The third missing person a month ago was named Qu Zhijie, who was the head of the Nanwei Dart Bureau.

Qu Zhijie is 30 years old, a native of Dayong, and has a wife. On the night of the crime, he and the dart masters had just returned to the dart game after successfully betting the darts, ready for everyone to celebrate together.

Since he is a dart master, he is naturally a rough person, all of them are five big and three rough martial arts practitioners, and they drink a lot of wine.

There was no curfew in Annan Prefecture, and most of the dozen or so dart masters went home when they drank until the end of the day, leaving only Qu Zhijie and the other three, intending to drink all night.

When the four of them were dizzy, the two ghosts walked in the air with swagger and swaggered into the dart game.

The dart masters are all martial arts practitioners, although they have heard of the name of the ghost, but the master of the art is bold, plus the wine is strong, and they all rush up to fight with the ghost.

The four of them rushed up together, but only Qu Zhijie could get close to the ghost's body, and the other three seemed to be blocked by an invisible force, and they couldn't get close at all.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and it is difficult for a master to fight in the air.

So even though they had a body of martial arts and the courage to fight against cross-border creatures, they could only watch their dart head Qu Zhijie be easily subdued and taken away by two ghosts.

Fan Zhizhou showed the three dart masters the portraits of the ghost cha, and they also said that this was the case.

Then there is the disappearance case that came out two days ago.

There are two protagonists in this case, one is Mu Jiayin's newlywed husband, Ye Xuanlang, the first beautiful male tailor in Annan Prefecture mentioned earlier; One is Ma Lei, an amateur painter known as a painting addict.

Ye Xuanlang lost his bride and was in pain, and he often went to the government to inquire about the progress of the search for people for a while. Later, the government officials drove him out for the crime of making trouble, and he stayed at the door of the government from dawn to dark.

Mother Ye cried every time she took her son home, and persuaded her bitterly, saying that she should not wait for Mu Jiayin any longer, the person has been taken away by the ghost, that is, he is dead, and he will marry again.

Originally, Ye Xuanlang didn't believe it, but he couldn't find anyone from the government for a long time. Then he remembered the local legend that Annam was the closest place to hell, and that there was an entrance to hell.

That's right, Ye Xuanlang wants to go to hell for the sake of his newlywed wife, if he can't bring Mu Jiayin back, he will accompany his wife in hell and be a pair of outlaw mandarin ducks.

How do you go to hell? Ye Xuanlang tried throwing himself into the river and hanging himself. All failed, and in his dying struggle, he didn't see anything worse at all.

Mother Ye saw her son's affectionate persistence, but she didn't want her son to really kill himself. began to rush to the doctor, from the Taoist mage to the blind fortune teller on the street, all of them were asked, and finally inquired about the location of the entrance to hell, and found a glimmer of life for Ye Xuanlang.

Besides, that Ma Lei, 25 years old, a bachelor, makes a living by selling paintings on the street, he thinks that he has no talent, he is a thousand miles, but he can't touch his Bole.

Ma Lei is good at painting landscapes, and he paints luxurious pavilions. It was quite popular at first, after all, ordinary people have never seen any luxurious places, and they can't live in this life, so they will spend a little money to buy a painting of Ma Lei and hang it at home as a dream.

But later, Ma Lei painted and painted all the soup without changing the medicine, and he lost business.

Ma Lei's painting work is just like that, he feels that if he wants to continue to make money by selling paintings, he has to paint more novel things that no one has ever seen.

That's right, Ma Lei started the idea of eighteen layers of hell.

Isn't there a ghost mission haunted by Annam Prefecture, isn't it rumored that there is an entrance to hell? For the sake of his ideals and livelihood, Mare decides to venture into hell, and if he can come back alive, he will draw a picture of hell that will surely sell for a good price.

But how do you go to hell? Where's the entrance?

Ma Lei heard about Ye Xuanlang, so he went to ask him.

Since they are all desperate, leaving them to die and then live, and they will all go to hell, then they might as well walk together, and they can also strengthen each other's courage.

The news that Ye Xuanlang and Ma Lei were going to hell together soon spread throughout Annan Prefecture.

Most people think this is nonsense, and a small number of people think that Ye Xuanlang is flaunting the image of an infatuated man, and Ma Lei is just selling paintings for himself as a gimmick.

There are more than a dozen people who love to join in the fun, and they want to follow up the whole process. Of course, they don't go down, they just stay outside.

The so-called entrance to hell is a tower located on the southern border of Annan state.

This pagoda has a history of hundreds of years and is a military watchtower built during the former Bonan Kingdom.

The founding monarch of the kingdom of Bonan believed in the doctrine of the Netherworld and used terrifying legends as a weapon to deter soldiers, claiming that anyone who became a deserter or rebel or defected to the enemy country would be cursed to the eighteen layers of hell.

Therefore, his army was called the Nether Army at that time, and this defensive military watchtower was also named the Nether Tower.

Having said that, Zhan Yaoyuan is the descendant of this founding monarch, and according to his ancestors, Zhan Yaoyuan should be sent to the eighteenth layer of hell. It's no wonder that there are rumors that Zhan Yaoyuan has been targeted by the hell ghosts, and he is only waiting for time to take his life.

The last time the Netherworld Tower was used was ten years ago, after the Bo Nan Kingdom was recovered by Dayong, this tower was completely useless and completely abandoned.

The Nether Tower is a twelve-sided, fourteen-storey, mixed stone and wood tower. There are no windows from the first floor to the thirteenth floor, and the fourteenth floor of the top floor has twelve small windows.

The blind fortune teller said that there were heavy casualties in the war ten years ago, and legend has it that the relatives of the Zhan family, the soldiers of the Bonan Kingdom and the innocent people who died tragically by the war are still alive and well, and they are entrenched in the Netherworld Tower.

Earlier, there were people who did not believe in evil and entered the Nether Tower. It was obviously a fourteen-story Netherworld Tower, but everyone who came out of it insisted that the number of layers was different. It is said that there are fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, and eighteenth floors. Everyone swears by it.

It is said that the one on the eighteenth floor had a serious illness after returning from the Nether Tower, and immediately fled from Annan Prefecture. As for whether he got out of Annan Prefecture alive and how far he went, no one knows.

Since then, no one has dared to set foot in the Nether Tower.

It is precisely because of this that the blind fortune teller will not be very sure, and he guesses that if there is really an entrance to hell in the territory of Annan Prefecture, it should be in the Nether Tower.

On the night of two days ago, more than a dozen spectators joined in the excitement and invited Ye Xuanlang and Ma Lei to drink at a restaurant next to the city gate to see them off.

After drinking, the two of them faced these cheering spectators, and they no longer hesitated or timid, and there was no way to retreat, and they went straight to the Netherworld Tower.

The tower door was not locked, Ye Xuanlang and Ma Lei carried an oil lamp and stepped in side by side.

A dozen spectators stood outside the tower gate, watching them enter what seemed to be another world, their blurred figures quickly swallowed up by the unknown darkness with two fainter and fainter bright spots.

During this period, they did not dare to get too close to the tower gate, and from a distance of a few feet, they could vaguely hear the strange wind coming from the tower gate, which seemed to be mixed with the screams and screams of people. Together, these sounds make up the Devil Cry Wolf Howl.

The encirclement widened more and more, and they became farther and farther away from the tower gate, for fear that some demons and monsters would suddenly come out of it, and they might as well escape in time.

These people stayed outside the tower for two hours, until the ugly hour, and then waited until Ma Lei climbed out of the tower gate.

At first, under the reflection of the moonlight, they vaguely saw something crawling out, and they scattered in all directions and fled in fear.

Ma Lei shouted for help. They dared to get closer and take a closer look. It turned out that it was really the embarrassed Ma Lei who came out.

Ma Lei had several blood marks on his body that seemed to be scratched by sharp nails, and his face was gray and bloodless. He uttered a word with the last of his strength, and fainted.

Ma Lei said: "Hell, I've been there. ”

Everyone wanted to ask him where Ye Xuanlang was, but there was no answer.

Ma Lei fell asleep at home for five or six hours before waking up. These people finally had a chance to ask again.

After Ma Lei woke up, his face was still full of fear, and when he thought about everything in the tower, his whole body trembled. He replied with bitter tears:

"Ye Xuanlang saw Mu Jiayin in hell, I asked him to escape with me, he had to take Mu Jiayin with him. As a result, Ye Xuanlang was caught by the ghost, and I was almost caught. With all my might, I crawled out of hell. ”

Everyone asked Ma Lei again, what hell is like in hell.

As soon as Ma Lei heard this, he hurriedly drove everyone away, and said as he hurried: "Don't bother me, I want to draw it, while I have a deep memory now, I must draw it immediately!" ”

Ye Xuanlang's mother waited for her son at home for a day and a night, and then went to the Nether Tower to find her son.

The neighbors tried their best to stop it, and Ye Mu couldn't afford to get sick.

After listening to Fan Zhizhou's story, Yu Qingfeng's first suspicion was this Ma Lei.

Could it be that Ma Lei did not hesitate to kill Ye Xuanlang in order to make a gimmick and make a lot of money by selling paintings?

"Didn't anyone go into the Nether Tower to find Ye Xuanlang?" Lian Shurong asked Fan Zhizhou.

Fan Zhizhou's face was embarrassed, "The lower official once sent a servant to check, but ...... The head catcher came back to report, and the officials did not dare to enter the tower. The head catcher suspects that the Nether Tower is the secret gathering point of the Bonan Society, and if there is either a mechanism inside, or someone is in ambush. We don't have enough manpower, and going in is tantamount to throwing ourselves into a trap. ”

"Then you won't go in?" Pei Wuyi asked disdainfully.

"Naturally not, in the past two days, the lower officials are discussing with General Wei to prepare sufficient manpower and weapons, maybe they can take the Bonan Hui in one fell swoop......"

Lin Ming sneered, "Master Fan, you ask General Wei of the former Bo Nan Kingdom to borrow someone to exterminate the Bo Nan Society who wants to restore the country." I guess General Wei must have made a lot of excuses, saying that he needs to think about it in the long run, right? ”

Fan Zhizhou was embarrassed, "That's right, General Wei said that he needs to consult with King Xiaonan about this matter before making a decision." When I was just greeting you, I asked General Wei, and he said that he hadn't had time to tell King Xiaonan yet. ”

Yu Qingfeng came up with a very routine guess again: Could it be that Zhan Yaoyuan is the founder of the Bo Nan Society, the chief helmsman? General Wei is also a member of the Bonan Society? That's why they were reluctant to send troops into the Nether Tower to search?

That's right, Zhan Yaoyuan is indeed a traitor, but this does not conflict with his desire to restore the country.

First, the merits and demerits are offset, and then find a historian to write well, maybe you can go down in history; Second, is Zhan Yaoyuan's ultimate goal of betraying the country just to become a vassal king? Isn't it better to be a restored monarch? It is quite possible that betrayal was only one of the links in his strategy.