Chapter 25 Chapter 24 Visiting the Tomb

The night is bleak and cold, the mountain trails are misty, and there may be one or two sad howls of wild animals, which may be far or near, and it is difficult to find them. Driving alone in such an environment, Luo Fei will inevitably have a gloomy feeling in his heart. . The sacrificial hall in the mountains was now shrouded in the bleak moonlight.The three doors leading to the cemetery behind the house were opened one by one, as if waiting for someone to arrive. Luo Fei walked into the room.The front room still retains the scene of Huitong and Zang Junyong sleeping: the quilt is spread out, and an oil lamp is placed on the small table beside Huitong's bed.

Luo Fei found a match and lit the oil lamp. Dim red light permeated the room. The light flickered on and off, casting shadows flickering on the wall, which instead exaggerated a strange and unpredictable atmosphere.Luo Fei took the oil lamp in his hand and walked towards the back room. Compared with the quick-paced shooting star when he was on his way just now, his steps were obviously much slower at this time. Was he afraid of waking up some people who were sleeping in the dark? What about things? The coffin parked in the back room was shining black and red under the oil lamp. Xue Xiaohua and Deping were lying in it quietly. Although they had long lost their breath, their eyes were wide open, as if they were also paying attention to what was about to happen. matter.

Luo Fei didn't stop in the back room. At this moment, all his thoughts were focused on the cemetery in the backyard, the tomb where thousands of unjust souls from the tsunami rest. Just as Huitong described, the tall tombstone was turned around 70 degrees counterclockwise, revealing a dark hole at the bottom of the tombstone.Luo Fei stood beside the tombstone, a musty and damp air came over his face.The oil lamp in his hand seemed to have also received some kind of induction, and the light flickered suddenly. Could it be trembling because of fear? Luo Fei took a deep breath and fixed his eyes on the hole. Even if it really leads to a terrible hell, he still wants to find out!He first knelt down on the ground, bent over to probe, and put the oil lamp into the hole, trying to see what was going on inside.But in this way, he only saw a passage extending downward, about one meter deep, and then the passage turned a corner, leading to the direction of the tomb.The tomb was silent, without any response to outside noises and prying eyes.

Luo Fei decided to go straight down into the cave.The hole is not spacious, and can only accommodate one person barely in and out.He put the oil lamp at the entrance of the cave, propped his hands on the ground, and slowly lowered his lower body in. When the edge of the cave was close to his chest, his soles stiffened and he stepped on the ground inside the cave. Luo Fei took the oil lamp into the cave, then squatted down, and his whole body was in the passage.At this time, he saw the structure of the tombstone clearly. Its base was actually composed of two stones. The part connected to the tombstone was a circle. This round stone was nested in a square stone seat buried on the ground.Luo Fei once observed the circular texture on the stone seat from the outside, but he didn't expect that it would be two separate stones that could be pushed.

On the opposite side of the stone tablet in the passage, there is a square hole with a height of half a person, which obviously leads to the inside of the tomb.Luo Fei squatted and moved two steps forward, suddenly the ground was no longer restrained above his head, and the whole space suddenly opened up, he had already entered the grave! Because Luo Fei's body was always moving, the light of the oil lamp was also shaking violently, and he couldn't see clearly what was going on inside the tomb for a while.He stood up first, then held his breath and remained motionless. After a while, the light finally gradually stabilized.

What caught Luo Fei's eyes was a coffin in the center. In fact, apart from this coffin, there was nothing placed in this not-so-small tomb space, let alone any trace of human activities. So, is it from this coffin that the baby cries repeatedly heard in the middle of the night? The color of the coffin is dim, the paint on the surface has basically fallen off, and there are even traces of decay on the edges. It seems that it has been parked in the tomb for many years.Luo Fei walked slowly to the front of the coffin, switched the oil lamp to his left hand, put his right hand on the edge of the coffin cover, then put his shoulders down and exerted strength, and with a strange light "creak", the cover slowly slid open .

The cover moved about half a meter at one end, Luo Fei stopped, put the oil lamp on the opened gap, and looked inside the coffin. The situation inside the coffin was immediately linked to many rumors that had appeared before.Luo Fei's first impression was: he saw a woman, a woman holding a baby! It's just that this woman, and the baby she held tightly in her arms, have been dead for many years, and their corpses have decayed away, leaving only gray and white bones. Luo Fei judged from the remaining clothes that the deceased in the coffin was a woman, and the coat she wore back then should be a long skirt.The baby's skeleton was curled up in a rotten and tattered swaddle, and his posture was extremely painful and helpless. The small mouth that hadn't grown teeth was opened as hard as possible, and it seemed that he was letting out a heart-pounding cry.The woman hugged the swaddle tightly, and looked at Luo Fei with her two empty eye sockets. Although it is impossible to guess what she wanted to say now, it is conceivable that until the moment before she died, she would not want to talk to Luo Fei. own children apart.

Although Luo Fei was fully prepared mentally, the combination of the situation before him and the legend of "Ghost Watching Slope" and the rumor of babies crying in the middle of the night still inevitably gave him a feeling of scalp tingling. Ghost, baby.Could this be the answer he was looking for? After calming down for a while, Luo Fei put the oil lamp aside, then walked to the other end of the coffin, pushed the entire cover away completely, and leaned against one side of the coffin, so that he could see the panorama of the interior of the coffin more clearly. After careful investigation, there were no other valuable clues in the coffin except for the two corpses.However, just when Luo Fei was about to put the cover back to its original place, he noticed a detail: there was a belt buckle around the waist of the long skirt worn by the female corpse, but there was no trace of the belt.He suddenly thought of something, temporarily stopped his movements, and took out the cloth strip that had been strangled around Deping's neck from his pocket.Although the light is dim, it can still be clearly seen that, no matter in terms of color and material, this strip of cloth has an astonishing similarity to the long skirt on the corpse.

Stupid people will also understand at this time: the cloth strip used to strangle Deping is the crony that was once tied on the female corpse! Luo Fei was stunned for a moment, then put the cover back on.Next, he raised the oil lamp and searched carefully in other places in the tomb. He didn't find anything special this time, but he wasn't depressed. This tomb had told him many things. After doing some analysis quietly, I will definitely be able to find meaningful clues from it. Now, he still needs to complete an experiment, and the work in the tomb should come to an end. Luo Fei came to the passageway of the entrance again. Under the nested base, the stone tablet still extended about 20 centimeters long.He put his hands against the protruding stone, pushed it hard, and the stone tablet on the ground turned accordingly, and the entrance of the passage slowly closed, blocking the bleak moonlight from the outside world.

The process of pushing the stele is not as difficult as imagined. Between the nested bases, there should be designs like stone balls.The result of the experiment satisfied Luo Fei: this entrance can be freely controlled inside and outside the tomb. After the cave was closed, the flames of the oil lamps suddenly became flickering.This phenomenon immediately caught Luo Fei's attention. He came to the oil lamp to observe carefully, and saw the flame flickering intermittently, sticking out his tongue in a fixed direction on the side and upper side. Luo Fei realized that this was the effect caused by the tiny airflow.He held the oil lamp in his hand, and looked for the direction of the stream according to the flickering of the flame.Soon, he discovered: On the top wall of the tomb in the southeast direction, there was a round hole as thick as a finger, through which he could faintly see a bit of the dark blue night sky. Obviously, this hole was connected to the outside world. .If the oil lamp was extinguished, there might still be a ray of cold moonlight coming in from the hole, reflecting on the head of the coffin.

Completely enclosed in such a dark and treacherous space, Luo Fei soon felt an indescribable depression and uneasiness welling up from the bottom of his heart.He realized he had to go out and catch his breath. Just as Luo Fei pushed the entrance of the tombstone back, he heard a terrified cry from outside. He hurriedly climbed to the ground, only to see Li Dong and Jin Zhenyu retreating far away, their faces pale, and their eyes wide open staring at Own. "Don't be afraid, it's me! Luo Fei." He quickly reported his identity, while shaking the oil lamp in his hand. "Officer Luo? You... what's going on?" Li Dong followed Luo Fei's instructions and called Jin Zhenyu to the sacrificial hall, but he didn't find him.When he was worried about any accidents, the tombstone suddenly turned, and then a dark "monster" crawled out of the grave, and his heart almost jumped out of his throat in fright.Now that this "monster" turned out to be Luo Fei, the fear naturally disappeared, replaced by strong confusion. "What's going on? It must start with Zang Junyong's illness." Luo Fei narrowed his eyes, and explained Huitong's experience and what he saw after he went down to the tomb to the two of them.The two listened intently, with expressions of surprise and uncertainty appearing on their faces from time to time. When some details happened, Li Dong would even look at Luo Fei with disbelief, but the other party's solemn expression did not seem to be joking at all. After Luo Fei finished speaking, there was a brief silence in the cemetery.Only the whistling of the wind seemed to freeze the terrifying atmosphere.Finally, Li Dong couldn't hold back anymore, shook his head and murmured, "How is this possible? Will a baby that has become a skeleton still cry? Besides, everyone on the island knows that this undead tomb is just an empty tomb for sacrifices. What's going on inside?" Will the corpses of a mother and child appear?" While speaking, he kept his eyes fixed on the dark entrance of the tomb.There is not only fear in the eyes, but also a strong desire to uncover the mystery. Luo Fei turned his face to Jin Zhenyu, and said suddenly: "There are some questions, I'm afraid we have to be answered by Village Chief Jin." Jin Zhenyu was in a dazed state. Hearing what Luo Fei said, he seemed unprepared, the muscles on his face twitched, he squeezed out a stiff smile, and then asked, "You...what do you mean by that?" "You don't know the existence of this secret passage?" "How would I know?" Jin Zhenyu adjusted and regained his normal thinking ability. "This undead mound was built by Deping at the beginning. He has been in charge of it for so many years. Although I am the village head, I am not the village chief. But ask about it." "You mean, all of this is a trick created by Deping? Then how did Zang Junyong know that there is a secret way? Isn't there some kind of connection between you?" "It's a matter between them, maybe there is some secret. You should ask Zang Junyong, why ask me?" Jin Zhenyu looked puzzled and innocent at the same time. Luo Fei saw that he had been pretending to be confused, so he simply went straight and confronted him head-on: "Okay. Then I will ask you a question that you must know. During the tsunami, Monk Deping——his name was Chang Jian at that time. The sea saved your life, didn't it?" Jin Zhenyu closed his eyes and let out a long breath: "Yes, many people know about this, and I don't deny it." "Then why didn't you mention it before? What are you hiding?" "What's there to say?" Jin Zhenyu spread his hands, looking a little helpless, "I have received favors from others, and I will always remember them in my heart, and I will repay them naturally when I have the opportunity. It is not like some people who always talk about it. Instead it makes no sense.” "But Deping also saved Meng Shaohui? Does that make no sense? Zhou Yonggui and Zang Junyong were also rescued by Deping. What happened during this period? What is the secret that Xue Xiaohua used to threaten you?" Luo Fei grasped the gist of the matter and refused to budge an inch. "I don't know the secret. Yes, we were all rescued by Deping. But Deping saved us first, and then went to save Meng Shaohui. Only Deping knows what happened during this period. Meng Why did Shaohui's mother die? What do the shadows on the 'Ghost Watching Slope' and the corpses in the tomb have to do with this matter? I want to know the answers to these questions just like you." Jin Zhenyu one by one Cope, don't panic. Luo Fei frowned.Yes, according to Mrs. Sun, when Deping rescued Meng Shaohui, there was no one else on the raft.Then it cannot be assumed that Jin Zhenyu and others must know the details.But from the analysis of the current situation, Zang Junyong and Zhou Yonggui are both related to this matter, and it is obviously illogical for Jin Zhenyu to be alone.The question is, how do you get the other person to speak? The series of cases on Mingze Island seemed to form such a strange circle in front of Luo Fei: he did not lack clues to solve the case, but the parties behind the clues were always hiding something on purpose.They give you corresponding statements and explanations, and you can find doubts in them, but there is no conclusive reason to overthrow them.Moreover, they are only potential victims in the ongoing cases. Even as a policeman, Luo Fei cannot implement coercive measures.These became the most troublesome problems in the case. Everyone is deliberately keeping a secret many years ago.In this case, if you want to solve the mystery, it seems that you can only rely on yourself. Luo Fei looked at Jin Zhenyu with scorching eyes, but he didn't ask any more questions. He already knew that under the current circumstances, it was best not to expect to get anything from asking.