In order to write a good report, Zhou Ming began to investigate the strange events the next day.

The investigation of rumor-type strange events is generally divided into three steps: investigation of the reasons for the birth of the rumor, investigation of the development process of the rumor, and finally the compilation and merging of various data and intelligence.

The initial rumors of the incident that Zhou Ming was responsible for came from Shahe Village, ten kilometers away from Qipan Village, so Shahe Village was also Zhou Ming's main investigation location.

Different from Qipan Village, although Shahe Village is also a remote and backward rural area far away from towns, the living environment of the villagers here is much better than that of its neighbor Qipan Village. Most of the local residents live in red-brick houses, and there are large square meters on the streets.

Most of them are children and old people, and there are very few young people in their twenties.

The appearance of the residents of Shahe Village is a reflection of most remote villages. Most of the people who stay in the village are old people and children who have no ability to work. Most of the young men and women have gone to the nearest town to work and make money. This is different from the countryside before Zhou Ming traveled through

The current situation is quite similar.

"Hello, do you know what happened in the air-raid shelter in Qipan Village?" Zhou Ming asked a random person he caught on the street.

The dark-skinned middle-aged man put down the hoe on his shoulder, narrowed his eyes and glanced at Zhou Ming, then took off the cigarette from his mouth and blew out a puff of smoke.

"Are you a police officer?" The man stared at Zhou Ming, his eyes full of vigilance.

"I am a student at the University of Bizarre Solutions, and investigating this incident is also part of my studies," Zhou Ming said.

Because of this world's unique "Human Rights Law" and "Life Security Law", every big city is divided into independent residential areas by three walls, and residents in the four residential areas enjoy completely different security guarantees.

Among them, residents outside the third wall hardly enjoy personal security protection from the government. Therefore, residents outside the wall have an extremely weak sense of trust in the government, and many people are extremely resistant to cooperating with government work.

Because he knew this in advance, Zhou Ming chose to interview local residents as a student when he launched his investigation.

People outside the wall are generally very tolerant towards students like them, because they believe that students want to work for the government because of their dedication to the people, and those who have become police officers are already lackeys of the corrupt government in their eyes.

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Therefore, they are more willing to cooperate with the interviews of students like him than the police who have official documents.

"Oh! You are a student! What did you ask me just now?" The man suddenly became more energetic, and the vigilance on his face disappeared a lot.

"Do you know anything about the air-raid shelter in the woods of Qipan Village?" Zhou Ming

"Oh! This!" The man thought for a moment and said mysteriously, "Let me tell you secretly! The experiment in the air-raid shelter was done by the government!"

"What? Why would they do such a thing?" Zhou Ming frowned slightly, his intuition telling him that the other party was talking nonsense.

"Of course it's research! In order to study weird things, they don't care whether we live or die! Those bastards set up a laboratory in that cave and arrested all the people in the village for experiments. They didn't even care about us living outside the wall.

Treat us like humans and treat us like beasts!" The man said emotionally, but his voice was very low.

Zhou Ming frowned: "Are they here to arrest people?"

The man was stunned and shook his head: "That's not true, but they have captured everyone in Qipan Village."

"Didn't Qipan Village become a deserted village a long time ago? There is no one there anymore."

"It's fake! They made it up to deceive people! I met someone who tricked people from Qipan Village a while ago. Many people in their village have disappeared!" The man shouted loudly.

His shouting attracted the chatting old men and women around him, and a few of them who knew what was going on took the initiative to chat with Zhou Ming.

"I heard people say that when they go to bed at night, people will disappear when they wake up during the day! Sometimes a whole family disappears inexplicably!"

"Hey, that's not true. How can we live in a village like that? No wonder they escaped from there." The old lady said with leaky teeth.

"A relative of mine said that Qipan Village has actually been closed down a long time ago! Doesn't the census take place every year? The census of Qipan Village has never been taken into account. Although there are still people living in Qipan Village, people outside say that there is no one left!"

Had I not met people who had escaped from there, I would have thought that no one had been there long ago!"

"It must have been deliberately arranged by those officials to make us think there was no one there so that they could arrest all those people for experiments!" An old man looked excited, as if he was telling the undoubted truth.

Zhou Ming listened silently to these people talking about their so-called big secrets, and he had a rough understanding of this incident.

When he was on a previous mission, he passed by Qipan Village, and the houses there didn't look like they were inhabited.

But the honest uncle and the others in front of me didn't seem to be lying, and they had no reason or motive to lie.

Therefore, there is only one truth...

"Hey! My child, do you want to become a hermit?" the uncle suddenly asked.

Zhou Ming was stunned and nodded: "Yes, that's right."

"Then I'll show you the way."

"Hey! What did you say!"

The old man next to him gave the man a hard tug and glared at him, as if to warn him not to continue talking.

The man glanced at the old man, flicked his sleeves and said, "What are you doing? Do you want to watch this kid become a lackey of the relevant departments!"

“My child, listen to me, if you want to become a hermit, don’t go to that university!

There was an eminent monk in our village! He was very capable!

He specializes in training hermits. The hermits he trains do not work for those who are officials, but specialize in protecting ordinary people like us! Many children in our village have followed him. If we are lucky, they may even become magicians.

Woolen cloth!"

Eminent monk?

Zhou Ming frowned, realizing that the matter was not as simple as it seemed.

Generally speaking, there are only two formal ways to become a hermit. One is that someone like Zhou Ming has the qualifications and potential to study in a professional university and then work in a relevant department; the other is that one has an unusual curse.

After passing the national assessment on the level of power and spell power, they were recruited into relevant departments.

The act of privately recruiting disciples and cultivating hermits, as the other party said, is an extremely serious illegal act.

"The process of increasing the power of the curse is very dangerous. Why would you give your child to that unknown person?" Zhou Ming asked.

As soon as these words were spoken, the friendliness on the faces of the surrounding villagers faded a lot, and the chatting atmosphere instantly became weird.

"I don't know what the magic power you are talking about is, but you can't say that the master is a shady person. He is a real magician! Much more powerful than those government lackeys!" said the man on crutches.

The old man said.

"Let the children in the village go to the relevant departments. Why not let them follow the master to learn real skills, and then come back to protect the village! When there are ten or eight hermits in our village, why should we be afraid of weirdness!" A person next to him waved his hand and waved.

He showed an attitude of refusing to argue with Zhou Ming.

Zhou Ming wanted to continue arguing with the other party, but found that the sound of heated discussions around him disappeared. The villagers who were very enthusiastic just now suddenly became quiet. Each of them stared at Zhou Ming in silence, as if they were looking at a spy who had sneaked into the village.

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They stared at him warily, observing his reaction, feeling that if he said anything bad about the eminent monk again, he would be classified as a government lackey and lose their trust forever.

Zhou Ming swallowed and changed his words: "That eminent monk is really powerful?"

"Of course! One time, all the monsters in the air-raid shelter ran out. Without him, the village would have suffered!"

"Oh, he does seem to be a good man." Zhou Ming followed the other person's wishes and said, "Then how can I meet him?"

Just as the man was about to continue speaking, the old man next to him kicked him hard and said angrily: "You still said that!"

The man's expression instantly became serious, as if he realized that he had made a mistake, and he closed his mouth again.

"Well...you will meet him if you are destined. Most people can't meet the master, and we don't know how to find him."

"That's it...then what does he look like? I might as well have seen him..."

"No more talk, no more talk, I'm going to work first."

"It's over, it's over! There's no need to have dinner!"

Before Zhou Ming could finish his question, a group of people around him dispersed like birds and beasts.

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Although this interview failed to obtain more detailed information, Zhou Ming knew some secret information that the relevant departments had not investigated. They would not tell the relevant departments what they just said.

In addition, Zhou Ming also had a feeling that all the people in Shahe Village had been deceived.

Halfway through what he heard, he felt that what these old men and women said was completely unsupported by evidence and was just a conspiracy theory full of loopholes.

For example, take the village closure policy of Qipan Village. If the government really wants to use a village as an experiment, it will never use such mild methods. They will not let the villagers of Qipan Village escape, let alone this Shahe Village.

to reveal the truth.

Obviously, this incident is not just a sudden rumor, but someone is spreading rumors, and the rumors are still premeditated and organized.

Ordinary rumor makers will not pretend to be villagers who have escaped from Qipan Village. This is enough to prove that there is a mastermind behind this weird incident, and that the mastermind behind the incident has a very clear purpose in planning this incident.

But why did they spread rumors in Shahe Village that the government was forcibly arresting people for human experiments?
Chapter completed!