Chapter 174 142. Can you tell me about past events?
Coming to the farmland, the waterfall named New World provides a large amount of water for this farmland. In fact, from the appearance, the farmland should have been transformed into an attraction mainly for viewing. , it is more ornamental than practical.
This farmland has beautiful natural landscapes. The waterfall called New World falling from the cliff is like a huge curtain covering the cliff. The water droplets fall gracefully from the sky, and then like A dancer moves silkily along the river, fading out of sight and blending into the soil to nourish the crops here.
Li Dang noticed that the dealers here seemed to be taken care of a bit too much. Rather than being recognized by him, they were regarded as a label, a label to promote the natural scenery, as if they had been cut into square shapes. Just like real ornamental plants.
If you walk towards the waterfall, you will find a lot of people gathered here.
Many people gathered in front of the waterfall to enjoy the beautiful scenery, and there was a tourist sign in front of it.
The waterfall at five o'clock every afternoon is the most worth watching. The sky near the evening and the rainbow slowly flowing down will give you a very good experience.
“Look at the sign over there, the Five Points Falls every day is the most beautiful. I will come tomorrow, and so will I the day after tomorrow!”
The tourists on the side were shouting, and they were in high spirits. , but I always feel like something is weird.
At this moment, he saw a familiar figure, the girl named Kinoshita. She was talking to some tourists, and she still had that professional smile on her face.
When she saw the young man, she greeted Li Dang enthusiastically: "How have you been playing recently? But you must come to see the waterfall every day. The scenery on one day is different every day. , but the scenery at five o’clock every afternoon is always the most beautiful.”
For some reason, he always felt that the girl in front of him had been persuading him to come to see the waterfall every day, which was a bit strange.
She indeed hopes to come every day, perhaps to persuade Li Dang not to miss some beautiful scenery, or for other purposes.
Leaving the farmland and walking in the opposite direction, this was where the New World Falls once flowed.
There are many trees scattered here, but it is obvious that the trees around the road have become much sparse. It seems that the trees here have been cut down to make lumber - maybe it is the lumber of the hotel where he lives.
Li Dang saw a young man standing deep in the woods, with two mounds of soil next to him. He was trembling slightly and seemed to be saying something. As he got closer, he could faintly hear "Mom, Dad," "Accident," "I'm absolutely Words like "will never forget".
He seemed to be talking to his deceased relatives, as evidenced by some of the items commemorating the deceased placed at his feet.
Li Dang couldn't help but walk up to him and wanted to talk to him, but at this moment his whereabouts were completely exposed to the young man in front of him.
"Huh? How come you, a tourist, are here?" The young man in front of him pushed up his glasses and said with an indifferent expression.
Perhaps after seeing Li Dang's doubtful eyes, he looked at the mound in front of him casually and explained: "These are my parents. They relapsed from an old illness when they were walking here before, and they died. In this forest..."
After seeing the boy's job card, Li Ming called out his name "Kinoshita Taro".
"Do you know my name? Oh, by the way, my name is written on my work badge." He looked at his work badge and vaguely felt his hands tightening a little, "Yes. , I'm Taro, the staff here, what's the matter? You can ask me to handle any troublesome matters."
"That's right, I want to ask some questions about the village. After all, I am a tourist..." Li Ming asked tentatively, "As a job, Personnel can definitely tell me something "Some questions about the village?"
"Don't call me a staff member... I'm just part-time. I'm just helping my sister." Taro Kinoshita's voice was a little cold, "I'm just a tourist, listen." It’s really ridiculous to go up there... By the way, I didn’t say anything. If you have any questions, just ask them. I still have things to do here.”
“Why should we choose such a waterfall in the New World? Where's the name?" Li Ming asked his question.
"Because the waterfalls here have brought prosperity to our village, it can be said that they are like gods in our village, turning our village into a fresh world, so it is called the New World."
As if reciting the lines he had already memorized, the young man's voice was a little stiff and his expression was a little stiff.
“Or it can be said that our village can already be called a fresh world, a brand new world, so everything here is closely related to the waterfall, which provides us with water sources and provides us with It brings vitality and provides us with financial resources, so we are willing to enshrine it as a god."
"The word "enshrine to gods" sounds right. It's a bit strange, isn't it?" Li Ming raised his eyebrows, "Would you like to take out the employee handbook and see if there are any mistakes in the words you memorized?"
"You..." The boy's hand. He tightened his grip, "If you have anything else to say, please tell me quickly. This is the first time I've seen an rude tourist like you. Sooner or later, you will be punished here."
"Is it a curse after getting angry? What childish behavior? To be honest, if I hadn't contracted some disease from you, I really wouldn't want to stay in your damn village for even a minute."
I don’t know why, but when communicating with the young man in front of him, Li Ming changed his calm demeanor and became a little excited.
"Then you should leave as soon as possible. You don't have to stay in our village and be angry with us." The young man was about to leave but was stopped by Li Dao. He pushed up his glasses impatiently, his expression Somberly, "Then what else?" Is it something? This guest? "
"It's nothing. I just saw that you were a little angry and wanted to help you calm down." Li Ming looked relieved and made way for the young man. Walked in the other direction.
There must be a secret buried in this young man, but this secret has not been discovered yet.
You still need to have a good relationship with this young man, or use some extraordinary means to get him to reveal his secret, so that you can solve the disease that you suddenly contracted.
However, it seems that the symptoms of this disease have never been seen before. Does it belong to the real estate of this village? In this case, it becomes more and more difficult.
In the village, he saw a tall building from a distance, and Li Ming walked in this direction. Only then did he realize that it was a library.
This library is full of high-end and modern atmosphere. There are various rest areas, reception rooms, bar restaurants, and it seems that it is a place where rich people rest and chat, and in this room Although the distributed bookshelves fit the scene very well, they have become a shortcoming here.
The scenes they were really treated as were used as backgrounds. No one cares about these books. Yes, no matter whether they are people who want to come to rest or to expand their circle, they will not care about these books. On the contrary, Li Ming, who started to borrow books and check them out, became a scenery here and became the biggest heretic here.
Li Dang learned from the history books he borrowed from the library that the famous New World Waterfall here originally fell directly from the mountain to the current highway.
At the suggestion of the entrepreneur, the villagers voted unanimously to revise it, and the village vigorously developed tourism. Therefore, the village obtained the right to build a dam in order to change the landing position of the waterfall.
Now this waterfall turns a corner above and falls just around the farmland. It not only frees up space for building roads, but also provides the nearest water source for irrigating the farmland.
After inspection, the water handle met the quality standards and was put into use more than ten years ago. The establishment of the dam is inseparable from the strong guidance and investment of the entrepreneur.
Li Dang looked at the cultural books on the other side, and he learned from them that there were some ancient legends in this village -
A long time ago there was an earth god in the village, and this earth god protected this place. People grow up in peace, but if someone breaks this rare peace, if someone hurts his companions, the land god will be angry, and then the sky will collapse and the whole village will be destroyed.
Just because they don’t want to make the God of the Land angry, people live peacefully, and the God of the Land also gives people here plenty of vitality. Many people claim that they feel the call of the God of the Land.
But then the land god saw that people were happy enough, so he left a new world. The waterfall is a gift that benefits mankind, but the land god himself has left here, and no one can feel the call of the land god anymore.
By the way, because the God of Earth sheds a rainbow and leaves, people call this God of Earth the God of Water.
What feudal superstition?
Will there really be a priesthood like an earth god?
Based on materialism, Li Ming scorned the information given in these books.
But what is the name of that entrepreneur?
In order to get answers to such questions, Li Dang asked some questions to the surrounding villagers and got some useful information.
"Are you talking about an entrepreneur? I remember his name is Shenmu Lintong... I have mixed reviews of him. Although he gave us jobs, I think he broke the simple happiness that the village once had. .
To be honest, I prefer to watch the waterfalls flowing in the simple yard than to see the villas, but times always have to develop and keep pace with the times, so I was there. Vote yes," said a young villager.
“Maybe it’s because I’m too naive, but we feel that the God of Water has given us the life-saving water in the New World, but we have separated it with water, so that God will Angry, we have grown up in awe of water for generations, but now we are I think it’s quite sad to use water as a tool at the construction site.
But seeing that the person named Shenmu had a firm attitude and came every day to persuade us to vote in favor, I voted in favor because I was annoyed. ." An old man recalled with an impatient expression.
At this moment, Li Ming saw the girl who came here to sort out the books and Kinoshita Taro.
After seeing Li Meng, the girl continued to put on a professional smile and patted the young man next to her on the shoulder: "This is my brother, he also works here."
"Hello, I am Taro Kinoshita. , I'm a staff member here, you can come to me for help." The young man next to him pushed up his glasses, sighed under the girl's gaze, turned around and said coldly to the person in front of him.
"No need to introduce yourself. Your brother and I are very familiar with each other. If anything happens, I will come to your brother and ask your brother to help." Li Meng said to the girl in front of him with a smile. "By the way, can you tell me about Mr. Shenmu?"
"Well... the God of Water gave us a new world, and Mr. Shenmu turned the new world into Even better, they are both good gods and people." The girl said this and lowered her head with Kinoshita Taro next to her. They were silent for a while, and then nodded
You can vaguely feel the mixture between the two. He was angry and unwilling, but he couldn't continue to ask any more questions at the moment. On the contrary, it would alert the snake, so it was better to search elsewhere.
After saying goodbye to each other, under the gaze of the two people, Li Ming came to the village's office area.
This is a small consultation area. He found that the internal files were in the office area next to the consultation area, but it seemed that he did not have permission to enter. He needed a key card to enter.
Since Li Dang had already accepted Shenmu's commission from the man in the suit before, the staff member immediately nodded to the young man in front of him and opened the door to the archives room for him after calling to confirm.
"Mr. Shenmu will give you the green light for almost all actions within the village."
After Li Meng nodded, he followed a corridor to the archives room.
The lights are turned on, and stacks of data are neatly arranged here, waiting for their owners to check them. People will forget their memories due to interests or time, but data will not - as long as they are recorded truthfully.
Li Dang found a piece of information. This seems to be the only case that has not been solved in the village. It was probably a middle-aged couple who were beaten to serious injuries while doing activities in the forest. A few days after they came back, He passed away.
The murderer has yet to be caught and brought to justice. In order not to arouse public disinterest in the village, the case has been shelved for the time being.
However, from more than ten years ago to this case, it seems that no one has investigated the case at all, and the two children left by the couple were adopted by a traveler named Sato. Currently, he is also involved in the construction of tourism work in the village.
Why does it sound so familiar?
Could it be the Kinoshita siblings?
Li Dang raised his eyebrows, his face a little pale.
And here, he also saw the entrepreneur, the guy who had received mixed reviews and negative reviews.
"Mr. Shenmu, I didn't know your name before, so I asked the villagers. So... can you tell me the details about the past cases in the village?"
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