We took the car to Zhushi, and when the car left Yueshi, Jiang Jun leaned out of the window. Jiang Jun told me that he had never left Guangdong since he was a child, and this was his first time going far away. Wang Xin didn't send us off, we said goodbye to him in the office of the police station.

Before leaving, Jiang Jun saluted Wang Xin for the last time with a very standard police salute, and after Wang Xin returned the salute, Jiang Jun followed us away in three steps and two turns. Zhushi and Guangdong are not far away, and after arriving in Zhushi, we immediately found a hotel near the Zhushi Police Station.

Wang Xin built a good relationship for us, and he told us to go to the police station in Zhushi if we had any difficulties. But the meaning revealed in Wang Xin's words is also obvious, and he told us that it was better not to involve other people. Wang Xin vaguely guessed what I was doing to investigate the abandoned factory and Sun Xiang, because there were only two unsolved cases in my hands.

I also know how serious it is, and I am not prepared to go to the police if there is no special emergency or danger. Jiang Jun's room is at the opposite door of ours, Jiang Jun's skills are very good, and with him by his side, I am more assured of Xu Yi's safety. It was already dark when we checked into the hotel, so we decided to rest for the night and go back to Sun Xiang.

Lying in bed, I called my mother again, and I would call my mother every day to report that she was safe, but because I was too busy with the case, I hung up after two or three sentences every time I talked on the phone. This time, my mother talked to me well, and she still asked Xu Yi and me to go back early to get married.

Xu Yi knew me very well, and this time it was she who helped me out, she took the phone and chatted with her mother, and quickly pulled the topic away. After hanging up the phone, I looked at Xu Yi gratefully, Xu Yi has been with me for so long, I will give her a wedding sooner or later, but it takes too much time to get married, and I want to focus on those two cases first.

During this period, the police academy also called me several times, saying that there were some important national meetings to be held, but I directly refused, and I took a long leave.

After a good night's rest, the next day the three of us went to the address that the Guangdong police had investigated for us. Sun Xiang lives in a small village in Zhushi, where the conditions are not bad, and many wooden houses have been converted into brick houses. Although we set out early, we searched for a long time and traveled many times before we came to the village.

The village was quiet, and since it was cloudy, the moon hid in the dark clouds, and we couldn't see the muddy path under our feet.

The air in the village was very humid, and it seemed that it had just rained for a short time, and we all carried a flashlight and made our way cautiously on the dirt road. It was eight o'clock in the evening when we walked round one dark house after another to the innermost part of the village. The investigating detective told us that Sun Xiang lived in a house in the innermost part of the village.

The criminal police who investigated originally wanted to bring Sun Xiang back to me directly, but Sun Xiang did not commit a crime, so it was obviously not in accordance with the regulations to bring people back in such a reckless manner, and I always felt that Sun Xiang would not be an ordinary person, I was afraid of startling the snake, so I decided to come to see him in person.

The village was empty at the foot of the mountain, and the sound of insects echoed everywhere, as if to tear apart the quiet night. One side of the path is full of deep woods, the beam of the flashlight in our hands often shakes into the woods, and the trees are lined up, even the brave Jiang Jun does not dare to look in the direction of the woods, not for anything else, the deep woods at night will always make people's scalp numb inexplicably.

Jiang Jun suddenly snorted, and accidentally, his foot stepped into a large puddle, which was very deep and full of silt. Jiang Jun's feet sank down until the mud and stagnant water covered half of his calves. Jiang Jun complained that he was too unlucky, and he was just about to pull his foot out of the mud puddle when he suddenly stopped again.

Xu Yi and I both noticed that something was wrong, and Jiang Jun said that he seemed to have stepped on something in a mud puddle.

I picked up my flashlight and shone it into the distance, and the main road in the village was like this, and everyone must have traveled on this road a lot. There must be old people and children in the village, and even if there are none, such a big and deep pit in the middle of the road will be more troublesome, and the people in the village should fill in the hole.

And such a deep pit seems to have been dug artificially.

The three of us glanced at each other, and under the light of the flashlight, our faces were a little pale, especially Xu Yi, I don't know if it was too hard, she even lost the blood color of her lips.

Jiang Jun took a deep breath, he slowly lifted his feet out of the mud pit, his feet were covered with mud, and when he lifted all his feet out of the pit, Xu Yi covered his mouth. The mud on the soles of Jiang Jun's feet was mixed with a patch of crimson ......

"Blood!" Jiang Jun was also shocked, and a chill hit my back, and the three of us invariably glanced behind us. It was pitch black, there was nothing, and the sparse sound of the forest was still ringing, like some kind of insect chirping, like the sound of the wind blowing branches.

I walked to the side of the road, picked up a thick branch and stirred it into the mud puddle, as Jiang Jun said, there was indeed something under the mud pit. The color of the mud changed from earthy yellow to reddish-brown as I stirred it up, and Xu Yi's breathing became rapid, and she always looked back behind us.

"I feel like there's something watching us." Xu Yi whispered to us.

Jiang Jun also nodded in agreement, saying that he felt the same way. Not only the two of them, but this strange feeling, I also felt that if we listened closely, we could hear a very strange sound behind us, like something crawling slowly in the grass.

To our left was a large depression, full of tall grass, and the road under our feet was much higher than this one. I told Xu Yi and Jiang Jun to stand still, and I took a few steps back, and I stood at the edge of the road, the beam of the flashlight shining towards the place where the sound came from.

The grass was dense and there was no wind at all, and we both held our breath and listened carefully to the strange sound, and at this moment I was finally sure that it was not a hallucination. I stared at the bellflower field carefully, and felt the voice move closer and closer to me, as if something was moving through the bellflower field.

Xu Yi was a little worried about me, and called me softly, telling me to go back, and I waved at them, indicating that it was okay, I wanted to see what it was. The voice got closer and closer, Jiang Jun escorted Xu Yi to my side, and finally, the few small grasses closest to us trembled.

In the next second, a long thing climbed up the slope and rushed towards our feet, Jiang Jun's reaction was the fastest, and by the time we saw what that thing was, it had already been trampled under Jiang Jun's feet. It's a snake, not long or big, but under the light of the flashlight, its whole body is smooth and makes goosebumps pop up.

Jiang Jun stepped on the snake's head with his right foot, the snake's body kept twisting, Jiang Jun Chang breathed a sigh of relief, he moved his steps fiercely, and Jiang Jun did not lift his foot until the snake did not move. The head of the snake had been trampled by Jiang Jun, and blood was left from the broken head of the snake.

Jiang Jun kicked the snake back into the hollow with his foot, Xu Yi's face was covered with sweat, and she was frightened by this thing.

We went back to the small pit, Jiang Jun did not hesitate, he picked up the branch that I threw aside, and scooped up all the contents of the deep pit. Xu Yi and I were holding flashlights, and when we saw what Jiang Jun had fished out, Xu Yi and I were stunned for a few seconds, and the hairs on our bodies stood up.

The bottom of the mud pit was all blood, and the blood and silt were mixed together and had turned into another color. Jiang Jun picked up several things with a wooden stick, and all of them were thin and long snakes. The snakes have been cut into several pieces.

Jiang Jun gritted his teeth and pulled out all the mud, this pit was much deeper than we imagined, and the reason why Jiang Jun's feet were only overflowing his calves was because Jiang Jun stepped on the body of a snake.

I saw that in the mud pit, all the snakes were cut into several sections, their bodies were extremely smooth and intertwined, and there were a few of them, still slowly wriggling......