Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 145 Back Mountain Cave ([-]) One more

A few ghosts appeared and disappeared in the mountains and forests. They had a conversation with Wu Chen. Others could only hear what Wu Chen said. Feeling weak, the yamen servants had long thought that Wu Chen's biography was miraculous, and they just thought it was more talk when drinking at night, but Yu Shi'an's personal soldiers didn't know anything, and only heard it in a fog.

The second year of high school was another kind of worry. He walked beside Wu Chen and reminded him in a low voice: "They have lied to you more than once, don't trust me."

A ghost hurriedly said: "It's not that we want to lie, in fact, we also wonder why we are kept, what is the use of us?"

Wu Chen asked, "Can he see you?"

"We think we can see it and sometimes we don't, but he knows where we are and we can hear what he has to say."

"He has eight apprentices?"

"We only know that he has apprentices and have met a few, but we don't know how many there are."

Wu Chen didn't ask any more questions, the mountain road became more and more difficult to walk, not to mention steep, there would be huge stones blocking the road.

Wu Chen walked in the front, and he would clear the boulder by raising his hand. Yu Shian had seen Wu Chen's palm strength before. However, Chen handled it with ease, and he couldn't help but think "no wonder he is so frivolous". It makes sense for young people with some skills to be supercilious.

Song Gu had never seen Wu Chen have this ability, so he was a little startled.

The sophomore accompanied Wu Chen, Wu Chen pushed down the huge boulder blocking the road, and the sophomore cut off the thorns and bushes blocking the road, so the mountain road was not so difficult to walk.

After walking for about an hour, the ghosts did not move.

When Wu Chen looked forward, there were still mountains, forests, shrubs and rocks, but no caves.

A ghost pointed down. Wu Chen looked down the mountain and saw nothing, so he grabbed a tree and leaned out to see something.

There is a slope under the mountain forest where they are standing. There are no trees on the slope, and the bottom of the slope falls straight down like a knife and an axe.

Yu Shi'an got impatient for a long time, and asked loudly: "Do you know where the cave is? Don't play tricks anymore. If you can't find it, I will order someone to look for it."

Wu Chen ignored Yu Shi'an, and after he stood up, he pointed to the slope under his feet and said, "You have to go down there to see it clearly, just wait, I'll go and have a look first."

As Wu Chen spoke, he slowly slid down the slope, and slowly leaned forward to look down.

How could Yu Shi'an listen to Wu Chen's words? He glanced at the people around him, and they also walked down the slope slowly. The second grader glanced at Song Gu, and the two of them followed.

Guo Xuan and the yamen guard stood obediently and did not move.

After several people stood firmly, they all leaned forward and watched, and saw that there was a cliff that went straight up and down for about ten feet, and there was a steep slope further down, and this cliff had no bushes and forests, but was full of weeds, and there was a place in the middle It was actually covered with vines, and the vines didn't grow from the bottom, nor did they grow down the slope, but just grew in the middle.

The sophomore said hurriedly: "Looking at the shape of the vines, it should be covering the entrance of the cave. Why did they take us to walk above the cave?"

Wu Chen looked at the ghost in the forest, and a ghost hurriedly said, "We all came out from here, down below...you can see if you can go."

Wu Chen exhaled, and said, "There is no forest below the cave entrance. If they go in and out during the day, they can only float towards the forest above. The cave entrance and the sides... may have nowhere to go."

Yu Shi'an signaled his soldiers to go and test him.

Wu Chen instructed: "Don't approach the vines, just see if there is a way around the entrance of the cave."

Yu Shi'an wanted to say don't listen to him, but Song Gu suddenly looked at him with pleading eyes, so Yu Shi'an didn't say anything.

The two relatives followed each other, first carefully tied the rope to the tree closest to the slope, and then slowly moved down the steep mountain. Slide down, driving the surrounding rocks to roll down the mountain.

Everyone watched carefully with bated breath. Wu Chen frowned and muttered to himself, "How did Su Chang get out and in? With a rope? He hasn't gone back yet, and there is no rope left outside..."

"There must be other holes." Yu Shi'an rarely refuted.

Wu Chen nodded, and said, "But he wished that I could come here last night. It seemed that if I entered the cave in a hurry, I would die with the cave. But with the entrance of the cave like this, he never thought that I would be suspicious? Can't reach the entrance of the cave?"

Yu Shi'an asked: "Who are you talking about?"

Song Gu explained: "It's the owner of this cave, named Su Chang, who was arrested by Mr. Wu yesterday..."

Song Gu patiently explained to Yu Shi'an at the side. Suddenly, the soldiers below screamed. Wu Chen kept watching with wide eyes, but he didn't see anything wrong. He just watched the two soldiers screaming. Then he let go of his grip on the rope and rolled down the mountain, leaving bloodstains on the ground he passed.

Yu Shi'an's beard stood on end, Song Gu held the hilt of his sword, as if ready to draw it at any moment, Guo Xuan was still standing in the forest, but was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, and almost rolled down the mountain because of his unsteady feet. Fortunately, the yamen servant caught him quickly.

Wu Chen hurriedly said: "Deputy Envoy Yu ordered people to go around and look down the mountain as soon as possible. The mountain below is not straight up and down. Maybe it can be saved."

Yu Shi'an looked at the remaining soldiers, and four of them turned and left immediately.

Senior Two frowned, grabbed the rope and said, "I'll go down and have a look."

Wu Chen grabbed him and said, "No, I'll take a look later. Do you know if there is a secret crossbow hidden in the place below the cave where there is no forest?" Wu Chen turned to look behind him and asked.

The second year of high school knew that Wu Chen didn't say the second half of the sentence for himself, so he waited for Wu Chen to ask for clarification before speaking.

A ghost said: "I don't know, Su Chang only told us that if you lead you to the entrance of the cave, the cave will be blown up. If the cave is blown up, our bodies in the cave will be destroyed together, so we can go back."

"Do you know if there are any other openings besides this one?"

"We have seen people coming, but we don't know if they came in from other holes."

Wu Chen turned his head and said to the yamen servants, "Scatter around and find some bigger stones to move here."

The yamen servants hurriedly dispersed their actions.

Song Gu asked Wu Chen: "It seems that the entrance of this cave is difficult to enter. How would Su Chang usually enter and exit?"

"Not only Su Chang, but also Yu Hong. This man wants to bring living people into the cave for him when the moon is full. How did those people get in?"

As soon as Wu Chen finished speaking, two yamen servants came back with a big stone in their arms. Wu Chen stepped forward to take the big stone from one of them, and told the other to put the stone down and stand still.

(End of this chapter)