After rushing into the depths of the woods, according to Jelly Bean's instructions, Tang Qianlin and the others marched towards the west again, and after walking for a while, they found messy footprints on the snow.

Tang Qianlin squatted down and checked the footprints: "I went to the west, there were quite a few people, at least more than ten people. ”

After walking for a while, the group left the woods and found the railroad tracks outside the woods.

Li Yunfan looked around and said, "This should be the military railroad track." ”

Tang Qianlin said: "According to Ma Yanqing, the abandoned railroad track leading to the mine is near here, and we will look for it separately. Xiaowan, you and Boss Yi go over there, and Yunfan and I will move forward. ”

The four of them immediately dispersed, and after Tang Qianlin and Li Yunfan walked straight ahead with guns for a while, Jelly Bean suddenly jumped down, gouged with his claws in the snow, and quickly gouged out a hand.

Tang Qianlin and Li Yunfan dragged the body out of the snowdrift and found that it was the body of a Kwantung Army soldier, and then the two found four other bodies around.

After Li Yunfan checked it, he raised his eyes and said, "It should be a Japanese patrol." ”

Tang Qianlin looked at the wound on the soldier's neck: "One knife kills, it should be the people of Xuanbu, it seems that we are already close to that mine." ”

At this time, Ni Xiaowan and Yi Mochen returned, and Ni Xiaowan said: "Go over there, it's a wasteland, and there's nothing." ”

Tang Qianlin pointed ahead and said, "That's in this direction, you see, there are corpses of Japanese patrols here." ”

The four of them walked straight forward, and Jelly Bean stopped making a sound, just lying on Tang Qianlin's shoulder and looking around vigilantly.

After walking for a while, Tang Qianlin stepped on something, he quickly squatted down, planed with his hands, and then looked at the railroad tracks under the snow, and everyone worked together to cut all the snow under his feet.

Tang Qianlin took out the compass and looked at it: "The railroad track is from north to south, the mine is unlikely to be in the south, we should go to the north." ”

"Something isn't right." Li Yunfan took out a tarp and put it on the top of his head, then took out the map and shone it with a flashlight, "We should be here now, behind is Sanhe Station, according to the distance, we walked about three kilometers, directly opposite us is Fangmaling, and north is Beishan." ”

Tang Qianlin asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Li Yunfan said: "There is a fortress in Beishan, which is one of the defensive fortresses of the Kwantung Army, where an infantry regiment of the Kwantung Army is stationed, thousands of people, I have not heard of a mine cave in this vicinity, if those children were hiding there, they would have been discovered a long time ago." ”

Yi Mochen and Ni Xiaowan stood behind Tang Qianlin and Li Yunfan respectively, holding guns on guard, staring at the darkness around them.

Tang Qianlin looked at the map: "What about Fangmaling directly opposite?" ”

"It's even more dangerous here, it's a no-go zone. Because Fangmaling was composed of small hillsides, it was impossible to build permanent fortifications, but it was located on the side of the Beishan Fortress, and the Japanese army was worried that the side of the fortress would be attacked, so they built a fortress outside Fangmaling. Li Yunfan pointed to the map and explained, "Fangmaling between the two fortresses has become a forbidden area, and many mines have been laid, and ordinary people dare not enter except for the Japanese patrol." ”

Tang Qianlin raised his eyes and looked at Li Yunfan and said: "That's right, I estimate that the abandoned mine should be near here, because Ma Yanqing said that the 016 special train came out after the military line, why did the 016 special train come here and stop at the military line?" What else happened during this period of time, apart from killing the passengers in the car with their hair during the rain? ”

Li Yunfan became more and more confused: "I really can't figure it out, I have never encountered such a complicated case." ”

Tang Qianlin turned off the flashlight and uncovered the tarp: "If it's not complicated, whether it's the person behind Kyoji Miyake or Ma Yanqing, they won't be eyeing me, let me help them solve it, let's continue to look around, if there is a mine, it shouldn't be difficult to find." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone saw a flashlight shaking in the distance, Ni Xiaowan looked ahead, and then said, "It's a Japanese soldier!" ”

Everyone immediately lurked in the woods, watching the pair of Japanese soldiers walk by, and at the same time they could hear what they were talking about in Japanese, and their tones were clearly full of dissatisfaction.

Waiting for the group of Japanese soldiers to go away, Li Yunfan immediately said: "This team of Japanese soldiers is complaining that they should come out to patrol at this time, because the team has not come back yet." ”

Tang Qianlin said: "The corpses we saw before may be the previous team. ”

Li Yunfan said again: "They said they were going to check the abandoned mine cave next to them. ”

Tang Qianlin immediately said: "Maybe it's the one from Ma Yanqing's Tibetan train, let's go over and have a look." ”

Tang Qianlin and the others quietly followed the Japanese patrol and walked towards the depths of the forest, and the more they walked, the more they felt that something was wrong, because the depths of the forest were full of pine trees, and the outside was full of birch trees, and in winter, even if they stood in the forest, even if they could see clearly what was in the birch forest, they could not see the pine forest in it.

After half an hour of walking through the forest with the Japanese soldiers, the sky finally brightened slightly, and through the white light on the horizon, you could clearly see a small hillside deep in the forest, and below the small hillside was an abandoned mine, and the mouth of the mine exposed some railroad tracks that were not hidden by snow.

The Japanese soldiers did not linger at the mouth of the mine, but after checking the surrounding snow for footprints, they talked for a while and left.

After the Japanese soldiers left, Tang Qianlin immediately asked, "What did they say just now?" ”

Li Yunfan said: "They said that there were no patrols here, and they went back to report." ”

Tang Qianlin pondered for a moment and said, "Report? Where can I report back? Where did this patrol come from? ”

Li Yunfan also immediately understood Tang Qianlin's doubts: "Yes, where did they come from?" The North Hill Fortress was at least a three-hour walk away, and about the same distance from the southern fortress, so it was impossible for the patrol to go that far. ”

Ni Xiaowan said: "It's so strange, it's better to go over with them and have a look." ”

Yi Mochen disagreed: "Hey, the mine is right in front of us, let's not go to investigate the matter, why do we go to see where the Japanese came from?" ”

Ni Xiaowan rolled her eyes: "With your IQ, I can't explain it to you, do you know that it takes a lot of saliva to explain to you every time." ”

Yi Mochen looked at Ni Xiaowan calmly: "Yes, people say that women are made of water, I think you are made of saliva, can you do it without cost?" ”

"You ......" Ni Xiaowan said and was about to make a move, but was stopped by Tang Qianlin.

Tang Qianlin said: "Don't be blind and poor, do business, go." ”

The four of them followed the patrol and continued to walk deeper into the woods, until dawn, and finally saw a Japanese fortress hidden in the forest, surrounded by dark forts, and the fortress gate was paved with railroad tracks.

Tang Qianlin and the others lurked behind a stone, observing the surroundings.

Tang Qianlin said: "Yunfan, you don't know that there is a fortress here, right?" ”

Li Yunfan shook his head: "I don't know, but it seems that the military line leads here." ”

Ni Xiaowan looked up and shrank back: "Uncle Shi, could it be said that those leopard slaves are directly related to the Japanese?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "I can't say for sure, but don't you think there is a problem with the feng shui here?" ”

Yi Mochen looked around: "It feels quite gloomy, there is wind, but there is no water." ”

Tang Qianlin pointed to a ravine in the distance and said, "Do you see that ravine?" It must have been a river before, but it was blocked, and the reason why the river was blocked was because I was worried that someone would go up the river, especially hunters, and it seems that the things in this fortress of the Japanese are not so simple. ”

Li Yunfan said: "It's all dark forts, you can't see the sentry, it's all surrounded by pine trees, and it's not easy to find even in winter, let alone in the summer when the vegetation is dense." ”

Tang Qianlin leaned against the stone and thought: "Ma Yanqing said that they found that the train was on the military line, so they set up rails and dragged them to the abandoned mine cave we found before, which now seems extremely unreasonable, even if he has the ability, what should he do if he encounters a Japanese patrol in the process of laying or disassembling the rails?" ”

Ni Xiaowan's mind turned relatively quickly: "Uncle Shi, I think, did his words at that time hint at you about something?" ”

Tang Qianlin looked at Ni Xiaowan: "You mean, he knew about the existence of this mine, but he didn't actually get the train in that day?" ”

Ni Xiaowan said: "Yes, is it inconsistent? Do you think, if he really hid the train in a cave for half a month, there was a Japanese fortress here, and they could find it by sending people casually, right? ”

Li Yunfan said: "It makes sense, the key question is, where did the train go for half a month?" ”

Tang Qianlin turned his head to look at the fortress: "Maybe it's in." ”

Yi Mochen said beside him: "If you go inside, then the Japanese will also inform the investigation?" ”

Tang Qianlin thought for a while and said, "Forget it, we can't figure it out if we want to break our heads here, let's go to that mine and have a look." ”

Yi Mochen got up and said, "I just said, isn't it over if you go directly?" What are you doing all this far? ”

Ni Xiaowan rolled her eyes at Yi Mochen again.

The four of them returned to the mine, prepared their torches and flashlights, and then walked inside.

The opening in the mine was large enough to get into the train, but when you reached the largest cave inside, three passages appeared around it, surrounded by rusty minecarts.

Tang Qianlin walked to the minecart and inspected it, and took out a stone from inside.

When Ni Xiaowan saw the stone, her eyes lit up, and she stepped forward and said, "It's a gold mine!" ”

Yi Mochen sneered beside him: "If this is really a gold mine, will it be abandoned?" Even if the gold is dug up, will you leave a piece here? If it's a gold mine, there's no scum left here, so use your brains. ”

Ni Xiaowan looked at the piece of ore in Tang Qianlin's hand: "Then, what is this not a gold mine?" ”

Yi Mochen took the opportunity to retaliate back: "With your IQ, it's hard to explain to you." ”

Ni Xiaowan kicked out directly, and Yi Mochen quickly dodged it, but his face was still full of pride.

"It's not gold, it's pyrite." Tang Qianlin weighed the piece of ore in his hand, "This thing is worthless. ”

Ni Xiaowan wondered: "Pyrite? What is it? ”

Li Yunfan also took out a piece from the minecart next to him: "This thing is also called fool's gold, and people often use this thing to deceive people, and people who don't understand it will really think that this is a gold mine." ”