Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 146 Back Mountain Cave ([-]) Second Watch

The stone was not light, so Wu Chen ordered another person to wait at the same place. If he walked down the slope, if he didn't pay attention, he might roll down with the stone.

Wu Chen walked down the slope with a stone in his arms, put the stone down, and waited.

The second year in high school quickly asked: "Why don't you roll the stone down?"

Wu Chen said solemnly: "Deputy Envoy Yu's personal soldiers are still below, and we don't know what's going on down there. Let's wait for the personal soldiers who are going down to find them and move away."

Yu Shi'an glanced at Wu Chen. He was thinking of speaking to stop him just now. He didn't make a sound when he saw Wu Chen put down the stone. Now that he heard Wu Chen say this, he couldn't help but have a new opinion about Wu Chen. To count benevolence and righteousness is not to be an arrogant person who completely disregards the life and death of others for the sake of merit.

Song Gu stood beside Yu Shi'an, saw the change in Yu Shi'an's face, and took the opportunity to talk about the case of Jiang Shan, the magistrate of Anping County, who murdered seven people. Shouted: "Report to Deputy Envoy Yu, they are still alive."

Yu Shi'an breathed a sigh of relief, and shouted, "Take him back to the county for treatment immediately!"

Wu Chen turned his head and looked at Yu Shi'an. At least from his tone and expression, it could be seen that Yu Shi'an was still very worried about the safety of his soldiers. This alone made him stronger than Chen Zhong.

Wu Chen waited for a while, then squatted down and rolled the stone down the mountain, and then carefully checked the changes on the mountain.

Sure enough, where the stone rolled down, sharp blades protruded and fell back. If you don't look carefully, you can't find it at all, and the weeds cover it all well.

Yu Shi'an, Gao Er and Song Gu also saw it.

Wu Chen tried it again with another stone on the other side of the vine, and it also dropped with a sharp edge.

Wu Chen stood up and looked up at the sky.

Song Gu said: "At present, I only suspect that the place where the vine is located is the entrance of the cave. If it is really the entrance of the cave, the sides and bottom of the entrance of the cave seem to be covered with traps. It is difficult to reach the entrance of the cave without preparation. Aim at the vines below, find a tree, tie a rope, and go down slowly.”

Yu Shi'an asked: "The vines are all over the entrance of the cave. It doesn't look like someone has come out of it, and there is no place to stand around. How did the mechanism be laid?"

Wu Chen first turned to face the forest and asked, "Is this vine the entrance from which you came out?"

"Yes."

Wu Chen raised his eyebrows and said, "What we see now is the daytime, and Su Chang counts that I will come last night."

Song Gu had an epiphany expression.

Yu Shi'an frowned and looked at Wu Chen. He had always firmly believed that Wu Chen must have a plan to carry him when he went up the mountain today. Although he didn't know what Wu Chen's plan was, he probably couldn't escape to get credit for it. Turning the originally simple matter into an extremely complicated one can make people Chen Zhong, even the officials trusted him more.

But everything in front of him made Yu Shi'an feel that his idea might be wrong, it couldn't be that Wu Chen designed this performance for him, right?
At this moment, Wu Chen said again:

"Come at night, and those ghosts will lead the way, and they will also come to this place, but I want to see what is around the cave entrance. I am afraid it will be difficult to rely on the moonlight! Maybe it will be like what Song Tixing said, and I will see some areas below. Vine, I will tie a rope down to try it out, in that way, Su Chang will get his wish! Only now I know why when I told him to go up the mountain today, he looked completely hopeless..."

Yu Shi'an hurriedly asked: "How did he know that you would personally take risks when you come at night instead of ordering others to test first?"

Wu Chen smiled and said:

"Not to mention whether he knows me well. He knows that I never bring idlers with me when I go up the mountain. He just said that he can't see what is in the weeds at night. This mechanism can be used many times. People around me fall into the cliff. I am young and angry. Sheng, I will try it myself, even if I am timid, I will send more people to try it many times. According to his logic, most of the guards in the house and the government servants in the county government should be transferred by me. Feign death so that he has a chance to escape."

Song Gu said: "He knows that if you come in the daytime, you will definitely see something strange, and I'm afraid you won't be easily fooled."

Wu Chen pointed to the vines and said:

"It's hard to see clearly at night, but as Deputy Envoy Yu said, if someone has been in and out, how can the vines cover the hole without any gaps? And the sides are almost straight up and down. I'm afraid he set up this mechanism inside the hole."

Yu Shi'an snorted coldly and said, "Didn't you say that there are ghosts leading the way? Those ghosts don't know about it?"

Wu Chen nodded seriously and said:
"They really don't know that their bodies are in the cave. Su often said that as long as the cave is destroyed, their bodies will be destroyed too, and they can leave. So they only know how to lead the way. As for how to destroy the cave, they don't know. , They were also deceived by Su Chang. The cave can't be destroyed, but they can't get in. Whoever gets close will die. When our people try again and again and die, Su Chang pretends to be alive and can return through other caves. into the hole."

"Go back and torture Su Chang, I don't believe that I can't find out where the other hole is!" the sophomore said loudly.

Song Gu shook his head and said, "Wu Chen still can't confirm whether Su Chang's words are true or false. How many words can you believe in the confession you extracted through torture? Besides, the people alive in the cave might not be able to make it in for us to go in. "

"There are still living people in the cave?" Yu Shi'an asked in surprise.

Song Gu was also a little surprised. He clearly stated the purpose of going up the mountain this morning. How could the deputy envoy not remember it so quickly?

It's not that Yu Shi'an doesn't remember, he just doesn't believe it.

"If I didn't want to rescue the people inside as soon as possible, why would I go up the mountain in such a hurry? You can have a good deal with Su Chang to see whether his instigmatism is better or my psychology is better. Just look at Su Chang's calculations, he doesn't mind if we know the entrance of the cave, but he is confident that the cave will be cleaned up in a short time, or the few days will be enough for him to get something, it's still hard to say..."

Wu Chen frowned and said:

"Su Changying didn't think that he would be able to fake his death. He even thought that he could subdue me in the illusion, which made me believe that the murder of five hundred soldiers was done by Yin soldiers. The other arrangements were just in case, to expose the hole. It should be his last resort, according to his logic, we must face this hole and use all our strength, but he never thought that those ghosts would betray him."

Wu Chen said as he walked up the slope.

"What do you mean? Can't be saved?" The second year of high school caught up and asked.

Wu Chen said: "Naturally we need to be rescued! Ask Su Chang. I don't know when I can find out. I don't know if calling his name is useful. I have to starve him for two days. Maybe it's easier, but there are people who know that another cave is in the cave. where."

"Who?"

"Yu Hong!"

(End of this chapter)