Invade the World

  Chapter 71 Another World

Li Qinglian filled her teacup with hot water. When she passed the corridor, she saw that the room was almost filled with white smoke through the glass. Several colleagues were facing the messy documents on the desk and the materials posted on the blackboard. frown.

  Someone called her "Sergeant Li" on the road, and she just nodded casually as a response, and walked towards her office as she walked forward, her head still wandering with complicated thoughts, and her thoughts could not settle down.

  Until the person yelled again.

   "Officer Li, are you listening?"

"Ok?"

  Li Qinglian raised her head and saw two people standing in front of her.

  The one in front is a familiar face in the police station, while the one in the back looks a little strange.

  It was a tall man who was about 30 years old.

  He is wearing a beige trench coat with a sweater inside. His hair has been dyed with perm, but it is not the fancy visual hair that is popular among young people, but black that is perm to slightly curls. The man has a handsome face, a high nose and a kind smile on his face, looking very energetic.

  This dress is still quite conspicuous. If she didn’t see her for the first time, she would have been impressed.

   "Police Officer Li, do you know where Mr. Zhou is in charge of the data room right now?"

   asked the colleague in front.

   "This gentleman wants to find him if he has something to do."

  In the past few days, Li Qinglian has looked for the old policeman who went to the hospital as a temporary partner that day, and tentatively asked several times.

  Li Qinglian has noticed some special clues that are not part of normal social cognition from the recent cases she has taken over. She herself has long thought about this, and naturally she has to hold onto this seemingly most promising clue.

  Whether the old policeman simply missed the words at the time, or deliberately mentioned something, she did not intend to miss it.

  Unfortunately, on the one hand, Li Qinglian felt that she could not really make up her mind, she didn’t get straight to the point, she just asked in a roundabout way, leaving a retreat between words; on the other hand, Teacher Zhou always practiced Tai Chi, and she didn't have any confidence.

  Either he simply admits, if he really doesn’t want to say it, he just refuses and it’s over. Now this approach is more like he suddenly has some concerns and he doesn’t want to reveal the truth to himself...

  "Hello, Comrade Police, my name is Meng Zheng."

  The man in the trench coat interrupted Li Qinglian's meditation with a smile, and reached out to her.

  "Ms. Zhou and I met before. Today is something at work, and we need to talk about the situation."

  "...You mean Police Officer Zhou Xingjian, I don't know where he is now, but under normal circumstances, he is on duty in his own post."

  Li Qinglian came back to her senses, shook hands with him politely, and replied.

   "How about I take you there?"

   "No, no, no, no, just know where it is. I just checked when I came in. The data room is on the basement floor, right? Thank you, Officer Li."

  Meng Zhengchao nodded to Li Qinglian, passed her shoulders, and walked towards the end of the corridor first; and the colleague who led him hurriedly followed.

   "...who is that person?"

  Li Qinglian looked at the back of the man in the trench coat and muttered to herself.

Since    will be put in, there won't be too many problems with her identity, but she is still a little curious.

  The main reason is that he was not looking for other colleagues, but Zhou Xingjian.

Ms. Zhou retired and re-employed in the past few years. He has not worked on the front line for a long time. Only when the police force is particularly busy, he occasionally tops colleagues’ classes. On weekdays, he is on duty and drinking tea in the basement data room. Monitoring is still quite leisurely.

  But Li Qinglian knows more than others. She understands that the job and identity of this old policeman are not as simple as they seem.

  Include this outsider. Probably because of the intuition of some criminal police, Li Qinglian keenly smelled the unusual smell from the other party for the first time.

   "Oh, you mean that person? He came here in the morning. I heard Brother Wang mentioned it."

  Someone just came out of the door of the nearby office and heard Li Qinglian talking to herself. He glanced at the man's back and replied.

   "Did he mention this person's work status?"

   "Uh, the specific name is forgotten." The colleague said haha, he originally wanted to have a few more words with Yi Hua in the team, "It seems to be a consultant..."

  "Consultant?"

  Li Qinglian frowned slightly.

   "Which aspect? Forensic room? Is it the university professor?"

  "I don’t know this. I heard that it seems to be a sea turtle baby. Although he is young, he is very influential in the professional field and is well-known internationally..."

  Returned scholars? professional field?

  Li Qinglian frowned more tightly.

  *

  Meng stopped at the entrance of the data room, smiled and nodded goodbye to the policeman who had brought him over, then pushed the door straight in.

  As soon as he walked in the door, he saw rows of iron racks that were about to reach the ceiling, neatly piled up with various archives.

  At the door is a table, and an old man in a police uniform is sitting there with Erlang's legs and reading glasses sitting intently reading a newspaper.

  A cup of hot tea is brewing on the table, and white steam is quietly rising.

   "Hey, is the local supernatural response department of Jinjiang City located here?"

  Meng Zheng looked around and let out a sigh.

  "This place is a bit small, and it's too quiet. There is only one old man on duty."

  The old policeman put down the newspaper and replied in an unsatisfactory tone.

   "Enough, Jinjiang City is not too big."

"I think it's understaffed, right?" Meng Zheng laughed, "I've seen the files here, four psychics below level B, plus more than forty regular psychic members and hundreds of them. It is really hard to compile non-governmental helpers to the two million urban population."

  "It’s not Grade B, it’s Grade B in the Special Professional Examination; it’s not a psychic. We don’t call this superstitious name here, it’s a special environmental investigator."

   Zhou Xingjian briefly corrected the other party's statement.

   "Fine, I will pay attention when I have a chance to give a report in the future." Meng Zheng waved his hand a little impatiently, "Didn't you always call this before? I guess you are used to calling yourself like this in private."

  The old policeman stopped talking, but shook his head slightly and asked straightforwardly:

  "Researcher Meng, what are you doing all the way here, just to ridicule us here?"

   "How can I, I am coming back to make contributions to the motherland. I didn't expect that the first stop after returning to China would be my old acquaintances. I am so happy now."

  Meng Zheng took off his coat, placed it on a chair next to him, and sat down with Shi Shiran opposite Zhou Xingjian. Then he seemed to open the chatterbox and talked endlessly.

"Speaking of, when was the last time you met with Superintendent Zhou? When the International Alien Space Academic Conference was held in Tianhai to solve the'nest mother' incident? Ten years have passed since I was still a fledgling. Xiaoyou, I heard that you have been retired for several years...Hey, is there any water? Give me a glass."

  While he was talking, a little girl suddenly walked up from nowhere.

  She did not wear a police uniform, but was dressed in casual clothes. She looked like a female college student and looked a little nervous. She took a few paper cups and a thermos and walked in front of them.

  While pouring hot water into the cup, the little girl secretly looked at this sudden "business consultant" from the corner of her eye.

  They learned from Zhou Xingjian that there will be new colleagues coming today, and they have heard that they are still A-level—converted to China, they are psychics with A-level ratings.

In the world of psychics, it can be regarded as the elite of the elite. It is enough to wipe out the ordinary haunted houses in the city alone. It may be more powerful than all the hands of the special environmental investigation team in Jinjiang City. care.

  Meng Zheng blinked.

  It wasn't until then that he noticed that behind Zhou Xingjian, it was not the empty space or the tall bookshelf he had imagined, but several desks, which formed a temporary office.

  In addition to this, there are dozens of monitors in operation, with seven or eight people sitting or standing inside, and all of them are looking at him with curiosity and attention.

  A few of them have sharp eyes and watchful expressions, as if looking at whether there is anything else hidden behind him or nearby.

   Generally speaking, Meng Zheng should have spotted them as soon as he came in. However, he only paid attention to the tall file rack next to him and the table Zhou Xingjian sitting at the forefront, which shows that this place is obviously not ordinary.

   "Is it a blindfold?"

  Meng Zheng showed a very interested smile.

  "Is it some kind of technology developed based on the'haunted house phenomenon'?"

"With the help of the natural barrier between the real world and the'distance', it can't be called technology, let alone copying the'haunted house phenomenon'. It is just a small application of the principles. I don't think you will be the first. See you next time."

   Zhou Xingjian replied.

"I did see it in a certain laboratory before, but it feels different from yours here. Well,'Yuanjing','Yuanjing'...this is your official name for'that world' what."

  Meng Zheng thoughtfully.

  ……

  In this era, there are not a few people who know that there is another similar but very different and very special "other world" outside of the real world.

  In human history, there were actually a lot of conjectures about another world outside the human world. From the classical era to the religious era, similar ideas emerged endlessly. It's just that it has never been confirmed, and in the age of modern science, it has been directly swept into the field of occult and pseudoscience.

  ——Until the "haunted house phenomenon" appears.

Since the middle of the century, there have been records of people witnessing supernatural phenomena one after another around the world. For example, seeing dead people wandering around in certain places, and even strange appearances that ordinary people cannot observe with the naked eye. Monsters...their characteristic is that their range of activities is often limited to a certain area, most of the time there is even only one house.

  This is the reason why a series of supernatural events are collectively called the "haunted house phenomenon".

If there is only one or two similar phenomena, it will only be regarded as absurd rumors. However, the large-scale occurrence on a global scale makes the supernatural phenomenon that should be only a rumor, and it has become that governments have to maintain the society. On the basis of stability, a major research project was carried out in a secret way.

The various weird phenomena inside the haunted house are still a huge mystery so far; but with the deepening of research, people have at least realized one thing: the root cause behind the "haunted house phenomenon" is the overlap and overlap of the two worlds the process of.

  As for the titles of this world, because different countries and regions have different religious cultures and customs, the spiritual world, the underworld, different worlds, different spaces...it can be described as a wide variety of varieties.

  The Chinese prefix of the international conference that he and Zhou Xingjian participated in before is called "different space", and the English is AnotherWorld——"the other world", which is very simple and easy to understand.

Ten years later, although today's academia has already passed the early tedious stage, the result has been the development of a number of theoretical schools competing on a series of viewpoints, each of which has a large number of supporters. , There is no unified consensus.

Judging from the current situation, the domestic hypothesis adopted is the "distance theory". Although Meng Zheng has lived abroad for a long time, he can more or less guess part of the reason: on the one hand, the proponent of the "distance theory" is domestic Scholars, on the other hand, this hypothesis is indeed the most convincing so far.

  However, the discovery and progress of the history of science is always based on suspicion, especially in such a nearly new field of knowledge, so no one can say what the future will be.

What's more, it’s hard to say whether this thing can be regarded as a science in the traditional sense in the eyes of some people... Study it like a scientist, but think about praying to God to worship Buddha.

  Thanks to this, religious forces that were already weak have been reborn, and various new religions have emerged in an endless stream in line with the most popular doomsday theory in the past two years.

  At present, in the world, I am afraid that only the domestic environment can be regarded as stable.

   "Anyway, since you are assigned here, you still have to do business, right?"

  Zhou Xingjian drank hot tea to moisturize his throat.

"of course."

  Meng Zheng smiled heartily.

"Well."

  The old policeman directly took out a map.

  "Jinjiang City is divided into three old towns and one new town. There are currently four confirmed haunted houses, and the threat levels are all written on them. Would you like to pick one?"

  Meng Zheng glanced casually, but did not take the conversation. He just put his hands on his knees and lay back lazily on the back of the chair.

  "——Ms. Zhou, compared to the relatively stable ‘haunted house’, I guess you still have more stress here, right?"

  　 there is a watch at seven o'clock in the evening

  (End of this chapter)