disappearing gold

Chapter 61 Road paved with blue bricks

What kind of imprint is it?
  Zhu Lan moved closer to the cement wall. The yellow-brown soil looked a little pale in the light. If you look closely, you will see that the soil is piled up one by one, like a mountain of fish scales.

Obviously, the soil behind the cement wall was piled up one after another with semicircular shovels. The slightly moist soil still retains the marks of the shovel, each piece is semi-curved and is exactly the size of a shovel.

Only then did Old Sun realize the problem, "This Song Xiaofan is so cunning! He even knows how to backfill it with soil to confuse the public!"

After a pause, she continued, "The question is, how did he make the connection between the soil and the bricks seamless?"

Yes, Song Xiaofan retreated to the basement while filling the soil. So no matter how careful you are, there will always be some gaps between the soil and the brick wall, right? But as it looks now, it's obviously not.

Xiao Li asked Lao Sun for his opinion, "Then should I continue to expand the gap?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Work quickly!" Lao Sun ordered. She was the first to take out the bricks that were pressed into the mud and throw them to the ground.

Xiao Li felt aggrieved, "Am I waiting for you to speak? How could I dare to move without instructions?"

"You're the only one with a poor mouth!" Lao Sun couldn't help but slap him on the head.

So Xiao Li continued to swing the hammer and knocked down more bricks. Although there is a gap, it is easy to do things, but the quality of the cement is not good enough, and every brick is tightly connected.

In just this moment, he was so tired that sweat broke out from his forehead. But he rarely complains, which is why Lao Sun thinks he is down-to-earth.

The gap finally expanded to a height and width that allowed a person to enter and exit, and Xiao Li stopped to rest.

Lao Sun went back to the entrance of the basement to get farm tools, and gave the hoe to Zhu Lan, while she kept a shovel for herself.

"Dig out the dirt!" she said.

Zhu Lan swung the hoe and dug the concrete away from the gap. For a long time, there was a lot of dirt accumulated at my feet. Her family has an urban registered permanent residence and has rarely worked since she was a child. So after a while, she began to pant. Although she is a trainee criminal police officer, the training in the police academy is not enough.

The two worked together for a long time, and finally dug all the soil into the basement.

A winding passage appeared in front of everyone. Under the light of the flashlight, it looked deep and strange!
  The air didn't smell bad, but there was no wind blowing out of it. What's in there?
  "Wow! This is another world!" Zhu Lan was stunned.

"Everyone, walk close to the cave wall. If there are any footprints on the ground, be careful to avoid them."

After speaking, Lao Sun used his flashlight and dove in, taking the lead in the attack. The top, bottom, left and right sides of the passage are filled with solid hard soil, which makes it appear particularly dry.

It seemed that this passage had been dug for more than a day or two, and it could not have been done by Song Xiaofan. It seems that his father Song Hui should have dug it.

Zhu Lan and Xiao Li followed closely behind, and everyone's curiosity became more and more intense.

The passage was not straight, so Lao Sun walked to the front and turned to the right. Because her pace was very fast, Zhu Lan, who was following behind, disappeared within a short time.

"Master, wait for me," she said.

"Be careful, who knows what might be in here?"

Lao Sun's curiosity was also aroused. Where is the front of the road? Or where can this passage lead to?

Although she came here to investigate, there is a feeling now that she is here more like an adventure. As she walked, she suddenly found some soil scattered everywhere in the corner. She squatted down and squeezed it with her hands, and found that the soil was fresh and moist.

It seems that this is newly dug soil.

After walking for a long time, the dirt was scattered all the way to the front.

She also found that the soil up and down the left and right sides of the passage had become moist.

"Hey! It looks like this is where they dug." She said to herself.

"Are you following? There is something new here." She called back again.

But Zhu Lan and Xiao Li's answers were already far behind them, "Wait a minute!"

Lao Sun can't control that much, she wants to continue to go deep into the front.

Along the way, there were some footprints on the ground, but I didn't see anything else that might have been left behind. She felt a little strange. Can one person really commit a crime perfectly?
  Walking through this moist dirt passage, I breathed in the slightly humid air through my nose. I didn't expect that the air quality here was not too bad.

Could this mean there might be an exit at the other end of the passage?
  Lao Sun was not sure, so he continued to move forward. Based on her feeling, she guessed that she walked nearly 100 meters back and forth. The entire passage turns to the right and is slightly inclined.

Along the way, there was no missing gold or gold bars at all.

Holding a flashlight and shining it forward, there is a huge dark space there. It's not that the right-turn passage blocks the view, but there seems to be something there.

Lao Sun moves forward, and moves forward again.

Here we are, finally here.

He saw a small gap, surrounded by green bricks. The bricks were uneven and some were hanging from the wall and looked like they were about to fall off.

"Strange, why are there blue bricks here again?"

Lao Sun was startled, and she was a little overwhelmed by this sudden scene.

What exactly lies ahead?
  Lao Sun stepped in, a gust of wind gently blowing his hair. Yes, there is a slight surge in the air here. How is this going?

She held up her flashlight and looked around. Oh my God! This is actually a huge space. The space is larger and wider than the passage we just passed through.

Lao Sun shone a flashlight on his feet and found that they were also paved with blue bricks. This seems to be an artificial building. What kind of building is it?
  How come she never knew about this place, let alone heard of it?

"There's something new here, come quickly." Lao Sun shouted to the people behind him.

"Here we come!" Zhu Lan and Xiao Li's voices came through the long passage, a little far away.

Standing in this empty space, Lao Sun felt cold all over.

The flashlight's illumination was limited, and she only noticed that there were blue bricks all around, and she couldn't see anything farther away.

What will be waiting for them?
  (End of this chapter)