Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Phantom of the Maiden
Long Qi said: "We didn't embarrass this chick, she disappeared by herself." I was also worried that she ran away because she found out our secret, but as you can see, we searched for her for two days and couldn't find her. ”
"You didn't lie to me?" Qi Lu's heart was in his throat.
"I'm not going to lie to someone who is about to meet with Lord Hades." Long Qi suddenly laughed, "A weak woman, where can she run in this deep mountain and old forest?" Maybe she's already the beast's belly, and you'll soon be able to meet her in the Netherworld. ”
Qi Lu lowered his head sadly, and his temples suddenly twitched. He suddenly couldn't suppress the impulse in his heart, and swung his fist at Long Qi, but unfortunately before the fist hit Long Qi, he was pressed to the ground by several of Long Qi's subordinates behind him.
Long Qi said coldly: "Impulsive, but the devil, if you are rude to me again, I have to let you go to see Hades in advance." ”
Qi Lu gasped and said, "I didn't expect Mr. Long to be an elegant person, since that's the case, why bother to be a thief." ”
"You kid is getting impatient!" Zhao Gui raised his gun and wanted to kill Qi Lu.
"Big brother, don't worry, this kid still has use value." Long Qi instructed his subordinates: "Help him up for me." ”
Hearing this, Qi Lu knew that they would not kill him immediately, and his heart calmed down a little. He stood up and asked Long Qi, "Why can you come back from the dead?" ”
"Hehe, I'm scared of you." Before Long Qi could speak, the fake Yang Ning had already squeezed forward and said, "Because I have a medicine that can be taken without breathing like a dead person, but after an hour, it will automatically wake up." ”
"I see." Only then did Qi Lu find that everyone else had taken off their masks, but the fake Yang Ning was still wearing the mask that resembled Sailei, and the person became angry again, "Why don't you dare to let me see your true face?" ”
"I'm sorry, I'm a little superstitious, I'm afraid that you will come to me for your life after you become a ghost."
"Get out, don't say what you shouldn't say!" Long Qi scolded the fake Yang Ning, and he hurriedly retreated.
Qi Lu asked again: "But what I can't figure out is, why did you die twice?" ”
"I'll just play dead this time, what do you mean by twice?"
Qi Lu looked at Long Qi in surprise, feeling that he didn't look like he was lying to himself, and there was no need for him to lie at this time.
"Hehe, I'm kidding." Seeing Zhao Gui's vicious eyes looking at him, Qi Lu hurriedly asked, "How did you know that I would come to Guta Village at this time, do you have eyeliner from Yang Peng?" ”
"No, God is helping us." Long Qi said: "We often have contact with friends in the Golden Triangle, and once I took my subordinates to run errands in Myanmar, and I happened to see that Yang Peng's secretary was also there. ”
"Yang Peng is in the steel business, and there are basically no iron ore mines in Myanmar, what is his secretary doing here? I felt very strange, so I sent someone to follow him and found out that he was going to Guta Village to deliver a message. I instinctively sensed that there must be a famous hall here, maybe it had something to do with the treasure that Yang Peng told me before, so I arranged for my subordinates to go to the village chief's house at night to steal this letter......"
"From the content of the letter, your judgment was confirmed, and then you spied on Yang Peng, and found out that he invited me to come to Burma, so you killed the people of Guta Village first, pretending to be a villager in the village and waiting for me to throw myself into the net and help you find the treasure, right?"
Qi Lu felt an indescribable discomfort in his heart, Long Qi said that doing things in Myanmar was just a modifier for drug trafficking. Zhao Gui and Long Qi had already accumulated huge wealth through various illegal and criminal means, enough for them to use up in several lifetimes, but they were still greedy and wanted to seize the treasures of Guta Village.
"I can't blame me, whoever told these villagers to die would not reveal the secrets of the village."
The more Qi Lu thought about it, the more angry he became, and he said angrily: "For the sake of this unverifiable treasure, you have to use so many people to accompany the burial!" ”
Zhao Gui said coldly: "People die for money, birds die for food, they deserve to die." ”
"You will be punished!"
"Destiny is in your own hands, and that's not your business. My fear is that you'll come to the village and find out that we're all disguised. ”
"Your masks are exquisite, and it's hard for me to recognize them when you wear them like real people."
"It's not a question of refinement or not, it's that we are in a hurry, and we can't make the masks exactly like the villagers' faces in a short period of time, and many of the masks are the same as other people's faces."
Qi Lu's heart tightened, he recalled all the words that Long Qi had said, and suddenly realized that a phenomenon that he had been unable to explain before now had a clear answer, and he couldn't help but feel a burst of ecstasy in his heart. However, he still said casually on the surface: "I don't know any people in Guta Village, as long as you don't dress up as a star, who can see the flaws." ”
"Yes, so I was relieved later." Long Qi said, "What else do you have to ask?" ”
"Can you please bring the person who pretended to be my wife out for me to see?"
"Dead ghost, you really miss me." A sweet and familiar voice floated over, and a bewitching young woman stepped forward and stroked Qi Lu's chest with her hand.
"What kind of potion did you give me to drink?" Although her face was not as ugly as the mask, Qi Lu still pushed away the hand that caressed her body in disgust.
"It's a poppy world, and it's not hard for me to get some ingredients to make some psychedelic potions. How about husband, the taste is okay, right? ”
Qi Lu sighed: "No wonder I have hallucinations, when I found out that something was wrong, you used hypnotism to deal with me again, you are really cautious!" Unfortunately, at that time, I already had doubts about your identity. ”
Long Qi said, "Yes, I noticed that you didn't trust us very much, so I played dead and let you let down your guard and help us find the hidden place of the treasure." ”
The young woman said to Qi Lu delicately: "Husband, people go to high places, and water flows to low places. As long as you want, I will intercede with the boss to keep you from dying, and in the future, we will live and fly together and be real husband and wife. ”
Qi Lu asked coldly: "It seems that your status in the organization is not low, who are you?" ”
"She's my killer, and she's never missed a kill." Zhao Gui answered his question.
Qi Lu smiled and said, "Presumably, those underworld leaders who opposed you before died in her hands, right?" ”
"Of course." Zhao Gui said: "You are a talent, if you are willing to be my little brother, not only will I not kill you, but I will also give you a small part of the treasure I found." ”
"Forgive me, I don't want to do too many bad things and can't sleep at night."
"Then you can die." Zhao Gui glanced at the female killer, and she raised her gun, and the jet-black muzzle was aimed at Qi Lu's heart.
"Wait!" Just when Qi Lu closed his eyes and waited for death, Long Qi stopped the female killer's gun.
"It's not time to kill him."
"Brother, what do you mean?" Zhao Gui asked.
"Big brother, we haven't found the treasure yet, it's better to let him explore the way ahead, in case there is any mechanism, we can also reduce unnecessary casualties......"
Before Long Qi's words were finished, everyone burst into laughter.
"Great idea!" Zhao Gui pushed Qi Lu and said, "Give me down, be honest!" ”
"Alas, sooner or later, I will still die!" Qi Lu returned to the pit with a bitter face.
He stopped at the entrance of the passage, looked inside from the outside, and it was pitch black, so he turned around and said, "Give me a flashlight." ”
Long Qi had already come down, and he asked his subordinates to give Qi Lu a flashlight.
Qi Lu took the flashlight and shone it into the passage, and found that it was a bluestone staircase, which led diagonally to the bottom, and because the flashlight had a limited irradiation range, it was not clear to see it further down.
"Let's go, what are you doing in a daze!" Zhao Gui kicked Qi Lu hard in the back.
Qi Lumao walked into the passage with his waist bent, and as he walked, he used a flashlight to shine on the walls on both sides, which were full of strange and bright murals. Qi Lu roughly identified it, and found that the contents of the murals were all about the myths and legends of the ancient period, among which there were many deeds of Hou Yi, and it was very likely that the end of the passage was the remains of Hou Yi, the ancestor of the ancient tower villagers.
Zhao Gui and many of his subordinates also climbed down, and this group of people deliberately opened a distance of five or six meters from Qi Lu, followed him slowly, and walked for about three minutes to the end of the stone steps, and suddenly opened up in front of them, and a huge karst cave appeared.
As soon as Qi Lu stepped into the cave, he heard the roar of an unknown animal coming from inside, the voice was long and mournful, not like the roar of a fierce beast they were familiar with, but more like some kind of low howl from ancient times.
Some timid people had already begun to scream when they heard this roar, and Qi Lu also hesitated and didn't dare to move forward, he looked back at Long Qi who was following behind him.
Long Qi didn't have any mercy, he pointed the gun at Qi Lu, and his eyes carried a cruel murderous aura.
Qi Lu had no choice but to walk into the cave alone, he used a flashlight to shine on the four walls, and saw that the lava in the cave looked strange under the illumination of electric light, like countless monsters staring at him, and the dome above his head was about seven or eight meters high from the ground, Qi Lu suddenly felt that he seemed so small.
The others saw that Qi Lu had moved a few meters and nothing had happened, so they followed him into the cave.
From the moment you enter the cave, the ground slopes downward, and the deeper you go, the colder it becomes. Qi Lu squatted down, felt the ground with his fingers, and found that the soil was dry. So he turned back to Long Qi and said, "This hole is diagonally downward, it stands to reason that the soil in the cave should be damp, and the dry soil means that this hole is very deep, and we are still very deep from the bottom." ”
"It seems that you still know a lot about geography, and it is quite suitable for you to be a tour guide by climbing mountains and wading through rivers."
Qi Lu smiled and said, "If we don't go together to be a donkey friend after the expedition, I will definitely take care of you comfortably." ”
"Less nonsense!" Long Qi roared, "Then lead the way ahead for me!" ”
The crowd marched slowly, and as they went deeper, several forks in the cave appeared, and they had to stop, not knowing which one would lead to their destination.