In early winter, the water volume drops sharply, and there are only a few trickling streams under the bridge, flowing down the mountain.
Due to years of disrepair, Zhang Bridge has long been in dilapidated condition, overgrown with weeds, almost all of the stone railings are missing, and a small tree as tall as a person even grew out of the cracks in the bridge deck.
At this moment, there was a coffin as dark as ink lying across the bridge. Even in broad daylight, it was really scary.
"Magistrate Qiu!" Xu Zun saw Qiu Yongnian and immediately came to greet him and asked, "What's the situation now?"
"I don't know either!" Qiu Yongnian's face was full of anxiety. "I came over when I received the report. I didn't expect that there was really a coffin. Alas!"
It can be seen from his sigh that Qiu Yongnian was deeply uneasy about the appearance of this iron coffin, fearing that his future would be affected by this thing.
"Yes, yes, yes..." Zhao Yu looked at the coffin from a distance and said with fear on his face, "That's it! It's exactly the same as the one two years ago!
"But why are there no dead bodies?" Zhao Yu looked under the bridge, "Back then, more than 30 people died!"
"Captain Zhao!" Magistrate Qiu asked hurriedly, "Tell me about the situation back then. Where did this iron coffin come from? What did you find out back then?"
Zhao Yu did not dare to neglect and immediately told everything he knew about the situation two years ago.
It's a pity that Zhao Yu was just a small detective back then. After the incident, he only saw the iron coffin and the corpses from a distance. As for the details of the case, he didn't know much.
Zhao Yu said that the tasks he was responsible for back then were mainly visits and investigations. He visited almost all surrounding counties and counties, but did not find any information about the iron coffin case.
Finally, as the county magistrate and county lieutenant were dismissed from their posts, the case came to an end...
Upon hearing these situations, Magistrate Qiu became even more anxious and asked hurriedly: "Captain Zhao, there are so many people in our county government, don't they all know the details?"
"Sir," Zhao Yu replied, "the police officers back then were basically the same as me, they all had little knowledge.
"I think that if you want to know the details of the Iron Coffin case, there are probably only two people who know it better. One is our county magistrate, Mr. Luo, and the other is the chief secretary, Liu Zhang. Both of them have experienced the last Iron Coffin incident.
You should know more than us!"
The county magistrate is equivalent to the deputy county magistrate and the second-in-command in the entire Akiba County.
Like Liu Zhang, County Prime Minister Luo Wanwan has been in power in Qiuye County for decades, so he was naturally exposed to the Iron Coffin Case.
"What a coincidence," Qiu Yongnian said, "The Prime Minister of Luo County has just returned to his hometown to pay homage to his ancestors, so now we can only call Director Liu to ask!"
"I'll send someone to invite you right now!" Zhao Yu agreed and immediately arranged the manpower.
"Sir," Xu Zunze suggested, "let's quickly open this iron coffin and see what's inside first?"
"This...this is already being done!" Qiu Yongnian was confused and stuttered when he spoke. He pointed to the government officials on the bridge, "The iron coffin is locked, and the government officials are trying to pry it open!"
I looked up and saw that there were indeed government servants with axes and crowbars on the bridge, tinkering with the iron coffin.
However, due to fear in their hearts, the government officials acted nervously and the progress was extremely slow.
Xu Zun was very curious, so he walked straight onto the stone bridge and came to the iron coffin.
But the iron coffin was as black as ink, and it felt extremely heavy just by looking at it.
He touched it gently and found that the iron coffin was cold and indeed made of pure iron.
As we all know, iron will rust, and no one in the world would use iron to make a coffin.
Therefore, Xu Zun wondered whether this thing was not a coffin, but just looked a bit like it?
However, this thing is bigger at one end and smaller at the other. Whether it is the exquisite coffin rim or the curved coffin lid, it is undoubtedly a coffin!
Xu Zun reached out and touched it. The iron coffin was particularly cold and had a heavy feeling.
Immediately afterwards, he knocked on the coffin lid first, and then pushed it hard.
However, such a heavy coffin did not move at all.
strangeness!
How strange!
Why did such a weird coffin appear out of nowhere?
Ding!
Ding!
At this time, the officials were still hammering at the big lock on the iron coffin.
Because of the fear in their hearts, they used all their brute force to hit the target in the wrong place, and several hammers missed the target!
Only then did Xu Zun discover that the iron coffin was actually equipped with three large locks, each of which looked very exaggerated.
What situation is this?
Is this...are you afraid that the contents of the coffin will escape?
He quickly searched his mind, thinking that this was some strange custom in this world. But he searched through the relevant memories in his mind, but there was no relevant information at all.
The iron coffin is still locked, what's wrong with it?
What will be in here?
In an instant, a scene from an American TV series flashed through Xu Zun's mind, and he wondered if there were zombies in the coffin? As soon as the lid of the coffin was opened, the zombies would come out and bite people?
The key is, this thing is so heavy, how did it get transported to the bridge?
Thinking of this, Xu Zun looked at the ground nearby.
He was thinking that it would be difficult to reach such a heavy thing by manpower alone. It must have been carried here by large vehicles such as horse-drawn carriages, right?
Except for the stone bridge, the paths on both sides are all muddy roads. If such a heavy carriage passes by, it will inevitably leave deep ruts.
So Xu Zun went down the bridge to check.
When he lowered his head and searched carefully, he found that although there were many traffic marks on the ground, there was no particularly deep or obvious rut.
No way?
What the hell?
Xu Zun looked up at the mountains, then at the sky, and began to wonder if the coffin had fallen from the sky?
"Xu...Mr. Xu," Zhao Yu came up and asked, "What are you doing? You can't figure out where this coffin comes from?"
Xu Zun nodded.
"That's right!" Zhao Yu murmured, "With such a big coffin, wouldn't it be too ostentatious if it were carried on a carriage? How could no one notice it?
"Besides," he pointed to the distance, "this road is the only way to the mountain pass. There are many people walking on the road, so it's impossible for no one to see it!"
There was deep fear in Zhao Yu's eyes. It was obvious that in their opinion, this coffin was not made by human beings and must be the work of demons.
"Captain Zhao," Xu Zun asked, "I'm wondering, since Prime Minister Luo County and Director Liu know about this case, why have I never heard from them?"
"Ahem, not to mention them two, even the entire Qiuye County people don't dare to talk nonsense easily!" Zhao Yu explained, "Just think, a weird iron coffin plus 37 lives, in the end the case will not be solved
Damn it, the county magistrate is dismissed and the county captain is assigned, who dares to talk nonsense?"
"Oh..." Xu Zun realized, no wonder he had never heard of it.
"Everyone is tacitly understanding and keeping secrets," Zhao Yu continued. "Firstly, they are afraid that there are ghosts and gods causing trouble. Secondly, they are also afraid that the superiors will hear some rumors and be implicated!"
"Oh..." Xu Zun thought about it and said, "You said 37 people died last time. Who were those people?"
"I don't know. Anyway, they are not from our Qiuye County!" Zhao Yu replied, "Besides, they are all young and middle-aged people, there are no old people and..."
As a result, before Zhao Yu could finish speaking, he heard the sound of metal falling to the ground.
I turned around and saw that the three big locks had been broken open by the government officials.
However, when they saw the big lock smashed open, the government officials were not happy but sad because they would face a more difficult and terrifying task - opening the coffin!!!
