bantayden 193: Pirate Digger
193: Pirate Digger
"Hi, my name is Chen Youcai, from Chenjia Village Health Center, Shifang County, Nanling City."
Facing the other party's scrutinizing eyes, Chen Youcai shook hands with Cai Dalong without any timidity.
It has to be said that the strength of the opponent's hand is quite heavy, but fortunately, the strength is very measured, and Chen Youcai did not show his strength, so he could break it with the touch of a touch.
"Doctor Chen came this time for...?"
Cai Dalong threw the towel to a colleague, then sat down across from Chen Youcai, and asked with a smile.
"Don't get me wrong, I'm not here to collect medical bills, I'm in Jinling on business, and I'll drop by to see you."
Chen Youcai's mind was so sharp, he immediately realized it, and immediately explained with a light smile.
"Dr. Chen misunderstood. In fact, I have reported to my superiors these days. I have already applied for a sum of money and I plan to find time to send it to you."
Cai Dalong waved his hand and said: "One yard is worth one yard. Dr. Chen cured Lao Wu and the others, and saved so many of my brothers. This amount of money is nothing."
"Actually, I'm not sure whether the refreshing lotion can wake up your colleagues. Fortunately, I'm lucky."
Chen Youcai smiled and said, "Medical expenses and so on, when Shaokang and the others came last time, they already gave enough, Captain Cai don't mention it any more."
Hearing this, Cai Dalong's gaze towards Chen Youcai became a lot more kind, and the other people in the courtyard were all smiles and couldn't be happier.
"Captain Cai, that guy still won't let go, I think he'll just send him to the yamen."
After chatting for a while, Chen Youcai got up and planned to leave.
But at this moment, a man in the uniform of the security patrol came hurriedly and yelled angrily at Cai Dalong.
"Don't worry, I'll ask again."
Cai Dalong frowned, biting half of a fritter and was about to leave.
He turned around, and quickly smiled at Chen Youcai: "A few days ago, a few guys climbed over the wall and entered the imperial city. They wanted to steal the underground palace, but we caught them."
"The accomplices all ran away, and there was only a guy dressed as a migrant worker left. He was quite stubborn, and he still refuses to let go."
Speaking of this, Cai Dalong lowered his voice and said: "Our brothers who were unconscious were found by the side of the hole dug by the robbers..."
Chen Youcai's heart skipped a beat when he heard it, and he couldn't help becoming interested. He scratched his head and said, "Can I go to the cave to see? Maybe I can find out the truth about Old Wu's coma."
"Well... okay, let's go and interrogate that guy first."
Cai Dalong hesitated for a moment, then readily agreed, and led Chen Youcai to an office at the back of the courtyard.
When the door was opened, a man with his head shrugged was tied to a chair and sat leaning against the corner of the wall.
Hearing the sound of someone entering the door, he just twitched his cheeks, without much reaction.
"Hey, you are... Wang's second son from Jiujiang County?"
Chen Youcai originally planned to just stand at the door and watch. After all, this was a private matter of the security patrol team, and as an outsider, he couldn't get involved too much.
But out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the profile of the man in the corner, and he suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help but step forward to look at it carefully, and then asked in surprise.
"Doctor Chen, do you know this guy?"
Cai Dalong and Shaokang who followed were all a little dumbfounded and looked at Chen Youcai one after another.
"I know him, I met his wife and daughter on the train to Jinling."
Chen Youcai smiled wryly, and roughly told everyone what happened when he met the mother and daughter on the train.
Wang Lao Er, who shrugged his head, was indifferent at first, but when he heard that his wife and daughter came to Jinling to look for him, he finally raised his head slowly.
"Second Wang, according to what your wife said, you should be working in the engineering team to build roads. How did you become so virtuous?"
Chen Youcai stood beside Wang's second son, frowning and asked, "In order to save money, your wife was hungry all the way, and even your daughter had to bear it when she wanted to eat box lunch in the car."
"Second Wang, tell the truth quickly. If I didn't see you as a habitual criminal, I would have sent you to the Yamen to squat."
With a stinky face, Cai Dalong pointed at the tip of Wang's second child's nose and said, "It just so happened that Dr. Chen knew you, otherwise it would be too late for you to regret it now!"
"I... If I say so, can you let me go? I just want to make more money, I don't want to do anything bad..."
Wang Laoer's tense face relaxed, and he said a little frustrated: "It's all because of the dogs in our village. They said that someone asked him to dig something for him, and he could make hundreds of dollars in one night."
"He said that the fat and water don't flow into other people's fields, so he dragged me into the gang, and ended up sneaking to the root of the imperial city in the middle of the night, digging a tunnel underneath."
Hearing this, Chen Youcai hadn't reacted yet, but Cai Dalong and the others' expressions changed drastically, and they gasped one after another.
"You mean, you have already dug the tunnel into the underground palace?!"
Cai Dalong asked anxiously.
Second Wang glanced at him and nodded weakly: "The four of us dug for half a month, and we all started working in the middle of the night."
"After digging a tunnel, the boss dressed as a Taoist priest paid us the bill and let us go..."
"But, but Goudan said that the boss and the others are robbing tombs and digging treasures. After spending so much effort, there must be good things in that tunnel. They plan to wait for the boss and the others to go in, and let us sneak in with them."
"And then, when we were about to dig a hole in the ground, you found out, Goudan and the three of them ran away..."
After speaking intermittently, Wang's second child began to choke up. I don't know if it was because of fear, or regret that he didn't pay attention before being caught and ran away first.
"This matter is a bit serious... Shaokang, you report the matter to the superior immediately, I have to take someone to the underground palace first."
After muttering, Cai Dalong's eyes were all radiant, and he immediately issued an order to pack up and go along the cave to the tunnel leading to the underground palace.
"Doctor Chen, I'm sorry today, I wanted to treat you to dinner, but now look..."
A moment later, Cai Dalong, who was fully armed, was about to lead people towards the imperial city in a hurry, when he turned his head to look at Chen Youcai who was standing aside, he couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.
"Well, I have nothing to do, so I won't bother you, hehe..."
Chen Youcai really wanted to follow along, but this time was not the time to watch the excitement.
He smiled, and was about to leave, but the moment he turned around, lines of small cinnabar characters quickly appeared in his field of vision.
"Sealing task: assist the high-level meritorious envoy to seal the evil envoy in the underground palace of the Jinling Imperial City. You can get 100 merit points, and the good value will be increased by 10. Do you want to spend 20 merit points to exchange for corresponding merit items?"
Here we come, the long-lost merit mission is actually triggered at this time!
Chen Youcai opened his eyes wide and clenched his fists in excitement.
Seeing that the small cinnabar characters were gradually blurring and were about to disappear, he hastily shouted: "Exchange!"
With a click, Chen Youcai stretched out his hand to grab something, and firmly caught something that slipped from the corner of his clothes.
There, it was a dark yellow talisman about an inch long, with strange talisman patterns painted on the surface with dark red cinnabar, and faint golden spots.
Chen Youcai's eyes straightened, his thoughts moved slightly, and finally he learned the specific information of this thing from among the new props that appeared in the merit store.
"Stand-in charm, held tightly in the palm of the hand at critical moments, can replace the owner to suffer a fatal injury, limited to one use per day, and the required merit points for exchange: 20."
My goodness, this thing is actually used to save lives... It seems that this so-called assisting sealing mission must be extremely dangerous.
Chen Youcai pinched the stand-in charm in his hand, with a confused look on his face.
This sudden triggering of the sealing task obviously has a lot to do with the fact that Cai Dalong is about to lead the team into the underground palace.
The mission rewards are extremely generous, but the degree of danger is really frightening... Seeing Cai Dalong and others walking away, Chen Youcai gritted his teeth and made up his mind.
"Captain Cai, I don't think you have many people, why don't I go and help?"
Chen Youcai chased after him in two or three steps, facing the surprised stares of Cai Dalong and his party, he could only bite the bullet and smile: "Don't look at me being thin, I even caught murderers myself."
"...Dr. Chen, this is no joke, are you sure you want to follow?"
Cai Dalong frowned slightly, Chen Youcai didn't say much, just glanced left and right.
Then he bent down to pick up half a brick on the ground, broke it with both hands, and broke it straight away.
"..."
Cai Dalong and the others looked at each other, they were all startled by Chen Youcai's hand, Shaokang even purposely pinched the stubble of the brick, then grinned, and looked at Chen Youcai with strange eyes.
"Well, you follow us, don't act rashly."
Cai Dalong was obviously not a dull person, he threw a black rubber stick to Chen Youcai, waved his hand, and led the patrol to the entrance of the tunnel.