Chapter 31: The Whereabouts of the Knife
The torture said that this place was above the laws of the Qing Dynasty, which made Ma Fei very confused.
The criminal technique explained: "In fact, it is very simple, generally this kind of plaque should not be hung in the lobby of the yamen, this is the most obvious place, and second, there is no light here, because according to the regulations at that time, the trial should never be in a place where there is no light of day, especially underground, only cases directly related to the royal family will be carried out in places like the prison that everyone often says, just to avoid suspicion and secrecy." β
Ma Fei nodded: "I see." β
Torture said: "It stands to reason that the plaques hanging in the hall of the county government are generally the four characters hanging high in the mirror, which is basically known to everyone, and the higher ones are basically the same, of course, there are places like the back hall, hanging plaques like prudence and diligence, or diligence and clumsiness, and frugality, in short, it is a kind of self-reminder, but the role of the plaque here is not to remind the officials here, but to deter the criminal military attachΓ©." β
When the torture technique was explained to Ma Fei, Lian Jiuqi observed the traces left by the surrounding battles, and found that there was a badly damaged stone screen on the table, and there was a passage behind it, in which corpses were strewn everywhere, and there were broken bones of dead Qing soldiers everywhere, as well as traces of something colliding.
Lian Jiuqi shushed and motioned for the torture technique to look over.
Torture nodded, leading Muffy towards behind the screen.
After seeing the corpses, Torture turned to look outside again: "It seems that the two-headed snake came out of this place. β
Ma Fei looked at the passage: "Here? β
"Yes, here." Torture Shu took the flashlight and shone it inside, "Let's go, go in and have a look, see what's inside." β
The three of them walked along the passage to the inside, and finally saw a huge cave, to be exact, the stalactite cave, very wide, but the entrance of the cave was not large, and it was surrounded by various objects, and even the horse was rejected, and the entrance of the cave was also sealed by an iron railing, but it was knocked open by the monster.
On both sides of the cave entrance, there were various runes pasted on all sides, and around them lay eight corpses dressed in mage costumes, including one in white armor, the corpse had no arms, the iron helmet on the top of the head was also dropped to the side, and the remaining hand was still holding a scabbard.
The torture technique stepped forward, observed carefully, and then said: "This person is a general with a white flag, you can see from the armor he wears, and his Chaozhu, it seems that he is at least a second-rank military attachΓ©." β
Lian Jiuqi looked at the broken iron railing: "It is estimated that when they dug here, someone found that there was that kind of monster inside, so they sealed this place with an iron railing." β
Ma Fei wondered: "Why don't you use stones or something?" β
Torture Shu looked around, and suddenly found the broken offering table and some utensils, and immediately said, "Dragon." β
"What?" Maffei asked, puzzled, "Dragon?" β
As soon as he finished speaking, Ma Fei also understood the meaning of the torture technique: "You mean, the people here regard that two-headed snake as a dragon?" β
"Yes." Pointing to the broken offering table and utensils, he said, "Yes, think about it, if we were people of that era, if we saw this kind of thing, we would definitely worship it as a god, which is normal, until they found out that the thing was a little out of control, and then they began to think that it was something like an evil demon, and then sent a Taoist mage to subdue the demon, but it turned out that it was still useless, and at the same time, the thing also crashed out and began to fight, they had no choice but to start fighting back, but it was too late." β
Ma Fei looked at the stalactite cave and said, "That's why Guan Manshan said that there is a dragon inside, right?" β
Lian Jiuqi said: "No, he should know that it is a two-headed snake, but the legend of the dragon should have spread from the Qing Dynasty, you know, many people have said that what the dragon vein of the Qing Dynasty is outside the Guan, in the Northeast, right?" I guess it has something to do with the two-headed snake. β
The torture technique looked at the scabbard, picked it up and looked at it, "It seems that the scabbard of the clear knife has been found, it is exactly the same as Guan Manshan described." β
Lian Jiuqi took it and looked at it: "But what about the knife?" Where's the knife? β
Ma Fei was also puzzled: "Why is the knife missing?" β
Torture smiled bitterly, "I know where the knife is. β
"Where?" Maffei asked.
Torture turned to look in the direction it came: "The knife is on the two-headed snake, it's bad, we have to kill that thing to get the knife in our hands." β
Lian Jiuqi kicked away a bowl next to him: "We have almost no chance." β
Ma Fei looked at the two of them and asked again: "Anyway, let's leave this place first." β
Torture stuck the scabbard in the back of the backpack: "Look around and see if there are any rusty swords or anything like that." β
Maffei asked, "Why?" β
Lian Jiuqi took a deep breath and stabilized his uneasy mood: "The sword that has not rusted for a hundred years can basically be regarded as a divine weapon, which can cause damage to that kind of thing, of course, under the premise that we don't have to, it's best not to fight that thing in close quarters." β
Torture said: "Let's rest for a while, no matter what, rest for two or three hours, we haven't slept or rested, we haven't eaten, people will not be able to bear it, once we encounter that thing again, it will definitely be a vicious battle." β
While the torturers were resting in place, while thinking about how to kill the two-headed snake, Guan Manshan, who was in the fortress, controlled Andre outside the small room and continued to search.
"This is the third time." Andrei cried with a sad face, took the walkie-talkie and said, "It's the third time, I haven't found anything, you kill me, you don't torture me anymore." β
Guan Manshan ignored him, and just pressed the button of the loudspeaker in the dungeon: "Hello everyone who is still in the dungeon, the time is half past seven in the morning, I believe everyone had more than one nightmare last night, I need to know how many people are left in the dungeon now, I will provide you with a channel, you can use the walkie-talkie in your hand to talk to me." β
After speaking, Guan Manshan said a frequency, then turned off the megaphone, picked up the walkie-talkie and said to Andre: "You can rest, sit there and play, there are games and movies on the computer outside, you can have a good entertainment, by the way, you are still lonely, I also put a few inflatable dolls that are close to real people there." β
Andrei pressed the walkie-talkie and scolded: "I'm x your mother, you go to die!" You pervert! β
Zaraka and Zheng Dong, who were covering their advance in the dungeon, glanced at each other, shook their heads together, and clearly told each other that they must not talk to that guy, and that would be tantamount to revealing their accurate news to him, and it would be tantamount to looking for death.
But luck really befell the two men, and Zaraka relied on the signs he had left along the way to find the place where he had been ambushed by the two-headed snake for the first time, and also saw the rope again.
Zaraka said: "Okay, now our range of choices has been narrowed, we don't have to think about the way we came, there are two roads in front of us, one left and one right, how do you choose?" β
Zheng Dongxiang looked at the ground and found the pale white liquid on the ground: "You say, is this something left?" β
Zaraka nodded: "It looks like it, because what that black snake left behind is a black substance." β
Zheng Dongxiang raised his head and looked in the direction where the pale white liquid extended: "Let's go in the opposite direction." β
Zaraka thought for a moment and shook his head: "No, let's go in the direction of the liquid." β
Of course, Jung Dong-sang disagreed: "Are you crazy!? β
Zaraka explained unhurriedly: "That thing is obviously setting a trap for us again, but it also knows that we have a weapon in our hands that will hurt it, and under what circumstances will we ignore its existence and relax completely?" It's the moment we see the real exit. β
Zheng Dongxiang understood: "You mean, it deliberately left traces to lead us to the location of the exit, and it even considered that when we saw it injured, it would chase and kill it, but after we saw the exit, it would give up the idea of chasing and killing, and go out directly, and at that moment, it would suddenly appear and kill us?" β
"That's right." "The two of us only let our guard down when we see the exit, and it seems that this monster is a little strangely smart." β
Zheng Dongxiang said: "Whether it's bizarre or not, we all have to gamble and we have to go out." β
"Let's go!" Zaraka put on his night vision goggles, turned off his flashlight, and looked ahead at the pale white liquid on the ground leading the way.
Somewhere in the dungeon, Li Yucheng had been quietly following Ruan Renxiong, and finally when he found Nguyen Renxiong sitting down at a certain corner, he also quickly pulled over and shrunk, and then saw Ruan Renxiong constantly probing and looking to the other side, while lightly changing the magazine of his weapon, stuffing bullets into the hole magazine.
Li Yucheng also began to check his weapon, and when he looked up again, he found that Nguyen Renxiong was looking straight in his direction, and at the same time waving his hand at himself.
Li Yucheng was stunned, thinking that he was dazzled, but when he saw Ruan Renxiong really waving at him, he put a finger to his mouth and signaled him not to make a sound.
Li Yucheng walked out and raised his hands high, signaling that he was not hostile, and Ruan Renxiong nodded, waving his hand a little impatiently to tell him to hurry up.
Li Yucheng trotted over, Ruan Renxiong motioned for him to look over, Li Yucheng looked cautiously, but clearly saw the two-headed snake with one of its heads beaten to pieces, the snake was resting with its body coiled together, panting, and from time to time raised its head to look around, as if waiting for something.
When Li Yucheng retracted his head, he found that Nguyen Renxiong's gun was aimed at him.
Li Yucheng took off the night vision device: "I have no hostility. β
"I know." Although Nguyen Renxiong said this, he refused to put down his gun, "I did that just now, deliberately to keep your little henchman and that Russian kid away from us." β
"What!?" Li Yucheng couldn't believe his ears, "You did it on purpose?" β
Ruan Renxiong nodded: "Yes, under the premise of disagreement, this team will be finished, first of all, you must respect the opinions of your subordinates, and you can't force them, in addition, under the premise that the two commanders agree on the same opinion, but the subordinates do not agree, the possibility of the commander being killed is extremely high, not to mention, you are an undercover agent!" β
Li Yucheng lowered his voice and said: "Yes, I am an undercover agent, but I have convinced Zheng Dongxiang, you treat them as a burden, right!?" You're going to abandon them? β
"Listen!" Nguyen Renxiong said, "I believe you because you saved me, but I also have doubts, that is, you can't let us go, you can only make some kind of deal with us, what do you mean?" Do you think your little henchman Jung Dong-sang doesn't understand this? So, all things considered, the best thing to do is to let them choose their own path, avoid contradictions, avoid us from killing each other at critical moments, believe me, I have had too many similar experiences! β
Li Yucheng shook his head: "Unreasonable!" β
Ruan Renxiong approached Li Yucheng: "A few years ago, in that damn island in the Pacific Ocean, I took thirty-five people to the island, got lost, lost contact with backup, was attacked by wild beasts, and was bitten by all kinds of unknown insects, but among those thirty-five people, more than half of them were killed by their own people, in this environment where you don't know when you will die, the biggest enemy is those things around you who have a beast's heart!" β
Li Yucheng finally nodded and asked, "What is the deal you are talking about?" β
Nguyen Renxiong said: "That Zheng Dongxiang can't give you any evidence, I can, I left a lot of things, I will write down and save the detailed records of each action, do you know why the Vietnamese side knows that I am doing this business, but turns a blind eye?" Because I have a habit of preserving evidence, if they are going to kill me, I will disclose what I know, and then see who has the most to lose! β
Li Yucheng asked: "You really left all the information that you participated in the operation." β
"Yes, all, as long as I've been involved." Ruan Renxiong looked into Li Yucheng's eyes, "I have a good memory, every time I write it down, I will put the information in a different place, and I have told my two nephews that only they can find the relevant location, and if something happens to me, they will make the information public on the Internet." β
Li Yucheng looked at Ruan Renxiong and didn't speak, Ruan Renxiong said, "You don't believe me? β
Li Yucheng said: "It's hard to believe. β
Ruan Renxiong smiled: "Believe it or not, in short, I will make a deal with you, and I will give you those evidences, provided that you want me to change my face, and I will go to Iceland." β
Li Yucheng shook his head: "I have to ask for instructions, I can't be the master, but right now, we can leave this place together, my task is to find evidence, if what you say is true, my task is complete." β
Ruan Renxiong looked at it again: "Do you see that thing?" Did you see the problem? β
Li Yucheng said: "I found out, that snake is not the one we encountered before, it is another one." β
"Yes." Ruan Renxiong tightened the gun in his hand, "We didn't break a single of its heads before, it looks like they should have done it, it's amazing, see?" That's the experts, and they're the real experts. β
Li Yucheng asked: "Have you worked with Lian Jiuqi before?" β
"There is no direct cooperation." Nguyen Renxiong shook his head, "But in an operation in Southeast Asia, he commanded us, and that time, the one with the least loss of ours, killed two people, so I remember him well, but he probably can't remember who I am." β
Li Yucheng nodded: "Okay, then let's discuss whether we can kill that snake in one go." β
Li Yucheng looked at it again and carefully observed the snake, but found that there was a knife handle on the side of the snake body that was entangled, and Li Yucheng immediately told Ruan Renxiong about it.
Ruan Renxiong looked at it for a while, and said, "No matter what it is, it has nothing to do with us, in short, we have to kill this thing in one go, because judging from the current situation, maybe there are at least two or more two-headed snakes in this dungeon, let's kill one first." β
As he spoke, Nguyen Renxiong opened his backpack, took out all the explosives in it, and counted them one by one.
Li Yucheng said: "I have a proposal, we have to blow up that thing's eyes, it only has one head left, and if you blow up the eyes, it will be completely blind." β
Ruan Renxiong frowned: "You still don't seem to understand snakes, snakes' eyesight is completely different from people's, its eyesight is very poor, and there is almost no so-called hearing, it relies on touch, so to speak, you throw something over now, even if there is no sound in the whole process, under the premise that the speed is not too fast, the snake can immediately start attacking through the subtle vibration generated by that thing cutting through the air, and the direction of the attack is extremely accurate." β
Li Yucheng sighed: "Then what should I do?" β
"Keep your distance, set a trap, and use a lot of explosives to defeat him in one go." Nguyen Nhon Hung began to lay out the explosives, "The only way." β
Li Yucheng was very worried: "What if it doesn't work? β
"Then it can't be helped." Ruan Renxiong smiled, pulled out the dagger and handed it to Li Yucheng, "Why don't you try to go up and fight it hand-to-hand?" Or is it to convince it? β
Li Yucheng also smiled: "Let's blow it up!" β
While the two of them were planting explosives, Zaraka and Zheng Dongxiang had already followed the pale white liquid to the location of the tunnel hole, and the excited two held each other's hands tightly, but the excitement disappeared after just ten seconds, and both of them began to think, where would the two-headed snake ambush them?
Zaraka looked ahead: "There is only one way to the passage, the tunnel is on the left side of the passage, it is completely impossible for that thing to retract its whole body into the cell next to it, so it can only ambush at both ends of the passage, judging from its previous movement speed, if we rush directly to the hole mouth, it will not be able to attack us from the opposite side." β
Zheng Dongxiang nodded: "In other words, your proposal is that we rush over directly?" β
"That's right." "As long as we rush into the tunnel, we're basically safe, and don't forget, there's an old Japanese tank there, right?" Even if that thing were to chase after us, we would still be able to hide in the tank, I don't believe that its teeth could bite through steel! β
"Okay!" Zheng Dongxiang nodded, "I'll count one, two, three, let's rush over together!" β
After Zheng Dongxiang counted three times in a low voice, the two of them pulled their legs and rushed towards the position of the hole, Zheng Dongxiang ran the fastest, while Zaraka, who was following behind him, found a fact that he was horrified that the pale white liquid actually stretched all the way to the hole.
"Don't go over! That thing is in the tunnel! When Zaraka reached out to grab Zheng Dongxiang, it was too late, and one of the heads of the two-headed snake burst out of the hole, opened its mouth and bit Zheng Dongxiang who was running towards him.
Before he died, Zheng Dongxiang's eyes were round, and before he could raise the gun, his upper body was directly bitten off by the two-headed snake.
Blood splashed Zaraka's face, and after he was stunned for half a second, he ran away from Zheng Dongxiang when the other head of the two-headed snake bit off the lower half of Zheng Dongxiang's body.