Yang Mengqing looked at the three corpses on the ground, shocked beyond measure, and his eyes were suddenly full of awe when he looked at me.

I knew she must have misunderstood, but I didn't bother to explain. It's not that I hold a grudge against what happened just now, to be honest, I don't blame her, people are always selfish, in the situation just now, even if it is an adult strong man, he may not be able to deal with it calmly, and she is only an eighteen-year-old girl, but I know that if I am replaced by Lin Qiaoer or a Taoist priest, I will never leave me to run for my life alone.

There are people in this world who are worthy of deep friendship, while some people can only stop at the point.

Yang Mengqing also seemed to notice the change in my attitude towards her, and opened her mouth to explain something, but in the end she still didn't say it. I saw it in my eyes, and I didn't say anything, I packed my things, and the two of them continued on the road.

It may have been because all the horrors had gathered in the town, and then we walked the field path without any danger, and it didn't take long for the tower to come into view.

This is a wooden tower similar to a watchtower, about fifteen or sixteen meters high, and under the tower is a courtyard surrounded by a cement wall, according to Yang Mengqing, this is the threshing floor of the village.

The gate of the courtyard was hidden, and the iron gate was covered with terrible pits, as if it had been smashed by something.

With the lesson of the town, this time I didn't dare to be careless, and after carefully checking all sides of the yard, I was ready to push the door in.

Who would have thought that I had just stepped into it with one foot, and the sight in front of me immediately made me vomit. I saw that the wide courtyard was covered with scarlet blood and green slime, and all kinds of broken human stumps were wrapped in these disgusting liquids, and the pungent smell of blood was almost suffocating.

I vomited for a full minute, until I had even vomited the sour water, and then I felt better. But when I faced this bloody scene again, the nausea still came like a tidal wave. Yang Mengqing saw that I was standing at the door and didn't go in, and he vomited like this, and hurriedly asked me what happened? I waved her hand and told her not to come in, lest she be like me, perhaps out of guilt for me, or frightened by my vomiting gesture, and she honestly waited outside the door and did not come in.

It took me a while before I got used to the scene and walked in with nausea. The foot stepped on the mixture of blood and green slime, and there was an unbearable sticky feeling. My eyes swept over the corpses all over the ground, and I didn't see the Taoist priest or Lin Qiao'er, and I couldn't help but feel relieved, and at the same time wondered, what happened here in such a tragic scene? Where did the Taoist priest go?

In addition to the disgusting things, there were several shotguns scattered on the ground, which were the kind used by the security team, and it seemed that some of the body parts on the ground belonged to the security team. I searched around again, and found a piece of blue-gray cloth at the foot of the wooden ladder of the tower, I recognized it as the fabric on the clothes of the Taoist priest, this guy was originally wearing a Taoist robe, but then it was torn by the walking corpse, and the clothes he is wearing are still given by the villagers of Aji Village.

I turned over the rags and looked at them several times, but I didn't find anything, and I said that it was not right, and it was impossible for a Taoist priest to leave a rag here for no reason. Thinking about it, I squatted down and searched carefully around the rags, and sure enough, I found a line of crooked inscriptions on the staircase directly above: Qiao'er was caught, elm ditch, beware of corpses!

Seeing these words, I was shocked, this word must have been engraved by a Taoist priest, but how could Lin Qiao'er be arrested? Who caught her? What is a corpse? My mind was confused, but then I thought that the Taoist priest had already followed, so I calmed down a little.

I looked at the inscriptions, and I probably understood something. It is highly likely that the Taoist priest, after getting rid of the Shangli people who were pursuing him, came to the tower according to the agreed plan and waited for our arrival. In the process, the security team escorted Lin Qiao'er, who had failed to escape last night, into the tower, but at this time they seemed to be in great trouble, and they entered the tower only to take refuge.

This is confirmed by the pits that have been smashed into the iron gates, and from the bodies of the living dead on the ground, it can be inferred that they are the ones in trouble with the vigilantes. After that, the iron gate was breached, and the security team and the living dead were entangled together, but at this moment, something even more terrifying came, it tore the security team and the living dead into pieces, and some of them took advantage of the chaos to escape into the canyon with Lin Qiao'er in the struggle, and the Taoist priest watched in the dark all the way.

The monster found the Taoist priest after killing everyone else, and the Taoist priest carved these words in a desperate situation, which is why these words seem to be carved in a hurry, and even the last corpse word was directly engraved into the word 'factory'. The Taoist priest must have escaped in the end, and chased him into the elm ditch, because I didn't see his body.

The situation is getting more and more complicated, but I have to face it, I didn't want to go into Elm Gully, but now it seems that there is no other choice.

I picked up two blood-stained shotguns from the pool of blood (the one I had lost on the bridge earlier), gave Yang Mengqing one, told her the general situation, and said that we might have to go to Elm Gully. She seemed very anxious after hearing that Lin Qiaoer was arrested, I knew that she was not worried about Lin Qiaoer, but worried about Xiao Na (the girl we rescued), because the two of them ran together last night, since Lin Qiaoer was arrested, then Xiao Na probably also fell into the hands of that group of devils.

With this relationship, we had a common goal, and neither of us dared to delay any longer, but fortunately the tower was not far from the Elm Gully, and we made a quick journey to the mouth of the canyon.

The checkpoint at the mouth of the valley was empty, and several wooden houses built in the middle of the entrance to block the way into the valley had been destroyed and devastated. There were a lot of blood stains on the ruins, which stretched all the way to the valley, and we carefully walked through the ruins and entered the valley mouth, and after turning and turning, I finally saw the mysterious elm tree gully.

As Yang Mengqing described, Elm Gully is actually a huge canyon, flanked by steep rock walls that are not high, overgrown with thorns and shrubs, and a large number of vines hanging down. The bottom of the valley is similar to the bed of some of the great rivers I have seen, abrupt and uneven, full of bare smooth rocks, more than twenty meters wide, and dense forests, all the way inward, with no end in sight due to the fog.

I didn't see the house Yang Mengqing said, I thought it should be in the depths of the canyon, but I saw a lot of black caves at the bottom of the rock walls on both sides. These caves are very similar to the water erosion caves under the karst landform, and there are many caves, densely distributed on the rock walls, the small ones are about the same as watermelons, and the big ones are the size of trucks, and most of the cave mouths are covered by vines or water seeping from the cliff wall, and only the general clues can be seen.

Yang Mengqing took me into a cave that was half hidden by vines, and after entering it, I found that there was quite a lot of space in these natural caves, but the light was very dim, and I couldn't see the situation clearly.

The cave was quite slippery, and there were many sharp stalagmites protruding, and we groped our way forward, hitting the stalagmites several times, and we were miserable.

Fortunately, this situation did not last long, and after a few more turns, a bright light appeared in front of me, not sunlight, but the warm light of an incandescent lamp.

When I got closer, I found that the rock wall of this section of the cave was supported by horizontal logs, and from the remaining excavation marks on the cave wall, this section of the cave should have been dug by man, it seemed to be a mine tunnel, and the logs used to support the cave were pulled wires, and there was a light bulb every five meters, which illuminated the entire mine road.

There was no one in the mine, but there was a lot of blood on the ground, and Yang Mengqing told me that it was still some distance from the cave where the living dead were held, but I still didn't dare to be careless, so I picked up my shotgun and walked in slowly.

At the beginning, the mine road is straight, but at the end there is a fork in the road, and after the fork there is a fork, like a labyrinth. Yang Mengqing has only been here once, I don't remember it too clearly, after turning a few forks in the road, I was a little confused, but fortunately, the blood stains on the ground have not been broken, and we walked along the blood stains for a distance, and finally arrived at the high platform where Yang Mengqing was hiding when he was found.

The cave where the living dead were held was below us, but I didn't know what was going on inside, so I didn't dare to go there, thinking to sneak a peek down at what was going on, but just as I was crouching down and about to cling to the rock wall to approach the edge of the platform, my eyes swept to a golden object lying in the corner of the cave wall.

I was stunned, and my heart said no! I hurriedly picked up the piece and looked at it, and almost screamed out loud. Gold, this is gold, this palm-sized lump turned out to be a gold bar, I couldn't believe my eyes.

Although I guessed that the townspeople might be stealing gold, it was just a guess, but now that I have seen the real thing, and it is such a large piece, how can I not be shocked?

Yang Mengqing was also surprised to see that I had picked up such a large piece of gold, I held the gold nugget and checked it, estimating that it was at least a kilogram, and immediately swallowed my saliva. I don't know why the gold is falling here, but I know it's not the time to be in a daze, so I stuffed the nugget into my backpack and quietly looked down the cave.

Just one glance, I was stunned.