(Two chapters are too troublesome, so I’d better post them together (????????). Riba Chenconcubine can’t do it, so I’ll try to add more in the future)
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Panma's hand holding the pipe trembled imperceptibly, and his face turned gray, as if he had aged a lot in an instant.
"The few people who participated in that incident, except me, were all killed by that monster." Panma closed his eyes in resignation. He knew that the evil he did back then would one day be repaid to him.
Wu Xiaoxie frowned and said, "I want to know how they died and what was the cause of death?"
Panma sighed quietly, with a painful expression on his face, as if he didn't want to recall what happened that year, "The first thing that happened was Pang Ergui. He disappeared a few days after we came back. The villagers searched for him on the mountain for two days but couldn't find him. shadow."
"The remaining four of us had some secrets in our minds. We understood that the disappearance of Ergui was definitely not simple. In the end, we had no choice but to bite the bullet and came to the lake. As a result, we happened to see Ergui transforming into a monster with those monsters. The conversation seemed very natural, as if everything that had happened before had disappeared."
Afterwards, they suppressed their inner fear, chatted with those people for a few words, and immediately took Pang Ergui home.
At this time, what shocked Panma and the others was that Pang Ergui also had that smell on his body, but no one else except them could smell it. Even the daughter-in-law who lived with Ergui day and night didn't notice anything was wrong.
But Panma and the others knew in their hearts that this person was not the second noble. The real second noble had been eaten by the monster in the lake.
Panma and the others were so frightened that they did not dare to go home, fearing that they would be left alone again, which would give the monster an opportunity. So everyone gathered at Panma's house, but before dawn, they got the news that Ergui had hanged himself last night. Yes, the whole house is filled with that smell.
At the same time, two of the remaining four people also disappeared.
"Those monsters quietly assimilated Ergui and the others. Even if they move out of the village, they will eventually return to Ergui's abandoned house and hang themselves from the beams."
Panma couldn't stop trembling all over and said in horror: "I was frightened and knew it was impossible to escape, so I thought of a black dog to defeat evil spirits. I borrowed several big pure black dogs from others. I have seen blood. The hunting dogs were tied up in the house every night when they slept. Until three days later, those people completely broke camp and left the village with those boxes that exuded a strange smell and never came back."
Panma spent a year in fear, confirming that those people would not come back again, but the original incident always tortured him like a nightmare. In order to find out what happened, he mustered up the courage to return to the lake and discovered A piece of clothing was washed to the shore by the current, and a strange-shaped iron piece was found inside.
Iron block? Wu Xiaoxie immediately thought of the two "iron gourds" in his brother's hand, and asked Panma, "What kind of iron blocks can we see?"
Panma stood up, took something wrapped in red cloth from under the floor in the corner of the room, and handed it to Zhang Zhuxun together with the red cloth.
As soon as he touched it, Zhang Zhuxun knew that the red cloth was not an ordinary red cloth, but was dyed red with blood. Judging from the way the horse was hiding like a snake and a scorpion, it must be bloody.
When I opened it, I found that there was indeed an iron lump inside that was almost the same shape as before, but the Panma one was better preserved, with less rust on the surface, and you could clearly see the strange and primitive patterns on it.
Wu Xiaoxie went up to take a whiff, and indeed smelled a smell, which was very light and could not be described in words.
Panma said that the smell was very strong when he first discovered it, but over time, the smell gradually dissipated. There were no bugs in this iron piece at home.
Judging from Panma's expression, it is obvious that animals and bugs are more sensitive to danger than humans, so they will not get close to this iron body.
"That's all I know." Panma poured a cup of tea for each of them, only covering the bottom of the cup. "I hope you two keep your promise."
An eviction order has been issued.
Zhang Shuxun and the two didn't stay any longer. They stood up. Zhang Shuxun took out a card from his pocket and put it on the table, "Thirty thousand, password six zeros."
In this line of work for
For the convenience of walking, he usually prepares a few scattered cards with a little bit of money in them.
After leaving Panma's house, it started to rain outside, but the rain was relatively light, so he declined his father's son's offer to stay and trotted back to Agui's house.
The fat man and the little brother were chatting under the pavilion in the courtyard. Of course, most of the time it was the fat man who was talking casually. The little brother would occasionally respond, and more often he would look up and stare at the edge of the eaves. The raindrops dripping down were in a daze.
As soon as the figures of Zhang Zhuoxun and the two appeared at the entrance of the courtyard, the younger brother quickly turned his head around as if he sensed it, and there were some fluctuations in Shen's eyes.
Seeing the two of them coming back in the rain, Agui quickly ordered Yuncai and her sister to boil water.
I stayed at Panma's house all afternoon and came back just in time for dinner.
After returning to the house and changing into dry clothes, the two fat men also went upstairs. As soon as the door was closed, they winked at Zhang Zhuxun and the other two, "How was it? Did you gain anything?"
Just as Zhang Zhuxun was about to speak, he heard the sound of the wooden stairs, and he immediately swallowed his words.
"Let's wait until after dinner. The situation is a bit complicated." Wu Xiaoxie said.
The fat man nodded, "That's okay, the situation with the iron knot is also a bit complicated."
Wu Xiaoxie was still thinking about how complicated the iron knot could be. When Fatty returned to the room after dinner and took out two iron lumps, Wu Xiaoxie was dumbfounded.
Looking at the two unrecognizable iron lumps inside the box, Wu Xiaoxie couldn't believe his eyes, "Why is it like this?"
Those who didn't know better thought that a bucket of paste had been poured on it, and the pimples and patterns were all blurred together so that they couldn't be seen clearly.
The fat man scratched his head and coughed, "The shell of this thing is too strong. Fatty poured a bottle of sulfuric acid on it and the wooden pillars were burnt black. But this thing didn't react at all and only burned away the rust on the outside. I borrowed a saw from Agui again, but two saw blades broke off, and the thing still didn’t move at all, and then it became like this.”
Zhang Zhuoxun's mouth twitched, he shook his head helplessly, and took out the new iron lump he got from Panma.
The little brother took it in his hand and smelled it, frowning slightly, "I seem to have smelled this smell somewhere before."
Seeing that the younger brother had no clue, Wu Xiaoxie repeated everything they heard from Panma.
"Is there such a thing?" The fat man frowned, "It couldn't be that the old man made it up to fool people, right?"
Wu Xiaoxie said in a deep voice: "I think it should be true, or in other words, it is what Panma really experienced at that time, but it is not true in that sense."
The fat man was a little confused, "What do you mean?"
Wu Xiaoxie explained: "Let's go through it from beginning to end. From the clues given by Muyu, we inferred that something happened to the expedition team back then, and we learned from Panma that they were the ones who initiated the accident. But then it got out of control."
"I don't believe what Panma said about monsters. Let's only consider the most practical situation. What do you think it could be?" Wu Xiaoxie asked.
The fat man waved his hands impatiently, "Don't ask me, my brain cells have been corroded by sulfuric acid."
Wu Xiaoxie turned to ask Zhang Zhu and the two of them, "What do you think? It's the most reasonable guess."
Zhang Zhuoxun knocked on the table, "If you ask me to speculate, the most reasonable thing is that there must be someone behind this. Don't forget, if you want to disguise a person, a simple human skin mask can do it. It doesn’t require much advanced makeup, it’s easy to deceive outsiders, and Panma and the people on the expedition team are not familiar with each other, so they can’t detect anything strange in their panic.”
The younger brother also nodded, "Resurrection from the dead is ridiculous."
It is an irreversible fact that people cannot be resurrected after death. Unless you have extraordinary energy like the system, even the ability of the bronze tree will still be fake. Lao Itchy's mother is the best example. Replicas always end up being fake. It has an expiration date.
As for Zhang Zhuxun himself, at the last moment of his death, the system reversed time and space and was brought to another parallel world where pens were stolen.
The fat man realized the true meaning of their words, "What you mean is that those people killed by Panma were not resurrected, but were replaced by another group of people.
Came out of the mountain for them? "
Wu Xiaoxie nodded, "The most reasonable explanation is this. Do you still remember the "it" that Chen Wenjin is afraid of both inside and outside his words? According to Chen Wenjin, "it" is omnipotent, and it is easy to accomplish such a thing. "
Although Zhang Zhuxun knew that there was a misunderstanding in this inference, he had no way to remind him directly at the moment, so he could only say: "It is very simple to verify it. Let's go to the lake in Yangjiao Mountain and take a look. If we can salvage a large number of bones, This means that our speculation is correct."
"Then how do you explain those people who hanged themselves?" The fat man was still a little confused.
A sneer appeared at the corner of Zhang Shuxun's lips, "It's just a little trick of psychological oppression. If the facts are as we speculated, then the people who hanged themselves were all tricked later, and the bodies were hung up to pretend to be suicides. Used to intimidate Panma."
"Isn't this so idle?" The fat man sneered, "The people I killed with my own hands appeared in front of me again, and my accomplices died one after another. The old man Panma probably lost his courage."
Wu Xiaoxie continued: "I feel that there may be errors in this. Let's assume that this is a long-planned conspiracy. There is a group of people secretly who have been prepared to kill the real expedition team for a long time. They may have set a plan. The execution date was on that day, but unexpectedly, Panma and the others took the lead, causing the plan to go awry."
"So those people in the secret simply took advantage of this and started to disguise themselves according to the original plan. Only then did Panma say that the demon lake monster came ashore and turned into a human being. And a series of things happened after that, just like what Muyu said, Panma and the others acted as The execution "killers" and insiders will naturally take certain measures. "
"Dead people are the best way to keep secrets." Zhang Zhuxun continued after Wu Xiaoxie's words, "But Panma and the others indirectly caused damage inside. As Panma said, he had seen it with his own eyes while hiding in secret. I have seen those people climb out of the lake, so I have no doubts about the monster in the lake."
"In the archaeological team back then, my younger brother, Chen Wenjin, and Huo Ling were all involved. Perhaps the three of them happened to go down to the lake on the night when Panma committed the murder, so they escaped. After that, the three of them Maybe she left Banai with the fake expedition team, and when she entered Xisha, she swapped the three of them with the fake ones, so it’s a lie that Huo Ling left the expedition team in Golmud after being tricked.” Zhang Zhuxun finished his speculation.
The fat man touched his chin and slapped his hand, "Fat Master, I think what you said makes sense. In that case, let's hurry up and go to Yangjiao Mountain to dig out the bones, and everything will be solved."
Wu Xiaoxie nodded, "Pan Ma and the others were in a hurry when they finished killing the people and disposing of the bodies, and there was no boat, so the bodies must have been dumped nearby by the lake. Let's try our luck. Muyu, you have diving equipment in your treasure chest. without?"
Zhang Zhuoxun nodded, "I've always prepared it."
The four of them discussed it and decided that if the rain stopped tomorrow, Agui would find a guide to take them to Yangjiao Mountain.
The rain outside the window was not heavy at this time. Fatty even went downstairs to ask Agui that it often rains in Guangxi and people who have lived here have more experience. Agui said that there is a high probability that the rain will stop and it is not impossible to go up the mountain. .
The fat man then asked him to help find a guide who knew the way. Agui agreed wholeheartedly and said that he could donate his two shotguns, but he didn't have much ammunition, so they were enough for self-defense.
The fat man agreed with a smile.
The weather turned sunny the next day.
Because the excuse was to go up the mountain to hunt for exotic things, Agui, the accompanying equipment, helped them get it last night, and also gave each of them a herbal bag, which he said was for repelling mosquitoes.
Zhang Zhuoxun and the others took it without saying anything. Even though the younger brother was with him, mosquitoes would not come to the door.
However, they tested it last night and found that the three strange iron nubs also had a bit of mosquito repellent effect. The boy thought this thing was a "ticking time bomb" and insisted on holding it himself.
But what was a little depressing was that they were about to set off, and they didn't see the guide Agui mentioned. Instead, it was him and Yuncai carrying all the bags and machetes, looking like they were ready to set off at any time.
Wu Xiaoxie was surprised, "You guys
yes? "
Agui made an excuse and said that the hunter who had been to Yangjiao Mountain happened to have gone up the mountain in the past two days and had not returned yet, so he had to do it for him.
Wu Xiaoxie had no choice but to turn around and go find Zhang Zhu and the others to discuss. The fat man said, "I guess the price we gave is too high. This old boy is reluctant to let others make that money."
"No, Agui can go, but Yuncai can't. We are going to do business. What can we do with a girl? It's so dangerous. If he scratches his skin, he, as a father, won't feel bad, but I will. "
After saying that, he went to talk to Agui. Agui kept insisting that the children in the mountains, regardless of gender, started to pick up guns at the age of five or six. He would sometimes bring clouds with him when he went hunting in the mountains. Yuncai's experience is much more useful than those of the city dwellers.
Yun Cai was a little unhappy. He patted the hunting knife in his waist and raised his eyebrows. He was wearing a hunting uniform of the Yao people and looked heroic. His beautiful face was unconvinced and a little playful, "Brother Fat, you look down on people, don't you?
When the fat man heard the sound, he turned around and his eyes widened.
