end of days

Zhuoran walked around the tree for a week and found nothing, so he raised his hand and tapped on the tree a few times. His slender, bony fingers tapped on the branch, making a "bang, bang, bang" sound, and compared them carefully. Due to the differences in the voices, a smile finally appeared on Zhuoran's face. It turned out that one part of the tree had been artificially hollowed out. Peel off a piece of bark to reveal the mechanism.

"There is a mystery inside..." Zhuo Ran gently turned the handle attached to the wooden tooth, and after a "creaking" sound, Zhuo Ran clearly felt the vibration coming from the ground under his feet.

And what Zhuo Ran saw next made him even more dumbfounded. The place he was standing sank bit by bit. Soon, the ground was level with his waist, and then he saw an opening on the earth wall. As the ground sank, the opening became bigger and bigger, until a secret passage appeared in front of Zhuo Ran's eyes.

Zhuoran looked at the dark and secret passage in surprise, and couldn't help feeling that the person who built it was really talented. He took out a torch and lit it, and Zhuo Ran bent down and walked into the invisible end of the path.

The more you walk forward, the more open the road in front of you. The wall is no longer the previous mud wall but covered with a layer of stones. It looks extraordinarily cold and hard. It may be that it is located in the ground near the water vein, and the stone wall seeps. There was a layer of water droplets, and it felt clammy and cold to the touch, and the previous wound also began to throb because of the dampness of the secret passage, Zhuo Ran could even feel that the cloth towel tied to the wound had begun to ooze blood.

What is the purpose of such a place... The surrounding environment made Zhuo Ran suddenly think of the lifeless Gu corpse, the cold body without a trace of blood, and the dizzying chill caused by the poison all over the body. It feels like this cave is for storing those walking dead...

Zhuo Ran couldn't help laughing secretly that he was still thinking about something at this time. If the Gu corpse was really hidden in this cave, he really didn't know how to get out of it.If he happened to run into a controller, he would have absolutely no chance of surviving.

As he was walking, Zhuo Ran suddenly heard a whimpering sound. After careful identification, he found that it was the sound of wind passing through the stone wall. Coupled with the faintly felt flow of airflow, Zhuo Ran confirmed his judgment even more. Come on, before you know it, the terrain has risen little by little. This cave is not as deep in the ground as it was at the beginning, but rather close to the ground.

Suddenly, a fork in the road appeared in front of Zhuo Ran, and the left and right roads extended towards unknown places, like two bloody mouths devouring people. Looking inside, it was dark and full of danger.

"Which side should I go..." Zhuo Ran called out the little red snake, and saw that the snake's head shook left and right a few times, and then looked straight at the path on the left, obviously smelling Xiaoqing The scent of the snake, Zhuo Ran followed the guidance of the little snake and walked all the way until finally there was a ray of light in front of him.

The light came in from a small slit on the top of the cave, facing the light, Zhuoran found the little green snake bumping around like a headless fly, as if it felt the call of the female gu, the little green snake paused for a while and then Winding in the direction of Zoran.

"Is it on the top..." Zhuo Ran looked up and found that the top of the cave was covered with a thin stone slab. Because of the irregular shape of the slate, the sunlight from outside came in through the gap, and the little green snake was obviously Because there is no way to go up, they can only circle around in place. The top of the cave is only a little taller than one person. For adults, they can push away the stone slab that seals the entrance by raising their arms.

Zhuoran buckled the long sword in his hand at his waist, then raised his arms and pushed the stone slab open a crack, and waited patiently for a while to make sure that there was no one else outside, then he moved the stone slab and rolled over.

However, as soon as he landed, Zhuo Ran was dumbfounded, and the little green snake followed the smell left in the room all the way to find it and returned to the original place, which was clearly Yu Feng's room in the county government office!

Unexpectedly, there is such a secret road leading to the county government office in the woods in the western suburbs, and the exit coincidentally happens to be in the house of the young master Yu who died suddenly.

Could this explain the unknown disappearance of Yu Feng's corpse, because the corpse never left the house, but was directly transported out through the passage under the bed. Following the smell of Yu Feng's corpse all the way to the woods in the western suburbs, in this way, the corpse must have been out of this house and to the secret path in the woods!

Zhuo Ran felt more and more that the case was complicated and tangled. The most important thing was that he could not find a breakthrough point, or even had no clue. Sighing, Zhuo Ran went back to his room to re-bandage the wound and changed into clean clothes. Looking at the hole cut by the sleeve arrow on the changed robe, Zhuo Ran felt a little annoyed.

Xu had lost blood before, Zhuo Ran felt extremely tired at this time, and even his thoughts drifted away, so he had to rest for a while with his clothes on. Ye Shi explored the secret path again, I don't know what is the mystery in the direction that I didn't go before.

Pushing the door just happened to meet Lian Yicheng passing by, seeing the obvious gloomy face on his face, Zhuo Ran felt a little guilty, these days the county government's arresters hardly had time to rest, and they had been concentrating on the case.

"Captain Zhuo, are you out to investigate the case again?"

"Ah."

"You should also rest more."

"Don't talk about me, you guys need to rest more." Zhuo Ran smiled, even Yicheng had obvious shadows in front of him.

"That is to say, at this critical moment, where is the time to take a good rest, but this case is over, it can be relaxed for a while." Lian Yicheng also laughed, it is not good to be a policeman, something is wrong , There was no rest, and even the once-a-ten-day Xiumu was wasted.

"That's true."

"By the way, on you—"

"Ah! Captain Lian, you are here! The magistrate Yu is looking for you—" Lian Yicheng was about to say something when he heard the voice of Yu Jing's servant suddenly coming from a distance. After saying sorry, he hurriedly left with that person.

"On me? What's wrong with me?" Lian Yicheng said half of what he said, which made Zhuo Ran a little puzzled. He looked down at his attire, and it seemed that there was nothing wrong... After thinking about it, there was no answer, so Zhuo Ran didn't think much, and hurried Go through several corridors and into the windy room.

The layout of Yu Feng's room was still the same as before, Zhuo Ran moved away the bluestone slab under the bed familiarly, the sound of the stone slab rubbing against the ground seemed a bit abrupt in the empty room, Zhuo Ran hurriedly lifted the slate more carefully, Then he jumped into the tunnel.

Closing the slate, blowing on the fire, Zhuo Ran quickly arrived at the intersection according to his previous memory, this time Zhuo Ran did not bring the pair of snake Gu, because the two little snakes were obviously very fond of the unknown Gu insect. It's because of fear, if this is really the place where the Gu corpses are stored, I don't know how the snake Gu will react after being frightened, if it turns back on its owner, it will be very bad.

The faint suffocating smell in the air made Zhuo Ran more affirmed his judgment. It was obviously the smell that corpses would have if they were rotten or not. It was fishy and sweet with an indescribable stench. His stomach kept churning, Zhuo Ran managed to use his internal strength to suppress the boredom in his heart, and saw that there was a hole in front of him, and there was no way to go any further.

"How could this be..." Zhuo Ran was a little surprised, but soon realized that since the secret passage could be dug, it would not be surprising if there were some traps in the secret passage.

Moreover, the increasingly strong stench in the cave clearly shows that the answer is nearby.

Putting the Huozhe in front of the stone wall, Zhuo Ran groped bit by bit, but he didn't find any traces after going around. Just when he was feeling disappointed, the flame of the Huozzi in his hand suddenly moved, and Zhuoran's eyes suddenly brightened When the light came on, it seemed that the cave was not completely airtight.

Raising the fire pocket in his hand above his head, looking at the flames slightly to the right, Zhuo Ran walked to the left, and kept using the fire pocket to test the direction until he felt a little air current at the intersection of the stone wall and the ground. Just stopped.

Zhuo Ran couldn't help admiring the person who built this secret path, he could hide the organ so well, if he didn't search carefully, it would be impossible for outsiders to find anything strange, they would just think that this place is indeed a dead end, Zhuo Ran leaned down, and there After dragging and pulling at the seam, he saw that there was a space of three inches square behind the stone wall, and there was only a stone handle inside. Zhuo Ran touched the handle a few times with the scabbard to make sure that no mechanism would be touched, so he stretched out his hand After twisting it a few times, the stone wall at the end of the path gradually rose up, and an iron gate appeared in front of Zhuo Ran.

Zhuo Ran finally knew why he didn't notice any problems when he walked along the stone wall. The iron gate was obviously calculated carefully between the hollowed out stone wall, and the sound of knocking from the outside was almost the same as that of the wall next to it.

There was no additional lock on the iron door, and Zhuo Ran opened it with a push. Perhaps it was because no one had used it all year round. The heavy iron door was rusty, and there was a continuous "squeak" sound in the cave. It sounded like a long-dormant monster waking up from its slumber.

As soon as he stepped into the door, Zhuo Ran felt that the surrounding temperature dropped significantly. After walking not far, he saw a row of caves with iron bars. After taking a glance, Zhuo Ran couldn't help but gasped. The first cave The one standing in the middle is clearly Yu Feng, the county magistrate's son!

Checking them one by one, Zhuo Ran couldn't help but sigh with emotion. He didn't feel anything during the investigation, but now he saw so many corpses. They were all young men, and their bodies looked quite strong. They were used as containers for Gu insects. It couldn't be better, the body infested by the Gu worms faded away from the green and black at the beginning of death, but it was white and miserable, with wide-open eyes, coupled with eyes full of whites, at first glance it looks like a group of people from A ghost from hell.