During this time, Lin'er kept looking at me quietly with a smile on her face.

I rubbed my stomach and felt that there was really nothing wrong with it, so I said to her: "You don't have to be so close when you speak, the people in the village are a little distracted, even if they hear your words, they will forget it when they turn around, so don't be so careful." By the way, do you know where that woman surnamed Xu is being held? ”

After so much verbosity, in fact, the meaning of the first half is to keep Lin'er and me at a distance.

After all, men and women can't kiss each other.

At this time, Lin'er's eyes became a little strange when she looked at me, and her eyes seemed to be surprised and a little disappointed.

After a short while, she said, "We don't know where that woman is being held, and my mother-in-law has come to look for her before, but she hasn't found her." ”

"Let's take a look around, maybe you can get something out."

With that, I walked deeper into the stockade.

The village is not too big, but the arrangement of the houses is very messy, and the roads inside are also in all directions, which is very messy, and it is easy for people to get lost when walking in this kind of place.

Fortunately, Lin'er is more familiar with this place, and she led the way, so I roughly figured out the pattern of the village.

There is a road to the east of the village, close to the mountains in the west and south directions, and a river to the north, which is the water source on which the villagers depend. Most of the houses are basically gathered in the north of the village, which is close to the water source, and on the south side of the village are some ancestral halls, barns and other buildings.

In addition, when I was wandering around the village, I paid special attention and found that the oldest building in this place is more than 100 years old.

After walking for so long, I didn't find anything other than seeing those villagers who had lost their souls on the road.

Lin'er had asked a few people who were a little more conscious about the whereabouts of the woman surnamed Xu, but everyone only knew that she was locked up, and they didn't know where she was being held.

I suspected that the woman might be hiding inside and outside the stockade, so I took out the phone and wanted to contact Li Huaishan and them, so that they could now investigate around the village.

Unexpectedly, this place could not receive a signal.

The signal grid of the mobile phone was empty, and I tried to dial Li Huaishan's number twice, but I couldn't get through.

I put my phone down, frowned, and looked at a hill due west.

When I first entered the village, I found that there was a signal tower on the top of the hill, but how could there be no signal in the village.

"Can I make a phone call over there?" I asked Lin'er coldly.

Lin'er shook her head: "You have to go to the mountains to get through the phone, and there is no signal in the Yin Village." ”

I pouted: "Can you still get a signal in the mountains recently?" ”

"Most of the time I can't get it," Lin'er also looked in the direction of the launch tower and said, "except for early morning." It has been like this since the beginning of the year. ”

At the beginning of the year, isn't it the time when there is a problem in Yangzhai?

I nodded, took out the palladium compass from the backpack, originally wanted to see if there was a problem with the feng shui here, but I didn't expect that as soon as I lifted the lid of the plate, the magnetic needle of the center of gravity of the compass turned at a very fast speed.

Lin'er slowly leaned over, and I noticed her move, and deliberately took a step back and kept my distance from her.

It is estimated that Granny Gu instructed this girl to find an opportunity to get close to me at any time, although I don't know what Granny Gu thinks, but I just think it, Lin'er is so close to me again and again, in fact, she should be very resistant in her heart, but in our industry, sometimes it is really the master's destiny that is greater than the sky, even if she resists in her heart, she does not dare to go against Granny Gu's wishes.

No, when the matter in front of me is almost dealt with, I have to talk to Granny Gu and do her ideological work.

Seeing that I deliberately retreated, Lin'er was embarrassed to move forward, just stared at the palladium compass and asked me: "What happened just now, why did the magnetic needle rotate so hard?" ”

"The magnetic field in the stockade is abnormal," I put away the compass and said, "Didn't you say before that there was a strange clearing in the stockade, let's go, let's take a look." ”

Lin'er led the way in front, and I followed behind her, deliberately not daring to close the distance with her.

After passing through a few small alleys, we came to a bare dirt field.

From the point of view of location, this vacant land should be located in the center of the whole village, its area is full of dozens of square meters, a big eye will mistakenly think that this place is a small square where the villagers gather, but take a closer look at the surrounding bamboo buildings, you will find that all the buildings are facing away from here, a glance to sweep over, can only see a circle of straight bamboo walls, all the walls do not open the door.

The villagers seem to have deliberately not wanted their doors to face the open space.

Lin'er said: "This village was also built more than 50 years ago, I heard that when the village was built, there were villagers who wanted to build a building on this land, but there seemed to be a big stone lining under the ground, and the piles were driven several times, but they couldn't be deep." ”

"The oldest building in the village is over 100 years old." As I spoke, I took out the compass again, lifted the lid and saw that the magnetic needle was rotating at a very high frequency, just like the propeller on a helicopter.

Putting away the palladium compass, I took out the sapper shovel again, and said to Lin'er, "The magnetic source should be directly below us." ”

Lin'er was still thinking about what I just said, and then asked, "According to what you say, this village should have existed a hundred years ago?" ”

"Well, it was a hundred years ago. However, in the early years, there may have been a famine or a plague in this place, and the people were gone. ”

As I said this, I scooped the ground with a sapper shovel. The soil is not hard and can be easily turned over, but if you press the shovel head a little deeper, you can clearly feel the stiff resistance coming from the ground, and I feel that what is buried under the soil may not be a stone, but some kind of metal.

I had just dug a shallow pit half a meter wide in the ground, and Lin'er suddenly asked, "How do you see that?" ”

I said: "When we walked around the village just now, I found that the oldest houses are very far apart, like this kind of house, basically distributed on the edge of the village, which shows that the area of the old village in the past is similar to that of today's Yangzhai." The place is big enough, and there must be a lot of residents. You also said that Yangzhai was built more than 50 years ago, right? ”

Lin'er nodded.

I continued, "When Yangzhai was first built, this place must have been deserted. If so many people once lived, why was there a famine? Either because of famine or because of pestilence. ”

Lin'er pouted and said thoughtfully: "Your brain is spinning so fast, I haven't even thought about this." ”

"It's not that I'm quick-headed, it's that I've seen similar cases before."

As I spoke, I pressed the shovel into the soil, and I heard a muffled "bang", and the tip of the shovel touched the hard thing again.

I immediately leaned down and scraped a layer of dirt from the bottom of the pit.

As expected, under the soil, there was indeed an iron plate, which I don't know how long it had been buried in the ground, and it had rusted to the ground.

Then I tried digging a few more shovels, and I dug out a few more pieces of concrete mixed with stone and sand, and a blue-gray stone from under the ground.

On the surface of the stone, there is also a layer of black paint.

I shrugged my nose and sniffed the stuff carefully.

Concrete blocks and iron plates are products of more than seventy years ago, and the black substance on the stone blocks is supposed to be gunpowder.

Lin'er probably saw that my face was a little solemn, so she cautiously asked me on the side, "What's the matter, these things...... Is there a problem? ”

I straightened up, threw the scattered pieces back into the pit, frowned, and said, "I suspect that the Japanese may have built fortifications in this place, and they may have noticed that this place was not in the right place, and before leaving, they blew up all the fortifications they had built." ”

As I spoke, my eyes fell on the mouth of an alley in front of me, when the sky was already dark, and the alley was also pitch black, but in the field of vision of the quicksand of Qihai, I could still see a thin shadow shrinking in the alley, from the outline, it seemed to be a cat, but the size was much larger than that of ordinary cats.

Due to its distance, the outline is very unclear.

It was also a moment of curiosity, so I took a step and walked towards the alley, but I didn't expect me to move like this, and the thing that was huddled there seemed to suddenly become nervous, and it quickly turned its head and wanted to escape.

It was only at the moment when he turned around that I could vaguely see that this thing was not a cat at all, but more like a living person with a stiff body.

I didn't think much about it at the moment, I immediately let go of Tengyunbu and rushed over with a dodge.

The other party's speed was very slow, and I caught up with him in the blink of an eye, and he probably heard the footsteps close to his back, and he panicked all of a sudden, but he stopped again and curled up in the corner.

Realizing that this guy was not a threat and was not in a hurry to catch him, I reached for a flashlight and hit the light through.

He was timid, but not afraid of light, and when the white beam hit him in the face, he held his head high and stared straight at my flashlight.

Only then did I see clearly that the other party was just an eight or nine-year-old child, his clothes were very shabby, and he didn't know how long he hadn't eaten a full meal, and he had already become skinny and skinny, curled up there, like a hungry kitten.

At this time, Lin'er also ran over, and when she saw this withered child, she was also startled: "My God, what's wrong with him." ”

As she spoke, she reached out and tried to pick up the child.

As soon as she stretched out her hand, the child was frightened on the spot, and out of self-defense instinct, he stretched out his neck, opened his mouth and bit Lin'er's palm.

(End of chapter)