Maffei, who had been running for several streets with a garbage bag, finally stopped at a corner of a back street, dumped all the garbage in the corner, and then began to carefully search for what Makanov had left behind.

Maffei knew very well that Makanov couldn't be stupid enough to really leave the clues on the wine bottle, but he knew 100% that he would be killed, and when Mafei met Makanov, Makanov's doubts and his series of performances made Mafei suspect that maybe Makanov had already judged who the ghost was at that time.

Later, Makanov went to the place where he was going to meet Maffei tonight, left clues in the trash can, and then went back, and after returning, he contacted Maffei by email. The purpose of this is to risk luring the snake out of the hole and confirming his suspicions - if the person he judges is really an internal ghost, then this person will definitely be able to see his emails with Maffei, and he will also judge that maybe he has been exposed, and he must kill Makanov before Makanov meets Maffee. If the other party does this, it will prove that Makanov's speculation is correct, and Maffei can take the clues from the trash can.

Because, Maffei was trained by him, and she should soon understand what Makanov's true intentions were.

This is also the reason why Makanov deliberately threw a wine bottle into the trash can the moment he saw Maffei, which was deliberately to divert the attention of the inner ghost, so that the inner ghost who killed him would not notice the real clue.

From another point of view, Makanov knows that it is very difficult for him to deal with this inner ghost alone, and if he does not use this method, he will also be able to destroy the inner ghost in a short time, in that case, he will not be able to pass on the information to Maffei, and everything will be wasted.

Maffei rummaged through the garbage twice, but did not get too obvious clues, she sat there and recalled, remembering that the moment Makanov left the hotel room, he once took out a box of cigarettes, and there was only one cigarette left, but he did not throw away the cigarette case, but put it back, and what was even stranger was that he actually started smoking Chinese cigarettes.

But in the past, Makanov smoked only two kinds of cigarettes, either Chesfeld or Russian camels, and he never smoked Chinese cigarettes, thinking that they were not strong enough.

Thinking of this, Maffei began to clean out the cigarette cases of the brand that Makanov had taken from the garbage heap, found five cigarette cases, and then searched them one by one, and finally saw two rows of numbers behind the tin foil of one of the packs, the first row of numbers was several three-digit numbers, and the second row was like a phone number.

Ma Fei took out her mobile phone, and after thinking for a long time, she dialed the phone number in the second row, and after dialing out, no one answered the phone, maybe because it was a landline in a certain place, and no one answered during this time period, so she could only take the cigarette case and return to the hotel after confirming that it was complete.

In addition, in the underground river waterfall of the Xiangxi Labyrinth, under the leadership of the so-called corpse chaser, the torturers and others walked to the depths of the cave, and walked along the stairs formed by the natural shallow pool to the top of the cave, where they found several caves connected together, of different sizes, but with various daily necessities and other strange objects.

And the "corpse chaser" also took off his hat and took off his outer cloak, revealing the face of a Westerner, grinning at them.

Tan Tong was stunned for a moment, thinking that he was hallucinating, rubbed his eyes, looked at it carefully, and asked, "Is it a foreigner?" What the heck? ”

The foreigner immediately waved his hand: "I'm not a ghost, my name is Kent, and my full name is Chuck. Kent! ”

As soon as the foreigner's voice fell, Samuchuan rushed up, lifted the mountain knife in his hand and slashed directly at Kent's head, Yan Gang's eyes were quick, and he directly knocked down Samuchuan who jumped in mid-air, and after Samuchuan fell to the ground, Xingshu and Tan Tong immediately stepped forward to suppress him.

Torture shouted, "Calm down! Let's figure out what's going on! ”

Samuchuan struggled desperately there, glaring at Kent: "Do you still need to figure it out?" This is the guy who killed my buddies back then! ”

After Samuchuan finished speaking, Kent was very excited, looked at Samuchuan carefully, and then took a few steps back, pointed at him and said, "You, you are in a group with those people who came to kill me, you are in a group!" You're not dead yet, and you're bringing someone else to kill me! ”

As Kent spoke, he immediately looked at the strange man who stopped not far away, the so-called Tingzu, and was about to open his mouth to command the Tingzu, when the torturer stepped forward, covered Kent's mouth, and pressed it against the rock on one side, while holding the dagger across his throat.

Torture looked directly into Kent's eyes and said: "Listen, I just want to find out what the truth of the matter is now, if you still want to make mistakes on top of mistakes, then I'm sorry, a few of us are going to kill you and your monster, as far as the current situation is concerned, it is completely easy, so, every word you say from now on, it should not be to command that monster, but to explain it all to us." ”

When Kent heard this, he was immediately surprised, "Do you know what that thing is? ”

Xingshu nodded slightly: "Probably, I know that he has taken a drug and can follow your command, and he is not considered a dead person, at most half of the dead, medically speaking, he should be a living person." ”

Kent nodded vigorously: "Finally, someone finally understands me, finally someone understands!" That's great! That's great! ”

Kent suddenly became happy, which made the torture technique feel strange, but he was now desperate to find out the identity of the strange man, so he turned to Yan Gang and said, "Hades, you go and take off that monster's hat and cloak to see who he really is." ”

After finishing speaking, the torturer said coldly to Kent: "Mr. Kent, I advise you not to say anything too much, if you try to say a word that can command that monster, I will let you see God immediately." ”

Kent shut up and nodded vigorously.

At this time, Tan Tong in the rear was still pressing Samuchuan, and Samuchuan's attention was also shifted from Kent to Yan Gang, who was about to uncover the monster's hat.

Yan Gang was still a little nervous, after all, he had seen this monster immortal by the crossbow arrow before, and its strength was huge, after all, the Pu knife was still wearing an iron chain, and it was definitely impossible to wield it flexibly.

Walking up to the monster, Yan Gang glanced back at the torture technique, the torture technique nodded at him, he raised his hand to uncover the hat, but did not uncover it, at this time Kent wanted to speak, the torture technique immediately pressed his hand covering his mouth, Kent immediately shook his head, raised his hand and pointed to the position of his chin.

The torture technique recalled, turned his head and said: "Hades, there is a rope under the hat, you untie it first." ”

The nervous Yan Gang then remembered that the hat should have a rope tied to the chin, otherwise it would be easy to fall off, so he leaned over to untie the rope, and when he leaned over and looked down, he looked up from below, not only saw the monster's dead face very clearly, but also saw that the monster was looking down at him.

Yan Gang was startled and trembled subconsciously, and Tan Tong immediately asked, "Hades, are you okay?" ”

"I didn't ...... It's okay. Yan Gang swallowed his saliva, took a deep breath, stepped forward two or three times to untie the rope, took off the monster's hat, and then immediately took it off and looked at the monster's face.

Then the light of the torches in the cavern made it clear to everyone that the monster's entire head was dead gray, not only had no hair, not even eyebrows, in short, no hair, and the skin on its face was wrinkled and crammed together, and its eye sockets were sunken as if it had been hit hard, and the cheekbones on both sides were towering, as if they were about to pierce the skin.

The most important thing is that the eyes, which are blood-red, as if they were packed with two red light bulbs.

But who is this man? How can there be a foreigner here? Could it be that this foreigner is the foreigner in the group of people who came in 1988? Thinking like this, Samukawa was about to ask, when Samuchuan suddenly shouted at the monster, "Safon! Safon! ”

While Samuchuan shouted, he pushed away Tan Tong, who was restraining him, ran forward, stepped forward and hugged the monster, and shouted, "Safeng!? Safon, what's wrong with you? ”

After shouting, Samuchuan turned around and rushed towards Kent again, threw the mountain knife in his hand straight over, and the torture technique subconsciously raised his hand to grab the mountain knife, raised the knife and aimed it at Samuchuan and shouted: "Samuchuan, calm down for me, if you have something to ask, now, give me five meters back!" ”

Samuchuan saw from the eyes of the torture that he was not joking, tried his best to control himself, and said as he retreated: "That's Safeng, it's my cousin, my aunt's son, I thought he died here, but he turned into this kind of thing, let that dead foreigner turn him back!" ”

Torture nodded slightly, and then without looking back, he grabbed Kent and asked, "Did you hear that?" You should now tell us what is going on, first of all, you have to tell me, is this person you are controlling dead or alive? ”

Everyone looked at Kent, waiting for his answer, and Tan Tong slowly walked to Samuchuan's side, worried that Samuchuan would be impulsive again, so he could restrain him and prevent him from doing stupid things.

Kent looked at Safeng, raised his hand and pointed at it, he couldn't say anything for a long time, Samuchuan was about to step forward again, but he was hugged by Tan Tong, and he frowned: "Answer!" ”

"You're right, he's not really alive, but he's not really dead, he's half alive, and I judge that his brain is already in a semi-dormant state!" Kent said, patting his head, which looked very weird, and said something in English, "I'm a doctor, how can I say such a thing, but it's true, it's really like that, it's so weird." ”

Yan Gang in the distance asked, "Why does the dead foreigner speak English again?" What is he talking about? ”

Tan Tong's English level is average, Samuchuan listened to it, and the only thing present who could hear it clearly was the torture technique, which was translated, and then asked: "Kent, you have to start from the beginning, what the hell is going on, did you come here in 1988?" Why come? What is the purpose? ”

Kent fumbled with the wall, walked to the side, then sat down on a chair made of sticks tied together, groped through the spectator jar for a while, found something wrapped in oiled paper, took out a pile of notebooks, papers, and the like, and finally took out a green notebook and handed it over.

Xingshu looked at the green book, and subconsciously said, "Passport? Or the kind of old passports that used to be in the United States? ”

Kent nodded vigorously, tears oozing from his eyes: "My name is Chuck. Kent, I'm a graduate student at the Yale University School of Medicine in the United States, at least I was, I should say, I was a real medical graduate student before I was tricked by those guys. ”

Tan Tong was very impatient with Kent's opening remarks: "Hey, can you make it clear from the beginning, what is going on?" What you say is nonsense, no one wants to listen to your feelings, and how did you learn Chinese in this place, in front of a group of dead people, although the pronunciation is not standard, but it is not bad. ”

Torture also looked at Kent, expecting his answer, for he was also deeply surprised that Kent was able to speak Chinese fluently.

"In 1987, I was still working on a topic about cancer in school, and this problem is still a medical problem, and I couldn't find the easiest solution until Mills came to me." Kent said this, without waiting for a criminal question, and immediately explained, "Mills is a lawyer who works for an import and export trading company, which is called the Cusco Import and Export Trading Company. ”

Hearing this, the torturer was stunned: "Cusco? Isn't Cusco an international treasure hunt company? ”

"No, no, no, it's an import and export trading company." Kent immediately shook his head, thought for a moment and said, "I can only say that when they found me, it was still an import and export trading company. ”

Torture pondered for a moment, then nodded for Kent to continue......

Kent agreed to cooperate with Mills without knowing his full name, and the reason was that Mills brought him a strange potion, and told him that this potion could prolong human life, provided that the person's main organs did not suffer major trauma, and took Kent to a secret warehouse of the Cusco company, so that Kent could see the effect of the drug - they made a patient with terminal cancer take the potion, And this cancer patient, who originally lived less than a month, miraculously survived from January to May of that year, although he became a walking corpse.

For several months, Kent had been observing the patient in the warehouse, and found that the cancer cells had not spread, and a small number of cancer cells had even calcified, which made Kent excited, and asked Mills where this miraculous potion came about. Because Mills never gave him that kind of potion to do research, and Mills told him that the kind of potion was accidentally obtained by their company, and if they still needed it, they had to go to the mysterious country of the East, that is, China.

Almost without a second thought, Kent agreed to go to China with Mills.

At that time, Sino-US relations had eased, it should be said that it was in the honeymoon period, but also in August of the same year in 1987, the Sino-US investment and trade law seminar was held in Beijing, at that time led by the US Secretary of Justice, with a team of nearly 2,000 lawyers to Beijing, before that, the secretary of justice had sent an invitation letter to lawyers across the United States, hoping that well-known lawyers in the United States would enthusiastically sign up to participate, at that time the number of participants reached 20,000, and finally under the agreement, 2,000 people were identified to attend the meeting.

Mills took advantage of the meeting to bring himself, Kent and Bauer, another former U.S. Marine and now a lawyer, to China, and at the same time apply for relevant tourist visas, explaining his intention to travel to the Hunan area after the meeting.

It should be said that all the formalities that Mills went through were completely legal, and they did not hide from the Chinese authorities their intention to go to Xiangxi, and stated on the documents that they wanted to go to the mountains of Xiangxi to investigate some plants and animals.

After a long period of review, the domestic public security department agreed to their request, and at the same time sent people from the local public security department to assist them.

Kent said this and thought about it, and said: "At that time, 10 of us set off, except for me, Mills and Bauer, the remaining 7 people are Chinese, 2 of them came from Beijing with us, 1 was waiting for us to accompany us in Changsha, it should be the police, and 3 were looking for locals." ”

When Tan Tong heard this, he folded his fingers and calculated: "Hey, there are only 6 Chinese, and what about another one?" ”

Kent said: "There is another person who arrived first, waiting for us in the mountains, it is a person hired by Mills with a lot of money, Mills said, if there is no this person, it is unlikely that he will survive in this deep mountain, but at that time, I was most worried about the two people from Beijing, and the people who received us at Changsha Airport, I know, those three people must be police." ”

Torture silently calculated in his mind, Kent, Mills and Bauer were a total of 3 foreigners, counting 3 policemen, plus 3 porters and 1 guide, exactly 10 people, which was about the same as when he found the camp.

However, the most curious thing about the torture technique was the guide, because Kent obviously respected the guide in his tone, so he asked: "Can you remember the names of those Chinese at that time?" ”

Kent shook his head: "Except for the guide, I can't remember the names of others, although I made up Chinese for a period of time, but it was only a beginner level, and all I could understand was some basic greetings and the like." ”

Torture nodded slightly, and asked, "What's the name of that guide?" ”

Kent immediately replied: "Chen Taidong! ”

"What?" The torture technique was stunned for a moment, trembled, and immediately asked again, "What do you say, you say it again!" ”

Kent thought that he hadn't heard the torture clearly, so he whispered word by word: "Chen, Tai, Dong!" ”

The torture technique was immediately stunned, and Tan Tong, Samuchuan, and Yan Gang also judged from his expression that he knew this person.

Tan Tong immediately asked: "Criminal art, do you know this Chen Taidong?" ”

"I can't say I know him, but ......," Torture looked puzzled, "but I'm too familiar with this person." ”