Panma nodded, and the fat man said, "So you always think that little brother is dangerous."
Panma didn't say anything, but that was what he meant.
Wu Xie then asked, "Because the young man had this smell, you thought he was someone who had returned from the dead. But someone who had returned from the dead wouldn't necessarily harm anyone. Why were you so scared? What else happened afterwards?"
Panma thought for a moment and continued, "This has something to do with the stone statue near the Buffalo Head Valley in the mountains.
I told you, people angered the immortal, the immortal got angry, people were punished, and then the stone statue disappeared. But just a few days after we killed the scientific expedition team, I encountered the stone statue when I went into the mountains.
There were several people hanging on the trees around the stone statue. When I got closer, I saw that they were the people who had joined the scientific expedition team with me. They had been in the mountains for several days and also went to the lake, but they ended up appearing around the stone statue. There were also some strange footprints on the ground, which looked like human hands, but were much larger than human hands.
Their deaths were horrific. The tree trunk pierced through their bodies, their necks seemed to have been bitten off by something, but their heads were still attached to them. Their arms and legs were twisted beyond recognition, and they were hanging from the tree, dead...
There's a strong smell around the statue, it's the smell of the expedition team members!"
"So according to what you said, judging from their wounds, they must have been bitten to death by some wild beast?" The fat man stood up and looked at Panma.
Panma paused and said, "That's what the villagers said. Some even said they disturbed the immortals and were punished. But I know that's absolutely impossible! They were killed by the monster in the lake.
I was so scared that I hid at home for three years before I dared to go out."
Listening to Panma's guess, Ji Huaichuan raised his hand and touched his nose with a guilty conscience. If he remembered correctly, the strange footprints that Panma mentioned should belong to Taotie. As for why those people were hanging around his stone statue, it might be that Taotie brought them to him as sacrifices.
The idiot Taotie thinks human flesh is delicious, and he believes that all living creatures are the same as him. However, Taotie should not kill humans, it usually swallows them directly.
Ji Huaichuan was thinking about it when he heard Zhang Qiling ask Pan Ma, "What is the iron block?"
Panma shook his head and took out a piece of iron from his clothes. "I don't know either. I found this piece of iron in a piece of clothing by the lake. It used to have that smell, but it faded over time."
Wu Xie tilted his head and asked, "What's the origin of that hunched shoulder? Do you know him?"
Panma paused imperceptibly, his eyes flickering as he spoke, "I don't know his origins, but he knows everything I do. He occasionally contacts me to ask me to do things for him. This time, leading you to Shuiniutougou was something he asked me to do."
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In the evening, Zhang Qiling sat on the steps, holding two iron lumps in his hands, looking at them over and over again, not knowing what he was thinking. Ji Huaichuan tried to get Zhang Qiling to put them down several times but to no avail, so he had to let him go.
The fat man was standing aside, and suddenly rushed to Zhang Qiling and pinched Zhang Qiling's face hard, which made Zhang Qiling look sideways.
Ji Huaichuan quickly slapped the fat man's hand away, "What are you doing? Be gentle!"
"Fatty, what are you doing!" Wuxie also shouted.
The fat man pretended to be serious and said, "Let me check whether this young man is a living person or a monster."
"Monster." Zhang Qiling said expressionlessly.
"I think so too. No, I have to see what kind of monster it is!" said the fat man, and was about to take action again.
Ji Huaichuan hurriedly stopped him, "Go away, go away, if there's anything I need to check, I'll do it myself, it's not your turn!"
"That's right. Besides, it's a different era now. We shouldn't be so superstitious. We should believe in science. Most of what Panma said was just his imagination. I believe that the dead will never be resurrected!" Wuxie said solemnly.
Ji Huaichuan also echoed, "Yes, we must believe in science."
Little did they know that Ji Huaichuan was feeling very guilty because there was a case of resurrection of the dead around them.
"Then how do you explain this expedition team that came back to life?" asked the fat man, sitting astride the fence and fanning himself with a palm-leaf fan.
Wu Xie pondered, "Perhaps, the group that entered the mountain and the group that left were not the same group at all..."
"You mean that no one has ever come back to life? Then wouldn't the ones coming out later be another group of people?" Ji Huaichuan asked with a straight face.
"That's right!" The fat man clapped his hands. "This other group of people disguised themselves as the previous team and tricked Panma into thinking those people were alive again. What a conspiracy."
Wu Xie nodded, "Yes, this must be a long-planned conspiracy."
"According to this, the monster that Panma was talking about should be Chen Wenjing and the others. They went into the water to investigate and avoided Panma and his men's attack. When they came out of the water, they were discovered by them and treated as monsters... What about the corpses around the stone statue?" Ji Huaichuan said thoughtfully.
"It should have been done by the second group of people. They were afraid that Panma and the others would let the cat out of the bag, so they took revenge by killing those three people and throwing them into the mountains to make stone statues." Wuxie said.
The fat man continued, "In the end, I didn't expect that by accident, there really was a strange beast in the mountains... Wait! That's not right... If that's the case, why was there nothing wrong when Panma went there the next day?"
Wu Xie had a look on his face that said, "Are you stupid?" "If Pan Ma was killed on the spot, wouldn't people be suspicious?"
Then he turned around and continued to speculate, "Then this team went on to the Paracel Islands, and the purpose of the second team planning this operation was to infiltrate the Paracel Islands expedition team or prevent the first team from entering the Paracel Islands."
The fat man took a breath and said, "But were disguise techniques so advanced decades ago?"
"Yes!" Ji Huaichuan suddenly spoke.
Wuxie and Fatty looked at Ji Huaichuan together, "Who is it?"
Ji Huaichuan pursed his lips and said softly, "Chen Tingsi, for him, changing his appearance without any flaws is a piece of cake."
"Hiss...but this is just our guess, and there is no evidence." The fat man said in embarrassment.
Wuxie said excitedly, "The evidence is at the bottom of the lake! Panma said they dumped the bodies at the bottom of the lake. Let's go to the lake and take a look. If there really are bodies there, it would prove that Panma did kill the first expedition team, and it would also prove that there were two different expedition teams here at the same time."
"That proves that we have to call the police." The fat man continued.
"Indeed, but so many years have passed, even if there was a corpse, it would have rotted away long ago," said Ji Huaichuan.
The topic ended immediately, but if he gave up so easily, he wouldn't be Wuxie. Sure enough, Wuxie continued, "The body is gone, but the bones are still there."
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