I was feeling sorry for wasting a great opportunity, and suddenly the mobile phone rang.

Who could it be at such a late hour?

Seeing the number on the caller ID, Chu Tianqi couldn't help frowning slightly, and a trace of bad premonition came to his heart: Could it be that something happened to her?

didn't have time to think about it, Chu Tianqi hurriedly pressed the answer button: "Excellent, what's wrong?...... Found? Great. …… Do you think it's about ?...... Oh, oh, got it. …… Okay, I'll get back in touch when there's a situation. ”

Hanging up the phone, Chu Tianqi let out a long sigh, it seemed that he had misjudged, and at the same time, he couldn't help but feel a little excited in his heart. The situation He Jiaojiao said today is too important, although she can't be sure yet, but this is an important clue after all. But now that I have been excluded from the investigation, how can I use this clue? Let's talk about this clue first, let's see how to get it in front of us.

Thinking like this, Chu Tianqi got out of the car, wanting to see if he could find clues and find the target just now.

It was already more than ten o'clock in the evening, the ring road was relatively empty, and the road was higher than the surrounding terrain.

Since the time is not yet eleven o'clock, the street lights are still on, standing on the road and looking north, you can see the end of the road at a glance, and see the bridge at the end of the road in the east-west direction. The bridge Chu Tianqi has walked many times, the piers are very large, and the river under the bridge is also very wide, it is said that when the devils were beaten, the local arsenal repaired, and the name of the bridge is "Anti-Japanese Bridge". The road was empty, and there were no pedestrians or vehicles on the bridge, let alone a target to follow.

Retracting his gaze, Chu Tianqi glanced at the surrounding area. On the west side of the ring road are rows of houses, most of which are pitch black, apparently the lights have been extinguished, and the whole family has rested. On the south side is another section of the ring road, which stretches out as far as the eye can see, with dim street lights and the occasional passing car, but not a single tricycle, not a single pedestrian. As far as the eye can see, you can see the railing of the bridge, and the shape that sticks out diagonally towards the sky. This shape is about ten meters high and fifty centimeters wide, and there are three big characters written on it: "Xuxing Bridge".

Turning his gaze to the east, all he could see was the darkness of the night. During the day, the bare riverbed with exposed river rocks and the idle land were hidden in the blackness.

Except for the darkness, it was empty, where would the "blue coat" riding the tricycle go? Chu Tianqi looked around aimlessly again.

A gust of wind blew through, making a "boom" sound. Chu Tianqi raised his hand and shone it with a flashlight, and the gravel and dust on the road slid down the shoulder of the road under the action of the wind.

Suddenly, Chu Tianqi noticed that there were rut marks on the shoulder of a road with the slowest slope. He walked over quickly, crouched down, and took a closer look. There are three rut marks, each about seven or eight centimeters wide, and the distance between the two ends is about one meter, and one of the rut marks is exactly divided equally. In the open space between the leftmost and middle rut prints, there are two longitudinal rows of shoe prints, and the shape of the shoe prints is left when going downhill.

The ruts and footprints are clear, and it is obvious that they have not been left for long, otherwise they would have been destroyed or covered with gravel and dust. Judging from the ruts and footprints, it is clear that this is a man pushing a pedal tricycle down the ring road.

Judging from these imprints, it is very likely that the "blue coat" left it. Chu Tianqi was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly reparked the car in a new position, took the satchel from the car, locked the door, and returned to the place where the ruts and footprints were left. He turned off the flashlight, looked around, and found no abnormality, so Chu Tianqi turned on the flashlight again.

Shining with a flashlight, Chu Tianqi walked down the shoulder of the road, while looking around from time to time, hoping to take timely countermeasures when something abnormal happened. After a while, they reached the bottom of the roadbed and came to the flat ground. After a few steps, the ruts and footprints were gone, and the front turned into a wadi bay covered with stone slabs and gravel. Although there are no traces to be found here for the time being, what makes Chu Tianqi fortunate is that this season is one of the few dry rivers in this river, otherwise he would have to wade through the water with ice stubble.

Worried about being discovered, Chu Tianqi simply turned off the flashlight and walked in the rugged river bay in the dark. While paying attention to the surrounding situation, and on the other hand, paying attention to the stones under his feet, Chu Tianqi did not walk fast.

Walk across the bend and stand back on the riverbed. After looking around, Chu Tianqi turned on the flashlight again, but almost all the sight could be seen, but he didn't see ruts and footprints. So, Chu Tianqi walked a hundred meters north along the riverbed, and then turned back and walked a hundred meters to the south, but he found some marks, but they were obviously not the ruts of the tricycle, and they didn't look like they had just been left.

Where did the people go? Where did the car go? Could it be a supernatural event? Chu Tianqi couldn't help but look around vigilantly. He was not superstitious, and he was bold enough, but it was dark all around, and there was nothing but the sound of the wind and the occasional strange sound. Even the only ruts and footprints that were just now gone really don't make sense.

Pressing down the strange thoughts in his heart and stabilizing his mind, Chu Tianqi shone a flashlight into the distance. Suddenly, there was a glimmer of light in the reach of the flashlight, which was a reflection, and it was a stone road. Chu Tianqi hurriedly walked forward, and after a while, he came to the front of the stone road.

In fact, this stone road is not far, less than 100 meters in front of the left of the location just now. It's just that Chu Tianqi's habitual thinking just now expanded the distance of about a hundred meters from the origin to the left and right, and he didn't think about it any further away. In the riverbed of about 100 meters just now, there are still no ruts and footprints found, so the tricycle is likely to go down the river bay, and then go directly onto this stone road. The riverbed is obviously much easier to walk than the river bend, but it is intriguing why the other party wants to avoid it, of course, this is based on the analysis that the person and the car walked this stone road.

Stepping onto this stone road, Chu Tianqi turned off the flashlight and continued to walk forward. After forty or fifty meters, the stone road ends and you reach the edge of the farmland. Chu Tianqi turned on the flashlight to look and found that the farmland newly turned over with a plough stick was very flat, and rut marks and footprints appeared on the flat land.

Got it right. Chu Tianqi was very happy and continued to walk along these imprints. Of course, after seeing a mark on the ground, he immediately turned off the flashlight and moved forward in the dark.

This is worthy of being a plain area, the boundary is open, and Chu Tianqi walked for a full twenty minutes before passing through the farmland section. If you are in Yuchi, just from the downhill of the ring road, I am afraid that it will take more than ten minutes to reach the foot of the mountain in total.

At the edge of the farmland, it is no longer ploughed land, nor is it a rocky bay, nor is it a sand-covered riverbed, but a hard ground with wild grass. Although the wild grass on the ground had withered and turned white, they were all standing strong, swaying back and forth with the wind. Judging from the density of wild grass now, I am afraid that in summer, the green grass here must be at least more than a meter high, and it will definitely be lush.

The ground covered with wild grass is very hard to step on, and with the turf covering it, it is natural that you will not see any ruts or footprints. Chu Tianqi used a flashlight to shine, hoping to find another stone road similar to the one just now, but there was nothing else except the wild grass swaying back and forth in the wind.

No, there are people.

Suddenly, Chu Tianqi found that at the end of the flashlight, in front of his side, there was a person. Due to the distance and the limited light of the flashlight, Chu Tianqi couldn't see the person's appearance clearly, but he could see that it was a very tall person, and he was probably much taller than himself.

How could there be someone, how could it be so tall? That "blue coat" was not so tall, could it be his accomplice? Could it be that he was discovered and entered their ambush circle? Chu Tianqi turned off the flashlight, and kept thinking in his mind.

Turning his head to look around, there was no one but the man in the distance.

Forward, or return? Now that he has come to this place, how can he return? If that person has an accomplice, then it shows that his speculation is correct, otherwise why would the other party be so cautious, and why would he be so close to the enemy.

After checking the battery level of the mobile phone, and adjusting the mobile phone to silent mode, and then pinching the contents of the satchel, Chu Tianqi secretly breathed and ran towards the person. The straight-line distance between that person and the edge of the wasteland and farmland was only more than ten meters, but it was more than two hundred meters to walk from Chu Tianqi, and his position was about ten degrees away from that person.

As we got closer to the man, the figure grew taller and bigger. Moreover, Chu Tianqi found that the person was facing the direction of the farmland, and kept opening his arms and maintaining the same posture. Although it was dark all around, Chu Tianqi still found that the man was wearing a high hat on his head and holding a weapon in his hand. The weapon has a peculiar appearance, resembling a stick with strips of cloth wrapped around it.

A gust of wind blew, and suddenly a strip of something was blown up on the man's chest, and this thing was connected to the man's mouth, which was the tongue.

Big tongue, high hat, mourning stick, thinking of these three things, a word appeared in Chu Tianqi's mind: soul hooking ghost.

Damn, is there such a thing? No, can't. But that guy is right in front. Chu Tianqi rubbed his eyes, and the guy was still standing upright.

Gods and ghosts are afraid of the wicked, and since they have met, they can't hide from it, so I will be a wicked person and see what you can do. Chu Tianqi gritted his teeth, held the flashlight in one hand and put the other on the belt buckle, and walked towards the man.

The distance was getting closer, but the man still didn't move. Could it be a dead ghost?

Chu Tianqi suddenly turned on the flashlight, and a beam of light hid on the person. The moment he saw that person, Chu Tianqi let out a long sigh, it was really a false alarm. What the hell is there? It turned out to be a dummy. It's just that just now I have been facing the dummy, and the dummy is too vivid, so I have that ridiculous idea. Chu Tianqi couldn't help but blush, blushing at the incompleteness of his materialism.

Needless to say, this dummy must have been made by a farmer to scare the birds that eat food.

Looking around, I found a dummy and made a false alarm. So where did the target go? Chu Tianqi shone it with a flashlight, and found that at the end of the flashlight was a black, round-arched thing, like a structure.

Could it be that someone is there? Chu Tianqi turned off the flashlight and walked there.

Getting closer and closer to the round arch, Chu Tianqi felt that the place was very similar to something that often appeared in the countryside - tombs.

Suddenly, a fluttering voice came to my ears: "Dead ghost." ”

Chu Tianqi couldn't help but be surprised: there are really dead ghosts.