Chapter Twenty-Six: Docking Exits
The torture technique lay there, silent, trying to keep calm, after a long time, he raised his head and said softly: "Sanqian, you continue to climb, talk about it when you get to the end, take a closer look, there must be a way, Pan Feng and Xiaobai can climb out, we will definitely be able to, rest assured, listen to me." ”
"Good!" Hu Sanqian took a deep breath and continued to crawl forward, when he used a flashlight to see the end, he was still ten meters away, and he was also on an inclined plane, but when he climbed almost five meters, he obviously felt a dizziness in his head, although it was only for a moment, he still felt it.
Immediately afterwards, Hu Sanqian climbed a few meters quickly, the dizziness did not strike again, he turned his head sideways and said: "Miss He, you crawl to me, climb slowly, slowly, I say stop, you stop!" ”
He Chenxue stopped crying, gritted her teeth and crawled slowly, just climbed a meter, the feeling of dizziness immediately struck, this time whether it was Hu Sanqian or He Chenxue and the torture technique, they all obviously felt it, and as soon as the torture technique touched the ground of the passage under him, he immediately said: "This passage is active!" ”
Hu Sanqian responded: "Yes, I also found out, but I don't know the specific rules of activity." ”
While speaking, Hu Sanqian used a flashlight to shine on the wall at the end of the opposite side, while climbing towards the front, while paying attention, this time he climbed faster and fiercely, climbed for a while, and found that the wall in front of him was moving towards it, and at the same time he also felt his body sinking, and then the passage that was originally inclined upwards instantly flattened and became a straight line.
"I see." Hu Sanqian in front of him, "This passage can really move up and down, just like a seesaw, but we are in the seesaw, we have passed the central support point of the seesaw, and the combined weight of Miss He and I is heavier than that of you, so the original inclined passage sinks, I am thinking, the torture technique must be heavier on your end." ”
"What do you mean?" I didn't understand the torture.
Hu Sanqian explained: "That is to say, if you don't count the weight of the three of us, if you use the original weight of the channel, the tail you are on is much heavier, so it will cause the channel to be turned down and up." ”
"Got it!" "So, the real exit of the passage is somewhere on the wall directly opposite the passage, as long as we find the right position, put the passage mouth facing the exit, and then find a way to fix it, we can get out smoothly." ”
Hu Sanqian smiled at this time: "Do you know what I'm thinking? I'm thinking right now that we're in a spaceship that is preparing to dock with the space station manually. ”
"Don't be poor! Let's figure it out! Torture urged behind.
Hu Sanqian turned his head slightly: "Miss He, you climb one meter further to my position." ”
He Chenxue gritted her teeth and crawled, and then the passage continued to sink downward, Hu Sanqian saw that he still couldn't see the entrance of the passage, so he simply climbed to the front, who knew that he had just climbed less than two meters, and the front of the passage suddenly sank downward, and Hu Sanqian also fell directly because he didn't grasp both sides.
Hu Sanqian's head was planted, which directly led to a sudden increase in the weight of the front end of the passage, and the entire passage was directly facing down, and it seemed that it was about to become a ninety-degree right angle to the bottom, and He Chenxue was also dragged down because of Hu Sanqian's planting, and even the safety rope around his waist was dragged down.
Hu Sanqian, who rushed down with his head down, waved his hands in front of him, although he touched both sides several times, but because the falling speed was too fierce, he couldn't fix his body at all, just when he was desperate, his body suddenly sank, and he subconsciously closed his eyes, and when he opened his eyes, he found that his body had not sunk down, but hung head-down in the passage.
Hu Sanqian's headlamp had a problem because of the previous collision and could not be turned on, and now it was pitch black in front of him.
"Torture! Hold on! Hu Sanqian knew that it was the torture technique in the rear that grabbed He Chenxue's ankle, because he was connected to He Chenxue with a rope, so as long as He Chenxue didn't fall down, he wouldn't.
At this time, the last torture technique was completely by getting his feet stuck in the stone gaps in the passage to fix his body, and his hands grabbed He Chenxue's ankles, holding them hard, and shouted at the same time: "Chenxue, you support both sides with your hands, I can't last long in this posture." ”
He Chenxue was also working hard at this time, supporting both sides hard, and Hu Sanqian also fixed his body by the trend, and turned around and said: "Miss He, you throw the safety rope to the torture technique, and let the torture technique be tied to the waist, so that it can be relieved." ”
He Chenxue shook his head: "No, I can't free my hand, even if I free my hand, the torture technique is above me, and I can't throw it up." ”
Hu Sanqian had to say: "Okay, let's find a posture that makes you comfortable first, and then listen to my command, and slowly retreat to the back, and the torture technique will also retreat!" ”
When Hu Sanqian spoke, he always felt that there was something in front of him, because the headlamp was broken before, he couldn't see it at all, so he could only free one hand, adjusted the angle of the shoulder lamp, and turned it on after facing downward, the moment it was opened, after Hu Sanqian saw clearly what was below, he was so frightened that goosebumps broke out all over his body - the passage is now facing the bottom, it should be a pool, although the mouth of the passage is only so big, but because it can be moved, it is still shaking up and down slightly, shaking at the same time, He could clearly see the shattered bones in the pool below, and the silver-glowing ants crawling among the bones!
"It's Thorn Silver!" Hu Sanqian shouted, "Quick! Move backwards! Avoid the following for now! Hurry up, hurry up! ”
Hearing Hu Sanqian say this, he quickly climbed back, He Chenxue also crawled backwards, although he had not seen such a thing as thorn silver with his own eyes, but he had also heard the master talk about it, it was a kind of cold land ant, a variant of termites, the earliest discovery was in the Three Kingdoms period, when the Wei State strengthened the river embankment, a large pile of crushed stones and wood chips were found from the decaying river embankment, and this extremely corrosive ant was also found, and their reproductive ability was very terrifying, more than one queen ant in a group, If a colony of thorny silver ants appeared in a building, the house would be eaten by all these scary critters in just three months!
Because this kind of ant is silvery-white, there is a single thorn in the upper jaw, so it is called thorn silver, this kind of ant is easily frightened, once frightened, it will immediately enter the attack state, there are crazy people in the later stage, put this kind of thing into some kind of organ designed by themselves, there are also folk records that this kind of ant can be used in medicine, taken daily according to the dose, can play a role in strengthening bones.
The rapid retreat of the three of them finally allowed the passage to get up again and maintain its balance, but at the moment of getting up, Hu Sanqian also saw the exit on the wall that was about the same size as the entrance of the passage, and after he knew that there was hope, he finally lay down and panted: "It was really nine deaths just now, if we fall, there will definitely be no corpses." ”
He Chenxue was also frightened, and paused for a while before asking, "What exactly is the thorn silver you said just now?" ”
"An ant." "I've never seen it." ”
"This is the second time I've seen you, and the first time is in Liuzhou, Guangxi." Hu Sanqian took a few deep breaths and tried to calm down his emotions, "I finished my errand in Liuzhou, and by the way, I went to visit an old friend of my father, who is an old coffin maker, Liuzhou coffins are famous all over the world, everyone knows it. That time, I saw him crack a coffin for someone. ”
He Chenxue frowned: "Organ coffin? ”
"Yes, in fact, in the final analysis, these practices are all anti-theft tombs, and the same is true of the heaven and earth tombs I said before, there are many types of coffins, and the most common is to hide burial goods in the baffle. But that time I saw someone put the thorn silver into a cassette, the cassette was made of stainless steel, and the mechanism was mainly opened using a spring, but simple, right? But I didn't understand why I used a spring, and later my father's friend told me that before the coffin was buried, according to the rules, a 'coffin base' that was two circles larger than the coffin, which is what we call a grave, so that the coffin could be hoisted down and then filled with earth. Hu Sanqian drank a sip of water after speaking, and said, "There are rules for filling the soil, in fact, you should fill the gap first, and wait for the soil below to be flush with the coffin itself, and then bury the above, so that the baffle on one side of the coffin will be in direct contact with the soil, and over time, the soil will be dry or wet because of the season, after all, people will not bury the coffin deeply, as long as the soil squeezes the coffin baffle to a certain extent, the cassette inside will be opened, and the thorn silver in it will be released, and then these things will eat the whole coffin." , and the body of the person in the coffin. ”
After speaking, Hu Sanqian shook his head again and said, "But what I don't understand is why an ant like Thorn Silver doesn't gnaw even the bones." ”
"I don't know, okay, enough rest, get ready, dock with the exit below!" Torture never wanted to stay in this hellish place anymore.
Outside the Jiangbei Yulan Orphanage, Fu Mingweizai, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, carefully looked at the painting brought by Dong Guozhi, as well as the note, the words on the note were obviously a hint, no, it was explicit, he was almost certain that Pan Feng was the person now, and he didn't want to escape at all.
Dong Guozhi asked in front: "Team Fu, why did Pan Feng go to find a torture technique?" ”
"I don't think it has much to do with our current case, I think the words on his note are written for both criminal and me, and he seems to be saying that the direction of our investigation is right, and it is one step away." Fu Mingwei said and looked at the pencil drawing again, "I went to see the studio just now, and the appearance of the studio is similar to that of this painting, but it has obviously been redecorated. ”
Dong Guozhi immediately asked, "Huh? Renovated? ”
Fu Mingwei nodded: "Yes, because during the painting process, things like paint will definitely fall, which is unavoidable, so it is impossible for the art classroom to use wooden floors, carpets or floor leather and the like, only floor tiles, but this classroom uses terrazzo floors." ”
Dong Guoyu asked strangely: "Then I can't tell if it's newly renovated?" ”
"In the past, when we were studying, the floor of the classroom was generally cement, but because the school building is not large and the scope is not large, we all use floor tiles, the kind with textures, which is easy to take care of and can also prevent students from falling. If you think about it, when the school is completed, it will use floor tiles, and all classrooms must use the same, I went to the teacher's office and saw that it is also the same floor tiles, even the principal's office, why did the studio use terrazzo when it was built? The floor tiles in the art classroom make sense, why use terrazzo? Fu Mingwei shook his head when he said this, "Therefore, the floor tiles in the studio were not made of terrazzo at the beginning, but terrazzo was later pried off and remade." ”
Dong Guozhi nodded: "Team Fu, what do you mean, what happened in the studio back then?" By the way, will there ever been a murder? There was blood that was hard to take care of, so I simply pried it open and redid it. ”
Fu Mingwei looked at the dormitory building of the orphanage with the lights still on outside the car window: "There is this possibility, because blood reactions cannot be covered up in a short time, and sometimes it will be counterproductive to use the wrong things to clean, but if this is really the case, the person who does this, even if he does not have medical knowledge, must have a strong anti-detection ability." ”
Fu Mingwei said and opened the car door and walked out, leaned on the car door and lit a cigarette, staring at the inside of the orphanage, in the dark, only the windows of the dormitory building were lit up, looking at it from a distance, like a monster lurking in the darkness waiting for an opportunity to devour everyone.
And Dong Guozhi answered the phone next to him, nodding his head constantly.
After a long time, Dong Guozhi came over with the phone and handed the phone to Fu Mingwei: "The information of Ji Dewu's case has been passed on. ”
Fu Mingwei took his mobile phone, opened the PDF file, looked at it, and then said: "It was Wu Zhinan who handled the Ji Dewu case back then, and the case was not solved, he must be ashamed." ”
Dong Guozhi also looked at his mobile phone closely: "Team Fu, I really don't understand, why Ji Dewu, as an art teacher here, was actually held hostage by Pan Feng and his gang, judging from the data, the result of the investigation that year was that he had a very good relationship with these students, although he had a weird personality, he could get along with the special students here, and he was very patient." ”
Fu Mingwei pointed to a line of words on the phone and said: "The most important thing is that Ji Dewu was also a student here back then, and he is also a person with autism, look, all the clues point here, but I always feel that something is wrong." ”
Dong Guozhi also agreed: "Yes, I think so too, it feels too deliberate." ”
"Yes, the clue is too obvious." Fu Mingwei bit his mouth and said, "Think about it, no matter how we investigate this case, even if there is no information on the criminal arts, we will find this school sooner or later, because this school is related to the main suspect in this case!" Whether it's Ji Dewu, or Pan Feng's foursome......" When he said this, Fu Mingwei suddenly took down the cigarette, "Qi Baye!" Quick, you quickly call Qi Baye to investigate and see if he is also related to this school. ”
Dong Guozhi immediately called, asked someone to transfer the information, and called up all the information files of Qi Baye, and at this time, Fu Mingwei walked directly to the gate of the school, regardless of the janitor's inquiry, grabbed the railing of the gate and looked at the school, as if he wanted to see through what the truth hidden in the darkness was.
Then the three people who crawled out of the passage sat against the wall of the next passage and gasped for breath. Torture looked at their previous passage, and after they left, they slowly lifted it up again, and the entrance of the cave moved away from the opposite interface of their current passage, and then raised his hand to look at his watch and said, "It's almost nine o'clock, and we will definitely spend the night in this ghost place tonight." ”
He Chenxue touched the surroundings, the passage they were in was much larger than the previous one, but the height could only make people squat forward with difficulty, but it was much wider, and the width was almost nearly two meters. Even if it was just that, it was enough to calm the emotions of the three of them, and as long as the road became wider and wider, the hope in their hearts would gradually overcome despair.
Hu Sanqian crawled on his knees in front for a while, shone it with a flashlight, and then turned it off and said, "I also have to save electricity, I don't know how far it is." ”
He Chenxue sat there eating the dry food handed over by the torture technique to replenish her strength, and her face was much better than before.
Torture also ate and asked, "Sanqian, have you ever been to a place like this before?" ”
"Never." Hu Sanqian shook his head, "The most complicated thing I have ever been to back then was that I was commissioned by a friend in the archaeological department to go to a cliff tomb with them, do you know the ancient tomb of Yunjiang?" ”
Torture nodded: "I heard it." ”
He Chenxue, who was stuffed with food in her mouth, also nodded and said, "I also know that I once went to visit a piece of ancient jade dug up from there, and the lines on it have never been seen before, which is very strange." ”
"Yes, it's not one ancient tomb, it's dozens of them together, and it's too late for us to go, and the tomb robbers have already taken all the valuable things inside." Hu Sanqian sighed and said, "Because the ancient tombs are connected, so one is stolen, and the others are all finished, and those guys can drill through the hole in the wall between the ancient tomb and the ancient tomb, but there is still a place under the ancient tomb, forget it, not to mention, my friend was also buried in it, and then I understood my father's words, he said, the ancients may be able to imagine what the future will look like, but some of the things that the ancients did, future generations may never be able to understand, and they can't understand." ”
Just when the three of them were talking, they suddenly heard the sound of something rolling, Hu Sanqian turned on the flashlight and immediately shone it forward, that is, the direction from which the sound came, and found that a bead rolled from the front, Hu Sanqian immediately felt out the coffin nail, pushed it sideways, blocked the bead, and then shone into the distance, wanting to see who threw this thing.
The torture technique immediately blocked in front of He Chenxue, and also stared ahead, this time, he and Hu Sanqian saw at the same time that at the corner of this passage in the distance, there was a man wearing a courier uniform with a corpse face on his face.
"Pan Feng!" The torture technique shouted for the first time, although the corpse was Bai Zhongzheng's, he recognized the burly figure and the uniform.
The moment the torture technique was shouted, Pan Feng sneered, took out Bai Zhongzheng's small crossbow from behind him, and shot a crossbow arrow directly at him.
Hu Sanqian's eyes were quick, and he directly shot down the crossbow arrow with another coffin nail, and at the same time, Pan Feng also put the second crossbow arrow on it, because he could only squat forward and couldn't run, so the torture technique and Hu Sanqian couldn't get close to him quickly at all, so they could only stand in place and find a way to defend.
"Let's play a game." Pan Feng didn't fire the second crossbow arrow, "This game is deadly, you win, Bai Zhongzheng can live, I can still give you a gift, if you lose, he will die, however, I will also accompany him to die, because killing people pays for their lives." ”
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