Chapter 26: The Fate of the Sea of Blood (7)
While Rose was wondering, there was a grumbling cry in the distance, and then Wan'er came over like a chicken in soup.
She was in a state of disarray, every strand of hair dripping down, and her clothes were clinging to her body, covered in mud. She seemed to have been crying for a long time, and her eyes were swollen like peaches: "It's all a lie, why lie to me?" She whimpered under her breath.
Rose felt that Wan'er should have just known that Guo Yunqing was going to marry someone else.
After learning so many things, Rose only had a faint distress for Wan'er, and the little girl seemed to really like Guo Yunqing. But Rose felt deeply glad for her, it was her luck that Wan'er didn't marry into the Guo family.
If she really marries Guo Yunqing and enters the dirty Guo family, that will be her most unfortunate thing.
I saw Wan'er sitting on a pile of rockeries in a daze, muttering to herself.
As the rain stopped, Wan'er began to look at the flowing water on the ground in a daze, and finally, her gaze fell on the sackcloth corner that had been there for twenty years. She hesitantly got up and walked over...... The moment she got the sackcloth, the illusion was finally over.
Rose stretched her waist, and finally knew where Wan'er's sackcloth was picked from, no wonder the Guo family wanted to kill Wan'er later.
Rose returned to the small courtyard where she lived, and everyone was surprisingly there.
"Brother Qin, you are quite familiar with the people of the Guo family, right? I'd like you to help me inquire about the Yerba Grass Pavilion. Rose said.
When Qin Zhong heard this, he immediately packed the ticket and said, "No problem." Then he turned and left.
In less than an hour, Qin Zhong came back, and when he saw the rose, he proudly whispered to show off: "Rose girl, I have inquired about what you asked me to inquire about." β
"I know that Brother Qin is infinitely charming, let's say, what did I hear?"
"The Fangcao Pavilion has been empty for a long time, and that is the taboo of the Guo family. Some of the old helpers of the Guo family told me that twenty years ago there lived the tenth wife of the owner of Guo Zhuang. β
The Tenth Lady is probably the woman she saw, Rose thought about it and asked, "What happened later?" β
"Later, I heard that the tenth lady got along with a family member, and ran away with her and the family's illegitimate child." Qin Zhong's face was full of contempt, "Master Guo Zhuang is benevolent and righteous, and if he runs away, he will not be held accountable." β
If you run away, you won't be held accountable? What a beast-hearted guy! Rose scolded in her heart.
"Okay, Brother Qin, thank you. I'm out running errands. With that, Rose walked out the door.
"Sister Rose, where are you going?" Pearls asked.
"I'll see if there's any chance of fishing." Rose smiled, and hurried to the place where the net was cast in the sea, and it was time to start fishing, piranha, you should hurry up and take the bait.
When I arrived at the next killing place calculated by Canghai, as soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw Canghai talking to a person on the path not far from the gate.
This courtyard is about the size of a football field, and there is a large artificial lake in the courtyard. The two sides of the lake are connected by a large, slightly rough arch bridge. On the other side of the lake, there have been many martial arts masters, and it looks really funny that so many masters protect such a broken wall.
Seeing Rose enter the courtyard, Canghai asked strangely: "Rose, why are you here, it's dangerous here, go back quickly." β
"I'm just standing here with my boss, and I'm not going to the other side. Besides, with so many masters here, the killer didn't dare to come. Rose smiled and walked over.
Canghai frowned and said, "Nonsense, go back quickly." β
As soon as his words fell, a scream similar to that of a cow being slaughtered suddenly came from the sky: "Moo-"
Rose was startled, and when she looked up, a blood-red figure had just slipped over her head, ghostly floating towards the place where everyone was standing on the other side. Then a strong wind swept into Rose's nose with a strong stench like that of a dead mouse, and her goosebumps instantly rose from her toes to her scalp.
"Look at the swordβ" One of the masters next to Rose then drew his sword and chased after him, tangling with the strange man in the air.
While they were fighting, Rose saw the strange man's outfit clearly. He was wrapped in a blood-red cloak and wore a gray cloth mask like a Western ghost.
He has no weapons in his hands, and his tricks are very strange, and he looks like a puppet that has been manipulated. But what seems to be a stiff movement is actually extremely dexterous, and he and the sword are as mutually exclusive as the same pole of a magnet. When the sword was about to stab him, he could easily dodge it, and even if a few more people joined the fray later, it would not hurt him in the slightest.
Just as Rose pinched her nose and looked at it, Canghai next to her suddenly pulled her to the rockery next to her, and then stuffed her into the crack of the rockery at once, and then he himself got in, blocking Rose's way out.
Rose just wanted to get angry: "What are you doing......"
"Don't talk." He commanded suddenly, looking out through the crack in the rockery with a serious expression.
Rose looked at him suspiciously, and suddenly became cold with fright.
At some point, there were many more red figures in the sky that were exactly the same as the strange man, and those strange figures were gathering towards people's heads. The stench emanating from them overpowered everything else with a overwhelming assault, and the eyes of the rose were so smoked that tears flowed from their eyes.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the few masters who were fighting with the strange people who came out first quickly withdrew into the crowd, holding weapons and fighting against the ghosts in the sky with everyone.
The ghosts of the heavens, the pale crowds of people on the ground, the occasional "moo", and the suffocating smell have turned the bright autumn earth into a hell on earth.
Suddenly, a red figure picked up a person little by little, and quickly rushed south.
"Master--help-help--" The man was so frightened that he went crazy, his face flushed, and he swung wildly with his sword, but his shoulder was firmly grasped by the man in red, and the sword could not touch the man in red.
The other red-clothed men screamed in unison with excitement and flew south in a swarm of energy, a force that made Rose tremble at the vultures of the prairie robbing carrion.
Then a black shadow flashed, and a master also chased after him. Since someone took the lead, the others no longer hesitated and followed.
After they left, a breath of cool air penetrated into the unbearable stench, and the world was finally reborn.
Coming out of the cracks in the rockery, Rose fanned the air next to her nose vigorously, and waited until the smell faded a lot before she asked Canghai, who was looking at the south and frowning: "Those people are so weird, boss, do you know who they are?" β
"I don't know, maybe, they're not human at all."
"How could the murderer suddenly have so many accomplices?"
Canghai shook his head slowly and took a step towards the opposite shore.
Rose was anxious: "Boss, don't go." β
He stopped: "What if I go?" Worried about me? β
Rose hurriedly stomped her foot: "Boss, you are going to die, who will pay me?" Who will take me to my mother? β
"Hehe, I don't do loss-making business in the sea." He burst out laughing.
Rose stared blankly at his smile, not relieving for a moment.
"Oh no, let's go." Canghai suddenly realized that he had made a very big mistake, and he wanted to run away while pulling the rose.
Unfortunately, it was too late, and as soon as they turned around, they saw a terrible person at the gate of the courtyard.
He was wrapped in a black cloak, leaving only a pair of cold eyes and some forehead hair. The breeze gently ruffled the edge of his cloak, and the upturned cloak and occasional long hair made him look like a dancing black flame with a menacing death aura all over his body.
His left hand was pinching the neck of a Guo familyman, and his arm was naturally bent, as if he was carrying a gadget that didn't weigh much.
The housekeeper struggled desperately in pain under his seemingly easy clamps, and with his hands he tried feebly to save his throat from the black-clad man's hands. What's even more terrifying is that the family's mouth is wide open, and he can't make a sound at all, not even a little moan.
The man in black walked to the side of Xiao Wall, and suddenly waved his hand, and the four were very densely spaced, and a muffled sound like chopping melons and vegetables came, and in the blink of an eye, the man in black had already nailed his limbs with four nails.
Canghai clutched Rose's mouth tightly and sealed her screams in her mouth.
What kind of scene was that, the guy was nailed to his limbs, but he was still a living person. He writhed helplessly on the wall, like a big gecko nailed to the wall, his mouth wide open and desperately trying to scream, but he couldn't make a sound, and his eyes opened as if they were about to burst. This kind of death is so cruel that not only does it have to endure the pain of leaving, but even the right to cry out has been taken away.
The man in black just stood silently under the Xiao wall, the breeze blowing his clothes like a grim reaper. He looked motionlessly at the people struggling on the wall, as if quietly enjoying the hunt.
Suddenly, the man in black tilted his head as if he had discovered something, and with a wave of his hand, the pain of the family was finally over.
A noisy voice came from behind, and the man in black glanced at Rose, and his cold and slightly familiar eyes swept her away. The man in black did not delay, squatted slightly, and then flew into the sky like a ghost, flashed a few times and disappeared from the rose's field of vision.
The surroundings began to be lively again, and most of the people gathered around the new corpse on the wall and angrily denounced the murderer.
Suddenly everyone was silent, Rose looked up strangely, Qin Zhong carried a person wrapped in a white cloth into the courtyard, and there was some bright red cloth exposed under the white cloth, and he caught a living one.
Walking to the middle of the crowd, Qin Zhong threw the person on his shoulder to the ground and slowly retreated, and the stench spread through the courtyard again.
The owner of Guo Zhuang walked in front of the person who was still slowly squirming with red eyes, and squatted down through gritted teeth: "Kill so many people in my Guo family, I want to see, what do you look like?" With that, he ripped the mask off the man's face at once.
"Hah-" A woman couldn't help but exclaim.
What appeared in front of everyone was the strange man's puffy face, pale color, festering epidermis, eyes covered with a layer of white mist, a few red bloodshot streaks in his eyes, and a nail hole in his forehead that had turned black. This face is much more terrifying than when he wore a mask, and it is no wonder that his taste is strangely stinky, and people who have been dead for many days and have begun to rot, can they not stink?
If you guessed correctly, this monster should have been a corpse in the Guo Family Spirit Hall.
In this way, the red-clothed weirdos who showed off their bodies in the sky just now were all the corpses of the Guo family.
"Could it be that this is the arsonist of the Demon Gate?" Someone said tremblingly, and the people around him suddenly stepped back one foot after another.
Qin Zhong walked over, squatted next to the monster and looked at it carefully for a long time, then pulled off the monster's coat and hat, and reached into the monster's hair.
After touching it for a while, he suddenly paused: "Found it." Then he pulled it out, and a stream of black water spurted out of the corpse's head, and Qin Zhong had a long nail in his hand. After pulling out the nail, the corpse trembled a few times before moving away.
"This is not the corpse arranger of the Demon Gate, the technique is very rough, it should be a kind of corpse puppetry." Qin Zhong said.
After being quiet for a long time, someone said indignantly: "The murderer's methods are cruel, and he desecrates the dead, which is even more hateful than the Demon Gate." β
It's time to take the bait, Rose hid behind Canghai in a few steps, pulled the corner of his clothes and said weakly: "Boss, I think this seems to be retribution." β
"This little girl, you actually said that this is retribution!" Guo Zhuang's face darkened, if it weren't for the sea, he would definitely shoot the roses away.
Rose whispered: "The little woman is ignorant and guesses. But just now my boss and I were next to the murderer, and the murderer didn't hurt us. Moreover, so far, except for the people of the Guo family, no outsiders have died in Guo Jiazhuang, and even the hero who was captured just now is still alive. The murderer should be someone who came specifically to the Guo family, the so-called wronged has a head, the debtor has a master, isn't it retribution? β
"Rose, don't talk nonsense, that should be called revenge. Guojiazhuang's reputation for benevolence and righteousness has spread all over the world for so many years, and it is not surprising that there are villains who hold grudges. After Canghai lectured the rose a few words, he turned his head to Master Guo Zhuang, "Master Guo, please forgive me." β
"It's okay, I think Boss Cang, you're also frightened, let's tell us what happened after a while." Guo Zhuang regained his composure, "This time, I know that the killer will only kill people in the place calculated by Boss Cang, and I will never let him run away next time." β
Canghai and Qin Zhong stayed there to deal with things, and Rose rested for a while and was sent back to the small courtyard.