After the three of us sat down in the tent, I first asked the third fat man to find some food for me. After almost a day and a night of tossing, I was almost starving.
While I was replenishing my energy, Gao Liang recounted everything that happened after Sanpang received my call for help yesterday.
After listening to his explanation, I understood why they, who should have arrived at least a day later, actually appeared in front of me now, with such a large number of people.
After receiving my call, Sanpang immediately reported the situation to Gao Liang. But just as Sanpang told me before, Gao Liang's next request for support to the bureau was unsurprisingly rejected.
The current leaders did not agree to dispatch subordinate teams for support on the grounds that the matter did not fall within the jurisdiction of the Recycling Department.
If it were another department, they would have had no choice but to face the rejection of the Recycling Department. However, our section chief was none other than Gao Liang, the former director of the Recycling Department. Although he had been demoted and transferred
Although he has lost his original position, he still has rich connections in the recycling department.
Seeing that his replacement was not giving him face, Gao Liang simply bypassed the current director of the Recycling Department and directly contacted Wang Lei, the current captain of the Southwest Operations Brigade of the Recycling Department and his former subordinate.
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Captain Wang was born in the army before joining the recycling department, so he paid special attention to the relationship between superiors and subordinates. Now that the old leader needed help, he immediately agreed to Gao Liang's request without saying a word and mobilized all the troops he could.
In order to reach us in time, he also borrowed armed helicopters from the local army to shorten the distance.
After arriving in the provincial capital, Gao Liang and San Pang met up with Wang Lei's men. They first used the phone number I left to find Mr. Xu. Then under Mr. Xu's guidance, they climbed over the mountains and ridges from the air.
, came to this village.
But when they arrived, it was already late at night. At this time, the villagers had already entered the underground village to prepare for the ceremony. I also followed the traces left by the villagers in the ancestral hall and entered the underground. So I waited until
When Liang and the others arrived, the place had become an empty village.
Gao Liang and the others did not know the secret of the ancestral hall. After searching the entire village to no avail, they could only order the entire village to be cordoned off, and at the same time sent people to prepare helicopters to search the surrounding hills.
But at this moment, the helicopter pilot who had just ascended noticed that a large group of people suddenly appeared in the ancestral hall.
The ancestral hall in the village had been searched before, so when he got the news that a group of people suddenly appeared here, Gao Liang immediately realized that there might be a secret passage in the village. When he got to the scene and saw it, it was indeed the case.
In addition to being surprised that there was a secret passage in the ancestral hall, they also learned from these people that they were all victims who had been kidnapped and imprisoned here by people in the village.
Although Gao Liang and the people in the recycling department are well-informed, they have never heard of such a thing. You must know that there are only a hundred or so households in this village, but they actually do it
They kidnapped nearly dozens of young women in one go. Even some gangs of human traffickers were not as frantic as the people in this village.
"Later, we found out that you and Qian Yi were still down there, and were about to send someone down to rescue you when we heard an explosion from the secret passage. Then, Wu Tian came out of the secret passage..."
After Gao Liang said this, he paused and then asked me, "Okay, Sijiu, can you tell me about your story next? What on earth did you and Wu Tian encounter down there? Wu Tian's side
I didn’t explain clearly, I want to hear you say it again.”
At that moment, I recounted everything that happened in the underground village after I came to the village.
After Gao Liang and San Pang finished listening, they kept staring at me. San Pang even said: "Sijiu, what did I say to you? As expected, incidents happen wherever you go! You said this is so good.
A kidnapping incident can actually involve a monster."
I said helplessly: "I didn't expect this... But Section Chief Gao, the top priority now is to quickly control the villagers below, and that monster..."
Speaking of monsters, I suddenly remembered what Wu Tian had told me before. I hesitated, not knowing whether I should speak or not. A cold voice suddenly came from outside the tent: "That monster must be captured alive..."
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The speaker was none other than Wu Tian, who escaped from the underground village with me before. Different from when he was underground, at this moment, he has returned to his original appearance of not letting strangers enter the bureau.
Gao Liang did not answer him, but asked instead: "Old Wu, although you saved my people, you, the director of the Intelligence Department, don't have any say in how to deal with the monster, right? Speaking of which, you guy
Why are you here? I heard Sijiu say that you seemed to know the secrets of this village before he did. What is going on? Could it be that your intelligence office had already inquired about the situation in this village, but deliberately concealed it?
Won’t you tell us?”
Wu Tian did not answer immediately, but turned to look at me and Sanpang, and then pointed outside, asking us to go out.
The third fat man and I looked at each other and immediately walked outside obediently.
When Gao Liang saw our actions, his brows almost turned into knots, but he did not say anything to stop us. Instead, he said to San Fatty: "San Fatty, go find an empty tent for Sijiu and let him have a good rest."
The third fat man glanced at him, nodded, "Oh," and led me outside.
As soon as the two of us went out, we heard the quarrel-like conversation between Gao Liang and Wu Tian coming from the tent. The third fat man blinked his eyes with a curious look on his face and wanted to run back and eavesdrop. I stopped him and said
: "Three Fatties, isn't this bad?"
The third fat man curled his lips and said: "Aren't you curious? That guy Wu Tian obviously knew something was wrong in this village, so he came here. But why would he do this as the director of the Intelligence Department?"
I thought for a while and told Wu Tian what he had told me in the underground passage. After hearing this, the third fat man suddenly looked surprised, but then he seemed to have thought of something and said: "No wonder...it turned out to be
In this way...put it this way, it makes some sense."
I asked him what he thought of. The third fat man said: "You don't know, when you called me a few days ago and asked where Wu Tian was, I asked people from the Intelligence Department to inquire about Wu Tian's whereabouts, and one of them said something
I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but now that I think about it, the reason why Wu Tianhui came here was probably because of that incident."
"What is it?"
The third fat man didn't say it directly, but asked me first: "Do you know that Wu Tian has a daughter?"
I nodded. It seems that I heard Qian Yi talk about Wu Tian having a daughter when I first entered the bureau.
The third fat man then said: "Wu Tian's daughter seems to be suffering from a terminal illness recently..."
"Terminally ill?"
"Well, I remember it was called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. I heard that the disease is worse than AIDS. There is almost no cure. People who suffer from this disease will gradually lose their muscles and lose control. Over time, even
She can't even breathe or eat, and his daughter has this problem, and I'm afraid she can only live for another four or five years at most!"
"Why is it like this?"
While I sighed, I somewhat understood the reason why Wu Tian would go to this village without authorization and investigate the secrets of the village alone. I am afraid that he would do this for the sake of his daughter. I think he probably hopes to get this
He used the elixir in the village to cure his daughter's terminal illness.
We don’t know whether the speculations made by San Pang and I are actually the truth, because Gao Liang did not disclose to us the conversation between Gao Liang and Wu Tian in the tent that day.
However, I guess Wu Tian’s expectations are mostly in vain, because not to mention the bureau’s express regulations, no one can use the contained objects for their own benefit without the permission of the bureau’s senior management. Wu Tian just hoped that
The idea that the elixir could cure his daughter's terminal illness was somewhat unreliable.
Because from Awu's mouth, I already know that the real function of the elixir in this village is actually to extend people's lifespan. Whether it can cure terminal diseases is completely unknown. Moreover, the elixir will also have a strong impact on the human body.
Did Wu Tian say that in order to let his daughter live longer, it doesn't matter even if she becomes an addict from now on?
The most important reason is that the so-called elixir must be obtained by providing food to the monster, that is, by letting the monster eat people, and it must also be allowed to eat young women. If it only eats
If you are a man, then the round eggs laid by monsters will not have the effect of elixir.
And so many restrictions basically declare that it is absolutely impossible for Wu Tian to obtain the elixir of life. Even if he is willing to sacrifice the lives of other women for his daughter, it is absolutely impossible for the bureau to do so.
agree.
[Author's digression]: The story of Changshou Village ends here. The next story is related to this story. Originally I just wanted to write two related short stories, but I didn't expect that the latter story would become my book in one fell swoop.
The longest single story in the book so far, so stay tuned