Gentle Sleep Instructor
Chapter 550 The May Platform Incident
This meal, conservatively estimated, cost over ten thousand, and that was with Jiang Cheng insisting on not drinking alcohol.
After eating, Jiang Cheng, Lin Wan'er, and the other two arrived at the hotel suite arranged by Pi Ruan. It was obvious that Pi Ruan wanted to sneak in and stay with them, but Jiang Cheng stopped him at the door.
In the end, he had no choice but to hold his secretary's slender waist and reluctantly went to the room next door.
Watching this scene, Huai Yi stared at the door, swallowed, and asked, "Miss Lin, she won't be in any danger, will she?"
"You won't be if you don't go," Jiang Cheng said after closing the door.
Having made a fool of himself, Huai Yi very discerningly opened his backpack and began to debug the equipment, with Fatty helping out.
Jiang Cheng and Lin Wan'er walked to a distance, near the window. Under the huge floor-to-ceiling window, the entire city was in full view.
"I went to Nan Huai Li's house yesterday," Lin Wan'er suddenly said, "The Nan family is having a hard time now. Some people who could be suppressed when Nan Huai Li was around are now eyeing the Nan family's wealth since he's gone."
"That's just how things are," Jiang Cheng said calmly, taking a sip from his water glass, "The strong eat the weak. That's how this world is. Was the wealth that Nan Huai Li accumulated clean? It was also taken from others bit by bit through various means."
Lin Wan'er pretended to be surprised and said, "I thought you would ask me to help them."
"Why?" Jiang Cheng looked at Lin Wan'er. She was an unfathomable woman, and Jiang Cheng had been studying her for many years without figuring her out.
"Nan Jin." Lin Wan'er raised her eyebrows, a hint of playfulness hidden in her eyes, as if hinting at something.
Jiang Cheng frowned, "What does it have to do with her?"
Resting her face in her hand, Lin Wan'er looked out the window. The sun was about to set, and the day had passed quickly. The clouds in the distance were tinged with orange.
"The Nan family is about to fall. Nan Huai Li's wife is a strong woman. She won't stand by and watch this family fortune be destroyed in her hands." Lin Wan'er's voice was clear and calm, as if she were just telling someone else's story. "I received news that she has sought the protection of another family."
"A very clichéd drama, a marriage alliance." Lin Wan'er extended a finger and slowly drew on the glass window. "But clichéd things are always very useful, aren't they? After the marriage alliance, the Nan family will be attached to a new big tree, and the big family can also obtain and integrate the Nan family's resources, killing two birds with one stone."
Jiang Cheng stroked his chin, "Sounds good."
"Nan Jin is a nice girl. It's obvious that she likes you very much." Lin Wan'er tilted her head, looking at Jiang Cheng's profile, and said, "You should have your own life. I think she would be very suitable for you."
"For so many years, you've been saying that you're troubled by a strange dream and a vague memory."
"I've taken you to many places, those famous doctors, brain surgeons, psychologists, they all say that those are illusory, that they're the you in your subconscious mind, imagined."
"What's in front of you now is real."
"You've trapped yourself in your own city." Lin Wan'er breathed a sigh of relief. "It's time to come out."
"If you want, I can reach out and help the Nan family at any time. What bullshit family, you know, in front of me, they're just a dog wagging its tail for mercy."
"I can throw them a few bones, or I can give them a slap. As long as you want, not only will Nan Jin be yours, but the people in the Nan family will also treat you as an honored guest." Lin Wan'er tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "You will be the savior of the Nan family."
"Even if you want to continue your current life, they wouldn't dare to interfere with you."
"Not interested," Jiang Cheng said. "Savior, and Nan Jin, I'm not interested in any of them. Many people like me, I don't have time to like them one by one."
"I put in time and energy, they put in money, this is a business. Since it's a business, don't mention feelings. After everyone is happy, after the alcohol wears off, just leave everything in the bar," Jiang Cheng said. "Why bring it out?"
"Besides, they're just my patients. I treat their illnesses, and everything that happens in the process is imagined by them." Jiang Cheng turned and walked towards Huai Yi. "Okay, that's it. It's time to get down to business."
Huai Yi had already adjusted the equipment, and Fatty moved the sofa over. They had one last paranormal event waiting to be discussed.
After the discussion, they would have to choose one of the three paranormal events and set out to solve it.
Huai Yi cleared his throat, his expression becoming serious. "Code name: Greystone Town May Platform Incident."
"Paranormal event level: C."
"Threat level: ☆☆"
Looking at the event information projected on the wall, Fatty involuntarily held his breath. It was a completely subconscious reaction.
Pressing the remote control, the image on the wall changed, and a bare, almost vegetation-free barren mountain appeared before everyone's eyes.
Judging from the background, there was more than one barren mountain, and there were faint shadows in the distance, resembling a continuous mountain range.
"Greystone Mountain, belonging to the remaining veins of the Taihang Mountains. There's a town nearby called Greystone Town."
"There used to be gold mines in the mountains, but the output was not high. After the gold veins were exhausted, most of the people in Greystone Town left, and now most of those who are left are old people who can't move."
"Of course, there are also some young and middle-aged people who haven't given up."
Huai Yi adjusted the remote control, and the image on the wall changed again, showing a pitch-black cave entrance with a railway track in front of it, extending into the cave.
"This is one of the mine tunnels left over from the mining years. Later, after the gold veins were exhausted, the mine owner left, and before leaving, he used explosives to collapse the mine entrance."
"But the people of Greystone Town secretly dug open the mine entrance, and then used a prepared solution to wash the ore, and finally extracted gold from the washing water."
Jiang Cheng vaguely remembered seeing such news, saying that it was illegal ore washing, and several people died in the mine due to poisoning.
"It's those miners who sneaked in who had the accident." This was quite obvious.
"That's right," Huai Yi explained, "There were 7 of them, and they all disappeared. At that time, there was one person who didn't go down with them because he had an urgent matter at home. He watched the mine cart take the 7 people into the cave entrance, and then left alone."
Huai Yi showed them a photo of the so-called mine cart, which was actually just a small flat car that could run on the rails and was powered by manpower. It looked very old.
"After the incident, someone organized everyone to go down and look for them, but they searched for a long time and couldn't find them. What's even stranger is that the mine cart that the 7 people were riding in was also gone."
"Due to the load-bearing structure, the mine has almost no branch lines."