Strange events in the imperial capital

The two of them did not take the waterway anymore, but re-entered the underground tunnel by the dry road from before.

In his heart, Chu Han repeatedly recalled the third master's sentence "I don't take other people to swim", and imagined that if this person carried Shen Chenghe and swam out of the waterway... Many things really couldn't help the imagination to exaggerate and distort, he suddenly thought that The picture was very disharmonious, and he couldn't accept it.

The two of them walked not fast, and they both intentionally dawdled each other, and they were not in a hurry.

Fang San'er imitated Chu Han's original tone and asked, "Is that person surnamed Shen important to you?"

Fang San'er asked with a smile on his face, and Chu Han also smiled: "Yes, yes."

From a certain level, Shen Chenghe is indeed very important to him. The two of them have been together since they were young. When they were wrapping diapers, they would spit at each other and roll under the bed. They were as tight as brothers, so they got together.But this kind of "importance" should not be what Fang Qiansui wanted to ask, or Chu Han thought that the other party didn't mean to discuss "brotherhood".

Chenghe people are not bad, but their mouths are very twitchy.There is such a person by his side, every time he gets sick and irritable, he takes a sip to relieve the boredom, Chu Han feels that this person is very easy to handle, he is a pistachio baby.

It may be that he has walked through it too many times, but the underground journey is actually shorter than he secretly hoped, and he approached the hall after turning a few forks skillfully.

Chu Han raised the searchlight, and yelled in a moderate volume: "Crane——"

The searchlight circle opened the dark vision and scanned around.Chu Han looked again, wondering where this silly boy is, has he run around here and disappeared?He guessed which wall Mr. Shen was squatting at the moment, holding his hair in his hands and trembling, or he had been forced to a corner by invisible little ghosts and cried faintly.

The two searched around the spacious hall, but they didn't see Mr. Shen, and walked around a few spacious fork roads, but they still couldn't find anyone.At a certain intersection, Fang San'er picked up Mr. Shen's backpack from the ground.

Fang San'er asked: "Are you sure this person doesn't know the way?"

Chu Han frowned: "He probably doesn't have enough brains."

Chu Han started to worry right now, but he didn't dare to show it.It's not that Mr. Shen is a big fool, this person's IQ is not low, but there are many forks in all directions, and eight confusing forks that match the five elements and eight trigrams are drawn from each junction point.Mr. Shen, who doesn't know anything about the five elements, can only temporarily modify the source code of the brain to open it, open the eyes of the sky, or summon a dragon to help.

The two searched separately, one walked the left half of the Eight Diagrams formation and the other the right half, and searched all possible routes and dead ends that could not.

Shen Chenghe was not found.

When they met again, Fang San'er's face was serious and gloomy, and Chu Han was a little flustered, never expecting this to happen.

Fang San'er lowered his head and opened Mr. Shen's backpack. Field equipment, spare clothes, electronic communication equipment, including food and water, were all inside.Where can this person go?Obviously something happened temporarily.

Chu Han turned pale under the black water vapor, and was agitated and uncomfortable by the increasingly dense humidity around him.He looked around blankly and shouted: "Hehe!!!

"Chenghe!...Chenghe, come out!!!

"Stop making such silly jokes! Come home with me!!!"

He was answered with a depressing whooping echo, and the whole dungeon rumbled hollowly.

The two of them even ran back to the hall to look at all the messy objects on the floor, broken cabinets, drawer tables, arhat beds... I'm afraid they were played by Shen Chenghe in some cabinet.I looked at every corner, Chu Han's eyes were too hard, and the dry eyeballs started to hurt.

Fang San'er suggested: "You go out and make a phone call, he may have slipped out long ago and didn't tell you."

Chu Han shook his head blankly: "Impossible."

Fang San'er asked back: "Are you sure he can't go out?"

Chu Han's voice was difficult and uncomfortable: "When we first came in, I 'looked' habitually. There were no traces of friction or dust at the entrance. Unless he can escape by water, do you think he will? He has the ability to swim out of that lake by himself?... He never went out at all, absolutely never, he must still be trapped here, he is still inside!"

Third Master Fang fell silent.

A completely unexpected accident turned the second half of the night into a city-wide manhunt for Mr. Shen, and the situation took a turn for the worse.

Shen Chenghe's off-road vehicle was still parked on the street at the entrance of the alley, and it did not move overnight.A ticket was posted on the car window in the early morning.

This person had several different residences in the city, and he usually lived in three caves, and he didn't often go back to his hometown in the army compound, so his family didn't know anything about his disappearance.As long as Chu Han doesn't say anything, the Shen family won't notice that Baby Master is gone for a while.Chu Han didn't dare to disturb Shen's family, and he was unwilling to ask his father for help. Maybe he felt guilty because of certain things, and finally thought about troublesome Captain Liu and Third Master Luo.

Boss Luo is warm-hearted and always on call. He assigned a group of smart guys to search through all the addresses and nightclubs where Mr. Shen might stay and hang out in the capital according to the names and addresses given by Chu Han... There are no shadows. Everyone evaporated.

Liu Xuecheng was quite loyal, and he came immediately, and brought a team of professional scouts to investigate in the underground palace.The tunnel was illuminated as brightly as day by more than 100 searchlights that night.Originally considering that the relics were too thick to be moved, the archaeologists planned to preserve those artifacts on the spot and develop them into a cultural industry project such as the "Daxiangfeng Digong Museum" in the future. leave.Unexpectedly, the missing persons appeared again before the ruins were developed.The scouts who were looking for the road all had alert eyes and cautious steps, wishing that each of them would tie a rope around their waists to form a string of grasshoppers, for fear of being sucked in by some black hole as they walked.

All the walls in the underground palace are very strong, without any damage, as if nothing happened.

Fang San'er stood in the corner, with his back against the wall, black gauze wrapped around his neck, silent.

Liu Xuecheng didn't even notice this person, thinking it was some younger brother under Boss Luo's command who was standing guard.If noticed, another background check and criminal investigation is inevitable.

Luo Zhan came in from the ground, saw Fang San'er at a glance, and leaned closer to look at him.Boss Luo still has the old-fashioned atmosphere in his speech after so many years: "Little house, listen to the old man telling you, young people, it's okay to joke and make trouble, there must be a limit... If you know where Cheng He is today, Just tell us quickly and let people out, this is too much fun."

Fang Saner shook his head: "People are not here. I don't know."

Before Boss Luo could speak again, Chu Han stared straight at Fang San'er as he came over, his face turning blue.

Chu Han supported the wall with both hands, and locked Fang Qiantui between his arms in a posture of enveloping and imprisoning him.The two looked at each other, and Chu Han asked in a low voice, "You tell me the truth, you really don't know?"

He looked directly at the clear lines in Fang San'er's eyes, and felt that he shouldn't ask such a question, and shouldn't doubt her.In fact, Xiao Qiantui has always been a very generous person. He is not hypocritical and does not hold grudges. He is certainly not so small-bellied that he will get revenge. Just because of Cheng He's few provocative and jokes that are not respectful, can this person be wiped out?It's not a big deal.What's more, the two have been together just now, and they were very happy along the way.

Chu Han asked anxiously, "Mr. Fang, what do you tell me?"

After all, Fang San'er has no relatives or reasons with Shen Chenghe, so he has no feelings, and said indifferently: "Mr. Shen should have been thrown there, it's over."

Chu Han clenched his hands sorely, leaned against the wall, and said in a low pleading tone: "Can you still get him back?

"Can you go over there and bring him back?

"I... If I lose this man and can't come back, I can't even explain to his father and my father. Can you help me again?"

Chu Han regretted and felt guilty in his heart, but he didn't open his mouth to complain about Fang San'er playing Shen Chenghe's prank.

The people struggling to fall into the maelstrom and being smashed to pieces flashed through his mind, thinking of Tantai Jingting who was lifeless, at this moment, he really wished that he was the one who got into trouble.

Recalling that when the two left, there was a mournful howl that echoed in the tunnel. His family Hehe seemed to have shouted, "Fuck, I'm afraid of you, Chu Han, come back quickly, I don't want to stay in this ghost place alone ", and shouted something, but I didn't hear it clearly.Could it be that Shen Chenghe was already in danger and in trouble at that time?And in this situation, he abandoned the other party and went to find his own happiness... Chu Han suddenly felt very sad.I don't blame the irrelevant people for this matter, it's him who failed his good brother and didn't take good care of his crane when he went out.

Fang Chitose probably felt a little remorse in his heart, bowed his head and remained silent, but with this person's proud temper, he would not admit it at this time if he regretted it.

"Chenghe is indeed a very important person to me. If something happens to him, I will feel guilty for the rest of my life."

Chu Han said to Fang San'er.

At this time, if Xiao Qiantui could help him rescue Shen Chenghe from the other side of the "wall", he would immediately kneel down for this person.

He let go of his arms, turned around and picked up his backpack: "I'll go 'over' and find him back."

He was grabbed from behind.Fang San'er said: "Don't go. You can't live like this."

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Chu Han wanted to use the wall-penetrating technique again to get in. Last time, he forced his way in like that.Obviously, that is not the correct way to travel through different energy spaces, it is a life-threatening.Those poor shadows who were sucked in to suck up the dry cell fluid are a lesson from the past.

But he had no other choice.

Courtyard No. 3 and the vicinity of the underground palace were completely sealed off. This matter has not been made public for the time being.Captain Liu and the expert group agreed, and also stopped Chu Han from acting rashly.

Without further ado, and against the clock, Chu Han followed Liu Xuecheng to the team to study how to resolve it.According to the carbon determination in the central area of ​​the ruins, the ruins may indeed be the victims of the explosion at Wanggong Factory.However, the Wang Gongchang incident itself is an unsolved case studied by later historians for many years. If the cause of this natural disaster can be clarified, the mystery of the underground energy field may be solved.

That incident happened in the sixth year of Tianqi in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the explosion was said to have started from Fuchengmen Street in the west and reached Xingbu Street in the east.Black ganoderma-shaped clouds rose in the central area of ​​the capital, like a tornado and a nuclear bomb explosion.The clothes and belongings of many of the dead and injured were blown up and thrown more than [-] kilometers away. Later, they were found in piles by lakes in Changping, Yanqing and other places.

But what happened to this apocalypse big bang?

Liu Xuecheng told Chu Han that in recent years, most Ming history experts believed that it was a gunpowder explosion, and there were indeed traces of gunpowder explosion at the scene.But gunpowder could not explain such a large and violent explosion.

Liu Xuecheng said: "You have also been to a certain nuclear test site in the hinterland of Taklamakan in our country. Chu Han, you should know how powerful a nuclear explosion can create mushroom clouds and flatten houses and vegetation tens of kilometers in area. But that is 400 Many years ago! Although gunpowder was improved and carried forward by the skilled craftsmen of the ordnance department of the Ming Dynasty to manufacture firearms, cannons, and warships, the so-called gunpowder at that time was such things as saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal. A big mushroom cloud burst out in the sky? Do you believe it?"

Chu Han said: "I think so too. The gunpowder depot of Wanggong Factory is probably not the fuse that caused the explosion, but the victim involved in the explosion. After the incident, it is said that the fatuous Emperor Tianqi beheaded several senior officials of the Ministry of Industry. Now it seems that those people were wronged at all.

"Underground our city, there may be a huge energy field. It's hard to say where it extends from southeast to northwest, and where the boundary is, but it must be underground in the capital. This kind of energy exchange may have started a long time ago. It happened once that the foreign matter spreading and rising underground rubbed against the atmospheric particles, or some reason we don't know, an explosion occurred.

"This energy field must be able to replace space matter, inhale some things, and then release some. The result is the missing population and inexplicable population that we see."

Liu Xuecheng nodded, holding a cigarette thoughtfully: "Hey, I think your explanation is very reasonable. The Wang Gong factory may really be like this. Isn't it the same with the Tunguska explosion in Russia more than 100 years ago? A bunch of energy, bang—bang——it exploded. After 100 years, suddenly one day, ha, it is said that the villages and animals that disappeared in the center of the explosion before were found in Siberia. Tunguska is the largest lake in Russia Nearby, there's a big crack in the ground."

Liu Xuecheng is also a well-informed person, and he has a lot of associations when talking about everything.

The ground fissures mentioned by this person are usually called rift valleys in geology.

"That's right, Tunguska is near Lake Baikal, and that village passes through a Baikal Rift, on the edge of the earthquake zone..." Chu Han looked solemn: "There is also a plate earthquake zone under our capital, and some places may be broken. Invisible 'ground seams', full of energy."

Chu Han said.

He is now almost certain that his big crane was "exchanged" to another dimension by the energy field.Daxiangfeng Hutong may just happen to be stuck on the edge of the ground seam, and has been swallowing and releasing it quietly. Unfortunately, Mr. Shen fell into a strange trick.The best result is that this person is similar to that Tantai Jingting, with no lack of arms and legs, and was directly thrown to the "other side", and luckily he survived.Shen Chenghe may be lying in the lobby of the Shuntian Mansion of the Ming Dynasty right now, being stripped naked by a group of gangsters, undergoing a medical examination and research...

But now they have no clue, how can they find the right way to another dimension, how can they bring Mr. Shen back.

Is this ancient and powerful city already on the verge of some kind of danger, bit by bit by the invisible cracks, swallowing, and falling.

How much time do they have left to figure it all out?

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【Chapter Four. Eastern Shenmu】