Chapter 17: Prank? Kidnap?
When I got out of the tunnel, I realized that it was already dusk outside.
The rain had stopped, and a long blood-colored cloud hung in the western sky, and when I looked closely, the shape of the cloud was faintly like that of the serpent.
It turned out that we had been in for two days and one night, and the corpses we found before had been carried out by the people who went in to dig the tunnels behind, and they were all packed in bags and placed not far away, and the fat contractor took Lao Wu's hand to express his gratitude.
Although the task was accomplished, we were not interested. Only five bodies were found, and the other six were missing. and the tragic scene when the snake committed suicide and died also makes us a little unable to let go.
I pulled the fat foreman aside and asked, "Is there anyone else going in these days besides us?" ”
The fat foreman shook his head with a confused expression, "We've been guarding the entrance of the cave, and no one else has gone in, why have you met anyone else in the cave?" ”
I nodded, "Yes, we met a couple of unidentified people, oh, I'm just asking!" ”
The fat foreman said, "This boundary is a typical karst landform, and there are many natural caves, so the caves in this place are not necessarily only the entrance of the tunnel, and it is normal for you to see other people." ”
We left the construction site, took a good shower in the hotel that was booked in advance in Fengshan County, and slept comfortably.
In the evening, lightning and thunder, violent storms, I did not wake up all night, until the next day at noon I heard Ai Qin talk about the weather last night.
It's rare not to rush back, we are comfortably eating breakfast on the first floor of the hotel, we are talking about the weather, and suddenly we hear a table next to us talking, and a person said mysteriously: "Have you heard?" Yesterday, the Maoershan tunnel collapsed, the mountain collapsed from the middle, and all the tunnels that had just been done collapsed, and it was said that the project would be rerouted! ”
Another person said, "My second uncle was on the construction site, and there was no shift last night for some reason, and all of them were on holiday, so fortunately, there were no casualties." ”
"There's another strange thing, don't you hear?" Another table member said.
"What, a few leeches more than a meter long appeared in a ravine in Yaoping Village!"
"Ah, more than a meter long!" All around were amazed.
"Weird and scary!"
"Maoershan is originally a sacred land, and it is definitely not possible to build in that place." An old man said mysteriously, "When my grandfather was in his generation, that place was used to worship the gods. ”
"Ouch, there's nothing godly!" The young people around him said, "Leeches are also called leeches, they are so big...... In the Nile region, there are more than two meters long ......"
"What is a leech more than a meter long!" Another said, "I just heard from a ranger who was patrolling the mountains that he saw a rat the size of a rabbit and almost didn't frighten him to death. ”
"Look, look, these are all taken care of by the mountain god, which destroys the mountain and frightens the mountain god, and all these strange things run out to harm people......"
The words are all Hakka, and I can only understand a third of it, and more than that is translated to us by Lao Wu.
When I came back to the room after eating to get something, I suddenly found that there was an extra cardboard box on the table where I put my backpack, I clearly remembered that the five of us didn't buy anything, and turned my head to ask Quanzi and Lao Wu, they were also very strange, Quanzi came over and simply opened the box, and said while opening, "You know what it is." ”
As soon as the result was opened, Quanzi took two steps back in fright, fortunately, he was trained and did not cry out in fright, I and Lao Wu hurriedly went up to take a look, only to see the corpse of a spider in the cardboard box, the spider was too familiar to us, it was the kind we saw in the cave before.
At this time, a figure flashed past the door, and the sharp-eyed Quanzi hurriedly chased after him.
Looking at the spider's corpse again, there was a white A4 paper on it, and Lao Wu took it out and looked at it, only to see that it read: "Wansheng Stone, bless Wansheng." The debts owed by the Chen family should be repaid! There are no remarks at the end.
At this time, Ah Fang and Ai Qin also packed up their things and waited for us at the door, and when they saw us standing here in a daze, they walked straight in, "What's the matter, where is the whole child?" ”
Before we could answer, five more people came in through the door, wearing crisp black suits, sunglasses and black masks, their right hands hidden in their chests, and the first person who came in looked at the four of us, and said, "Sit on the sofa, don't move!" ”
This guy wore a pair of huge sunglasses, covered half of his face, chewed gum in his mouth, scratched his chin and said to us, "Be honest, be obedient, buddy has real guys in his arms." ”
"Hmph, who are you, when a few of us are scared, pretend to be here......" I am not afraid of this group of menacing strangers.
He gently pulled back his coat, revealing the butt of the *** gun.
"Yo, M911, American-style equipment, it's not good!" I said.
A few of us obediently raised our hands and sat down on the couch in rows.
"You guys are also low-key, living in such a shabby place, it's easy for us to find it!" The man circled around us and said, "Take out the things and give them to us, and we won't embarrass you!" ”
"What's that?" I asked.
The man took out his gun, bypassed me and hit it directly on the fifth child's head, and said viciously, "Isn't the thing here with you?" ”
Lao Wu put down his hand at this moment, and asked with a smile, "Yes, but I have a few pairs of underwear that haven't had time to wash, I don't know if you want them?" ”
We all laughed.
After laughing, Ai Qin said, "It seems that they are in the same group as the group of people in the cave before!" ”
The people in front of us didn't pay attention to them at all, and suddenly said with some excitement, "Fart, who is in the same group of fools as the Zhao family... ”
At this time, another person next to him immediately interrupted, "Don't talk nonsense, hand over the things quickly." ”
At this moment, the voice of Jeonko came from outside the door.
"What are you two doing? Before the words fell, a fight broke out outside.
The four of us rushed up to see this opportunity, but as soon as we stood up, several people in the room suddenly panicked, and took out their pistols and pointed them at us, but one of them shouted, "Be careful, the master said you can't hurt them!" ”
We were all stunned, not knowing which play they were singing, and then a person outside the door shouted, "The Zhao family has also come over, withdraw first!" ”
We were suddenly embarrassed, after all, they had weapons in hand, and we couldn't fight hard, so the two sides raised their hands and made peace.
They slowly exited the house, and we followed them outside, where we found one of them holding a pistol to Jeonko's heart, and Jesako's short blade against his throat.
This group of people came and went as fast as they could, leaving the five of us in a daze, not knowing what was going on? was threatened with a gun for no reason.
"Something!" I suddenly became nervous and looked at the fifth child.
Lao Wu pointed to his backpack and said, "I have it with me, everything is still there!" ”
"Who are these people?" Jeonko asked. "Are you in the same league as that guy just now?"
We all shook our heads, indicating that we didn't know.
"That just now?" Lao Wu asked Quanzidao.
Quanzi shook his head at us, "Running faster than a rabbit, finding nothing!" ”
"Look, there's a strange note!" I shouted to Fong.
Ah Fang took the note and looked at it, and asked, "When did this go?" ”
I shook my head, "Anyway, it wasn't the same group of people who put it in the gang just now!" ”
After reading this note, Ai Qin also looked incredulous.
A few of us glanced at each other again, these things should have been in our room while we were having breakfast, and it was probably the same person who had just chased after him. If it had been put last night, none of the three of us would have noticed it, and we didn't see it until this morning.
The strange thing is that the previous sentence written in the letter is exactly the same as what we saw in the cave, but no one else knows except the five of us? In this way, there are now three different forces around the Wansheng Stone, and we belong to the center of the storm, and what is even more embarrassing is that we in the center do not know anything about the Wansheng Stone.
What does the "Chen family" on the note refer to, except for my surname Chen, there is no one else here, but when did I owe a debt? What kind of debt is owed?
I glanced at the fifth child and asked, "You're higher than us, do you know what that means?" ”
Lao Wu also shook his head, then rubbed the note and put it in his pocket, and said to me and Quanzi, "Let's discuss this matter again when we go back to the headquarters, don't think that it may be just a few pranks." ”
"Prank?" Ah Fang replied in disbelief, "These groups of people are not the same group of people who were in the cave before!" ”
"Possibly!" Jeonko said. "But what are they going to do, use knives and guns, these two guys outside are not weak!"
"We don't have time to explore these things, let's go back and study them!" Lao Wu continued.
We feel that what Lao Wu said makes sense, and the identities of these groups of people are beyond the scope of our investigation, and whether it is a prank or really targeting this stone, it is not our turn to investigate deeply.
We simply did not delay any longer, and the car that took us back to the headquarters was waiting for us below, and we set off for the search team headquarters that night.
When I reached the center of the cave, under the stone bars of the heavens, I saw the disappeared workers, they were working in the cave unscathed, waving to me from time to time, smiling, and then slowly disappearing into the haze.