"Will there be a humus layer down there?" Shen Yu asked with a frown.

"Not really, because it's still very soft sand underneath, and if there is a humus layer, it should be sticky green mud." I say.

Shen Yu seemed to be thinking about something, she suddenly bent down, reached out and took off her shoes, and then pulled off her socks and threw them aside.

Because I was standing in the pit, I could look up and see her feet dangling in front of me - she was not short, but her feet were slender and white, and fortunately I didn't have a foot fetish......

While I was wandering, she had already jumped off with a thud.

"Hey, what are you doing! It's dirty and cold in the pit! "I saw her feet and legs in the black sandy water, and her eyes almost turned red - what a tyrannical thing!

Shen Yu didn't speak, she bent down again, picked up a handful of water with both hands and looked at it carefully.

Her fingers were long, but not skinny, so there were almost no finger gaps, and she stared at the handful of water, as if waiting for the impurities in the water to settle slowly.

I also stretched out my head, but fortunately, there were large particles of sand in the muddy water, which swirled and disturbed in Shen Yu's palm, and slowly sank under her hand.

"You see, there's very fine black particles." Shen Yu said to the palm of his hand.

"It's like charcoal, such fine charcoal grains, not like it's left by rotting plants." I say.

"More like traces of fire, right?" Shen Yu said in one word.

"But beneath the water in the middle of the river—there's going to be a fire?" I was stunned.

But it's also possible, after all, this old river has been dry for several years, and it's normal for someone to burn weeds, burn garbage, or something.

But if it's something that has been burned in the past two years, the ashes left behind are all on the surface, right? I can't get to the depths of the place.

However, no ashes were found in the current pit, only because of the water on the ground, and some water with charcoal particles came up.

This shows one thing, that is, the so-called "fire" should be deeper below the riverbed, and the time of the fire should be when the Zhulong River has not yet taken shape, or when it is still land, which involves the history of the Zhulong River.

However, I don't know how many years this section of the river has existed. Anyway, when I was in elementary school, there was a local book printed in the city, called "The Beautiful and Rich Gao Guo", and almost every student at that time had a copy.

The book quotes "Gao Guo Fuzhi" as saying that the embankment on the edge of the pagoda village was built during the Tianshun period of the Ming Dynasty, and the embankment has a history of more than 500 years, so the history of the river may be even longer.

So, could the fire under the water of the Zhulong River occur 500 years ago, or even earlier?

Did anything happen here in ancient times?

Does this fire have anything to do with the black ship?

Some are just conjectures or suspicions, and there is little correlation between conjectures and suspicions.

Shen Yu proposed the method of "starting from scratch", trying to start with the black ship to find the logical line between the various doubts that have appeared recently, but instead of finding that line, there are more and more doubts!

The two of us don't have the ability to dig any deeper into this puddle. Shen Yu advocated restoring this place to its original appearance - if someone really came and put wooden planks here, creating the illusion of a modern shipwreck, then he definitely didn't want to see his tricks discovered.

In order not to startle the snakes, we took some effort to backfill the excavated earth, and then carefully put the two fake planks back in place, and finally I took off my coat and brought some dry sand from somewhere else, making it all look like no one had ever been here.

"We have to come back as soon as possible, and next time we bring tools and continue to dig deeper." Shen Yu looked at this and said.

She didn't know that she had set a flag, because soon after, we were caught up in a major case that shocked Wei Yang, and the intensity of the investigation that continued almost twenty-four hours left her and her and me at all scratch.

……

That day, I drove back to Gaoguo in a hurry, returned the rented car at the train station, and then bought a high-speed rail ticket to Songshan City.

While waiting for the bus, I bought two large cups of Americano.

SHEN YU DRINKS COFFEE, NEVER PUTS SUGAR OR MILK, SHE ALWAYS LIKES TO DRINK DRY BLACK COFFEE - EITHER AMERICAN OR ESPRESSO.

I used to be very afraid of bitterness, especially the smell of black coffee, and every time I drank it, I would dry up. But later, in order to accompany her, she also began to slowly stop adding things to her coffee.

Of course, black coffee is addictive. Now I don't have two cups of black coffee to live, and I feel uncomfortable.

The two of us sat on the high-speed train, Shen Yu looked at the coffee in my hand, and said with a smile: "You, you even drink the same thing as me, I took you to the ditch." ”

"Haha." I smiled at her.

She took a sip of her coffee and looked out the window at the scenery, as if thinking about something.

I pretended to be looking out the window, but I was actually peeking at her - her silhouette was so beautiful.

She suddenly turned around and looked at me very seriously.

I was shocked, could it be that I was caught peeking at her just now?

"Stake, you know what?" She said to me solemnly, "During this time, I haven't actually come out of the shadows. ”

"Shadow, do you mean losing that instinct for discovering logic?"

She nodded.

"It's okay, I'm so seriously injured, I have to recover slowly, don't be in a hurry." I comforted her.

"But don't be in a hurry, haven't you noticed that the things around you have been around you have been suddenly accelerating?" She asked me, "Strange things suddenly appeared, and more and more, more and more concentrated in the place of Weiyang, more and more concentrated around you and me. I don't know why, but I always have a feeling in my heart that the black clouds are crushing the city and want to destroy it. ”

When she said that, I thought about it, and it was.

Recently, strange things have come and gone, and many things don't seem to be fully explained by science.

However, after all, we are no longer passively beaten - aren't we on the way to actively investigate?

"I'm a little worried, and I'm in this state, you know." Shen Yu continued, "Suddenly half of the time was missing, and the other half of the time was suddenly unexpectedly ceded to another crazy woman......

She still seems to be resistant to Hua Fei, of course, Hua Fei should not look down on her. It seems that the struggle between these two women will have to continue.

"So, there are so many things, I have to ask you." She looked into my eyes with a look of both solemnity and a hint of pleading.

But ...... "I don't know the bottom in my heart, I'm not a person who is good at investigation, and my brain is not as clear as Shen Yu."

"Actually, I think you've changed these days." Shen Yu raised his index finger and tapped his temple to signal, "You have begun to think actively, you have learned to reason, and you have made great progress, but you don't realize it."

"You have a good memory, a lot of knowledge, a strong sense of responsibility, and you are good at taking care of others. After so many years, although the two of us are not a couple, I should know you better than anyone else.

"You usually look like a good person and have no confidence in doing things, but in fact, you are often not afraid of trouble when you encounter things, and you are more tenacious and down-to-earth than anyone else.

"The most important thing is that you have your own principles, your own view of good and evil, and you will not be disturbed by the outside world and lose your goals - this is the basic condition of being a detective.

"You think I brought you here as an assistant on a whim, right? Maybe even Lin Ying thinks so, right? But how could I do something that was out of proportion? I've been planning to do that for a long time. Now that I think about it, I think it's just too wise and lucky to have you involved in all of this from the three heads. ”

I looked at her dumbfounded, really, what she had just said about my virtues was something that I hadn't even thought about myself.

"So, Stake, I want you to help me - I can't continue to investigate every day, but you must help me, and work with me to get through all these puzzles until they are solved."

"Only you are worthy of my trust and trust."