282 Murder by disembowelment

Han Da'er was born not to believe in ghosts and gods, he dared to break into the tiger's den in Longtan alone, he made a bet with people when he was in school, and he slept in the cemetery, so the cemetery in front of him was naturally not a problem.

He turned on his flashlight and walked back and forth in the cemetery, but he didn't see anything unusual except for the large and small grave bags. There is only one dead tree, although the branches have withered, but it still looks very thick, and it can be hugged by three or four people, and it seems to be a thousand years old.

Han Daring observed by himself around the big tree, stood under the tree and looked up, and saw that the Antares star was shining brightly, as if it was echoing this ancient tree, as if heaven and man were connected.

This ancient tree is more than five feet high, and its branches are like ghost claws, extending to all sides like an umbrella cover.

With a flashlight in his hand, he stepped on the tree, and his body soared into the air and flew towards the heights. Grab a branch in mid-air, and use it again, so that your body is a few feet higher, until you jump on a thick branch, and then stop your body. Further up to the canopy, the branches become more and more luxuriant, and you can't climb and jump, and the further up you will inevitably be stuck by the branches.

He looked at it fixedly, only to see that he was high, and there were three feet under his feet, and he looked around at night at night, and it was vast, only the lights on the other side of the Haihe River in the distance were shining brightly! Under the trees, the eyes are full of lonely graves, and the barren grass is fading and smoking, which looks bleak and lonely.

Thinking about the location recorded in those three ancient artifacts, there are at least more than 2,000 years, the vicissitudes of life, thousands of changes, just with an ancient tree, where can you find any clues left by the ancients!

Han Daring was about to go down the tree, and when he touched the body of the tree with his palm, he felt that the two branches were growing staggered, and a hard thing was wrapped in the branches. If you look closely at the flashlight, it turns out to be a stone, entangled by two intertwined branches, and it has been completely sewn between the branches, unable to move a single bit.

Under the flashlight, the two branches were as thick as human arms, intertwined, and only squeezed this stubborn stone. Because the body of the tree has grown for thousands of years, the stubborn stone has been continuously squeezed, and it has been somewhat deformed and cracked. But with Han Daring'er's strength, he still couldn't pull the stone out of the branches.

The surface of the stone has been eroded and sharpened by wind and rain for thousands of years, and it is already full of potholes, but with a flash of flashlight, Han Daring suddenly felt that a crack on this stubborn stone was so familiar, as if it was those "immortal urns" engraved on ancient artifacts!

Looking closely at this stubborn stone, there are traces of being carved, and a section seems to have five fingers in a group, as if it is a hand of a stone figurine.

Han Daring took out the red tassel short knife and slashed three times in a row on the staggered branches, only to hear the sound of "carda", the branches broke, and the stubborn stones inside also fell out. He stretched out his hand to catch it, looked at it carefully, and saw that it was indeed one of the hands of the stone figurines, but they were very small, and it was speculated that the stone figurines were probably not big, at most less than three feet.

There are indeed a lot of immortal urns carved on the arms of this stone figurine, although Han Daring couldn't understand what this so-called immortal jar meant, but from its appearance and shape, it is indeed the same as the one on the ancient artifact. It's just that if you put it in the eyes of others, I'm afraid you will only think that it is just a crack in the boulder at this time.

At the beginning of the growth of this ancient tree, there may be a stone figurine buried under the tree, because the tree continues to grow, the growth power of the branches, the broken stone figurine arm is brought to the earth, and after thousands of years, the branches are entangled in the middle of the tree.

Thinking of this, he immediately jumped down from the tree, and then walked around the tree to observe the roots under his feet. I saw that the roots of the tree were in the soil, and there was a tendency to gradually pull up. The roots of the tree spread underground and lifted up the apprentices around the roots, and the places around the roots were sloped, and some thick roots arched up, which had broken through the soil layer.

Han Daring squatted on the ground and used a short knife to constantly break through some soil layers and roots, but after looking around the tree, he found nothing. I think that the stone figurines are probably buried quite deeply, and if you don't dig deep with tools such as shovels and pickaxes, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find.

When he was discouraged, he suddenly kicked a hard object under his feet, almost tripping Han Daring, but fortunately, he was agile and his body was already standing still. When I turned around and shone my flashlight, I saw a rocky protruding from the ground. When I walked over and took a closer look, I found that the rocks were mottled with potholes, but there were traces of carving.

He dug deep with his knife a few times, and saw that the eyebrows and facial features of the person vaguely carved on the stubborn stone turned out to be the head of a stone figurine. It's just that the carving is concise, only the outline of the individual, not as lifelike as modern sculpture, but more like the stone carving products of ancient ancestors.

Han Daring dug a few more times, and saw that there were only the heads of stone figurines in the soil layer, and the group had no body. If it weren't for Han Dada'er's sharp eyes and seeing the fairy urn, I am afraid that when he saw this stone figurine with only vague facial features, he would also think that it was just an ordinary stubborn stone.

Han Daring dug around the ancient tree for a long time, but he only had a short knife in his hand and no tools, and digging around was just some thick roots, or an ant's nest and vole hole.

Not far from Heshunli, there are many people living here, Han Daring is digging here, if he alarms the people, maybe he will be regarded as a thief robbing the tomb. Since he couldn't find any other clues, he simply gave up, only recorded the fairy urn on the stone figurines in the notebook he carried, and then patted the dust all over his body and left this cemetery.

Who knew that not long after Han Dada'er left, a few people came around from behind the tomb in the distance, approached the ancient tree and stepped around, and finally put the head and hands of the stone figurines found by Han Dada'er into a cloth bag, and then held the cloth bag, and disappeared into the night with a quick walk.

Early the next morning, a group of funeral processions carrying coffins and burying corpses came here, this funeral procession was extremely simple, there was no filial son, no filial women, just some people wearing filial piety clothes, waving shovels and pickaxes to dig pits around the big trees, and there was a black lacquer coffin next to it.

Some people not far away also felt strange when they saw it, other people's families buried coffins in vain, they were all looking for an open and flat place, how could anyone bury the coffin next to a big tree. It's strange to be strange, people do white things, and it's their business to bury people how they are willing to bury them, and no one wants to take care of this idle matter.

Although there are also good things to talk about, but when I look at these few people wearing filial piety clothes, all of them are powerful, and they don't dare to ask anymore when they see people with their eyebrows and fierce eyes.

The group dug a pit but did not bury the coffin, but filled it with earth and made another pit in another place around the tree. After throwing it, I looked around the pit for a long time, but it was still not buried, and then filled the soil again, and then dug the pit.

Three or four pits were dug in a row, and it was not until the end that the coffin was hastily buried, but after the burial was completed, no monument was erected, and no grave bag was built, but after the land was slammed with a shovel, the people were gone. Although these people were wearing filial piety clothes, they did not show the slightest sadness, as if they were not buried with the remains of their relatives, but just an unrelated dead thing.

Speaking of which, everyone probably guessed that these so-called funeral and burial coffins were actually remnants of the Sanyang Sect. They don't have clues in their hands, but Han Daring has them in their hands, so they simply learn to be smart, instead of competing with Han Daring for clues, it is better to wait for him to find clues and then reap the benefits.

Usually, when Han Daring goes out or goes to Wang Weihan's house or Mei Ruohong's house, he will make a few circles and shake off his tail. When he went to Ye Ling's house today, he also took a detour, but it happened that in the cemetery behind Heshunli, there was a Yizhuang, which happened to be a secret branch of the Sanyang Sect.

When Han Daring was wandering under the dead tree, he was discovered by the people of the Sanyang Sect, so he turned around and lifted the coffin and pretended to come here to dig, wanting to see what he found. However, after digging a few pits, due to the vertical and horizontal roots under the tree, a lot of effort was wasted, and finally only some fragments of stone figurines were found, but there was no harvest. So the air traffic pipe prepared in advance was hastily buried.

Although only fragments of stone figurines were found, they were still ecstatic for the remnants of the Sanyang Sect. Because they understood that Han Da'er had already cracked the information in the ancient artifact and was looking for clues to the Endless Kingdom, as long as they followed him to a yellow bird, they would definitely reap the rewards.

Let's divide our words into two ends, let go of the remnants of the Sanyang Sect, and say that after Han Daring dug under the tree this night, he rode home.

Along the way, he thought to himself, he thought that the markers shown in this star map would also learn to find some clues, but in the end, there was only a tattered stone figurine, even if there were really other markers, I thought that the marks left by the ancients would have disappeared after thousands of years.

Even if there is a door to the endless country, I am afraid that it will have long been drowned in the vicissitudes of life. What's more, there are tombs nearby, and if there are any markers, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be dug up. This stone figurine still grows on ancient trees, so it can be partially preserved.

Han Da'er originally wanted to go to another marking point to have a look, but it was getting late, so he could take care of eating at noon, and he was busy digging soil and trees for a while at night, and his stomach was already beating drums.

He rode around the car, remembering that Lao Li, who was buying wontons outside the south gate, suddenly looked like he had gone to eat a pancake set after drinking Chaos. Thinking of wonton pancakes, I suddenly remembered the last time I ate wontons, and my uncle Zhu Tianfei, I couldn't help but feel sad in my heart.

Han Daring rode past the West Gate, and wanted to detour from the West Road to the South Road, but outside the South Gate, Da Lao Li's wonton stall was there.

At this time, for some reason, a layer of fog suddenly appeared in the distance. It stands to reason that this is the turn of spring and summer, and the climate in Tianjin Wei is dry, and there is very little fog in this season.

Han Da'er only felt that the further he rode forward, the heavier the fog became. It was as if a thick fog was drifting from in front of him to behind him. When I turned around, I was already in the mist.

At this moment, he suddenly smelled a fishy smell!

From Ximenli Street to Nanma Road, it was a ditch for the old city to discharge sewage outside the city during the Qing Dynasty. After the demolition of the old city in 1901, the ditch was filled in and built into a street, hence the name "Big Water Ditch".

Although the ditch in the city has been filled, there is still a very narrow stinky river on the south road outside the city, because it is stagnant and does not circulate, and there are always people pouring dirt into the pit, so it emits a foul smell in summer.

At first, Han Daring thought it was the smell of the stinky river, but there was still some distance from the stinky river on Nanma Road, and if he carefully distinguished, the smell was wafting in the mist, but it was not the stench of the stinky river, but mixed with a strong smell of blood!

Han Da'er was quite alert, and immediately stopped the car and followed the fishy smell. In an alley near the West Gate on West Road, the smell of blood is particularly strong.

In the dead of night, this alley was empty, white mist shrouded in the alley, the more you looked up, the more confused it became, and the more Han Daring walked forward, the more intense the bloody aura became.

Han Daring turned on the flashlight, the flashlight penetrated the mist, and the brighter it appeared in the white mist, and suddenly on the ground where the flashlight reached, there was a shadow upside down, motionless!

Streams of intense bloody gas also drifted away with the mist, and it seemed that the mist around the figure was also dyed blood-red.

When I got closer, I saw a woman lying on the ground with her eyes wide open, and she had been dead for a long time, and her eyeballs were gradually drying.

The woman's body was stripped of her clothes and naked. Next to the corpse, the woman's clothes, shoes and socks are messily discarded!

What's even more terrifying is that the female corpse was covered with blood, and her body was cut from her chest cavity to her lower abdomen, and the corpse organs were covered with blood, but the heart in the chest cavity was nowhere to be found!

On the wall next to the corpse, a strange charm was painted in crimson and huge!