"No, I...... I saw a figure in Guojiabao swaying for a moment. Song Nian said hesitantly.

Chu He looked at Guojiabao, and at this distance, he couldn't see anything.

"What's inside, it's probably because I'm in a daze." Song Nian smiled awkwardly, yes, that's right, it's all the fault of the cold.

"It's okay, let's go." Chu He took the lead and walked forward, but he also let go of Song Nian and held the hilt of the sword at his waist.

Zhao Gao snorted and kicked the big iron pot, and quickly followed Chu He.

After the three of them left, behind the mound next to them, a figure slowly got up, watching Chu He, Song Nian and the others leave from a distance, and they also turned around and slowly disappeared into the darkness.

……

Guojiabao is built on the mountainside, and Shanyang Village, also use the terrain to hollow out the cliffs on both sides of Guojiabao to form a cliff, plus the natural ravine in the back mountain, so that Guojiabao only needs to defend against the enemy in the front.

Chu He looked at this Guojiabao under the moonlight, and nodded slightly: "Sure enough, it is very important for the soldiers." ”

Song Nian nodded, she didn't know what defense was, but looking at the straight and sturdy construction of Guojiabao, coupled with the arrow stacks and arrow forts on the wall, no matter how she looked at it, she felt that Guojiabao was really fierce.

Pushing open the heavy and empty door, the three of them walked into the long-abandoned Guojiabao.

On the courtyard and the roof, there were some withered grasses, swaying in the wind, and Song Nian couldn't help but shiver.

"Master Song?" Chu He looked at Song Nian, maybe he couldn't see clearly under the moonlight, Song Nian actually felt that Chu He's gaze was full of tenderness and concern.

Belch...... Goosebumps are up.

Song Nian shuddered again, and then heard Chu He say softly, "Can you start investigating the case?" ”

Well, it's me who is amorous.

However, Chu He should be in a hurry, he has a lot of things to do, and the Wu family's fleet can only wait for them here for one night.

Song Nian wanted Chu He to get a boat out of his wallet, but when he thought of the profit of these boats, Song Nian gave up.

After coughing a few times, Song Nian opened the file.

Zhao Da lit a torch and stuck it in a nearby wall, and then found ...... There are small pits on the wall of this Guojiabao, which are specially used to put oil lamps.

Zhao Da tried it, and it turned out that it could be lit.

"My lord, this Guojiabao is really rich, and even there are so many oil lamps on the walls of this courtyard."

"Well, these oil lamps are for night duty, and the lights shine on each other to prevent anyone from sneaking in by night." Chu He could see at a glance the intention of these oil lamps.

Song Nian followed the light of the oil lamp to check the file, and said with a smile: "This is convenient for us to investigate the case." ”

As General Zhao lit the oil lamps in the entire courtyard one by one, Song Nian also looked at the key parts of the dossier.

The purpose of her temporary reading of the dossier was only for one thing.

Find the signs that the officials and servants left here at that time.

According to the information that Song Tong secretly told in private, these years of servants and servants, when investigating the case, they will secretly leave a hand, such as the location of the corpse, the direction where the murder weapon fell, etc., will use exclusive methods to leave marks, in case the circumstances of the case change, they have a means to get away with the crime, so as not to be framed.

For example, mark the corners of walls with stones.

It must be sprinkled with a specific powder.

For example, cutting out signals under a tree that only you can interpret.

The most common is to place the stone with a unique shape and color on the periphery of the corpse so that no one notices it, so that in the future, you can recalculate the location of the corpse according to your own habits.

Song Tong had already talked to Song Nian several times privately about the location of the corpses here, and Song Nian quickly restored the distribution of the corpses at the crime scene at that time.

When the white ash from Zhao Da's back was used to trace the location and posture of all the corpses, Chu He's expression became serious.

These chaotic corpse patterns look messy, but in fact, they are completely presented.

A ⚪ drawn with a corpse.

The whole periphery of ⚪, the posture of each corpse, is different.

Chu He frowned deeply, and glanced at Song Nian, Song Nian nodded slightly: "This is, it should be a sacrificial ......"

It is only during the sacrifice that so much attention is paid to the placement of the corpse.

Eighty-three people died strangely in this ancient castle.

Round...... Could it be that the Saiwaihu people did it?

Song Nian glanced at his taskbar.

Current Mission: Search Guojiabao

This is the second current quest in the first part of the chain quest.

Since it's a task, then ...... It must have something to do with the Black Sky Demon God......

Too little information in hand...... Song Nian glanced at the strange death of the deceased on the ground, and shivered violently.

"What's wrong?" Chu He asked.

"It's okay, I just feel that this yard is a little cold, maybe I'm infected with the wind chill, and I always feel cold everywhere." Song Nian wiped his nose, the tip of his nose was red.

"I didn't think you could see it." Chu He said suddenly.

"Ah, what do you see?" Song Nian was surprised.

"It's ...... The method of sacrifice of the Black Sky Demon God. It's just that...... When they worship on weekdays, believers kneel in a semicircle, and never use dead bodies to form a circle......" Chu He frowned deeply.

"Perhaps, a living sacrifice." Song Nian said.

After all, human sacrifice and "sacrifice with a living person" are somewhat different and normal. Song Nian explained casually.

Then, standing in the center of the circle, she joked, "Actually, I don't know if there's something here." The Black Sky Demon God sacrificed this thing with a ritual. ”

After speaking, he kicked the soles of his feet a few times.

The soles of her feet suddenly collapsed, and Song Nian didn't get into one foot, she only felt that the soles of her feet and calves were cold and slippery.

Ahh......hhh

Then, Song Nian found himself pulled out like a radish by the Chu River.

Above the right leg, there is a viscous mixture of blood and dirt.

"This ...... What is this......" Song Nian felt that his physical energy was losing faster, and said tremblingly.

"Lord Song, this is a clay pot buried in the ground." Zhao Da dug up the ground in a few clicks along the collapse and reported a bright red crockpot.

Inside the crockpot, it was a viscous mixture of blood and dirt that had not dried up completely.

Song Nian took a deep breath and said to Chu He, "Lord Chu, here...... A person, or animal, should have been tied up and his blood drained completely. It flows into a clay pot underground. I just don't know why the officials didn't find the body. ”

Chu He nodded slightly: "It should be a person, if it is a sacrifice, the most precious among them, and in the Black Sky Demon God Sect, the most precious sacrifice has always been a person." ”

Song Nian nodded slightly when he heard this.

This Black Sky Demon God Sect is really cruel enough.

On the side, Zhao Da was in a trance.

Song Nian asked, "Zhao Da, what's wrong?" But what's wrong with this crockpot? ”

Zhao Da hurriedly shook his head: "This crockpot is just a common thing, it's just ...... It was only then that I remembered that one of the oil lamps here seemed to have been lit, but the subordinates were not very sure......"