Daxuanti criminal officer

Chapter 17 Why is it locked?
In early winter, the amount of water drops sharply, and there are only a few trickling streams under the bridge, flowing down the mountain.

Due to disrepair for a long time, Zhangqiao has long been dilapidated, overgrown with weeds, almost all the stone railings are missing, and even a small tree as tall as a person grows out of the cracks in the bridge deck.

At this moment, there was a pitch-black coffin across the bridge, which was really scary even in broad daylight.

"Magistrate Qiu!" Seeing Qiu Yongnian, Xu Zun immediately came to greet him, and asked, "What's the situation now?"

"I don't know either!" Qiu Yongnian was full of anxiety, "I came here as soon as I received the report. I didn't expect there to be a coffin, alas!"

It can be seen from the sigh that Qiu Yongnian is deeply disturbed by the appearance of this iron coffin, for fear that his future will be affected by this thing.

"Yes, yes, yes, yes..." Zhao Yu looked at the coffin from a distance, and said with fear on his face, "This is the thing! It's exactly the same as the one two years ago!
"However, why are there no dead bodies?" Zhao Yu looked under the bridge, "Back then, more than 30 people died!"

"Captain Zhao!" County Magistrate Qiu asked hastily, "Tell me about the situation back then. Where did this iron coffin come from? What did you find out?"

Zhao Yu didn't dare to be negligent, and immediately told him everything he knew two years ago.

It's a pity that Zhao Yu was only a small policeman back then, and after the incident, he had only seen the iron coffin and those corpses from a distance. As for the details of the case, he didn't know much.

Zhao Yu said that the tasks he was in charge of back then were mainly visits and investigations, and he visited almost all the surrounding counties, but he did not find any information about the iron coffin case.

In the end, as the county magistrate and county lieutenant were dismissed, the case was settled...

Hearing these things, County Magistrate Qiu became even more anxious, and hurriedly asked: "Catcher Zhao, there are so many people in our county government, don't they all know the details?"

"My lord," Zhao Yu replied, "The arresters back then were basically the same as me, they were all half-knowledgeable.

"I think that if you want to know the details of the iron coffin case, there are probably only two people who know it better. One is our county magistrate Luo, and the other is the chief secretary Liu Zhang. Both of them have experienced the iron coffin incident last time. You should know more than us!"

The county magistrate is equivalent to the deputy county magistrate, and is the second in command of the entire Xinye County.

Like Liu Zhang, County Prime Minister Luo Wanwan has been in power in Xinye County for decades, so he has naturally come into contact with the iron coffin case.

"What a coincidence," Qiu Yongnian said, "The Prime Minister of Luo County has just returned to his hometown to pay respects to the ancestors, so now we can only call Master Liu to ask about it!"

"I'll send someone to invite them right away!" Zhao Yu agreed, and immediately arranged for people.

"My lord," Xu Zun suggested, "Let's quickly open this iron coffin and see what's inside first, shall we?"

"This... this is already being done!" Qiu Yongnian stuttered, pointing to the yamen servants on the bridge, "The iron coffin is locked, and the yamen servants are trying to pry it!"

Looking up, I saw that there were indeed government servants with axes and crowbars on the bridge, tinkering with the iron coffin.

However, due to the fear in their hearts, the servants moved nervously and their progress was extremely slow.

Xu Zun was very curious, so he went straight up the stone bridge and came to the iron coffin.

But seeing that the iron coffin was as black as ink, it was extremely heavy just by looking at it.

He touched it lightly, and found that the iron coffin was cold, and it was indeed made of pure iron.

As we all know, iron will rust, and no one in the world will use iron to make coffins.

Therefore, Xu Zun wondered if this thing is not a coffin, but just looks a bit like it?

However, one end of this thing is big and the other end is small, whether it is the exquisite coffin rim or the curved coffin lid, it is undoubtedly a coffin!
Xu Zun stretched out his hand to touch it, the iron coffin was extraordinarily cold, and gave off a heavy and heavy feeling.

Immediately afterwards, he first knocked on the coffin lid, and then pushed it hard.

However, such a heavy coffin did not move at all.

strange!
It's so weird!

For no reason, why did such a weird coffin pop up?

Ding!
Ding!
At this time, the yamen servants were still chiseling the big lock on the iron coffin with a hammer.

Because of the fear in their hearts, they had all their brute force and couldn't find the right place, and several hammers missed it!

It was only then that Xu Zun discovered that there were actually three large locks on the iron coffin, each of which looked exaggerated.

what is this?
Is this... is this afraid that the things in the coffin will come out?
He quickly searched his mind, thinking that this was some strange custom in this world.You can search the relevant memories in your brain, but there is no relevant information at all.

The iron coffin is still locked, what are you doing?
What will be in here?
Suddenly, a scene from an American drama flashed in Xu Zun's mind, wondering if there were zombies locked in the coffin?As long as the coffin lid is opened, zombies will come out to bite people?
The point is, this thing is so heavy, how did it get to the bridge?
Thinking of this, Xu Zun looked at the nearby ground.

He was thinking that it would be difficult to reach such a heavy thing by manpower alone. It must have been carried here by a horse-drawn carriage or other large vehicles, right?
Except for the stone bridge, the paths on both sides are muddy dirt roads, and such a heavy carriage will inevitably leave deep ruts.

So Xu Zun went down to the bridge to check.

When he lowered his head and searched carefully, he found that although there were many traces of driving on the ground, there was not a particularly deep or obvious rut.

No way?
What the hell?
Xu Zun looked up at the mountain, then at the sky, and began to wonder if this coffin fell from the sky?

"Master Xu..." At this moment, Zhao Yu came up to him and asked, "What are you doing? Don't you think you can't figure out where this coffin came from?"

Xu Zun nodded.

"That's right!" Zhao Yu murmured, "It would be too ostentatious if such a big coffin was carried by a horse-drawn cart? How could no one notice it?
"Besides," he said, pointing to the distance, "this road is the only way out to the mountain pass. There are already a lot of pedestrians on the road, so it's impossible for no one to see it!"

There was deep fear in Zhao Yu's eyes. It was obvious to them that this coffin was not made by humans, it must be caused by demons.

"Captain Zhao," Xu Zun asked, "I'm just wondering, since Prime Minister Luo and Master Liu know about this case, why haven't I heard from them?"

"Cough, let alone the two of them, even the people in Xinye County dare not talk nonsense!" Zhao Yu explained, "Think about it, a strange iron coffin will add 37 lives, and the case will not be closed in the end." Broken, the county magistrate was dismissed, and the county lieutenant was assigned, who dares to talk nonsense?"

"Oh..." Xu Zun understood, no wonder he had never heard of it.

"Everyone is tacit and secretive," Zhao Yu continued, "One is because they are afraid that there are ghosts and spirits, and the other is that they are afraid of hearing rumors from above, lest they be implicated!"

"Oh..." Xu Zun pondered for a while and said, "You said that 37 people died last time. Who were those people?"

"I don't know, it's not from our Xinye County anyway!" Zhao Yu replied, "Also, they are all young and middle-aged, there are no old people and..."

As a result, Zhao Yu hadn't finished speaking when he heard a rattling sound of metal falling to the ground.

Turning his head to look, he saw that the three big locks had been broken by the yamen servants.

However, when the big lock was broken, the servants felt sad instead of happy, because they will face a more difficult and terrifying task-opening the coffin! ! !
(End of this chapter)