Zhou Tong Detective Series

Chapter 58 Zhou Tong Detective Series III: Paper Burner (17)
This map took them to the depths of the jungle. It was a dark and humid world. Even in the daytime, the sun could not be seen. The big trees covering the sky and all kinds of strange plants dominated everything here.Walking in such a place is definitely a painful thing.However, the suffering of the three of them had just begun, and when they were about to reach the end, a huge mountain appeared in front of them.

The mountains are like natural barriers, blocking their way forward.They want to go around the mountain, but they can't tell the direction, and they want to cross the mountain, but they have no way to climb the mountain.The three stood at the foot of the mountain panting, helpless.

"Girl, is your map wrong?" Zhou Tong looked at Li Ying and asked suspiciously.

"Impossible, I drew it exactly... according to that." Li Ying originally wanted to say that she drew it according to the imprint on Jin Dan's buttocks, but she swallowed the words abruptly.

"There is clearly a road here on the map, let's look for it carefully." Yan Yongjie held the map in his hand and searched around while comparing it.

"Don't rush to look for it yet." Zhou Tong grabbed Yan Yongjie, then turned to Li Ying and said, "Girl, take a closer look and think clearly, is there anything you missed?"

Although Li Ying was not very happy, she still took the map from Yan Yongjie's hand, and then looked at it carefully. After a while, her face turned red.

"Here, here may be... missed..." Li Ying pointed to the place on the map, which was exactly where they were now.

"What is possible, miss, please be serious!"

"You printed it yourself unclearly, and the position... I couldn't see it, so I guessed a little bit myself." Li Ying felt uncomfortable when she thought of the situation of drawing the picture at that time.

"Don't blame her. It's already very rare to be able to draw a good map in such a short time. Even if there are errors, it shouldn't be too far off." Yan Yongjie defended Li Ying and said.

The two women stood on the same front, Zhou Tong had no choice but to admit defeat.

"Fortunately, there is no way at all!"

Li Ying and Yan Yongjie both looked at Zhou Tong, hoping that he could find new clues.

But Zhou Tong looked at Yan Yongjie instead, and asked, "Yongjie, have you brought your GPS?"

Yan Yongjie didn't know what he was up to, but before Zhou Tong could speak again, she took out the GPS that she carried with her.

"What do you want it for?"

"The reference object, plus the latitude and longitude, we can narrow down the scope of our search a lot."

Both Yan Yongjie and Li Ying immediately understood that Zhou Tong wanted to use GPS satellite data and maps for cross-reference to find the correct route.

"Little-headed melon is quite flexible."

Li Ying wanted to pat Zhou Tong's head while she was talking, but Zhou Tong ran away in a hurry.

Through this method, Zhou Tong, Li Ying and Yan Yongjie finally found a narrow passage in the bushes at the foot of the mountain.This passage is actually a crack in the mountain. On both sides of the passage are towering stone walls. Even if you are alone, you have to turn sideways to walk in.

"Do you really want to go in?" Li Ying was obviously afraid of this dark and narrow crack.

"How about you stay?" Zhou Tong took the opportunity to say.

"No!" Li Ying immediately grabbed Yan Yongjie's hand.

"It's probably more dangerous to stay here. I'll go in front, Zhou Tong is at the back, and Li Ying is in the middle." Yan Yongjie shook Li Ying's hand lightly after speaking, and then took the lead and walked in.

Li Ying looked at Zhou Tong and let out an arrogant "hum".

Zhou Tong could only smile wryly, but did not dare to be careless at all, and followed closely behind Yan Yongjie and Li Ying.

The inside of the slit is dark and damp, the height does not reach the top, and the stone walls on both sides are uneven, but fortunately there is no fork in the road. Although walking is inconvenient, it is not easy to get lost.The three lined up, holding hands, and walked forward slowly.

I don't know how long I walked through the slit, and finally a bright light came out from the front.

Yan Yongjie, who was walking in front, was only dazzled for a while, and stopped naturally.Li Ying and Zhou Tong who were behind also bumped into the people in front one after another and stopped.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Tong, who was at the back, couldn't see the situation ahead at all, so he asked.

"It's okay, it seems to be the exit, everyone be careful!" Yan Yongjie blinked and regained her vision.

Yan Yongjie continued to walk cautiously, followed closely by Li Ying and Zhou Tong.

However, the three of them never imagined that when they got out of the slit, what appeared in front of them was Shura's hellish picture.

Chapter 19 Mysterious Valley

Valley, a small valley surrounded by mountains, an eerie valley.

The valley is full of bones, perhaps hundreds of them, and their clothes are very strange, not the clothes of this era, nor the clothes of ethnic minorities, but military uniforms, a kind that can almost only be seen in movies and museums Nationalist uniform.

In addition to the bones, there are old guns and bullet casings scattered around. It is conceivable that there must have been fierce battles in this valley.

Zhou Tong and Yan Yongjie jumped down the valley, but Li Ying stood there afraid to move because of fear.

The two of them inspected a corpse on the ground nearby.The deceased was a male, but his age could not be discerned, and the time of death was probably more than 50 years old.The military uniform on his body was already in tatters.However, Zhou Tong still found a serial number in the chest pocket of his clothes, which read: 22nd Infantry Division, First Regiment.

Zhou Tong and Yan Yongjie inspected more than a dozen corpses at one go, all of them were wearing military uniforms, and the numbers on the uniforms were all from the 22nd Infantry Division.

"It's really strange!" Zhou Tong said while shaking his head while watching.

"It's strange enough, the map brought us to such a place, and neither Ai Chen nor Xuan Jingyi was seen." Yan Yongjie was a little disappointed.

"I'm not talking about that, I'm saying it's weird." Zhou Tong pointed to the bones on the ground.

"What's so strange about them?"

"Look!" Zhou Tong said and ran to a corpse, imitating the scene of the deceased being shot and killed.

Watching his funny performance, Yan Yongjie wanted to laugh, but she held back in the end and said, "That's right, he should have fallen like this at that time."

"Then look at this position again."

Zhou Tong walked to the other side, where there happened to be a corpse crawling on the ground. He picked up the gun next to the corpse and imitated shooting at the position of the corpse just now.

Yan Yongjie didn't understand at first, but soon she found the problem from Zhou Tong's series of actions.Although these dead men were wearing the same military uniform, they attacked and shot each other. Obviously, there was some reason for their internal strife.

"You can think of all this, and sometimes you really have to look at you with admiration."

"Hehe, congratulations, congratulations." Zhou Tong ignored the fact that he was covered in dirt from his performance just now, and posted it next to Yan Yongjie ambiguously, and then laughed wretchedly.

Seeing this scene, Li Ying, who had been standing on the top and dared not come down, became jealous, and walked into the valley angrily, regardless of whether the bones were dead or not.However, she was very careful to avoid those terrifying skeletons as much as possible, and approached Zhou Tong and Yan Yongjie in fear.

But before she could take a few steps, she staggered, tripped over something, and fell to the ground with a bang.

Zhou Tong and Yan Yongjie saw Li Ying's miserable situation from a distance, and hurried to her side and helped her up.

Although Li Ying's fall was not heavy, the wet soil on the ground made her miserable. A delicate beauty turned into a disgraced beggar.

Before Zhou Tong and Yan Yongjie could speak, Li Ying burst into tears with a "wow".

Yan Yongjie quickly took out her handkerchief, and wiped her face while comforting her.

Zhou Tong originally wanted to make fun of her, but seeing her pitiful appearance, he finally decided to accumulate some morals.

At this time, Zhou Tong suddenly found a strange thing at the place where Li Ying fell.

A rusty iron ring was half exposed from the ground.And there seems to be something connected under the iron ring.

Zhou Tong squatted down curiously, and used his hands to dig open the soil covering the lower half of the iron ring. A circular iron gate with a radius of more than one meter was gradually exposed, and the iron gate was surrounded by hard and thick rock.

Yan Yongjie and Li Ying stood beside Zhou Tong in a daze long ago, looking at the iron gate in front of them in amazement.

"It's really you, just look at it like this, and don't help." Zhou Tong raised his black hands and complained to Yan Yongjie and Li Ying who were in a daze.

"Of course you did this rough work!" Li Ying snorted after finishing speaking.

"It seems that this thing tripped you." Yan Yongjie bent down and touched the iron ring.

"Girl, it's worth your fall this time, and we discovered something new by accident." Zhou Tong smiled wickedly.

Li Ying blushed in embarrassment, turned her head away, and ignored Zhou Tong's sneer.

Yan Yongjie pulled the iron ring hard, but the iron door did not budge.

"To open this iron door, I'm afraid it will take some effort."

Except for an iron ring attached to the edge of the iron gate, there are no signs or other things.

"If there is a door, there is a way to open it." Zhou Tong said confidently.

"Bragging, open it if you have the ability!" Li Ying also looked at the strange round iron door. It didn't even have a keyhole. Unless there were explosives, there was no way to open it no matter what.

"Then we bet?" Zhou Tong had a sinister smile on his face.

"Just bet, I'm afraid you won't succeed!" Li Ying said angrily.

"Zhou Tong, don't bully her, or I won't spare you!" Yan Yongjie was afraid that Li Ying would suffer, so she immediately stepped forward.

"Yong Jie, you are here, how dare I." Zhou Tong said duplicity.

"What do you want to bet?" Li Ying asked.

"Come here." Zhou Tong waved to Li Ying.

Li Ying walked to Zhou Tong's side, Zhou Tong put his mouth close to her ear, and said a few words softly.

Li Ying was stunned for a moment, then her face turned red, but then she nodded resolutely.

Yan Yongjie looked at her strange expression and couldn't help asking: "Li Ying, what did he say? Don't fall for him."

Li Ying's expression had returned to normal, she looked at Yan Yongjie and smiled, and said, "Don't worry, I'll bet with him!"

"Yong Jie, you heard it, she did it voluntarily." Zhou Tong squatted down with a smile on his face, then his expression became serious, and he began to twist the iron ring on the iron gate.

"Can you open the iron gate by twisting the broken iron ring like this?" Li Ying said sarcastically.

But Yan Yongjie asked in surprise: "Could it be that the iron ring is a combination lock?"

Zhou Tong stopped turning the hoop, raised his head, looked at Yan Yongjie and Li Ying with a frown and said, "Please stand a little farther away, I need absolute silence."

"Why? I won't leave until I explain clearly!" Li Ying said savagely.

Yan Yongjie also looked at Zhou Tong with a smile, and said, "I also want to know the reason."

Zhou Tong had no choice but to sigh helplessly, and stood up first.

"If I'm not mistaken, this round iron door uses a primitive mechanical combination lock, and this iron ring is the combination wheel. There are springs and top beads inside this mechanical combination lock. When you turn the combination wheel to find the combination When numbering, there will be bumps between the short pins on the lock cylinder shaft and the top beads, and I will find out the correct rotation method from the sound of the bumps, which is the password, understand?"

Yan Yongjie had seen Zhou Tong's talent for unlocking a long time ago, so she just laughed it off after hearing Zhou Tong's explanation.On the contrary, Li Ying felt a little unbelievable, but she finally understood why Zhou Tong wanted them to stand farther away.Although she was still not reconciled, she was held by Yan Yongjie's hand, walked to a distance, and looked at Zhou Tong quietly.

Zhou Tong took a deep breath, then held his breath, and slowly lay down on the ground, with his ears pressed against the iron door, and carefully turned the iron ring with one hand.

Time passed by every minute and every second, except for the "click" sound when the iron ring turned, the surrounding area was almost silent.The weather wasn't hot, but the air was filled with oppressive feeling. Yan Yongjie and Li Ying, who were standing in the distance, had sweat dripping from their palms and foreheads.

After a long wait, there was finally a light "click", and Zhou Tong also stood up from the ground, followed by him holding the iron ring with both hands, and pulling it up forcefully, with the harsh sound of metal friction, the iron door "bang" " was opened.

Yan Yongjie and Li Ying immediately ran over to Zhou Tong.

Under this circular iron gate is a vertical tunnel.There are iron escalators in the tunnel, leading to the underground, but because it is too dark, it is impossible to see how long the tunnel is.

Yan Yongjie picked up a small stone from the ground and threw it into the tunnel. It took about ten seconds before he heard the sound of "clang" falling to the ground.

"This tunnel is really deep." Li Ying looked at the tunnel with her head stretched out, and couldn't help but click her tongue.

"Let's go down and find out!" Yan Yongjie was eager to try.

Zhou Tong didn't move at all, just staring at the entrance of the tunnel in a daze.

"What are you in a daze for?" Li Ying thought that Zhou Tong would propose a bet to her when she opened the iron gate, but she didn't expect that not only would he never mention it, but he would also become dumbfounded.

"Look here." Zhou Tong suddenly pointed to the back of the iron gate and said.

A monster pattern with the body of a dragon and the head of a bull is clearly engraved on the back of the iron round door.

"Isn't this picture drawn on the piece of paper that Xuan Jingyi gave you?" Li Ying had seen the piece of paper, so she vaguely remembered it.

It was the first time Yan Yongjie saw it, so she asked curiously, "Is there anything special about this pattern?"

"This picture makes me feel like I have been here before, but I can't remember the details." Zhou Tong's head started to hurt again, and he held his head with his hands.

"Don't think so much, we've come here, let's go down and check it out." Yan Yongjie supported Zhou Tong with one hand, and gently massaged his head with the other hand.

Zhou Tong's headache was relieved a little, so he continued to say: "If I'm not wrong, Ai Chen and Xuan Jingyi should be below, and the soil covering the iron gate was buried not long ago, and it was covered up. People were in a hurry, which made it easy for us to find this place."

"That means there are still people outside. If we go in and they block the iron gate, won't we never be able to get up?" Li Ying couldn't help feeling a little scared when she heard this.

"That's why we need to arrange a person to respond to it." Zhou Tong said, turning his attention to Yan Yongjie.

"You let me stay on it? No, it's too dangerous for you!" Yan Yongjie immediately vetoed.

"This iron gate will be our only exit at that time. The other party is ruthless. If there is no one guarding here, it will definitely not work. Among the three of us, only Yong Jie, you have martial arts, and you can protect the exit." Zhou Tong looked at Yan Yongjie. explained calmly.

It's not that Yan Yongjie doesn't understand the truth, but she doesn't know why she doesn't want to leave Zhou Tong in her heart.

"Sister Yongjie, don't worry, I will watch him." Li Ying was very happy with this arrangement.

Yan Yongjie looked at Li Ying, and finally forced a smile.

"Be careful, we have a limit of two hours. If you haven't come up within two hours, I'll go down and find you!"

Zhou Tong nodded solemnly.

"Put this on, remember how to shoot?" Yan Yongjie took out her own gun, and put on a very cool posture of holding the gun.

Zhou Tong took the gun from Yan Yongjie's hand with a smile and fiddled with it.

"Better not getting a chance to use it."

Yan Yongjie looked at Li Ying again at this time, originally wanted to keep her, but in the end she still didn't speak, but Zhou Tong said: "Girl, you should stay here with Sister Yongjie, be safe."

"No, I can't help here, I want to go down and have a look." Li Ying firmly disagreed.

Both Zhou Tong and Yan Yongjie knew about Li Ying's temper, so they stopped persuading her.

So Zhou Tong took Li Ying, holding a flashlight, and carefully climbed down the escalator.

Zhou Tong was holding a flashlight in front of him, looking down from time to time, but he couldn't see to the end.Li Ying followed behind. She was a little scared at first, but although the tunnel was deep, the air was not dirty. It seemed that there was a good ventilation system inside.

"You want to murder, you stepped on my head!" Li Ying stepped on Zhou Tong's head, and he almost fell off.

"It doesn't matter if you step on it, I didn't mean it!" Although Li Ying said so, she quickly retracted her feet.

(End of this chapter)