Chapter 215. Case 23: A closed place

So I started to think of one thing very quickly, if the people of the White Lotus Sect came here to look for something, then this thing must have been hidden here before this. Hu Zongren and I walked all the way just now, and the trails were actually repaired by the management, just like playing hamster racing, which could only be within the specified track. From this analysis, if someone wants to hide something, it must be hidden in a place that tourists can't go to on weekdays and can't see directly.

So I began to jokingly tell the owner of the tea stall, then now that this Fotuguan Park is open to the public for free, do you have to close it at night? The boss said yes, after all, this place is so big, it is going to be closed at night, after all, it is a cliff at night, and it is still not safe. I asked the shopkeeper again, is there any other place besides the Tiger Back Cliff you just talked about, which has been closed and not allowed to go? The boss told me without thinking about it, of course, this place is too big, and the grass and trees under the cliff are closed and regarded as greenery. In the past, there were people farming below, but after the park was regulated, no one was allowed to enter. I asked him, is the source of the dark river you mentioned in that place? The boss said yes, but now there is no dark river, the surrounding digging and repairing, the structure has been changed a long time ago, and it has been dry for many years!

I glanced at Hu Zongren, and Hu Zongren's eyes told me that if you continue to dig, there must be other news. It seems that Hu Zongren is similar to what I thought, because we all know that such things must be hidden out of the reach of ordinary people. The speaker has no intention of listening, and it has been like this since ancient times, I mean, if there would have been more scum like me and Hu Zongren since ancient times. So I then asked the owner of the tea stall, what about other places, you know everything, I happened to be the first time to come to this park, and I wanted to take this opportunity to learn more. With that, I put my hands on my chin in the shape of a flower saucer and sat on the pile of grain listening to my mother's story.

Perhaps it was my concentration that moved the tea stall owner, who had a smug expression. Although I am not dressed in a brand, at least I am a young man, and there are very few young people who are interested in these things now, and I am not really interested, you know, everything I do is to be able to get more information, to put it bluntly, I am actually using this tea stall owner, but I have no malicious intentions. After the boss was a little proud, he took a sip of tea, then clasped his fingers with each other, and put on a posture to talk endlessly. He told us that this place used to be in the wartime, that is, when the Japanese bombed Chongqing, and because of the relationship between the cliffs and cliffs, a very large air-raid shelter was built. I asked him what he meant by chiseling through. The boss said that when he dug there, he found that there were some dense small dark holes inside, just like the kind of caves found in the mountains in the past, except that there were no stalactites or anything in them. So I didn't dare to continue digging at that time, for fear that the whole thing would collapse, and it was deep enough anyway, so it was regarded as a civil defense project at that time. The owner told us that in the 80s, there was an earthquake somewhere, and the innermost part collapsed, and the place was never open to the public again.

I asked the owner, so this place can't be visited right now, right? He said that if you walk, you will definitely not be able to go, although there is no wall, but the road outside is broken, and basically few people will walk through the thorns and go to the bomb shelter where there is nothing. I thought to myself, if it were me, I might choose to hide something in this place. So I asked the shopkeeper, have you ever been in that bomb shelter? The boss said that he had been there when he was young, and he hadn't stopped it at that time, and he had a few friends roasting rabbits at the door and drinking wine, but he was happy. Hu Zongren interjected and asked, rabbit? Where did the rabbit come from? The owner of the tea stall said, you don't know this, the previous environment was good, how can it be as smoky as now, in the haystack here, there used to be rabbits, and where there were rabbits, there must be snakes, even now, sometimes there are snakes. Luckily, it's winter, and if it's summer, you can often see those very thick and long snakes in those pools.

I know what he said, it's a water snake, mostly black, and it can often be found in pools in the mountains in the summer. For the snake, at least I am very in awe of it now, not because it can bite, but because after getting to know some immortal masters in the early years, I found that they have a deep respect for this kind of animal. When I was a child, I didn't know how to do it, I used to catch snakes, but when I grew up, until now, I never touch anything related to snakes. The shopkeeper then told us that there was a rainstorm that had been raining for nearly a week, and a lot of the earth had been washed away, and that we had found a lot of very thick earthworms here, the thickest of which was as thick as an arm!

The owner of the tea stall stretched out his arm when he said this, and his eyes lit up, as if he remembered the scene vividly. When I was a child, I also played with earthworms, and I don't know how many of them died, because in those days, the entertainment in childhood was very limited, so I often brought a screwdriver with my friends, brought a small bucket, saw where there was mud, went to dig it, collected some, and then took it to the ornamental fish pond in the factory to feed the small fish inside. I think those little fish must have liked me very much, and for this reason, I fell in love with eating fish for the rest of my life. I've seen very thick earthworms, but the biggest ones are only as thick as fingers and arms as thick. So I said to the shopkeeper with a look of disbelief, no way! So thick! It's a possibility! Big brother, I'm afraid you're making fun of me!

Well, Chongqing dialect probably means deception, and it is not that kind of malicious deception, but the feeling of playing. The boss said loudly, who spared you, I mean the truth, I saw it with my own eyes, at first I thought it was a snake, but it turned out to be an earthworm, and then it was killed by the people who watched the excitement, and it was reported at the time! He said it in a categorical way, as if I had to believe it. He went on to say that it was found on the edge of the dark river at that time, where there was water and vegetation, and there were more of these things. At that time, you could see those small red fruits everywhere in those meadows, and you could eat them directly.

That kind of thing, shouted in Chongqing dialect, is called "snake bubble", probably a kind of berry, and many places call it "dragon spit pearl". In addition to being a delicious fruit, it can also be used to chew together with leaves and flowers and apply it to wounds to treat mosquito bites and snake venom. The so-called one thing is one thing, didn't Li Shizhen say that where poisonous insects are infested, there must be medicine within 100 steps. Then I began to think that since there are snakes here, snakes are earthly animals, but when they hibernat, they usually dig holes or hide in the cracks of stones. If it were said that the four divine beasts analyzed by Situ at the beginning occupied the gold, wood, water and fire respectively, then would the earth be the snakes he was referring to? And Situ also mentioned the "earth dragon" before, and the owner of this shop kept saying that he had witnessed an earthworm with the thickness of his arm, isn't the earth dragon an earthworm? Could it be that the giant earthworm is still there?

Thinking of this, I suddenly had a burst of hair on my body, and I was ashamed to say that I was a person who was particularly afraid of insects. Especially if there are more than 4 limbs and legs, I will be afraid, so although I don't like to kill, all the spiders and cockroaches in my house are not spared. Earthworms don't have limbs or legs, but I can't stand the feeling of being soft and wet. If this time it is really related to the "Earth Dragon" in Situ's mouth, I am afraid that this matter will have to be done by Hu Zongren himself. Hu Zongren was still surprised when he saw me, so he continued to ask, is there anything else that I can't go to now? The shopkeeper said that there are actually quite a lot of them here, for example, the white bone towers that were left in the past were also in the grass, and they were not allowed to go, anyway, there were quite a lot, you came to play a few more times, and you will know.

Coincidentally, at this time, Situ called, so I stepped aside to answer the phone, and Hu Zongren continued to chat with the shopkeeper. Situ asked me, are you here now? I said yes, I'm drinking tea. Situ said that the two of you are really idle, Xiaohu told me yesterday, didn't you ask you to do something? How did I run to drink tea. I said we weren't familiar with this place, and it was so big, we had to find someone to find out about it. Situ said that this is true, so he asked me if I had learned anything, I simply told Situ what the shopkeeper said just now, Situ said, in fact, he had heard of some of this, but he had not been to this place a few times, so he was not very impressed. But he told me that you could ask him to see if anything strange had happened in this Fotuguan Park before.

I asked Situ, what's the strange thing? What the hell? Situ said, of course, it's a ghost thing. I said, but didn't I say it to Hu Zongren before? It has nothing to do with the hell! Situ said, so I said you kid, why are you so simple after so many years? Think about what kind of person you are, what kind of person Hu Zongren is, who is the person of the White Lotus Sect, and who is the person of the Xuanyuan Society, aren't these people always good at dealing with ghosts? Xuanyuan will send you twenty-four cases, all of them are ghosts, why not this one? You have to use your brains, don't be stupid and suffer when the time comes!

Situ's words really reminded me. But when Hu Zongren told me earlier that it wasn't a ghost, I didn't bring some tools, and if I suddenly didn't think it was what we thought, wouldn't it be bad? So I said thank you to Situ and hung up the phone, looked at Hu Zongren and the shopkeeper who were chatting happily, and walked over.