The three of us discussed for a while, and felt that it was better to take one step at a time, and deal with the police tomorrow according to the scholar's countermeasures, and as for the matter of the bronze box, we could only move with the camera.

Sure enough, just after dinner the next morning, three policemen came to look for us. The leader was a captain, surnamed Su, about forty years old. As soon as the three of them sat down, the surnamed Su swept back and forth on us a few times with sharp eyes. It's uncomfortable, like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

"Awake? Let's talk about it. What's going on? Officer Su asked.

"Aha, comrade policeman, thank you so much this time. Our police and people are a family, and you can rely on it at a critical time. By the way, let me introduce you. Professor Xu Yang, a scholar in the United States, is a historian of our country and a leader in the field of archaeology. This time, he was invited by the Chinese Archaeological Association to return to China for a practical investigation. I am a reporter from Zhengzhou Ancient and Modern Newspaper, and my surname is Han. "The scholar's innocent work really scared the three policemen. The three policemen immediately put away their interrogating faces and became polite.

"Officer Su, I've really caused you trouble this time." Lao Xu nodded slightly, quite a professor.

"Nothing, nothing. This time, it was mainly a tourist who rescued you, and he was the first to find you and called the police. However, how could you... It is... How did you get hurt? "Officer Su is very professional, although the tone is polite, but we have no evidence, he still doesn't believe it.

The scholar saw Officer Su's doubts, and immediately said, "My two assistants, this Xiao Xia and that unconscious Xiao Long, the three of us did a column interview for Professor Xu together. Due to the needs of work, we decided to come to the vicinity of Yunmeng Mountain to pick up exterior scenes, and by the way, we came to travel and have fun. Who knows that if you unknowingly leave the scenic area, get lost in a wilderness, and encounter a flash flood, the result will be nothing but an accident. We lost our backpacks and our papers. However, you can confirm our identity with Zhengda or Gujin Newspaper. ”

Officer Su exchanged glances with the two policemen, and one of them immediately went out. Needless to say, he must have gone to verify our identity. Then Officer Su and we chatted without a word, although every word was very polite, but the look of suspicion kept on his face. About ten minutes later, the policeman who went out came back, bowed his head and said a few words in Officer Su's ear, and Officer Su immediately stood up. I shuddered and thought I was going to do it. How do you know that Officer Su stretched out a pair of big hands, shook Lao Xu vigorously, and patted the scholar's shoulder: "Well, don't be surprised, we are also acting on orders." Professor Xu, reporter Han, this time I frightened you. But fortunately, you're fine, come to Yunmeng Mountain again, don't go the wrong way! Ahaha, you take care of it, and I'll come back to see you. ”

After listening to his words, my hanging heart settled down. It seems that the information they verified is basically consistent with what the scholar said, and they no longer doubt us. "Wait a minute, Officer Su, there's something for you." The scholar stopped the three who were about to leave.

"Huh? Is there anything we can help the Korean reporter can help with? ”

"I want to ask, do you know where the tourist who first spotted us and called the police? We got out of danger this time thanks to him, and we have to thank him in person. The scholar said.

"Ah, this. He left after calling the police at the time and left no message. It was me who was the police, and when I brought my brothers to the scene, you were all lying by the river. The tourist who called the police was wearing a black jacket and carrying a backpack. I just said that he came to travel, and found you in a coma by the river. Then help us get a few of you to the hospital and then leave. ”

"So how can we find him? You always have a police number, right? "Scholars do not forgive.

"This is really strange, generally speaking, our 110 alarm command center will make a detailed record after receiving the alarm call. This time was no exception, but the call to the police was not recorded. I asked my colleague who answered the police, and he said that the phone did not show the number. This is extremely rare. Because our alarm system will automatically distinguish the caller number, even if it is an encrypted number, it will be displayed. I don't know what's going on this time. ”

Officer Su's words shattered the scholar's wishes. Originally, I wanted to thank him in person, and I also had to return the treatment fee we paid in advance, but the other party did not leave any valid information, and it was difficult for us to contact him. Forget it, just think of it as someone learning from Lei Feng and doing good deeds without leaving a name.

After sending Officer Su away, the three of us breathed a sigh of relief, and the interrogation was not pleasant. After this level, we are facing the injury of the fourth master. Because he was in the ICU, we were never able to see him. And the nurse said that the fourth master has been in a coma since the operation, and asked us not to disturb it. The scholar contacted a colleague from the newspaper office, sent us some money, and also entrusted this colleague to drive Lao Xu's car parked outside the scenic area. After paying the hospitalization deposit, we started the "vacation" of recuperation. I had money to do things, and after checking the director of the inpatient department, all three of us were transferred to a ward. Nurses deliver meals and medicines every day. It's okay, the three of us just play poker together, Kan Dashan, and live a good life.

It's easy to slack off in a comfortable environment. I thought I would just recuperate like this, waiting for the fourth master to slowly wake up, who knew what happened to me. One day, more than a month after we were hospitalized, as usual, I played poker with the scholar and Lao Xu for an afternoon, ate some sick meals in the evening, and lay down to sleep. Sleeping until midnight, I vaguely heard someone whispering not far away, "Xia Nan ~ Xia Nan....", the voice was low and hoarse, I woke up with a spirit, raised my hand to turn on the wall lamp, there was no one in the room, and the scholar and Lao Xu were also snoring on the hospital bed. Is it a dream? I rubbed my eyes and sat up. The door is closed very tightly, the surroundings are very quiet, and if you listen carefully, you can vaguely hear the sound of the nurse on duty chatting in the nurse station in the corridor outside. I thought I must have been dreaming just now, and I was about to lie down and fall back asleep when I suddenly realized that something was wrong. , a file bag appeared on the cabinet in front of the hospital bed, and I could vaguely see red handwriting on it. I'm sure there's only one deck of playing cards on that cabinet before going to bed. And where did this portfolio come from?

I picked up the file bag, and the red letters came into my eyes: The ghost is near you, so you can do it yourself, don't thank me. My heart trembled, damn, what is this? I hurriedly woke up the scholar and Lao Xu and told me about the experience before and after. As a result, all three fell silent. The scholar urged me to look at what's in the portfolio. I was inexplicably nervous, and I opened the file bag tremblingly, and a disc fell out of it. I tossed and turned around with my file bag, and there was nothing left but this CD.

Lao Xu took out his laptop from his cabinet, threw the disc into the optical drive, and the screen quickly popped up. It was pitch black at first, but you could hear the sound of birds. The scholar said that the cameraman did not open the lens cap. After listening to the bird's chirping for more than a minute, the picture began to appear. The picture shows that it is in a mountainous area and the forest, the cameraman is shooting while walking, according to the scholar, the camera buddy is very professional, the lens is very stable and the telephoto and short focus switching is very smooth. As soon as the scholar finished commenting, the camera began to shake, as if the cameraman was trotting. Then the picture begins to take a telephoto, and a small river is seen in the distance, and the camera begins to zoom in, and several dark shadows appear by the river. As soon as the picture turned, the cameraman had already arrived in front of the black shadows, and these black shadows were none other than the four of us! In the picture, we are all in tattered clothes and unconscious. The cameraman seemed to have placed the camera in a place not far away, and then suddenly appeared in the lens. I saw a man in black clothes and black pants walking towards us, pulling the four of us from the river to the shore, pressing them on the necks of several of us one by one, and then searching us one by one. The small bronze box containing the ancient silk book in the arms of the fourth master was taken by the man in black! Then the man in black seemed to laugh and walked out of the camera, leaving only a few of us lying on the ground. That's the end of the picture.

The three of us looked at each other in amazement. The scholar took out a pack of cigarettes out of nowhere and gave one to each of us, regardless of the rules that no smoking was allowed in the ward. I asked Lao Xu to put the video aside from beginning to end. This time I looked very carefully, but the man in black always appeared on his back, and he couldn't see his appearance at all. But I can even be sure that the man in black is none other than the mysterious man who gave me nightmares from the very beginning. I don't know what the ghost he was referring to was, and I didn't know what he was giving us the disc for. At the very least, we can know that the person who fished us up from the river, called the police, sent us to the hospital, and paid the hospitalization fee in advance is this mysterious person. But what about his purpose? What is the purpose?

After smoking this cigarette, I walked out of the ward, went to the nurses' station not far away, and asked the little nurses if they had seen anyone enter our ward. I thought it was the file bag that the mysterious man snuck in and put down after the three of us fell asleep. The nurse on duty said that there would never be a stranger walking into the ward. Because of the rest time at night, the doors of each ward of the inpatient department are closed, and there are security guards on duty all the time, so it is impossible for outsiders to enter and exit casually.

When I got back to the ward, I was in a cold sweat on my back. At least the mystery man was right. He said that there are ghosts around us, and that's true. Damn, I think this mysterious man is a ghost! Scholars and Lao Xu obviously couldn't reasonably explain this matter by inference. But when we calm down and think about it, we know that the ancient silk book was not discovered by the police, but taken by a mysterious person. Lao Xu said that this mysterious person should not be an enemy. If he wants to disadvantage us, after the bronze box is searched, he can completely kill us, or at least ignore us. As a result, he not only saved us, but was able to give us the disc.

The scholar thought about it, and it was also the same reason, "But what does the words left on the file bag mean?" Are there ghosts around us? ”

My mind is in a mess, if only the fourth master was here at this time. Some people seem to be weak, but that kind of aura can make the people around them feel at ease, which is the so-called sense of security. But now there are only three of us, and we can only rely on the three of us. The three of them had a pack of cigarettes, and while smoking, they discussed a few words from time to time, but they couldn't get the gist. The sky is getting brighter, and the brothers have no intention of sleeping again. The result of the discussion was that he went to see the fourth master at dawn, hoping that he would wake up.