Chapter 14: Disappearing Footprints
Seeing the two disappear into the dark street, the three of them got back on their feet. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Hearing what the two men said, it seemed that the fat man might have entered the palace with their people, but they also seemed to have encountered some obstacles, waiting for the people above to come down to help.
"Lin Shao, look over there." The bamboo pole suddenly grabbed Lin Tao and whispered in his ear, pointing towards the edge of the city wall. In the shadows, a dark figure slipped down from the edge of the city wall with a rope.
"Let's go, go over and take a look, maybe it's their people, grab one and find out the situation." After speaking, he quickly ran towards the edge of the city wall about 100 meters away with the golden pillar and bamboo pole.
"Lin Shao only has a rope left." Jin Zhu tugged at the rope hanging from the top of the city wall and whispered.
"Pay attention to your feet, no one has been here for so long, there is a lot of dust on the ground, it will definitely leave footprints, look around, let's follow the footprints." As soon as Lin Tao finished speaking, he found footprints on the bamboo pole next to him, and several people followed the footprints into a small courtyard about one hundred and eighty meters away from the majestic palace in the middle.
"Lin Shao's footprints are gone." Several people followed the footprints to this courtyard, only to find that the footprints disappeared into the courtyard wall.
"How can this be, did we go over the wall, or we were discovered, and we deliberately made a fake footprint to confuse us." Jin Zhu also began to be confused when he saw the disappeared footprints.
"Probably not, he was coming down from the city wall when we found him just now, there was not enough light around him, and we were so far away from him that in the dark, we definitely didn't find us." Lin Tao said and carefully searched for it by the wall, recalling that he was in the Gu Tomb, and he was able to escape through the secret door, maybe there was also a secret door on this wall, but after touching and pushing for a long time, he didn't find a secret door or anything like that.
"It's weird." After a long time, Lin Tao, who touched the ashes of his hand, looked at the footprints on the ground that had been trampled on by several people, squatted down and carefully compared them with the last footprint, and suddenly thought of something.
"Everyone continues to look in this yard, he must have left this yard in some way, the footprints are definitely new, it shouldn't have gone far, let's hurry up and find it." Lin Tao regained his spirits and began to look along the wall.
"Lin Shao, come and see." At some point, the bamboo pole ran into the small house in the courtyard.
Lin Tao immediately ran into the house, and sure enough, there were several sets of footprints in the house, exactly the same as the outside, but they also disappeared under the open window, Lin Tao looked out of the window, and not a single footprint was all a layer of dust. What's going on, footprints can't just disappear for no reason, as long as he can't fly, stepping on the ground will definitely leave footprints, but why did they disappear under the wall and in the house? Lin Tao was thinking about it, and the bamboo pole next to him seemed to have found something and shouted: "Lin Shao, there is something here." Lin Tao, who was interrupted from his train of thought, walked to the bamboo pole and saw a small backpack behind a wooden box, which seemed to be estimated to be the figure placed here just now, and there was nothing in it except some sundries.
Where did this person go, why did the footprints disappear by the wall and in the house, this dust on the ground is the most important place for people to leave a mark after leaving, is it really flying out, Lin Tao looked at the backpack that was thrown here and recalled it from the time he first found the figure, there must be something that was left out that caused him to be so passive now that he couldn't find the trace of that person. At first, I noticed that the figure had slid down the wall with a rope, and then walked all the way into the courtyard, and the man threw his backpack in the house and disappeared into the corner. Suddenly, Lin Tao felt like he had thought of something, but he couldn't think of anything in this link.
Suddenly, the house shook, and a pile of dust fell from the roof and hit Lin Tao in the face.
"What's going on, there's an earthquake?" Jin Zhu also ran outside with a gray head.
"No, it shouldn't be an earthquake, it seems to be coming from above, it may be caused by those people above, this degree may be the power of the bomb, if it is really an earthquake, we have been stoned to death by the broken house now." The bamboo pole said as he dusted off his head.
Lin Tao was still immersed in the thoughts just now, touched the ashes on his head, and suddenly thought of it: "By the way, since that person can disappear out of thin air without leaving footprints, he must have used some tools, such as ropes and the like, let's hurry up and find them." As he spoke, he took a flashlight and shone it in the house, and after shining it for a long time, he found no trace of the rope.
"Lin Shao, look at the beams of the house." The bamboo pole stood on the table and held a flashlight to illuminate a mark on the beam of the room, and sure enough, in addition to the dust that had been shaken off just now, there was also an obvious trace of strangulation.
"Looks like something has been strangled." Bamboo pole looked at the trace and said.
"Let's go and look at the wall." Saying that, Lin Tao walked towards the wall, stepped on the shoulder of the golden pillar and climbed to the wall, only to find that the wall was actually half a meter thick, and the disappeared footprints appeared on the wall again.
Pulling up the golden pillar and bamboo pole, the three of them continued to follow the footprints with their waists. Suddenly, a voice came from the corner in front of them, and the three of them hurriedly leaned on the wall, and secretly showed their heads to take a look, and it was actually the big black and thin tall man.
"What do you say about going down there, the five people haven't come up for three days, is there an accident?" The tall, thin black man followed a man in the darkness next to him.
"Crow's mouth, you can't think of something good all day long, this time things go up, the reward of the organization is very rich, enough for you to spend a long time, but if you don't do it well, we won't be able to say anything." The man in the darkness had a rough voice, not at all like the bespectacled man on the street, could it be that the first people to come down lived here, watching the two men squat at the door and smoke cigarettes before returning to the house.
Seeing that the two of them had returned to the house, the three of them hurriedly followed the footprints and walked quickly forward, bypassing the house where the group lived, and arriving at a courtyard near the majestic palace in the middle. This time the footprints disappeared again in this small courtyard.
"Let's go, go in and have a look." Saying that, Lin Tao took the lead and jumped down from the wall, and when he got closer, it was actually a small house, but it was the same as the majestic palace next to it, it was completely a miniature version of the palace, and even the gate of this small palace was only more than one meter high.
The three of them entered the house and closed the door before folding a glow stick and taking a look, this small palace looks quite short on the outside, but everything inside is readily available, a kang, a washstand, separated by a screen in the middle, and behind it is a stove more than two meters high, with a thick layer of dust spread on it, which looks so lonely.
"But the Dan furnace is so big, it will definitely sell for a lot of money." Jin Zhu blew the ash on it, and opened a hole from the bottom edge, and there was a grinding sound, and a pile of things that couldn't tell what was falling out from under the Dan furnace.