Chapter 7 Section VII

At this time, a police officer hurried into the ice cellar, saluted, and reported nervously: "Madam, go and have a look, the large excavator sent from the headquarters is already working. Outside the wall, that is, in the open space between Yiranju and Baolian Temple, a big hole was dug, and some concrete blocks blocked by the secret passage that Madam Xie found were dug up, and some amazing discoveries were made. .” Chen Bihua's eyes flickered: "Really? Okay, Xiao Li, you send Wang Hai back to the police station first. Remember, he must be held incommunicado, and you must guard him personally. No mistakes are allowed. Su Yu, Wanyi, let's go! We Go over there to see the excavation site!"

As soon as the three of them got out of the ice cellar, their bodies were immediately irradiated by the warm sunshine, and they no longer felt cold all over, and their hands and feet were stiff.The restless souls of Tan's father and son seem to be wandering in this villa, which is not gloomy on the surface. Just like their strange and tragic deaths, it is full of fog.Why did Tan Jue die?Why did Tan Tianfang die suddenly after announcing on Weibo that he had found the elixir to bring the dead back to life?Why did he die in Hong Kong due to the most bizarre insect descending technique in Southeast Asia?Who is the leader that Wang Hai and Situ Feng talked about?These mysteries weighed heavily on everyone's hearts and lingered.

"It's a human bone! It must be a human bone!" A small excavator was rumbling, and a long corridor had been dug outside the back wall of Yiranju Villa.The excavated soil was piled aside and had already formed several low mounds.A female police officer was wearing white gloves at this time, squatting by the side of the mound, carefully inspecting the bones dug out of the soil. Seeing these faces change slightly, she muttered softly in her mouth. As soon as Su Yu, Chen Bihua, and Xie Wanyi walked into the excavation site, they were attracted by the bones in the hands of the policewoman.The three hurriedly walked over and asked carefully.

"Wan Rong, are you sure it's a human bone? Can you estimate the age of the deceased and the approximate time of death?" Chen Bihua asked solemnly. She knew that Bai Wanrong had worked in the U.S. Department of Justice and had very professional forensic knowledge. Bai Wanrong nodded, examined the white bone carefully, and said with certainty: "Madam, this is a radius bone. Judging from its growth shape and length, the bone age is within ten years. It should belong to a child. As for At the time of death, the muscle attached to this white bone had completely decayed, and it should have been dead for at least a year."

"A child!" Xie Wanyi exclaimed lightly. Bai Wanrong raised her head and glanced at her, and said emphatically, "No, not one, but several, there should be at least three. Look at the bones that were dug out. Although no instrument was used, judging from the thickness and size , certainly not belonging to the same child." "Several children's bones were buried in the secret passage of Tan's villa? Su Yu, what does this mean?" Chen Bihua's face instantly became ugly, and she asked in a low voice. Su Yu slowly turned his eyes to the tunnel that was being gradually dug open, and frowned tightly.

"These children's bones are buried here, probably because of an ancient legend in Thailand!" He suddenly said this without thinking. "What, Su Yu, what are you talking about? What ancient legend?" Xie Wanyi and Chen Bihua asked almost at the same time. Before Su Yu could answer in the future, there was a loud bang at the end of the excavated tunnel, and everyone hurriedly turned their heads to look there. It turned out that the concrete block blocking the last section of the tunnel was finally dug up. A dark hole was revealed.Several police officers around were gearing up to get down the hole, but no one dared to act without Chen Bihua's order.

Chen Bihua said in a low voice: "Wanyi, Su Yu, let's go down and take a look first. I'm worried that too many people will go down, and it will destroy the clues on the scene, making it impossible to make the most correct judgment." Su Yu nodded approvingly: "I think the biggest secret of Yiran Juli should be in this secret passage!" After the decision was made, Chen Bihua asked her police officers to guard the entrance of the cave, and at the same time turned on the walkie-talkie to report to her superior, Sergeant Liu of the Serious Crime Squad. When the three of them left the ground and drilled into the dark hole again, the feeling of losing the sunlight again instantly made everyone a little suffocated, and coughed a few times unconsciously.Because this secret passage is located under the ice cellar, it looks much darker and gloomy than the passage in the ice cellar. The three of them blinked hard for a long time before adapting to the dim light. Then they carefully held the flashlight and looked around. Groping the wet stone wall and moving forward.

"Su Yu, look quickly, it's a bone!" Chen Bihua, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped and pointed with his hand. Su Yu and Xie Wanyi hurriedly used the flashlights they were holding to take photos together. At a corner of the dark passage, there was indeed a white skeleton leaning against it.Although the three of them have been at the scene of murders for a long time and often see all kinds of corpses, bones that have rotted to the point where there is no muscle are extremely rare. Su Yu handed the flashlight to Xie Wanyi, and squatted down with Chen Bihua to examine the bone carefully.Chen Bihua was impatient, and just about to touch the white bone with his finger, Su Yu grabbed it.

"Madam, don't touch this white bone. You can see that the color of the bone is obviously black. This person should have died of poisoning, and it is likely to be highly poisonous!" "Very poisonous? It seems that there is another wronged soul in Yiran Juli!" Chen Bihua was also startled, and withdrew her hand. Su Yu stared at the bone for a while, then said in a deep voice, "I think this bone should be the real gatekeeper Tan De!" Holding a flashlight, Xie Wanyi said, "Tan De! That's right, the fake Tan De we saw was Wang Hai, so the real Tan De should have been killed by Wang Hai."

Chen Bihua asked suspiciously: "But how can we be sure that this bone is Tan De? Tan De should have moved here as a gatekeeper after Tan Tianfang's tragic death a year ago. If it was him, the earliest time he was killed was on this day." Within a year, but this corpse has completely turned into bones, and it looks like it has been dead for more than a year." Su Yu said calmly: "That is inferred based on the decay time of ordinary corpses. However, this underground passage is extremely damp and dark, and the decay time of corpses is greatly shortened. Even two or three months are enough to turn into a corpse." Bone. Although the figure of this bone looks like an adult man, it is not tall, which is in line with the characteristics of Tan De as a Guangzhou native. The better evidence is the hand bone of this bone. His forearm bone is obviously larger than his body Other places are thicker. According to Tan De’s information, he worked as a seaman for more than ten years before coming to Hong Kong, and his arms are much thicker than ordinary people. Based on the comprehensive analysis of these three points, this skeleton should be the real one. Tan De."

Xie Wanyi interjected: "Besides, after Wang Hai or his accomplices killed Tan De, they would definitely not take the risk of burying him elsewhere. The best place to hide the body is this secret passage, because no one would think of digging an ice cellar." The soil below is undoubtedly the safest place for them." Chen Bihua nodded approvingly: "The analysis makes sense! Last time we came to investigate Tan Tianfang's tragic death, although we conducted a rigorous search in the ice cellar, no one thought of digging the soil layer under the ice cellar. There are secret passages! If it wasn't for Su Yu's ingenious plan, Wang Hai would have almost slipped under the nose of our police. Wanyi, you really are a husband and wife, and you have been married to Su Yu for two years, and your reasoning skills have greatly improved! " After hearing Chen Bihua's half-joking compliment, Xie Wanyi smiled, and immediately diluted the eerie and terrifying atmosphere in the secret passage. Chen Bihua changed the subject, withdrew his smile, and frowned: "Su Yu, it can be explained that Tan De died here, but why were the children's bones dug up just now? This is really puzzling! Could it be that Tan Tianfang Famous writers have a quirk of killing children? Or is Wang Hai lurking here and killing these children? But judging from Wang Hai’s behavior, he is so deliberate in doing things, he should not kill people for no reason. I really want to No way." Su Yu stared at the bone, and slowly said: "This point, Madam, I think it's why Tan Tianfang took his son to live in seclusion in this secluded place, why he met Wang Hai a year ago, and the man behind Wang Hai The reason why the mysterious master got involved. I will explain my analysis and judgment to you and Sergeant Liu in detail later. But for now, I think we should continue to see what secrets lie ahead." At this moment, Chen Bihua's miniature walkie-talkie "Didi" rang. When she connected, it was Liu Qiusheng, the chief officer of the West Kowloon Police Station.It turned out that the case of Yiranju had alarmed the chief executive and ordered to solve the case quickly, so Sergeant Liu immediately put down other official duties at hand and came to the scene to meet with Su Yu in person. He was specially invited to assist the Hong Kong police in investigating the case. Chen Bihua closed the line, got up and waved his hands: "Let's go on, Su Yu, this time the Chief Executive himself spoke, just watch, Sergeant Liu will definitely invite you to eat his private dishes soon!" The police in Hong Kong know that the chief of police loves food, and the cook at home can be compared to the chefs of top hotels. Therefore, any police officer will be proud to be invited by Sergeant Liu to eat private dishes. However, Su Yu didn't seem to have any interest in the private kitchen of the police chief's family. His eyes were shining brightly, and while holding a flashlight, he quickened his pace and walked towards the deepest part of the secret passage, where there was a faint light of fire. The widest open space in this dark passage.Xie Wanyi, who followed closely behind, knew in her heart that this was Su Yu's ecstasy in solving the case, just like an artist's fanaticism in artistic creation. It turned out that in the open space in the deepest part of the dark passage, there were two copper candlesticks standing, with two huge candles lit on them respectively. By the faint candlelight, the arrangement of the ten square open space was very strange, as if it had been carefully arranged. More than a dozen small holes similar to Buddhist niches were cut out on the stone wall, and a small statue of a god was enshrined in each small hole.There is a small altar in front of the stone wall, and some white flower strings are enshrined in the copper plate on the altar. "This seems to be an altar!" Chen Bihua glanced around. Both Xie Wanyi and Su Yu picked up the Buddha statue in the cave and looked at it carefully. "It's very strange! These statues seem to be carved like children! And the clothes don't look like Chinese children. Madam, look!" Xie Wanyi handed several small statues to Chen Bihua. Chen Bihua took it over and took a closer look. Almost all of these little statues were sitting cross-legged, with serious expressions. Some wore buns similar to those of the ancients, and some wore two long braids. Full of exotic colors in Southeast Asia. At this time, Su Yu was picking up the white flower strings, put them under his nose, sniffed them carefully, and said in thought: "The scent of these jasmine flower strings is still very fresh, and they should have been enshrined just yesterday. Mantong is still very religious." "Gumantong?" Chen Bihua and Xie Wanyi asked almost in unison. Su Yu looked around the Buddhist altars on the stone wall quietly, and suddenly said: "Gumantong! Yes, it is Gumantong! Those children's bones buried in the secret passage, these altars, and these jasmine strings all point to the one who is known for indulgence and Buddhism. And the famous country - Thailand! This is Thailand's mysterious technique of raising ghosts!" Chen Bihua's eyes lit up: "I have been to Thailand, and I have heard of this technique of raising ghosts. Thai people believe that enshrining dead children at home can drive away ghosts and ward off evil spirits. This is the so-called Gumantong, or ghost raising boy! Wang Hai His mother is Thai, so he naturally understands this. However, why are these ancient mantong statues enshrined under the Yiranju villa? Does Tan Tianfang also believe this? I understand, Su Yu, this is what you just said, Why did Tan Tianfang live in seclusion here?" Su Yu nodded: "Madam, Wanyi, I believe the other end of this secret passage leads to the living room of the villa. It's time for us to leave this dark underground world, change the air, and go out to meet Sergeant Liu."