Chen Shi spent a whole day rushing to Ningnan Domain, where the Xia family's mansion was located in Haibei City.

The sun had just set.

At this time, he had changed into a white cloak, his face was half covered, half squatting on the ground, examining a charred corpse in front of him, and there were two people standing behind him.

"That's right, the mental residue in the skull of this corpse belongs to Brother Xia."

He said to the people standing on the side.

"Alas~ It's a pity...... Xia Fengnian was so high-spirited at the beginning, but now he is so aggrieved when he dies. “

One of the men standing behind him sighed.

Chen Shi didn't answer him, slowly stood up, and looked at the corpses on the ground around him, all of which were covered with blue felt cloth.

"Let's go inside."

He whispered to the people behind him, and then led the way towards the charred ruins of the Xia family.

As soon as you enter the ruins, you can clearly feel the temperature around you rise sharply, the air is very dull, there is an occasional 'crackling' sound, and some of the wood is still emitting red sparks, which looks very enchanting in the night.

"There is still the power of devouring flames in this, and there is still a little poisonous fire in the air, you be careful!" The man behind him reminded.

"It's fine."

Chen Shi passed through several blackened and damaged areas, and went deep into the center of the house, where a circular scorched earth of tens of zhang in size had formed, and even a piece of broken bricks and tiles could not be seen.

"With the power of devouring the flame, no one should be able to preserve it intact, let alone a state of madness, deliberately leaving a hand? Have you checked the original number of people in the Xia family's house? ”

"If you don't leave your hands, you're dead, and what's the difference between turning to ashes and leaving a charred corpse," the man behind shook his head and said.

"People who have stayed in the Xia family's mansion for a long time, he celebrated his birthday yesterday, and most of the relatives in other places rushed back. The others are afraid that they have been burned to ashes, and all that has been found in this area is the body of Xia Fengnian. The relatives of those who have returned from the outskirts have already begun to report the number, and there will probably be a specific number tomorrow. ”

"No one escaped," the man added, shaking his head and whispering, his tone a little unbearable.

After listening, Chen Shi secretly frowned, and there were some doubts in his heart.

"Normally, with his strength, he shouldn't let this happen. What's more, Xia Fengnian's strength, it is impossible for me to solve him in a short period of time, how can I not have the strength to resist? Poisonous insects, have you examined the corpse, was it drugged before? ”

"Captain, I've already had my Shadow Snake inspect it, and I haven't found any signs of similar medicine in the corpse, if it's really medicine, it's possible that it's for psychic pheromones, this type is not what I'm good at," replied the man called Poison Worm next to him.

"The scene was so badly damaged by the devouring flames that I really couldn't see any other clues," said the person behind him.

After listening, Chen Shi pondered for a while, took a few steps forward, stretched out his right hand hidden under the cloak and muttered to the open space in front of him.

"Old man, come out and work."

The white light flashed in front of him, and a lion with a snow-white body that was almost the same height as Chen Shi's shoulders appeared in the open space in front of him, and his posture was very graceful, and his divine horse was incomparable.

This is his patron saint, the Glacier Snow Lion.

As soon as the glacier snow lion appeared, there was a trace of confusion in his eyes, he looked at the surroundings in a daze, raised his nose and sniffed the air, and then lowered his head and rubbed on Chen Shi's legs, making a "woo" sound in his mouth, sounding as if he didn't like the environment here very much, and was a little aggrieved.

"Okay, I'll go back in a while, you can help me distinguish the remaining spiritual aura here," Chen Shi reached out and touched its head to soothe.

The lion "whined" to himself for a while, and then reluctantly moved away.

Then, it tilted its head, its pink nose sniffed regularly in the air, and strands of inconspicuous silk began to be drawn into its nose around the dim red light, long and short, and of different colors.

After a while, the glacier snow lion stopped absorbing the silk threads in the air, licked its mouth with its tongue as if it had just eaten a full meal, and walked back to Chen Shi's side.

Chen Shi put his hand on the door of its head, and with a half-sound, he waved his right hand, and the lion disappeared in place.

"Charlot......

After a moment, Chen Shi said a name.

"Charlot, the killer from sixteen years ago?" The man next to him, who was called the poisonous bug, answered immediately.

"It should be him, although the breath residue is very weak, but the snow lion will not be mistaken, it likes to eat strong spiritual power the most, as long as it has seen it, it will not forget. There were several other unfamiliar breaths it had never smelled, different from those of the corpses outside the door, probably the same party. ”

"This man has disappeared since he fought us sixteen years ago, and he is here. But give him ten dares to put such heavy means on our Xia Kingdom Glory Family? Another person asked.

Chen Shidao: "It's hard to say, he disappeared for so long and appeared before he could join any new forces, he doesn't have the strength to dare to move the Xia family, Xia Luode's involvement in this matter may want him to be the scapegoat for this matter." ”

"Since there are really outsiders involved in this matter, then the sudden madness of the devouring flame is not the cause of the solar anomaly, at least not the main reason, there must be something that caused it to get out of control."

"What exactly are they doing this? I don't believe that I just want to destroy the Xia family. To put it mildly, since the devastating flame has been hit hard, his strength has long been inferior to that of 80 years ago, and he can no longer pose a threat. Even the politics of the Xia Kingdom, the Xia family was not involved. Poisonous insect said.

"You're right, there may be other purposes, but the revenge of the Qianlan people cannot be ruled out, even if it is not, the Ningnan Region is close to the Qianlan Kingdom, and the entry and exit of outsiders must have entered the Xia Kingdom through them, and there may be their acquiescence."

"The top priority is to find Xia Jichuan's whereabouts, where did he go? Only by finding him can we know what happened last night," Chen Shi said.

"The minister has sent someone to find his whereabouts, and someone has seen that the devouring flame is finally heading northwest."

"Northwest direction......" Chen Shi looked at the sky in the northwest and was distracted.

A series of footsteps came from far to near......

The three of them looked back and saw a middle-aged man in military uniform and leather shoes entering the ruins and walking towards them, followed by several soldiers.

"Minister!" The worm and the other immediately saluted the man.

"Old chief," Chen Shi watched the middle-aged man come over, and didn't salute, but just greeted.

The middle-aged man in military uniform approached the three of them, stared at Chen Shi's face under the cloak expressionlessly for a while, and then patted him on the shoulder.

"How's it going, have you found anything?"

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