criminal mentality

Chapter 272 What kind of secret is more important than human life?

The face of the female corpse is relatively well preserved. Except for her pale face and closed eyes, she is not much different from a living person. However, from the neck down, only a skeleton can be seen, which reflects pale and pale under the light of the flashlight. The bright light, coupled with the slightly upturned corners of the female corpse's mouth, gave goose bumps to the few people present.The appearance of the female corpse was very similar in age to Lu Minghao's girlfriend Cai Qingling among the missing persons. Because the distance was far away and the light in the cave was not very good, no matter how many people there were, they dared not make a judgment lightly. The relationship between the five policemen and the female corpse There is an underground underground river across the river, not to mention how deep the river is, just the cold air accumulated in it due to not seeing the sun all year round, makes Deng Xi who has just touched the water a little bit unbearable, let alone crossing the river to walk to the river. The female corpse came forward.No one thought that they would have to ford across the river in their search. The five had no choice but to watch the woman's body hanging on the wall.

At this time, they had been in the cave for more than three hours. The cave was much more difficult and deeper than they imagined. The flashlights of Li Zongkuan and Zhou Dahai had gradually dimmed until finally there was no light.In the pitch-black cave, the five could only hear each other's breathing and the sound of the river flowing not far away.There was no mobile phone signal on the side of the mountain. Deng Xi immediately made a decision and went out of the cave first. Ma Nianyuan climbed over the mountain to report the situation to the outside world, and sent additional manpower and equipment. The other four retreated to the entrance of the cave to wait for support.

Now that we have decided to exit the cave and wait for support, there is no need to save power, so when we exit the cave, a group of five people turned back, led by Zhou Dahai, who was originally at the bottom, and Deng Xi, Wen Mo, and Ma Nianyuan turned on the flashlights at the same time. Backtrack.

Before leaving, when Ma Nianyuan turned around, the flashlight swept across the position of the female corpse again. Wen Mo unconsciously followed the flashlight to look at the female corpse again, but was surprised to find that the wall was empty at this time! ! !

The female corpse who was still smiling at them on the wall just now disappeared! ! !Even if he was as bold as Wen Mo, he couldn't help but exclaimed at this time. The exclamation formed echoes in the empty cave, which shocked the other four policemen who were not mentally prepared. .

Deng Xi couldn't help shouting in a low voice: "Officer Wen, you're a policeman, making such a fuss, what do you look like?"

Wen Mo pointed to the opposite wall with trembling fingers: "The female corpse, the female corpse is gone!"

Deng Xi had already had some prejudices against Wen Mo, so he said displeasedly: "Don't talk nonsense, women are so annoying..." Deng Xi didn't have a chance to say the last troublesome word, because he himself saw the woman on the opposite wall with his own eyes. There is no female corpse they saw just now!Where the female corpse should have been, there was only a tree root as thick as a forearm.

The faces of all the people present were a little pale. It took only 3 minutes for them to negotiate to get out of the cave, and then they turned on the flashlights. In the dark, humans and animals lost their visual ability, and their other sensory abilities would fade away. There was some improvement, but among the five policemen, none of them heard any strange movements in more than three minutes.

Deng Xi moved the flashlight away in disbelief, and then turned it back on, expecting the female corpse to return to the position just now. After doing this three times, he finally accepted the reality that the corpse had disappeared.Reminiscent of the materials he got back from Lu Minghao, Deng Xi felt a cold air rushing from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head, wishing he could grow his wings and fly out.

The five of them didn't dare to delay any longer, and hurriedly walked out along the way they came from. Halfway there, a gust of wind blew from nowhere, and along with the wind, there was a faint cry of a woman. Crying like complaining, like a shadow, it makes people feel creepy.

When the woman came out of the cave, the woman's suppressed and sad cries continued intermittently. Deng Xi ordered Ma Nianyuan to get out of the mountain to contact the superior, but the other four had to bear with it. Out of fear, temporarily guard the entrance of the cave.

After getting out of the cave, Wen Mo finally felt that his cold hands were warmed up again when he saw the sunlight shining down from the dense forest. As the coldness on his body gradually disappeared, his reason also returned.

Wen Mo is a staunch atheist. In this world, there is something far more terrifying than ghosts and gods, and that is the human heart. To borrow a word, there is only one place in this world where there are ghosts, and that is in the human heart.

What happened in the cave just now could not be really haunted, but just someone.Even though Wen Mo blindly followed Deng Xi's people into the cave before, now she is [-]% sure that the place where Fang and his party finally disappeared was in this cave.The disappearance of the female corpse just now fully proved this point.Just imagine, if there is no problem with this cave, how can the mastermind behind the scenes deliberately scare them, hoping they will leave as soon as possible?As the saying goes, people scare people, scare people to death, as long as they are scared, no matter what secrets there are in the cave, from the moment the female body is discovered, the police will never turn a blind eye to a corpse, and the other party can find it in the shortest time. Find the problem and come up with the most appropriate solution, at least buy yourself some time to destroy the evidence before more police arrive.

Wenmo believes that in the depths of the cave right now, someone is hurrying to clear the traces of their existence, but there are only two possibilities for the five of them to go in now.The first type: because of the influence of the natural conditions in the cave and the equipment the four of them carried, nothing can be found. The second type: contact the criminals head-on, and then a conflict broke out. The opponent relied on the large number of people and the familiarity of the terrain advantage, killing them silently.

No matter how you look at it, they are the ones who suffer the most.So Wen Mo suppressed his curiosity to go into the cave to find out, and waited patiently for support.

Wait until night falls, Ma Nianyuan hasn't brought anyone back yet, the group of them will probably sleep in the open air tonight.

The night in the mountains is very cold.Before they went up the mountain, they had made preparations that they would not be able to go back at night. Everyone carried sleeping bags. It was obviously not wise to sleep too dead in the deep mountains where the situation was unknown. Deng Xi volunteered to guard the first half of the night and handed over the second half to Zhou Dahai. , Li Zongkuan and Wen Mo were driven to sleep.

After climbing the mountain for two consecutive days, Wen Mo's legs were really sore. He was not polite, thanked Deng Xi for his care, got into his sleeping bag and fell asleep.

This time, I slept until the light of day.When Wen Mo woke up, he found that the three of them had already packed their things and were discussing today's arrangements while eating with dry food.

At twelve o'clock at noon, Ma Nianyuan still hadn't returned home, and Deng Xi couldn't sit still.It takes about an hour to climb to the left from their current position to the pass where they entered the mountain the day before yesterday. The road from the pass is much easier than this way. There are two people at the foot of the mountain. Hours are also enough.In this way, the Public Security Bureau of City V could get the news around [-] pm yesterday, and should be able to send reinforcements to the foot of the opposite mountain early this morning.The day Wenmo and the others entered the mountain coincided with a heavy rain two days ago, and the mountain road was muddy and difficult. It took them nearly eight hours to reach Shenjia Village, but two days passed, and the road should have been dry by now. Well, it doesn't take that long to climb the mountain, and Deng Xi and others are at the foot of the mountain, so they don't need to go down to Shenjia Village, so it should take even less time. Anyway, it's time to arrive now anyway.

Ma Nianyuan belonged to Deng Xi, and according to his understanding, Ma Nianyuan was a very careful person, and now they waited for no one to come, there was only one possibility: something happened to Ma Nianyuan.

When Deng Xi thought of this possibility, he couldn't sit still anymore.In his opinion, the female corpse in the cave is no match for his colleague who has been with him for many years.

go back!This time they entered the mountain and they have roughly understood the route of Mr. Fang and his party. What happened in the cave was very strange. Since the four of them did not have guns and wanted to enter the cave again, it would be too dangerous, so they should go back first.

The four left the cave and climbed towards the pass.An hour later, we crossed the pass and started to descend the mountain, and the journey went smoothly.It took less than three hours to reach the foot of the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, there were only a few cars with local license plates in a mess, and no one was seen in the cars.Deng Xi led people to search for Ma Nianyuan, but found nothing.Called his mobile phone, but it was also in a state of being unable to connect.When I called back to the bureau, I found out after asking, that no one in the bureau had received Ma Nianyuan's call at all yesterday!
Ma Nianyuan has also disappeared!Searching everywhere failed, and when the reinforcements arrived, they searched all around the up and down mountain roads, but they couldn't find Ma Nianyuan.

First, the female corpse inexplicably disappeared in the cave, and then Ma Nianyuan, who was sent to ask for help, disappeared. The fierce heat from the July sun could not warm Deng Xi's gradually cooling heart.

Could it be that the legendary curse is true?Deng Xi thought of a line of bold characters on that page of information, and his hair stood on end in an instant!

Legend has it that Emperor Yin of the Later Han Dynasty was killed by his close and trusted officials. When he died, he could not close his eyes for a long time and clenched his fists tightly.It was another of his cronies who whispered in the ear of his dead body that no one would ever find his dead body in the future so that he could sleep peacefully forever.After that, Emperor Yin's eyes slowly closed.And this courtier did exactly what he said.The Later Han Dynasty perished shortly thereafter, but the body of Emperor Yin and the wealth accumulated by the father and son of the Liu family of the Later Han Dynasty disappeared without a trace, along with this courtier.Since then, in the past dynasties, for more than [-] years, countless people have tried their best to find this wealth, but they can't get it.

Among Lu Minghao's materials, there is a note left by a tomb robber who does not know which dynasty or generation. The note clearly records that he and two fellow villagers once found the tomb of Emperor Yin, and the location of the tomb is probably on Yunshui Mountain. somewhere.But the tomb robber sprained his foot shortly after entering, so he had to retreat to the door of the robbery cave to wait for his companion to return.In the end, what he waited for was that the robbery cave slowly collapsed in front of him until it disappeared, and his two fellow countrymen never came out again.Since then, the tomb robber washed his hands in the golden basin, went home to farm, and wrote this note before he died to warn future generations.

It is impossible to test whether the rumors are true or not.But it is an iron fact that the female corpse and Ma Nianyuan disappeared.Deng Xi continued to lead people to expand the search area, scolding Lu Minghao's eighteenth generation ancestors to death.

At this juncture, Lu Chenggong also called to ask about the progress.Immediately after learning that the traces of my son and his party were found, I couldn't sit still. Before I had time to be happy, I heard Deng Xi go on to say that they withdrew from the cave where they found their whereabouts, because one of their accompanying searchers also disappeared. .

What Lu Chenggong said inside and outside the meaning is that an unknown little policeman is no match for his only baby son, so he hurriedly asked Deng Xi to send someone into the cave to find someone. .My own subordinates feel sorry for themselves, don't just treat your son as a treasure, other people's children are grass.Deng Xi felt aggrieved, pretending that the signal in the mountains was not good, hung up the phone, and only focused on finding Ma Nianyuan's whereabouts.

Lu Chenggong was a little angry.One of the biggest disadvantages of being an official for too long is that you take yourself too seriously and are not used to rejection from others.The same is true for Lu Chenggong. Even a small section chief of the Public Security Bureau dared to hang up the phone number of his majestic mayor.He picked up the phone, called his secretary Nan Zhan to come in, and asked him to go to the chief of public security to handle the matter himself.Hmph, calling Deng Xi is enough for him to be humble enough. Since the line of being close to the people doesn't work, let him cry to his supervisor!Lu Chenggong thought bitterly.

Before Nan Zhan could call the police chief, Lu Chenggong first received a call from Zhong Lianhai, a senior city official.After answering the call, Lu Chenggong was shocked. After hanging up the phone, he left the city hall in a hurry. He didn't even call the driver, and drove out by himself. As for where he went, no one knew.

Three hours later, Lu Chenggong came back with a pale face, and never mentioned the matter of finding his son again.

A third of the police officers were mobilized, but Ma Nianyuan still couldn't find him.

At this time, it was already dark, and he took the team back to the Public Security Bureau unwillingly. Deng Xi washed up indiscriminately and went to sleep. There was still a karst cave with an unknown depth to be searched tomorrow, so he didn't have time to think about it.

The next day, dozens of policemen rushed to the cave again, and large searchlights received power from the opposite side of the mountain, illuminating the entire cave.The end of this cave cannot be seen at a glance, and it is very brightly illuminated within one kilometer from the entrance of the cave.This is a long and narrow hall with an area of ​​about [-] square meters. Starting from the entrance of the cave, the ceiling of the cave is getting lower and lower.There are police forces all over the cave.There is still a tree root halfway out of the soil on the wall, and there is no shadow of the female corpse.

Everyone dragged the searchlight into the cave, turned around a stalactite wall that was not too high, and a new cave was illuminated.

At this time, everyone had to bend their backs to move forward. The temperature of this cave is obviously lower than that of the cave outside, and the water level of the underground river is higher. More than half of the cave is occupied by the river, and it is impossible to go deeper on foot. up.

In the distance, there are deeper places that are not illuminated by light, hidden in darkness, and many secrets are buried.

Everyone on the empty wall outside has carefully studied it over and over again, and there is nothing unusual. Only Deng Xi, Wen Mo and four other people saw the female corpse, and the location they saw was [-] meters away from the wall. The other people didn't show it on their faces, but they were muttering in their hearts, maybe they had misread it, and there was no female corpse at all.

One person can be wrong, is it possible that everyone can be wrong?There were five people and ten eyes present at the time!

But Rao Wenmo thought he was well-informed, so he couldn't guess why the female corpse was missing.Now that the facts are in front of them, there is not even a ghost in the cave. In comparison, their language pales too much.

Yunshui Mountain is a deep mountain, old forest and deep water.This was Wen Mo's only thought after he came back from the cave and made up his mind to investigate the whereabouts of the female corpse, and after reading the files related to Yunshui Mountain in the V City Public Security Bureau.

The name Yunshuishan was chosen by the developer Ge Yanshan after the establishment of the Shenjia Village tourist attraction project.It is estimated that he was very high-spirited when he named the mountain, and he would never have thought that he would commit suicide because of this project, right?
In the eyes of the older generation, Yunshui Mountain is really unlucky.First, shortly after the start of the project, the construction team repaired the road at the foot of Yunshui Mountain. Shen Xin, the old village head of Shenjia Village, opposed the development of Yunshui Mountain, saying that the ancestors of their Shen family lived on the mountain and could not be disturbed. At the cost of their lives, the development project of Yunshui Mountain failed to stop.

Maybe God couldn't see it and wanted to help the villagers. When Yunshui Mountain was digging holes to build roads, the mountain collapsed and killed as many as [-] construction workers. The bodies of these people have not been recovered until today, more than two years later. It was able to be dug out successfully, and the compensation issue was settled because the developer Ge Yanshan committed suicide, and the government came forward to pay some money.These [-] people can be said to be dead without a whole body.

Next, something happened to the villagers of Shenjia Village. In the past two years, the old, young, women and children in Shenjia Village have moved out of the mountains one after another. At the beginning, most of them lived on the streets, and now they live in three houses built by the government. building.Even after they moved out, the villagers in Shenjia Village still behaved very unsocial. They didn’t go out easily, even shopping for vegetables was done by one person, and outsiders were not allowed to enter their territory. Most of them only made some handicrafts at home. In exchange for living expenses.It has to be said that living in isolation for more than 1000 years has allowed them to gain in handicrafts. All the things they make are beautiful, but the materials are just ordinary granite, and there are many of them in Taihang Mountains.

Even so, the villagers of Shenjia Village still could not escape the bad luck of death. Over two years, no less than seven people who lived in the Anju Building died. The causes of death were various. And feet.

And recently, the disappearance of everyone in Fang family, the mysterious disappearance of the female corpse and Ma Nianyuan.

In short, as long as there is something connected with Yunshui Mountain, strange things will continue.

The son is silent and strange.Only those who have done something wrong will blame the ghost for calling the door.

Over the past three years, more than [-] people died because of Yunshui Mountain. There must be a big secret in Yunshui Mountain. There is a group of people who deliberately do not want its secret to be known to the world, and even kill people.

Wen Mo wanted to see how shocking this secret worth protecting with the blood and lives of more than [-] people would shock the world.

(End of this chapter)