Secret Notes of a Mystery Investigator

Chapter 104
Saiba walked out of the house and closed the door. We immediately turned the steamed fish over and over again. When we found nothing abnormal, we immediately opened the fish. We saw that the swim bladder in the fish maw was bulging. When we opened it, we saw a small piece of paper After unfolding, there is a map drawn on it, with many names marked on it, which should be the location of our floor, and judging from the markings on the map, he wants us to go up to the seventh floor, and then there will be a secret exit leading directly to the bottom of the castle. We can go out from there.

After reading this simple and clear map, Yang Chenglong said: "It seems that our previous predictions are not wrong at all. The only question now is: Why do we want to do this?"

I said: "For the sake of justice, since we can't join forces with the Tianling clan to fight against the demons, we must do something, or it will be in vain."

I didn't answer seriously, but Ashe said with a serious expression: "Brother Luo, I'm asking you for a favor on this matter, okay?"

I quickly said: "Axue, you are too polite to say that. I was just making a joke. Since the three of us came here, we must have come here to find out the truth. Even if you don't tell me, I won't stay out of it."

Axue nodded to me gratefully and said: "Thank you, Brother Luo, I didn't think I should meddle in this kind of nosy business. In fact, I wanted to leave a long time ago, but now I don't think I can just leave At the beginning, my father and Brother He's father died inexplicably. I always hoped to find out about this matter. I wondered if it was related to that well. Anyway, I have to go back and have a look. Uncle Wang is right My father is heartfelt and I don't believe he would harm me."

I said: "Since you think so, of course it is my duty to do something for you."

Yang Chenglong smiled and said: "Okay, you all pretend that I don't exist, and you have to go back if you express your determination. What you say here is all nonsense."

Axue blushed and lowered her head, a sweetness seemed to spread in my heart. I have known Axue for many years. Now that I'm a complete big girl, our affection for each other is increasing day by day. If I can go back safely this time, I really plan to get married right away. After all, it is a kind of luck to be able to marry such a daughter-in-law.

Just listen to Yang Chenglong said: "However, there is one more thing that must be clarified before doing things. Why did Wang Hao use this method? Is he trustworthy?"

A Xue said without the slightest hesitation: "I trust him, I was brought up by him alone, and the days with him are longer than my father, I don't think he will harm me."

Yang Chenglong said: "Okay, if it is true as you said, have you thought of one thing, since he is the most sincere subordinate around your father, if there is really a conspiracy against your father here, can you still let him go? Even At that time, his status was not valued by others, at least it was impossible to promote this person later, Wang Hao did a good job here, in his words, he was the housekeeper here, and only the most loyal servants were qualified to be a housekeeper. How do you gain the trust of others?"

A Xue said: "Since he is my family member, he is naturally related to my uncle. With my uncle's status in the Sky Spirit Clan, it is normal for Uncle Wang to be the chief housekeeper. If Uncle Wang is implicated, we will It is impossible for my uncle to stay out of the matter, but he has not been punished in any way, on the contrary, his status has been getting higher and higher over the years, so my father's matter should be a deeply buried secret."

Yang Chenglong said: "Well, since you can trust Wang Hao, I won't say anything. Anyway, I will do my best to help you."

Now that the goal is clear, we don’t hesitate anymore, we close our eyes and rest until late at night, when we suddenly heard a slight clicking sound, the three of us sat up reflexively, and we couldn’t see our fingers at night in the castle, we didn’t dare to light the lamp, just I was able to touch the door and found nothing unusual, so I whispered, "Could someone have opened the door?"

Yang Chenglong said: "It's very possible, you open the door and try."

I pushed harder, only to hear a light slap, the door was already opened, and the cold white light in the corridor was slightly revealed, I boldly opened the door, and there was no one in the long and empty corridor, I said : "It's safe, you can act now."

After finishing speaking, he walked out first, and the two of them followed. Yang Chenglong was worried that people would see his flaws, so he locked the lock on the door, but it was not locked. We tiptoed through the corridor to the stairs. The sixth floor is the penultimate floor, and the seventh floor is the top floor. I whispered: "No wonder Wang Hao told us the layout of the sixth and seventh floors in detail from the beginning. It turns out that he had already prepared for it."

After all, we went up to the seventh floor, because the material of this building is very strange, there is no sound at all when we walk up, and there is no one on the seventh floor at night, so we don't have to worry about being discovered, but after going up to the seventh floor We were still taken aback by the scene we saw in front of us. We saw a huge statue standing in the center of a circular floor, because the architectural style of the top floor and the lower floors were different. It had a dome, like a tower. The ceiling is average, so the space looks very large. This statue is at least seven or eight meters high from top to bottom. It holds a knife on the ground in its left hand and holds a vase in its right hand. It looks fierce and looks a bit like the Four Heavenly Kings. Ah Xue whispered: "This is the Wuhua God of War."

I didn’t expect to see the legendary God of War who led humans to defeat the powerful demons here. I felt a sense of admiration spontaneously and said: “There is a difference between the appearance of the statue and the mortal. At a glance, it looks imposing. Those demons see such a Isn’t the immortal’s liver and gallbladder torn?”

Axue smiled and said, "Have you ever thought about what the warriors of the Demon Race would look like?"

I thought for a while and said, "It should be very scary. If you are not a person with superhuman courage, you will definitely not have the courage to fight against such an opponent."

Suddenly we heard Wang Hao say: "This is not Wuhua God of War, but a yin and yang scholar."

We were all taken aback. Wang Hao was standing behind us at some point. He pointed to the statue and said, "The yin-yang scholar should have been the greatest human being, but he chose to be a ghost. His statues were once all over the Central Plains." Everywhere, but they were basically demolished later, only here is the last statue of him, which is also an order from Wuhua God of War himself. He needs the soldiers of the Tianling tribe to remember the real murderer of the Dragon Prince from generation to generation. Look, and find him out, so Axue's opinion is wrong."

It seems that what Ah Xue expected was right, I said: "Uncle Wang, you have gone through so much trouble, what exactly do you want us to do?"

Wang Hao glanced at us and said: "This is the place of the Tianling clan. These people are the strongest, bravest and most dangerous people on earth, so it would be very dangerous to be an enemy of these people. You must first Get that."

I said: "Don't worry, since we agreed to do this matter, we won't quit halfway, not to mention this matter is related to Axue."

Wang Hao glanced at A Xue again, his expression became a little complicated and said: "Yes, this matter has been entrenched in my heart for many years, I have always wanted to understand it, but there is no way to get through Qiu Yin's control, so I You pinned all your hopes on A Xue, and whether you can avenge your father depends on your efforts tonight."

A Xue said: "So you have been suspecting this matter, why didn't you tell my uncle?"

Wang Haodao: "It's useless to tell him. The master's matter has long been a forbidden area that cannot be touched. No one even dared to listen to me about this matter. The original magic knife incident caused the three parties in the Tianling clan to No one dares to be responsible for this matter, so if this matter is to be done, it can only be done by you."

I glanced at Yang Chenglong, and he didn't mean to object, so I said, "That's fine, but you have to make it clear what we need to do."

Wang Hao said: "It is said that there is a huge secret of the Tianling clan in the deep well where Qiu Yin is. If Axue can pass that test, I think it is possible to find out the real cause of death of Elder He and Master He."

Yang Chenglong thought for a while and said, "Is there an inevitable connection between these two things?"

Wang Hao said: "Yes, only three people have been to that cave recently, namely Elder He, Master, and Peacock Spirit King. As a result, two of these three people died, and the whereabouts of one person is still unknown. If there is nothing strange about this cave , only ghosts believe it."

I said: "Don't waste time, let's go quickly, if we don't come back in time at dawn, it will be troublesome."

Wang Hao immediately turned the bottle, only to hear a soft sound, the huge statue automatically moved away, revealing a black hole, bottomless, Wang Hao said: "This place can only go down but not up, if things are done in time, you Just come up from the mouth of the well, if it is dawn, you must not come out casually, wait until it is dark to act."

I said: "But there are a few Heavenly Spirit warriors guarding the cave, how can we get out?"

Wang Hao said: "Those people are just statues, used to suppress demons. If they are living people, I don't need to make that mark."

No more nonsense afterwards, we took the flashlight given by Wang Hao and went down from the cave, saying that the cave should actually be a secret road in the castle, but the road is actually composed of an "iron pipe", we wrapped our hands with cloth , and slid down the iron pipe. After sliding for a long time, we felt that our feet were on the ground. After both of them got down, we turned on the flashlight, and saw a huge cave here, which should be the bottom of the castle. Now, we took out the map given by Wang Hao and walked forward according to the marked direction, but the slope became higher as we walked. After walking for about ten minutes, we faintly saw lights in front of us. We walked over carefully and found that the lights came from a It came from the entrance of the cave. Through the entrance of the cave, I saw a huge rock below. In front of the rock were the four motionless "guards" of the mourning hall. From the perspective of their hair, they did not look like statues, but judging from their posture It is impossible to say that it is a person. We bravely jumped onto the rock, and there was a light slap, but it was very clear in the ancestral hall at night, but the four people underground were still motionless, so we were relieved.

After we all got down, we climbed down along the uneven surface of the rock, and when we got to the edge of the well, we carefully looked down, but it was dark and bottomless, and the chain was hanging on the ground, indicating that the thing it was tied to was very quiet now, but this This time only Axue took the lead, and it was inappropriate for me and Yang Chenglong to go down first. Axue slid down the iron chain first, and Yang Chenglong and I entered in turn. Because we were afraid of alarming Qiu Yin, we didn't dare to make too much trouble. There was a big movement, and I slid slowly all the way. When I landed, my eyes suddenly lit up. I really didn't expect this to be a huge cave.

The space here is larger than the one we passed by before. The difference is that the cave roof here is very close to the ground, and the height is relatively much smaller. However, this is not the case for the entire cave. It is a vast space, and there is light there, which illuminates our place clearly, but what makes people feel chilling is that we also see a huge head of an animal through the limited height here, that is Qiu Yin's head, at this moment Its big fluffy ears stick in, and it is not much smaller than us alone. Compared with the cricket in the desert, it is larger in size, and its fur is not the yellow-brown pattern of a tiger, but purple. As for the color, Ah Xue lay beside my ear and whispered: "This is a Qiu Yin that has survived for a long time, and it is about to mature, everyone must be careful."

Because of Qiu Yin's relationship, there is always a faint fragrance here. We tiptoed forward and bent forward. When we reached the outermost layer of the cave, our eyesight widened. I was stunned by the magnificent scene in front of me. Fall off the fault.

In front of him is a huge circular space, surrounded by huge spotlights, and the ceiling of the cave is covered with crystal clear ore, which looks resplendent and eye-catching under the light of the spotlights, while Qiu Yin's huge body is only It occupies a very small part of the cave, and there is a huge iron lock around its neck, which fixes its range of activities in a very small place, and this is what surprised us the most, because beside Qiu Yin there is a A golden armored dragon covered with various precious stones, but what the golden armor covers is only a huge keel, and the dragon scales and other things on its body may have decayed long ago.

The forelegs of this giant dragon are inserted on the wall of the opposite cave, and the hind legs are inserted beside Qiu Yin, which is in front of us. It looks like a bridge. Although I have long been mentally prepared for dragons, but I was really shocked when I saw it, even though it was just the skeleton of a dragon, and I completely believed that such a magical creature really existed in this world.

It seems that Qiu Yin guarding the dragon tomb is not nonsense. This should be a natural dragon tomb. We don't know why this dragon died here, but it is definitely not a fake. Knowing all this, that's why they feed Qiu Yin here.

But we soon discovered something was wrong, and we might be able to find the answer to the death of this dragon, because on the opposite side of the cave, there was a huge tribute platform with a bronze long knife inserted into it. The long knife is actually about the same length as He Zhuang's knife, and it's really not clear if you don't look carefully from a long distance.

I made a forward gesture, and they all nodded, so I walked from the cave to the body of the giant dragon, stepping on the golden armor and walking forward, and I must not fall here Otherwise, he would have to pick up Qiu Yin's body to come up, but Wang Hao thinks that only A Xue can pass here, it seems that he is too careful, and it turns out that I can come here without A Xue.

But soon I found out that I was wrong. When I walked to the end and climbed up the tribute platform, I turned around to pull people away, but I found that there was no one behind me, and Axue was standing motionless at the tail of the dragon, stretching out his hand to reach the dragon's tail. On Qiu Yin's head, its gigantic body that could make people's liver and gallbladder split did not know when it stood up. Axue was like an ant in front of it, and Yang Chenglong was lying on the ground and did not dare to move. Come on, I was the last one to find Qiu Yin woke up.

The three of us looked at Qiu Yin with bated breath, it was fine, standing there quietly without moving, but if the stalemate continued for a long time, I was afraid that Axue would not be able to bear it, but I didn't either. There is no way to help her, but I can only worry on the sidelines. At this moment, Axue suddenly laughed strangely. I thought she was frightened crazy, and was planning to go over desperately. Suddenly Qiu Yin lowered her huge head, and Axue rushed to Yang. Jackie Chan made a gesture, and he also went up. Qiu Yin walked to the middle of the dragon's body in one step, but because it was fixed, it couldn't take a step forward, so it lowered its head and let the two of them get on the dragon's back before walking back , and went to sleep on all fours.

I pointed to the cold sweat on my head, indicating that I was scared to death. Axue wiped my sweat with a handkerchief with a smile, but Yang Chenglong looked around the knife carefully. After observing for a long time, Axue Said: "Just say what you want to say, Qiu Yin said that he doesn't care if we disturb it until it rests."

Then Yang Chenglong said: "Wang Hao said there is a big secret in it, could it be this dragon's bone, or this knife?"

Only then did we realize that the bronze-colored blade was not the blade, but the scabbard. Ashe stepped forward to draw the blade out of the sheath, and saw that the blade was as smooth as a mirror, without any abnormality. I frowned and said, "It seems that the secret here has nothing to do with the blade." , it may be this keel."

A Xue shook her head and said: "Impossible, I don't think there is a knife inserted here for no reason, there must be something wrong with this knife."

(End of this chapter)