"Don't scare me!" After Sikong Yan held his breath, he roared violently.

This roar not only frightened the criminal arts, Chen Taidong and Ma Fei, who were engrossed in the investigation, but even She Caixiang, who was standing at the door of the house and originally wanted to scare Sikong Yan, was also frightened.

After shouting, Sikong Yan felt much better, but soon his legs were weak again, so he simply sat on the ground, took out the liquor, took a sip, and then said to himself: "Don't scare me, I'm about to be scared to death, really, don't scare me, really, don't scare me." ”

She Caixiang looked at Sikong Yan's appearance: "As for it?" I was scared like this. ”

The torturer stepped forward and asked, "Ah She, what's wrong?" Did you find anything? ”

She Caixiang pointed to the house: "This is not an ordinary town, this place is very strange. ”

Chen Taidong asked, "What do you mean?" ”

She Caixiang walked into the house: "Come and see for yourself." ”

Xingshu and the others followed, and Sikong Yan got up and walked last. After drinking a little wine, he felt a little more comfortable, took out the dagger and held it in his hand, and scolded a few words into the air in a low voice from time to time.

Xingshu stood in the big room on the first floor, shining a flashlight on the messy room: "The furniture in the house is all in the style of the late Qing Dynasty. ”

Maffei walked to the wall and reached out to touch the huge crack there: "How can there be such a big crack in this house?" ”

Chen Taidong also stepped forward to watch: "It should be caused by the earthquake, don't forget, in 08, there was a big earthquake in Sichuan." ”

Ma Fei stretched out his hand and touched it: "But with such a big earthquake, why are these houses still standing?" These buildings are not concrete structures, and an earthquake of magnitude 8 is enough to destroy the town. ”

She Caixiang stood in the middle of the room: "That's why I think it's strange, I suspect that the buildings here are all replicas. ”

At this time, Sikong Yan, who had drunk half a bottle of liquor, sat there with a strong drink, half-squinted his eyes, and asked, "What is a replica building?" ”

Chen Taidong explained: "It was rebuilt according to the old building, retaining the shape of the original building, and in some places even removing the bricks and tiles from the original building and filling it into the new building, but the foundation and the internal foundation of the wall were built according to modern construction technology." ”

"And that's not all." "You should pay attention to the fact that the staircase is reinforced, not the simple wooden structure staircase in ancient times, each step is embedded in the wall, and it can be seen from the cracks on the side that the staircase and the wood in the wall are fixed together, that is to say, this room is first framed with wood and cast iron, and then on the basis of the frame, bricks and tiles are added." ”

Chen Taidong frowned: "Cast iron? Where is it? ”

Chen Taidong stepped forward, looked at the position pointed by the torture technique, and then touched it with his hand: "It's really cast iron, strange, and it's not rusty, Sichuan is so wet, and the cast iron isn't rusty, it's too strange." ”

"Uncle Chen, this kind of technique should only be available to the Southwest Tie Tang family, right?" ”

Chen Taidong nodded: "Having said that, the technology of the Tang family of Southwest Iron cannot achieve the level of making cast iron stainless for a hundred years, and it will be almost the same as maintaining it for decades." ”

She Caixiang looked around: "According to your analysis, this town was rebuilt in a few decades, less than a hundred years?" But how many people do you have to use for this? ”

When Ma Fei heard this, he was thoughtful, and he looked at her and asked, "What did you think of?" ”

Ma Fei raised his eyes and said, "We have always wondered, why did Liu Baogu create a cult? Maybe that's why. ”

Sikong Yan had become confused next to him, but in fact, he didn't drink well.

She Caixiang said: "The cult in Liu Bao Valley should have started a few years ago, but it was built here at least a few decades ago. ”

Chen Taidong shook his head: "No, a few decades ago, you didn't need to create any cults at all, you could get people. ”

Xingshu nodded: "Yes, when Liu Baogu and they entered the mountain, it was a difficult period, and in that era, there were too many people who didn't see people alive and dead and didn't see corpses, so I think Liu Baogu and Liu Xiangui entered the mountain back then, it was not accidental." ”

"Da Liu! It's that Da Liu! Chen Taidong recalled carefully, "According to Liu Xiangui's recollection, after they arrived at the side of the mountain, it was Da Liu who proposed to take them to a place where they could eat and drink. ”

Torture also recalled: "Yes, after sleeping in the wild apple forest for a night, Da Liu and Liu Yuwa disappeared, thinking about it, these are not accidental, they are all premeditated." ”

She Caixiang asked strangely, "What about the purpose?" According to this analysis, it must be the people of the Tang family of the Southwest Railway who built this place, that is, Tang Sirong, why did Tang Sirong do these things? And once exposed, so many people are missing, it will alarm the whole country. ”

Xingshu and Chen Taidong glanced at each other, although they both thought of a terrible speculation, but without evidence, no one dared to say it rashly.

Sikong Yan, who was sitting on the side, had fallen asleep because of alcohol, and the snoring sound from his nose echoed in the room, and then spread outside the house, and for a while, it seemed that his deafening snoring could be heard in the whole weird town, which made people uncomfortable.

"Tang Sirong has already ......" Ma Fei looked at the torture technique and said what was in his heart, "She has already solved the clues left by Xing Renju many years ago, right?" ”

Both Xingshu and Chen Taidong nodded, and She Caixiang hugged her arms and began to pick up the tattered tables, chairs and benches on the ground, piled them together, and prepared to make a fire in the house.

While She Caixiang lit the fire, she looked at the torture technique and said, "Spend the night here tonight, you shouldn't object again, right?" ”

Torture sat by the campfire: "Okay, anyway, I know that you don't want to leave this room tonight if you die, let's spend the night here, and we'll talk about it tomorrow at dawn." ”

"It's fine." Chen Taidong looked around, "This place is next to the entrance of the town, if there is anything, we should withdraw immediately." ”

She Caixiang raised her eyes to look at Chen Taidong and asked a little nervously, "What will happen?" ”

Chen Taidong comforted her: "I'll just say this, don't worry too much, there's nothing to be afraid of, you always remember, as far as my experience of living for decades is concerned, there must be no ghosts in this world!" ”

As soon as the words were spoken, the flames of the campfire in front of them suddenly rose high, and the flames went straight to the roof, but soon fell again, and calm was restored.

The people in the room, except for Sikong Yan, who was sleeping soundly on the chair, were dumbfounded, staring at the fire and unable to say a word.

She Caixiang swallowed, turned her head to look at the tombstone at the door, and immediately stepped forward to fold her hands and bow, then closed the door and curled up next to the campfire.

Ma Fei looked at the torture technique, and the torture technique took a deep breath and looked at Chen Taidong.

Chen Taidong was also puzzled at this time, and he didn't understand whether the previous flame had become like that because of something burned by accident, or not?

Chen Taidong shook his head slightly, and whispered to himself: "Impossible! ”

Ma Fei stared at the burning bonfire, added a bench leg to it, and asked, "Torture, you really don't believe that there is such a thing in this world?" ”

"I believe that there are indeed unexplained things, but not everything has to be leaned on the ghosts and gods, most of the time, it is people who scare themselves. ”

"Can you please stop talking!" She Caixiang gritted her teeth and whispered, she was afraid that the flames would suddenly rise again, "Haven't you heard the saying that there are gods three feet up?" ”

Ma Fei glanced at She Caixiang, found something and simply swept the corner of the wall, leaned over there, closed his eyes and rested.

Xingshu looked at Chen Taidong and said in a low voice: "Uncle Shi, you sleep, I'll keep vigil tonight." ”

Chen Taidong nodded: "Okay, the old man doesn't sleep much, I get up early, and when I wake up, I'll come back for you." ”

Xingshu watched Chen Taidong simply clean up and sleep, then took out the cup and coffee from the bag, poured the mineral water, put the cup by the fire and boiled, and made himself a cup of instant coffee, which refreshed himself and drove himself away.

Because of the fatigue of the long journey during the day, the torture technique finally couldn't support it, leaned against one side of the wall and closed his eyes, thinking about recuperation, who knew that as soon as he closed his eyes, he fell directly into sleep.

I don't know how long it took, Xingshu heard the sound of the door opening, he tried to open his eyes, looked at the door, and saw a figure open the door and walked out, he subconsciously swept around the room, and found that Sikong Yan, who was originally sleeping on the chair, was gone.

Xingshu immediately woke up, got up, looked at the fire that was still smoking and had been extinguished, glanced at the sleeping people around him, and shook Ma Fei, but Ma Fei slept very deeply, just raised his hand to take his hand away, turned around and continued to sleep.

Helplessly, the torture had to leave and go outside to find Sikong Yan, who didn't know when to leave.

The moment he left the house, Xingshu took a flashlight and shone it around, looking for Sikong Yan, and whispered his name.

It's strange, this kid is so timid, how could he run out in the middle of the night? Xingshu felt that something was wrong with this, and at the same time flashed back to everything Sikong Yan said, including the memories of Ma Fei and Chen Taidong about him, and then thinking of Liu Da luring Liu Xiangui and others into the mountain, and a series of things that later Liu Baogu founded a cult to lure people here, a terrible thought sprouted in his mind - could it be that Sikong Yan was also trying to lure them here?

No, how is it possible, we found Liu Xiangui's hotel by chance, so we went to Liu Baogu's villa, and it was a coincidence that we met Sikong Yan, unless Uncle Chen and Liu Xiangui and Tang Sirong were together, this bureau could be perfect, but how could that be? The torturer took a flashlight and searched for it while drifting away in the dark.

Walking to the end of the main street, Torture stood at the T-junction, looking left and right, not sure which side Sikong Yan was walking, but he vaguely heard the sound of hurried footsteps coming from this side earlier.

"Sikong Yan!" The torturer looked around, "Hey, stop playing, come out quickly, don't run around, something will happen." ”

Torture shouted for a while, but did not hear anyone's response, and just when he was a little unsure whether to go to the left road first, he saw a figure appear in the distance on the left road, and the figure was almost the same as the one he saw when he entered the town.

Because the distance was not too far, the torture technique immediately raised the flashlight to shine it, and the moment it shone away, the figure suddenly disappeared again.

The torture technique was really stunned this time, remembering that She Caixiang and Ma Fei said that they had also seen it in the back, so they suddenly looked back behind him, this look didn't matter, he found that there was indeed a black shadow standing there not far behind him, and the moment he turned around, he suddenly disappeared, exactly the same as the situation at the entrance of the town.

What's going on? I can't be dazzled. Torture thought about it, pulled out the dagger, and strode quickly towards that side, running to the place where he judged that the black shadow appeared, looking left and right, looking, but the doors of the surrounding shops were closed, and if someone suddenly got in and hid, they would definitely be able to hear the movement.

"Sikong Yan!" The torture shutsu roared angrily, "Come out quickly, if you don't come out again, I'll go back by myself, don't care about you!" ”

As soon as he finished shouting, he clearly saw Sikong Yan running out of a room in front of him, and the moment he ran out, he also fell, and then got up and ran forward, the strangest thing was that Sikong Yan's hand was raised and raised forward, as if someone was pulling him to run.

However, the torturer clearly saw that there was no one in front of him.

The torture technique hesitated for a moment, and finally chased after him, running with Sikong Yan who was running wildly in front, and at the moment when he was about to catch up with Sikong Yan and could hear Sikong Yan's panting, the corner of his eye suddenly saw a person standing at the window of the shop next to him.

The torture technique stopped, raised the flashlight and immediately shone it, but the moment the flashlight shone on the person, the person disappeared.

Xingshu was stunned, and kept shining a flashlight on the window, and when he shone the flashlight in front of him, he couldn't see Sikong Yan's figure anymore.

The torture technique was a little scared at this time, indeed a little scared, because he clearly knew that what he saw could never be an illusion.

If not an illusion, what would it be?

Torture took a deep breath and decided to take a look, he slowly walked towards the window, and just as he was about to reach the window, he heard a strange voice coming from behind him, the sound of a person wearing cloth shoes rubbing against the stone pavement.

Instead of turning around immediately, he walked straight towards the window, shining a flashlight around the window, looking at it for a while, and found a very strange place, that is, the ground under the window was clean, and there were dust, debris, and fallen leaves all around, but there was no there.

So, was there really anyone here just now? Yes, it must be people, only people have substance, and those who have entities will put aside the clutter here and stand here.

But why do the people standing here want to remove the clutter around them? This doesn't make sense.

The more I thought about it, the more confused I became, and my mind went straight into a dead end.

At this time, he didn't know that on the windows of the row of buildings behind him, there were black shadows, standing there, staring at him.

For a long time, Xingshu felt a chill in his back, and he also felt as if something was staring at him, he turned around and shone it with a flashlight, and the black shadows of those windows that could be vaguely seen with the naked eye, when the flashlight shone past, those black shadows would disappear mysteriously in an instant one by one.

Xingshu closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and thought for a long time, but only a relatively reasonable explanation appeared in his mind, that is, "poisoned".

As for when it was poisoned and what kind of poison it was, torture does not know, but it can only be speculated that this poison can make people hallucinate extremely strongly.

Because, if not poisoning, how can we explain these unexplained phenomena seen in front of our eyes?

Torture settled down, shouted the name of Sikong Yan for a while, and decided to return first, wake up the others, and tell them the news, but when Torture trotted all the way back to the house at the entrance of the town, he found that the house was empty, and even the bonfire that had been extinguished had disappeared without a trace.

He closed his eyes vigorously, opened them again, and even raised his hand to give himself a slap, trying to sober himself up, but to no avail, he saw a room in front of him in the late Qing style with only sundries and broken furniture.

Am I hallucinating from poisoning? Or is it really a ghost? The torture stood there in a daze, so he simply turned off the flashlight and stood in the dark in contemplation, trying to calm himself down completely.

……

At the same time, Chen Taidong gradually woke up from his sleep, he first looked at the extinguished bonfire, then glanced at the room, and found that Sikong Yan and the torture technique were gone, and immediately turned over and got up, and stepped forward to wake up Ma Fei.

Ma Fei opened his hazy eyes and asked in a daze, "Uncle Chen, what's wrong?" ”

Chen Taidong realized that something was wrong, and he didn't bother to explain more: "The torture technique and Sikong Yan are gone, I guess something happened, I'll go out and take a look, you and She Caixiang stay here, don't run around, I'll be back soon!" ”

After Chen Taidong finished speaking, without waiting for Ma Fei to react, he immediately ran out of the house, Ma Fei got up and ran towards the door, but only saw Chen Taidong's figure leaving quickly, and his hurried shout: "Torture, where are you?" Come back! ”

Ma Fei didn't know why, he didn't know what was going on, so he had to go back to the house, look at She Caixiang, who was still sleeping like a dead pig, curse secretly, pick up the wood again, and light the bonfire to keep warm, at least the light can dispel some of the timidity in people's hearts.

Chen Taidong ran on the street, from the moment he left the house, he clearly saw the figure of the torture technique running in front, as if he was chasing someone, he held a flashlight to shine ahead, but in addition to the torture, he did not see that there was a third party present, which is why he ran and shouted.

Finally, Chen Taidong also came to the T-shaped road, and the torture technique disappeared in that instant, and Chen Taidong clearly saw the figure of the torture technique disappear after passing directly through the gate of the building in front of him.

Chen Taidong rubbed his eyes, raised his flashlight and touched the door, and subconsciously shouted: "Torture." ”

As soon as he finished shouting, Chen Taidong heard the sound of cloth shoes rubbing against the ground, he held a flashlight behind him, and found that the torture technique was actually standing at the opposite window, standing there looking at him expressionlessly.

Chen Taidong was also shocked when he looked at the face of the torture technique, and subconsciously asked, "What's wrong with you?" How are you there? ”

Xingshu didn't answer, and at the moment when Chen Taidong raised his foot and was about to walk over, Xingshu suddenly raised his right arm, which was exactly the same as the black shadow he had seen at the entrance of the town before.

Chen Taidong's breathing stopped at that moment, because he saw a tall black figure standing behind the torture technique, and it was the black shadow holding the torture technique hand raised.