Chapter 31: The Ancestral Hall and the Cigarette
Teacher Jin took the lead in turning over, and immediately shone a flashlight on the surroundings, at this time, Xu Tian, who was stuck on the wall, did not continue to jump down, and the two looked for the source of the sound together.
But at this time, the surroundings returned to calm, and only the sound of Xu Tian and Teacher Jin could be heard, Xu Tian simply stood on the wall and shone his flashlight around.
"Hey! You are crazy? It's almost dawn, there must be early risers in the village, aren't you exposing yourself to the wall like this? Teacher Jin said.
"What the hell was the sound just now? If someone had jumped from the wall to the ground, it would not have disappeared so quickly! At the very least, we should have heard the sound of running, but nothing continued to appear, and we didn't see anyone. Xu Tian said suspiciously.
"Then it must have fallen to the ground, and this is indeed the courtyard of the altar, with tables, chairs, and benches." Teacher Jin said as he swept around with a flashlight.
Xu Tian took a look at the wall on the other side of the clearing, and only after finding that there was nothing did he jump to the courtyard on the other side of the altar, at this time the time was already 5:15 in the morning, and there was still about an hour before dawn.
Xu Tian's first reaction after jumping down was to check the top of the altar, when Xu Tian walked to the bottom of the altar, the light of the flashlight could already shine on the panorama of the altar, there was no one under the table, and there was no one on the altar.
However, Xu Tian felt as if there was a smell of blood, but after some searching, Xu Tian did not find that anyone had been killed around here.
"Do you smell it? It's not very strong, but it does smell bloody. Xu Tian said.
"No one was killed in this yard, so the smell of blood is likely to come from other places, the sound of landing we heard just now is coming from behind this wooden door, as if someone jumped from the wooden door, but nothing was found on the ground, and no one was found, maybe the smell of blood has something to do with the sound just now." Teacher Jin said.
"The sound did come from behind the wooden door, it shouldn't have been the sound of someone landing, I think something fell to the ground and was taken away." Xu Tian said.
"I can only look for it, there are villagers on the front door of the ancestral hall, if we are found to have broken into the ancestral hall, I'm afraid it will be a troublesome matter, be careful not to make too much movement." Teacher Jin reminded.
Although both of them wanted to light their steps, they were very anxious, so they trotted all the way into the front yard of the ancestral hall.
Most of the front yard is some withered flowers and plants, and the snow has not been cleared too much, but the snow on the road has been swept into the weeds, and through this road is the inside of the ancestral hall.
There are all kinds of urns here, because there is Lao Gao during the day, so Xu Tian didn't look carefully, when Xu Tian shined the flashlight on the urn, it was basically the same as Xu Tian's judgment, all the urns were free of dust, even the shelves where the urns were placed were not dusty.
Maybe the villagers care too much about the ancestral hall, after all, the ashes here are the ancestors of the villagers, but Xu Tian still feels strange, this place is a little too clean and unnatural, and these urns have no traces of age, and some of the urns look like they are deliberately made with a sense of age.
Just as Xu Tian wanted to pick up an urn, Mr. Jin suddenly pressed the urn on the shelf.
"What do you want to do? These urns are locked, and if you want to open them, you have to pick them, as the locks may break. Teacher Jin said.
"I suspect it's not ashes, don't you think? This village is a very peculiar existence, and Dr. Lin said, let's come here to play detective games. Xu Tian said.
"So you suspect that this village was improvized, right?" Teacher Jin said.
"That's right, don't you have doubts?" Xu Tian asked.
"Of course I have doubts, but I think these urns are full of real ashes." Teacher Jin said.
"Why do you say that?" Xu Tian asked.
"The taste, I can't forget the smell of ashes, and there is a strong smell of death in this ancestral hall." Teacher Jin said.
"What does the smell of death mean? You can even smell this? Xu Tian was skeptical.
"It's a feeling, and after too much contact with the dead, you can also feel the smell of death." Teacher Jin said.
"I've had enough contact with the dead......"
"No, the dead you have come into contact with are far from enough, Xu Tian, it will be dawn soon, and I have to tell you some things while there is no chaos yet." Teacher Jin's tone became extremely solemn.
"Tell me what?" Xu Tian's hands still did not move from the urn.
"You have good logical reasoning skills, but it is far from enough for you to have these abilities, as a detective, you are not very qualified, in criminal investigation, logical reasoning is important, but it is also crucial to find strong evidence, you lack the means to find evidence." Teacher Jin said.
"What do you mean by that? Am I doing it wrong all along? Xu Tian said.
"No, you didn't do anything wrong, I just wanted to tell you everything I've seen these days." Teacher Jin said.
"Tell me as if you're here to examine me." Xu Tian aroused suspicion of Teacher Jin.
"I don't think I've helped you these days with you, but there are some things I have to confess to you." Teacher Jin said.
"You took those notes of Commander Fang on me, right?" Xu Tian took a few steps back and said.
"You know everything?" Mr. Jin took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth.
"Don't smoke here, the smell can't be released, it's going to be dawn soon, and the villagers will smell the smoke when they walk into the ancestral hall." Xu Tian said.
"You don't have to worry, the villagers won't be able to come here." Teacher Jin took out a lighter from his inner pocket and said.
Xu Tian seemed to notice something, Xu Tian felt it when he lifted the urn just now, and the weight of the urn was a little overweight.
"Are there ...... in these urns?"
"You guessed it right, so this is the true face of the ancestral hall, and it is also an important prelude to Dr. Lin's setting up this detective game." Mr. Jin pressed the lighter and moved it to his face.
Mr. Jin's movements were a little slow, the lighter stayed on his face for a long time, and he didn't light a cigarette.
"Hmph......" Xu Tian suddenly sneered. I remember when you started smoking, when we first met, you didn't have the habit of smoking, and since we met in Fang Lu's hometown, you have had the habit of smoking, and it has continued to this day. ”