Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 158: "Brief Summary of the Investigation Record of the Yuezhuo Village Ruins"

Xia Shou pushed open the door of the minister's office and sat down at his workstation.

But in a flash, when Xia Shou came to his senses, he had turned from a sitting person to a lying person with a European-style chandelier hanging above his head.

The touch on his body and the scene in front of his eyes changed instantly, just like a patient being anesthetized for a moment and then suddenly waking up. He did not experience a process of losing consciousness, nor a process of waking up.

"Alice! What's going on!" Xia Shou's mind suddenly became clear and he immediately became alert.

Xia Shou has now developed the instinct to immediately enter a state of combat readiness once encountering an unusual situation.

"Lord Xia Shou, you are now at Minister Shangguan's house, and you are going through the preparation process that must be completed before executing a certain mission." Alice replied gently.

After saying that, a pair of transparent hands holding a piece of paper were handed to Xia Shou.

【Contact by phone, if you need any item, just send a message to the following account, but you must know the following points:
1. The text messages you send cannot mention anyone or contain content related to anyone.

2. There are no surveillance or eavesdropping devices installed in the room you are in, and no one is observing you, so you can do anything.

3. You cannot leave the room you are in. If you want to leave, you must report in advance and can only leave after obtaining permission.

4. If you violate the first article, you will be severely punished. If you violate the third article, you may be executed directly. This is not something I can decide.

You have to listen to these words, they are all true. 】

Xia Shou narrowed his eyes when he saw the last line.

The last line of words was written by Su Weiyu.

"Minister Shangguan also left this file for you." Alice handed over another cowhide bag.

Xia Shou opened it and saw that it contained an investigation file titled "Brief Summary of the Investigation Record of the Yuezhuo Village Ruins."

Moonburn Village?!

The place Ximen Qing mentioned was also the place where the man with the same surname as him died, and like him, the other person also possessed the Death Note and Dorian Gray's pocket watch.

But Ximen Qing's statement is full of contradictions.

On the one hand, he said that the man tried the method revealed by Little Red Riding Hood for contacting the midnight radio station.

On the one hand, he also said that the man died in Yuezhuo Village, and the year of death was 1685.

The world's earliest radio station was in 1920, and the electric motor was invented in 1821, both much later than 1685.

He said that it was impossible for the person who had come into contact with the midnight radio to die in 1685 unless he traveled through time.

Xia Shou interrupted his intuitive thinking, changed his train of thought, and suddenly felt that it was not impossible for such a thing to happen.

After all, [Self-Destruction] can also manipulate time, so naturally there must be more extraordinary power.

There is nothing impossible in the extraordinary world, only the degree of probability.

Xia Shou opened the file, which told about several teams' exploration of Yuezhuo Village a few weeks ago.

To be precise, we went to explore the ruins of Yuezhuo Village, because there were no villagers in Yuezhuo Village a long time ago, and all that was left were the village houses covered with vines and wells filled with stones.

The exploration of Yuezhuo Village began a long time ago, because it was rumored that there was a passage leading to the past. By entering that entrance, one could climb up a branch of the Seven-branched History Tree and learn the true history.

The journey to the past mentioned here does not mean going back to the past in the true sense, but more like going back to a history that is exactly the same as the past and keeps repeating itself in a loop. Changing the past there will not affect the future to the present.

But it still has extremely precious value, because by going back to the past, we can know the origins of some strange things now, and find ways to contain them. As long as we master a period of history, it is equivalent to mastering all the information within a period of time.

As long as you have enough power, you can know everything that has ever happened.

Therefore, the Control Bureau’s exploration of Yuezhuo Village has never stopped.

Not only to use the mysterious entrance, but also to prevent others from using it, because the enemy's weakness is hidden in the past, and naturally, my own weakness is hidden. But the reality is cruel, the road to climb the tree branches is always tortuous and mysterious, and the danger of this village increases again and again with each exploration.

The first ten times, almost no one sent any message back.

It was not until the eleventh time that the team that entered sent back the first information, which was a rule: do not go out at night, as you will get burned if exposed to the moonlight. The moonlight here cannot be blocked by objects brought in from the outside world.

It was also at that time that the village got its name.

Moonburn Village.

The name was recorded in some very obscure books, but there was no more detailed information.

And because of the inconsistencies in the descriptions, the Control Bureau assumed that the village, which had long been deserted, was the site of the former Yuezhuo Village.

After the twelfth exploration, the team sent a report saying that they had explored the entire village during the day and drew a very detailed map, but they did not find anything unusual here for half a month.

They finally decided to explore at night.

With the cover of dark clouds, they discovered that the terrain of the village at night was very different from that during the day, and it was different every night.

In the daytime, the old locust tree with only a stump left in the center of the village will turn into a towering tree at night. In the hollow lower trunk, a well will appear, and the gurgling sound of water in it is like music.

One of their team members went to take a look at the well, then lay stiffly at the mouth of the well. When he was pulled back, he was dead. Until now, no one knows what is in the well.

Every team that went in described very different night scenes, and only occasionally would there be very similar descriptions. This kind of exploration with no regular pattern slowed down the progress infinitely.

In addition, Yuezhuo Village has abnormal level restrictions, which makes it a semi-open restricted area, directly isolating some extremely powerful people from entering.

After years of investigation and exploration, only a pile of missing persons reports were left. Very few people in Yuezhuo Village survived, and the survivors did not know how they survived. They never came out of the village entrance, but one day, they suddenly appeared on the street, or in a bar, cafe, or hospital, as if they had teleported out.

And their personalities and spirits have undergone strange changes.

Even the body is cursed.

Even though they have escaped from that horrific village, their bodies will still burn under the moonlight in the mortal world.

The pale blue flame is like the curse that comes with survival.

Xia Shou read the last page of the file and found that it was not a complete file but just a general introduction.

"Why did the minister send this file? Is the mission I am going to carry out related to Yuezhuo Village?" Xia Shou frowned.

I am now isolated in this room. Is this also a necessary preparation for entering the village?
"Alice, do you know anything?" Xia Shou asked.

Alice shook her head. "You fainted while working, and then Minister Shangguan and his men sent someone to transport you here. Other than that, I don't know anything."

"What didn't they talk about in front of you?"

"No, they deliberately avoided me," Alice replied.

Xia Shou's eyes fell on the end of the paper.

Although Alice didn't know the inside story, Su Weiyu should have known it, as she could easily eavesdrop on top-secret information.

But Su Weiyu only wrote this sentence and didn’t write more. Did she feel that those things really couldn’t be known by him?

Xia Shou shook his head.

In his current situation, it was useless to think too much, as he had a lot of things to do.

If this dangerous mission is really to be carried out, the progress of trying to integrate skills must be accelerated.

(End of this chapter)