Chapter 622 Entering the Underground Palace!

After discussion, comrades from Dayong City Public Security Bureau stayed behind to guard the captured members of the Li family, while Yang Kaihua, Jia Dongming and others went directly to Chuang Wang's treasury to track down the whereabouts of Zheng Ming and others.

Jia Dongming led everyone through the water curtain of the waterfall and into the cave hidden behind the water curtain of the waterfall. They saw remains scattered everywhere in the cave, which made everyone present couldn't help but show shocked expressions.

"Oh my goodness! How come there are so many human corpses here? Looking around, there are at least hundreds of people." With the light shining into the cave, Zhou Hua saw corpses everywhere in the cave. A shocked expression appeared on his face, and he couldn't help but exclaimed.

Jia Dongming looked at the blackened skeletons and the weapons left in the cave, and immediately guessed the identities of these skeletons. He said to Yang Kaihua and others, "Deputy Captain Yang! If I'm not mistaken, the predecessors of these skeletons should be the Dashun soldiers who were responsible for burying the treasure. After Li Guo and other soldiers moved the treasure, they should have poisoned the soldiers' food and killed all of them."

"Director Jia! Why do you think these soldiers were poisoned to death by Li Guo?" A policeman from the 49th City Bureau showed a puzzled expression on his face when he heard Jia Dongming's analysis, and asked Jia Dongming curiously.

Jia Dongming heard the police officer's question and saw the curious expressions on everyone's faces, so he started to explain: "Do you see the color of the bones? If they died of natural causes, the bones would not be black. The only explanation is that these people all died of poisoning."

"Director Jia! If these soldiers were poisoned to death, then why don't the skeletons here show similar symptoms?" When the people present heard what Jia Dongming said, some of them showed confused expressions on their faces. The police officer who had just raised the question asked Jia Dongming curiously when he saw the skeletons that had not turned black.

When Jia Dongming heard what the police officer said, he looked in the direction of the officer's finger. When he saw the corpses nearby, he immediately noticed the leather shoes on one of the corpses. He smiled and introduced them to the police officer, "Zhang Wei! Look at the shoes on that corpse. If I'm not mistaken, the owner of these corpses should be the one who followed the Li family into the cave to search for treasure more than ten years ago."

Jia Dongming said this, and pointed to some wounds on the bodies of several corpses, and then introduced: "Zhang Wei! Look at the wounds on these people. Except for two who were shot to death by ancient bows and arrows, the others were shot to death. I guess the Li family found the mechanism in the treasure house, and after they were sure that there was no way to crack it, they deliberately killed them to avoid exposing the specific location of the treasure house."

The crowd followed the path in the cave, heading deeper into the cave. The light in the cave slowly began to get darker as they went deeper, and everyone had to take out flashlights for illumination.

After walking along the path in the cave for about five minutes, they felt the rocks under their feet change. With the help of the flashlight, Yang Kaihua saw that the originally smooth rocks had turned into a passage made of blue bricks. A puzzled expression appeared on his face, and he murmured to himself curiously: "Hey! How come there is a road paved with stone strips in this cave?"

Jia Dongming, who possesses the skill of eagle eyes, looked at the road in front of him made of stones and bricks, and had a vague feeling that this should have been a mausoleum. Later, it was used by Li Jin as a treasure house to store treasures, so there were so many mechanisms and traps hidden in it.

Jia Dongming heard Yang Kaihua's mumbling and immediately answered in a low voice: "Deputy Captain Yang! If I'm not mistaken, this should have been a mausoleum before, and later it was used by Li Jin as a treasure house, so there are roads made of stone bricks and stone strips here." The crowd walked along the stone road for about two or three minutes, and a half-open stone door appeared in front of everyone. Jia Dongming looked at the stone door in front of him, thinking of the TV series about tomb robbery he had seen in his previous life, and whispered to everyone present: "Comrades! If I'm not mistaken, this stone door is the stone door to the underground palace. Once we step through this stone door, it means we have officially entered the underground palace."

"Although Zheng Ming is leading people to explore the way to the front gate, Zheng Ming obviously knows that the Li family is following him. I think he will definitely keep some traps to plot against the Li family. So after we enter the underground palace, we must be very careful."

As he spoke, Jia Dongming took the lead, crossed the stone gate, and walked into the underground palace.

Everyone followed Jia Dongming into the underground palace, and three forked roads leading out of the bureau appeared in front of everyone.

Yang Kaihua held a flashlight and illuminated the three forks in the road ahead. He found that these three roads were obviously artificially modified and looked almost identical. A solemn expression suddenly appeared on his face, and he whispered to Jia Dongming: "Director Jia! There are three forks in the road here, and there is obviously only one correct road. Which one do you think we should choose?"

If Jia Dongming did not have the Eagle Eye and Footprint Tracking skills, the three forks in the road would also be a difficult choice for him. Because in tomb-robbing movies, when the ancients built tombs, they would definitely set up many mechanisms and traps inside. So among these three forks in the road, only one is a way of life, and the other two are dead ends. Which road to choose is definitely a very tricky problem.

However, for Jia Dongming, who possessed the eagle eye skill, this was not a difficult task at all, because he had already determined the path that Zheng Ming and his companions had taken from the traces left on the ground.

When Jia Dongming heard Yang Kaihua's question, he shone the flashlight in his hand towards one of the intersections and introduced it to Yang Kaihua and others with a smile: "Deputy Captain Yang! Look at the footprints left on this road, and then look at the other two roads. Although there are some footprints on them, they were left there intentionally. If I'm not mistaken, Zheng Ming and his men should have chosen this road."

After hearing Jia Dongming's answer, Yang Kaihua pointed the flashlight in his hand at the intersection that Jia Dongming pointed out. When he saw the messy footprints at the intersection, he asked Jia Dongming half-doubtingly: "Director Jia! How can you be sure that these messy footprints are the correct footprints, and the other footprints are deliberately left by Zheng Ming in order to lure the Li family."

After hearing what Yang Kaihua said, Jia Dongming shone the flashlight in his hand towards the fork in the road, and asked Yang Kaihua and others confidently, "Look at what's lying on the ground over there?"

(End of this chapter)

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