When Zhenpachi walked into the basement, he still had a medicine box on his back, and then nodded to everyone, and then went to the torture bed and sat down, opened the medicine box, and took out two medicine bags wrapped in brown paper from inside.

Torture looked at the medicine bag and asked, "When did you come back?" ”

"He Yuejia is dead." Yuan Zhenba said bluntly, "He died in the jade cave of the Jiacuo Hall and committed suicide." ”

Everyone present was dumbfounded, and the torture technique just looked at Yuan Zhenba blankly, so surprised that he couldn't say a word.

Yuan Zhenba pointed to the medicine bag and said: "These two packs of medicine are used to regulate the body, and the bag of 'one' is fried for three days, boiled with five bowls of water every morning, and the water in the medicine jar is only submerged on the medicinal materials, and the remaining bag is boiled five days after taking the first pack, and the method is also to boil five bowls of water into half a bowl." ”

Torture came back to his senses and asked, "Why...... How...... How so? ”

Yuan Zhenba hesitated for a moment, glanced at the others, and then told the truth about the events of that day, without missing any details, and then also asked them about what happened over there, and Tan Tong and Yan Gang also recounted it.

After listening to the torture, he said: "In this way, it will be completely cleared, Fan Meng and Xu You are both working for the Cusco Company, but even Sheng Feng, who is a tattooed weasel, doesn't know this, and thinks that these two people are helping him, and He Yuejia is also kept in the dark." ”

Yuan Zhen said: "The Cusco company is really powerful, they know that it is impossible for one person to complete two things, so they simply let the two of them complete it separately, Xu You should be going to investigate the whereabouts of Kent, who knows that Kent is still alive, so he took Kent away, but I think his original plan was to find the kind of 'wrath of the witch god', that is, the miracle medicine of the corpse chaser 'next world', who knows that Kent is still alive, this is undoubtedly the best result for Xu You." ”

Xingshu nodded: "Fan Meng is responsible for finding clues to Qimen, so that what the two of them do is not repeated, and they don't know each other yet, no, to be exact, Xu You should know it well, although he has a mental illness, he is very smart." ”

Tan Tong immediately said on the side: "How can a madman be so smart? ”

Xingshu looked at Tan Daodao: "In this special care hospital, there are people who are smarter than us, and they live here for treatment because they have mental and psychological diseases, not because they are stupid. ”

Tan Tong nodded and looked at Yan Gang, who shook his head slightly at him.

Yuan Zhenba then said: "Although you didn't ask, I still have to tell you that after we left the mountain, Fan Meng found an opportunity to slip away by himself because he was worried about He Chenxue and my revenge, but Miss He already knew what the clues left on the jade were before that, and I estimate that Fan Meng can also find out the clues on it by using scientific and technological means." ”

The torture technique immediately asked, "What is the clue written on the jade bi?" ”

"I don't know." Yuan Zhenba shook his head, "Only He Chenxue knows, I came here for two things, first, to tell you for He Chenxue, she will wait for you in the underground cave where her father lived before, and make a deal with you, second, I will follow you after being entrusted by someone to find out the clues of Qimen, as for who I am entrusted with, I can't say, this is professional ethics, I hope you can understand, but this person is not Miss He." ”

Yuan Zhenba's words confused the torture technique, since it was not entrusted by He Chenxue, who could it be? Why did Yuan Zhenba accept this commission? Is it because he didn't find the 'wrath of the witch god' and decided to follow himself to continue his investigation and find out the secrets of the Cusco company?

When the torture was thinking of this, Yuan Zhenba explained: "Maybe you guessed, my purpose is still that kind of medicine, but now let me go back to Xiangxi, I can't find out anything by myself, since Xu You took Kent away, it means that they have important clues in their hands, and the Cusco company is eyeing you again, so I follow you, and sooner or later I will meet them." ”

Torture frowned: "What if I don't agree?" ”

Yuan Zhen said: "Then I will always follow you!" ”

Xingshu pondered for a moment, got up and said, "I'm going to see He Chenxue." ”

"Wait a minute." Yuan Zhenba took out his other equipment, "Excuse me, I want to take some of your blood for a check-up, because I am very interested in the poison you have and the ghost worm, I don't understand why Safon's body shrank and died after being bitten, but you didn't have anything at all." ”

When the torture technique was about to speak, Liao Hongmei, who had been standing in the corner and had been listening quietly, came out and asked, "Did you really see the ghost worm?" ”

Xingshu looked at Liao Hongmei and nodded slightly.

Liao Hongmei stepped forward, let the torture technique turn around, and then went to carefully check the location of the wound, and said: "When you talked about ghost insects before, I still didn't believe it, because in the legends of the Miao people, very few people can survive when they see ghost insects, and I once ...... Oh my God, did you really get bitten by a ghost bug? ”

While Liao Hongmei looked at the wound, others also surrounded her.

Yuan Zhenba asked: "Senior, do you know ghost insects?" ”

"I'm from the Hmong ethnic group." Liao Hongmei got up and said, "Judging from the wound, it is indeed a wound left by the ghost insect's palatine teeth, but why are you not at all?" Also, the kind of half-human and half-worm you mentioned before, I guess it's really the legendary Gu. ”

Yuan Zhenba's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked, "Senior, is there really a Gu?" ”

Liao Hongmei took a chair and sat down: "Gu and poison refer to two kinds of things in general, but Gu contains poison, just as the gem in the general refers also contains jade, but it is a reason that gems and jade are separated." In the legend, it is Gu who is alive, after the ghost insect appeared in the legend of the Miao people, Gu poison began to really prevail as soon as it was said, so later there were also Miao scholars who believed that ghost insects and Gu poison had a close relationship, I heard my master say before, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, that is, almost during the Miao uprising, there were people who wanted to re-refine Gu poison to deal with the Qing soldiers, but failed. ”

The torturer asked, "What does it mean to fail?" ”

Liao Hongmei explained: "Refining Gu, unlike ordinary boiling medicine, the success rate is extremely low, the real refining method has not really been handed down, all the methods and methods that are circulating now are based on legends, imagined by later generations, of course, there is one point, it is basically correct, that is, let poisons and poisons kill each other." ”

Yuan Zhenba asked again: "Then, when the Miao people rebelled at the end of the Qing Dynasty, how did they refine it?" ”

"First of all, the container, the container for refining Gu poison is not something like a ding, a pot, or anything like that, but a person." Liao Hongmei frowned and said, "But I don't know whether it's a dead person or a living person, but because it is impossible to use a living person to refine, it is too cruel, so I found a dying person, under the premise of his willingness, after he died, put the paralyzed snakes, geckos, toads, centipedes, and scorpions into his hollowed-out abdominal cavity, and then sealed them, put them on a slightly hot shelf and roast them slowly, and use the temperature to make the five poisons gradually sober up, and after sobering, the five poisons will kill each other." ”

Tan Daodao: "The one who survived is Gu?" ”

"No, nothing can survive at that temperature." Liao Hongmei shook her head, "The purpose is to completely infiltrate the poison of the five poisons into the corpse, and then cut off the flesh of the corpse's abdomen and back for refining, but at this point, the people at that time didn't know what to do, so after experimenting many times, all failed, and finally had to give up." ”

Yuan Zhenba pondered for a while: "There is something wrong here, the gecko among the five poisons is only slightly poisonous, and the toxicity is not as great as the legend, especially the gecko urine in folklore, which has been tested for a long time." And geckos are originally a kind of lizards, not every kind of lizard is poisonous, I have also done experiments, experiments have proved that ordinary geckos are poisonous and immortal, but the liquid oozing from their bodies or body surfaces is accidentally drunk, which will cause sore throat and inflammation, and will also produce a foreign body sensation. ”

Tan Tongtong looked at Yuan Zhenba with strange eyes, as if to say: I'll go, you are also a psychopath.

Liao Hongmei looked at Yuan Zhen Badao: "The most important point is the ghost insect, and later I suspected that the centipede in the five poisons actually refers to the centipede that I usually see, but the kind of ghost insect, so, the half-worm and half-human thing you just said in Dingzhong, I guess it may be Gu, no matter what, no one can find out this kind of thing, since the torture is fine, that is the best result, I have to work, you talk slowly." ”

Liao Hongmei got up as she said and walked a few steps, but she stopped and wanted to say something, but she held back and strode away with her tools.

Torture sat there, silent, his mind a mess.

Hundreds of kilometers away, in the Dulbert grassland, Ma Fei, Zheng Cangqiong, and Chen Taidong had dug a two-meter-deep pit under the mountain bag, but there were no bones except for a completely broken and crumbled military coat.

Chen Taidong grabbed the shovel and was stunned, then jumped into the pit, brandished the shovel and continued to dig, saying while digging: "Impossible! It's obviously buried here, how is it possible! How can it be! ”

Ma Fei looked at Zheng Cangqiong, and Zheng Cangqiong just threw down the shovel and sat there, looking at Chen Taidong: "Don't dig it, Lian Jiuqi must not have died, he must have been rescued, after we dug the pit at that time, we buried him, and then left in a hurry, not staying here for a long time at all, who knows what happened later?" ”

Chen Taidong continued to dig, but Ma Fei asked: "Senior, why are you suddenly interested in this Lian Jiuqi?" Why did you join forces to deal with Lian Jiuqi in the first place? ”

Maffei was careful with her words, using the phrase "join forces to deal with" rather than "join forces to kill".

"We Chinese have a deep-rooted idea, that is, our own things, not passed on, since ancient times, what crafts, martial arts, many are not passed on to children, or absolutely do not pass on foreign surnames, let alone let foreigners understand and touch. I'm the same, Chen Taidong is the same, and the other 7 people back then are the same. Zheng Cangqiong raised his eyes and looked at Ma Fei, "Even Jiuqi is to violate this taboo, when we were nine people, we were called 'nine sons' by the same people in the rivers and lakes, that is, the meaning of 'dragon born nine sons', we compiled a book based on what we know and gained, the book is more detailed, we know the ancient ruins and tombs on the land of China, etc., many of which are not known to outsiders, including hand-drawn illustrations, many of which are directly taken from the map information left by the predecessors and put in, relatively accurate......

That book was jokingly called "Nine Sons" by Zheng Cangqiong and others, in fact, this book is not complete, after all, on the land of China, there have been too many secrets left for thousands of years, even if the nine of them have the ability to reach the sky, it is impossible to really find out all the secrets, the most important thing is that there is no record of the address of Qimen in "Nine Sons", because the nine sons do not know where Qimen is, which is also the most regrettable place that Zheng Cangqiong thinks.

The person who originally proposed to compile such a book of "Nine Sons", Qian Xiuye, nicknamed the King of Youzhou, was the most respected person among the nine people, and he was also the most knowledgeable and experienced chaser.

The reason why Qian Xiuye proposed to write such a book was to protect these relics and ancient tombs, his original meaning was to write two books, one true and one false, really hidden, and fake to let it appear, so that everyone's attention would be on the fake one, so as to achieve the purpose of covering up the real "Nine Sons".

Maffei asked puzzledly, "Since you don't want people to know, shouldn't you write this book?" ”

"No, you're wrong." Zheng Cangqiong shook his head and said, "There are many places where later generations actually know all seven, seven, eight, eight, but incomplete, our purpose is to confuse their clues, so that they think that they can take a shortcut if they find the "Nine Sons", but in fact, in the process of finding the fake "Nine Sons", it will cause them to fail again and again, even if they find it, they will not be able to find the real place, and eventually all their efforts will be lost." ”

When Zheng Cangqiong said this, Chen Taidong, who had given up excavation, also climbed up, and continued: "Even if someone finds out that the book is fake and spreads the word, others will not believe it, and they will still fight, and everyone will think that person wants to swallow it alone, so it is said that what is recorded in the "Nine Sons Map" is fake. ”

Ma Fei nodded: "That is to say, using people's selfishness to set an invisible but extremely effective trap to protect these ancient ruins?" ”

The tired Chen Taidong said: "Yes, that's the case, the nine of us spent 10 years to write this book, and when the book was just completed, there was a big problem, a big trouble, Lian Jiuqi, who helped us sort out the information of this book, sold a copy that was not too detailed, but also basically the same as the real "Nine Sons", to a Hong Kong person, the most troublesome thing is that this Lian Jiuqi is still someone's apprentice. ”

"Don't talk about someone, let's be honest, a family ugly is a family ugly." Zheng Cangqiong stared at the deep pit, "Lian Jiuqi is my apprentice. ”

Ma Fei had actually guessed this, she just nodded silently, but now she began to worry about the torture technique, if the torture technique knew that his father Lian Jiuqi was killed by the master, and the master deliberately went to a mental hospital to take care of him and raise him in order to atone for his crimes, what would he do? Will he get revenge?

Chen Taidong looked at the flock of sheep in the distance: "Lian Jiuqi thought we didn't know, but Brother Qian was very angry, thinking that Lian Jiuqi had violated the biggest taboo, so Zheng Cangqiong found a way to save it, and in desperation, we had to let Foshan Bird Ye Suxin in Guangdong and Cai Nayun, the opening leopard, find a way to snatch the copy back from the hands of the Hong Kong man, who knew that the Hong Kong man resold the copy to an Englishman, and the matter became impossible to clean up, Ye Suxin and Cai Nayun also killed the Hong Kong man by mistake in the process of snatching, The Englishman was also seriously injured, and Ye Suxin was killed by the police when he fled Hong Kong, and the copy was recovered, but there were heavy casualties. ”

Cai Nayun, who took back the copy and came to Harbin, was furious, because Ye Suxin was his wife, and all of this was caused by Lian Jiuqi, so everyone asked Zheng Cangqiong to give an explanation.

Zheng Cangqiong is also very clear, in fact, what everyone wants is not to explain, but to take the life of Lian Jiuqi!

Because of Lian Jiuqi's greed, two people died, Cai Nayun took a life on his back, and he lost his beloved wife, this kind of loss is irreparable, and there is no room for negotiation.

So, Zheng Cangqiong set a trap and asked Lian Jiuqi to go to the grassland with them to find a monument, in fact, in order to kill Lian Jiuqi and bury it on the spot.

Just like that, on that snowy night, Lian Jiuqi was surrounded by Jiuzi under the mountain bag, and they joined forces to kill and bury it.

However, Lian Jiuqi survived, and the pit in front of him that only the broken army coat was left is the best evidence, of course, there is a more important evidence is the first test given to Ma Fei by the Cusco company, which is to come to China to investigate the so-called Qimen, from the time Ma Fei appeared in the Tiandifu incident and came to visit Zheng Cangqiong for the first time, he realized that something was wrong.

Indeed, anyone who knows the rules knows about worshipping the dock, but Ma Fei is like Ma Fei, who hardly understands these rules in the mainland, who taught her? How can the people in Cusco understand this? Do you still know Zheng Cangqiong?

In addition, in the later Shengfeng Weasel incident, Shengfeng's too many strategies made Zheng Cangqiong realize that there must be someone behind him who was familiar with all this to instruct him and arrange him, otherwise, no matter how smart Shengfeng was, he would not be able to lay out such an excellent game within a game.

Zheng Cangqiong asked: "Ma Fei, there is one thing, I need to confirm with you now, when you went back to China and came to Harbin to hand over the door and pay homage to the wharf, it was the people of Cusco Company who taught you, right?" ”

Ma Fei nodded: "Yes, they sent me an email and arranged my preliminary activities in detail, including the preliminary investigation of the insiders in Harbin, I was actually surprised at that time, I felt that the Cusco company was really powerful, and it could know so many traditional rules in ancient China, these things, even many Chinese themselves do not know." ”

Zheng Cangqiong smiled bitterly, shook his head and said: "That's right, for so many years, people who are familiar with my way of doing things, know what I will do and what I won't do, except for torture, there is only Lian Jiuqi, including later Sheng Feng asked his son to invite me out of the mountain with gifts, I think, I'm afraid it was also arranged by Lian Jiuqi, but even Sheng Feng didn't know that it was Lian Jiuqi." ”

"Indeed, there weren't many people who knew Lian Jiuqi back then, and he was your closed disciple." When Chen Taidong said this, he realized something, "Will Lian Jiuqi already know that the torture technique is his son?" ”

Zheng Cangqiong shook his head: "I'm not sure, the only thing that is certain is that Lian Jiuqi will definitely separate me from the torture technique, let the torture master think that I will betray him, or let the torture technique betray me This is his revenge plan." ”