"What?"

"Just after you went in, we were bored, so we played with our phones, and we didn't notice when the rope broke. Later, Chen Jiao was the first to find out about this and told us, we felt that something was wrong, so we hurriedly pulled you out. ”

"Someone must have cut the rope from above and wanted to trap us here, hehe, it looks like they can't wait, so soon to do it. If we hadn't stopped here just now, we would have fallen to pieces. ”

"What, to kill us? Who? Why? Zhou Hao asked nervously.

"The preliminary inference is that it should be the village chief Zhang Xiu."

"How is that possible! The village chief looks very good. Xu Jiao hurriedly said.

"Luckily, there's another one." Jiang Tian untied the rope around his waist, "I'm just skeptical now." You think, the dead people all have one thing in common: they are all people who come to the ghost village to invest. So is it understandable that the murderer wants to kill those people? But how did the murderer know who was here to travel and who was here to invest? Obviously, if an investor wants to invest, the person he comes into contact with must be a person who has a certain say in the ghost village, that is, the village chief. So, when I left the village chief's house, I made a special test, and sure enough, it really came. ”

"Wait, you said murderer, you mean those murders are man-made?" Ni Gang asked.

"Yes, because my uncle and I found the upper half of the bodies of those dead in the cave, and judging by the wounds on the corpses, it is clear that he killed them. So we have to get down the hill now and call the police. ”

H Municipal Public Security Bureau, Shensen Office.

Shen Sen was flipping through several case reports, and Xu Ang was sitting on a chair next to him.

"How could it be so coincidental that eight dead people died in the same place in the same state?" Shen Sen frowned, and picked up another report on the disappearance of the person, which belonged to Xu Jiang.

"Team Shen, did you call me over to investigate this case?" Xu Ang had a bitter face, "It's not that we haven't investigated this case, it's just that it's too evil, and it was Team Chen who led us at that time." We went into the ghost valley to investigate, but we didn't find anything, and we almost lost our lives there, so now my colleagues are rumored to be ghosts and gods committing crimes, and I don't dare to investigate. ”

With a "snap", Shen Sen slapped the report in his hand on the table, "What a ghost!" After I looked at it, I found that the dead people all went to the ghost village to invest in the development of tourism, while the other people who went to travel were safe and sound, is there such a coincidence? I don't care what bullshit closure report your last Chen team wrote, you have to check it out for me now! Shen Sen glanced at the missing report again, "This Xu Jiang should have also encountered an accident in the ghost village, I'm afraid it is more than lucky." ”

"Team Shen, then tell me about it, how to check?"

Shen Sen touched his chin and looked at Xu Jiang's photo, frowning.

After a while, Shen Sen spoke, "I don't think it's very likely that you can find clues in Guigu. The population of the ghost village is not large, and since we suspect that it is man-made, let's go to the ghost village to check the past door to door. ”

"Yes."

At this time, the phone on Shen Sen's desk rang, and Shen Sen looked at the caller ID, it was Jiang Tian calling.

"Hey, Xiaotian, what's wrong."

"Brother Shen, do you know anything about the ghost village? It's the village where nine people died. ”

"Well, I know, I'm looking at the case report right now, wait, nine, isn't it eight? That Xu Jiang ......"

"Alas, dead, we found his body in a cave in the ghost village, and the bodies of eight other dead people are there."

"What!" Shen Sen's tone was a little excited, "What's the matter, you tell me in detail, how did you get there, and how did you find out?" ”

"Brother Shen, this is not the most important thing. The problem now is that we will most likely be killed by the deranged murderer, and if you don't come again, get ready to see the bodies of me and my classmates! Jiang Tian said helplessly.

"Okay, I'll come right over, where are you now?" Location. ”

"Ghost Valley."

When Jiang Tian and his party finally descended to the bottom of the valley by the climbing rope, it was already half past eleven at night. Jiang Tian saw that the individual's expression was sad or frightened, so he proposed to rest in place, calm his emotions, and wait for rescue.

With the help of the flashlight, Jiang Tian looked at this so-called "ghost valley".

As if split in half by a giant axe, the cliff was smooth and bare, with only a few clumps of weeds faintly visible, stuck alone on it. A small stream that is not wide runs through the "Ghost Valley" and stretches into the distance. Accompanied by the sound of gurgling water, the stream nourishes the grass and stretches the green, dyeing the valley with a touch of lovely silence.

Jiang Tian came to the shore and threw the flashlight into the water, and several groupers sensed the disturbance and quickly dodged and disappeared into the darkness where the light could not be extended.

"Can they really be exchanged for life?"

Gradually, Jiang Tian's eyes were clouded with fog.

He cried.

Rosewood, the village chief's house.

The old man sat on the edge of the bed, looking through the window, quietly looking at the coffin in the corner.

The moonlight sprinkled down, and the dark red of the coffin became more and more like the color of blood.

"Woo-la-la-" At this time, the mournful siren suddenly sounded, shaking the entire Rose Village.

The old man was startled at first, and then smiled bitterly, "It's still here." ”

Half an hour later, Jiang Tian and his party were already sitting in the police car. Since the place where everyone was located was very close to the mouth of the "Ghost Valley", Shen Sen did not have much trouble finding them.

The driver stayed alone in the corner, staring at the ground in distraction. Geng Yan leaned on Ni Gang's shoulder and fell asleep, while Ni Gang looked out the window without saying a word. After Chen Jiao glanced at the two, she took out her mobile phone, put on headphones and listened to the song. Zhou Hao whispered to Jiang Tian what happened, and Jiang Tian had only one answer, "After arriving at the village chief's house in Zhangxiu, everything will be clear." When Shen Sen heard this, he could only temporarily hold back his heart that wanted to get to the bottom of it.

A few minutes later, the police car drove up to the village chief's house. The villagers who were woken up by the siren in the middle of the night also walked here in twos and threes, all looking at the police car with frightened but curious eyes.

The group got out of the car, passed through the chattering crowd, and came to the gate.

"Bang bang bang!" Shensen slapped the door a few times.

A familiar sound of footsteps slowly drifted to the door from far and near, and then the door was opened, and the old man appeared in everyone's field of vision.

They looked at each other and were speechless.

"Little offspring, this wild camping is quite exciting, right?" Finally, it was the old man who spoke first.

"So-so." Jiang Tian glanced at the dirt and grass clippings on the old man's body, "But village chief, you shouldn't be able to sleep, right?" ”

"Yes, I can't sleep well, I have to climb the mountain in the dark in the middle of the night, I really pity my old bones."

Jiang Tian didn't answer, in fact, the old man's frankness caught him off guard.

The old man smiled and turned to look at Shen Sen, "This police officer, you are really hard, and you have to bother you to run to this poor country in the middle of the night." ”

"Human lives matter." Shensen only said four words.

"Human life is at stake? Hehe, what a life! The old man sneered a few times, and his eyes suddenly lit up with a sharp light, "This police officer, let me ask you, can a few lives really be bigger than the sky?" ”

Shensen was speechless for a moment.

"Well, since it's all here, then I won't hide it. Yes, starting from Zhang Tao two years ago, all the people who died in the Ghost Valley were killed by me! ”