Chapter 82: The Tragedy
Shengshen's constricted brow didn't spread in the slightest, and he simply got down from Rouge's back.
The bloody aura was even stronger, and it seemed to be coming from all directions.
Sheng Shen walked slowly along the street, a cold wind blew from nowhere, on the road, thatch flew sideways, the whole village, extremely silent, there was no one in sight.
The bloody smell came from that wooden house, but Sheng Ash keenly felt that in the thatched houses on both sides, there was also blood gas, but it was extremely light, and if Sheng Shen came for an hour at night, it was estimated that he would not be able to detect it.
Sheng Shen lowered his head, and from the thatched house, in front of almost every door, there were drops of blood extending from the house, and the end was in the wooden house.
Sheng Ash crouched down and looked closely.
The blood droplets were in a freshly coagulated state, and in some places they were just sparse droplets, while in others there were large patches of blood.
Sheng Shen stood up and tied the rouge to the pillar of the torii, and he himself entered the thatched hut closest to him.
The placement inside is extremely simple, household tools, mostly pottery, a lot, simply made of soil casually, although it does not look very beautiful, but it is very practical.
Other than that, there's not much to note.
There was a compartment inside, and Sheng Shen also went in to take a look, this should be a bedroom, and there was an earthen kang with some simple bedding on it, and under the earthen kang, there were several pairs of straw sandals.
The bloody aura of this room came from here, but Sheng Shen didn't notice anything unusual.
Out of the room, Sheng Shen went to the other side, and after about half an hour, Sheng Shen was already standing in front of the wooden house at the end of the road.
Among the rest of the thatched huts, he had already checked them all, and there were several rooms with obvious large blood stains, and some of them had obvious drag marks in front of the door, and the end of these marks all pointed to this wooden house.
Sheng Shen was not afraid and stepped directly in.
Inside the wooden house, in addition to the table of the eight immortals and the incense burner he saw, there was a portrait hanging on the screen in front of him.
The painting depicts an old man with fairy wind bones, and the white-bearded old elder is long, hanging directly down to his stomach.
Who this person was, Sheng Shen didn't know, he just glanced at it, and then his figure flickered, and he went around behind the screen, and then his face sank like water.
Behind is a small space, full of piles of corpses.
At a glance, Sheng Shen knew the approximate number, at least more than two hundred people, and they were so full that they had reached the roof of the wooden house, and there was almost no space left.
These corpses, judging by their clothing, should be the villagers of Gaohu Village, among them, there are old and young, large and small, all of them are extremely miserable, some have open chests and broken stomachs, some have severed heads, some have intestines through the stomach, and there are countless limbs broken.
Sheng Gray's eyes froze, and he saw a little girl, with a small face, facing his direction, but the position of the eyes was already only the eye socket, which was black inside, and her face was full of blood.
The little girl was huddled in the middle of a pile of corpses, revealing only a tiny head, her small mouth slightly open, and her face full of twisted pain.
Sheng Gray's face was calm, as if he didn't see a shocking tragedy, but he didn't know that one of his teeth was about to be crushed by him.
Obviously, Lou Yanxin and those female flame guards also discovered this, according to the state of the blood stains observed before, it is likely that these people were dragged here by Lou Yanxin and those female flame guards.
But why don't they care?
Isn't this the people of this country called Akisui?
As far as it is recorded in the book that Sheng Shen saw recently, no matter where it is, an entire village has been slaughtered, no matter how you look at it, it is an unforgivable act, but in the end, Qiu Shu's convoy ignored it and went straight forward.
Sheng Shen was puzzled by why, and no one was destined to explain to him.
Sheng Shen suddenly felt excited, and he suddenly remembered the glance when Lord Xuanyu entered the carriage, and he finally understood what this glance meant.
It's for him to leave it alone.
But how could he ignore it and turn a blind eye?
That's 200 lives.
Sheng Shen never thought that he was a savior or something, but he never thought that he was indifferent enough, if he didn't see today's events, it would be fine, since he saw it, then no matter what, this matter must be investigated to the end.
Even if Qiu Shu and Lord Xuanyu finally choose to ignore this matter, it is the same, no matter who caused the tragedy in front of them, they will have to pay the corresponding price.
Sheng Gray's heart suddenly moved, and in his eyes, there was a slight white light, this kind of eyes that were passively transformed by the mana in his body, similar to small spirit eyes but obviously immature, finally noticed that among the blood stains of these corpses, there was a slight black leak.
The next moment, Sheng Shen suddenly ran the Yuan Demon Sutra.
Sure enough, the mysterious power in the body, which Xiao Hei called the magic yuan force, appeared again.
The little bit of black in those corpses suddenly seemed to be pulled by something, peeled off from the bloodstains, turned into a black line in the air, and continued to enter Sheng Ash's body.
Demonic energy, it is demonic energy again!
The filthy demon before, he hadn't figured out where it came from, and here, he had encountered the demonic qi again so quickly.
And this time, it's much more serious than the last one.
Last time, it was just a newborn baby boy, or rather, a family, but this time, an entire village.
Sheng Shen remembered clearly that this demonic aura existed in every corpse he had seen, that is, every villager had died at the hands of a monster similar to that filthy demon.
From this point of view, monsters are indeed the natural enemies of spiritual things in the world, and in the two things he encountered, it can be seen that as long as there are demons, it represents a disaster.
"Could it be that I blamed Qiushu for them?" Sheng Shen suddenly thought.
Lou Yanxin looked very nervous at the time, was it because she only found the body, but did not find the murderer, and she couldn't find the murderer for a while, and she was worried that the murderer's target was Qiu Shu, so she urged Qiu Shu to leave immediately?
And the Jade Lord should have discovered the remaining demonic qi in these corpses, and then thought that he had been injured by the filthy demon, so he warned him to leave it alone.
The more Sheng Shen thought about it, the more he felt that this would make sense.
But despite this, Sheng Gray doesn't think it's a good choice to just leave.
A moment later, Sheng Shen appeared in front of the archway, and the thatched houses on both sides of the road were all pushed to the ground by him, and many thatched huts were gathered on both sides of the wooden houses by him.
He sighed, took out the fire fold, blew it, and threw it on the thatch.
In an instant, the flames soared into the sky, stretching over the entire high ground.
Sheng gray rode on the rouge, a palm hit the pillar of the archway, the archway fell in response, after a person and a ride, there was only a ruin, I am afraid that it will not be long before no one remembers that there was once a high pot village in this world built on a high ground.
Sheng Shen turned his horse's head, went down the heights, and did not go to chase the team of Qiushu, but went to the east.
It didn't take long for Sheng Shen to come to a barren mountain.
This barren mountain is lonely, and there are no mountains around it, just like the back mountain of Liusheng County.
The reason why Sheng Shen came here was because, outside the wooden house in Gaohu Village, he found a trail of blood stains connected by little drops, starting from the outside of the wooden house, above the high ground outside, below the high ground, and then extending all the way to here.
And among these blood stains, every drop contains a little demonic energy.
No matter who the murderer is or what it is, it seems that there is a high probability that he is in this barren mountain.
Sheng Ash patted Rouge, wanted to lift the horse uphill, but never thought that Rouge was motionless, Sheng Gray frowned slightly, his legs were clamped, but Rouge not only did not move forward, but the person stood up and snorted.
Rouge's body was full of anxiety, and there was a lot of nervousness in it, if it wasn't for Sheng Gray's best to appease it, it would have turned around and fled.
No matter how handsome and tall Rouge is, after all, he is just a horse, and he is really far from being able to compare with spirit beasts such as Baixi.
Sheng Gray got off the horse and slapped Rouge's buttocks, Rouge turned around on his own and ran to a meadow far away from the barren mountain before stopping.
Sheng Ash didn't care about it and went straight up the mountain.
Halfway up the barren mountain is a forest, and under the gloomy sky, it looks a little cloudy and foggy, and inside the forest, it is impossible to see what the situation is.
Sheng Gray's palm flipped over, and the broken iron bar was held in his hand, and he stepped on it and entered the dense forest.
Damp, gloomy, and not seeing the light of day, this is how Sheng Shen feels at the moment, but it doesn't affect him in the slightest.
Sheng Shen moved forward steadily, but to his surprise, he was unexpectedly out of the dense forest before long.
On the other side of the dense forest, there is a small waterfall near the abyss, the height difference is also a few zhang, and below is a small pool, which falls into the water, and there is almost no sound.
Around the waterfall, there are some flowers and plants, and it doesn't seem like it's winter, but like spring, warm, moist, and fragrant with birds, like a paradise.
Sheng Shen stood at the top of the waterfall, and he circled around it twice, always feeling that something seemed awkward.
No, Sheng Shen suddenly thought that with such a height difference, in the pool, the sound of water should not be small, even if for some reason, it is not big, it will not be like now, there is almost no sound at all.
Sheng Shen probe looked down the pool again, but it happened to meet a pair of blood-red eyes.