It only took a few seconds for the two of them to go from falling to rolling to the bottom.
In the darkness, Conan noticed that Chi Fei had let go of his hand and quickly sat up, "Brother Chi? Are you okay?"
"It's okay." Chi Feichi sat up and felt his condition, which was that his back hurt from falling and the skin on the back of his hand was scratched.
He was a little lucky that he was accustomed to wearing long pants and long sleeves, otherwise the skin would not only be scratched on the back of his hands.
Conan tried his watch-shaped flashlight and said helplessly, "My watch is broken."
The two sat quietly in the pothole for a while. After their eyes adjusted to the dim light, they could vaguely see the surrounding environment.
Chi Feichi got up and picked up the small plastic medicine bottles scattered around.
There are traces of excavation above the pit where they are, but under the slope is a natural stalactite cave. In addition to the stalactites hanging from the top, there are also many stalagmites and stone pillars. The two small medicine bottles that made the wrong sound were smashed.
It was hit by a stalagmite and fell to the ground.
Conan helped Chi Fei Chi pick up the small medicine bottle and sat quietly waiting for Chi Fei Chi to bandage it.
When he thought about rolling down, Chi Feichi was protecting him with his body, and he couldn't help but be moved.
His little friends are good people, very good people.
Well...the things my little friend brought are still so complete.
Alcohol for disinfection and disposable bandages for dressing. When he was picking up the small medicine bottles, he also saw a small bottle with a note of "anti-inflammatory medicine" on it.
However, there was one thing he wanted to confirm.
"Brother Chi, did you drop the bottle on purpose just now?" Conan actively helped tear off a piece of medical tape and gave it to Chi Feichi.
"Yeah." Chi Feichi took the tape and tightened the bandage on his hand.
Conan was not surprised when he received a positive answer from Chi Feichi.
When he fell down, he heard the sound of many things clattering to the ground. He thought it was Chi Feichi who had accidentally fallen out of his pocket, but when he helped pick up the bottles just now, he found that the bottles were scattered on the ground.
, it doesn’t look like it fell naturally.
In other words, Chi Feichi deliberately smashed the small plastic bottle in his pocket to different places when it fell, listened to the sound of the bottle falling to the ground, and explored the height of the pothole and the situation below the pothole.
Once again, I really envy someone for his calmness and quick response in times of trouble.
After Chi Feichi took care of the injury on his hand and put the small bottle in, Conan stood up, walked to the steep slope, looked up, "It's a manually dug hole, reinforced with cement, and built
This slope does not seem to be used for people to enter or exit or to trap prey. The village is surrounded by mountains and is prone to disasters if there is a heavy rain. Therefore, this hole should be used to guide rainwater to flow into the storage of natural stalactite caves.
The pool was built as a backup reservoir."
Chi Feichi's judgment was similar to that of Conan, and he reminded, "The wind is blowing from the hole above, not from behind. The passage is sealed."
Conan turned around and walked deeper for a while. As expected, he was blocked by a wall. He stretched out his hand and groped in the dim light, "It's cement..."
Chi Feichi also reached the cement wall and put his palms up against the wall. When his palms touched the cold wall, he suddenly had a suspicion in his mind.
"The slope over there is too steep, it's difficult to climb up, and the road here is blocked by cement." Conan retracted his hand regretfully, "It seems that if we want to go out, we can only wait until everyone comes to find us."
"Conan..."
Chi Feichi's low voice sounded a little gloomy in the pit.
Conan's back felt cold when he heard this, and he looked up at Chi Feichi beside him in confusion.
Because the light was too dark, he could only see a dark figure standing facing the wall with his hands on the wall.
Chi Feichi didn't say any more. He retracted his hand, turned around and walked towards the slope of the pothole. He took out a multifunctional saber from his pants pocket, took out the screwdriver, letter opener and protractor, and stuck the protractor in the screwdriver and letter opener.
In the middle, make a stable triangle, hold the handle tightly with your right hand, and say, "Come here."
Conan stepped forward and found Chi Feichi picking him up. He guessed Chi Feichi's intention, "You want to climb up directly? After you go up, you can find a rope to pull me down. It will be easier than taking me up now, right?"
Use the tips of a screwdriver and letter opener to stick on the edge of a slope or pothole, and use the edge of a protractor to increase friction. Coupled with Chi Feichi's physical strength and explosive power, you should be able to climb up, but it will be troublesome to climb with a child in your arms.
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Chi Fei didn't explain for a long time. He held Conan higher so that Conan could see what was happening behind him. He stuffed a small plastic bottle into Conan's hand and said, "Open the lid and keep it in your hand. Watch carefully and be prepared to spill it at any time."
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Conan lowered his head to open the bottle and saw the red chili powder in the bottle clearly through the moonlight. He was stunned for a moment before he understood what Chi Feichi meant.
I understand, what Chi Feichi means is that if the weirdo ambush at the entrance of the pit later, he will immediately sprinkle the chili powder out when he sees the person...
This was probably the purpose of Chi Feichi carrying him up - he was responsible for keeping an eye on Chi Feichi's back.
After Chi Fei Chi finished his explanation, he didn't hesitate any longer. He stabbed the multifunctional saber clenched in his right hand at the cement wall and used his strength to climb up.
Half a minute later, the two came out of the pit.
The moonlight shines on the surrounding trees, the surroundings are quiet, and there are no suspicious figures.
Conan capped the bottle of chili powder in his hand, handed it to Chi Feichi, and said speechlessly, "Brother Chi, you are too nervous."
Chi Feichi put the bottle in and put Conan down while observing the surroundings.
What is more dangerous than accidents and difficulties is the human heart.
If the opponent is squatting outside and stands behind him when he first climbs to the entrance of the pit, whether with a knife, a stick or other weapons, he can be injured if he is unable to move.
In comparison, it was not difficult to climb up with Conan in his arms. Even if there was an accident, he could react faster and stab the multifunctional knife into the cave wall, and he would be able to stabilize himself no matter what.
Comparing the two, any fool knows how to choose.
Seeing Chi Fei's delay in responding to him, Conan silently complained to his friend, "Nervous, late stage of persecution delusion." He also looked around, "It seems that guy has run away, let's go back quickly."
Chi Fei responded casually, glanced at the direction the weirdo left, looked away, and led Conan to the right road. When he reached the right road, he whispered, "I'll investigate tomorrow."
Conan was stunned and quickly asked anxiously, "Did you find any key clues?"
He and Chi Feichi have been together all the time. If Chi Feichi suddenly found any clue, it was probably in the pothole just now. Moreover, in the pothole, Chi Feichi stood in front of the cement wall for a while.
The unusual behavior of calling him out suddenly but not being able to say anything further made his guess much more likely.
Chi Feichi must have discovered something at that time, but he suddenly stopped and did not say anything further. He decided to crawl out of the pit first, probably because he was worried that the weirdo was still squatting outside the pit and heard their conversation!
Is there something wrong with that cement wall?
Chi Feichi looked towards the back of the village, "Mr. Hecang said on the way to the villa that there is a large reservoir behind the village."
Conan looked at it in confusion, his mind spinning rapidly.
Large reservoirs, underground natural cave reservoirs, holes blocked by cement...
"Could it be that..." Conan's face turned solemn for a moment, as he clarified his thoughts, "If the reservoir is connected to the cave, and only the gates separate it, the murderer only needs to seal the exits everywhere in the cave, leaving only one under the sacrificial tree.
A hole, open the switch of the reservoir gate at the right time, allowing the water in the reservoir to pour into the cave. The water in the cave increases rapidly, but there are not enough vents to discharge the air, and the air pressure will become larger and larger. Then, stay
The air coming out of the hole below is enough to lift a person up into the sky and stab him into the branches in an instant..."
In this way, the strange sound that echoed through the village before Taimi Shiratou's death can be explained. It should be the sound made by water pouring into the cave and the air squeezing.
"However, there are no similar holes near the Sacrifice Tree, and it would be very difficult to blow someone away and accurately penetrate the sharpened branch just by relying on the airflow bursting out of the hole, right?" Conan said.
Go away, stroking your chin and murmuring.
Rather than saying that he was asking Chi Feichi, it was better to say that he was asking himself.
He also feels that this is the answer closest to the truth at present, but there are still many doubts that need to be clarified.
Chi Feichi was also thinking.
While he was staring at the corpse and eating the bread, he evaluated in his mind that with his current strength, he could throw someone high into the air and be stabbed to death by a branch, but it would be difficult for someone to be impaled into a branch thick enough to hang a person.
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Likewise, it is difficult for small institutions to do this.
A small ejection machine may be able to throw people up, but at most it can cause people to hit branches and break their bones and die. It is impossible to impale people into branches.
Then, the murderer must have a large mechanism with powerful thrust, but that mechanism is secretive enough.
Based on this, when he was in a large underground cave, he touched a cement wall that sealed the entrance of the cave and had been completed for no more than a month. Then he thought about the reservoir and the sound that echoed through the whole village before Yasumi Shiratou's death.
I thought of this method.
The entire underground cave in the village is used as a mechanism. This mechanism is indeed big enough, and the air is also the most secret weapon.
However, these two points Conan mentioned do need to be considered.
"唳唳唳——!"
The high-pitched chirping sounded again, breaking the silence on the road late at night.
Conan was startled and suddenly turned his head to look at a sacrificial tree they passed by.
This sound appears...
The murderer started killing people again?
The sound passed quickly. There was nothing unusual about the sacrificial tree behind, and naturally there was no corpse hanging on it.
"Does this sound have nothing to do with the case? Or does it mean that not all sacrificial trees have that mechanism near them?" Conan said, quickening his pace and running towards the place where the sacrificial tree where Shiratou Yasumi was impaled is located, "This village
There seems to be more than one sacrificial tree here, but the one that is most likely to be the scene of the crime is the tree that pierced Baiteng Taimei. Brother Chi, let’s go and take a look!”
Chi Feichi followed.
When he arrived, Conan had already looked up at the branches of the sacrificial tree, but there was no body hanging on the sacrificial tree.
Shiratou Taimi's body has been taken away by the police. Now the branches are empty, and the dried blood on the tips appears black under the moonlight.
The night wind blew the yellow warning tape near the Sacrifice Tree, and also bent the waist of the weeds in front of the tree, revealing a piece of land that had been soaked with blood and also looked black in the moonlight.
Conan stood for a while. He didn't know whether it was because the environment was too gloomy, the things were too weird, or because the temperature was dropping tonight, which made him feel a little cold. He turned to look at Chi Feichi who was following him, "There is no body."
Chi Feichi stood on the roadside, lit a cigarette, and looked at the flashlight beam shaking at the end of the road and a group of people running over, "Dr. Ali and the others are here."