Beauty Comprehensive 1999

Chapter 554 The Unusual Incident at the Seaside III

As a long and narrow peninsula extending more than 100 kilometers from the coastline of the mainland, the Fraser Peninsula not only blocks the wind and waves, but also blocks some cold currents from the south in winter. It may not have much impact, but it also makes the climate in northern Queensland hotter. some.

However, as the largest sand island in the world, it may be because the terrain here is not suitable for living, or it may be that Oceania is too vast and sparsely populated, so there are no residents on such a large island with an area of ​​more than 600 square kilometers. It is because the natural scenery has developed into a tourist island.

The fishing village in front of me is so close to the Fraser Peninsula, it stands to reason that it shouldn't be abandoned like this.

A group of people got off the car at the entrance of the village and walked towards the fishing village. Simon Joyner seemed to see the doubts of the others, so he couldn't help explaining while walking:
"This was originally a fishing village with more than 100 local residents, but since the first abnormal event happened half a year ago, it has become a no-man's land now."

In the crowd, Eddie Dresden looked at the surrounding environment, leaned beside Xie Zihao and said in a low voice:

"Lance, do you think something is wrong here!"

As a wizard, his perception talent may not be as good as psychics and shamans, which rely on perception to make a living, but it is definitely not weak.

Xie Zihao nodded.

"It's not right!"

Even though it was just a sunny and warm beach, it was at least seven or eight degrees Celsius colder here. Both the land and the sea gave people a black and cold feeling.

Some are like negative energy gathering areas like the Necropolis, but they are obviously different.

If this is Newfoundland, which is close to the northern part of the Commonwealth, or the cold coast north of Northern Europe, then such a climate and sea color are not surprising, but this is obviously a subtropical area close to the Tropic of Cancer!
But the environment by the seaside not far away when they came here was completely different from here.

Xie Zihao could tell that this village must have been polluted by some force that was biased towards the negative energy field. Judging from the residual aura, the time should not be too long from now, but he had a sense of abandonment that had been abandoned for decades. The déjà vu of a deserted village.

Without expressing the guess in his heart, he turned to the two local agents and asked:
"What is the name of this village?"

Simon Joyner replied:

"Plymouth! The name here is Plymouth."

Rose Anderson, Eddie Dreston and Xie Zihao's people all showed surprised expressions when they heard this.

Before they could ask, the Joyner agent took the initiative to introduce:

"Originally, a trading merchant came here first and found that it was very suitable as a fishing port, so he planned to build this place into a city with developed navigation industry like Plymouth in England."

"As a result, the businessman encountered a shipwreck just as he established his foothold here, and lost his source of funds. Later immigrants yearned for cities that had already been opened up, so the immigrants who settled here earlier could only rely on fishing for a living. 100 Over the years, here is just a fishing village, and it will not die of hunger, but it has never developed."

Xie Zihao nodded. Judging from the performance of this Simon Joyner, the opponent should be the one who acts as a think tank and support in their team, and the captain Duncan Brightman is the main force in the battle.

He continued to ask: "Then where have the residents of this village gone?"

Others also have their eyes on Simon Joyner.

The handsome detective's expression changed slightly and he said:

"Missing! Everyone here has disappeared..."

"In the beginning, after the first weird incident we had recorded, the first batch of local police who arrived discovered that more than a dozen people were missing among the more than 100 people in the village."

"Later, our branch in Queensland got the news and sent two colleagues over. As a result, the second strange incident happened, and they disappeared together, including two local police officers."

Duncan Brightman, who was walking ahead, took the words of his teammates:
"Before the third strange incident happened, only half of the people in this village were left, but those people had no intention of fleeing here at all. The Queensland branch sent another team of detectives over, because there were previous cases of disappearances. Once they were ready to respond, but after we found out that a team of people had all lost contact the next day, they sealed off the village on the periphery."

"I just didn't expect the fourth weird incident to happen so suddenly. All the remaining villagers disappeared that night, and the people who blocked the village outside were also affected and disappeared three people, so this place is now a restricted area, within [-] miles around Ordinary people are not allowed to enter."

These are actually introduced in the case files that were faxed earlier, but they are not as thorough as the local detectives who handled the cases. Some details are not in the files.

Seeing that the two of them seemed to be in a bad mood because of those missing colleagues, they, outsiders, did not speak to comfort them, lest it would be counterproductive and only make each other unhappy.

Rose Anderson deserves to be a professional investigator and scientist. She grasped the key points and asked:

"Then the question before us is a man-made case of supernaturalness, or a natural supernatural phenomenon?"

The two local agents couldn't help but look a little ugly when they heard the words. After a pause for a few seconds, Simon Joyner said:
"At the moment we don't have any real clues. There is a high probability that it is a natural supernatural phenomenon, but it may also be caused by some monsters."

To be honest, this result made both of them blush. Three batches of elite personnel were missing for no reason. The dignified Magic Investigation Bureau did not reveal the cause of the incident, but even failed to investigate some useful clues. It would be embarrassing to say it.

This is why they had to take the initiative to seek help from the outside world.

"What we know is that for the third time, colleagues from the Queensland State Bureau specially invoked the large-scale astrological locator produced by the Ministry of Magic of Ingland, which has powerful functions of stable abnormal weather phenomena, spiritual response, positioning, and protection, and Every agent in that team was fully armed, and a B-level extraordinary person and several C-level extraordinary persons were dispatched, but the result of disappearance was still unavoidable."

Rose Anderson knew about that kind of astrolocator. She knew that it was a new type of magic instrument developed by the United Kingdom more than ten years ago. It was only distributed in several major countries within the Federation. The White Eagle Federation Ever wanted to buy one for research but was rejected.

Although the main direction of attack within the Federation in the new era is the combination of extraordinary and technology, which is quite different from the magic side, and has become the country with the strongest extraordinary technology in the world today, but they are actually very envious of those ancient countries with extraordinary heritage. It can do many things that technology cannot.

And Eddie Dresden, as an employee of the Ministry of Magic and a top student at the United Kingdom Academy of Magic, is even more familiar with the astrology locator. He couldn't help asking:

"As far as I know, the astrology locator was originally developed for the purpose of positioning when exploring different worlds and getting in touch with the real world. Other functions are secondary. Since the third group of missing people are wearing astrology locators , So have your Magic Investigation Bureau received their distress signal?"

A look of concern flashed across the faces of both Duncan Brightman and Simon Joyner, who replied:

"The star locator at the headquarters retains the encrypted signal of the missing one. We did receive the signal from the missing person not long ago, but it seems that the information was destroyed during transmission for some reason. Now we can only confirm that The star locator is still running, and at least one of the missing is still alive, so we have to ask you for help!"

(End of this chapter)