Qiu Wuhen came out to search around, because it rained too heavily last night, and all the traces were washed clean and there was no trace on the ground.

It is still raining, drizzling, looking along the rain curtain, the mountains in the distance are shrouded in smoke, and I can't see clearly, even the woods are also in the misty rain.

Because a village woman was captured by a savage, this was another major incident. She was angry and anxious and immediately ordered the villagers to be drawn from nearby villages to search repeatedly in a net-style manner. Not only did she search the ground, but she had to take a look at all the trees, because some huge trees were empty in the middle and might be hiding in it.

The net-style search was in the afternoon, and finally news came. Another dead tree was found to be empty because it was covered by leaves. So I didn’t find it in the previous searches. Later, I knocked on the trunk of the big tree and found that the tree was empty. I immediately notified Qiu Wuhen and the others.

Qiu Wuhen led Baru and others to the tree. The tree was about one mile away from the Suspended Village. It was a big tree that only three or four people could carry. There was no problem with the appearance, and the trees were also lush and full of leaves, and did not look like they were dead. This was also the place that had been ignored in previous searches.

Qiu Wuhen tried to knock on the trunk with a stone, and could feel the echo of the hollow inside. He turned around the tree and found that there was a hole in the tree. An elderly native pointed to the top of the tree with some pride and said, "Master, the entrance and exit of this tree is above the tree. The horizontal branch can be seen by climbing up, and we just climbed up to see it."

Qiu Wuhen checked the trunk and soon he found some hair on the trunk, because the bark of the trunk was mottled and it was easy to get stuck.

Qiu Wuhen immediately extracted several of the hairs, and immediately checked the hair follicles, and confirmed that the hair was consistent with the hair found on the neck of his son who had previously been bumpy, proving that it was the same savage.

Finally found this guy's nest, Qiu Wuhen asked the soldiers and said, "Have you ever checked it?"

A soldier said, "I went up and saw that the tree hole was very deep and was dark inside. We shouted inside without answering us. We didn't know if it was the residence of the savage below, so we reported it."

After Qiu Wuhen finished reading it, he did not find any other place where he could drill into a tree hole, only this one. So he and Qian Jinzhi climbed up the trunk and came to the tree hole. The hole was flat and could enter a person while lying down. Several fingerprints were extracted at the entrance and exit. After comparison, it was consistent with the fingerprint extracted from Qian Jinzhi's back window. One of them was a new fingerprint, and one of them was clearly discovered that it was actually one of the missing girls, and the palm lines of her palm were consistent.

Qiu Wuhen immediately told Tubazhong and Balu that he found the fingerprints of the missing show girl here, which showed that the show girl was probably deep in the cave. Tubazhong was very angry and immediately ordered the soldiers to go down and search.

The villagers were very scared and said something to Tubazhong in Tuji. Qian Jinzhi translated in Qiu Wuhen's ear: "The soldiers said that those people were subordinates of the mountain mandrill. They believed that there were mountain gods in these mountains and could command savages to arrest people. If they were caught, they could still not fight with the mountain god, otherwise they would die miserably. But Tubazhong said that if they could not find Xiu Nu, they would also die even more miserably. The soldiers must go down to the tree hole to search and rescue Xiu Nu. If they find the wife of the goblin, they would also rescue them."

"It seems that this is a savage's nest. It snatches women from the tools of inheritance and cannot let them go to justice. They must be brought to justice, otherwise more people will suffer this kind of misfortune."

After listening to Qian Jinzhi's translation, Qiu Wuhen said in admiration: "There are really two tricks in this Bazhong, and he can actually come up with such a hypocritical excuse."

Unfortunately, no matter what, the soldier refused to go in. Bazhong was so angry that he swung his whip. The soldier just knelt on the ground, hugged his head and howled, but he still refused to go down.

Qiu Wuhen said to Qian Jinzhi: "Why don't we go there, do you dare?"

Qian Jinzhi said, "What's there to be afraid of? I don't believe in any savage family, nor do I believe in the mountain god. If it is really a mountain god, it is a god, how could it be possible to capture women? Only ghosts, only those traitors and demons will do this. So I believe that what I caught was a group of traitors who fell into robbers. Let's take the opportunity to kill them all and rescue these girls."

Qiu Wuhen has a medicine gourd as a guarantee. As long as his life is at stake, the medicine gourd will rescue him. So his life is guaranteed, so he doesn't have to be afraid. What's more, there is a blow snow that the teacher gave too much. This knife is extremely sharp, and this kind of dagger is most suitable for use in secret passages.

He said to Qian Jinzhi: "Okay, you can translate it for me and I'll talk to Bazhong."

Qiu Wuhen said to Bazhong: "I and Shopkeeper Qian are playing the pioneer in front, and you guys follow me. Each of us has a small lantern in our hands to illuminate it, so let's go and save the person."

When Bazhong heard this, he was very moved, and then angrily pulled the local soldiers under his command and said, "You bastards are all cowards, and they still eat food to serve in the army and throw them away. Now who dares not follow him? After coming out, I will hang him on the tree for three days and three nights without giving him food. If he is the traitor in this case, he will be?"

When these local soldiers heard Qiu Wuhen and a female shopkeeper, the inspectors of the Ming Dynasty had to take the lead and lead a woman to explore the way. Bazhong also wanted to follow him. How could they have any excuses to not step forward? They all stood up, forced their spirits and put their swords on their backs, took out their daggers, held the lantern torches and prepared to enter the tree hole.

The toast said, "I'll go with you too. This happened to us in the mountains. If I don't follow you, wouldn't it be a shame?"

Captain Ke said to Qiu Wuhen: "Sir Qiu, I'll take the lead."

The other two constables also nodded. They had been hesitating whether to take action just now? After all, this matter was the affairs of the local officials. If the inspection department did not intervene, of course there was no need to stand in front of them. Now Qiu Wuhen actually wanted to take the lead directly, so the three constables would have no place to put them and immediately asked to take the lead.

Of course, Qiu Wuhen is more modest. He believes that someone will be in front of him. It is impossible for him as the imperial court official to take a woman to the front. As expected, after saying this, several people immediately came to the front, and Qiu Wuhen naturally agreed.

Xiacun was finding two ropes, one tied to the waist, and the other one held the double safety with his hands. Then this end was tied to the trunk of the tree, and several earth soldiers pulled it together, first dropping Captain Ke's head down. Captain Ke held a dagger in one hand, and instead of holding a torch in the other hand, slowly falling into the tree hole. They had thrown the stones before, and felt that the tree hole was not too far away.

After only a moment of falling, Captain Ke said loudly, and actually went down to the bottom of the tree trunk, followed by a slope.

Qiu Wuhen loudly asked him to find a safe place below, wait for the others to go down before meeting, cover each other and move forward. Captain Ke agreed, untied the rope, and put the others down one by one, and Qiu Wuhen and Qian Jinzhi also went down.

Captain Ke reported that the cave would be bigger than the ones twenty or thirty steps ahead. However, the ground was very wet, and I wonder if it was soaked in the rain.

They walked dozens of steps forward and suddenly stopped because they found that the entire tunnel was full of water. I don’t know where the rain came in. Fortunately, the water showed no signs of rising. Qiu Wuhen checked around and there was no fork, so there was only one to the cave. The cave inside was also relatively large, and judging from the compaction of the cave wall, it was obviously already there for a long time. Qiu Wuhen checked the flooded waterway and turned around to ask if there were anyone with better water properties.

Having already got off the waterway, these local soldiers became more courageous. A local soldier raised his hand and said that his water quality was OK, so he asked him to dive down to see the situation, but he didn't take risks, thinking that he should make sure that he could return to breathe the air and not be suffocated to death.

The local soldier agreed and took a rope and tied it to his waist. If he felt something was wrong, he would pull the rope and pulled him back outside. As a result, he came back a while after sneaking in, saying that the flooded place was not far away, and he could just hold his breath and go over it. The entire flooded place would not exceed ten steps. He could come out to breathe fresh air when he got there, but the torch could not be taken over.

This is a problem. The torch was filled with water. It would be difficult to use it there. So I found a piece of tart cloth paper to wrap the torch into a packet, sealed it with tart cloth paper, and then moved the torch to the other side. The others pinched their noses and drilled into the water again. Sure enough, they only walked less than ten steps to reach the other end. It seemed that this was the lowest lying tunnel, and the water vapor seeped out of the hole wall formed a flooded area here.

They turned to the other side, and Captain Ke re-lit the torches. But just after walking a while, the torches became smaller and smaller, and everyone felt more and more angry.

Qiu Wuhen immediately stopped and said, "No, this place should be closed and can't get out."

He wanted to retreat to the water immediately, as the air here became thinner and thinner, especially after the torch burned the air, the air consumed faster.

Everyone immediately put out the torches, leaving only two holding them.

Qian Jinzhi suddenly pointed ahead and said, "Look, there seems to be someone there."
Chapter completed!