The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

Lu Jiuchuan escorted the savage out of the tree house, and said, "Which is the shortest way to the mass grave? Help us lead the way."

A trace of panic flashed in the wild man's eyes: "What are you going to do in the mass grave?" That look clearly said, you don't want to kill me, and then throw the body on the spot in the mass grave, right?

Lu Jiuchuan patted him on the shoulder with a smile: "Don't worry, we have no grievances with you, and we will not kill you. Just lead the way."

Tang Ci took the initiative to take out a piece of silver from his pocket and handed it to him, saying, "This is a reward."

The savage looked at the two suspiciously. He really didn't understand the origin of these two people. They suddenly stepped on the trap he had set, tied him up with a rope, and threatened him to ask a lot of strange questions. Now let them Lead the way to the mass grave, and offer money?

The savage muttered in his mouth, took a few steps forward reluctantly, and said: "There are two roads to the mass grave, one is the path in the front mountain, and the other is the cliff in the back mountain, which one do you want to take?" ?”

Tang Ci looked at him suspiciously: "The cliff is so high, is there a way to go up?"

The savage explained: "There are vines that can be climbed, but it is very dangerous. I have lived here for more than ten years. Once I chased a wild boar to the back mountain, and found a long hanging vine. I climbed along the vine. You can go straight up to the top of the mountain.”

Lu Jiuchuan nodded and said, "Please point us to the two roads."

The savage took them to the front mountain first.

At the end of the woods, there is a path leading directly to the top of the mountain. This path is winding, but fortunately, the path is relatively flat, and there are many footprints left by pedestrians. This should be the usual way for residents of the town to go to the mass graves. path.

The other road is relatively hidden. It bypasses the woods and comes to the back mountain. It happens to be at the bottom of the cliff.

The cliff is so high that it is difficult to see the top of the mountain from the bottom, and the view will be blocked by thick white fog.

As the Savage said, there was indeed a vine hanging from the top of the mountain.They stood on the edge of the cliff last night. It was late at night and the light was too dark. No one noticed the existence of this vine.

Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci looked at each other. Lu Jiuchuan tied the savage to a tree temporarily, and said, "Thank you, let's climb up to have a look, and let you go when we get down later."

It's not that he wants to embarrass this stranger, but if he releases him now, it will be troublesome if this guy attracts hunters.Lu Jiuchuan simply went down with a knife, knocking the savage unconscious to the ground.

He grabbed the vine and pulled it hard, and said to Tang Ci in a low voice: "I'll climb up, you wait here for me to teleport."

Tang Ci said, "I'll go up with you."

Lu Jiuchuan shook his head: "It's too dangerous to climb along the vines. What's more, there are many sharp stones on this cliff. If you bump into it, how bad will it be if you get hurt?"

Tang Ci still wanted to argue, but Lu Jiuchuan smiled and stopped him with gestures: "Xiao Tang, you are here to watch this Orion, and you can communicate with the voice headset at any time if you have a situation."

Tang Ci had no choice but to give up, and said: "Then be careful."

It is not easy to climb the 3000-meter-high cliff, but Lu Jiuchuan has liked the sport of "rock climbing" since he was a child, and is very interested in the cliff in front of him.In fact, he could ride the Suzaku directly to fly up. The reason why he climbed it himself was to verify whether he could reach the top of the mountain smoothly along the vine.

If it can, it means that someone deliberately placed this vine for escape.

Lu Jiuchuan quickly tied a ring around his waist with the end of the vine, grasped the vine with both hands, kicked his long legs on the cliff, and quickly climbed up.The man was extremely agile. Tang Ci raised his head and saw that he had already climbed tens of meters in the blink of an eye.

Tang Ci pressed the earphones and said, "If you go straight up like this, what if someone cuts off your vines at the top of the mountain?"

Lu Jiuchuan smiled and said, "Then I will ride Suzaku and escape for my life, or simply go back to Taohuayuan. Don't worry, I know what to do."

Tang Ci looked up at his back.Soon, that figure turned into a small black spot in the field of vision.

Gradually, Lu Jiuchuan's figure was covered by the white mist and disappeared, but a lot of gravel was trampled down by Lu Jiuchuan, and fell into the valley with a crash.

After an unknown amount of time, Lu Jiuchuan's voice came from the earphones: "I've reached the top of the mountain, and the situation is not right."

Tang Ci's heart tightened, and he hurriedly said, "If it's dangerous, get out first."

Yu Hanjiang also asked in the voice channel: "Are you surrounded by zombies? If there are too many zombies, retreat and find a solution."

Lu Jiuchuan shook his head and said, "It's not that there are too many zombies, but that there are no zombies on the top of the mountain."

Everyone was taken aback when they heard this.Xiao Lou was the first to react: "They returned to the mass grave? Or is there a crisis in the secret room only at night?"

Lu Jiuchuan said: "Maybe the accident happened at night. I'm in the mass grave now, and there are rotting corpses everywhere around. These things haven't changed, and I haven't seen the tombstones from last night."

He put Li Qingzhao's mark nearby, and said, "Wait for five minutes, and I will pull you over."

Five minutes later, a teleportation reminder appeared in front of everyone, and Xiao Lou said to his teammates: "Everyone stay in the inn first, and Han Jiang and I will go to the mass grave. After checking the clues, Mr. Shao will use another Li Qingzhao to pull us two together. come back."

Shao Qingge said: "Understood, be careful."

The screen flashed, and Xiao Lou, Yu Hanjiang, and Tang Ci were instantly teleported to the top of the mountain.

Xiao Lou took a closer look—as Brother Jiu said, there were indeed no traces of zombies here, but there were quite a few rotting corpses thrown on the ground in a mess.Some of the corpses were eaten unsightly by the eagle dogs, and the stench of rotting corpses was everywhere around them.

Compared with the crowd of zombies last night, the mass graves during the day were not much better.The only good thing is that these things don't actively attack them.

Tang Ci covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve, and said, "Is this the real mass grave? What we entered last night was another copy?"

Yu Hanjiang said: "It seems that this secret room alternates day and night. During the day, everything is normal. At night, zombies will crawl out of the mass grave, and the town will become a ghost town... The challenger is forced to be sent to the survival instance."

Xiao Loudao: "It's much better than I imagined. If there are no zombies, it will be convenient for us to investigate and collect evidence."

Looking at the corpses all over the floor, Xiao Lou stepped over the corpses with a calm expression.

There were no rubber gloves in the ancient world. He cut Yu Hanjiang's white silk card with scissors, and made two pairs of white cloth gloves temporarily. Lu Jiuchuan joked beside him: "Professor Xiao can not only make hand warmers and parasols, but also sew?"

Xiao Lou was helpless: "Being forced."

He put on cloth gloves, lifted the hem of his clothes and walked quickly into the mass grave, looking for the target.

What he was looking for was the wedding party from three years ago. These people were all wearing bright red clothes, so it was easier to find.Among the corpses in the mass grave, there are not many people wearing red clothes, but the dozens of red clothes gathered together are very eye-catching.

Yu Hanjiang pointed not far away and said, "Over there."

The four of them walked quickly, and dozens of red-clothed corpses were thrown together like rubbish. Among them, the one wearing a phoenix crown and dressed up was probably Zhao Ze'an, the bride of the Zhao family.

Xiao Lou squatted beside him and roughly looked at the surface of the corpse.

"Judging from the decay of the corpse and the appearance of the corpse spots, the time of death was 3 years ago, which is correct. As for the cause of death, I have to investigate in detail." He motioned for Yu Hanjiang to help turn the corpse over and examine it carefully. After a while, he said: "There are no marks of stab wounds on the body, no signs of poisoning, and it doesn't look like being strangled to death..."

In the middle of the night, a group of people walked to the mass grave as if they had lost their souls. This incident itself was strange.

Now that the body was found, the cause of death could not be judged, which made Xiao Lou very puzzled.

He frowned and said: "The corpses were left in the mass graves, exposed to wind and sun for three years, and eaten by wild animals. The evidence has been destroyed long ago... But judging from the expressions of some well-preserved corpses , Most of the deceased showed horror, as if they had seen something that terrified them before they died."

Lu Jiuchuan interjected, "Could it be that you were scared to death?"

Xiao Lou carefully analyzed: "When a person is strongly stimulated, the sympathetic nerve will produce a stress response, and the body will release a large amount of adrenaline, which will cause a sudden increase in heartbeat, arrhythmia, and rise in blood pressure... Theoretically, it is possible for a person to be stimulated. Frightened to death. But usually, people who are frightened to death have basic cardiovascular diseases. It is difficult for a healthy person with a normal heart to be frightened to death. When they are extremely frightened, they will faint at most."

Yu Hanjiang nodded in agreement: "So many people were scared to death at the same time, and there were many young people among them, so it shouldn't happen."

Lu Jiuchuan wondered: "Then what will be the cause of their death?"

Looking at the corpses on the ground, Xiao Lou suddenly thought of a key clue—the origin of the mass grave.

The famine 20 years ago caused many people in the town to starve to death, and their bodies were randomly discarded on the mountain, forming this large area of ​​mass graves.

If the murderer killed people in the mass grave out of a "revenge mentality", would he let these people also starve to death?

Thinking of this, Xiao Lou said in a low voice: "Han Jiang, help me, I want to dissect the best preserved corpse to see if I can find the cause of death."

Lu Jiuchuan: "..."

Xiao Lou was really brave enough to dissect the corpse at the mass grave.

Yu Hanjiang was accustomed to Xiao Lou's actions. He put on Xiao Lou's own gloves and calmly lifted a female corpse to the flat ground next to him. This corpse was chatting with someone in the small town last night. That maid was wearing the pair of red embroidered shoes that Xiao Lou was familiar with.

Because she was covered by other corpses and was not eaten by wild beasts, she is the most well-preserved.

Xiao Lou took out a dagger and quickly cut open her abdomen.

The blood of the corpse that had been dead for three years had already dried up. Xiao Lou skillfully cut the skin and opened her internal organs—as expected, the stomach was empty, without any residual digestive products.

Yu Hanjiang also noticed that something was wrong. He often saw various corpses when handling cases. Most of the autopsies would have digestive residues in the stomach.Because normal people eat every day, and it takes a long time for the stomach to empty itself, if the deceased ate some indigestible food during his lifetime, it is possible to find complete food in his stomach after death.

Once a person dies, the gastrointestinal tract stops moving.

In other words, as long as a person dies after eating and the food in the stomach has not been fully digested, residues will definitely be found in the stomach of the corpse.Some people who died of poisoning can also find evidence from the stomach residue.

But in this corpse, not only the stomach, but also the duodenum was empty.

As if you haven't eaten in days?

In order to be sure, Xiao Lou found another relatively well-preserved corpse to dissect, and the result was still the same.

He looked at Yu Hanjiang, and said firmly: "I know the cause of their death—these people should be controlled by some method after being led to the mass grave by the murderer, and then starved to death. Frightened and hungry, so It’s the expressions on their faces, and the corpses are generally thin.”

Yu Hanjiang nodded and said: "It seems that there was indeed a problem with the famine 20 years ago. The murderer deliberately lured so many people to the mass graves to starve to death. It is obviously revenge. Could it be that he has a relative who died 20 years ago? Was starved to death?"

Lu Jiuchuan sighed helplessly, and said, "Isn't it too difficult to find out? So many people died of starvation 20 years ago, and thousands of corpses were piled up in mass graves. Whose descendants came back to take revenge? How should we find it?"