Mysterious creature sightings

Haicheng is cooling down again.

Ling Jiangyue has recovered from her cold, but because of the dealer's incident, she pretended to be sad and stayed at home without going out.

He only knocked on Lin Zheng's door on time for dinner.

Ling Jiangyu didn't trust her, but the family relationship was in pieces. He didn't know if his sister wanted to see him, so after much thought, he patiently left the matter to Lin Zheng.

The task is to go to a luxury store to wholesale clothes for her.

Wholesale means large quantity. Ling Jiangyue was so sleepy watching the models displaying clothes for her in the store, let alone trying them on herself.

In the end, he leaned on Lin Zheng's shoulder and fell asleep in a daze. Lin Zheng watched the second half of the fitting show alone.

So half of the clothes I took away were purchased with Lin Zheng's vision.

On the way home, Ling Jiangyue woke up and took a look at several bags of clothes.

"Blue coat, why did you choose three?"

Lin Zheng replied while driving: "Your brother told the store in advance that he would get thirty pieces."

"So you have to choose three pieces of the same clothes just to complete the target?"

Lin Zheng: "They are not all the same. The first one has a colorful logo on the left, the second one has a black English label on the chest, and the third one has a waterproof fabric."

"..."

"Everything looks good on you."

Ling Jiangyue paused, stuffed the three down jackets back and packed them, and took out a skirt that was obviously not suitable for winter wear.

"Why did you buy a skirt? You really can't get thirty pieces together, including the summer ones?"

"No," Lin Zheng stepped on the brakes when the light was red, looked at her sideways and said, "I bought this."

"...Buy it for me?" Should she be moved to buy a summer skirt in the middle of winter?
  Lin Zheng: "I heard that you will have a party for your birthday next month, and you will have three to five different dresses. This one can be an option."

Ling Jiangyue paused again and touched the soft green dress in her hand.

In her limited artistic education, she has watched very few movies, but she still remembers watching a classic called "Atonement" during the year she brought her back. The one worn by the heroine Cecilia is said to be included in Yingshi's green dress simply exuded a different kind of light, and it appeared in her dreams two or three times.

She even remembers him saying that the reason why that skirt was used repeatedly as a signal was because it represented the love and commitment of the hero and heroine.

Does Lin Zheng know what this means?

She lowered her head and folded the green skirt carefully, and asked him: "Have you seen "Atonement"?"

"Seen."

These two words can already answer many questions.

Ling Jiangyue didn't continue to ask, and Lin Zheng didn't explain much. They just looked at each other for a moment, and the ambiguity was like a looming spider web, with strands wrapping around them tighter and tighter.

The car continued to drive smoothly, and when it was approaching Yunshuji, Lin Zheng received a call.

Ling Jiangyue was still holding the plain bag, reaching into it to touch the hem of the green skirt. Her thoughts were wandering, but the car suddenly stopped.

Then I heard Lin Zheng ask in a deep voice: "More than a dozen people are missing? How come the disappearance case was transferred to us?"

"Who?" After he asked this word, he turned his head and looked at Ling Jiangyue. He still said to the person on the other side of the phone, "Okay, we'll rush there right away."

Ling Jiangyue actually heard the voice on the phone, but still asked: "Who is missing?"

"Zheng Linlin, Qi Zhiyu, Su Yu, Yu Jing, and a few others."

Four old acquaintances?
  "Where?" "Near the Daheishan Mountains in Panzhihua."

...

They rushed to Panzhihua as quickly as possible. Lin Jia and the others had just arrived and had learned the news from the police.

Lin Zheng lifted the cordon and walked inside, looking for Lin Jia and asking, "Have they not been found yet?"

Lin Jia: "We found a few people who had rolled down the mountain and fainted. They were seriously injured. The others were still missing, but there were two blood stains around the rotting corpse that was found."

Ling Jiangyue followed them in, listening to the latest news and looking around behind them.

There was a very light smell in the woods. It was fragrant at first, but then it was a foul smell. The smell was so intertwined that it made her want to retching.

Coming closer, Lin Zheng and the others could smell it too.

"A very strange corpse smell." He frowned.

Lin Jia: "It's still a bit familiar."

"Burial bugs," Jiang Yuxing strode over from there, "there is a group of them. When those people found the corpse, the bugs almost worked overtime to dig a pit to bury the corpse."

It turned out to be them. No wonder there was a very faint musky smell in the corpse odor. Ling Jiangyue raised his eyebrows.

Burial bugs are creatures of the family Burialidae, also called corpse-eating bugs, and are decomposers.

Because when it encounters an animal corpse, it likes to dig up the soil and bury the corpse as food for itself and the next generation, so it is called the burying bug, also known as "nature's mortician".

She recalled the contents of her original memory in her mind, and Lin Zheng turned around and asked her, "Do you know about the burying bug?"

She shook her head innocently: "I don't know."

"Jiang Yuxing."

Jiang Yuxing immediately explained it to her. The content was almost the same, but he added two more sentences:
  "Generally speaking, burying bugs are a very suitable species to be written into movie scripts as mysterious monsters, and they have to be in the good guys camp, because they bury countless lives in their lives, and they have to work hard even if they don't have credit."

"But they are actually very scientific. Their tentacles are particularly sensitive and they can sense the smell of corpses from far away. They come to bury people and charge a small fee - they eat some of the corpses, lay eggs on the corpses and use the flesh and blood as their descendants. Food for future generations.”

It was really disgusting, especially as she got closer and closer, she could smell the smell of the commentary - it was indeed disgusting.

Ling Jiangyue frowned and followed Lin Zheng step by step until he was five or six meters away from the body.

"Blood was found here, and the DNA is still being tested. The two flying burying insects caught are also being examined," Jiang Yuxing explained.

"There is a blood stain on the stone. Preliminary analysis is that someone fell and hit the tip of the stone while running."

Lin Zheng: "Look at the blood stains, the injury is serious, how can you still walk away without seeing anyone?"

Jiang Yuxing: "Do you suspect that someone took them away? You want to take away a team of more than a dozen people, and those bandits went up the mountain? Someone must have seen the big formation, but judging from the confessions that the police have asked now, no one saw many. People go up the mountain, except for this program group."

Speaking of the program team, something even more incredible happened.

"Four of the missing people are your acquaintances, especially Zheng Linlin. We saw the savages with you and were so frightened. The second time we encountered the sonic eel monster, we thought it was nuclear radiation and were so frightened that I trembled when writing the notes. I ran into something strange again this time. Judging from the level of unluckiness, the blood on the stone could not be hers, right?"

Jiang Yuxing looked at Ling Jiangyue and said, the lenses of his glasses shone with the wisdom of Sherlock Holmes. He thought for a second and then said: "I think this is aimed at you. Follow Brother Lin well and don't fall behind and get into trouble."

"...Oh. Is there anything strange about the body? Why is it surrounded so far away?" She asked curiously, looking at the body covered with a layer of white cloth at the foot of the slope.

Lin Jia: "The testimony of the surviving witnesses said that those people mentioned 'ash' before they disappeared, saying it was a layer of strange gray stuff that might be in the woods near the bodies."

"And that body is... there are a few young policemen vomiting. If you don't want to be like them, you'd better stay away."