Chapter 286: The City That Didn't Exist
In Bai Zhi's simple conversation with the boss, the boss claimed to be Liu Chang, but the name was a fake name when he heard it.
This made Bai Zhi even more suspicious, and after consulting with the other members, he decided to investigate the details of the boss under a pseudonym again.
After all, the new trench has a rule that it will never participate in any illegal activities, only be responsible for security work, and never accept business such as assassination and assassination.
But the trench was not very good at investigating, so Bai Zhi had no choice but to take photos of her boss and investigate through her own private channels.
The news soon came back, and the intelligence said that the boss's real name is Liu Le, a Thai overseas Chinese, who was suspected of being involved in drug trafficking in his early years, but later seemed to clarify that there was no such thing, changed his career to shipping, and made a lot of money in the past ten years, and there was no loss, but some time ago he suddenly handed over all his business to his former partner, and sold all his family property privately, but he couldn't find out what he wanted to do.
In this way, it is impossible to prove that Liu Le is a criminal, or that what he is about to do is related to the crime.
As a result, Bai Zhi and others could only escort Liu Le's family on the road and move towards the Golden Triangle region.
But the road they took was not the road to the Golden Triangle on weekdays, it was a path that few people walked, and it was extremely difficult.
In the mountains and forests, Bai Zhi moved forward according to what Liu Le said, but when she walked around, she found that she was going in circles, but Liu Le insisted that she was right.
After five days in the mountains, Liu Le's wife lost her temper and nagged that everything was because of Liu Le's previous affairs, which led to the hardships in the mountains now, and what so-called Chenzhou was just Liu Le's lie or something.
Liu Le hurriedly signaled his wife to shut up, not allowing her to say any more, and finally took out a pistol.
Liu Le brought a gun, which was also something that Bai Zhi and the others did not expect, after all, it was impossible for them to search Liu Le's body.
Bai Zhi recalled this and said: "At that time, I knew that Liu Le wanted to go to the legendary Chenzhou, and he sold all his family property, and then I knew that Chenzhou really existed." ”
Tang She asked, "And then?" ”
Bai Zhi said: "We went around in circles in the mountains again, and walked for another three days, and the contract period is approaching, because the contract was signed, our escort time is ten days, that is, on that day, we were surrounded by a group of people who came out of nowhere, this group of people was dressed in jungle camouflage, well-equipped, all of them were masked, spoke English, and at the beginning of the code with Liu Le, after checking the gold brought by Liu Le, Liu Le let us leave, and repeatedly told us not to follow him, otherwise we will bear the consequences." ”
Torture asked, "Aren't you curious?" ”
Bai Zhi shook her head and said: "Of course I am curious, but we have our rules, once the rules are broken, it will be difficult for the trench to gain a foothold, so we did not follow Liu Le, but withdrew to Chiang Rai, about half a month later, when we were about to return to China, we received news that Liu Le returned to Chiang Rai, but was shot dead on the street, and the whole family died." ”
Tang She and the torture technique were surprised, how could this be?
Bai Zhi, who received the news, felt very surprised, although the contract between them was also over, but Bai Zhi still felt that there was something strange about this matter, and his first reaction was that this was a fake made by Liu Le's family to hide their whereabouts, so that everyone thought that they were dead, and no one would have thought that they would go to Chenzhou.
Bai Zhi tried her best to support her acquaintance and saw the corpse of Liu Le's family in the morgue.
According to Bai Zhi's previous speculation, the corpse should have been beaten beyond recognition, but this is not the case, the whole family of eight was shot in the chest, and the face was not damaged by bullets, and it can be seen at a glance that it is indeed Liu Le's family.
But the question is, if it's a stand-in, so coincidentally can they find eight people who are exactly the same as their whole family?
It's absolutely impossible.
But the most bizarre thing is the report taken out by the coroner, which said that three months before his death, Liu Le had led his family to do a physical examination in a hospital in Chiang Rai, and checked it according to the report left by the physical examination, whether it was blood or DNA or something like that, it could all match, that is, the Thai official determined that it was indeed Liu Le's family.
But the problem came again, the man entrusted by Bai Zhi told him a secret, and the coroner found that before Liu Le's family was shot, his bodily functions had stopped, in other words, they had been dead for at least forty-eight hours when they were shot in the commercial vehicle.
When Tang She and Xingshu heard this, they couldn't help but say, "How is this possible? ”
Bai Zhi said: "Yes, how is it possible, but I looked at the surveillance, and at the time of the shooting, it was indeed Liu Le who personally drove the commercial car, and the whole process was filmed, and no one moved the body afterwards, let alone did any tricks." ”
Torture hesitated for a moment and said, "Could it be a zombie?" ”
Tang She shook his head: "I don't believe that such a thing exists. ”
"I don't believe it either, but I've seen zombies before, and although it's a living person who has taken medicine, it looks no different from a zombie. ”
Tang She said: "Okay, now is not the time to discuss these, let's check if there are any clues here, whether the buildings that appear here are directly related to the mausoleum." ”
Tang She judged from the records in the notebook that the last recorded time of the notebook owner was February 10, 2009, so it can be inferred that the accident occurred after February 10.
Tang She thought for a long time and said: "Since we know the existence of parallel worlds, we can make a bold guess, that is, this Chenzhou does not belong to the world where the torture art is located, but belongs to the world where Bai Zhi and I are, or maybe, it does not belong, because the brands of computers and mobile phones do not belong in our two worlds." ”
Bai Zhi said: "In other words, after February 11, 2009, Chenzhou suffered a disaster, and something happened that caused these buildings to come here?" ”
"Could it be because of the edge worms?" ”
Tang She thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it has something to do with the edge insects, maybe a large number of edge insects have eaten up the large space entrance, causing all these buildings to fall here." ”
Bai Zhi looked around: "But there is still a problem, that is, there are no corpses here." ”
Xingshu said: "Maybe before the accident, the people in the building were evacuated?" ”
Tang She pointed to the water dispenser in the corner: "Impossible, you see that the water in the water dispenser is gone, I also looked at it in the office next to it, there is no water, there is nothing, not even coffee left, what does this mean?" ”
"You want to say that the people here were transferred here together, and after being trapped, they ate up all the things and water left?" ”
Tang She said: "Yes, let's take a look around, maybe we can find something." ”
The three of them left the office and came to the corridor, and found that the corridor was also a mess, and there were finished snack packaging bags all around, judging from the packaging bags, most of the snacks were produced in Chenzhou itself, and there was nothing about the outside world.
When the three of them came to the hallway, they looked at the dark hallway and decided to go down to see what was down there.
After the three of them walked down the stairs, they found that the stairs further down had been blocked by yellow sand, so they had to enter the lower floor to check.
According to the number of floors written on the stairwell, the floor they are on should be the 18th floor, but because the staircase is broken, it is impossible to know how many floors the original building had.
On the 18th floor, in addition to the bathroom, there was only a huge conference room, the door of the conference room was closed, and the inside was also pitch black, and nothing could be seen.
Tang She stood at the door of the conference room and pushed the door: "There is something blocked inside." ”
Bai Zhi stepped forward and said, "Drive in and push." ”
After pushing for a long time, the door did not move at all, and the three of them had to directly remove the door, and as soon as they removed the door on the right side, three dried corpses rolled out of it.
The three of them immediately dodged, and only to find out with a flashlight that it was nothing else blocking the door, but a pile of dried corpses.
Tang She looked at the corpses piled up into a hill, shook his head and said, "It looks like they all died here." ”
There are men and women in the dry corpses, and they are all dressed in summer, dressed in line with the climate of Southeast Asia, all of them rushed to the door before they died, but because they couldn't open the door, they all died here for some reason, and they died very suddenly, it seemed to be instantaneous, otherwise they would not have become like this.
Bai Zhi squatted down and looked at the dried corpse next to her feet: "It looks like it was poisoned." ”
The torturer asked, "Can you tell?" ”
Bai Zhi shook her head: "Guess, apart from poison and suffocation, what else can make people die in an instant?" ”
Tang She said: "Let's go in and have a look, how about it?" ”
Bai Zhi and Xingshu hesitated and decided to walk into the conference room.
The three of them turned over the pile of dried corpses at the door, walked into the conference room, and just went in to take a flashlight, they found that there were still many corpses inside, but they were incomplete, lying there in all directions, and there were still dried blood stains on the walls and ceiling.
When they saw this, the three of them subconsciously picked up their weapons and looked around nervously.
Tang She said: "It seems that there are other things here, these people should have been attacked by that kind of thing." ”
Bai Zhi looked around: "Could it be the kind of monster written in the notebook?" ”
"Centipede? ”
Tang She said: "I don't know, anyway, let's be careful, take two photos, and then leave." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of something rubbing against the wall could be heard in the corner of the conference room.
After the strange rustling sound came, the hairs of the three of them stood on end.
Tang She stepped back and said in a low voice, "We have to go out." ”
Bai Zhi said: "Good idea. ”
The three of them retreated, and when they retreated to the door, a black shadow flashed quickly from the aperture of the Tang She's flashlight, extremely fast, and there was also a friction sound when they crawled over.
Torture immediately held a gun and said, "Did you see that?" ”
Bai Zhi nodded slightly: "I saw it, I don't know what it is." ”
Tang She said: "Hurry up, this place is not suitable for a long time." ”
When Xingshu and Bai Zhi turned around and crawled over the pile of corpses and were about to walk out, they didn't expect that the black shadow fell directly from the sky, blocking the way of the three of them.
The three of them looked at it, and it turned out to be really a centipede with an extremely huge body!