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Chapter 30: The Reasoning of Lantern Festival

I quickly stepped forward and patted him on the back, "Lanxiao, how are you? Is it okay?"

Yuanxiao stopped coughing and waved his hand, "It's okay, I can't die. I was about to die, but I heard that you were anxious about and said so touchingly that I suddenly couldn't bear to die!"

"Damn!" I slapped Yuanxiao, "You are already fine. You are pretending to be grandson with me here! Wait for me to laugh at me, right?"

Yuanxiao suddenly laughed, "Actually, I want to lie down for a while, but I see you giving me first aid. I am really afraid that if you are excited, you will give me artificial respiration! Then I might as well die!"

"Go to your uncle!" I raised my feet and kicked Lantern Festival again.

Yuanxiao smiled and hid, rolled to the ground. I also sat on the ground, panting. I was really tired after tossing and tumbling just now. I looked around and found that there was a crack in the mountain. This crack extended from the mountain and spread to the bottom of the mountain. The crack was only about one meter wide, and it was of different heights and depths. The surrounding grass was overgrown, and it was basically difficult to find if I didn't walk in front of me.

Suddenly, I noticed that Yuanxiao's face changed and she sat up suddenly. I was startled by him, "What are you doing? What's wrong?"

Yuanxiao didn't say anything, turned around and lay on the weeds and smelled it hard, and was looking for something while smelling it.

I was puzzled by him, "What are you doing? You won't be able to throw you into pieces and reveal your true colors!"

However, what surprised me was that Yuanxiao ignored my run. Yuanxiao, which usually likes the most, would never miss any nonsense opportunity. At this time, he ignored it completely, which shows that he must have discovered something very strange.

I also began to become serious and didn't bother Yuanxiao. Yuanxiao searched for a while, then stretched out his left hand and grabbed a handful of weeds under his nose and sniffed them carefully. Finally, he nodded thoughtfully.

I asked him quickly: "What did you find?"

Yuanxiao took out a black cigarette box in his pocket, "The cigarette I smoked was given to me by a German friend. This cigarette has an extremely special fragrance, and it feels like a strong milky smell. The smell of this smoke is extremely strong and will not dissipate for a long time." As Yuanxiao said that, he handed me a handful of weeds in his hand, "Smell the smell on this."

I took the weeds from Lantern Festival and sniffed them carefully. Sure enough, there was a faint milky smell on it. I couldn't help but frown, "This is not the smell on your own hands, right?"

Yuanxiao shook his head, "I used my right hand to smoke just now. When I went to grab these grass, I used my left hand. It could not be the smell on my hand. And the smell on my hand is different from this kind of smell. You smell it." As he said, Yuanxiao handed over his right hand and I lowered my head and smelled it. Sure enough, although Yuanxiao also had a milk cigarette smell on his hand, there was a clear burnt smell. Yuanxiao explained to me that people who often smoked this kind of cigarette will be stained with a burnt smell over time by burning tobacco. Only those who smoked this kind of cigarettes will have such a obvious milk fragrance.

When I heard Lanxiao say this, my eyes immediately opened wide, "You mean..."

Yuanxiao nodded, "In this place, there is only one person who smokes this kind of cigarette, and that is Ma Jun! Moreover, the fragrance of milk has not been blown away by the wind, which means that Ma Jun has just left here. Let's chase after you. Your second uncle can leave him here, maybe he also knows where the entrance to the ancient tomb is!"

This is very likely that the Ma Jun had a mental problem and had established a kind of loyalty to his second uncle. Even if he told the entrance of the ancient tomb, he would not worry about his robbery. I looked up and down the mountain and it was all pitch black, "But we don't know whether the Ma Jun ran down the mountain or went up the mountain!"

Yuanxiao smiled mysteriously, held a straw stick in her mouth, pretending to be holding a pipe, "Now, I, Tolmes, will reason for you. Based on the smell left by the murderer, the wind direction and speed, and the degree of damage to the scene, I infer that the murderer must have run up the mountain." After saying that, he blinked at me, "What do you think, Watson?"

"Uncle Hua!" I picked up a dead branch next to me, "What a bullshit you are. If you don't speak humanly, I will break your leg now!" I lowered my head and unexpectedly found that my flashlight was lying next to the dead branch just now. This was an unexpected receipt. I picked it up happily.

I turned on the flashlight and shone it at Lantern Festival, "Seriously, hurry up and say it! Is it on the mountain or at the foot of the mountain?"

Yuanxiao shook his head helplessly, "I said Zhuoran, you are so smart and confused for a lifetime. Can't you see such an obvious problem? The smell of the horse army left on the dead grass on the ground must be left by clenching it with your hands. People may only grab things on the ground when they are uphill. If you bend downhill and touch the ground, you will not fall head-on! Of course, if you have to squat downhill and squeeze the grass on the ground with your hands like a lunatic, and then continue moving forward, then I have nothing to say, what do you think?"

This inference from Yuanxiao really made me look at it with admiration. I didn’t expect that Yuanxiao’s thoughts would be so meticulous. His reasoning was very logical and highly credible. So I nodded, “Yes! I think you are right, let’s chase the mountain quickly!”

Yuanxiao and I turned on the flashlight and climbed along the crack toward higher places in Turtle Beard Mountain. Many places in this crack in the mountain are steep and the dead grass is slippery. Yuanxiao and I are careful when stepping on it.

In a place with dense dead branches, we also found a camouflage cloth silk, which further confirmed the inference of Lantern Festival just now. This discovery greatly increased our confidence and we couldn't help but speed up our pace.

But we walked a distance and found that there was no road ahead. The crack in the mountain was further ahead, and it was a cliff. Although it was not very deep, if one fell swoop, it would be half broken even if it could not die.

Yuanxiao slowly leaned over, turned on the flashlight and illuminated it down, then shook his head and shook it back, looked at me and said, "How is it? Do you want to go down and take a look! Anyway, we have a rope."

I looked at both sides of the cliff and shook my head, "No, this horse army has no wings, and there is no rope to climb next to it. How did he go down? You can't jump down!"

We were covered with thick dead grass under our feet. It seemed that in summer, all kinds of weeds must have grown here. We wandered in confusion, and suddenly something rushed out of the dead grass under our feet. We were both startled and almost screamed.

I calmed down a little, and hurriedly raised my flashlight to shine in that direction. I saw a gray hare standing not far away, straightening up and looking at us curiously.

Yuanxiao also saw it clearly, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, "Damn! I'm scared to death! It turned out to be a rabbit! How could there be a rabbit!" As he said that, Yuanxiao tiptoed over.

I still shine the hare with a flashlight and gently pull the Lantern Festival, "What do you want to do!"

Yuanxiao bent down and approached the hare carefully. "If we can't find the ancient tomb, we'll have a meal of roasted hare, and it's not in vain for a night." He turned to me and said softly, "You keep illuminating it, I heard that the rabbit stopped moving when it was shining with a lamp!"

I scoffed at what Yuanxiao said, "If anyone of your size could catch the rabbit, the rabbit would have been extinct long ago!"

Yuanxiao didn't listen at all, and suddenly jumped. But just as Yuanxiao's body moved, the hare rushed out more than ten meters in an instant, and she turned around and looked at us without looking back.

Before the Lantern Festival could finish the yelling, it fell heavily to the ground. This time it was really moving and the mountains were shaking. I felt a shock under my feet.

Yuanxiao lay on the ground and turned to me and said, "Did I catch it?"

"Catch it!" I pointed to the distance, "That rabbit is almost going down the mountain now!"

Yuanxiao frowned in confusion, "No, why do I feel like there is movement under my body?"

"Ah?" I hurried over, "This is impossible! I'm watching the rabbit run away!"

"Then under my body..." Before Yuanxiao finished speaking, he heard a whirlpool, and half of Yuanxiao's body suddenly fell into the ground.

Yuanxiao was startled and jumped up, "What's the situation?" Looking at the place where he was lying on his side, a pit has now collapsed, "I'm not smashing the rabbit hole!"

I shook my head, "Impossible! Hares don't know how to dig holes by themselves! They are hidden in tree holes and grass nests!" I looked at the pit in confusion. I touched it with my hands and found that this pit had been around for a long time, but it was covered with thick dead branches and weeds. If Lanxiao hadn't smashed it hard, it would be difficult to find even if it was stepped on it from above.

I squatted beside me and reached out, and felt a wet and warm air blowing slowly from inside. I immediately realized something was wrong. This situation meant that the bottom should be very deep. I said to Yuanxiao: "Hurry! Move all the dead branches and weeds on it!"

Yuanxiao nodded and started working with me. After we cleaned up the things, a dark hole appeared in front of us.

I looked at the dead branches piled on one side, "Obviously someone deliberately blocked the hole, but I don't want people to discover it. The bottom is probably unusual."

Yuanxiao thought for a while and said, "Will Ma Jun hide it here?"

"This is very likely!" I paused and continued, "And I think this should be the entrance to the ancient tomb!"
Chapter completed!
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