Chapter 329: On the Utilitarian Nature of Faith
Seeing him coming, the little girl was frightened, her crying couldn't stop, and her body kept shrinking into the darkness.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here to save you. ”
Bai Xiu couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, but the more important thing at the moment was to quickly save this innocent child, he looked left and right, picked up a steel bar, pried open two of the planks, and carried the little girl out.
This child is about the same age as Qu Lian, maybe she was scared stupid, and her eyes were just as dull.
He suddenly felt helpless, he originally thought that the little girl was nine or ten years old, and she should remember, and it would be no problem for her to escape by herself or even call the police.
The current situation undoubtedly put him in a dilemma.
He heard it right, there is also a child who has also been taken captive, and the condition of that child is worse than the current one, it must have that kind of particularity, if it is really "offered", I don't know if there is a way to live.
What's more, if the other children who were offered were still alive, he would have to take this opportunity to find that Mr. Li's lair and see if he could rescue them.
At this time, he could only hope that the child was obedient enough: "Uncle is still going to save a little friend who is with you, I will take you to a place in a while, you wait for me there obediently, and I will pick you up later, okay?"
The girl's eyes finally came to life, she looked at him steadily, and then nodded slowly.
Bai Xiu breathed a sigh of relief, picked her up and walked up.
As soon as he went out, he recognized that this house was Lao Jiao's home, and he didn't know if the people in Wanglongping Village were at ease enough about this secret passage, or they were all preparing for the confession, and they did not arrange for someone to guard the door.
He hurried out of the courtyard and then took advantage of the darkness to make his way to the mountain temple at the top of the hill - if he had to find a relatively safe place, it was undoubtedly the best place to go.
It didn't take long for the light of the fire to come into view, and he hid aside and observed for a while, and when he saw that there was indeed no one, he carried the girl into the temple on his back.
How ironic it is that these people are about to send a child into the jaws of a tiger, but they have not forgotten to worship the gods.
He hugged the little girl behind the statue and said uneasily: "Little friend, if anyone else comes, don't make a noise, wait for me to pick you up." ”
"Are you a police uncle?" The little girl looked at him without the slightest shift in her gaze, she was both scared and reluctant in her heart, seeing Bai Xiu nodded solemnly, she held his hand tightly for a while before letting go, "Okay, I must be obedient." ”
Bai Xiu couldn't help but smile, and drove down the mountain without stopping out of the mountain temple, and at a high place, he vaguely saw the figures in the open space in the middle of the village, as if they were performing some ritual, which made his heart rise again.
"Hopefully it'll be in time to get there. He was uneasy, and he didn't see anything wrong.
It wasn't until he sneaked into a nearby alley that he suddenly woke up, and then a layer of white sweat broke out on his back - it was strange that so many people were moving around the village and there was no sound at all!
Bai Xiu was shocked in his heart, he didn't know if Wanglongping Village had a special offering ceremony like Siyantan Village, or if something happened to the villagers.
Thinking that he quietly touched it, his heart sank completely as soon as he came out of the alley, and it seemed that his previous question had been answered, because he clearly smelled a strong smell of blood!
Sure enough, the next moment, the extremely strange scene unfolded in front of his eyes.
There were many tables and chairs in the clearing, and the villagers stood or sat motionless, looking ahead, and countless black blood poured out of their ears, noses, mouths, and eyes.
Bai Xiu swept his gaze, Lao Jiao, Lao Shan, the two women, and even the electric tricycle driver named Qi Tong, they all died here.
How is this possible, but in just a few minutes, all the people in a village have been killed? So who could be the murderer? Mr. Li, or someone else?
He examined the corpses one by one, and felt more and more surprised, these people had no obvious injuries on their bodies, and the tea on the table seemed to be normal, the question was, how did they die?
And where was the child, the child they had made offerings to? He hurriedly searched around, but there was not even a living person, not to mention the child, and the little village in the mountains had become a dead village.
He didn't dare to be careless, and searched again in a carpet style, but still found nothing.
To say that things are so coincidental, Bai Xiu went around and stopped at the mouth of the alley where he came before, he casually glanced inside, and was instantly stunned - as far as he had searched in the past, there were two more rows of blood-stained footprints in the alley!
He was very vigilant to himself, and even if he checked in the clearing, he always kept an eye on the situation around him, and if it was a big living person, he couldn't fail to find it.
Unless—
Bai Xiu looked back at the corpses, there was a flower bed between him and them, but it couldn't block the entire alley, unless it was a child in the past, or crawling or squatting, he would definitely see it.
There was a glimmer of hope in his heart, could it be that the child who was offered was the only survivor, and he was just afraid to guess and hide?
He walked over and examined the footprints, which were apparently from a grown man, and the first possibility was ruled out.
He couldn't figure it out, so he followed the two rows of footprints carefully, they went out of the alley, didn't go anywhere else, went straight up the mountain, he chuckled, its owner didn't go to the mountain temple?
He couldn't help but look at the top of the mountain, but unfortunately it was a cloudy day, and the already dark mountain was dark, and he couldn't tell if someone had gone up the mountain.
He was a little skeptical that this would be a ploy, and the secret was hidden at the scene of the murder just now.
However, the little girl may be in danger, and although she is hiding in a very hidden position, he cannot take this risk.
The two children have already lost one, he must not let the rest of the accident happen, not to mention that she does not have that kind of particularity, if the person who went up the mountain is really the murderer, whether the other party is the Mr. Li or not, he will take the opportunity to kill him.
His thoughts raced up the mountain, and when he saw the faint light in the temple, he calmed down a little, and listened attentively, and it was quiet inside, and everything seemed to be fine.
Bai Xiu said to the little girl behind the idol while being vigilant and soothing: "Little friend, come down, I'll send you home now." ”
Unfortunately, there was silence in his answer, and he already had a bad premonition in his heart, and when he paced and looked up, there was a head lying alone, and it stared at him with wide eyes, and there was nothing but surprise and fear in his eyes.
Boundless fear.
Thanks to his fearlessness, Bai Xiu was shocked, but he didn't panic, and swept behind him through the dim light, and a string of small blood droplets really continued from the side of the door to the back of the statue.
Could it be that this deceased was a member of Wanglongping Village? Unfortunately, the blood on the feet of the owner of the bloody footprints had already been wiped clean, and he could not be sure that this was the hand of the same person, so naturally he could not get the answer to this question.
Of course, he had to find the little girl anyway.
Seeing that there were no clues, Bai Xiu wiped the blood stains on the human head's face, he had an intuition that this murderer had noticed him, and putting this human head here was also aimed at him, and there might be some clues in this.
But he was stunned when he rubbed it, and this face seemed a little familiar...... Suddenly, there was a movement in his hand, and an inexplicable tremor swept through his body in an instant—he did know the owner of this human head.
Liu is!
Bai Xiu withdrew his hand and clenched his fists.
It seems that it will not be wrong, it is Mr. Li who killed more than 20 people in Wanglongping Village and murdered Officer Liu, there is no other possibility, only this person has anything to do with them, with him, and with those children!
But why...... Bai Xiu let go of his hands and calmed himself down.
Still not right, Mr. Li had a motive to kill Liu Yes, but the people in Longping Village were his "suppliers", if he really killed them, could it be because he no longer needed these special children, so he killed them together?
The killer has left here, and are the two children still alive?
Bai Xiu's thoughts were chaotic, looking at Liu is dead eyes, the grief in his heart was difficult to shake away for a while.
Although they only have two sides, he knows that this big brother has saved his life, and he is a good policeman with a great sense of justice - the distance between Xiongcheng and Wangcheng is thousands of miles, Liu is still obligated to rush over after hearing this case, which is difficult for ordinary people to do.
Why is God so unjust, the wicked are still harming the world, but the good are dying.
"Brother Liu, I will definitely not let him go, you can rest in peace. Bai Xiu muttered, then took off his coat and wrapped it around the human head, wanting it to hide in a safe corner for the time being.
At this moment, he noticed an anomaly, a leaf pressed under the human head, he took it off and gently wiped the blood on it, and a line of handwriting carved on it with a knife gradually came into view.
To his surprise, this was not a provocative letter left by the murderer, but a sentence, a very strange sentence.
"Left, right, right, left, right, left, left. ”
In a flash of inspiration, he retreated to the statue and carefully observed the incense burner on the table, and sure enough, it was unusually clean, except for a bloody fingerprint.
It seems that everything is clear, no wonder the people of Wanglongping Village are very concerned about this mountain temple, but it is difficult for the police to find traces of their transactions with Mr. Li, I am afraid that there is also a secret passage under this mountain temple.
But another question arises, who is the person who left this leaf? If it is not the murderer, does this person also follow into the secret passage underneath, so what is this person's idea?
In any case, the top priority at the moment is to go down and take a look, if the murderer deliberately lures him over, and the other party has a hostage in his hands, he can't ignore it, if it is someone else, as long as he and the other party have the same goal, why not join forces.
Bai Xiu placed the human head properly, and then carefully turned the incense burner according to the hints on the leaves, and after a few soft clicks, he heard another movement in the corner, and turned his head to see that there was actually a well exposed.