It was at the boundary between the western and northern outskirts.
The area bordered Chongqing. Chongqing had many mountains, so there were plenty of mountains there too.
You could even cross the mountaintops and arrive directly within Chongqing's borders.
The Tan family's Mountain Villa stood on one of those mountains. Since the area had barely been developed, it was desolate.
The more desolate a place was, the more unnervingly thrilling it became at night.
Seventh Master and I were in the car, which was crawling along at the speed of a little electric scooter. There were no lights on the mountain, and driving too fast could easily send us over the edge, wrecking the car and killing us both.
"Seventh Master, you've been investigating for so long. Have you made no progress at all?"
That Mr. Tan had come to us almost half a month ago.
So nearly half a month had passed, yet Seventh Master still seemed to have made no progress.
"There's more to this Mountain Villa than a haunting."
Seventh Master said, "Do you remember what I told you before? Not long after the Tan Family Massacre Case, people started coming here to explore, one after another, and then mysteriously disappeared. That was when rumors of hauntings here were at their worst."
"To dispel the rumors, the police organized a large-scale search of the mountain during the day, but they still couldn't find the missing people."
"Tell me, if they'd been killed on the mountain, there should at least have been bodies left behind, right?"
Mysterious disappearances again?
I thought for a moment and said, "There are places to bury bodies all over the mountain. Could someone have buried them...?"
Seventh Master said, "That's possible, but more than one person disappeared while exploring. Unless there's a serial