Day and night tour

Chapter 27: Earth Temple
Let's not talk about the evil spirit for now.
Corpse Qi, Buddha Qi...

How can these two things with conflicting attributes be put together?
"Where does the smell come from?" Liu Tianen frowned.

"here!"

Qiao Yu trotted to the direction where the smell was strongest and stepped hard on the soil on the ground.

The clear footprints became a mark.

Liu Tianen pointed at the footprints and gave orders.

"Just dig from there, call all the laborers over, and tell them while you dig. No matter what you see, don't spread it around... Anyone who spreads it will go to jail!"

"Ugh."

Qiao Yu waved his hands at the laborers and gathered them together.

The workers gathered at the target point, expanded the digging area to a five-meter radius with the footprints as the center, and started digging with their hoes.

“Hey, ha!

Hey, ha! "

Inspired by the uniform labor songs, the soil layer subsided very quickly. In less than half an hour, it had sunk one meter.

"puff",
There was an empty sound.
A laborer in the team used his hoe to make a hole the size of a washbasin in the soil. He lay on the ground and peeked into the hole. It was pitch black and he couldn't see clearly, so it must be quite deep.

"Boss Qiao, look at this..."

He wanted to call Qiao Yu to come and look at the pit, but the sound of the labor songs was too loud and completely drowned out his voice.

Several laborers nearby did hear it, but the mechanical swing of the hoe has inertia. Although they looked in the direction of the hole, their hands continued to move and they continued to swing the hoe.

Just these few hoes caused trouble.

The basin-sized hole was under pressure again, and the thin soil layer broke into pieces and fell into the hole.

The area of ​​the pit expanded from the size of a washbasin to the size of a bathtub, and then the soil in the five-meter-square pit dug by the labor team quickly cracked.

It looked very much like the broken Golden Crow Nuo mask - first the center of the eyebrows was pierced, and then the force spread out, leaving the entire mask covered with spider web patterns.

The mask is cracked, but as long as you don't try to tear it apart to restore the stress, it won't fall apart.

But the pit soil... on every crack, there is a strong worker standing like a bronze sculpture. The already fragmented land, how can it withstand such a strong force.

hum!hum!hum!
The number of cracks increased exponentially, and the surface of the pit was already shaking noticeably.

Qiao Yu was an old tomb robber, and was extremely sensitive to changes in soil layers and terrain. He waved his hands vigorously and shouted to the laborers, "Climb up, climb up, there is a hole under the soil."

When choosing a burial site, one must look for the dragon. In the tomb-robbing business, "burial site" refers to a tomb or an underground palace.

Qiao Yu was also anxious and used all the terminology from his old profession.

But it was too late.

In just two or three moments, the soil surface of the big pit collapsed completely into the ground, and a pit appeared out of thin air in the open space.

Dust flew above the pit and turned into wind, which rushed up into the sky and condensed into a yellow mushroom cloud.

Wait for the dust to settle.

Zhou Xuan and Liu Tianen stood at the edge of the collapsed cave and looked down. Wow, there was actually a Buddhist temple in the pit.

The green tiles on the temple roof were smashed into pieces by the laborers who fell down.

In the middle of the temple sits a Maitreya Buddha statue about six or seven meters tall. Its body proportions make it much shorter and fatter than the Maitreya statues in ordinary temples, but it looks quite solemn.

After some excavation, this buried temple and the giant Buddha were brought to light again.

"Ouch, ouch..."

The sounds of the laborers crying out in pain echoed throughout the temple for a moment.

"Qiao Yu...are you alive?" Liu Tianen lay at the mouth of the pit and shouted into the pit.

Zhou Xuan turned around and ran towards the stage.

"I'm living a good life."

Qiao Yu fell in the corner of the pit. He wiped the blood off his face, leaned against the earth wall, and struggled to prop up his body, standing on the earth surface of the pit where the mud and water had reached his knees.

After his body recovered, he cupped his hands into a trumpet shape, put them to his mouth, and shouted at Liu Tianen.

Liu Tianen relaxed a little, and said, "If you are still alive, keep working! Check if any of the workers are in trouble."

He hired the laborer to investigate the case, and the case hasn't been solved yet, and if several or even dozens of people are killed, he will be in big trouble when he returns to the police station... He doesn't know whether he will receive the maximum punishment, but it will be extremely difficult for him to get promoted in the future, and he will become a laughing stock in the police station.

Fortunately, after a thorough inspection, Qiao Yu reported good news: "Everyone can breathe. The green tiles on the temple roof can relieve the force. The pit is half a puddle, so no one was seriously injured..."

Half-water pit is also a jargon among tomb robbers. When water enters the underground palace but the water is not deep, it is called a half-water pit.

If the underground palace is not sealed tightly, the underground water will fill it like a soup dumpling, with no water outside and full of soup inside, which is called a puddle. The underground temple under Liu Tianen's feet is not far from the river. The river water has been seeping into the underground temple for many years, not only accumulating knee-deep water, but also soaking the soil surface into a thick layer of soft mud.

If a person falls on it, it is almost the same as falling on a life-saving mat.

The green tiles, water surface and mud acted as a triple force-reducing device, protecting everyone from any harm from the fall.

"No big deal, what about the small things?"

"Two broke their legs, one broke his wrist, and the rest were fine."

Liu Tianen really wanted to kneel on the ground and shout "God bless you!" three times, just hoping that no one was hurt...

"Director Liu, what's the situation down there?"

A burst of dense footsteps and Zhou Xuan's hurried questioning poured into Liu Tianen's ears.

Liu Tianen looked back and saw Zhou Xuan holding a roll of hemp rope, with a large group of people from the Zhou family standing behind him.

Zhou Xuan ran away just now not because he was scared, but because he thought something big was going to happen, so he went to the stage to organize people to rescue the laborers who fell into the underground temple.

He didn't want Liu Tianen to use Zhou's labor for free.

But human life is at stake.

How can I lose points?
You must be more alert.

"Brother Zhou...Brother Zhou..."

Liu Tianen thought Zhou Xuan was a businessman who loved to take advantage of others and was stubborn, but it turned out that he was a kind-hearted person.

For a moment, he felt warm in his heart.

"Did something serious happen? How many people died in the fall?" Zhou Xuan looked at Liu Tianen crying, and his face became much uglier.

"Nothing happened. Two people broke their legs and one broke his arm."

"Why are you crying so hard? You scared me!"

Zhou Xuan wanted to kick Liu Tianen into the underground temple.

"I'm glad nothing happened. I was so excited that I called so many people here..." Zhou Xuan stood on the edge of the pit and looked down, sighing, "It's so high, but the workers didn't get hurt. They must be in good health."

Since the incident is not serious, we don't need so many rescue personnel.
Zhou Xuan selected his troops and left behind eight apprentices who were in charge of moving props in the opera troupe. Each of them had chest muscles bigger than their heads and was full of strength.

"You guys, pull the injured out and find a rickshaw on the bridge to take them to the hospital."

After Zhou Xuan threw the hemp rope to an apprentice, he took out money from his pocket, but after searching for a long time, he didn't take out even a copper coin.

"Fuck, I forgot I used a family card..."

Zhou Xuan slapped his forehead and remembered something else. It was not his responsibility to pay for sending the patient to the hospital and treating his injuries.

"Director Liu, you have to pay for this, right? They are injured at work..."

"Forehead……"

Liu Tianen has worked in the Investigation Bureau for half his life. Whenever he goes out on a field trip, any businessman or boss who sees him will rush to treat him and pay for it. He has never had the habit of paying out of his own pocket.

He was a little confused when Zhou Xuan suddenly asked him for money.

“It…it’s a work injury…but…I didn’t bring my wallet with me.” Liu Tianen often doesn’t carry a wallet.

There is a cafeteria for eating and drinking in the bureau, and Qiao Yu pays for snacks and cigarettes on the road. When he goes out on business, his boss treats him, so it is not very useful to carry a wallet with him.

"Just admit that it was a work-related injury." Zhou Xuan instructed his apprentice, "After rescuing the man, go ask my sister-in-law for the car fare and medicine fee, and say that I gave them to her..."

Halfway through his words, Zhou Xuan said to Liu Tianen with a serious expression: "The transportation fee and medicine fee are loaned to you. Remember to pay it back. If you don't, I will go to the Investigation Bureau to ask for it..."

"I will definitely return it!!!"

Liu Tianen was almost driven crazy by Zhou Xuan, who "had no fear", and he really believed that if he didn't pay back the money, this young man would really dare to go to the Investigation Bureau to collect the debt... He couldn't afford to lose face in front of that person!

……

The rescue operation came to an end as the apprentices rescued the last injured worker.

Liu Tianen turned his attention back to finding evidence.

"Qiao Yu, I found the Buddha Qi you mentioned, but what about the corpse Qi and the Yin Sha Qi?"

"I can't find it. I can't do it today." Qiao Yu said frustratedly.

"Because of what..."

"My nose is broken. Take a look."

Qiao Yu raised his face.

(End of this chapter)