After receiving the call to the police, Ma Zhenxing and his colleague Bian Yi quickly dispatched the police.
They are all policemen from Yunlin Town, Maerwan District, Mobei City. There is usually nothing to do in this place, the crime rate is very low, the population is not large, and most of them are elderly people, so petty theft is rare. Their work The most is to mediate some neighborhood conflicts.
But the call to the police in Beidian Village this time is very rare and strange, and it may be a case of illegal logging.
Since the old man Tian Fuhou, the case owner, is now a famous person with a small lump, and he is very old, everyone did not neglect him.
At this morning, Ma Zhenxing and his two arrived at the scene of the woodland, and saw Wang Fuhou and his old wife standing there, puzzled, nervous, and uneasy.
"I still have a lot of trees here! They are gone." As soon as he saw them, Wang Fuhou stepped forward and grabbed them and said, his old wrinkled face was excited and frightened, "I pressed my hand on the trunk , I poked it in, like it was on fire, look at my skin!"
Ma Zhenxing watched the old man roll up the sleeve of his right hand. The skin on the palm and forearm did look a bit scalded, or it might be that the old man's skin was just like that.
It's hard to believe that the surrounding trees are rarer than other areas along the way, and the land is more desolate and black, but illegal logging requires vehicles to transport away the wood. People can't lift such a big tree. Yes, but this road cannot be used by big cars, and there are no car marks.
"Uncle Tian, did you remember wrongly?" Ma Zhenxing asked.
"That's right!" Tian Fuhou said dissatisfied, "I remember every tree here, that's right."
"It's really gone." Tian's wife Zhang Maidong sighed, "The tree that has been planted for decades was still there yesterday!"
"Uncle Tian, you said you can put your hand into this tree?" If Bian Yi teased, he must have drunk too much alcohol, "Then I'll try." Ma Zhenxing felt vaguely uncomfortable, but he didn't say anything. Disapprovingly, Yi raised his right hand and pressed it against the cracked trunk of the locust tree, and when he reached in, the color of that middle-aged face changed instantly.
With a painful scream, Bian Yi pulled out his hand, his whole hand trembled, his face turned red and then pale, "Inside, really, really..."
Ma Zhenxing was stunned, Tian Fuhou said excitedly: "Look, look!"
Before everyone could do anything, suddenly, they watched helplessly, the locust tree seemed to have ripples on the surface of the water, and then disappeared. Just in the blink of an eye, it disappeared. In the surrounding area, the trees also became more sparse, and it wasn't just a locust tree that disappeared.
"This, this..." Bian Yi murmured blankly.
Tian Fuhou and Zhang Maidong both lived to be nearly eighty years old, and this was the first time they had seen such a thing, and they didn't know how to react to their old faces.
"Report to the Tianji Bureau." Ma Zhenxing finally said, his whole body trembled suddenly, and there was a fear welling up in his heart from nowhere, "Report to the Tianji Bureau."
This matter is beyond their ability. Panicked, Ma Zhenxing immediately used his mobile phone to report. The police station was also very nervous when he heard it, and immediately picked him up at the Mobei Astronomical Bureau. This is the first time Ma Zhenxing has dealt with these people, "The tree is gone, and the hand can reach in..."
After talking for a while, Ma Zhenxing was able to calm down and explain the matter clearly.
For those who usually only do mediation work, the last time they caught a thief was last year, they were at a loss.
The Mobei Astronomical Bureau attached great importance to them and asked them to stay where they were and not to move around. Soon, disease control personnel would come to pick them up for isolation and inspection. Ma Zhenxing was a little confused. Although the other party said that this is a routine procedure and there is no need to be nervous, he still thought of the new Legionnaires' disease last year...
"What's this called?" Tian Fuhou over there walked up and down anxiously, his old face seemed to be getting worse, and suddenly he coughed a few times.
When the uncle coughed, Ma Zhenxing and Bian Yi became anxious. Ma Zhenxing asked, "Uncle Tian, how are you doing?"
"The old man coughed... It's a normal thing." Tian Fuhou whispered, but he was also worried, so Zhang Maidong patted his wife on the back.
Bian Yi sighed, couldn't help but took out the cigarette case and lighter from his pocket, took out a cigarette, and was about to light it.
"Officer Bian!" Tian Fuhou yelled when he saw this, but he was still full of anger, and said anxiously, "You can't light a fire here. Didn't you see that there are trees all around! Hey you." Bian Yi shyly put away the cigarette and lighter , Tian Fuhou said again: "These trees have been around for decades..."
The old man murmured while looking at the trees that had become scarce all around, "Two police officers, do you think all the trees here will disappear like this?"
"Master, we don't know, this matter involves supernatural power." Ma Zhenxing could only say this, and he was at a loss.
It was in this mood that after about half an hour, the rumbling sound of a helicopter came from the sky, and the people from the Astronomy Bureau arrived.
Soon, the four of them saw a group of people walking from the forest road covered with dead leaves. More than a dozen people, all wearing air-tight protective clothing and holding guns, belonged to the mobile task force "Snow Sand Squad" of the Mobei Astronomical Bureau. , the captain is a middle-aged man, Li Weiquan, "Officer Ma, Officer Bian, you have worked hard, we will take over here."
Ma Zhenxing breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that he had finally regained his backbone.
"The disease control team will be here soon, and you will walk from the ground." Li Weiquan said, "Two police officers, please indicate the range of mutation."
In fact, the team members walked around and could already tell that the soil looked different because there was a clear dividing line.
They frowned one after another. They had fought against abnormal forces before, and there was a large base here in Mobei, where Gu Jun, the hero of Tianji, had special training. They also have regular training, have been exposed to spells, and learned the old seal... But this place doesn't feel like the darkness eroded, it is very strange and unusual.
Research team member Liu Wenhan took a handheld long-pole detection camera and probed into the trunk of a pine tree, and sure enough, he probed in.
And on the detection screen outside, everyone saw a blurry and distorted image, which was definitely not inside the tree trunk.
Suddenly, the image turned black and the detection camera failed.
Under everyone's vigilant attention, Liu Wenhan slowly pulled back the instrument in his hand, only to see that the camera had been shattered, and the part of the entire instrument that had penetrated into the tree just now was covered with a layer of scorched black, as if he had been burned by some energy Became like this...
Is it magical power? Captain Li Weiquan knew something was wrong, and the situation here might be more serious than they expected before they set off.
"Command center, command center." Captain Li immediately reported using the satellite walkie-talkie to call the magic department of the headquarters. "This is the Snow Sand Team. The situation is true. There is a spatial distortion in an area of the forest here, with an area of about 300 Square meters. The police officer at the scene confirmed that the number of trees is still declining, and the remaining trees are also getting more dead and cracked, and the situation may be intensifying."
At the same time, Tian Fuhou looked at these Tianji personnel and knew that the Tianji Bureau was more capable than ordinary departments, so he couldn't help asking Miss Chen who was asking him and his wife what happened: "Miss Chen, my trees will disappear like that ?"
"Master, don't worry." Chen Qiuxuan comforted, but she didn't dare to give the uncle any guarantee, "It shouldn't be that serious, you should just rest for a few days."
"Never stop, never stop..." Tian Fuhou muttered to himself, "Although I am not young at this age, if I can still work, I must do it..."
The old man looked from one side of the wood to another, and thought of those old days.
At that time, it was still a wasteland. He and his wife worked from dawn to dusk. They first leveled the land, then opened canals to make gates, then raised seedlings and planted plants... Most of the time, there was only one meal a day, and they ate the fried rice they brought with them, and soaked it in water. … finish the day’s work, get some sleep, and continue the next day.
"I also want to contract dozens of acres of wasteland." Tian Fuhou said, "I don't plant other trees this time, but sylvestris pine. This kind of tree can live for hundreds of years, unlike poplars that live for decades and die. Miss Chen, after a few hundred years, the desert here will be like a forest, and these trees cannot live without..."
"Master..." Chen Qiuxuan was about to say something comfortingly, but suddenly her heart tightened, and Li Weiquan, Police Officer Ma and others around her were also suspicious.
I saw Tian Fuhou's complexion was very pale, and blood flowed from his nose.