Chapter Ninety-Seven: Digging the Grave

Chongming Island is a county in Shanghai, including a county seat and 32 villages and towns, Lu Sheng searched the map but did not find the slightest indication of the residence of the fishermen.

"Lord Qincha, what are you looking for, can you tell us, you don't know Chongming County, and it takes time and effort to find it. Master Wu approached Lu Sheng with a flattering smile and asked.

"Oh, I'm looking for a place about the Fisherman. I've heard that Chongming Island has been inhabited by a strange people who can live in the water since ancient times?"

"Fisherman?" The smile on the master's face was suddenly put away, and he looked at Lu Sheng and sighed silently, "Yes, there was indeed a fisherman clan on Chongming Island twenty years ago. They have lived here since ancient times, but there was a plague on Chongming Island that year, and the entire fisherman clan died of the plague. ”

"Dead?20 years ago?" Lu Sheng put down the map in his hand and stared at his master for a long time, "What plague is so powerful that it has wiped out a race?

"Actually, the plague was not very large, it only spread within the fishermen. When the plague broke out that year, I was still a master in Jiayun County, and even I only learned about it after the fact.

I heard that Princess Changling personally sent people to block the fishermen, so that the plague could not spread, and it was only three years later that the ban was lifted. Because the Fishermen are gone, they are not marked on the latest map. Wait a minute, sir, I'll find you a map from 20 years ago. ”

Soon, Master Wu took out a piece of brown paper from the dusty file, and after unfolding it, although it was still Chongming Island, the layout was far from the current one.

Lu Sheng picked up two maps, and Master Wu transferred the file on the plague back then, and then sent them away.

Lu Sheng and Duan Fei and their entourage quickly flipped through the files, and after a long time, Lu Sheng and Duan Fei raised their heads and smiled at each other.

"Brother Duan, do you believe it?"

"I don't believe it! This plague is so strange. There was no warning, and suddenly there was a plague. And the surrounding villages didn't even notice it, but Princess Changling knew it first.

When Princess Changling left, the plague killed the entire fisherman clan, and no one was alive. I'd rather believe that it was Princess Changling who sent people to exterminate the clan than that it was a plague. ”

"Shhhh

The speaker had no intention, but as soon as he said this, Lu Sheng and Duan Fei gasped in unison.

Duan Fei's tone was joking, but it was so reasonable to say it in reverse.

Lu Sheng suddenly felt his scalp tingle, "I said Brother Duan, although Princess Changling is very favored, she shouldn't be able to do such an outrageous thing, right? ”

"Brother Lu, don't say it, I'm talking nonsense. I now believe more that the fishermen did not go extinct, but transferred, and the whole tribe migrated. This topic is stopped!" Duan Fei's face was also pale, and he hurriedly stopped.

"My lord, how should we track it down?" Jin Kai asked with some eagerness.

"Since it is suspected that the fishermen did it, then this line cannot be abandoned. Let's go to the Fisherman Tribe's station to see if they are really dead or if the whole tribe has migrated. If we migrate, we have to keep tracking. ”

"What if it's really dead?" Jin Kai asked again.

"Then find out how he died, I don't believe it's the plague, and I don't believe that the entire fisherman clan doesn't even have a mouth left alive. As long as there is a remnant, they are still doing it. After all, they are the most suspicious. ”

The group stepped on the horse and rushed out of the Shanghai Mansion to Chongming Island. It was another half day of traveling, and finally landed on the land of Chongming Island in the afternoon.

Lu Sheng and others went to the county government first, and got more accurate news in the county office.

"My lord, over the hill in front of you is where the fishermen used to stand. Although the fishermen live on the sea and make a living from fishing, the strange thing is that they like to live in the mountains and build houses along the mountainside.

They don't know how to farm, everyone can go up the mountain and enter the water, and their living habits are very different from ours. So even if the fishermen are gone, no one will worry about their station. The five miles are full of gravel, and the slopes are not suitable for cultivating farmland. ”

Under the leadership of the officials, Lu Sheng came to this legendary fisherman station. But after getting closer, Lu Sheng only saw dense and endless tombstones.

"So many tombstones? Doesn't it mean that the population of the fisherman clan is not very large? Twenty years ago, there were less than 500 fishermen registered in the record, how could there be ...... here" Lu Sheng felt a little numb in his scalp.

"Adults don't know, these are not the tombstones of the fishermen, but the entire Chongming County. Because the fishermen's station was barren and unsuitable for reclamation, it was planned as a cemetery.

Halfway up the hill through this cemetery, you can see the remains of the fishermen. Please be careful, the road ahead is not easy. ”

In this sentence, the official is too careful. Not to mention that there is a road, even if it is a cliff, Lu Sheng can walk chic and free.

Following the hillside, through a row of dense woods, I saw a few dilapidated houses. And more than that, there are only some traces of the foundation.

"After all, so much time has passed, and even if there are traces, they are already unrecognizable. The official said lightly, perhaps for him this trip was like exploring an ancient ruin.

However, after only twenty years, a race with an ancient heritage has disappeared in an instant.

"My lord, we're here!"

When the official came to the top of the mountain, he paused and pointed to a small hill in the distance, "This is the place where the bones of the fishermen are buried. Because of the plague, no monument was erected for each of them, so they were piled up together and buried. ”

When the officer's words landed, Lu Sheng's face showed a strange expression, and he shook his head with a sneer at Duan Fei.

"Brother Lu, have you noticed anything abnormal?"

"I'm willing to bet that the fishermen definitely didn't die of the plague. ”

"Why do you think so?"

"Anyone with some common sense will know that the danger of the plague is contagion, and if the whole fisherman tribe died of the plague, how could they bury the corpse?

In the same way, if only the corpses were buried, but the surrounding villages were not infected with the plague, this would also prove that the fishermen did not die of the plague.

But now I suspect even more that this grave bag is empty! Brother Duan, dig a grave!"

Although digging a grave is not good, Duan Fei can't take care of these things in order to find out the facts of the case. With a wave of the thug, more than a dozen Fei Ling Wei long knives behind him were unsheathed.

In an instant, a sinister aura filled with the smell of blood wafted out. Lu Sheng's eyes froze, and he couldn't help but take a step back. This is not to say that Lu Sheng's cultivation could not withstand the momentum of Fei Lingwei, but it was the first time that he felt this evil aura full of death, and subconsciously avoided it.

Lu Sheng only took a step back, but the officials who led the way collapsed to the ground in fright.

Empty eyes, staring in horror at the sinister aura rippling around Fei Lingwei. This is the instinctive fear of the breath of death in the living.

"Fei Ling Wei, as expected, lives up to its reputation, just a small team of Fei Ling Wei, the condensed military array can have such power. Lu Sheng couldn't help but sigh.

Prior to this, Lu Sheng had also innate perceived the Feiling Wei cultivation led by Duan Fei. Duan Fei is in the early stage of congenital, and Fei Lingwei is the seventh level of the day after tomorrow, and the rest are all acquired fivefold.

Normally, Lu Sheng's cultivation at the moment was a matter of minutes to kill this team of Fei Ling Guards. But at this moment, Lu Sheng didn't dare to win easily. Martial arts in the army has been completely disconnected from martial arts in the rivers and lakes. The army has its own system, and the formation of a military formation can combine the strength of an entire army into one.

It's not simply a matter of one plus one equaling two.

Because of this, no matter how many amazing geniuses appear in the Jianghu martial arts, no one dares to defy the law in front of the imperial army.

A peerless master can be ten enemies, hundreds of enemies, and thousands of enemies, but he can never be ten thousand enemies, 100,000 enemies, and millions of enemies.

"Brother Lu has won the award, they are only a team, and they are not worthy of Brother Lu's amazement. Duan Fei raised his eyebrows lightly and shook his head elegantly. That expression was very embarrassing.

"I'm just a little confused, didn't I say that there must be a formation map for the military formation sacrifice? I haven't seen anyone sacrifice the formation map?"

"Brother Lu, the formation map is something that only those military formations of more than 100 people need, if more than a dozen people still need the formation map to sacrifice the military formation, then the name of Fei Lingwei can still be in the pit. ”

More than a dozen Fei Ling Wei suddenly raised their battle knives in unison, and at the same time, a ten-zhang long phantom war knife hung in the sky in the void.

Although the war knife is virtual, the awe-inspiring sword aura revealed is sharp. On the amber blade, there are even beautiful patterns.

Lu Sheng saw this scene and instantly understood, which was similar to the materialization of the master's internal force. With Lu Sheng's cultivation at the moment, he could also completely raise a sword qi tens of meters long in the void.

It's loud, but it's silly. Ordinary against people, as long as you can kill each other, holding a large knife of dozens of meters and slashing, the picture is unimaginable.

Changling Wei waved his sword in unison, and the sword qi in the sky turned into a heavenly moat and fell.

Boom –

There was a burst of dust, and the tomb bag dozens of meters high was split in half with a knife.

A few frightened officials opened their mouths wide and looked at the scene in front of them in a daze, even if the soil got into their mouths and noses, they didn't know it. Perhaps, they have never seen such a shocking scene in their lives.

The dust has fallen, and the mountain bag in front of me is like a broken steamed bun. But when Lu Sheng and the others saw the situation inside, they gasped in unison.

Completely different from Lu Sheng's speculation, this tomb bag was not only not empty, but also stuffed with Sen Sen's bones.

Twenty years later, the bones had melted into the same color as the earth. But the tumbling heads, broken ribs, and messy scattered bones are so dazzling and glaring.

"Really dead?" Lu Sheng came back to his senses after a long time, slowly approached, and picked up a head on the ground.

"Sin, sin, sin!" Duan Fei hurriedly shook his head, "This brother, don't blame me, if you want to blame, blame the one holding you." It was when he said that the grave bag was empty, and I had it cut down. Now you're in a different place, and if you want to come back to settle accounts, look for him!"

Ignoring Duan Fei's tricks, Lu Sheng's brows furrowed, "His head was not cut off by this knife, but twenty years ago, his head was cut off." ”