After thanking Xiao Xu again and again for his help, we left the police station.
Speaking of which, if it weren't for the few photos Mr. Xu showed us and the guesses I made from the clues in the photos, I would almost believe what Xiao Xu said. Mr. Xu really has some spirit.
problem.
Because in that surveillance video, we did see with our own eyes that Mr. Xu was the only one who came to this town, not that he and his wife came here together as Mr. Xu said.
It's really strange, what is going on?
Lin Qianyi was also a little confused and asked me if I wanted to go to Mr. Xu’s appointment tomorrow?
I thought to myself, if Mr. Xu is really mentally ill, then it would be okay. Just be afraid, Mr. Xu did not lie to us. And if the true situation is the latter, our failure to make the appointment may mean that Mr. Xu’s
My wife has no hope of being rescued, and her life may be lost.
I told Lin Qianyi my thoughts, and she also felt that we should not be so hasty. However, she still had no idea whether she should believe Mr. Xu’s words. And we have a mission now. If it’s because of
If a mental patient is delayed on the road, it will be difficult to explain to Gao Liang.
Therefore, Lin Qianyi suggested that we report the situation here to the bureau and ask the bureau to send someone else over.
I thought about it and didn't agree immediately. Instead, I decided to give San Pang a call first.
On the phone, I asked the third fat man to log in to the civil affairs system for me to confirm whether Mr. Xu had a wife. My idea was that if it could be proven that his wife really existed, then at least Mr. Xu’s words would not be true.
Lie.
Since returning from Taiwan, San Fatty has not been on a mission for a long time, so when he heard my request, San Fatty was naturally curious and asked a few more questions. When I mentioned the name of the village where Mrs. Xu disappeared,
I heard the third fat man on the phone was obviously stunned for a moment. I asked him what was wrong, and the third fat man told me that he seemed to have seen the name of that village somewhere.
Just when I was about to ask what was going on, San Pang told me to message me later and hung up the phone.
Seeing me hanging up the phone with an inexplicable look on my face, Lin Qianyi asked me what was wrong. I repeated what San Fatty said just now, and Lin Qianyi also looked strange and said: "Has he heard of that village? Is it very strange there?"
Is it famous?"
The call back from San Pang came almost when we returned to the guest house.
On the phone, he first told me that in the files of the Civil Affairs Bureau, Mr. Xu did have a wife.
"Sijiu, do you have a computer nearby? I also pulled out that guy's wedding photos. I will send them to you via email later. If you are worried about the same name, just go online and check it out yourself."
"Okay, I'll go check it out later."
Hearing San Fat's answer, the stone hanging in my heart finally dropped. Judging from the news San Fat brought us, Mr. Xu at least did not lie about having a wife.
So I asked again: "By the way, Third Fatty, you just said you've heard the name of that village again. What's going on?"
"Haha." The third fat man smiled on the phone, and after a moment he said: "Sijiu, to tell you the truth, that village was actually named in our bureau. Before you entered the bureau, the people from the second department
It has been investigated before."
I was confused after hearing this, and quickly asked what San Fatty meant. He told me that it turned out that almost four years ago, San Fatty, who was still working in the Intelligence Department, saw a post on the Internet.
.And the content of this post actually talks about the news that a girlfriend has gone missing.
On the post, a man left a message saying that his girlfriend went missing overnight while traveling with several female companions a few weeks ago, and the address where they last called each other was Lin Qianyi and I.
He is now in a small town. According to this man, his girlfriend said in her last phone call to him that she was going to go sightseeing with her friends to a nearby famous village, and then there was no news from that time.
none.
After the incident, the man who posted the message claimed that he had personally gone to the town where his girlfriend called him, hoping to find his whereabouts. However, after searching the town and surrounding villages, no trace of them was found.
Not only that, even the local police’s surveillance did not see them coming here.
But the strange thing is that according to the records that the man went to the telecommunications company to retrieve, her girlfriend clearly called him in the town at that time, but in the end, no one had seen her girlfriend.
Desperate, the man finally left a message online, hoping that someone could provide clues that would help him discover his girlfriend and those female companions.
This man's online message was discovered by the third fat man at that time. Because he felt that this was not an ordinary disappearance case, the third fat man reported all the information related to the case to the investigation office, and the investigation office also confirmed that
After discovering the suspicious aspects of the case, two investigators from the Second Division of the Investigation Division were sent to investigate.
But after a week of investigation, the two investigators did not find anything in the area. And at this time, follow-up news came from the Intelligence Department. First, it was the post of the man that the three fat men saw.
It has actually been blocked by the website because it involves spreading false information. Secondly, the Intelligence Department obtained the local police report records and found that the local police did not actually respond to the incident at the time mentioned in the man's post.
No reports of disappearances have been made.
Therefore, this case was ultimately judged as false information by the bureau, and subsequent investigations were terminated.
Hearing this, I asked San Pang: "Did the people in the second department really not make any discoveries here?"
The third fat man said: "Yes, there is some discovery, but it has nothing to do with your case this time."
I thought that even if it wasn't there, there would be no loss in hearing it, so I asked San Fatty what he had discovered?
Sanpang said that based on the reports of the two investigators, they found that the average life expectancy of local residents in the village where Mr. Xu and his wife disappeared was abnormally high. According to them, the basic average life expectancy of the residents in that village was actually
If you are over ninety years old, it is a true longevity village. You must know that in several famous longevity villages in China, the average life span of residents is only about 85 years old. Compared with the average life span of residents in this village,
Those so-called "longevity villages" are simply in vain.
"That high?" I asked slightly surprised.
"Isn't that right? The two investigators were also surprised. They thought that the village had such a high life expectancy for some special reason. But then the bureau contacted several university experts to investigate, and it turned out that
I found that it was just because the environment around the village was particularly good, and there was no special reason for their longevity."
At this time, Lin Qianyi, who had been quietly listening to our counterpart next to me, suddenly asked: "Xiao Zhu, according to you, that village should be very famous? Then why have I never heard of it in the newspaper?
Have you ever passed this place?"
The third fat man replied: "Sister Lin, you don't know something. The people in that village don't seem to like too many people coming to their village. I heard that they are afraid that too many outsiders will come and pollute the environment of the village. Those bureaus in the past
When the experts went to investigate, the people in the village specifically asked them to promise not to spread the news about the village before agreeing to be inspected by them. Therefore, in this village, except for people who pass by by chance or residents of nearby towns and villages.
In addition, few other people know about it, that is, in recent times, some backpackers have posted several travel notes about this place online, which has made this village somewhat famous."
The news from San Fatty’s side ended here. After hanging up the phone, I asked Lin Qianyi: “Sister Lin, you heard the conversation just now. I wonder what you told San Fatty about the disappearance case four years ago.
Any ideas?”
Lin Qianyi thought about it and said that it did sound suspicious, because if we put aside the fact that this case may later be proved to be a fiction, just looking at the case itself, the experiences of several women involved in it were actually similar to those of Mr. Xu and his wife.
There are many similarities between encounters.
For example, after the incident, they were all testified that no one had ever seen them. Also, when they disappeared, they all went to the village where Mr. Xu and his wife disappeared. From our point of view, this kind of thing does not seem to be simple.
coincidence.
So, after discussing it for a long time, we finally decided to go to the "longevity village" together and see what happened in the village with our own eyes.