ancient criminal minds

Chapter 107

Early the next morning, Lu Zheng led a group of King Chu's personal guards towards Lizheng's house. Qingluan stayed to protect Rongzhen this time and did not follow him.

Dr. Wang had already been waiting for him at Lizheng's house. Lizheng was a man in his 40s and [-]s, tall and hairy.Lu Zheng originally thought he would see a little old man, but he was surprised when he saw Li Zheng's appearance.

After Dr. Wang told the story, Lizheng immediately shook his head and said, "No, this is a village ban. You must not enter the mountain."

Lu Zheng frowned and said: "Then have you thought about it, if this case is not solved, the criminal will continue to commit crimes, those who are homeless because of him, and those who died tragically because of him, don't you care? ?”

Lizheng hesitated for a moment.

Lu Zheng went on to say: "The murderer is very vengeful. Even a good person like Brother Zhang will be hated by him. You can guarantee that you have never offended him? Even if you are not worried, what about your wife and children?"

Li Zheng's expression was visibly shaken, but he still shook his head and said, "I understand what this young master said, but when my father passed down this prohibition, he made me swear that I must not enter the mountain. If you break your oath, I'm afraid my father will not be at peace underground."

Although he was frustrated, it was also within Lu Zheng's expectation. He followed the plan and gave the next best thing: "Then can you tell me what happened in that mountain back then? You guys are so secretive about it?"

Lizheng hesitated for a moment before saying: "I don't know much about this matter... I just heard my father vaguely mentioning that there was a drought that year, and one day there was a sudden earthquake in the mountains. My father said that the mountain god was angry and forbid people to enter. Who knows how many people entered the mountain, and then all died except for one crazy person who escaped alive. My father found some young and strong people in the village, and went to the mountain to restrain them. The bones, who knows...who knows..."

"what happened?"

"Unexpectedly, when they saw black water flowing from the rock, they said that there was an evil spirit in the mountain, so they didn't dare to go further in, but hurriedly led people away from the mountain, and then directly sealed off the mountain, and returned Pass down a ban, and no one in the village is allowed to enter the mountain again."

As early as Zai Li was saying "black water", Doctor Wang couldn't sit still, and looked at Lu Zheng in surprise.

Lu Zheng said to Li Zheng: "This kind of black water is the culprit of these arson cases, please Li Zheng to be righteous."

Li Zheng looked at the group of guards following Lu Zheng, knowing that there was no room for return to the world, he could only sigh and say: "Since the young master said so, I have no choice but to obey. Please also, young master Wait a moment, let me prepare some things to go into the mountain, and pick a few more people."

Lu Zheng nodded and said: "Then it will be troublesome for Lizheng."

Li Zheng went out and prepared not to mention it, but Doctor Wang hurriedly asked: "Mr. Lu, what is this black water? Is it the oil produced in the stone that you said earlier?"

Lu Zheng nodded: "This oil has a lot of uses. Although I don't know it very well, it can be used as a fuel." In modern times, oil is closely related to people's lives. The local tyrants in the Arab region Isn't it because oil is so rich?

Doctor Wang stopped talking, not knowing what he was thinking.

Li Zheng acted vigorously, since he agreed to Lu Zheng, he didn't deliberately delay the time, instead, he quickly gathered everyone together, but those people had different expressions when they heard that they were going to enter the back mountain.

However, when he was about to set off, Doctor Wang suddenly said that he would join in: "Mr. Lu's description of that thing is so miraculous, I naturally want to watch it."

Lu Zheng hesitated: "But this mountain road is rough, you..."

Doctor Wang smiled heartily: "Although the old man is old, his body is still strong. He often goes to the mountains alone to collect herbs. You don't have to worry about that."

Seeing that he was indeed in good spirits, and seeing that Li Zheng had no objection, Lu Zheng agreed.

A group of people walked towards the back hill.When the mountain was closed at the beginning, the several roads that Lizheng entered were sealed off with wooden fences. However, after so many years of wind and rain, these wooden fences have long been fragile, and they can be broken apart with a little effort. It saved them a lot of effort.

Because no one came all the year round, the grass on this mountain was extremely dense, half the height of a person, and Lizheng led the people along while mowing the grass with a sickle, and then cleared a road.

Lu Zheng had climbed many mountains in modern times, but they were all with stairs or paved with asphalt roads. He had never climbed such a primitive mountain. If it weren't for a few guards to help him, he might not have climbed the mountain at all. Can't climb up.

On the way, they also chatted with Li Zheng, and Li Zheng said to Lu Zheng: "Sometimes the past few years have been difficult, and some people say that the ban on the back mountain will be lifted, if it is not for my father's will ,I am afraid……"

At this moment, Lizheng's words were interrupted by a person's exclamation: "There are people!"

Li Zheng hurriedly ran over, followed the man's instructions, and found that the weeds on one side were falling down, and there were footprints on the wet and soft ground.

Li Zheng's expression became serious in an instant. Dr. Wang had said before that the Tian family might have entered the mountain, but Li Zheng didn't take it seriously. I believe someone would be so daring, but everything right now is proving Lu Zheng's inference.

A guard came over and took a closer look at the footprints, and said, "The footprints are very fresh, and should not exceed two days."

Lu Zheng suddenly asked: "Is this footprint of one person, or two people?"

"One person." The guard said affirmatively.

"That's weird..." Lu Zheng had a puzzled expression on his face. At first, he thought that the footprints should belong to the two brothers of the Tian family, but now it seems that there may be more than one group of people who entered the mountain.

The person who found the footprints looked at Lizheng suspiciously: "Lizheng, what are we going to do next?"

Li Zheng frowned: "Go on."

The group headed towards the mountains again. As they gradually entered the mountains, the temperature gradually dropped and the humidity gradually increased. Lu Zheng felt that his breath was getting wet, and from time to time, small bugs would land on his face Fortunately, it is not yet fully summer, otherwise they would have to prepare anti-mosquito medicine before they dared to enter the mountain.

At this time, a guard suddenly said: "Why are there no birds and insects calling at this moment?"

It was only then that everyone realized that, indeed, there was silence in their ears, the chirping birds, and those annoying little bugs seemed to have disappeared all of a sudden.There was a commotion among the group of young adults brought by Lizheng, and it was not easy for Li to calm down, and then asked Lu Zheng solemnly: "Young Master Lu, do you think we still have to go inside?"

Lu Zheng just heard the guard explain that if this happens in the mountains, there is either an ambush or there is something wrong with the environment in the mountains.Of course, what they met at the moment couldn't be the former, so it means that something went wrong in this mountain.For these villagers, they are naturally afraid of these things, and they refuse to go any further no matter what Li Zheng says.

Lu Zheng was also in a dilemma, of course he wanted to go in, but he couldn't just go his own way regardless of the safety of so many people, so he said directly: "No matter what is ahead, I must check it out, but I don’t force everyone, if you are willing to go, I will pay double the reward, if you don’t want to go, it doesn’t matter, I will pay the reward agreed earlier.”

As soon as he said this, the villagers immediately talked about it.The guards were originally sent to protect Lu Zheng, so they would go in with him no matter what, and Dr. Wang was unwilling to stay here. Li Zheng was afraid that something would happen to them, so he had no choice but to keep up. In the end, there were two A villager was moved by profit and joined the team.

The group rested for a while, and continued to walk towards the mountain, but Lu Zheng found that they were not walking uphill at the moment, but the road gradually became smoother.Lizheng explained: "This mountain was originally like this, and the surroundings are relatively steep, but it becomes flatter when it reaches the center. In the middle of the mountain, it is not as cold as the outside. It is said that before the closure of the mountain, hunters would hunt in this mountain every autumn. to a lot of prey."

As the few people were talking, they gradually felt a bit of warmth, and the trees became more and more sparse, revealing the bare rocks below.Without the shade of the trees, the warm sunlight shone directly on them, and Lu Zheng's hands and feet that were a little stiff from the cold before gradually regained consciousness, and his forehead was also sweating a little.

Li Zheng estimated the itinerary, and said to Lu Zheng: "Master Lu, let's rest here for a while."

After he said this, Lu Zheng felt tired, he nodded, and Li Zheng shouted: "Take a break first."

Except for the guards who were still on guard at all times, everyone else sat on the ground staggeringly to rest.After sitting for a while, Lu Zheng felt much better. He thanked the guard for the water, and observed the surroundings with Doctor Wang.

Doctor Wang looked at it for a while before saying: "I also came to this mountain when I was young. At that time, there were lush trees in the mountain, and I feel that there are not so many rocks."

Lu Zhengdao: "Didn't you say there was an earthquake earlier? Maybe because of this, the soil layer on the mountain was shaken off, and the rocks in it may not be exposed."

Dr. Wang stroked his beard and did not speak. He originally thought that if nothing happened in the mountain, then lifting the ban on closing the mountain might give the villagers another way to make a living, which would be a good thing, but looking at it now This mountain with exposed rocks is really far from what he imagined.

And at this moment, a patrolling guard suddenly exclaimed: "Master Lu, there is a situation here!"