Chapter 31: Where there is a secret passage, there must be a secret
Ax tested the pulse of the man in black with his fingers, then shook his head in disappointment. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info tore off the mask of the man in black, revealing a middle-aged face of vicissitudes, due to the excitement before death, even after death, the face was still the expression of wild laughter.
"What do you think about this?" Aix asked Carter and Tina.
"I don't know, but I don't feel like these three people are the same as the previous attacker, I didn't feel much malice before, but these three people, full of murderous energy, give people a chilling feeling as soon as they come in." Carter recalled, saying how the two attacks made him feel differently.
"I feel that not only are these two sides not the same thing, but they may even be opposites." Tina also spoke her mind, but unfortunately, there was no basis for it.
Ax thought for a moment, didn't say anything, turned around and left.
"Why are you going?" Tina asked puzzled when she saw Ax leave without saying anything.
"Sleep, what else can you do, in the middle of the night, be careful of dark circles tomorrow." Aix turned his back to the two of them, waved his hand, and walked directly to his little corner, falling to sleep.
This assassination and kidnapping ended in a blur, and even the things in this bamboo house were not damaged, looking back, this incident was weird from beginning to end, and what was even more ridiculous was that someone had committed suicide by learning from the dead, just for this little thing? In short, Aix's head was a mess right now, and he couldn't figure it out.
The next day, the three of Ax deliberately told the monk who received them about the events of last night, but the monk just shook his head and ordered the body to be buried, without any intention of investigating.
After seeing off the monk, the three of Ax began to wander around the temple, and soon, the three of them went around to the front of the house under repair, and looked at the busy workers, Ax said, "Can you two tell if there is any abnormality in these materials, and whether the quantity is correct?" ”
It's a pity that both Carter and Tina don't know anything about these house repairs and constructions, and it is simply difficult for a strong man to see the problem at a glance like this.
Damn TV series, don't talk about the plot carefully, pig's feet scan the construction site in the middle of the night, you can know that someone is corrupt and cheating, but there is not even a reason. Ax scolded in a low voice, in fact, they are here now because Ax wants to learn the scenes of those detectives in the TV series to solve the case, to see what these workers are doing, and whether they have done anything to repair the plank road and secretly Chen Cang, but unfortunately, after coming, their eyes are still black, and they can't see the reason at all.
Just as the three of Ax were about to go back, two workers carrying wood suddenly slipped under their feet, and the wood they were carrying was thrown directly towards Carter, who was walking in front. However, due to the efforts of the two workers to control it, the speed of the wood was not fast, and Carter saw the smashed wood, just dodged lightly, and let it go, and the long log smashed directly into the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
And at this moment, Ax suddenly felt something flying over, waved his hand, only to find that it was just a small paper ball, Ax immediately glanced left and right, but there was dust all around, and he couldn't see who threw it to him. Aix took a deep look at the small paper ball, but did not open it on the spot, but received it in his pocket, and then anxiously ran to the young master Carter, while patting the soil on his body, while asking the young master if he was injured, it was really like a competent servant caring about his master.
"I'm fine." Carter said to the attentive Aix, and then walked up to the two fallen workers very politely, stretched out his hand to help them up, and asked warmly, "Are you not hurt?" ”
"It's okay, as long as you don't hurt the eldest young master, the two of us are fine." The worker who was helped up by Carter immediately said flatteredly. And Ax took all of this in his eyes and didn't let go of a single detail, but in the end, he could only shake his head and didn't see any flaws, which shows that either these two people acted too well, or they were not the ones who threw the paper balls, but they were just used. And Master Carter's pro-people behavior, of course, was Aix's request, just to observe the two porters.
"Any questions?" Carter asked in a whisper as he returned to Aix.
"I'll talk about it later." Ax didn't say anything about the paper ball, and Carter didn't continue to ask, and the three of them followed the plan all the way, slowly and leisurely on the mountain path to enjoy the scenery of the mountains, until they finished eating at noon before returning to the bamboo house.
As soon as they entered the bamboo house, Aix and Tina began to check, and found no sign of anyone entering, and then, after the three of them closed the door, they found a corner that could not be seen from the window, because if all the doors and windows were closed in broad daylight, it would be too suspicious to close the window.
Aix took out the paper ball, and after opening it quickly, what appeared in front of the three of them was a map, which marked the floor plan of this small temple in the green mountains, but the map marked the entrances of several secret passages, and marked the method of opening the entrances, obviously luring the three of them to those secret passages to find out.
"Where did this map come from?" Tina was taken aback, and immediately asked Aix.
"I don't know who gave it to me, at that time, due to the dust kicked up by the logs, I couldn't see who threw the paper ball, and then I asked Carter to test the two porters and found nothing, so I don't know who gave me this map, but his purpose should be to borrow our hands to see the secrets in these secret passages." Aix tapped on the map.
"Shall we go, then?" Tina asked.
Before Ax could answer, Carter said directly: "Go, why don't you go, if there is really a secret passage there, it is very likely that this is the problem we are looking for." ”
Since Carter said so, what else could Ax say, he could only make a helpless expression.
However, although the three of them decided to go to those secret passages to have a look, they did not act recklessly, but dragged on for a few days to find out all the surrounding environment of the secret passage entrance marked on the map, and then chose a cloudy night and approached the entrance of a secret passage closest to the bamboo forest. No matter what is in the secret passage, you must always find your own way out, which Ax has learned from countless novels and TV series.
After the three of them looked around in a sneaky way, they didn't find anyone, and there weren't many people who usually came here, let alone on a big night like this.
According to the instructions on the map, what caught the eyes of the three people was a boulder, this boulder was exposed to the wind and sun, the surface was full of potholes and dust, Aix struck it twice with his fist, and he couldn't see anything abnormal at all, he would only think that it was just a relatively large stone, but the map was clear, this was the entrance.
Ax walked up to the big rock, crouched down, and touched the bottom of the stone for a while, and suddenly, an unusual bump let Ax know that the information on the map was not wrong, at least there was no problem here, and Aix's credibility of the map also increased a little.
After finding the bulge, Aix looked in the direction of the bulge, and sure enough, he saw a stone half-buried in the soil, Ax immediately stood up, walked towards the stone, and then stepped on it directly, after stepping on it, Aix immediately ran back to the boulder, and searched for a while at the bottom, and finally found the bulge again, but this time it was no longer that direction, but changed direction, and Ax looked up, and sure enough, he saw a rock half-buried in the soil again, so, It's another kick to go up. This was repeated five times, and after stepping on the stone for the last time, the boulder suddenly sank in, revealing a huge hole in the ground.
"No wonder this place is so remote, the original method of opening the mechanism is so troublesome, looking at the scale of this hole, it seems that this is a place for some large goods to enter and exit. The bone is a place where people enter and exit, and the switch may be more hidden, but it will definitely not be so troublesome, and it is unlikely to be easily discovered by the owner of this map. Ax said as he poked his head out and looked under the hole.
"Then what should we do now, we can't go down in the end, if this is a trap, if we go on recklessly like this, we will definitely be wiped out." Tina also glanced at the deep hole, and said with some concern.
"Since you're here, why don't you go down and take a look, since someone gave us a map, then it probably means that they are not in the same group as the owner of this secret passage, and they must have also entered." Carter tried his best to persuade that if he went back like this, he would always feel like a treasure mountain returning empty-handed.
Seeing that Carter and Tina disagreed, the two of them set their eyes on Ax together to see who he would vote for. Instead of answering, Ax crouched down and threw a stone down. I heard the stones rolling down the sloping path and making a clattering sound.
When Carter and Tina saw Aix's movements, they immediately became nervous and were ready to flee at any time, because as long as there were people in this secret passage, they would definitely find anomalies. However, after waiting for a while, nothing happened, as if there was nothing inside, and the little stone rolled all the way all the way before finally stopping, and the sound of rolling echoed inside, and it seemed very empty.
"It seems that this is really just a cargo transportation channel, and generally no one will enter when there is no goods to be transported." Aix stood up and patted the dirt on his hands and said.
"Then ...... now," Tina asked, inquiringly.
"Go in and have a look, but it's not all, Carter and I go in, you stay here, throw a rock into it as soon as something goes wrong, and then hide after restoring the mechanism." Aix instructed Tina.