Chapter 2948 Surrounded
Inspector Luo didn't dare to let Bai Shan go alone with the yamen runners to investigate, so he selected a dozen people to go with him.
A group of nearly forty people headed in that direction together.
The road was indeed difficult to walk on. Even though the grass and trees were sparse here, the rocks were so messy that Bai Shan always felt like he had no place to put his feet.
He was very skeptical. "Are people really coming this way? The road is so difficult to walk on, especially at night. Won't they fall?"
Daji lowered his head and lifted a stone, "Master..."
Bai Shan turned his head and saw that the stone he had lifted with his foot was covered with bright red blood, and it had not been there for very long.
Everyone: ...Their county magistrate is really decisive.
Bai Shan walked forward to look at the marks on the edge of the stone, and soon found a little bloodstain on a large stone next to it.
He looked at the blood splattering, picked up the stone and placed it on the big rock, and the blood stains immediately connected.
Inspector Luo came over to take a look and was speechless for a long moment. "Did he fall on a rock and bleed? Where was he injured? His head?"
Bai Shan frowned slightly, looked at the traces nearby, and soon found the dripping blood. They turned and went to another place.
Inspector Luo also noticed it and quickly called out to everyone, "Hurry and search in this direction. One of them is injured. Keep an eye out for blood."
Bai Shan only warned, "Watch your step and be safe."
Guided by the bloodstains, they quickly crossed a difficult road and arrived at a relatively flat area of woods.
There is little grass here, but there are quite a lot of trees, but it no longer feels cramped.
Everyone carefully searched for bloodstains on the ground and walked forward. Suddenly, they heard a crashing sound, the sound of waves hitting the rocks and the sound of the sea breeze blowing through the leaves...
Everyone looked at each other and stopped staring at the bloodstains under their feet. They put their hands on the hilt of the knife and walked forward gently. After walking for a while, they heard sobbing.
Bai Shan stopped and everyone else stopped as well, looking at Bai Shan and Inspector Luo who were standing at the front.
Bai Shan signaled Inspector Luo to take his men to the other side, forming an encirclement.
Inspector Luo had heard before that County Magistrate Bai had fought on the battlefield, so without much hesitation, he selected the people and quietly led them to the other side.
Bai Shanze led the remaining yamen runners and approached quietly.
On the edge of the cliff, there were nineteen people sitting and lying there, two or three of them were squatting and crying.
Nineteen people, without any guard at all, just sitting or lying there. Bai Shan and the others hid behind the tree and counted them repeatedly several times, and there were nineteen people.
He couldn't help but frown. Didn't they say there were twenty people? What about the other one?
His eyes fell on a person lying on the ground in the middle. The person's forehead was wrapped with clothes and there was blood on his face. The bloodstains along the way should be his.
Bai Shan was waiting. When Inspector Luo arrived, he looked around, pointed at a captain, and gestured for him to take a few people to the other side...
Before anyone on this side arrived, the other side was already impatient, and one person shouted loudly: "Stop crying!"
Bai Shan was so startled that he almost made a noise. He turned around and saw a young man pacing around in frustration. He said, "Why are you crying, grown man? Can't you think of a solution?"
"Brother Zhu, what do you think we should do? Third Brother fell down, and Old Eight hit his head. Why don't we go back and find a way to find Third Brother down there?"
"How can we get back? Didn't you hear Erliang say that the whole mountain is being searched? We'll be discovered if we go out."
"Then we can't stay here forever. Not to mention food, what about Lao Ba? He's unconscious now and has lost so much blood. If we don't find a doctor, he's going to die."
Brother Zhu also squatted down with his head in his hands in annoyance. How could he know that so many problems would arise just by coming over to check the situation?
So how did the other party find out that they had entered the mountain?
Didn’t I say that as long as we knock those five people out and don’t make any noise, they will definitely not be able to find us?
Seeing that the other party was the first to get confused, Bai Shan curled up the corners of his mouth. When he looked up, he saw Inspector Luo.
He nodded slightly, glanced at the other side, and after confirming that everything was in place, he turned out of the trunk and said with a smile, "Why don't I teach you how to do it?"
The sudden sound scared the eighteen people and they jumped up and looked at Bai Shan in horror.
They breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that he was a human, but when they saw the yamen runners holding knives following him, their faces turned pale again and they all took a step back.
Bai Shan clapped his hands, and Inspector Luo and the captain of the police came out from the left and right sides with their men. The soldiers and yamen runners behind them hid behind the trees in the shadows, making it difficult to see how many people there were.
So they dared not move.
Bai Shan waited quietly for them to weigh the pros and cons. After a while, seeing that their faces were not looking good and they were hesitant to retreat, he asked with a smile: "Do you want to listen to my advice?"
The young man who had been crying couldn't help but ask, "What suggestions?"
Brother Zhu turned his head and glared at him.
Bai Shan smiled slightly and said, "Look, you can't escape now. There are a hundred patrol soldiers and more than a hundred villagers outside, so it's better to tie the rope honestly. The county will take you out. Not only can you reduce your guilt, but your companions can also get treatment faster."
No one moved, looking at Bai Shan with suspicion.
Bai Shan's smile faded slightly. "Why? Don't you trust this county?"
Zhu Ge's throat tightened, and after a long while he managed to squeeze out a sentence, "County Magistrate Bai, I, we are just going into the mountains to hunt."
Bai Shan sighed, "That's not good. Wouldn't it be better if we could be more honest with each other? Do you believe this reason?"
He has blocked all the roads. Did they fly in to hunt?
Now everyone was silent, and they obviously felt that any further excuses would be useless, so they all looked at Brother Zhu.
Bai Shan could see that he was struggling and clearly not yet resigned to his fate. He couldn't help but ask curiously, "Are you really going to force me to play a game of cops and thieves with you?"
"I'm fine, although a little tired, but I have more people. Even if you can escape this encirclement, there are still 200 people outside." Bai Shan said: "But when you run, the rocks outside are in chaos. Aren't you afraid of falling again and hitting your head, arms, or legs? And..."
He glanced down at the man lying on the ground and asked, "Who of you plans to take him away? Or are you going to abandon your brotherly duties and just leave him here? Well, what will happen after we get out?"
"I have seen your faces now,"
When the other party heard this, he immediately raised his hands to cover his face in fear.
Bai Shan: "...Isn't it too late? I can't say I have a photographic memory, but after watching for so long, I still remember the faces of more than ten people. Assuming you can run away, do you plan to abandon your family and never come back?"
Bai Shan's assumptions caused many people to collapse, especially some young men who were only sixteen or seventeen years old. They collapsed and squatted on the ground crying, shouting, "Brother Zhu, Brother Zhu, let's surrender! I don't want to leave home and become a fugitive."
We agreed to just come and see what was going on at the new salt field. He didn't say that I would be sent to jail or even die!
See you at 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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