dhibooks Chapter 197: Gu Shen Missing
Chapter 197: Gu Shen Missing
"Open all here!" Gu Chengyuan ordered.
The soldiers immediately followed suit and smashed the stone wall open.
Looking at this brightly lit passage, everyone felt a sense of tension.
The appearance of this thing in the Tiankeng is no longer a bit weird.
"Go in?" Wang Xiaobei asked Gu Chengyuan.
"You stay here, I'll take people in, if no one comes back within an hour, you go up and look for someone." Gu Chengyuan said to Wang Xiaobei.
Wang Xiaobei really wanted to follow in, but he was afraid, "That's okay, you all pay attention to safety."
Gu Chengyuan ordered a few soldiers, then took the lead and walked in.
"How do you connect the wires in such a deep place?" The other soldiers stood by.
Wang Xiaobei didn't know either, "It should have been remodeled for a long time, and the project is huge."
Those who want to enter here must have certain financial resources and ability.
As time passed by, Wang Xiaobei became more and more anxious. He regretted it a little now, and he really should follow up to have a look.
Gu Chengyuan walked for a long time. Although the lights were plugged in, the passageway existed more than a hundred years ago.
"Chief, there is a fork in the road ahead." A person following Gu Chengyuan said.
Gu Chengyuan naturally noticed, "Let's go to the left."
They don't know anything about this place, so it's not suitable for them to act separately.
Everyone followed Gu Chengyuan and continued walking. After about 500 meters, they came to an open place.
There are still many incandescent lamps connected here, and there are some traces of human life.
However, judging from the traces, it doesn't pay attention to people, and the garbage is thrown everywhere.
"Look around and see if you can find any information." Gu Chengyuan ordered.
The soldiers immediately searched for it, and one of them found something, "Chief, I found an ID card under the box."
Gu Chengyuan hurried over to check it, and it was indeed an identity card, but it had been placed for a long time, and there was a layer of dust on it.
Guards research team member: Su Yan.
What kind of work card is this? He has never heard of this research team.
Just as everyone was looking for clues, footsteps came from around.
Gu Chengyuan waved his hand, and everyone found a place to hide.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Gu Chengyuan saw the person who appeared here through the gap in the box.
The other party was an old man with a sloppy appearance. He put the bag behind him on the ground, then sat on the small bench and fiddled with the things in the bag.
Gu Chengyuan and the others have already held their pistols, and they will attack immediately as soon as the other party takes out any dangerous goods from the bag.
However, what the old man took out from the bag turned out to be plastic bottles, and they were all empty beverage bottles.
The old man unscrewed the bottle caps, crushed the bottles one by one, and put them into another woven bag.
Scavengers?
Gu Chengyuan frowned, signaling to others not to go out yet, while he himself stood up.
"Who!" The old man was obviously startled when he heard the movement.
"Old man, what is this place, why are you here?" Gu Chengyuan walked towards the old man.
The old man looked vigilant, "This is my home, are you here to steal something?"
As he spoke, the old man hid the woven bag behind him.
Gu Chengyuan smiled lightly, "Don't get me wrong, old man, I came here by accident and lost my way."
Seeing that the other party had no intention of grabbing something, the old man said suspiciously: "Are you lost? I can take you out."
"Thank you very much, but why do you always live here?" Gu Chengyuan looked at the surrounding environment.
The old man sighed, "I'm poor, if those people didn't give me such a shelter from the wind and rain, I would have died outside."
Gu Chengyuan's expression changed, "Who is it?"
"Why are you asking this? You are not simply lost, are you?" Although the old man is a scavenger, his head is still very fast.
Those people gave him this place, and the water and electricity can still be used for free. He can't betray those good people.
Feeling the old man's defense again, Gu Chengyuan developed his ability to talk to people, "I'm just curious, you don't want to talk about it if you don't want to, I see that your old hand is injured, I happen to have a Band-Aid here."
Seeing that Gu Chengyuan was upright and didn't look like a bad person, the old man accepted his band-aid, "Thank you."
Gu Chengyuan moved a stone and sat beside the old man, and said, "Why don't you live in a nearby village, I came to this place by accident from there."
The old man sneered, "Those villagers are not good people. They stick to themselves and reject outsiders. If they hadn't been driven out of the village back then, I wouldn't have fallen to this point."
"No way, I have been to that village, and the villagers are very hospitable." Naturally, Gu Chengyuan has never been there, but he has read the investigation report.
The old man continued to hold the plastic bottle, "That's because the village has changed people.
Ten months ago, the aborigines disappeared one after another, and the village chief didn't even report the case because he rejected outsiders. Later, the village chief also disappeared, and the disappearance case was completely over.
Afterwards, people who investigated the household registration entered the village, and the few remaining aborigines kept silent about the disappearance, and the migrant population began to flow in.
Without the leadership of the former village head and the small number of aborigines, they were unable to resist the local arrangements. "
Gu Chengyuan handed the old man a cigarette and lit it for him, "Then why don't you go in instead of staying in this cave?"
The old man sighed, "I, promise to those kind-hearted people who took me in back then to guard this place for them."
"It's empty here, what is there to guard?" Gu Chengyuan said in a sympathetic tone as if an old man had been deceived.
The old man immediately retorted, "There is nothing here, but I promised others, and I will do it."
"What did you promise to the old man? Did they pay you? It's three hundred a month for a normal shift!" Gu Chengyuan spoke on the old man's side.
The old man said unhappily: "Those people saved me when I was in the most critical time. How can I still ask for money from them? I want to stay here until someone finds out. I can tell them and I can leave."
"So, now that I'm in, you're free?" Gu Chengyuan asked.
The old man slapped his thigh, "It's not a big deal!"
Gu Chengyuan smiled, "Then you should quickly contact those people, so that I can help you move your things out, otherwise there are so many things, it will be enough for you to move them several times."
The old man felt that Gu Chengyuan was a good person, "Then I'll leave a message outside, and you help me move my things out."
"Okay!" Gu Chengyuan agreed, and at the same time, he put his right hand behind his back and made a retreat gesture to the soldiers hiding nearby.
After a while he and the old man left, and these people could return to the Tiankeng by the same route.
Unaware of Gu Chengyuan's little trick, the old man picked up a bag by himself, "Let's go."
Gu Chengyuan also picked up a bag of plastic bottles and followed behind the old man.
Inside the tiankeng, Wang Xiaobei looked at his watch. It had been four or ten minutes, but Gu Shen still hadn't come out.
Just when Wang Xiaobei was thinking about whether to notify the superiors to send people down, the soldiers who went in with Gu Chengyuan came out.
"Where's God Gu?"
Wang Xiaobei looked behind.
One of the soldiers said: "We saw a scavenger inside. The chief and the other party left through another passage. Let us come back and report."
Wang Xiaobei breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that these people lost Gu Chengyuan!
Immediately contact the local army leaders, the monster above has been eliminated, and they will transport the corpses in the tiankeng up one after another.
At the same time, the soldiers also figured out the identities of these corpses, which should be the disappeared aborigines.
Two hours later, Wang Xiaobei accompanied them to transport some corpses, and then returned to the sinkhole.
He called Gu Chengyuan, but found that the other party's mobile phone had no signal.
It shouldn't be, it stands to reason that Gu Shen should have come out earlier than them, how could there be no signal?
Wang Xiaobei had an uneasy premonition, so he borrowed a military vehicle and headed to a nearby village.
If what the old man said was true, they must have returned to the nearby village.
After arriving at the village, Wang Xiaobei found the village chief who managed the place.
"What old man scavengers? I've never heard of it." The village head looked at Wang Xiaobei in confusion, "We are so poor here, how can we have money to drink? Even if there are plastic bottles at home, they are not willing to throw them away. .”
Wang Xiaobei asked, "During those three hours, did two men come here?"
The village chief thought for a while, "I have to ask. Let's go to the entrance of the village. Tiezi's wife is washing clothes outside the courtyard. If someone enters, she will know."
Wang Xiaobei followed the village chief to the entrance of the village, where a woman called Tie Zi's wife was drying clothes.
"What? Don't talk about people, I haven't even seen a dog!" Tiezi's daughter-in-law was very sure.
"How long have you been washing? Did you miss it?" Wang Xiaobei still didn't give up.
Tiezi's wife told him with certainty, "I will definitely not miss it. My mother-in-law has blood in her urine, and with some piled up clothes, I can wash them for four hours without moving the place at all!"
All the strong men in the village went to work, and they had to deal with a mouthful of dry food in the field at noon, and no one would run back.
Wang Xiaobei took a look at the courtyard of Tie Zi's house. The big iron gate faced the village entrance, and the poles for drying clothes were also here.
"Village Chief, are you sure you haven't seen any old scavengers?" Wang Xiaobei asked again.
The village head was helpless, "I'm very sure."
Wang Xiaobei asked again about the missing persons issue.
"It's true. I heard it was some kind of sacrificial activity. Superstition kills people!" The village chief sighed. He has been here for more than half a year, and now he has planned it very well. No one dares to mention those nonsense anymore. s things.
After Tiezi's daughter-in-law thought of something, she suddenly said, "The old man who scavenged waste, isn't he a strange old man?"
"Yes, that's right, have you seen it?" Wang Xiaobei immediately perked up.
Tiezi's daughter-in-law had a strange expression on her face, "I saw him the day before yesterday when I was looking for rabbits in the mountains, but it was far away and I didn't talk to him.
The old man walks like flying, if not for his gray hair, I would suspect that he is a young and strong young man. "
"Do you remember where you saw him?" Wang Xiaobei thought, there must be something wrong with the old man.
Tiezi's daughter-in-law said: "That place is easy to find, it's close to the medicine field where Panax notoginseng is planted, and he went north."
Wang Xiaobei's heart sank, the north is where the tiankeng is!