Chapter 145
It was already dark, and Zhu Qingsheng slowly walked on the mountain road with a burning pine branch. Looking back, the footprints he left had been swallowed by endless darkness, leaving only a lonely shadow, which was sometimes far and sometimes approaching with the fire.
Zhu Qingsheng held the torch in one hand and the white jade ruler in the other, carefully guarding everything around him. After he separated from Sima Yuanji, he had been walking along the mountain road alone for half an hour, observing the surroundings, but he found nothing, only the occasional "gurgling" sound of the owl.
Zhu Qingsheng looked up at the mountain and saw two small fires passing through the mountains. He knew it was Zhong Shuidan and Wang Ren, and three other constables were searching slowly along the mountain road. I wonder if they had found anything?
Where is the master? Zhu Qingsheng smiled and shook his head. Master is very skilled in martial arts. It would be a good thing if he was not worried about himself. He would even worry about his master.
After walking all the way, Zhu Qingsheng thought he would encounter some accidents or emergencies, but after half an hour, there was nothing happening. The Hongdan Mountain was very calm, and he could only hear the chirping of birds and small beasts from time to time. It can be said that he had no discovery at all.
Zhu Qingsheng also thought about whether this was the man in black who was trying to lure his tiger out of the mountain, kidnapped the county magistrate Ma Kun and set up a condom to let them all come to Hongdan Mountain, so that he could take the opportunity to commit crimes or do things?
But then he thought, this was unnecessary. The man in black was elusive and his whereabouts were a mystery. If he wanted to escape or commit suicide, he would not be exposed at all. Moreover, since the murder of Lou Jiaji, the defense of Jiujiang City has been strengthened a lot, and officers and soldiers and constables are patrolling at all times. He can no longer commit crimes against the wind unless he goes crazy.
I guess the man in black is crazy. He dared to kidnap the county magistrate after committing such a big murder case. This man is hard-hearted and vicious, which is indeed rare in the world.
What did the man in black ask them to come to Hongdanshan for doing? Do you really want to make a deal with people like me? I found that these people didn’t bring any black iron plum blossoms at all, so what should I do? Or did I set up a trap and wait for them to step on it? Or was it just luring the tiger out of the mountain, transferring all of them to plan things by themselves?
But now I have already walked into the mountains, and it will be too late to go back. Anyway, after tonight, the goal of this man in black will be unknown.
Zhu Qingsheng was walking, and suddenly his feet sank, and he stepped on them loosely. He hit the torch. It turned out that he was walking in a piece of sand. He couldn't help but wonder, why did the sand appear here?
When I walked forward, I suddenly realized that there was a forest in front of me that had already withered and collapsed. No wonder there was a sandy land here. I remembered that there were many pedestrians decades ago, but now there was no one to take care of them. I felt even more sad.
Seeing that the woods in front of him were so dark that they could not see the end. Zhu Qing was afraid that the torch in his hand would cause a fire, so he slowly walked around from the north and suddenly realized that there was a cliff on the back. Countless vines crawled out of the woods and fell down the cliff.
Where the fire shines, the ground is full of dry vines. Zhu Qingsheng glances left and right and saw that only this road leads to the mountain road behind, so he can only walk from here.
Zhu Qingsheng knew that the vines were covering the top and the situation below was not familiar with it. He first stepped on it tentatively, and then he slowly walked over when he saw the place where he landed.
He walked step by step, and the vine that fell on his right foot suddenly moved. Zhu Qingsheng was highly focused. He felt it, so he hurriedly took back his right foot and looked over in the flames. The vine where he just landed suddenly moved again, as if sliding down.
Zhu Qingsheng was shocked. There was no one here. Before he could figure out how the vine moved, a few more vines around him started to move and slid down a little.
Due to the range of the fire, Zhu Qingsheng could not see clearly the ends of both sides of the vine. It can be seen that there are withered trees and vines here. If a torch is not properly handled, it will easily cause forest fires, so he had to look over slowly.
The vine was moving slightly and continuously. Zhu Qingsheng looked at it a few times and found that it should be something that was pulling under the vine, which made the vine move like this.
Thinking of this, Zhu Qingsheng walked over gently. It had reached the cliff, and countless withered vines poured down from here like a waterfall. I don’t know where it leads to in the dark night, and it looks very strange.
The dry vine under his feet was always moving. The more he walked towards the cliff, the more powerful the dry vine understood. Zhu Qingsheng wanted to find out, squatted aside slowly, raised the torch high and looked over.
After seeing this, Zhu Qingsheng was very scared. He saw a dark thing climbing on the hillside. When his firelight shone, he moved even harder. While he was swinging, he could see two bright eyes shaking with the withered vines.
Zhu Qingsheng suddenly retracted his head. Did he encounter some monster? He was panicked, then calmed down again, holding the white jade ruler tightly, thinking that it would be fine if the monster had no malice, and no one would delay each person or one beast, and would go their own way. But if there was any malice, he would do it hard. Even if he couldn't beat it, he could escape.
Zhu Qingsheng lay on the dead vine and waited for a long time. He looked at the dead vine beside him and kept moving, but the monster just couldn't come up. He was anxious and suspicious. He plucked up his courage and slowly stretched out his head to look down. The torch was shining brightly. He saw that the monster was always crawling in place without moving for a moment.
Zhu Qingsheng felt amazement in his heart, why didn't this monster move? He became much more courageous and slowly moved towards the dead vine. The lower the situation, the clearer it would be.
The fire reached the end, and Zhu Qingsheng tried hard to look at it with his eyes open, and suddenly found that the "fairy" of the monster was wrong. He looked carefully and found that it was two daggers inserted somewhere below, swaying with the withered vines.
Seeing that the torch had reached its extreme illumination range, Zhu Qingsheng was curious and wanted to figure out what the dagger was doing. He quickly concentrated on his energy and moved it into his eyes. The blurry scene below suddenly became a little clearer.
Zhu Qingsheng did not get the answer, but became even more surprised.
It turned out that there was a person tied down below, tightly wrapped around his body by the silence of the silence, only a face covering his eyes and mouth was blocked. The whole person was covered with silences, tied up and hung in the air, shaking with the silence.
The two daggers were inserted into the soles of his feet, and emitting waves of light with the fire. No wonder they looked like the eyes of a monster.
Chapter completed!