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Chapter 85 File Five: Decoction (12)
Looking in from the door, the obelisks looked like monsters hidden in the darkness, and the messy branches of the big trees were intertwined, like a big net, tightly suppressing them.

At this time, there was light rain pattering in the sky, and it was overcast, and it felt really a bit cold.Because we don't know the specific location of the battalion commander's tomb, we can only find it one by one.But the trees and grass in the cemetery are too dense, the original path is almost impossible to identify, and you can only walk through it by feeling. It feels like the tomb robber Laura walking through the ruins of Angkor, full of mystery everywhere feel.

What fascinated me was the inscriptions on the tombstones. Although many tombs have collapsed due to disrepair, those once profound inscriptions are now incomplete and indistinct.

"Heads can be broken, blood can be shed, and XX ideas must not be lost."

"Only by sacrificing so much ambition, dare to teach the sun and the moon to change into a new sky."

"Use public characters to command life, and use loyal characters to cast souls."

……

These once heroic slogans are in sharp contrast to the dilapidated steles. If the people in the tomb knew about it, how would they feel?
As I walked, I kept taking pictures with my mobile phone. If these photos with a strong sense of historical reality are posted on the Internet, they will definitely attract a lot of clicks.

"What's there to shoot?" Mo Yan said loudly in disgust, "The people who believed these words are now lying here. They lost their lives here for the so-called lofty ideals. Who will remember them now?"

I froze for a moment, it was rare to see such a strong emotional reaction from a gentle man. "It's going to be filmed," I explained, "We have to let Xiao Nan's father see the whole process of our excavation of the cemetery, otherwise he may not believe it even if we find the bones."

"Where is this guy?" Mo Yan gritted his teeth and said.It is said that there are less than [-] tombs in this cemetery, but we turned around and couldn't find the cemetery of the battalion commander.It was getting darker and darker, and the handwriting on the tombstone became more and more difficult to read.

"Did you find it?" Mo Ran asked me.

"No." I replied casually.

"Then what are you doing lying there?"

I'm not lying down anywhere.I looked at Mo Ran in astonishment, but saw him talking in another direction.

"Moran!" I couldn't help calling out to him.

Mo Ran turned around abruptly, and seemed to be taken aback when she saw me: "Why are you here?"

"I've been here all along!"

"Impossible, then who is he?" Mo Ran stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction just now, and then his fingers froze there.

"Who? What did you see?"

"He...is...Jane Zhen," Mo Ran suddenly yelled in panic, "I saw those things again!"

"Where is it?" I looked around, but couldn't see anything.

"It's gone," Mo Ran turned around in a daze, but suddenly screamed again, "Here, here, here, my God, they're everywhere, they all crawled out!"

All the hairs on my body stood up immediately, could it be that the darkness around here is covered with those things?

"Have you ever seen wolves?" Zhou Ziruo's curse-like voice rang in my ears again.This is a cemetery, naturally it is the place where those things gather, Mo Ran and I are like breaking into a pack of wolves, what will happen next?
"Don't be afraid!" I grabbed him with one hand, his arm was as cold as ice.Zhou Ziruo said that ghosts are afraid of people's "yang energy". Since I haven't been able to see ghosts yet, it means that I still have enough "yang energy" in me.

"As long as we are not afraid, they can do nothing to us!" I comforted Mo Ran.

"It can't be done," Mo Ran shook his head and said hoarsely, "They are already here, we have to run, run now!"

"Don't be afraid! Believe me, I'll cover you!" I said loudly, absolutely don't panic at this time, if even I am afraid, it might be over.

Mo Ran's body twitched for a while, and then, like a robot that had lost its power, it lowered its head and froze.

When I grabbed his hand, I suddenly had an indescribable feeling, as if I was not holding someone else's hand, but a piece of lifeless dead wood.

Mo Ran suddenly raised his head, looked at me and said, "Really?"

My heart felt as if a spoonful of cold water had been splashed on the red-hot iron, and I could almost hear a "squeak".This voice, this look, I have met for the third time.

Mo Ran was still holding a sharp shovel in his hand, I saw his fingers tightening forcefully, and he suddenly raised the shovel...

what to do?When the two armies meet, the brave wins!As soon as I gritted my teeth, the palm of my hand was cut on the side of Mo Ran's neck quickly.I seemed to see a black air dissipate from him instantly, and then he fell down softly.

"That's right! I'll cover him!" I said through gritted teeth.It seems that Zhou Ziruo is right, as long as I am not afraid, they will have no way to deal with me.

I leaned over and wanted to lift Mo Ran up. It seemed that I couldn't stay in this ghostly place any longer, so I had to retreat temporarily and come back tomorrow.But as soon as he bent down, he saw the word "Strong" faintly visible on a half-buried stone tablet underground.

Could it be... I quickly wiped away the floating soil and leaves on the tombstone. Yes, it is engraved with "Tomb of Revolutionary Martyr Qi XX", and the cemetery we are looking for is right at our feet!
Dig or not?I was apprehensive, it was going to be dark soon.Something has happened to Mo Ran, I don't know what will happen if I stay any longer.

We can wait until tomorrow to dig, but what about Xiao Nan, can she wait?And I know that once I have the idea of ​​running away in fear, the fear will be like a burst bank, out of control.Bravery is the only weapon I have to protect myself. If I don’t want to be like Mo Ran, I can only be bold and bold!
"Don't run!" I said to myself firmly, I must find out the result anyway today!

I turned on the powerful flashlights they were carrying and hung them from the tops of the trees so that the light fell directly on the cemetery.

"The time now is the night of April 2008, 4..." I started to record the whole process with the camera of my mobile phone, "We are now in the revolutionary cemetery of the former Yunnan Construction Corps, and in front of us is the cemetery of a certain battalion commander. To find out whether he is related to the murders of Liu Hongyue and Lin Yuntao 3 years ago, I am now going to dig his grave and examine his bones."

I put the phone on the tombstone next to me, pointed the camera at the cemetery, and then picked up the shovel and dug vigorously.

I used to read the novels of those tomb robbers, and I felt that tomb robbery was really exciting and enjoyable.But it really makes you feel completely different when digging a grave to bury the dead on this blurry rainy night, knowing that there are all "those things" around you.

I have tried my best to "empty" my mind and not think about other things, but after the old rotten soil is dug out, the strange smell that evaporates still reminds me all the time that you are digging a hole leading to another world .

Because the place is rainy and humid all year round, the soil is also very soft, and it didn't take long for a big hole more than two feet deep to be dug.As the bottom of the pit continued to deepen, the lights above could no longer reach the bottom of the pit. When I bent down to dig the soil, my body was completely submerged under the ground.

At this moment, I suddenly had a very strange feeling in my heart, as if I was digging a hole to bury myself.My heart was chilled, and the courage to dig further disappeared immediately.Fortunately, at this time, the shovel made a "poof" and touched some fragile things.

As soon as I took the shovel back, I immediately smelled an indescribable stench.I think the blow just now must have dug through the coffin board and released the foul smell inside.The gas made my eyes sting, and tears flowed down my face. I didn't know if it was poisonous, so I quickly held my breath and crawled out of the pit.

"What do you want to do?" Someone above suddenly spoke.

Why is this voice so familiar?I raised my head in astonishment, it was okay not to look, but I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it - the person above was actually me!

"Battalion Commander Qi, the hole has been dug, and you can sleep in it." "I" said with a smile.

How did I become Qi Battalion Commander?Who is that "I"?My mind was in chaos, and I suddenly remembered the situation when Xiao Nan and Mo Ran were possessed by ghosts. Could it be that my body was "taken" away without knowing it?
"Give me back my body!" I roared, and rushed up from the pit, grabbing "me" by the neck. "I" smiled without any resistance, but my breathing became more and more difficult.I obviously pinched him, but it turned out to be like pinching myself.

How is this going?I feel like everything is messed up and there is no way to tell the difference.

"Jane Zhen!" In the chaos, someone hugged me from behind and pulled my hand away forcefully.I was like a drowning person rising to the surface, and I could finally breathe freely.

"What are you doing here?" Mo Ran asked me in panic, when did he wake up?
"What's wrong with me?" My mind began to recover a little bit.

"Why are you pinching your own neck!"

"I'm choking my neck?" Only then did I realize that my hands were still grabbing towards my neck. If it wasn't for the involuntary pull, these hands should be on my neck.

I was taken aback and quickly let my hands relax.

"Poison gas!" I understood, "It's the poison gas in the coffin that made me hallucinate."

"Coffin?" Mo Ran still didn't quite understand.

"I found the cemetery of Battalion Commander Qi, which is actually right under our feet." I said happily.

"But why did you hit me just now?" Mo Ran asked suspiciously.

"Didn't you have a ghost just now?" Now it's my turn to be puzzled.

"When did I get caught?" Mo Ran looked at me in surprise, "I was talking to you, and you suddenly slapped me."

I suddenly felt very cold on my body. The rain soaked my clothes and pressed against my skin. The cold feeling went straight to my heart.

"You're not Mo Ran!" I said coldly, although his face was indeed Mo Ran, but neither his expression nor his tone.

"You're smart!" he actually admitted.

"Why did you let Xiao Nan die?" It was strange, when I couldn't see or touch these things, I was extremely afraid of them.But when he really appeared in front of me, I wasn't afraid anymore, so I just opened the skylight to talk to him.

"We don't intend to let her die now, because she hasn't touched our bottom line yet."

"What's your bottom line?"

"Leaking out secrets that you shouldn't know is our bottom line!"

"What is the secret that we should not know, is it the truth of the previous life?" I asked.

"No," "Mo Ran" shook his head and said, "Although this also violates our taboo, it has not touched the final bottom line. If you want to continue digging, we will not stop you. Before you reach the bottom line, do We will not stop you in anything. But I want to remind you that it is useless for you to do so. Even if you find something, we have a way to keep you from making it public. If you want to force it, you will only let them go. The bottom line is getting closer and closer. Don’t think that your yang energy can protect them, your strength is not as strong as you expected. Just like just now, if I don’t save you, you are already dead.”

"Why did you save me?" I don't understand this, isn't he threatening me all the time?

"You are a very special person. Although you don't know it yourself, you may understand in the future that unless you touch the bottom line, we don't want you to die. That's why we warned you several times and three times, but this will be the last Once. Goodbye!"

Mo Ran's body froze there, and after a long time, he suddenly opened his mouth and said: "Just now...was I talking?
"That's right!" I said with a wry smile, I knew from this sentence that Mo Ran really came back.

"Let's go! This place really can't stay any longer." Mo Ran pulled me nervously and said.

"No!" I gritted my teeth and said, "We have gone through so many twists and turns, and we finally came to the truth. How can we give up so easily! And the person just said that he will not stop me from digging the grave. It means that the truth in the tomb has not touched their bottom line. If so, why not take a look?"

I stuffed the flashlight and the phone into Mo Ran's hand, "Either I'll give you another punch, or you can help me aim at the bottom, you choose!"

"I suspect that you and the devil are of the same kind." In desperation, Mo Ran had no choice but to stand on the edge of the grave tremblingly, and turned on the light for me to record.

The filth in the pit has dissipated after this period of time, and it has lightened a lot, so it probably won't affect me any more.I gritted my teeth and jumped into the pit again.The lid of the coffin was already rotten, and I pried it off with a few shovels.

I thought the coffin was just a pair of white bones, but I didn't expect it to be a pile of sticky black mud—probably soaked by the rain, the flesh and mud of the corpse had been mixed together.

Suppressing my nausea, I used a shovel to stir in the pile of mud, only to hear a "Ding" sound, and hit a hard object.I picked up the hard object, and Mo Ran immediately aimed the flashlight at it.

It's a machete!Although the appearance is covered with mud, it is undoubtedly a machete in terms of shape.

This discovery immediately inspired me. Under normal circumstances, why would a soldier be buried with a machete?There is only one possibility, which is to put the murder weapon in the coffin and make the evidence disappear forever.

But only a machete is not enough, I also need the most critical evidence.I continued to stir vigorously in the mud, and finally stirred up a coconut-like thing.

"Found it!" I shoveled the two important pieces of evidence out of the pit with a shovel, and then jumped up.

"Bring water!" I said to Mo Ran.

Mo Ran immediately took out a bottle of pure drinking water, unscrewed the lid and poured it on the "coconut", the black sludge was washed away, revealing the white color of the skull itself.

"That's right, it was murder!" Mo Ran and I exclaimed at the same time, only to see a "penetrating" knife mark on the sky cover of the skull.There was a second cut on the cheek, which shattered the cheekbone, so the skull was incomplete.

The fact that these two knife marks are like iron proves that Battalion Commander Qi was hacked to death by a knife, and the official "falling to death by logging" is purely a lie.

"Xiao Nan is saved!" I held up the skull excitedly, if it wasn't so smelly, I might not be able to resist kissing its "face".

"Let's go!" Mo Ran was not as excited as I imagined.

Now that the "tomb robbery was successful", there is no need to stay here anymore. I packed these two pieces of evidence in a bag and fled with Mo Ran.

We were both tired from the day's work, although we were able to spend the night in the guest house on the farm.But both of them decided by coincidence to drive back to the city overnight, in short, the farther away from the cemetery the better.

Seeing the bustling lights of the city finally gave us a sense of "safe landing".

We found a hotel with the best business and opened a double room, not because we wanted to save money, but after what happened today, Mo Ran no longer dared to live alone in a room by himself.

As soon as I sat down in the room, I wanted to call Xiao Nan immediately, and at the same time ask Mo Yan to call General Jing and tell them what we found.But Mo Ran said with great concern: "If we call back, what will happen?"

Eleven, Xiaonan is missing
As soon as I heard the word "consequences", I immediately calmed down.That force obviously wanted to prevent us from investigating the truth. The reason why they didn't let Xiao Nan die was because she hadn't "touched the bottom line".But where is the bottom line? We don't know. Telling General Jing about the skull may persuade him to let Xiao Nan leave the hospital.But what if the truth of the matter is the bottom line?Wouldn't that push Xiao Nan to the most dangerous edge?
Thinking of this, I also hesitated, not knowing what to do.

"Why don't we go back first?" Mo Ran suggested, because according to what the "possessed person" said just now, they don't seem to have any plans to kill Xiao Nan, and we don't need to "challenge" their bottom line.

(End of this chapter)