what's in the depths

"What... what is this?" Zhu Yuhan was stunned.

"It should be left by those missing students." Chu Rong approached the line of blood and touched it with his hand. "The air in the cave is not circulating, but the blood has dried up. It should have been written a few days ago. Maybe six or seven days."

"With so much blood, if you don't deal with it in time, you must have lost too much blood and died right now."

Chu Rong nodded: "Even if you don't die, you are not far from death."

"Then what about this little mummy." Zhu Yuhan asked, looking at the brown-red mummy.

"The mummy has not yet fully formed, and it should take about three months to be processed." As he said, Chu Rong raised his hand to look, and then touched his pocket. He couldn't find disposable gloves, so he had to touch it with his bare hands.

"There is no external injury on the body surface. The fatal injury is a knife wound on the neck. It should be directly wiped by the knife on the neck, which is fatal."

"I don't know who is so cruel, and can do this to such a young child." Zhu Yuhan shook his head.

"It should be a first-time offender. The knife edge is skewed, not neat, and the entire knife edge is also of different shades. The murderer must have hesitated when he did it."

As Chu Rong said, he touched the forehead of the little mummy again: "There is also this one, which was drawn with a brush."

He pointed to a strange totem between the eyebrows of the little mummy and said.

Zhu Yuhan leaned over, looked at the totem, and found it very familiar. After thinking for a long time, he slapped his thigh and said in surprise: "Do you think that this totem is similar to the Gumantong eyebrows we saw in the amulet shop last time? The totem is very similar."

Chu Rong nodded: "It's very similar, but the totems we saw in the amulet shop were all written in one stroke. This one seems to have a pause, and the brushwork is immature and unskilled, so it should be the first time for the murderer to draw. This kind of thing."

"Then why did the murderer treat the body like this?"

"Raise a kid." Chu Rong's voice sounded hollow.

He turned around and looked at Zhu Yuhan: "Do you still remember what the owner of the amulet shop said at that time, those students once approached her to ask her how to invite the kid, although the boss didn't tell them, but they should come from other places. We found out how to raise it, and you see, there is a bowl in front of the wooden box where the mummy is placed."

Having said that, Zhu Yuhan noticed that there was really a porcelain bowl next to the wooden box. Judging from the workmanship, it was a bowl sold in supermarkets that can be seen everywhere for eating.

"It's empty inside." Zhu Yuhan picked up the bowl and looked at it.

"It's empty because it's just a decoration."

Chu Rong struggled to climb up the altar clutching his injured leg, walked around the wooden box, and muttered "No!" in doubt.

"What's wrong." Zhu Yuhan asked hurriedly.

"If it's really raising little ghosts, then the proprietress said that the little ghosts need to be raised with blood. If the blood is not put into the bowl, it must have been spilled somewhere else."

Chu Rong straightened up and looked at the wooden box in front of him that contained the mummy. After a long while, he suddenly committed himself and moved the wooden box to the side.

"Sure enough." Chu Rong sneered.

Zhu Yuhan also climbed up, twisting his body like a snake to the side of the wooden box, and took a look.

There is a groove in the middle of the altar, and the groove is filled with black and red blood, emitting an unpleasant stench.

"Such a lot of blood should not belong to one person." Zhu Yuhan covered his nose.

"It's definitely not from one person. If a person bleeds so much blood, he would have died." Chu Rong put the wooden box back, "Let's find the exit first. There is no ventilation and no food in here. If this continues, we may not be able to survive." Rescue is not available at the bureau."

Zhu Yuhan nodded and climbed down the altar.

This squeak caused the wound on his leg to open instantly. He didn't even notice it. It was Chu Rong who asked, "Is the wound open?" before he noticed that the blood had flowed down the half of his trousers. The calf drained into the shoe.

It hurt so much that I wanted to shout, but I was too embarrassed, so Zhu Yuhan could only hold back, his little face flushed.

"Can I still go?" Chu Rong supported him and asked worriedly.

"Don't worry, this little injury is fine."

"I'll carry you on my back." Chu Rong's words were like a thunderbolt from the blue sky, and Zhu Yuhan was shattered.

What did Chu Rong say?He wants to carry himself?He is not disabled yet, not to mention that he himself is also injured, this lonely man is not very good.

Seeming to see his embarrassment, Chu Rong didn't force him anymore, so he could only support him with one hand and the wolf-eye flashlight in the other hand, and walked slowly down the hole step by step.

In this long and quiet cave, there is a long bloodstain on the wall of the cave, which is sometimes deep and then shallow, as if an injured person accidentally rubbed up while walking down the wall.

"I didn't even know that there is such a place in the city we live in, it's like an undeveloped primitive wasteland." Zhu Yuhan frowned, trying not to touch the blood on the wall.

"Perhaps for some unspeakable reason, this place is so barren here. Otherwise, in the first-tier cities where every inch of land is expensive, how could they be willing to give up this kind of money-making place?"

Zhu Yuhan limped and let out a long sigh: "I don't know what happened to those missing students. Professionals like us almost died here. I'm afraid they are in danger..."

"Go around and have a look. The blood on the wall may be left by one of the students." Chu Rong carefully supported Zhu Yuhan, trying to transfer the weight of both of them to his right foot, hoping that Zhu Yuhan would not feel so painful.

"Gao Zhenning who rolled to the side of the road, and the student who wrote a message for help in the cave, it seems that they seem to be separated." Zhu Yuhan said, his knee hurt so badly that he couldn't help but stop , bent down and kneaded the vicinity of the wound, trying to temporarily relieve the pain.

Chu Rong squatted down, looked at his wound, and frowned: "The wound is too deep, the bones are already visible, don't be brave, I will carry you on my back."

Without further ado, Chu Rong pulled Zhu Yuhan directly to carry him on his back, and put his hands through his legs politely, trying not to touch him.

Zhu Yuhan was in so much pain that he was so cold that he stopped being polite to him, so he could only thank him in a low voice with a blushing face.

He leaned on Chu Rong's back, looked at the back of his head, and after a while, asked blankly, "Did you rescue me from the river?"

Chu Rong nodded and didn't say much.

"Thank you, it's you every time."

Chu Rong smiled: "Saving people is instinctive, don't think too much."

But Zhu Yuhan was surprised by this sentence.

Saving people is instinct?How does he feel that avoiding harm is an instinct, or is saving people an instinct only for Chu Rong.

"If it's a child heir, will you save it too?" Zhu Yuhan realized what a stupid question he had asked as soon as he said that.

"Yes, but not so desperately." Chu Rong said it calmly, sounding like a joke.

"Actually, I've always wanted to ask you." Zhu Yuhan paused, pondered for a long time, and still felt that there were some things that needed to be explained, "Do you... like me?"

"What are you thinking?" Chu Rong's answer was almost without thinking, and he blurted out, "I just think we have worked together for six or seven years, and we are used to each other. As a person, I don't like to deal with others. , Re-association is very troublesome, so I don't want you to have an accident."

Now Zhu Yuhan wished he could bump his head into Chu Rong's back and kill himself.

Feelings have always been self-indulgent? !It's a fucking embarrassment to throw it at grandma's house.

"Did you misunderstand me?" Chu Rong tilted his head slightly and asked with a smile.

"Uh... I'm joking, you can't even tell?" It's too embarrassing, no, and even has the idea of ​​committing suicide.

Chu Rong turned his head and lifted Zhu Yuhan up: "Did I go too far?"

"No, no..." It's all my fault that I listened to Tong Si's slander and asked shamelessly.

Fortunately, Chu Rong didn't seem to care too much, maybe he also took his "Do you like me" as a joke between brothers, after all, Chu Rong is not that kind of particularly pedantic and rigid person.

"You said how long we have to go before we can go out." Zhu Yuhan hurriedly thought about changing the subject and ending the embarrassment.

"This... I have never been here before, you ask me how I know." Chu Rong looked back at him strangely.

Just as he was talking, a strong smell of blood suddenly came to his nostrils, accompanied by the cave that gradually lit up.

Zhu Yuhan was shocked: "Go on, I heard the wind, the exit should be near here!"

Chu Rong nodded, and quickened his pace while dragging his injured leg.

Walking forward, the crowded corridor became wider, the light became stronger and stronger, and the smell of blood became stronger and stronger.

"I found it! I found the exit!" Zhu Yuhan shouted happily, the wound on his face was painful.

After finally walking to the exit, Chu Rong put Zhu Yuhan off his back as if he was collapsed, stood aside panting heavily, and wiped the sweat from his brow: "It's easy to say when you come out, the rescue team should be here soon."

"Wait, what is that?" Zhu Yuhan, who escaped from the cave, was not as ecstatic as expected. He barely supported his broken body and stared blankly not far away.

Surprised, Chu Rong followed his gaze.

Surrounded by a forest, shaded by the sun, dark and damp, just a hundred meters away from them, hundreds of rotten logs form a platform, and the platform is made of wood to form a rectangular frame, and on that frame , hanging something.

Looking at it from this distance, and taking a rough look, the person hanging should not be a person, but judging from the size and outline, it should be a small animal or something.

And this pungent bloody smell seemed to come from there.

The two looked at each other and decided to go and find out.

It was only when the two got closer that they realized that they had guessed wrong.

Hanging on the rectangular wooden frame was a man, a boy, whose lower body was amputated at the waist, and his internal organs flowed all over the floor. He had been left like this for an unknown number of days, and it had already attracted many flies and insects to come and eat him.

"Is this one of the missing students?" Chu Rong asked.

"Yes..." Zhu Yuhan swallowed, "It's that boy named Fan Ye."

Saying that, Zhu Yuhan lowered his head: "He's still dead."

Chu Rong nodded: "It's obviously man-made. You see, there is a guillotine placed on the top of this wooden frame. Just pull the rope next to it, and the guillotine will fall down, and the dead person may just be lying in this position." , was broken by the waist."

"Look to see if his lower body is nearby."

As they said that, the two walked around the "torture platform" for a long time, and finally found the lower body of the victim Fan Ye in the grass beside him.

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