Youth Tour

Chapter No.16: The Traveler in the Dark Night

When Qin Huai woke up, it was already dark.

With a groan, she got up from the ground, only to feel that her head was so painful that it almost split open.There were shrubs and thorns all around her, and her clothes were ripped and covered with mud.Qin Huai sighed, raised his hand to rub the place on the tree, and grinned while rubbing.

In the dim moonlight, Qin Huai could vaguely see that the slope he was sliding down was very long, and he might have to work hard to climb it up.Looking around, she was surrounded by the dark night, she could only see that she was still in this dense forest, and a few steps ahead was a small hill that was a head taller than her, and she could faintly hear the sound of water.

Qin Huai exercised his muscles and bones, and after making sure that his bones were not broken and his joints were in good condition, he rolled up his sleeves and began to climb up the slope.

The slope was very steep, and Qin Huai almost stuck his whole body on it, dragging the weeds and vines growing on the slope with his hands, and slowly moved up.

The slope was filled with empty dirt that she had slid over earlier when she fell, making it even more difficult to climb.Qin Huai had to carefully look for a place to support every time he settled down, and sometimes he couldn't find it, so he had to dig it with his hands.

After climbing like this for about half a cup of tea, Qin Huai was already panting from exhaustion. She grabbed hold of a clump of ancient vines on the slope, and rested her forehead against the slope wall.The night here is very quiet, and you can hear the "rustling" sound of the woods, which is different from the intermittent during the day. At night, this sound is continuous and continuous, and it is somewhat soothing, like these trees. She also rested at night and was snoring loudly.

Qin Huai took a breath, raised his head again, and prepared to continue climbing.Just as she was pulling the Guteng up, the Guteng made a sound of "Crack", which was extremely ear-piercing in the quiet night, Qin Huai secretly thought that it was not good, and it was too late to change hands, and the whole person swayed out following the break of the Guteng.Fortunately, Qin Huai's left foot was still firmly on the ground. After a heavy bump on the dirt slope, Qin Huai stabilized his body and hung on the slope in a distorted posture, with his back against the dirt slope, facing the dense forest, and The foot is still pinned in the little hole used to step on it.

Qin Huai sighed, and felt that after he went back, he should worship Buddha well to get rid of bad luck, otherwise he would always be unlucky.

Just when she was about to turn around, Qin Huai suddenly stopped.Her eyes were fixed on the hill, the moonlight was shining brightly, and a meandering brook was flowing out of it.Qin Huai looked intently and found that there was a hole in the hill, and the stream flowed out of the hole.

Qin Huai took a deep breath, only to feel that he was really negligent to the extreme. If it wasn't for this fall, he might have missed such an important clue.Since the sound of running water just now, I have been negligent, only thought it was a stream in the forest, and didn't care.But she even ignored the smell of rotten corpse which was much heavier than before. Did she break her brain with a fall?

Qin Huai took out the medicine towel from his bosom, covered his face, put his hands on the slope, and jumped down.

With a sound of "Chi La", Qin Huai ignited a fire.The sudden flash of light pushed the surrounding darkness back a few steps, forming a dim circle.

Qin Huai stabilized his mind and walked towards the cave.Even through the medical towel, Qin Huai could still feel that the closer he was to the cave, the stronger the rotten and damp smell.Qin Huai secretly guarded himself, walked around the stream at his feet, and walked slowly into the cave step by step.

This cave was obviously excavated manually, and Qin Huai could see the traces left by the excavation on the wall through the dim candlelight.The ground is wet, except for the place where the stream flows, it is all mud and dead grass.Although Qin Huai's footsteps were light, every time he landed, he would still make a "pop" and "pop" sound.

Gradually, Qin Huai walked into the depths of the cave.The corridors are getting narrower and more suffocating.Qin Huai slowed down his breathing and looked around with the fire folder, but he didn't notice anything.

Suddenly, Qin Huai stepped on something soft and different from rotten mud and rocks. Qin moved his foot away suspiciously, and held up the fire folder to shine down.

A face that had been highly rotten, with bones exposed from the flesh, appeared in front of Qin Huai's eyes.

Although Qin Huai has been handling cases for many years and has seen countless dead bodies, this situation still frightened her a lot.Qin Huai froze for a long while, and let out a sharp breath to keep his hands from shaking so that he couldn't see things clearly.She adjusted the angle of the Huozhezi, and found that this place seemed to be a corpse dumping hole. There were about twenty or thirty corpses. Judging from the degree of decay, some had been dead for a long time, and some had just died.Some corpses were soaked in that creek, no wonder the villagers of Zhiyuan Village got sick, maybe they drank the water from this creek by mistake.

Qin Huai just felt horrified. Judging from the clothes on these corpses, they were all ordinary people. Could it be that they were villagers who disappeared from Zhiyuan Village?Who killed them?And why throw the corpse here?

Qin Huai licked her lips and gradually calmed down. She decided to leave here first.Since there are corpses that have just died here, it means that the person throwing the corpses will come back at any time, and I can't let them find it anyway.Thinking of this, Qin Huai hurriedly ran out of the cave, the footsteps of "Paji" and "Paji" were urgent and fast.

Suddenly, Qin Huai suddenly stopped.

There are more than one footsteps!somebody is coming!

Qin Huai blew out the torch in his hand with a "poof".

But after she blew out the fire, the man also stopped, and there was silence in the cave for a while, only the sound of the stream flowing by.

Qin Huai swallowed, moved slightly to the side, and carefully stuck it against the wet wall.

There was still no movement, only the sound of Qin Huai's own breathing and the sound of his heart beating like a drum.

In a split second, Qin Huai rushed out to the right instinctively, and hit the man's chest with five fingers. At the same time, the back of his left foot was stretched like hard iron, and he kicked the silent man like a gust of wind!

The figure of that person is like a ghost!Before Qin Huai could react, his grabbing and kicking were already in vain. At the same time, the strong wind hit his face. Qin Huai only had time to raise his arms to block, but the fists of the opponent hit his face directly, and he groaned in pain. , even took a few steps back to stabilize his figure.

The man didn't take advantage of the victory to pursue, instead he let out a "huh" and asked, "Qin Huai?"

The voice was somewhat familiar, Qin Huai tried to open his eyes wide: "Are you... Li Bancheng?"

Li Bancheng snorted: "Sure enough, it's you, I've found you, otherwise Zhan Zhao must have gone crazy."

Qin Huai's heart trembled suddenly: "He is looking for me?"

"He's still a little sensible," Li Bancheng's voice sounded a little sarcasm, "I didn't bring this matter up to the Chengdu Mansion, but just asked me to come to this back mountain to find you."

Qin Huai just didn't know what it was like in his heart: "He, how does he know that I am in the back mountain?"

Li Bancheng said coldly: "You'd better ask him this question."

Qin Huai paused, then sighed: "Then since you found it, let's go together, I can't go back yet."

"Why?" Li Bancheng said calmly.

Qin Huai lit the fire folder again, under the light of the fire, Li Bancheng's face looked gloomy and uncertain, Qin Huai slowly said: "The villagers of Zhiyuan Village have disappeared strangely, and they have suffered serious illnesses in the village recently. I followed this clue to find the people here. A place where corpses are dumped, they are just ordinary people, why were they killed and dumped here? I think this is strange, and I want to investigate."

Li Bancheng thought for a while, then raised his chin behind Qin Huai: "Is that where you said the corpse dumping place?"

Qin Huai nodded.

"Go and have a look." Li Bancheng strode in.

Qin Huai shivered for a moment, and handed him the fire booklet: "Go and see for yourself, by the way," she took out a medicine towel from her bosom, "Bring this on, the smell of corpse is heavy inside."

Li Bancheng glanced at Qin Huai, took the things, and walked into the depths of the cave.

Seeing the flames fading, Qin Huai breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously. Then he felt a burning pain on his face. He raised his hand to touch it, but there was no bleeding, and his cheeks were swollen.

Qin Huai sighed, but didn't dare to reach out to rub it, for fear of getting dirty things on his hands.

After waiting for a long while, Li Bancheng's footsteps sounded again, and the flames gradually brightened. Qin Huai saw that Li Bancheng's face turned pale, obviously he had seen the corpse in the cave.

Li Bancheng walked to her side and said calmly, "Let's go."

Qin Huai nodded, took two steps, and found that Li Bancheng was always following half a step behind him, he couldn't help saying: "Can you not walk behind me? I blocked the light myself, so I couldn't see the road under my feet clearly. "

Li Bancheng returned the Huozhangzi to her.

Qin Huai took it, and muttered, "What a strange temper." Li Bancheng ignored her.

Qin Huai walked for a while, then walked out of the cave.Li Bancheng just said: "You said just now that you want to investigate, how do you want to investigate?"

Qin Huai blew out the fire note, and put away the medicine towel again: "The footprints here are messy, we can find their tracks, follow their footprints to find their lair, and figure out what the hell they are doing." Speaking of this, Qin Huai vaguely Yue felt that he had grasped something, but it passed by in a flash.

Li Bancheng looked at Qin Huai, and suddenly smiled: "So, you lead the way."

Qin Huai came back to his senses, nodded his head, then leaned down to carefully identify these messy and incomplete footprints.

After half an hour.

Qin Huai and Li Bancheng have found an open area following the increasingly obvious trails.The two of them lay down on the ground, cautiously looking towards the clearing from the bushes, and saw a mass of black, ant-like people busy doing something, and there were houses beside the clearing, presumably for people to live in.

Qin Huaihu's gaze froze, there are guards guarding this place!Those laborers were obviously ordinary people.

Qin Huai felt nervous for a moment. She swallowed and looked at Li Bancheng beside her. The latter seemed to notice her gaze and said in a low voice, "It's a mine."

Qin Huai paused for breath, and what he saw before flooded into his mind.

That black box, I'm afraid the contents of the box are a cover-up, the box itself is the message conveyed by Tian Fuyin:

gold, bamboo.Gold represents gold and bamboo, and bamboo represents bamboo arrows. (Note: Bamboo can be used as arrows for combat)

Qin Huai felt his mouth dry, and said to Li Bancheng in a low voice, "Go back immediately and tell Zhan Zhao that the iron mine is being opened privately with sinister intentions, let him use Chengzhou's capital to control this place first. As for the people behind the scenes Might as well talk about it later."

Li Bancheng frowned: "Shock the grass to scare the snake, why can't we wait and catch them all at that time?"

"I can't wait." Qin Huai was in a hurry, "I'm afraid they opened the iron mine privately to forge weapons privately, intending to rebel, look there." She pointed to a few large stone houses next to the open space, and there was a clanging sound coming from inside. Voice, "I'm afraid this is where they forge weapons. If they escape with them, the consequences will be disastrous."

Li Bancheng suddenly glanced sideways at her: "I'm going to report, are you waiting here?"

Qin Huai nodded: "If they make any changes, I can hold them back."

Li Bancheng didn't speak, and suddenly patted Qin Huai on the shoulder: "No wonder Zhan Zhao loves you so much." Before Qin Huai could blush, he straightened his body and disappeared into the night.

The author has something to say: Xiao Zhan, I suddenly discovered that you have no role in this chapter~~~