Chapter 359 Mysterious landscape painting!
Chapter 359 Mysterious landscape painting!
Jia Dongming and his group of six, riding two sidecars, soon arrived at the foot of the mountain not far from the ruined temple. After finding a secluded place to park the sidecars, the six of them held flashlights and headed towards the ruined temple halfway up the mountain.
"Deputy Captain! Deputy Captain Zhao! Why are you here?" When the six people were about to reach the ruined temple, two public security investigators hiding in the dark saw the six people coming, and immediately came out of the dark and asked Jia Dongming and Zhao Gang with surprise.
Jia Dongming heard the two investigators' questions and greeted them with a smile, "Lao Zhou! Lao Peng! You've worked hard! Have you found anything during your days on duty here?"
When Lao Peng heard Jia Dongming asking about the surveillance of the ruined temple, thinking of the suffering they had endured in the past two days, he replied somewhat unwillingly: "Deputy Captain! The six of us are divided into three groups, each on duty for twelve hours. Apart from being a little bored, we didn't feel any hardship."
Old Peng paused for a moment and then reported, "Deputy Captain! Deputy Captain Zhao! We have been monitoring here for four days. Apart from the villagers who occasionally go to the ruined temple to rest when they go up the mountain to collect firewood, no suspicious people have been found entering the ruined temple."
Jia Dongming heard Lao Peng's report and learned that only villagers who collected firewood on the mountain would occasionally go to the ruined temple to rest. He did not think much about it and ordered the two men, "Lao Peng! Lao Zhou! You continue to guard here, and the rest of you follow me into the ruined temple."
Jia Dongming led Zhao Gang and others and soon arrived at the dry well in the backyard of the dilapidated temple. Jia Dongming looked at the dry well in front of him and said to one of the police officers: "Ou Jiaming! Bring the rope, let's go into the dry well together to take a look."
After tying the rope, Jia Dongming took the lead, holding the rope and stepping on the rocks on the well wall. He soon reached the bottom of the dry well, and a dark tunnel appeared in front of Jia Dongming.
Jia Dongming saw the tunnel under the dry well, raised his head to look at the well mouth, and shouted to Zhao Gang and others at the well mouth: "Zhao Gang! Leave one person to guard the well mouth, and everyone else come down."
Soon Zhao Gang followed the rope to the bottom of the well. Looking at the dark tunnel in front of him, he couldn't help but sighed: "Deputy Captain! Looking down from the well mouth, the bottom of the well doesn't seem very big. I didn't expect that after reaching the bottom of the well, I found that there is really a different world at the bottom of the well."
After the remaining four people came down, Jia Dongming and others immediately turned on their flashlights and walked carefully along the tunnel towards the underground palace located in the center of the mountain.
Although it was very dark in the tunnel, it was nothing to Jia Dongming, who had eagle eyes. However, in order to hide his tracks, Jia Dongming, like Zhao Gang and others, held a flashlight in his hand, pretended to be very careful, and led everyone deeper into the tunnel.
Perhaps influenced by later tomb-robbing novels, Jia Dongming was deeply afraid that there might be traps in the tunnel. As he moved forward, he did not forget to use his Eagle Eye skill to continuously scan the walls and ground in the tunnel to avoid accidentally stepping on the traps in the tunnel.
The five people walked in the tunnel for about three or four minutes, and a stone door appeared in front of them. Zhao Gang shone the flashlight on the stone door and looked at the sculptures on it with an incredible expression on his face. He couldn't help but sighed: "If it weren't for the accidental discovery of the traces left by the entrance, who would have thought that there would be an underground palace hidden under this dilapidated temple? I just don't know if this underground palace is a palace dedicated to the evil Buddha? Or is it a mausoleum?"
After hearing Zhao Gang's sigh, Jia Dongming glanced at the stone door in front of him, then used his Eagle Eye skill to look at the stone door. After confirming that there was no mechanism behind the stone door, he reached out and pushed towards the stone door.
"Boom!"
With a loud noise, the stone door was pushed open by Jia Dongming, and a huge palace appeared in Jia Dongming's sight.
When everyone saw the stone gate being pushed open by Jia Dongming, they immediately pointed their flashlights inside the stone gate. Buddha statues that looked very similar to the evil Buddha appeared in everyone's sight.
"Deputy Captain! Deputy Captain Zhao! The Buddha statues here look very evil. Judging from the size of this palace, this should be the headquarters of the criminal group." An investigator used a flashlight to shine on the Buddha statues around the palace, with a shocked expression on his face, and couldn't help but sigh. Jia Dongming has the eagle eye skill, so Jia Dongming can see the situation in the palace clearly. Jia Dongming came to a lamp stand, then took out a lighter from the system space, lit the flame directly, and put the lighter towards the filament on the lamp stand.
The moment the flame touched the filament, the flame began to spread rapidly along the filament. The originally dark palace finally revealed its true appearance as the flame spread.
"Oh my goodness! I originally thought that the criminal gang had been defeated by us, but I didn't expect that there was such a big palace hidden here. And judging from the situation in the palace, someone must have been here some time ago." Zhao Gang looked at the palace in front of him and the daily necessities placed in the corner through the fire in the palace, and couldn't help but sigh.
Jia Dongming glanced at the palace in front of him, and then came to the back of the Buddha statue in the main hall, where he saw a landscape painting carved out of white jade.
Jia Dongming looked up at the landscape painting carved out of white jade in front of him. His intuition told him that this landscape painting might be the location of the criminal group's treasure.
Zhao Gang walked around the palace and soon came to Jia Dongming's side. He saw Jia Dongming staring at the landscape painting in front of him, which was carved out of white jade. He asked Jia Dongming with curiosity, "Deputy Captain! Is there anything special about this landscape painting?"
When Jia Dongming heard Zhao Gang's question, he stared at the portrait on the mountain without turning his head. He reminded Zhao Gang, "Zhao Gang! Do you remember the notebook we found from Liu Ergou?"
Zhao Gang was visibly stunned when he heard Jia Dongming's reminder. Then he looked at the landscape painting in front of him and asked Jia Dongming in surprise, "Deputy Captain! Do you mean to say that this landscape painting is a map to the criminal group and the mysterious treasure house?"
Jia Dongming nodded subconsciously when he heard Zhao Gang's question, and introduced slowly: "Zhao Gang! Look at this palace. Apart from a landscape painting carved out of white jade, all other places are carved with Buddha statues related to evil Buddha. Don't you think it's a bit strange?"
When Zhao Gang heard Jia Dongming's reminder and thought of the real situation he had just seen in the palace, he nodded in agreement and said, "Deputy Captain! If I'm not mistaken, one of the locations of the criminal organization's treasure house is in this portrait."
Zhao Gang shone the flashlight in his hand towards the portrait on the wall, frowned and asked Jia Dongming: "Deputy Captain! First of all, we don't know where exactly this landscape painting depicts. Even if we know the exact location, it would be harder than climbing to the sky to find the exact location of the treasure house in such a vast mountain range."
After hearing Zhao Gang's answer, Jia Dongming turned his head and looked around. He said seriously, "There must be a reason why the criminal organization would embed this landscape painting on this wall."
"Also, after Zhang Guixiang and the others were captured, Liu Ergou stayed in Sijiu City. This shows that the treasure house should be in the mountains around Sijiu City. As long as we solve this puzzle, we should be able to find the exact location of the treasure house."
Zhao Gang nodded in agreement after hearing Jia Dongming's analysis. He then said to Jia Dongming, "Deputy Captain! Your analysis does make sense. I think we can ask a geologist to come and take a look. Perhaps we can find the approximate location of the treasure house based on this portrait."
When Jia Dongming heard Zhao Gang's suggestion, he agreed and said, "Okay! Then let's do as you say!"
(End of this chapter)