Chapter 38: Soul Eater I
Tang Qianlin, Ni Xiaowan, and Qiao Tong stared at the thing above their heads that was shaking back and forth in the dark, and it was vaguely obvious that it should be a huge head, and the three of them were shocked and forgot that they still had a flashlight in their hands.
Ni Xiaowan hid behind Tang Qianlin: "So, what the hell is that?" ”
Qiao Tong pulled out the firecracker, aimed it at the thing in the darkness above, and raised the flashlight with Tang Qianlin.
When the flashlight shone through, the thing immediately dodged, as if it was afraid of the light source, and the three of them also took the opportunity to see the true appearance of the thing - it was a huge head, the head was covered with sharp thorns, and a pair of dark green eyes, and the nostrils and mouth were constantly spewing white cold air.
Qiao Tong swallowed his saliva, and subconsciously took a step back: "What the is this?" ”
Tang Qianlin found that the neck of the thing was very long, and the neck was directly connected to the roof of the cave, as if this thing was growing in a stone. He didn't know that Qingquan was stunned before, because the head gradually approached the unaware Qingquan in the dark, and when Qingquan came back to his senses and turned his head to look, he happened to make eye contact with the monster.
"Don't move, don't move." Tang Qianlin motioned for the other two to remain calm, and at the same time used a flashlight to shine a flashlight under the monster's head to its neck, and then from its neck to the position where it should be its body, but the neck directly sank into the stone layer on the top of the cave above.
Tang Qianlin's gaze slowly moved along the flashlight, and after looking around, he finally determined: "This thing seems to be stuck in a crack in the stone." ”
Qiao Tong also looked at it fixedly when he heard this, looked at it for a long time, and said, "Mr. Tang, this thing doesn't seem to want to hurt us?" ”
Ni Xiaowan found that the monster was just constantly opening and closing its mouth in the dark, as if it was eating something.
Ni Xiaowan also hurriedly raised the flashlight and shone it on the location of the monster's mouth, and it took a long time to see clearly that the top of the cave was wandering around the unknown creature called the ghost lantern they had seen above before.
"Look, it's eating ghost lanterns." Ni Xiaowan walked out from behind Tang Qianlin, "Did you see it?" ”
While the three of them were observing the monster, Takahashi Jiro in the opposite cave heard Ni Xiaowan's shouting and immediately leaned over to ask, but was stopped by Qian Sinian.
Qian Sinian whispered in Takahashi's ear, "Don't let them know that we didn't go over there. ”
Takahashi had to dismiss the idea of asking, and lay there and watched, but all he could see was the light of a flashlight flickering in the darkness and the sound of a conversation that was not very clear.
Jinguth stood in the distance, looking around, while holding a notebook and constantly making notes, and in the absence of light, he still wrote quickly, like those eyes that could see everything clearly in the dark.
Yi Mochen and Li Yunfan, who were hiding in the corner, listened attentively to the conversation of several people outside, and also noticed Jin Gusi, who had been making records.
Things are getting more and more complicated, what should I do now? Do you want to go out? Or do you want to keep watching? Li Yunfan was a little undecided, he looked at Yi Mochen and found that Yi Mochen was also full of sadness.
Yi Mochen thought more than Li Yunfan in his heart, the purpose of his trip was not to find out anything, but to be a lone soldier, but the lone army limited him to not have anything to do with a third-party force.
He wondered, what exactly did the third-party forces refer to? Is there any other mystery in this sentence?
But one thing was clear to him, the lone army was clear from the beginning, and there seemed to be a lot of forces to find the Shaman's Spirit Palace.
The arrest, the lone army, the Japanese Kwantung Army, the Baxiangmen, the puppet Manchu government, the military commander, and now a Korean adventurer, as well as a thousand corpses, are getting involved in more and more forces, and things are getting more and more complicated.
Especially thinking that he was a Manchurian and his ancestors were the guardians of the Shaman Spirit Palace, Yi Mochen had a headache, it turned out that at the beginning, he was the target of everyone.
Wait a minute! Yi Mochen suddenly remembered something, he remembered the scene when he met Tang Qianlin on the first day, why did that Ma bald head ask him to meet in that place? Why did you meet Tang Qianlin so coincidentally? He also witnessed the death of Tang Qianlin's senior brother Chu Lekang.
Are these coincidences? No, it's certainly not a coincidence.
Yi Mochen grabbed Li Yunfan, who was still distracted, and asked in a low voice: "After I go back, help me check someone in the archives of the Security Bureau." ”
Li Yunfan was stunned: "Who to check?" ”
Yi Mochen said: "I don't know his full name, I know that his surname is Ma, he is a bald head, a trader, I haven't seen it before, the day I met Tang Qianlin, he asked me to go to that tavern, and the location was also set by him, so I think these are all arranged by someone, and it is definitely not a coincidence." ”
Li Yunfan pondered: "The surname is Ma, bald ......"
Li Yunfan recalled carefully, and said after a long time: "I know a person surnamed Ma, who is also bald, and he is also a man, with a head, a face and a status. ”
Yi Mochen shook his head: "Impossible, I know all the people who have heads, faces and status in Harbin." ”
"This person is from Xinjing, and I heard that he is a person from the emperor's side." Li Yunfan looked at Yi Mochen and said, "I also bumped into him when I went to Guan Beihe's office by chance, Guan Beihe called him why is the prince, yes, Ma Wangye, very polite, very polite, and regarded as a guest." ”
Yi Mochen immediately became interested: "Is there any information about this person in the Security Bureau?" ”
"The General Security Bureau has the information of all the government officials, and there are also black materials, but I am in the Harbin Local Security Bureau, so I have no access to these confidential materials." Li Yunfan shook his head, "Even Guan Beihe can't help it, the Japanese investigate the people around the emperor, and the emperor also needs to investigate the people around him, do you understand what I mean?" ”
Yi Mochen thought for a while and said, "You mean, although the emperor and government organs are controlled by the Japanese, the emperor is not reconciled?" ”
Li Yunfan nodded: "Therefore, the Security Bureau is secretly divided into two factions, one is the royalist faction and the other is the pro-Japanese faction. ”
Yi Mochen asked again: "What about you?" What line are you on? ”
Li Yunfan shook his head: "I followed Guan Beihe, but he has never made his position public on any occasion, but I guess he should also be a royalist." ”
Yi Mochen closed his eyes: "This matter is getting more and more troublesome." ”
At this time, on the other side of the stalactite, Jingusi walked slowly to Takahashi Jiro: "I think it's still necessary for me to go and see what happened to them." ”
Qian Sinian turned his head to look at him: "Hey, didn't you hear what I said earlier?" It is not allowed to go down, this is the order. ”
"I don't know where you got your confidence." Jinguth was still smiling, "Where did you get the confidence that you could take us out of this place safely after Tang Qianlin and the others died?" ”
Qian Sinian was stunned for a moment, and everyone around him turned their eyes to him.
Jin Gusi said again: "Section Chief Qian, you always give me the feeling that you want to kill everyone in this team, can you tell me why?" ”
Qian Sinian fixed his mind and said: "That's your feeling, not mine, you should ask yourself." ”
"Gingus." Takahashi Jiro watched Qian Sinian give an order to Jinguss, "Go down and see what happened to Tang Qianlin and them." ”
Qian Sinian hurriedly stopped: "Chief Takahashi." ”
Jiro Takahashi pulled out his gun: "Jingus, do you hear that?" That's an order. ”
Jinguth nodded, crouched down and crawled towards the gap.
Qian Sinian stood there, trying to squeeze out a smile, but he couldn't smile at all at this moment.
Qingquan, who was lying there, had actually woken up a long time ago, he had been listening to their conversation with his eyes closed, and his heart trembled when he heard Jinguth say that Qian Sinian wanted to kill everyone in this team, because this was also how he felt before.
Qian Sinian has an attitude of indifference to himself and Qiao Tong.
Even if that were the case, hadn't he thought about how he would get out?
Or did he already know where the entrance was?
When Jingusi climbed into the gap and slid down the rope, he saw Tang Qianlin and others holding a flashlight to check the top of the cave, he also subconsciously looked there, just glanced at it, Jingusi trembled, and was almost frightened to let go of the rope in his hand.
He couldn't help but didn't exclaim, but quickly slid down the rope and landed on the iron tile pavilion, standing with Tang Qianlin and the others watching.
"Why did you get down?" Tang Qianlin didn't seem to be surprised at all by the sudden arrival of Jingus.
Qiao Tong and Ni Xiaowan both paid attention to Jin Gusi, who was looking at the monster's head.
Jinguth stepped forward and turned on his flashlight: "What is this?" ”
Tang Qianlin shook his head: "I don't know, but it shouldn't be considered an evil thing." ”
When Tang Qianlin said this, Qiao Tong and Ni Xiaowan were surprised.
Qiao Tong hurriedly asked, "Isn't there any Qisu Town Evil Pavilion here?" Why isn't this thing an evil thing? ”
"According to past experience, the so-called evil thing should be below the evil pavilion, not above." Tang Qianlin pointed to the monster that was devouring the surrounding ghost lanterns and said, "And it doesn't show any signs of attacking us, it's just devouring the ghost lanterns." ”
Jinguss' eyes widened as he looked at the ghost lanterns floating around: "Could it be a soul eater?" ”
Everyone looked at Jinguss, and Tang Qianlin asked, "Do you know this kind of thing?" ”
"The first time I've seen the real thing, I've seen something similar in the atlas before, but it's still not very similar to this one." Gingus said as he pulled out a thread-shaped booklet from his bag, flipped through it, and then pointed to one of the pages, "Look, this is it." ”
Tang Qianlin was stunned when he saw the booklet in Jinguss's hand, and when Jingusi handed him the open booklet, he took it and closed it and looked at it over and over again, and then looked at the line of words on the cover - Kyushu Ten Thousand Beasts Map.
Tang Qianlin held up the booklet and said, "Where did you get this thing?" ”
Jinguth shrugged and said, "I bought it with money, what's wrong?" ”
Tang Qianlin continued to ask: "Where did you buy it from?" Who sold it to you? Male or female? What does it look like? How old is it? ”
Jin Gusi looked at Tang Qianlin, and said half-loudly: "The reaction is so big? Have you been looking for this book? ”
Tang Qianlin asked: "Answer my question!" If you don't know it, you'll die here. ”
Jin Gusi looked at Tang Qianlin's serious appearance, as well as his eyes that were already full of murderous intent, and knew that he was not joking.
At this time, Ni Xiaowan also took the "Kyushu Ten Thousand Beasts Map" and flipped through it, but she was puzzled, and she didn't understand why Tang Qianlin reacted so much?
What the hell is this atlas?