Chapter 57: The Return
The moment Mu Lan stretched out her hand, Lin Yiyi and Zhao Ziyu grabbed her at the same time.
She felt that the back half of her body had been buried in the thief hole, but at this time, the collapsed thief hole was very loose, and the two people dragged her out of the dirt.
Mu Lan panted and looked at Lin Yiyi and Zhao Ziyu, the two of them were extremely embarrassed, like refugees who escaped from the disaster year, thinking of their own image should be similar, now she is covered in dirt, and she also has soil in her mouth, she is really uncomfortable with a slight cleanliness habit, and she really wants to rush to the bathroom to take a good shower.
"Where's Brother Stone?" Lin Yiyi saw that there were only three of them on the ground, and exclaimed, "Buried inside?" ”
As soon as the words fell, a figure broke through the ground, and suddenly the sky was full of dust, Mu Lan waved the dust, and saw clearly that the person in front of him was Shi Zhengyang, who had just escaped from the ascension.
"The boss is so powerful, how can he be buried alive!" Zhao Ziyu said, then looked at the two girls and laughed: "Hahaha, the way you look now, so ugly!" ”
Lin Yiyi kicked Zhao Ziyu like a cat that had been stepped on by its tail, and immediately said: "Your current appearance is not much better, like a homeless man, you can find a mirror to look at yourself!" ”
Zhao Ziyu touched a handful of his hair, feeling like a chicken nest, and immediately became calm, and was busy sorting out his hairstyle, but his hair was full of soil, and the more he sorted out the soil, the more he ate a mouthful of sand.
"Forget it, let's go back to the city." Zhao Ziyu was helpless, and said again: "But our current appearance is too scary, if we enter the city, we will definitely be caught as a madman." ”
Mu Lan looked at the thief cave that had been buried, and now there was no trace at all, and there was no human face and ghost figure coming out of it, so she breathed a sigh of relief, and looked around again, and found that the place where the four people were located was on the edge of the archaeological site, a kilometer away from the camp.
"Let's take a break and go back to Xikang City." Mu Lan said.
"Okay." Shi Zhengyang nodded and patted his dirt-covered clothes, "But we have to change our clothes first." ”
"Better take another shower!" Lin Yiyi proposed.
The four of them went around the archaeological site in a big circle, and after a little tidying up, they pretended that nothing had happened and returned to the camp dormitory, after all, they didn't go to take a bath, after all, there were more important things to do, just simply wash their hair, wash their faces and change their clothes, and then returned to Shi Zhengyang's off-road vehicle.
The buggy ride back was less than 10 hours, even though it was as thrilling as a century in the tomb.
Now that it is getting late, Shi Zhengyang turned on the high beams, there are very few vehicles on this road, and they are the only ones on the return trip.
There was nothing to say all the way, and even the energetic Lin Yiyi collapsed in the back seat, bored and playing with her mobile phone. Mu Lan opened the car window, her long hair fluttered in the wind, and the sudden air made her much more sober, looking at the dim scenery outside the car but still thinking about what happened in the ancient tomb, she took out her mobile phone and searched for the name Chen Zhibin.
In contrast to the well-known Professor Leung, who only found other people with the same name and surname in the search engine, it seems that Professor Chan is not well-known in the industry.
An unknown university professor, also a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, obsessed with historical research, has no family, no children, and even a little sloppy in life, so that he was treated coldly by his neighbors, and Mu Lan's mind gradually sketched the image of a decadent and unwilling middle-aged man.
Getting rid of the dead people, only this Professor Chen Zhibin has not yet seen, Mu Lan feels that as long as he finds him, he will definitely be able to find a lot of clues, and finally find the secret of the curse.
It was already 8 o'clock in the evening when he returned to the suburbs of Xikang City, Shi Zhengyang fought one after another in the ancient tomb, and drove a long-distance bus for several hours, he was already a little inattentive and depressed, so Zhao Ziyu drove for him and let him rest in the co-pilot for a while.
Shi Zhengyang leaned back in his chair and asked Mu Lan, "Where are we going to find him, do you think Professor Chen will go home?" ”
Mu Lan remembered that they had broken into Professor Chen's house without permission before, and even the door lock had been broken, if Professor Chen was suspicious, then he must have been alert, so he said: "If Professor Chen is related to the person who excavated the hole, then he must not be found at home, I think it is better to contact Editor-in-Chief Liu or Wang Chuan to see if there is any news." ”
Then he made two phone calls, the first one was to Editor-in-Chief Liu, Editor-in-Chief Liu was surprised to hear her voice, and said that the police had been looking for her for two days, and disappeared out of thin air for the past two days, thinking that she had suffered a mishap, and asked her to contact the police station as soon as possible.
Of course, the police station can't go, and many things can't be explained, Mu Lan dealt with it casually and asked about Professor Chen's whereabouts, but Editor-in-Chief Liu said that he didn't know, and now there are five people who can keep in touch with them.
In addition to the rock-solid team, the rest is Wang Chuan, I didn't expect this kid to be lucky and not killed by the ghost, Mu Lan thanked Editor-in-Chief Liu and hung up the phone, and called Wang Chuan again.
Wang Chuan answered the phone a little slowly, I didn't know what he was doing, it took about thirty seconds for Mu Lan to hear his voice, Wang Chuan on the other side of the phone was out of breath, as if something had happened, and said a bunch of words of unknown meaning in one breath.
Mu Lan asked him to relax and not be in a hurry, so that he understood what Wang Chuan said.
It turned out that Wang Chuan was protected by the police station in the past few days, but strange things still happened one after another at home, like what kind of ghost pressed the bed, and I don't know how many times the ghost called, and I didn't believe it when I told others, but now I finally found someone to talk to, and told Mu Lan all these things in one go.
If they complete the task and lift the curse, this matter should be over, Mu Lan comforted Wang Chuan a few words and asked about Professor Chen.
Wang Chuan said that Professor Chen had contacted him and asked him not to tell anyone else, and that he should now study historical documents at the Institute of Archaeology to find a way to lift the curse.
Hanging up the phone, Shi Zhengyang looked at Mu Lan with inquiring eyes, and Mu Lan said, "Let's go to the Institute of Archaeology." ”
Shi Zhengyang's off-road vehicle does not have a license plate, and they are now in the center of the whirlpool of the case, it would not be good if they were captured by the camera and then brought back to the police station, so the four of them stopped a car on the road, Mu Lan cast a spell on the owner of the car [Chaos], and tried to look at Lin Yiyi, and the two cooperated tacitly to steal the license plate.
Quickly ran back to the car, Zhao Ziyu kicked the accelerator, and the off-road vehicle sped by, leaving the owner with a confused face, and Lin Yiyi, who laughed.