There were photos in the investigation, and on the first page, there was a strong white man in a thick leather coat and a large cotton hat. The strong man was standing in front of a low hut. Because it was a black-and-white photo and the passage of time, the photo was a little blurred and looked eerie.
Li Du continued to read. There was no life in the village. Rabel didn't think much of it at the time, and there was a transcript here.
Q: Have you been to this village before?
A: No, it's my first time in such a northern area. You know, Mr. Policeman, there is a story about the snow monster Wendigo in the northern snow. We hunters are afraid of it because it eats people.
Q: Then why did you enter the village unsuspecting?
A: Sir, I was cold and hungry, and I felt like I was going to die, so when I saw it, I didn't think much of it. I have met the Inuit, and although they have some strange customs, they are warm and hospitable, and they can at least save my life.
Q: Tell me, what did you see first in the village? At first sight, what did you see at first sight?
A: I saw houses, snow, and smoke at first sight. In fact, what really matters is not what I saw at first sight, but my first feeling. When I got close to the village, I felt that there was something wrong with the village. Everything was strange.
Q: Why?
A: I am a hunter. I have a gun and a dog. You know, my dog is a Newfoundland, a very courageous hound. But when they got close to the village, they suddenly lay down on the ground together and refused to go any further.
I didn't think much of it at the time. I was too tired and hungry, and I felt cold, so I went into the village by myself. But there was no sound in the village. Do you know what I mean? I got close to the village, but there was no sound …
Q: What does this mean?
A: At the time, I just felt strange. I didn't think much of it because I was really tired, hungry, and cold. I felt like I was going to die. I just wanted to drink hot water, preferably hot milk.
Then I thought about it and found the problem, which was that there was no dog barking. The Inuit, like us hunters, have a lot of dogs in every house, but when I entered the village, there was no dog barking. It was incredible …
Li Du continued to read, and the dialogue revolved around first impressions of the village.
The hunter named Rabel shouted a few times after entering the village, but no one came out. He thought that his body was on the verge of collapse, causing his voice to be hoarse and soft, so no one could hear him. So he pushed open a door at random.
There was no one in the room, and there was hot water in the pot on the stove, so he didn't care too much. He first drank some hot water, then went to the kitchen to soak some food in the hot water and eat it.
With hot water and some rest, his physical condition improved a lot. At this time, he felt strange and searched around the village.
The results of the search surprised him. He found that some of the houses in the village were not only cooking, but the villagers' belongings and granaries were also intact. There was no trace of them being moved.
However, there was not a single life in the entire village. There were no people, no dogs, and no livestock.
At that time, he realized that something had happened to the village. It might have been ransacked by something. But it was hard to say. There were no signs of a struggle in the village. The Inuit were very tough. They kept dogs and bought guns. They were all brave and good at fighting.
When he thought of this, Rabel found another strange thing. There were no people, no dogs, no knives or guns in the village. Every household's weapon had disappeared.
From this point of view, it seemed that the village had been attacked by some horrible beast, and the villagers had brought guns and dogs to fight back. But it didn't make sense, not only because there were no signs of fighting in the village, but also because there were no footprints or other traces of movement in the snow around the village.
Rabel was scared, so he left the village with his dog, despite his physical exhaustion, and called the police at the nearest police station.
The investigation report continued. A few hours later, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrived at the scene, and at the same time, another hunter, Armand Laurent, and his two sons passed by.
Armand's family lived in a nearby village. Their village and the Inuit village had conflicts, so when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police found him, they arrested the family for investigation and questioning.
The results of the investigation were still confusing. The white hunter village and the Inuit village did not have a good relationship. After all, the two sides were direct competitors and both relied on hunting to survive. But at most, there were disputes between the two sides, and there were no large-scale bloody conflicts.
Armand came to the Inuit village because the hunters in their village saw the Inuit digging the ancestral graves yesterday. The white hunters didn't know what they were up to, so they asked Armand and his son to come and see what was going on.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police went to the white village to investigate and found that there were no casualties in the village, and there were no signs of fighting around, indicating that the overall disappearance of the Inuit village was not due to a conflict with them.
At this time, they went to investigate the Inuit graves and found that, as Armand said, all the graves had been hollowed out.
This was even stranger. Not only were there no living people in the Inuit village, but there were also no dead people!
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the white hunters realized that something big had happened here.
Because it was illegal to desecrate the dead locally, and it was also a taboo for the Inuit, and it was winter at that time, so there couldn't have been any wild animals. The Inuit took the ancestors' bones away, indicating that they had voluntarily abandoned the place.
So, where did they go?
The search turned out to be fruitless, because the village was close to Lake Angikuni, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police guessed that they might have entered the lake.
Their guess was right. When they went to the lake, they saw some dog feces, which meant that Inuit dogs had been there.
But they couldn't find any more information, and eventually the case was sealed as a mystery. At least a hundred people in a village had disappeared without a trace.
In fact, there was no specific record of the name of the Inuit village, or how many people and dogs there were, because the Inuit, although staying in Canada at that time, did not consider themselves Canadians. In turn, the Canadian authorities thought so too.
Li Du read the investigation report and said, "The disappearance of these Inuit is very similar to the disappearance of Steve and the others."
Brother Wolf pointed to a picture on the report and said, "Yes, it's very similar. And look at Angikuni Island, it's not far from the shore, but there is no description of the island in the investigation report."
As he spoke, he pointed to an introduction at the end of the report. "And here, boss, you have to pay attention to this too."
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