17.Chapter 17

When I was packing up my things, Wen Jing timidly asked me, "Don't we care about my uncle's business?"

"My dad will take care of it!" I didn't look back, and continued to load my backpack. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

"Do you know who the murderer is?" Wen Jing asked again with a sad face.

"Qin Hu!" Hong Kaiyuan answered behind me, "Just look at the scene and Lao Qi's reaction!"

Wen Jing was silent.

I put my bag on my shoulder, and as soon as I turned around, I found Hong Kaiyuan staring at me.

"Are you sure they're in?" he had already slung his bag over his shoulder.

"You can think of it with your toes!" I glanced at him, turned around and said to Wen Jing: "Girl, why don't you stay and help my father?"

"One more person is one more strength!" Wen Jing flashed her big beautiful eyes, and her clear eyes showed a look of determination, "Don't worry, I will never drag you back!"

I didn't say anything more, just looked at her silently for a moment, then turned and walked out of the room.

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In front of the entrance of the Gonggongyan cave, Hong Kaiyuan and I sat on a stone and smoked, and Wen Jing sat next to me, holding a small stone in her hand and scribbling on the ground, and the three of them did not speak.

The sun was already in the west, and I looked at the time, and it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon.

After taking the last puff, I stood up, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stretched out my foot and crushed it hard, then pulled out the steel pipe I bought in town in the morning from my backpack and waved at the two of them: "Go!"

Seeing this, Hong Kaiyuan and Wen Jing also pulled out the steel pipe and held it in their hands.

The entrance of the Gonggongyan cave in front of you is irregular egg-shaped, with a small head facing upwards, a height of about one meter six or seven, and a width of about seventy centimeters.

One glance at this unassuming little cave, I really couldn't understand what secrets could be hidden in it.

But now that it's over, I can't afford to think about it anymore.

Cautiously, I pushed aside the vines at the entrance of the cave, shone it in with a flashlight, and found that this part of the cave entrance was a passage nearly 20 meters long like a corridor, and the end of the passage was pitch black, and I couldn't see anything.

I looked at the ground again, and there was a thick layer of mud and stone and the remains of various dead plants on the ground, and the shape of the mud and stone should be the result of the rain pouring in from outside the cave, and the further you went into the cave, the thinner the mud and stone became.

There are a lot of messy trampling marks on the surface of the mud and stone, and the traces are very new, which should have been left not long ago.

I turned around and nodded at Hong Kaiyuan: "They have already gone in!" After speaking, I bent my waist and went into the hole first.

As soon as I took a few steps inside, I felt a cool air coming towards me, and I unconsciously shrank my neck.

After walking about three or four meters inside, the feeling of my skin told me that the further I went into the cave, the more cool it became.

After walking for more than ten meters, the passage ended, and what caught my eye was a relatively large spherical space.

I scanned it with a flashlight and found that the spherical shape was not very regular, a bit like the shape of a bun.

The diameter of the cave is about eight or nine meters, the area is at least more than 200 flat, the top of the cave does not have the kind of stone stalactites in the general karst cave, it is completely a curved surface of the whole, the height to the ground is estimated to be more than four meters, it is relatively regular, even the protrusions are very few, the ground of the cave is relatively flat, slightly downward concave, it is arc-shaped.

The floor inside the cave is dry and has a thick layer of dust, indicating that it has not been eroded by rainwater.

There were a lot of messy footprints on the ground, which were very clear, and they should have been left by Qin Hu's gang.

In addition to these footprints, the ground was a mess, with several small shallow pits and some rubble, as well as some pieces of metal that resembled metal, distributed radially around the pits.

This must have been caused by the grenades thrown by the little devils before entering the cave when they were chasing Qian Dongsheng and others.

The entrance where I was about fifty centimeters away from the bottom of the cave, and there was a crack about six or seven centimeters wide next to the wall of the cave near the passage, which spread along the wall of the cave, and I don't know where it leads.

The edges of the fissure were very clean, and judging by the remaining dirt, it was a clear sign of water flow. It seems that all the rainwater flowing in from outside the cave has flowed away from this fissure, and the reason why the cave is so dry is probably inseparable from this natural drainage system!

Looking further away, I suddenly found a few humanoids on the ground on the right side of the cave, and when I looked closely, I couldn't help but be surprised: those humanoids turned out to be several corpses that had been dried!

Maybe I had made too many guesses about this cave before coming here, but I didn't panic at all, and looked elsewhere, and found that the upper left side of the corpse was a dark hole, which should lead to the cave.

Considering that Wen Jing is a girl, I was worried that she would be afraid, so I turned around and reminded her first.

Without further thought, I jumped straight down and walked straight to the corpses.

There were four corpses in total, and their bodies were already covered with dust and were placed side by side.

Judging from the clothes on their bodies that have not yet been rotten, they are not modern people's clothing, they are all made of coarse cloth, and the feet are also cloth shoes.

According to my grandmother, these people are likely to be the young men who followed Qian Dongsheng in, and they were probably killed here by grenades.

The corpses were completely shriveled, their hair had been separated from their heads, and there were only a few black holes left on their faces, but they didn't look hideous.

"This should be the few young men who died as the ancestor said!"

I don't know when, Hong Kaiyuan has already arrived at my side.

"They look like they've been moved here and put away!" I said, with a deep sigh.

"Maybe Qian Dongsheng did it. Hong Kaiyuan nodded.

I didn't say anything more, just staring at the skeletons in silence. They just lay there side by side, looking very quiet and serene, as if people who had worked all day were lying there resting comfortably! Looking at it, my heart suddenly felt a little sentimental, and at the same time, a wave of admiration poured out, and I couldn't help bowing to the four skeletons!

Hong Kaiyuan on the side was infected by my emotions and bowed with me!

At this moment, Wen Jing's voice suddenly came from behind us.

"You two come and see, something seems to be wrong here!"

I guess she didn't dare to look at these corpses, so she looked at something else alone.

When I looked back, I saw that she was squatting on the ground, shining a flashlight on the messy footprints on the ground.

"There should have been someone here for a long time!"

Hong Kaiyuan and I hurriedly walked over and squatted down beside her.

As soon as I came in just now, I was attracted by those corpses, and I didn't pay attention to the things on the ground, because the footprints of Qin Hu and the others were too messy, so I didn't take it too seriously at that time.

"You see, these fresh footprints should have been left by Qin Hu and the others!" Wen Jing pointed to the ground, "Look here, there are still two rows of footprints, which should have been left a long time ago!"

Along the place of Wen Jing's fingers, under those new traces, there are faintly two rows of relatively vague marks, judging from the shape, they are indeed human footprints, and it can be seen that these two rows of footprints should belong to two different people!

"Judging from the traces, these footprints should have been left a few years ago, and besides, these two are wearing hiking shoes!"

Hong Kaiyuan began to measure those footprints with his hands, and it seemed that he had not been in vain in the criminal investigation team in his early years.

"Both of them are men, one of them is about 1.7 meters tall, on the thin side, and does not weigh more than 60 kilograms, and the other is less than 1.6 meters tall, fat, and weighs more than 70 kilograms!" Hong Kaiyuan continued.

I frowned, and thought to myself, could someone have been here years ago?

Did someone stumble into it by mistake or come in for an adventure?

Thinking about it, I asked Hong Kaiyuan: "Fatty, can you determine the approximate time?"

Hong Kaiyuan scratched his head, smiled, and said: "With my eyes alone, I can only see a rough idea, judging from the difference in the thickness of the dust, this footprint should have been left five or six years ago!"

Five or six years ago, I started searching my mind for information from this time period.

Suddenly, I remembered something.

This is a strange thing, I heard from my aunt in the lobby when I came back for the Spring Festival last year.

On that day, Uncle Lobby invited the family to dinner, which is a tradition in our family, and every year during the Spring Festival, we will take turns to go to each family to pay New Year's greetings to dinner.

Before the banquet, because of boredom, a bunch of people were talking nonsense. It is estimated that seeing that everyone was talking about some strange stories, the aunt on the side told us a strange story about the dragon's yin.

This happened five years ago, which happened to be the double robbery season in the countryside, so my aunt and uncle have been busy working in the fields.

That day, it was almost dark, and they still had no intention of going home in order to plant as many fields as possible.

Anyone who has engaged in double robbery in the countryside knows that the seedlings planted before dark are not easy to die, so it has become common knowledge that ordinary people will try to plant as many as possible at this time! Moreover, the temperature is much lower at this time, and they are not so tired when they start working, so they do not come up until about seven o'clock that day.

The uncle's family has an acre of land under the canal in front of the Gonggong Rock, and after the two of them came up, they washed their hands and feet in the canal in front of the cave, preparing to go home.

Just as the two of them were busy washing their hands and feet, a strange sound suddenly came from a cave not far away. The sound was a bit like thunder, and a bit like the low roar of some kind of animal.

The entrance of the cave was only a few meters away from the canal, and perhaps because the cave was too deep, the sound coming to the entrance of the cave was not very loud, but it could still be heard clearly in the night.

The first to hear was the aunt, and she immediately asked the uncle if he had heard anything.

The uncle was busy washing his feet, and he didn't raise his head, and said perfunctorily: "You heard it, why didn't I hear it!"

But soon, the same voice came out again, and this time, the uncle heard it clearly, and he was immediately startled.

Therefore, he said to his aunt, "This can't be the roar of a dragon, right?!"

"Don't scare me, this black light is blinding!" The aunt was a little panicked at the time, and hurriedly took a sip of the uncle.

But before her words could be heard, three or four more of the same voice came out in succession.

This time, both of them heard it clearly, and the aunt's scalp was numb and she almost fell into the ditch.

At this moment, the uncle was really anxious, so he pulled up the aunt who was still standing in the canal, and he didn't wash his feet, so he ran away.

The two of them ran a long way in one go, and did not stop until they were in front of a family at the end of the village.

Because at this time, they saw that there were other people on the road who were also rushing home one after another, and the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

The next day, they told the rest of the village about it, but no one believed it, because there were a few other people who passed by there at that time that day, and it was estimated that they and the uncle and aunt were only in front and back, and they also laughed at the uncle and aunt for running so fast that day, if they saw a ghost!

Seeing that no one believed them, the two of them stopped talking, in our countryside, if you talk too much about this kind of thing, you will be disliked by others.

After that fight, even if my uncle and aunt went to work there, they would never wait until dark, and usually called off early and went home.

As the days went by, and nothing really happened after that, the aunt slowly forgot about it, and it wasn't until everyone was idle that the aunt remembered that such an incident had happened there.

Thinking of this, I said to Wen Hong and the others: "Five years ago, there was indeed a strange thing here!" and then told the story again.

After hearing this, both of them looked at me, their expressions a little complicated.

"And this kind of thing?" Hong Kaiyuan pinched his nose and frowned.

"Do you think there is some kind of connection between these two?" Wen Jing also looked skeptical.

"Perhaps, the answer lies in this hole!" I said, standing up.