After an unknown period of time, the two personal soldiers called out first: "Master Xu." Only then did Xu Xirong come back to his senses.
After all, he is a scholar and literati. He has never seen the treachery and viciousness of Jianghu institutions, so he was shocked for a while.
At this time, I came back to my senses, looked at the spot where the spy fell in front of me just now, and thought again.
He ordered one of the two soldiers: "Take my badge and go to the government office to transfer the engineer battalion. We will wait here." Then, he took off the badge from his waist and handed it to the other personal soldier.
The personal soldier took the badge, turned around and left quickly.
Not long after the guards left, Xu Xirong and the remaining guards finally heard the ghostly cry that the spy said earlier. The sound came from nowhere, it seemed to come from the ground, like it came from the pit The same, the two of them couldn't help being a little scared.
But Xu Xirong is an educated person after all, he doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, and insists on digging out even if there is a ghost down there.
Fortunately, the ghost screamed only once and then remained silent.
The two waited in the darkness where they couldn't see their fingers, and the seconds seemed like years.
Finally, the soldiers who went to call for the engineering battalion arrived with the people from the engineering battalion. The people from the engineering battalion held the lanterns and illuminated the whole passage like daylight. Seeing the light, Xu Xirong hurriedly called them in the passage to come quickly.
With the light of the lantern, Xu Xirong found that the flap on the floor of the passage was actually not difficult to identify, but it was actually because he saw the spy fall from this position just now, and watched it from such a close position. , the color of this flap is exactly the same as the ground of the passage, the flap is flush with the ground, and there is only a small gap between the edge and the ground, if you don't get close and squat down to distinguish it carefully, you can't see it clearly.
Moreover, the entire aisle was pitch black, and those who walked in instinctively walked forward, and those who came in for the first time would never notice the existence of the flap.
Xu Xirong ordered the people from the engineering battalion to pry open the flap and pull up the fallen corpse. He wanted to see if Tantai Wutian, Ah Qingqing, and little monk Rongxin were inside.
Zhang Huanghu asked him to monitor the movement of the three people, there must be no mistakes, and he asked him to find out the whereabouts of a scroll of bamboo slips on their bodies. If the three people really died here, they would have to "live to see people, die to see Corpse", the bamboo slips might be on their bodies, no matter what they must be pulled out of the pit, otherwise there is no way to explain to Zhang Huanghu.
But this channel is only designed to allow one person to pass through. The engineers stared at the flap for a long time and had no choice, because with the strength of one person, unless he stood on it, there was no way to destroy the balance of the flap. , Pry it up, the flipper is not a wooden board, but a heavy thick iron plate, if it is a cat or puppy or other animal that walks over, the flipper will not be triggered at all¡ª ¡ªOf course, if the weight of the big dog is enough to trigger the flip, the premise is that the big dog does not jump directly over the flip.
However, it is not easy to jump over this flap. Ordinary people without light skills will never be able to jump over this flap. In the end, the people in the engineering battalion had to find a wooden ladder longer than the flap, and put it on it. On the flap, let a person step on the wooden ladder to the other end, and then pull the wooden ladder over. The person on this side found a stone with enough weight, tied a rope to the stone and placed it on one side of the flap, and then When the flap was flipped, wooden ladders were used to support the flap over there quickly, and the stone on this side did not fall to the bottom of the pit because of the rope tied to it, and was finally pulled up by the engineers.
Xu Xirong first took the lantern and approached the hole under the flap to look in. A thick bloody smell came over his face. The light from the lantern from here to the bottom was already a little dark, but he could still see the cold light under the pit. Know whether it is a sharp sword or a sharp cone. There were several corpses laying motionless on it, and the one on top should be the spy who just fell down.
The people from the engineer battalion measured the depth of the pit with a hanging hammer, and found that the pit was more than ten feet deep. If you want to go down, you have to hang a rope. And only one corpse can be pulled up at a time.
A man from the engineer battalion hung a rope and went down. After a long time, a corpse was pulled up, which belonged to the spy who fell before. His body had been pierced by the sword tree below, and he couldn't die anymore. .
Another person went down, and another corpse was pulled up, which was the partner of the previous spy, and then the two corpses pulled up in succession belonged to the spies sent by Xu Xirong.
There are only these four fresh corpses, and there are many corpses piled on top of each other, but all of them have rotted away, leaving only the bones. It is definitely not the corpses of Tantai Wutian, Ah Qingqing, and the little monk Rongxin.
Seeing this result, Xu Xirong was relieved at first, but soon frowned.
He ordered the people from the engineering battalion to take the four corpses back first, buy four coffins and put them in Yizhuang first, and let them take them back for burial after inquiring about their families. But people in the world, wandering all over the world, making their homes all over the world, especially those who have been involved in the underworld, I am afraid that they have no relatives at home, and I am afraid that they can only be kept in the Yizhuang.
Xu Xirong asked the engineering battalion to restore the flap and put a long wooden ladder on it. He and two guards walked to the other side of the flap through the long wooden ladder, and walked towards the exit at the end of the passage.
After leaving the exit, Xu Xirong discovered that the entire passage was actually built in a sandwich wall, and the exit of the sandwich wall was actually in a small earth temple in the woods by the river.
So far, Xu Xirong thought that Tantai Wutian, Ah Qingqing, and young monk Rongxin must have arrived at the Earth Temple through that passage, and then left. With their lightness skills, this flap will definitely not be able to do anything to them. He should have guessed it.
However, where did they go after leaving the Earth Temple?
Will he go back to the Changsha government office? Xu Xirong thought with a little luck in his heart, if this is the case, it would be the best, and he can successfully implement the strategy he discussed with Zhang Huanghu.
He and his two cronies searched the woods, but found no suspicious traces. The end of the woods was the shore of the Xiangjiang River. If they had not returned to the Changsha Fuya, they probably left by boat on the Xiangjiang River. Xu Xirong thought to himself.
But they should have no reason to leave. The master of the girl surnamed A hasn't come back yet. Could it be that they didn't wait?
Thinking of this, Xu Xirong ordered the two soldiers not to look for them anymore. Since Young Hero Tantai and the others did not die here, they must have already returned to the Changsha government office. Let's all go back together.
Xu Xirong didn't want to delve into what Tantai Wutian and the others did in the Huguang Escort Bureau. After all, martial arts people behaved differently from ordinary people, so they couldn't be deduced according to common sense.
However, he returned to the Changsha government office and waited for a whole day, but he did not see Tantai Wutian and the others coming back.
He couldn't wait any longer, so he hurried to report to Zhang Huanghu. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com