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After registering the basic information of the case entrusted by Luo Jierui's mother and son, Mr. Sun sent them away.When he came back, Elder Sun said, "This commission—"

"I will deal with Yang Yuan." Wei Yanqing interrupted Sun Lao.

Elder Sun looked at the two back and forth and nodded in agreement: "Then leave it to you. I will search for relevant information in advance, but I have never heard of the black shadow of the lake described by Luo Jierui before. It may be a newly born strange news, or it may be an outsider. Invasion of strange news."

Wei Yanqing: "I know, I will investigate."

Old Sun: "Then leave it to you." After speaking, he picked up the documents and left.

Wei Yanqing got up: "Yang Yuanyi, let's go."

"Where are you going?" Yang Yuan followed him up the stairs, Wei Yanqing didn't answer, and led him directly to the third floor.

In fact, there are only two rooms on the third floor, although the layout outside looks similar to that on the second floor.But only two doors were real, and the others couldn't be opened. Yang Yuan only found out when he moved in.

Wei Yanqing opened the door of her room and knocked on the door to signal Yang Yuanyi to enter.Yang Yuanyi had entered his room before. Compared with other rooms, the layout is indeed wider. Besides the basic bedroom and bathroom, there is also a study.

The study has never been in, and the door has always been closed.As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, Yang Yuan saw Wei Yanqing open the study door and beckoned him to pass.He walked in, heard a 'pop', and the next second the lights were on.The huge study room has an unobstructed view, and the collection of books inside is extremely rich and covers a vast area.

Wei Yanqing said as he walked: "The strange stories that have been solved over the years will be separately made into a complete and detailed file, and all of them will be placed here. If you encounter strange news, you can come here to search for information. There is a high probability that you will find it."

Hearing this, Yang Yuanyi asked suspiciously: "Isn't it a rumor that has been resolved?"

Wei Yanqing: "The same anecdote will produce two different anecdotes, but they cannot co-exist without special prerequisites."

Yang Yuan said 'oh', and pointed to the mountain of files: "Check one by one?"

"The classification has been done." Wei Yanqing walked around the bookshelf where the files were placed. In front of him was a desk with two computers on it.He turned on the computer, waited for it to turn on, and explained by the way: "But now you don't need to be so troublesome, just enter keywords to retrieve the information."

Yang Yuanyi: "...Since it's so convenient, why do you need to prepare so many files?"

"Paper insurance." Wei Yanqing entered keywords, and a lot of dossiers came out.Yang Yuan went over to look and found seven or eight files, namely 'Lake Water Ghost', 'Frequent Drowning in the Lake', 'Water Monster in the Lake', 'Dark Shadow in the Park', etc. He felt weird and asked: "Are these really strange news?"

Wei Yanqing glanced at ten lines, and took the time to answer while searching the files: "Yes. Water ghosts are spread all over the world, and they can be regarded as a big clan. Except for a few water ghosts, most of them are harmless. The frequent drowning incidents in the lake are "single" water ghosts that harm people. Medium water monsters live in large lakes in remote places, and are somewhat aggressive but generally harmless."

Yang Yuanyi: "Where's the shadow in the park?"

Wei Yanqing: "Have you heard the strange news about the slender ghost?"

Yang Yuan nodded.

The Slender Man first appeared in German Urban Oddities, and later became one of the top [-] scary Urban Oddities in the United States.There was a time when there were many videos and photos on the Internet of American Metropolis, in which there were vaguely slender ghostly figures.According to rumors, the target of the slender ghost is children, so it often appears in parks with the most children.

Wei Yanqing: "One of the foreign anecdotal invasions is called the black shadow of the park. It was not a well-known anecdote in China when it invaded, and its power was relatively weak. It was dealt with before it could harm children."

Yang Yuanyi: "I can't find any files related to Sombra in the Lake." He looked up at the keyword, and it was exactly the four characters of "Sombra in the Lake".There was no case similar to Luo Jierui's description in the file that was retrieved. He muttered: "The black shadow, screaming, lured the woman to kill the child, and then committed suicide. No—has the president heard of it before?"

Wei Yanqing: "No." He closed the page, then clicked on another communication page, and sent a message asking Veteran Sun to organize and send all the recordings of Luo Jierui's conversation recorded just now and the related cases of his colleagues.

"First of all, it's water. Black shadows appear anywhere related to water."

Yang Yuanyi took out his mobile phone and recorded the first keyword: "Water. The second is mourning, which causes emotional infection through a certain targeted mourning. This kind of targeting should be divorced women." After a pause, he explained: " It's just speculation, there is too little data, and there are only two identical incidents, so we can't be sure of this specificity."

Wei Yanqing nodded: "Tentatively. Kill the children, the number is three."

Yang Yuan paused: "Three?"

Wei Yanqing: "Luo Jierui and her colleagues have only one child in their family. If they kill the child because of emotional infection and then commit suicide, they don't have to take away the other two children from the neighbor's house."

Yang Yuan thought about it and found that it was true.Luo Jierui's colleague took away two neighbors' children before committing suicide, and Luo Jierui coaxed her son's two classmates when she lost consciousness.The number is three, very coincidental.In this case, coincidence becomes a special symbol.

Circled all the special points, Yang Yuanyi lowered his head and said: "Water, mourning, the way of death is also related to water. The female deceased killed three children, and then committed suicide by drowning. The second is that the target is tentatively set to be a divorced woman. What is this?" Strange news? I've never heard of it."

Wei Yanqing: "I haven't heard of it either. There are usually two types of rumors that don't exist in the file. One is the rumor of a new city, and the other is the rumor of foreign invasion, that is, the rumor of a foreign city."

Similar to the Crack Girl, which is an anecdote that has been reborn as a result of fear caused by man-made crimes in recent decades, Russian nesting dolls are an urban anecdote that foreign countries have invaded China.Foreign anecdotes are more difficult to investigate. There are nearly [-] countries in the world, and each country has at least dozens of anecdotes. Some urban anecdotes are not included in the Internet, and the difficulty of investigation will increase at this time.

Yang Yuanyi: "Do you think it's a new city or a foreign city?"

Wei Yanqing: "Not sure."

As soon as Yang Yuan raised his eyes, he met Wei Yanqing's deep eyes, and clearly saw his own reflection in the other's eyes.

Wei Yanqing smiled lightly: "The strange news commission is not a quick answer contest. Although it is better to solve it as soon as possible, you must be careful to avoid accidents due to misjudgment. The danger levels of strange news in new cities are different from those in foreign cities. Misjudgment Will play with your life."

He suddenly pointed to Yang Yuanyi's forehead, the latter froze, nodded hesitantly: "I see."

Seeing this, Wei Yanqing bent his index finger and flicked Yang Yuanyi's forehead. It wasn't light but it didn't hurt either. It happened to be a memorable force. "You have to remember."

"... Oh." Yang Yuanyi twitched his fingers a few times, and said suddenly: "President, don't attack suddenly next time. Otherwise, I will accidentally break your wrist." He smiled shyly, a little embarrassed Embarrassed: "My awareness of defense is relatively strong."

Wei Yanqing stared at Yang Yuanyi, agreed calmly on the surface, but in his heart it was difficult to guess what kind of cruel social baptism his once soft and lovely daughter-in-law had experienced to have such a strong sense of defense.

Yang Yuan has a good temper when facing familiar people.He smiled and said, "If I accidentally break your wrist, you will deduct money from my salary. It doesn't matter how much you deduct."

Wei Yanqing laughed: "Okay, if you want to break my wrist, you don't necessarily have the ability."

As soon as Yang Yuan thought of the first entrustment, he was with him. He could see the other party's skills.Indeed, as he said, if the two fight against each other, he will definitely not be able to take advantage of it.

Ding dong.

At this time, the computer in front of the two of them issued a notification tone, and the materials compiled by Sun Lao were published.Wei Yanqing received the information and saved it. Instead of opening it, he sent it to Mr. Sun based on the two people's deduction just now, asking him to search for similar cases in foreign countries and domestic countries in recent decades.Finally, he clicked on the folder, and a picture came out first.

In the picture, Sun Lixiang, Luo Jierui's colleague, poured her head into the washbasin and drowned. Her head was buried deep in the washbasin, her legs were kneeling on the floor, and a large puddle of water oozed from the floor.The hands are placed vertically at the sides of the body, without any signs of struggle.At the same time, the autopsy report showed that Sun Lixiang's cause of death was drowning, and she did not take sleeping pills or other substances before her death.

In other words, Sun Lixiang drowned herself under extremely impossible conditions, without any struggle before death.

The creepy conclusion is that when people face death, especially suicide, they will instinctively resist and struggle, even if the suicidal consciousness is extremely strong, they will struggle uncontrollably.Sun Lixiang's situation is too weird to explain.

Another picture shows three children drowning in an inflatable swimming pool, without making a sound or struggling.They embraced each other in clothes, formed a triangle and submerged in the water, their faces pale and uncomfortable.

These pictures were taken by Sun Lixiang before she drowned, and they are one of the evidence.

Yang Yuanyi pointed to the shape of three children embracing each other: "It looks like a special pattern."

Wei Yanqing took the screenshot and processed it for a while, forming a special pattern and sending it to Elder Sun.After a while, Elder Sun replied: "Okay."

Wei Yanqing turned off the computer and stared at Yang Yuan for a while: "Do you want to read the City Strange Records?"

Yang Yuanyi pointed at himself in surprise: "Can I see it?"

Wei Yanqing got up, went to the bookshelf behind him, randomly took out a thick book, patted the dust and handed it to Yang Yuanyi: "Look."

Yang Yuanyi took the black book cover with a few gilded characters of Strange Anecdotes of the City, and then glanced at the empty bookshelf behind him. "Is it so casual?"

Wei Yanqing waved his hand: "It's not very important in the first place, it's just a diary about strange news."

As soon as Yang Yuan opened the Record of Strange News, there was a sentence written on the title page: "Terror is like a shadow". The words are beautiful, and the sentence contains elements of intimidation. It is not convincing at first glance. Only when you think about it will you find the real horror. place.

The second page is the table of contents. There are 99 kinds of anecdotes recorded in the directory, but the number of the last anecdote is 100.As soon as Yang Yuan turned back to look at the previous catalog, he found that the first strange news did not start with 001, but 002.

"One less strange news?"

Wei Yanqing: "No less. A total of one hundred."

The author has something to say:

Young Wei Yanqing (observing from a distance): The daughter-in-law is soft and cute.

Young Yang Yuanyi (shy smile): Accidentally split the bed board.

PS: I like the urban legend of Slender Ghost, but I don’t know how to write it, so I will mention it here, hehe.