Chapter 354: The Boulder Covers the Bones
Zheng Qiu still didn't open the bottle with his hands, but used the seeds to recruit another vine grass.
Then control the two rattans to remove the wax seal like hands, and pour out the contents of the bottle.
Inside the porcelain bottle was neither a pill nor a potion, but a small scroll of paper.
There is a layer of clear oil on the paper roll to protect the paper roll from drying out and breaking over time.
Spread out the scroll, there is a paragraph written inside, and there is a signature at the bottom.
Zheng Qiu's pupils shrank suddenly, the signature was none other than Liu Fu, whom he was looking for so hard.
"Why did Liu Fu go to this barren mountain, and leave the scroll carefully?"
Zheng Qiu carefully read the above content with doubts.
At the beginning, Liu Fu wrote that he deliberately left the porcelain vase with the note hidden in it.
If someone finds the porcelain bottle, it proves that he failed to come back to take it out, and he must have been buried in the continuous rocky mountain in front of him.
Next, Liu Fu explained why he came here.
There was a Master Commander who sent him to the famous Gale Wolf Gladiator Group so that he could participate in the gladiatorial competition.
But things are not that simple.
Before the start of the duel, the Commander gave Liu Fu two portraits and asked him to kill the two young gladiators on the battlefield.
However, the gladiatorial conference clearly forbids this kind of deliberate killing of gladiators, and Liu Fu did not agree at first.
The commander-in-chief immediately promised that he would give 10,000 heavenly crystals as a reward, and he would take out 1,000 and hand it over to him on the spot.
Profitable, Liu Fu finally agreed to the commander-in-chief.
And in the gladiatorial competition called Treasure Hunt, he successfully killed two gladiators.
Then he continued to stay in the gladiatorial group, participating in the competition as a gladiator to earn money.
After the second match, the Commander asked Liu Fu to quit the Gale Wolf Fighting Group and go out of the city to collect the remaining nine thousand heavenly crystal rewards.
However, the meeting place decided by the Commander is very far away, among the desolate and inhabited rocky mountains.
Liu Fu followed a mining team to leave the Great Wilderness and Gucheng, and came to the meeting place along the way.
Liu Fu was very careful because what he was doing was shady, for fear that the commander-in-chief would silence him.
So first bury the scroll here to record what I did.
Seeing this, Zheng Qiu frowned, and Liu Fu repeatedly mentioned the Commander, saying that all this was the Commander's intention.
Both Kanchi and Coach Chen of the Gale Wolf Fighting Group said that Liu Fu was brought by an orderer.
But if a slap can't be made, Liu Fu must not escape being involved in this matter.
At the same time, Zheng Qiu thought of another possibility.
Could it be that Liu Fu deliberately put the porcelain bottle here and did not take it away, pretending that he was silenced by the commander, but in fact he had already taken the money and fled away.
"Live to see a person, die to see a corpse. If Liu Fu's body cannot be found, he cannot be considered dead."
Zheng Qiu shredded the paper scroll, crushed the porcelain vase with his finger-folding fingers, and then commanded the rattan to overturn the stone pile completely.
He continued to climb up the hillside, climbed to the top of the hill and looked up to observe the terrain of this area.
"If the commander wanted to meet Liu Fu, where would he choose?"
After some observation, Zheng Qiu determined several possible points, and went down the mountain on horseback.
In the first area, there is no result; in the second area, there is no result either...
It wasn't until he rushed to the fourth area that clues appeared.
This is a valley, the stone mountains on both sides are extremely steep, and the distance is very close.
The walls of the mountains approach each other above,
It forms a line of sky, but the valley is very wide, like a square.
Zheng Qiu looked left and right, and found many pits on the mountain wall, and the pits were covered with cobweb-like cracks, which were the result of a strong external force.
There are no wild beasts in the desolate rocky mountains, and it is impossible for rocks to hit out of thin air on the steep mountain walls.
Then these traces can only be generated when the cultivator sends out a vigor bombardment.
Could it be that what Liu Fu wrote was the truth, and the orderer wanted to kill him to silence him?
Zheng Qiu tied up his horse and lowered his head to search the valley floor, looking for any clues.
The ground was very clean, except for fine sand and gravel, no clothes or corpses could be found.
After searching for several hours, Zheng Qiu finally found a piece of black rag under a scattered rubble.
He raised his head and looked up, and there happened to be a depression in the mountain wall above the gravel.
It seemed that someone was unable to avoid the attack during the fight, the clothes were smashed by the energy, and the fragments were crushed by the falling stones.
"It's strange, it's basically impossible to run out of this terrain, if one side loses, there will definitely be corpses.
Why can't I find it? Could it be that after the commander silenced Liu Fu, he deliberately disposed of the body? "
Zheng Qiu couldn't think of the answer to the question, so he could only continue to search along the valley, going deeper and deeper unconsciously.
Suddenly, he stopped, and a puzzled expression appeared on his face.
I stepped on a square rock, but the ground in the valley is only sand and gravel. Where did such a big rock come from?
He took two steps back and raised his foot to sweep away the fine sand on the surface. The rock was five feet square, like a cover.
"Fortunately, I learned "Shi Tinghua Twenty-eight Methods."
Zheng Qiu immediately activated his miscellaneous skills, controlled the boulder, and slowly pulled it out of the ground.
The boulder opened a gap, and a strong rancid smell wafted from below, forcing him to cover his mouth and nose with his sleeve and back away.
Boom, the boulder was completely lifted, smashed to the side and made a sound, and there was a deep hole under the stone.
Zheng Qiu approached with his mouth and nose covered, poking his head and looking into the pit.
Sure enough, there was a corpse!
The corpse was so rotten that only the bones remained, and many of the bones were broken. It seems that the deceased had been severely injured during his lifetime.
At the same time, he noticed that there was a broken piece of clothing on the outside of the bones, also black, consistent with the rags he found just now.
Could this corpse be Liu Fu?
There was nothing on the body to prove his identity, so Zheng Qiu really couldn't be sure.
"Just treat him as Liu Fu."
Zheng Qiu moved the boulder to cover the big pit again to get rid of the rancid smell.
Then he held his chin and muttered: "Liu Fu is dead, the commander must still be alive. Next, we have to change the target and find the commander who commanded Liu Fu."
But it was also extremely difficult.
More than two years ago, everyone thought that Lin Minghao died in the ruins, and a large group of commanders rebelled, competing for the throne of the city lord.
After that, Lin Minghao killed An Huming, regained the position of city lord, and held a duel between the commanders in the Lonely Arena to choose a new commander.
Therefore, the commanders of the Great Desolation and Gucheng are not the same group as the commanders five years ago, and Zheng Qiu is also unable to determine the identity of the guy who killed Liu Fu.
"Damn it, why did the investigation become more and more chaotic. I thought that if I became the elder of the gladiatorial meeting, I would be able to avenge Earmao and Ma Peng right away."
He sighed, ready to get on his horse and leave here.
At this moment, Ma'er nearly fell down, staring at Zheng Qiu's shoulder with wide eyes and fear.