Chapter 21: Another Batch
(The two chapters are too troublesome.,Let's send it together (????????),The eight concubines can't do it.,Try to add more in the future)
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The hand holding the cigarette gun trembled imperceptibly, and his face was pale, as if he had aged much in an instant.
"The few people involved in that incident back then, except for me, were all killed by that kind of youkai." Panma closed his eyes a little resignedly, he knew that the sins he did back then would one day be repaid to him.
Wu Xiaoxie twisted his eyebrows and said, "I want to know how they died, and what was the cause of death?"
Panma sighed quietly, his expression was painful, and he didn't seem to want to remember what happened back then, "The first to have an accident was Pang Ergui, a few days after we came back, he disappeared, and the villagers searched for him on the mountain for two days but didn't find his shadow."
"The remaining four of us have ghosts in our hearts, and we understand that the disappearance of Ergui is definitely not simple, and in the end we have no choice, so we have to come to the lake, and we just happened to see Ergui talking to those people who have become monsters, and it looks very natural, as if everything that happened before has disappeared."
After that, they forcibly endured the fear in their hearts, talked to those people for a few words, and immediately took Pang Ergui home.
At this time, what made Panma and them extremely frightened was that the smell also appeared on Pang Ergui's body, but except for a few of them, no one else could smell it, and even the daughter-in-law who got along with Ergui day and night didn't notice anything wrong.
But Panma knew in their hearts that this person was not Ergui, and the real Ergui had been eaten by the monsters in the lake.
They were so scared that they didn't dare to go home, for fear that they would be left alone again, giving the monster a chance, so everyone gathered at Panma's house, but before dawn, they got the news that Ergui had committed suicide by hanging himself last night, and the whole house was filled with that smell.
At the same time, two of the remaining four people also disappeared.
"Those monsters quietly assimilated Ergui and them, even if they moved out of the village, they would eventually return to the abandoned house of Ergui's family and commit suicide by hanging beams."
Panma trembled uncontrollably, and said in horror: "I was frightened, and knew that it was impossible to escape, so I thought of a way for the black dog to overcome the evil, and borrowed several big black dogs, and hunted dogs that had seen blood, and chained them to the house every night when they went to bed, until three days later, when they completely pulled out the camp, and left the village with those boxes that smelled strange, and never returned."
A year passed in horror, confirming that the men would not return, but the incident had tormented him like a nightmare, and in order to find out what had happened, he summoned up the courage to return to the lake, and found a piece of clothing that had been washed to the shore by the current, and found a strangely shaped piece of iron in it.
Iron? Wu Xiaoxie immediately thought of the two "iron gourds" in the little brother's hand, so he asked Panma, "What kind of iron block, can we take a look?"
Panma got up, took out something wrapped in red cloth from under the floor in the corner of the house, and handed it to Zhang Qixun along with the red cloth.
As soon as he touched his hand, Zhang Qixun knew that this red cloth was not an ordinary red cloth, but was dyed red with blood.
When I opened it, it was an iron lump with an almost identical shape to before, but the panma's one was better preserved, and there was less rust on the surface, and you could clearly see the strange quaint patterns on it.
Wu Xiaoxie deliberately leaned in and smelled it, and did smell a smell, which was very light and could not be described in words.
Panma said that when this thing was first discovered, the smell was very strong, but after a long time, the smell gradually dissipated, and this iron piece was placed at home, and there were no insects.
Looking at the expression of the horse, it is obvious that the animal insect has a more acute perception of danger than a human, so it will not approach the body of this iron block.
"That's all I know." Panma poured a cup of tea for each of them, covering only the bottom of the cup, "I hope you two keep your promise."
This is an eviction order has already been issued.
Zhang Qixun and the two of them didn't stay any longer, and when they got up, Zhang Jixun took out a card from his pocket and put it on the table, "Thirty thousand, six zeros in password."
In this line for
It is easy to walk, and he usually has a few scattered cards ready in which to store a little bit.
When I came out of Panma's house, it had begun to rain outside, but the rain was relatively light, so I refused to be retained by my father's son and trotted back to Agui's house.
The fat man and the little brother are under the gazebo in the courtyard, chatting with each other, of course, most of the time it is the fat man who is thinking about it, the little brother will occasionally respond, and more often he still looks up at the raindrops dripping down from the edge of the eaves in a daze.
As soon as Zhang Qixun and the two appeared at the gate of the courtyard, the little brother quickly turned his head as if he sensed it, and his silent eyes also fluctuated a little.
Seeing the two coming back in the rain, Agui hurriedly instructed Yun Cai and her sister to boil water.
I spent the afternoon at Panma's house and came back just in time for dinner.
After returning to the house and changing their dry clothes, the fat man and the two also went upstairs, and as soon as the door closed, they squeezed their eyes at Zhang Qixun and the two, "How is it? Have you gained anything?"
As soon as Zhang Qixun was about to speak, he heard the sound of the wooden staircase, and immediately swallowed back the words on his lips.
"I'll talk about it after dinner, it's a bit complicated." Wu Xiaoxiao said.
The fat man nodded, "It's okay, the situation of the iron pimple is also a little complicated."
Wu Xiaoxie was still thinking about how complicated the iron pimple could be, and when he returned to the house after eating and the fat man took out the two iron bumps, Wu Xiaoxie was dumbfounded.
Looking at the two iron bumps inside the box, Wu Xiaoxie couldn't believe his eyes, "How did it become like this?"
I didn't know that I thought that a bucket of paste had been splashed on it, and those pimple patterns were all pasted together and couldn't be seen clearly.
The fat man scratched his head and coughed, "The shell of this thing is too powerful, the fat man poured a bottle of sulfuric acid, and the wooden piers were burned black, but this thing didn't react at all, only burned the rust outside, I borrowed a saw from Agui again, and as a result, the saw blades broke twice, and this thing still didn't move, and then it became like this."
The corners of Zhang Qixun's mouth twitched, shook his head helplessly, and took out the newly obtained iron pimple from Panma.
The little brother took it in his hand and sniffed it, his eyebrows frowned slightly, "I seem to have smelled this smell somewhere."
Seeing that the little brother had no clue for a while, Wu Xiaoxie repeated everything they heard from Panma.
"And that kind of thing?" The fat man frowned, "It can't be that old man who made it up to fool people."
Wu Xiaoxie said in a deep voice: "I think it should be true, or rather, it is what Panma really experienced at that time, but it is not true in that sense."
The fat man was a little confused, "What do you mean?"
Wu Xiaoxie explained: "We have been going through it from beginning to end, and from the clues given by Muyu, we deduced that there was an accident in the expedition team that year, and we learned from Panma that they were the initiators of that accident back then, but the follow-up was out of control."
"I don't believe in what Panma said about monsters, let's only consider the most practical situation, what do you think it will be?" Wu Xiaoxie asked rhetorically.
The fat man waved his hand impatiently, "Don't ask me, the brain cells have been corroded by sulfuric acid."
Wu Xiaoxie turned his head and asked Zhang Qixun and the two, "What do you think, the most reasonable speculation."
Zhang Qixun knocked on the table, "If you want me to speculate, the most reasonable thing is that there must be someone behind the scenes, don't forget, if you want to disguise a person, a simple human skin mask can do it, you don't need much advanced makeup, it's easy to fool outsiders, and the people in the expedition team are not familiar with it, and they can't detect the strangeness in the panic."
The little brother also nodded, "It's ridiculous to come back from the dead."
People can't be resurrected after death, this is an irreversible fact, unless you have such a supernormal energy as the system, even if it is the ability of the bronze tree, it is still fake, the old itchy mother is the best example, and the replica always has a life limit.
Like Zhang Qixun himself, he was brought to another parallel world by the system at the last moment of his near-death reversal of time and space.
The fat man understood the true meaning of their words, "You mean that those who were slain by the horses were not resurrected, but that there was another group of people
Got out of the mountain for them?"
Wu Xiaoxie nodded, "The most reasonable explanation is this, do you remember the "it" that Chen Wenjin was very afraid of in and out of his words? According to Chan, "it" is omnipotent, and it is easy to accomplish such a thing."
Although Zhang Qixun knew that this inference was wrong, he couldn't directly remind him at this time, so he had to say: "It's very simple to verify, let's go to the lake in Giethoorn Mountain to have a look, if we can salvage a large number of bones, it means that our speculation is correct."
"What about the people who hanged themselves?" The fat man was still a little confused.
The corners of Zhang Qixun's mouth hooked up a sneer, "It's just a little trick of psychological oppression, if the truth is really as we speculated, then the people who hanged themselves were all dropped later, and then the corpses were hung out and disguised as suicide to intimidate the horses."
"Isn't it a pain in the ass?" The fat man sneered, "The person who killed him with his own hands appeared in front of him again, and his accomplices died one after another, and the old man of Panma was probably frightened."
Wu Xiaoxie continued: "I feel that there may be a mistake in this, let's assume that this is a long-planned conspiracy, and a group of people in the secret have long been ready to kill the real expedition team, and the set plan implementation date may be on that day, but I didn't expect to let them take the lead by mistake, so that this plan went wrong."
"So those people in the shadows simply took advantage of this and directly started to disguise according to the original plan, and then there was a talk of the Demon Lake Monster of Panma going ashore to become human, and then a series of things, just like Muyu said, Panma They are the "killers" of the execution, insiders, they will naturally take certain measures."
"Dead people are the best way to keep a secret." Zhang Qixun continued with Wu Xiaoxie's words, "But Panma and they can be regarded as indirectly causing damage inside, as Panma said, he once hid in the dark and saw those people climb up from the lake, so he will be convinced of the monsters in the lake."
"And in the archaeological team back then, the little brother and Chen Wenjin and Huo Ling were all involved, maybe on the night of the horse killing, the three of them happened to go down to the lake, so they escaped, and then the three of them may have left Banai with the fake expedition team, and when they entered Xisha, they exchanged the three of them with the fake three, so Huo Ling will leave the expedition team in Golmud after being recruited is fake." Zhang Jixun finished his speculation.
The fat man touched his chin and slapped his face, "The fat man thinks what you said is very reasonable, in that case, let's hurry up and go to Giethoorn Mountain to find out the bones, and everything will be solved."
Wu Xiaoxie nodded, "Panma, they were in a hurry when they finished killing people and disposing of the corpse, and there was no boat, so the corpse must have been lost near the lake, let's try our luck, Muyu, do you have diving equipment in your treasure chest?"
Zhang Qixun nodded, "It's always ready."
The four of them discussed it and decided that if the rain stopped tomorrow, they would let Agui find a guide to take them to Sheephorn Mountain.
The rain outside the window at this time is not heavy, the fat man also deliberately went downstairs to ask Agui, Guangxi often rains, people who have been living here have more experience, Agui said that it is very likely that the rain will stop, and it is not impossible to go up the mountain.
The fat man asked him to help find a guide who knew the way, and Agui agreed, and said that he could contribute his two shotguns, but there were not many bullets, and self-defense was still enough.
The fat man responded with a smile.
The next day it was clear.
Because the excuse was to go up the mountain to hunt for curiosities, Agui, who accompanied the equipment, helped them get it last night, and gave each of them a herbal sac, saying that it was to repel mosquitoes.
Zhang Qixun took it without saying anything, although there was a little brother and him, the mosquitoes would not come to the door.
However, they tested it last night, and the three strange iron bumps also had a bit of a mosquito repellent effect, and the little brother felt that this thing was a "time bomb" and insisted on holding it himself.
However, what made people a little depressed was that they were all about to set off, and they didn't see the guide that Agui said, but he and the clouds were burdened with money, carrying machetes, looking like they could set off at any time.
Wu Xiaoye was surprised, "You guys
Yes?"
Ah Gui made an excuse and said that the hunters who had been to Sheephorn Mountain had gone up the mountain for the past two days and had not returned, so he had to do it for him.
Wu Xiaoxie had no choice but to turn around and go to Zhang Qi to discuss with them, and the fat man said, "It is estimated that the price we gave is too high, and this old boy is reluctant to let others make that money."
"No, Agui can go, Yuncai can't go, let's go to do business, what can you do with a girl, how dangerous it is, if you scratch some skin, he doesn't feel distressed as a father, I still feel distressed."
As he spoke, he went to Agui to wrestle, and the clinker Agui emphasized vigorously, saying that their children in the mountains, regardless of men and women, began to touch guns at the age of five or six, and he sometimes carried clouds with him when he went up the mountain to hunt, and when it came to the experience in the mountains, the clouds were much more useful than a few of them in the city.
Yun Cai was a little unhappy, patted the hunting knife inserted in his waist, his eyebrows were flying, he was dressed in a Yao hunting costume and was heroic, and his beautiful face was unconvinced and a little playful, "Fat brother looks down on people, doesn't he?
The fat man turned his head when he heard the sound, and his eyes were straight.