"It hasn't been long since we fell asleep. We should be able to find him if we look for him now," one investigator said.
His proposal was quickly approved by other colleagues.
Then everyone looked at Wang Jing. As the captain of the team, whether to act next can only be done with Wang Jing’s permission.
"You work in pairs, be careful. If you find something wrong, retreat immediately and come back here..." Wang Jing thought for a moment and agreed with the suggestion of finding a researcher.
Subsequently, several investigators immediately left the cave and looked around for the missing researcher.
Wang Jing acted alone. She used her mental perception to explore the surroundings, carefully searching for the missing researcher.
The five people centered on the cave and searched around. Because of the darkness, it was much more difficult to find the missing persons.
"Cuckoo..."
There were birds chirping in the distance. The investigator looked up and found several small figures standing on the branches, looking at them curiously. , making sounds from time to time.
After investigation, the birds on the tree are just ordinary creatures, so don’t pay attention to their gazes.
"Look over there." Someone spotted something in the grass in the distance and shouted.
Then, the two investigators slowly approached. When they saw clearly what was in the grass, surprise smiles appeared on their faces.
"Found it."
The missing researcher was lying in the grass. He had his eyes closed at the moment, his face was calm, and he looked like he was sleeping soundly.
The two investigators quickly squatted down and checked each other's vital signs.
I was relieved to find that the researcher was still alive without any wounds on his body.
"Zhao Dongsheng, wake up."
The two called the researcher's name and shook their hands a few times.
The sleeping Zhao Dongsheng's eyelids moved a few times, and then he opened his eyes.
Seeing the two investigators close at hand, their excited expressions came into view. Zhao Dongsheng was completely confused when he saw this scene.
"What happened?"
Zhao Dongsheng was very confused at this time. He hadn't realized that he was lying in the grass, so he asked the two investigators.
"Look around you."
"What...what is going on?"
Zhao Dongsheng looked around. At this time, what he saw was a In the dim night, the flowers, plants and trees swayed gently with the breeze.
He was obviously resting in the cave, but when he opened his eyes, he was outside the cave.
There is no memory of leaving the cave in his mind. No matter how stupid he is, he will know that something is wrong.
The two investigators continued to talk about what happened. Since they also fell asleep without knowing it, the specific situation was unclear.
“Such a thing happened?” Zhao Dongsheng said to himself with a serious face.
Then he quickly checked his physical condition and found that he was fine.
This is strange. According to common sense, if you encounter this kind of thing, you will suffer some damage.
However, now that several investigators and researchers are safe and sound, what is the purpose of the enemy who did this?
After receiving the news, Wang Jing and the other two investigators quickly returned to the cave.
When they walked into the cave, they saw the researcher who was safe and sound.
"Zhao Dongsheng, is there really nothing wrong with your health?" Wang Jing asked with concern.
"I just checked it carefully and found no problems." Zhao Dongsheng replied.
“What on earth is going on?”
“Is the guy who caused this thing trying to play a trick on us?”
“The other party can do it without knowing what’s going on. He made us all fall asleep and took people away. His strength is extraordinary!"
Several investigators discussed it, and everyone discussed it, but there was no answer.
When Wang Jing saw that her colleagues were worried, she thought for a few seconds and then spoke.
"Everyone just needs to be more careful and don't put too much pressure on."
"Yes." Everyone nodded after hearing this, feeling a little less stressed.
After this incident, several investigators became very vigilant.
“Eh?” Zhao Dongsheng made a confused voice.
When Wang Jing heard it, she immediately turned her head to look at him and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Several spiritual stones on my body are missing." Zhao Dongsheng said.
“Look carefully to see if it’s in the bag...” Wang Jing reminded.
Zhao Dongsheng opened his backpack and rummaged around, but still found nothing.
“There is nothing in the bag. Those spiritual stones may have been lost outside.”
The few missing spiritual stones are not particularly important to the few people present.
So everyone helped me look for it. If I didn’t find it, I stopped looking.
"At dawn tomorrow morning, we will continue on our journey. Let's take the time to rest."
Wang Jing arranged the order of tonight's vigil, then came to the entrance of the cave and sat down , leaning against the wall, looking into the distance.
The four investigators found an open space to lie down, closed their eyes and slept to regain their energy.
Zhao Dongsheng is a protected person and rests in the innermost part of the cave.
Although I didn’t feel anything about the experience I just had, I still have lingering fears when I think about it.
So now he can't fall asleep like the four investigators.
“It’s rare to go on a mission with an investigator. It’s only the first day and I encountered such a weird thing. My luck is really bad.
I hope it won’t happen again in the future. For this kind of thing, otherwise, with Wang Jing’s cautious attitude, she might have canceled this mission.”
Zhao Dongsheng leaned against the wall, the thoughts in his mind spread out, and he talked to himself silently.
A few kilometers away from the cave where Wang Jing and his party rested, there was a thick tree.
This big tree is more than thirty meters high and requires three people holding hands to hug it.
The lush branches and leaves collide with each other and make a rustling sound in the breeze.
The moonlight fell under the tree, illuminating several huge footprints clearly.
If you look carefully, you will see several spiritual stones that have exhausted their spiritual energy scattered next to the footprints.
When the spiritual energy contained in the spirit stone is exhausted, the crystal clear spirit stone will turn gray.
There are some scratches on the surface of these spiritual stones scattered on the ground. If Zhao Dongsheng sees these spiritual stones that have exhausted their spiritual energy, he will recognize them at a glance based on the scratches on their surfaces. It was the few spiritual stones he had lost.
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In the bustling restaurant, various sounds intertwined and echoed in the room.
The waiter busily walked between the tables, placing the dishes ordered by the guests on the table.
"Lin Li, are you full? If not, I will ask the waiter to serve more dishes."
Su Yue's appetite is relatively small, and she has already been full. Now seeing that there was very little food left on the table, he asked.
"I've almost eaten. There's no need to ask the waiter to serve more dishes." Lin Li counted how many dishes he had eaten at first, but then he concentrated on the meal and stopped counting.
After enjoying the food happily, Lin Li was now eighty percent full.
If nothing else goes wrong, his stomach will no longer growl in the next few hours.
Su Yue nodded with a smile, then picked up the half cup of coconut juice on the table and drank it.
After Lin Li finished chewing the lamb chops, he had finished eating all the dishes on the table.
He took out a tissue and wiped his mouth, then stood up.
After a while, the two people left the eating place. As soon as I walked out of the gate, I noticed several cars coming on the road in the distance.
Lin Li and Su Yue saw these cars parked on the side of the road. After the car doors opened, many young men and women got out of the cars.
Looking at how these people are dressed, they should be tourists coming here from other places.
The manager of the restaurant came up to us and contacted the tour guide.
Then, dozens of people walked into the restaurant.
"Fortunately, we came at this time. If it had been half an hour earlier, there wouldn't be room in the store to accommodate so many people," Lin Li said.
“Looking at the conversation between the manager and the tour guide, the two parties should be quite familiar with each other.
The tour guide brought the tour group to dinner at this time, and he also made sure that almost all the guests dining in the store were at this time. After eating, the seat is free..." Su Yue guessed.
Lin Li withdrew his gaze and walked towards the parking place while saying, "Let's go!"
Su Yue followed suit. The two of them passed by the green belt and heard a very loud noise. The sound of crickets.
Although there are also sounds of crickets in the green belts in the city, compared with here, the number is definitely not superior.
Even in some parks, due to the non-pristine ecology, the number of some small animals cannot be compared with that in the suburbs.
"Lin Li, look over there." Su Yue stopped and raised her finger to point to a brick in the distance.
Hearing this, Lin Li looked in the direction pointed by Su Yue's finger.
In his sight, there were two crickets doing something shy on the bricks.
"Aren't you going shopping? Let's hurry up and get out of here!"
"Yes."
Su Yue nodded, and then followed Lin Li to the parking place.
The silver-white van parked on the roadside for a while, with a lot of dry leaves falling on the roof.
Occasionally there will be a strong wind, and the dry leaves falling on the roof of the car will be blown down by the wind.
When these dry leaves fell to the ground, they did not stop immediately, but continued to be carried away by the autumn wind.
“The leaves have fallen significantly in the past few days, which makes people clearly feel that autumn is coming.”
“Why do I feel that these street trees on the roadside last year are not as leafless as they are now.”
"Yes? Could it be that you remembered it wrong?" Su Yue smiled.
"Maybe!" Lin Li felt that this was not a particularly important thing, so he asked Su Yue where she wanted to go shopping.
Su Yue thought carefully and gave an address. Then Lin Li started the car and drove Su Yue to the destination.
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The silver-white van was driving fast on the road. From time to time, dry leaves were blown by the wind and fell, just falling on the windshield of the car.
Fortunately, these leaves would not block Lin Li's view, otherwise he would have to slow down.
Su Yue looked at the swaying trees on the street and said to Lin Li who was driving.
"It's windy, and it's very windy."
"It's like this in the suburbs. When we enter the city, the wind will be much lighter." Lin Li replied.
Ten minutes later.
The silver-white van left the suburbs and stopped near a shopping mall on the border between the lively urban area and the deserted suburbs.
The place Su Yue chose to go shopping was not far from the restaurant where she ate. She chose this place because she had never been to this mall before.
By chance, I came here for a stroll today.
After the silver-white van stopped, Lin Li unbuckled his seat belt.
At this time, there was no movement in the passenger seat. He turned around and found that Su Yue had fallen asleep.
"We're here."
Lin Li shouted, and Su Yue heard someone calling her, her long eyelashes trembling rapidly, like butterfly wings.
She opened her eyes and looked vaguely at Lin Li, who was calling her.
"Are you here?"
"We are already here. You are so sleepy, why don't you stop shopping and I will take you home."
Su Yue raised her right hand , rubbing her eyes with the back of her hand, she untied He put on his seat belt, opened the door and got out of the car, and said to Lin Li at the same time, "You're here, let's go shopping for a while and then go back."
After getting off the car, Lin Li came to Su Yue's side. He looked at some confused people. Su Yue thought for a while and said.
"They sell ice cream over there, do you want to eat it?"
"Yes." Su Yue's eyes suddenly lit up when she heard about eating ice cream.
The two people walked quickly to the ice cream shop on the roadside. A few minutes later, one person walked out of the shop with a tempting ice cream.
"Good ice." Su Yue took a big spoonful of ice cream and put it into her mouth. The cool taste made the remaining sleepiness on her face disappear instantly.
Lin Li glanced at Su Yue and said to her angrily, "Don't eat so much ice cream in one sitting, or you'll ruin your stomach."
Su Yue followed Lin Li's suggestion and didn't use a spoon to scoop out a big scoop of ice cream. She opened her red lips and ate in small bites.
"There are chairs over there, let's go and sit down..." Lin Li found an empty bench next to the green belt not far away.
More than ten seconds later, the two people sat down on the bench, enjoying the sweet and cold ice cream while looking at the lively crowd in the distance.
“I didn’t expect the shopping mall here to be quite lively.” Su Yue said with a smile.
“There are several residential areas nearby, and there is no shortage of people.” Lin Li said.
"I just checked the weather forecast. There is a cold wave coming in the next few days, and the temperature will drop sharply."
"How much will the temperature drop?"
"It will be at least six or seven degrees colder than now. "
"That's quite cool."
"Yes! Many clothing stores are selling autumn clothes now. Let's see if there are any suitable ones and buy some. ”
"I can still wear the autumn clothes at home."
"Those autumn clothes you wore last year don't look good to me. I'll pick some for you later."
"Well ..."
"That's it."
"Okay!"
Two people were sitting on chairs, chatting and eating ice cream.
When they finished eating the ice cream, they got up and threw away the trash. They were about to walk forward when the ground suddenly began to shake.
“Eh?!!!”
Su Yue had felt such a shaking not long ago, but she didn’t expect it to happen again, and was shocked.
“It’s an earthquake.”
Lin Li nodded with a serious face, and at the same time reached out to support Su Yue, who was unsteady.
When there was an earthquake before, Su Yue was not as calm as she is now, and she was not panicked at all.
Maybe it’s because Lin Li is beside me, which makes me feel safe.
The busy shopping mall is in chaos. Anyone with a little common sense knows that it is time to run to an open area at this time.
After a while, the square where Lin Li and Su Yue were was crowded with people.
…………(End of this chapter)