Chapter 348 The Wild Boar Demands His Life

The death of the clan brother who was the chief official of the state where the eldest son of the Zhou family lived, the death of the Zhou family's housewife's aunt's sister, the death of the captain of the Zhou family's village protection team, the death of the Zhou family's second son...

The causes of death varied. However, it is a question whether the historical records on the causes of death of these people are reliable.

For example, the death of the captain of the Zhou family's village protection team was recorded in historical records as being drunk and falling into the water. It seems to be an accidental death, but is it possible that he committed suicide?

After drinking, he jumped into the water and committed suicide. With the criminal investigation technology at the time, it was impossible to tell whether he slipped and accidentally fell into the water or actively jumped into the water. Combined with common sense, it is normal and reasonable to make the final judgment that he fell into the water while drunk.

According to historical records, a brother of the Zhou family's eldest son who was the chief official of the prefecture was pushed downstairs and fell to death. Similarly, based on the criminal investigation conditions at the time, it was still impossible to tell whether he was pushed down or jumped on his own initiative. Combined with common sense and the power of the chief official of the state government at that time, did he believe that his brother committed suicide?

Anyone who dares to tell him this reason will definitely be considered by him to be a fool. Anyone who tells him this reason will surely end badly.

There must be a murderer in this matter. As a result, historical records concluded that he was "pushed downstairs and fell to death."

According to historical records, the second son of the Zhou family died of illness. Lu Ming believes that there are many issues in this that are debatable. Maybe it was because the cause of his death was too bizarre - for example, he committed suicide for no reason, and the Zhou family deliberately concealed it, so they said he was ill?

The truth of these things has been impossible to fully restore because too much time has passed. Of course, Lu Ming did not have enough evidence to prove that their deaths were really weird, but the possibility of "being weird" could not be ruled out, and the probability was quite high.

If the speculation is true, then who is the murderer behind the abnormal deaths of these key figures?

Lu Ming and He Wei agreed that he was the master who told the Zhou family to take revenge on the wronged souls and asked the Zhou family to build an archway to suppress them.

In this way, everything can be easily explained and all logic can be straightened out.

The fact is that there is no such thing as bad luck in the Zhou family. All this misfortune was deliberately caused by this master by causing the death of those key figures. After torturing the Zhou family almost to death, he stood up again and told the Zhou family the solution of "revenge of wronged souls and building an archway for suppression". After the archway was built, he didn't need to do anything - he just stopped. , the Zhou family's bad luck will naturally be lifted.

In this way, it creates the illusion that "as soon as the archway is built, the bad luck will disappear immediately". The truth is that he no longer targets the Zhou family.

As for the master's motivation to target the Zhou family, it is also easy to understand.

According to historical records, the first victim of the Zhou family was the second son of the Zhou family who forced the peasant girl to death. This incident started the Zhou family's journey of misfortune.

Moreover, historical records and information obtained from visits all prove that the Zhou family is unkind and oppresses one party for the sake of wealth.

Finally, the master came forward and told the Zhou family that in addition to building a memorial arch, the solution was to "let the Zhou family do good deeds and accumulate virtue, and use good deeds as offerings to the souls of those who died unjustly to calm their anger."

Since then, the Zhou family's family tradition has really changed, and they no longer dare to bully the good. The lives of the villagers around the Zhou family have become much easier.

Lu Ming believes that, at least based on the logical chain and existing information, punishing the Zhou family, letting the Zhou family correct their evil ways, and preventing the villagers from being oppressed anymore are the real purpose of this master.

His purpose was clearly achieved.

This master turns his hands to create clouds and his hands to create rain. Under his behind-the-scenes manipulation, half of the Zhou family's property was dispersed, the peasant girl who was forced to death and the others got their revenge, and the Zhou family's family style changed and they no longer suffered bad luck.

In fact, Lu Ming believed that the master's targets might have been specially selected. Not to mention the second son of the Zhou family, the eldest son of the Zhou family is the brother of the chief official of the prefecture, the captain of the village protection team, the sister of the housewife of the Zhou family...

These people are probably not good people, so they are chosen as targets by the master.

After clarifying all this, the four members of the second operation team faced only one problem.

How did the master from hundreds of years ago kill all the key missions?

This is a problem, but not a problem. Because there is a ready reference here at the moment.

Wang Quan.

When Wang Quan curses a person, that person will die in the most economical and reasonable way. However, the most economical and reasonable way is undoubtedly suicide.

It only involves yourself, not anyone else.

Also, although the existing data cannot prove that all the deceased died of suicide, it cannot be falsified either. Moreover, the possibility of suicide is greatly hinted at. For example, being pushed down from a building and falling to death, or falling into water and dying.

Then, the final answer is obvious.

curse.

Like Wang Quan, that master also mastered this method of cursing people to death, and he also had this ability.

This is what Lu Ming discovered and the logic Lu Ming compiled.

"Wang Quan is not the only one who has the ability to cause death with this kind of curse..."

Based on the existing information, a few people can only believe this result. But this result also made several people feel worried.

That master was a person from hundreds of years ago and should have been dead by now. But, if there is one, there may be two. God knows if there is anyone other than Wang Quan who has mastered this ability in this era.

Judging from his behavior, it is obvious that the ancient master was ethical and pursuing, and acted in a chivalrous manner. But Wang Quan in modern society is just a madman with no concept of good and evil. If someone else has this ability, who knows what kind of person he is?

If you are a normal person and only use this ability to seek some benefits for yourself, then that's fine. After all, it is not very harmful to society. But if it were the same as Wang Quan, wouldn't it mean that hundreds of thousands of people would lose their lives inexplicably? Or maybe he is crazier than Wang Quan and has discovered a wider range of uses for this ability. Doesn't that mean more serious consequences?

Current experiments have proven that Wang Quan's abilities are limited to Blue Lake City. Even if the person who has mastered this ability can only use his ability within a city, the destruction of a city is still appalling.

If there really are people with abilities other than Wang Quan, then they are veritable time bombs, and they don't know when they will cause big trouble.

This possibility made He Wei feel uneasy.

Zhang Dingshan was silent for a moment and said slowly: "The situation may not be as serious as we thought. The reason why Wang Quan has this ability is that he is special and that Blue Lake City is special. Once he leaves Blue Lake, he will no longer have this ability. .

Moreover, when the master used this ability hundreds of years ago, he was also in the current Blue Lake City area.

Of course, this cannot absolutely deny the possibility that people with such abilities exist in other cities and other areas, but at least the probability may not be high.

Let’s continue to investigate Wang Quan and this master’s affairs first, and check if there are any other ability users in Blue Lake City.

Investigate whether there are people with this kind of ability in other cities, and wait until the matter at Blue Lake comes to a conclusion, and then decide whether to proceed based on the situation. "

He Wei nodded silently. Lu Mingze said: "I think we should not only check the contemporary times, but also go back to the past."

"It is indeed necessary." Zhang Dingshan nodded: "Then there will be no time limit. As long as it is within the limits of Blue Lake City, we will check everything."

The three people quickly divided the work. He Weicha modern times. Zhang Dingshan and Lu Ming investigated the past era.

In comparison, He Wei's job is easier.

If you want to confirm whether there are other people in Blue Lake City who have the same curse ability as Wang Quan, you must undoubtedly start with the suicide case.

In the preliminary work, we have screened out a large number of suspected abnormal suicide cases. Quite a few of these cases found supporting evidence from Wang Quan and were confirmed to be killed by Wang Quan. The remaining cases that Wang Quan could not find supporting evidence for were dismissed as normal suicide cases.

However, at this moment, under the speculation that "there may be other people in Blue Lake City who are capable of causing death by curses", these suspected abnormal suicide cases that have been returned will have to be brought out again. underwent rigorous review.

Operation Team 2 will devote more efforts to these cases and try their best to find out whether they are normal. Once it is confirmed that something is abnormal, we will follow the same idea as when we captured Wang Quanshi and try to find the hidden ability user.

The work of Lu Ming and Zhang Dingshan is a little more complicated. They need to trace the past, investigate suicide cases that occurred in the past twenty years to the past one hundred years, and analyze whether their deaths were normal, thereby inferring whether there were people with this kind of ability in the past era.

Cases from decades ago are undoubtedly very difficult to investigate. Especially in older eras, the data records were very incomplete, and even the people who knew the person involved may have died of old age, making it even more difficult to investigate.

Maybe some events need to be checked from folklore and ancient book records.

But no matter how difficult the thing is, you still have to do it bravely. This is the meaning of the existence of Action Team 2.

If things were simple, what would a team like Operation Team 2 do? Just disband.

However, this time, Zhang Dingshan and Lu Ming did not launch large-scale investigators to visit the local residents of Blue Lake City. Because this kind of operation has been organized once before, a large number of "weird things" and "supernatural events" described by residents have been recorded.

Just search directly from this database now.

This time, the search keyword was "suicide."

Immediately, many strange things about suicide emerged.

Zhang Dingshan and Lu Ming plunged in and began to analyze these cases involving suicide one by one.

If a suicide incident from decades ago is to be spread to modern times, it must be topical. An ordinary, normal suicide case, such as a family being destroyed, someone hanging himself in desperation, or someone suffering from a serious illness that cannot be cured or committing suicide due to being unable to bear the torture. This kind of thing will not spread to modern times.

What's the point of this kind of thing? There is no topic, no story, no one spreads it at all.

Those that can be disseminated are suicide cases with certain special characteristics.

It just so happens that if it is a case where a person commits suicide inexplicably due to a curse, it happens to be special and has the potential to be remembered and passed down to modern times.

This means that the passage of time has naturally screened Zhang Dingshan and Lu Ming.

At this moment, what appeared in front of Lu Ming was a slightly bizarre suicide case.

The murder case of a wild boar.

Thirty years ago, Blue Lake City was still small. Most of what is considered urban today was rural thirty years ago.

There is such a rural village on the edge of the mountainous area south of Blue Lake City. There was a man in this village who was very good at hunting wild boar. He can catch wild boars repeatedly without using a gun or a knife, relying only on traps. Therefore, this family lived a pretty good life in that era of widespread poverty.

No matter how unpalatable wild boar is, it is still meat, and you can still make some money selling it. If the family has money to spend and meat to eat, life will be good.

But this trap is more cruel.

When ordinary hunters hunt wild boars, those with guns will kill them with a few shots, while those without guns will be stabbed or hacked to death with a knife, which is more satisfying. Only in this kind of trap, after a wild boar falls into it, it may wail for a whole day before dying, and be tortured before it dies.

So there were rumors that this man was harming the world by torturing the wild boar like this, and he would be punished sooner or later.

This person had heard the rumors, but never took them seriously and fought as hard as he could. By hunting wild boars, he supported his children in school and built a large tile-roofed house at home.

But the good times didn't last long. One morning, as usual, this man went into the mountains to check the traps to see if he had caught any wild boars. But once I left, I never came back. The villagers went together to look for him and finally found him in a valley.

When we found him, he was hanging on a tree with a crooked neck and had already died.

Not far under the tree was a trap he had laid. There was no wild boar in the trap, just a pig leg. A hundred meters away from the trap was the body of a wild boar with one leg missing.

Apparently, the wild boar bit off his own leg that was trapped by the rope before escaping. But it died before it could escape far.

The scene was horrific.

The villagers called the police, and after investigation, the security guard who came confirmed that he had committed suicide.

From this, rumors spread about wild boars seeking their lives. It is said that this man angered the pig god in the mountains and was killed by the wild boar, so he was hanged directly next to the trap for no reason.

Of course Lu Ming didn't believe in things like wild boars asking for their lives. But there is a key point in this rumor.

For no reason, everything was fine at home, but he hanged himself.

This is very similar to those people in Blue Lake City who chose to commit suicide after being cursed by Wang Quan.

And, twenty years ago, there was evidence that Wang Quan had not yet acquired the ability to curse people to death.

"This case is noteworthy and needs to be investigated."

Lu Ming wrote it down.