Chapter 15 Chapter Thirteen

A philosopher once said that human beings should not be too self-righteous. We should treat all living beings with a humble heart, so that we can make fewer mistakes and accumulate wisdom.This is what I often teach Qingfeng, but now the letter I hold in my hand is testing my wisdom. The so-called "Qiu letter" is a letter delivered by a monster called "Qiu". This kind of monster has no legs or wings, but it can freely shuttle between two spaces, and it is an important source of information for hunters.And this kind of letter can only be obtained from the hunter's market.

Because I was wanted by the Predator Bazaar, I unilaterally cut off the Qiu Dao several days ago, so that the Bazaar could not judge my location.But correspondingly, I have been unable to receive information for a long time. Just now I ordered Qingfeng to squat on the side of the road and robbed a hunter casually, and I easily got the "Qiu letter" I was holding in my hand. Qiuxin is a booklet, and the front page is my wanted arrest warrant.cut!Those old bastards in the market, do they deserve to spend so much energy trying to arrest me?Whoever I provoke provoked me!When the hunters were collectively massacred before, I had never seen people from the Dark Pavilion dispatched. This time, not only did I spend such a high price, but also sent a lot of members of the Dark Pavilion to arrest me.

It's really unkind.It's hard to convince people that there's nothing tricky about it. The second page of Qiu's letter is a very conspicuous piece of news.I just took one look and was stunned. It was mentioned in the news that in the early morning of the day before yesterday, a partial land subsidence occurred in Heishui Town, forming three giant "tiankengs" of various sizes, the largest of which was fifty feet wide. The collapse seriously threatened eleven nearby houses.It is preliminarily believed that the ground collapse was caused by small karst collapses caused by underground caves.But the villagers suspected that it was a monster.

The text of the news is still written by the popular Scout in the Predator's Bazaar.He wrote: In the early morning of the day before yesterday, a local ground subsidence occurred in Heishui Town, and three giant "tiankengs" of various sizes were formed overnight, spreading out in a straight line, about 400 feet long, and the collapse seriously threatened eleven nearby farmers.After the incident, the local yamen immediately dispatched their subordinates to the local hunters' market and entrusted the hunters to find out the cause of the collapse. An hour later, five earth hunters rushed to the tiankeng.After careful on-site investigation, the preliminary conclusion was that the ground collapse was a small karst collapse caused by an underground karst cave, which was a natural disaster.

The members of the bazaar Qiuxin also sent personnel to conduct a secret investigation of the local area that night. Eighty-one-year-old Zhang Fu, the oldest person in Heishui Town, said: "I've never seen such a big hole in the ground in my life. It's so scary!" In Zhang Fu's memory, this was her first Once encountered such a "weird thing". At Chenshi yesterday morning, I also came to Heishui Town by driving the Fire Beast, but just entered the town, and after driving about two miles, I saw a "big hole" suddenly "emerge" on the side of the road.These potholes are really big like monsters.

Villagers Zhou Hua and Li Lan's homes are almost zero distance from the "Dakeng".They said that the big pit was even deeper the morning before yesterday, and now the villagers kept pouring soil into it, hoping to bury the sinkhole, but after working hard for a long time, only about half of it was filled. Several nearby residents were curiously comparing the size of the "big pit", and some always thought it was a natural disaster, and even worshiped in front of the pit, kowtowed and burned incense. Walking along the uphill road to the right of the first "big pit" for less than fifty feet, a circular "big pit" appeared in the middle of a large field on the left, which was similar in size to the "big pit" on the side of the road.But this one is not too big, the one halfway up the mountain is considered a "tiankeng", which is fifty feet wide!

Under the guidance of local enthusiastic villagers, I saw the largest "tiankeng" on the edge of Heishui Lake, with a diameter of more than fifty feet and a depth of ten feet. It is next to a quarry and several households. The "tiankeng" is circular, and the surrounding farmland and ground were deformed and cracked by an "invisible hand". The largest crack was four to fifty inches; some crops were completely obliterated by the collapsed earth and rocks. I have noticed that the scope of the "tiankeng" includes a large area of ​​farmland and the only way up the mountain. The Yamen has sent arresters around to prevent anyone from passing.

This time, the tiankeng appeared, and many people's yards disappeared overnight. The families of Yang Lan, Yang Hua and Yang You, residents of Heishui Township, are adjacent to the roadside, forming a triangular position.One of the "tiankengs" in the ground collapse happened to "fall" among the three families. "Overnight, the courtyard dam in front of my house disappeared!" Yang Hua recalled that the family was still sound asleep at about Yinshi the morning before yesterday.Suddenly, a strange sound at the door woke him up, "That strange sound was like the 'bang bang' sound when the door was closed heavily, and it returned to calm in an instant."

At around 10 o'clock in the morning, Yang Hua got up and opened the door to look, and found a large circular hole in the gate of his house. "The diameter of the big hole is about five feet, and the depth is six feet. Fortunately, it was discovered during the day, otherwise it would be dark at night." It will be bad if you step on the air!" Empress Yang Hua was terrified. When Yang Hua and other residents discovered the "big pit", a "big pit" with a similar diameter was also discovered in a large field more than fifty feet away; A larger "tiankeng" also collapsed on the rocky mountain ten feet away.Careful villagers found that the three large pits were almost in a straight line, with a distance of more than 400 feet.

Is the cause of this tiankeng a collapse, a natural disaster, or a man-made disaster?Or even a monster? What is the cause of the strange subsidence of the ground?After the incident, hunters and hunters from Heishui Town went to the scene to investigate and preliminarily believed: "The ground collapse was caused by a small karst collapse caused by an underground karst cave, which is a natural geological disaster. Measures that should be taken at present include: carry out three to five 24/7 monitoring to further clarify the cause of the collapse and take countermeasures. During the monitoring period, the eleven households in the dangerous area cannot live and farm here and must be evacuated; the pits that appear must be filled with stones and soil .”

Is the collapse a "natural disaster"?Some villagers in Heishui Town hold different opinions.A villager who did not want to be named pointed out that a nearby stone mining workshop may be the culprit of the collapse. "Since ten days ago, that workshop began to pump a large amount of groundwater, which may have changed the geology of the underground cave. Eventually, the ground subsidence occurred." My humble servant received a strange piece of information at the local yamen. A strange thing happened in that stone mining workshop ten days ago.A large amount of muddy water gushed out without warning from the cave where the stone was mined, flooding the more than 100-foot-long mine road, and the stone workshop suffered heavy losses. Fortunately, this incident also happened at night, otherwise a large number of innocent people would be destroyed. shock. Whether this ground subsidence is related to the large-scale mining of stone mines and the pumping of groundwater by the workshop will eventually require further investigation! Later, I contacted the owner of the workshop, and he said that the stone workshop has been in operation for more than ten years, and there has never been a situation where mud water flooded into the mine tunnel. They also felt very strange about this, and even thought it was a monster. cause trouble. Just around midnight yesterday afternoon when I was collecting information, the ground in Heishui Town was accompanied by strong groans, and several more "tiankengs" collapsed out of thin air. The situation is extremely terrifying, and it also disproves the so-called cave collapse of the earth hunters.Because the place where the "tiankeng" appeared this time is five miles away from the nearest karst cave, even if the karst cave collapses, it will not be involved here. The local hunter market was once again entrusted by the local yamen, offering a reward of 100,000 taels of gold to investigate the matter.Whether it is a natural or man-made disaster or a monster, I am afraid that it is up to the efforts of the hunters! After I read Qiu's letter, I didn't speak for a while, just holding the letter in a daze.Qingfeng shook my shoulder vigorously: "Master, what's wrong with you?" "It's nothing." I forced a smile: "Do you know where Wubu wants us to find someone?" "I don't know, you didn't tell me." Qingfeng shook his head. "It's the Heishui Town in the letter." I sighed, and the name of the town was like a key to open the door, releasing all the memories of my childhood. "Master, why are you sighing?" "No, I just thought of many past events." I shook my head. "It must not be something happy." Qingfeng judged. I was a little surprised: "Oh, where can I see that?" This guy said something very philosophical: "The master once said that when you recall the good memories, you will not sigh." "Tch, did I say something so numbing that even thinking about it would cause sores on my mouth?" I widened my eyes, completely unbelievable. "I said, my sister can testify." "Disgusting!" I shook my head vigorously: "Forget it, let's talk about serious business. Heishui Town, this place is actually not unfamiliar to me, it can even be said to be very familiar. I lived there for a while when I was a child. Unfortunately, Everything was destroyed by a natural disaster." "Natural disaster? Similar to the current tiankeng?" Qingfeng asked. "Not exactly. At that time, the sky was dark and the earth was shaking. The whole town of Heishui surrounded by mountains was split from the center. The water from Heishui Lake poured out and flooded the whole town. Only a small part of it Fortunately, my parents didn't die there. After my father's dream of being a grocery store owner was shattered, he took me back to my home in despair." My smile was a bit bitter, obviously, no matter what Whether it's Heishui Town, a natural disaster, or the family, these are not interesting memories. "And then? The master is sad, and Xue Ying will be sad too." Sensing my sentimentality, Qingfeng's voice twitched for a moment, and Xue Ying appeared, her sleeves danced lightly, and a pair of white and delicate hands gently caressed mine. cheek. "No more, let's go to Heishui Town." I stood up and stretched. I haven't been to Heishui Town for twelve years, and I haven't been back since I escaped twelve years ago.Since everyone said that the root of everything came from Heishui Town, and only when he arrived in Heishui Town would he find the thing that framed me, then I will go as he wishes. Blackwater Town, here I come! At around midnight, the surrounding area was quiet. A group of thieves sneaked into a family's house in Heishui Town, climbed over the courtyard wall, and wanted to enter the house to steal something. Zhao Li was awakened by the barking of dogs in the courtyard.Listening carefully, there seemed to be the sound of hurried footsteps. "No, there are thieves!" He reacted immediately, pushed hard to wake up his sleeping wife Zhang Xiao, and while telling her to wake up the niece and son-in-law in the next room, he put on his clothes and chased him downstairs. When Zhao Li quietly walked to the entrance of the corridor, he found four men covered in black clothes who stole something from his house. There was a large lump behind the black clothes, as if they were bent Generally, getting ready to go out. "Stop, put down all the stolen things!" Zhao Li rushed forward when he saw this. Seeing that the matter was exposed, the four thieves dressed strangely immediately separated three men to rush forward, and another man who was slightly shorter than Zhao Li counterattacked him with a knife, and with a hoarse, The voice of rotten breath pointed at him and threatened: "Don't come here, or I will kill you!" Seeing that the opponent was holding a long knife, Zhao Li didn't dare to rush forward rashly.Seeing that he didn't dare to come up, the other party turned around and ran away. Zhao Li yelled "There are thieves" at the elder brother's house next door, and chased after him. Seeing that Zhao Li was chasing him again, the thief in black grabbed the hunchback with his right hand, conjured up an iron rod from somewhere, turned around and hit Zhao Li head and face.Zhao Li had no choice but to stretch out his hand to cover, and shouted for help. His cries for help alarmed his elder brother, as well as the neighbors around him. The eldest brother and his neighbors came and, together with Zhao Li, followed the path in front of the door where the thief escaped to catch up with the main road.After chasing for more than twenty feet, the thief disappeared into the air inexplicably. It was only then that the crowd realized that they had unknowingly chased into the Luan Grave Mound.I couldn't help shivering, secretly judged that I might have encountered a ghost, facing the direction of the random graveyard, each spit three times to drive away the evil spirits, and then scattered back home. There is no hope of chasing the thief, and he is also inexplicably infected with bad luck.Zhao Li and his eldest brother walked back angrily while cursing. When they reached the door of the hut not far from the gate, they found his wife lying motionless in the middle of the road with her head facing the road and her feet facing the door. "What's the matter, what's the matter with you?" Zhao Li thought his wife had accidentally fallen, so he hurried over to help her up, yelling loudly while helping her up. But no matter how he yelled or shook his wife, she lay in Zhao Li's arms, just let out an "uh" and lowered her head.Suddenly, a feeling of uneasiness lingered in Zhao Li's heart. He hurriedly shouted louder and shook his wife vigorously, but she still didn't respond at all. It was his elder brother who remained calm, touched his wife's breath, and shook his head slowly: "The person is dead." "How is it possible? She was fine just now!" Zhao Li roared in disbelief. "She's no longer breathing. If you don't believe me, feel for it!" The eldest brother also yelled loudly, frowning: "Calm down, see the situation clearly before we talk." Zhao Li's eldest brother had been a policeman and had a lot of experience in handling cases. He quickly checked the body of Zhao Li's wife Zhang Xiao. The corpse was intact, the body temperature was rapidly lost due to death, and there were no obvious wounds on the entire corpse.The only scars were on the arms and legs, but they were not very serious, probably from abrasions from the fall.Apart from that, there were no fatal wounds to be found. When Zhang Xiao was about to die, her left hand was in the shape of a claw, as if she was reaching out to grab something, while the five fingers of her right hand were tightly clenched together. It took Zhao Li's eldest brother a lot of effort to break her hand. Open, there was a piece of cloth in the palm of her hand, a piece of black cloth that was obviously torn from a certain piece of clothing. The scraps of cloth smelled of rancid blood, much like the clothes they had worn on the thief they had hunted not long ago. But Zhang Xiao was obviously not killed by thieves, after all, there were no fatal wounds. However, a natural death is also unlikely.The younger sister-in-law is in good health, even if she is suddenly frightened and dies, she should show it on her expression. But now she seemed to be sleeping peacefully, and she didn't seem to have been frightened at all.It was as if, as if her soul had been taken away by a monster. The eldest brother suddenly stood up, and shouted: "Go and see the other people in the room, why didn't they respond to such a big commotion?" Only then did Zhao Li come to his senses, put down his wife, and stumbled towards the back room.As soon as he entered the door, he saw his niece and niece-in-law collapsed in the house. Both of them were dead, and the appearance of death was exactly the same as that of his wife. "How could this happen, how could this be possible. Dead, all dead! God, what kind of outrageous thing did I commit? You want to punish me like this!" Zhao Li knelt on the ground and beat his head hard, suddenly , he seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly ran to the room on the right. Daughter, my precious daughter must not be busy.I have nothing left, only my daughter, only my daughter can't be lost. Pushing open the door of the room, Zhao Li collapsed to the ground as if struck by lightning.The room was empty, the windows were wide open, and the daughter had long since disappeared... In a cave not far from the chaotic cemetery in Heishui Town, the four thieves covered in black clothes slowly stopped in their tracks.The four people looked at each other, and then their bodies blurred for a while, and finally the four people merged together and became one. The hunchbacked man slowly extended his hand to the hunchback, and pulled back, a beautiful woman fell off his back.She was in a coma, and her jet-black hair was scattered on the ground like a waterfall, beautiful. After the man threw the woman off, his back straightened abruptly. How dare his hunchback could hold a grown girl.They don't even know how he knocked the girl out and brought her back on his back. The man took off his dirty and smelly black coat, revealing a handsome face, but that handsome face was full of evil spirits.There was a nice smile on the corner of his mouth, but because that smile was so perfect, it was difficult to produce a sense of reality. "Wake up, I know you're awake. Don't pretend anymore!" He grabbed the girl from the ground fiercely, and threw her to the ground again. Blood fell from the girl's head, and the tears mixed with the sticky blood, but the girl never spoke, endured the severe pain, and didn't even groan, but closed her eyes tightly. "What a bad girl. Didn't your parents tell you that it is polite to look directly at the owner's house when you are a guest? I will punish you!" He licked his tongue and flashed a sharp fist with his left hand. Knife. "Where should I cut first? Hey, miss, don't you like to talk? Shall we play a game? If you make a sound first, let me cut it. If I make a sound first, let you cut me One knife. Hey, be fair!" Before she could agree, the man had already slashed at her thigh with a sharp knife, removing a piece of bright red, steaming meat.Crazy pain swept through all her nerves at once, and she couldn't help moaning. The man was as excited as a child, clapping his hands and laughing weirdly: "You lost! You lost! Where? Where am I going to cut this time?" The knife in his hand kept gesturing at various parts of the girl's body.The girl clenched her teeth tightly, her whole body trembling with fear. "Okay, it's decided, let's cut it here!" The man laughed, raised his knife and cut it off at the girl. Just when the girl was unbearably tortured and desperately wanted to commit suicide, there was a loud noise outside the cave that was hard to ignore. Her courage came out of nowhere, and she yelled frantically. The man frowned, knocked her out with a punch, then calmly washed his hands, tidied his clothes, walked slowly to the entrance of the cave, stretched out his head and looked out carefully, after a moment of stupefaction, he walked out . Standing outside the cave was a man in a white boy's attire, with a beating smile on his mouth, and a folding fan in his hand.He stared at him with great interest and smiled. After a long time, he said slowly: "The woman in your cave who snatched back to be the wife of the village is really unlucky. But I like that woman, I want it!" The man with a nice smile glanced at him indifferently: "Who are you?" "I am?" The man in white smiled slightly: "A person who wants to kill you." After speaking, he quickly took out a piece of talisman paper, and a brilliant light stabbed at the man with a beautiful smile.