"Brute?" Including Qiao Xiaojing, the people in the room said in unison, and no one understood what the old man was referring to.

"You just said those brutes," Qiao Xiaojing motioned for everyone to be quiet, and then said to the old man, "What do you mean...... Can you tell us more about that? You can rest assured that tonight's events will come out of your mouth and into my ears, and will not affect you and your family. ”

"Well," the old man paused, and continued, "although I don't know you, and I can't be sure of your true identity, I want to believe that you will not deceive me, and of course I believe that you are all good people and will not harm me." I will speak to you, and I hope that you will get rid of those beasts for me and other poor people, if you can. ”

"Of course," Qiao Xiaojing nodded, "We were originally like you, all poor people, forced to join the revolution in desperation, that is, revolutionary fighters who fought for the liberation of the toiling masses, if we can do today's things, we will naturally do our best, even if we pay the price of blood, please have no doubt." ”

"One morning a year ago," said the old man, "the quiet of this place was broken by the noise of cars, which was so remote that the villagers seldom heard it, and when they heard it, they all ran out to see the excitement, and saw several trucks outside the town." Do you know what's in the car? Japs. Every car is pretty much the same, pulling all the devils. These devils jumped out of the car one after another, not to mention fifty or sixty people, all of them holding knives and guns in their hands, murderous, and it made people shudder when they saw it. ”

"So many," Boss Wu sighed, "It's not big here, and it's not an important place, why are there so many devils?"

"Who's to say it's not?" went on to say the old man, "and we don't know where they came from, for at first we all thought that the devils had either passed by or had gone the wrong way, and had come here by mistake, and should have left soon, for who would have thought that these brutes would have stayed." ”

"Long stay?" Qiao Xiaojing was puzzled.

"Yes, I lived here until half a month ago, and I have been here for more than a year. ”

"Now the devil has withdrawn?"

"Most of the devils left half a month ago, but there are still a few devils who haven't left. ”

"I've been here for more than a year, what have the devils done?"

"What else can you do?" said the old man angrily, "almost all the things that hurt the heavens and reason have been done, and the people here have not suffered from the scourge of those beasts. Whenever I talk about those beasts, I remember many things vividly, and I can't wait to skin those beasts and cramp them. It's so bad, it's dressed in human skin in vain, there is no humanity at all, it's just a pig and a dog!"

"Didn't you say that all the devils have not been withdrawn, where are the remaining devils?"

"It should still be in their graves. ”

At this time, Dazhi had already experienced the severe torture of the devil, covered in blood, tied to a pillar, and there was a cauldron-like brazier not far away, and the soldering iron in the brazier was burned red, like fiery red carbon grains.

"I advise you," a devil with a leather whip walked into Dazhi, pinched Dazhi's chin tightly, glared, and said viciously, "It's better to be honest, don't carry it hard, tell you, no one who came here got out alive, really, I've never lied to people." Do you know what the people here call our place?"

Dazhi didn't say anything, opened his tired eyes slightly, looked at the man with contempt, and then closed his eyes again.

"Grave!" said the man, who suddenly let go of Dazhi's jaw, put his hands behind his back, and seemed to have a smug look on his face, and said with a smile, "You know?

In an instant, the devil turned around again, grabbed Dazhi's messy hair, almost put his mouth to Dazhi's ear, gritted his teeth and whispered: "The people here call it a grave, hum, a grave, such a vivid expression." Since this is a grave, why do you have to come uninvited, and since you are here, how can I let you out alive?"

"I have said it countless times, "I am only a passing merchant, and if you believe me, you will let me go, and if you do not believe me, you will kill or chop me, whatever you want." ”

"Merchant?" the devil whipped Dazhi again, and Dazhi grinned in pain, only to hear the devil say angrily, "The devil believes your lies, I have never seen a merchant as hard-boned as you." If you are determined to die, then this place will really become your grave......"

"Grave, what grave?"

"You don't know, our people here call the tunnels dug by devils the graves of devils. Soon after these devils arrived with us, they began to dig tunnels outside the town for them to dig in a big way. Hundreds of people dug for about half a year, and the tunnel was dug like an underground palace, with more than a dozen houses, and there were also underground factories and laboratories. ”

"And underground factories and laboratories? What are the devils doing with underground factories and laboratories?"

"How do I know this, not only do I not know, but there are not many people who want to know about it. ”

"How is this possible? Didn't you just say that the devils had captured hundreds of people to work as coolies, and how could you say that there were not many people who knew about this situation?"

"Well, even if anyone knew, I think they might all be dead now. You don't want to think about it, who are the devils, they have no humanity at all, they are just a bunch of beasts who eat people and don't spit out bones, such a confidential matter, how can they let the people involved in it come out alive?"

"Now that you know a little bit, tell us what you know. ”

"We used to have an underground party here, although there were not many of them, but they specialized in dealing with devils and traitors, and provided a lot of help to our poor and poor people here, but unfortunately they were informed, and they were killed by devils and traitors, and none of them remained...... I have a nephew who is an underground party member, and I know exactly what I know from him. ”

"I'm sorry, but your nephew ...... now"

"Dead, like other underground party members, they were killed by devils, they were killed almost at the same time. He once said that the devil's tunnel was comparable to an underground palace, with not only rooms, but also factories and laboratories, and if he hadn't said it, I wouldn't have known about it. Before his accident, he told me that every night the devils always had trucks full of boxes coming, one after another, and all the boxes on the trucks were sent into the tunnels by the devils, and this situation lasted for a long time. ”

"Did he say what was in the box?"

"No, and probably not in time. I also wondered what was in the devil's box, why it only came at night, but I had never seen a truck loaded with boxes during the day, although I don't know what it contained, but it was definitely important, a very important thing. After my nephew died, I secretly observed the devil at night, but unfortunately I didn't see anything. ”

"Box ......" Qiao Xiaojing walked back and forth in the room, still muttering in her mouth, and after a while, she turned around and asked the old man, "Do you know what that box looks like, or how big that box is?"

"I don't know. The old man shook his head.

"So, you've never seen a devil carry a box out of the tunnel?"

"That's true, since my nephew's accident, I hate the devil to the core, and for a while, day and night, I paid special attention to the devil's movements, but I never saw the devil carry any more boxes out. Later, my wife fell ill again, and there was no shortage of people around me, so I had to accompany her, and it is unknown whether the devil carried the box away during this period. ”

"Listen," Boss Wu sighed and said lightly, "How helpless and miserable the life of the villagers is! It is all caused by this dark world, if this world can pay more attention to the people at the bottom of the society, and can make the people at the bottom of the society feel the slightest warmth, I think fellow villagers like Lao Bo will also live better." There are also those inhumane pirates, who have traveled thousands of miles to our country to do evil, and do all kinds of bad things, many of which are impossible for even pigs and dogs to do, which is really outrageous, which has brought endless disasters to our defenseless fellows. ”

"Yes," Qiao Xiaojing took a deep breath and said as she paced, "The life of the common people has been hard these years, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as miserable. A few years ago, the warlords were fighting each other, the wars were continuous, and many families were broken up and killed because of the war, but this situation has not been completely improved, and the Japanese invaders have come again, and since they came to China, they have shown their true colors of wolf hearts and dog lungs, burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil, making the people's lives worse and miserable. ”

"I said Team Leader Qiao," the big man clenched his fists in hatred, made a gurgling sound, took two steps forward, and said to Qiao Xiaojing, "Let's stop scolding here, scolding won't solve any problems." If you want me to say, let's do something real, you say, what do you want to do, as long as you give an order, I will never say anything. ”

Qiao Xiaojing glanced at the big man, did not answer his words, but turned her eyes to the old man sitting on the edge of the kang, she asked, "Uncle, do you know the specific location of the devil's tunnel?"

"Of course, of course I do. ”

"Can you take us there?"

"What do you want to do, do you really want to fight the devil?"

"Yes," Qiao Xiaojing nodded, "Since this happened to us, we can't ignore it, I said, we are the children of the toiling masses, specially for the toiling masses to solve problems, no matter how rampant and arrogant the devils are, we must fight with the devils, even if we pay the price of blood." ”

"Okay, since you really want to help us, then I'm going to contact the big guys and let the big guy do it with you, and bury those beasts in their graves, so that they never want to hurt people again. ”

"Not yet," Qiao Xiaojing stopped the old man, Qiao Xiaojing explained, "We haven't figured out anything yet, let's rush to gather the big guys now, in case the news leaks, it is likely to bring new and greater harm to the big guys." It's better to wait for us to find out the situation of the devil, and then it's not too late to gather the big guys to act. If you don't move, you must do it with one blow, and you can't let those beasts have the slightest chance to breathe. ”

"Okay, listen to you, I'll do what you say. ”

"That's great, then please take us to the area of the devil's tunnel now, and let us observe the situation. ”

"Let's go, I'll take you there. Without hesitation, the uncle took the lead and walked out of the house.