Chapter 20: The Pearl of the Six Spirits

Chen Mengsheng stared at the woman in front of him in a daze, and the person who could know that he had changed his heart should not be an ordinary person. Chen Mengsheng deliberately asked: "The little girl is really good at laughing, how can I have three hearts?" ”

The woman smiled disdainfully: "The Zhang family's mind-reading technique has never been missed, since you don't want to admit it, forget it!" If there is nothing else to do, then please go back, forgive me for not being able to accompany you! ”

"Hey! This little girl is not very old, is she not small? You've only said three words to drive us out, huh? Zhao Haipeng said depressedly.

Zhang Ning hurriedly stepped forward and took out the box and asked, "I just want to ask the girl to tell me what this is?" Truth be told, this bead may have something to do with my father's disappearance. ”

Miss Zhang's face improved slightly and said, "Okay! I know you're full of concern, so I'll take a look at it for you. When the woman opened the box, she convulsed.

"Little girl, what's wrong with you?" Chen Mengsheng stepped forward to help the woman, but the woman deftly dodged it, and the kung fu under her feet exceeded Chen Mengsheng's expectations.

"Six Spirit Beads! This is the Six Spirit Beads! We have been looking for the Six Spirit Beads for hundreds of years for generations! I...... I...... You...... Do you sell? The woman spoke incoherently with excitement until the rest of her speech.

The beads in the box have now completely turned inky black, and Zhang Ning and the others asked in unison, "What are these beads for?" ”

The woman rolled up her sleeves movingly, and there was a dark brown blood line on her white jade arm.

The woman smiled bitterly: "You came to me, you must know something about the Zhang family, right?" Our Zhang family caused an unwarranted disaster because of the provocation of the green corpse girl, the male of the Zhang family did not live to forty, and the woman was even shorter! Chen Mengsheng secretly thought that if his yin and yang shoes were still there, he wanted to go to the Yin Law Division and ask the ancestors of the Zhang family what was going on......

"What! Green Corpse Girl? What's that? Zhao Haipeng has never believed in ghosts and gods, and when he heard what the woman said, the green corpse girl blurted out and asked.

Zhang Ning glanced at Zhao Haipeng and said: "The zombies in Tsing Yi are all folk legends, the red leaves hunt the hanging girl crying in the city, and the blood of the zombies in Tsing Yi stains the yellow spring!" The green ghouls among them are the young women who died resentfully, these are just legends, and I don't know if it's true. ”

"Of course it's true, the Zhang Qi family has been inquiring about ways to crack it for hundreds of years. I have the same nightmare every night, in the dream I saw a woman with a disheveled hair chasing me, I ran desperately but I could never escape the ......cemetery," Miss Zhang said in fear, the whole person seemed to collapse and sat on the chair in cold sweat.

Chen Mengsheng hurriedly changed the topic and said, "Miss Zhang, can the Six Spirit Beads dissolve your nightmare?" ”

"No, the six spirit beads are the most resentful and hateful things, as long as you have the six spirit beads, you can resolve the curse of the green corpse girl with resentment. So whatever you want, I'm willing to give, it doesn't matter how much it is. Miss Zhang said affirmatively.

Zhang Ning sighed: "Little sister, this bead is related to my father's whereabouts. I want to help you, too, but there's nothing I can do right now! ”

"Who is your father? How could there be such beads? Miss Zhang looked at Zhang Ning nervously.

Zhang Ning had to tell everything about what had happened in the past two days, except for covering up Chen Mengsheng's identity, saying that he was a friend with special functions. Miss Zhang's jade award also looked at Chen Mengsheng's jade plaque, but she couldn't say why, and the temperament in the room stiffened suddenly......

"Cough, cough, cough......, it's almost nine o'clock, it's time for you to go upstairs to sleep!" Outside the door, Uncle Qi's non-negotiable order sounded.

Before Zhang Ning could figure out the origin of the six spirit beads, Uncle Qi, who pushed the door and came over, gave an eviction order, and Miss Zhang reluctantly went upstairs. When Uncle Qi sent Chen Mengsheng and the three of them to the door, he said something unexpected. "Our young lady's lifespan is already a candle in the wind, and I don't want you to disturb her again! Guarding the heirs of the Zhang family is the fate of our Qi family, and it won't be long before the responsibility of the Qi family will come to an end. Let's go! ”

"Hey...... Feed...... Hey, you old man make it clear......" Zhao Haipeng scolded the unreasonable old man angrily, but the old man closed the door and never heard from him again. Zhao Haipeng scolded for a while, and in desperation, the three of them had to drive back to the old house in Daxing......

"Squeak, squeak, squeak......" Zhao Haipeng opened the door, turned on the light, and saw that the weasel in the yard last night was limping around the pomegranate tree, and several times tried to climb the tree hole and fell down.

"Hey, this little thing is hard. In the morning, it was dying, but now it can jump up and down! Zhao Haipeng exclaimed.

Zhang Ning condensed and said, "What else is very important to it in the cave of the Tree Cave?" ”

Zhao Haipeng continued: "Let's go and see, won't we?" ”

Zhao Haipeng went back to the house and boxed a flashlight, and shouted into the hole in the tree: "There is really something in it!" Zhao Haipeng's voice stunned Chen Mengsheng and Zhang Ning, Zhao Haipeng rushed to the corner of the courtyard with a roar, picked up the axe he picked up, and slashed at the tree. Zhang Ning was worried that another snake would come out or something, so he was timid and didn't dare to approach. Chen Mengsheng was holding a flashlight to help Zhao Haipeng work, and the tree hole was quite deep, and he finally saw the whole picture of the tree hole with the axe splitting little by little......

At the bottom of the tree hole was a fist-sized tin box with a shriveled weasel tail. Zhao Haipeng used an axe to hook out the tin box and the debris in the tree hole, and the weasel on the ground picked up its shriveled tail and burrowed into the burrow under the pomegranate tree and quickly disappeared. Zhang Ning picked up the tin box but found that the tin box had not been sealed, the box was covered with tooth marks and traces left by snake venom corrosion, and a corner of the tin box had already been rotten out of a big hole. Zhang Ning carefully opened the tin box and saw the broken pieces of paper that had not yet been rotted clean, and each piece of paper was densely filled with words. This should be the scrap of his father's work notebook, but the pages have long been corroded by the snake venom of the soldering iron. Whether or not the notebook pages can be restored is all up to God's will......

Chen Mengsheng and Zhao Haipeng didn't expect that there was such a secret hidden in the tree hole, and the two of them followed Zhang Ning into the house and spread all the yellowed and blackened pieces of paper in the tin box on the table. Zhang Ning took out small tweezers from the makeup bag she carried with her and carefully pieced together the pieces of paper, maybe the rain in the tree hole after the tin box was bitten and the moisture eroded the paper, or the snake venom on the soldering iron head was too domineering. In short, the fragments that Zhang Ning spent two hours piecing together were covered with holes of different sizes......

“…… At the request of the director of the Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology, Idilis, our group conducted a 240-kilometer carpet search in Lop Nur every day. However, after several months of no progress, today we plan to search for the ruins of the ancient city of Loulan in multiple ways...... The Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology has equipped us with the best guides and equipment. I and my assistant Ma evolutionary inspector Huang Yunxiang and the guide Ge Deng searched westward along the Peacock River, it was almost the end of the year, and today's weather was particularly gloomy, and I hope to make a gain today. It's best to rush back to Beijing during the Spring Festival to accompany Su Yin and Ning'er to have a good New Year......" Zhang Ning couldn't help but shed tears when he read this......

Zhao Haipeng hugged Zhang Ning and said, "Ning'er, it's okay." We just need to find the clue to find your father, and everything will be all right, dear! ”

Zhang Ning nodded and continued to read through his notebook: "The sky is getting more and more gloomy in the afternoon, and Gordon tells us that a big sandstorm is coming. I decided to go back to camp first and the others would wait for the sandstorm to pass before searching...... I saw that less than two hundred meters from us suddenly a lot of wooden stakes suddenly rose from a whirling sandstorm, which Gurdon said he had never encountered in nearly thirty years of working in the desert...... The satellite phone signal was completely blocked by the sandstorm, and we could not contact the second archaeological group in Xinjiang, but after the sandstorm, it was difficult to locate the location of the wooden stakes. …… Our car was stuck in quicksand......" Zhang Ning read this, pointing to the big hole in the piece of paper, speechless in a hurry.

Zhao Haipeng turned around and said, "Brother Chen, can't you see something that we can't see?" ”

Chen Mengsheng shook his head with a wry smile and said, "This ...... I can't do anything about this, the pieces of paper are all mutilated, and I can only do my best. ”

Zhang Ning flipped through the pieces of paper on the table and unexpectedly found a few strange characters in the Book of Heaven, and after careful identification, he understood the four words "Temple of Death" and four vague handwritings. Chen Mengsheng was not only secretly surprised that the words on the paper actually belonged to the same heavenly court as the book of heaven on his award, could it be that the six spirit beads were the magic weapon of which immortal family? ……

"Come here! Come here! Here's the situation! Zhao Haipeng's thunderous shouts woke up Chen Mengsheng and Zhang Ning, who were in their respective minds, and looked up to see that Zhao Haipeng was staring at the roots of the pomegranate tree in a daze.

"Haipeng, what's wrong? What are you looking at? Zhang Ning asked.

Zhao Haipeng put down the axe and said: "If it weren't for the guidance of the weasel, I really wouldn't have found it, you see that this tree has traces of being scratched by sharp weapons." Also, the root system here has been broken, and this tree is really hard to detect if you don't look closely at it for a long time. If I'm not mistaken, someone has dug up near the roots. Brother Chen, lend me your knife. An ominous premonition immediately enveloped Zhang Ning's heart, there were absolutely few people here except his parents, let alone to damage the old tree......

Zhao Haipeng took the dagger handed by Chen Mengsheng and searched tentatively along the exposed tree roots, and after a while, several large pits were dug out in the kung fu courtyard. Zhang Ning asked Chen Mengsheng nervously, "Brother Chen...... My father...... Nothing really happened to my father, could it!? ”

Chen Mengsheng whispered: "It's just that the bead is too resentful, and I found something different when I first entered the ground, but it was difficult to determine whether there was a resentful soul. ”

Zhao Haipeng stood in the knee-high pit and shouted, "Ning'er, come quickly!" ”

Zhang Ning rushed to see that there were obviously burned ruins in a corner of the pit, and only one charred skull was relatively complete in the large mass of charred black. There was a deep crack behind the skull, and all that remained was a few broken bones and a burned, melted, deformed watch. Zhang Ning cried frantically: "That...... That's my father's watch...... Ah......h......h

"Haipeng, I'...... My father was killed......" Zhang Ning on the bed kept chattering in a coma, and Zhao Haipeng stayed next to Zhang Ning, his heart was heavy. The belief that has supported Zhang Ning's search for his father over the years collapsed suddenly, and from various clues, Zhang Jiadong had an adventure in Xinjiang. Thus bringing him the scourge of killing. The murderer's purpose should be the tin box that Uncle Zhang hid in the tree hole, if it wasn't for the poisonous snake biting through the tin box and swallowing the six spirit beads, it would always be a mystery......

Zhang Ning suddenly woke up and screamed, "It's Ma Jin!" It had to be him! I saw Ma Jin kill my father! ”

"Ning'er, Ning'er! You're having a nightmare, don't worry, I'll get to the bottom of this case......"