"I understand!"

Liu Xiaojiao didn't say anything more and picked up the girl.

I turned on my flashlight and followed her, continuing deeper into the passage.

Sure enough, the further you go inside, the more traces of someone who has ever survived here.

The passage was irregular, and at the end of the day it was no longer rocky, but a layer of dirt.

Probably because of the passage of time, some of the earth collapsed, blocking most of the passage.

And the attentive Liu Xiaojiao suddenly made a new discovery at this time.

"Tianyan, come and see, these collapsed soil is very soft, and there are many fresh footprints left on it, depending on the situation, not long ago, someone came in here like us, who do you say they will be?"

After all, Liu Xiaojiao was born in the police academy, and she judged many things from the footprints left on the ground alone.

"Will it be Yan Xiaoying and them?"

When I heard this, I walked up with a flashlight and looked at it, and sure enough, I noticed that there were many messy footprints on the loose soil. There were even traces of falls.

"It shouldn't be Xiao Ying and Second Master, they have already climbed the cliff, and this cave passage is under the cliff, under normal circumstances, they shouldn't appear here. What's more, we took the banana raft before, and although it was dark and we couldn't tell the direction, according to the estimate, we should be some distance away from the place where they climbed up. ”

Liu Xiaojiao said as she handed the girl on her back to me, and asked her to lean down and carefully examine the footprints left on the ground.

When I took Xiaoyue from Liu Xiaojiao's back, the latter suddenly woke up, she looked at me with wide eyes, and then struggled to the ground, a few steps away from me, as if she had met a bad person.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but be speechless for a while, thinking that I shouldn't look like a vicious person, is there such a dislike for children?

But Xiaoya at home obviously likes to stick to herself.

Xiaoyue didn't speak, so I simply ignored her and let her stand next to Liu Xiaojiao.

Liu Xiaojiao took the flashlight from my hand, carefully examined the footprints left on the ground, and after a while, she looked up and said to me: "The footprints of the three people, it can be determined that one of them is a woman, and it should have been a while since they left here." ”

I muttered, "There are three people who have been here, who are they?" Could it be the village chief who disappeared on the dirt slope? But the number is not right, and there are children among them. ”

"We were delayed a lot of time when we climbed up the cliff, and it stands to reason that they could have come here. And the village chief should know about this place, maybe he didn't go with us before, he just wanted to come in here, right? As for the number of people, it may be that they encountered something in the process of transferring, Xiaoyue, wasn't she just left on the dirt slope. Liu Xiaojiao speculated.

"You're right, but have we been ignoring two people? Two people who left the village before it was flooded. ”

"You mean the camel couple? That is, the parents of the victims? ”

"Yes, rather than speculating that the people who came here before us would be the village chief, I believe that they are the camel couple. Of course, this doesn't match the number of people you said, but there are so many people in the village, who knows if other villagers will leave with the couple? ”

"Yes, the coffin bearer is a yin person, and he also has extraordinary skills. What's more, the camel is still Xiaoling's father, and it is not impossible for him to speculate that there is a disaster and leave early. ”

"One more point, you didn't say."

I added: "The camel may be the murderer of his own daughter, who has taken refuge here." I think that's why we were sent here when we were on the plantain raft before. ”

"You mean, this is Xiao Ling's deliberate doing? She sent us here to catch her killer? If that's the case, then this camel is terrible. can do this kind of thing to his daughter, and brutally kill, I'm afraid that his psychology has been distorted. ”

"Tianyan, if our guess comes true, can you deal with him? You must know that he is a veteran coffin bearer after all, as far as I know, the coffin bearer is very strong, and a dead man's wood dances even more powerfully. Their brute strength is famous, among the Yin people, in terms of strength, they are the most in addition to the mountain movers, they are crazy, and even the strong people in the spiritual realm are not opponents. Liu Xiaojiao frowned and said worriedly.

"No matter how powerful the camel is, doesn't it have to hide in such a dark place and dare not appear? After all, he is still afraid of Xiaoling, who will become a water fish, in this case, what are we afraid of? I said.

"Now is not the time to be strong, I still know how many catties and taels you have, plus you haven't learned the ability to guard the mountain, and you have even lost the whip to catch the mountain, and you are not the opponent of the camel." Liu Xiaojiao shook her head and said.

"You're just growing up others to destroy your own prestige, and the Yin people are not terrible. As the saying goes, no matter how high the kung fu is, he is afraid of kitchen knives, maybe we can't compare to him in terms of strength, but don't we still have guns? I don't believe he's as invulnerable as a zombie. If that's the case, then we're out of luck. ”

Liu Xiaojiao smiled bitterly: "The gun can only play a threatening role, if you want to use it to subdue the really powerful Yin people, I am afraid it is a little difficult, even if they are not copper skin and iron bones, but they can dodge bullets." Is it possible to stand there obediently and let you shoot? Maybe one day, when your strength reaches that level, it will be the same. ”

Listening to Liu Xiaojiao's words, I remembered the scene in the secret realm of heaven, on the top of the big tree, when the old fat man shot at Bai Lao of the Daomen in a frenzy, but in the end he couldn't threaten anyone in the slightest.

Maybe Liu Xiaojiao is right, I still know too little about the strength of the Yin people, and the only thing I know is only the surface I learned from Yan Xiaoying and Li Guodong.

"Forget it, it's useless to think so much, now we are not sure if the person who came here is a camel, and we are not sure that he is the real murderer who killed Xiaoling, isn't it annoying to think so much now? Let's wait until we meet them. ”

"Your mentality is good, but one thing you said is right, if you come, you will be safe, it is useless to think more, let's go!"

Xiaoyue has woken up, and her body has not been too seriously traumatized, so she doesn't need to let Liu Xiaojiao carry her anymore. After all, he is already eight or nine years old, and in the countryside, such an old child can already do a lot of farm work.

For some reason, the girl didn't like me very much, not only did she stay away from me, but she followed the two girls, and I also picked up the red rope that I had brought on the girl's hand before.

I can only smile bitterly at this, and I don't want to deal with a little girl.

The passage was quiet, so quiet only for the sound of our footsteps and heavy breathing.

Walking to such a deep place, we gradually felt a sense of oppression, which reminded me of the Shuanglong Cave leading to the secret realm of heaven, could it be that the end of this passage is also the same place as the secret realm of heaven?

Just as I was thinking nonsense, Liu Xiaojiao and Xiaoyue, who were walking in front, suddenly stopped again.

"What? Tired? I asked.

"No, have you ever smelled a strange smell in the air?" Liu Xiaojiao turned around and asked me.

I was stunned, and after taking a deep breath, I really smelled a familiar smell, frowned and said in a deep voice: "It's blood, and this smell is still fresh......

"Your sense of taste is terrible, I just think the air doesn't taste the same, you smell blood......

"Maybe it's because of the little red snake in my body, you know, snakes are the most sensitive to smell." I explained.

"Snakes don't have a bad nose, they use their tongues to detect their prey." Liu Xiaojiao rolled her eyes and said: "I also said that I once went to college, I don't even know this kind of thing, and I am still narcissistic here." ”

"I said, can you stop treating me like this all the time......" I just wanted to open my mouth and count Liu Xiaojiao a few words.

At this moment, Satsuki, a girl who had been standing quietly beside her, suddenly ran into the depths of the passage.

"Satsuki, what's wrong with you?"

Liu Xiaojiao and I were shocked, and the two hurriedly chased after her.

What is surprising is that although Xiaoyue is young, she is surprisingly fast when she runs, and Liu Xiaojiao and I can't catch up for a while.

On top of that, the passage ahead was tortuous and the darkness couldn't see her fingers, and she was walking on the ground at a fast speed.

couldn't catch up with Xiaoyue for a while, so Liu Xiaojiao shouted to her to stop and wait for us. However, no matter how anxiously she screamed, Satsuki didn't respond at all.

Eventually, she faded into the reach of our flashlight beams, until she was no longer visible.

It's hard to believe that two adults can't catch up with a child, and in this environment, the other party has no lighting tools.

What does this mean, this means that there must be something wrong with this little moon, maybe my previous guess was right.

"Xiaojiao, wait, Xiaoyue, there's something wrong with her."

I wanted to call Liu Xiaojiao and tell her to stop chasing her, but she cared about her, where did she listen to me?

In the end, she ran a few dozen meters away, and she tripped over a pit, and I chased her.

"Things are weird, don't chase them anymore!"

I gasped and said as I lifted Liu Xiaojiao up from the ground.

At this time, I breathed a stronger smell of blood than before, and when I looked at the ground with a flashlight, I saw that part of the soil on the ground was stained red with blood......

After my reminder, Liu Xiaojiao calmed down, she wiped a handful of dirt on her face, stared at the blood stains that had been extending out in front of her, and gasped: "It depends on the situation, someone is injured." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, we heard a faint cry for help not far ahead.

The cry for help was faint, but it was clear in this dark passage.

Liu Xiaojiao took out a pistol, I took out the peach wood nail given by the second master, and the two of them vigilantly touched the place where the cry for help came.

Under the faint beam of the flashlight, we soon saw a person lying on the ground in the passage ahead, and it was an old man, because the distance was a little far, it was difficult to see clearly.

But judging from his attire, he looks like the old village chief who disappeared on the dirt slope before......