Yancheng Special Office

Looking at the boy's bewildered eyes, Su Jian regained the harmless smile at the beginning, as if the intimidation just now was just an illusion of guilt.

"Let's just go together. You take us to the cave, and we will take you to the entrance of the cave to watch the fun. By the way...what's your name?"

Before the boy could hesitate, Su Jian coaxed and pulled him over.He wanted to struggle, but found that Su Jian's hands seemed gentle, but in fact, once he was pressed on the shoulder, he couldn't move at all.

Even if he had the skill of catching moles just now, he would never want to slip out of Su Jian's hands, so he could only obediently agree.

"...My name is Lin Zi."

"very good."

Qi Jun and Pei Mengfei were arranged to stay where they were and keep an eye on the car and luggage, while the rest of them packed up their bags, each took a backpack of tools from the trunk, and headed towards the stone man.

Turning around a mountain pass, and not long after walking up, you can see the traces of the mudslide. It turns out that the place where they parked just now is very close to the entrance of the cave.

Fluorescent lights flickered in the air, and the wind brought them as they walked scattered and floated.Luo Wenxiu thought it was fireflies at first, but gradually realized that these fireflies seemed to have no movement track of their own, and moved entirely by the airflow driven by people walking.

Luo Wenxiu paused to get a better look, only to hear Su Jian who was beside her whisper softly, "Don't touch it, it's a will-o'-the-wisp."

Then he successfully retracted his hand, and said quietly: "The density of this phosphorous fire is a bit too high..."

"There are a lot of corpses piled up in the cave. In addition to the sultry weather these days, the phosphine floats out of the exposed cave mouth and ignites spontaneously in the air. It will explode in a concentrated manner." Su Jian crawled a little panting and stopped. He exhaled, "But the density of this will-o'-the-wisp is so high, it's almost as good as stepping on a pile of corpses."

This analogy sounds disgusting, Luo Wenxiu was stepping on the soft, squishy mud under his feet, he didn't know what he thought of, the soles of his feet softened, he turned his head and gave him a blank look, and hurried away.

Su Jian yelled: "Hey...Wenxiu, what are you doing so fast? When the wind is strong, watch out for the will-o'-the-wisps to entangle you."

Su Jian chased after her cheaply, and Luo Wenxiu said in a low voice, "Don't call me that, it makes me feel uncomfortable."

"Then what do I call you—Xiao Luo? No, it's like calling a minor child. Besides, your rank in criminal investigation is not much different from mine. Or I'll call you Officer Luo... Do you think this is okay, Officer Luo? "

Luo Wenxiu only felt that his ears were clean for a moment when he was by his side, thinking that this person is so shameless, he has ruined countless people for more than a few thousand years, and no one knows how many ignorant boys and girls have suffered from his cruel hands.

Thinking of this, Luo Wenxiu's sympathy for him being condemned by God disappeared in an instant.There are only two words left in my mind: deserve it.

The entrance of the karst cave was dug out by the rescue team a few days ago to a small piece of flat ground, which probably only allowed two or three people to stand on it at the same time.

The boy named Linzi was thin and quick, and he could easily climb to the cliff above the cave entrance, and then fixed the rope for them to descend under the command of Gold Wing.

Su Jian and Jin Yi arrived at the platform at the entrance of the cave first. Standing at the entrance of the cave, they could only hear the rumbling wind coming from the cave. The familiar rancid smell permeated the surroundings. The light at night was dim, so they couldn't see clearly the situation below.

Jin Yi took out a cold light stick from his bag and threw it down the hole.The faint light source illuminated the entire cave from top to bottom, and only then did they get a glimpse of the whole cave——

The main structure of the cave is a cylindrical vertical pit with a diameter of about three meters and a width of about three meters. The surrounding cliffs are covered with large and small bottomless branches and forks, forming pipes and caves in various shapes, which fits well Typical features of karst landforms.

The cold light stick fell on the bottom 20 meters deep from the entrance of the cave. Around the light source, you can see the corpses of beasts everywhere.

Luo Wenxiu, who followed closely, was mentally prepared, but the first time he saw it, he still felt that the scene was horrifying.

"Are we going down from here?" Luo Wenxiu took a breath.

Luo Ye shivered while hugging his backpack, "I don't think this is a good suggestion, or the director...let's talk about it after dawn."

Su Jian looked around the situation, nodded and said: "It seems that the fake mountain god is not at home, and the equipment we brought is not enough for everyone to go down this deep pit. We have to go back and reorganize the equipment for entering the cave. Come back."

A group of people squeezed carefully at the entrance of the cave. Lin Zi came in from the outside at some point, and squeezed his head to the front, lying on the cliff and looking down.

His footsteps are very light, and his figure is very inconspicuous. In places without light sources, people can completely ignore his existence.

When everyone was about to turn back, they only heard a scream in the cave, followed the sound, only heard the voice of the forest falling all the way down the cave——

"Forest!"

Su Jian staggered back to the hole and shouted, "Where are you in the forest! Did you get hurt?!"

Only a low cry of "Ah" was heard from below, and the voice was drowned in the dark corner since then, and there was no more movement.

Su Jian turned around and asked the others, "What's going on? Did no one look at him? How could a child fall down suddenly?!"

Jin Yi said: "Everyone was here just now, and no one noticed that he went into the hole at all."

At this time, it is useless to entangle with responsibility after all, Su Jian immediately took out the rope from the bag, looked around for a fixed place, and said, "I'll go down and find him."

"Linzi must have been injured by a fall. You can't pull him up by yourself." Luo Wenxiu tied the only remaining rope around his waist, "I'll go down with you."

"Are you okay, kid?" Jin Yi frowned, "I'll go down with the director."

Luo Wenxiu said: "Don't worry, I have been in the field emergency rescue team before. You and Luo Ye quickly go to the car and find someone to help. By the way...bring the medicine box over."

When Luo Wenxiu said this, Jin Yi simply said "OK", and immediately turned around without dragging his feet.

Luo Ye's voice continued to howl at the entrance of the cave: "Director, you must be careful..."

Luo Ye was howling while being dragged away by Jin Yi, his voice gradually faded away, and when the sound of their footsteps disappeared, the surroundings fell into a boundless silence.

All the way down from the entrance of the cave, because there are many raised stones in the middle, the physical strength is not too much.It's just that out of fear of the unknown, Luo Wenxiu always feels a short-term dizziness caused by fear every time he passes through the dark branch road.

He seemed to see countless pairs of eyes staring at him in the darkness.But when he mustered up the courage to look carefully into the dark abyss, he found that there seemed to be nothing there.

After descending tens of meters like this, Su Jian also seemed to see Luo Wenxiu's uneasiness, so every time he reached a new fork in the road, he would go down in front of Luo Wenxiu in advance, and wait for him to go down at the fork in the hole. Continue to go.

Going down to the last hole, Su Jian and Luo Wenxiu paused for a short while at a height of two to three meters from the bottom of the hole, unable to go down—there were all animal carcasses underneath.

"Linzi! Where are you?"

"Can you hear... Lin Zi?"

The echoes went back and forth in the hole a few times, but no one answered them.

Su Jian held the flashlight in her mouth, and at the same time untied the rope around her waist.Then he jumped down to the bottom of the hole, landing right on a pile of long-broken bones.He looked around, then waved to Luo Wenxiu, "Officer Luo, it's safe down there, come down."

The air at the bottom of the cave is not as turbid as they imagined, and they can even feel the wind passing through the surrounding caves. It seems that the surrounding caves, large and small, are all open to the outside world.

Su Jian said: "There are usually underground rivers at the bottom of the karst landform, and there is no sound of water flow around here. It seems that this is not the real bottom of the cave. Moreover, the animal bones here are well preserved, the degree of decay is relatively light, and most of them are naturally weathered. Mummy, I think the real cave is much deeper than we thought."

While speaking, Luo Wenxiu also reached the plane full of corpses, "Look around here, there are still several holes extending down, maybe the woods have rolled down from these holes."

"It's possible." Su Jian said, "We can't look for the openings one by one. It would be too time-consuming. First look for any fresh blood or other clues at these openings."

The two took off the flashlights fixed on their shoulders, and carefully checked the ground near the hole one by one.

The land is relatively flat, and the ground around the corpse is covered with a thin layer of mycelium. In theory, as long as someone walks or falls over it, it is easy to see the traces from the degree of destruction of the mycelium Come.However, they turned around in a circle, and did not find any traces of someone rolling down the hole.

The surrounding area was terribly quiet, and it seemed that summer was about to enter, but there was not even a single cricket here.Looking out from the hole overhead, the moon appeared and disappeared among the clouds, and the light cast was very dim.

Su Jian turned off the flashlight, and the surroundings fell into darkness.He suddenly asked abruptly: "Officer Luo, from just now to now, do you feel anything is abnormal?"

Luo Wenxiu said "hmm", "I think it's really too quiet here."

This kind of silence is very unusual in the mountains. If he had to describe it, Luo Wenxiu could only think of the word dead silence.

The heart of this mountain seems to be dead.

Su Jian said: "This place doesn't look like what it should be in the world. To be honest, I only felt this kind of tranquility in one place..."

He didn't go on, but Luo Wenxiu keenly felt that what Su Jian wanted to say was definitely not something he wanted to hear.Then he interrupted him and said: "Think about what to do now, if you don't take Lin Zi up, that bastard will die."

Luo Wenxiu said, got up and looked around, and said: "Since this is not the real bottom of the cave, and the air in these caves is interconnected, let's assume that there is a larger area underneath. First Climb down from the biggest hole to have a look, and if you happen to see the woods underneath, try to bring him up."

There is no second plan right now, Su Jian agreed to Luo Wenxiu's proposal.After fastening their safety ropes, the two of them picked the biggest hole among several forks and crawled in.

The hole is inclined downward at 45 degrees as a whole. The further you climb in, the narrower the surrounding space becomes.Fortunately, the surrounding air was fairly clean. Two 1.8-meter men squeezed into the cave one behind the other, and did not feel shortness of breath for the time being.

After about ten minutes of crawling, Luo Wenxiu felt that he had traveled a distance of more than 30 meters, and suddenly heard Su Jian in front of him whispering "Hey", and the crawling movement paused briefly.