Chapter XXVIII: The Crown of Altai
After a night full of unknowns, Xingshu and the others crawled out of the cave, ate some hot food, and after cleaning up, they immediately rushed to the slope of the snow-capped mountain where the body was found yesterday. Crown of Altai! ”
"What?" Torturer turned his head and asked, "What is the crown of Altai?" ”
Mo Duqiao pointed to the four snow-capped mountains that surrounded them, about the same height and height: "The appearance of the four snow-capped mountains is like a crown falling from the sky, and the Four Seasons Mountain is in the center of the crown, Gromov wrote in his diary, although he did not write about how he left the Four Seasons Mountain, but he wrote that after leaving the Four Seasons Mountain, he turned around to look, and saw the Altai crown, exactly the same as what we see now." ”
Maffei said: "That's good news, right? So, it's very likely that we'll be able to walk into Four Seasons Mountain today? ”
Lian Jiuqi said: "Maybe, don't forget, Wangshan runs a dead horse, although it looks like it is close at hand, but if you want to walk in, it may take several days." ”
Torture sighed: "The Altai Mountains are too big. ”
"According to the diary and records left by the reed flute, as well as some of her own analyses, the places we have traveled are less than one-fiftieth of the Altai Mountains. ”
Ma Fei leaned on the torture technique: "Oh my God, when is this the head." ”
As they spoke, the Soul Brand, who had run back from the direction of the hillside, began to howl, and Torrei immediately ran over, followed by the others, and when they reached the location where the corpse was found last night on the Torture and Ink Twilight Bridge, everyone saw only the messy footprints all over the place, but not a single corpse.
"The body was taken away." Torture stared at the footprints of different shades on the hillside, "Dozens of corpses, moved away overnight, and there was not much movement, I think, it must have been done by those Bohai remnants." ”
Angu walked into the hillside and began to examine it carefully, and then he seemed to have noticed something, and immediately waved his hand to let the torture and the others pass.
When the torture technique came to Angu, he saw that Angu had already dug out a snow pit with his hands, and there was a snow hole below the pit that was large enough to accommodate two people.
Angu looked at the snow cave and said, "Now you understand, why did the soul brand stop you yesterday and didn't let you come, right?" ”
Torture wondered, "You mean, there was an ambush here yesterday?" ”
Everyone else looked at Angu, and Angu said: "This is the consistent practice of the mountain demons, that is, the remnants of the Bohai Sea, to ambush again in the place where the battle has already taken place, and when the follow-up people come to collect the corpse, then suddenly attack, because the person who collects the corpse brings ropes and tools for dragging, and in order to be light, he will not bring too many swords, bows and crossbows." ”
Lian Jiuqi looked at the sky: "But, yesterday we saw a golden eagle with our own eyes, so what's going on?" ”
"I don't know, I think, maybe one of them is still alive, and the mountain demons found out that he was only one person, and they felt that it was not worth exposing themselves, so they continued to lurk." Angu looked around, walked a few meters and then dug it up on the spot, and then dug out a snow hole, "It seems that there are at least dozens of mountain demons who were ambushed here yesterday. ”
Ma Fei looked around, then turned around and looked again: "Last night was such a good opportunity, why didn't the mountain demon attack us?" ”
An Gu said: "I don't know, maybe there are other reasons." ”
Xingshu touched his chin: "Perhaps, these mountain demons are ambushed here, and it is not us who are waiting." ”
"Anyone else?" Torret asked curiously, "The warriors of the Iron Eagle Tribe, who have come for revenge?" ”
Mo Duqiao shouldered his rifle: "Don't guess, the most important thing is to hurry up now, let's go." ”
Mo Dui Bridge and Lian Jiuqi walked forward one after the other, and Soul Brand howled again, summoning the two white wolf herds after the break to rush forward.
Torture stood there looking at the messy footprints on the hillside, crouched down and measured it with his hands.
Ma Fei asked on the side, "What's wrong?" ”
Torture shook his head: "I just think none of these footprints are complete, it's weird. ”
Maffei asked puzzled, "What do you mean?" I don't get it. ”
Torture turned and pointed to the footprints they left behind: "You go back and see, even if the two of us are stepping on other people's footprints all the way, the footprints overlap the footprints, and it seems that we can't leave a complete footprint, and in the snow pit that we trample on, we will leave a complete footprint of yours, because you are walking at the end, right?" But you see on the hillside, those footprints are obviously deliberately trampled on, none of them are intact, why? ”
Maffei thought for a while and said, "Can't we judge their numbers?" ”
"Maybe, I think it's just one aspect, and on the other hand, they may be trying to hide something. ”
Maffei asked, "Hide what?" ”
Xingshu shook his head: "I don't know." ”
After speaking, the torture technique led Ma Fei away, and Ma Fei turned to look at those messy footprints, and the uneasiness in his heart became even stronger.
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The cold wind kept blowing on Tang Qianrou's face, and she sitting in the corner never thought that she would become a prisoner one day.
In the prison are also Ah Le, who was arrested at the same time as her, and Tang Sirong, Gulal, Victor and Haisen, who disappeared for several days.
Everyone hid in the darkest corners of the cell, next to each other, curled up helplessly, for only there could barely feel the warmth of the back through the stone wall behind them, and not be frozen to death by the cold wind blowing in from the front.
The prison they were held in was located on the cliff, a square cave that had been artificially carved out, with walls on three sides, and the only side facing the cliff had nothing, and those in it could clearly see the beautiful scenery outside, but under the beautiful scenery, there was also despair that could be seen with the naked eye - there was an abyss below, and although there were small holes for people to climb on the left and right, it was almost impossible to climb out of here without climbing tools.
After Tang Qianrou came in, she didn't say a word to Tang Sirong, because Tang Sirong had been sitting cross-legged against the wall, as if she had settled down, no matter what Tang Qianrou and the others said or asked, she didn't say a word, didn't drink water, and didn't eat.
"Don't look at it, unless you want to kill yourself, then you crawl out." Gulal, who was next to Victor and Hazen in the corner, said, he looked at Ah Le who was lying on the edge of the cliff of the prison, "It's useless, even if you are given climbing equipment now, without warm clothes, you will be frozen to death in the middle, the temperature outside is conservatively estimated to be at least minus 25 degrees, you better come next to us, we have to take care of you if you are sick." ”
Unwillingly, Ah Le looked around and found that there were many excavated prisons on the cliff, and on the opposite side of the prison, there were plank roads up and down, and the plank roads were connected to the caves dug in the cliffs, and those monsters lived in the caves.
If you look closely, those so-called monsters are actually just dwarfs, with long hands and short legs, but their limbs are relatively thick, and the most strange thing is the clothes they wear, although most of them are leather jackets and the like to keep warm, but many of them are wearing coarse clothes made of similar linen, just like the ancient people who lived hundreds of years ago.
Ah Le looked at the other side: "How many such people live here?" ”
"Hundreds at least, thousands at most." What everyone didn't expect was that it was Tang Sirong who answered Ah Le's question.
Just when everyone raised their eyes to look at Tang Sirong in the corner, Tang Sirong suddenly changed the topic and said, "I seem to have been deceived." ”
Tang Qianrou immediately got up, walked up to Tang Sirong with her arms in her arms, and asked, "What was deceived?" What do you mean? ”
Tang Sirong raised her eyes and looked at her daughter: "I think about it, plus what you and Ah Le have seen and experienced, I suspect that we have all been deceived, not only me and your father, but also the other chasers who died here, we have all been deceived, deceived by the big boss." ”
Tang Qianrou sat down next to her mother: "What do you mean?" ”
Tang Sirong smiled bitterly: "There is no Qimen here at all, maybe it was the wrong clue left by Xing Renju from the beginning, otherwise, how could he have handed over the clue to our Tang family so easily?" The big boss may have noticed this a long time ago, no, the big boss should have been here and confirmed with his own eyes that there is no strange door here at all, so he left, and then released the news, just to divert the attention of others and kill people. ”
Tang Qianrou frowned: "I still don't understand what you mean?" ”
Ah Le, Gulal and others also gathered around and sat beside Tang Sirong and Tang Qianrou.
"If you look back and think about it, how can a person like a big boss let us do so many things? When we didn't have any money, it was he who made a series of strange requests, especially after finding that map, and it was he who hinted that we should simulate a town like that, at that time we were completely immersed in the joy of finding Qimen, and we built that Qinglian Town at a waste of money and money, and killed so many people, looking back, in this process, the big boss was not involved at all, why? Tang Sirong said this, and closed his eyes again, "Because he doesn't want to expose himself, he also wants us to spend our hard work and energy, and spend more money on useless things, although we have earned money in the future, but we have gradually begun to be exposed, and at this juncture, the Lian Jiu chess and criminal techniques planned by the big boss are gradually entering the game......
After listening to her mother's words, Tang Qianrou thought about it for a while, and then said, "Then how can you be sure that Qimen is not here?" ”
"The reason is very simple, if there is really a strange gate here, it is absolutely impossible for the big boss to let us take the lead, he wants to lead us here and kill us, you also saw the dried corpses of those cargo chasers? Those people must have been brought in by him. Tang Sirong shook her head slightly, "Peers are enemies, and the one who is most interested in Qimen is the cargo chaser, and the one who has the best chance of finding Qimen is also the cargo chaser, so one less cargo chaser in the world will reduce the threat to the big boss, and his purpose is this." ”
"Impossible!" Tang Qianrou denied her mother's speculation, "There are so many dead cargo chasers, if they learn the news of Qimen, it is impossible not to leak the news!" ”
Tang Sirong sneered: "You empathize, when you found the clue of Qimen, did you tell others?" Did you let any news out? ”
Tang Qianrou was stunned for a moment, then shook her head, indeed, she couldn't be so stupid.
Tang Sirong said: "You can't share the secrets of Qimen with others, will other cargo chasers?" They won't, the big boss just grasped the psychology of his peers, attracted the people he thought was the most threatening one by one, and killed them. ”
Ah Le immediately asked, "Since it's not Qimen, what kind of place is this?" ”
"Judging from what you said before, even if it is not Qimen, it is related to Qimen, and it also has a close connection with the Cast Iron Immortal." Tang Sirong looked outside, "However, this is definitely not Qimen, Qimen is in other places, in a place that we have missed and will never be able to find back." ”
Tang Qianrou was completely in confusion: "Why is this happening? Didn't you and my dad say that the clues left by Xing Renju must be correct? Surely the map you found is correct? Why is this happening!? ”
Tang Sirong said: "Xing Renju first left us with a simple clue, we saw that the clue was in Mongolia, and knew that it was impossible to dig that place directly, in this process of digging and searching, we were confused, we already thought that this process was extremely difficult, so we subconsciously thought that the clue was correct, who knew that we were deceived." ”
Tang Qianrou got up: "That kid guessed correctly from the beginning, he thought that the process of finding that map was actually not tortuous at all, it was obviously placed there waiting for us to get it, wrong, it was wrong from the beginning, I want to leave here, I want to go back, I want to make up for it......"
When Tang Qianrou said this, she saw Ah Le sitting on the side and looking at her coldly, she knew what Ah Le was thinking at this time, because Ah Le had persuaded her more than once to let her leave, she completely turned a deaf ear and completely thought that this was Qimen.
If I listened to Ah Le at that time, how good would it be?
However, there are not so many ifs in this world!
Tang Qianrou looked outside, knowing that the possibility of leaving was very slim, but she still wanted to figure out everything: "Who is the big boss?" ”
Tang Sirong smiled and smiled bitterly for a long time: "I used to think I knew who it was, but now that I look at it, it's not that person at all." ”
Ah Le immediately asked, "Who did you think it was before?" ”
"Cai Nayun." Tang Sirong said word by word, "I always thought that he was the big boss behind the scenes. ”
Tang Qianrou and Ah Le were startled, and asked at the same time, "Why?" He is just the person in charge of the smuggling port, how can he be a big boss? ”
Tang Sirong said: "The reason is very simple, when the Cusco company was established in the past, although we were all shareholders, but every time we did it according to the instructions of a certain person, we didn't know who this person was, until a certain year, I happened to find out that Wan Qingquan was secretly meeting Cai Nayun, and I realized that Cai Nayun may be the big boss behind the scenes." ”
"Wait, I don't understand one thing, how many shareholders are there?" Ah Le shook his head and said, "I've always thought this thing is very strange, how can this person do it so that others don't find out their identity?" ”
Tang Sirong said: "If Wan Qingquan and I are not husband and wife, I'm afraid we don't know that we are in the Cusco company, this is the company's regulations, we can only guess each other, so, in the early years, I only knew that Zheng Cangqiong and Chen Taidong were absolutely not involved, but the two of them are also the same as everyone else, don't care about things that shouldn't be taken care of, don't inquire about people who don't pose a threat to themselves, this is a kind of self-preservation, and we are the same." ”
Ah Le said: "So, after you saw Wan Qingquan and Cai Nayun with your own eyes, did you know that Cai Nayun was also a member of the company?" ”
Tang Sirong said: "That's right, later Wan Qingquan told me that in addition to Cai Nayun, Wu Zi'an is also a member of the company, but Wu Zi'an was just forced to do that, he didn't know much, but he just became an important link in the layout of the big boss, as for what his role is, I don't know, I think, Wan Qingquan definitely doesn't know." ”
Tang Sirong paused after speaking, and explained in detail: "The reason why I suspected that it was Cai Nayun at the beginning was very simple, first, Wan Qingquan personally told me that many orders were given to him by Cai Nayun, and second, Cai Nayun was in charge of the smuggling port, which seems to have the least oil and water, but in fact he has the most secrets, so I think even if he is not the big boss, he is the one who knows who the big boss is, if I have the opportunity to go back, I will definitely ask him in person, and he will also tell me everything I want to know." ”
Tang Qianrou frowned: "Why are you so sure?" ”
"Do you want to know?" Tang Sirong smiled weirdly, "I advise you not to know, because this matter is still related to you." ”
Tang Qianrou was stunned again: "What does it matter to me?" What is it? Say it quickly! ”
Tang Sirong leaned against the wall and sighed: "Qianrou, do you know what is a woman's most powerful weapon besides being smart?" ”
Tang Qianrou said without thinking: "Beautiful." ”
"That's right, pretty." Tang Sirong said with a smile, "When I was young, I was more beautiful than you, and I fascinated many men, including Chen Taidong, Wan Qingquan and Cai Nayun among the nine sons. ”
Ah Le sat next to him and listened carefully, although Gulal and the others pretended not to care, but in fact they were all listening carefully to Tang Sirong talking about those secrets that might never be revealed if they weren't trapped to death.
Tang Sirong said: "Among the three people, my favorite is Chen Taidong, because he is the youngest, the most handsome, the smartest, but he is the least ambitious person, his biggest characteristic is that he must not touch his bottom line, do not force him to violate the principles, otherwise, he will make your life worse than death, this point, he is very similar to Zheng Cangqiong, in fact, the two of them are also the most terrible people among the nine sons, but they know how to control their own **." ”
Tang Qianrou asked, "So, you finally chose my father Wan Qingquan?" ”
"No, I didn't choose him at first, the reason is, he is a feng shui master, in my eyes, this kind of person is very unlucky, and he can't achieve great things." Tang Sirong sat there with her eyes closed and smiled, "However, he is the one who loves me the most, a woman, he likes to be pampered and loved, this is the reason why I chose him in desperation." ”
Tang Qianrou asked strangely: "How helpless?" What do you mean? ”
Tang Sirong's expression changed, and she said coldly: "Because before I married him, I and Cai Nayun have been a dewy couple for a long time......" 2k reading web