when the moon whispers

Chapter 461: Accomplice - Entrance (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
Entrance to Ninety-Six (Part 1)
"The blueprints of the air-raid shelter on this mountain are almost antiques. It was a very important place during the war years..."

Deputy Chief Cao accompanied the lady with red armbands in the old village party secretary's house and rummaged through the drawers and pulled out several hand-drawn drawings that were handed down from the family. The edges of the papers had long been gnawed by termites and were full of holes. It was not known whether Deputy Chief Cao's arm shook when he held up the phone to take the pictures, or whether the hand-drawn lead type could not survive the long years, the positions of the markings on the drawings were almost blurred. Xiao Letian held up the phone to check it inch by inch, raised his arm and pointed in the direction of the end of the abandoned orchard, and smacked his lips with a hissing sound.

"The location where the dark cloud gave the warning was actually marked on the blueprint. It looks like a hole, but it should be developed and backfilled. I just led people to search around. It seems that there was a hole there originally, and it was also blocked with broken stones. I saw grass growing on the mound of earth, so it must have been filled for some time. And then... it has to be on the top of the mountain. The half of the mountain with a gentle slope has been basically searched. If we want to find another air-raid shelter entrance, we probably have to climb up from this side-"

Xiao Letian looked up at the steep and winding road among the weeds and bushes, scratched his head in fear, turned around and looked at Jiang Mo, who had already put his phone in his pocket and rolled up his sleeves, ready to rush forward, "Why did Zhou You call in the middle of the road? Besides the disappearance of Song Zhiwen, what else did the master say on the phone?"

"I really don't know about Zhou You. When I called just now, the line was busy. I called back but there was no response... I guess it might be an accidental call. Old Gu mainly gave him a few instructions - Team Huang just sent him a message... Didn't Team Huang lead people to search the area within a few miles where Song Yike had been? Officer Chen's gun has not been found yet. It can be basically determined that the gun was not lost, but stolen. Song Yike's current situation cannot rule out the possibility of random revenge. I don't know if Song Yike has the gun in his hand or if he left it to Tu Siyao to give him courage. Let's look for him everywhere, so be more careful."

Jiang Mo thought for two seconds, sighed and shook his head, then leaned over to Xiao Letian's phone and scribbled on the blueprint: "The Tibetans need electricity to hide things, and it's not easy to pull wires in the mountains. We should look for it in the pit where the equipment was originally set up to grow mushrooms... How many entrances are left that we haven't found?"

"There are five pits in total. Three of them are still there in the front half of the mountain, but they are not connected to the air-raid shelter in the mountain. The two in the back half of the mountain... are probably connected to the inside of the mountain. The tunnels outside have been filled up, but there are still three holes on the mountain. It is said that one collapsed due to a landslide a few years ago, and there are two left. They should be connected to the one below. The instructor is leading Wuyun to search from the gentle slope. I think we can run into the brother on the top of the mountain."

Xiao Letian held up the blueprint he had copied on his phone and walked around the hilltop, which looked neither high nor steep. He pulled up his pants and followed Jiang Mo up the hill. "Is Team Huang still at Fangwai Village? Didn't they say Team Lin is back?"

"Team Lin should have gone to the villa area to lend a hand. Liu Hui and Han Chengyi couldn't handle the situation, especially Han Chengyi, whose mind was still muddled by the frying pan. The car that Song Zhiwen drove out of the villa area seems to have been found. Master said the car was almost at the airport ring road, and it was probably parked there by someone else and had an accident. The onboard system intelligently sounded the alarm, and the traffic police and ambulance all rushed over, but no one was seen, and the onboard recorder was torn off, so we're investigating it now."

Jiang Mo shrugged his shoulders and supported Shanlihong who was leaning his neck beside him. "Song Yike has at least ten or eight fake license plates in his pocket, and the car models and colors are relatively common. The brothers from the traffic police detachment next door dare not take risks in checking the cars and arresting people, for fear of being held responsible and making mistakes. They just invited Lao Gu to their command center... They said they had found some clues about the fake license plate car. Lao Gu probably has to go--"

Jiang Mo stumbled as the gravel rolled under her feet, and the second half of the sentence almost got stuck in her throat. As soon as she stood firm on the tree trunk, she heard a few barking warnings from far above her head. Jiang Mo raised her head sharply, and the intercom in her hand began to "squeak" intermittently. Listening to the echo in the forest, it was roughly on the mountainside at two o'clock above her head.

"Officer Jiang, we seem to have found a place similar to a cave entrance." Jiang Mo's brows suddenly frowned, and leaving Xiao Letian, who had just raised the phone to his ear to answer the call, he climbed up the steep narrow road using his hands and feet, and ran hard in the direction of the dark clouds.

The location similar to the entrance of an air-raid shelter is actually hidden behind a stone tablet of an old grave circle next to an old tree. It was erected by someone in an unknown year and month. The earthen grave with its back to the mountain and facing the water is leaning against a small hill. The earthen hill two people high is half covered with broken rocks and half covered with soil. The vines and weeds that grow wildly, dry and sprout new ones, firmly block an iron door about half the height of its body behind it. Only a few wisps of wind mixed with fishy smells rustled up the scattered dust and broken leaves that had been pulled apart several times, and gently brushed them down on the ears of the dark clouds.

The stone tablet had probably become loose over the years, and even the words "故考" or "先妣" on it could no longer be seen clearly. The relatively thick stone lay suspended on the earthen mound, and a small incense burner was stuffed in the gap under the tablet. Three pieces of incense that had not been completely burned were scattered in the sand. They were most likely the last sticks that Song Yike burned when he went up the mountain to pay tribute before carrying out this series of actions to attract firepower.

Jiang Mo first waved his hand to signal the trainer to take the police dog to stand back, then he stepped forward to push aside the heavy vines and branches, bent over and gently pulled the iron door handle that had a rotten lock hanging on it, and slowly lifted and pulled open the door panel that creaked endlessly with the slightest movement. He lowered his eyes and just as he saw a crooked iron ladder, he was hit by a gust of wind and waves mixed with the smell of dampness, rot and blood, and almost suffocated him, and fell on the spot.

Jiang Mo glanced at his watch - there were less than three minutes left before Song Yike's live broadcast of his threat to kill another person was about to begin.

Since Song Zhiwen was instigated to run away and was attacked and disappeared first, it means that in this hilltop that was surrounded and searched by the police for half a day and half a night, there is most likely only Tu Siyao, a "victim" who was kidnapped and faked for unknown purposes, hiding there.

Jiang Mo held his breath for a moment, and almost ignored the instructor's whispered dissuasion behind her to wait for support before going down to explore the pit. She climbed into the pit with the help of the rusty ladder, and landed at the bottom of the pit with the gun on her waist. She slowly squeezed through the gap in the stone path on the rock wall where a mining lamp was hung. Then she listened to the creepy sound of dripping water that was amplified by the echo in her ears. With a tingling scalp, she saw Tu Siyao, who was holding a paper cutter, and leaning in a pool of blood in front of the fake curtain with a slight breathing movement.

"...Song Yike gave you some kind of drug to make you cooperate with him to attract the police. Are you really planning to risk your life for it——"

Jiang Mo rushed forward, sniffed Tu Siyao's faint breath, and then pressed his hand on the wound on Tu Siyao's wrist, which was still bleeding. He turned around and pulled out the power cord of the live broadcast equipment that had already started the countdown, gritted his teeth, tied it tightly around her arm, and shouted at the top of his voice towards the entrance of the passage.

"Someone! Send the doctor down to save him!"

Happy holidays~
"White clouds come and go, green mountains remain, and I drink with joy."