Chapter 4 third chapter

Qingzhong changed direction and walked towards the valley. It took a long way to reach the entrance of the valley. The entrance of the valley is covered by long grass, with a densely wooded slope on one side, and an exposed rocky cliff on the left, and the cliff gets higher as you go in, until the end of the valley.The inside of the valley is curved, and the front cannot be seen from the road, and the cliff surface is gradually revealed as you go in.It is about 1,500 meters from the entrance of the road to the end of the cliff, and the middle part is quite deep. Aozuka tapped on the grass with the inn's cane to enter, and after a while saw the slope that the man from yesterday was climbing.When I stopped to look, the top of the slope was where I saw the man with Aju.

Qingzuka grabbed the bushes and walked slowly down the slope.Nothing has changed in that area.Then go inside again.The bottom of the valley is wide, full of weeds, Qingzuka aimlessly wants to go to the end and turn back. After a while, he came to the front of the cliff where big stones rolled down in the grass.There are falling rocks everywhere.From the cliff that gradually rises from the entrance, it has reached a height of fifteen meters here, and the young leaves of the miscellaneous trees on the cliff are green. Walking among the falling rocks, Qingzhong saw a weed that couldn't be toppled over, and it was intermittent, as if the grass that had fallen on the ground stood up again after a period of time.

It's only natural to associate this falling grass with the behavior of the man in the peaked cap.The man who climbed up from this slope must have something to do with these grasses.For it is evident that this is a recent artifact of these grasses. Green mound shuttled between large and small falling rocks, when he saw something dark and shiny under a fairly large falling rock. He took a peek, and it turned out that fragments of small cameras were strewn across the grass.The camera must have been dropped hard, otherwise it wouldn't be broken like this.The body splits in half.The inner cover fell off, the lens was broken and scattered, and other parts were scattered among the grass.

Qingzhong picked up the fragments, but they were useless, so they put them back underground.Then something else was discovered.Looking forward, it is the film that fell out of the camera.About half its length fell out of the cassette, leaving the reel coiled with grass, black. Qingzuka picked up the negatives, but the unphotographed parts seemed to be still in the cassette.He stuffed the negatives into his pocket and looked up at the towering cliffs.The reason why the camera fell to pieces must be because it fell from the cliff. At this time, he saw that the grass was covered with soil two or three meters ahead, just next to the big falling rock.He poked the soil with his crutches, and found that the soil below was dyed purple.That was the color of the dried blood.

Qingzuka took a deep breath, looked at the purple-red dust, and then dug deeply with his crutches.However, the soil is only a thin layer covering the grass, and there is no blood underneath, just the grass dyed the same color. Seeing this, Qingzuka already understood.The soil was covered so that no one could see the blood on the grass.Obviously, this is man-made. The green mound connects the fallen grass with these grasses.After hesitating for a while, curiosity overcame him, and he decided to explore along the fallen grass.The bright early summer sun made him bold. It was on the left side of the cliff, but it didn't look like anything special, and I didn't think there was any weird phenomenon, it was just a quiet valley bottom.

However, Qingzhong saw a depression like a horizontal hole under the cliff, and two small falling rocks were placed in front of the depression, as if to block it.Bending down to peer into the dark cave between the two stones. At first I couldn't see anything clearly, but after my eyes got used to it, I could vaguely see something like a white stick. I brought my eyes closer to the hole, and after a closer look, I realized that the white stick turned out to be a human foot. Qingzuka seemed to cry out, but found that no one around was afraid of his voice, and walked back desperately. Someone above was calling his name, and it was only after a long time that it was Aju's calling.

"You, what are you... doing there?" Aju continued to ask, she was still wearing the maroon dress, standing on the side of the road on the slope. "Oh." Qingzhong waved to Aju as if he had just come to his senses at this moment. "What's the matter?" Aju asked from a distance. Qingzuka was still in shock, he just kept waving his hands, unable to speak. "What's the matter, strange." Aju said, you can talk about it when you come up, but Qingzhong stood still, so Aju had to give in. She couldn't walk down the slope from there, she had to take a long detour.

Aju's figure disappeared for a while, and then appeared from the mouth of the valley stepping on the weeds after a while.As usual, holding a basket of wild vegetables in one hand, the short man walked in unhurriedly, with a round face facing the sun above his head, as flat as paper.Qingzuka walked towards her. "What are you doing in this kind of place?" She giggled, she must have made a mistake. "Someone was killed." Qing Zhong said in a voice that lost his enthusiasm. "Someone was killed... huh? Where is it?" Aju stared at Qingzuka's face in surprise and asked.

"Over there." He pointed to the cliff behind him and replied. "nonsense!" "Really, just go and see." Aju didn't answer, but her expression suddenly changed.She probably also thought of the man who climbed the slope yesterday, so she said to go and have a look. Qingzhong took Aju to the entrance of the horizontal cave, and let her see the inside of the cave.She watched for a moment. "Oh, it's true." She said with wide and squinted eyes, "the feet are facing this way." "However, maybe he was sleeping there." Aju said this unnatural sentence, and Qingzhong told her about the blood stains on the grass nearby.

"The blood was covered with earth, so the place of death must have been there, and there were drag marks on the grass." Aju was very courageous, maybe because of Qingzuka's presence, she said she was going to have a look. Aozuka also regained his energy, leading her in a half-guide posture, digging up the soil with his crutches, and showing her the blood-stained place. "it is true." Aju looked down for a while, then looked up at the top of the cliff, and looked up and down for a while. "Ah, I see." She exclaimed, "It was probably pushed down from the cliff, and then the murderer came to bury the blood here, and dragged the body into the horizontal hole. That's why the grass fell."

Aozuka also understood why the camera was broken. Aju turned her eyes to look around, walked five or six steps forward alone, and then called him. "Here, come here and have a look, a corner of the rock has been cut off." Qingzhong walked over, and there were signs of wear on a small falling rock, only this corner was free of dust, as bright as it had been polished. "It may be a person who fell from the cliff, hit his head on the falling rock and died, and the murderer then came down and cut off the blood." In this way, a complete scene of the story appeared in front of Qingzuka's eyes, and he felt a chill down his spine. "It was a woman who was killed." Aju said suddenly. "how do you know?" "The feet in the cave are white...and if the murderer is that man, the victim must be a woman. This is a hot spring area!" What Aju said makes sense. "We must report to the police. It must have been killed by the man who climbed the slope yesterday, and then dragged the body into the cave and hid it." Aju said immediately. "Well, you have to report the case." Qingzuka said without thinking, but after leaving the scene, he immediately remembered his position. "It's best not to report the crime." "Huh? Why?" "It's not convenient for me." Aju suddenly stared at him silently with her small eyes blinking. "Don't get me wrong, I have nothing to do with this murder case. I'll tell you the reason later, anyway, it's inconvenient for me to deal with the police in my current capacity." Aju nodded. "It looks exactly like I imagined." "What do you imagine?" "I don't think you are aboveboard. Because it is impossible for a strong young man to hang around in a hot spring hotel with nothing to do." "You have this view, and I have nothing to do. But I want to declare that I did not kill, nor did I rob or cheat. I have other reasons, so don't report this matter. If we don't report, there will always be someone else Find it and report it." "Well, since you say so." Qingzuka and Aju walked side by side, quietly took out the negatives in his pocket and threw them in the grass without letting her find out.It's better not to bring this kind of thing, so as not to arouse suspicion.The negatives are exposed to the wind and rain in the grass, and they will soon rot.