After coming out of Nie's hometown, Gao Zhen immediately went around and came to the right side of the low house, and walked under the wall with a big hole. There are several wooden sticks that are supported in the corners of the wall so that the entire wall does not collapse.

He crouched down and scrutinized the dirt on the ground. Sure enough, the place had been turned up, and the dirt was all new, as if someone had deliberately treated it with a shovel.

"Immortal Master......" Ah Ni shouted weakly.

Gao Zhen raised his head and just saw that in the big hole in the wall, Nie Lao's wife, Wu, was staring at him. Gao Zhen smiled awkwardly, got up and returned to Ah Ni.

In fact, that Nie Lao and his wife have never been very well received by the villagers. They are a bit withdrawn and don't usually communicate with the people in the village, but as a result, there is such a big incident in their family, and the village chief is not very easy to handle. Ay! Ah Ni whispered, and then he sighed, grabbed the sweat towel around his neck with his hand, and beckoned everyone to follow him to the second victim's house.

The second victim's name is Zhang Nong, he is the only one in his house, and the house he lives in is more dilapidated than Nie Lao's, it is directly a grass hut, and even the walls are made of wood side by side.

Fortunately, it was not his house or himself that was attacked by the fire beast, but his wheat field.

When Ah Ni came to Zhang Nong with a few people with a high pillow, he was sitting at the door of the grass hut, smoking a big cigarette. Ah Ni told everyone that Zhang Nong was a farmer, but he had a great addiction to smoking, and he used the money from the sale of millet to buy big tobacco. That's why he didn't marry a daughter-in-law at such an old age.

"Zhang Nong! I've brought the immortals from Yancheng here! Ah Ni called him, very loudly, because he was a little behind his ears.

"Oh, are you here to catch fire monsters?" Zhang Nong raised his head, took a cigarette in his mouth, and asked.

"Yes, we're here to catch the Fire Beast." Yi Shuihan nodded and replied.

"I'm so angry! Five days ago, I was going to harvest the wheat, but I saw a red shadow running around in my field! Wherever it runs, the wheat burns! Oops, I didn't harvest any wheat! This year is gone! Zhang Nong patted his thigh and said.

It's November, but due to the temperature conditions near the Blazing Yuan Valley, the grains grown here are generally harvested at this time, unlike other places, where the harvest takes place in September.

"Red shadows?" Lai Ruoxue repeated, she remembered that Nie Lao said that they were talking about "black shadows".

"It's the fire monster! It's a big deal! It's more than two meters tall and has flames all over its body! Zhang Nong said.

"You take the immortal masters to take a look!" Ah Ni felt that he was not clear about his description, and wanted him to take a few people to the field to have a look.

"Don't go! If I run into a fire monster again, I'll die! Zhang Nong waved his hand and continued to smoke his big cigarette.

"This is the request of the village chief." Ah Clay Tablet raised his face.

"Even if the king of heaven comes to beg me, I won't go!" Zhang Nong didn't look at Ah Ni.

Yi Shuihan suddenly stepped forward and stuffed something into Zhang Nong's arms.

"What are you doing!" Zhang Nong screamed, but when he looked into his arms, it was actually a few copper coins, enough for him to buy four or five days of cigarettes.

"Let's go, let's go! I can't stay long, but if I stay for a long time, the fire monster will come! Zhang Nong patted his trouser legs, stood up from the front of the grass hut, and beckoned to everyone. His back was a bit rickety, and he looked weird.

Seeing Gao Zhen and Lai Ruoxue looking at him, Yi Shuihan had to smile.

In this way, the people followed Zhang Nong to his burned wheat field.

Standing on the ridge of the field, looking at the wheat field in front of me, it was a mess. The original golden wheat waves were washed away by the flames, leaving only charred and yellow wheat stalks. Zhang Nong's wheat field is not small, it has just become an amusement park of flames, and after running wantonly, he took away his income for the whole year, no wonder he is in such a bad mood.

Gao Tsugu noticed that in the middle of the burned wheat field, there was a zigzag mark, which was darker than anywhere around, and the burn mark was the deepest. Like a long black snake, lying quietly in the black lake water.

"That day, I saw that fire monster run away along this trace!" Zhang Nong pointed to the deep black mark that Gao Zhen had noticed.

"It ran and ran in that direction, and I was so angry that I thought someone was deliberately carrying a torch to burn down my wheat field. I picked up an iron hoe and tried to chase him and beat him, but the fire was so great that I did not dare to go down into the field. Zhang Nong added.

"Then I thought, why is it running over there? Oh! It turns out there's a lake over there! He said, gesturing to a small patch of gray in the distance.

"It was supposed to be the water we used to irrigate our wheat fields." Zhang Nong said.

"Let's go and see." He beckoned to everyone.

"I'm not going, you're going to go yourself! There's a fire monster's footprint over there! But the evil door! Zhang Nong saw that several people were going to the lake far away, so he quickly shook his head.

Ah Ni had no choice but to let him go back first, and he took the three of them with a high pillow, and walked towards the gray lake in the distance along the black traces left by the flames.

Walking in the burned wheat field, Ah Ni told everyone that the fire was indeed very big at that time, and there was no intention of extinguishing it at all. The village chief led the young men of the village to build a separation belt on both sides of Zhang Nong's wheat field, so that the flames barely burned into the wheat fields of several nearby families. The flames burned for a day and a night before finally extinguishing themselves.

Gao Zhen sniffled and sniffed, there was still a burning smell here, but as for the special smell of blood, it seemed that it couldn't be smelled.

They walked for a while, and finally came to the gray lake.

It is said that it is a lake, but it is actually more like a pond, because it is not very deep, leaning on the edge of the Chiyuan Mountain Range, it is a pool of stagnant water. The lake is light gray, I don't know if it's caused by the ash falling into it, or because there is some special substance in the lake.

"Look here!" Lai Ruoxue suddenly screamed and pointed to something on the ground.

It was a shoveled mass of dirt mixed with some charred particles. There are many such shoveled places, which are connected in a string, stretching from the burned wheat fields to the lake.

He squatted down, gently twisted a cloud of charred black particles from the dirt with his fingers, rubbed them on his fingertips, and then put them in front of his nose to smell them.

A very pungent smell emanated, and only escaped into the high nasal passages. It was the same smell he had seen in his footprints in the forest, a very strong smell of blood.

"That's it, that's right." Gao Zhen said softly.

"Why are these footprints destroyed?" Yi Shuihan said strangely.

"Oh, it's really strange, the day the fire was extinguished, the village chief and I were here, and there were still some strange footprints here at that time, which were the scorched black footprints left by the fire beast!" Ah Ni scratched his head and said strangely.

"Was it vandalism?" Lai Ruoxue couldn't help but ask.

"Could it be someone from the Blazing Yuan Sect who did it?" Yi Shuihan leaned into the ear of Gao Zhen and said in a very low voice. He pointed to the Blazing Yuan Mountains behind the lake, indicating that it was very close to the Blazing Yuan Valley.

"It shouldn't be them." Gao Zuo stood up from the ground.

"Let's go to the third one, I seem to have a clue." He said lightly.