Lao Jiang and I looked at each other, put on our clothes and headed to the old mayor's house!
On the way, we both blamed ourselves very much. We felt that it was probably because he helped us decipher the funeral documents that the old mayor's condition worsened and he died.
After all, the expression of the old mayor at that time could be said to be extremely bad...
When I walked to the door of the old mayor's house, a large number of Lei Town residents wrapped in black had gathered there. Seeing their painful looks made my heart hurt even more.
The wailing of the new mayor was also heard in the house. Faced with his father's sudden departure, he was obviously grief-stricken to the extreme.
I was so trembling that I pushed open the door. I originally wanted to apologize, but my eyes suddenly widened! ! !
Because I saw the old mayor’s body and found that he did not die of illness, but was killed!
At this moment, the corpse was still lying on the table, with a dagger stuck in its back!
"Who did it?" I gritted my teeth.
Lao Jiang quickly went over to check and found that the dagger was actually carved with a lifelike poisonous scorpion. The murderer was obvious. The beautiful girl dressed as a blind old woman immediately came to mind.
The man who conquered the country and conquered the city has such a vicious heart!
I couldn't help but clenched my fists and said bitterly: "I will definitely kill you and use your head to pay tribute to the innocent souls of Lei Zhen!"
In addition to the stabbing in the back, the old mayor also had a fatal wound on his neck and his hands were bleeding.
Coupled with the traces left at the scene, the experienced Lao Jiang quickly made a judgment: "At that time, the old mayor should have been writing the words he cracked during the day overnight, and he didn't even notice that a murderer sneaked into the room. The murderer stabbed him with a dagger. He got into the old mayor's back and wanted to snatch away the text, but he didn't expect that the old mayor was not dead yet. Instead, he held the text tightly in his hand... So the murderer pulled out a dagger and cut it He grabbed his neck and took the manuscript away."
"Then what should we do? The old mayor is the only person in the world who understands condolence."
I couldn't help but worry. This was what the old mayor had paid for with his life. Could it be that he was taking advantage of the murderer?
What to do about the curse of Lei Zhen?
The new mayor also became anxious: "Did dad's sacrifice be in vain?"
I asked Lao Jiang to think of a solution quickly: "Aren't you the Black Saber Qilin? You must have a solution, right?"
Lao Jiang didn't expect this to happen, so he pressed his temples anxiously.
At this moment, out of the corner of his eye, Lao Jiang caught sight of the quill pen on the table and a stack of thick blank papers. He was suddenly surprised and said, "I have a way to restore the words written by the old mayor."
I don't quite understand what Lao Jiang means, so I want him to make it clearer.
Lao Jiang carefully held the stack of papers under the light and asked me to observe carefully. Under the illumination of light, there were indentations on the white paper, but they were not obvious.
Lao Jiang told me: "When the old mayor was writing, he should have put a pile of paper underneath, and the feather pen he used had a very hard tip! So except for the paper he wrote on, the paper underneath was actually The writing was also pressed out.”
After saying that, Lao Jiang suddenly took out a small glass bottle from his arms, poured the graphite powder inside on the paper, and then asked the new mayor to fetch a basin of water.
After the new mayor complied, Old Jiang put the piece of paper into the water.
After waiting for about half an hour, when Lao Jiang asked me to look at the basin with a smile, I was stunned! Because the paper floating on the water was doing magic at the moment, and densely packed black characters appeared.
Lao Jiang quickly took out his notebook to copy, but as he copied, his expression became serious, and even the hand holding the pen trembled.
He is actually afraid!
I quickly came over, but was blocked by Lao Jiang.
"Master, have you forgotten what you promised me before you came here?" I reminded.
Lao Jiang turned his back to me, closed his notebook and said, "Don't worry, I will tell you when I get back."
Just when I wanted to continue asking, the new mayor suddenly shouted and said that he found a strange thing on his father's bedside that did not belong to Lei Town.
Lao Jiang and I quickly walked into the back room and saw the new mayor looking at a rectangular box, looking up and down.
The box was military green and had several small buttons on it. This was the first time the new mayor had seen this thing, and he suspected that it might have been left behind by the murderer.
After all, it is impossible for Lei Town to have such a thing.
Lao Jiang and I’s eyes lit up and we shouted in unison: “Tape recorder!”
Seeing that the new mayor was confused, I explained: "This is a cassette pocket recorder produced in foreign countries. It can record people's voices and play them back. However, this thing is very expensive and only some agents can use it. The murderer's Identity must not be simple!”
Lao Jiang sneered and said, "This should be the gift he left for us."
"What's the meaning?"
I looked over in surprise.
Lao Jiang didn't answer and just pressed the button of the recorder.
The new mayor was shocked that such a small machine could actually make a sound, and Lao Jiang and I pricked up our ears because the murderer must have wanted to tell us something when he left this tape recorder behind...
There was a tingling sound in the tape recorder at first, and then there was a group of people talking: "Look, what did we unearth? This is the biggest discovery of this century. If we can excavate this ancient tomb smoothly, we will definitely find it." Forever in the annals of history.”
"Captain Lin, you are going to be famous."
"No! History will remember everyone today...hisssssss..."
Suddenly, the conversation was interrupted by something, and the group of people in the tape recorder seemed to be running.
They ran staggeringly, as if something was chasing them, accompanied by hysterical screams and bursts of miserable howls.
"Then...what is that?"
"It was hell."
"Help, help."
During the series of calls for help, I seemed to hear some kind of weird music playing, mixed with the whispering sounds of the little ghosts I heard during the day, as if something was trying to get out of the tape recorder.
My head started to hurt again, and I grinned so hard that I wanted Lao Jiang to turn off the tape recorder.
However, at this moment, the weird music stopped suddenly, and a man's evil voice sounded in the recorder like a ghost that suddenly appeared: "I know what you did back then."
That year, what year?
While I was still confused, Lao Jiang's face turned pale, as if the person who made the sound was the person he feared the most in his life!
His figure swayed and fell to the ground.
I quickly turned off the recorder, but after several minutes, a trace of color appeared on Lao Jiang's face. He grabbed my hand and shouted urgently: "Quick! We must go back to Qilin immediately."
His lips opened and closed, as if he had aged several years at once.
I had just reunited with my mother, and I didn’t expect to be separated so soon. However, my mother expressed understanding and said that when I grew up, I would naturally want to carve out a world of my own.
"Don't worry, Jinglan, I will take care of myself and concentrate on your things. My mother-in-law is waiting for you to come back!"
I nodded heavily and bowed deeply to my mother before I was willing to stand up.
What I never expected was that when I said I was leaving Lei Town the next day, the new mayor asked me to wait and then stuffed a cloth bag into my hand.
"What is this?" I asked.
"My father entrusted this to me last night and asked me to hand it over to you if something unexpected happens to him."
The new mayor smiled and said: "This is also a token of every generation of mayor. From today on, you will be the mayor of Lei Town!"
This sentence shocked me. I quickly opened the cloth bag and found that there was an ancient thread-bound book, a genealogy of Lei Zhen, and an envelope with the words: Jinglan personally expresses it.
After I opened the letter, I suddenly became speechless and choked as I read it: "Jinglan, when you read this letter, I will no longer be here, but I still want to have a good chat with you from the bottom of my heart. "
"In the family tree of Lei Town, there was a prophecy written: A chosen child will appear to lead us out of the nightmare and break the curse!"
"Generations of us have been waiting and waiting, but today I was excited to discover that you are that child!"
"I know that I am not qualified to order you. I just hope that you can become the next mayor and save the people here. Please accept this book, "Thirty-Six Battles of Moving Mountains and Reclamating Seas," which is the life-long experience of our ancestors in tomb robbing. "
Every word written by the old mayor was sincere. Although he knew that he could not wait until the day when the curse was lifted, he sincerely wished that the people of Lei Town could live and work in peace and contentment.
For this reason, he could leave the underworld regardless of pain.
For this, he could sacrifice his life.
Because he saw hope in the chosen child!
Such an old mayor who sacrificed himself for others has been hated by me for more than ten years. I cried uncontrollably and vowed to avenge him personally, but I couldn't hold the position of mayor no matter what.
After my explanation, the new mayor had no choice but to say that he would continue to be in charge of Lei Town, but I would be the eternal leader of Lei Town.
The next day, Lao Jiang and I got on the boat and said goodbye to everyone in Lei Town.
The big tiger, which I hadn't seen for a day, didn't recognize him at all. He jumped into my arms and meowed several times at me, as if asking me where on earth I had gone.
I didn't answer, but touched its head tenderly, and looked at the Zhanghe River with a slight drizzle, and fell into a trance.
