Thirteen prisons

Chapter 40 Architecture
Lu Ming's deduction is very convincing, thinking that Lin Jing is very hopeful to be able to get rid of the current state, Zhou Yuan has motivation again.But after hanging up the phone, he realized that what Lu Ming explained was easy to say, but very difficult to do.

First of all, it is not known exactly where the video was shot.Secondly, there are continuous mountains around here, with tall trees and dense forests, and weeds are almost as tall as half a person.Without a clue, where to find the pit that is suspected to be a tomb? After all, this happened a few months ago.

Old Hu was not as anxious as Zhou Yuan, he thought for a while before suddenly asking: "Who do you think that tomb belongs to?"

Zhou Yuan was stunned for a moment, feeling that there are many possibilities: "Li Aihua? She is Li Hongxia's sister, that is Lin He's aunt, and it is normal for him to pay homage to his aunt. No, he is a newly dug hole in the video. After so many years, why don't you suddenly set up an empty grave for Li Aihua?"

Zhou Yuan denied this idea, and came up with a new guess: "Maybe it's really an empty grave, and he prepared it for himself? It doesn't seem right. If he really wants to commit suicide, there will be nothing later."

"Forget it, I really can't guess it." Zhou Yuan simply didn't think about this question, he didn't think it was important.

There is a computer in the guest room. Zhou Yuan imported the video from the mobile phone to the computer, and it really looked much clearer than the mobile phone.The content in the video is very simple, and there are no obvious geographical indications, but Lao Hu is really good, and he watched it almost frame by frame again, and found a detail.

Unlike today's smartphones, older phones that took video only had a rear camera.Towards the end of the second video, there is a scene where Lin He comes over and picks up the phone, and it takes a photo of his face, and then he turns the phone over again.Although this action is very short, it may inadvertently capture other things between reverse shots.

There are three or four similar scenes in total, and Lao Hu's patience is very good, so he keeps watching them over and over again.I don't know how many times it was played, he pressed the pause button, zoomed the screen to the maximum, and said to Zhou Yuan: "Look here, is there anything?".

There are no people in this picture, but the background of the rainy and foggy sky.Zhou Yuan doubled the size of the picture, only to find that there was indeed a faint outline under the gray sky.

The edge of the outline is very regular, it seems that there is a semicircle next to the rectangle, but that thing is gray like rain and fog, and you can't see anything unless you look carefully.

Zhou Yuan lamented the sharpness of Lao Hu's eyes, and squinted his eyes to guess: "What is this? A mountain?"

Lao Hu shook his head: "No, the outline should be an artificial building. As long as you can find this place, you can reverse it and determine the exact location of the Linhe at that time. I will take this screenshot. I will go to the town tomorrow to ask, There should be some clues."

The two of them arrived in town early the next morning, first found a copy shop, and printed out the screenshots.On the paper, the outline of the building is clearer than on the computer.

"Little brother, have you seen this building?" Lao Hu asked the boy in the copy shop while paying the money.The guy in the copy shop shook his head and asked curiously what they were doing.

Lao Hu didn't have much hope at first, he thought that the most likely to know the clues should be those elderly people on the street.But when he walked out of the copy shop, he suddenly thought of something, and turned around and asked, "Little brother, I have a question for you. If people in our town want to choose a cemetery, which location do they usually go to?"

That guy grew up in the town, and he was shocked when he asked this question: "It's all cremation now. Why do you ask this?" Zhou Yuan saw that he looked at both of them in the wrong way, afraid that he might think He was about to do something bad, so he quickly explained: "It's like this, we are looking for a grave. A friend's elder was very kind to us before, so I want to pay homage to him. But my friend is not here now, so I want to Go find it yourself."

The boy breathed a sigh of relief and explained: "This is a mountainous area, unlike the city where there is a fixed cemetery. Each family finds a place for themselves in the mountain. As long as no one obstructs it, find a high ground and dig a hole by the mountain and the water." That’s enough. Without a specific location, it’s like looking for a needle in a haystack.”

It was indeed more difficult than imagined.After thinking about it, Lao Hu simply printed twenty copies in one go, and went directly to the small square in the center of the town.It was a place where old men and old ladies played chess, drank tea and chatted. During this period of time, Lao Hu had become quite familiar here.When he came to Daba Town, he often wandered around the town to inquire about it. The old Zhaotou's other story about Wudou was the clue that Lao Hu found while chatting with these old men and women.

"Come on, all the elders and aunts, put on your glasses if you have bad eyesight, and take a look. Does anyone know where this is?" Hu Dongdong greeted and sent those photos to several old people.

With such a yell, the old people who usually have nothing to smoke, surrounded them.Most of them couldn't recognize them, and some of them felt familiar, but they just couldn't tell where they were. A group of people talked about it for a long time, but there was no valuable information.

Lao Hu also felt that this was unreliable, and said to Zhou Yuan: "If not, you can go to Lao Zhaotou's house and ask. He has stayed in the machinery factory, so he might know. I will make some other preparations."

Zhou Yuan rushed to Lao Zhao's house excitedly, but to his disappointment, Lao Zhao had no impression of this thing at all.I don’t know if it’s because the picture is too blurry, or because Lao Zhao’s memory is declining. In short, Zhou Yuan helped him recall the past of the machinery factory for a long time, and even the layout of the buildings he saw, hoping to inspire him, but after talking for two hours, he still couldn’t Not a single bit of useful information.

Disappointed, he came out of old man Zhao's house. If Zhou Yuan's heart was full of excitement last night, half of it turned into anxiety now.It seemed that his thinking was too simple, he finally got a clue, but got stuck at the first step, which made him feel helpless and anxious.

Just as I was about to say something to Lao Hu, I didn't expect Lao Hu to call first: "Come here quickly, we will set off right away."

Zhou Yuan was a little confused, not knowing how Lao Hu managed it.What surprised him even more was that when he returned to the town to find Lao Hu, he was already sitting in a Jinbei van.Zhou Yuan got into the car only to find that there were two large backpacks in the back row, two small engineering shovels, a box of mineral water and instant noodles beside him. I already had a detailed plan at night, so that I can buy equipment and rent a car so quickly.

"Close the door, let's talk on the road." Seeing Zhou Yuan's shocked face, Lao Hu simply explained and stepped on the accelerator.

"Where is this going?" Zhou Yuan couldn't help asking when he saw that Lao Hu drove the gold cup out of the town directly.

"Go to the forest farm. The owner of the forest farm guest house said that someone on their side knows where this building is."

Zhou Yuan suddenly realized: "You also sent him a copy of the picture?"

"That's right." The road leading to the forest farm in the town is a narrow and bumpy dirt road in the mountains. The minibuses that usually run this way are old local drivers.However, Lao Hu was holding the steering wheel with one hand and a cigarette in the other, but he drove fast and steadily: "I was thinking about this problem last night. I found that this place is nothing more than two ranges, either in the town Nearby, there is either the ruins of the machinery factory, that is, the forest farm. So while asking in the town, I also sent the pictures to the forest farm owner and asked him to ask for help. But the news came so soon, which surprised me."

"It's a tunnel auxiliary warehouse. It's not far from the factory area, and the specific location is at the foot of the mountain to the east of the factory area." Lao Hu didn't hold back, and explained in detail the information he got from the forest farm owner.

The one who recognized the building in the picture was an employee of the forest farm, an aunt who grew up in the local area, and is in her 40s this year.Her parents were workers in the machinery factory back then, and they went to kindergarten in the factory area when they were young.

Huaguang Machinery Factory is an armament factory, and it was built deep in the mountains for strategic considerations and for safety.But after all, the produced armaments were to be transported outside, so a tunnel was built in the mountains.The tunnel is connected to the air-raid shelter. It was originally planned to build a railway as a special transportation line to transport the produced military products out.

But the railway was only built up to the entrance of the tunnel, and fighting broke out before it could continue, so that place was abandoned.The square building next to it can be regarded as a warehouse. At that time, it was designed to keep the armaments to be shipped out there, and wait for the outside army to come and hand them over, and then pull them along the railway to Baiyuan City outside the mountain.It is said that in the earliest days, there were guards standing guard in that place.

"Having a nose and eyes, sounds pretty reliable." Zhou Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Lao Hu is also in a good mood: "You will only know when you go, but I feel it is true."

All the way to the forest farm at high speed.Maybe it was because of the fun they had drinking and chatting last time. The owner of the forest farm seemed very happy to see the two of them again, but he never understood why they were so interested in the site of the machinery factory.

Seeing the large backpack and engineering shovel that Lao Hu and Zhou Yuan had taken from the van, he said suspiciously: "Brothers, don't you want to rob tombs? There are no big tombs there, and the people living in the mountains are all poor people."

Zhou Yuan was a little speechless, this buddy must have read too many notes on tomb robbers.Not to mention, he guessed quite accurately, the two of them were indeed here to dig a grave...

In the end, Lao Hu easily prevaricated with the reason of "going to the mountains for investigation".In order not to have any accidents, the two found the aunt again, and listened to her explain it again in person, the details were similar to what they said on the phone.The location is just behind the warehouse of the forest farm, and you can find it by walking along the hillside to the east.

I gave the aunt 200 yuan as a labor fee, and resolutely gave him some money under the refusal of the forest farm owner. After all, the less people know about this kind of thing, the better.The two of them took a brief rest, then went straight into the mountain with their backpacks on their backs.

Thanks to the previous experience, there was no difficulty in going all the way this time.It was just a little late, and the two chose to sleep overnight on the hillside near the forest farm.This time he came prepared, and Hu Dongdong was well prepared, including simple tents and sleeping bags.

Early in the morning, as soon as the sky was bright, we continued our journey and arrived near the site of the factory in the morning.After all, finding the accessories warehouse is only the first step. It is just a coordinate to determine the approximate direction.To find where Lin He was at that time, a more detailed search was needed.

Because the aunt clearly gave the direction, the two used a relatively stupid method. They didn't go in after seeing the factory area, but walked directly along the edge of the factory wall to the east.Searching and walking like this, after a full two hours, they finally found the tunnel and the four-corner warehouse next to it.

(End of this chapter)