In a dense pine forest.

Fog shrouded and visibility was very low.

Liu Xiaojiao and I walked in it, and we felt isolated from the world.

Hearing my words, Liu Xiaojiao was silent and said suddenly; "I'm even more curious, if Xiaoling really came here with us, if her purpose is just to find the murderer, then where is the murderer hiding now?"

Centipede Ridge is not too big compared to Heavenly Mountain, but if the murderer really has the intention to hide, he really can't be found in a day and a half.

Even if Xiaoling is a water shark, the coffin bearer is also a yin person, so naturally there is a way to hide from being found by her.

"It's a pity that I didn't learn the skill of the mountain keeper to fold grass and ask for directions, otherwise, I might give it a try." I sighed.

Liu Xiaojiao smiled: "I can hide for a while, but I can't hide for a lifetime." This Centipede Ridge is surrounded by deep cliffs and valleys on three sides, and there is only one way up the mountain, so he must still be on the mountain at this moment. Unless he suddenly grew wings and flew away, he would never be able to run. ”

"That's why she has the courage to play hide and seek with me." I said, "However, you haven't been here for a long time, and even I don't know about this place, how can you be so familiar with this centipede ridge?" ”

Liu Xiaojiao was stunned for a moment and said, "I heard the villagers say it before. ”

"Oh...... I see. It seems that you are really much more careful than me, I have never heard the villagers talk about the terrain of Centipede Ridge before. ”

Liu Xiaojiao pursed her lips and did not continue to answer.

Seeing that she didn't speak, I didn't speak again, but I already had a rough guess in my heart.

From the temptation just now, as well as her strange behavior when she lived in Xilu Temple last night, I can now completely confirm that the person in front of me is not the real Liu Xiaojiao.

According to the time estimate, she should have switched bags with Liu Xiaojiao in the passage when I climbed out of the passage to look for vines.

And the real Liu Xiaojiao has been captured by the flying centipede in the deep valley at this moment.

For the real Liu Xiaojiao, although I am worried about her safety, this imposter in front of me is not easy to deal with.

If she is changed by Xiaoling, if I take the liberty of revealing her identity, my life may be in danger. If you have no life, how can you save people?

As Liu Xiaojiao said before, I still have self-knowledge of my own ability. Compared to Xiaoling, who has become a water shark, I have no chance of winning at all.

The only thing I can do now is pretend I don't know anything.

However, I have to say that the acting skills of this imposter in front of him are really good. If it weren't for seeing the flying centipede kidnap Liu Xiaojiao with my own eyes on the top of the mountain, I would never have imagined that this person who spent the night with me in Xilu Temple would be a fake.

It's just that I followed the little red snake into the old woman's room before, and when I came back, I saw that she was not there, where did she go at that time? And what did you do?

I was full of doubts, and at this moment, Liu Xiaojiao, who was walking in front, suddenly screamed, as if something had happened.

"What's wrong?"

Hearing her scream, I hurried forward.

Without waiting for the latter to answer, he saw a strange and terrifying scene.

I saw that in front of me, seven or eight figures were hanging in the air.

If you look closely, you can see that those people have vines hanging from the trees hanging from their necks, and their bodies are hanging in the air, swaying, and the scene is very strange.

Because of the fog, it was impossible to see their faces.

But looking at their costumes, they look like the villagers who moved up the mountain from the village, but how did they come to Centipede Ridge?

I glanced at Liu Xiaojiao, who was hiding behind me, and thought to myself, "Could it be that this is the illusion she created for me?" Want to scare me and break my mental defenses? If that's the case, then she also underestimates me Lao Tianyan too much, right? I've seen a more tragic scene than this. ”

As I thought, I reached out and rubbed my eyes, and when I looked again, I found that the seven or eight figures hanging in front of me were still there.

Squeak! Squeak......

The body of the suspended person is shaking like a swing, and the vines rub against the branches, making a strange sound that makes the scalp tingle.

Click!

At this moment, there was a sound of a tree branch breaking overhead, and then I saw a figure fall from above with a vine tree branch, and fell not far from me.

Seeing this, I hurriedly walked forward to check.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, it's a big shock when you look at it.

This man turned out to be real, not his own hallucination. His clothes were soaking wet and he lay motionless on the ground. His eyes were round, and his face was hideous, with a deep look of fear, as if he had seen something terrible before he died.

That's right, this man is dead!

I took out a dagger and cut the vine hanging from his neck, and upon closer examination, I found that he had a fatal wound to his neck, except for a little skin on his knee.

The strangulation marks on his neck are very deep, he was hanged alive from the tree, and the others were hanging motionless from the tree, which is probably this cruel death.

"They are all people from Longyi Village, how can they be like this......"

I muttered to myself, I couldn't believe it, I thought it would be safe to escape from the village, but I didn't think they would die here.

"It seems that the people who moved from the village, they don't know what the reason is, they also went to Centipede Ridge, but they are all dead, I don't know if everyone else is still alive?" Liu Xiaojiao frowned.

I examined the body of the man in front of me closely, and found that although he had no pulse, his body was still warm, his limbs were soft, his musculature had not yet begun to stiffen, and he should not have been dead for long.

I'm afraid I'm going to die this morning.

"The villagers will not commit suicide for no reason, someone must have killed them and strangled people with long vines, this method cannot be done by ordinary people at all, it should not be done by people."

I took a deep breath and tried to calm my emotions. Looking up at the other bodies overhead, they saw that they were strangled by long vines, four or five meters above the ground, and not on the same tree.

The pine trees are tall and large, steep and difficult to climb, and it is impossible for ordinary people to climb to such a high place and kill people with long vines.

I don't think it's the Flying Cipede's doing, if it kills, it should take the corpse away and use it as food.

So...... It's not an ordinary person, and it's not a monster, there is only one possibility left.

Liu Xiaojiao had left the temple this morning......

"It's so damning, these are seven or eight living people! She can actually do it, is it really as the second master said, after becoming a water fish, she has no humanity? I clenched my fists and gritted my teeth in hatred.

Liu Xiaojiao was silent beside her, and only said in a half-loud voice: "What should we do now?" Do you want to get these corpses down? ”

"Just let them hang up, they're dead anyway, and it's going to take a lot of work to get them down. We don't have time to deal with it for the time being, for fear that we will be ruined by centipedes hiding in the ground, so we might as well hang it on a tree and wait for us to empty it before we can dispose of it. I muttered.

"What do we do now? Still down the mountain? Liu Xiaojiao then asked.

"If the second master and Xiao Ying have already gone up the mountain, it is useless for us to go down the mountain, I am a little worried that they are also in danger......" I muttered.

"Probably not, the second master and Xiao Ying are so powerful, even if they are not Shui Yu's opponents, it should be okay to escape. Besides, the second master is Xiaoling's master after all, I don't think she will be wiped out, right? Liu Xiaojiao said.

"I hope so!"

I glanced at Liu Xiaojiao next to me, then pointed to the footprints on the ground that had not been washed away by the rain and said, "This is their footprints, let's follow the footprints and see if we can find others." ”

At the moment, we followed the footprints all the way, the footprints were very messy, and the rain washed away, sometimes it was inevitable to lose them.

Half an hour later, we found three dead villagers again under a ravine.

The three villagers died in the stream, and their deaths were even more eerie than those hanged in the woods. Because they were killed by a water snail, it is exactly the same as the cowherd who was killed by a water snail on the dirt slope before.

Seeing their deaths, I was almost completely sure that it was Xiaoling's doing.

The more I thought about it, the more angry I became, and I wanted to take action right away, but now that I was alone, I had to endure it.

This feeling is so embarrassing!

After following here, the remaining footprints were completely gone, and we could no longer explore it, so we had no choice but to turn back into the Misty Forest.

However, as soon as she returned to the forest, a grass vine suddenly burst out of the thorn bushes, and immediately wrapped around Liu Xiaojiao's waist and eyes, pulling her away.

By the time I came back to my senses, she had been pulled out by the grass vine for a distance of seven or eight meters.

"Tianyan, save me!" Liu Xiaojiao struggled and called for help at me.

When I let go of my footsteps and chased over, I found that there were only thorns and grass in front of me, and Liu Xiaojiao had disappeared.

There was a thick fog all around, and apart from the sound of rain, there was only the sound of my heavy breathing.

"Self-directed? What did she want to do when she left this time? I clenched my fists and gritted my teeth.

After standing in place for more than ten minutes, Liu Xiaojiao did not appear again, and there were no other changes around her.

I took a deep breath and sat down on the floor, thinking to myself, not knowing what the other person was trying to do.

"It doesn't matter what she wants to do, it's still important to save the real Liu Xiaojiao now, it's been delayed for so long, I don't know what happened to her now? The little red snake didn't come back either......"

I was thinking about getting up from the ground quickly, and just as I was about to leave, I suddenly heard the footsteps of Si Suo Suo behind me, and in the white mist, two figures were faintly visible walking in my direction.

I was startled, and I hurriedly ducked behind a pine tree to take a closer look.

As they got closer, their appearance became clearer and clearer.

I saw these two people, and the first to walk in front was a slender woman with a bald head and tight clothes, and behind him was an old man.

The old man was holding a cane in his left hand and a compass in his right hand and was discerning directions.

Aren't these two people Yan Xiaoying and Second Master them?