Daqing Criminal Division

"Drive! Drive!"

Early the next morning, a round of translucent moon just sank from the horizon, and a layer of foggy white fish maw appeared in the sky. A flag that was fixed to be raised on the city wall was still down. There was a commotion on Jingzhong Street.

I heard that a man who was on watch outside the Baita Temple last night was called to the government for questioning.

Two or three hours later, more than a dozen official horses with brown manes rushed across the street anxiously, their hoofs vibrated so much that the entire ground in Shuntian Prefecture was buzzing.

The outfits of these soldiers are a bit strange to say the least.

Because although it is a severe winter, when they appeared today, they were quite solid, some with white cloth and gauze covering their faces, armor on their hands, and a large cart of kindling firewood and a whole tank of spirits coming over behind them.

Wait for the horses to pass by under the archway one by one, and then carefully look at their outfits.

Seeing that this group of people are riding tall horses one by one, and they can come here so early, the only one in Shuntian Mansion is Luan Yiwei.

Just now the leader who led the horses with the reins in their hands was Fu Heng who was also fully armed and wearing an armor and face scarf.

With his star eyebrows and sword eyes, one can tell at a glance that he is a young man with a loyal and courageous personality.

And behind him, there are eighteen other Luan Yiwei's subordinates who were brought over by him, because they were suddenly ordered to dig the underground of Daming Hao. When this happened, people were a little shocked or unbelievable.

First of all, if you suddenly want to change the original ground structure of the capital, such as digging the ditches under the old Daming Hao, you must first notify the people from the Ministry of Industry to come, and then ask their Luanyi guards to help. No accidents, no one can break.

But who let this matter, first, it is considered urgent at this moment, and it is too late to find the Ministry of Industry; second, we have always been the most rule-abiding, serious and loyal Luan Yiwei Commander Fu Heng's brother has a weakness, that is, his house is haunted, and sometimes it is almost Kissing Big Brother himself more than a ghost——

【"We found an important clue to the case in Daminghao."】

【"Now the entire underground ditch needs to be dug up by hand. Remember to bring more people, armor to prevent diseases, and dry firewood."】

Early in the morning, the white eagle that had been raised by his family since he was a child flew to Fucha Mansion to find Fu Hengshi overnight.

It was the time when he was practicing his skills in the yard alone in the early morning, which was his personal habit for decades, but suddenly he heard two stones fall to the ground at his feet, and an eagle was calling him from an old tree in his yard, There is also a note for him at first glance.

At that moment, realizing that something was wrong, Fu Heng's expression froze, and he hurried back to the house to get the official order before he could put on some clothes, and hurriedly led the people to the outside of Daming Hao.

In the process, there was a lot of twists and turns at the other end. Fu Yu and Duan Xiao left the Longtan Tiger Cave under Daming Hao early in the morning, and they also sent people to mobilize the manpower first. At night, Fu Heng, who was stinking and dirty, saw Fu Heng who had rushed over.

"Brother, Brother Owl, what the hell is going on!"

From afar, I heard a large number of official horses looking for a place to stop in the street, and behind me came the voice of Fu Heng, who was sweating with hair, greeting them anxiously.

At this place, a dense white cloth has been surrounded to isolate the nearby people, covering the surroundings like a bag, preventing the smell coming out of the ground from spreading.

Hai Dongqing had come with a group of people earlier, and had already gone to temporarily disperse some people who live nearby. Not only that, but also special soldiers were using torches to ignite spirits and herb roots to fumigate the entrance and exit below the cave. , Temporarily prevent these smells that are afraid of spreading diseases from spreading towards the ground.

Seeing that Fu Hengren finally came, two of them had been guarding behind the White Pagoda Temple since dawn, and only had time to use the clean water in the wooden bucket during the period, and those who washed it several times also stood up against the wall.

Their hair, their shoulders, their arms were wet from head to toe, dripping constantly.

His body was a little stiff from the cold water and the weather, and he just had time to take off some dirty clothes and wrap them in a wooden barrel, and quickly burned them with an open fire on the spot.

Because it came out of the ground, the wounds on the body, including bare/exposed ears and eyes, inevitably have the risk of disease infection.

Fu Yu and Duan Xiao, who had been tossing all night, washed their skin with strong wine before approaching the others, and didn't stop until their bodies turned red and hot. At this moment, they heard Fu Yu turn his head and beckon Fu Heng. , Duan Xiao on the side also chatted with Fu Heng who ran over.

"It's nothing, how is your end, have you brought all the people who dig Daming Hao?"

When he said this, Fu Yu, who raised his hand and rubbed his long black curly hair, also wiped the water on his nose and cheeks with a cloth towel. Duan Xiao motioned for him to lower his head to wipe his hair. He lowered his head and asked Duan Xiao to help him rush.

The hands of the two were held together by coincidence. Duan Xiao helped Fu Yu wash his long hair but did not let him go, but kept holding each other's palms with him.

It was the first time seeing them both like this.

My eldest brother has an important person, and he seems to be different from before. Fu Heng is a little uncomfortable, but thinking that this is an occasion for serious business, Xiaocha's younger brother hurriedly said,

"Well, I did, but what's the matter with you two?"

"Not investigating the case, why did you find this strange place from under the Daming Hao in the middle of the night?"

He was dressed tightly, with the government's armor to isolate the disease, but in terms of body shape, he still looked like a teenager in front of his two brothers who were vigorous and decisive in everything.

Fu Heng, who had a calm temper but was also frowning by this strange incident, didn't have time to say more, and hurriedly asked Fu Yu Duan Xiao while standing still. Hearing this, the two who were concerned about their younger brother looked at each other Then, Duan Xiao pointed to Fu Heng that the bricks and stones had been removed and replied,

"Last night, we followed the previous clues to find this place, because we guessed that 'Yuan' might refer to Daming Hao, so we wanted to take advantage of the change in drainage time and go in to have a look, but we found that there are more than just ditches underneath. , obviously there is something wrong with it.”

After confirming that Fu Yu and himself were completely clean, he turned around and looked at Duan Xiao in the distance, telling Fu Heng seriously about the clues he found last night.

"and then?"

Fu Heng was a little surprised.

"Then, Fu Yu and I may have found out how Heyuan Gege was taken away that day, as well as the location of the missing transparent man's body."

"But now we need someone to dig out the bottom to find the missing 'transparent man' and the bones that belonged to the child. We need to drain them all and take them back for a detailed autopsy. I don't know who turned the bottom into A 'private territory'."

"Child's bones? 'Private, private territory'?"

For some reason, a chill suddenly followed in his heart, Fu Heng paused, and repeated it even more puzzled.

But this extremely strange word, to be honest, most people really don't understand it.

Because speaking carefully, last night, the sudden underground change almost caused Fu Yu and Duan Xiao to both be planted in the depths of the inconspicuous underground ditch outside here.

It turned out that when we opened the lock under the canal together last night.

After discovering the real 'secret' about the underground of Daming Hao, the two of them received a huge shock and shock from the bottom of their hearts.

In that scene, it is not an exaggeration to say that he fell from the world to the eighteenth level of hell full of walking corpses, which made people follow the dead without a place to bury them.

Obviously before this, both Fu Yu and Duan Xiao had witnessed a person's death time and time again in their past lives.

There are men, women, old and young among them, but they have all survived time and time again.

But relatively, they are also very clear that the corpse itself is not scary, because the corpse can only represent death, but the living people should not be afraid of death, so they will not have a fear of the corpse.

But when the secret buried deep in the Daming Hao was once washed away by the water flow of this fixed drainage.

This time it surfaced all of a sudden, the visual impact brought directly by the hundreds of human heads and skeletons sunk below is still too creepy.

Those skeletons that are hollow inside and densely arranged on the ground looking at the human world above are like staring at every passerby walking on top of their heads with resentment through their eye sockets.

Why did they die tragically here.

Why should they die instead of being reborn.

This resentment only set off the Daming Hao as the land of the evil ghost Yan Luo.

If it wasn't driven by the interests of people with good intentions, the children's heads sunk in this place like rock walls full of barnacles should have been discovered long ago.

After all, it is not as simple as sludge and sewage piled up in the original place. After death, there is a strong stench and the accompanying decay and disease, unless, unless this place has existed for a long time, and these corpses did not appear all at once , but piled up one after another.

It turned out that this was the entrance to the 'dark web' they had been looking for.

It is also one of the secrets that the spiders hide here.

And this is also like a huge, terrifying spider web shrouded in the ground, hidden under the bright world, the truth of the past that must be dug out by their own hands.

He and Duan Xiao realized in an instant that after this shocking case, more than one person's life was at stake.

It is the life of every child in this entire horrible pit of hundreds of corpses that has been turned into a child who died in vain.

"..."

At that moment, Fu Yu's long hair, staring so hard at the water surface covered with skeletons that one gray eye began to hurt extremely, and his back completely melted into the night, and his arms were blurred. It was very dirty, deeply stuck in the mud, so that it was difficult for the whole person to break free for a while.

But what's worse, at the end, the hearing range that the two of them can perceive seems to be getting stronger and louder, as if the water flowing over their waists is washing away.

As the underground pressure that was previously sealed at the bottom has changed due to the entry of upper air, the water pressure here seems to be about to sprint again like a flood.

And immediately, Duan Xiao, who realized the danger, came down from the top at once, and regardless of the darkness in front of him, he waded into the water and hugged Fu Yu. The half of the trumpet when I fell in, with another layer of understanding of death in my bones, was completely embraced by the bones all over the floor.

They seemed to be in urgent need of confirming each other's existence. They grabbed each other's hands and started trying to get out first, but even if the two of them climbed ashore in the corpse pit step by step, they still had to rely on each other's support to escape. here.

Until the sound came again from the gate, the underwater children's human heads and skeletons and those skeletonized shoulder blades and leg bones also entangled their way one by one, and they were about to drown their necks.

"Fu Yu!"

"I'm fine, you go up first!"

one two Three.

It seemed that they closed their eyes and counted to three together in their hearts.

In the blink of an eye, they rushed out of the eerie underground of Daming Hao together. The moment Duan Xiao was finally rescued and climbed up, Fu Yu, who was still left for him below, also slammed the bones of the two of them. The son kicked him away with his legs, and ran with him through the gate and climbed out.

They were bumped into each other, and in an instant, the human heads and skeletons drifting with the current rushed into the next gate with the water.

Under the stone slab they were pressing on, the black sludge that had been buried under the pressure of the gas for years almost swallowed them both, but the two escaped narrowly.

When they climbed up covered in sweat, the two of them had long hair like paint and tied it messily and unrestrainedly. Although they were extremely embarrassed, their hair was soaked in sweat and hung on their cheeks, and the edges of their eye sockets were scratched and bleeding, but their eyes were still there. There was a pause between the eyes.

They are desperate, but they are also desperate.

Fu Yu, who only had time to use his back to withstand the impact caused by the huge pressure behind him, held Duan Ou's cheek with one hand, leaned over and kissed him with a protective desire.

This masculine kiss was not digested by Duan Xiao, who was hugged tightly from his waist with his other hand, for a moment.

But there's no denying that it feels like hell.

For a moment, there was an urge in the minds of the two of them to rush to the top, and they couldn't let it go. It was the first time that Fu Yu expressed his possessive/possessive/desire to Duan Ou so fiercely for the first time, but he was very pure and strong. Pressing down on Duan Xiao, even if he just escaped danger, he didn't want to let him go.

Both of them were sweating profusely, but it was as fierce as if they were going to die together.

But fortunately, they finally escaped together that night.

Therefore, the secrets under the Daming Hao can be seen again.

And after the moment of life and death between the two of them, they don't care about talking about other things at this moment.

Going back to the ground structure that has been completely pried open one after another, Duan Xiao, who knew that the "round" secret was about to be revealed, squinted his eyes and said,

"Fu Heng, listen carefully. Now I'm in charge of this place. Fu Yu and I have other arrangements, but Hai Dongqing and the people from Nanjunji will arrive later."

"We have cleaned up part of the silt at the bottom of the gate, but it is still dangerous, but we need to clean up the silted bones as much as possible, because a large area of ​​corpses generally indicates that there are plague corpses that have not been cleaned up in time, even if there is no Epidemic disease is also a very risky existence after it rots, and after so many years, the excessive pressure accumulated underneath may also cause other dangers."

"Now, try to find the private water dragon bureau. The water dragon bureau is more experienced in this area, and ask them to transfer all the water trucks to pump groundwater within this time limit, and wait for the area around Daminghao to be drained with groundwater. See what else is in the sewage."

This arrangement is very detailed and comprehensive.

Duan Xiao, who had already imagined all aspects, personally handed over the command of the scene to Fu Heng, which also showed that he believed in the young people, and at the moment he understood the importance of this matter, Fu Heng, whose complexion was gloomy, hurriedly handed it over. He answered earnestly,

"Yes, Bafang Erji, Duan Junji."

"This subordinate will do it."

As soon as this sentence fell, all the people involved in the case bustled away together, and the sound of horseshoes scattered in all directions was going back and forth in the capital again, and everyone had to fight a tough battle next.

This is the eighth day of this arrest, the reverse pursuit of that magical dark net.

The deadline for everyone in the case is not much, but it is a turning point for the follow-up investigation.

On this day, there were soldiers carrying water in Shuntian Mansion from morning to night. Fu Heng, who was so busy that he couldn't get away, didn't have time to go back all day. Go into battle and start to clean up the 'secrets' under the Great Ming Hao.

Since ancient times, water dragon bureaus have only been used in city defenses when there is fire. This is the first time they have been used here. Water dragon bureaus are generally divided into two types: dragon bearers and water bearers. A water dragon must be equipped with a bucket Ten loads to follow.

'Water dragon' is the main tool for fire fighting in various prefectures and counties.

The first time Fu Yu and Duan Xiao saw the water dragon bureau in a real sense was when they were in Jiangning Mansion. The water dragon bureau under Sima Zhun’s jurisdiction mostly consisted of a large oval wooden barrel, two copper piston cylinders and a horizontal wooden pole. , when in use, start the crossbar to drive the piston, and use pressure to spray water from the water delivery belt.

Although Shuntian Prefecture does not have a water dragon bureau that the government can deploy, there is a water dragon team privately trained by ordinary people for the inner and outer cities.

After Fu Heng managed to find this water dragon team, he learned that the imperial court had suddenly ordered the Water Dragon Bureau to pump out all the groundwater in the Daminghao Ditch in the street, so they came here with crossbars and piston rods.

In front of them, all the men from the Water Dragon Bureau only wrapped up from head to toe with cloth towels soaked in spirits and ash, and again and again they pumped water vigorously.

They can only fight fires and send water to them, but they have not taken the initiative to extract water from the underground caves. It is only a moment, and it starts from the cross bridge in Xizhimen in the north, and flows from north to south through the current Zhao Dengyu along the terrain of the capital's north and south. Road, Baitasi intersection, and Taipingqiao Street were crowded with ordinary people watching the excitement.

Although there was a circle of white cloth outside to prevent ordinary people from seeing it, this big event also affected the hearts of the whole city.

As a result, about an hour later, as the piston rod that used to use the pressure of the cork to pump water and put out the fire was pressed down by the arms of several water dragon soldiers, there was a burst of "puff puff puff" sound like an old cow.

An appalling incident made all the people present who were separated from the outer circle afraid to speak out for fear of something happening.

In order not to cause a greater commotion in the capital, Fu Heng has followed Fu Yu and Duan Xiao's words from the beginning, and isolated the surrounding people from the roads on both sides as much as possible, so that ordinary people in the restaurant can see the movement below. They all pushed them away considering the danger as much as possible.

But when Luan Yiwei and the court officers and soldiers of the Water Dragon Bureau squeezed out the sewage that was pumped up little by little, and then escorted it to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they found a rice shop along the street. In the waste water, nearly a thousand catties of children's heads and human bones were found out of it.

——Thousands of catty children's human bones.

This appalling number is not a dream, because under the Great Ming Hao, it is clearly a corpse pit where the living dead are buried.

And it seems that all the bones inside seem to have been slaughtered, dismembered and disposed of for countless years. People who have disappeared secretly in the "Ming Net" for an unknown number of years on the side of the capital are actually found in the "Dark Net" world like this Completely disposed of without anyone noticing.

"—vomit! vomit!"

But even if it was expected, I have seen big cases with real knives and guns before, but at first sight of the buckets of bones and human heads that were drained up, Fu Heng's gang of Luanyi guards who assisted the Water Dragon Bureau to pump water The stomachs were still churning, and they vomited badly.

It was the first time for a group of young but dedicated faces to see such a horrific and vicious case.

As a last resort, Fu Heng, who jumped off the corpse pit after taking off his bright yellow cotton jacket, could only help with the task in the sewage with a cold face, enduring the stench.

And the more they dug into the ditch deep in the underground river mud, the further they pumped out the black water soaked in the bones.

There are also some terrifying scenes that ordinary people cannot accept. For example, the child's head pit discovered by Fu Yu and Duan Xiao at the beginning was already extremely terrifying. The pressure was sealed, the gas expanded, and it had completely become a floating corpse of a child.

According to visual inspection, the corpse should be a male, and the age was exactly between nine and eleven years old.

But the moment the child's floating corpse with a severely swollen surface appeared, Fu Heng already realized that this was the target he was looking for.

As far as the eye can see, on the top of the innermost canal, the body is missing a hand and a leg, but the rest of the limbs have swelled to several times the size, and the giant concept with the pale belly of a dead fish is floating in the deepest part. mud puddles and sewage.

An already crippled child died here, and I have to say it was shocking to see.

And just looking at it with the naked eye at such a close distance, you can only see the entire corpse's swollen head like a ghost, and the gas in the body becomes stronger, causing the mouth and bulging eyes. Heng stopped it.

"Fu, guard Fu Heng! Don't go down! Then, the corpse gas in that thing's belly may skyrocket at any time!"

"It's okay, the Water Dragon Bureau and everyone can do it, and I can do it too. I'll go down with you. There is a lot of dead bodies under here. If you don't clean it up as soon as possible, there may be plagues. You just pass the bamboo poles to me." Me, this corpse is the child we are looking for!"

The rest of Luan Yiwei's heart sank when Fu Heng, who showed determination, gave the order. Everyone knew that if the case was not solved, the stability of Shuntian Mansion might not be guaranteed.

They are also ordinary people, and they have children and sisters at home. They don't understand how serious the crime is behind this case, and how many innocent children's lives are hidden.

The very realistic point is that even though they have found the exit of Daming Hao now, because of the long dynasties, the government can no longer conduct autopsies on these heads and bones.

Unless there is a dead body of a key witness who can trace the clues, for a while, the people who don't want money are rolling down the sweat and continue to work against the stench of the huge corpse like live fish stuck in the bottom of the water.

So about four hours later, accompanied by soldiers with sweat-soaked sterilized cloth towels tied to their faces, the largest floating corpse of a child who had apparently died in about seven days was found by Luanyi All the people in Wei worked together to salvage it.

"Okay! Everyone has worked hard!"

Following the sound of Fu Heng's voice below, the applause of the people who were separated from the side in all directions sounded one after another. The people who showed a trace of joy had no time to clean up, but they hurriedly cleaned the ditch first, and then used open flames and various cleaning tools to clean up the ditch. Qingshui thoroughly cleaned up the mess underground.

Now, the truth hidden behind this major case that has been going on for five years is finally about to be cleared up!