Hearing everyone's praise, Duan Fei smiled slightly and said, "Shi Bin, bring over the things I asked you to bring, and the others will search along the mountain road separately to see if there are any clues, and don't let go of the top of the mountain." ”

Everyone agreed to do their own errands, and Luo Zhicheng said: "My lord, it is in the way of staying here, it is better to go to the top of the mountain to search." ”

Duan Fei agreed, after Luo Zhicheng went out, Shi Bin came in, Duan Fei searched on this small platform, and found a lot of long hair, which was consistent with what Duan Fei found on Zhang Zhukuai's clothes, and nothing else was found.

"Brother Fei, why did the murderer bring the dog here?" Shi Bin asked.

Duan Fei said: "The wind here is very strong in the middle of the night, and you can't make a fire, so it's much warmer to hold two dogs." ”

Shi Bin looked at Shannan Village in the distance and muttered: "What a madman, he didn't go home to hug his wife in the middle of the night, but he hugged the dog here to get nervous......"

Duan Fei smiled: "Last night was the last time, and if I destroy his treasure later, he will never have a chance to pretend to be a ghost again." ”

Shi Bin asked curiously, "Brother Fei, what are you going to do?" ”

Duan Fei took the package he had prepared from him and said, "It's a good idea to set it on fire." ”

"Set fire? How to put it? Shi Bin's mind was full of question marks: "Why don't I go out and ask everyone to get some dry firewood and grass to come in?" ”

Duan Fei shook his head and said, "No, I was prepared, but it seems that I may bring less." ”

Duan Fei unwrapped the package, and there was an oil drum inside, Duan Fei said with a smile: "These fire oils are specially made by me, and I originally planned to burn the Soul Valley, but try these bamboo tubes first, these bamboo tubes are all concocted with potions, and they are very burning." ”

"It turns out that Fei Ge prepared this thing, no wonder it's so heavy, I'm almost tired to death." Shi Bin shouted.

At most, he carried half the way, Duan Fei ignored him, and poured some fire oil into each loudspeaker, about four liters of oil poured into six bamboo tubes, and flowed down the bamboo tubes, it should be enough to burn far away, right?

Duan Fei waited for a while, and estimated that when the oil had not flowed, he took out the fire fold and blew it to ignite, and touched it lightly on the oil stains stained on the big horn, and there was a loud sound, and the kerosene that had been added to it really burned brightly, and quickly spread downward, and the whole bamboo tube was like a suction pipe at first, and when the air in the tube was heated to a certain extent, the flame erupted suddenly, like a jet under the rocket, and the flames that spewed out were six feet long.

Duan Fei saw the opportunity to dodge early, Shi Bin was a step too late when he heard his warning, and those flames bounced off the stone wall, instantly burning off his hair and eyebrows, and even smoking him into a big black face.

The big bamboo tube was quickly burned to make a crackling sound, the dry bamboo was burned to crack, more air poured into the bamboo tube, the bamboo tube burned more happily, and soon the flames gushed out, the raging fire burned the small platform to the heat wave, the high temperature transpired out the other bamboo tube in the middle of the fly pre-dumped fire oil and gas, those fire oil and gas were immediately ignited when the open flame was opened, one after another, the remaining five bamboo tubes sucked the flames into the tube one by one, completely ignited the fire oil in the bamboo tube, and the six-tube jet rocket burned the entire mountain wall to the heat, The plants on the top were all roasted and burned, and Duan Fei and they escaped quickly, otherwise they would all turn into roast suckling pigs.

Duan Fei pulled Lu Kang and said, "Let's go, let's go to the top to see the fire!" ”

Duan Fei walked quickly along the mountain road opened by Luo Zhicheng and them to the top of the mountain, raised his eyes and looked around, at first there was no movement, after a while, a wisp of green smoke floated on the mountainside on the left, as if someone was cooking there, and then the amount of smoke increased rapidly, turning into a steam engine chimney, Duan Fei smiled and said: "Look, set fire to it, how good the effect is, save us from digging everywhere." ”

There were more and more cigarette butts floating around, and there were more than a dozen of them, but in general, they could be divided into six directions, that is, where six pipes lead, and the rest belonged to tributaries like the pipes leading to the Lookout Tomb and the Valley of the Wronged Souls.

Everyone waited for a while, the amount of smoke in the chimney became more and more, but no new chimneys appeared, Duan Fei said: "Okay, Lu Kang, do you remember the place?" ”

Lu Kang replied: "Yes, my lord, I remember all the small ones, but most of the places where the smoke comes are cliffs, and the small ones can only take the adults to the bottom of the mountain or other places to take a look from afar." ”

"I know." Duan Fei said with a smile: "I'm too lazy to look at it, those places are estimated to be not much different from the observation platform, I want you to remember the direction just in case, see more than ten chimneys around, what do you find?" ”

Everyone frowned and thought about it, Jiang Jun blurted out, "We are surrounded." ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly, the more than ten chimneys really surrounded them, there were left and right, and even there were two chimneys on the shoulder of the mountain between this mountain and Shannan Village, and the sound of shouting to Duan Fei last night was estimated to have reached Shannan Village from there.

Duan Fei said: "Yes, we are surrounded, why do you say this?" ”

Shi Bin said: "Do you need to say this? Excluding errors, these tubes are centered on this place, and I can't say why exactly. ”

"Self-centeredness, typical of the arrogant mentality." Jiang Jun said.

"Easy to control, right?" Guo Wei said with some hesitation.

"The bird's nest and the honeycomb are round, which is the most time-saving and material-saving practice." Hong Bang said.

Yang Sen's eyes looked around and said, "I think the murderer's lair should be nearby, otherwise it will be very inconvenient for him to go back and forth, and it is impossible for him to come out every night to make trouble, and most of them are still rainy or moonless nights." ”

Duan Fei applauded and smiled: "What you answered makes sense, but I agree with what Yang Sen said the most, Lu Kang, is there any more hidden place near this mountain?" This place is enough to carve out a secret room, and this room has about four rooms, and it does not need to be too big, one or two zhang in circumference. ”

Lu Kang shook his head and said, "There are too many places like this in the mountains, but ...... It seems that Geng Wei said that there is a strange place near here. Geng Wei didn't dare to approach. ”

Duan Fei's eyes lit up and said, "Oh? What is it? Take us to see it. ”

Lu Kang said: "I heard Geng Wei say that there are two places near the Dead Man's Mountain that he dare not go, one is the Valley of the Wronged Soul, this is because of the wronged ghost, and the other is that place, I heard Geng Wei say that there may be some kind of strange beast inside, whenever he passes by, he can always hear a low roar, which is a warning issued by the beast, Geng Wei also once set a trap nearby, and even hid in a nearby tree, wanting to see what kind of beast it is, but only saw some vague and fast-moving black shadows, that thing is bigger than a calf, They guarded Geng Wei for a day and a night, and the ghosts in the mountains were loud that night, almost scaring Geng Wei to death, and what was even more terrifying was that Geng Wei said that in addition to those two monsters, there seemed to be something staring at him, making him creepy. ”

"Is that an exaggeration?" Shi Bin said.

Lu Kang said while going down the mountain: "Really, this is what Geng Wei said, Geng Wei said that the two monsters left early the next morning, and the feeling of being stared at disappeared with it, Geng Wei climbed down the tree, and fled down the mountain with a rolling belt, and only after more than half a month did he dare to go up the mountain again, and never dared to approach that place again." ”

Duan Fei said with a smile: "This official is not even afraid of ghosts, will he be afraid of any fierce beasts?" But Geng Wei's feeling should be right, when we just came out of the Valley of Grievances yesterday, I had a feeling of being stared at, and you all know what happened later, it was not a ghost staring at Geng Wei, but a person, maybe a murderer, because Geng Wei was close to his lair, so he was so nervous. ”

Shi Bin Qi said: "Why didn't the murderer simply trap him and kill him?" Wouldn't it be more convenient? No one would know that there was such a place up the mountain. ”

Duan Fei said with a smile: "You have this kind of thought, it proves that the murderer is smarter than you, the reason why the murderer let Geng Wei go down the mountain is to spread terror, Geng Wei is the most courageous person in the village, even he is so scared that he can't possess his body, do you say that other people dare to go up the mountain to explore?" Even if there are so many brave people who are not afraid of death, with the ability of the murderer, coupled with two unknown beasts and a complex environment, I am afraid that those people will be killed before they can touch the place. ”

"Your Excellency is right." Lu Kang said: "The situation on the mountain is different from that on the flat land, not just a lot of people. ”

Everyone quickly went down to the mountainside, the hanging bamboo pipes had already burned out, and Duan Fei ordered people to break all the wooden sticks that stepped on their feet, so that the small platform could return to its original state and no longer be disturbed by people.

Everyone quickly went down the mountain, rested at the bottom of the mountain, ate some dry food, and prepared to stop, Lu Kang led everyone and began to walk towards the place he said.

As I walked, the terrain gradually lowered, the ground was lush with vegetation, the shade of the trees covered the sun, and the ground where I stepped on was very soft, as if no one had walked for a long time.

Lu Kang took everyone to a col between the two mountains, Lu Kang began to get nervous, and said in a low voice: "The place ahead is the place Geng Wei said, I don't know what monsters will be here, everyone should be careful." ”

Duan Fei said: "Monsters are not scary, that is, one or two relatively large fierce dogs, what everyone really has to worry about is the possibility of cold arrows or hidden weapons, everyone prepare muskets, but unless it is absolutely necessary, do not fire, let's go." ”

Hearing that there was a hidden weapon, everyone was careful and walked forward slowly, and some people sharpened their long sticks and hit the grass in front of them, but after walking for a while, they didn't find any mechanism.

Just when Duan Fei thought he was too careful, there was a sudden whooshing sound in front of him, and everyone suddenly became nervous, and someone shouted, "I touched the mechanism!" ”

Everyone retreated sharply, but did not see any mechanism being opened, and in confusion, there was a sudden rumbling sound halfway up the mountainside, and everyone looked up to see the smoke billowing on the slopes on both sides, and countless boulders rolled down like an avalanche with the momentum of thunder.

"It's not good, everyone go quickly!" Duan Fei shouted loudly, in fact, there was no need for him to remind him, the smarter people had already turned around and started running, Duan Fei's roar woke up a few stunned people, everyone turned around and ran wildly, but the speed of escape was far from keeping up with the speed of the landslide, not to mention that there were so many grass and vine obstacles on the ground, Lu Kang fell down, and his hands and feet were so weak that he couldn't get up.

Duan Fei lifted him up and shouted, "Everyone run to both sides, next to the mountain to the high place, as long as you climb to the high place, it will be safe." ”

After being reminded, everyone split up and ran to the peaks on the left and right sides of the col, helping each other to climb upwards, and finally climbed to the top before the flood of boulders.

Everyone only felt that the mountain peaks under their feet were trembling, and under the smoke and dust, the boulders were like countless monsters rushing under their feet, and countless gravels were splashing in all directions, and the skin would break and blood when they hit people.

Finally, the smoke and dust gradually fell, and the col in front of him had completely changed its appearance, the densely vegetated col was like being ploughed by a huge plow, and even the big trees that hugged together were uprooted, and the whole col became empty, and everyone returned to the ground, except for a few people with some flesh wounds, everyone was fine, but a little frightened.

Duan Fei frowned and glanced at the valley, and sighed: "It's over, I didn't expect the murderer to have such a trick, it seems that we came for nothing today, let's go, go in and have a look, God bless and leave some things for me that can't be broken." ”

Everyone walked forward on the gravel, and soon came to the end of the col, only to see that there were traces of the existence of houses in the place where the boulder had been crushed, and under the command of Duan Fei, everyone began to clean up the scene.

Stone by stone was moved away and thrown into the distance, and the ground gradually revealed, and more and more clues showed that this was the place Duan Fei was looking for.

"My lord, a broken box was found, and the box was full of smashed jewelry, only a few of which were still intact."

"My lord, many torture instruments have been found here, including iron hooks, iron chains, leather whips, soldering irons, ropes, and chewing ...... There are also a couple of iron cages that have been flattened......"

Duan Fei took a leather whip and looked at it in his hand, there was a fishy smell on the leather whip, and he didn't know how much blood and sweat he had soaked.

Duan Fei threw the leather whip back to the ground and said coldly: "Keep looking for it and see if there is anything that can prove the identity of the murderer." ”

Suddenly, Guo Wei moved a boulder and shouted, "My lord, a corpse has been found here, it's an old woman!" The blood stains on his body have not dried, he should have just been stoned to death! ”

Duan Fei went over to take a look, and sure enough, he found a corpse pressed under the rocks, everyone worked together to clean up the stones, and a corpse that was crushed and deformed appeared in front of everyone.

Half of the corpse's face was cut off by a stone, and the other half was crushed by the stone, and the face was damaged and difficult to recover, and from her clothing and skin color, it can be determined that the deceased was a woman in her thirties, her skin was pale, her body was thin, and she should have not seen the sun for a long time.

"Look, sir." Guo Wei dragged a thumb-thick chain from the corpse, and the chain was finally locked to the iron ring around the neck of the deceased, of whom she was also a victim.

"She is probably the woman used by the murderer to pass on the lineage, it seems that my analysis is correct, the murderer does not have the concept of a wife in his head at all, this woman gives birth to a child for him, washes and cooks for his father and son, but the life is not as good as a dog, sad." Duan Fei sighed and ordered, "Open the chains, collect the corpse and send it down the mountain." ”

No evidence was found in the ruins that could identify the murderer, but from the room and the beds and clothes that were too late to take away or destroy, it can be concluded that the murderer did have two people, gender and age are correct with Duan Fei's judgment, the older is about forty years old, his son is about fifteen years old, judging from the jewelry and some silver ingots found, the murderer's father and son could have lived a rich life, but their clothes are simple and shabby, the murderer is obviously very persistent, and has been guarding and perfecting what his father left him all his life, He even wanted to pass it on to his son.

Everyone sorted out the scene while moving stones, collecting evidence, and the progress was slowed down a lot, seeing that Shen Shi was halfway through, the col began to darken, Duan Fei also felt that there was no evidence worth collecting here, so everyone carried the body and evidence, and began to descend the mountain.

When they returned to the grave, they found that the exposed bamboo tube had been burned to ashes, and the bamboo tube buried in the ground had been leading the flames all the way to the ground.

Everyone went down the mountain without stopping, and was warmly welcomed by all the villagers of Shannan Village at the entrance of the village, and the old village chief took the lead in leading the villagers to bow down to Duan Fei, and Duan Fei became a living bodhisattva in their mouths to save the suffering.

Lu Kang excitedly proclaimed: "I saw with my own eyes, the unjust ghosts on the mountain are fake, Lord Duan has broken his law and destroyed his microphone, we also smashed the murderer's nest and seized a lot of evidence, Lord Duan has great powers, the murderer will never escape from Lord Duan's palm, please rest assured, we will never have to live in fear in the future!" ”

Everyone cheered, and Lu Kang saw Geng Wei in the crowd at a glance, and shouted at him: "Avi, where do you guess the murderer's nest is?" It's the mysterious col you talked about! Now it has been razed to the ground by Lord Duan! ”

Geng Wei said in surprise: "Is that the place?" Have you seen the beasts there? ”

Lu Kang said regretfully: "It may be that the murderer took it away, but it doesn't matter, when you catch the murderer, are you afraid that you won't know what he raises?" ”

Geng Wei nodded again and again, as a hunter, if he can't stay in the mountains, his harvest will be less than half, the ghost is gone, and the beast is about to be caught, this is great news for him, and the benefits are much greater than others.

Finally calmed everyone's excited mood, Duan Fei returned to the village chief's house, Guan Xiaohan, Xiaohuan, and Li Yuying followed in, Duan Fei turned around and asked, "How are you doing?" ”

Today, Duan Fei did not take Guan Xiaohan and the three daughters with him, but arranged another task for them, that is, to do mass work according to the clues provided by Lu Kang.

Hearing Duan Fei's inquiry, Guan Xiaohan replied: "We have already done the things that Gongzi confessed, and the suspicious people in the village have been eliminated, they have no time to stay in the mountains for a long time to do evil, and it can be proved from other aspects that they are not murderers, but we found out another news, it is said that the idea of worshipping the ghosts before going to the Valley of Wronged Souls every month was said by a fortune teller, and this person's whereabouts are erratic, but there is plenty of time to do bad things on the mountain." ”