The mountain is located in the west of Fuyang County, ninety miles away, the mountain road is rugged, steep and difficult to walk, so even if Lin Feng and the others set off on a fast horse late at night, when they arrived at the mountain, it was already Shen time.

"Phew—"

As everyone tightened the reins, the horse that rushed forward suddenly raised its front hooves and stopped.

"Zide, this is the mountain." Du Wei introduced the tall mountain peaks in front of him to Lin Feng.

Lin Feng raised his head and looked, and saw the mountain in front of him, about more than 400 zhang high, with lush vegetation on it, beautiful scenery, in late autumn, the leaves were golden, covering the entire peak, it looked very pleasing to the eye.

He said, "What a beautiful mountain. ”

Du Gou nodded: "It is true that the scenery is beautiful, but because the beasts on the mountain hurt people, and the rumors of haunting are still very fierce, so the people nearby will not come to this mountain, even if they are in a hurry, they will bypass here." ”

"Beasts hurt people?"

Lin Feng said slowly: "Is there always a beast hurting people, or is it just in the last few years, suddenly there are beasts hurting people?" ”

Du thought for a while and said: "There are indeed wild beasts on this mountain, and it is said that there are big insects, but although there are wild beasts hurting people, there are not many, but in recent years, wild beasts have hurt people from time to time, and even the best hunters have died under the claws of wild beasts, and their lungs have been taken away. ”

Lin Feng sneered: "The Four Elephants Organization is really calculating, first using wild beasts to scare ordinary people and hunters away, and then using ghost rumors to consolidate it, so as to turn the mountain into a forbidden place for the living...... In this way, they will be able to carry out their plot covertly without the risk of being exposed. ”

Those people who were captured by the Four Elephants Organization were trapped in the mountain, and this matter had been determined according to Zhuo Fan's reaction, so Du Wei now understood what was going on with the so-called rumors of beasts hurting people and ghosts.

He said: "When the beasts hurt people just happened frequently, in fact, the county government of Fuyang County also summoned a lot of people to go up the mountain to clear the beasts, but often not long after the removal, new beasts appeared, and the government also found that those beasts did not go down the mountain, and would not harm the people outside the mountain. ”

"As for the ghost rumors, I personally sent someone to investigate, and I didn't find any problems, so the mountain was gradually ignored."

Lin Feng nodded and said, "You have done enough, and you have been to the mountain many times because of wild beasts and hauntings, but Zhuo Fan, who is in charge of this matter, is originally the county governor of Fuyang County, and later in Linshui County, so he can also monitor you, so with his cooperation and cunning means, it is not difficult to hide from you, and it is normal for you not to find out about the conspiracy of the Sixiang Organization." ”

As he spoke, Lin Feng looked at Zhuo Fan and said, "Lai Guogong, you have sent someone to investigate the urgent matter of the haunting, you should remember where it is, right?" ”

Zhuo Fan nodded: "Naturally." ”

"Then don't waste time."

Lin Feng glanced at the sky and said, "Try to find the place where the people are trapped before dark, otherwise as soon as it gets dark and the line of sight is unclear, it will be troublesome." ”

When Du Wei heard this, he would not hesitate, and he said: "With our speed, another hour is enough to arrive." ”

Lin Feng nodded: "Then let's continue to set off." ”

…………

An hour later.

The sound of horses' hooves stopped neatly.

The dust splashed by the horses' hooves swept away with the wind, and the vision quickly returned to clarity.

Lin Feng found out at this time that they had come to the halfway point of the mountain.

But in front of me was a forest, and the wild grass was growing wildly, and it was withered and yellow.

The scenery here is not significantly different from the view they came all the way to.

Du Gou turned over and dismounted, and said: "At that time, there was a hunter who was really poor and couldn't open the pot, so even if he knew that the mountain was very dangerous, he still came to the mountain to hunt. ”

"And when he had harvested a lot from day to night, he was just about to go down the mountain, when he found that there was a fire in the deep mountains, and he was curious, and wanted to know who else would come to the mountain besides him, so he touched it."

But when he arrived, he found that in the light of the fire, some people's heads had been cut off, some people were holding their heads and laughing loudly, and some people were holding blood in bowls and drinking it in large gulps...... In short, terrifying. ”

He was frightened at the time, thinking of the haunted rumors of the mountain, thinking that he had encountered a ghost, and ran away with a scream...... And when he returned to the county seat, it was already dawn, so he hurriedly went to report to the official. ”

"It just so happened that I was working in the county government at that time, and when I heard about it, I sent someone to investigate, but the people I sent said that they didn't find anything abnormal, no heads, no blood, not even the ashes after the fire burned...... So in the end, I also thought it was this Orion who was blinded or had a nightmare while resting in the mountains, and did not continue to investigate. ”

Lin Feng listened to Du Wei's words and nodded.

He dismounted and walked in the woods, observing the forest, and said, "His shouting and shouting alarmed the people of the Four Elephants Organization, and with the ability of the Four Elephants Organization, it is not difficult to have a full night to deal with their own traces." ”

Du Wei sighed: "I didn't know about the conspiracy of the Four Elephants Organization at that time, otherwise maybe at that time, I would have had a chance to save those people." ”

Lin Feng smiled and said, "You don't have to think much about the past, it's not too late to find out now." ”

At this point, he stopped.

Turning to look at a tree beside him, he gently touched it with his fingertips, and said, "Come and see." ”

Hearing Lin Feng's words, Du Wei and the others quickly rushed over.

Du Wei hurriedly asked, "Zide, have you found anything?" ”

Lin Feng raised his chin slightly and said, "Look at the trunk of this tree, the bark on it is missing, and there is a very neat incision, this must be some kind of sharp blade cutting it out." ”

"And here......"

Lin Feng turned around and looked at the tree behind him, pointed to the brown bark on the tree with his fingertips, and said, "Look at the gap in the folds of this bark, there are some red spots in it. ”

"Red dots?"

Du Gou stepped forward, looked at it carefully, and then his eyes widened slightly, and said, "Bloodstains? ”

Lin Feng nodded, and said: "It's indeed bloodstains, but the bark of this tree is brown, and the bloodstains are not big, and they are still hidden in the gaps in the folds of the bark. ”

Du Wei listened to Lin Feng's words, and then looked carefully at the extremely hidden bloodstains, and couldn't help but say, "Lin Sizheng, your eyes are too good, right...... If it weren't for your reminder, even if it was broad daylight, I would never have found out, and the Four Elephants organized them to operate late at night, and they would definitely not have found out. ”

When Lin Feng heard this, he just smiled: "As a qualified criminal investigator, you must have a pair of eagle eyes, and wherever you can see, you can't let go of any details of the horns...... Not to mention, what I'm best at is observing details that others tend to overlook. ”

Du Wei nodded again and again, and he said: "So, there are traces of blood and human existence, does it prove that the hunter is not wrong, we are really in the right place?" ”

When Sun Fujia and Zhao Fifteen heard this, they also looked at Lin Feng nervously and expectantly.

Lin Feng bowed his head slightly: "This is nature." ”

Seeing Lin Feng nodding, Sun Fujia and the others' hearts suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Even if they were ninety percent sure, Lin Feng didn't nod, they still couldn't rest assured.

Unconsciously, Lin Feng had actually become their spiritual leader.

"Where will the people be hidden?"

Sun Fujia looked around, frowned, and said, "In addition to the mountains, there are woods around here...... Are we going to send someone to search the mountain? ”

Lin Feng shook his head: "It's useless." ”

Several people hurriedly looked at him, and listened to Lin Feng say: "The woods can't trap thousands of people, and they can't hide thousands of people...... Since the Four Elephants Organization has decided to trap them, starve and die of thirst, they must be sure that they will not be able to escape, that is to say, ......"

Lin Feng's eyes flickered, and he said in a deep voice: "It must be a confined environment with a lot of space and absolutely impossible to escape." ”

"Lots of space? Confined environment? Sun Fujia frowned.

Lin Feng continued: "Moreover, this place must be something that outsiders can't find out, even if there is an uncontrolled mountaineering by Orion, even if the Yamen comes to investigate the ghosts and clean up the beasts, it will not be easy to find ......."

Sun Fujia frowned and said: "Then you can directly exclude the woods, after all, if there is anything in the woods, as long as someone passes by, they will find it." ”

Zhao Shifu was confused: "It's not a forest, where else can it be?" This mountain, apart from the mountain, is a tree. ”

"Yes!"

At this time, Du Gou suddenly slapped his thigh, startled Zhao Fifteen, and said, "It's the mountain!" Mountains are possible! ”

"Is it possible for the mountains?" Zhao Fifteen was even more confused.

Lin Feng laughed and said, "It seems that Lai Guogong has some ideas?" ”

Du Wei hurriedly looked at Lin Feng and said, "When I was suppressing bandits in Laizhou before, I entered a cave, and there was a cave inside the cave, and there was a naturally formed karst cave inside. ”

"So...... If this mountain also has the same cave, and the cave is larger, it will be enough to accommodate thousands of people...... Moreover, the cave is inside the mountain, and outsiders can't enter it, so they can't find it! ”

When the knowledgeable Sun Fujia heard this, his eyes also lit up, and he said: "Although I have never seen a cave, I have also read the corresponding records in the book......

He hurriedly asked Lin Feng, "Zide, is it really a cave?" ”

Everyone also looked at Lin Feng nervously, and saw Lin Feng turn around to face the lush mountain, and said with a smile: "Yes or no, search if there is a cave leading to the mountain, don't you know?" ”

"Yes, yes, search the cave!"

Du Wei listened to Lin Feng's words, and immediately said, "Search now!" ”

Lin Feng reminded: "They will be active here, which means that the entrance is definitely not far from here, just use this as the center and search within two kilometers up and down." ”

Listening to Lin Feng's words, Du Gou looked at the guards and said directly, "What are you still doing in a daze?" Don't search yet! ”

When the guards heard this, they didn't dare to have any delay, so they quickly separated and searched according to Lin Feng's request.

Lin Feng said: "Let's join in, it's getting darker and darker, and we don't have much time." ”

Du Wei and the others naturally had no opinion.

Soon, dozens of people, including Lin Feng and them, all started searching.

They had a clear purpose, to follow the mountain, through the dense grass, to find out if there were any hidden caves.

In this way, half an hour passed, and suddenly, an excited voice suddenly sounded: "Father-in-law! Come and see! ”

Lin Feng, who was searching, raised his head sharply when he heard this, and quickly looked at Zhao Shifteen.

I saw Zhao 15 standing in front of a big stone and waved his hand to him.

"There's an anomaly here." Zhao Fifteen shouted to Lin Feng.

Lin Feng's eyes flashed, and without any hesitation, he quickly walked over.

Seeing this, Du Wei and Sun Fujia also hurriedly rushed over.

Soon, everyone gathered around Zhao Fifteen, Zhao Fifteen raised his hand, touched the big stone in front of him, and said, "This big stone doesn't look like it was formed naturally. ”

When Lin Feng heard this, he looked directly.

I saw that the stone in front of me had a height of nearly two zhang, a width of about one zhang, and a thickness of half a zhang, this was simply a huge stone, if it fell down like this, it would definitely crush the four of them into flesh.

And on the stone, there are obvious traces of tool cutting.

It looks like it was specially cut out of somewhere.

When Lin Feng came to the side of the stone, he found that this stone was embedded in the mountain, and there were many broken stones around it, as if the stones on the top of the mountain had fallen down and naturally piled up here.

"Get rid of the rubble." Lin Feng said.

The guards moved quickly.

Soon, the rubble around the giant stone was cleaned up, and as the rubble was cleared, the outline of a cave hidden behind the giant stone, completely blocked by the giant stone, came into view.

"Cave! There is a cave behind this stone! Father, is this the cave we are looking for? ”

Zhao Fifteen hurriedly looked at Lin Feng, and saw Lin Feng nodding slightly, revealing a hint of a smile: "Fifteen, you have done a good job, if you can rescue these people this time, you will have an important contribution." ”

When Zhao Fifteen heard this, he immediately grinned.

Lin Feng took a deep breath, looked at the stone in front of him, and said, "This stone has been completely embedded in the cave, if the people in the cave don't have tools, they can't move it at all with manpower." ”

"That is to say......"

He looked at Sun Fujia and the others and said, "This stone alone is enough for thousands of people to call the sky without a way and the earth without a door...... Completely trapped and killed here! ”

Sun Fujia's pupils in his eyes twitched violently, and he couldn't help but say: "The Four Elephants Organization is really ruthless, no wonder they didn't kill these people with their own hands, what they can do with just one stone, why do they do it themselves?" ”

Du Wei also said: "And on weekdays, no one will come to the mountain at all, and even if someone comes, even we have to work so hard to find here, and others will not find it at all...... Therefore, trapping those people, in their opinion, there is really no possibility of accidents. ”

"It's not been five days...... Finally caught up. ”

Lin Feng let out a sigh, and he immediately said, "Hurry up and find tools, and also, find more people to save people!" ”

Hearing Lin Feng's words, the guards didn't say a word, some turned around and rode down the mountain to call more people, while others galloped to the farmer's house to borrow tools.

Then they took the people and tools with them and quickly returned to the mountain.

By the time they returned, it was completely dark, but that didn't stop them from saving people.

Because the big stone had been completely embedded in the cave, it was tightly fitted, and it was impossible to move it at all, so Lin Feng immediately made a decision, ordered someone to use tools to knock the stone, break the big stone little by little, and then transport the broken stone away, and then continue to knock until the volume and weight of the big stone were reduced to a certain extent, and then finally pulled it with a rope with the strength of hundreds of people......

Rumble!

Then I heard a bang.

The stone, which completely blocked the entrance to the cave, was finally pulled by the crowd, and then they pulled it back with all their might.

The stone immediately fell backwards.

directly smashed the ground a few times, and dust rose all over the sky in an instant.

But with the fall of the stone, the hole that was completely blocked by it finally reappeared.

Lin Feng said: "Quick! Go and see if there's anyone inside. ”

When Zhao Fifteen heard this, he quickly rushed in with a torch, and as soon as he entered, he shouted: "Someone! There are a lot of people here! They're not dead, they're still angry, save people......"

When the officials and guards heard this, they would hesitate and rushed in.

"They're really here! We really did it! Really rescued them! ”

At this moment, Rao is the calm Sun Fujia, and Rao is the gentle and elegant Du Go, and they can't help but dance excitedly.

They only felt that their noses were a little sour, in order to find these people, in order to rescue these people, they have hardly stopped in the past few days, either in a hurry, or in the investigation of the case, they have been struggling in despair and hope, and only they know the hardship and pressure.

And now, they really do!

"Zide!"

Sun Fujia turned his head to look at Lin Feng violently, and Du Wei also looked at Lin Feng with red eyes.

saw Lin Feng smile lightly at them and said, "I saw it, we did it." ”

…………

The next night.

Linshui County, county government.

The closed door was pushed open, and the firelight outside the door suddenly broke in, dispelling the darkness in the room, making Zhang Mo and the others who were tied to the pillar subconsciously squint their eyes to adapt to the sudden light.

Zhang Mo got used to it for a while before he opened his eyes completely, and at this time, he found a figure standing in front of the door.

When he saw who was coming, he immediately sneered: "I also said who is so leisurely, come to see us at night, it turns out to be the dignified Dali Temple......

Lin Feng walked in with a smile and said, "Quiz with a prize, guess what I came to you?" ”

Zhang Mo laughed, looked at Lin Feng with a mocking face, and said, "Don't tell me, you're here to beg me to tell you the identity of the ninth person?" ”

Before Lin Feng could speak, he continued: "If that's the case, you will die of this heart, I said that I will never tell you any of our secrets again, you don't want to know any news from me...... And now it's been six days, and those ants have no water or food, and they should almost die of thirst and starvation, even if you beg me now, it's too late. ”

When the other seven people heard this, they also laughed.

They all knew that if they fell into the hands of the imperial court, they would definitely die, so they didn't have any fears at all now.

Lin Feng listened to their laughter and laughed along.

"What are you laughing at?"

Seeing that Lin Feng also laughed, Zhang Mo couldn't help frowning.

Then, he saw Lin Feng looking at him with a smile and said, "It's really funny to see some self-righteous wicked people laughing stupidly there, and this official really can't help but laugh." ”

"What did you say?" Zhang Mo was stunned.

Lin Feng stared at Zhang Mo with both eyes, suddenly restrained his smile, and said seriously: "Zhang Mo, do you remember what I said to you the last time I left here?" ”

Zhang Mo was stunned at first, but soon, his face changed suddenly: "You ......"

Lin Feng nodded and said slowly: "Last time I lied to you, I wanted to use this to deceive your secret, but you found out, and you laughed at me for a while...... I told you then that the next time I come back to see you, I will really come and share with you the good news that I have saved all the people, and that is no longer a lie to you, but a fact......"

"...... Now"

Lin Feng watched Zhang Mo's pupils expand a little bit, the expression on his face stiffened a little, and said with a light smile: "I came to share it with you—I have rescued the innocent people trapped in the mountain by you." ”

Brush!

Zhang Mo, whether it was Zhang Mo or the other seven people, all of them widened their eyes.

They looked at Lin Feng blankly, their faces full of disbelief.

"How could it be...... How could you really find them? ”

"Even we don't know where they are, how can you really do it in such a short period of time!"

They didn't want to believe it.

But Lin Feng had already turned around and said lightly: "I want to know the specific process...... After Zhuo Fan is locked up with you, you can ask him. ”

"Zhuo Fan !!"

Hearing this name, Zhang Mo's whole body was like a lightning strike.

He looked at Lin Feng's back as he left, watched the door be closed again, watched everything around him fall into darkness, and his lips trembled violently: "He found Zhuo Fan, he really rescued those people, he really didn't lie to me......"

…………

Lin Feng left the room where Zhang Mo and the others were being held and came to another room not far away.

Pushing the door in, I saw Zhuo Fan, who was tied into a dumpling, sitting on the cold ground against the corner of the wall.

Zhuo Fan lowered his head, as if he was pretending to sleep, and as Lin Feng entered, he opened his eyes.

After seeing Lin Feng, many expressions such as resentment, anger, unwillingness, and fear quickly flashed in his eyes, but in the end, all these expressions quickly died out.

His voice didn't make any waves, it was calm and almost deadly: "Rescued those ants?" ”

Lin Feng walked in front of Zhuo Fan, squatted down, and looked directly at Zhuo Fan: "That big stone is indeed difficult to handle, but fortunately, we have many people and tools. ”

After hearing the three words of the big stone, Zhuo Fan's pupils jumped a few times uncontrollably, at this moment, there was no need for Lin Feng to say anything more, Zhuo Fan already understood everything.

"So, you're here to show me your victory? You're laughing at me as a loser as a winner? Zhuo Fan asked.

Lin Feng smiled and shook his head: "I have just finished sharing this good news with Zhang Mo and them, I don't like to do the same thing twice." ”

"And who are?"

Lin Feng looked at Zhuo Fan and said slowly, "I want to talk to you about someone." ”

"Alone? Who? ”

Lin Feng said in a deep voice: "The woman who was taken on the shipwreck by you, and finally strangled to death by you...... Who is she? ”

(End of chapter)