From the mountain, this slope is about 100 meters long, but it feels much longer when you really go down. By the time a few people descended to the mountain stream at the bottom of the slope, it was already noon.

Waiting down to the mountain stream, Zhang Guozhong's heart was put down, only to see that although the mountain stream is full of thorns, there is indeed a faint path, and the thorns on both sides of the road also obviously have traces of being cut. "In order to steal a broken electric drill, it takes so much effort, is it good to have this strength to do some serious work..."Wiping his sweat, Zhang Guozhong muttered and walked towards the gap in the middle of the cliff.

"Hey? It's weird..."Don't look at Zhang Guozhong quite calmly, but Sun Dapeng, who is the guide, frowned.

"What's wrong? What's so weird? Zhang Guozhong glanced at Sun Dapeng, "Is this the road?" ”

"It's true, but... It's not quite right..."Sun Dapeng put his mouth next to Zhang Guozhong's ear, "A few years ago, the electric drill was always lost in the mountains, and the people in the village were afraid, no matter how tired they were at night, they took the electric drill back, even if they slept in the mountains, they were left to watch, so those people stopped doing it later, saying this, it was a few years ago, but you look at the grass growing..."

"It's... Dapeng, are you sure they quit a few years ago? Zhang Guozhong squatted down and looked at the broken branches of the thorns on the side of the road, it seemed that they had indeed been cut recently, "Is there any other use for this road except stealing the electric drill and escaping?" Who of you knows this way? ”

"It's hard for me to say whether they steal the electric drill or not, but we haven't lost it in the village for the past two years, as for what other uses... It's not easy to say, except for escaping, I shouldn't be able to do anything else..."Sun Dapeng looked up at the slope in front of him, "If it weren't for stealing the electric drill, I don't think anyone would normally walk here. Besides, this road leads to other villages, but not to our villages, and it is impossible for people from other villages to come here to open up wasteland..."

"Does Zhou Wenqiang know this road?" At this moment, Zhang Guozhong basically has the answer in his heart.

"This..."Zhang Guozhong asked, Sun Dapeng was also stunned, "I don't know, since his mother died, he has been playing with money every day, and it is estimated that he is also short of money, and my brother who worships him may not be sure to steal it, but I don't know..."

"That's him!" Zhang Guozhong stood up and walked straight to the policeman Xiao Chen, who was sitting on the ground and gasping, "Comrade policeman, we suspect that the criminal escaped from here!" Do you think we have to go back and call more people? ”

"What?" Xiao Chen was not very happy to run this trip, and said in his heart that if you weren't a bullshit expert, I would have taken the car back to the bureau to drink tea, and at this moment Zhang Guozhong asked, this Xiao Chen was even more indifferent, and said that it was up to you to analyze the case? "Brother expert, our captain has said it, it's still uncertain where you ran from, we have already arranged the police force, my task is to escort you to chase Officer Zhu and them, you don't have to worry about other things? Okay? ”

"Okay..."Hearing Xiao Chen's attitude, Zhang Guozhong lost his temper, "Then let's go after Officer Zhu..."

Along this path, walked for about an hour, in the distance really saw a lush cornfield, after crossing the cornfield, several people came to the edge of a dirt road at the edge of the field, only to see that the dirt road is about two meters wide, the bigger car must not be able to drive, but it should not be a problem to take a small surface or a motorcycle, the two ends of the dirt road are connected to the sky, except for a faint building similar to a broken temple in the distance, there is basically no other building, "Let's wait here, go to National Highway 309, they are willing to wait for this!" ”

"Where is this?" Zhang Guozhong looked around, and there were endless crops all around, except for the ruined temple not far away, there was basically no place to shade.

"This is the General's Temple, they must come from that side..."Sun Dapeng pointed in the direction of the ruined temple in the distance, "If they just set off when we go up the mountain, then they will have to come here in at least an hour!" ”

"Roc... If we leave in the morning, can we catch up? "What Zhang Guozhong really wants to chase is not Xiao Zhu, but Liu Dongsheng.

"Leaving in the morning?" Sun Dapeng thought for a while and shook his head again, "That's enough, this short road saves at most two hours, and you will definitely not be able to catch up in the morning, unless there is a car..."

"Car...?" Zhang Guozhong looked around, not to mention the car, he couldn't even see a figure, although he didn't see the car, but the broken temple in the distance made Zhang Guozhong feel a little strange: the temple is yin, since ancient times, there is more "rather live in front of the temple, not behind the temple" said, the reason is because the temple gathers yin, which is not conducive to living, and the yin qi behind the temple is greater than the yin in front of the temple, and it is easy to provoke unclean things. One is that the temple is surrounded by an open space or field, so that the yin energy around it will be sucked by the temple, forming an effect similar to a whirlpool, at this time the center of the whirlpool is the strength of the temple's yin energy will accumulate and is not easy to dissipate, and the wandering spirits outside the four will also be attracted, if the resentment is not very heavy, it is difficult to get out, this situation is called "whirling soul revelry" in Maoshan technique, the meaning of the urn is the meaning of the big urn, the meaning is that the injustice will exist in the center of the whirlpool centered on the temple, will not invade, will not take the initiative to provoke the living; The second situation is that the environment around the temple is empty and there is a cemetery, in this way, the soul of the new deceased will also be inhaled into the whirlpool of yin qi and difficult to get out, it could have been reincarnated, but this time it can not be reincarnated, and it will be a big resentment over time, and it is easy to form a disaster. If the temple is unworshipped or uninhabited for a long time, the severity of these two situations will be aggravated, which is why the larger temples are willing to build on the mountain (the yin and yang in the mountain are self-contained, which is completely different from the plain area), and some small and medium-sized temples will also take some protective measures even if they are built in the plain area, such as repairing the tower, crossing the river, opening a canal and so on.

"Dapeng, what is that ruined temple-like building for?" Zhang Guozhong asked.

"Master, that's the General's Temple! The name of this piece of land is called General Temple, because there is that temple! Sun Dapeng dragged Zhang Guozhong aside, "By the way, master, that general temple is not a good stubble, it is haunted...!" ”

"Haunted?" Zhang Guozhong was stunned, "What the hell?" ”

"Hey, I also heard the old people say, the old legend is haunted, I don't know when it started, at first, there were people a few miles away from this temple, but it is said that there are several miles away, you can see the ghost fire at night, and then they all moved away..., so you see this radius of more than ten miles, no one lives, it is said that the temple is noisy! There are still a few people when the farm is busy, and they don't want to make do with it..."

"Ghost fire?" Zhang Guozhong smiled slightly, in fact, ghost fire and haunting are completely different things, ghost fire can be explained by modern science, it is the bright light caused by the spontaneous combustion of phosphorus elements in human bones, "There is no cemetery near here, where does the ghost fire come from?" ”

"Hey, master, who told you that there is no graveyard? I heard the old man say that before the liberation of this land, it was a mass grave, and the corpses were buried here with no owner, and the graves were gone, and after the liberation, they were changed to crops, and the graves were bulldozed with bulldozers to grow food directly, and even the coffins were not dug out..."

"Graveyard!?" Zhang Guozhong was stunned for a moment, according to Sun Dapeng, this general temple just meets the conditions of "Spiral Soul Pool", if it is really that Zhou Wenqiang cleaned up the secret path leading to the General Temple from * Mountain, then his black-clothed accomplice may use the "Spiral Soul Pool" around this General Temple to play some trick..."Dapeng, except for the ghost fire, there is nothing else strange about that broken temple?" Especially recently? ”

"I haven't heard of it lately, who has nothing to do with going there, but there used to be!" Sun Dapeng said, "I heard my grandfather say, before the liberation, there was a champion village nearby, it is said that there was a champion in the village of the former dynasty, so it was called this name, but then this champion let the emperor cut off his head, and the family was assigned without even seeing the corpse, you say that you are not wronged, you have been studying for so many years, and the book money has not been earned so much to let the emperor cut it..." This man's nickname seems to be the Eight Lambs, and his name is like..."

"I said Dapeng, can we change this problem in the future?" Zhang Guozhong couldn't stand it anymore, and he was vomiting blood urgently, but this baby apprentice was idle, "Can we stop talking about anything else in the future and get straight to the point?" ”

"Hey, okay, what the master says..."Sun Dapeng smirked and scratched his head, "One night, Wang Dagao went to the market to watch the play, and came back late, if you go home on a detour, you have to walk for half a night, you have to take a trail from the General Temple, you can walk in an hour, this Wang Dagao is also lazy, so he took the path from the General Temple, and when he walked to the door of the General Temple, he suddenly felt that his shoulder was patted on the shoulder, and then he heard someone behind him looking for him to borrow fire, and took out the foreign fire*, and guess what? When I turned around, there was no one! There are cemeteries all around, and there is no figure within a radius of dozens of zhang, alas, this can scare Wang Dagao to death, and the girl ran home directly! ”

"That's it?" Zhang Guozhong was about to die of depression.

"There's still something to come..."Sun Dapeng looked serious, "When Wang Dagao just ran to the door of the house, he suddenly felt that two hands grabbed his feet and neck, and a big horse was planted in the yard, and his front teeth were knocked out, and then this person was seriously ill and lay in bed for a year!" Wang Dagao has a son, and he shouted that his father carried a girl home that day! Since Wang Dagao got sick, the child said every day that there was a woman sitting on his father's bed, for this matter, Wang Dagao's daughter-in-law beat the child to death, but no matter how he beat it, the child just didn't change his mind! Later, I asked my husband to see it... Master, you know, my grandfather has always walked with you, and my grandfather has been invited over..."

"Who are you walking with...?" Zhang Guozhong was about to cry, and after a long time, he was still regarded as a fortune teller..."See what? Zhang Guozhong said.

"Then I don't know..."Sun Dapeng said, "But this matter was very evil at the time, but the more evil is still to come: after Wang Dagao recovered from his illness, the child no longer made fun of the woman sitting at the head of the bed, but soon after Wang Dagao's daughter-in-law became pregnant with a child, and later gave birth to a daughter, who neither looked like a father nor like a mother, and the two of them fought a lot for this matter, and at this time his son began to make trouble again, saying that his sister looked like the woman sitting at the head of his father's bed...! ”

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Foreign fire: that is, matches. Because it was introduced to China from Britain in the 19th century, it is also called "foreign fire" by the people.