Chapter 395 5 The Unsolved Case of Bandit Zhou Jiu

Chapter 395 5. The unsolved case of Bandit Zhou Jiu

After some investigation and evidence collection, the identity of the shadow hiding in the ancient ship has been determined. This person is the former boss of the village, the bandit Zhou Jiu, who is now in his eighties.

According to the testimonies of the bandits.

All the details of bandit Zhou Jiu have become clear. This man died suddenly and suddenly eighteen years ago, when he was sixty-four years old. There was no sign before his death, and the cause of death is still unknown.

The older generation of bandits recalled carefully.

Bandit Zhou Jiu had no warning before his death. No one expected that he would die suddenly and suddenly. He even just celebrated his birthday not long before his death and drank several bowls of local wine at the village birthday party.

On the day Zhou Jiu died, it was also the rainy season in Wuhaixianzhou. It was raining heavily outside the village. The bandits in the mountain were idle and gambling for fun deep in the cave. Basically everyone was there.

But only Saturday was absent.

As the master of the cottage, no one can control his whereabouts, so no one knows where Zhou Jiu went at night.

According to the account given by bandit Li Sanhu.

When Zhou Jiu was the head of the village, there were three wives who were in charge of the village. It can be said that they were not good at women.

Jidao asked further about the origins of these three ladies from the village. One of them was a widow brought back from the mountains during the disaster years, and the other was the only daughter of an old bandit from the previous generation.

The third one is shameful. It is a girl from a good family that Zhou Jiu snatched from the foot of the mountain. Her father was a fisherman in the mountains. She was swept away by the river during the rainy season. She was kidnapped by Zhou Jiu when he was looking for her.

The three Yazhai ladies are arranged in chronological order. The first lady died decades ago, and the son she brought was the former head of the village to Zhang Ergou.

The second lady is also long dead.

The third wife was a bandit named Zhou Jiu who was kidnapped back to the village at the age of sixty. Within a few days, she couldn't bear the humiliation and jumped off a cliff to commit suicide.

"What do you mean, you all have families?" Jidao heard this and looked at the bandit Li Sanhu and asked.

There was not a single woman in the village, but Li Sanhu said that they all had families.

"Yes, it's in a nearby village. The younger one has children and grandchildren. He doesn't want to be a bandit, and he cultivates his own land at the foot of the mountain."

Li Sanhu said everything he knew cautiously.

"You are living happily as bandits in the mountains, while your family members are farming in the village?" Jidao sneered.

"What happened on the night of September's death, how did you discover his death, and whether his body was found."

Zheng Yun asked aloud and returned to the topic.

Many bandits in ancient times were like this. Their families were left farming at the foot of the mountain, while they went up the mountain to become bandits. Not to mention subsidizing the family, some even asked for money from their own wives and daughters.

Wuhaixianzhou has a special situation.

But I can roughly figure out the key points.

The land here is vast and sparsely populated, and there are few villages and towns. The villages and towns are far apart from the county. The county only controls one-third of an acre of its own land, and only taxes remote villages and towns and nothing else.

The sky is high and the emperor is far away.

I can't control it.

The county does not have that many manpower.

If there is a vacuum in the rights of these small villages and towns, they may be replaced by bandits. There are bandits in every village. Not only is it not hated by everyone, it may also be an 'honor'.

"We discovered Zhou Jiu's death the next morning. He died on his bed at that time. His whole body was cold and his face was bloodless, as if he had been frozen to death. He had no breath at the time."

"Zhou Jiu's son said that Zhou Jiu's funeral arrangements had been decided a long time ago. He would just wrap the body in sackcloth and throw it into the back hill without placing it in the coffin or burying it in the ground. Zhou Jiu's son would take care of it alone."

Bandit Li Sanhu continued to explain.

The son of Zhou Jiu in his mouth was Zhang Ergou's predecessor as the head of the cottage. On the night when he outsmarted the cottage in Jidao Poisonous Mist Mountain, he was so frightened that he became confused.

This man is still alive.

Detained in Tiangong Dungeon.

After waking up, I felt stupid, my eyes were blurry, my mind was lost, I pooped in my pants every day, I went completely crazy.

If you think about it carefully, there seems to be some connection between them. Judging from the dark shadow in the photo of the ancient ship, Zhou Jiu has unshaven beard and hair like a bird's nest, and he also looks crazy.

"So you don't know where Zhou Jiu's body went, but you never saw it again?"

Zhang Ergou seized the key point and asked.

The more he listened, the more frightened he became. He was the current master of the cottage. The previous two masters, Zhou Jiu and his son, were both inexplicably crazy. So what would happen to him?

There must be evil spirits in this back mountain.

As soon as he became the head of the family, he was already possessed by evil spirits and contaminated with some unclean things. He might end up like Zhou Jiu and his son in the future, even dying without knowing how.

"yes."

Li Sanhu's head is like pounded garlic.

"The woman who was snatched last by Zhou Jiu really jumped off a cliff and committed suicide? Did you see her body?"

Zheng Yun asked another question.

"Master Immortal, we really don't know much about this. After all, Zhou Jiu is the boss. He said that the woman jumped off the cliff to die. It's hard for us to ask. We don't know whether it's true or not."

Li Sanhu was even more frightened.

This group of bandits didn't cause much trouble, and they didn't often go down the mountain to plunder. However, after being bandits for so many years, they had few cases on their hands, and none of them had ever committed any crime.

At this moment in front of the gods.

If the gods were to punish them, none of them would be able to escape. Maybe they would not be punished to death, but they would definitely not be good in the second half of their lives, and even the next life and the next life would be ruined.

Reincarnation is a problem.

I will turn into a pig or a dog in my next life.

At this moment, he only realized that he had never killed anyone, and there was no murder on his body, otherwise he would have been slapped to death by the immortal.

"Take him away, and keep him next door. We will interrogate him later if there are any problems." Zheng Yun waved his hand and asked Ji Dao to take the bandit away.

After asking so far, all the information about the shadow of the ancient ship has been learned, and the cause and effect can be basically inferred.

There is something wrong with Zhou Jiu and his son.

Many details reflect this point.

They may have known that there is a 'mountain master' in the back mountain, and they have formed a certain relationship with this mountain master, and they have some exchanges and use relationships with each other.

It is hard to say who uses whom.

Maybe the mountain master is more powerful.

They did not tell the bandits in the mountain about the mountain master. Except for them, no one else knew the secret of the back mountain, but both of them were not normal.

Zhou Jiu became a wild man in the ancient ship.

His son has become completely stupid.

It is really incredible.

What remains is a lot of new doubts, such as whether Zhou Jiu was fake dead or really dead, what was the reason for his fake death, and why he appeared in the crack of the ancient ship.

During the rainy season in Wuhai Xianzhou, the temperature will gradually drop. It is just the beginning of the rainy season, so the temperature is not too cold, but the water temperature of the underground lake is definitely not high. What is he doing underwater?

When Zhou Jiu went down the mountain to rob a decent woman, he was already in his sixties. What was his purpose in robbing the woman?

After he robbed the woman, the woman jumped off the cliff to commit suicide under his nose. Is this the truth of the story? And Zhou Jiu died three years after this incident. What is the connection between them?

"Master Xian, what is this mountain master?"

Zhang Ergou watched Ji Dao lead many bandits out of the command room door, drilled into the rain curtain and sent them to other places. The figure was hazy under the light, but it made Zhang Ergou shudder.

It's really hard to see through.

In an ordinary mountain village in Wuhai Xianzhou, there is such a weird evil spirit hidden. Is it bad luck to run into it, or is it not luck at all.

Such evil spirits.

Actually spread all over Wuhai?

The entire Wuhaixianzhou is full of such demons and evil spirits. No matter where you go, you can run into them. So the Ming Dynasty gave up this place and was forced to relocate the people here?

"It's hard to say for now."

Zheng Yun shook his head slightly and sighed.

At this point, the danger is not that dangerous. It is much worse than the dangerous places of gods and ghosts that we have experienced before, but the complexity and scope of involvement are very wide.

Wuhaixianzhou has a history of hundreds of years, from the disaster of the ancient city of Nanze, which was forced to migrate, to the wreckage of the boat division not far away, to the mountain masters and mountain strongholds in this corner.

The time span is very large.

The geographical scope involved is not small.

Perhaps behind this "Mountain Master Case" is the trace left by the entire Wuhaixianzhou in a turbulent period. This individual case is a small microcosm of the raging waves.

"Master Xian, let's go catch Zhou Jiu and ask him what's going on. He's a criminal anyway. If he refuses to answer, I have plenty of methods to tame beasts in the Heavenly Palace."

"I know Zhou Jiu's son. He's completely stupid. No matter what, we can't get any information. We can only start with Zhou Jiu himself and see what happens."

Ji Dao hurried back to the command room. He hadn't wiped off the rain and mist on his body yet, and he proposed his idea to Zheng Yun.

"No hurry."

Zheng Yun waved his hand to let Ji Dao sit down. While keeping an eye on the detector screen, he asked, "Think about it, what kind of demon caused Zhou Jiu and his son's symptoms?"

Ji Dao was still too reckless.

Even if Zhou Jiu was to be captured alive for interrogation, the Heavenly Palace's method of taming beasts could not be used. How could he get a result?

The best way is to send him to the Hades Pavilion.

The Hades Pavilion can not only enlighten the Yin soldiers, but also has an unpredictable ability, which is to force people to stay awake.

This was the case with Kadester at the beginning. He was crazy in the depths of the glacier, but he went to the Hades Pavilion for a walk. After being forced by Zheng Yun to give an order, he returned to normal.

That is not better than the animal taming method.

Make sure he will answer whatever he asks.

"Master Xian, there are many demons and ghosts in history that can make people stupid, but the evil thing about this thing is that it has never shown its face from beginning to end, and we don’t know what it is at all."

"Zhang Ergou has been tricked, and he doesn’t know what Master Shan looks like, let alone when and where he was tricked. How can I go back to the Sutra Pavilion to find it."

Ji Dao frowned and shook his head.

Or Zhang Ergou is too useless, which caused major flaws in the entire investigation process. He, the victim, doesn’t even know what Master Shan looks like, so how can others find out.

"Actually, I have some feelings."

Zhang Ergou took a deep breath and spoke quickly.

"Tell me."

Zheng Yun glanced at Zhang Ergou. After all, he was also a Taoist priest of gods and ghosts, so it stands to reason that he should not be completely unaware.

"I didn't realize it before, but after seeing the underground lake and listening to the testimony of these bandits, I suddenly remembered something. I guess I was tricked at that time."

"After I successfully occupied the mountain stronghold, I counted the spoils of the bandit suppression, especially the residence of the leader of the mountain stronghold. I turned the two or three floors inside out."

"There was a well in the yard, and a hemp rope was hanging by the well. I thought there was a treasure hanging at the end of the hemp rope, but when I pulled it up, I found a large ball of hemp cloth."

"The hemp cloth was tied with a rope. I untied the rope to see what was in the hemp cloth. I felt something strange in my body halfway through. After untying it all, there was only well water inside."

Zhang Ergou recalled with concentration.

This is indeed the most strange place. The whole process of suppressing bandits went smoothly, only this link was not right.

"Burlap? Isn't this Zhou Jiu's burlap?" Ji Dao interrupted halfway.

"I have some doubts now. The area of ​​that burlap after unfolding is not small. It is more than enough to wrap a corpse."

Zhang Ergou nodded quickly.

"Where is this place you are talking about? Is it the side hall at the back? The one that looks gloomy."

Ji Dao pointed to the back of the corridor.

"Yes, that side faces north. Even if it is not the rainy season, the sun will not shine on it, but the location is the highest in the whole village. All the previous big bosses have lived there, but I have never lived there for a day."

Zhang Ergou nodded.

"..."

Zheng Yun remained silent.

What Zhang Ergou said did sound a bit problematic, but he and Ji Dao sang in unison, like a crosstalk, which made the weird feeling disappear.

So Zheng Yun put his attention back to the unmanned detector. While listening to their discussion, he controlled the detector to continue forward and drilled into the breach of the ancient ship to see.

The detector was very close to the ancient ship.

It could drill in with a little exploration.

But it will take some time.

"I don't know what Zhou Jiu is doing hiding underwater. He can't live underwater. He can only hide in a few ancient ships to barely survive the winter."

Ji Dao raised another question.

"The hulls of these ancient ships are rotten, but the cabins above are not soaked in water. They should be intact. There are five ships in total, and the space is not small, enough for him to live all the time."

Zhang Ergou said while looking at the surveillance screen.

The five ancient ships are adjacent to each other, and the total area is much larger than the villa in the mountain village. The decoration is much more advanced, and there are several layers of "attic", but the environment is too gloomy.

Dark.

Humid and close to water.

Ordinary people can't live there.

"Has this man been living in the ancient ship for the past 18 years? Is there a possibility that he was just in a deep coma, but was thrown off the cliff by his son as if he were dead?"

"He couldn't come up by himself."

"So he was forced to survive down there."

Ji Dao had other ideas, but he rejected them halfway through his words: "That's not right. If that's the case, why didn't he call for help from us before?"

"There is enough food down there, with fish and grass everywhere, but the Mountain Master is in the lake, why doesn't the Mountain Master eat him? Could he be the Mountain Master's servant?"

Zhang Ergou also had various guesses.

"Speaking of this, I have a question. Zhou Jiu's son collected mountain goods for his birthday, and he also went to the back mountain alone to "worship" on weekdays. What exactly was he doing?"

"Is he delivering food to his father?"

"Or is he really offering sacrifices to the Mountain Master?"

Ji Dao continued the conversation. Zhou Jiu's son often went to the back mountain in a sneaky way. Is he looking for his wild father, or is he really related to the Mountain Master? It's unclear at the moment.

While the two were talking.

The detector had already drilled into the interior of the ancient ship.

Zheng Yun concentrated on watching the screen and kept adjusting it. The searchlight illuminated the scene inside the ancient ship and displayed it on the screen.

But the result was unexpected.

There was something hidden inside the hull of this ancient ship.