Chapter 121: Tracing the Trail
Zhu Jiangjiang searched carefully, and his fingertips pulled out a rolled piece of bark in the gap between the bark and the trunk.
A line of words was written on the thin bark with a blue ballpoint pen, and the handwriting was very graceful—
Cockscomb slope flying dragon pond.
"This is my wife's handwriting."
Uncle Da's yellowed fingertips carefully pinched the bark paper, looking excited.
"Where's the Flying Dragon Pool?" Zhu Jiang Jiang was slightly puzzled.
"I haven't heard of it either, and the locals probably know."
Uncle Da frowned, took out a cigarette from his chest and put it in his mouth.
"I found someone who probably knows where the Flying Dragon Pool is. Let's go get something to eat first, and he'll come and take us there later. ”
At this time, Shi Chong hung up the phone and came over to say.
"It's getting late, or you ...... first"
let Shi Chong and a few people run away all night, and Uncle Da really didn't want to go. But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Lin Zihan.
"Don't you treat us as brothers, don't talk about it, I will definitely help you find your sister-in-law and go back to sleep."
"I've been sleeping all day, and I'm not sleepy for the time being." Zhu Jiang Jiang smiled.
"Get in the car!" Shi Chong honked his horn in the car.
"Here we go!"
Lin Zihan responded happily, and Uncle Da knew that he couldn't convince everyone, so he had no choice but to follow.
……
Shi Chong took a few people to a canteen near the ancient town.
At five o'clock in the morning, the cafeteria was already brightly lit, the sound of pots and pans clashing sounded one after another, and the aroma of food filled the air.
"This is an agency canteen, and it is open to the public when it is not busy, so it is semi-open." Shi Chong said.
The canteen is located in the deep alley on the edge of the ancient town, with the ancient town university on the left and the only tertiary hospital in the town on the right.
"It's still the captain's cow, and you can find it in a place with a lot of horns."
Lin Zihan grinned and lined up obediently with a rice bowl.
"When my dad used to work in Xuanwu, I came to him a few times." Shi Chong said with a smile.
The canteen is paid in advance according to the set menu, and the window for cooking does not charge money, and after Shi Chong asked a few people, he walked to the counter on the side to pay the money.
"The captain's father also works in our system, why haven't you heard him mention it?"
It's no wonder that Zhu Jiang Jiang is curious, but Lin Zihan's expression is a little intriguing, and he suddenly stiffened his face, and when he saw Shi Chong leaving, he was like being amnestied.
"The captain's father is a JD police officer, who died in the line of duty ten years ago, and the captain inherited his police name. Tell you secretly, but don't say I said it. ”
Lin Zihan mysteriously leaned into Zhu Jiangjiang's ear and muttered.
"You're the second one to say that today." Zhu Jiangjiang sighed.
The first is Rambo, and the two are brothers who are good enough to wear a pair of pants.
Lin Zihan had a questioning face, and before he could say anything, he saw that Shi Chong had already walked over, and hurriedly restrained his expression and stopped asking.
Zhu Jiangjiang chose a set meal of spring cakes with side dishes and made a cup of soy milk.
Although it is a cafeteria, the cooking skills are quite online.
The spring cakes are rolled out very thinly and shine when picked up. The pickled cucumber has a crisp and tender taste, and it is accompanied by the red mushroom sauce with Xuanwu's local characteristics, which has a unique flavor.
Uncle Da was concerned about his wife and daughter, and he had no intention of eating, so he only made a bowl of lean porridge, drank two sips uncomfortably, and looked at the time on his mobile phone from time to time.
Seeing that breakfast was going on, Uncle Da couldn't hold it back.
Just as he wanted to ask, Shi Chong's appointed guide finally came over.
The guide was a thin, middle-aged man with dark skin, a beard on his chin, and black tattoos on his neck.
When he arrived, he did not go into the cafeteria, but chose to wait under the big tree at the entrance of the alley.
"Feilong Pond, this place is very biased, but you can't go there." Haonan said as he chewed gum.
"Be specific." Shi Chong handed the cigarette he had just bought to Haonan.
"These are my colleagues, you can just say it."
"Well, I haven't touched it beforehand."
Haonan took the cigarette and looked at it, not in a hurry, but took out a cigarette and sniffed it intoxicatedly, put it on his ear, and then stuffed the remaining pack of cigarettes into his pocket.
"I've heard, just heard. There is a small road on the side of Flying Dragon Pond, which can cross the border and go directly to country M, and it will not be detected by patrol troops. ”
"It's a wild country, and we locals don't usually go there if they have nothing to do."
Several people looked at each other and immediately thought of the worst outcome.
The three cities on the border with country M are among the most rampant areas for telecom fraud and human trafficking, and few people who enter it, whether voluntarily or coercioned, come back alive.
"Don't think about it so much, maybe it's just near the Flying Dragon Pool." Shi Chong patted Uncle Da on the shoulder.
"Speed help me prepare something, just a stick or something, don't break the law, wait for you at the east gate of the ancient town in a while."
Shi Chong turned his head to Haonan and commanded.
"Okay, I'll give you the whole hour, an hour."
Haonan yawned and was about to leave, but was stopped by Zhu Jiangjiang.
"Wait, are there any body armor or something?"
Thinking of the scene of the rain of bullets in his dream, Zhu Jiangjiang knew that it would be too late if he didn't open his mouth at this time.
"Wear body armor and be safe, in case you run into some smugglers or D traffickers or something?"
"Jiang Jiang, what do you want, Feilongtan is not Longtan Tiger's Den, it is still in my country, where are there so many cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods? If you're afraid, don't go. Lin Zihan was powerless to complain.
"Flying Dragon Pond really doesn't need it, but it's hard to say after Flying Dragon Pond, who knows where you want to go, right?"
Haonan blew a bubble in a strange way.
"Take it with you without delay, and prepare with both hands."
Shi Chong glanced at Zhu Jiangjiang, who was a little anxious, and sighed.
……
Cockscomb slope. Flying Dragon Pond.
Feilongtan is on the back of the cockscomb slope, turning over the dirt slope, is a dense forest.
I don't know how Haonan identified the direction, everyone followed him for more than ten minutes, and finally arrived at Feilong Pond.
It is said to be a pool, but it is actually a small spring.
In the midst of the rocks, a trickle no more than two feet wide winds its way down and accumulates in a small pool.
There is a strangely shaped boulder standing next to the pond, which is said to be called the Wyvern Stone.
"These are my wife's earrings." Uncle Da was sharp-eyed and found a silver-white stud earring on the edge of the boulder.
The earrings are in the shape of a Christmas tree, and the top of the tree is inlaid with a rhinestone, which is very chic.
"There seems to be something on the ground, where did you just find the studs?"
Shi Chong bent down with a flashlight and looked at it, and motioned to Uncle Da to return the earrings to their original positions.
A thin straight line was drawn on the mossy dirt, and the studs were pressed to the top, which, combined, was an arrow.
"The moss is very fresh, and the mud that comes out is still wet, so it should have just been gone." Shi Chong rubbed the scratches on the ground.
"That's the path to Country M." Haonan looked in the direction Shi Chong was pointing.
"Declare in advance, it's okay to take you away, but I don't care if you go to the boundary monument. Eating and drinking spicy food at home is very leisurely, and I am not interested in going to country M to suffer. ”
"No problem, you just lead the way."
Shi Chong held down Uncle Da, who wanted to speak and stopped, and spoke.