When he heard Li Zhenzhen suddenly shouting, Zhao Zheng was not surprised, but laughed. He thought that Li Zhenzhen must have deliberately frightened him, so he didn't take it seriously. He was not surprised, and Li Zhenzhen continued to shout, and became more and more fierce, pointing his fingers.
While shaking, he pointed at his feet behind him.
"Hero Li, stop screaming. Even if you scream, I won't be fooled." Zhao Zheng said with a smile.
"Corpse, corpse! There is a corpse behind you!" Li Zhenzhen said in a trembling voice.
"I would be a fool if I believed you."
"No, if you don't believe it, you can see for yourself!" Li Zhenzhen almost cried. She wanted to step back, but she didn't want to leave the only light source in the secret passage.
"I will turn back, but it's not because I believed your lies, but because I want to keep going forward, so I have to turn back." Zhao Zheng still didn't believe Li Zhenzhen's words, and turned back with a smile, turning his gaze to
In front of the secret passage, I was stunned at first sight!
It turns out Li Zhenzhen didn’t lie!
Under the illumination of candlelight, the outline of a corpse appeared on the ground in front. The deceased had been dead for a long time, and the body was completely rotten. Only a layer of clothes and pale bones were left. The skull of the corpse looked sideways, with two
The eye sockets were deep and dark, as if they were still alive. Farther away, there were shadows of several other corpses, but they couldn't be seen clearly.
Zhao Zheng took a breath of air and took several steps back until he bumped into Li Zhenzhen. He did not expect that what Li Zhenzhen said was true. There was really a corpse here!
"You idiot, do you believe this?" Li Zhenzhen said angrily.
"Yes." Zhao Zheng nodded dryly, his heart wavering.
"Whose corpses are they?" Li Zhenzhen pointed at the corpses in front of her and asked in a trembling voice.
Zhao Zheng also felt that he was in a fog and had no clue, so he shook his head a few times.
"No wonder I felt stinky as soon as I entered this secret passage. It turns out there are dead people here, and there are more than one." Li Zhenzhen said and pulled out the Fire Spirit Sword. The sword's body swayed with several red lights in the candlelight.
"They are all dead, what are you doing with your sword drawn?" Zhao Zheng looked at the red light of the Fire Spirit Sword and asked with a frown.
"Draw your sword and be brave, I'm a little scared."
"If you are scared, just stay here and don't move. I will go to the front and take a look myself. Maybe I can find some clues from the body." Zhao Zhengdao.
"Well, you go ahead. Remember to be careful." Li Zhenzhen nodded as if she were talking, holding the Fire Spirit Sword tightly with both hands, completely losing her former chivalrous and majestic appearance.
Zhao Zheng held a candle and walked towards the corpse step by step. He had just killed someone a few days ago, and his temperament had undergone subtle changes. He was more courageous than before. Several corpses could not scare him, unless the corpse would come back to life.
The closer you got to the corpses, the stronger the stench became, making you sick to your stomach. As the fire approached, the corpses further away were also illuminated, and there were as many as five of them. The corpses were laid out.
The various postures look very chaotic and irregular.
Zhao Zheng walked to the nearest corpse, slowly leaned down, and took a closer look.
Judging from the appearance of the corpse, there is still some rotten meat attached to the skeleton, which is not completely rotten. There are some small bugs crawling back and forth in the meat. These bugs are more creepy than the corpse itself. The corpse is wearing ordinary clothes, just coarse cloth.
It was just clothes, and he did not look like a wealthy person. The clothes were very well preserved and showed no signs of weathering. It can be seen that the death time of the deceased was not too long ago, and should be within the last one to two years.
Zhao Zheng started to inspect the corpse's head, moving downwards little by little, not missing any detail. When his eyes fell on the lower abdomen of the corpse, he found a neat damage, which looked like it should have been pierced by a sharp weapon, and then quickly
It was caused by pulling it out. Under the damaged parts of the clothes, there were obvious dark stains, which should be blood stains.
He stared at the damage and made up the scenes in his mind that had happened in the past.
A warrior thrust his sword into the lower abdomen of the deceased, and then pulled it out instantly. The deceased fell to the ground in pain, and soon died, turning into a corpse.
Zhao Zheng frowned and stopped imagining. He held the candle and walked towards the next corpse. After observation, he found that this corpse had many similarities with the first corpse. It was also wearing coarse clothes and was seriously injured with a weapon. He went there
As he continued walking forward, he found several corpses in the same condition. He was unwilling to touch these corpses and was unable to find any more clues.
The corpse that appeared in the secret passage slightly disrupted Zhao Zheng's position.
There shouldn't be these corpses in the game's missions. Since there are discrepancies with the game data, the game data can no longer be completely trusted. It can only be used as a reference to restart the investigation.
Was this secret tunnel dug by those members?
Who are these corpses? And why did they die?
Why would someone dump a body here?
Various questions came one after another, attacking Zhao Zheng's thoughts like a tide, making him more and more confused.
He had no idea, so he returned to Li Zhenzhen with a sullen face and explained: "There are five corpses in total. They died not long ago. They were all killed by warriors with sharp weapons. The deceased probably didn't know martial arts, and there was no resistance on their bodies.
They are all very poor and their clothes are made of coarse cloth.”
"Could these deceased people have anything to do with those three members of the police?" Li Zhenzhen asked.
Zhao Zheng fell into silence. Now there is an abnormal situation, and he can no longer completely trust the game data. Thinking of this, he shook his head and said: "I'm not sure. Anyway, let's go ahead and take a look, first find out the situation clearly, and then
Make further plans."
"I, I'm a little afraid to go forward." Li Zhenzhen has never dared to look at the corpses, and her face has become a little pale. It seems that she is really frightened. Although she is more capable than Zhao Zheng, after all,
She is still a fifteen-year-old girl.
"That's okay, I'll accompany you back up there first, and when it's late at night, the two of us will come back. Then you can look out for me, and I'll come down alone to explore the way." Zhao Zheng decided.
"Can you do it alone?"
"It would be worse for the two of us to bicker together when we are together. It would be more convenient for me to act alone."
"You were the one who scared me today, so you can't blame me." Li Zhenzhen said in denial.
"Okay, okay, I blame you for scaring you today. Okay, let's go back first and come back in the evening."
Li Zhenzhen responded and turned back.
Zhao Zheng was brave and walked behind, letting Li Zhenzhen walk in front.
Li Zhenzhen looked back at Zhao Zheng from time to time, and saw that Zhao Zheng was behind her, so she dared to continue walking forward. The two quickly returned to the bottom of the dry well, and then climbed up along the rope. There were still no pedestrians around the dry well, and it was very quiet.
The two untied the rope and left the place in a hurry.
After returning to the compound, the two of them went back to their rooms to change clothes, wash up, and get rid of the bad luck on their bodies.
Zhao Zheng folded the dirty clothes and put them on the chair, leaving them to wear in the evening. At this time, Li Zhenzhen knocked on the door, holding a dinner plate with a teapot and a teacup on the plate, claiming to be looking for him
Let’s continue talking about secret passages.
The two sat down facing each other, with a cup of steaming tea in front of each. Zhao Zheng's frown was reflected in one teacup, and the pink scarf worn on Li Zhenzhen's face was reflected in the other teacup.
"Who are those dead?" Zhao Zheng murmured, picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
"I guess those people might be workers who dug a secret tunnel. They dug this tunnel to escape, but they were discovered by the subordinates, so they were silenced. The clothes on the corpses were all made of coarse cloth, which happened to be the same as the workers.
The identity matches." Li Zhenzhen said her guess excitedly. The terrifying scene in the secret passage had long been forgotten by her.
Zhao was savoring the fragrant tea in his mouth, letting the bitter taste spread on his tongue. If it is assumed that the secret tunnel was indeed dug by someone outside the three members, then Li Zhenzhen's guess is quite reasonable.
"It is possible. After the three outsiders killed the workers who tried to escape, they simply left them in the secret passage and sealed the two ends with mud." Zhao Zheng further speculated and put down the gun in his hand.
cup.
"That's right, that's right." Li Zhenzhen agreed, but she thought of a new question and frowned, "But...since these workers have been killed, why can you overhear it from others?"
News about this secret passage? Could it be that there is someone else who leaked this secret?"
"Maybe only one of the workers escaped, and the rest couldn't escape." Zhao Zheng lied, showing embarrassment.
"How did you hear the news in the first place? Tell me, maybe I can find some clues." Li Zhenzhen said with great interest.
Zhao Zheng made up a lie and claimed that he passed by a small alley while begging and overheard two people talking about the secret passage underground. He also said that one of them had calluses on his hands and he was probably one of the workers.
Li Zhenzhen was simple-minded and listened to his words without any suspicion.
After Zhao Zheng finished speaking, he drank tea again.
Li Zhenzhen held her chin in her hands and said depressedly: "There are no important clues in your words."
"I've told you all the clues, and now we both know the same thing." After Zhao Zheng finished speaking, he put down the teacup, stood up and said, "Okay, you can't come up with the results of these questions just by thinking about it.
In the evening, I will go to the dry well to explore again and learn more about the situation."
The two of them left the house and courtyard to find a tavern to eat. After nightfall, they took a bunch of tools to the dry well in the south of the city.
Li Zhenzhen stayed near the dry well to relax, looking left and right. Zhao Zheng, wearing dirty clothes, climbed down the rope alone with a candle in his mouth and a shovel on his back.
The second time he came to the secret passage under the dry well, Zhao Zheng bent down and walked in uneasily.
