said: "If you don't go out in the afternoon, mother said that it will be bad if you go out in the afternoon and bump into the snake god."

Feudal superstition basically still exists in every backward village. We all laughed when we heard the little girl’s words. At this moment, the little girl’s mother appeared out of nowhere. She seemed to be annoyed and reprimanded: “You This dead girl, who told you to come here alone, and if you don't obey me, go home and beat you to death."

As he said, he walked over, dragged the little girl along, and at this moment, I didn't know if my eyes were blurred. I saw a black shadow in a line in the muddy river rapidly going upstream. Rubbing his own eyes, he realized that he was not mistaken. At this moment, Ting Ma Tianxing said: "What a strange thing, don't we look too bad for a good person?"

I said, "Look if there is a black shadow there." When I spoke, the black shadow had disappeared, and they all said that they didn't see it after looking at it, so I said, "I seem to see something going upstream .”

The three of them all laughed, and Captain Chen said, "Luo Zi, going upstream is going against the trend. It might be a small stream, but with the flow of water in the Yellow River, unless it is a dragon, any aquatic life will Impossible."

This is also the reason I think about it. I guess it might have been dizzy at the time. It didn’t take long before the sky gradually darkened. We set up a tent and gathered inside for dinner and meetings. After a while, I found someone outside. I stretched my head out and saw outside. There were seven or eight villagers standing there, one of whom was the little girl's father, and I said, "Why, do you have anything to do?"

The man said: "Our patriarch wants to invite you to go over and talk about things."

Head Chen walked out at this time and said: "I am the team leader of this scientific research activity, so I will go with you?"

The man shook his head and said, "You all go, the patriarch wants to see each of you."

This sentence makes people feel a little strange, I always feel that it is not a normal sentence, and we feel that this village seems strange after only one day, not only because of their xenophobia, but because all the villagers are very strange, for example When we came in the morning, we could still see many villagers doing farm work, but in the afternoon, we couldn’t see half a person, not to mention people, even chickens and dogs. The doors of every house were closed. The little girl showed up occasionally, and the whole village seemed lifeless.

Moreover, their rejection of outsiders seems to be too much. They should have a normal sense of vigilance, but they are not so indifferent. However, since the local patriarch wants to see us, we must go there out of courtesy. , after all, I hope they can help us with our investigation.

We followed the villagers to a wooden house. The overall appearance of this wooden house is antique, and it looks like a closed octagonal pavilion, but the long pillars at each corner are carved with all kinds of ferocious and terrifying monsters. It seemed a little eerie and mysterious, and there was a faint candlelight in the room.

The villagers took us to the old village chief's door and stepped aside after a short notice. After a while, they heard an unusually old voice saying, "Come in."

We looked at each other, we probably meant us, so we went in together, and saw only a bed and a desk in the small room, a gray-haired old man was sitting half leaning on the bed, and beside him was a white man. A clean young man who looks to be in his 20s.

The old man said: "Just the four of you, who is in charge?" His voice was already trembling slightly.

Head Chen said: "It's me, old man, is your birthday this year?"

The old man nodded and said, "I'm 94 this year, and my ears are very good. You don't have to speak so loudly, you're tired."

Head Chen smiled and said: "It's okay, our scientific researchers climb up and down every day. They are in good health and don't get tired so easily."

The old man said: "I heard, what research are you here for? We haven't visited a scientist in this small village for a long time. Why?"

Head Chen said: "It's nothing serious, but the country is currently compiling a scientific research book on the Yellow River landforms, but the information is incomplete, and a lot of data needs to be verified again, so we are sent here first."

The old man sighed, and the expression on his face couldn't tell what it meant. After a long time, he asked, "Is Ma Shulin okay?"

We were confused by this question, and Captain Chen was taken aback for a moment, and then said, "Is the name you mentioned a personal name?"

The old man nodded and said, "He is also a scientist who came to do scientific research 30 or [-] years ago, but I haven't seen him for a long time, so I'm asking you."

Head Chen said: "Then he is an old senior. We are all younger generations. Many retired old scientists don't know each other."

The old man said: "That's true, but this man is a good man. If I can see him say hello for me, it won't be easy for you children to come here. If there is anything that needs our help, just let us know."

Head Chen said: "Then I would like to thank you very much. After all, the landform here is very strange, and we would not be able to do it without the help of the locals."

The old man nodded without saying a word, closed his eyes, and left when he saw Captain Chen. The young man then sent us out, but the moment he left, I felt him stuff a note into my hand. Pretending to be nonchalant, he put his hands in his pockets and put down the note.

When I got back to the tent, I immediately took out the note and saw three words written on it - hurry up.

12. Ma Gong's condition
I immediately handed the note to Captain Chen, and he made a silent gesture after reading it: "Let's talk about it tomorrow, be careful that the walls have ears, I'll keep watch, you guys go to bed quickly." He took out the pistol hidden in the middle of the bag He came out and tucked it in his arms.

We fell asleep not long after we lay down, and woke up heartlessly until dawn. When we opened our eyes, we saw that Captain Chen's eyes were redder than a rabbit's, and the cigarette butts were thrown all over the floor.

Without a word of nonsense, he said: "What do you think about the note yesterday, please go? Of course, I mean to avoid it temporarily."

I said: "Leader, I don't think this matter is so simple. There must be something hidden in it. I think that since the young man reminded us in this way, there must be something unspeakable. I think we should treat this matter with caution." .”

Head Chen said: "That's right, that's what I mean too. From the various behaviors of the people in this village, it seems that they are hostile to us. Why this is so I think it has something to do with the Qingniu matter. Maybe they already know all about it. , and all of this is a secret they must keep, so we say that coming here to do scientific research happens to be the most taboo thing for them, and with their current attitude, if we continue to investigate, we won't even smell a fart. Because the people in this village belong to the same family, we can't get in easily."

Ma Tianxing said: "The head of the group means that we withdraw?"

Head Chen said: "That's right, strategic adjustments are necessary. There is no one-stop reason for doing anything. Adjusting strategies according to the situation is what a good investigator should do. But this time It's not a waste of time, we need to investigate an important person Ma Shulin when we go back."

I said: "This person may be the first to submit the report."

Head Chen nodded approvingly and said: "That's right, he must have a lot more information than us. At that time, he still didn't think that he should be the first investigator. !This is how taxpayers money is wasted.”

Ma Tianxing said: "You can't say that. After all, we didn't use the money to bathe and eat. It is always inevitable to go wrong in scientific research. Does everything have a cost?"

Without further ado, we packed up and left. On the way, He Zhuang said, "Someone is following us."

Head Chen said: "Just pretend not to know, we can't let them have doubts now." For this reason, we also pretended to conduct a field investigation, and then gradually moved further and further away from the village.

After returning to Beijing, Head Chen immediately asked someone to investigate who Ma Shulin was. After a while, the news came that Ma Shulin had personally visited the local area for a field trip, and there was another explosive news that followed: Ma Shulin Crazy, and crazy for years.

The four of us looked at each other, Ma Tianxing said: "It seems that the village is very evil."

Head Chen said: "Don't jump to conclusions until you find out the truth. Let's go and see the situation of Ma Shulin first."

After getting in the car, we went straight to Beijing Brain Hospital, found the doctor on duty, and expressed his intention. He frowned and said, "It's not that I stopped you from conducting investigations. Ma Gong's condition has developed seriously over the years, and he basically has no ability to recognize. I don’t think he can answer your question, and besides, what you asked may be the question that directly caused his illness, and it is entirely possible to make his condition worse, so I cannot agree.”

Head Chen said: "We can also think of this, but this matter is very important. We only thought of looking for Ma Gong when we were desperate. If it really doesn't work, can you think of a way for us?"

The doctor said: "What can I do? I'm not his family. All I know about Ma Gong is his illness. But I know who Ma Gong's attending doctor was. If he agrees, I can recommend it for you."

Head Chen said: "Thank you so much."

The doctor made a phone call, and judging from the tone of his voice, that person was his teacher. After a short exchange between the two, the doctor hung up the phone and gave us an address: "Go, surnamed Qiao, Director Qiao. "

Speaking of which, this place is not far away, it is the welfare room allocated to its employees by the Brain Hospital, it is only a road away, and after leaving the gate of the hospital, the head of the delegation Chen said to He Zhuang and Ma Tianxing: "Get in the car and wait, I will It’s fine to go with Ronaldinho alone, and you must be wary if there are too many people going.”

Ma Tianxing patted me on the shoulder and said: "Okay, I will be the deputy head as soon as I come, and the future is boundless."

Head Chen kicked him and said, "Don't talk so much nonsense, just your mouth, let you do bad things."

Knocking on the door of Director Qiao's house, we saw this gray-haired old doctor. He took off his glasses, looked us up and said, "You are the investigator Xiao Lin just mentioned, right?"

Head Chen said: "It's me, you are Director Qiao."

The old man let us into the room and said, "It's me. I heard that you came here for the matter of Ma Shulin. It's been so long, how did you remember it?"

Head Chen said: "I have no way to answer you. After all, this is a system problem. I was too young to be the master of others. But I found out about this and came here immediately."

Director Qiao frowned and nodded, "Magong is a very upright and talented person. It's a tragedy of the times to become a lunatic like this."

Head Chen said: "Director Qiao, if you don't mind, can you give us a detailed introduction of Magong? I think this is becoming very important now."

Director Qiao said: "Okay, since someone is willing to reverse the case for him, then I know everything I can say. To be honest, I don't know which department this person is from. His medical expenses are all through the Science and Industry Committee. He was transferred from a subordinate department of , but I personally have never seen his colleagues or leaders come here, and he is an orphan with no relatives, and his wife disappeared after he went crazy. His child was young at the time I guess I didn't even know there was such a father as Ma Gong. He was a very hard-working man. When he was young, he worked hard for scientific research. The last time he heard that he was going to the Yellow River to perform some mission. After he came back, his nerves became a little abnormal. , It is also the result of work. The ordinary people we are talking about should at least be counted as work-related injuries. At first their leaders came to condolences and so on. Later, I don’t know what Ma Gong said that poked their nerves, and their attitude immediately became bad, and it was miscellaneous. I don’t know why people always come here to question him. Ma Gong was already pathological, not to mention that he couldn’t get a good rest, and was taken away later. After returning, his condition worsened, and it became more and more serious. The medical bills have not stopped so far, otherwise this person would probably be gone long ago.”

Head Chen said: "Then have you communicated with Ma Gong?"

Director Qiao said: "There must be communication. Is he my patient, but his condition is very serious in the later period, and he can't recognize him at all, so we don't have too deep communication."

Head Chen said: "Then, have you heard about Ma Gong's mission to the Yellow River?"

Director Qiao shook his head and said, "No, but one time I prevented those investigators from stimulating Ma Gong. One of them said that he practiced feudal superstition and wanted to be caught as a model. You also know that the era has something to do with feudal superstition. It is a very serious matter, so I have no choice. It is estimated that Ma Gong’s investigation may be a relatively strange matter. Now people have the understanding of supernatural phenomena, but in our era, this is a minefield that must not be touched. Ma Gong is also too upright, so he ended up like this."

Head Chen nodded and thought for a long time before saying, "Director Qiao, if you still have the memory, can you tell me about the cause of Ma Gong's illness?"

Director Qiao said: "Of course I have an impression. His illness was caused by a severe stimulus. If it is properly adjusted at the beginning, it should be cured. It's a pity that people hurt others." Speaking of this, Director Qiao's face is full of pity. .

Head Chen didn't ask any questions. He got up and said, "Thank you, Director Qiao. What we are doing now is to complete what Ma Gong didn't finish at the beginning. I hope this incident can be cleared up in our hands and give Ma Gong justice."

Director Qiao was taken aback and said, "I thought you were here to fight against Ma Fairy, so you are also engaged in scientific research?"

Head Chen said: "That's right, but as long as this incident can be investigated clearly, then the injustice suffered by Ma Gong will naturally be washed away. Even if he is unconscious now, he should have justice."

Director Qiao sighed and said, "Yes, then I will leave everything to you."

After we came out, we were all in a bad mood. Head Chen said, "Xiao Luo, have you gained any inspiration?"

I thought for a while and said, "If Director Qiao is telling the truth, it can be inferred that Ma Gong's mental disorder was caused by the investigation of the Yellow River. The key is what Ma Gong saw there that led to this result."

13. Who is the Whistleblower?

Head Chen gave a noncommittal "hmm" until he got to the side of the car and said, "That Director Qiao used to be a rebel. I think Ma Gong's illness is probably related to him."

I was taken aback and said, "How do you know?"

(End of this chapter)