In Golmud, we used the same trick again and bought an old pickup truck, put Shen Bing's body in the truck and refrigerated it with ice. In addition, it was just after the New Year and the weather was still very cold, so there was no need to worry about the body rotting. The purpose of going to Shiyuan Village was, firstly, to find Xiaofan's hair in Gu Qinglin's old house and search his soul to find his whereabouts. Secondly, we wanted to try our luck and see if we could find the secret technique of jade refining, so that we could practice this technique ourselves to cure Shen Bing.
But to our disappointment, when we arrived at Shiyuan Village, we found that Gu Qinglin's old residence had been burned to ashes by Liu Erfei, and Gu Qinglin's body had been burned to ashes, and nothing could be found.
We returned to Qinghai and started from Death Valley, asking local residents along the way if they had seen a child like Xiaofan. The answer made me extremely desperate: no one had ever seen one.
Just when we were about to give up and go back to Shangcheng Town, we heard an encouraging news that someone saw a woman with two children passing by here at night and heading east. After this person's detailed description, I immediately thought of someone, Shi Naiguang, who I had completely overlooked!
This person has not shown up since we arrived at Death Valley. Although I guessed that the soul in Gu Xiaoning's body was him, the result was wrong, so I completely forgot about him. I searched all over Death Valley and forgot about his existence. He is the most important person in the three taboos and the leader of the rebellious forces of the Life and Death Gate. From beginning to end, he was behind the scenes and slipped away again and again, which gave us a headache.
The two children he was leading, one was his descendant, and the other must be Xiaofan!
We immediately marched eastwards, and after asking along the way, we learned their whereabouts, and it seemed that they were heading to Gansu. I understood that he wanted to take back the property from Lao Chu so that he could make a comeback.
The four of us drove all night, taking turns driving, and arrived in Lanzhou at around nine in the evening. I called Lao Chu, and when he heard that I was back, he seemed very surprised at first, and immediately told me to meet at the park where we had broken up. The park was outside the community where Xiao Li lived, and I still remembered the way, so I drove over.
Gansu is still quite cold now, and the temperature is even lower at night, so we all wrapped up in our down jackets and walked into the park. I found the bench where I had sat before, and asked the four of them to sit down, waiting for Lao Chu to appear.
But after waiting for two hours, he didn't come. I knew something was wrong and guessed that he must have had an accident. I called again, but no one answered. I couldn't help but feel cold in my heart. I wanted to go find him, but apart from the three palaces, I didn't know where the other doghouses were. People had died in those three residences, so I guessed he would definitely not live there again.
"Call the police!" Qu Mo stood up and said.
Lu Fei said, "Qu Mo is right. We can't wait any longer."
"Yes, Qu Mo is right. We can't wait any longer." Wang Zijun agreed.
Lu Fei said to the monkey boy in a bad mood: "Please don't imitate others, okay?"
"Bah, didn't you hear me add two matching characters? Even if it's cheating in the exam, we didn't have the same test paper!"
Seeing that I was in a bad mood along the way, these two guys were trying hard not to quarrel, but at this moment they couldn't help but quarrel.
Qu Mobai glanced at the two of them and said, "If you want to quarrel, go to the street and don't cause trouble here."
The two boys suddenly became like deflated balls. They both hung their heads, glared at each other, and stopped talking.
I took out my cell phone and was about to dial 110 when I suddenly saw a wheelchair slowly coming out of the darkness and appearing under the dim street lights. There was a person sitting in the wheelchair, and it was Chen Gulong!
He stopped about seven or eight meters away from us, looking at us with a strange smile on his face. I was stunned. Didn't he become a vegetable? Qu Mo and the others had met Chen Gulong in Sanmenxia and heard about his experience in Lanzhou. Seeing this, they were all stunned.
"Surprised, right? Actually, I haven't lost any consciousness at all. I was pretending to be in a vegetative state. I just wanted to avoid your eyes. After you leave, I will take everything away!" Chen Gulong said in a low voice. He seemed very calm, not like he was revealing a shocking secret, but just talking calmly as usual.
I touched my nose and smiled bitterly. I am not the only one among the three of us. The two of them are also rare talents, otherwise they would not have been selected for the special forces. Lao Chu once made me look wrong, and Chen Gulong has repeatedly surprised me. It can be said that among the three of us, he was once the squad leader, so he is the best!
"Lao Chu is dead, right?" I asked with a heavy heart.
Chen Gulong said calmly, "The night after you left, he jumped off a building and committed suicide. At that time, the newspaper published a news report that a mining boss in Lanzhou committed suicide by jumping off a building because he lost his beloved lover, and left all his property to his friend Chen Gulong. The next day, I woke up and was discharged from the hospital, and took over all his businesses. I received your call just now. I deliberately pretended to be his voice to deceive you. I originally wanted you to wait here for a night and leave by yourself, but later, I decided to come and see you."
"Why?" I looked up and asked him.
"Because I just killed Shi Naiguang, I know he was the one who led you here. So I guessed that you would not leave until you could see Lao Chu, so I changed my mind and came to meet you."
"What about the two children?" I suddenly felt nervous. Not because he had the ability to kill Shi Naiguang, but because I was worried that something might happen to the children.
"What do you think, will I keep these two little guys?" An extremely evil smile flashed across Chen Gulong's face.
"You bastard, why are you so cruel that you don't even let the children go?" Lu Fei cursed with gnashing teeth.
Chen Gulong was not unhappy at all, and laughed contemptuously: "The evil offspring of the Life and Death Gate are not worthy of sympathy, otherwise the Life and Death Gate will appear in the world again in a dozen years. Is it wrong for me to eliminate harm to this world?"
Damn him, he killed innocent people indiscriminately and even boasted about it so shamelessly, which made me so furious that I stood up suddenly, pointed at him and cursed: "You are a fucking beast, the child is innocent. If I had known you were such a person, I should have shot you to death in the army!" The real reason why I got angry was for Shen Bing. Once Xiaofan died, Shen Bing would have no hope. What I was thinking at this moment was that I should die together with this beast!
"Xi Feng, stop pretending to be noble!" Chen Gulong also lost his composure and stood up from his wheelchair. "You exorcise ghosts and defend morality just to make money, don't you? Have you ever thought that Yi Yi is not innocent? What right do you have to kill an innocent person and put a bad guy on his head? If it weren't for you, we should have lived a very happy life in Sanmenxia. It was you who destroyed everything. Do you still have the nerve to yell at me here?"