After Mu Bai brought back a group of files, he carefully examined the details of each case. Cao Tieyi saw that Mu Bai had finished reading the dossier and asked, "What clues does Mr. Mu have?" Mu Bai touched his chin and pondered for a long time and said, "I haven't found any clues for the time being, why don't we go to the place where the demon happened for the first time and take a look, maybe we can check some clues." ”

Cao Tieyi took the file that found the demon for the first time and looked at it, and said: "The location of the first demon incident is Xiangshi Village, but according to the dossier, there are no dead people in Xiangshi Village where the first demon incident occurred, and the file only records the information provided by a passerby, is it possible that it is false information?" Mu Bai pointed to the file and said: "The information provided by this passer-by is very detailed, not like false information. Let's go there first. Cao Tieyi carefully put away the file and put it in his bag and said, "I'll go to catch the carriage now, and I don't need to talk to City Lord Fang about this matter, maybe I can let him send someone to help." Mu Bai shook his head and vetoed: "We're just going there to try our luck now, I don't know if we can find some useful information, so don't bother City Lord Fang first." ”

Cao Tieyi went to the stable to pull the carriage over, holding a map in his hand and said, "I just looked at the map, Xiangshi Village is in a remote area, if our hour passes, I'm afraid we won't be able to come back and leave the city before dark, so it's better for us to go again tomorrow morning." Mu Bai jumped into the carriage and said, "According to the dossier, the demons mostly come out at night, maybe we can find something there." ”

Cao Tieyi stopped talking and went all the way to the west. The carriage left the city and crossed a few mountains and passed through a few mountain villages, Mu Bai was bumped on the mountain road, and the whole person was a little dizzy and said: "I thought that the small fishing village was remote enough, but I didn't expect this township stone village to be more remote than the small fishing village, and I don't know how many mountains I have crossed and how many villages I have passed." Cao Tieyi said with a smile: "Mr. Mu doesn't know, the small fishing village built a small fishing village to the outside world after His Majesty the Third Prince came, and this road is generally built only between cities and counties in the outside world." There is no such treatment as a small fishing village in this township, and the roads we are walking now are trodden by people between villages and towns, so it is naturally not so easy to walk. ”

Seeing that he was talking about the small fishing village, Mu Bai asked with a wistful face: "Is there any news about the small fishing village, it has been so long since the collapse of the bronze colossus, the seniors of the small fishing village should have solved the matter there." Cao Tieyi confessed: "The affairs of the small fishing village belong to the first-class secrets of the Yu State, and with the rank of the last general, he has no right to find any news about the small fishing village." Please understand the hardships of the last general. Mu Bai hurriedly said: "It's okay, when I get to Dahe Academy, I'll go and inquire about the news of the small fishing village." ”

Mu Bai lifted the curtain and looked at the sky and said, "It will be dark in two hours, can we arrive before dark?" Cao Tieyi took out the map and looked at it and said, "Mr. Mu don't worry, it is estimated that you can reach Xiangshi Village in one hour." ”

After the carriage crossed a few more mountains, and finally saw the crowd, Cao Tieyi turned over and dismounted and said: "Mr. Mu, this is Baoqi Town, and Xiangshi Village is the village under the jurisdiction of Baoqi Town, and it is also the nearest gathering place of people in Shicun, Lixiang Township. When I went out, I asked someone from the Fang City Lord's Mansion to get a token, let's go to the mayor here to check the situation first. Mu Bai jumped out of the carriage and looked at the township where people came and went, and the fireworks here had the feeling of returning to a small fishing village.

Mu Bai hurriedly beckoned: "After traveling for so long, we have finally arrived at our destination, let's go quickly." Cao Tieyi pulled an old man on the side of the road and asked, "Old man, where is the mayor of Baoqi Town?" The old man looked at Mu Bai and Cao Tieyi and asked: "I have never seen you, you two are foreigners, what are you looking for our mayor?" Cao Tieyi took out a bronze token and said: "We are the postmaster who left the city, and we came here to inspect." ”

The old man hurriedly pointed to the tallest house in the town and said, "It turned out to be Lord Postmaster, and our mayor is in the house in front." Cao Tieyi thanked him and walked towards the house. Mu Bai pulled the old man's sleeve behind him and handed the old man a silver ingot. The old man hurriedly excused himself and said, "My lord can't help it! You can't help it! You want to torture the old man." Mu Bai put the silver in the old man's hand and said: "This silver is my reward for you, you want to ask you something, have you heard any strange things in Xiangshi Village?" The old man heard the three words of Xiangshi Village, his face turned pale and said: "My lord, this Xiangshi Village is haunted, and the village has been closed for a month. I advise adults not to go to Xiangshi Village, where I have heard that it is very evil. ”

Mu Bai's eyes lit up and hurriedly asked: "Then do you know what happened in Xiangshi Village?" The old man shrank his head and whispered: "My lord doesn't know, I heard that the merchant in Xiangshi Village was rescued a month ago, but I didn't expect that after the merchant was rescued and woke up, he went crazy, and he was talking about blood all day long、、、 blood 、、、 a lot of blood. The doctor in the town saw a few waves and no one could cure him, and then some people planned to go to Xiangshi Village to find his family, but those people did not come back after going to Xiangshi Village, and no one dared to go to Xiangshi Village again. Mu Bai thanked him and said goodbye to the old man.

Cao Tieyi asked suspiciously: "There is such a big thing happening here, why is there no news from the city?" Mu Bai frowned and said: "Let's go to the town mayor first to find out the situation, this old man's words can't be fully believed." Mu Bai and the two came to the front of the mayor's house, Cao Tieyi knocked on the door "dong dong", and after a while, a thin man squinted at Mu Bai and the two and asked, "Who are you, what are you doing here?" Cao Tieyi held the bronze token in his hand and said, "Leave the city post governor, come to inspect!" The thin man stared at the bronze token, and said with a smile on his face for a moment: "It turned out to be Lord Postmaster, I remember that the Lord Postmaster who left the city only came a month ago, and what kind of wind blew Lord Postmaster here again." The Postmaster, please, I'll go and ask our lord. ”

The lean man led Mu Bai and the others into the lobby, made a cup of tea for the two, nodded and said, "The two adults will wait a while, I will go to ask the mayor." Mu Bai quipped: "This person's face changes so quickly." Cao Tieyi stared at the back of the lean man leaving and said: "There are many such people in the civilian system, not as good as our army, and their merits are all real with one knife and one shot. As soon as the words fell, a fat person like a hill ran in from outside the door, and from Mu Bai's point of view, it was as if a ball was rolling in.

After the man came in, he seemed to be unable to stop the car, and when he bowed down, he fell and gnawed mud because of inertia. The fat man knelt down in front of the two and said, "Rich Cannon, meet the two adults. Mu Bai raised his forehead and said, "You are the mayor of Baoqi Town?" Fu Dacang stood up and replied with great effort: "Xiaomin is the mayor of Baoqi Town. Mu Bai looked at the rich cannon who was struggling to stand and said, "You sit down first, we are here this time mainly to see the affairs of the villages under the jurisdiction of Baoqi Town." And you will take me the topography map of the mountains and rivers in your jurisdiction. ”