Secret Notes of a Mystery Investigator

Chapter 103
The three men with long knives followed us downstairs and out of the castle. The sun was dazzling outside, which made it difficult for people to adapt for a while, but I still saw a dozen old people leisurely doing Tai Chi at the entrance of the Tianlingzu. He said casually: "They really know how to take care of themselves, but it's quite strange that people from the Tianling clan can also practice Tai Chi."

One of the three long knives said: "He Zhuang has been with you, right?"

I turned my head to look, and saw that the person speaking was about the same age as He Zhuang, with dark skin and a very simple and honest face, which made people feel at ease, and I said: "He is my colleague, and we have worked together for nearly ten years. "

The man said: "How is he now, is he okay?"

I said: "Before this incident happened, although the nature of our work determined that we would not live in peace, we still had the determination to overcome difficulties, but after this incident, we faced opponents that were completely impossible to defeat. , so there is no other way, He Zhuang has been cut off from us because he went to rescue the head these days, so I don’t know his current situation.”

The man sighed lightly and didn't speak. My heart moved and I asked, "Do you know He Zhuang?"

The man nodded and said: "The Sky Spirit Clan is a small race, do you think I may not know him? If you really count it carefully, everyone is related."

I thought to myself: "Then you are not all close relatives married?" But I didn't dare to talk nonsense, and responded, the man said: "I grew up with him, Elder He is my godfather."

Hearing this, I immediately became vigilant, because I saw the attitude of the man with the long knife towards A Xue, and I was worried that they would violently hurt others, but he didn't show any expression of resentment against A Xue, just a faint He said: "My kung fu is taught by Elder He himself. If someone says he is a bad person, I will be the first to not believe it."

I said: "Don't misunderstand, I believe that Elder Qiu did not deliberately frame Elder He, maybe there is a misunderstanding, but because both parties are dead, the truth is no longer known."

The man said: "Miss Axue, those long knives you met before are all relatives of the He family. In addition to their noble status in the Tianling clan, the He family is also prosperous, so please understand them and don't fight with them." They're generally knowledgeable."

A Xue said: "How could it be? There was a misunderstanding in the middle. Even my father told me that he had misunderstood Elder He when he was dying, so I know Elder He must be a good person."

Hearing this, the man's expression suddenly changed: "What did you say? Elder Qiu really said that himself?"

A Xue said: "I was still young at that time, and I don't remember too much of what my father said, but this sentence is the one I remember most clearly."

The man nodded in disbelief and said, "I see, thank you Elder Qiu for your words."

To be honest, his last sentence was a bit inexplicable, but he stopped talking after that, and led us around the castle in silence all the way back, and I also secretly complained, because we didn't find anything. A place to escape, but then again, where can we go under the hands of these Sky Spirit warriors?

But when we came to the back of the castle, we were immediately stunned by everything in front of us. We saw flowers all over the thick grass, butterflies and bees interspersed among them, but the most amazing thing was the pure white fur of a dozen horses on the spacious grassland. The horse with long mane reaching the ground leisurely stands on the grass and eats the green grass.

These horses are well-proportioned, but what is slightly different from the horses I have seen is that these horses are unusually tall, about two meters high from head to toe, and I guess I can only be at the same level as the horse's back. Giant horses, no wonder they neigh so loudly, they are so strong.

I couldn't walk anymore, the Tianling clan warrior said: "Why, have you never seen Xunlong?"

I was shocked and said: "Such a magnificent horse is beyond my imagination, it is really incredible."

The three of them all laughed, and one of them said, "Do you know what Xunlong is for?"

I said: "I've heard that they are used by the warriors of the Celestial Clan to look for Shenlong."

The three of them laughed again and said: "Only the children of the Tianling tribe say such things, because they are all excuses for their parents to lie to their children."

I said, "Then besides this, what else can they do?"

One person pointed at the densely packed forest in front of him and said, "Did you see those forests?"

Although the forest in the distance is extremely dense, I really didn't notice it. Looking at the end of the meadow where the birds and flowers are fragrant from the Tianling tribe, the huge forest continues to stretch outwards, but it is not the same as the rest of Shennongjia. Compared with the woods, the woods here are very strange, because there is a faint purple air, which seems to be a kind of foggy feeling. I was moved in my heart and said: "This is the same color as the trees growing in the burning jungle we saw before. But I always thought it was an illusion."

One said: "That's not an illusion, what you see is the burning jungle."

I said, "But there is no sign of burning in this forest?"

The man said: "Of course it won't burn. After the Holy War, the burning dense forest was extinguished by the dragon with heavenly water. Since then, it has never burned again. This is the place where the Tianling tribe and the Huamian lady separated. Looking for the dragon In fact, they are the war horses that monitor them. The Tianling tribe warriors in ancient times were very tall, so these horses are also very tall. Both sides."

I said, "Why? They're just horses."

The man said: "That's right, they are horses, and they were the mounts of the giant beasts under the Huamian Lady during the holy war, but later the giant beasts became the mounts of the Huamian Lady. They were worried that their status would be threatened by Xunlong, so the big beasts To strangle this beautiful creature on a large scale, Xunlong could not be forced out of the burning jungle, and was rescued by the horse-loving Tianling warriors. In fact, during the holy war, the Tianling tribe and the flower-faced lady did not fight against each other. On the contrary, it was at the end of the holy war. Because of these horses, the most elite fighters of the Tianling tribe entered the burning jungle, rescued this creature, and completely defeated the flower-faced lady with the help of the dragon, so they were the most inexplicable losers, because the animals they raised Two kinds of animals finally led to the genocide of one's own side."

I said: "But I saw the burning jungle with my own eyes, and a powerful female wizard?"

The humane said: "That's right, with the growing power of the yin-yang scholars recently, the Demon Race and the Huamian Lady are ready to move. All the fighters of the Tianling Race have received warning notices and are ready to fight at any time."

I said, "You guys are really troublesome."

The man said: "I'm afraid there are more troubles than these?"

I heard there was something in his words, and when I was about to ask, He Zhuang's sworn brother interrupted: "Stop saying a few words, the position of the long knife is already very delicate, don't make unnecessary trouble for yourself."

The man promised to stop talking. At this time, we had just walked to the cemetery of the Tianling warriors. It was no different from the setting of the ancestral hall of ordinary families. The light dimmed immediately, and there were green and rusty copper lamps hanging on both sides of the wide passageway. Although the light of each lamp was only as big as a soybean, hundreds of lamps were lit together, which still illuminated the cave clearly. clearly.

After entering, I saw a huge space inside. The place close to the mountain was full of rows of wooden altars from top to bottom. On each floor, there were many red lacquered wood tombstones with names engraved in gold.

In the middle of the mountain, green smoke billowed from two huge incense burners. It seemed that some people had come here to worship not long ago.

But what I didn't expect was that there were actually four Celestial warriors guarding this place. I saw that each of them was strong and strong, and their expressions were sturdy. Compared with them, I was a little suspicious of the three Celestial warriors behind them. Whether the fighter is a fighter with a relatively low level in the clan.

At this time, a warrior of the Tianling tribe said: "Elder Qiu's ranking is one of them. The incense burner on the left is for worshiping men, and the incense burner on the right is for worshiping women. You can just put an incense stick on each of your parents."

Ah Xue's eyes were red at this time, this is not pretending, after all, mother and child are united, seeing her parents' spirit cards, how can she hold on, tears rolled down her eyes after a while, she cried in a mess, I don't know Feeling like this, he stood beside Ah Xue, and at this moment, he didn't care to avoid suspicion anymore. He held her hand and wiped away her tears.

She lit a stick of incense for her mother and another for her father, but when she was about to insert the incense into the censer, she suddenly saw a faint line drawn with soot on the wall of the censer on the left. The arrow pointing to the left, we all looked to the left subconsciously, and did not see anything unusual, only a well built of bluestone beside the empty mountain, which seemed to be old from the degree of wear of the stone The rusty iron chains that came out seemed to indicate that the buckets for fetching water had been useless for many years, and it seemed that the well water had long since dried up.

We didn't think much about it, and continued to pay homage to Ah Xue's parents. The dead are respected. Each of us lit a stick of incense. Before I had time to light the incense, I heard footsteps behind me. I thought it was the same as us The people of the Tianling tribe who paid homage to their ancestors, but turned their heads, and saw four or five fat people, each dragging a huge bloody leg of an unknown animal with a hook, walking in slowly. The cave was immediately filled with the smell of blood, which made us frown. I have never heard of someone offering raw meat to the dead.

However, they didn't seem to intend to enshrine the meat there, but threw them into the well one by one. After a while, the iron chain that came out of the well suddenly rang, and then jumped up straight, shocked Then we saw that a section of the iron chain was fixed underground next to the wall of the well. It seems that there should be a living thing in this well.

Soon my idea was proved, because I clearly heard a huge sound of eating, and then the sound of bones breaking, indicating that the bones on the giant legs were being bitten. The four fat men looked around the wall of the well. After a while, we walked out slowly. We looked at each other, but because there were people from the Tianling tribe beside us, we couldn't communicate. I even forgot to offer incense and said, "Let's go back?"

The two of them didn't show any signs of expression, and the three of us turned around and left.

16. Deep Well Suspicious Clouds

On the way back, we were no longer curious about all the beautiful scenery, because we were really stunned by the incredible things that happened just now. After returning to the room, Wang Hao came to lock the door himself. He didn't say a word, but I always I felt that there seemed to be something unexplainable in his expression.

I said, "Have you seen that well? There must be animals in it. I guess it might be a dragon?"

A Xue said: "It's absolutely impossible, Longtan is the purest place in the world, could it be there?"

I said: "It's not impossible, the place of worship is sacred, the Tianling clan is a clean and beautiful place, and the mourning hall should be clean and free from pollution, isn't it?"

Yang Chenglong thought for a while and said: "I think it's a little bit reluctant to call it Longtan there. The purest is not the cleanest. Purity is obviously higher than cleanliness. That's not an environment that can only be cleaned by people, what do you think?"

I said: "Then who can tell me what kind of creatures will exist in the cave?"

Yang Chenglong said: "None of us know, but there are many magical creatures that the Tianling tribe may raise. Just because we don't know doesn't mean that they don't exist. The most important point is that it is impossible for the Tianling tribe to use iron chains to tie them. A train."

This sentence reminded me that this is indeed the truth, Ashe said: "Brother Luo, I think it is very likely that the creature in that well is a yin, and the four legs dragged in by the four people have no blood except for the giant devil pig." Other creatures can have legs that long and thick."

I nodded repeatedly and said: "That's right, the giant devil pig is Qiu Yin's feed, and we did hear Qiu Yin's roar before we entered the castle. It seems that what you said makes sense."

Yang Chenglong said: "Well, if there is indeed a Qiu Yin in that well, then why did the Tianling clan raise this animal in that place, and is the mark on the furnace wall a coincidence? Why did Wang Hao insist on it?" The worship was delayed for two days, and this time happened to be the time for them to feed Qiu Yin, including the way the three Heavenly Spirit warriors spoke on the road, it was obvious that they were deliberately revealing their words, so as to attract our attention."

I don't know what to say, Yang Chenglong said these questions made me feel even more strange: "What do you mean?"

Yang Chenglong said: "What I mean is very simple. These people of the Tianling clan, or a certain part of the people of the Tianling clan, should be aware of some abnormal factors inside them, so they try to express this feeling to us, But everything can’t be explained clearly, so we can only hesitate and let us guess.”

I said: "If it is true as you said, then what is the purpose of their doing this? Even if there is some kind of ulterior truth within the Tianling clan, what can us ordinary people do for them? Even they can't do anything Can we do it?"

Yang Chenglong said: "Perhaps we can't compare with them in terms of martial arts, but we may be able to do some things much more conveniently than them. If there is really a Qiu Yin in that well, and the mark on the furnace wall It was man-made, and it became obvious: they needed us to investigate the truth hidden in that well."

I said, "Why are we the only ones who can do this kind of investigation, have you ever thought about it?"

Yang Chenglong said: "I thought about it, but I didn't think about it, but I don't think the truth should be complicated. There are some super-capable people in the Tianling clan. If there are secrets, then the people who guard these secrets are naturally very important. Maybe it's not convenient for them to come forward, but we are more relaxed than what they do?"

A Xue suddenly jumped up and said, "I know why they did this?"

We were all taken aback by her sudden expression. As if she had been electrocuted, she jumped and said, "I know, I finally know."

I held her back and said, "You don't have a fever, why is this child talking so much?"

Axue held my hand and said, "Brother Luo, I've figured everything out, from Wang Hao's insistence on me coming back, to all the strange things we encountered here, it's all for one point, and this point is the whole thing." The most important thing is that Wang Hao needs us to pass through the place guarded by Qiu Yin, and I am the key, because I can communicate with Qiu Yin."

A word to wake up the dreamer, Yang Chenglong said: "That's right, it seems that we two elders are as smart as a little girl, if it weren't for her, we would never understand the truth in this lifetime."

I said: "I don't quite agree with A Xue's point of view, because first of all, it is impossible for them to let outsiders intervene in their conflicts, and second, even if A Xue can guard the place through Qiu Yin, then what is their purpose for doing this? Qiu Yin Yin is the guardian of the dragon tomb, even if there is a dragon burial place inside, it has nothing to do with us."

Yang Chenglong said: "Don't be impatient, just wait and see how the situation develops. I believe that if Wang Hao really needs us to do this, he will definitely contact us. After all, he has done so much preparation work before, it is impossible that there is no follow-up of."

I said, "Even if there is, how do we get out of this castle?"

Yang Chenglong said: "Brother, don't be so hasty, okay, we are only guessing, what is the truth, we have to wait for the further development of the situation."

I also think it’s not worthwhile to worry about this matter right now, so I won’t talk about it anymore. Wang Hao personally delivered the lunch at noon. Before leaving, he said: “Be careful when eating fish, don’t get caught by the fish bones.”

(End of this chapter)