Tian Dayou lowered his voice, "When I moved the corpse just now, I quietly looked through it, these people are definitely not ordinary people. Usually the village in the mountains is hunting for a living, and it stands to reason that hunters who are used to using bows and arrows will have calluses on the position of the index finger and middle finger of their right hand. But these people also have calluses on the tiger's mouth and knuckles, which can only show that they can martial arts, at least some weapons. ”

"Oh? But even if you are hunting in the mountains, there are times when you use a firewood knife nearby, maybe it is a callus left when you make a firewood knife? ”

"My Lao Tian will never be mistaken, whether it is a man or a woman, young or old, there are calluses on those parts of his hands, even if it is an adult man, it is also the case with those women and children, there must be a problem in this village." Tian Dayou spoke in a low voice, but as everyone knows, all this was heard by Guan Minglang, who was hiding in the canopy.

Ren Ping finally went to the inspector, but it was not to ask the family to speed up the investigation, but to say that they found that the corpse had begun to stink, and the beasts in the forest would not eat unfresh flesh and blood, so he wanted to ask for some simple fences to block the beasts, and they still wanted to rest with everyone at night, even if it was patrolling.

The inspector listened to the meaning of Ren Ping's words, it was nothing more than that so many people had died in the deep mountains and old forests, and they were a little afraid, as for what beasts could not eat and those who had died for a long time, the inspector did not believe it. However, he still agreed to Ren Ping's request and arranged them to patrol at night.

After nightfall, Guan Minglang saw that the movement was small, so he quietly slipped down the tree, he wanted to personally examine the corpse, to see if it was as Lao Tian said.

The corpses were stacked neatly, which also made it easier for Guan Minglang to check, and after inspecting seven or eight corpses in a row, it was confirmed that what Lao Tian said was true. These people, regardless of men, women, and children, are all martial arts practitioners, and they all have some blades, but the specific martial arts Guan Minglang can't tell them all, only from one of the tall male corpses, it can be seen that this person must be good at martial arts, because the temples on both sides of his face are slightly bulging, and this is an external characteristic of martial arts masters.

However, if you are more rigorous, it should be that people who do not have swollen temples are not necessarily not masters, but martial artists with swollen temples must be masters.

But this master only has a blood line on his neck, and the rest of his body does not seem to have any scars, and it seems that he was killed by a single blow. This made Guan Minglang have some guesses about the identity of the murderer, even if it is a sneak attack, it is impossible for a master to be completely unresponsive, it can only be said that the skills of the person must be more powerful. And although the wound was only a blood line, Guan Minglang touched it carefully and found something different.

Usually a blood line wound is caused by a thin sword, and the wound on this person's body looks like it was formed by cutting the throat of the thin sword, but if you look closely, you can find that this wound is slightly thicker than an ordinary thin sword.

What could it be? Guan Minglang kept searching for various blades in his mind, but none seemed to be able to match them.

Early the next morning, the officials of Chuzhou investigated the houses in the village and found no useful clues. After that, the inspector asked his men to bring a few relatively intact corpses, and then burned the other corpses in a fire to prevent the spread of disease.

After the fire gradually turned out, the officials left the forest.

On the way, Tian Daiyou's apprentice found him: "Master, why don't you say they burned down the village?" ”

"Although the scale of this village is not large, there are more than 30 rooms, if the village is set on fire, I am afraid that it will not be burned out in one afternoon, then we will definitely have to sleep here tonight, and in case of a mountain fire, this is not a joke."

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An hour after the government personnel left, Guan Minglang entered the village. Before, the officials and soldiers of the government went in and out of the village, Guan Minglang could only look at it from a distance, the shape of the houses in this village is very special, not that each house is special, but all the houses are connected together, looking down from a high place like a circle with a missing mouth, and the gap is the location of the entrance to the village.

The furnishings in each house were similar, and Guan Minglang checked them one by one, but found nothing until he entered the wooden house in the middle.

As soon as you enter this house, it looks like a small hall, and there are a lot of tables and chairs, it seems that it is a place where people in the village usually discuss affairs, and there are two side rooms on the left and right, both of which have beds and other objects, and it seems that they should usually live in people.

When Guan Minglang was about to leave the house, he suddenly felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the size of the house, and he had felt that the house should be bigger in the canopy.

Is there a secret room? Thinking of this, Guan Minglang began to search in this direction.

After a while, he noticed that there seemed to be something unusual under a table in the room on the left.

The table was obviously overturned vigorously, but it was not broken, and Guan Minglang didn't care too much about it. When I searched the secret room for the second time, I felt that something was wrong with the position of the table.

Judging from the blood stains in the house, this person should have heard movement in the house, and before he could get outside, he was killed by the murderer who rushed in.

If you look closely, you can see that at the bottom extension of the blood stain on the wall, there are one or two drops of blood at the bottom that are not arc-shaped, but a straight trace. This means that when the blood splashed here, something must have been placed underneath and then blocked the blood splash route, which caused this situation.

Looking at the height, only that table is the most suitable. Guan Minglang didn't move the table, but walked to the table that he turned over, carefully tapped the ground with his foot, and after changing the two directions, there was a hollow sound on the ground, indicating that there was a hole below.

After moving the table, Guan Minglang saw that there was a particularly inconspicuous small ring in the place blocked by the table, and he stretched out his hand and pulled it without any change in the room. When Guan Minglang came to the hall, he found that a black hole appeared under the offering table in the hall.

Lighting the fire, Guan Minglang bent down and entered the hole. The front of the cave is very narrow, and you can only go forward with a cat's waist, but after a few steps, it begins to become wider, and you can walk up straight. After more than ten steps, Guan Minglang, who had turned several corners, finally saw a small door, and there was a copper lock hanging on the small door.

Guan Minglang did not rush to remove the copper lock, but listened carefully to the door for a moment, making sure that there should be no living creatures inside. Guan Minglang removed the copper lock in two or two and pushed the small door to reveal the hidden room inside.

This hidden room is not large, and it is also a mess inside at the moment. Guan Minglang picked up the things on the ground and took a look, it turned out to be a tablet, it seemed that this was the place where they sacrificed their ancestors.

Just after taking a closer look, Guan Minglang's pupils contracted violently, and he quickly picked up a few other tablets, the names on which all made Guan Minglang feel that he might have discovered a big secret.

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