Gao Yanjiao drove the horse away, and Qin Tianming hurriedly caught up. He was so anxious that he accidentally dropped his foot on the ground, causing everyone behind him to burst into laughter.
Gao Yanjiao, who had already walked away, originally wanted to scare Qin Tianming, but this person couldn't stand the joke and fell to the ground. It was really helpless.
Although solving the case is magical, riding the horse is weak.
Gao Yanjiao quickly drove her horse back and said to Qin Tianming who was lying on the ground:
"Qin Tianming, I didn't expect you to be so weak and unable to walk without eyes? Come on, come on, it's better for me to lead you up. Don't break it."
Qin Tianming fell down in his anxiety and his knees hit the ground. He was in so much pain that he couldn't stand up.
The officers on the side just laughed, and no one stepped forward to help Qin Tianming get on the horse. Fortunately, the master was kind enough and stepped forward, helped Qin Tianming up with his hands, and then helped him walk towards the tall blue and white horse.
The blue and white horse was tall and sturdy. When he saw the stranger approaching him, he became angry and raised his front hooves, trying to kick Qin Tianming.
The angry, tall horse in front of him looked like a god. This frightened Qin Tianming so much that he lost his mind and accidentally fell down.
Seeing Qin Tianming lying on the ground in a miserable state, everyone burst into laughter.
The head catcher Li Tai couldn't stand it any longer, so he stepped forward and grabbed Qin Tianming's collar with one arm, and with just one move, he put Qin Tianming on Gao Yanjiao's horse.
Gao Yanjiao said thank you to Li Tai, then waved and patted the horse's butt. The blue and white horse immediately rushed out of the Qiandong County Yamen and galloped directly towards the streets of the county town.
Qin Tianming had never ridden a fast horse like this in his previous life. He usually traveled by train or drove by himself. This was indeed the first time for him to ride a horse. Riding on a horse made him feel as thrilling as riding a roller coaster. Invincible.
He stretched out his hands and gripped the saddle tightly, fearing to fall off, but his hands were so tight that he still felt like he was going to fall off the horse.
Isn't this fatal?
Especially at night, when the big horse galloped away, the feet were high and low, and the black shadows all around retreated wildly, it only scared Qin Tianming's heart to shrink into a ball.
It has to be said that Gao Yanjiao's horse riding skills are excellent, at least she can be considered as a super A-level horse rider. In an instant, she has passed through several streets, sped out of Qiandong County, and then detoured onto a country road.
In less than a pack of cigarettes, Gao Yanjiao and Qin Tianming quickly arrived at the foot of a mountain on horseback.
Gao Yanjiao reined in her horse and said to Qin Tianming, who was grabbing her clothes from behind:
"We're here! Dismount!"
Qin Tianming was in shock, stretched his neck and asked:
"Are we here? Damn, the baby is scared to death!"
Gao Yanjiao stopped her horse and said:
"Qin Tianming, you shouldn't let me help you get off your horse, right?"
Of course, Qin Tianming was embarrassed to let a girl help him off his horse. He mustered up the courage and looked at the ground. Fortunately, he was not high from the ground, so he boldly jumped down.
There was a sound of pain.
When Gao Yanjiao looked back, Qin Tianming was like a frog, hiding his face in the sky, waving his limbs randomly, lying on the ground unable to get up.
Gao Yanjiao pursed her lips and smiled, quickly dismounted from her horse, came to Qin Tianming, pulled him up with her hands, shook her head and said:
"It seems like it's true that you don't know how to ride a horse. It's really ridiculous. A noble young man can't even ride a horse, a skill that everyone in Daxia Kingdom knows well?"
Qin Tianming smiled bitterly and almost said:
"I am like you from the Great Xia Kingdom. Horseback riding, archery and fencing are essential skills for men. I only know how to drive but not ride a horse. That's why I fell three times and was in such a mess!"
But Qin Tianming knew that trying to explain to others that he had traveled through time and could drive was tantamount to fantasy, so it was better not to mention it.
He then shook his head and said:
"Sorry, I'm a little dizzy and made you laugh."
Horse sickness? !
Gao Yanjiao was amused so much that she giggled. While laughing, she took off the torch from her horse, shined it on Qin Tianming's frightened face, and said:
"Are you so funny? Are you getting dizzy? This is the first time I've heard of this. Okay, take this torch, I'll light another one, and we'll go up the mountain right away!"
Qin Tianming took the torch and illuminated the road in front of him. He looked up at the road up the mountain. It was pitch black and he began to regret it.
Gao Yanjiao lit another torch with the fire sickle, looked at Qin Tianming and said:
"What? You regret it, don't you?"
Now that the matter has come to this, Qin Tianming is willing to risk everything. Even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire tonight, he must face the difficulties, otherwise he will not be able to solve the case and he will die, so he can only fight!
Qin Tianming raised the torch, took long strides, and headed directly towards the mountain road.
Gao Yanjiao tied up the blue and white horse, then followed Qin Tianming, and the two of them climbed up the mountain with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
Fortunately, although the mountain road was winding, it was not long. Not long after walking, we came to the sinkhole.
Because a large number of corpses were found in the sinkhole, no one from the surrounding area dared to come here in broad daylight. As a result, the weeds here were so dense that they stood as tall as a person.
Fortunately, Gao Yanjiao was well prepared. She pulled out a machete from her back, cleared the tall grass in front of her in just a few strokes, and cut a passage directly to the sinkhole.
Less than ten meters away from the sinkhole, you can already feel the biting cold wind coming out of the sinkhole, making you shiver.
When he came to the tiankeng, Qin Tianming listened carefully and heard a whimpering sound coming from below the tiankeng. When he listened carefully, it seemed to be the sound of a woman crying, more like a child laughing, which was unpredictable.
Qin Tianming took a breath and said to himself:
"No wonder this place is called a ghost pit, it seems there is a reason!"
Gao Yanjiao held up the torch, looked at Qin Tianming coldly, and said deliberately:
"Qin Dazhuzuo, it's too late to regret now. Don't wait until you reach the bottom of the sinkhole. It will be difficult to return."
Qin Tianming ignored Gao Yanjiao, but looked up at the morning star hanging in the sky. According to the position of the morning star, which was already far north, Qin Tianming knew a little about astronomy and immediately judged that it was not far from dawn.
He said to Gao Yanjiao:
"It's not far from dawn. The two of us will camp here. In less than an hour, the sky will light up. It won't be too late for us to go down then."
Gao Yanjiao suddenly said:
"I want to get down now!"
"Go down now!?"
Qin Tianming looked into the dark bottomless sinkhole and said repeatedly:
"No, no, it's not bright yet, it's too dangerous to go down now!"
Gao Yanjiao untied the coiled rope from her back and immediately took action. While untying the rope, she said:
"You are timid. If you go down now, you can't see below, so you may not be afraid. If it gets dawn, even if you have ten more courages, you might not dare to go down, so go down now!"
Qin Tianming frowned and thought, this beauty was right. When dawn came, he might not dare to go down into this sinkhole.
do my best!
Qin Tianming gritted his teeth and said:
"Go down, go down, who is afraid of whom! In order to resolve the case as soon as possible, it is worth it for me, Qin Tianming, to sacrifice my life once!"
Gao Yanjiao shook her head and said:
"I said you are too timid to climb here. What are you afraid of? I will tie the rope tightly. Unless someone cuts the rope, you and I will go down to the sinkhole unscathed!"
After saying that, Gao Yanjiao opened the coiled rope, found a very strong tree near the sinkhole, tied the rope firmly to the uncle's roots, then went around the end of the rope, pulled two big rings, and said to Qin Tianming :
"You and I each make a loop, put our bodies through it, tie it firmly, and then climb on!"
Although Qin Tianming was a little frightened, he still obeyed Gao Yanjiao and got into the noose. Only when Gao Yanjiao tightened the noose did he know that he was really going to take a risk.
Gao Yanjiao was above Qin Tianming, and she was responsible for lowering the rope.
Qin Tianming was below. As long as Gao Yanjiao let go of the rope, he would take the next step.
Soon, Qin Tianming entered the sinkhole with Gao Yanjiao with his feet dangling in the air.
The deeper they went down, the darker it became in the sinkhole. Fortunately, Gao Yanjiao tied a torch to the rope, so Qin Tianming didn't feel like he was falling into hell.
There were thick bushes on the wall of the sinkhole. Qin Tianming used the weak torch light to peel away the bushes wrapped around the wall of the sinkhole and climbed down with difficulty.
The sinkhole was indeed very deep. He didn’t know how long it had been. Qin Tianming’s clothes, hands and feet were scratched numerous times by thorns. He felt that the sinkhole would never reach the bottom. Suddenly, he heard Gao Yanjiao say:
"Here we are, here we are!"
Suddenly the rope loosened, and Qin Tianming felt his feet firmly on the ground.
It took the two people a full hour to reach the bottom of the sinkhole with great difficulty.
After lighting the torch, Qin Tianming discovered that there was a pool at the bottom of the sinkhole. There were flat ground on both sides of the pool, and there were some messy trees and weeds not far from the pool.
Gao Yanjiao put away the rope, found some firewood nearby, and quickly lit a bonfire.
After a while, a fire piled up with firewood and weeds ignited a fire. Qin Tianming surrounded the fire and finally revived his frozen torso.
The fire burned brighter and brighter. Qin Tianming used the light of the fire to carefully examine the bottom of the sinkhole.
There is a pool of water at the bottom of the tiankeng, which looks green and glows faintly, and seems to be unfathomable.
Qin Tianming pointed to the pit of water and asked Gao Yanjiao beside him:
"If I'm not wrong, those corpses are probably floating in the water, right?"
Gao Yanjiao nodded and said:
"I heard from the head catcher Li Tai that they mobilized dozens of people to climb down to the bottom of the sinkhole, and it took a lot of effort to fish the bones out of the pool. It was not easy. "
Qin Tianming looked up at the cliff of the sinkhole and said to himself:
"It's really strange. Qandong County mobilized dozens of police officers to fish out the body from such a deep place. Then I don't understand how the murderer got these dozens of bodies here. ?”
Gao Yanjiao whispered:
"Didn't they say that the murderer was a ghost instead of a human? If the murderer was a ghost, wouldn't it be easy to do this?"
"Bullshit!"
Qin Tianming shook his head and said:
"It's all nonsense. Stone horse ghosts kill people. I think they have something evil in mind! I don't believe there are ghosts killing people in the world! I think it must be people killing people. There are no ghosts or gods killing people."
Gao Yanjiao asked doubtfully:
"Since you don't believe that ghosts kill people, let me ask you, how did the murderer transport the body to this deep sinkhole?"
"Here's the problem, here's the mystery."
Qin Tianming warmed himself by the fire and said:
"If multiple people committed the crime, we can still explain it reluctantly, but I believe it will not be multiple people. It must be two or three people. That way people will not talk too much and leak the secret. So the question arises, how did they get rid of the body?" Did you come to the sinkhole?"
Gao Yanjiao said:
"I wonder if the murderer threw the body into the pool?"
"Impossible! Impossible!"
Qin Tianming analyzed and said:
"If the murderer dropped the body from a height of tens of meters, the body would have suffered various injuries. The autopsy personnel from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment would definitely have discovered it. However, the autopsy sheet did not mention that there were various external injuries on the body. Therefore, , this can definitely be ruled out, the body was transported from other places.”
Gao Yanjiao thought for a long time and suddenly said:
"According to your statement, is there a passage in here?"
"yes!"
Gao Yanjiao The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention.
Qin Tianming slapped his thigh and said loudly:
"What you said really reminded me! I suspect there must be a secret passage in this sinkhole!"
